Widnes Examiner. — 1912-04-13 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ARTICLE 11.  e began his ministry as soon ined and though he was but a ) won good opinions from his At the end of four or five quence of some difference with f Downall Green School he y,  ultY arose as to supplying his Who had been a warm friend had taught in the Sunday I. age of seven years—he to °Ple of Orford erected the Le school—and who bad now n at Cambridge, found a way icUltY. The Christian Knowwished to appoint a secretary Who should have time in the Yvork, so on his rccommendaAnted the Rev Richard John 'f Cambridge) and he was to Of Orford. r. Livingstone was the son of 3man at Mayo, and a lady in appearance made bin. look A-ing " ; Mr. Livingstone took )rford and his visitors gave '0 Orford society, of which at Nr was at the head. Lone also arranged for lectures Dm on week clay evenings. The by a young man educated at g and who was now analyst chemical manufactory in the "The atmosphere we breathe, ts and their qualities." Mr. 4ve the second lecture on The next lecturer took for his ecessary it is to look into n which nothing is more itable and pleasant." In this eurit was given of Orford ,rileS• He described the curious tithed celt now in the Museum und deep in the ground at it had probably fallen from ig steered across Orford which ,\TanIP, and he who steered it nitn of whom the poet says: it Prince V.rtegcm had on t naked Pict his grand,ite won. formed of a flint of a kind not neighbourhood, and which °lne from a distance. The told of the time when the Ile visited Warrington, and as afraid of infection, a plan by which the Orford people C eggs and vegetables to WarThey were to bring what .11, to a bridge over the brook all, where the buyers could roP their money into a stone r which would prevent all  school had so increased its Ifter being twice drawn out at a telescope, it was still too -tanagers decided that it should and a new one erected. They nlinent architect, Mr. Clarke, n.eed to adopt the plan he had Plan .was laid before the who made various objections, as too good, and another that too wide and that a school 18 the best fitted for any school managers replied that there Public building in the village 8 desirable that the new build: over-ornamented, should be in .cive the village taste, and that not been found a difficulty in )1. As the Privy Council were 11° Dart of the expense their e not insisted upon, although °f eases they had insisted on ilug of one measure. le school, having by Mrs. th lost a friend, it was decided 8,,,,eh00l should at once be pro▪be contract was made with a wooden tabernacle erected u church in the playground ~.lackburne conveyed as a gift a little over a year the B,ned. It has been twice (thrice) `ja substantially what it was 10. Special sermons marked reachers:Archdeacon Emery, I:.tLY ; Canon Raines, vicar, ;u3r divines. Mr. Livingstone, rr,d, was selected by Mr. yelamere, representative of i_Cheshire families, to be his '4aPlain, and he had to preach la before Her Majesty's Judges Bitting in Court beside Mr. "11 a prisoner was on trial for thedeath of a neighbour's • °secuting counsel said would -1;•• er in a human subject, the r Is voice, whispered to the e Properly suicide." of being a High Sheriff's ChapIf3en fall to the lot of a curate. la, his being H.S. Chaplain ga"11 more directly under the Le"itcoP, who soon gave him the at?' the Weaver Churches at ,0 in 1868 he was presented by Aiti;e more valuable vicarage bur tile mastership of the school go* "vingstone advised George 0 11 of the village shoemaker at ( gh°. t° Chester College. George he It advice, obtained a Ist rfo,arve year became schoolWhere he remained 26 wife' corn s failing health co resign rovvafter Mr. Livingstone, was who came recommended s right, vicar of St. James, on.° ,excellent preacher of a isiat ivir• Owen did not live at Whiced on with his wife in h did not conciliate his o01.4"1.11 their good opinion. The vai (licit to Orford synchronised totir' "ir. and Mrs. May from solv uPc'n which the Orford ed to show their joy and ,nlaintanner never seen in Orford intesfc"rd,perhaps ever since the • from whom the place tin _ a wedding or other w_roccasion joy is shown by ae !'ets and places near the Dat'tueeY mean to honour with ces irirne in festoons or other wi , es fo - white sand, interspersed s . fe ofu +l. r health,happmess td kr ~ue newly married pair. kind ts.t: May approached their ad 10 'le village en fête. 'anes f ford put off thei r r '4.8 andwith funnels of white