Mexborough and Swinton Times May 24, 1947

Swintonian in the USA

Landing in New York at the age of 18 nearly 40 years ago, Mr George Weaver, an ambitious member of a well-known Swinton family founded only 5s in his pocket. At that time he told his relatives at home that if he had had the money for his fare he would have “turned right around and come back” but he did not.

Instead he stayed on and after working in various parts of the country in the lumber trade, and on farms, he finally established himself in Worthington, Ohio, where he now works in a railway signal tower (known in this country as a single block”.

Mr Weaver attended the Zion Gospel Mission while he was in Swinton, and recently wrote to Pastor S.P.L.Belcher, a contributor to our columns, giving you information regarding a him which he had sung as a boy.

He receives the “South Yorkshire times” from his sister, Mrs GH Smith, of 23 Rounds Ln, Swinton, and commenced that it was “the Mexborough and Swinton Times” in his newsboy days.

In his letter he states “We English Americans are distressed over the apparent loss of friendship and goodwill between our two countries. We take all that this misunderstanding will wear out from the fact that we see here no evidence of Anglophobia outside of the press, radio and politics. The ordinary people are too busy to waste time hating anybody.”

Mr Weaver revisited Swinton in 1930