The Kington Times - September 1917
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Kington Times 29th September 1917 - Page 1
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| Date | 29/09/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 29th September 1917 |
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NO . 575. Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper SALES BY AUCTION . By Messrs . EDWARDS , RUSSELL and BALDWIN . LEOMINSTER HORSE REPOSITORY . FRIDAY , OCTOBER 5th , 1917 . SHOW and SALE . AUTUMN Gupwards of 200 home bred Wagon Geldings and Mares , Shire bred Golts and Filly Foals , Thoroughbreds , Hunters , Gunners , Harness and Saddle Horses , Welsh Cobs , Ponies and unbroken Colts . for transmission in the United Kingdom . SALES BY AUCTION . By Mr. R. H. GEORGE . " THE GREEN " FARM , SHIRLHEATH . Three - quarters of a mile from Kingsland Railway Station . SATURDAY , SEPT . 29 , 1917 . TRAINING SOLDIERS FOR THE LAND . com- MR . R. H. GEORGE is favoured with in- sent by the army authorities to Distribution structions from Mr. A. Bircher ( who is joining His Majesty's Forces ) to Sell by Auction , on THURSDAY , OCTOBER 11th , 1917 ( Kingsland Fair Day ) , The term " skilled " may represent a paratively small or a very large degree of capacity in any employment , and it notoriously does so where labour on the land is concerned . Many of the " skilled " men so - called being Centres for farm work in connection with the 1918 programme have little if any previous experience of agriculture . A large number of them ane considerable intelligence , men of however , and possess knowledge which should enable them quickly to be trained for various the whole of his Live and Dead Farming branches of work connected with the land . Stock , comprising 3 Cross - bred Cows ( in - calf ) , The Food Production Department therefore has made arrangements for the immediate years - old Bullock , pair of yearling Heifers , training of promising men ( 1 ) as tractor driv- 2 strong Store Pigs , about 10 couples of Fowls , rs ; ( 2 ) as steam plough or threshing tackle Implements and Tools , Poultry Houses and tural Executive Committees , the Steam Culti Dairy Utensils ( including Hathaway's Churn ) , men ; and ( 3 ) as horse ploughmen . Agricul mounted Harness , Casks , about 20 acres of ing Tackle owners , and other bodies or indi- Coops , 2 Spring Market Traps , Set of Brass - vation Development Association , the Thresh- Grass Keep , until the 25th December , etc. viduals interested , are being urged to operate promptly and systematically in making the scheme a success . The men on arriving at a Distribution Centre will Auction , Valuation and Estate Offices judges , and a selection made of those most be carefully examined by competent Croftmead , Kingsland . Judging at 9.30 a.m. Sale of Foals at Heifer and Calf , 2 two - years - old Heifers , two- 10.30 a.m. Other Horses at 12 noon . 4 and 3 years old .. PRIZES . 34 for 3 classes , Cart Gelding or Mare , 5 , £ 22 for 2 classes , Cart Colt or Filly Foals . £ 6 for Cart Colt or Filly Foal by " Lincoln Teamsman . ' £ 310s . for Cart Colt or Filly Foal by " Victor 21st . " £ 6 for Gelding or Mare suitable for saddle or harness . Entries close first post on Monday , Oct. 1st . Catalogues on application to the Auctioneers , EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN , Leominster . LEOMINSTER STOCK MARKET . TUESDAY , OCTOBER 9th , 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 . STONE HOUSE , DEERFOLD , BRAMPTON BRIAN . Three miles from Wigmore and six miles from Presteign . DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN have Ereceived instructions from Mr. C. T. Jarman ( who is giving up farming owing to ill - health ) to Sell by Auction , on SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 29th , 1917 , Improved RADNOR and KERRY HILL 97 SHEEP . 6. HEREFORD CATTLE , Half - bred MARE and FOAL , Yearling FILLY , Implements and the Winter and Grass Keep . Sale at 2.30 o'clock prompt . Auctioneers ' Offices : Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . YATTON COURT , AYMESTREY , Three miles from Kingsland Station and Seven miles from Leominster . MR Sale at 2 o'clock punctually . No Catalogues . LUSTON . 2 Miles from Leominster . R. R. H. GEORGE is favoured with in- structions from Mr. Thomas Jackson , who is giving up business , through ill - health , to Sell by Auction , on THURSDAY , OCTOBER 25th , 1917 . The whole of the STEAM SAWING PLANT , including 10 h.p. Steam Engine , Saw Benches , Corrugated Iron Sheds , a large quantity of Converted Timber , etc .; the CIDER - MAKING PLANT , including 6 h . p . Steam Engine , Cider Mill , Double Press , etc. , etc. Full particulars in due course . E. Hammond & Son , Auctioneers , Valuers , House , Estate , and Insurance Agents , Conduct all classes of SALES BY AUCTION VALUATIONS FOR PROBATE , Etc. , RENTS und BOOK DEBTS COLLECTED . Personal Attention , Prompt Settlements . ESTABLISHED 1881 . Offces : Highbury House , Leominster . By Messrs . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY . Entries for Catalogue close First Post Monday . 300 HORSES . £ 100 IN PRIZES . CRAVEN ARMS GREAT AUTUMNAL HORSE SALE . DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN are Also the Annual Show and Sale of Shire Mares , E instructed by Sapton Martin Unbroken Colts and Fillies and Sucking Foals . ( who is leaving ) to Sell by Auction , on THURSDAY , OCTOBER 4th 1917 , a quantity of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE , including Rosewood Drawing - room Suite , Birch Bedroom Bedsteads and Bedding , Wardrobes , Chest - of - Drawers , Carpets and Rugs , China Dinner Service ; also an excellent Wagonette ( with hood ) , Dog Cart , Pony Trap , Luggage Cart , Double and Single Harness , Horse Clothing ( in good condition ) , Boat , Double and Single Barrel Guns , Salmon and Trout Fishing Rods , Hay , Pheasant Coops , Chaffcutter , Corn Mill and other Out - Door Effects , etc. , described in catalogues to be had from the AUCTIONEERS , Leominster , Hereford and Fenbury , On View the day before Sale . Sale at 12 o'clock prompt . By Mr. R. H. GEORGE . 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 . HEREFORDSHIRE . PARISH OF KINGSLAND . MR . R. H. GEORGE will Sell by Auction , at the Royal Oak Hotel , Leominster , On FRIDAY , OCTOBER 5th , 1917 , at 3 o'clock in the afternoon punctually , sub- ject to Conditions of Sale , a highly desirable FREEHOLD FARM , known as " THE GREEN , " situate at Shirlheath , Kingsland , in the occupation of Mr. A. Bircher , consisting of Farm - House , capital Garden , convenient SATURDAY NEXT , OCTOBER 6th , 1917 . 120 DRAUGHT GELDINGS and MARES , 50 RIDE and DRIVE HORSES , COBS and PONIES , 40 SHIRE BRED and other BROOD MARES , and 1 , 2 & 3 year old COLTS and FILLIES , 50 SHIRE BRED and other SUCKING FOALS , including many of consider able merit by noted sires . Sale at 11.30 prompt . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY , Auctioneers : Craven Arms and Hereford . KINGTON . CO- suitable for training . Experiment has shown that although a soldier may not be a skilled farm hand , he may indeed have a very slight idea of land work at all , he can be turned into quite a competent steam or horse plough man or tractor driver in a reasonable period , if he is willing to learn and is of the right type . Not only is this true of men with some but of many men who joined the army front special skill in their ordinary civilian trade , the ranks of unskilled labour . The Food Production . Department . has is- tails of the scheme , which includes various sued to Agricultural Executive Committees de- courses at training schools or on farms under the tuition of practical experts . struction and practice the soldiers will be ex amined by other practical experts and certifi After in- cates of proficiency are to be issued to those who have qualified . The rates of pay a graduated to encourage enthusiastic applica tion to the task in hand , bonuses being granted as greater efficiency is attained . If a longer period of training seems desirable than the term originally allotted it will be given ; on the other hand , if , after a fair trial , a soldier is deemed incapable of becoming a really useful man he will be returned to the Distributing Centre . Free by post per quarter , ( 1s . 8d . , payable in advance . } STANDING THE TEST . manufactures . The first essential quality in an aeroplane is reliability and every maker strives to maintain this ideal in all his The lengthy list of our " Air Heroes denotes a confidence in the reliability of their machines which made those brilliant deeds possible . FEEDING OF HUNTERS . RATIONS OF OATS FOR REGISTERED HORSES . LIABLE TO BE " CALLED UP . " PRICE ONE PENNY . " Ross " footwear " stands the test " hundreds of thousands of our boots and shoes are rendering good service under exceptional conditions to - day and the increasing demand for our goods strengthens our faith in their reliability . You don't realise the meaning of REAL SATISFACTION till you wear a » boot . Ross " Then you GET it !! ROSS & SON , High Street , KINGTON MONDAY NICHT'S AIR RAID . FURTHER DETAILS . MANY INTERESTING INCIDENTS . order . man the loud REMARKABLE ESCAPE . was Perhaps the most remarkable escape that of a short terrace of small tenement houses in close proximity to a Roman Catholic The threshing tackle of the country remains in the hands of individual owners , and soldiers the North Herefordshire Hunt , has received given . He shouted to those in his vicinity . to In one street where à bomb fell one convent . An aerial torpedo struck the top- Captain E. L. A. Heygate , Acting Master of was in his office when notice of the raid was will be supplied to them for training so that a letter from Lord Leconfield , Chairman of the lie flat , which they wisely did , like himself . railway porter , most part of the gable end of the cottage . At that time the tenant of the house , an aged their tackle may be kept fully manned , and M.F.H. Association , enclosing a communication Immediately afterwards there was was asleep in the kitchen no machine need remain idle for want of its from the Ministry of Food on the rationing of report of the bursting bomb . Upon investiga- gable end the outer covering and the propeller downstairs . His wife was in a neighbour's full complement of capable labour . Threshing horses used in hunting . house close by . When the torpedo struck the tackle owners in need of skilled men are urged that oats may only be fed to hunting horses office , of very thick plate glass , had been shat - wrong ! It will be noticed tion he discovered that the window of his to communicate at once with the Food Produs on condition that they are suitable for mili- tered . A boy was in the middle of giving an Th deadly missile pursued its tion Department with a view to the prompt tary service and are liable to be called up by order when the bomb fell . The youngster was course through the wall just at the point allotment of the necessary number of soldiers the Army Remount Dept. at any moment . The thrown on his back . But he quickly recovered where it joined the roof . to be trained . There is no doubt that it would be a gitat our readers , are as follows - letters , which will doubtless interest many of and upon regaining his feet completed his tackle were to arrange to travel a gang of bridge , London , S.W.1 . , convenience to farmers if owners of threshing M.F.H. Association , Tattersalls , Knights- MANSION HOUSE " DUG - OUT . " four or five soldiers with each threshing Dear Sir , -The Rationing of Horses has been of the Sept. 20th , 1917 . machine from farm to farm so as to avoid transferred to the Committee on the Utiliza - warning was received of the air raid he was The Lord Mayor stated to a representative the serious dislocation which otherwise must tion and Feeding of Horses , and I append a entertaining two bishops and two priests at " Daily Telegraph " that when the occur owing to hands having to be taken from copy of a letter received from that Committee dinner . He immediately summoned the whole their ordinary work on the arrival of the which slightly modifies the arrangements set of his staff , and they and his guests and him out in my last letter of Augus 15th . You will self proceeded to the vaults below , observe that Masters and Acting Masters are made an admirable " which now required to register their own and ser- dug - out . " " Before I vants ' horses , and those of their followers and Mayor , " I went to the exits of the Mansion went underground , " remarked the Lord sent you by the Hon . Sec . , Mr. Rawlence , free for any person who desired to seek shelter in- subscribers in a book , a copy of which will be House , and ordered the doors to be left open be the Master's list , and of the two certifiserted , and nobody came into the Mansion of charge . The counterfoil of this book will side the building , but the streets were cates attached to each form , one will be re- House at all . ” turned by you to the owner and will be his authority for rationing his horses , and other you must send to the Secretary of the tackle . the WHY NOT GROW RYE ? Food Production leaflet No. 10 deals with " The Cultivation of Rye as a Grain Crop . " In recent years the area of rye grown in Eng- land and Wales has been comparatively insig- nificant ( about 50,000 acres ) , though formerly it was , next to wheat , the chief grain crop ; in North European countries it is still by far the most important bread crop . reason for the decline of rye in this country was the preference shown by most people for perfectly white bread , though the introduction of the Norfolk four course rotation ( which celled , and you will be entitled now to put on made it possible to grow barley , Joats even wheat on comparatively poor light soils ) and your hunt servants . and your list as many as you require for yourself a contributing factor . I remain , yours With the excep- faithfully , Leconfield , Chairman . tion of wheat , rye is the grain most suitable for milling purposes , and a considerable in- tion and Feeding of Horses , 7 , Whitehall Gar- Ministry of Food , Committee on the Utiliza- crease in the area devoted to this crop on dens , London , S.W.1 . , September 14th , 1917 . On such soils My Lord , -I am directed by the Minister of rye is the most productive and safeet of grain Food to say that it is intended to allow an crops , and it can be satisfactorily grown with oats ration of 6lbs . per day until the 31st very little manure ( an important consideration of October , and 10lbs . per day for the rest of when supplies of manure are so limited ) . the season , for hunting horses of subscribers was THE GREAT AUTUMNAL STORE CATTLE poor light soils is called for . AND SHEEP SALE , combined with the Annual COLT AND SUCKER SALE , will take place on FRIDAY , OCTOBER 12th , 1917 . £ 8 in PRIZES for SUCKERS . Two - years - old and Yearling BULLOCKS . £ 10 in PRIZES for the Best Bunches Early Entries will oblige . COMPARATIVELY LITTLE DAMAGE . de- The chief above Committee at 7 , London , S.W.1 . The form of License sent to damage was done by the enemy airmen , while A tour of the metropolis on Tuesday morn- Whitehall Gardens , ing revealed the fact that comparatively little you by Captain Llewellyn authorising you to the number of casualties is small considering keep a specified number of hunt horses is can- the character of the invasion and the length of time that London , was under bombardment . Not a single case was treated at one large hospital ; at another , where preparations had at a third institution the two patients detained precautions happily proved unnecessary , while been made for the réception of the injured , the there were reported to be proceeding favour- ably towards recovery . Two patients admitted in a fourth hospital have succumbed . and followers , under the following conditions , WISDOM OF TAKING COVER . official advice to " Take cover " is afforded in Illustration of the wisdom of acting on the KING . FROM TURIN TO LONDON . ITALIAN AVIATOR RECEIVED BY THE Italian aviator who flew from Turin to London Buckingham Palace In Captain the Marquis Guilio Laureate , the on Monday , was received by the King at Wednesday morning , and handed to his Majesty an autograph let- ter from the King of Italy . His Majesty . re- ceived the aviator very cordially . SUGAR FOR MEN ON LEAVE . SPECIAL PROVISION FOR THE TRAVELLER . NEW SCHEME FOR TEA CONTROL . provisions will be made , under the sugar The Food Controller announces that special distribution scheme , for Persons transferring their residence from one district to another over a period of not less than four weeks . Persons regularly travelling or otherwise needing special provisions to enable theni to obtain their sugar . The classes for which such special provisions will be made include soldiers and sailors on leave , soldiers in billets and on farm furlough , commer- cial travellers , theatrical and variety com- panies , boatmen , bargemen , lightermen , fishermen and crews of coasting vessels , caravan dwellers , fruit and hop - pickers , etc. will be made to persons ordinarily provided It should be noted that no special allowances In order to ensure an adequate supply of seed for the increased area which is antici- viz . : -The horses must be between the ages of the case of a woman - living on the outskirts of pated , the sale of sound undamaged rye except 4 and 12 years ( both inclusive ) , regularly London at a spot some distance away from for seed has been prohibited up to January hunted , sound and suitable for military service the nearest anti - aircraft gun brought into for through hotels , boading - houses , and other of securing seed should apply to the Agricul- horses , or ( c ) artillery riding horses ; such seeing nothing , but listening to the dull sound Any farmer having difficulty in as ( a ) officers ' chargers ( b ) , cavalry troop action . The woman was standing at her door , establishments , for which special arrangements JACKSON & MCCARTNEY , Auctioneers : Craven Arms , Hereford and Kington . KINGSLAND Horse Slaughtering YARD . The only place where animals can be dis- Buildings , and 20 Acres , 1 Rood , 9 Perches ( or sected within 14 miles of Leominster . HEREFORDSHIRE . H. J. Pritchard 1st , 1918 . to have already been made . tural Executive Committee for his Anyone in doubt as to the suitability of a par- Committee of a recognised pack . of hounds or county . horses being the property of ( 1 ) the Master or ticular sample for seed should communicate ( 2 ) recognised followers subscribing to or living and the woman fainted . of firing , when suddenly she was struck on The sugar cards do not come into force until with the Food Production Department , 72 , within the limits of the Hunt . It will not of her assistance , and afterwards she was taken the arm . Blood quickly flowed from the cut , December 30 , and full instructions will be Victoria Street , London , S.W.1 . , from whom course be in order for a subscriber or follower to a doctor . Neighbours ran issued to local Food Committees to enable them to deal with the cases also advice as to the cultivation of the crop referred to in can be obtained . to place his horses on the list of more than weighing five to six ounces , was found by the classes mentioned are not prevented from ob- Subsequently a piece of shell such a way as to ensure that persons of the one Master . The horses must be registered by doorstep on which she had been standing . the Master or his authorised deputy , who shall taining sugar after that date . notify the owners of the horses and the Com- mittee on the Utilization and Feeding of Horses , 7 , Whitehall Gardens , London , S.W.1 . , in one of the suburbs . A constable had just A moving and pathetic sight was witnessed of such registration . The method of registra - cycled up the High Street bearing the warn- book , containing a counterfoil and two certifi- ing " Take tion could very properly take the form of a FRUIT GROWERS AND MILITARY SERVICE . EMBRACED IN OMNIBUS . SHORTAGE IN LONDON . others customers who usually purchase was impossible to get any tea at all , and in In many parts of London on Saturday it pound were only able to obtain two ounces . a No reason for the shortage was given beyond . that " it was not procurable . " SOLDIER'S WILL FRAUDS . Some consternation was caused recently in cover . " Immediately seven or the big fruit growing districts by the state- cates , one to be sent to the owner and the eight men , women and children jumped on to ment that , although an arrangement had been other to my Committee . It is understood that an empty passing omnibus with the intention entered into under which no man engaged horses so registered are liable to be called up of reaching the Tube terminus and taking shel- whole - time on a farm or on agricultural work by the Army , Remount Department at any ter there : They all huddled into one corner could be posted for service , with the Colours , moment . Proper records must be kept by the of the omnibus , stooped down on their knees except with the consent of the County Agri- owner , of the oats , maize , beans , and peas , or and embraced one another till the terminus cultural Executive Committee , this arrange other cereal foodstuffs fed to such horses . was reached . Arrested on a warrant , Emily E. Herbert , of ment did not include men employed on a These records are at all reasonable times to Poulton , Fairford , Glos . , was charged at Bow market garden for the production of flowers be open to the inspection of an Officer of Street with attempting to obtain 5 12s . 6d . or fruit . Police , or any person authorised by the Food red feet away from where A Canadian soldier who was about a hund- from the War Office by fraud . Abel Herbert , The matter being brought to the notice of Controller . I shall be glad to hear from you had the sleeve of his tunic completely torn France , and the War Office notified his mother a bomb dropped of the Gloucestershire Regiment , was killed in the Food Production Department , the War as soon as possible as to what horses it is off . It had been taken off as neatly as if t Office was approached at once . As a result an desired to hunt with your pack under these had been snipped off with scissors ( he said ) . ing his wishes with regard to money due to that if he had not left a will any letter giv- explanatory instruction has been issued to the conditions , together with Local Military Authorities to the effect that addresses of their owners . Hunt Horses the names and " My arm was not injured in any way . Not him should be sent to them . Emily Herbert , SPRAYED v . UNSPRAYED . PLOTS . or a LOST SLEEVE OF HIS TUNIC . lodged , forwarded a genuine letter from him with a postscript , which she admitted having FIGHTING IN THE AIR . written , that she was to have all belonging to At one point the hostile flotilla was encoun- him . This , she said , was what Abel had told tered by a flight of our own aviators , and a her . Mr. Graham Campbell , the magistrate , fierce battle took place in the sky . The firing said the offence was becoming so frequent that is described by an eye - witness as terrific , the as a punishment to her and a warning to explosions from the land batteries vying with others he sent her to prison for two months the rapid machine - gun fire of our airmen , in the second division . So vigorous was our attack that at several points on the coast the raiders were diverted from their course and driven across unfamiliar ground . MUCH DAMAGE BY ONE SHELL WOMAN'S IMPUDENT THEFTS . Margaret Jessie Cannon , a young married In one district the bomb struck the roof of woman , was sentenced to twelve months ' hard obtaining various the intention of the War Office was only to those belonging to the Master shall be per- even scratched . I have looked everywhere for a sister - in - law with whom the soldier had exclude from the arrangement mentioned above mitted to have a 6lbs ration up to October 1st , my sleeve and cannot find it . " thereabouts ) of excellent Pasture Land and any men engaged in the production of luxury and a 10lbs ration afterwards as previously Pasture Orchards , well supplied with water fruit , such as grapes , peaches , etc. Ordinary arranged , and will of course be registered and adjoining the main road . fruit growers ' fears should be set at rest by This letter modifies slightly but does not Vacant possession can be given on the 25th the knowledge that the Army Council recog- alter the effective operation of the arrange- December next . nises the importance of the common home - ments set out in your letter of August last . Further particulars may be obtained from Is now living at BROOMY HILL FARM , grown fruits and the jams made therefrom , I am , my Lord , Your obedient Servant , C. the Auctioneer , Croftmead , Kingsland , Here- KINGSLAND . Letters and telegrams sent to not only for soldiers , but for the civilian Roland Woods , Secretary of the Committee on fordshire ; or from HAROLD EASTON , Esq . , the Yard would be dealt with promptly . population as well . the Utilization and Feeding of Horses . It should be clearly understood now by all Solicitor , Leominster . Horse Slaughtering , Etc. concerned that the War Office realises that a man whole - time employed on a large holding The only Horse Slaughtering License in in the production of fruit for jam is doing North Herefordshire is now held by H. J work that warrants his being protected by his Pritchard who intends to carry on this County Agricultural Executive Committee Business in a satisfactory manner to all con- from posting for service with the Colours . cerned . Similarly , a man engaged in producing from a Reports sent to the Food Production Depart- a small shop and house in a working - class dis- labour at Liverpool for market garden vegetables and other crops of ment show that at Guildford sprayed plots trict , crashed through , taking three floors with sums of money by false pretences from an amount and character to constitute yielded 25 per cent , greater crop than it , and exploded . un- Furniture , brickwork , and Majesty's Government . Prisoner stole ring " national importance " will not be taken out sprayed ; and at Salisbury 24 sprayed plant . debris were thrown into the air . The house papers belonging to other women , and by forg- of the arrangement simply because a portion gave 120lbs as against 96lbs from 24 unsprayed itself was destroyed , and only the shop re- ing their names drew the separation allowance of the garden is devoted to jam fruit or be plants . A Devon report says tubers from mained . All the windows in the neighbour from the Post Office . The prosecution was cause part of the holding is an orchard . sprayed plants were distinctly larger " than hood were smashed , and dozens of chimney- instituted by the West Lancashire Terri- from unsprayed . Other Devon reports and pots were torn off . It seemed incredible that torial Association , whose solicitor stated that Reports from Essex , Hereford , and elsewhere one bomb could have caused so much devasta- there were over 80,000 dependents of soldiers confirm the theory that even where spraying tion . Clothing was blown from the houses on in Liverpool alone who were paid through the MILK DEALERS ' WARNING . less likely to occur after spraying , and out- does not entirely prevent disease infection is to the telegraph wires , and some of the wires Post Office , and the prisoner's action in des- themselves were blown down . troying the ring papers after she had ob- breaks of disease are checked . tained the money entailed great trouble . The MOTHER AND TWIN BABIES . magistrate characterised the case as the worst Wriitng from a north - east coast town a cor- of the kind which had come to his notice . 1tspondent states : A workhouse infirmary was slightly dam- PARISH OF YARPOLE . Freehold Cottage , Garden and Pasture Orchard , with valuable Common Rights . MR . R. H. GEORGE Wife , Dominster , R. R. H. GEORGE will Sell by Auction , 111 On FRIDAY , OCTOBER 5th , 1917 , at 3 o'clock in the afternoon punctually ( subject to Conditions of Sale ) , a substantially built Stone Cottage , called " Woodend Cot- All Carcases paid for in cash before removal . Letters and Telegrams : 33 , Bargates , Leo- minster , or Broomy Hill , Kingsland . MARROWS CANNOT BE REGARDED AS FRUIT . PROSECUTIONS TO FOLLOW ANY ATTEMPTS TO OVERCHARGE . No , for sir . " Weary inmates were uninjured . Sitting on a sofa in aged , several windows being broken . The aged one of the houses where a torpedo fell was at LIFE FOR A HAT . his tage , " containing 4 rooms ; with Outbuildings " The Ministry of Food has sent word to and well - planted Orchard adjoining , numbered me that under the Sugar ( Domestic Preserving ) 97 on the Ordnance Map and containing Order 1917 , marrows cannot be regarded as about 1 rood , 28 perches , in the occupation of fruit , " stated Mr. G. F. Allwood , the Wolver- Mr. William Vale , and adjoining lands of hampton Food and Drug Inspector , at the Lord Rhondda has issued a warning with Weary Traveller ( at a railway station on a Mrs. O'Conor and Theodore Neild , Esq . Local Police Court on Wednesday when prose respect to the new Milk Order that farmers north - country line ) : " Is there a cemetery cuting Elizabeth Withers , of Cartrifle , Elm and others obtaining or paying higher prices here ? " Porter : The occupation of the premises gives a right Street , Bilston , for having acquired and re- than those provided for will be prosecuted . traveller : " Then where do you bury the peo- te very valuable rights of Common on Order . It was stated that the defendant asked offenders be imprisoned without the option of Bircher Common , which is only a few yards for 2881b . of sugar to make 360lb . of jam , and a fine . was supplied with 2431b . Defendant had only The new Order provides for uniform maxi- " Now , Willie Brown , for example , if you passage . The ceiling was brought down and Woodford , on Saturday evening , had gone on Further particulars may be obtained from one tree bearing fruit . She told the inspector mum prices rather than definite increases over were sitting in an electric car , every seat oc- the mother and the child were flung to the the line to rescue the hat of a fellow . woman the AUCTIONEER , Kingsland , Herefordshire ; or that she had preserved three vegetable marrows , the prevailing pre - war prices , as in previous cupied , and an old lady entered , what would floor but escaped serious injury , but a young , passenger . from MESSRS . WEYMAN & Co. , Solicitors , Lud- each weighing 16lbs . - Defendant was fined 40s . Orders . In future there can be no excuse you do ? " Tommy : " Please , sir , I would woman in another part of the house was badly While returning with the hat she tripped with the hat sh pretend I was sleepin ' . " cut on the head by falling glass . on the metals , and was run over by an incoming train . The hat was found to be untouched . A young woman , named Baynes , of Matchem- woman nursing a twin baby , the other child road , Leytonstone , who was killed on the to , the privileges of Lucton School and there ceived sugar contrary to the provisions of that In flagrant cases , the Crown will urge.that ple who die when waiting manners ) : being held by another woman whos at in the Great Eastern Railway at George - lane Station , distant . ietor by Drapers low . on each of two charges . for breaches of the Order . trains ? " Teacher ( instructing class on |