Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 20 May 1922
Marconigrams
Mexborough Feast Sunday is on June 18
Mexborough Urban Council are ensuring their new houses at £200 each.
A small scale had been obtained for the use of the Mexborough elementary schools.
From a Mexborough pulpit: “Give till you feel it, and then go on giving till you don’t.”
June 7: debate, George Fletcher the Reverend., In U M Church, Doncaster Road, Mexborough
Swinton Town Band will give a problem of music in Highfields Park on Sunday night May 21st
Election Temperature is slowly rising in Swinton chiefly in the candidates, the inhabitants are keeping wonderfully calm.
The Mexborough Primitive Methodist Sunday School Anniversary will be held on Sunday and Monday, May 28 and 29th.
It has been judicially held that a wife cannot be libelled, but we have a chivalrous feeling that this can hardly be true of all wives.
Mr Harold Steer, of Rotherham, has been appointed to succeed his father, Mr George Steer, who is retiring from the post of headmaster of the Victoria School, Wath on Dearne.
By the death of Mr W.B.Egerton, at Adwick farm, South Yorkshire has lost its oldest colliery engineer. Mr Egerton was 82 years of age, and was for 51 years at Manvers Main Colliery, latterly as chief engineer.