Mexborough & Swinton Times — July 7, 1924
Marconigrams
Last year local taxation fell from £6 11s. 10d. to £5 1s. 3d. per head of the population.
“An hour’s reading is worth twenty hours’ drinking.”—Mr. Herbert Smith.
“I have seen no better country than England in all my travels.”—Mr. Herbert Smith.
“South Wales regards Yorkshire as the keystone of the Miners’ Federation.”—Mr. A. J. Cook (secretary of the Federation).
Administrative expenses in connection with the Miners’ Welfare Fund at either in South Yorkshire than in any other coalfield.
The stone-laying ceremony in connection with the Montagu Hospital extension is fixed for July 25.
The postponed Hospital Sunday demonstration at Wath-on-Dearne has been rearranged for July 20th.
During June, subscriptions to the Montagu Hospital, including donations to the extension fund, exceeded £2,000.
The Rev. T. Hewitt Taylor, B.A., of Swinton, has been appointed vicar of Winclefield, Cambs.
Wath Council are advertising for tenders for the erection of 60 additional houses of the non-parlour type.
Mr. Harold Brockleby, of Conisbrough, has just returned from a brief mission in Poland.
Yorkshire miners’ wages for July and August will be 29.83 per cent. above the base rate, an increase of 2.39 on the wages for May and June.
Excursion fares for Nottingham Races next Monday and Tuesday are available from Mexborough L.N.E.R. by the 10-12, at 5/10, third class.
Thirty-four nominations have been received for the post of financial secretary to the Yorkshire Miners’ Association, vacant by the resignation of Mr. John Hoskin.
The new bowling greens and tennis courts at Mexborough have been thronged with players and spectators ever since they were opened on Saturday.
Three colliers from the House of Commons Prayer have been elected by the chairman of the Wath-on-Dearne Urban Council for alternative use in opening the meetings.
Mr. Arthur Brown, who has been headmaster of the Doncaster Road Mixed School (Mexborough) for over thirty years, retires from the educational service in September.
The Swinton and Mexborough Gas Board is effecting an immediate reduction in the price of gas in its area, equivalent to 3d. per thousand cubic feet.
Sir Richard Redmayne estimates that our coal supplies, at the present rate of exhaustion, will give out in 600 years, while the United States are all right for the next 900 years.
Messrs. Main ambulance team won the Compton-Rickett Cup in a competition at Castleford, on Saturday, promoted by the local division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade.
The hay harvest is exceptionally good this year, but the return of showery weather is interfering with operations, though it has given the farmers a grievance when they were almost at a loss for one.
Mr. Tom Williams, M.P., thinks that Mexborough will do very well so long as it can import brains. True, and it is good for the brains, which are never any the worse for being re-exported from Mexboro’.
An excursion for Wembley will leave Mexborough L.N.E.R. station shortly after Friday midnight (12-45 a.m.) and return from Marylebone at 11-30 p.m., and from Wembley at 11-50. Return fare 14s. 6d.
“We are in for a rough time. Yorkshire is in for a better time than others, and Yorkshire will, perhaps, be able to hold its own, but only so long as it protects the weakest link in the chain.”—Mr. A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain.
Subject to the approval of the Board of Trade, who will hold an inspection next Wednesday, there will be a public opening of the Dearne District Light Railway next Thursday afternoon, the first car leaving the Barnsley terminus, opposite the Alhambra Theatre, at 3 o’clock.
Garden Fete in the Swinton Vicarage Grounds, on Thursday, July 17th. All the latest sports contests and out-door attractions. Teas, refreshments, concerts, dancing, etc.
White & Sons Costumes.
Place the order with Fred Hadwen, Practical Tailor, 32, High Street, Mexboro’, and you will be gratified with the result. Call in and see the many new shades and designs at prices well within reach of all purses. Urgent and Mourning Orders receive special prompt attention. Branches: Barnsley and Wombwell.