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ii THE "AMMAN VALLEY CHRONICLE" Printing Offices, l" Quay Street, AMMANFORD. The Amman Valley Chronicle Limited undertake any and every kind of Printing from a Visiting Card to a Poster, or a Dance Programme to a Novel. Orders taken for reprints of Letters, Articles, or Advertisements from the Chronicle. All communications, containing Orders for Printing, should I be Plainly Addressed to THE MANAGER, Amman Valley Chronicle Offices, Quay Street, Ammanford. Letters, MSS., and Advertisements intended for insertion in the Newspaper should be directed to EDITOR. Amman Valley Chronicle, Ammanford. This Establishment is a Noted House for First-Class Printing, and for the Quality of the Work, combined with Accuracy, Despatch, and Secrecy, has gained the confidence of the Professions and Business Firms in the District of East Carmarthenshire. COMMERCIAL & GENERAL. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES, PRICE LISTS. BOOKS, PAMPHLETS. ANNUAL REPORTS. MUSIC OF ALL KINDS. CIRCULARS, &c. LEGAL & ACCOUNTANCY. ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION. PROSPECTUSES, INDENTURES. AGREEMENTS, STATEMENTS OF CLAIM. BALANCE SHEETS. STATEMENTS OF AFFAIRS. &c. SURVEYORS. PLANS, BiLLS OF QUANTITIES. CONDITIONS OF CONTRACTS. CONTRACT FORMS, &c. AUCTION & ESTATE AGENTS. PARTICULARS OF SALE AND PLANS. CONDITIONS OF SALE. POSTERS. CATALOGUES, TENANCY AGREEMENTS. &e. k. "AMMAN VALLEY CIIRONICLE" LIMITED, Printing Offices, Quay Street, AMMANFORD. Branch Office at Cross Hands. FOR QUALITY IN t Groceries, Provisions, Etc., Combined with LOW PRICES, NONE CAN BEAT.. LEWIS & EVANS, The House of Quality, GARNANT. —— — I /f M of every Description. POLISHED PLATE GLASS (Thousands of feet in Steck) For Shop Fronts, Windows, Sashes, Cases, Motor Screens, etc., etc. Practical Glaziers sent to all parts. HORTICULTURAL GLASS stocked in all sizes. Enquiries and quotations solicited. Several tons of GALVANISED SHEETS from 4 ft. to 10 ft., 24 & 26 Gauge. Special quotations for half ton lots. A Large Stock of WIRE NETTING and BARBED WIRE in Stock. I have still some hundreds of Articles, including All Kinds of TOOLS to Clear, at BARGAIN PRICES, Slightly soiled through alteration of premises. SAINT'S a good household, from 1/9, 2/ 2/3 upwards, and hundreds of Articles too numerous to mention. B. SHEPHERD, Ammanford. Tel. No. 48.   PYLE TENNIS VIEW ••• T• FU t. PYLE9 RESTAURANT & BAKERY, College Street, AMMANFORD. The Best House in the District for High-class Bi?ead9 & Pastry. Everything Manufactured from the Purest Materials. My 6d. GLOBE CAKES in Madeira, Cherry, Seed, Sultana, and Currant delight all Consumers. No Tea Table is complete-without one of these delicious comestibles. ALL KINDS OF ORNAMENTAL CAKES TO ORDER. The Premises have been ENLARGED to meet the needs of Customers. UP-TO-DATE TEA and DINING ROOMS. AFTERNOON TEAS A SPECIALITY. Catering in all Branches on or off the Premises. Accommodation for Commercials. EYESIGHT CHATS. "OCULAR HEADACHES." HE most common symptoms of defective sight are Headaches. Many Headaches attributed to Indigestion and Uver are due to the Eyes. These Headaches become gradually worse, and giddiness, insomnia, pains at the back of the Eyes follow. Nothing will cure this state of things except wearing correct scien- tifically-fitted glasses. The cause removed, the disagreeable_symptoms disappear. I will test your sight and tell you if your Headaches, etc., are due to defects of vision., ENQUIRIES SOLICITED. AMUJ t ttsi a rt JEWELLER and A? WW. HJ?jA? SIGHT-TESTING OPTICIAN Rhosmaen Street, LLANDILO. J WILLIAMS, Oil Meirc-haimt, Golden Eagle Slores, Wind Street, AMMANFORD. JUST ARRIVED VERY LARGE STOCK OF High-class Rugs, Slips, &c., also LARGE QUANTITY of Paints and Varnishes, China, &c. AN INSPECTION INVITED. GOOD OPPORTUNITY for BARGAINS. We deal with the BEST HOUSES, therefore it follows we can SELL AT THE BEST PRICES. All Household Requisites a Speciality. I -t -ir# I NOTICE to the Public of Ammanford and District. Owing to the Increase of Business and Shortage of ex- perienced assistance, I am compelled to ask my Customers to withhold their repairs of Watches and Clocks for a period oi six months. At the end of that time I hope to be able to cope with any instructions, and can assure my customers that all work entrusted to me will Be carried out in the same efficient manner as hitherto. EVaN FWM Practical Watchmaker and Jeweller EVAN LEWIS 9 (Under BIG CLOCK), AMMANFORD. Your Furniture RE-COVERED In Your Own Home. Distance No Object. HENSON, 36, Colonel Road, BETTWS, Ammanford. ?GLOBE Boot, Shoe, HLUBL & Clog STORES, COLLEGE STREET, AMMANFORD. ALF. WILLIAMS. The Noted House for all Kinds of FOOTWEAR. Boot Repairing Neatly Executed. WHEN YOU BUY A PIANO HAVE THE BEST. Thompson & Shackell, Ltd., Invite Inspection of their Splendid Stock of BRITISH-MADE PIANOS OF WORLD-WIDE FAME, Including Instruments by the following Celebrated Makers:- JOHN BRINSMEAD & SONS, CHALLEN & SONS, J. & d. HOPKINSON, d. H. CROWLEY, AJELLO & SONS, BROADWOOD PIANO-PLAYERS, MOORE & MOORE, JUSTINE BROWNE, CRAMER & COMPANY, COLLARP & COLLARD, And othen too numerous to mention. UNSURPASSED FOR TONE, TOUCH, AND ELEGANCE OF DESIGN. All Pianos Warranted, and Exchanged if not approved. FULL VALUE ALLOWED FOR OLD PIANOS IN EXCHANGE. 25, QUEEN STREET, CARDIFF. ADDRESS:60, Stepney Street, LLANELLY. I Beautify the Home Dainty Mats, Comfortable Rugs, Choice Patterns in Linoleums, Carpets, Hand- some Mirrors, Bedsteads, Bedding, Wire Mattresses, Overlays. FURNITURE of every description manufactured on the Premises. Pianos, Organs, and other Musical Instruments. H. T ARR, 71, Wind St., AMMANFORD. The Amman Valley Furnishing Stores. Telephone: P.O. No. S. Cross Inn Hotel AMMANFORD. Motor Cars, Closed Carriages, Brakes, Traps; &c., for Hire. High -class Accommodation for Commercial Travellers. BILLIARD TABLE. PROPRIETOR- o. D. EDWARDS. >
Towyn's Daughter Engaged.
Towyn's Daughter Engaged. The engagement is announced of Miss Elsie Towyn Jones, elder daugh- ter of Mr. J. Towyn Jones, M.P., Welsh Whip, and Mrs. Jones, Arosfa, Llandebie, to Geoffrey, the elder son of Mr. -Moore, Albany Mansions, S.W., and of Edith Mary Moore, the renowned authoress of The Spirit of the Law," The Idealist and Mary Trehante," "The Luck of Eve," etc. Mr. Geoffrey Moore is at present attached to Messrs. Topham, Jones and Railton on constructionaj work at Talbot, whilst his fiancee is doing war Work attached to the Board of Trade at the same place.
Amman Valley Churches]
Amman Valley Churches I AND THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. A special appeal was made last year by the directors of. the London Mis- sionary Society, and the report of the Society just to hand shews how the different Congregational churches re- sponded. The collections for last year were as follow:- Brynamman— £ s. d. Bethanta 4 16 8 Ebenezer 2 7 8 Gibea 13 16 10 Gwaun-cae-gurwen- Carmel 3 7 3 Tabernacle 9 16 9 GIanamman- Bryn Seion 22 7 9 Ammanford- Christian Temple 12 13 6 Gwynfryn J2 0 0 Moriah 11 15 9
Warning Against Intemperance.
Warning Against Intem- perance. How intemperance may in time make a degraded brute of a decent and respectable man and cause him to injure those whom he loves, is strikingly shewn in the 4th episode of the great Essanay serial film, The Strange Case of Mary Page," which is due for presentation at the Public Hall, Gwaun-cae-gurwen, to-night (Thursday) Friday and Saturday. Mr. Frank Dayton's performance as the dissipated Daniel Page is a far more convincing warning against intem- perance than a dozen anaemic tracts or sermons on the subject. Mr. Frank Dayton is nothing if not an artist. In the part in question it was necessary for him to appear with his hair almost as shaggy and uncombed as a mat. In order to achieve this effect, he boy- cotted the barber for fifteen weeks, with the result that in the later stages of his discomfort, whenever he walked abroad his hat looked more like a large wart upon his head than a respectable Trilby."
I Sequel to Breach of Promise…
I Sequel to Breach of Promise I There was a sequel to a Carmarthen- shire breach of promise action at Car- marthen Bankruptcy Court (before Mr. Registrar ,D. E. Stephens-Davies), on Tuesday, when Gomer Owen, Garn- llwyd, Tircoed Road, Glanamman, appeared for his public examination. The gross liabilities were estimated at £ 61 18s. 7d., and the deficiency was 146 18s. 7d., representing damages and costs in a breach of promise action brought against him by Elizabeth Price, of Llandebie, in June, 1916. Examined by the Official Receiver (Mr. H. W. Thomas), debtor said he promised to marry the woman in October, 1915, and put up the banns. Why did you not carry out your promise ?—I saw her with another chap. Of course she denies that, does she nOt ?-I caught her myself. But she denies that?—I do not think she can deny it. Debtor, further questioned, said an order for 15s. per week in respect of the damages and costs of the action had been made against him at Llandilo County Court. The Official Receiver: You filed your petition because of these proceed- ings?—Yes. You don't intend paying, do you?- I cannot pay, because I have to main- tain my father and mother. I am pay- ing 18s. a month for a child. There was a paternity order obtained against you by the same woman ?- Yes. Debtor added he had no money set aside, and he had no offer to make to his creditors. His wages were f-3 a week. The examination was closed.
ISevere Weather Record.
I Severe Weather Record. I The County School, Ammanford, 14th Feb., 1917. To the Editor, Amman Valley Chronicle. Sir,—The accompanying facts and figures with regard to the recent severe weather may interest your readers. The maximum and minimum ther- mometers from which the records are taken are kept in a Stevenson Ther- mometer Screen at Gwynfryn. The screen is four feet from the ground, and is situated in the garden on the shel- tered side of the house. Had the screen been o nthe north side, it is possible that the readings might have been even lower. It is an established fact that the minimum or lowest tem- perature occurs just before sunrise, and that the temperature then rises until about one or two o' clock in the after- noon, when the maximum or highest point for the day is reached; after which the temperature falls throughout the afternoon and night until the mini- mum is again reached about sunrise. The lowest readings were recorded on the 5th, 6th and 7th of this month, when the thermometer fell to 12 deg., 10 deg., and 8 deg. F., respectively; or, in other words, there were 20. 22, and 24 degrees of frost registered on those days. Biting east winds blew from the 24th to the 29th of January, and during those days the maximums were very low, and the range of temperature was also very small. Heavy falls of snow occurred on the 12th and 13th of January, and again on the 3rd and 4th of February. There was also a very slight fall on the 21st of January. The mean temperature for January was 35.8. This winter is acknowledged on all hands to be the hardest winter since 1895. Curiosity led me to hunt up records of other severe winters, and I found that the prolonged frosts of last century in London (unfortunately I have not been able to obtain records for any place in South Wales) were as follow:- 1813-Dec. 26-1814 Feb. 5. 42 days 1838-jan. 5-Feb. 23 50 1855—Jan. 10-Feb. 25 47 1860-Dec. 15-1861 Jan. 19. 36 „ J8f9-Nov. 14-Dec. 27 44 1881—Jan. 7-26 20 „ I 890-Nov. 25-1891 Jan. 22. 59 „ 1895-jan. 22-Feb. 20 30 The present severe weather may be said to have began on January 10th. Up to the present we have had 33 days of continuous frost, and the anti- cyclonic conditions now prevailing shew no immediate sign of breaking up. The old proverb that As the day lengthens, So the cold strengthens has been amply verified this year. Another proverb (also verified this year) is referred to by Sir Thomas Brown, the quaint author of Religid Medici." He says: There is a general tradition in most parts of Europe, that inferreth the coldness of succeeding winter from the shining of the sun on Candlemasday (Feb. 2. the Feast of the Purification), accord- ing to the proverbial distich- Si sol splendescat Maia purificante, Maior erit glacies post festum quam fuit ante. An English version runs:— When on Purification sun bath skined The greater part of winter comoc behind. A similar English proverb is as follows:- If Candlemasday be fair and bright. Winter will have another fight; But if it be dark with clouds and rain. Winter is gone and won't come again." This year, Candlemasday was fair and bright. A further prolongation of this frosty spell will be a serious matter for those who intend cultivating allotments. A whiff from the south-west would be a welcome change.— Yours, &c., G. O. WILLIAMS. [Since the above was written, the severe weather has broken up, and heavy rain fallen.—ED.1
Heir for Lord St. Davids.'-
Heir for Lord St. Davids. Lady St. Davids has given birth to a son and heir at her London resi- dence, 3, Richmond Terrace. Both are doing well. Lord St. Davids lost his two son*, Captain the Hon. Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps and Captain the Ploa. Roland Philipps, M.C., in the war. Lady St. Davids was M,iss Betty Rawdon-Hastings. before her marriage in April last year. She is the second daughter of Lady Maud Rawdon- Hastings and a niece of Lord Verulam. The news of the birth of an heir will occasion rejoicings in Pembrokeshire.