January

Contents:
Brampton Girl
– to Appear in Jessie Matthews Show
Twins on New Years Day
Curios Found in Gas Meters
Cinema – Grand
– Bulldog Drummonds’s Peril
Wath Mothers Union Party
Floods Might Have Been Worse
– Agricultural Land Mainly Affected
Snow, Ice, Fog and Floods
West Melton Child Welfare Clinic Treat

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February

Contents:
60 years’ service with Edward Smith
Wedding – Hollings & Parrish – Popular Actors Married at Brampton
Sixty Years with One Firm – Remarkable West Melton Record
Cinema – Grand – The Perfect Specimen
Curate Leaving

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March

Contents:
Posted To York.
Retirement
Wath Main Pensioners Annual Tea
Wath Council Move to Prosecution – Investigation Committee Set Up
Accountant To Retire
– Over Thirty Years’ Loyal Service
N.U.R. Secretary
Cinema – Grand
– We are Going to be Rich (video
Cinema – Majestic
– Navy Blue and Gold (video)
Foundation Stones Laid at Wath
– Wesleyan Reform Enterprise
Juvenile Collectors’ Association
International Cap
– Wath hockey player chosen for England
Women A.R.P. Workers

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April

Contents:
Golden Wedding Well-known Couple
Head Of Family Of Watch Contractors
Well-known Wath Couple – Golden Wedding Tomorrow
Musicians married- Bridal party after the ceremony.
Wedding – Beaumont & Pease
Wedding – Bunn & Schofield
Wedding – Cook & Taylor
New Councillors – Alwayne Fairhurst
Robinson’s Shoes (advert)
“The Finest Set of Officials in the North.”
New Treatment For Rheumatism- Manvers Main Enterprise
According to rota.
Angry Scenes At Wath – Meeting Uproar
New Councillors – Mr Allen Wild
New Councillors – Mr C Smith
New Councillors – Mr Phillip R Baker
Cinema – Majestic – I Mt my Love Again (video)
Cinema – Grand
Policeman’s Plucky Dive.
Open Verdict– Painter Drowned In Canal.
From Palestine.

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May

Contents:
Hundred Men Wanted
Inquest On Wath Shunter
– Run Over By Wagons
wedding – Evans & Winstanley
Ben Bailey Homes at Wath
Wath Civic Parade
Damage at Wath- Smashed Window
Cinema – Grand
Cinema – Majestic – Too Hot to Handle
Dean Conkers Honored
A Tableau From School May Festival.
Use of the Bren Gun
Grammar School Governors Chairman.
Swintons New Skipper
Yorkshire Colts In Action.
Beat The Clock By Two Runs
Wath Grammer School Sports

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June

Contents:
Weddings:
– Bollans & Waddington
– Hart & Hooley
– Ashfield & Williams
– Miller & Hoyle
– Watson & Scott
Manvers Main Annual Gala
Manvers Main Baby Show
Manvers Main Entertain 10,000
– Success of Annual Gala
Manvers Main Gala – Anti-Aircraft Gun
Manvers Main Gala – Tug of War
Manvers Main Gala – Youth and Age
Bishop of Sheffield Visits Wath
Cinema – Grand – The Gladiator
Cinema – Majestic – Blockheads
Carnival Queen – Keen Competition
Carnival Queen and her Attendants
Park Road Junior School Queen
Wath Old Folk’s Treat
Wath Wood Hospital Extensions
Wath Wood Hospital Staff
Swinton 139 for 0 Wath 136
Wath 154  Mexborough 229 for 3 (dec)

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July

Contents:
Degree Success
Honours Degree
Cinemas:
– Grand – Homicide Bureau
– Majestic – The Dark House (video)
Wath Wesleyan Reform Church,
Wesleyan Reform Church
Montagu Hospital –
– The Week’s Casualty List
Alsatian Dogs at Wath Hospital Gala
Wath’s Hospital Queen
Yorkshire Council Table – July 28, 1939

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August

Contents:
Obituary
– Coun. J. T. Mills Prominent Personality
Weddings:
– Hill & Ardron
– Bean & Barlow –
–Couple Handcuffed At Wedding
– Bradley & Swinburne
Accident – Inquest Told “Inches from Safety”
Cinemas:
– Majestic – Out West with the Hardys
– Grand – Paris Honeymoon (video)
Editorial – On the Brink
Hitler Calls War Council –
– Peace Appeals by Pope & Roosevelt
“Victory” Bowls Cup

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September

Contents:
First Aid Lecturer Retirement
War Twins
Engagement – Hollings & Badger
Weddings:
– Beevers & Ford – Special Leave to Wed
– Walton & Dale
– Carr & Mirfin
– Easter & St. Leger Blakeney,
– Hargreaves & Dyer
– Hoyland & Radford
– Grim Novelty at Wath Wedding
– Smith & Bristow
Cinemas:
– Grand – I am the Law (video)
– Majestic – Prison Without Bars (video)
Mexborough Montagu
– The Week’s Casualty List
South Yorkshire Looks to Its Defences
– Reports from the Districts
War Gets Closer
– District Reactions To Crisis
Wath Assault – Beaten With Poker

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October

Contents:
Engagement – Clark & Jackson Smith
Wedding – Bailey & Woodhouse
Wedding – Yates & Bownas
Wath Pierrots
Manvers Main Team
Editorials:
– Pistol Point Peace
– The Monomaniac
– The Tempo Quickens
– Adolf Strafe England

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November

Contents:
Swinton Victim of Road Crash “Neither Driver Gave Clear Signal”
Unique Order of Serving Brother Awards
Wedding – Dickinson & Houghton – Manvers Sports Club Members Wed
A Link With Home – “Times” Editorial
Soldiers & Sailors
– Galloway, John – Wath Mainer Joins Up
– Smith, Victor C. –  Tall Wath Sailor
– Atkinson, Stanley G. – Old Wathonian Abroad
– Johnsons, Jack & Joseph – Couple Send Two Sons
Editorials:
– “I Would” and “I Dare Not”
– A Cry From No Man’s Land
– Queens Speech -Churchill’s Review (videos)
– The Rigour of the Game

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December

Contents:
Thefts at Wath – Railway Property Taken
Breakfast with Bishop – Deanery Welcome
Obituary – Mr Douglas Powell
Harder Then Than Now – Mineworker Looks Back
Weddings:
– Charlesworth & Prince.
– Clark & Smith
– Hutchinson & Bell
First Aid “V.C.”
– Pit Worker’s Act Saved Man’s Life
Wath Urban Council Vacant Seat
New Manager
Montagu Hospital
– The Week’s Casualty List
Soldiers & Airmen
– Bentham H. – Army and Air Force
– Breislin, Christopher Henry
– Young Wath Veteran
– Harrison, Walter – Like Father
– Lord, George – Keen Athlete
– Grimshaw Family
– Another Wath Record

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