Mexborough and Swinton Times February 4, 1922
Marconigrams
Nearly 500 million National savings certificates have been sold.
Will the income tax fall? Political interest is already been concentrated on the Budget.
The Governors of the Mexborough Secondary School found some milk at 2s 4d a gallon.
“I am the mildest mannered man that ever stuck a pig.” – Mr George Lansbury at Mexborough.
During last year the losses of the Dunlop Rubber Co Ltd amounted to over £8 million sterling.
The workmen at the Denaby and Cadeby Collieries contributed last year £2473 to the Fullerton Hospital.
The condition of the road beyond the Wombwell westbound, through stare for into Barnsley, is deplorable.
The outbreak of foot and mouth disease was not expected to produce any serious shortage of meat this weekend.
A number of spurious treasury notes have been circulated and all readers are worn carefully to study their 1 pound notes.
A chamber concert under the auspices of the Mexborough Library Committee, will be held in the Public at old Mexborough on March 1.
Messrs Dean and Dawson this week announces further excursion facilities by GC Railway from Mexborough and district.
The question of the amalgamation of the Rotherham County and Rotherham town football club’s is now been seriously considered.
L Fitzwilliam has offered to allow a portion of the lake at Wentworth Woodhouse to be used as a bathing pool for local Scouts.
The country is faced with one of the worst outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease ever experienced. Local capital markets are close.
A fund is being raised at Conisboro’ for the relief of distress amongst glass bottle workers, which is very considerable in that district. The death has occurred this week of Mr W Petrie, enginewright at the Hickleton Main Colliery and secretary of the Hickleton Golf Club.
A number of animals have been slaughtered and destroyed in the Mexborough district, in consequence of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
Yorkshire miners will suffer a further drop in wages during February, the most severe cut they have experienced since the new wages scheme came into operation.
Mr H.O. White, M.A., lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sheffield, is to lecture in the Public Hall, Mexborough, tonight (Friday), on “Some Novelist of Today.”
A Swinton man, named John James Ingram, as we sent to prison for 12 months on various frauds and thefts, mainly in connection with football, at Wath and Mexborough.
A letter from Mr J.A.S. Fullerton on the question of Sunday golf which is the considered at the annual meeting of the Thrybergh Park (Rotherham) Golf Club on Tuesday, is printed in another column.
At the Fire Brigade conference at Mexborough yesterday, Councillor C.W.H. Peat (Swinton), touched the limit of magnanimity are declaring Mexborough to be the most accessible place for a conference of this character.
Monday was the 13th anniversary of the poll that was taken at Swinton and Mexborough in respect of the purchasing of the gas works by the Council. The result showed a majority on 908 in favour of the purchase.
The Manvers Main Colliery Company purchased by auction, on Thursday, the residence, “Woodgrove,” Wath with the intention we understand, ultimately of converting it into the Institute for the officials at the colliery.
Mr J Mitchell purchase four £2630 the offices occupied by the Mitchell Main Colliery Company and others, in Regency Barnsley, the property of the late Colonel Mitchell at the sale which was conducted at Barnsley on Wednesday evening, by Messrs Lancaster and sons.
A Mexborough boy of 14 years was summoned at Doncaster on Wednesday for passing a silvered farthing continues by, representing the kind to be a sixpence, and receiving 5p change. It transpired that the boy’s mother allowed in four shillings a week pocket money out of his weekly earnings of 29s 6d.