Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 22 July 1932
Marconigrams.
The Mexborough Urban Council has voted itself an August vacation.
Three hundred employees of the Houghton Main Colliery have received notice this week.
The rainfall in this area during June was 0.51 of an inch as compared with 6.07 inches in May.
A handsome processional cross has been anonymously presented to the Conisborough Parish Church.
The Empire Shopping Week which was to have been held in Mexborough this autumn has been deferred to next spring.
Mr. Mark Nokes. J.P., of Thurnscoe, is shortly to take over the licence of the Westfield Lane Hotel.
“There is no each thing as a dead end in education.”—Mr. E. Tune, J.P., chairman of the Wombwell Education Committee.
At the West Riding police court at Barnsley on Wednesday, it was stated that ‘there is swine fever all over the West Riding.
“On a local Welfare Park pavilion: Let no one say, and say it to your shame, That all was beauty here until you came.
The lateness of runner-beans, to which attention is drawn, gives rise to the suspicion that they have been walking.— “Punch.”
Canon C. F. Twitchett, a former Thurnscoe curate, is to preach next Sunday morning and evening in St. Helen’s Church, Thurnscoe.
Arrangements are being made to extend the playing fields of the Wath Grammar School and to plant the grounds with trees and shrubs.
Nearly a thousand Anglo-Catholic children in parishes in the Wath rural deanery are to make a “pilgrimage” to Hooton Pagnell on Saturday.
The Swinton Urban District Council are preparing a new list of applicants for Council houses, in support of a now application for a housing loan.
Mr. Schofield Hampshire of Mexborough, has been appointed organist of the Wath Parish Church in succession to Mr. G. M. Coates who shortly to retire.
“If I am a member of the Labour Party for the next 40 years I shall never support the Labour Party if it takes office again as a minority government.”—Mr. Tom Williams, M.P.
The final ascertained cost of the Week Grammar School is £33,408 2s 9d., and the final ascertained cost of the recent extensions to the Mexboro’ Secondary School is £15,601 19s. 3d.
Mr. Charles Edward Shaw, a native of Wath-on-Dearne, has recently retired from the position of secretary and general manager of the Stockport Cooperative Society, which he has held for-twenty-five years.
Owing to acute depression, the directors of John Baker and Bessemer, Ltd., regret they cannot recommend the payment of the half-year’s dividend on the Preference shares due on July 31st. This has been paid up to June, 1931. The last Ordinary dividend was 4 p.c. for 1930.
Mexborough Military Band are to visit Wath Town Hall grounds on Sunday evening next at 8 p.m.