Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 14 June 1924
Marconigrams
The late Councillor John Robinson, of Wombwell, left estate of the value of £30,382.
The Order of Druids is alarmed at the tendency toward decline in membership and are considering new methods of propaganda.
The Wombwell Urban District Council are negotiating for supplies of coke-oven gas from local collieries.
Mr. T. L. Sear, manager of the Barnburgh Colliery, has this week successfully undergone an operation in Leeds.
“Darfield is not to be considered as a health resort.”—Dr. R. F. Castle (Medical Officer of Health).
Mr. Sidney Powley, lay reader at St. Helen’s Church, Thurnscoe, is to be ordained deacon on Sunday, in the Sheffield Cathedral.
The number of persons registered on the Employment Exchanges on June 2nd was 1,002,900, or 12,728 less than the previous week.
The Mexborough, Swinton, and District Agricultural Society will hold their third annual Show and Sports on Thursday, July 31.
Mr. Herbert Smith suggests that the mineral royalty owners should make a special contribution to the Miners’ Welfare Fund.
Mrs. J. E. H. Drabble, formerly of Mexborough, is recovering from a serious operation recently performed in a Sheffield nursing home.
Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe Motor and Light Car Club on Whit-Sunday won the Ripon Carnival Trophy for the second year in succession, and a silver cup outright.
An exchange of livings between the Rev. A. W. Wells, Vicar of Goldthorpe, and the Rev. Harry Howard, Vicar of St. Bartholomew’s, Wentworth, near Rochdale, has been arranged.
Coun. G. Dickenson, of Darfield, has made a lively and incisive rejoinder to the Chairman of the Wombwell Council’s recent overtures toward the amalgamation of Wombwell and Darfield.
The L.N.E.R. are advertising excursions from Mexborough to Blackpool for the Carnival, June 14 and June 21, to London on June 16 for Wembley and Ascot, and to Beverley Races on June 18 and 19.
The heavy thunderstorm of Wednesday was hastily telegraphed from Headingley on Tuesday at the fall of the seventh wicket, but it seems impossible to get punctual delivery nowadays.
Six special trains were chartered for the Manvers Main and Barnburgh Colliery workmen’s trip to Blackpool on Tuesday, and the excursionists numbered over 3,000. They spent a damp but enjoyable day.
At Birmingham, on Wednesday, Norman Kilner, the Wombwell cricketer, who is qualifying for Warwickshire, was presented with a handsome oak clock by his late colleagues of the Yorkshire County team as a token of their appreciation of his services to Yorkshire cricket.
At the annual conference of the National Federation of Colliery Enginemen, Boilermen and Mechanics, this week, Mr. Frank Hodges was referred to as “a one-time fiery representative of the proletariat who has been falling over himself to play golf with a real live duke.”
Miners’ Welfare Schemes are rapidly coming to fruition in this district. A Village Hall was opened at Great Houghton on Saturday, and bowling greens at Wombwell. Very shortly bowling greens and tennis lawns will be opened at Mexborough and Swinton, and a very fine Institute at Denaby Main.
Personal.—Coun. W. Winstanley has been elected a member of the Institute of Hygiene, in recognition of his local services to public health. Mr. Winstanley has been a member of the Mexborough Urban District Council for 13 years, and for several years was chairman of the Sanitary Committee and the Child Welfare Committee.
Miners at the Seaside.—More than 3,000 Manvers Main and Barnburgh miners, with their wives, took advantage of the annual outing, Blackpool being the place selected. The trains left about 6 o’clock, the Midland stations being Swinton, Kilnhurst, Wath and Bolton. The day, unfortunately, was not of an ideal character for seaside enjoyment, being dull and drizzly, and the result was that the Tower, “Coney Island,” and many places of amusement profited accordingly. The return journey was made about 11 o’clock, home being reached between four and five o’clock on Wednesday morning by the four specials. Mr. Tom Williams, M.P., was able to join the party.