Mexborough & Swinton Times — Saturday, 26 July 1924

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The Beckett Hospital, Barnsley, needs a regular monthly income of £1,200.

Over £80 was raised at the postponed Hospital Demonstration at Wath last Sunday.

Frickley Colliery Athletic Club have been admitted to the Midland Counties Football League.

The parishioners of St. Hilda’s, Thurnscoe, are raising funds for the erection of a new church.

The Mexborough Employment Exchange reports thirty vacancies for boys, chiefly at the Conisborough Glass Bottle Works.

“Youth well-conducted cottage hospital at Mexborough.”—Mr. S. R. Lamb, secretary of the Sheffield Hospitals Joint Council.

On August 17th, Mr. Tom Williams, M.P., will have spent eleven consecutive Sunday afternoons addressing Hospital Demonstrations.

Captain F. J. O. Montagu, of Melton Hall, has arranged to attend the stone-laying ceremony in connection with the Montagu Hospital extension to-day (Saturday).

The directors of John Baker and Co. (Rotherham), 1920, Ltd., announce a dividend on the 6 per cent. Cumulative Preference shares for the half-year ended June 30th, 1924.

Messrs. Woffinden are re-opening the Empire Theatre, Mexborough, next Friday evening after renovation, and the first night’s takings are being given to the Montagu Hospital.

Competition between the trams and the buses in the Dearne Valley, especially between Barnsley and Wombwell, is very keen. Both classes of vehicle are carrying pointed “slogans.”

A new scheme of medical and dental service for the West Riding elementary schools has been adopted by the West Riding Education Committee, at an estimated annual cost of £46,418.

The Wath and District Gas Board are anxious to reduce their rate of gas, but have been forbidden by the Ministry of Health to do so until they have wiped off their arrears of sinking fund payments.

The late Mr. Charles Broadbent (76), builder, 9, Broomhill, Wombwell, a vice-president of the Wombwell Property Owners’ Association, has left £5,185 10s. 1d., with net personality £885 10s. 10d.