South Yorkshire Times, November 13th 1943
Marconigrams
Mr. E. Bell, of Mexborough, has completed fifty years’ service as a bell-ringer at Mexborough Parish Church.
The Bishop of Sheffield Dr. L. S. Hunter, conducted a confirmation service for Conisbrough and Denaby candidates at All Saints’ Church, Denaby Main, on Sunday.
Miss E. M. Kisby, headmistress of Moorthorpe Infants’ School, and a member of a family well known in Mexborough, has been appointed headmistress of a school at Airedale, near Castleford.
A wreath from the Tunnellers’ Old Comrades Association has this week been placed on the memorial to Sapper W. Hackett, Mexborough’s V.C., who gave his life in the Great War. Local representative of the Association is Mr. Harry Cooper, of Hoyland.
The Rev. S. Powley, Vicar of Denaby Main, sat in the vestry of All Saints’ Church on Saturday for four hours and received gifts from his parishioners, On Sunday a total of £142 with more gifts to come in was placed on the altar.
Five L.N.E.R. lorry drivers with unblemished driving records were at Mexborough on Tuesday presented with special awards by the company. None of the men had even scraped the paint on their vehicles through the slightest accident.
If you save 1½lb. of coal, that is enough to make a rifle bolt; 4lb. is sufficient to make a revolver; 6lb. enough for a 2in. mortar bomb, In the manufacture of a single rifle, half a cwt. of coal is used. You waste fuel, too, by leaving off a lid of a saucepan (steam is heat and helps to cook). If a million housewives dropped the habit they would save 12,000 tons of coal.
Sixty-three convictions were obtained by the N.S.P.C.A. in October for cruelty to animals, compared with fifty-six in September. Of this total of sixty-three, Yorkshire had three cases, During October dogs were the chief sufferers, there being seventeen cases, which is, however, a decrease on the September figure of twenty-three. There were fourteen cases of convictions for cruelty to horses, Farm animals were also sufferers, with three cases for cruelty to cattle, eight for cruelty to sheep, four for cruelty to pigs and three for cruelty to fowls. Ten persons were disqualified from keeping a dog or holding a dog licence for various periods.