Mexborough & Swinton Times — Saturday, 12 July 1924
Marconigrams
An outbreak of smallpox in Wombwell is reported.
Wednesday was the twelfth anniversary of the Cadeby Colliery Disaster.
“This is not a Government of archangels; they are all human folk, very much like ourselves.”—Mr. Herbert Smith.
The swimming bath erected at Denaby in connection with the Miners’ Welfare Scheme will be opened on July 19.
The Rev. L. J. Carter, curate of Wombwell, was married on Tuesday at Clydach, Wales, to Miss Mary Lewis, of [place unclear].
The West Riding Education Committee is spending nearly £30,000 on repairs and renovations to Council Schools during the current financial year.
The Miners’ Federation are pressing for membership of the Federation to be made a condition of employment for all mine-workers.
The new “Welfare” tennis grounds and bowling greens at Wombwell are to be open to the public on Sundays until the 30th of September, but not for play.
A considerable number of train alterations on the L. & N.E.R. and L. & M.S. railways come into operation on Monday next, July 14.
Denaby Hospital Sunday demonstration will be held on July 20. Major Leslie is announced to speak. The Denaby children’s sports will be held on Monday, Aug. 22.
The West Riding Highways Committee are making trial bore holes preliminary to erecting a new bridge over the South Yorkshire Navigation Canal at Mexborough and Thorne.
As a result of the revision of the county rate basis, the assessable value of the West Riding administrative area has been raised from £4,066,817 to £4,558,518—roughly six per cent.
Mr. Tom Williams, M.P., told a Barnby Dun audience last Sunday that he is one of eight brothers of whom seven have had to receive hospital treatment as the result of pit accidents.
The Board of Education has stipulated that a portion of the site adopted for the erection of a Middle School at Wombwell shall be available as a common playing field for the elementary schools in that district.
The Wombwell Urban Council have decided that the bowling greens and tennis courts recently opened at Wombwell shall be open to the public on Sundays until the end of September.
The tender of Messrs. Adam Taylor and Sons for the erection of a further sixty houses on the King’s Road site for the sum of approximately £20,700 has been accepted by the Wombwell Urban Council.
The tender of Messrs. W. Johnson and Sons for the erection of a further fourteen houses on the Hemingfield site for the sum of approximately £6,000 has also been accepted by the Wombwell Council.
The Wombwell Urban Council have arranged to receive from the Mitchell Main Colliery Company crude coke-oven gas at 7d. per thousand cubic feet, the Colliery Company bearing the expense of the necessary main, about £2,000.
The Wombwell Urban Council have decided to borrow from the Barnsley British Co-operative Society the sum of £35,000 for a period of five years (and afterwards at six months’ notice) at 5 per cent. per annum interest on account of the Dearne District Light Railway.
For the first time in this country, broadcasting was conducted last Friday night from a goods train as it speeded along the L. & N.E. Railway from London to York. When the express rushed through Doncaster at 10.30 p.m. the messages were well-nigh inaudible. Apparently few people listening-in there picked up the messages.
Mr. E. Shinwell, M.P., Secretary for Mines, announces that he has appointed Mr. Henry Walker, C.B.E., H.M. Chief Inspector of Mines, to be a member of the Safety in Mines Research Board, and of the Committee set up to inquire into the methods now adopted to prevent danger in mines from accumulation of water or other liquid matters.
Garden Fête in the Swinton Vicarage Grounds, on Thursday, July 17th. All the latest sports contests and out-door attractions. Teas, refreshments, concerts, dancing, etc.