South Yorkshire Times, October 30th 1943
Marconigrams
The L.N.E.R. announce that Mr. F. Lee, of the Doncaster District Superintendent’s Office, has been appointed Stationmaster at Summer Lane Station, Barnsley.
A Mexborough miner, convalescent at Rhyl, has written to his pals asking for a copy of the South Yorkshire Times, which, he says, is the only thing he misses of Mexborough.
Mr. O. Weaver, ‘* Manora,” Rockingham Road, Swinton, has presented to the Dearne Urban Council a mahogany roll of honour on which is inscribed the names of twenty-three employees serving with the Forces.
Colonel and Mrs. Warde-Aldam entertained the parishioners of Hooton Pagnell to tea to show their appreciation and gratitude to Mr. W. G. Elford, the schoolmaster, who has served the village for many years in various good ways. To perpetuate his memory the parishioners have subscribed to a dole to be known as the William George Elford Dole.
The output of coal per man-shift depends more on food than on wages (writes a correspondent to The Times). It would be more effective aid to output to double the miner’s meat or bacon ration than to increase his wages; and the nation might well be asked to accept a penny cut in the general meat ration to give the effective miner a bonus of meat rather than of money.
The Red Cross mobile display unit is visiting many districts in South Yorkshire during November.
Fire watching is a compulsory service in Swinton and Conisbrough, but not in Mexborough. Very strange and inexplicable one would think.
Lady Donatia Gething, third daughter of Maud Countess Fitzwilliam and the late Lord Fitzwilliam, has died in London, and much sympathy has been expressed with the bereaved family.
The members of the Manvers Main Sea Cadet Corps do not need to go to sea to get training, as they have their own cabin cruiser, “The Tamar,” which cruises up and down the placid waters of the canal.
The Provost of Sheffield (the Rt. Rev. A, C. E. Jarvis, C. B. C.M.G., M.C., D.D.) is opening on Wednesday next in Mexborough a Sunday School campaign organised by the Mexborough Anglican and Free Churches.
The annual show of the Mexborough Chrysanthemum Society will be held next Friday and Saturday in the Mexborough Free Christian Church Schoolroom. An exceptionally fine display of blooms is anticipated. The proceeds are for the Montagu Hospital. – A siren test will take place throughout the North-East Civil Defence Region next Monday, November 1st. The siren will first signal the “All Clear.” This will be followed by a short silence when the “Alert ” will be sounded. After that, there will be another short silence followed by a final “All Clear.”