South Yorkshire Times, December 23rd, 1932

Marconigrams.

A Happy Christmas to all our readers.

When playing bridge, a good deal depends a good deal.—”Punch.”

“I dislike the secular Christmas card.”— Rev. H. Howard, vicar of Goldthorpe.

The Christmas spirit in a pit-head notice: “To-clay’s carol will be, ‘Come to the manager!”

Conisboro’ Castle is to be flood-lit during the Christmas holidays, commencing on Christmas Eve.

Rooks havs been observed nest-building at Middlewood (Darfield). They ought to know it is too warm for spring.

“Don’t stay away on Christmas Day,’ pleads a local vicar with his parishioners “I am going to cut the sermon short.”

The coal trade is unwontedly busy, and at most of the collieries in the district the Christmas holiday is cut down to two days.

A Nativity play will be performed in the chancel of St. Margaret’s Church, Swinton, on Sunday evening (Christmas Day) immediately after evensong.

Thirty members of the Don Valley Guardians’ Committee have been surcharged in respect of an expenditure of in excess of the legal scale of relief payment.

Mr. I. W. Johnson of Monk Bretton, and Mr. T. M. Thornsby of Wombwell, have been re-elected to the National Executive of the Working Men’s Club and Institute Union Ltd.

The Hickleton Hall house party for Christmas includes Lord and Lady Irwin and their children, and Colonel and Mrs. Lane Fox, three daughters, a son-in-law, and a grandson.

The West Riding Education Committee have adopted a scale of parental income governing the grant of scholarships, with total exemption from contribution up to £5 a week.

A football referee chased by a hostile crowd in Lanarkshire crawled into a subterranean passage. It looks as if keen football enthusiasts will be obliged to carry ferrets.—” Punch.”

The striking photograph entitled “The Price of Coal,” which we published last week as an illustration of colliery rescue work, was taken by Mr. Charles Hanmer in the Silkstone Colliery for the purpose of his film, “Black Diamonds.”