The Kington Times - May 1917
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Kington Times 5th May 1917 - Page 1
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| Date | 05/05/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 5th May 1917 |
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MENT . for Glasses maries and to LASSES . SON , INSTER . LIC ! CO . coats 1 . n S THE NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE ADVERTISER AND THE KINGTON TIMES VOL . X. NO . 554. Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper SALES BY AUCTION . By Messrs . EDWARDS , RUSSELL and BALDWIN . LEOMINSTER HORSE REPOSITORY . NEXT SALE A Of Yaluable Heavy & Light HORSES , 1 Consigned by Farmers and Private Owners . KINGTON for transmission in the United Kingdom . SATURDAY MAY 5 , 1917. Free by post per quarter , PRICE ONE PENNY . ם * 1s . 8d . , payable in advance . articles than bread : save larly exhort and charge all heads of house- GOVERNMENT AND WASTE . holds to reduce the consumption of bread in their respective families by at least one - fourth PROTEST AT HEREFORD . of the quantity consumed in ordinary times ; 1 At a meeting of the Hereford Town Council to abstain from the use of flour in pastry , and , on Tuesday , the Mayor ( Mr. E. R. Dymond ) moreover , carefully to restrict or wherever made a strong appeal to the public to possible to abandon the use thereof in all other waste in food . There was evidence of waste in Hereford , he said , particularly in regard to And We do also , in like manner , exhort and bread . Large amounts were thrown away in charge all persons who keep horses to abandon the streets , and that at a time like the pres- the practice of feeding the same on oats or ent was a crime . To eat less was difficult for other grain , unless they shall have received many , and impossible for some , but it was from Our Food Controller a license to feed perfectly easy for everybody to avoid throwing horses on oats or other grain to be given only away the food . It would be nothing short of in cases where it is necessary to do so with a a national calamity if they allowed themselves view to maintaining the breed of horses in to drift into compulsory rationing of bread . the national interest : It was the duty of the members of the Coun And We do hereby further charge and enjoin cil , in and out of season to preach this doc- all Ministers of Religion in their respective trine of reducing consump- churches and chapels within Our United King- tion . of folding waste and red dom of Great Britain and Ireland to read , or Mr. A. D. Steel said the body most in need These afflicted folk are everywhere for more Huts , with a knowledge met at the Landing Stage , and conveyed of our new great Army silently waiting in dis the Y.M.C.A. cars to special hostels which comfort for the accommodation we can give , have been prepared for them , and here they the people in England are appealed to for con- are cared for by cultured English ladies work- tinued and increased support in this patriotic ing under the Red Triangle of the Y.M.C.A. effort . Field Marshall Lord French in one of They are fed , housed , and comforted , and his letters to the Association has said , " If passed along the line , from centre to centre , people could read one tenth of what the men by the Secretaries , or in special cases conveyed themselves say of your work I am convinced direct to the hospitals in Y.M.C.A. cars . The they would not for a second lack any neces interview with husband or son is arranged , sary building . " During the week May 6th- and for the whole time they are in France May 13th , the inhabitants of Kington and the their comfort is studied in every way . On Rural District are being asked to play their their return they are seen to their boat and part in this great work and to raise as large go away with hearts full of gratitude for the a sum as possible to assist in the maintenance kindness they have received , and without hav- of this magnificent work . We have no doubt ing to pay in any shape or form for the hos that our people will rise to the occasion and pitality extended . In this manner over 300 show their patriotism in the most practical people are entertained every week . Separate way , remembering that the khaki line in buildings are arranged for the wives of officers France and Flanders is the real bulwark of who are treated as paying guests . The number England , and that the men who are face to of people who have been assisted by the face with death deserve all that those at home cause to be read , this Our Proclamation on tlie of a sermon were members of the Government , Y.M.C.A. WEEK . unlikely to recover . THE WAR - RECORD OF THE ASSOCIATION . Mr. Asquith when Prime Minister said " The Y.M.C.A. is one of the discoveries of the war . " A few days before the outbreak of hostilities the National Council met in London and pre- pared plans , which , upon the declaration of war , were instantly put into operation . With in ten days 250 Centres were opened with his Majesty's Troops , and , as our Forces were mobilised , the work grew until , with the new Army , and the Overs as Forces the Y.M.C.A is now working in 2,000 Centres . In Great Britain scarcely a canip , great or small , is In some of the large Centres , such as Salisbury Plain , scores of Y.M.C.A. Huts have been erected . In France and Flanders 435 Centres are now opened , 63 of these are within a mile or two of the trenches , and are continuously under shell fire , about 36 are dug - outs in the trenches . in the British East Africa 10 , in Mesopotamia 35 with two river launches , in Salonica the Association is at work in a dozen Centres , in Malta 9 , in the On FRIDAY , MAY 18th , 1917. without its Y.M.C.A. Building . ENTRIES CLOSE , WEDNESDAY , MAY 9th . Schedule and Entry Forms on application . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN , Auctioneers , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . LEOMINSTER STOCK MARKET . TUESDAY , MAY 8th , 1917 . AT Cattle and Sheep , 10.30 a.m .; Calves , FAT 11.30 ; Store Cattle and Pigs , 11.45 . Entries kindly solicited . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN . Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . By Mr. R. H. CEORCE . R. H. GEORGE , Auctioneer , Valuer , Land Agent , and Surveyor , PROPERTY and TIMBER SPECIALIST , MORTGAGE BROKER , VALUER and ARBI- TRATOR under the Agricultural Holdings Act , 1908. REPORTS , RECORDS and SUR- VEYS carefully and personally attended to . HOTEL and PUBLIC HOUSE VALUER . VALUATIONS for ESTATE DUTY , MORT- GAGE , ASSESSMENT APPEALS , & c . PERIODICAL SALES of PROPERTIES . Prompt settlements in all cases . ESTABLISHMENT 1880 . Offices : - Croftmead , Kingsland , Herefordshire . Leominster Office Corn Square . By Messrs . E. HAMMOND & SON . E. Hammond & Son , Auctioneers , Valuers , House , Estate , and Insurance Agents , Conduct all classes of SALES BY AUCTION , VALUATIONS FOR PROBATE , Etc. , RENTS and BOOK DEBTS COLLECTED . Personal Attention , Prompt Settlements . ESTABLISHED 1881 . Offces : Highbury House , Leominster . WEST STREET , PEMBRIDGE . MESSRS . E. HAMMOND & SON will Sell by Auction , on MONDAY , MAY 21st , 1917 , the FURNITURE and Effects , the property of the Misses Mainwaring , removing . Sale at ONE o'clock . By Messes . JACKSON & McCARTNEY . 600 Horses . £ 130 in Prizes . CRAVEN ARMS AND HEREFORD . CRAVEN ARMS.:-TO-DAY , SATURDAY , MAY 5th , 1917 . HEREFORD : SATURDAY MAY 19th , 1917 . Entries for Catalogue close first post May , 14th . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY , Auctioneers - Craven Arms and Hereford . MISCELLANEOUS . RATS , MICE , MOLES , COCKROACHES , and BEETLES greedily eat HARRI RELIABLE " RAT POISON . SON'S Cats and Dogs , will not touch it . Vermin dry up and leave no smell . Price 6d . , 18. , 2s . 3d . and 3s . Sd . Postage 2d.-G. W. HARRISON . Chemist , Reading . Sold by Chemists . Agent for Leominster , J. W. ROWE , ( late J. Buckham ) , Chemist , High Street . ILL THAT INSECT , TOMMY . K " Send your pals " out yonder " some tins of HARRISON'S NURSERY POMADE - they'll be very acceptable . When you haven't time to wash there's a big chance you'll have " companions . " A little HARRISON'S POMADE KILLS EVERY INSECT on hair and body . Insist on having HARRISON'S POMADE . " Tins of comfort , " at 4d . and Sold by all Chemists - or by post from Agent for od . HARRISON , Chemist , Reading . Leominster , J. W. ROWE , ( late J. Buckham ) , High Street ; Kington , J. W. CAUNT . GREY HAIR restored to its original colour by using HARRISON'S Colour In Bgypt the Centres now opehed number as , YMCA , in this way is now many thousands can pekshly de for themic Vieur and he per . In the request of the late Minister of Munitions ( Mr. Lloyd George ) the Y.M.C.A. is assisting where tine situation is abnormal . Huge canteens , and in By invitation of mission the Lord Bishop , Mr. C. Harold Brown who is organising county effort , will preach on the " War Work of the Lord's Doys , for four successive weeks after the and the only way was to protest on a public thereof . Government Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace , told them that they were in such danger that this Seco day of May , in the year of it was necessary for them to ration themselves our Lord one thousand nine hundred and on 6 lb. of bread , bacon and meat per week . but the Government were allowing soldiers 12 lb. of bread , meat and bacon . One did.not . grudge the soldier anything which was neces- sary , but if 12 lb. were necessary for the sol- dier , 6 lb. were impossible for the civilian . Of course 6 db . was not an impossible amount -they could , do with less , as he knew from practical experience . It seemed to him unreas- onable for the Government to give such rations to the soldiers , and the only way to bring it home was for local authorities to pro- test ( Hear , hear ) . He was also told there was great waste at a Herefordshire munition fac- tory . KINGTON & DISTRICT Y.M.C. A. Y.M.C.A. HUT WEEK V MAY 6th MAY 13th . 54 NEW HUTS WANTED FOR FRANCE IMMEDIATELY . HELP US TO BUILD ONE . 2,000 CENTRES NOW OPEN FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY !! 18 CENTRES OPEN ON GROUND WHICH THREE WEEKS AGO WAS IN . GERMAN HANDS . 3 CENTRES ARE NOW OPEN IN BAGDAD . The Y.M.C.A. Follows the Troops and has 23 Dug - outs in the Trenches . It costs £ 600 daily to keep our present Centres Open . It costs £ 60,000 per ann to supply the Free Stationery £ 100,000 Wanted for NEW HUTS . WILL YOU DO YOUR BIT IN THIS GREAT EFFORT P EVERY LITTLE HELPS . IT IS FOR YOUR BOYS !! Will Ladies prepared to undertake a Collection in the Surrounding Parishes please Communicate with the Organising Secretary at once . HEREFORDSHIRE Y.M.C.A. HUT CAMPAIGN . gean Islands 5 , and in Italy 1 . From the some places hostels with recreation rooms , King downwards unanimous praise is being etc. , have been erected , and thousands upon given to this work and the men one and all thousands of hard - working , munition makers Say that to do without the Y.M.C.A. to - day is ante being fed by day and by night , and re- Hair RESTORER inconceivable . Lord Derby , the new Secretary ceiving the care and attention which is helping to keep them fit and increase the output of munitions so greatly needed . Among the sailors and marines of our Navy the same work is going on . For the best of reasons the location of these Centres cannot be mentioned , but Lady Jellico and Lady Beatty , who are giving their own personal time loud in and attention to this work , are its praise . It is not a dye , but acts naturally , is quite harmless : Price 1/6 . Postage 3d GW . Harrison , M.P.S. , Specialist Street . Hair Reading of State for War , has stated that in war time the work of the Association is indispensable , and he is himself the Chairman of the Muni- tions Branch of the work . A huge catering business is carried on for the Troops , where they can obtain every neces- Agent for Leominster : J. W. ROWE , 35 , Hig ! sity at practically cost price . Any profit accidentally made is immediately used for the direct benefit of the men . In London 24 Huts and Buildings are being used for accommodat- ing soldiers and sailors on leave . END OF HORSE RACING . Y.M.C.A. " at both morning and evening ser- vices at the Parish Church on Sunday next , May 6th . THE KING'S APPEAL FOR FOOD ECONOMY . EAT LESS . TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY . The King held a Council at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday at which he signed the following proclamation : BY THE KING . A PROCLAMATION . In billets and in training camps , in the These men bases , depots , and rest camps , on the lines of , are met , and taken from the troop trains to communication , with the transport , with the All racing will cease in the United Kingdom the Y.M.C.A. Huts , where beds , baths , disin Army Ordnance Corps , with the Flying men , the end of this week , Captain Bathurst an- fecting rooms , meals , reading and writing with Indians , Canadians , Australians , and the GEORGE R.I. men from the home country , the Y.M.C.A. is nounced in the House of Commons on Tuesday facilities , games and every comfort and amid cheers . An Order for the rationing of venience ' await them . In these Huts and Build - working throughout the Empire and in the ings over 12,000 men , mud - stained from the fields of war . Association money , are con- unnecessary St. Peter's House , Hereford . Alderman Wallis said the Government ought to stop good barley being made into beer and fiery spirits . A greater scandal on the part of the Government could not be found . Alderman James said the best bread could be made from a mixture of two - thirds of ex- isting flour and one - third of oatmeal . No one could wish for better , and it saved wheat . Could they prevail upon bakers to bake such bread ? HOARDING FOOD FOR INTERNED HUSBAND . COOK'S THEFT FROM HOTEL . Emily Walters , alias Sander , a cook at the Rutland Court Hotel , Lancaster Gate , was charged on remand at Marley bone on Saturday with stealing food valued at 123. The food weighed about 11lb . , and the prisoner admitted having sent it to her husband , an Austrian , interned at Alexandra Park . " After her arrest , Detective - sergeant Gray went to her lodgings , where he found in a wardrobe a large quantity of other provisions belonging to the hotel including sugar , eggs , lard , butter , syrup , peas , sardines , curry , jelly , coffee , cocoa , tea , and cheese , linen and cutlery , waich were made the subject of a further charge against . her . Detective - sergent Gray said in 1911 her hus- band was convicted of disorderly conduct and deported , but he returned and was interned at the outbreak of war . There was no doubt some of the food the woman bad stolen had gone to keep a deserter , who had a key of her house , and was believed to reep in at night and leave early in the moring . Accused : He goes back to barracks every night at eleven o'clock . Mr. Paul Taylor sentenced the woman to six weeks ' hard labour on each charge - three months in all . He also ordered the provisions to be returned to the hotel . CAMBLING IN FOOD . DRY PEAS AND BEANS RUSHED FROM IS TO £ 80 A TON . Japanese peas were quoted on Monday in Mincing - lane at £ 82 a ton . Twelve months ago they were £ 18 . When the potato short- age was announced they rose to £ 40 , and since- that time they have been forced up , princi- pally by speculators . 5 Fortunes have been made and lost , not by the brokers but by outsiders who have entered the markets specially to gamble . It is re- ported that one lot of peas of about fifty . tons were bought and sold half a dozen times be- fore final delivery was obtained . It might be advisable for the Food Con- troller to obtain from the wharves on the river a return of the stocks they have held during the last three months , with particulars of how long they have been held and how often during that period the warranty has been transferred . The gambling has not been confined to peas . There have been similar dealings in dried beans , chiefly from Rangoon and Chili , which have also advanced to £ 80 a ton for " spot parcels . Brazilian brown beans are cheaper , but few are obtainable . MEALS AND CAKE OFFENDERS TO BE PROSECUTED . People who flagrantly disregard the orders of the Food Controller are to be prosecuted without delay . Inspectors appointed by the Ministry of Food report that meal registers are not being filled up fully or in proper form . by numerous hotel and restaurant keepers , and that in all parltis of the country confec- tioners are contravening the cake order . It is felt that this is unjust to those who are honourably adhering to the regulations . The orders provide for very severe penalties . MILK INSPECTORS ' CHASE AFTER FARMER . Mr. W. Clarke , the chief inspector under the Food and Drugs Act at Coventry , on Saturday told the local magistrates how he and an assistant chased William Reginald Wright , a Tile Hill farmer , in order to get samples of mik from him . Wright was in the habit of seventeen , and in the Seventh year of Our delivering churns of milk to a retailer at a Reign . GOD SAVE THE KING . Copies of the above - mentioned Proclamation can be obtained free of charge on written ap- plication to his Majesty's Stationery Office , Imperial House , Kingsway , London , W.C.2 The Proclamation was read from the steps of the Royal Exchange at noon on Thursday by the City's Common Crier . DOC - KEEPING PERIL . 3,000,000 LBS . OF FOOD A DAY TO FEED THEM . When the Government takes over the flour The not point near Coventry , but on the morning Clarke was there he neglected to wait on his customer , and galloped on , saying he was off to get bread . The inspectors followed on bicycles , and when Clarke overhauled an ex- hausted horse , Wright explained that he had an appointment with a man .. The milk was found to have 9 per cent . of added water , and Wright was summoned . He said he did not add water and did not see Clarke at the re- tailer's waiting place . Fines amounting to £ 15 , with 26s . costs , were imposed . COAL DEALER'S " GUESS . " sack was the correct weight . John Robinson , a coal dealer , of Gladstone- We , being persuaded that the abstention from mills the supply of biscuits for dogs will be street , Urmston , Lancashire , was fined £ 3 and In this organisation , which has all consumption of grain will greatly interfered with , if not stopped , as no costs at Manchester County Police Court , on thoroughbreds will be issued shortly . Tuesday , for exposing for sale fifty - two sacks M. Lynch : Does the prohibition extend to trenches , sleep every week , and the Y.M.C.A. been so effective and successful in its efforts furnish the surest and most effectual means flour will be available for this purpose . trenches , sleep to be found on the London for the soldiers , men and women of all creeds of defeating the devices of Our enemies and number of dogs for which licenses are paid of coal which had a total deficiency in weight the small race meetings in Ireland ? of 5081b . Captain Bathurst : I am not authorised to streets all night and every night , looking for , and classes are giving themselves and their thereby of bringing the war to a speedy and in the United Kingdom is 2,500,000 . It is s and picking up the lost and lonely strangers resources to the work . Fifteen million pieces successful termination , and out of Our resolve timated that at least 250,000 dogs are The defendant , when challenged , by the in- Say that any exception will be made . who when in and said , " I guessed ' some of these . " " Consternation " is said by the Press at the mercy of the scoundrels Y.M.C.A. every month at a cost of £ 60,000 to these ends or to the welfare of Our people the total in the country ruhs to 3,000,000 . It The inspector in evidence said not a single to prevail at Newmarket , who prey upon our brave lads on leave . This per annum . One of the largest catering busi- in these times of grave stress and anxiety , have is further estimated , taking large and small where 12,000 people directly depend upon unostentatious work is held in the very highest nesses in the world has been developed . Con- thought fit , by and with the advice of Our dogs together , that they consume 1lb . of meat racing for their livelihood . If the ban is esteem by the Military Authorities , who them- certs by the score of thousands have been ar- Privy Council , to issue this Our Royal Procla- each per day , or , if not meat , then other persisted in Newmarket will be ruined , as selves assist in every possible way . His Maj- ranged . Services of all description in like mation , most earnestly exhorting and charging foodstuffs which could be used for human Twenty thousand all those of Our loving subjects the men and there is not a factory or other form of employ - esty has even given up a portion of the Royal number have been held . ment in the town or district . A public Mews at Buckingham Palace for this branch ladies at the present time are giving personal women of Our realm who have the means of meeting is being called for Wednesday night , of the . Y.M.C.A. work . service in this work , and well over a million procuring articles of food other than wheaten while a meeting of owners and trainers will be Another very necessary and highly appre- sterling has been already subscribed by the corn , as they tender their own immediate in terests , and feel for the wants of others , es- held on Thursday to decide upon the best ciated her very nice made on behalf of the public and expended by the Y.M.C.A. steps to take to get the ban removed . It costs at present £ 600 per day to maintain pecially to practise the greatest economy and be equally content , " Oat relatives of the seriously , wounded , called to substitutes , it is claimed , are being used as France to see their loved ones , who have been the work ( less than 10s . per Centre per day ) , frugality in the use of every species of grain : And We do for this purpose more particu- stricken down , and whom it is thought are but with the Commanding Officers pressing feed . i consumption . While grain , damaged or unsuitable for milling , might be used for the manufacture of dog biscuits , said Captain Bathurst in the House of Commons , people must realise that they kept dogs at their peril . If they could not be kept without wasting human food dogs ought to be destroyed . NO NEED FOR COSTLY TOMBS . " If our soldiers are content with a little wooden cross when they die , surely civilians who die comfortably in their beds ought to said the military repre- sentative to a Hitchin monumental mason whose application for exemption was refused . 11 |