Marconigrams
Earl Fitzwilliam was 62 on Tuesday.
“Look at the amount of rubbish we get on the wireless. It is atrocious.”—Sir Henry Coward.
The Rev. H. Howard, vicar of Goldthorpe, is to take charge of an English church in Paris during August.
“I am quite capable of darning a sock with anyone.”—Mr. A. T. L. Grear, headmaster of Wath Grammar School.
“You are what you eat,” says an advertisement. In that case, the other morning we were a bad egg.—“Punch.”
One of our cricket experts complains that young bowlers dislike hard work. They toil not; neither do they spin.—“Punch.”
A judge commented on the fact that he had no spare time. Shortly afterwards, however, he gave a man twenty years.—“Punch.”
“Three feet to a yard,” replied a witness at Barnsley on Wednesday, when asked to estimate the distance between two motor vehicles.
A Pageant of Healing, tracing the history of the medical and nursing service through the ages, is to be performed at Rhyll on Saturday.
“If you hear a choirboy whistling a hymn-tune in the street you can be sure that it is a good one.”—The Rev. L. E. Meredith, Vicar of Wath.
Mr. John Littlewood, a former member of the staff of the “South Yorkshire Times,” has been appointed sports editor of the “Leicester Evening Mail.”
A further 120 notices have been issued this week to men and boys employed at Cadeby Colliery, bringing the total within the last fortnight to nearly 300.
The 25th anniversary of the King’s Accession (May 6th, 1935) is to be proclaimed a public holiday and there will be a thanksgiving service attended by their Majesties in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
“All sorts of people are trying to make you air-minded, Navy-minded, Empire-minded, and gas-minded, but only the school can make you clear-minded.”—Dr. W. Edwards, headmaster of Bradford Grammar School (at Wath Grammar School Speech Day).
The Rev. F. Briggs, D.D., Vicar of Worsborough Bridge, formerly Vicar of Mexborough, is to be instituted Vicar of Swallcliffe, near Banbury, on August 7th. He will be instituted privately at Christ Church, Oxford, by Bishop Shaw, and will be inducted at Swallcliffe on the following day by the Rural Dean, the Rev. B. W. Bradford, Rector of Broughton, Banbury.