The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1894-10-20 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

NOTES ON LOCAL TOPICS.  [The Publisher will be glad to receive at the office of this paper any notes or suggestions on topics of local interest, but does not hold himself responsible for the opinions therm expressed.  I see that the call made upon Kenilworth by the Warwick Union for the half year ending 1895 is £722 against £748 for the corresponding period of last year, made up as follows : Collector's salary £43 ; county rates (which includes police) £362; and union charges £Bl7. It will be observed that the salary', of the collector, taking into consideration the responsibility of the olio besides the enormous amount of work (which is on the increase) is not over-done. Nay, it is rather below the average amount paid. The amount for county purposes is still somewhat high. It was said that after the authority had got into proper working order the rate would be less. This, however, has not proved to be the case, Ten years ago the county rate was only £159 for Kenilworth. Note the increase since the County Council has come into existence.  Vv bat will be the result of these Parish and Urban District Councils? I begin to shake when I look into the future. The educational call, I notice, is but small, being only £29 is 4d for twelve months. Upon this the inhabitants of Kenilworth must congratulate themselves, for they might have had a School Board and then—.oh! Everyone would have been crying out against a heavy School Board Rate and it would not come once in 12 months, for a precept would be made every six months, as the ratepayers would be soon aware. However, we are up to the present free from that expensive luxury, and if at any time such a contingency should seem probable, we must put shoulder to shoulder and protest all we know how.  gshould imagine that the thrashing the Town Reserves got on Saturday will about settle them, for a time at least. What I cannot understand is why they pick such "crack" teams to play against. I learn that the visitors were very sharp and experienced players, streets ahead of the Reserves in the football world. At all events, it would seem so from the ridiculous score of one goal to 13. What was the umpire doing? Several goals, I understand, were allowed off-side. Another disadvantage which I gather the homesters experienced was the fact of their having to make up a part of their team on the field, and I believe that in every match they have played the same thing has occurred. It seems a pity that the team cannot be managed better than this. It does not give them a chance.  evei, score o. umpire ch.. stand, were disadvantage wh. experienced was the make up a part of theil and I believe that in ever) played the same thing has seems a pity that the team managed better than this. It does them a chance. . . , The K.T.F.C. gained their second distinction this season on Saturday. Leek Wootton is no easy team to fight against, and the win was a very creditable one. When Leek Wootton F.C. met Kenilworth on the sports ground last Raster Monday, the homesters were beaten. It may perhaps be remembered, however, that the posts were not so far apart as they ought to have been, and owing to its being a holiday Kenilworth could not muster up their fall strength. But the victory 4-8 in favour of K.T.F.C. on Saturday, and on the Leek Wootton ground too, is evidence that K.T.F.C. are in advance of their opponents. Successes lace this, if only in friendly matches, will encourage them to make a good show in the future, and probably help them to pull off similar victories in the ••• League competitions. In the meantime, the business-man says • • that the public will have cheap things, and The St. John's Rovers F.C. made another what is he to do? He must have his profits, win on Saturday against Coventry Snvers— of course. At least, he has a prejudice that 8-I—and now I understand they have way, summoned up courage to go in for the • Suicides are tin on e increase. Drink Warwick United challenge cup. They mean 'll *til • business, if the other Adeociation teams in and gambling seem to be among the most Kenilworth don'tland if they play up as prolific causes, well as they have done so far this season, How many people have come to the they have a good chance of bringing into ground through " fast " living I Some time our town the first cup-11% ago I knew of a tradesman in London who was in the habit of leaving his business to The Kenilworth Albions are entitled to attend race-meetings, Ac. Of course, he sympathy for their loss on Saturday by only drank a bit as well. The next thing I heard dropped goal; It is true that Souther° was that he had sold some property belong. best of the game, but Kenilworth's big to him, taken his money—but not his defence prevented them from scoring more wife—and disappeared. Last week came heavily. The back, I am informed, was the news that he had thrown himself out of again eousPienous for his tricky play, end a top-storey window in an Australian hotel. did good service for the Albions' team Had • . • their passing been as sharp and frequent as There appears to be no particular objection their opponents', the Athlone would unto letting rival temperance reformers try doubtedly have come off victorious. Can Another thing from Which commercial interests suffer in the present day is the crushing competition and craze for cheapness which kill good work. The Church Congress complained that these depraved conditions have destroyed ecclesiastical art. The architect, painter, and sculptor are told that they must be content with modest payment and leave fortune-making to the Stock Exchange. To come down to a somewhat lower level, Mr. George Laidler, Newcastle-on-Tyne, writing on the forthcoming conference of master-painters and decorators to be held at Manchester, says he would like to see the leaders oT the trade go back to the spirit of the old Trade Guilds, in so far as they strove to uphold the quality of their work. Combination rings, &c., may bolster up prices for a time, but nothing more degrades business than the striving after cheapness, and the only way to bring a permanent improvement is to improve the quality of the work. Do better work, he says, and in the end better prices must follow.  one bad the