Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 24 September 1921
Marconigrams.
There are over 50,000 unemployed miners in Wales.
The cast of living now stands, officially, at 120 above datum.
A reduction of 2s. per ton in household coal is announced at Doncaster. Why not here?
The quarterly meeting of the Yorkshire Fire Brigade Union to held at Mexborough on Oct. 8.
The water supply of Thurnscoe is running short and householders are being urged to use it cannily.
Mexboro’ is to make another effort to rouse Conisboro’ and Swinton from their modest reticence.
“Let’s all go down the Strand, and be a big borough,’ pleads Mr. Cliff.
Jacky Coogan believes there is a future for Charlie Chaplin, and is inclined to persevere with him.
The Rev. N. Evans, assistant curate at the Darfield Parish Church, is taking up missionary duties in Hung Kong.
A Goldthorpe butcher has been fined for honouring the old Leger week custom of chucking out the winnings.
(Article on Goldthorpe site)
The Rotherham electricity now supplies as far afield as Ecclesfield, Wath, Conisboro’ and Maltby.
The Wath and West Melton war memorial is to be unveiled to-morrow (Sunday) by Major E. D. B. Johnson, M.C.
The hardest-worked joke of the weeks “Just off to see Miss White marry Mr. Brown. It’ll be great fun to watch her change colour.”
“People in Wath are pleased to have houses that they do not care whether they have a light or not.”-Councilor M. Robson.
The Postmaster-General says that recently, when he called in a post office, incognito, he was treated in a very “off-hand” manner.
If people will go about looking like common taxpayers, they must expect nothing better. Personally. we always make noise like a Postmaster-General when we have business with the back of the wire-netting.
The late Colonel T. W. H. Mitchell, of Wath, instructed that bequests should be made from his estate to his servants, up to £1,000.
(Article on Wombwell & Wath sites)
Mr. W. S. Hunter, chairman of the Manvers Main Collieries Ltd., of Gilling Castle, Malton, unveiled the Manvers Main War Memorial on Sunday.
The Mexboro’ Council are now thoroughly converted to motor transport and intend to put the highways department as well as the sanitary department on petrol.
“The whole future of farming in this country is bound up in the greater application of machinery in methods of production.”—Sir Alfred Daniel Hall. K.C.B., F.R.S.
The Mexboro’ Council have decided to ask the Mexboro’ and Swinton Tramway Company to keep out of High street with their cars during the busy hours of Saturday evenings.
Economic progress means the enrichment of a nation, not in material possessions only, but in the happiness which is more than money or goods credit.”—Sir H. Kingsley Wood, M.P.
The Doncaster Board of Guardians have adopted estimates which will entail an increased demand on the contributory parishes equal to an increased poor rate of twopence in the £.
In view of the outbreak of enteric fever in the Bolton-on-Dearne urban district, steps are bring taken to chlorinate – the water supply. Householders are also advised to boll the water.
(Full report on epidemic on Bolton, Goldthorpe, Conisbrough & Wath sites – December 1921)
“It must be evident to anyone who looks around him with an unbiased eye that all we have to do to ensure a certain return to prosperity is to pull solidly all together.”— P.J. Hannon. M.P.
The Minister of Labour strongly recommends the unemployed who have temporarily run out of benefit to continue signing at the Labour Exchange, as evidence of o bona-fide search for employment.
The Mexboro’ Musical Festival, on October 7th and 8th, will be held at the Adwick road School and the Free Christian Church, and not at the Mexboro’ Secondary School, as inadvertently reported last week.
A technical centre for advanced mining instruction has been opened by the West Riding Education Committee at Wombwell, and will be available for mining students within convenient reach of Wombwell.
Mr. T. M. Fowler, formerly engineer to the South Kirkby Colliery and manager at the Barnsley Shell Factory, has been appointed enginewright at the Wombwell Main Colliery, in succession to the late Mr. C. H. Oxley.
The Manvers Main dividend for the year ended June 30 is 10 per cent. tax-free, compared with 17, per cent tax-free for each of the previous four years. Manvers Main dividends since 1908 have ranged between 7 ½ and 22 ½.
There are a number of Manvers Main war service medals still unclaimed, and they will he distributed at the offices of the colliery on Thursday next, Sept. 29. between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. After that date, no claim for medals will be acknowledged.
“When you come to think of it, employers get their incomes because they employ men, not because they “sack” them. It is the first business of the employer, his first duty to his shareholders, to employ every man he can profitably use.”—Sir Walter Runciman Bart.
“A wise man once said that civilisation is a vast machine of which mankind appears to have lost the handle. In other words, man’s power of control has not kept pace with the complexity of the system which he has built up.” – F. W. Pethick Lawrence
The International Congress of Printers thinks that it the papers were obliged to write the truth and nothing but the truth for a fortnight, genuine industrial democracy could be established at once. That is the truth, but what is truth? We can hear old Pontius Pilate sniggering in Tophet.
An eight-year-old boy was asked at the Doncaster police court if he knew what an oath meant, and replied, “Yes, not to tell lies.” The magistrates were delighted with the little chap, and are very anxious to bespeak him in good time for the police force.