Marconigrams – February 9th, 1934

February 1934

South Yorkshire Times, February 9th, 1934

Marconigrams

The pound and the dollar are still unable to look each other in the face.

Police officer at Barnsley on Wednesday, “I was on the offside of the inside of the bus – about in the middle.”

The quarantine placed on the Montagu Hospital, owing to an outbreak of scarlet fever, was lifted on Wednesday.

The annual meeting of the Don Valley Divisional Labour Party is to be held at the Trades Hall, Doncaster, on Saturday, February 24th.

A crash helmet costing very little more than an ordinary cap has been approved by the Safety in Mines Research Board for use among miners.

Mr. Tom Williams M.P. returned to his home in Doncaster on Wednesday after an operation in a hospital at Golders Green and is almost fit again.

In an address to the clergy of the Wath Rural Deanery this week, Canon Sorby, rector of Darfield, made an appeal to the public to buy British tombstones.

“I have noticed,” says the novelist “that the happiest married woman is the one who is below medium height.” A short wife and a gay one, “Punch.”

“A man shouldn’t be tied to his wife’s apron strings,” says a writer.  All the same, he should be glad to have the sort of wife who wears an apron.”

The Vicar of Mexborough suggests among other Lenton authorities fifteen minutes earlier rising and the cutting out of tobacco, sweets and entertainments.

Mr. W. A. Lewis, chairman of the management committee of the Montagu Hospital, was yesterday elected for the third successive year, chairman of the Sheffield Regional Hospital Council.

We understand that the establishment at Hickleton Hall is being reduced to “care and maintenance” and that the house is to be kept available for occasional visits by Lord Halifax and his family.