Mexborough and Swinton Times February 11, 1922
Marconigrams
Will the Geddes Axe go through the screws?
Most of the local collieries are working full-time.
Wath on Dearne was practically free of infectious disease during January.
A football player has been sold for £5000. When is this sort of thing going to stop?
For January, the Thurnscoe Urban District had the extraordinary birth rate of 71 per thousand.
The annual meeting of the Mexborough Montagu Hospital will be held on Monday 27th of February.
A further advance of a “halfpenny all round” in the cost of national Health Insurance is now foreshadowed.
Returning from a funeral at Goldthorpe on Monday, a horse bolted and dashed through the window of a millinery store.
There have been very severe local outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease at Billingley, and in the Hemsworth district.
The Wath Urban Council have as many applicants for houses, after building 228, as they had before they began to build.
The Conisborough Choral Society will perform “King Olaf” (Helga), and “Old to the North East Wind” (Cliffe), on April 26th.
Mr HC Harrison, chairman of the Conisborough Urban Council, is mentioned as a likely candidate for the County Council.
“Jim” Sayer, a famous old Mexborough footballer, and one of the two internationals the town has produced, has died at Stoke-on-Trent.
Wath Council are perpetuating the names of former prominent officials and councillors by naming new roads Burman Road, Riley Road and Winfield Road.
Professor J.A.Green, M.A., of the University of Sheffield, will lecture tonight (Friday), at the Public Hall, Mexborough, on “The Meaning of Democracy.”
The Wath Urban Council, with the humane idea of “tempering the wind to the Shorn Lamb,” he graduated the reduction of wages deciding on by the County wages tribunal.
The Dearne Valley Light Railway’s Board are petitioning against the Road transport clauses of the Bill which is being promoted by the London and North-Western, Midland, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Furness railways.
Official figures show that in the United Kingdom on 31st of January, there were approximately 1,904,300 persons registered as wholly unemployed, as compared with 1,915,182 of January 24, a decrease of 10,882.
In the event of the County Council authorising the divisional Swinton Urban district into electoral wards, the election of the 15 Councillors will take place in May. In all other urban district election is fixed for a April 1st.
A baffling local mystery, concerns the disappearance of the Thurnscoe girl, the daughter of an ex-councillor, who left her home in January 18 to go to Dodworth and has vanished without leaving a trace.
Do not forget that Mr Albert Downing, the celebrated Canadian tenor from the Queen’s Hall and Royal Albert Hall, London, will sing in the Primitive Methodist Church, Mexborough, next Sunday, at 6 p.m.