Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 31 May 1924
Marconigrams
A “Mayor’s Parlour” has been provided at Wombwell Town Hall.
The “Hospital Sunday” season opens next Sunday with the annual effort at Wath.
Conisbrough Council are about to appoint a clerk to the Council, at a salary of £200 per annum.
The annual meeting of the Swinton Nursing Association will be held in the Carnegie Library on June 26th.
The trams on the new Dearne District Light Railway will be running in a few weeks on some sections.
The question of the amalgamation of the townships of Wombwell and Dartfield is to be brought forward again.
The Home Office inquiry into the Birley Pit explosion will be opened at the Sheffield Town Hall on June 24.
Owing to sudden illness, the Vicar of Kilnhurst, the Rev. F. W. Shepherd, was unable to conduct the services on Sunday.
Complaints of profiteering in the building trade were voiced at the meeting of the Swinton Council on Wednesday evening.
The Barnsley Justices have this week suspended the licences of two Wombwell motor cyclists for driving to the danger of the public.
Irving Turner, the Wath cricketer, is making his first appearance in first-class cricket this week, at Lord’s, for Yorkshire against Middlesex.
Mr. Douglas Coates, of Wath, has been offered and has provisionally accepted the post of organist and choirmaster at St. Mary’s Church, Paddington.
A small open-air market has been established at Thurnscoe, but the question of adopting and developing it as a municipal enterprise is still under consideration.
A correspondent interested in brass bands writes to express disappointment that the date selected for the Mexborough Contest, July 12th, clashes with several other local contests.
Sir Thomas H. Mottram, Chief Inspector of Mines, in the course of his report on the Redding Colliery accident, emphasises the need for placing telephones in the mines at shorter distances.
The Mexborough Urban Council are in negotiation with the West Riding County Council regarding the acquisition of property in connection with a scheme to widen the east end of Bank Street.
A record entry has been received for the District Tournament organised by the Mexborough Lawn Tennis Association. The semi-finals and finals will be played on the Denaby Main courts on July 19.
We understand that important developments are under consideration in connection with the Kilnhurst Collieries, recently acquired by Messrs. Stewart and Lloyd, of Birmingham, from Messrs. J. and J. Charlesworth, of Wakefield.
“It is universally believed that the members of the Church of England are more ignorant of the history of their religion than the members of any other religious body, and I am afraid that statement is not very far out.” — The Bishop of Sheffield at Wombwell.
The Ladies’ Committee of the Montagu Hospital have pleasure in announcing that they will hold a Jumble Sale, by kind permission, in the Primitive Methodist Schoolroom, Mexborough, on Monday, June 2nd, at 3-30 o’clock in the afternoon. A cordial invitation is extended to all.