NEWS ITEMS
JUNE
[LITERATURE, GOATS & ANONYMOUS LETTERS]
The next meeting of the Gulgong Social and Literary Club will be held in the R.C. schoolroom on Friday (to-morrow) night. Progressive euchre, dancing, etc., will be the main features of the evening's entertainment. Valuable prizes are to be given to the best players. Roll up !
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Gulgong has always been famous for its herds of goats (quadrupeds I mean), and at present the billy-goats and nannies can be daily seen roaming the hills, and occasionally paying visits to produce stores to test the quality of bran, pollard, and potatoes. An expert on goats has assured me that a couple of the species, have cancerous growths on their noses and necks, and says that the mob should be rounded up and the diseased animals destroyed. Such a move would be a sensible one. Now there is a chance for the police to read the 'Goat Act.'
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Gulgong has for years been noted for its busybodies, and continues to uphold its honor (?) in that respect. Since the Gulgong Literary Club has been such a pronounced success, a few people have become furious with anger, and threatened to burst up the whole concern — look, stock and barrel.
The way they have gone about the breaking-up process is: They send anonymous letters to certain people in town, warning them to shun the Literary Club, as the members and committee of that institution are only striving to get hold of some money to pay off tho R C. Presbytery debt.
For them to make such an assertion is a vile libel which recoils on their own heads. The writers of the mendacious scrawl do their work with a cyclostyle, and as there are only a few of these in town, it should not be hard to find the author of the anonymous letters, or someone connected with the very fishy business. The result of their endeavours has been to enlarge the subscribers' list of the society, consequently the founders of the libel can thank their stars that Gulgong possesses a few sneaks, whose base deeds are the means of doing an incalculable amount to a worthy society.
Source: Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW : 1890 - 1954) Thu 18 Jun 1903 Page 13
