Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 4 November 1922
Marconigrams
The election thermometer is rising. A week hence it will be at fever heat.
“It is an impudent thing to ask any man who voted for” – Mr J.E. Cliff.
The Dearne Valley Water Board is extending its operations in search of an adequate supply of water.
The takings at the Wombwell Parish Church bizarre held on Wednesday and Thursday amounted to £416.
Doctor Hutchinson, Vicar of Swinton, was a preacher at Echo’s Church on Saturday, on the occasion of the Ecclesfield Deanery Festival.
The entry for the Mexborough Choral Completion Festival, which is to be held on Saturday, December 2 close on Saturday, November 4.
The reproduction of the Mexborough Quartet, and Mr F.H. Harrop in our last week’s issue from photographs supplied by Metcalfe Studios, Mexborough.
Swinton and Mexborough consumers of gas would welcome any early reduction in price and can be made. We have heard rumours of the possibility of a January reduction.
On Sunday the Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds will dedicate at Saint Alban’s Church, Denaby, a memorial to be erected there in honour of local Roman Catholics who fell in the war.
The Hickleton Main Colliery Company are sinking to the Parkgate seam, which they expect to reach at a depth of 800 yards. This week the sinking reached the Barnsley bed, which was reached at 540 yards.
Last week a Hickleton Main miner was trapped and imprisoned in the pit for 18 hours, and Doctor Malcolm, Thurnscoe, was summoned to him, spent all night with him, supplying him with tea, coffee and brandy.
Mr David Henry Roberts, M.S.A., a Wombwell architect, has been appointed as adviser to the Wombwell Miners Welfare Committee in laying out a public park, for which purpose a grant of £8000 is being made from the fund.
A memorial tablet in horror of the 125 men of Wath Main Colliery who fell in the wall he’s been erected on the whole of the colliery offices, and will be unveiled on Sunday afternoon, November 12 by Mr B.A. Pickering, a former manager of the colliery.
On Thursday evening next, the Reverend Canon A.M.Cooper, Vicar of Filey (“The Walking Parson,”) will give a lecture at the Swinton Church Hall, on the subject “My visit to Dante’s tomb,” All seats are free. A collection will be taken to defray the expenses of the lecture.
In connection with the choral competition which is being promoted by the Mexborough and Swinton Railwaymen’s Choir, a silver shield has been offered by the promoters for competition by the choirs, and the silver cup is given by Mr Albert Downing, the Canadian tenor, for competition by the quartets.
Musical items will be rendered by the Home Orchestra at the Don Working Men’s Club, Mexborough, from 7 to 10 on Sunday evening.