South Yorkshire Times — Friday, 15 June 1934
Marconigrams
“Things are looking up in Sheffield.” — The Lord Mayor.
The Liverpool Corporation is using sea water for street cleansing.
A poll for Old Denaby’s first parish council will be taken on June 30th.
Ten elementary schools are now in course of erection in the West Riding.
The Yorkshire Miners’ Demonstration is to be held in Doncaster next Monday.
In an accident at the Denaby Colliery this week a workman had the fingers of one hand cut off.
“The people of this town want to hear more industrial noise, not less.” — Councillor J. A. Hall, Wombwell.
Dr. J. C. Pickup, medical officer to the Wombwell Urban District Council, has qualified to practise as a barrister.
“Britain is beyond doubt at the present time the most prosperous country in the world.” — Mr. J. A. Spender.
A former Thurnscoe curate, the Ven. C. E. Twitchett, Archdeacon of Warrington, has been appointed Archdeacon of Liverpool.
A death has occurred in the district this week from elephantiasis, a rare disease locally. The victim, a woman, grew to a weight of four hundredweight.
New regulations issued by the Mines Department, including one for the compulsory use of a fresh type of safety lamp, will come into force on Sept. 1st.
The Directors of John Baker and Bessemer, Ltd., announce the payment of a dividend on the 6 per cent. Cumulative Preference Shares for the half-year ended June 30th.
“People are apt to make the mistake of thinking that the seat of intelligence is in the chin,” writes Mr. Lloyd George in his Memoirs. Certainly that is where the pugilist aims to knock ’em silly.
“Newspaper advertising is one of the most effective and economical means of informing thousands of potential subscribers of the new facilities offered by the Post Office.” — The Postmaster-General.
A petition containing 40,000 signatures for the reprieve of Horace Wiggan, a Barnsley man under sentence of death for murder, was presented to the Home Secretary yesterday. Subject to reprieve the execution will take place June 22.
A General Meeting of the Hospital Rag will be held in the Hospital on Wednesday, June 20th, at 7.30 p.m.
Notice—Mexboro’ Montagu Hospital Rag Day is fixed for Saturday, July 14th.
Mexboro’ Montagu Hospital Rag Dance on Friday, June 22nd in Olympia, West Street.