South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944
Marconigrams
Sgt. John Chalmers, R.A.F., of Low Valley has been awarded the D.F.M. for his part in bringing safely home a badly damaged bomber.
The Rev. I. M. Williams, Curate in Charge of St. George’s, Jump, comments in the Parish magazine that at an 8.30 a.m. Sunday service for Lent his congregation gave him a “Bevin.”
Miss. M. V. Garbutt, Headmistress of Bolton-on-Dearne Modern Girls’ School, is to be hostess at a summer School for youth leaders to be held at Bingley Training College from August 11th to the 19th.
One of the portraits exhibited in this year’s Royal Academy is of Mr. J. A. Hall., J.P, President of the Yorkshire Mineworkers’ Association. The portrait, which is by Nr. T. C. Dugdale, R.A., is to be presented to Mr. Hall by the Yorkshire mineworkers through their Association.
Over £250 was taken in gate money at the finals of the Mexborough Montagu Hospital Charity cup, which was won by Wath Wanderers, after a replay and extra time.
The death occurred suddenly on Monday of Mr. William Henry Taylor, principal of the Don Foundry, Swinton, and in his younger days a well-known South Yorkshire sportsman. He was 69.
The Rev. Michael Barnsley, curate at Mexborough Parish Church since December 1941, has been appointed assistant curate to Canon H. C. Foster, Vicar of Ranmoor, Sheffield.
“Small savings will have to continue for perhaps two years after the war if major social disaster is to be avoided.” Sir Harold Mackintosh, chairman of the National Savings Movement.
County Coun. A. Fouchard has resigned his seat on Dearne Urban Council because the monthly meetings clash with an important committee meeting of the Montagu Hospital Board of Management, which had previously been re-arranged in order to enable Coun. Fouchard to attend.
Manvers Main Colliery canteen was crowded on Wednesday for an E.N.S.A. concert and Mr. T. L. Butler (Regional Commissioner, National Savings Movement) spoke from the platform in support of the Salute the Soldier campaign, which Manvers Main Colliery workmen are holding this week to increase savings within the colliery itself.
On May 20th the Chief Scout asks every Scout and Cub to do work and to earn at least one shilling, and to give the money earned to the Boy Scouts’ Relief Fund. Scouters and the general public whose cooperation by providing odd jobs, is necessary to the success of the effort., should mark this date. If 21,000 Scouters in the British Isles each earn a shilling, £21,000 would have been raised in one day.