Prestatyn Weekly

Prestatyn Eisteddfod WHIT MOISriD^uY, JUNE 4th, 1906. 1.—MALE VOICE CHOIR COMPETITION. Test piece, G6f y Pentref" (" The Village Blacksmith ") (Dr. Parry). Prize £ 10 10s., and Baton for Conductor. 2.—MALE VOICE CliOIR. COMPETITION (Confined to North Wales). Test piece, Comrades Song of Hope (Adams). Prize L4 4s., and Silver Cup for Conductor. S.—JUVEMLE CHOIR COMPETITION. Test piece. "Y Tylwyth Têg" ("The Fairies"). Prize £4 4s., and Silver Cup for Conductor. SOLOS, etc. Adjudicator: CABADOG ROBEBTS, ESQ., F.R.C.O., &o. Secretarips R. HUGHES, Station House, Prestatyn. D. HUGHES, Greenwich House, Prestatyn. Syllabus Id., by Post lid. PLEASE NOTE. T. PARRY WILLIAMS & CO. PAINTERS AND DECORATORS, Have Removed to their New Premises "TIE GROVE," VICTORIA AVENUE, Where Customers are invited to Inspect their Large and n STOCK Up to-Ddt OF WALL PAPER For Wedding Rings, Engagement Rings, and all kinds of Jewellery go to O. H. Hughes, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, HIGH STREET, next to Post Office, r PRESTATYN. Repairs on the premises. BROWN BREAD A SPECIALITY. TH0S. MIMES, Grocer, &0., Noted Bread Shop. GRONANT HOUSE (By Post Office). W. GREY JONES, Plamber, Gas and Electric Bell Fitter, 'A GLAZIER, &c. Residence: LABURNUM COTTAGE, High Street, Prestatyn. All Orders personally and promptly attended to. J. E. KELLY, SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST, English & Foreign Fruiterer, SEFTON STORES, PRESTATYN. Fresh Vegetables Daily from our own gardens. Choice Cut Flowers a speciality. Private Gardens attended to.

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Rhyl Church Guild v. Prestatyn. Prestatyn wound up their season's pro- gratnme with a visit to the Rhyl Church Guild. The visitors were without L. Watts and J. W. Jones, but otherwise were at full strength. Once more the forwards were re- arranged, and well to time lined up as follows: Goal, W. Glass; backs, J. T. Williams and Pryce Jones; halves. D. G. Jones, Bell Jones, and T. Brooks forwards, E. Holbrook, R. Jones, R. Hughes, Jim Jones, and G. Glass. J. T. Williains lost the toss, and the Guild played downhill. There was a splendid gate when Prestatyn kicked off. Both teams opened with great style, and the game was furiously contested for some time. The visitors got awav, and Glass opened the scoring, bnt the Guild quickly retaliated and scored a rather soft goal. After this the game became very unin- teresting. but towards the interval the visitors again attacked, and R. Hughes scored a fine goal. Half time: Prestatyn 2 goals, Rhyl 1. With the slope in their favour Prestatyn had most of the game, and added two more goals, R. Jones and R. Hughes being respon- sible. The game now went all in favour of the visitors, and Rhyl were lucky not to have further goals scorod against them. Final score: Prestatyn 4, Rhyl Church Guild 1. From start to finish the visitors always bad the gamp well in hand, the home team doing verv little but defend, which was brought about by the superb play of the Prestatyn halves. Glass had little to do in goal, bnt it was a very soft goal that he allowed to pass him. J. T. Williams was the better of a fine pair of backs, whilst, as already stated. D. G. Jones, Bell Jones, and T. Brooks played grand football. Of the forwards R. Hughes. Holbrook, and Jim Jones were the pick, bnt seeing that four goals were scored (the most in a match this season) the whole line is to be congratulated. Still there wore many splendid openings missed which should have been taken advantage of.

J. P. Linnell, CIVIL ENGINEER, Architect and Surveyor, Land and Estate Agent, WELLINGTON CHAMBERS, RHYL Printed and Published by J. T. BURROWS, High-st..Prestatyn, in the County of Flint.

BYGONES. Contributions to this column will be welcomed and may ba made direct to Mr T. Edwards Brntegid, Cheater who invites residents and others to insert any. information relative to Prestatyn district, which they may possess.

GEOLOGY (continued). The ancient line:of cliff against which the deposits are banked, as described above, is breached at Dyserth by a steep-sided pre- glacial valley, up which there runs a tongue of boulder clay from the plain to the higher ground, and spreading out over the uplands. The type of boulder clay seen on the coast is found to give way inland to a local till of Silurian debris. The newest member of the drift is a tough, homogeneous, chocolate-coloured clay, with few boulders, consisting of grey granite, por- phyries, limestones, quartz and shell frag- ments. It is worked for bricks near Meliden. The borings and sections show that it is interstratified with eaud beds, though these do not often appear at the surface. At Pres- tatyn there is a considerable area of soft red sand, and from Dyserth Hall a similar sand with. interstratified beds of well rounded shingle extends through Bodrhyddan Park 0 southwards. The boulder clay is well seen in the valley at the foot of Dyserth Castle Rock, and a little to the north of the stream which runs into Dyserth Waterfall, a deep tongue runs up what appears to be the pre-giacial line of drainage, separating the roek-hills of Craig Heilyn and Dyserth Castle. At the top of the limestone plateau this boulder clay spreads out from one to two miles in breadth, and runs for some miles to the south. A. good section has been opened near the terminus of the Prestatyn and Dyserth branch railway, where the clay has been cut into for •; depth of 18 feet without being penetrated. i It ttt of a deep red colour, similar to the drift bf tire plain. At Gwaenysgor, Gop hill, and Axton, the red tint predominates in the tongues of boulder clay, due to the clay being composed of the insoluble residue of limestone. A red tint often prevails in the soil of the rocks. Sand and gravel appears at intervals from beneath the clay at these high levels, as in the plain. At Henfryn the Newmarket brook has cut through red boulder clay, and exposed sand with shell fragments, and at Hendre-mynach there is 25 feet of sand under a yellow and more gravelly clay. In most cases the sand and gravel pushes up through tho Boulder Clay in the form of steep mounds or ridgos. A prominent example occurs near the Prestatyn nnd Dyserth railway terminus close to the clay before alluded to. A steep ridge of gravel l'ises boldly up and for about 800 yards in a ULE. direction along the centre of the valley. The bedding of the gravel is arch-shaped, so as to bo roughly parallel to the shape of the ground. The boulders consist of 60 per cent of limestone, the larger ones being about six inches long, the remainder being chiefly Silurian. The coarse gravel is interstratified with bands of grit and sand with shell frag- ments, and the whole is cemented into irregu- lar blocks by carbonate of lime. Similar gr&vpl-banks occupy the valley again a short distance to the north-east, but with an increase in the proportion of lime- stone boulders to 90 per cent. A sand-pit 500 yards S.S.W. of the Gop Farm, show the superposition of the red boulder clay on the sand. The clay contains many scratched blocks of limestones about one foot long, a large boulder of voleanic ash from the Aronig mountains, and a few-shell-fragments. The sand is fine. with gritty patches and veins of loam or clay, and also contains shell-frag- ments. The bedding of the sand is disturbed 'immediately under the clay. An esker-lik,e development of sand and gravel appears again at the margin of the boulder clay on the east side of Moel Hira- ddu-g. The ridges consist of stratified sand and gravel with shell fragments, but after running for 400 or 500 yards die out, leaving the clay in contact with the rock. North of Gwaenysgor a long strip of sand and gravel is shown running over the black limestone, and Chert outcrops towards Kelston. The line of separation between this deposit and the boulder clay is very indefinite. A gravelly character invades the clay, and chert-fragments increase in abundance north- wards. Finally the gravelly clay passes into a sand and gravel deposit, which forms characteristic banks near Gulgrave Hall. The same difficulty is met with in drawing a boundary between the sand and gravel and boulder clay about Axton, though the former preserves in the main its habit of rising into banks and hillocks. One of these occurs near Pant-Glas, with an axis running about E. IQo S., and nearly parallel to the valley. Scattered over the eountry, over the drift- covered areas and bare hill-tops alike, there occur large erratic blocks. Though scarce in the area now specially under consideration, they become exceedingly abundant further south, where they are found up to an altitude of more than 1,000 feet. A very large proportion of these have been derived from the felspathic volcanic series in the Bala beds, of the Snowdon and Arenig groups of mountains, and have therefore travelled in a N,E. direction. There is one measuring 5x4x8 feet on the Cwm mountain, 880 feet above Ordnance Datum. Another measuring 9x6x5 feet, lies in the bed of the stream near Hendre-bach (500 feet). Another measuring 3 X It X 1 ft. lies on the bank of the stream above Hendre- fawr (600 feet), and is possibly from the Bala beds. Another is embedded in the side of the road at Pentre, near Newmarket, but is smaller than the others. These felspathic boulders are confined generally to the areas in which drifts of western derivation occur.

SUNDAY SERVICES AT PRESTATYN. CHRIST CHURCH (Church of England). High St. 8 a.m. Holy Communion (English). 11 a.m. (Eugush).Rev;O.J.Davies,M.A.(Viear) 5-45 p.m., (Welsh) „ 7-15 p.m.. (Eiiglisb) „ BETHEL^ WELSH WESLEYAN CHAPEL, High-st 10 a.m., Mr T. Evans, Rhyl. 8 p.m., Rev. J. Kelly, Prestatyn. HOREB WELSH WESLEYAN CHAPEL, Marine-rd 10 a.m., Mr J. Jones, Rhyl. 6 p.m., Mr T. Brans, Rhyl. REHOBOTH C.M. CHAPEL (Welsh), High Street 10 a.m. Rev. Ezra Jones 6 p.m. M 11 TowYN, t p.m. „ WELSH CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, Via. Av 10 a.m. Mr Hugh Roberts, Prestatyn. < p.m. „ „ WELSH BAPTIST CHURCH,jOld British School. 10 a.m Pastor M. F. Wynne. Prestatyn. 6 p.m. ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH of Wales, Nant Hall Road. 11 a.m., BeT J. Williams, B.A., Wrexham. 6-30 p.m. „ „ ST. JOHN'S ENGLISH WESLEYAN CHURCH, Station Road. 10-45 a.m.ReT W. Bell, Prestatyn. 6-30 p.m. Mr Lewis Jones, TRINITY CHURCH (Methodist New Connexion) 10-45 a.m. Rev W. J. Townsend, D.D. G-30 p.m I „ „ CHURCH OF SS. PETER AND FRANCES (Roman Catholic), Gronant Road. Mass 10 a.m., Benediction 6-30. Rev. H. Biekerton Jones. —;— SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. Mission.Services are held at Dr. Smith's, Drakelow. 11 0 a.m., Sabbath (Saturday), 6 0 p.m., Sunday. Scripture Expositions of the Prophecies, Coming of Christ, Approaching End, ete. All are welcome; No Collection. Sankey's Hymns. Bring your Bibles.

P. s. JENNINGS, PRESTATYN. The Cheapest Draper. The Smartest Clothier. The most Up-to-Date Outfitter IN THE TDXSTTXHCT. <

The League. The North Wales Junior League programme was brought to a successful conclusion on Saturday, when Rhyl Victoria (the cham- pions) won at Rnthin, whilst Prestatyn secured second place by means of a 4-1 victory over Rhyl Guild. The Vies, who are a new team, were only once defeated, this being by Prestatyn 8-0, whilst only 12 goals have been notched against them (6 of these coming from Prestatyn) as against 80 seenred by them. As already stated, Prefl- tatyn are runners np. with Denbigh third. The Hhyl Guild, with equal goals for and against, are a good half way house, whilst Abergele took off the Wooden Spoon honours. This is the first season for this League, and with a membership of seven clubs (Colwyn Bay would have made eight had they remained in the League) have made a good start. If the committee keep to the present arrange- ments and do not let clubs from a long dis. tance join, there should again be a good muster of clubs next season. SCRAPS. The Prestatyn forwards made a' welcome return to form on Saturday. They have given us very little good football since they defeated Llandudno away on Feb. 10th. In the Thursdays v. Old Boys mateh re- ported last week. Mr D. J. Davies, the genial hon. sec. of the former elub, gave great satis- faction as a referee. At the Football Dinner to be held shortly, when members of the Thursday and Satnrdays will sit down together, the advisability of amalgamating the two clubs will be discussed. Next week and following weeks it is pro- posed to give a short biography of the players of both teams, Saturdays and Thursdays.