Mexborough and Swinton Times February 18, 1922
Marconigrams
A Ruri- decanal conference will be held at Wath on March 4
Over a hundred head of cattle and pigs have been slaughtered at Billingley.
Mr W.E. Stringer has been appointed accountant to the Wombwell Urban Council.
An enquiry into the recent enteric epidemic at Bolton on Dearne has been demanded.
The Mexborough Urban Council have postponed their scheme for constructing a new reservoir.
The young girl, Miss Annie Parker, reported missing from Thurnscoe on January 19, has been discovered at Coventry, safe and well.
Mr Frank Ogley, J.P., of Hill Top, Conisborough has been appointed a Commissioner for Income Tax.
The Mexborough Council this week passed plans for the reconstruction of the “Mexborough Times” premises.
Mr W Appleyard, of Clifton, is likely to stand the scanty the County Council division of Conisbrough.
The Mexborough Urban Council have asked the Swinton and Mexborough Gas Board to reduce the price of gas from 6/6 to 5/6.
Miss G Bishop, of Bolton on Dearne, has been appointed as assistant superintendent at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne.
The public lighting of Great Houghton is deferred, the Wombwell Urban Council and the Houghton Parish Council having failed to agree on terms.
The Chairman of the Wombwell Urban Council, Mr Jonas Pashley, has resigned, and has accepted an appointment on the Council are scavenging foreman.
The Ministry of Mines takes the view that it is inopportune, in view of trade depression, to introduce new legislation for the compulsory provision of pithead baths.
The Wombwell Urban Council are supporting a Grimsby Corporation resolution pressing the railway companies to give the service of pre-war cheapness, speed and comfort.
The total output of coal in Great Britain for the weekend in February 4 was 4,803,100 tons as compared with 4,738,700 tons in the previous week. In Yorkshire the output rose from 849,900 tons to 861,800 tons.
Local investors are invited in our advertising Collins to subscribe £10,000 in 1 pound ordinary shares in the Swinton Cinema Theatre, which is to be erected in Station Street.
At a farmer’s dinner at Brampton Bierlow, the other day, it was announced that the government intended to give full compensation to owners of animals slaughtered to foot and mouth infection. The government’s policy of slaughter was approved by most of the farmers present.