The Cotton Factory Times. — 1903-12-18 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

ECCLES AND PATRICROFT.  Presentation at Patrieroft.—On Wednesday evening, at a meeting held at Nassau Mills, Patri' croft, Mr. F. Ermen, J.P., who since the associ ation of the above place with the Sewing Cotton Combine, has been managing director, in view of his retirement from business, was the recipient of a beautifully chased solid silver flower-bowl, having engraved upon it the following inscription: " Presented to F. J. G. Ermen, Esqr., J.P., on the occasion of his retirement from the firm, by the employes of Messrs. Ermen and Roby, Ltd., Nassau Mills, Patricroft, as a token of their esteem and regard, and in appreciation of his uniform kindness to all during a period of 37 years. December 31st, 1903."—Mr. Crompton, manager spooling, etc., departments, made the presentation, and Mr. Ermen suitably replied.—There being a balance in hand after paying for the present, the announcement was made that the money would form the nucleus of a proposed testimonial to Mr. Godfrey H. Ermen (son of Mr. F. Ermen, on the occasion of his marriage, which is to take place shortly. He takes the position of manager at the above mill. TYLDESLEY AND ATHERTO  Mill Girl's Sad End.—About noon on Wednesday week the dead body of Sarah Jane Bowshaw, aged 15, of Railway Cottages, Mosley Common, a reeler at Messrs. Sugden and Faulkner's mill, Walkden, was recovered from a large lodge adjoining the Earl of Ellesmere's Mosley Common Collieries, after three hours' grappling operations. On the Sunday previous a sister of the deceased's found Is. ed. between the. bed and the mattress . .  upon which she slept, and her mother took her task about it, thinking she had withheld the money from her wages; and not receiving what she thought a satisfactory answer, she told the girl that she would go to the mill on the Monday and ascertain how much the girl received in wages. The girl evidently took the matter to heart, as she was never seen alive again after leaving home for work early on Monday morning.—DeputyCoroner Barlow investigated the circumstances of the death on Friday.—A verdict of" Suicide whilst suffering from a temporary mental derangement was returned," and sympathetic reference was made to the sad event, the outcome of so trivial a souse.  bad Death of a Mill Mechanic.—The death took place on Friday evening last of Mr. William Valentine Hardman, aged 60, of 40, Factory. street, Tyldesley, who for a great many years has been mechanic at Messrs. R. J. Clegg and Co.'s Hope Mill. On Sunday, October 25th, deceased was engaged with others at the mill fixing a bevel wheel on a shaft. The centre of the wheel was too large, and a piece of sheet iron was &Named for packing, and it was whilst pushing the sheet iron into Its place that the deceased slightly cut his right thumb. He continued to work until evening, when the limb began to swell and caused bim much pain. A medical man was surumnned, but deceased gradually got worse, blood poisoning baying supervened, and it was found necessary to amputate the right forearm at the elbaw on Friday the 4th inst. An inquest was held by Coroner Butcher on Monday, and the medical evidence was that the arm did remarkably well until Thursday last, but the general septic condition of the deceased caused brain exhaustion, which was the ultimate cause of death, the cut being the primary cause; had the deceased washed the wound at the time instead of taking no  notice of it his life would in all probability have been spared.—A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was returned.