South Yorkshire Times, September 25th 1943
Marconigrams
Miss Margaret McArthur, daughter of Dr. J. McArthur, Denaby Main, was married on Saturday at St. Peter’s Church, Vere Street, London to Captain Dennis H, Bowman, L.D.S., R.C.S., only son of Mr. and Mrs. Bowman of Amersham, Bucks.
At a meeting of the Mexborough Local Association of Boy Scouts, a resolution was passed extending the thanks of the Association to Major M. E. Clark, the District Commissioner, who has generously purchased some woodland at Burghwallis as a camping ground for the use of the scouts.
Yorkshire Land Day (Sunday October 3rd), has been organised by the Young Communist League as a tribute to the miners who attended the recent Bedfordshire harvest camp. It will be the climax of the League’s summer service campaign, in which hundreds of young folk have taken part. On this day the League aims to get a minimum of a thousand people out on the land helping farmers.
The L.N.E.R. announce that Mr,. E. H. Johnson, Stationmaster at Hickleton and Thurnscoe, has been appointed Stationmaster at Bolton-on-Dearne.
A silver salver and a cheque for £78 was presented by Wath Main workmen on Sunday to Mr. J, A, Braithwaite, secretary for twenty-one years of the local branch of the Y.M.A.
Hickleton, who lost their Yorkshire Cricket Council championship to Swinton in the final, played on their own ground, on Saturday, also lost the toss for the first time this season that day.
A Mexborough reader informs us that she discovered violets in flower near Burghwallis on Sunday, sending a root by way of proof. She wonders whether anyone else has come across such late-blooming violets in South Yorkshire.
Coal output for the first year of the area bonus scheme, which ended on September 4th, was 4,263,000 tons lower than for the previous year. It totalled 200,249,600 tons against the 204,512,600 tons of the year before,
The forty-sixth annual meeting of the Manvers Main Collieries, Ltd., will be held in London on Tuesday next.
The Scouts of the Mexborough Local Association have contributed £l4O to. the Scouts’ Baden Powell Memorial Fund.
A cheque for £150, proceeds of the recent cricket match at Wath, was formally handed over to Wath Comforts Fund on Wednesday.
Among the British forces which took part in the fighting in Sicily were the following Yorkshire regiments: King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Green Howards, East Yorkshire’s, and York and Lancaster Regiment.