Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 10 May 1924
Marconigrams
The glass trade at Conisbrough is reported to be improving.
Miners are due to receive this week a substantial increase in wages.
“There can be no parochialism in the mining industry.” — Mr. Tom Williams.
The British Empire Exhibition has been insured for £40,000,000.
Subscriptions to the Montagu Hospital during April amounted to £566 8s. 3d.
The inaugural luncheon of the Mexborough and District Rotary Club was held on Tuesday.
“Personally, I think what the Labour Party has done is simply wonderful.” — Lady Mabel Smith.
Generous grants are being made by the proprietors of the Markham pits in support of excursions by their workmen to Wembley.
“I think the Council should be medically examined; in fact, I think they should be mentally examined.” — Coun. A. Bramham (Wath).
The Mexborough Labour Party are pressing for the appointment of Councillor L. I. Jones and Councillor G. W. Bramham to the magistracy.
A branch of the Don Valley Women’s Unionist Association has been formed at High Melton, with Miss Emily Wood as president, and Mrs. Percy White as secretary.
A doctor says that a man may be drunk through suffering a severe shock. So that you need not even drink the whisky. It’s sufficient to pay for it.—(“Punch.”)
“The Yorkshire Miners’ Association promised to pay back £300,000 in six months, and they did it in six months and three days.” — Mr. Herbert Smith.
An Australian visitor asked an Englishman when summer was in England. “It varies,” was the reply. “Last year it was on a Wednesday.”
Mr. Harry Briggs, of Sheffield, prospective Liberal candidate for the Don Valley, is to debate at Mexborough, on May 21st, with Mr. Edgar Davies, of Doncaster, on the subject of Communism.
“We understand that the mine-owners are as keen as the miners to continue the operation of the Miners’ Welfare Fund beyond 1925, the date tentatively fixed for the termination of the scheme.”
The Doncaster Corporation have sold their mineral rights under the racecourse for £25 per foot thickness per acre, and may possibly derive £500,000 in royalties from the total.
The contract for the erection of 400 houses at Denaby Main for the Conisborough Housing Association, on behalf of the Denaby Colliery Company, has been let to Messrs. A. Bull and Co., Thurnscoe.
The fine new tennis ground laid in the Wath Athletic Ground by the local trustees of the Miners’ Welfare Fund will be opened on Saturday afternoon by Mr. A. T. Thompson.
According to Sir Arthur Keith, man has dropped half-an-inch since prehistoric days. Not much of a drop, considering the Budgets he has had to put up with.—(“Punch.”)
“The Minister of Transport has intimated consent to linking up the Dearne District Light Railway with the Mexborough and Swinton Tramway via Burnham Road (Wath) and Swinton Common.”
A decree nisi has been granted to Mrs. Mary Edith Jones, of Melton Park, against her husband, Archibald Nelson Gavin Jones, a retired Lieutenant-Colonel, on the ground of misconduct.
The Kilnhurst Collieries have been sold by Messrs. J. and J. Charlesworth to Messrs. Stewarts and Lloyds, and Mr. C. S. Maggs, from the Nunnery Colliery, Sheffield, has been appointed agent and general manager.
The Management Committee of the Mexborough Montagu Hospital have adopted a recommendation of the Medical Committee that they should appoint consulting specialists, and have asked the Medical Committee to recommend suitable men.
The number of persons in receipt of Poor Law relief at the end of December, 1923, represented one in every thirty-one of the population. Prior to October, 1921, so high a proportion had not been reached since 1879.
The proprietors of the Colliery Guardian offer two prizes of ten guineas and five guineas respectively for the best designs or suggestions having for their object the prevention of accidents from falls of ground in mines. Candidates must be bona-fide working miners or officials, up to and including the rank of deputy.
The Mexborough branch of the Women’s Unionist Association will hold their first whist drive in the Public Hall, Mexborough, on Wednesday, May 14th. Tickets 1s. Splendid prizes given.
Roman Terrace P
rimitive Methodist Sunday School Anniversary, Sunday, May 11th. Preacher at 2-30 and 6. Mr. S. Blower, of Wath. Come in the afternoon and be sure of a seat.
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