Rossendale Free Press 26 October 1889
26/10/22 22:52
The Ashlands, Newchurch. Mr Ashworth Law will Sell by AUCTION on Monday, October 21st, for George Watkinson, Esq, the superior household appointments. Sale as One o'clock. (Ashlands was still being advertised for rent after a number of weeks).
Strikes are a striking feature of this age. Readers of the daily papers can scarcely fail to be struck by this. the London dock labourers went on strike, coal miners are striking all over the country, "strike the liar" - that is to say the 'lyre" - has become the popular thing with glee clubs and choral societies, nearly all the public and private clocks in MerryEngland are regularly striking and, to ring the matter nearer home, and what is more striking still, the boys at Cloughfold Board School and at the National Schools, Rawtenstall, have this week been actually out on strike. They doubtless felt it a duty, as brave English lads, to play a fitting part in the great national demonstration. They doubtless got their reward - when they returned to school, if not sooner…they will doubtless have found out by now that the worthy gentleman and rigid disciplinarian was easily able to cope with the outbreak. He took the very sensible course of communicating with the managers of the mills at which the various half-timers work, and they were not permitted to do their half day turn at the mmill until they had made up lost time at school. the whole affair is rendered all more amusing because the children do not have appear to have the faintest idea why they struck. [Apparently they objected to being kept in school during playtime.]
George Barker, 76 years for age, and who lived at Newchurch, early on Saturday morning drowned himself in Baltic Mill Lodge, Waterfoot. He was in straightened circumstances, and his mind appears to have wandered lately. From official returns we find that the percentage of suicides in this country is increasing. Certainly Rossendale has of late contributed its share to the number.
JUMPING FROM A BEDROOM WINDOW - About 2-30 am on Tuesday morning a young woman named Amelia Snowdon, about 21 years of age, living with her parents at Hightown, suddenly and without warning, jumped through the bedroom window. It is thought she alighted with her head on the garden railings, for when she was picked up by her father and a woman named Hoyle, it was found that her head and hands were badly cut. Dr McNaught was sent for, and he said he thought the girl must have jumped out whilst in a dream. She has, however, been subject to fits. At first it was thought her condition was precarious but hopes are now entertained of her recovery.
ROSSENDALE SICK CLUB - The members of this club, the meetings of which have been held in the National School, Newchurch, recently decided to discontinue the same, and the money has just been distributed. Some of the members have been connected with it for so long a period as to become entitled to £50 or £60.
Rossendale 1 Hyde 2
Strikes are a striking feature of this age. Readers of the daily papers can scarcely fail to be struck by this. the London dock labourers went on strike, coal miners are striking all over the country, "strike the liar" - that is to say the 'lyre" - has become the popular thing with glee clubs and choral societies, nearly all the public and private clocks in MerryEngland are regularly striking and, to ring the matter nearer home, and what is more striking still, the boys at Cloughfold Board School and at the National Schools, Rawtenstall, have this week been actually out on strike. They doubtless felt it a duty, as brave English lads, to play a fitting part in the great national demonstration. They doubtless got their reward - when they returned to school, if not sooner…they will doubtless have found out by now that the worthy gentleman and rigid disciplinarian was easily able to cope with the outbreak. He took the very sensible course of communicating with the managers of the mills at which the various half-timers work, and they were not permitted to do their half day turn at the mmill until they had made up lost time at school. the whole affair is rendered all more amusing because the children do not have appear to have the faintest idea why they struck. [Apparently they objected to being kept in school during playtime.]
George Barker, 76 years for age, and who lived at Newchurch, early on Saturday morning drowned himself in Baltic Mill Lodge, Waterfoot. He was in straightened circumstances, and his mind appears to have wandered lately. From official returns we find that the percentage of suicides in this country is increasing. Certainly Rossendale has of late contributed its share to the number.
JUMPING FROM A BEDROOM WINDOW - About 2-30 am on Tuesday morning a young woman named Amelia Snowdon, about 21 years of age, living with her parents at Hightown, suddenly and without warning, jumped through the bedroom window. It is thought she alighted with her head on the garden railings, for when she was picked up by her father and a woman named Hoyle, it was found that her head and hands were badly cut. Dr McNaught was sent for, and he said he thought the girl must have jumped out whilst in a dream. She has, however, been subject to fits. At first it was thought her condition was precarious but hopes are now entertained of her recovery.
ROSSENDALE SICK CLUB - The members of this club, the meetings of which have been held in the National School, Newchurch, recently decided to discontinue the same, and the money has just been distributed. Some of the members have been connected with it for so long a period as to become entitled to £50 or £60.
Rossendale 1 Hyde 2
