Sale of Crown Inn as new owner takes over

A postcard mailed in Crieff to an address in Charlotte Street, Perth, in November should have arrived the next morning.

Instead it did not reach its destination 17 miles away until 10 weeks later. It had travelled half way round the world and back and arrived in the Fair City after being franked in Perth, Western Australia.

Crieff ’s Crown Inn had been sold and it was expected the new owner would take over following the March Licensing Court.

“From 1949 until his death in August of last year, ‘mine host’ at the Crown Inn was the cheery Jimmy Doig, widely known and respected. The new owner is Mr John Drummond at present in the Number Five at Alva.”

Meanwhile, knowing how to “swing the lead” in the angling sense had brought a Braco man a welcome addition to his bank balance.

Mr AP Sinclair of Langside Farmhouse won £ 116 13/ 4d in a new competition calling for fishing knowledge in the Angler’s Mail.

Elsewhere, a shop assistant’s forgetfulness cost the sum of £50 in a fine at Perth Sheriff Court.

Messrs Walter Muir and Son, ironmongers, 29 High Street, Crieff admitted selling an air pistol to a youth under the age of 17.

The firm stated that the employee who had sold the pistol was a young person who had forgotten the instructions regarding the sale of airguns.