January
Contents:
Broke His Neck – Walking Again
Obituary – David Beevers.
Mexborough Band’s Success
Electricity Dept’s Annual Dinner
Cinema – Empire, Majestic & Oxford
– Jezebel
Mexborough Salvationists Annual Tea
Denaby Reply to Inquest Criticism
Floods Might Have Been Worse
– Agricultural Land Mainly Affected
Mexborough Clinic Party
Mexborough Old Men’s Retreat
Snow, Ice, Fog and Floods
Time on his Hands for 53 years
Favourite With the Nurses
Mexborough Town Club Next Season
February
Car Crashes into Tram Standard
Obituary. Mr. J. Allsopp
– Well-Known Tradesman
Death Spoils Party Plans
– Loses Daughter and Brother
U.D.C.’s Chief Financial Officer
Cinemas – Empire – Majestic
– Oxford – The Goldwyn Follies
Magnificent Work – Duty in Difficult Times
Secondary School Speech Day
Shooting Tragedy – Man’s Suicide
March
What Australia Offers – Work For Those Who Really Want It
Wedding – Curtis & Firth
Wedding – Hughes & Jolly
Wedding – Lovatt & Allen
Chamber of Trade Annual Dance
Bible Pageant – Seven Churches Combine
Cinema – Empire – Majestic
– Oxford – Pygmalion (video)
Cinema – Royal
– Gold is Where You Find it (video)
Mexborough Cinema Ball
Oxford Road Church – “Sunshine Sammy”
Hospital Worker Presentation
– 30 Years’ Service Recognised
Montagu Hospital
– Review of Year of Records
Montagu Hospital Appointment
– New President – Mr. G. Dickinson
“Pride and Prejudice” at Secondary
Green Room Club’s production –
“In the Tunnel,”
Operatic & Dramatic Society
– “The Maid of the Mountains,”
Life-Long Souvenir of Cycling Stardom
Farrier Who Ignored Tip – Lincoln Horse
German Refugee Fears Long Arm of “Gestapo.”
April
Contents:
Chance To See Modern Railroad Giants
All Quiet at Swinton- Retiring Members Returned.
Railway exhibition– Two-day program
Pretty Mexborough Wedding
– Mr K. R. Wood & Miss A. R. Pilling
Weddings:
– Poppe & Baron
– Bentham & Read
– Holmes & Naylor
– Kitching & Ruder
– Mitton & Sylvester.
– Norman & Embleton
– Oxley & Coates
– Webb & Atkins
– Galloway & Jones.
– Wilmot & Wood
Runaway Tubs At Barnburgh
Railway Queens Busy Two Days.
New Councillors:
– Mr Albert C Rawson
– Mr Ben Bailey
– Mr George Goodacre
– Mr G W Jepps
Cinema –Empire, Majestic, Oxford
– Old Mother Riley in Paris (video)
Congregational Church Sale
South Yorkshire Times, April 28st 1939
Fell Down Steps.
Hospital Board Appointment
Montagu hospital
Wartime Mystery of Man’s Identity
National Service Pageant
New Post – Assistant Mistress
Railway Queen
Death of Councillor
Moving to London
Max Woosman Cup.
May
Contents:
Inquest On Wath Shunter
– Run Over By Wagons
Youth Thrown Into Don
– Death Due To Heart Failure
Clubs Annual Dinner
Dinner Dance
A.R.P. Sections Dinner & Dance.
Elocution Success.
Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Soc.
Young Mine Workers
Civic Parades In The Rain
Last Weekend Flower Service.
Montagu Hospital
– The Week’s Casualty List
Mutual Expressions Of Goodwill
More to Add
June
Contents:
Golden Wedding Party
Imperial Service Medallist
Weddings:
– Elsley & Flanagan
– Guest & Cusworth
– Haigh & Caddick
– Hart & Hooley
– Webb & Draper.
– Wilber & Brooks.
Worry Over Long Waiting List
Wath 154 Mexborough 229 for 3 (dec)
More to Add
July
Contents:
Weddings:
– Barnett & Adlington
– Midgley & White
– Smith & Linton
– Curtis & Haigh
Wesleyan Reform Union President
Montagu Hospital
– The Week’s Casualty List
More to Add
August
Contents:
Memorable Wembley Final
Veteran to be Chelsea Pensioner
Inquest Told “Inches from Safety”
Hitler Calls War Council
– Peace Appeals
Editorial – On the Brink
More to Add
September
Contents:
Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Clayton
Obituary – Mrs. O. Haigh
– Well-Known Teacher
Weddings:
– Hargreaves & Dyer
– Hoyland & Radford
– Grim Novelty at Wath Wedding
– Young & Guest
Barnsley British Co-op Butchery
Royal London Insurance Society
Cinema – Empire, Majestic, Oxford
– Heart of the North (video)
Montagu Hospital
– The Week’s Casualty List
Sandbag protection for Hospital
Gardens’ Championship cup
Allotment Association’s Annual Show
South Yorks Looks to Defences
– Rapid Improvisation
Worst Storm For Years
– Havoc in Mexborough District
Riding to Coffin Corner
Girl’s Pluck – In the W.A.T.S.
War Gets Closer
– District Reactions To Crisis
Editorials:
– Standing By
– The Curtain Rises – The Die Is Cast.
– The Fog of War
– Frankenstein and His Monster
– The Cost of War
October
Contents:
“Under London” – Journalist’s Book
Wedding – Bradley & Page
Gallant Rescue – Youth Rewarded
– Two Saved From River Dearne
Montagu Hospital
– The Week’s Casualty List
Sailor & Soliers
– Spencer, Harry
– Member of Royal Oak’s Crew
– Otley, Richard & Margaret
– Brother and Sister With Forces
Editorials:
– Pistol Point Peace
– The Monomaniac
– The Tempo Quickens
– Adolf Strafe England
More to Add
November
Contents:
Successful Angler & Gardener
Wedding – Shaw & Border
Wedding – Hewitt & Richardson
Cinema – Empire, Majestic & Oxford
– The Three Musketeers (video)
Mexborough Show Winner
A Link With Home – “Times” Editorial
Sailor & Soldiers:
– Garbutt, Jack – “Firing” King’s Ships
– Briggs, Harold – One of Our Own
– Careless, William Edward
– Good Wishes From France
– Haigh, James – Ten Years’ Service
– Haigh, Harry – “King’s Soldier”
– Mason Brothers – Links With 1914
Editorials:
– “I Would” and “I Dare Not”
– A Cry From No Man’s Land
– Queens Speech & Churchill’s Review
– The Rigour of the Game
More to Add
December
Contents:
Breakfast with Bishop – Deanery Welcome for Dr L. S. Hunter
Messrs Blake’s Staff Dance
Harder Then Than Now – Mexboro’ Mineworker Looks Back
Weddings:
– Bailey & Jackson
– Best & Balmforth
– Clark & Smith
– Huey & Falwasser
– Morley & Nettleton
– Nuttall & Croft
– Pidd & Clements
– Popplewell & Hartley
First Aid “V.C.”
– Pit Worker’s Distinction
New Post Office Opening Ceremony
New Post Office
– Growth of Postal Business
Mexborough Curate.
Montagu Hospital
– Week’s Casualty List
Schofield Music Class Choir
Montagu Hospital
– The Week’s Casualty List
Soldiers & Sailors
– Atkinson, Peter – Ship Inn To Ship
– Wright, Stanley – One of “Big Shots”
– Antcliff G. – Cure For Rheumatics
– Bakemore A. – Enjoying Army Life
– Bennett, Cyril – Serving Overseas
– Holtby – Happy and Well
– Wheeler, Ernest – Following Father
Editorials:
– Grey Goebbels
– “Guilty, But Insane”
– Alas, Poor Ghost!
– Recipe for a Happy Christmas
– This Year of Fate