October 2020

Contents

• President’s column and Kirkham Road - page 1Discusses the Parry Collection and quotes a 1920 council report on the naming of Kirkham Highway, now Kirkham Road, Bowral.
• Society notices and Bowral orchestra - page 2Includes Bruce Moore’s animal idioms, historical Society notices and a photograph of the Bowral Amateur Orchestral Society from the Parry Collection.
• Marg Muntz and family-history research - page 3Thanks volunteer Marg Muntz for work on the Poppy Seed project, biography files, family histories and Society publications.
• Walter Joseph Osborne: family and civic work - page 4A family-history enquiry leads to an account of Bowral’s first town clerk, his family background, business and work on the Vigilance Committee.
• Osborne, Bowral Council and music - page 5Continues Osborne’s municipal, School of Arts and musical activities and draws on obituaries and a 1946 report of a visit by his daughters.
• The Bowral Free Press and the Beer family - page 6Philip Morton begins the Beer brothers’ newspaper history, including the 1884 purchase of the Bowral Free Press and its printing and lending-library businesses.
• Early newspaper competition and printing - page 7Follows William and Daniel Beer’s publishing ventures, the Mittagong Mail and the expanded Bowral Free Press premises and services.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in October 2020; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• The Society thanks genealogy volunteer Marg Muntz and recalls her work on the Poppy Seed Project (p.3).
• A family-history enquiry leads to Bowral’s first town clerk Walter Joseph Osborne (p.4).
• Walter Osborne’s local activities include agricultural society and School of Arts work (p.5).
• The Bowral Free Press story follows the Beer family, its publishing aims and local civic life (pp.6-7).

Original Society source