Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 23 February 1924
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The Mexborough Urban Council have let a contract for 32 houses at £497 each.
The ancient hotel, the Brampton Bull’s Head, will shortly be sold by auction.
A South African order for 4,000 railway tyres has gone to the German firm of Krupp.
“I take off my hat to the colliery managers.”—Colonel G. R. Lane-Fox, M.P.
A number of Yorkshire farmers are proposing to start a co-operative bacon factory.
Next Friday is a critical day for bachelors, who will be well advised to make themselves either scarce or hideous.
The oldest pharmacist in the district, Mr. John Jones, of Swinton, died this week, aged 80.
Mr. Samuel Roebuck, general secretary of the Yorkshire Miners’ Association, is recovering from a serious illness.
According to an American professor’s calculations, American locomotives use up 2,434,026 tons of coal a year in whistling.
“I think both employers and employed only make fools of themselves if they insist upon arbitration between nations and refuse it among themselves.”—Bishop Welldon.
Mr. F. L. Harrop has retired from the position of Chairman of the Directors of the British Wagon Co., Ltd., a position he has held for 44 years.
The latest Bottomley story. “Sewing, I see,” said a warder to Mr. Bottomley, busily employed on a mail-bag. “No,” retorted Mr. Bottomley, “Reaping.”
The Mexborough Urban District Council have reduced the rate for electric lighting by a penny per unit (7d. to 6d.), and for power by 14 per cent.
The book recommended this year by the Bishop of London for Lenten reading is Dean Inge’s “Personal Religion and the Life of Devotion.”
Mr. Sydney Pardon, the editor of “Wisden,” in this year’s number, proclaims Roy Kilner, of Wombwell, “beyond question one of the best all-round cricketers in England.”
The Wath Operatic Society’s production of “Falka” is their best effort. To-night (Friday) and to-morrow (Saturday) are the last two nights of these performances.
A brass band quartet contest, promoted by the Bentley Colliery Silver Prize Band, held on Saturday, resulted as follows: 1, Frickley; 2, Yorkshire Main; 3, Foden’s Works and Hickleton Main.
The giant “Pacific” passenger engine erected at the Doncaster Plant, which is going to the great Wembley Exhibition, is to be on view in the Plant Works on Saturday.
Bills promoted in the present session by the South Yorkshire Coal Trade Association, the London and North-eastern Railway Company, and the Rotherham Corporation, are all being extensively opposed.
The Mexborough Urban Council yesterday received consent to the borrowing of £1,100 for the installation of a new pump at the waterworks.
Councillor A. Winter, for many years licensee of the South Yorkshire Hotel, Mexborough, is retiring from business and is to be succeeded by Mr. Harold Major, of the Imperial Hotel, Barnsley.
The Mexborough Urban Council are considering a proposal to purchase a corner of the new Miners’ Welfare ground at Mexborough and lay it out as a children’s playground, at a cost of £500.
The West Riding County Council have asked the Mexborough Council to prepare a “comprehensive and bold scheme” for the widening of the main highway from the top of Doncaster road, Mexborough, to the Miners’ Arms, Mexborough.
At a meeting of the Doncaster Board of Guardians on Saturday, it was reported that out of 4,424 births in the Union area only 1,546 had been successfully vaccinated, while 2,356 were excused on conscientious objection grounds.
Lord Hawke, who is leaving Wighill Park next month, has for many years been the tenant of the late Mr. Andrew Montagu and Captain Montagu, whose family up to three or four years ago owned nearly the whole of the land between Wetherby and York.
According to the “Scotsman,” the members of a deaf and dumb institution were recently taken to a cinema, and walked out indignantly because they were shocked by the dreadful language used by the performers. This suggests that it is as well that lip-reading is not a common accomplishment.—“Church Times.”
Sir Richard Redmayne, the mining expert, says that the method of packing by hydraulic stowage the space left by the extraction of coal would reduce the effects of subsidence to almost negligible proportions, but it might be more economical for mine-owners to pay all the compensation necessary rather than incur the expense of hydraulic stowage.
At an extraordinary general meeting held at the head office of the Bank on Thursday, the resolutions for changing the name to National Provincial Bank Limited, and altering the memorandum of association were duly confirmed. The change of name will take place forthwith. The share certificates at present in the hands of the proprietors are not being exchanged, and existing cheque books in the hands of customers may continue to be used until exhausted.