South Yorkshire Times, May 27th, 1944
Marconigrams
Mexborough Comforts Fund hope to make £100 by their annual flag day this week-end.
Mr. H. L. V. Evans of St. Alban’s and formerly of Doncaster, late Inspector of Mines for Yorkshire, left £5,709 (net personalty £5,649).
Gifts of rhubarb which supporters of the Montagu Hospital may be able to spare, would be most useful and very welcome. The Board of Management would be grateful to receive these gifts.
Sgt. Roy Barker Silverwood, R.A.F., of Sheffield, who has been awarded the D.F.M. was born at Mexborough. He is 22 and has made more than 40 operational flights as a flight engineer.
Major P. MacKenzie Smith, of Hooton Pagnell, has been serving in the Anglo beachhead in Italy.
On Whit-Tuesday afternoon, a garden fete will be held in the Vicarage Field, Swinton, in support of Red Cross funds.
Rescue teams after fighting a fire in the Parkgate seam at Cadeby Colliery for nearly four days successfully sealed off the affected area on Wednesday.
Britain’s railway workers have contributed £307,000 in pennies to the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund. Totals for the four groups are: L.M.S. £117,400, L.N.E.R. £112,830, G.W.R. £41,175, S.R. £35,380.
Two British owned colliers of 2,600 deadweight built recently have been equipped with diesel engines, and are believed to be the first ships designed for the exclusive transport of coal which will use only oil as fuel.
Although the Adwick Road Hostel for “Bevin Boys” at Mexborough is not yet complete a number of “Bevin Boys” are already in residence. Ultimately the Hostel will house some 500 of these recruits to the coal mining industry.
Len Hutton, the England, and Yorkshire batsman, who is one of the first-class players who have promised to play in the big charity cricket match at Mexborough, on June 19th, is to play at Lords in both matches against Australia this week-end,
“You with your young bodies, your newly awakened minds and your fresh enthusiasms are the best fitted to provide your own amusement,” said the Rev. I. M. Williams, curate in charge of St George’s, Jump, to a congregation of young people at Wombwell on Sunday.