Mexborough & Swinton Times — Saturday, 28 January 1905
Marconigrams
The Houghton Main Miners’ Checkweigh Fund report, on Saturday, showed that £122 had been received for the last quarter, and after paying expenses there was a balance to carry forward of £32.
The American Line s.s. “Merion” arrived at Philadelphia on Wednesday, with local passengers on board.
The Inspector’s report on the Co-operative Inquiry has not yet arrived.
Some interesting new features will be introduced in this journal shortly.
The Cortonwood fire is a serious loss to West Melton district, £1,200 per week in wages being now much missed.
Turner’s Book Almanack will be on sale on Thursday next.
A singular matrimonial advertisement appears in another column, from Denaby Main.
Our football coupon now shows four pounds waiting to be won.
A correspondent would like to know if the Rawmarsh and Mexboro’ tram scheme is likely to proceed. We are sorry we cannot enlighten him.
The Mexboro’ Primitive Chapel choir went to the hospital on Sunday evening, and sang to the inmates several carols and selections from the “Messiah.”
The patients at the hospital were the recipients of the usual comforts this Christmas time, and there were a number of visitors. The family of Mr. Stephenson, of Doncaster road, sang to the patients.
A short watch-night service will be held at S. George’s Church on Saturday evening at 11-45.
At Sheffield, on Wednesday, at the match Sheffield United v. Woolwich Arsenal, 24,276 paid for admission, the receipts being £712 5s.
After negotiating for about three weeks, the Midland and North-Eastern Railway Companies have come to a satisfactory arrangement for their next year’s supply of locomotive coal from the South Yorkshire Collieries, at 8/3 per ton, which is 3d. per ton lower than the expiring contract price. The new price is the lowest which has been paid since the first half of 1898.
A Great Central goods train met with an accident between Wombwell and Stairfoot on Tuesday night, blocking the line for some hours.
A boy living in White Lee road left home on Tuesday night, and was missing for some hours. He returned during the evening.
Foreign money changed at the “Times” Office, Mexboro’.
The new organ at Wombwell Parish Church will be opened on April 13th.
A meeting of members of the Mexboro’ Co-operative Society is to be held to-night (Friday), in the long room of the Montagu Arms Hotel, at 8 o’clock.
Savings bank depositors are invited to attend the meeting of the Co-operative Society members to-night (Friday), at the Montagu Arms, Mexboro’, and to bring their bank books with them.
The Archbishop of York will consecrate the chancel of Wombwell Church on February 1st, 1905.
The dedication of the east window of Wombwell Parish Church, by the Archbishop of York, will take place on February 1st. Mr. C. W. Bartholomew, who has bestowed the window, will unveil it.
The churchwardens of Wombwell Parish Church are anxious to sell the organ now in use at the church.
The sale of work held at the Wesleyan Chapel on Tuesday, for the building fund, realized between £8 and £9.
The annual sale of work at Swinton National Schools, on Tuesday and Wednesday next, in aid of the Church Restoration Fund, promises to be an interesting event, which we hope will be well supported.
The Sunlight Soap Waistcoat Pocket Book and Diary is excellently got up. It contains much invaluable information.
The gross receipts of the Sheffield City Tramways for the year just ended amounted to £235,939. The receipts for 1903 were £228,743 17s. 10d., the increase therefore being over £7,000.
To-morrow begins a new year. My sincere wish is that it may be the brightest and best to all my readers.
We leave the old book with its blotted pages, and finger the brand new one. May our good resolutions result in an improvement.
According to “Old Moore,” the cause of fiscal reform will triumph in 1905.
Dances and parties during the present week have been chief incidents in the lives of the majority of the inhabitants.
No fewer than 800 young Russians, all aged from 20 to 25, have arrived in England to escape from military service.
An old Dutch saying states “The whisky of to-day is the headache of to-morrow.” During the past few days I am afraid this has been often demonstrated.
About the only people who believe they are too old to learn are those who are really too young.
If marriage is a lottery, why don’t they arrest the minister? I am afraid most of the gentlemen of the cloth would have been hauled before the magistrates during the past few days.
Have you competed in our easy football competition. Actually no effort is needed to win the valuable prize.
A local coroner pointed out a few days ago, that 1600 children are suffocated in bed every year in England—30 per week.
A large number of soldiers and sailors—home for the holidays—have been seen in the streets during the past few days.
The Yuletide festivities have not been of a very cheery nature in the neighbourhood of Kilnhurst, where the men are on strike.
A youth named Edgar Meakin, residing at Harlington Road, Mexboro’, had his leg amputated on Thursday night, at the Montagu Hospital, the result of an accident at Denaby Main on the same day.
The man who attempted to commit suicide at Mexboro’, last Thursday week, is progressing favourably. He was to have been married last Saturday.
The proceeds at the Primitive Methodist bazaar were as follows:—Tuesday, £25; Wednesday, £26; and Thursday, £33, making a grand total of £84.