Marconigrams – January 06th, 1933

January 1933

South Yorkshire Times, January 6th 1933

Marconigrams

The yo-yo song: “Will ye ne’ come back again?!

“Oh to be in England now that May is here” the teachers are chanting.

The Wath Deanery Choir Festival is to be held in the Wombwell Parish Church on June 10th.

“Unemployment is not a social disease but a symptom.” – Councillor Heaviside, Doncaster.

Minister (announcing hymn): “Our fathers’ sins were manifold” – five hundred and sixty-seven.

What’s the use of a man making up his mind to stay in when his wife’s making up her face to go out?

Over £1,700 has been received during December by the Montagu Hospital in donations, contributions, and fees.

Samson used the jawbone of an ass to end a war.  In modern times this weapon is only employed to start one – “Punch.”

He: I’ve a sort of feeling I’ve danced with you before somewhere.  She: So have I, the pressure of your foot seems familiar!

A Conisborough wireless listener the other day “picked up” a telephone conversation between Conisborough and Doncaster.

Influenza is very prevalent.  One firm alone, the Yorkshire Traction Company, has had 170 cases among its staff this week.

The Conisborough Urban District Council at a special meeting on Wednesday, passed a resolution disapproving the new Rents Bill.

The Wath Urban District Council have forbidden their employees to solicit gratuities of any kind “at Christmas or at any other time.”

Cortonwood Colliery has gone on to single-shift working and notices were issued on Tuesday terminating the employment of about 200 men and boys.

It is stated that a hundred men, working five modern brick-making plants, can to-day manufacture all the bricks that the United States can use. Including gold bricks.

Arrangements for urban and rural district council elections are being made as usual, and will be unaffected by the schemes of boundary revision which the county councils are about to issue.

In connection with the nurses’ hostel to be built in connection with the Montagu Hospital, a stone-laying ceremony is being arranged and representatives of the Miners’ Welfare Fund and the West Riding County Council have been invited to perform it.

Brookfield Nurseries, Swinton, guarantee satisfaction.  Advice free.  Shop in Church Street and stall in covered market, Mexborough. ‘Phone 224.