Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 17 June 1932
Marconigrams.
Lord Irwin is among the candidates nominated for the Lord Rectorship of Edinburgh University.
Last quarter the membership of the Wath on Dearne Wesleyan circuit reached its highest mark, over 1,300.
A man has been robbed when returning home from a church bazaar. We shouldn’t have thought it poesible.—”Punch.”
The Mexboro’ Military Band will give a concert on the Castle Hill Grounds on Sunday evening next. June 19th, at 7-30 p.m.
Police constable: She said to me, “You want drowning!” I told her I would bring the matter to the notice of the magistrates.
Nineteen bands have been engaged for the Yorkshire Miners’ Demonstration at Barnsley on Monday, in addition to big noises for the platforms.
“There was never more money spent on pleasure than to-day and never so little joy.”- Rev. William Younger, president of the Primitive Methodist Conference.
Two prominent South Yorkshire coal owners, Mr. W. Benton Jones and Mr. J. H. W. Laverick, are to receive honorary degrees from the University of Sheffield.
The reunion of the Wesleyan, Primitive, and United Methodist churches will be accomplished on September 80th, and will be celebrated in the Royal Albert Hall, London.
A grant of about £15,000 to the Montagu Hospital, for extension and improvements, has been recommended to the Central Miners’ Welfare Committee by the south Yorkshire Miners’ Welfare committee.
The week’s smile: “Owing to the excellence of the racing information published by newspapers, the public have so far this season lived on the bookmakers.”—Mr. A. S. Furniss, solicitor. Rotherham.
“Landmarks of South Yorkshire,” a series of illustrated articles, revised, collected and reprinted from the South Yorkshire Times, is now issued as a sixpenny booklet, and is available at the “‘Times” Mexboro’, and from all newsagents in the district.
Amongst a wide variety of bedding plants at the Brookfield Nurseries, Swinton (also covered market, Mexborough), Geraniums are outstanding in quality and price. Satisfaction guaranteed.