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THE OMNIBUS. I

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THE OMNIBUS. I [Thinip Seen and Heard by the ContIucter.11 If one baa no liopes, one can have no dis- appointments. Strike, and the world strikes with you. Work, and you work alone. Human emotions are the wires pulled by the gods to bend men to their will. Electricity filled the Council Chamber on Tuesday evening, and there waa gas." We often ascribe to Fate what has, really amounted to following the line of least resist- aace. A half-pound of butter fetched 31s. lecently, and the purchaser believed it to be a quarter-pound. During the railway strike, supplies of coal were being sent to industrial districts by mean& of carnal transport. » One of the Council oiffcials assumes that Aberlash Bridge is only known to the single element of Ammanford. It is announced by the Food Ministry that on and from Wednesday (yesterday) mar- garine is no longer rationed. A little bird whispers that at Uandovery the knuta are rather keen on luncheons. Sale bills are eagerly scanned. It has never been suggested that a table should be placed at the disposal of the Ptess at Council meetings. It is a little difficult. 0 A local wag described the engine and trucks stranded on the siding near Tirydail Station during the strike as a war souvenir. Not bad. 1 am not used to this," coyly remarked a defendant at the Police Court on Monday, but it proved to be a case of Should auld acquaintance be forgot." I & at Milk for the ba irns was chalked on a motor lorry that passed through Ammanford last week, with the addition: The driver drinks beer." A contrast. # » During the strike at Llandovery, the younger element of the strikers passed away the time in playing several interesting matches with the local Demobs.- One of the best. You say your laundry- woman reminds you of a good preacher. Yea; she's always bringing things home to me that 1 never saw before." Strikes must be included in the term fever. Now we have the Food Control Committee ready to down resolutions. But it's rather a milky question. Teacher: How is it that Johnny knows his alphabet so much better than you do) He never misses a letter. Tommy: "Oh, he inherited it. His father is a postman. A time-honoured practice in rural Wales— that of hiring farm servants at this period of the year—has become obsolete through the introduction of the Com Production Act. The solicitor saw a point, and quickly asked the witness: Oh! but who was' with you? Only myself," was the devas- tating reply. And very good company, too." was recent ly An Amman Valley miner was recently asked by his mini ste: the reason why he did not attend chapel. Too many apricots there for me,' he replied. He meant aris- tocrats. Woman was invented as a corrective. With- out her, man might have discovered how near the divine he really was. Her influence con- • fines him to the earth who else might scale liigh heaven. The Board of Trade announces that the restrictions on the export of petrol and petroleum products, of which notification was given to the Press on Friday last, has now been withdrawn. A Chester signalman striker returned to work saying that as a train had been kept in the station all night with a number of women and babies, his conscience would not allow him to remain on strike. Even to the Council members the Welsh language is appealing. One of the members asserted that the deputation which recently met must have conversed in Welsh. The out- I come was a Little confusing. Two hundred Mid forty-three years was the combined age of the principals in a wed- ding recently. The bridegroom, a well- known tradesman, was 81, the blushing bride 69, and the officiating minister 93. We have a Government that recently passed a Bill against profiteering, and yet the Government encourages the same thing them- selves," said Mr. J. H. Lawley, the Vice- chairman of the Council, on Tuesday. ? Overheard at one of our public meetings: That last speaker was quite entertaining." Yes, and he's a self-made man, too." I thought his delivery rather slow, though." That' s natural. He began life as a messen- ge boy." Direct action is blessed in the possession of a very attractive name; it is blessed in nothing else. It would, I believe, imme- diately begm the breaking of workmen' s heads and the breaking of women's bea.rtS.MI. J. R. Clynes, M.P. # At the Tai'igwaith Sports, held on Satur- day last, the two sisters, Lily and Fanny Morgan, of Llandovery, again came to the front. Lily won the 100 yards scratch race for ladies, and Fanny came second. In the egg and spoon race, both sisters came in first and second respectively. An Ammanford man reports a queer inci- dent. It happened before the railway strike, and he was sitting in the tram with his feet close together, but when the time came to get out he couldn't. The lace of one boot had become entangled in the tags of the other, and there he had to sit till his friends departed, for it took some time to get loose. Luckily, the station was a terminus, or the train would have taken him on* W W A local man was, due to the railway strike, obliged to stop overnight at a small country hotel. He was shown to his room by the one boy of the place. I'm glad there's an escape here in case of fire," he com- mented as he surveyed the room. But what' s the idea of putting a prayer book in the room so prominently? That," ex- claimed the boy, is intended for use in case the fire is too far advanced for you to make youi escape, ar,'a

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