South Yorkshire Times, November 6th 1943
Marconigrams
The Swinton branch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has been revived.
Coun. P.B. Nicholson, J.P., of Brampton, has been re-elected hon. treasurer of the British Road Tar Association,
Lord Woolton has announced arrangements for ensuring an equitable distribution of a fairly substantial supply of Christmas turkeys and poultry.
Lieut. K. A. Steer, only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Steer. of Ellis House, Brampton, who is serving with the Central Mediterranean Forces, has been gazetted Captain.
A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Mexborough Local Association of Boy Scouts will be held on Tuesday evening at the Times Office, Mexborough, at 6 p.m.
One of the Wombwell prisoners of war recently repatriated was for a time working at a hospital near Berlin, and saw something of the havoc wrought by the R.A.F. on the German capital.
Gifts of Sacramental burses and veils and an inscribed prayer book will be dedicated at the evening service at Barnburgh Parish Church on Sunday by the Rector, the Rev. E. P. Cook. They are the gifts of friends of the late Rev. George E. Cole, Rector of Barnburgh, from 1887-1901, and are being placed in the church to his memory.
Major E. D. Turner, R.A., only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Turner, of “The Beeches,” Swinton, who is now on active service in Italy, has been awarded the T.D, (Territorial Decoration) for long and meritorious service with the Territorial Army, Major Turner joined In 1923 the 71st Regiment of the R.A., whose headquarters were at the Edmund Road Drill Hall, Sheffield, but is now with another unit.
Tens of thousands of men, women and children of all ages will take the stage (many of them for the first time in their lives) in a nation-wide series of pageants which are scheduled for production in July next year in cities, towns and villages throughout Great Britain. The aim is to produce simultaneously a pageant in honour of the centenary of the foundation of the first co-operative society, that at Rochdale, which is the model for co-operative organisation throughout the world.
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Mr. Charles Marks, a well-known Mexborough grocer, celebrates his fiftieth year in business in Mexboro’ to-day (Friday).
Sunday next, November 7th, is Russia’s National Day, and it is also being kept throughout the country as Armistice Sunday.
A Red Cross rally to be held in the Empress Ballroom, Mexborough, on November 25th, is to be opened by Maud, Countess Fitzwilliam.
Italian prisoners of war have placed a wreath on the Hoyland War Memorial, a gesture which has been much appreciated by residents of the district.
All male operatives in the newspaper and printing industry are to receive a wage increase of 7s. 6d. per week, and most females 2s. 6d. per week, commencing forthwith.
“I think this is the last blackout winter you will have to endure. The next few months will give this war a good shaking,” writes a Wombwell soldier from the Middle East.
Mr. W. E. Buckley, coke oven manager at Houghton Main Colliery, near Barnsley, was elected president of the Midland Section of the Coke Oven Managers’ Association at the annual meeting in Sheffield on Wednesday.
A campaign, in which all denominations are joining, to get a greater number of Mexborough children to attend Sunday schools was opened on Wednesday by the Provost of Sheffield, Dr. A. C. E. Jarvis. The campaign will last for six months.
“Thank God, England has not been invaded,” writes a South Yorkshire soldier who has seen a lot of service in North Africa and Italy. The havoc caused by the Germans in their retreat and the devastation of beautiful cities is indescribable.
The appointment system for the benefit of patients attending the out-patient department of the Montagu Hospital commenced this week and many have taken advantage of the scheme. If all out-patients will make an appointment before going to the Hospital much of their own waiting time will be avoided.
Austerity poppies will make their appearance for Armistice Day this year. Some three hundred disabled ex-Servicemen of two wars are now putting on a final spurt at the British Legion’s Richmond (Surrey) factory to produce the last of the forty million poppies which will be on sale for November 11th. This year’s target is one million pounds, which if reached will set up a new record.
H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester is to broadcast in aid of Poppy Day at 8.40 p.m. on Remembrance Sunday, November 7th. On the same day the congregations of over ten thousand places of worship of all denominations will again be supporting special collections to help British Legion’s work. These churches gave more than thirty thousand pounds last year.