Distress and Provision of 8,000 Meals each Week

During these hard times one would have thought that all funds for the alleviation of distress would have full calls upon them, but I understand that the one which enters for unemployed ex-servicemen has, in Conisborough been very little depicted. It is not a large sum which is assigned for this purpose but there is still money available, and if this catches the eye of some qualified person you will have a sympathetic hearing at the British Legion in Brooke Square.

The Conisborough and Denaby District Fund which provides meals twice a week from eight centres has spent the £150 12s 5 ½ d, which it has received as voluntary subscriptions through various efforts and is now £50 in debt.

About 8,000 dinners are provided each week from the Castle Club, the Fox Hotel, the Station Hotel, the Labour Club, the Denaby Welfare Club, the New Village Club, the Salvation Army, and the Denaby Primitive Methodist Chapel.

To furnish these dinners, a ton of potatoes is required each time as well as 3 hundredweight each of carrots, turnips, parsnips and meat, two cases of onions, 20 packets of Juvis, 24 dozen packets of peas, and two dozen packets of salt. For washing-up one stone of soap and they like quantity of soda are used. The president is Mr T Stacey, secretaries Mr T Poppleton, the Treasury Mr H Johnson and the two quartermaster’s Mr J McDowell and Mr G Tyas.