The Kington Times - October 1917
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Kington Times 13th October 1917 - Page 4
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| Date | 13/10/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 13th October 1917 |
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4 Saving for Victory Major Ward - Jackson's Stirring Appeal at Leominster . Enthusiastic Meeting at the Corn Exchange Hall . ing with his usual ability . Supporting him on the platform were Major C. L. Ward- Jackson , Mrs. Ward - Jackson , Major Chambers ( Hatfield Court ) , Alderman H. F. Russell , Councillor H. J. Southall , the Misses Saun- ders ( Marsh Court ) , Miss Urwick , the Rev. F. W. Worsey ( Vicar of Bodenham ) , Mr. W. St. G. Drennan , Councillor Dr. Robinson , Mr. S. R. Taylor , Mr. E. W. Jones , Mr. Francis Taylor , Alderman George Page , Mr. and Mrs. Hankinson , Mr. J. W. Palmer , Mrs. Smith , Mrs. Jarvis , Mr. F. Chandler , Miss Reichel , Mr. J. T. Bayley , Mr. E. King , Mr. J. Buf- ton , Mr. R. Hughes Rowlands , Councillor J. B. Dowding ( Secretary ) . He did not THE KINGTON TIMES . ever did - but he Mr. Worsey went on to remark that there was an old adage " Never meet trouble half way , " and if they met them in order to grouse over them the old saying was true , but if they met them in order to overcome them then by all means let them meet them half way . It seemed to him that there were two things which they ought to face as a nation , one a fact and the other OCTOBER 13 , 1917 . was FRIPP'S RIK ENGLISH ROSE File : Scan What is your Favourite Perfume ? You will find it to perfection - in one of the 21 charming varieties of FRIPP'S TOILET SOAP of Huns was stopped because they had to ex- the future , not only of this county , not only pend such a lot of ammunition and energy of the Empire , but of the whole human race , when they bumped up against a most un- for years to come depended on whether they comfortable shag in the British . Expeditionary made an end of the military rule of the mili- Force and although they nearly reached Paris tary clique in Germany ( applause ) . The feel- they had to recoil - did not that give them ing of lassitude and weariness which something to be proud about ( applause ) . abroad did not obtain only in this country , but Major Ward - Jackson went on to describe a in Germany where it was kept under by the competition between Highland regiments for iron hand of discipline . If this war was to smartness of turn - out on regimental guard and be brought to a successful conclusion it de- how the smartest man in the winners , the pended on the iron will and bull - dog tenacity Black Watch , was a man wearing glasses . of the individual Britisher . He wanted each This was the new army . They had in the one to feel in their own conscience that their new army the same fine material that they duty was so clear that they would respond to had in the old regular army . They were a the demand and subscribe all they could to magnificent lot of fellows , who knew how to the necessary expenses of the war . They conduct themselves like gentlemen and how to knew that what he said was correct . He did fight like demons and these were the men he not want to harry their feelings by giving a was asking them to help ( loud applause ) . description of what German militarism meant . In calling upon the Rev. F. W. Worsey , They had heard it suggested that there was no Vicar of Bodenham , to address the meeting , end to thie war . Surely in Leominster they the Chairman referred in terms of high praise ought to know . They were one of the oldest to the work of Mr. Worsey in his parish in boroughs in England . They received their encouraging food production . oharter from the daughter of the Queen who The need and patriotic duty of continued they had only to put out their hands in the ruled at time when England came through MR . WORSEY AND FOOD ECONOMY . and increasing economy in order to assist the air and grab five pound notes . a very similar crisis in her history . At that country in this great crisis were forcefully know , but he did not think there would be The Rev. F. W. Worsey said they would all time the Empire of Spain , under Phillip brought home to a well attended meeting at such a great boom . Think of the disintegra- agree with him that in these days one voice II . was trying to rule the seas and to put the Corn Exchange Hall on Friday evening by tion , the disorganisation that had taken from the front was worth a hundred other the whole world under the domination of the a stirring speech from Major C. L. Ward - place . Major Ward - Jackson emphasised his voices ( Hear , hear ) . To him fell the pleasant military clique in Spain . Their situation then Jackson , who was on leave from France . The remark by an illustration showing how men duty of proposing an enthusiastic vote of was even more critical than to - day . The same gathering had been convened by the War Sav- in the Army ceased to be producers of wealth thanks to the gallant major for coming to thing happened a century later when Louis ings Committee , the arrangements having been and became consumers , and were paid by the address the meeting that night ( applause ) . By XIV . tried to bring Europe under the same admirably made by the Secretary , Mr. J. B. taxpayer to destroy everything they could see his presence there he had roused them to a control . Then an ancestor of Mr. Winston Dowding . Great regret was felt at the ab- in the way of enemy life and property . Then truer sense of their duty at home by linking Churchill , the Duke of Marlborough , finished sence of the Mayor ( Alderman H. Gosling ) , they must realise that the war was a luxury , them with those scenes of strife and endur- up a campaign which lasted two generations but the necessity was fully recognised . Coun- although it was the gravest necessity the ance , where duty and sacrifice were every and in Belgium and Holland a number of cillor John Watkins again made had ever seen . a capable world If either of them man's watchwords , and heroism was the battles were fought very near to where great deputy , and as Chairman conducted the meet- wanted something expensive , a motor - car , B order of the day ( applause ) . He knew battles were being fought to - day . That ended piano , a new brand of cigarettes , or a costume , that the major would not like him what did they do ? to again in the British people saving Europe . Those who were bad at dwell oll the personal note - no soldier Again a hundred years later it was their ten- finance bought a thing without having the would only say that acity and determination to uphold the prin- money to pay for it , but if they were sound . they could not thank him and repay him and ciples of liberty that enabled the people of prudent and wise persons they saved in order those like him for all they were doing for this country under every discouragement to to be able to afford the luxury which they them . For the moment they could show their fight a great campaign of 25 years , ending desired . That was the country's position . battle of Waterloo , when they They had to win this war , it was a necessity , gratitude in the best way by earnestly giving with the their attention to the subject which the humbled the power of Napoleon . On two sep- and in order to win it they had to obtain the meeting was called to consider . arate occasions they tried to make a com- luxury of beating the Germans , and in order promise . They made a peace which was not a to get that they had to save for it . peace and the war broke out again . They In order to show the expensiveness of war , would only get a satisfactory peace when Major Ward - Jackson mentioned a few prac Germany was absolutely humbled and con- tical points which he said would appeal to the vinced that militarism would not pay ( ap- ladies . The time a man's clothes and boots plause ) . Continuing , Councillor Southall ap lasted him in peace time was an eternity com- CHAIRMAN'S APPEAL .. pealed to his audience to search their con- pared to the short time a man's clothes lasted Addressing a large and representative audi- him in France . These things had to be paid sciences and see if they were doing all they question . The fact was could . He heard people finding fault with ence the Chairman intimated that he presided for . They had to remember that the that they were confronted with a serious world this and that statesman . Individual statesmen in the absence of the Mayor , who was not suffi- who was out there was doing it for them and shortage of food and the question was , were had made mistakes . He sometimes wondered ciently recovered to resume entirely his pub- that they had sent him out . It was the deci we adequately conserving our national resour if the critics could do better themselves , but lic duties . They would have been most de- sion of a free people that they should triumpi ces and were we sufficiently restricting our lighted to have seen him present . over the militarism which existed among their consumption of essential food - stuffs and regu- He re- at any rate they all agreed that their men marked that after the news that had come enemies and it was the worst policy in the lating our expenditure of money . were splendid ( applause ) . Were they sup- through that day they the citizens of the world if they wanted these fellows to finish thing was to make it a purely personal matter . The main porting them and doing all they could to help the cause of freedom , the cause of liberty , Borough were not disheartened ( applause ) . their work quickly to stint them of anything . It was necessary for each one to find out ex- Victory was coming , perhaps it might be com- The more they stinted themselves of luxuries , actly what was wanted and what each one able thing when they came to read a speech the cause of anti - militarism . It was a remark- The the more they were prudent and wise in e- ing slowly , but it was coming surely . could do to help . For a man whose pocket by a Boer gentleman who only a few years Deputy Mayor went on to say that Leominster gard to the spending of money and the more was well lined to tell his poorer neighbours ago was fighting a clean and strenuous battle . had done well in the past in many things , but they lent to the Government their savings , what they ought to eat and drink and how he thought it was quite possible to do better the sooner - and he guaranteed this as a fact in South Africa against them . If his speech not sound the future . like the speech of They were met that the sooner will they have those men back with much they should put in the money box , did savoured of impertinence ( Hear , hear ) . They Englishman night to stimulate the work of the War them again ( applause ) . These fellows he had never read one . did not want that sort of thing . These were General Savings Association . They had , was he be- from every part of the Empire . Before th Smuts converted by the grave days and every man , woman and child old British habit of beating a lieved , 500 members in the town , chiefly war no doubt they looked upon Empire , Im throughout the Empire must for himself and then shaking hands with him ( applause ) . The man and school children , thanks to the efforts of perial policy and Imperial tariffs as a sort of herself face the situation , learn the remedy Mr. Bayley and Mr. Drennan . But what , nebulous dream which somebody might one and set to work according to his or her abil- the English in their management of other Germans would never be able to compete with he asked , was 500 out of a population fine day explain to them . But they had an ity to apply it . As showing the reality of a nations . He felt that their will must be of over 5,000 . Those Associations were not object lesson in front of them in that way only for the school children , but also to pro- which they were not likely to forget and statements by Sir John Foster Fraser , Mr. timate finish . They had their grand children world shortage of food the speaker quoted unanimous to carry this fight out to its legi- vide a way for the man of small means to which it would be criminal to forget . They help his country at this time . In making an had seen the farthest parts of the Empire send - Sidney Webb , and returns of the yield of the United States who had joined in , and cereals in France and other countries . Be he had read a speech by a man whose father earnest appeal for economy the Chairman ex - ing their sons to France , and going throu was a German and who was one of the lead- claimed that if they wasted anything they all the terrors , the horrors , the beastliness hind these statements lay the fact , none could afford to ignore , of the seriousness ing financiers in the United States . That man were supporting Germany , while every shill- and discomfort of the life which their soldiers of the coming world's shortage of food , the spoke They had come from threatened world famine . ing they saved was an extra nail in the lived in the trenches . strongly than he ( the How could it be speaker ) had done that night , and he finished coffin of their enemies . He appealed to the the far ends of the earth to stand shoulder citizens of that loyal old borough to back up to shoulder with their own fine men . They otherwise when millions of the food producers up with a quotation from some those who were giving their lives for them . had got to keep these nations going , and le of the world were engaged no longer in pro- He hoped victory would shortly come and he did not mind whether they paid the money ducing , but in consuming and in killing each other . He asked them not to take him for a would ask what were they fighting for . For back or not , but it was their business to ge " dismal Jimmy . " He liked to sound a victory ? Yes . He did not believe that they them through ( applause ) . If they did not save would have any sort of peace until they had money and give all that the country expected cheerful note on all occasions , but they must it- " It is not for glory or for riches or for But he believed that of them , that was all they could afford , the not blind themselves to the duty of trying to honour that we fight , but for liberty alone mittee was held on Saturday evening at the the producers the Committee would be open a crushing victory . avert an avoidable disaster . Quoting Sir their lads were fighting , not for the honour William Robertson's opinion that our progress of being soldiers , but they were fighting for was sure subject to the condition that those at humanity at large . They were fighting for home did their full share , that they did not generations yet unborn so that they might lack either material or men , and further tha once and for all smash up this hellish and LEOMINSTER . the resources of the nation in general are dastardly militarism of Germany . The writ- The Chairman then called upon Mr. J. T. ing was on the wall , " This shall not be . " In Bayley , who explained the formation and pro- 1910 , as they had seen in the telegrams which passed between the Kaiser and the Czar , go over the top who loathed the trenches , who brought them from the food shortage to the gress of the Association in connection the Leominster Primitive Methodist Sunday they might have had war then . In future the detested cold , who hated bully beef and wa question as to whether they were making he He first remarked that it was four Were they School . democracy of the world was coming to its disgusted with scalding stuff called tea and most of our national resources . own and it would be impossible for these men who waited till the last minute before the tick preparing for the hard times , the lean year's years since Major Ward - Jackson attended their retailers of milk in the town , asked him if They were not pressing the tradesmen of the to thrust great masses of their fellows to kill of the clock when he had to run across the that were approaching ? They must not for- chapel , accompanying Mr. Watkins as Mayor , that several of the towns of the country had the Orders relating to their trade , remember- in man came were acting against their conscience , against the Empire and against their boys . which Major Ward - Jackson went on to give a bri ! liant description of scenes at the front and of the conditions under which our men are meeting the enemy . He asked if they ha ever realised - those who were not soldiers - utilised for the purposes of the successful prosecution of the war , he said that this what motive power it was that made a ma a even more an memorable words that were used in the Parliament of Scotland 400 years ago that so exactly summed up the feelings that he had in his mind that he ventured to end his speech with that no good ( applause ) . man loses without his life " WORK OF ASSOCIATIONS IN with their congratulations Prepared from the purest materials Fripp's Toilet Soap yields a creamy lather of delightful fragrance_soothing to the skin and truly beneficial to the complexion . The 21 charming varieties include : Apple Blossom Bonnie Brae Carnation Cassia Honeysuckle Jersey Buttermilk Jessamy Bride Meadow Sweet Cucumber Cream Mignon English Rose Gwalia Old Brown Windsor Rosemary Sweet Lavender Sweet Pea Verbena Violet Scented Oatmeal Wallflower Wild Thyme Wood Violet In dainty boxes of 12 tablets 2/9 . Single tablets 3d . each . Sold generally ly Grocers , Chemists and Stores . CHRISTR . THOMAS & BROB . LTU .. BRISTOL SUCCESSORS TO SAMUEL FRIPP , ESTABLISHED 1745 . F. 15 LEOMINSTER FOOD CONTROL COMMITTEE . PRICE OF MILK FIXED . RETAILERS ' PROPOSAL OF 6d . ACCEPTED .. Mr. Turner said the increased price had already commenced from the previous Monday . Councillor Southall asked the retailer's f they knew that they had fixed a lower price at Shrewsbury . Mr. Turner said the milk had been 6d . in some towns for the last 12 months . few After the retailers had retired , for a minutes the Chairman informed them that MEAT PRICES . the Committee had considered their offer and FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS AWAITED . they thought that 6d . per quart retail until May 1st would be a fair price in a district A meeting of Leominster Food Control Com- like theirs . Should there be any trouble with Town Hall , when there were present : Alder to hear any grievances , as the Committee had man George Page ( in the chair ) , Councillors the power to deal with the producer . J. Watkins , H. J. Southall , J. Williams , J. The deputation then left , one member re- B. Dowding , Mrs. Jarvis , Messrs . T. J. marking That is very fair . " Enoch , C. A. Turner , E. King ; with the Execu- tive Officer and Clerk ( Mr. W. T. Sale ) and LISTS OF PRICES . Mr. C. O. Mapp . Councillor Southall asked the Clerk if he The Chairman said the first question which had heard anything with regard to tradesmen he wished to bring before the Committee was putting up lists of prices under various Or the price of milk . 80 . They an Inspector Mr. Turner , one of the ders . A great many had failed to do the Committce had fixed a price . He noticed town too hard , but tradesmen ought to get one another . Their lads were sacrificing them- ground to the other trenches , knowing that get that when the fight was finished their and they offered him In connection with their fixed a price for milk beyond which the re- selves and dying hourly for this thing to come any minute a bullet might stretch him dead ? economic , social and industrial problems would upon his promotion . about . Might God hasten the time when vic- The correct answer was " Esprit de corps . " call for all the grit and courage which they church they had a small Sunday School , the tailers and wholesalers were not allowed to go . ing that they were now law and there was a members of which were by no means wealthy Shrewsbury Food Control Committee had fixed severe penalty for any infringement . tory would be proclaimed and when the Em- A man found that the fellows on either side of possessed if their dear old country was to re- When the Government issued an appeal in the price of milk . They asked the retailers ought to let them understand that the Com- mittee had the power and duty to move in pire would continue as it did now to stand him were either going over or were hanging cover her strength and prosperity . Referring to the experiments in his parish connection with these associations the minis- to meet them and they offered them 6d . The order to see that the provisions of the law as firm as a rock ( applause ) . Referring to the back . If they were going forward he could ter handed the literature to him . They called retailers were not satisfied and wanted 7d . were strictly carried out . special speaker , Major Ward - Jackson , the not help following them , or if they were hang- in regard to the collection and disposal of a meeting of the teachers and decided to form The Committee then got certain facts , and " The Town Clerk said that surplus garden products , he said it was Chairman remarked that they read much of ing back he felt that he must not . It was a War Savings Association , which was regis figures and found the price averaged 5d . for the war , they saw the boys coming back and that spirit which had produced the prodigies small effort , but they might learn a few use- As Secretary tered on July 29th last year . On the first the quarter and they had fixed that as the went round with Mr. Budd and called atten- There was nothing on Their resolution had they had letters from them telling them dif- of valour of which they read . That was the ful lessons in checking waste . been sent to tion to certain things . ferent things , but they had one there that feeling which they should have at home in of the Garden Society he had paid to the Sunday they only took 1s . 4d . and there were price . night who had been engaged for a consider- regard to their duty . owner of a small cottage more than £ 2 , the several who had some doubt as to the stabil- Lord Rhondda and their action was approved . which a prosecution might have been taken cake , which was If they realised that ity of the Association . It was difficult to con- Councillor Southall said that if they went except a Nothing further would be able time in France and he was sure that what point of view he guaranteed that the country price of nuts , for which she never received a vince some that they had as security practic- Another old age pensioner on that basis in . Leominster the price would very flagrant . farthing before . he had to tell them would interest them . He would never ask them a single thing and be had raised enough money from her small par- ally the British Empire at the back of them Up to very recently 5d . heard of that , however , unless there was a répetition . trusted that his speech would have such an disappointed at the response . Major Ward- one child who invested 10d . and had been charged . Shrewsbury was in a good Mr. King made a complaint with regard to effect upon them that although they had been Jackson then referred to the marvellous vic- cels of surplus fruit and vegetables to pay for There was patriotic in the past they would be still more tory at Ypres , that cemetery and pit of all the winter's coal . These food stuffs were sup- then thought the security was so shaky that position as regards the milk trade . patriotic in the future ( applause ) . He had that was loathesome , disgusting , terrible and plying a need elsewhere and only showed what she demanded it back . In spite of this they a big scale if the thing continued to go on Sunday by Sunday and at tailers in Leominster were in a better posi- the butchers had a printed list of prices , but much pleasure in calling upon Major Ward- fearsome on the face of the globe , where they might be done on a piece of paper and not too well at that . Jackson and would ask the meeting to give had at last turned the tables on the enemy , could be properly organised , and if the great the present time they had purchased 129 certifi- tion to obtain milk direct from the farmers in the case of Mrs. Bright it was written on Councillor Watkins asked how long the him a hearty reception . who had held the pistol at their heads for gulf could be bridged over which separated cates and considering that the school was very and had no carriage to pay . At Shrewsbury from the supplies he needed . small and the children not wealthy he thought the farmer or wholesaler would have to pay present prices would remain in force because He described the situation at the consumer Ypres , commanded on the north - east , east , Individual effort was not enough and they they had really done their share . They had railway carriage and he thought the price of the cost of meat was now less than it was a MAJOR WARD - JACKSON'S SPEECH . the war . It had often been his wish to re- three years . come . a be less than that . Councillor Williams said he thought the re- urban case of sugar on one of the butchers in the town . Most of card . Loan . He supposed that his reputation upon he said it was impossible to give an idea of had helpers who had already been dubbed would have been saved . That morning he had There was the proviso that the Food Control - derstood Mr. King to say he was satisfied . Major Ward - Jackson , who was received with and south - east by low hills in the form of a needed State action , which he hoped would received just over £ 100 and the whole of that milk in Leominster , which was in the centre money had been spent in the purchase of of a grazing district , ought to be less than month ago . Councillor , Southall said that the Executive loud applause , after returning thanks for the horse shoe , from which the enemy had been War Savings Certificates . Explaining the ad- in a large town . kind reception he had been given , said it able to perceive every Referring to War Savings Certificates , he Councillor movement of troops . Officer had communicated with the District Southall asked if Councillor was the first visit he had paid to Leominster and so forth , so that there was hardly a liv- said that in Bodenham they had not advanced vantage of these Associations to those who a few pence per week , Mr. Mr. Rowlands had worked up a could only save Williams suggested that if milk was 54d . at Commissioner , Mr. Curtis , of Birmingham , and he had advised them to stay their hand in any public capacity since the beginning of ing thing which could move without having very far . a shell dropped on it . He spoke of the bravery healthy little society in the school which they Bayley explained that he had at present 17 Shrewsbury it should be 5d . here . Councillor Williams said it only stood to until further instructions were received from turn among them , at any rate every few of the artillery at Ypres in working continu- proposed to extend . to the whole parish . certificates in hand . Suppose next Sunday one of the scholars completed the purchase of a reason because the retailers got their milk the Central Office . Mr. King : In the meanwhile the butchers months . They knew what it was when a man ously over roads on which the Germans kept Through the schools every parish might soon are not staying their hand , people are pay- was on active service . His time was not his up a barrage at night . have A friend of his , a flourishing parochial war savings certificate they would issue to him a certifi- at first hand without extra expense . cate which perhaps might bear the date i Councillor Southall said the Order fixed the owi , hor did it belong to his constituency : battery commander , said he could not pos- society . He appealed to them all to help in price in an urban district at 7d . and later at ing high prices and are asking why it should It belonged to his country and he was told sibly have believed that men were ever born bringing home to the nation the fact that July 21st , bearing interest from that date . 8d . and in rural districts at 6d . and after- be . Proceeding , Mr. King said that a news- They were technically an paper report stated that he expressed himseif where he could go and what he could do . who could be so astonishingly brave , so mag- everything possible must be saved if we were Thus the children got the advantage of com- Proceeding , Major Ward - Jackson remarked nificent , so cool and so dashing as the men of to avert a national disaster . Leominster had bining their small subscriptions and in time wards 7d . they would really inspire the confidence of the district , but under a clause in the Order they as satisfied with the prices . He expressed him- self us satisfied with the character of the that some months ago he went round a few of his battery were in bringing up ammunition been highly honoured by the appointment of a distinguished son of the old borough as the children . Some people might say that if they had the power to fix a lower price if they the districts outside London and in the sub- night after night under the German barrage . an association the money thought the circumstances justified them . Councillor Southall remarked that he un- urbs speaking on the subject of the last War Referring to the preparations for an offensive new Director of Food Economy ( applause ) . He had not formed been through the register and he came to the ler should have the power to raise the price those few words which he addressed at dif- it . It meant the bringing up of millions of " Yappers . " Did they not think they wanted if representations were made that the price with the prices . ferent music halls and so forth had carried far rounds of ammunition under the enemy's ob a Yapper in every household , someone who conclusion that if they had not formed an as- Mr. King replied that he said he was dis- was too low . In the case of Shrewsbury the enough to reach the acute ears of his friend servation , the sending up of quantities of would keep an eye on the larder and on the sociation , £ 60 of that £ 100 would never have facts had been reported to the Food Control- satisfied with the prices and people were ask- Mr. Dowding and on the strength of that he aeroplanes to prevent the enemy watching money bag . He might appeal on the highest been saved at all . It showed that they really ler and the Committee had received his sanc- ing why wholesale prices had gone down and invited him down to speak to them on the them , the keeping of roads in repair , and the grounds to people's patriotism and they would did their duty in forming the association . tion to a fixed price of 5d . in that town . Of retail prices gone up . subject of War Savings . Before he dealt with bringing up of hundreds of guns from other say The Chairman said that they could only that surely that appeal was enough , Not only had they helped the country , but all places in England where milk could be that there was one pleasant little incident he places and getting them registered . Then the but there was a more effective appeal than they had encouraged the children to save He asked them to do this thing for money and he knew for a fact that in two produced and delivered at a low expense Leo- adjourn the matter . wished to refer to . He believed that in Leo- troops had to go through training on model that Councillor Watkins But the poor people cases where the children had for- minster was probably in the best position . minster like many other patriotic towns trenches specially constructed by the aid of the sake of the brave lads across the water The expenses were lower in the town of Leo- won't get their money back . The Chairman said he did not know how there was a fund raised for sending fruit and photographs taken of the enemy lines by aero- ( applause ) . He asked them to do it for their merly spent the money in sweets and useless vegetables to the Fleet- Curiously enough planes . Then the appointed time came , per- own brothers and sons so that when they had toys they had saved the money and to - day minster than even in supplying a country vil- The milk producers lived close to the they were going to get over it .. he had a little nephew who was often with haps six o'clock in the morning . A more or finished their present job they would not have some of them were holding two , three and lage . Councillor Southall said there were difficul- . That owed clearly that town and were able to deliver their milk at They could do four certificates . another tangle to clear up . them when they were at Shobdon Court . less heavy bombardment had been going on ties in the way of proceeding at present . very little expense . He was a midshipman on board H.M.S. Agin- for two or three days on a regular system , nothing better to help the men than by putt- there was real merit in these associations in enabling the children to help themselves by Mr. King said , they must consider what Mr. King : Yes and the longer we wait the court and the last letter that the kind people some guns firing at the German batteries , ing their national and domestic affairs in these small contributions and above all to changes had taken place this year that would greater they grow . The Clerk said he could not advise them fo who ran the fund received came from the others at the front lines and others behind apple pie order . Save food now to lessen the justify a rise in price . As far as he could | Captain of the Agincourt and he would have the lines . On the morning of the attack a pinch later , and collect a goodly number of help the country ( applause ) . The Chairman said he thought they owed gather there was plenty of keep on the fields make any alteration without going into the the greatest pleasure in sending his nephew bombardment broke out compared to which those certificates which would give them in debt of gratitude for and he did not think the conditions had butcher's books . Mr. Turner asked if a commissioner had a report ( applause ) . the most thunderous noise they could possibly full all they paid in and something substan- Major Ward - Jackson a his services and he might also include Mrs. changed to such an extent as to warrant an been to the town .. Coming to the subject of the meeting Major imagine was a joke . At the battle of Arras tial in addition . It was up to Leominster to Ward - Jackson , who constantly helped him increase in price at all . Ward - Jackson said he did not want to ad- his corps was 5 miles away , but the vibra- stand by her brave sons , to stand by them in when as Mayor he was appealing for various Councillor Southall observed that rent and dress a long sermon to them on the subject tion of the guns at 4 in the morning was such the lean years that would follow the war , rates had not increased . of high finance because he did not know much an awful thing that no one could lie in bed as they had stood by them in these terrible funds . The resolution was carried with loud ap- about it . They were not occupied with those and one's head rocked and reeled with the days of strife and bloodshed . In asking them subjects where he was quartered . There were , noise . This was the one thing the infantry to support an enthusiastic vote of thanks to plause and Major Ward - Jackson briefly re- behalf of himself and his however , a few simple facts that everybody liked . If we were making enough " bloom - the gallant major might he say that those turned thanks on could realise and once they had realised them ing noise " they were satisfied that we were present pledged themselves to do their ut- wife . a successful issue Mr. Drennan proposed a vote of thanks to their instincts and patriotism would over - ride doing something . As showing the terrific num- most to carry through to all other feelings on the subject . The gallant ber of shells required to protect the lives of the campaign of economy which was the ob- speaker went on to refer to the fact that our men , Major Ward - Jackson described the ject of that meeting ( applause ) . the cost of the war was five millions a day , " creeping barrage . " At the moment of the COUNCILLOR H. J. SOUTHALL AND WAR added to which there was the normal expendi- attack all the guns were directed on the ture of peace times , making a total of some- front line , the guns being gradually lifted as AIMS . or three A very successful meeting then concluded from their bargain . Alderman Page said that one had been to the confectioners and caterers , but not to the butchers . Councillor Southall said it appeared that the machinery was not yet in motion for test- He would be only ing the butcher's prices . see . Councillor Dowding : Is Mr. King express ing dissatisfaction with the price of meat ? Mr. King : Yes , I do . Councillor Dowding asked how long the tar- iff laid down would continue . The Clerk Only until you like to alter it . but you cannot alter it without some data . The Chairman proposed that the matter be adjourned to the next meeting . The discussion then dropped . Mr. Enoch said that if they fixed the price too low it was a question if they would get any milk when they could get 2s . 6d . and 2s . 9d . for their butter in Birmingham . The Chairman said his own feeling about too glad if Mr. King could suggest any prac that they should have 6d . tical way of dealing with the difficulty . Mr. King said that Lord Rhondda was ap- the Chairman for so kindly presiding at that the matter was meeting . Much as they missed Mr. Gosling , throughout the winter . they would not do anything that would injure Mr. Turner asked if they could not com- pointed Food Controller and he had appointed these Committees . He thought they should his health in any way , and in order that he pare that with Ludlow and Hereford , might recover and in order that the work of The Chairman said that in two towns of ask him to help them . The Chairman said the Clerk had already written to the District Commissioner and he thing like 2,000 millions per annum . He our men advanced , so protecting them from Councillor H. J. Southall seconded the the town might be carried on Mr. Watkins had similar size the price was 6d , for 3 months . Councillor Williams remarked that later on once more stepped into the breach . Mr. Wat- wanted them to realise that this was sup- hostile attack . In a recent battle the ground resolution and said they had had a most pleaskins was giving the town of his best and he there would be little grass keep and cows advised them to wait a little . posed to be an unmentionable sum before the was so atrociously bad that the men only ant evening and Major Ward - Jackson had He thought there . war . They knew that that sum very nearly covered 100 yards in eight minutes . This given them a remarkable account of what knew he had the welfare of the country and would have to be fed . of the county at heart . should be a difference between the price n w approached what was before the war the total would give them an idea of the huge expen- their men were going through over there , The resolution was carried by acclamation and the price in December . income of all the British subjects in the diture of shells . Mr. King said that if they fixed the pri - e Mentioning the latest form Proceeding , Councillor Southall said people and the Deputy Mayor replied , remarking United Kingdom . They would see that that of artillery attack , the were saying to themselves , why are we fight- that what little he did , he did with all his at " intense bombard- 6d . presently the expenses would be sort of thing could not carry them very far ment , " Major Ward - Jackson said he was giving ? He said without fear of contradiction heart . greater and they would want to be re'eased if ordinary revenue was all that was availing away no secret because by this time the that unless they had got a very good cause able to them now . They had and must have Germans knew more about it than we did indeed , a matter of life and death , men would Councillor Williams said he thought there should be a sliding scale . more . More must be found by everybody and ( laughter ) . From all this they could see that not allow this sort of thing to go on for with the singing of the National Anthem . everything than before . The whole matter everything possible was done to preserve the another second . They had got to the most It was decided to interview the retailers at might be summed up in this , we had to pay lives of their men , but they could see what critical stage of the war . Throughout the christening ceremony the this point , and Messrs . Smith , Turner , Davis The Committee afterwards proceeded to deat for the war ourselves . When they got Ger- it meant . Every time the people failed to thousands of millions of money . The world with applications for sugar , by confectioners many and her Allies beaten , as they had no Well , madam , " said he to the ( producer ) , entered the room . doubt but that they would ( applause ) , they put their hands in their pockets as they would never be the same again for many of baby smiled up beautifully into the clergy- and George ( retailers ) , and Mr. R. W. Farr should , they were doing these men out of them . They saw destruction of life , crippled man's face . The Chairman said they would like to hear and caterers , this business , being of a confi- would not have a " bob " to give them in the these shells which meant the saving of our men , all this going on throughout the world , young wife , " I must congratulate you on your what the retailers thought about the price of dential character . way of indemnity . They had destroyed whole men's lives . It was a serious thought and a an appalling condition of things in a genera- little one's behaviour . I have christened more districts in France and Belgium . Such des- serious responsibility . tion which they thought was a Christian gen- than 2,000 babies , but I never before christened milk in Leominster during the coming winter . Mr. Smith said they thought of charging 6d . The teacher was trying to instil a rudiment- olation and such misery was impossible to all through the winter to May 1st , when the Major Wand - Jackson went on to say that eration . Why were they fighting ? He quoted one that behaved so well as yours . " were turned out . They would then tary knowledge of Greek into the heads of conceive . One of these fine days Germany he would just like to call their attention to Mr. Winston Churchill as saying that it would young mother smiled demurely and said : his class . " His father and I , with a pail of water , have cows " Now , tell me , " he said , " Who would have to subscribe money to repair one matter in order that they might go home be an immesurable crime to carry on the war No answer .. " Come , come , the damage and by the time they had done feeling pleased with their country . He was for one day longer than it was necessary , but been practising on him for the last ten days . " lower the price to 5d . " Is he ? Mr. Farr said he wanted 1s . 5d . per gallon was Bacchus ! " that and paid a certain indemnity to Belgium not one of those who said that the Germans it would be an immeasurable blunder to stop " Sure , Mike's a lucky man ! " boys . Mars was the God of war , Venus the and satisfied in a small degree the damage were going to collapse and that it was going the war until they were sure that their ob- Why ? " " Cause he got insured for five hundelivered in Leominster . The Town Clerk asked if the retailers were goddess of love , and Bacchus the god of they had done to the shipping of the world to be over this winter , or in a few months . jects had been rendered certain ( applause ) . dred pounds , and the very nixt day he fell Bookmakers , " suggested a broken punter's there would not be much left in the way of There never was a tougher lot of scoundrels He was not a military man . The conditions off the ladder , paintin ' , and broke his neck . " sure of a supply of milk at the price , Mr. Smith said he thought there would be son . an indemnity . Therefore they had to realise than these Huns , but when they came to of his life his ancestors were wholly Mary : " Mebbe I'm ugly now , mum , but in that nobody would help them in paying for think that in 1914 they had only six divisions anti - military and that was one reason why he my day I've broken a great many hearts . " no difficulty . Councillor Southall said that some members Printed and published for the Proprietor by the war . People sometimes thought that after and that owing to inadequate staff only four felt the supreme necessity of bringing this war Mistress : " Well , Mary , if you handled the of the Committee thought that the old price the war there was a good time coming when were actually sent out and that that swarm to a satisfactory conclusion . He believed that hearts the way you do my best china , I believe might have remained a little longer . you . " They had spent The A. T. SOUTHALL , at his offices , 27 , Drapers Lane , Leominster . T VOL . XI . N SALES BY AU By Messrs . EDWARDS , BALDWIN . LEOMINSTER HORSE R NEXT S HEAVY and LIGHT H Leominster , Friday , November £ 46 IN PRIZ Entries Close Wednesda Class 1. - Cart Gelding or M or over 1st prize , 10 ; 2nd , Class 2. - Cart Gelding or Ma 1st prize , £ 10 ; 2nd , £ 3 ; 3rd , 3. - Cart Gelding or Ma Class 3 33 2nd , 2 ; 3rd , 1st prize , Class 4. - Mare or Gelding Saddle or Harness , realising over 1st prize , £ 3 ; 2nd , 2 ; FOALS . Class 5 - Cart Colt or Filly £ 3 ; 2nd , £ 2 ; 3rd , £ 1 . Early entries solicited .. Note . - All Farmers entering get a Permit to Sell from t County Agricultural Executive Auctioneers ' Offices , Leomin and Tenbury . LEOMINSTER STOCK TUESDAY , OCTOBER 23 AT Cattle and Sheep , 10.30 11.30 ; Store Cattle and Pi Entries kindly solicited . FAT EDWARDS , RUSSELL Leominster , Hereford and Ten FLINTSHAM COURT , T One mile from Titley Station , Kington and 4 miles from IDWARDS , RUSSELL & B Eoured with instruction Evan Jones ( who is giving up Sell by Auction , on THURSDAY , OCTOBER 2 Grand Registered K 425 SHEEP Promising Cart and Ha 105 Well - Bred HEREFORD 11 and COLTS , 13 Lots of Capital GRASS February 2nd.next ) . Fully described in Catalogues , had of Mr. R. P. MORRIS , Bridge ton ; or of the AUCTIONEERS , Leon ford and Tenbury . Luncheon ( by ticket ) at 11.30 . o'clock prompt . YARPOLE , HEREFORDS EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BA received instructions to Sell subject to Conditions of Sale , at Hotel , Leominster , on FRIDAY , OCTOBER 26th At 4 p .. Lot 1. - A FREEHOLD COTTA den , situate near the Cross Ro village of Yarpole , known HOUSE , " part of No. 424 on t Map . a Now in the occupation of Chamberlain at the annual rent The cottage conta paying rates . on the ground floor , and 2 and the upper floor . There is a brick furnace , Coalhouse and Pigs Stone built with slate roof . large and productive . TH Lot 2. - Three COTTAGES und WITH GARDENS ADJOINING , S village of Yarpole , being part of No Ordnance Map , in the respective o Mrs. Wild , Mrs. Thomas and M a total rent of £ 12 10s . per annum paying rates . The cottages are with lath and plaster and slate ro contains two rooms on the ground upstairs , with Pigs Cot and small O Lot 3. - A Piece of excellent ORCHARD , about 2r . 24p . , adjoini in the village of Yarpole , being No Ordnance Map , and in the occupa William Humphries , at the annual For further particulars apply LLOYD & SON , Solicitors , Leominste AUCTIONEERS , Leominster . WICKTON COURT FARM , STOR Four miles from Leominster ; 1 Ford Bridge Station and 1 miles Bridge Station . Ections from M EWARDS , RUSSELL & BALI $ . Vaughan , who is giving up th Sell by Auction , ou MONDAY , OCTOBER 29th , his excellent Herd of 106 Well - Bred HEREFORD 185 Healthy SHROPSHIRE S 17 WAGON MARES , COLTS 268 ACRES of Valuable G WINTER KEEP , in 10 Lots . Luncheon by ticket at 11 o'clock Sale at 12 o'clock prompt Auctioneers ' Offices : Leominster and Tenbury . CROFT GATE , STOKE PR Two miles from Leominst & BALD EDWARDS , RUSSEth instructio for Sale by Auction , from Mrs. ( who is leaving the neighbourhood THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 1st Live and Dead Farming Stock , Effects , 21 Acres of Grass Keep , e portion of the Household Furniture Utensils , 3 Dairy Cattle , 3 Wean Black Pony ( 4 years old ) , Bacon Pig , Car , 3 Ladies ' Cycles , etc. Sale at 12.30 prompt . Auctioneers ' Offices : Leominster , and Tenbury . " Algy , I want you to buy me a b am glad you are becoming literary , " Fudge . This article says one way a good carriage is to practice ba book on your head . " |