The Kington Times - November 1917
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Kington Times 17th November 1917 - Page 1
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| Date | 17/11/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 17th November 1917 |
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At ere over ish came e was a years the t . , while t . The unt of a teresting ress and ples . As indirect ng them iour , he ' s Bhud- Sunday name of such as unds , in king the of her ' s Adult Price for nging of TOWNS rankfur- p.m. on ng from ern and however , amage . emy air- east of were no mportant persons uttewald Someone company hafen by to the ON . ge Leah miners ; greas- Tues- of the rn Rail- risoners ritchard ld be a thefts , stopped . rvice 25 verbena , wreaths ns , and n under rvatives was the Athenian wreath orange- ir fern , blend- tom of s been om the mbol of which ot that pe fruit tors by Drapers THE NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE ADVERTISER AND THE KINGTON TIMES VOL . XI . NO . 582 . SALES BY AUCTION . By Messrs . EDWARDS , RUSSELL and BALDWIN . LEOMINSTER HORSE REPOSITORY . NEXT SALE HEAVY and LIGHT HORSES , at Leominster , on Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper for transmission in the United Kingdom KINGSLAND Friday , January 25th , 1918 , Horse Slaughtering Entries Close Wednesday , Jan. 16th . Early entries solicited . Note . All Farmers entering Horses must YARD . get & Permit to Sell from their respective H. J. Pritchard County Agricultural Executive Committee . Auctioneers Offices , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . LEOMINSTER STOCK MARKET . TUESDAY , NOVEMBER 20th , 1917 . FAT AT Cattle and Sheep , 10.30 a.m .; Calves , 11.30 ; Store Cattle and Pigs , 11.45 . Entries kindly solicited . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN . Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . THE COURT HOUSE FARM , EARDISLAND . Is now living at BROOMY HILL FARM , KINGSLAND . Letters and telegrams sent to the Yard would be dealt with promptly . Horse Slaughtering , Etc The only Horse Slaughtering License in North Herefordshire is now held by H. J. Pritchard who intends to carry on this Business in a satisfactory manner to all con- cerned . All Carcases paid for in cash before removal . Letters and Telegrams : 33 , Bargates , Leo- minster , or Broomy Hill , Kingsland . SATURDAY , NOV . 17 , 1917 . at once , everywhere throughout the mass re- gardless of heat - is caused by Nature's total refusal to permit two bodies to occupy the same place at the same time . Gunpowder occupies a hole drilled in a rock deep enough to accommodate a pint . A fuse explodes it . During the time it takes that pint of gun- powder to change to a gas it grows , so that there are 401 pints of gas occupying the hole or trying to . If the hole is strong enough , they might - but is not . They push the rock apart and make room for themselves . If it was a pint of good dynamite there would be a volume of 847 pints of gas trying to occupy that pint hole . And if it was blasting gela- tine , 1,386 pints . RELATIVE KINETIC ENERGY . known from the evidence of the spectroscope ; a THE COMPANIONS OF POLARIS . In addition to a ninth magnitude com- panion , visible in telescopes of moderate power , the pole star has two close com panions , beyond the range of telescopes , but one having a period of about four days and the other about twelve years . According to L. Courvisier , of the Berlin - Babelsberg Ob- servatory , the visible companion also belongs to this multiple system , having a revolution period of at least 20,000 years . LEOMINSTER RED CROSS HOSPITAL SUPPLY DEPOT . Another year of useful work has ended at Our best thanks are due the above depot . to the workers for the amount that has been achieved since the room was re - opened last autumn ; 5,237 articles have been forwarded to The Committee are most Headquarters . grateful to Mr. Parry for his kindness in lending Westbury House for the work parties , as this saves much expense , also to Miss Poiner for the loan of tables , and to Mr. Lewis for removing furniture from 50 , Etnam Street . More workers would be gladly welcomed , there may still be some ladies who are unaware of the great help they could give by coming even for an hour or two ou either of the two days ( Tuesdays and Wednesdays ) that the work - room is open . Church ( £ 1 10s . ) , Entertainment at Hatfield But the matter is not wholly one of two The only place where animals can be dis- but how long the two are given to adjust things in the same space at the same time , sected within 14 miles of Leominster . themselves to the fact - which is that they of materials , it is hoped that there will be a With the ever increasing rise in the price cannot occupy the same space at the same . There is a time ! Here we come again to the rate of ex- corresponding rise in donations . plosion . The explosive bester calls it the small balance in hand , let this will soon be exhausted . relative kinetic energy . Our thank are due to , the fol- He expresses it m kilogram metres per second . One does not lowing who have given donations : -Mrs . need to know the scientific meaning of the Wright , Mrs. Heygate , Mrs. Stedman , Mrs. term to understand its significance . Gunpow- Atherley , Mrs. Ascroft , Mrs. Chattock , Mrs. der is rated as having a kinetic energy of Harley Nott , Mrs. Campbell , Mrs. Levick , 4,587 . Picric acid , which is one of the giants Mrs. John Smith , Mrs. Addison Hall , Mrs. to having Boulton , Mrs. Clowes , Mrs. King - King , Mrs. of the explosive family , owns Gibson Dyson , Mrs. Pitt , Mrs. Richard Bright , kinetic energy of nearly 3,500,000 . Mrs. Coates , Mrs. Mounsey Heygate , Mrs. Robinson , Mrs. Richards , Mrs. Stokes , Mrs. Burlton , Mrs. E. P. Lloyd , Mrs. Ball , Mrs. Walker , Mrs. Dalley , Mrs. Edward Heygate , Miss Tew , Miss Lodder , Miss Norah Williams , Miss Wood , Mrs. Coates , Miss Price Jones , Miss Hyslop , G. J. Abell , Esq . , Sale of Picture by Miss Mary Moore ( 21 ) , Risbury Wesleyan School ( 5s . ) , Sale of Surplus Vegetables ( per Miss Hall , 2s . 6d . ) , Weekly Contributions in the bowl ( £ 19 2s . 1od . ) , Receipts from Cups of Tea ( £ 1 9s . 4d . ) , total receipts , £ 128 18s . 1d . The following is the balance sheet which W. Barton , Esq . , National Provincial Bank , has been kind enough to audit for us : Payments- The star with the greatest proper motion Rent of Room at 50 , Etnam Street , £ 12 6s , 6d .; purple of asters became dark green to nearly so far discovered is one in Ophiuchus , of mag- carriage on black , the white became yellow , etc. These parcels , 2 8s . 3d .; J. Smith nitude 9.5 , which is drifting northwards ten changes only occurred when the smoke came seconds a perhaps some hundreds of ( calico , flannelette , etc ) , 13 75. 4d .; Marchant 32 Excellent SHORTHORN and DAIRY direct from the cigar , and not when it had miles per second of time . This was lately re- Bros. ( calico , flammelet , etc. ) , 64 12s . 6d .; been previously drawn into the mouth . It Hospital Contracts Company ( bandage cloth ) , vealed to Professor Barnard on a comparision 15 4s .; packing materials ( sacking , paper , thus appears that the changes are caused by with the Blink microscope of a recent stellar etc. ) , 9s . 7d .; wool , £ 119s . 4 ; Barker and some constituent of the smoke which is re- photograph and one made eighteen years ago . Son , Is . 84d .; British Red Cross and St. John , moved by contact with the moisture of the An eighth magnitude star in the Southern mouth , and since a weak aqueous solution of heavens has a proper motion of 8.7 seconds ; £ 4 38 .; Radcliffe & Co. ( flannelette ) , £ 21 2s . ammonia produced the same colour changes in and the seventh magnitude Groombridge 1830 ; flannelette ) , £ 7 r3s . 6d .; Pritchard , 6s . 4d .; 9d .; cheque book , 2s . 6d .; J. A. Cole ( cretonne- the flowers , it is probably amonia in of Ursa Major , the original runaway star , ' cigar smoke which is the constituent in ques- has a yearly drift of seven seconds . Orphans ' Printing Press , 13s . 9d .; Caretaker at Westbury House , £ 3 os . 6d .; tea , sugar , tion . This may also explain why smoke direct from a cigar is so much more blue than smoke milk , 88. 24d .; Ryman ( waterproof paper ) , 7s . that has been drawn into the mouth ; perhaps Sd .; Harvey and Nichols , £ 4 17s .; coal , shovel , in this case carbonic acid plays a part , form- sweep , 2s . 6d .; coal , £ r 15s .; total , £ 95 28 .; ing with the ammonia à cloud like the cloud of Balance in Hon . Treasurer's hands , £ 33 16s . amonium chloride produced in an inhaler . rd .; total , 128 18s . 1d.-K. M. THORNELY , Hon . Secretary .. SCIENCE NOTES . AMMONIA IN TOBACCO SMOKE . It has been observed that the colours of cer- tain flowers underwent change when exposed Indian primula became emerald - green , the EDWARDS RUSSEstructions from Mr. to the smoke of a cigar ; the rose colour of au Five miles from Leominster . DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN are Edwin Riley ( owing to the farm having been sold ) , to Sell by Auction , on 27 MONDAY , NOVEMBER 19th , 1917 , CATTLE Shropshire and Cross - bred SHEEP , 12 Pigs , Agricultural Implements , Gearing , and a portion of the Household Furniture . Particularised in Catalogues which may be had of the AUCTIONEERS , Leominster , Here- ford and Tenbury . Sale at ONE o'clock prompt . ELSDON . Two miles from Titley Station , 3 miles from Kington and 4 miles from Eardisley . IMPORTANT STOCK SALE . MONEY VALUE OF SUNSHINE . the STAR MOTION . CARE OF HOUSEHOLD LINEN . Inferior laundries are responsible for the destruction of a great deal of linen which is day after day ruined - not by fair wear and tear , but by the use of injurious chemicals . The best way to repair sheets that are torn down the centre , or near the centre , is to rip It is possible that the weather profoundly affects the habits of the community , remarks a scientific writer . It has been shown that them from end to end along the middle , and DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN low temperatures produce an excess of drunken- then join the these E favoured with instructions from Mr. John ness amounting to 38 per cent . , while high the centre , and the old centre the sides Price ( who is giving up the farm ) , to Sell by Auction , on 77 THURSDAY , NOVEMBER . 22nd , 1917 , Well - Bred HEREFORD CATTLE , Grand KERRY HILL SHEEP , 220 Young Working HORSES , FILLY 4 FOAL , BAY HACK MARE , Seven Sheep Racks , Iron Hurdles , Casks and Cider Fruit , and the Grazing of 154 Acres of capital Pasture Land , till Candlemas next . Catalogues may be had of the AUCTIONEERS , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . Luncheon at 11 a.m. , Sale at 12.30 punctually . THE PRIORY , CLIFFORD , Three miles from Hay and One mile from Clifford Railway Station . E DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN have received instructions from the Rev. G. Lee Spencer ( who is leaving the district ) , to Sell by Auction , without reserve , on THURSDAY , FRIDAY and SATURDAY , NOVEMBER , 22nd , 23rd and 24th , 1917 , the valuable Household Furniture and Effects , Estate Requisites , Garden Tools and Acces- sories , Carriages , Pony , Sporting Articles ( in- cluding an excellent double - barrel 12 - bore Gun ) , in all , over 1,000 lots . Sale at 11 o'clock prompt each day . Catalogues may be had of the AUCTIONEERS , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . By Mr. R. H. CEORCE . R. H. GEORGE , mented . The to look after her linen cupboard periodically , A RUSSIAN Free by post per ( 15. 8d . , payable in advance ! ****** LA PRICE ONE PENNY . ADIES should make a point . of seeing our new range of Dress Shoes . Shoes , as pleasing in wear as they are delightful to the eye , and all bearing the stamp of quality in material and workmanship which is a distinguishing feature of Ross footwear . LEOMINSTER COUNTY POLICE COURT . Ross & Son , Ltd. , High Street Kington complaints about cattle straying in that district and the defendant had been previously cautioned . Dismissed with a caution . FAIR MEAT DIVISION . ALL LIVE STOCK TO BE MOBILISED . SHEEP AND CATTLE CENSUS . THE FOOD SUPPLY OF GREAT BRITAIN . OVER 2,000,000 MORE ACRES TO BE PLOUGHED . Mr. Prothero stated in the House of Com- mons on Wednesday , in reply to Mr. King , that complete information was not available as to the number of acres which had been scheduled by the Agricultural Executive Com- The ALD . RUSSELL'S WARNING TO PARENTS There were a number of persons summoned before the Leominster County Justices on Fri- day for not sending their children to school regularly . In each case it was stated that the defendant had not been summoned before . Ald . H. F. Russell , as a member of the School Attendance Committee did not adjudi . In ordinary times the fair distribution of mittees for breaking up , and in some counties cate in these cases but with the permission of meat supplies is effected through the normal the surveys were not yet completed . the Chairman he made a statement which was operation of the market , but when maximum a warning to parents as to the sending of their prices aro in force and the Army is buying in just over two million acres of grass over and Board aimed at securing the ploughing up of children to school regularly . He said that many districts , it is necessary to take special above the 1916 area , and of that amount about NOVELIST . " the school attendance in the county had been measures . To meet this emergency Great 300,000 had been already ploughed up by the so abominably bad that the Committee had Britain has been divided into nineteen live beginning of June . decided to deal more strictly with the cases stock control areas , under the control No later figures were reported to them . com- available . At the present time they missioners , who will have the avice and assist- task depended largely on the weather and on The full accomplishment of the were only having a grant of £ 450 from the ance of local advisory committees , consisting the supplies of labour and tractor fuel . Government , that was owing to the very bad of representatives of the meat trade , auction- attendances . If the attendances were better eers and farmers . Mr. King asked if the facts in the right hon . they would probably get double that amount A new census of live stock will be taken of the Prime Minister that next year this gentleman's possession justified the expectation of the grant . They were the worst county in in order to determine the quota that should country would be , as far as food went , self- the country and that was why the School At- be furnished by each to meet the supporting . tendance Committee was going to take action national requirements . The commissioners in every case and they hoped to get the sup- will see that the quota is forthcoming , and a large addition made to the food supply of Mr. Prothero said he hoped there would be port of the magistrates . will control the live stock auctioneers , cattle the country , but how far the country ex- Collins and a Nor does he area Court , the Magistrates present being : Major their areas . The following were the cases before the dealers , and wholesale butchers operating in cept with strict economy , could be made self- Chambers ( in the chair ) , Mr. G. E. Wright and Mr. J. R. Hill.c supporting in so short a time he was not in a the commis - position to say , nature of their Asked what steps the Government were taking to assist the farmers in regard to the supply of labour , Mr. Prothero replied : The Government are taking a great many steps to obvious that the recent development in the assist them . I think that it must be quite military situation may render the supply somewhat precarious at the present moment . THE CASE FOR ALLOTMENTS . " Turgenev , " by E. Garnett . temperatures decrease drunkenness to the ex- hemming the latter , of course . In this way Sons , 6s . ( Obtainable at the Leominster Print- tent of 40 per cent . The increased tendency the sheet will probably last for a considering Company ) . to dissipate probably results from an attempt able time . A book with a Foreword " by Conrad , 11 to seek forgetfulness from gloomy feeling in When the sheet is too far gone to be any chapters by Mr. E. Garnett in his best mood alcoholic narcosis , or from an attempt to arti- longer serviceable there may yet be certain and a master of literature as central figure ficially elevate the body temperature by pieces of it sufficiently sound to be turned to gives promise of interest , which is fulfilled indulgence in drink . Dark days exert a account as pillow - cases . on every page . It is not a biography , but a In the same way tablecloths that are partly criticism by an admirer of one , in his opin- particularly sinister influence upon working people . One factory head has ventured the injured by wear or the wash can be put up ion , who has received too little recognition . opinion that a disagreeable day yields about to serve the purpose of sideboard cloths or Mr. Garnett is undoubtedly piqued , and com- mencing to write in that spirit , his first chap 10 per cent . less in labour returns than an tray cloths . During human labour the The careful wife will make it rule ter is less an apology for his hero than an agreeable day . Lord Rhondda recently met chemical products of activity are greatly aug- attack on the " Critics and detractors . " He sioners and explained the treats them in a manner that reminds us amount of carbon dioxide and repair such linen as needs mending . Any linen in which she detects a flaw when little of Byron in his Henry Bowkett was summoned for not send- duties and the importance which he attached " English bards and given off during a day of work is nearly twice He trusted that they would as much as during a day of rest . The bodily in use should , at the end of a week , be cast Scotch reviewers . " But this obliges him to ing his son Cyril regularly to Brimfield School . to their work . Defendant did not appear . William aside to be rough - dried and mended . Fresh , prove Turgenev's high merit . waste R. be able to reach the necessary degree of or- products from muscular activity are Thomas , School Attendance Officer , said that ganisation by persuasion . be fail to make good his point and will as surely the child was 11 years of age , and the attend- of such vital importance he would not hesi- But in a matter more injurious on dark days than on bright starched damask should not , of course , days . It is believed that a smoky atmosphere repaired while in its clean , stiff state , nor win him many admirers , as Ruskin did for Order tate to use compulsion . must seriously effect the success of any sur- should sheets from the linen cupboard be Turner . Indeed , it can be said that his bril- ances had been 19 out of a possible 38 . gical operation when so much depends upon mended while fresh , as in this way they liant criticism will link Turgenev with Tol- made . Minnie Hughes , summoned in respect of operative technique and cleanliness . The food would be crumpled and creased before use . stoi and Dostoevski , as Lockhart is classed value of fruits and vegetables is undoubtedly Old sheets very badly torn do not repay one with Boswell . Throughout , emphasis is laid Ethel , aged 9 years , who had made 23 attend- MORE PRAISE FOR WOMEN . lessened when they are grown in a smoke for the mending . To patch them in one place on this novelist's art . And artist he was , if ances out of a possible 38 at Brimfield School , Not only do the smoke clouds only means that they will give way in another . tested merely by the extracts given here from did not appear . Order made . ridden region . Half a dozen strong unsolicited testimonials limit the available sunshine , but they coat Sound cuttings from old damask , if un- his numerous works . Mr. Garnett contends Edith Rogers , also of Brimfield , did not from Norfolk farmers who are employing the leaves with tarry substances that check starched , will make very good teacloths and that few equal him in truly conveying to appear in respect to May , aged 10 , the attend- women to work with live stock or on land their growth . others what he saw of men and the impres- ances being 31 out of 38 . The presence of free acids in glasscloths for the pantry . Order made . operations or in milking , were read at the the smoky air tends to lower the vitality of sions the world made upon him . " Boundless Edward Smith , Brimfield , said he had kept last meeting of the Norfolk labour Sub - Com- Before the war in many districts there was the plant , and these same acids falling on cosmopolitan interests , a broad , sane , fertile his two children at home to pick up potatoes . mittee . As with the soldiers , so with the a large amount of prejudice amongst farmers the soil limit the activity of the soil organ- MISSING AFTER VISIT TO SHROPSHIRE . go far in the making of an artist . We should blackberries he had a right to keep his at home tire change of attitude on the part of the agri- feeling has disappeared during the past couple mind and a most generous and tender heart " He thought if other children went picking women ; experience has brought an almost en- against allotments . Broadly speaking that isms , principally those of nitrification . for a more useful purpose . At Hampstead a woman applied for assist- say he approaches Pre - Raphaelism and has a The children culturists generally - experience and the arrival of years , and the chief adverse critics of the ance in trying to trace her daughter , Florence purity of style which Henry James scarcely were Edward , aged 12 , and John , aged 10 , the of a better type of labour in both classes allotment movement to - day are the green- It is commonly supposed that explosion is Elsie Childs , 19 years of age . She had been surpasses . Such qualities save literature from attendances having been 28 and 34 respectively than was originally to be had . Between 140 grocers . However , here and there an isolated out of a possible 38 . but a rapid burning of a chemical compound . spending a few days with the parents of her sinking to journalism , but they also too often and 150 trained volunteer women have been instance of the old prejudice is brought to We are Sudden combustion may be explosion , writes young man ( a soldier ) in Shropshire , and prohibit the worship of the crowd . The Chairman said there was no excuse for placed with farmers in Norfolk and only 7 light . One of the Food Production Depart- children of this age not attending and if the C. H. Clandy in the " Scientific American . " should have returned home on November 6th . not surprised that Turgenev seldom figures in per cent . of these have failed to give satis- ment's Commissioners this week mentions that Many explosives ignite and burn harmlessly She did not do so , but sent a postcard headed lending libraries , but will be , if with an in- defendant came before them again he would faction . 5,553 women are , according to the the agent of a large estate in the east mid- which , hit with a hammer , will tear anything " Reading , " but posted at Hammersmith , in creasing number whose praise is a tribute , he be fined heavily . An order was made . returns , now at work on the land in the lands expressed his opinion that the allot- to pieces in the immediate vicinity . Gun- which she said she had been ill but was bet- does not become a favourite . Jonathan Hall , Middleton , was summoned in County of Norfolk ; the full number is prob- ment development was a mistake , alike fróm . powder which explodes by rapid combustion ter . She was very nervous and easily led The growing interest of Russia to the West respect of Ernest , aged 10 , whose attendances ably well over 6,000 . It will be seen from the local and the national points of view . If -is no longer even the prototype of explosive . and the suggestion was that the postcard was is likely to turn many to her novelists , not had been 30 out of 38. Defendant said that these figures what a notable contribution the land had to be taken for the production of So wonderful when first discovered , it is now written in the train under a threat , and the least to Tugeney ; for his novels are the child was very delicate and it was four women of the country are making to the agri - food , he said , the food should be grown for readable and almost as instructive of his miles to the school along the road . a back number , out of date , a very pigmy , girl had been decoyed to London . Across cultural labour supply . Neither they nor un- the people in a wholesale fashion and not in compared to some of its " high " nation as the bland history of Stepniak . We the fields it was 23 miles and a very bad skilled soldiers can really take the place of a piece - meal way by individual householders have heard of learned societies making even There was one footbridge which was the highly skilled labourers who have joined in this case the applicants for land were a nation their study , we take the liberty to very dangerous , only about 8 inches wide and the army ; but the reports from all the counties miners . Curiously enough , on the same day a recommend him to any who study Russia . 6 feet long , and the water was frequently over show that whilst a great many more middle complaint was received by the same Commis- the top of it , It was not a public footpath all class women might very well be assisting in sioner from a purely agricultural district that . the way . this important work the amount of woman . a certain large farmer could not market his The Chairman said it appeared that the dis- labour now efficiently engaged in Food Pro- cauliflowers owing to the shortage of railway the Bench could not make an order , but they trucks . The two cases bear directly upon one tance was over the prescribed distance and duction is by no means contemptible . another . Apart from the social and hygenic advantages of allotment holding , especially in or around towns , this movement represents an hoped defendant would send the child as often enormous national advantage in that it pro- duces food on the spot ( or close to the spot ) where it is to be consumed . It is estimated WHAT IS AN EXPLOSION ? relatives . Even its rate of burning is no more a marvel . How fast a compound will explode is im- portant . All explosives require confinement ACTION OF DYNAMITE . GOING ONE BETTER . to bed I just lean out of the window and call more day have thrown the oppressors , as they seem to have checked the imperialism of a concert an inspiration , while him road . as he could . Defendant said he would do so . The Chairman said that in the north parents FOOD PROBLEM . CHEAPER OATMEAL . Auctioneer , Valuer , Land Agent , to be effective , just as a blow requires some- An American and a Highlander were one day He will tell them more than where that coun- and Surveyor . thing solid to land upon to do damage . The on the top of a Scotch mountain , when the try is . His Russia is that of Nicholas I. , PROPERTY and TIMBER SPECIALIST , most vicious uppercut will not hurt a chin in Scotsman , wishing to impress the boastful who had strength to do good , but would not , MORTGAGE BROKER , VALUER and ARBI- front of which there is a pillow .. Similarly " cousin , " effected a famous echo . When and of Nicholas II . , who was too weak to do What those two reigns TRATOR under the Agricultural Holdings gunpowder , which , ineffective as it is , may the echo returned clearly after nearly four the good he wished . Act , 1908. REPORTS , RECORDS and SUR- yet be terribly destructive when set off in con- minutes the proud Scotsman , turning to the meant to the people in the underlying fact VEYS carefully and personally attended to . finement , will go up in a harmless puff of visitor , exclaimed , " There , mon , ye canna ' in his fiction . Some of his characters repre- HOTEL and PUBLIC HOUSE VALUER . smoke if ignited in a little pile on the ground . hae anything like that in your country ! " To sent the shaping of movements which in our which the other replied , " I guess we can VALUATIONS for ESTATE DUTY , MORT- better that some , stranger . Why , when I go of nations . Repressed peoples will draw from frequently had extra boots and stockings for GAGE , ASSESSMENT APPEALS , & c . autocrats would the children to change on their arrival at the maximum retail prices from Nov. 26th , ments of the country have yielded about one By an Order issued on Wednesday night , that this year the town and suburban allot- out Time to get up ! ' and eight hours after - find in him a warning . But in it all there is school if they had a bad road to walk over . for oatmeal , rolled oats , flaked oats , or other million tons of vegetable food . PERIODICAL SALES of PROPERTIES . wards the echo comes back and wakes me ! " No great He thought that idea could be carried out in like products , will in Scotland , Northumber- effort of the imagination is required to Prompt settlements in all cases . the master of literature , who tells his tale well and manipulates the varied passions and ESTABLISHMENT 1880 . Westmorland , what an important saving in transit must Minnie Phillips , Leysters , did not appear in Lancashire , Yorkshire and Cheshire be 2s . for have been effected . and , Durham , Cumberland , affairs of life in a way that , will gain him a Offices : widening response from the public whose taste respect of her daughter aged 13 years who every 7lb . , or 34d . per lb. for less quantities , potatoes which is causing the Ministry of Food The present " glut " of Croftmead , Kingsland , Herefordshire . is above the vulgar . Mr. Garnett has written had only made 26 attendances out of a possible while in all other parts of the United Kingdom some trouble it is pointed out by the Food Leominster Office Corn Square . Order made . the effect he desires . an arresting book , which is likely to have 40 at Pudleston School .. the prices will be 2s . 3d . and 4d . respectively . Production Department , is a farm " glut " FAILING TO KEEP REGISTER . The maximum price for oat - flour will in all and not an allotment It is caused glut . " GEO . ELLIOT LEE . Mrs. Kevill Davies , Highwood , Bircher , was cases be d . per lb. more . No extra charge mainly by transport difficulties . Potatoes are charged with failing to post up a register of may be made for packages , delivery , or credit . comparatively dear in London and ✓ other her male and female employees on November The present prices are 5d . per lb. in Eng - cities , where allotments are small or few ; 3rd . P.C. Preece stated the facts which were land and 4 d . in Scotland . admitted . Mrs. Kevill Davies said she had B By Messrs . E. HAMMOND & SON . MR . O. BLITHERATED . But a piece of dynamite on the ground will blow a hole in the earth . From this has come the absurd belief that dynamite explodes only downwards . Any explosive acts with equal force in all directions . Unconfined , slow burn- ing gunpowder can push the air away fast enough to make room for its bulk of released gas , while dynamite changes from a solid to a gas so quickly that the inertia of the air is officer stopped him and said : " What's yer all the confinement it needs . Support a stick name ? " Ye'd bether try and find out , " " Shure , and I In Dublin a zealous policeman caught a van driver in the act of driving recklessly . of dynamite on the under side of a plank rest said the driver , peevishly . E. Hammond & Son damite on Auctioneers , Valuers , House , Estate , and Insurance Agents , Conduct all classes of SALES BY AUCTION VALUATIONS FOR PROBATE , Etc. , RENTS and BOOK DEBTS COLLECTED . Fersonal Attention , Prompt Settlements . The ing across two logs and this will be shattered will , " said the policeman , as he went round to as fully as if it rested on the ground with the side of the van where the name ought to have been painted , but the letters had been rubbed off . " Aha ! " said the officer . " Now Yer name seems to be oblitherated . " " You're ye'll git yersel ' into worse disgrace than ever . wrong ! " shouted the driver , triumphantly . PHENOMENON OF DETONATION . " " Tis O'Sullivan ! " Not all explosives are burning compounds or mixtures . There is the peculiar and not thoroughly understood phenomenon of detona- tion . The most common detonator is fulmin- ate of mercury . With one of two exceptions , it is the most vicious of all the compounds which go off at a blow . Its use is to fire the explosive which does the damage . In its own field it is supreme - not only in setting the larger giant to his task , but in telling him . " Next ! " how he shall do it . It makes much differ- some explosives whether they are ence to fired with a fulminate , which shocks them into whether heat alone inspires them action , or to work . Thus 15gr . of fulminate of mercury will start King Guncotton doing damage much much are more effectively than seventy times as ESTABLISHED 1881 . Offces : Highbury House , Leominster . FRUIT TREES . " Bear , " NICE DISHES . OXTAIL SOUP . One large or two small tails , one onion , half . a carrot , a bunch of herbs , a stick of celery , two quarts of cold water , two tablespoonfuls this district . £ 1,400 POTATO FINE . see they are cheaper where allotments are large and numerous . The consumer cannot get the potatoes which the farmer would be glad to it up when she had a boy of military age but she was afraid it had not been posted up since . Butcher , of Doddington , Cambs . , was fined in A potato merchant named George Thomas sell , which , however , he may have difficulty She was very sorry but she did not know it £ 1,400 at March for exceeding the maximum there may be to an extension of allotment was necessary . The case was dismissed . ford . storing soundly . Whatever objections < A QUESTION ON OWNERSHIP . econ Replying to Mrs. Kevill Davies , Alderman potato prices and failing to make a return of holdings from the point of view of the com- of mushroom ketchup , pepper , salt , and flour . Russell said that a copy of the register should sales . He was convicted on twenty - eight sum - mercial grower , the middle man or the retail MENAGERIE SQUAD . Cut up the tail into pieces about an inch Two other charges failed , and greengrocer , there is no objection whatever It need not be sent there a second nineteen were withdrawn by the prosecution . from the purely national , military , or A non - commissioned officer was reading the long , and at the largest end chop the pieces be posted to the Recruiting Office , at Here - monses . Roll each piece in flour time unless there was some change to record in two length - wise . names of a number of recruits . The solicitor who represented the Food Con - omical point of view .. " Your which has been slightly seasoned with pep- and it was necessary in that case to send an name ! " he snapped to the first . troller stated that the illegal profits made by " Fox . " per and salt , then fry a delicate brown in a Butcher in all the cases , including those with- amended copy . was the reply . The little batter or dripping ; afterwards fry an drawn , totalled £ 823 . CATTLE STRAYING . sergeant sniffed and glanced at the third . onion , peeled and cut in rings . Put these in- " Wolfe , " said the recruit , and his interrogator gredients in a stewpan with a small piece of BUTCHER FINED £ 50 . A shopkeeper recently lent his grandson Thomas L. Rogers , The Rock , Middleton - on- " And what do you carrot , a bunch of herbs , a stick of celery , the Hill , was summoned for allowing 5 cows gave him a sharp look . For contravening the Retail Meat Price enough money to purchase a motor - cycle . The call yourself ? " he asked a tall youth . " Lyon , " and two quarts of weak stock or water . Let to stray on the highway on October 28th . Order , Charles J. Stewart , butcher , of East money was to be paid back in instalments , the recruit responded , whereat the non - com . them simmer gently quite four hours , or un- Defendant said that the cattle were only on Sheen , was fined £ 50 at Mortlake at the in- the machine to remain the property of the threw down his pen and shouted to a private , til the meat will come from the bone on being the road about a quarter of an hour and it stance of the local Food Control Committee . made . One day while out riding the boy met grandfather until the last payment had been with good natured laughter , " Go and order touched with a fork . Skim all fat from the could not be helped . He sent the servant The evidence showed that defendant's man- We've been recruit- surface before serving , lay the meat in a girl to take the cows back to the field and ager charged 1s . 8d . per lb. for a half - shoulder his grandfather and jumped off his motor- The force of a detonator is enormous but some cages to be built ! tureen , add two teaspoonfuls of mushroom they jumped over a hedge into an orchard . of mutton , whereas the price fixed by the yale . " Say , grandfather , " said the boy , effective for but a short distance . Gunpow- ing from a menagerie ! " " who does this machine belong to ? " " It be- The girl came back to the house for help and schedule of the Committee was 18. 3d . per lb. longs to me until you have made the last der will explode , and propagate its explosion when he went with her the cattle were on Defendant admitted that he had given instruc- payment , you know . But why do you ask ? " the road and the policeman was there . tions that charges should be made according " Well , I just wanted to make sure , " remarked P.C. Powell stated that he watched the cows to a list which he had prepared , and the the boy , with a grin . " Your motor - cycle He Committee's schedule was to be disregarded . needs a new tyre . " then met the girl who said her instructions on the highway for a quarter of an hour . CORN SQUARE , LEOMINSTER . TESSRS . HAMMOND & SON Mirected by Mr. M. Morrow to Sell nitro - glycerine . Auction , on FRIDAY , NOVEMBER 23rd , 1917 , a quantity of his Selected Apple , Pear , Plum at a rate of from two to three metres a sec- and Damson Trees . These trees are grown ond up to an outside limit of 300 metres a by Mr. Morrow at his nurseries and can be second under the most favourable conditions . recomended as best sorts and true to name . Sale at 1.30 o'clock , THAT NICE LITTLE BOY . a second . Boil some ketchup to the soup , and pour over . A USEFUL PUDDING . small NEST OF CHOPS . Soak a teacupful of whole tapioca in two macaroni until nicely cooked , teacupfuls of milk overnight . Next day mix The fulminates have a minimum propagation then arrange it round a pie dish . Mince up with it one and a - half teacupful of chopped of about 8,000 metres a second . A metre is some fresh parsley and sprinkle all over the suet , one and a - half teacupful of medium or something over 3ft . A sixty - mile an hour ex- macaroni . Then fry some chops or cutlets , fine oatmeal , one teacupful of flour , two tea- press train goes 88ft . Imagine and when ready spread them with tomato eupfuls of sultans , halved raisins , or dates in 24,000ft . a second and you will know why a butter , which is made by boiling tomatoes , small pieces , a half teacupful of sugar , two The grocer was attending to his customers , very minute quantity of fulminate of mercury skinning them , and mashing the pulp with a teaspoonfuls of ground ginger , and a when a nice little boy approached the counter going off in your hand will carry a finger little butter , pepper and salt , and grated teaspoonful of salt . When it has stood for cheese , and bake the chops in the oven . about two hours stir in as much more milk and asked , in an innocent manner : " Have with it and yet not burn your coat . When quite cooked lay them in the nest as will just moisten the whole - usually about you any dry herrings , sir , if you please ? " formed by the macaroni ; sprinkle again with another teacupful . " Yes , my lad , " answered the grocer , looking Steam for about three The whole power of any explosion , whether grated cheese , put some small pieces of cook- hours . As the pudding is very light it down at the youngster .. you give them a drink ? " said the nice boy as sudden flying of certain chemicals into gas all in the oven before serving . said he won't it be a burning or a detonation - which is a ing butter on the top , and get nice and hot should be allowed to stand for a few minutes he fled . THE EXPLANATION , before being turned out . were to take the cattle out into the Orle Road and leave them there . Defendant came " I " WHO DEALT ? " BAKED EGGS WITH POTATOES . Joynley was describing a remarkable hand up and admitted that the statement made by Wash , pare , and boil a few potatoes , then he held at nap the previous evening . the girl was correct . drain thoroughly and mash . Mensure two stared at my cards , " he said , " and my good Nellie Jones , domestic servant , corroborated and one half breakfastcupfuls , then add two fortune was so extraordinary that I could the statement made by the defendant . She tablespoonfuls of butter , one - third cupful of scarcely believe my eyes . denied making the statement alleged by the hot milk , seasoning of salt , and pepper , and king , queen , jack and ten all of the ace , police officer . When she went back for as- beat together . Turn into a buttered gratin For a few moments there was an awed silence , sistance she could not find her master for or fireproof dish and make four cavities . which was eventually broken by a man seated about fifteen minutes and when they returned Drop a raw egg into each cavity and bake in in the far corner .. the cows were on the main road . " Who dealt ? " he asked a moderate oven until set . Garnish with small Supt . Rooke said he had received numerous quietly . pieces of parsley and serve hot . |