The Kington Times - March 1917
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Kington Times 3rd March 1917 - Page 8
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| Date | 03/03/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 3rd March 1917 |
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8 LEOMINSTER NOTES . Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday of next week should be red - letter days in Leominster and district , for we shall have the opportunity of hearing our foremost expert in child training . Mr. George Hamilton Archibald's fame is in all our chief towns and cities and no man is better known as a practical educa- tionist . In America and Australia Mr. Archibald's lectures were a tremendous success . Wherever he has gone immense audiences have taken advantage of a unique opportunity and press and public alike have showered their praise on his methods . Com- ing to this country from Canada some ten years ago he aroused a wholly new interest . in the work of the Sunday School . He at- tacked the ordinary method - in many cases lack of method and introduced in many places a new system of grading according to age and attainment , making a special feature of the primary and junior departments , the result of which was complete transformation of the system of teaching the infant and junior classes . Through the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Barrow Cadbury , the West Hill Training institute was opened in 1907 and in its first seven or eight years some 200 students passed through longer or shorter courses of training . About two years ago a new building was erected in which the work continues under enlarged conditions .. Three or four years ago Mr. Archibald , accompanied by his daughter , visited the Australian Colonies and lectured in many of the principal towns and cities . In York , Halifax , Barry and many other places the education committee has made provision for all its teachers to attend the lectures . We are glad to hear a . similar arrangement has Few been made by our Local Committee . men possess so magnetic a personality and there need be therefore no fear on the score of interest . Mr. Archibald is a past master in the art of popularisation . We can only express the hope that parents , teachers and all interested in the young life of our town will attend the first lecture ; no invitation will be necessary for the following ones . On page 5 of this issue will be found a list of the Con- ferences , with the chairman for each session . The children who so successfully appeared in the recent pantomime " Red Riding Hood , " were entertained by the Misses Urwick on Wednesday evening at the Waverley Hotel . Sweets and biscuits were distributed and after indulging in games the children went to the Leominster Picture Palace where they greatly enjoyed the film " Tom Brown's Schooldays . " • • At Leominster Picture Palace next week there is a specially attractive film for exhibi- tion on Monday , Tuesday and Wednesday evenings , entitled " Fatty and Mabel Adrift . " This is a side - splitting , exclusive Triangle comedy in three parts . In contrast there is a strong and appealing three - act drama " Just Plain Folk . " Pathe Gazette with the latest news in picture form will also be screened . On Thursday , Friday and Saturday the prin- cipal item is " The Schemers , ' an exciting three - act drama . " Crosted to the End " shows a perfect maze of racing motors , tram- cars , railway engines , horses - and a donkey . The film " Police " should not be missed as it features Charlie Chaplain . Also on a splen- did programme are the roth episode of the Red Circle , and Pathe Gazette . * Leominster people are asked to save their people ar waste paper for the Leominster Troop of Boy Scouts who will collect as follows : Bargates district , 1st Thursday in each month ; South Street district , 2nd Thursday in each month ; Broad Street district , 3rd Thursday , in each month ; High Street district , 4th Thursday in each month . * * Look out for Visit of Rev. D. Oakley to Leominster , on March 11th and 12th , also Shirlheath , March 13th . The funeral took place at Leominster Ceme- tery , on Wednesday afternoon , of Mr. William Henry Edwards , who died on Saturday , at Lower Buckfield , after a long and painful ill- ness . Deceased , who was 29 years of age , joined the army 12 months ago but was later discharged on medical grounds . The funeral was attended by members of the family and friends . The Rev. Gordon Lang officiated in the cemetery chapel and at the graveside . Mr. W. Mann was the undertaker . Among the films which have been screened at the Leominster Picture Palace this week As has been " Tom Brown's Schooldays . " showing the high class of entertainment pro- vided at the Corn Exchange we quote the fol- lowing paragraph from a London newspaper : The King and Queen again entertained a number of over - seas officers at Buckingham Palace on Saturday evening . A kinema en- tertainment with the film " Tom Schooldays " was given in the state ball - room , and afterwards tea was served in the household dining - room . Queen Alexandra , Princess Mary , and the Duke of Connaught were pres- ent with the King and Queen . * Brown's The scholars attending the Leominster Con- gregational Sunday School were given their winter treat on Thursday last . Nearly 100 children partook of a substantial tea and then a good number of visitors together with the teachers enjoyed their tea . Subsequently a very interesting lantern lecture entitled " Saved by his Bible , " was given , the lecture being read by the Rev. Gordon Lang ; while Mr. H. G. Hankinson ably manipulated the lantern . The scholars afterwards contributed a short programme of songs and recitations . # On Sunday next , March 4th , a special ser- mon will be delivered at the evening service at 6 p.m. at the Wesleyan Church by the Rev. Geo . Elliot Lee on " Bread or Beer ? -Prohibi- tion . " In view of the great interest dis- played in the subject on Sunday last there should be a large congregation . The Matron of the Leominster Cottage Hos- pital returns thanks for the following gifts received during the past fortnight : Eggs , Miss Wood ; eggs , Mrs. Heygate ; eggs , Mr. Bemand ; apples , Mrs. Stokes ; magazines , Colonel Davidson ; potatoes , Mr. Pember . The Matron will be . grateful for gifts of potatoes and other vegetables . The annual business meeting of the Leomin- ster Free Church Council was held on Monday night at the Moravian Church , when the President ( the Rev. R. Klesel ) occupied the chair . There was a large attendance . The chief business was the election of officers as follows President , the Rev. Gordon Lang ; Secretaries , the Rev. R. Klesel and Mr. R. S. Farrar ; Treasurer , Mr. J. Watkins . The Vice Presidents were re - elected . A special vote of thanks was accorded the Rev. J. C. Elder for two years ' strenuous work as Secretary . Mr. Elder will attend the annual meeting of the National Free Church Council this month as the representative of the Leominster Council . After considerable discussion a resolution was passed nem con in favour of prohibition during the war . We are glad to hear that the Chairman of the Leominster Food Production Committee ( Councillor John Watkins ) has received several patriotic offers from farmers to give a day's ploughing in order to break up the ground on the Stockton Road Allotments , and now that the frost has gone we hope rapid progress will be made within the next six weeks . We un- derstand that a Leominster market gardener who is breaking up two acres of grass land for potato growing has made a satisfactory start and bids fair to get the plot planted in good time . WHITEWASHED PRISONER . INTERNED MAN'S SWIM FOR FREEDOM . Three civilian prisoners have escaped from a working party in the Isle of Man , and are . being hunted by police , military and the volun- military and the teer force .. This is the third time that one of them , George von Streng , has escaped . On one occa- sion he got out of the camp at night and swam from the shore to a steamer which was leav- ing for Ireland . The vessel left before he could get alongside , and he was recaptured . On another occasion he whitewashed himself and tried to climb the barbed wire enclosure . but was caught by a sentry . THE KINGTON TIMES , MARCH 3 , 1917 . You may rely on getting Full Reports of Kington and District News in the KINGTON TIMES 33 , High Street , Kington . Now Compiling . BY APPOINTMENT . Twelfth Edition . Kelly's Dictionary of Herefordshire & Shropshire ( WITH MAPS ) . Price to Subscribers , 16 / - ; Non - Subscribers , 20 / - The Book will contain a TOPOGRAPHICAL , a ccount of every Town , PARISH , VILLAGE , and TOWNSHIP , also the Names of the Nobility , Gentry and Clergy , The Professional , Mercantile & Trading Classes . There will also be full information given as to the COUNTY COUNCILS ; the HUNDREDS , UNIONS and COUNTY COURT DISTRICTS ; the CHURCHES , with the value of the Livings and the names of the Patrons and Incumbents ; the CHIEF LANDOWNERS , with details as to the PRINCIPAL SEATS in the Counties ; the HOSPITALS and CHARITIES , whether general or local ; the ACREAGE , SOILS and CROPS ; the MARKETS and FAIRS , & c . , & c . AGENTS ARE NOW EMPLOYED IN COLLECTING THE NECESSARY INFORMATION . London : KELLY'S DIRECTORIES , Ltd. , 182 , 183 , 184. High Holborn . W.C. 481 , E.M. 22K E. MORGAN , Watchmaker , Jeweller , Silversmith and Optician . Your Garden . 22 Carat Government Hall - marked GOLD Wedding RINGS . One of the Largest and Best Selected Stocks in the County . All shapes and sizes kept in Stock Silver & Electro plated Goods , suit able for Wedding and other Presents YARDE And Co's Gold Medal SEEDS Early PEAS per pint . PILOT , 10d . ( Best Pea in Cultiva- tion , similar to Gradus , but 8 days earlier , and much more hardy ) . LAXTON , 9d . DAY'S EARLY SUNRISE , 8d . SHERWOOD , 9d DAISY ( new ) 6d . Main Crop Peas . Duke of Albany 9d Enormous cropper , 10 to 12 peas in each pod . Gladstone , 8d AUTOCRAT , 9d . Stratagem , 6d Broad Beans EXHIBITION LONG BEAN , 8d . GREEN WINDSOR , - 6d . EARLY LONG POD - 6d . per oz : Onions . Rousham Park Hero , 10d BROWN GLOBE- 9d . 10d . 16 , Drapers Lane , NUNEHAM PARK- LEOMINSTER . Use Vaporite , for destroying Wire .. worm , Slugs , & c . Tins 9d . , 7lbs . 2 / - 14 lbs . 3 / , 28 lbs . 4/6 8 Use With's Potato Manure , yields enormous crops , of good sound Tubers . 3/6 per cwt .. Use With's Universal Manure , 3/6 per cwt . , for ail kinds of Vegetables . ELLWOODS ' WINTER WASH , 1/6 tin makes 10 galls . Destroys all Hibernating insects , such as Apple Blossom , Weevil , Codlin Maggot , Woolly Aphis , Scale , & c . Ellwoods ' SPECIALLY SELECTED Rousham Park Hero Onion Seed . 3. , 6d . , 1 / - packets . Ellwood & Son , Chemists and Seedsmen , 25 , Drapers Lane , Leominster . HARBOURING ARMY DESERTERS AT TIPTON . PARENTS SENT TO GOAL . INDIA'S £ 100,000,000 WAR CIFT . PROCEEDS OF GREAT LOAN HANDED OVER . At Tipton Police Court , on Tuesday , India has shown her loyalty nobly , both in liament as a war contribution . L AILSA CRAIG , 1/8 INVINCIBLE , - ls . P.S. - All Carrots , Parsnips , Beet Root . Cabbage , Broccoli , Sprouts , & c , are practically the same price as last year . Postage Paid on 4 / - Orders . Call and secure a Catalogue , and we shall then secure your Custom . HARRISON TOBACCONIST , ( Sole Agent for Leominster ) , 2 , SOUTH STREET , LEOMINSTER . Smart Coats , Ladies , Are to be seen at PREECE'S , Broad Street . Abraham and Susannah Preston , 35 , Hurst The Budget Lane , were charged with harbouring their two money and men , during the war . statement to be presented to the Legislative sons , Percy and Oliver , while they were Council in Delhi on Wednesday announced the deserters from the army . Oliver , of the Sher- wood Foresters , and Percy , of the South Staf- transfer of £ 100,000,0000 to the Imperial Par- fordshire Regiment , were seen in khaki on the canal boats Coronation and Amy , of which de- one of great financial prosperity , enabling the It is shown that the year 1916-17 has been fendants had charge . Government of India to clear off its temporary When Police - sergeant Richards went to the indebtedness . house to make enquiries about them the female The Government has offered , and his Maj- revenue by additional taxation aggregating defendant said , " Do you think I keep them esty's Government has gratefully accepted , a The officer subsequently visited the war contribution of £ 100,000,000 , to be made As far back as September 1914 , the Legisla- boat Coronation , in the cabin of which he partly by the transfer to the Imperial Govern- tive Council unanimously adopted a resolution found Percy in plain clothes and Oliver un- ment of the proceeds of a loan to be issued in expressing the opinion here ? " $ 3,350,000 . " that the people of dressed . Defendants told him that they had India , and partly by the assumption of the India , in addition to the military assistance urged their sons to go back . Mrs. Preston liability for interest on such amount of Brit- now being afforded to the Empire , would wish produced some of Oliver's clothes , and re - ish War Loan as will represent the difference to share in the heavy financial burden now im marked , " He fell into the canal and I had to between the sum raised by the loan in India posed by the war on the United Kingdom . wash them , " adding , " He didn't conceal him- and £ 100,000,000 . " self much bevond when he fell into the canal . " It is intended to provide a further annual The young men had been brought before the sum for the extinction of the amount of the Printed and published for the Proprietor by court at Tipton , and since handed over to a British War Loan for which India accepts military escort . Defendants were each sen- liability . It is proposed to augment existing tenced to 14 days ' imprisonment . INFANT POISONED WITH LAUDANUM ACCUSED WOMAN'S PLEA OF MISTAKE . At an inquest at Stivelaugh , East Yorkshire , on Wednesday , a verdict of Wilful Murder " was returned against Charlotte Sissons , wife of a joiner , in connection with the death of an infant . The child's body was exhumed from a corner of Sisson's garden , and analytical evi- dence showed the child's death was due to laudanum poisoning . The mother , a single woman , of Hull , stated the child was born on December 6 , and as the result of a newspaper advertisement she paid Mrs. Sissons £ 3 to take the child off her hands . A schoolboy said he dug a hole in Mrs. Sisson's garden at her request . Accused stated she gave the child what she thought was milk at night in the dark , but she had in mistake picked up a laudanum bottle . LADY SHOT WHILE SHOPPING AT SOUTHEND . SIXTEEN - YEAR - OLD BOY CHARGED WITH MURDER . The sixteen - years - old lad , Frederick Edward Livingstone , who is charged with the murder of Miss Louisa Walker by shooting her in the road at Leigh , was brought up again at South- end on Tuesday . Mr. Harker ( for the Public Prosecutor ) said Miss Walker was shot whilst she was out on a shopping expedition . No witnesses actually saw her shot , but circumstantial evidence and an admission made by the prisoner left no doubt that there was a prima - facie case against him . Two days before the tragedy the accused left his employment on a farm at St. Albans . His employer had kept a loaded revolver in a locked cupbboard , and since the lad's departure the revolver had been missing . Evidence would be given that the lad . stole the revolver , and that it was with that revol- ver that the victim was shot by him , the motive being robbery . Police constable Goby said prisoner stated : " I fired one shot at the woman . I was about seven yards from her . " Accused did not re- sist arrest , and was quite calm . Livingstone , said witness , took little notice , of the inquest proceedings ; in fact , he believed he went to sleep . Witness expressed the opinion that the boy did not appreciate the wickedness of the crime , if , in fact , he committed it . When charged and cautioned prisoner said : " I am not guilty , sir . I did not mean to shoot her . The revolver went off accidentally . " Mr. Edwards , for the defence , suggested that the committal for trial should be for manslaughter , and not on the capital charge . The Bench committed prisoner for trial on the charge of wilful murder , refusing to cer- tify for legal aid for the prisoner . to a a Beggar " I say , mister , have ye got any suggestions to make feller without penny to git shaved with ? " Old Gentleman : " Yes ; grow a beard . " A. T. SOUTHALL , at his offices , 27 , Drapers Lane , Leominster . THE " Ware " Boot regd Is simply the Logical conclusion of Superior Workmanship AND Best Material To produce FOOTWEAR that completely satisfies all the DEMANDS OF Country Wearers . 14/65 Per Pair Tan Waterproof Leather , with or without Nails . Weaver & Son , No. 1 , Drapers Lane , Leominster and Market Place , T VOL . X. N SALES BY By Messrs . EDWARD BALDW LEOMINSTER HORS NEXT Of Valuable Heavy & Consigned by Farmers On FRIDAY , MAR 850 offered Schedule and Entry For EDWARDS , RUSSE Leominster , He LEOMINSTER STO TUESDAY , MARC AT Cattle and Sheep , FAT 11.30 ; Store Cattle a Entries kindly solicited . EDWARDS , RUS Leominster , Hereford an THE GREAT HOUS Six miles from Leomins from Moorhampt ED DWARDS , RUSSELL favoured with inst George Edwards ( who is g to Sell by Auction , on SATURDAY , MARC the whole of the AGRIC MENTS , Gearing , Cider a Etc. , also 4 Good Workin and a large portion of the ture , Dairy Utensils , Ete . Particularised in Catalog had of the AUCTIONEERS , L and Tenbury . Sale at ONE o'clo CHINA HALL , Three Miles from DWARDS , RUSSELL Ebeen favoured with in W. T. Stephens , who is Auction , upon the premis THURSDAY , MARC a portion of his useful HO TURE and Out - Door Ef Catalogues , to be had of Leominster , Hereford and Sale at 1.30 o'cloc ACCOMMODATION L BOROUGH OF LE DWARDS , RUSSELL received instructions EDW at The Talbot Hotel , Leo FRIDAY , MARCH at 3 p.m. , all that excelle modation MEADOW L " Nash's Meadow , " or situate in the Borough of joining the North Road , a N and Kington Railway . Ordnance Map , and contain I rood , 25 poles . The Land has been let fo to Mr. G. J. Abell , at the IOS . The Land Tax is 25 no . Tithe charged on the For further particulars , LLOYD & SON . , Solicitors ; EERS , Leominster . PARK FARM , O Close to Berrington an Station . ED DWARDS , RUSSELL & ( owing to the death o ecived instructions from M Executors of the late Mr. Auction , without reserve , o SATURDAY , MARCH 18 CROSS - BRED CATT 2 WORKING HORSE The collection of nearly n MENTS , Gears , Etc. Catalogues of the AUCTIO Hereford and Tenbury . Sale at 12.30 P 12.39 THE LOWER HOUSE , Four and a - half miles fr EP DWARDS , RUSSELL favoured with instru Representatives of the late to ScH by Auction , on MONDAY , MARCH Two excellent Dairy Cows Calf ) , Cross - bred Yearling H Cider and Casks ; Household Utensils , & c . Sale will include , by po Mare , 15 hands , 10 years stinted to " Nevers II . " Jul Gears , cob size . Catalogues may be had of Leominster , Hereford and T Sale at TWO o'cloc NUNSLAND , BRO Three and a - half miles f Station . DWARDS , RUSSELL Representatives of the late to Sell by Auction , on THURSDAY , MARCH Eured with instr 25 EXCELLENT CATT 9 CART & HACK HO Agricultural IMPLEMENT Portable Oil Engine , and ot ated in catalogues to be had EERS , Leominster , Hereford Sale at 2 p.m. pur |