Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 08 February 1913
Marconigrams
Very little interest is being evinced in the forthcoming County Council elections.
The annual meeting of the Mexboro’ Cricket and Athletic Club will be held on Friday evening.
Wath Council have purchased land near Wath Wood House from Mr. Otter, at £200 per acre, for the erection of a reservoir.
On Friday last the Parkgate seam of coal was reached at the Wath Main Colliery.
Sinking operations have been in progress 18 months. The full depth of the shaft is 606 yards. The Parkgate seam is 270 yards below the Barnsley seam.
It is computed that eventually 1000 additional workmen may be employed at the Wath Main Colliery.
It is reported that the service of rail motor cars between Rotherham and Wath is very irregular, and passengers are frequently delayed.
It is hoped that the system will be greatly improved before the services in the Mexboro’ district are commenced.
At the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, sympathetic reference was made to the late Ald. C. D. Nicholson, of Stainton Manor.
In aid of the Denaby Main Ambulance Corps, a whist drive and dance is announced to be held in the Large Hall, Denaby Main, on Tuesday, Feb. 18th.
At the annual meeting of the Doncaster Division Liberal Association, on Saturday, County Alderman J. H. Watson, of Mexboro’, was again elected president.
The wedding of Miss Thomson, of Wath, and Mr. Anderson, of Barnsley, which was solemnised at Wath Church on Tuesday, created a large amount of interest.
The officials of the Thrybergh Hall and Warren Vale Collieries will play a football match on the Kilnhurst ground on Saturday, for the benefit of the local hospital.
Acting upon the suggestion of the Bolton Council, the Wath Council have decided to draw the attention of the Lord Chancellor to the dearth of magistrates locally.
A man named William Bailey, 62 years of age, a collier of Old Denaby, was admitted to the Doncaster Royal Infirmary on Wednesday, suffering from a fractured ankle.
Doncaster Corporation have decided to receive a deputation from the Bolton Urban District Council on the subject of improved travelling facilities between Bolton and Goldthorpe and Doncaster.
Sir Charles N. Nicholson, M.P. for Doncaster Division, gave his annual address to his constituents at Doncaster on Saturday, and replied to his critics regarding his vote on Welsh Disestablishment.
A Local Government Board inquiry will be held at Wombwell on Wednesday, relative to the proposal of the Council to borrow £7,400 for the erection of public baths. A lively inquiry is anticipated.
Mr. James A. Laver has been for sixty years lock-keeper at Wombwell Junction. His family have had charge of the lock since it was completed in 1786—one hundred and twenty-seven years. Surely this is a record.
On Sunday, a 12-year-old Wombwell schoolgirl was burned to death, her flannelette nightdress having caught fire. The coroner at the inquest said it was the sixth fatality of the same kind he had investigated in ten days.
The Free Christian Church, Mexboro’, hold their choir festival in the Empire Palace on Sunday next. There is to be a cantata in the afternoon, and a sacred concert at 8 p.m. The principals are Miss Ida Bloor, Mrs. A. Brown, Mr. R. Stringer, Mr. W. Popple, and Miss M. Brown.
The final act in the tragedy of the Eton College murder, the victim of which was Annie Wentworth Davis, was enacted on Tuesday, when Eric James Sedgewick was executed at Reading Gaol. For the defence a plea of “impulsive insanity” was urged by Sedgewick’s counsel without avail.
A story of thrilling interest, “Queen Sweetheart,” by Mrs. C. K. Williamson, will commence in our next issue.
The Great B.B. Drapery Sale commences to-morrow (Saturday) at the Mexboro’ Clothing Centre. Get a catalogue, 32 pages, brimful of bargains.
Millwood, well-known undertaker, are still in the running and well to the front after thirty years’ business.
If you require drawing and dining-room suites, ladies’ and gents’ easy chairs re-upholstering, drop a postcard to Millwood, Mexboro’, and he will call and give estimates.
J. H. White, acknowledged by all classes as the Undertaker and Funeral Director of the district. Note the Address: 30, Bank Street. Day or Night. (Advt.)