Marconigrams

A Wayside Pulpit wisecrack: “The wages of sin have not been reduced.”

“I don’t blame the Press for censoring the stuff that some of us idiots talk.”—A parish councillor.

Canon S. T. G. Smith, vicar of Attercliffe, used sign language in marrying a deaf and dumb couple last Saturday.

The Swinton Urban Council have under consideration the question of advertising industrial sites in the district.

The Mexborough Chamber of Trade are offering prizes to school children for bright slogans in support of Mexborough.

A Barnsley boy of 16 conducted the Sunday School anniversary services at the Spring Vale Methodist Church, Penistone, on Sunday.

The South Yorkshire colliery owners have been asked to contribute £50,000 to the cost of the Don drainage scheme, estimated at £500,000.

Mr. Charles Jagger is to execute a statue of the King-Emperor which is to be erected in New Delhi to commemorate the King’s recovery in 1928.

The Board of Education are permitting a 7½ per cent increase on last year’s expenditure on adult education through the W.E.A. and local education authorities.

Mr. James Bell, manager of the Manvers Main No. 3 Colliery, has been elected president of the Yorkshire branch of the National Colliery Managers’ Association.

From the Duke of Athol’s Fund £500 has been received by the Leeds Infirmary, £300 by the Sheffield Royal Hospital, and £200 by Mexborough Montagu Hospital.

The Don and Dearne Debating Society are endeavouring to arrange a public debate on the proposed amalgamation of Mexborough and Swinton between leading members of the two authorities.

Heard at the Baths.—First Mother: “How do they manage to keep the water clean with so many people using it?” Second Mother: “Don’t you know? Its filtered every hour and chloriformed.”

The British coal output for the week ended April 14 was 4,920,700 tons and the number of wage-earners employed was 786,100. The Yorkshire figures were 911,700 tons, 142,000 wage-earners.

Sir Edward Bairstow, organist of York Minster, and Dr. A. C. Tysoe, organist of Leeds Parish Church, have been selected as adjudicators at this year’s Mexborough Musical Festival, on October 5th and 6th.

More than 1,300 Boy Scouts of the Doncaster Association attended the St. George’s Day service at Doncaster Parish Church on Sunday afternoon. They marched in procession from the Market Square, accompanied by four bugle bands.