Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 13 May 1922
Marconigrams
Conisborough’s housing scheme has been cut down from 270 to 30 houses.
The prevailing price of milk at Swinton is 8d per quart and at Conisborough 6d.
Great Houghton is expected to get a public park out of the Miners Welfare Fund.
The price of tea was reduced by 4d per lb at shops last Monday.
The Government are reported to intend spending 10 million on the telephone service.
Police Inspector Beevers, of Mexborough, is retiring from the constabulary at the end of May.
Wath sports are to be held as usual on Whit Monday, and Thrybergh sports on Whit Tuesday.
There is a campaign against ugly advertising. Personally we think it’s just beautiful, all of it.
The recent Bolton enteric epidemic because the Council £9000 and 27 lives. There were nine cases reported last month.
A large number of candidates have been nominated for the forthcoming Council election at Swinton on the last Saturday in May.
The Wath Coral Society of performing standing Bennett’s cantata, “The May Queen,” in the Pavilion, Wath next Monday evening.
It is proposed to inaugurate an agricultural, horticultural and Fanciers Society in Mexborough and to hold a show and sports during the summer months.
Sheffield and Kilnhurst firms are included in the National Fuel Company, have just issued a prospectus, and intend to work a big oil concession in Mexico.
The production of “The capital of Devon” at the Mexborough Theatre last week involved the Wath Operatic Society in a heavy loss, the enterprise deserved better financial support.
Mr J W Hattersley, Swinton, a member of the Church of England National Assembly, is to address the Mexborough Parochial Council next Monday on the Parish Church Councils Act.
Many subscribers are frequently asking when the grounds of the Swinton War Memorial are to be laid out. We understand that the Swinton Council have now appointed a Committee to deal with the matter.
The Man’s Welfare Fund will revolutionise sports throughout the Don Valley is the present proposals are approved. A new sportsground is contemplated for Swinton. The Mexborough ground has been enlarged and modernised, whilst at Denaby it is proposed to erect, at a cost of £20,000, an Institute between the cricket and football fields.