Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 02 October 1931

Marconigrams.

Summer Time ends on Sunday at 3 a.m.

Miss Amy Johnson is shortly to lecture in Mexborough.

The Mexborough Music Competition is to be held to-day (Friday) and to-morrow.

Magistrate: What do you know about this affair?—Excited witness: I saw it from the start to the beginning.

Mr. Alec Oates has relinquished the post of organist at St. Michael’s, which he has held for the last ten years.

The quota of permitted coal output for Yorkshire for the next quarter has been increased by half-a-million tons.

The chairman of the Swinton Urban Council (Mr. M. Creighton) suggests a loan exhibition of Rockingham ware.

Thomas Ward & Sons Ltd., of Sheffield, have again received the contract for supplying razor blades to the Irish Army.

“Do, dear brides, take advice and fix your weddings earlier in the day,” pleads the vicar of Goldthorpe in his parish magazine.

A new 7½ hours’ drawing record was established at Cortonwood Colliery yesterday, 2,270 “tubs” or about 1,150 tons being raised.

The floodlighting of Conisborough Castle has this week attracted many thousands of spectators from all parts of South Yorkshire.

Two new streets in Swinton have been named Brameld and Griffin because of the association of those names with Rockingham pottery.

The Mexborough Secondary School, whose accommodation was recently doubled, is already overcrowded and 200 candidates for entrance have been turned away.

The proposed memorial to the late Rev. John Dalton, Vicar of Hickleton and Goldthorpe, will possibly take the form of a statue of the Good Shepherd, to be erected in the Goldthorpe Parish Church.

Ladies!—At 69. Main Street, Mexborough (Mrs. Dodsworth) a distinctive selection will be found of Smart and Well-tailored Coats, including O.S. and Ex.-O.S. Watch rertiseement columns next week for Special Announcement showing designs of some of the models in stock.