South Yorkshire Times, November 10th, 1933

Marconigrams

The next Wath Rural Deanery Choirs Festival will be held in 1935.

Get ready to join our great knitting contest. Entry form and particulars next week.

Now that Gordon Richards has broken the record the world seems hopelessly void of topics.

A fund for a memorial to the late Canon Leteux is to be raised among Roman Catholics in the West Riding.

A proposal is under consideration for broadcasting a Christmas Day service from the site of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Countess Fitzwilliam has consented to become president of the Rotherham Women’s Conservative and Unionist Association.

“One of my few consolations in the coal strike was to hear Mr. Herbert Smith in his native tongue.”—Mr. Stanley Baldwin.

A “Christmas draw” promoted by the Don Valley Conservative and Unionist Association has been cancelled owing to police intervention.

“I used to think there were no lasses like Yorkshire lasses,” says Mr. Stanley Baldwin. Are we to infer that he now prefers a Worthington?

The Doncaster works of the London and North-Eastern Railway are to begin work almost at once on a £200,000 order for 39 new passenger engines.

Local butchers are objecting to the proposal of local authorities to apply the provisions of the Slaughter of Animals Act (mechanical slaying)’ to sheep. We are paying a shilling a head to try to stop the heathen from fighting, and 48s. a head to prepare to fight ourselves. —Mr. Cecil Wilson (Sheffield), at Stocksbridge.

“There is nothing glamorous or romantic about wrongdoing; crime is always mean, sordid, and caddish.” Lieut.-Col. Brook, Chief Constable of the West Riding.

Mr. Philip Henry Lloyd, a son of Mr. F. J. Lloyd, of Pipewell Hall, Kettering, and assistant general manager of the Manvers Main Collieries, was married on October 31st in London to Mrs. Emmanuel Victor, an American lady. Their present home is at Barnby Moor.