South Yorkshire Times, October 6th, 1933
Marconigrams
West Yorkshire coal mines were operated at a loss of £210,611 during August.
Plans have been prepared for a new church which is to replace St. Hilda’s, Thurnscoe.
On Saturday the Swinton ladies’ hockey team suffered their first defeat for three seasons.
Summertime ends on Sunday, and clocks must be put back one hour on Saturday night.
A grant of £300 has been made from the Carnegie Fund to the Cadeby Colliery Disaster Fund.
The Minister of Labour has made a special order applying the Trade Boards Acts, 1909 and 1918, to the cutlery trade.
“A man should be able to read his wife like a book,” says an author. Yes, but he can’t shut her up so easily. —” Punch.”
The Queen has kindly promised a parcel for the Mexboro’ Congregational Church Bazaar, to be held next Thursday.
From a local parish magazine: “Every single mother received some little prize to take home.” A present for a naughty girl.
A man in Australia accused of stealing an old Ford said he took it for a joke. In a sense he was perfectly right. —”Punch.”
“A candid man,” says a novelist, “never keeps his friends for long.” He is, of course, candid enough to tell them to go and keep themselves. —” Punch.”
Sir James Baillie, Vice-Chancellor of the Leeds University, will be the principal speaker at the Mexboro’ Secondary School “Speech Day” next January.
The National Provincial Bank, Ltd., which recently attained its centenary, is celebrating the event by granting three days extra leave to each of its 8000 employees.
“You cannot honestly thank God for the blessings of wireless if you are not on speaking terms with your neighbour,” —The Rev. W. S. Coad, of Macclesfield (at Wombwell).
The West Riding County Council have been granted a further period in which to complete their proposals for the reorganisation of county districts. The closing date is now November 1st.
According to the Daily Mail the Cutlers’ Company on Tuesday went to the installation of their Master “led by their beagle.” They hope, now that trade is reviving, soon to have a full pack.
A new novel by Mr. A. A. Eaglestone (“Roger Dataller”) is to be published next week by Dent’s. It is called “Uncouth Swain,” and the scene is laid in the South Yorkshire of a hundred years ago.
Dr. W. R. Dickinson, of Wombwell, has been appointed superintendent of the Wombwell Corps of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, in succession to Mr. S. Taberner, who has removed to Blackpool.
The Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company are promoting a Provisional Order to empower them to provide a 20-minute trolley bus service between Rotherham and West Melton, via the Woodman.
“The Yorkshire Amalgamated Collieries (Denaby, Cadeby, Maltby, Dinnington, and Rossington) may be said to have had the bad luck to suffer more, perhaps, than any other company in the district from the operation of the Coal Mines Act and also from the reduction in the coal export trade.” – Mr. W. H. McConnel, vice-chairman, Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company, Ltd.