Been having problems sending messages, hopefully ok this time ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: J GRIFFITHS <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 29 January, 2010 17:56:07 Subject: News Items APRIL 1st to JUNE 30th 1926 Number Two-Hundred fiftyseven. Western Mail Saturday May 29th 1926. Councillor Walter SPURRELL, J.P., preseided over a meeting held at Carmarthen, under the auspices of the Independent Order of Rechabites, when the Rev. James BARR, a Scottish M.P., gave an address on temperance. Rev. E.U. THOMAS (Tabernacle) proposed a vote of thanks and said it would be a good thing if all the members of the town council and of the magisterial bench were life-long members. Mr. G.F. FORSDIKE, J.P., Cardiff, has left for Aix-les-Bains, where he will remain for about a month for treatment for a troublesome leg. The marriage will take place at Savoy Chapel Royal, London, on Wednesday next of Mr. E. Stanley EVANS,elder son of Mr. John EVANS, J.P., and Mrs. EVANS, of Beechwood, Merthyr, to Miss Dora DOWDESWELL, only daughter of Mr. Ralph DOWDESWELL and the late Mrs. DOWDESWELL, of Belvedere, Whitchurch. At Keynsham Police-court on Friday Rhys THOMAS 18, Cilfynydd, Pontypridd and Arthur SMITH, 17, Graig, Pontypridd, miners were each sentenced to three months' hard labour for stealing a Morris-Oxford car, valued at £200, accessories, a fishing rod, and Kodak camera, belonging to Dr. Charles HARRISON, of Keynsham. Edward NEAGLE, Hugh ROBINSON, Michael BARON, and Edward O'NEILL were charged at Barry on Friday with breaking and entering a lock-up grain warehouse, owned by Mr. George ANDREWS, of Maesycwym-street, Barry, and stealing grain, valued at £2.5s. Police-constables WALLER and MARSH caught the men as they were escaping from the premises carrying bags of maize. NEAGLE and ROBINSON were each fined £1. and BARON and O'NEILL placed on probation for six months. Principal J.H. DAVIES, Aberystwyth, has received a letter from Queen Mary's private secretary, stating how sorry both the King and the Queen were to hear of the death of their old and trusted friend Sir John WILLIAMS. Mr. Jenkin REES has died at his residence, 78, Ryder-street, Cardiff, at the age of 60. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William REES, of Merthyr, he was an accountant at the Cardiff office of the Mountjoy (Bute) Estate, in whose service he had been for 32 years. He leaves a widow and one daughter. The funeral will take place on Monday. The funeral took place at Mountain Ash of Mrs. C.J. MASTERS, Glenbrook, Miskin, who met her death last week-end at Torquay. The Rev. J. Llewellyn DAVIES, B.A., vicar of St.. John's, Miskin; the Rev. D.E. ROBERTS, M.A., vicar of Trevithin, and the Rev. D.J. WILLS, M.A., vicar of Hirwain, officiated. The chief mourners were Mr. and Mrs.T.J. LEWIS (son-in-law and daughter), the Misses Alice and Gladys MASTERS (daughters), Mr. and Mrs. E. THOMAS (brother-in-law and sister), Mr. and Mrs. D.L. DAVIES, Mr. and Mrs. J.E. DAVIES, and Mr. and Mrs. Ifor DAVIES (brothers and sisters-in-law). Miss Hilda E. GOUGH, daughter of Mr. J.H. GOUGH, Colchester-avenue, Penylan, Cardiff, was successful in the April examinations of the Royal Academy of Music, securing the L.R.A.M. Miss GOUGH was prepared by Cuthbert WHITEMORE, F.R.A.M., Montague-place, London, W.1 James GIBBS 19, collier, Brithidir, was at Bargoed on Friday charged with having driven a motor-car negligently on May 8 at Tiryberth. He pleaded "not guilty" and was defended by Mr. Tom PHILLIPS. Alfred SWITHIN said he and three other men were talking on the road when something knocked him down from behind and he remembered nothing more for three or four hours. He was injured in the head, shoulder and face. Defendant said he was blinded by the lights of an oncoming car, and he did not see the men until he was a yard away, and they scattered, making it impossible for him to avoid the four. A fine of £5 was imposed, the money being paid to SWITHIN as compensation. Sir David William EVANS, of 199, Newport-road, Cardiff, and formerly of St. Mary's chambers, Cardiff, solicitor, died on March 17, leaving property of the value of £4,160, with net personalty nil. The will, dated September 3, 1896, is proved by Dame Clara Gertrude EVANS, the widow, to whom everything is left absolutely. John Patrick.