Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 20 December 1924
Marconigrams
A white sparrow has been seen near Wombwell Main.
The new Rural Dean of Pontefract, the Rev. J. Young, Vicar of Pontefract, served his first curacy at Wombwell.
The Thornecliffe, Wath-upon-Dearne, and Denby Dale Wesleyan Circuits have returned majorities for Methodist Union.
The London, Midland, and Scottish Railway Company propose to spend £14,000,000 next year on renewals, extensions, and maintenance.
This week is “bull week” in the coalfields, and splendid outputs are reported from most of the collieries in this district.
Darfield Main Colliery was in full swing again on Tuesday, after a stoppage of fourteen weeks.
It is estimated that nearly two million workers are concerned in various wages claims amounting in the aggregate to £100,000,000 a year.
The Thurnscoe “Palace de Luxe” is to be opened on Boxing Day with a ball, in aid of the Montagu Hospital.
Mr. Albert Clarke, of West Melton, has been appointed H.M. Sub-Inspector of Mines for the Yorkshire Division.
Mr. Norman Parkin, of Wath, assistant manager at the Rotherham Main Collieries, has been appointed manager of the Darton Main Colliery.
The Rev. E. Langton, of Conisborough, has been invited to succeed the Rev. C. W. Garrett at Penistone, in the Denby Dale Wesleyan Circuit, next August.
Mr. Ernest Elliott, well-known in Swinton and Mexborough, has been appointed headmaster of the Spring Vale Council Schools, Penistone.
Mr. Mark Nokes, of Thurnscoe, Mr. A. Harrell, of South Kirkby, and Mr. T. H. Foulstone, of Darfield, are to stand for election to the County Council next March, as miners’ candidates.
The Swinton Urban District Council have referred to their Library Committee a suggestion that a wireless receiving set should be installed in the Swinton Library for the benefit of the public.
“We have not got too good a character for street lighting at Thurnscoe at the present time.” — Mr. Marshall Robson, chairman of the Wath, Bolton and Thurnscoe Gas Board.
Major Fred Coutts, engineer and manager to the Dearne District Light Railway, has been appointed general manager of the Yorkshire (West Riding) Electric Tramways Ltd., Wakefield, and takes up his new duties on January 6th.
Under the Independent Labour Party’s rural propaganda scheme, Mr. Tom Williams, M.P., is to be responsible for a constituency in addition to his own (Don Valley), and he will “nurse” either Gainsboro’ or Bassetlaw.
The brickworks at Clayfields, Mexborough, recently acquired by the Coalfields Brickyards, Ltd., are to be reconstructed. The contract for this work, amounting to £10,000, has been secured by Messrs. Edcaster Ltd., contractors, Doncaster.
The Rev. R. H. Goode, M.A., formerly curate at Wombwell, and at present serving in Alberta, Canada, has accepted the offer of the rectory of Moreton Ongar, Essex. Patrons: St. John’s College, Oxford.
Opinion in favour of Methodist Union, so far as it has been elicited by voting at the local courts and circuits of the three Methodist Churches, stands at present as follows: Wesleyans, 87 per cent.; Primitive Methodists, 88.33 per cent.; United Methodists, 81.47 per cent. So far a little more than half the voting strength has been polled.
At the annual meeting of the Council of the Yorkshire Miners’ Association on Wednesday, the following were nominated for adoption by the Miners’ Federation as Parliamentary candidates: Messrs. T. Smith (Sheffield), W. Gillis (Rockingham), J. H. Hall (Cortonwood), E. Dunn (Maltby), E. Hough (Acton Hall), A. Barrs (South Kirkby), T. Tomlinson (Elsecar), and J. Drabble (Dinnington). These are in addition to the seven nominees of the Yorkshire Miners’ Association now in Parliament.
For your Private Christmas Cards go to the “Times” Office, Mexborough. Prices ranging from 4s. 6d. upwards.
Mr. Laurie Toseland, the well-known elocutionist of Northampton, will visit the new Miners’ Welfare Hall, Goldthorpe, on Saturday, January 3rd, 1925. Dramatic and humorous recitals from Dickens and Shakespeare.
Fred Hadwen’s Overcoats.
You’ll enjoy the Christmas holidays best by preparing for real wintry weather. Try one of Fred Hadwen’s Ready-to-Wear Overcoats, which do keep out the cold. Or you could have a real feature built at a price well within reach. — 32, High Street, Mexborough; Barnsley and Wombwell.
From “Punch”:—
Viscount Jellicoe, when retiring, said that the motto of his service was to go, and say nothing. It sounds just like the domestic service.
A well-known authoress recently stated that men with blue eyes run greater risk of being murdered than others. The postman who usually brings our Income Tax Demand Note on Christmas morning has blue eyes.
We are asked to contradict the rumour that among the Christmas arrangements being made by the railway companies is a special excursion for absconding slate-club secretaries. It is hoped this intimation will prevent disappointment at the last moment.
The Hon. W. Hulme Lever finds it extraordinary that it takes the same period of apprenticeship to qualify as a bricklayer that it does to qualify as a doctor. But of course a good brickside manner cannot be acquired in a day.
M. Fokine is experimenting with methods to enable dancers to fly off the stage. If he succeeds, we hope he’ll share the secret with some of our revue choruses.
A cat called Cupid of Hyver is worth one hundred guineas. We hope the B.B.C. will arrange to broadcast one of its purrs some evening as soon as possible.
Local three hundred and twenty-six dead rats were found as a result of Cardiff Rat Week. What is wrong with Welsh fatties?