Mexborough and Swinton Times, May 13th, 1932
Marconigrams
Music is the handmaid of worship – Rev. G. V. Gooch
The rainfall in the Dearne Valley during April was 2.26 inches.
The Bank Rate was yesterday reduced to 2 ½ per cent, reaching pre-war level.
“Baritones, for heaven’s sake fall in love before you sing a love song.” – Mr. Roy Henderson.
“Great Britain is the most prosperous country in the world to-day.” – Professor Keynes
“Instead of talking about seven hours we ought to be talking about six.” – Mr. Herbert Smith.
The Mexborough Hippodrome was offered for sale by auction yesterday and withdrawn at £7,500.
Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer of Health, will open the new open-air school at Wombwell on June 2nd.
“France finds herself precipitated into an unprecedented political imbroglio” tersely announces a Yorkshire paper.
“Are women clubable?” – is a question raised by a lady-writer. Cave-men are believed to have found them so – “Punch.”
“We ought to take our hats off to the unemployed for their sacrifices which are the greatest of all.” – Mr. C. W. H. Glossop, M. P.
The Bolton-on-Dearne Parish Church, which has been closed for several weeks for cleaning and repair, is to be reopened on Sunday.
“If there is a house to let in Wath there are a thousand people after it,” said a witness in the Rotherham County police court on Monday.
The coal trade continues to languish and so far as the export market is concerned there is a growing feeling that only a levy on the house market can produce any improvement.
The Rev. J. E. Ives Lacey, of Owston, a former curate-in-charge of St. George’s, Jump, Wombwell, has been appointed by the Bishop of Sheffield to the living of Letwell-with-Firbeck.
The Bolton and Goldthorpe Operatic Society has formed a dramatic section which is to produce the farce, “Nothing but the Truth” in October. The operatic section is to produce “Merrie England” next February.
Mr. John Davison, of Swinton, has written a play about the family life of the Brontës, and it is to be produced shortly in London by Sir Barry Jackson. A play on the same theme by Mr. Alfred Sangster is to be produced by the Sheffield Repertory Company next month.
A proposal to increase the present tuition fee of three guineas a term in West Riding secondary schools is under consideration. It is also proposed to apply a means test to the grant of West Riding County minor scholarships.
The British coal output for the week ended April 39th was 3,988,200 tons and the number of wage-earners employed 823,700. The figures for the previous week were 400,000 tons and 5,300 workers better. The figures for Yorkshire were 625,300 tons and 155,400 workers
There is a magnificent display of tulips open for inspection at Brookfield Nurseries stall in Mexborough’s covered market. Geranium and other bedding plants now ready.