Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1920-08-07 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

MARCONIGRAMS.  • The country to-day is divided between plain fare and high thinking, and -high fares and plain thinking.  * *.*  The late Mr. Dossey Wiglitman, for many. years Sheffield and District Corona, left es. 4 tate of the value (AA, 067.  "Fancy a bald-leaded old man being ob.'a maternity and child .welfare cominittee."--; Councillor Mrs: Mary Mercer, Birkenhead.  IP if.  The lawyers who were at the war when. .the Military Service Acts came alo,ng ought to Mire first bite at these flee fat juicy Rent Acts.  ** * •  t, Mr. George Thorpe, chairman of the Cooperative Wholesale F.'ociety, urges co-operators to go in for owning the sources o production.  * *  Mr. A. B. Linford, wh? has foa• many years acted as organist and choirmaster at the Wombwell Parish Church, is resigning that appointment.  • • IS •  A Hoyland vicar, in a sermon, likens .Capital and Labour to the Dying Thieves. But they're an unconscionable time a-dying, as, King Charlie said.  • 0 e;*  Will 'the Rent Acts kindly. get up and hit those people who are charging five guineas a week for, a half-share Of 'a bell-tent on the cliffs at Briny-with-Ozone? .  *• * *  The activities at-Wombwell in aid of local hospitals have, up to the present, realised £143. It is hoped during the net few weeks to increase the total to £2OO.  • * * "England has no use for the Anglican Church. It is up to Catholics to show their wares. Catholics are a people 'of lost opportunities."—Father_ Bernard. Vaughan.  •• * *  A memorial tablet in honour of the Wombwell "old boys" Of the Church Lads' Brigade who fell in the war is to be unveiled at Worbwell, by Colonel Mitchell, on Sunday. • * * Tlt Rt. Hon. F. 11. Brooke, chairman of the üblin and South-Eastern Railway, who was. murdered in his office by: Sinn Feiners last Friday, was agent for Earl Fitiwilliam's Irish estate 3.  • *. * •  A war memorial to the two thousand men who left the Thorneliffe Ironworks and Collieries to serve in the war has been erected by Messrs. Newton, Chambers, and Company,, and was unveiled this week.  00 * 0  When we read of a motorist who knocked down a newspaper boy, we looked to see if it was the bright little chap ;who sold us this Reek a copy dated July 24th, with the winners stamped on it. How we should lave cheered!  • • * II  The people who are stealing flowers fro& graves in. the Denaby centetery.,can expect, if they' are caught, says the Vicar, in. his _Parish Magazine, "nothing but prosecution." They are not to have the option of a. hiding. This is hardly a case ..for muscular Christianity.  •* • *  Our attention has been drawn to a case in which a landlord has made ,a mistake of sixpence in favour of his tenant, and to the case of the same tenant who corrected his landlord's figures. We are forwarding the particulars to the Prime Minister in good time for the next Honours List.  U* * *  Major the Hon. E. F. L. Wood and Colonel. Cl. R. Lane-Fox, M.P., son and son-in-law -respectively of Lord Halifax, are nominated by the Speaker as members of the Rcelesiastical Committee, which, under the Church of :England Assembly Act, is to exercise Parliamentary supervision over the doings of the. Church.  ** * *  The ControllerW Coal Mines ha S informed the Mthister of Health that, to avoid the possib!lity of a shortage in coal at hospitals, sanatoria, infirmaries, and workhouSes during the winter months, if is considered very desirable that ,the authorities of those institutions should endeavour .during the summer to stock as much coal as possible. ,  is •  4-cricket problem., Batsman R. stands out of his ground waving back. Batman .W„ whO is attempting a• run. Batsman W. ignores the signal, completes the run and occupies Batsman R's. ground. The other wicket is broken, and Batsman R. is given out. Has not Batsman R. an action at common law .for (a) larceny, (b) trespass, (c) illegal ejectment, (d) procuration of a- breach of our Sovereign Lord his peace? ,  .