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Show NEWFOUNDLAND CELEBRATING. St. John. N. F., Auc. 17. Three hundred years aico John Guy and a jarty of colonists from Bristol. England, En-gland, founded the first permanent settlement in Newfoundland. To fittingly fit-tingly observe the anniversary, a celebration cel-ebration Is being held today at Conception Con-ception bny, in which the governor, the ministry, members of th? Colonial Historical society and others have a part. One of the chief features of the i occasion Is the placing of a memorial (ablet, presented by the city of Bristol. Bris-tol. England. In the monument which denotes tho site of Guy's first colony at Cupids. |