Ross Gazette 15th October 1914 - Page 5
Ross Gazette 15th October 1914 - Page 5
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| Date | 15/10/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 15th October 1914 |
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DE LUXE . S for 1914-15 . be seen , as all the most exclusive ength with full skirts , some of the rds ound at the foot . Such Furs as e finest of Russian Foals trimmed Thite and Black Fox , Skunk , Natural and , while for less expensive wear Skunk Opossum , Natural clear grey opular . ad , if desired , from skins selected by at on request to intending purchasers . ticulars . owersby ( LIMITED ) lace , Ross . QUALITY , FOR VALUE . for 1915 in Prices . n of all types , as mentioned ipment , except in the case of € 105 € 115 - € 115 € 118 € 120 € 120 £ 120 € 125 € 175 at special demand . These will be and exists . n runs given , by the Sole District ALL , Ltd. , Body Builders , ARAGE , ROSS . CENTURY . rewery Co. S , ( LIMITED ) S , AND MINERAI , ACTURERS . AND STOUT EY MALT AND HOPS . on application . p , the manurial residue is considerably eased . an On the lighter and more hungry greater even proportion of the ease in value is likely to be returned by root crop . " • THE USE OF ACORNS . ais question is again receiving considera on account of the general abundance of fruits . After making some very exhaustive yees of decorticated acorns , one authority to the conclusion that acorn meal proves ost valuable food for horses and cattle an as for animals . In their green , unripe acorns have an acrid , disagreeable an , but when fully matured and of a brown ar the decorticated kernel possesses eable , nut - like , and slightly bitter flavour . bushel of acorns weighs about 50lb . , and d . per bushel represents £ 1 per ton , h , it is suggested , is a very small cost for aluable , feeding material every 100lb . of h contains 86-21b . of very nutritious , ly digested food and only 13 81b . of in- stible husk . In Inct , 9d . per bushel ld be a very reasonable price for so valu- a feeding material . the acorns are dried , the kernels shrink the husks crack so that the respective ons can be fairly completely separated sifting after roughly crushing . As the partially cooked food , it will is a much longer than raw of losing in condition . acorns without mediate Cash Advances . LONDON AND PROVINCES DISCOUNT COMPANY , Ltd. , eminently he leading establishment of ind in the ' ngdom - lend large sums of ey daily to 11 classes Among the ad- ages offered the Company , the follow- deserve attention : - No preliminary ges whatever ; the despatch with which nces are completed ; the low rates of rest charged ; the system of small repay ts extending over a period . - Address all ications ( in the strictest confidence ) to Manager , W. SHIRLEY , 48 , STOKES OFT . BRISTOL ; or to local agent , Mr. RNEY , 101 , East Street , Hereford . ted and Published for the " Ross Gazette , " Limited , by GODFREY M. MORTON , at their Offices , High - street and Church - street , Ross , in the County of Hereford . THURSDAY , OCTOBER 15 , 1914 . SECOND SHEET Telephone- , Ross . ADDRESSES . HERBERT B. MEW , Telegrams Barrel , Boss BARREL BREWERY , BRILLIANT ALES ROSS . NOURISHING STOUT . These Ales and Stonte give great satisfaction to those who enjoy a brilliant Beer , with delicate palate , and full of life . This is accounted for by the fine quality of the materials employed , the delicious flavour and aroma of selected Hops being very noticeable . A.E. Light Ale .... per gall , 10d . Light Dinner Ale - Half - pinte , per dos . 1/6 1 / - Pints 19 F.A. Recommended for family use G.A. Sparkling Bitter Ale P.A. Very High Clans 95 1/4 Nutritious Stout - Half - pinte " " 1/9 1/4 Pinte Oatmeal Stout , for Invalids Half - pinta Pinta XX.8 . ( Double ) Nutritions Stout X.X.X.S. ( Treble ) Nutritious Stout ( Recommended for Invalids ) . Casks of 4 , 9 , 18 , 88 , and 54 Gallons . Home - brewed GINGER BEER , GINGER " 1 STOUT , and LEMONADE , 1 / - per gallon , jars or 6 - gallon casks , in 1 , 3 , and B - gallon Stone Ginger Beer , in Screw - stoppered Bottles , 1 / - per dozen . THE ROSS GAZETTE THURSDAY , OCTOBER 15 , 1914 . The Ross Gazette . THURSDAY , OCTOBER 15th , 1914 Ross Rural Parish Council . Herefordshire County Council . WOUNDED Ross MAN'S EXPERIENCE AT THE FRONT . PTE . FLEETWOOD IN THE BATTLES OF MONS AND AISNE . Mr. F. S. Collins ( Chairman ) presided over the meeting of the Ross Parish Council , held FEWER CHILDREN AT SCHOOL at Union Offices , on Friday evening , Other members present were Mr. J. Bailey , Mr. GUY'S HOSPITAL REFUSE TO SELE NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS . Davies , Mr. Smith , Mr. Phillips , Mr. H. Llewellyn , with Mr. H. W. Awre ( Clerk ) . LAND The absence of Mr. H. Drew was apolo at the quarterly meeting of the Hereford- Col. Prescott Decie presided on Saturday gised for . shire County Council , Alderman James The CHAIRMAN extended a cordial wel- Corner being in the vice - chair , and there was come to Mr. Davies as a Councillor . He was a good attendance of members , though some an old friend who for 19 years had come there in another capacity , as their esteemed are serving their country with their regi - soldiers who have actually been in the thick hay rick , hoisted the Red Cross fing , and BY OUR LONDON COREPONDENT We do not hold ourselves responsible for all she opinions expressed by the able writer of these notes The news from Paris towards the end of last week , intimating that the battle line had entended nearly to the North Sea , was generally inerpreted as meaning that Ant- Clerk , but now they welcomed him as a Councillor . Mr. DAVIES thanked the Council , saying 1/6 werp would not be allowed to fall without he had always taken it would be a great big effort on the part of the Allies to save work of the Council , and 1/6 this crowning disaster to gallant little Bel - pleasure to him to be of all the assistance 3/6 gium . Unhappily , the effort has not suc- he could in the future . Certain it is that no country has ceeded . 1/9 suffered more than Belgium to preserve her B / -liberties and her independence as a state among states ; not even the Netherlands of old in the days of the Spanish Fury ; and no sovereign of the sturdy House of Orange not even our own Dutch William - has ever Bass's and Worthington's Ale and Guinness's Stout stancy of purpose than King Albert . As for shown greater personal courage and con- his consort , Queen Elizabeth , a princess Bav- arian by birth , it , is said that in Brussels on more than one occasion the Bavarians have come to blows with the Prussians because of the insults heaped upon her by the North German " apostles of culture . " At the close of the eighteenth century , when we were at war with the Revolution , there was a lot of confused fighting among the sand dunes fown Bottling ) supplied at moderate prioca . Familiesand Private Customers supplied with High - class Wines and Spirits . ESTABLISHED 1790 TELEPHONE 89 . T. W. PURCHAS & SONS , WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS , ROSS , IMPORTERS OF FOREIGN WINES AND SPIRITS . Special Blend of Finest Old BOOTCH WHISKY , G.G. Very Fine Old IRISH WHISKY Good Sound CLARET , in excellent condition ... " EE Per Dozen . 49 / - 49 / - 16 / - And other very Fine Clarets , up to 60 / - per dozen . BOTTLERS OF PALE ALE AND STOUT . ] WHEAT EACH PACKET WHEAT AGENTS : THE BEST and CHEAPEST DRESSING for BEED is D. CLARKE'S CARBOLIZED WHEAT PROTECTOR , Which has been thoroughly tested during the past 70 seasons , and found to be a certain preventive of SMUT IN WHEAT , BARLEY , OATS , & C . , And an effectual safeguard against the attacks of ROOKS , BIRDS , GAME , And other FARM PESTS . BOLE PROPRIETOR AND MANUFACTUREB , SOWING DRESSES 8 which stretch from Dunkirk to Ostend . as acute an attack of megalomania , or , in blunt English , swelled - headedness , as the " " When the war began , a host of Teuton announced the change of Englishmen unmistakably German to less obvious and more British appellations . But unless they have accompanied this rather flattering transformation by renouncing allegiance to BUSHELS . the Kaiser , the new Aliens ' Restriction Order , which comes into force this week , compels them to resume their discarded sur names . How many more " British subjects " will be added to the population by this means remains to be seen ; hut there are still a large number of small London traders , es- pecially in the Soho region and in the East End , who , being over military , age , simply painted out the suggestive designation over their shops , and substituted another . Under the Order quoted , they will have to restore their patronymics . SOWING G. B. CLARKE , WOBURN SANDS , BEDS . ROSS HEREFORD J. H. HART , Chemist ; A. PORTER , Chemist . J. BENJAMIN , Chemist . STANLEY A. SHACKLETON , Chemist , Widemarsh - street . DENTISTRY . Mr. LLEWELLYN thought it would be better to appoint a Parish Councillor . with the money in the past . Mr. BAILEY asked what had been done The CHAIRMAN said the money had been spent in providing prizes for the scholars at the Council Schools . should continue to be spent in that manner , Mr. BAILEY said he thought the money and not for the Secondary School . Mr. LLEWELLYN agreed . evening . AGRICULTURAL MATTERS . ments . The Council decided to pay half the salar- ies of the officials and clerks serving in the Army , and keep their places open for them . Among these are Mr. . A. Watkins , local taxation officer , receiving £ 250 per annum , and Mr. T. H. Matty , in the education office , receiving £ 110 . There were also several school teachers whose places will only be filled temporarily . RATES FOR THE HALF - YEAR . THE GERMANS DIRTY WORK IN ACTION . The Germans are absolu- The experiences of some of our wounded took the men and often laid them behind a of the fights against the Germans is most while the men were laying there they set interesting reading , and this week our the rick on fire , and it was soon in full representative had the opportunity of having flames . The whole country around presented Scots Guards one of the first regiments to Large fields of corn were trampled down a chat with Pte . E. Fleetwood , of the 1st nothing but a mass of ruins and devastation . land in France whose home is at Hom and destroyed ; villages were " amash- Green , Ross , and who , unfortunately was ed up and looted , the Germans taking a wounded in the thigh during the battle of great liking to looting wine cellars and pro- Aisne , and is now at home on convalescent vision stores ; as a matter of fact the Ger- AND OBJECTION TO THE BRITISH FOREIGN SCHOOL CHARITY SCHEME furlough . mans took almost everything they could lay The CHAIRMAN said they had received In the course of conversation it transpired their hands on , and treated the civilians , a draft of the proposed scheme of the British The Finance Committee reported that the that Pte . Fleetwood , who is a reservist , was especially the women and children , in and Foreign School Charity for their con- rates to be levied during the half - year would a member of the Glamorganshire constabu- a horrible manner . sideration , to see whether any alterations or be as follows : A special purpose rate of 7d . lary at the time of the outbreak of the war . took them prisoners they were cowards when beaten , and when we proved of by the Urban District Council . In total of 1s . Id . , which with the Is . Id . levied the Tower of London , and in the early part told us how they had had to feed on the additions were necessary . It had been ap- and a general purpose rate of 6d . , making a He was called up to rejoin his regiment at tely starving for the want of food , and they former years there was a very good school in the first half of the year made a total of of August they left England for France , roots in the fields whenever they came across known as the British and Foreign School , but 2s . 2d . for the year . The rates for the prev- After a deal of travelling , said Pte . Fleet them . The Germans certainly did not like after the Elementary Education Act of 1870 , ious year were 28. 31d . wood , our first engagement was in the Battle the school / became unnecessary , and the edu The expenditure on the Road Board work , of Mons , and it would be really impossible to surrender at first , for they were always cation was carried on at what are now the due partly to the increased prices in labour to give anything like an actual description in fear and trembling as to how they would Council Schools . The building was sold for and material , and partly through the work of what a life and death struggle it was . be treated when captured , but when once in the hands of the English , they always seem- the sum of £ 316 176. 4d . , which amount was being pressed forward and the more expen - There were a great number of men lost on invested in consols , and the income available sive portions being done first , would materi- both sides , but we never lost a man hardly ed delighted and glad to be out of it . One man in my company , said Pte . Fleet- for various purposes , and it was proposed ally exceed the estimate during the current until they were forced to retire by the Ger- wood , was captured by the Germans , but that it should be applied for maintenance of rear . The Road Board had promised an ad- mans who were numerically much stronger . children at the Secondary School and , other dition to the grant , but a proportion of the After that retirement we marched about 135 luckily he fell into the hands of a decent German Officer , who put this man behind a The intellect of Germany is suffering from educational purposes . Later on , if no objee- increase must fall on the county fund , and miles in three weeks , being kept at it prac rick , gave him a cigarette to smoke , and tion was raised to the scheme , they would to avoid making an additional rate this year tically day and night , with only perhaps a told him to stop there until he was fetched . have to appoint a trustee to represent the the committee recommended that application couple of hours rest at night . The Black Taking the risk ; however , the man " sneak- military magnates of Potsdam . At least . Parish Council , and he thought that as the be made to the Road Board for a loan free Watch were along with us , but during our ed " off , and managed , -after great diffi- that is what we gather from the plea put ested in the school they could not do granted the work would have to cease for most of them were wounded and not killed . Theer is one thing in which the English late Mr. Thomas Blake was very much inter- of interest for 23,000 . If this was not retirement we lost a lot of men , though culty , to get back to his own lines . forward by the German Universitites to better than appoint his nephew , Mr. Henry this year . We were in the first firing line , and our re- have a great advantage , and that is that justify German culture , and to absolve the Blake . tirement was carried out under a heavy ar- Kaiser from making war on the world in DECLINING SCHOOL ATTENDANCES . the German Infantry come up in such huge tillery fire . It was the German shrapnels general and the little peoples in particular . The Education Committee reported that , that did the damage ; but , as a rule the masses , packed close together , and it is im- Yet all these precious professors have to tell possible to miss them . Why you can shoot when the elementary schools in Hereford- enemy's shrapnels , when they explode , go almost anywhere , and you are bound to hit us is that they hold the Kaiser not guilty shire came under the control of the County direct ahead and kill almost everything someone . beause the Kaiser has said he is not , and , That is the reason why the Eng- Council in 1902 , there were 16,228 children within a distance of 200 yards . that is , if of course , that conclusive evidence - the last word on the matter for Germans , which on the roll , with an average attendance of they are accurately ranged . But the Eng - ish and . French troops are able to mow the Germans down when in close quarters . It 13,805 , which gave a percentage of attend - lish shrapnel , when they burst , scatter in ought to be good enough for those who have is really awful , but the masterpiece is that not the inexpressible good fortune to belong ance of 85. Since that date considerable at all directions . and do far more damage . tention had been given to the percentage of There is no doubt that the Germans had their places . The German losses must be be- as soon as the men fall others file up to take to the inner Teuton brotherhood . Apparent- attendance , and it had increased to 89. At some really fine guns , especially their heavy yond estimating , but there seemed to be no ly Wilhelm II . , in the twenty - six years of first sight this appeared to be an improve- ones , which are commonly known among the end to their army , for the men come up from his reign , should be hailed as " the pro- tector of the world - peace . " What , how- The CHAIRMAN pointed out that under ment . Yet , all the time , the numbers on the troops as the " Jack Johnson " guns . These all quarters . Their marksmanship is very ever , these learned professors omit to ex- the present scheme the money would be spent registers and the average attendance had throw shells weighing some 90lbs . , and if poor , and it is only their huge guns that plain is why this universal peace - provider , to in sending the Council School children to re . been steadily decreasing , and there were ac- the range is guaged accurately and burst in seem to do the damage in actual fighting . enforce peace , broke in on Belgian neutrality give farther education at the Secondary tudly 2,187 children and the ground one shell will bury as many as On the other hand , the French artillery is and sanctioned the conflagration of Louvain . School or at continuation classes in the and the average attendance was 1,852 less twelve men in the ground through the force really fine . They not only fire with the great- on December 31 , 1913 , than on December 31 , of the explosion . The damage these shells est of accuracy , but they are very deadly , Mr. BAILEY said he had read a copy of 1904. These serious decreases were partly create is really terrible , and only those who and inflict enormous losses on the enemy . the scheme , and said it would only benefit of school age , but the committee had reason around can form any idea of what devastation the war would last , Pte . Fleetwood said , " As due to a decrease in the number of children have had experience of these dropping Asked what his opinion was as to how long the urban children , and that the children from the rural parish were at present ex- to believe that the decreases were also partly and destruction these heavy guns cause . At far as I can see I don't think the actual eluded , and would derive no benefit under due to the striving after a high percentage . the Battle of Mons we were under this heavy fighting will last longer than February and the scheme . It threw their children out en- If an increased percentage of attendance fire for about six hours , and we were forced March . The greatest difficulty with which tirely . Having regard to the fact that chil- really meant an increased attendance noth- to retire through insufficiency of troops , but the Germans have to deal is their short- dren in the rural district were debarred from ing could be said against it , but . as the that retirement will alyaws rank as one of age of food , for it is generally admitted by obtaining scholarships at the Secondary figures quoted showed , a high percentage was the finest ever carried out in any battle in all their prisoners that they cannot get food School , he proposed that the Council do not not inconsistent with a decreasing attend- history . It was really marvellous how the except what they pick up in the fields and ance . The committee had decided that for a English troops worked it . During the battle loot from various places . Their organisation approve of the scheme . Mr. LLEWELLYN seconded , and it was time at any rate they would dispense with of Mons , said Pte . Fleetwood , I luckily es- is not nearly so well carried out as the Eng- carried unanimously . the collection of the percentages . caped without any hurt or damage , but the lish and French , but their greatest advan- artillery fire under which we retired , wastage is in their numbers . very heavy and well timed . In this cam- Pte . Fleetwood concluded by saying , " I paign or battle the Germans ' progress was could tell you a great deal more , but it due chiefly to the thousands of motor cars would never do . One would never imagine they had at work to bring up their troops what dirty work the Germans can do in war- so rapidly , and to get within such a short fare unless one actually saw them and came range of us , but nevertheless their losses in contact with them . There will certainly were tremendous . have to be a day of reckoning when the war We retired to some 20 miles outside Paris , is over . " where reinforcements to our aid . Whilst in this position , the order was given that the English troops were to make a stand and keep the position at any cost . It was a very serious and trying time , but we drove the greatly reinforced German troops back , the enemy's losses being enormous . As an instance of this , continued Pte . Fleet- wood , we went past one wood in which there were at least 3,000 dead Germans , which had had to be left , for the enemy had no time to stop to bury their dead . We had a rest occasionally after this , but it was not for long . The German aeroplanes were continu- Guy's Hospital , it was stated , had refused ally flying over in order to take stock of our positions . As a matter of fact , about the to sell twenty acres of land on Aconbury first shot I fired was at a German aeroplane , Hill for the purposes , of a sanatorium , and but we failed to fetch it down .. The CHAIRMAN said that although they had offered another site , which was under The next battle in which I took part , said must not do anything to injure the National the consideration of the Health Committee . Pfe . Fleetwood , was that known as the Alderman Bulmer said he did not think Battle of the Aisne , " Fund , they must get all the money they which proved a could to prevent local distress . He thought Guy's Hospital Commissioners had treated death trap to a large number of our men . that the Prince of Wales ' fund would be the Council as a philanthropic body might I shall never forget it . In the first place more needed in the large industrial centres . be expected to do , seeing that the value of we could not get our guns in position proper- A month ago your correspondent was in- A splendid number of men had gone from the the dand did not exceed £ 2 per acre . The ly , and after sleeping in a cave we had our Ross district to fight their battles , and to site now suggested by Guy's Commissioners orders at five o'clock in the morning , and it formed in a private letter from Nantes that even give their lives , and they could not let was completely wind - swept , barren , and bare . was a misty morning , too . My company was the Canadians had been landed on the them think they were not looking after the He regretted the committee's action in not the left flank company , and we were marched shores of the Bay of Biscay . The uniform was unmistakable , but the Frenchman who people at home who were in need of assist accepting the generous offer of the governors off to take up our position , and we were the had met men of his own race in Anjou from had the pleasure of raising his hat to a pri - servation beds for tuberculosis patients at ance . Only the previous morning , he had of the Herefordshire Hospital to place oblast company to go upon the field to support across the Atlantic had probably mistaken vate in the Guards , Mr. Ernest Fleetwood , their disposal , and pointed out that the con- our four guns . Although the guns were got transport officers for members of the advance who had been invalided home . Mr. Fleet- stant change of tuberculosis officers , owing out of action in less than ten minutes . But into position , and opened fire , they were put guard of the contingent reported off South- wood fought all through the battle of Mons , to an inadequate salary being paid , was the ampton only at the close of last week . The but on the first day of the battle of Aisne , very thing that they ought to prevent , for under the mist we managed to get within [ Pte . W. W. Halls , Alton - street , Ross , join- Canadians in France , indeed , had become as sure a certainty as the Russians in England injured by the bursting of a shrapnel shell . be thoroughly acquainted with cases from firing prevailed for several hours . and again he was shot through the leg , and was also it was most important that officers should 200 yards of the enemy , although we lost two company officers , both killed . Heavy about the same time - the wish father to the Continuing , the Chairman said that at a start to finish , in order that patients might we were forced to retire . We retired behind thought , and the thought assisted by willing committee meeting the previous day they have the full benefit from the treatment the back of a wood , but the Germans turned imagination . Exactly the strength of the first Colonial force to join the British and had had four applications for immediate re- needed . their heavy runs on us , and it was just as I Indian armies in the field we are not per had been made they were able to relieve lief , and owing to the generous response that DEARTH OF FARM LABOURERS . was about 150 vards from a place of safety BOBS MOTOR CYCLIST FINED mitted to know . We may be sure , however , During some discussion on the Roads Com- that I got a bullet wound in the left thigh . After awhile I A motor prosecution in which it was alleg come at an opportune moment if ever Bel - would be unsuccessful . It was decided to form a committee to en- expenditure on the main roads was unneces- managed to crawl to the edge of the road that the defendant , Noel Dean , of Fern Lea , gium is to be relieved , and the long line of ter into the matter of collecting , to be com- sary . The farmers were without men , and bank , and on falling some 20 or 30 feet , into Chase - road , Ross , a surveyor in the Land Sea broken from the Vosges to the North prised of the members of the Council , and the land would be uncultivated if something the road I stopped there until I was picked Valuation Offices at Hereford , rode through up by the stretcher bearers , who arrived Bridge - street , Hereford , at the rate of 25 Mr. Cooper . The following ladies were also was not done . Surely some of the men now asked to assist : Mrs. Trafford , Mrs. Somer- on the roads might go to the farmers and under cover of heavy fire from the artillery . miles an hour on the night of September I lay by the roadside for about seven hours 24th , took place at the Hereford City Police set , Mrs. Evan Thomas , Mrs. Verschoyle , render assistance . Mrs. Child , Mrs. Tippett , Miss Collins , Mrs. Mr. Russell felt that if the farmers offered before being found . During the Battle of Court on Thursday , before the Mayor ( Mr. G , B. Greenland ) , Mr. F. H. Merrick , and sufficiently good wages there would be no the Aisne we lost a tremendous lost of men . Ingram , and Mrs. Evans . hoth killed and wounded . The stretcher Mr. G. J. Caldwell . The summons charged difficulty about obtaining labour . bearers conveyed me to a temporary hospital him with exceeding the speed limit , and also ahout a mile away ; but I little thought with driving to the danger of the public . Ross Police Court . that I should come from there alive , for the Mr. Royes Coles prosecuted , and Mr. T. Germans were shelling the town the whole A. Matthews defended . It appears that de- time , and von could hear the shells going fendant and two of the witnesses for the FRIDAY . - Before Cant . R. H. Verschovle over the building . On the following morn- prosecution were on their way home from ( Chairman ) , Col. O. R. Middleton , Mr. M. Ing . however , the motor ambulances fetched the Kemble Theatre after witnessing a per- K. M. Power , Mr. T. Matthews , Mr. J. E. all the wounded from this hospital , but the formance of " The Pearl Girl " when the in- S. Hewett . Mr. J. A. N. Booker , Mr. G. first motor to arrive was very soon blown to cident occurred . R. Trafford , Mr. H. T. Blake . For Natural looking ARTIFICIAL TEETH and PAINLESS EXTRACTIONS as the advanced guard of destroying Uhlans . VISIT D. GORE BOODLE & Co. , Ltd. , 43 , HIGH STREET , ROSS , EVERY THURSDAY from 10.30 am . A Lady always in attendance . to 6.30 p.m. Extractions First Hour Free . BRANCHES EVERYWHERE . Abergavenny , 6 , High - street , Tuesdays , 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monmouth , 12 , Church - street , Fridays , 12 to 5. Hereford , 3 , St. Peter - street , Wednesdays , 11 a.m. to 6.30 . Chepstow . Tuesdays and Fridays . Gloucester , Every Day . BOODLE'S TEETH . E. Collins and Sons . 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Novelists and story tellers , prophetically viewing the German invasion , made much of the army of foreign workers in our midst , and in their pages the German waiters , in their cotton gloves , loomed large No doubt , plenty of " the profession " have since returned to military duties . Did we not capture the ex - head - waiter of Lonodn's smartest hotel in the cellars of Epernay ? But the Home Office Report on the German espionage system in this country , now given to the public , disposes of the organised con- spiracies and bomb clubs attributed to the gentler stranger within our gates . Every thing , indeed , goes to show that from the start the spy in our midst has been effec- tively controlled by Scotland Yard , and that no trace of organised conspiracy to commit outrage has ever existed . A letter was read from the Board of Agri- culture with reference to certain leaflets on cultivation of crops , poultry feeding , etc. It was stated that copies of these leaflets would be supplied free , and the Clerk was requested to send for a dozen copies , which was said to contain very interesting matter on agricultural and other subjects . IMPORTATION OF IRISH CATTLE . The Agricultural Committee reported that they had suspended the Sheep Dipping Orders . They had decided to continue the prohibition of the importation into the coun- ty of all Irish cattle . He desired to see the Mr. Ballard objected to the committee not . altering the regulations with regard to the importation of Irish cattle into the county , remarking that the breeders of pedigree THE WAR FUNDS . Hereford cattle were being favoured to the The CHAIRMAN brought forward the detriment of graziers , and dairymen who matter of the war funds in connection with wanted Irish cattle . Irish cattle were ad- the Rural District Council , and Mr. Cooper , mitted to all the adjoining counties , and the one of their representatives on the Council , present regulations in regard to Hereford had attended to explain the scheme.shire were futile . Mr. COOPER outlined the scheme , and county free from infection , but they should said he felt sure the subject was of such ask for longer quarantine . The present great interest that everyone in the rural dis- legislation only harassed purchasers , and did trict would give something , but the only way not prevent Irish cattle from coming into the to get at them was by a personal collection . He suggested that members of the Council , with others , should do the collecting , and that the collecting books should show those who had already given . county . SANATORIUM SITE REFUSED . came of this , that , whether many or few , they the cases , and he hoped that no applications mittee's report , Mr. Gough said some of the which brought me down . It is a sad fact that since the war began , while crime has diminished to an extent un- paralleled in the annals of the London Ses- sions and the Old Bailey , and while the mum- Mr. DAVIES said the response for men ber of men drunks in the police courts from Ross had been grand , but , from the has fallen considerably , drinking among the lists published in the " Gazette , " he thought poorer class of London women is steadily in- the response for subscriptions had been poor , creasing . The testimony of practically all considering , as he understood , circulars had our Care Committees is unanimous on the heen sent to every householder . He thought point . The reason is said to be that , with that if the rural district would make a per- the distribution of grants now made weekly sonal collection , it would be much better . from the " Soldiers and Sailors " and other relieving organisations , " many of these women have more money on their hands than they know what to do with , " and on Mon- day mornings for most of the drinking by women is done in the morning a large part of the alms and allowances provided to main- it should be . tain the family finds its way into the public- house till . Magistrates , naturally , are loath to punish in cases where the withdrawal of the mother means the break - up of the home . But it looks as if drastic regulations will have to be adopted for closing bars and places where they drink against women abusing State and private charity . LORD WEYMOUTH'S CHARITY . Mr. LLEWELLYN gave notice that at the next meeting he would bring forward the matter of Lord Weymouth's Charity , which he considered was not being administered as A OURE FOR DRY BRITTLE HAIR . HOW A LOCAL READER MADE HER HAIR BEAUTIFULLY GLOSSY AND WAVY TRANSFER OF LICENCE . The licence of the Crown Inn , Aston Ing- ham , was temporarily transferred from Wil- liam Cook to Arthur Boulton . " OLD SPORT . " He was just a simple Briton , Who loved his country well- Aye , as English as they make ' em , As all his pals can tell . His speech as plain and homely , He never put on " side , ' Though his heart , so clean and loyal , Beat high with British pride Old Sport . " He was just the sort of fellow * You'd wish to call your friend ; When on a job he started He'd stick it to the end . The grip he gave was honest , He'd look you in the face ; " And never a paltry action In his life had found a place Old Sport . " In the hour of England's danger , At his country's call he went , Ready to fight her battles Till the last of his blood be spent . But , alas , he fell by the wayside , Ere ever the march began . His townsmen have lost a brother , His country has lost a MAN ! " B.B. " ed the King's Shropshire Light Infantry on the outbreak of war , and during training at Aldershot , contracted double pneumonia , which proved fatal . ] pieces , also the men accompanying it , not- Peyton Levason , dental surgeon , Hereford , withstanding the fact that the Red Cross said as he was on his way home and was flag was flying . This caused some hours de- turning the corner of King - street into Bridge lay , but on the Germana retiring , we were street he saw a motor cyele go round the taken to another hospital some distance corner at a terrific rate . away . Here all the wounded men - includ- NOISY TWO - STROKE MACHINES . GAME TRESPASS . ing myself remained at this hospital until Ernest Edwin Gough , Causeway House , we were sufficiently well enough to be re- Ross - road , Hereford , who was with Mr. William Hatch , collier , Howle Hill , was summoned for trespass on the land of Mr. R. moved . They were then removed in motor Levason's party , said it was difficulty to say H. Storey on September 26th , and being in trains . which caused much pain to the what pace the machine was going , because it wounded soldiers through being shaken up was a small machine , a two - stroke , a type search of rabbits . travelling for about three days to a place on which made more noise than the usual four- Defendant pleaded not guilty . Felix Wright , farrier , of Howle Hill , said the French coast , where their wounds were stroke , and created the impression that it that on September 26th he was going to work properly dressed . Those men who were only was going at a greater speed than it was ac- slightly wounded were allowed to remain to tually travelling . Taking into consideration The much - censored letters which come to Dear Sir , I recently wrote , telling you he heard a shot , and saw defendant coming severely injured were conveyed to England speed was not safe at a corner . And passed Danlow wood . As he passed by recuperate their health , while others more the number of people about , however , the eager parents from those who were yester- about the amazing result I obtained by using over the gate from the land . He was carry in hospital shins en route for Southampton , day naval cadets at Dartmouth and to - day the Lavona Hair Tonic recommended in your ing a rabbit and a gun . Defendant said , and the Sheffield Hospital , from where I was timated the speed at something over 20 miles Reginald Brown , 24 , St. Martin - street , es- are combatant midshipmen make a charming paper , how in fourteen days it removed all " Good - morning , " but nothing was said about chapter in the sombre history of the war . signs of dandruff , stopped my hair falling land . P.C. Wall stated that he saw the cycle For the irrepressible spirits of youth , living and created an entirely new growth . Since the rabbit . It was only a few minutes after sent home . On all sides the French an hour , people were most kind , and would give the hearing the shot that he saw the man . an adventurous story instead of merely read then , I recommended it to a friend whose By defendant : He saw him come from the wounded men almost anything and every- come round the corner of Bridge - street from ing it , sparkle between the brief lines . There hair used to be so dry and brittle that it land over the gate into the road . thing to make them comfortable , beside little King - street at a fast speed . is something delightfully natural in the split at the ends and eventually she suffered nick nacks " to eat , and tobacco and cigar- In cross - examining , Mr. Matthews asked jubiliation over the capture of a German from spotty baldness . On the doctor's ad - stated that the man had no right on the ettes to smoke . Joseph Morgan , headkeeper to Mr. Storey , for the constable's note of the incident , which prize with a quantity of jam as cargo . We vice she had applied turpentine , but this gave the speed at 25 miles an hour , and the . THE GERMANS ' DIRTY WORK . like to picture the victors plentifully sup- proved useless , and knowing what Lavona witness thered to this estimate . Defendant said he got up at half - past , four plied , ench with his favourite preserve . If Hair Tonic had done for my hair she got that morning and went out . He saw a rab- During the Battle of the Aisne , the Ger- Detective - Constahle Hoskins deposed that the epicure partial only to apricot , and re- bottle from a local chemist , together with bit on the road and shot it . He had not mans did a great deal of real " dirty work . " when he made inquiries of defendant two ported in a school story as ready to starve the onio did not do her hair good . By been on the land at all , and it was about the white flag , and signalled to be allowed to along Bridge - street at the time stated on his For instance , on one occasion they hoisted days afterwards , he admitted that he passed Father than touch any other sort , " was on if the tonic did not do her hair good . She 10 minutes after he shot the rabbit that he surrender . The English , of course , sent out way home to Ross . board , we hope he had a whole pot to him- used it regularly for a fortnight , and it is self . Readers of Jane Autson's letters will hardly possible to realise the improvement it saw Wright . If he had done anything remember how her sailor brothers in Nel- has made . Her hair is now beautifully wrong he would have had plenty of time to troops to fetch the German prisoners in ; go home with the rabbit before he saw of the trenches , the Germans opened fire Dean was riding . At the time in question , but on our men getting within close range gineer , Ross , said he knew the machine Mr. son's fleet were for ever rejoicing over their in der natural wave . My Wright . share of prize money . In one of her replies friend is highly delighted , and from our Mr. Morling said it was just as much tres- alternative was a bayonet charge , which the would cause it to make more noise than upon them , and as a consequence the only the timing gear was out of order , and this she scolds one of them for wasting it upon joint experience , it would appear that Lav a topaz cross for her . That brother lived to ona Hair Tonic is a successful remedy for all pass on the road as land . hair troubles No therefore , Albert The Chairman said defendant would have Germans will never face . This proved effec- usual , and it would not accelerate as quickly ho a famous admiral , and died at the ent Porter , of 18 , High - street , sele under to pay a penalty of £ 1 , including the coste , tive , for rather than face the point of the as if properly timed . bayonet , the Germans gave in . Some of The Bench came to the conclusion that de- fame of the merry sister who left the world his personally signed guarantee of satisfac - Defendant asked for time , but this was not enemy's tactics were really too awful to defendant exceeded the speed limit , and fined all too soon , but left a precious legacy be- tion or money back . allowed , defendant remarking , " I shall have scribe . Another instance of how they treat him 106. and costs , but dismissed the sum- ed our wounded on the field was that they mons alleging dangerous driving age of ninety - three . He thus witnessed the hind her . Yours , " GRATEFUL . " to go on , then . " Robert William H : Philpotts , motor en- |