Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 10 June 1932

Marconigrams

One way traffic is to be adopted in Brook Sq, Conisbrough.

Ackworth ratepayers at a parish meeting have voted for union with Pontefract.

Some interesting impressions of Denmark are given in this issue by Teddy Hancock, the Denaby footballer, who has just returned from a tour with the Liverpool team.

Mr. Charles Hamner’s film “Black diamonds”, is to be exhibited next Thursday to the guests of the Institution of Mining Engineers at their summer meeting in Sheffield.

The current issue of the “Certified Secretory” contains an article on the organisation of hospital income, Mr. Donald Wilson, secretary of the Montagu Hospital, Mexborough.

Dr. J. J. Huey, of Mexborough, has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of the No. 5 District of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, in succession to the lute Mr. H. Hulley, of Maltby.

Lord Halifax, who was 93 on Tuesday, “on the air” for the first time on Monday night, his speech at the Newcastle celebrations of the centenary of the Reform Bill being broadcast.

The marriage has been arranged and will take place at Saint Thomas Church, Kimberworth, on Thursday, July 7 of Miss Edith Mary Sellars, daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. J. M. Sellars, of “Lynwood.” Kimberworth Road, Rotherham, and ‘Mr. Richard George Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Baker, Green House, Swinton.

Orders for bedding plants, of which there are many varieties, received at Brookfield Nursery, Swinton (also Mexborough covered market) exceed all previous demands, but scores of thousands are still in stock.

Two weeks to Mexborough Feast – You can always rely upon smartly cut really highly tailored garments; a generous selection of carefully selected patterns and shades at prices that simply appeal to you. Urgent and mourning orders always to time. —Fred Hadwen, Reliable Tailors, 32, Bibb Street, Mexborough; Barnsley and Wombwell.