Bargoed Journal. — 1907-02-28 (Gelligaer, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WELSH BROTH.  NOTICE —The JOIIIINAL Will be sent post free for Is. id. for 13 weeks.  —:o:  We are prepared to subscribe for a bar of soap for some of the Rhymney compartments.  —:o:  " Here you are, lads, an empty bond !" cried a collier to his chums as a train came into Bargoed last Saturday.  —:o:  The " Journal " is now dubbed the ratepayers' friend.  --:o:  Congratulations to Mr. Idris Leyshon, architect, and Mrs Leyshon (nee Miss May Hibbs). We hope the bridegroom will still turn out for Aberbargoed football team.  —:o:  " Doctor's orders" was responsible for Eddie Walters not playing for Aberbargoed last Saturday.  -:0: The Rhymney Railway are at last going in for motor cars, two being on order.  ---:o:  Bert Jones, of Park Road, Gilfach, sustained a compound fracture 4of the leg whilst playing for Bargoed Reserves against Fleur-de-lis. Dr. E. R. Bowen attended him.  —:o:  " Oh, God, what shall I do ?" exclaimed an actress at New Tredegar as she held the apparently unconscious figure of the hero in her arms. " Open his westcoat, mum," suggested a little collier boy in the audience.  —:o:  A miniature riot broke out between a crowd of Hibernians and Welshmen near Bargoed viaduct last Saturday night and the Donnybrook was only stopped in time by Police-constables Williams and Duggan.  —:o:  Major Dowdesw-e-11 intends leaving Nelson before Easter. The loss to the district will be very great.  —:o:  There was a rumour in New Tredegar last week that an arrest had been made in connection with the death of little Edith Wall, the victim of the mountain outrage perpetrated a year ago. Unfortunately the murderer is still at large.  —:o:  If you like the new style adopted by the " Journal" tell your friends to buy it. It is a full weight ha'porth.  —:o:  A correspondent writes :—" In your last week's issue it was st.,^tt-1 by School Attendance Officer Dd. Roberts at.Caerphilly that doctors were very free in giviitg sway cell I'....atcy.'to exempt chil(lre!, from going to school. This is not the ia. with undertakers. A certain ,ker in Bargoeri lis,l to get tii,, ,  assistance of Sergean:. ' •. , • a certificate last week. This doctor no, any other dare refuse a certificate when they are in attendance."  —:o:  One of the most fashionable churches in the valley is said to be run with strays from Nonconformist sects, and these strays are more welcome and made more of than the members who have been loyal to the Established Church all their life time.  —:o:  " The easiest way to get a seat on one of our local bodies," said a man in a Rhymney railway train, "is to find grace, give up whiskey, and take a prominent seat in a strong church."  —:o:  A local minister threatened, so it is alleged, to ex-communicate any of his members who attended the Hengoecl dance, and three young souls slipped over the brink and left the chapeil erehe could carry out his design.  women are more variable, spiteful, and unjust than men, and we are informed that his wife, who was present, made it hot for him when.she got him home. Serve him jolly well right!  —:o:  We regret to record the death of the sister-in-law of Dr. E. It. Bowen, Bargoed.  —:o:  We have received a letter anent the absence of a fire at the Bargoed Library news room. No doubt the committee will give the matter their attention. The complaint is that there is always a fire in the billiard room.