South Yorkshire Times, August 11th, 1933
Marconigrams
How we envy and admire those that go down to the sea in slips!
Weary Willie (sighing): Don’t I feel like a glass of beer! Tired Tim (next size sigh): Don’t I wish you was!
Lord Irwin is to preside at the opening of the annual show of the Thurnscoe Fur and Feather Society on August 19th.
Lord Halifax has given two acres of land to the Roman Catholic Church at Goldthorpe as a site for a parochial hall.
A grocer’s assistant who recently took part in a boxing match got a black eye in the first round. Early closing. —”Punch.”
The Kilnhurst-Mexborough section of the South Yorkshire canal has been emptied to facilitate repairs to the Swinton locks.
A “live” naval shell, evidently spilt from a barge during the war, has been recovered from the bed of the emptied canal at Mexborough.
The Thurnscoe Urban District Council is organising a petition against the proposed amalgamation of the Bolton and Thurnscoe urban districts.
The publicity given to the intimation that boys were wanted at Wombwell Main carried something of a rush to that colliery last week-end.
Rustic (to American tourist): No, mum, ther warn’t no battle fought i’ this field. Farmer Grey’s too bleedin’ mean to let it even fer t’ sports.
We thought those concrete wayside seats had beaten the hooligans, but someone has bitten a beautiful mouthful out of one on Warren Vale Road.
Miss K. M. May, M.A., first headmistress of the Hill School, Thurnscoe, has been appointed head mistress of the new senior school at Hoyland.
The blood of traffic policemen has been found to be charged with carbon monoxide. That’s nothing to what motorists are charged with. — “Punch.”
The training camp of the West Riding Infantry Brigade, Territorial Force, at Ripon, breaks up on Sunday. Next year the camp will be by the sea.
An eminent doctor says that most seaside sun-bathers could have done the job better and more cheaply by staying at home and pouring boiling water over themselves.
The Vicar of Conisborough has protested against the unreasonable length of hospital demonstration processions and the undue fatigue inflicted on Sunday school children.
A by-election has been caused by the resignation from the Rawmarsh Urban District Council of Mr. W. A. Richardson, who is secretary of the Wath and District Bowling League.
Dr. W. E. Snith, a former Bishop of Lebombo, conducted the services at the Bolton-on-Dearne Parish Church on Sunday, and was the guest for the weekend of Mr. J. L. Hawksworth.
Opening the Denaby Main Co-operative Society’s jubilee exhibition this week. Mr. G. Thorpe a former president of the Co-operative Wholesale Society, described the Denaby society’s property as “a little gold mine.”
Mr. J. B. Feltham. electrical engineer to the Mexborough Urban District Council takes up his new appointment as electrical engineer to the Long Eaton Urban District Council on September 1st.
When the Thurnscoe Urban District Council reported that they had no slum property in their district, the Ministry of Health were so incredulous that they sent down an inspector to make sure.
The directors of the Manvers Main Collieries inspected on Wednesday the new coke-oven plant at Manvers Main, which is rapidly nearing completion and, it is hoped, will be ready for operation in September.
The Rev. R. W. Wade, superintendent of the Wath-on-Dearne (Wesleyan) Methodist Circuit, concludes a four years’ ministry here at the end of this month .and will be succeeded by the Rev. G. A. Lester, from Market Rasen. Lincs.
The Editor of the “South Yorkshire Times” has received an intimation that a prominent citizen of the proposed new district of Mexborough and Swinton will be happy to provide a chain of office for the chairman of the new authority, and still happier to furnish a set of mayoral robes for the first mayor.