I The little village of Bowling Green, i in Ontario, Canada, has been sold to ( pay the salary of a telephone girl. It i appears that most of the buildings and land, as well as a private telephone line linking 400 farms, belonged to a man who died in 1937, leaving no will, and that the telephone operator had not been paid for six years. She very rightly demanded the money owing to her, and so it was decided that the entire village should be auctioned. An old horse brought £5, a box of odds and ends 6d., and by selling an ancient smithy, some empty houses, and vacant lots, the auctioneer just managed to l . scrape together the required sum. ]
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 February 1939, Page 12
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