Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 31 October 1902
Marconigrams
Wednesday next is the 48th anniversary of the battle of Inkerman.
The meeting of the Denaby and Cadeby miners on Wednesday morning occupied two hours and 45 minutes. Notices are about to be issued by the Denaby and Cadeby Colliery Company, calling the tenants of the cottages to give up possession.
It is said that when the Denaby Colliery Company solicitor talked about men on strike having bought pigs since the dispute commenced, he has got the wrong sow by the ear.
Freedom of speech are thing upon which miners pride themselves, and it is to be hoped there would be more of it at the next meeting of the Denaby and Cadeby men.
This is the 18th week of the Denaby and Cadeby strike, and the ninth week of the stoppage at Thrybergh Hall and Warren Vale collieries. The glass bottle works of Messrs Waddington Mexborough have now been closed five weeks on account of bad trade.
The sum of £38 9s was taken at the “gate” in the Montagu Charity Cup match, Park Rd, Mexborough on Saturday.
It is reported that work will be recommenced at Messrs Waddington glass bottle manufactory, at Mexborough on Monday.
A prominent member of the Wombwell Chess Club says there is scarcely one of his fellow members who will accept a gambit.
Kilnhurst Alliance Brass Band were entered for the South Yorkshire Association championship contest, at Barnsley, but they failed to turn up.
The next Quarter Sessions for the West Riding – in which the three men concerning the Hickleton cheque weigh fund case to be tried – will be held at Sheffield, early in January next.
“As Shakespeare says:’ Brevity is the wit and wisdom,’ my remarks will not be very long.” This was the way in which the chairman of the meeting at Kilnhurst, some time ago, opened the proceedings.
Mr John Burgin, of Adwick on Dearne, has a rose tree of the Grace Darling kind, which is in bloom for the third time this season.
The Denaby Main Colliery Company have this week threatened a prominent member of the Mexborough School Board with an action for libel.
The Mexborough man who took money at the Plant Hotel, Swinton, was very leniently dealt with by the Rotherham West Riding Bench, on Monday.
The Reverend J Gibson, who for a little over three years and been a pastor at the Wesleyan Reform Chapel, Mexborough, preached a farewell sermon on Sunday evening.
The proposed district chess league has not yet been formed, but efforts will be continued. Two Barnsley Clubs, the Wath, Conisbrough and Mexborough clubs are at present interested.
Scientists say that the call still lying in the mines in Great Britain amounts to 58 billion, 200 million, 700,000 tons. Will anybody deny this?
20 years ago last Saturday, the Mitchell Main Colliery was offered for sale, at the Kings head Hotel, Barnsley, and withdrawn at £31,500. Mr Thomas Wilkinson, contracted, was the last bidder.
Mr George Taylor, one of the members of the old Mason’s Arms Angling Club, Mexborough, was fishing at Keadby on Saturday, when he landed a fine pike which weighed 10 ¼ pounds, and was beautifully marked.
The Conisbrough School Board, on Wednesday evening, made arrangements for the change of meeting night in place, just for all the world as if there was no such thing as a probable passing of the Education Bill.
There was a touch of real pathos in the evidence given at an inquest on Tuesday, on a boy who received fatal injuries at Manvers Main. It was stated that when picked up after the accident the poor lad kept calling for his mother, and asking “Shall I die?”
The builders and workmen who were employed to construct the Denaby Colliery Company’s cottages and indignant at the criticism of the Mexborough School Board member, and they are making comparisons which, in this case, are odious.
This district appears to be live with successful anglers. On Tuesday Mr Henry Bunting, of Main Street, Mexborough, had a days fishing at Crowle, and, caught two very large pike, between 14 and 15 inches long, and weighing £14 lbs They were exhibited in Mr Cliff’s shop, High Street, Mexborough, in the evening.