The Kington Times - January 1917
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Kington Times 20th January 1917 - Page 5
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| Date | 20/01/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 20th January 1917 |
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le Y DS Y S , ster . NOTES . received at the cal gg Collection last Fri- llections were : from arket , contributed by Mrs. Owen ( Shobdon ) , riends , total 25 ; Iving- so , Shobdon . School ) S , Kingsland School 5 , Kingsland Parish akland 2 , Lucton ( per eysters Children , Mrs. attock 19 , Eardisland Food ) 32 , Eardisland yke ) 12 , Eye Council Irs . Vick ) 5 , Orleton 19 , Hope and Ford 5 , en ) 18 , Town Collec- , 4s . 6d . and 3 eggs ; 12s . 7d . and 8 eggs ; d . and 6 eggs ; bought ggs . The other con- J. E. Coates ( Aymes - 1 Mrs. Burlton ( Eaton Luston ) , Mrs. Ascroft rs . Ingram ( Bateman Edwards ( Monkland ) , atsfield ) , Miss Wood I. Gibbons ( Leinthall ingtonbury ) , Mr. Hill Williams ( Stockton- s of the Depot , c / o reet , Leominster , will at wholesale prices . Postmaster to appeal razors for the troops . made by the Master however old a fully received so long nd the blade . Safety nt to the hospitals . will be forwarded by Postmaster . razor ssell and Baldwin an- Knapton , Birley , on 25th , by instructions o is leaving the farm . Forest Sheep , 2 pigs , mplements , etc. m . The ck at Leominster fort- on Tuesday last was m , especially for store high . Messrs . Ed- win passed under the hich made up to £ 62 ows £ 42 155. , maiden with their calves £ 35 cows , £ 29 15s . each , ers ) £ 28 2s . 6d . each , fat wethers £ 5 59. , 5 158. , lambs 67s . 6d . , fat calves £ 9 10S . et of pigs , store pigs 46s . , pork pigs , prices 6 guineas each , heavy gs £ 21 7s . 6d . , smaller 15 . neral of Mr. Hatfield , , it should have been ngements were carried nd Son , Kingsland . owledges with thanks zines for the Hereford- Army Service Corps in wing : Mrs. Heygate , id ) , Mrs. Crimp , Mrs. Mrs. E. Morgan and nt gifts of vegetables , o weeks to the Navy arket January 5th- Stokes , Miss Hall , ( Brinfield ) , Mrs. Hey- sland Navy Gardens ) , ment Lowe ( Docklow ) , Rev. R. Evans , Mrs. T klow ) , Mr. A. Bright 12th - Mr . Dent of turnips and swedes , , Mr. Adams ( Eye ) , eygate , Col. Davidson , nny ( Kingsland Navy Bright , Mrs. Mounsey ssell and Baldwin will able heavy and light ster Horse Repository , 6th . ng The prize list ro to the largest ll take place at 10.30 ommence punctually at to the success of the Tut Campaign will be ta Hut bearing the existence and doing a Mr. C. H. Lewis , Mr. sing Secretary of the Regarding your en- ter Hut , I know where not permitted to tell in the second army ellent work . A photo- olutely impossible , no ermitted by the Mili- ven if your Hut was he Army . " We are give a photograph of by the town and dist- our readers will be e effort , which was so ready bearing fruit . of the Parish Nurse the Free Library at ext . The Vicar will ers to the Society are words are needed to work of the Parish t this good work will liberal support of the THE Motor Tractor for Farmers Sultable for Ploughing , Threshing , Hauling . Crilling . Harrowing , Etc. Is the " Mogul " Tractor . Intending Purchasers can at work by appointment . see the Tractor THE KINGTON TIMES . JANUARY 20 , 1917 . Man supplied with Tractor for One Week . AGENT : T. Llewellin , MR . R. E. PROTHERO AT HEREFORD . GOVERNMENT AND BREWING . IMPORTANT ADVICE TO HOP - GROWERS . THE LABOUR QUESTION . The President of the Board of Agriculture ( Mr. R. E. Prothero ) addressed a great meet ing of agriculturists at Hereford on Wednes day which morning , in he explained the measures which are being taken to stimulate agriculture and increase the amount of food grown at home . DILWYN . Turning to the question of feeding stuffs and fertilisers , the speaker said he regarded the former as one of the most urgent questions of the day - probably the most important . He FLEET OF MOTOR - TRACTORS FOR THE reminded them that nearly all their feeding- stuffs came from abroad , but with regard to COUNTY . maize which they had had to buy at dear prices from the United States and the Argentine , they were in negotiation with South Africa and Rhodesia , and he believed quantities would be brought in from these places . " All these things , " added Mr. Prothero , " depend on tonnage , and all require time . I would appeal to all of you for the time being to hang on to your live stock until we have had time to turn round . " Agriculture , " he continued amidst renewed cheers , " has been let down all along the line for years . No one knows that better than you do from your own personal experience . You cannot build it up again in a few minutes . It is a slow and steady pro- cess , and I assure you this work of increasing the food supplies of the country is engaging the earnest attention of everybody who has the interest of agriculture at heart . " With re- ference to fertilisers , time was again against them , but he hoped farmers would have at their disposal larger quantities than were avail- able last year . ers The following are some of the main points from Mr. Protheroe's speech : - Cottagers and householders were urged to grow potatoes for home consumption , but far were . warned against embarking on < potato cultivation on land more suitable for other urgently required , crops . Whilst recognising the difficulties from which agriculturists suffer , and not claiming to have conquered the labour difficulty , Mr. Prothero is confident that much may be achieved by making use of the C 3 men , in addition to the volunteers and German prisoners . Female labour . is no longer to be a substi tute for that of men , but supplementary to it , and in making the fresh appeal to women he said the terms of service to be offered are to be the same as those upon which men are enrolled in the army . Mr. Prothero also hopes for great success in the experiment of providing a fleet of motor tractors , the scheme for which is rapidly ap- proaching fruition ... THE WAR OFFICE AND FARMERS . Then they came to labour , the question of all questions for farmers . They all knew that an arrangements with the War Office was made about October , called the Bath agreement , by which a certain scale of labour was allowed to each farm . The War Office summoned a large number of men whom they thought surplus to the number allowed by the Bath agreement before the local tribunals , and the tribunals in many cases gave the War Office these men . number of the men were to be called up on January 1. Their cases had been gone into by the tribunals , comprising men with a local knowledge , who had decided that in view of the exigencies of the public service these men ought to go into the Army . It was idle for him to say that if they took these men they would strip the land of its labour , because the answer of the War Office was that the local He wished to con- men had said otherwise . vey to them his strong and firm conviction that the War Office was doing , in its own way , everything it could to help the farmers . Mr. Prothero's speech also contained a sig - When he came into office he found a large nificant hint in regard to the brewing indus- try , suggesting that other crops might be more profitable than hops this year . In view of resolutions passed by the North Herefordshire Farmers ' Union it is interesting to note that Mr. Prothero agrees that farmers cannot be induced to plough up land without a guarantee of wheat prices for years after the He was not in a position , however , to promise that at present , that being a matter of politics . war . A feature of Mr. Prothero's speech at a meeting at Newport in the afternoon was his advice on pig breeding and keeping . He said pigs should be taken out to eat the grass on the wayside ; " Don't walk a puppy ; walk a pig . " MR . PROTHERO'S SPEECH . The chair was taken at the Hereford meet- ing by Sir John Cotterell , Bart . ( Lord Lieuten- ant for Herefordshire ) , who formally intro duced the President of the Board of Agricul- ture . a North Herefordshire and the War . D. S. O. FOR FORMER LEOMINSTER OFFICER . Major ( temporary Lieutenant - Colonel ) Aubrey Holmes Boulton , Gloucestershire Regiment , of the Forest of Dean , has been awarded the D.S.O. He succeeded Lieutenant- Colonel Sir Harry Webb , Bart . , M.P. , in the command of a battalion of the Gloucestershire the Glouces Regiment . LEOMINSTER BOROUGH POLICE COURT . Thursday , before Mr. J. A. Daggs ( in the chair ) , Alderman George Page , Dr. G .. Steel , Mr. E. Cole , Mr. T. J. Enoch , Mr. R. B. Sandiland , Mr. Harold Easton . FARMER'S WIFE SUMMONED . A TECHNICAL POINT . Lucy Edwards , Staunton Old Court , was summoned for selling game in Leominster Market without being licensed . Mr. R. Edwards appeared . Mr. E. J. Dando , who prosecuted for the Lieutenant - Colonel Boulton will be remem- County Council , stated that the case was taken bered as Lieutenant and afterwards Captain of under a clause of 1 and 2 William IV . cn . the Leominster Company of Volunteers , 32 , and , also under an Act of Victoria , 23 and 1901-5 , and it was mainly due to his ability 24 , ch . 90. Under Section 13 of this Act it was provided that no person should be auth- as an officer during that period that the company attained such a high state of effici - orised to sell game to any licensed dealer un- less he should have taken out a £ 3 license ency , both in imusketry and drill .. under the Act . From the evidence he would call they would hear that Mrs. Edwards sord a brace of pheasants to a dealer in Leominster Market . Mrs. Edwards herself held no license whatever . No doubt she was acting as agent for her husband , but that did not free her from liability because Mr. Edwards only held the year , and the act clearly stated that he a 2 license , which was only for a part of must have a full £ 3 license . LEOMINSTER SOLDIER'S PROMOTION . Writing to his parents Mr. Percy Eastment announces an important promotion . On 28th of September he was transferred on probation to the Air Service , passing his trade test and ranking as 2nd Class Mr. Easton said he did not quite under- Air Mechanic . On November 1st he was made acting - Sergeant . a part of the year should not be entitled to stand why a man who took out a license for His final transfer was announced as follows : " 2nd Class Air Mechanic and Acting Sergeant who took out the full license . the same privileges for that period as a man P. C. Eastment promoted to 1st Class Air ther announcement : season . Mechanic . " In the same orders was the fur - Act . Mr. Dando said he was only going by the The £ 2 license was available to kill " Not 50,881 , 1st Air game , from November I until the end of the Mechanic and Acting - Sergeant P. C. Eastment promoted to Sergeant with pay of his rank . " It is very rare that a 2nd Class Air Mechanic Sergeant in the Flying Corps , and we feel is promoted at one step to the position of sure Sergeant Eastment's many friends will congratulate him upon his rapid advance- ment . R.F.A. n minster Market on Friday , January 15th . He Thomas Tyler said he was present in Leo- dealer named Tomlinson . saw Mrs. Edwards sell two pheasants to a Tomlinson asked Mrs. Edwards if her husband had a game license and she said he had . Witness made an entry in Tomlinson's book . Mr. Dando said Tomlinson was a licensed dealer , and asked her if her husband had a license to kill game . He was careful enough to make an entry in his book of the defen- dant's name and address . Those proceedings were brought because they had had several complaints in the district about selling game by unauthorised persons , bout sel PRINTING You will get 5 GOOD WORK AND LOW PRICES AT STEVENSON'S 33 , High Street , Kington . Billheads , Statements , Memorandums , and all kinds of Commercial Printing in well arranged and up - to - date style . Ledgers , Day Books , Cash Books Letter Books , and all Office Stationery in great variety . Note the Address 33 , HIGH STREET , KINGTON . P.S. Powell said the pheasants were after- wards sold to Mr. Seager . Mrs. Jackson , in evidence , said she brought the pheasants in to give to Mrs. Price and not for sale . She brought them openly with other things , and they were not tied up at all . She put the pheasants on the stall while she sold her other stuff and she afterwards took them up again . The Chairman said the Bench were of opinion that the case had not been proved and the case would be dismissed . Mr. Edwards , appearing for his wife , said his landlord , Captain King - King , was in the Army and he wished him to take out a license to assist the keeper to kill game . He did so . He was too busy to take out a full license in September , but when they had finished har- vesting he took out a six months ' license , paying £ 2 for it out of his own pocket . Cap- tain King - King instructed the keeper that when he had a brace of birds to spare he was to give them to him for his trouble and ex- pense . When the keeper brought him a brace of birds he did not want them . He therefore told his wife to take them into Leominster and sell them and bring him some cartridges with the money . His wife asked him if he was quite sure it was legal for her to do so and he said it was . He told her to tell the dealer that they had a license and to give her name and address . A few days after a police constable came to make enquiries . He told him all about it , showed him his license and told him to go to the keeper who would cor- roborate his statements . With regard to his license he had not got a keeper's £ 2 license to kill game the whole year , but a 62 in Mr. Lewis's house . license for six months , which carried the same privileges as a £ 3 license for the whole year . Was it likely anyone would pay £ 2 for a license if a man could not sell after he had killed the game . Could they tell him a case where a person had been con- victed for selling game with a six months ' license ? He was not a keeper ; he paid for the license and thought he was doing a patriotic thing in giving his time to shoot for Liverpool ; was summoned for a breach of the T. H. Cookson , Gateacre House , Gateacre , the wounded soldiers . his landlord in order to provide game for new regulations affecting moto motor - cars . ars . He did disgraceful thing that his wife should be 7.4 he saw a motor - car coming down South He considered it a P.S. Powell said that on January 11th at dogged about Leominster , Street with four bright lights . Defendant There were four elec- TOO MUCH LIGHT . Charles H. Lewis , Newlands Croft , Ryelands Road , was summoned for failing to reduce an inside light . There was a thin Mr. Superintendent Rooke said that at 6.50 he saw a bright light from an upstairs window white blind and the gas was full on . Lewis was not in . Defendant said the girl told him the was not full on , but was as it had been for the last 2 years . Fined 2s . 6d ) MOTORIST'S ELECTRIC LIGHTS . not appear . gas He did not say anything about the local mili- GUNNER HARLEY WILLIAMS , tary representatives , because these men were appointed for a specific object - viz . , to get all the men they could for the army , and they were right from their point of view , but he Who died in France on December 26th had always found that at the War Office and from heart failure . He was a son of Mr. and Lord Derby , they would remember , was a large Mrs. W. H. Williams , Townsend Farm , Dil- landowner and a keen agriculturist they were wyn . anxious to do their utmost to help the far- mers . At his ( the speaker's ) request , the call- ing up of these men was postponed until the CHRISTMAS IN FRANCE . Mr. Prothero , at the outset , insisted upon figures had been gone into very carefully . the need for an increase in the food produc . There was no doubt that , according to the Writing to his sister , Sapper F. G. Tunks , tion of the country , and pointed out that the Bath agreement , in certain parts of the coun- R.E. , describes how he spent Christmas Government asked for self - sacrifice on the part try there was still a surplus , but Lord Derby France . He writes on December 29th : " I of the English farmers . Personally , he said , had promised that he would not call the men must tell you I spent a very nice Christmas he would have liked to allow the farmers the up indiscriminately , but where there was Day . We went out of the trenches for a stimulus of the high prices which prevailed , surplus he would begin at the bottom of the month or six weeks rest . It was a three days ' resulting in good profits and acting as an in- scale with the young single men up to 25. march to the village and we arrived there centive to energy and enterprise ; but at the " All the information thought I have , " added the just four days before Xmas . We were billeted tric lights and he asked defendant if he was same time they knew these weighed with un - speaker , shows that in Herefordshire they in a barn and the whole of us put two francs aware that he was not allowed to use four due severity on the poorest of the poor . He have skinned your farms of labour to a very each towards the Xmas dinner . We had a until it is proved to the contrary , or else why elertric lights at the same time . He said he knew that bitter resentment was felt over the great extent . I don't anticipate that in this ripping time . Government action in fixing the price of wool county there can be a very large number of last moment and made a long table to sit the license is issued to keepers to kill game We got some timber at the pay £ 2 for a six months ' license when a £ 2 were shaded according to law . did not know of the regulation . The lights after the farmers had made their arrangements , men taken away . There may be some , but I section down and forms for seats . Fined 10s . but now they came to them and asked them think we shall all of us agree that even if throughout the season . that on Xmas morning . We had dinner at before they put the seed into the ground to they do take more men from the country we The boys also built an oven ; we 1.30 p.m. arrange to grow produce at a certam price . still are firm in our resolution to do every- had roast beef , plum pudding , currant roll , That was the only honest policy to pursue , thing we can to increase the production of mince pies , jam tarts , custards , jellies , pine- because then they knew beforehand what they food ( Cheers ) . It may limit our powers , and He referred to sacrifices which it may for the moment dishearten ; but never made throughout the Empire . mind , it is your duty as patriotic citizens to Australia had submitted for our sake to fixed raise the food , and I am confident Hereford- prices below what she could have got in the shire will do it . " ( Cheers ) . Another concession , open market , and in India and the dependen- and it was a very important one , which Lord farmer were to get .. were being ever male cies similar sacrifices were being made . When Derby had made , was that where a we asked Canada last year to help us with had on his farm only the amount of her wheat supplies at a lower price than could labour fixed by the Bath agreement then , how- be obtained in the world s markets it was women he employed , his male many said , " So long as the British farmer is gett- labour would not go ( Cheers . ing every penny of the high prices which pre- vail why should we not do the same ? " If the British farmers submitted to a limitation of their profits the Government could say to the whole Empire " We are all in it . " . So he ap pealed to them to come forward and help the country at prices which showed a reasonable profit to the farmer and nothing more . If they did not do that they would have their produce commandeered at a lower price than they ex pected when they put their crops in . The ap peal was thus made for the sake of the poor the name of people in this country and in necessity . ARMY OF FARM WOMEN . That was to say that for the future female labour was not to be in substitution of male labour , but was to be supplementary to it ( ap- plause ) . He thought that concession would remove one of the greatest objections farmers had had hitherto to the employment of women on the land . He urged the Women War Agri- cultural Committees to put their hearts and energy into the work , and he announced that they were going to make from the Board of Agriculture a new appeal to educated women to come out and serve . They would not say to them , " Here is dirty and monotonous piece of work , badly paid , and with poor ac THE POTATO CROP . After pointing out the manner in which wheat would be dealt with by the Food Con - commodation , " but the appeal would be in troller so as to diminish as far as possible all the intermediate profits which stood between the grower and the consumer in order to make bread as cheap and as plentiful for the poor of this country as they could , Mr. Prothero proceeded to deal with the question of pota toes , about which there had been a great deal this form : " You will be paid a soldier's rate of pay ; you will be billeted just like ordinary soldiers . You will be part of the army sup ply service of this kingdom , and you have thus an opportunity of going into the ' trenches ' on just the same terms as your brothers are doing " " I shall get them , " predicted Mr. Prothero of criticism . They were very grateful to the with confidence , " by the hundreds and thous Press of this country for the enthusiastic supands . " With regard to the substitutes who port which they had given to this movement would be placed at the disposal of farmers . for increasing the food supplies , but they were We did apple , apricots , pears and all kinds of fruit , also cigars and beer . Tea ham sandwiches , I can cakes , and all kinds of fruit again . assure you we had a jolly time . There was only one drawback and that was we were go- ing to have a concert in a town close by on the Wednesday night , in the Picture Palace . We had taken it for the evening and it cost us 200 francs . We thought we were in for " a time , " but were disappointed . On the Tues- day we were inspected by our General and had to pack up on Wednesday and march back to do some important work . I must say we were all disappointed but were thankful to be out for Xmas Day . What kind of weather are you having there . It has been awful here and talk about mud ! but we don't mind at all , what does it matter ? We are all happy , you ought to see me now , sat in a barn , just like " old Buckfield . " We haven't any fire but we are quite warm and as happy at " sand - boys . " We are in a village just like Kingsland and the farmhouses are tumble- down old places . The French people never go upstairs to bed , they sleep on the ground floor ( that is in the villages ) . They never spend money on furniture ; old flagstone floors and nothing on them . The girls and women work very hard , they do the threshing , milking , and most of the work on the farms . You scarcely see a fellow about , they are all in the army , only old men left . You can see old men and women probably 70 or So years of age , doing very hard work . I might tell you that I have had a drop of beer since I have been in this country , but not a lot , for it is too dear and not much good . Mr. Easton : Your defence is that you pulled up at the Oak . privileges as a £ 3 license . a £ 2 license carried the same Mr. Edwards : Yes , and I still think so wording of the 2 license was practically the In reply to Mr. Easton , Mr. Dando said the same as a £ 3 license .. keeper's license , a keeper was entitled to kill game on behalf of his master , but he could not shoot game except on his master's land and his master had to pay a male servant's duty . Mr. Easton said it was very technical . Was there was no decision on the point ?. Mr. Dando referred to a case in Stone , but it was found not to bear on the point . Mr. Cole asked if Mrs. Edwards had ever brought game in before . Mr. Dando said that with regard to a a Mr. Edwards : Never . He thought it was shame she should be summoned like a criminal . He supposed that if she had been a lady of the land there would have been no notice taken of it . It would have shown far kindlier feeling on the part of the police if they had told him he ought to have a £ 3 . license , he would have paid the other 1 at once . certain there was no intention to evade the The Chairman said the Bench were quite law . before them that a £ 2 license did not carry They were not satisfied on the evidence for six months the same privileges as a £ 3 license for the full year . They required more evidence on that point and therefore the case was dismissed . Mr. Edwards : There is no disgrace attach- ing to my wife ? The Chairman : Not the slightest . ANOTHER CASE . NO EVIDENCE OF SALE . Frances Jackson , Highlands , Staunton - on- Arrow , wife of Arthur Jackson , was summoned In English for offering game for sale without a game Defendant pleaded not guilty .. the speaker urged them to secure them by pay - inoney it costs about a shilling a pint , that license , on December 15th . ing good wages , and not to haggle over half a crown . Then the War Office had promised them the whole of the C3 men , organised under military discipline in is what the French people call English , but We get tended Leominster Market . She took a brace paid every fortnight and we are always broke ' of pheasants out of a net bag . before pay day comes around . " Etnam NO LIGHTS . Richard William Hatton , baker , 49 , Street , was summoned for having no lights on a trap in Bridge Street . Superintendent Rooke gave evidence and said the time was 5.10 , a quarter of an hour after lighting - up time . Defendant said it was very light , otherwise he should have lit up . The case was dismissed with a caution . UNSHADED LIGHTS . for failing to screen an inside light on January J. M. Sharp , Etnam Street , was summoned 12th at 8.30 p.m. Superintendent Rooke said the light came through the panel of the door . Fined 2s . 6d . Steel's father had sent his boy to bed with- out his supper on three nights in succession . The Magistrates ' Clerk : But what time did he have his tea ! Steel I cannot say . He had it at Mr. Smith's , the butchers . Mrs. Fox said she had done the same and could do no more , as the boy had no father . The Magistrates ' Clerk mentioned that the three boys slept out after they had committed .. the theft with which they were charged , and the parents admitted this was so . The Chairman said the Bench did not know exactly what to do with boys like that with- out injuring their careers for life . They had decided to put them on probation for six months . The Bench would appoint the Rev. J. C. Elder , Baptist Minister , as probation officer and they would have to satisfy him as to their behaviour or else he would report to the Court . The Bench were not satisfied that the boys had been properly punished , except in the case of Morris , and therefore the par- ents of Fox and Steel would have to pay 10s . each towards the costs . Mr. Enoch said the Bench were greatly obliged to Mr. Elder for undertaking the work of looking after the boys and Alderman Mr. Elder . George Page also said they were grateful to SHIPHOLD ROBBERY . A charge of stealing £ 250 worth of goods , including silks , jewellery , silver scent , boots , and clothing , from a Harrison liner was made Samuel at Liverpool on Monday named Coombs , 16 , of Manchester ; Hugh McDermott , 17 , Liverpool ; and Herbert Godkin , 17 , Liver- pool . It was stated that they made visits to the holds of the steamer during the nights while on the voyage between Africa and India . They worked by the light of candles , and by forcing open cases did a serious amount of damage besides stealing the goods , for which claims exceeding £ 250 had been received by Messrs . Harrisons . The property stolen was concealed in the steamer . All three prisoners signed a confession , McDermott and Godkin were sent to goal för three months , and Coombs was bound over . INCREASED LAUNDRY PRICES . Amy Winterbourne , 36 , Broad Street , was Owing to the continued heavy increase in summoned for failing to shade an inside light both direct and indirect working expenses Lon- on January 13th . She admitted the offence . don laundries find it necessary to make a fur- 1.25 a.m. , he saw the reflection of light up a P.C. Harris stated that on January 13th , at ther increase in prices . The increases will be the gas full on , and lighting up the back yard . passage at the back of the house . Miss Winterbourne explained that she pulled up the blind before turning out the gas . Fined 2s . 6d . put into operation during the first fortnight in He found January , 1917 . AN OBSTINATE CANDLE . Thomas Monnington , 18 , Bridge Street , was lights on a trap on summoned for failing to display the required January 13th in Bridge Street . P.S. Powell said that about 7.45 p.m. he saw defendant driving a trap in Bridge Street . He had only one front light and no rear light . He called to Mr. Monnington , but he did not stop until he got to his residence , when he lit the lights . Mr. Monnington told him he did not hear anyone call . Defendant said one of the front lights went out about 120 yards from his residence . The Fined 2s . 6d . TWO LIGHTS REQUIRED . The nature of laundry work varies so much that it would be impracticable to . make the in- crease in exactly the same form in all cases , but it will be equivalent to a 25 per cent . in- crease on pre - war charges . In some cases it will take the form of an addition of 3d . in the 1s . ( 25 per cent . ) to the total of the bill , while in other cases the individual prices will be advanced . MOTOR - CAR WAYLAID . SOLDIER'S STORY OF OWNERS WHO WENT RABBIT - SHOOTING ! A strange story of the aleged theft of a motor - car by a soldier comes from a village near Peterborough . The car was notified as officers hid in the road in the event of its passing along the North Road . At ten o'clock Police Sergeant Powell said that he was on candle failed to rise in the socket . There was missing from Hatfield , and a number of police you can get French beer at a penny a glass . duty in Leominster Market on December 15th oil in the rear lamp . The cheapest drink out here is champagne , He saw Mrs. Jackson in the Market going to that is 4s . a bottle , but that doesn't come my way as one cannot buy much of that on our the stall of Mr. Burke , a game dealer who at- pay which is ten francs per week . They were tied up in a white cloth : The pheasants were put on the stall and Mrs. Jackson went to a basket of butter and began to unpack it . He went to her and asked her what she was going to do with the brace of pheasants . She said . Sister K. V. White , eldest daughter of Mr. her if her husband had a game certificate and she was going to sell them . Witness asked J. Archer White , Worcester , who will be re- she said her husband had a gun license and NURSE'S HONOUR . William Caldicott , Upper Bache , Kimbolton , admitted failing to display two front lamps on a trap in High Street on January 8th . P.S. Powell said defendant told him thought one light would do . Fined 2s . 6d . he at night the car came along , and was captured . It was occupied by a inan in military uniform , Transport Section . who said he was a private in the Motor He told a curious story . He said He said he saw the car standing in a field . The owners were rabbit - shooting and he thought they ought to be shooting Germans . A brewer's dray coming along he commandeered the horse was summoned for having no side lights on Francis Charles Tompkins , Brimfield Court , under the pretence of military business , and dragging the car into the road , got in and his motor - car . He did not appear . rode away . It was stated that he sold articles Superintendent Rooke said that on January in the car en route in order to buy petrol . NO SIDE - LIGHTS . apt to be led away by alliteration such as Patriotism , pigs , and potatoes " until in ref- erence to the last - nan.ed he was obliged to say battalions , and " Steady . Potatoes were the one crop in this country of which we could grow more than able to go out into the country in squads , enough , and there was a danger of a glut . It under a non - commissioned officer ; and if the was obvious that when time , labour , and seed farmers put a skilled man to help , these men were limited they must concentrate upon those would be of great use . Field - Marshal Lord crops which would produce essential food for French had also promised , subject to the re- man or beast upon those of which they could quirements of national defence , that they get the most for their money . If a man cane should have from the various commands of the to him and said I can grow potatoes at district every man who could be spared for expenditure of £ 10 per acre and produce five the critical weeks of ploughing and sowing . tons to the acre " he would say , " Don't do Further , he ( Mr. Prothero ) was organising a At all fleet of motor tractors , and the War Office membered as having carried on business in her son also had one . events , it was an unprofitable use to which to had made an important concession in agree- High Street , Leominster , has been awarded Witness asked Mrs. Jackson where she got the 6th at 7.15 in South Street he saw defendant's put their money and land if that was all the ing to man the tractors and keep them in re- result they could obtain . The nation's main reliance for the potato crop must be on that Pair , and supply them with the necessary pet- services rendered in field hospitals . " Sister pheasants from . rol and lubricants . Men were already being White , who has been at the front since the land where with a far less expenditure of money trained for the work , and the fractors would beginning of the war , has rendered splendid they would get a much larger vield . By fixing be placed at the disposal of the War Agricul- service in casualty clearing stations . Before dant talking to Mr. Burke and later he saw pointed out that he had four electric lights Lastly , they had suc- the war she a price for potatoes the pledge given to the tural Committees . War Agricultural Committees that the farmer ceeded in getting all the German prisoners and Three sons of Mr. Archer White are on active was at the London Hospital . Mrs. Jackson in West Street and asked her and must turn off the head - lights . Defendant RECLUSE WHO DID NOT SPEAK FOR should be protected against loss was fulfilled interned aliens who had any skill in agricul- service , and two of them have been wounded . what she had done with the pheasants . She The speaker further urged that they wanted tural work ( applause ) . So many of these said she had got them in her bag as Mr. Burke then turned off the headlights and the whole every cottager and householder who could do prisoners would be allotted to each county would not have them . She said he would lot went out including the rear light . find it was all right . according to its arable area and its needs . one and Mr. Parr the other . tion , and so relieve the strain on the national it , but grow beans , oats , or peas . " to grow potatoes for his own family consump store HINT TO HOP GROWERS . GUARANTED FOR THE FUTURE . " " I As to the future , Mr. Prothero said : With regard to oats , again , they wanted all think you cannot be induced to plough up the oats they could possibly grow . He could your land without a guarantee of wheat prices That is my settled not , he dare not tell them the figure of the for years after the war .. cannot promise you that War Office requirements alone , but if he told conviction , but I them it would require , in these days of short to - day . That is a matter of politics , but it is tonnage , more than 400 vessels , each of many my conviction that no great movement for thousand tons burden , to bring these require the increase of agriculture , and with it the ments to this country they would understand increase of our national security . can be what a benefit farmers were conferring upon the nation by growing oats at home . Further , achieved without a guarantee of prices for a considerable period . I should like to have if things came to a pinch , as an article of human food , oatmeal would be more valuable said more on the point , but I cannot do it . " than wheat and flour , and exceeded fivefold the He wanted them , he said , in conclusion , to value of the same weight of potatoes . He was feel that they were taking part in a great aware that in the county of Hereford hops movement the Royal Red Cross Medal for " excellent MILK DEALERS ' HEAVY CLAIM ACAINST FARMER . A case of some interest to milk dealers and De- Mr. Burke then came . She said it was a brace that Mr. Charlton Parr had sent her . They killed motor - car outside the Royal Oak Hotel . He she brought them in to sell . had two electric headlights on and no side a pig that week and did not want them so lights . When he spoke to him Mr. Tomkins switched on the side - lights . He left defen- The keeper gave her Witness told her he should take possession of the birds to make enquiries about them . game . sale or not .. P.S. Powell : Mr. Burke said they were . The Clerk : Was that said in defendant's presence ? Mrs. Jackson denied that the pheasants were farmers was heard at Wolverhampton County in a bag . They were in a basket along with Court , on Monday , before his Honour Judge rabbits , eggs , etc. , which the porter brought Howard Smith . The plaintiff was William up from the station . When the constable Farm , asked her about it , she said her husband did Henry Petters , farmer , Greenhills Oaken , who sought to recover from J. Ball not want a game license , as he did not shoot and Son , dairymen , 135 , Dudley Road , Wolver- hampton , £ 7 145. 3d . for goods sold . The Magistrates ' Clerk said the whole point fendants made a counter - claim of £ 81 4s . 6d . was whether the pheasants were offered for as damages for alleged breach of contract . The claim was admitted , and argument of counsel centered round the counter - claim . The correspondence disclosed a letter from Mr. Petters , stating that after a certain date he would cease to supply the milk contracted Mr. Jackson : Then they had not been for . The result was that Messrs . Ball were offered for sale when you spoke to Mrs. thrown upon a varying market , and had to Jackson ?. pay more for their supplies . This was the subject of the counter - claim for damages , the price of milk having in the period under notice increased very much . The contract was made for one year , the quantity to be supplied being , however , verbally agreed . leading Expert evidence was called , and this was to the effect that So was a reasonable claim for damages . which extended throughout the It had been said were largely grown . He should have liked to country and the Empire . be able to tell them the policy of the Govern that , agriculture was too far gone , ' but he ment with regard to brewing , but he regretted urged them to rise up and show that that was he could not do so , although he thought they not true ( Cheers ) . with a vote The meeting terminated might expect there would be some restriction placed upon the output of beer in this country thanks to Mr. Prothero . ( Hear , hear ) . That being so many of the hop growers might find that such crops were not profitable , but where a change had to be made they ought to be able to get ten or twelve metallic tons per acre from the land in view of the capital which was sunk in enriching and fertilis- Operatic Manager : " I know , there's ing it for hops . in it . " of The Musical voice soprano's " Your Critic : sounds to me . ' money P.S. Powell : No. Witness : They were on the stall for an hour and I saw Mrs. Jackson and Mr. Burke in conversation afterwards . Witness then Fined 10s . Arthur Dent , Hill Top , Tenbury , was sum- moned for a similar offence . Police Constable Charles Powell said defen- dant had headlights , but no side - lights . Finèd 10s . IGNORANT OF THE LAW . moned for failing to display two front lamps Henry Benion , Wyson , Brimfield . was sum- on a vehicle on January 12th at 5.15 . Superintendent Rooke said defendant had one light at the front and one at the rear , but no light on the near side at the front . Defendant said he was quite ignorant that two were required in front . Dismissed with a caution . Sidney Bird , farmer , Pateshall , Kimbolton , pleaded guilty to a similar offence on January 12th at 5.5 p.m. Superintendent Rooke proved the case and a fine of 2s . 6d . was imposed . " PLACED ON PROBATION . James The cases of William George Fox , Defendant : I said they were a present for Albert Austin Morris and George Steel , three a friend and I gave you the name . Did you boys , who were charged with theft at the last see me offer them to Mr. Burke ? —No . You never saw me offer them for sale in the street ? -No . What did you say when you took the Legal argument followed , after which his pheasants off me ? -I said I would make en- Honour gave judgment for the plaintiff on the quiries about them . claim and counter - claim . SELF - IMPOSED DUMBNESS . THIRTY YEARS . For 30 years Thomas Williams , of Llanelly , who has just passed away in his seventy - first year voluntarily remained dumb . In order to more easily keep his vow of silence , he led the life of a recluse in a cottage at Dafen . During the last few years efforts were made to get him to enter into conver- sation , but without success . Eccentric in appearance as well as in habit ,. he lived in a dilapidated house with practic- ally no doors or windows , a good deal of the damage having been done by the children of the neighbourhood . A few days ago the old fireless " home , " and was removed to a civi- lised dwelling , where he died . man was found almost frozen to death in his A visitor to Williams's dwelling found it sparsely furnished , but it was evident that the occupant had been a great reader of the daily papers , large bundles of newspapers being kept in each room . THE LOST ESCORT . It was reported to the Willesden magistrate on Monday that the absentee who had been ent to prison because he had been forgotten the military authorities had now been ( claimed . A member of the escort stated that Court again came before the Bench . The cases had been adjourned , the Magistrates ex- pressing the opinion that the boys should re - by ceive a thrashing from their parents . Morris's father said he gave the boy a good in coming from Scotland they had been lost hiding on Monday with a stick . for four days . They could not find Willesden . |