Abergavenny Chronicle

CRICKHOWELL POLICE COURT. 1 Friday.—Before Mr. Anthony H. Miers and I Mr. R. G. James. SUNDAY DRINKING. Margaret Warren, licensee of the Bridgend Inn, Gilwern, was charged with selling intoxicating liquors during prohibited hours, and Thomas Howells, labourer, Gilwern village, was summoned for unlawfully being on licensed premises. Mr. Thomas Vaughan, solicitor, Crickhowell, appeared to prosecute, on behalf of the police, and Mr. Thos. Hughes, of Ebbw Vale, defended Mrs. Warren and Howells.—P.C. John Boore (Gilwern) said that on the 19th March, a Sunday, he visited the Bridgend Inn, Gilwern, kept by Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren was standing on the front doox, and the defendant Howells was behind the door of the taproom, drinking beer from a half-pint measure. He questioned Howells as to what he was doing there at that time-it was about 11.30 a.m.-and Bertie G. Warren, husband of the licensee, replied I have invited him to dinner." Howells lodged only 60 yards away from the inn, and he (the constable) went and made enquiries of his landlady, Mrs. Isaac, as to whether she expected him home to dinner. Mrs. Isaac replied Yes," remarking that she was then cooking his dinner. Witness subsequently returned to the Bridgend, and Howells was still there, and apparently drinking more beer. He asked Howells why he did not inform his land- lady that he was not coming home to dinner, and he made no reply. Mrs. Warren then said, I invited him to dinner yesterday," and witness added and to drink as well. "—By Mr. Hughes There was no attempt to hide anything.—Mr. Hughes said they did not complain of the case I being brought forward by the police, and the constable had given his evidence very fairly. It was perfectly clear that a licensee was entitled to supply his own guests, and that was all that had been done in this case. Howells was a bonafide guest of the licensee, and he would call evidence to prove this.—Mrs. Warren said the Bridgend was a beerhouse. The constable came in about 11.30, and her husband and Thomas Howells and another man were in the parlour at the time. Howells was there by the invitation of her husband, who on the previous day asked him to come and join them at dinner. She did not ask Howells to come at any particular time. She gave him a half-pint of beer to drink while dinner was being prepared.—Mr. Miers: What time do you generally have dinner ?—Mrs. Warren 12.30.— Mr. Miers But Howells was there at 11.30.—By Mr. Vaughan She did not charge Howells anything for his dinner and the beer. Howells had only been in the district for a week or so, but he had been in her house every evening during that period.—Mr. Vaughan I believe you keep a public-house as a means of earning a livelihood.—Mrs. Warren Yes, partly.—Mr. Vaughan Do you think it con- ducive to business to give free dinners and drinks to strangers ?—Mrs. Warren Well, I did it.- Bertie Geo. Warren, husband of the licensee, said he heard a friend of Howells, on Saturday, 18th March, invite him to dinner to the Bell Vue Inn, Llanelly, and as that was some distance away, he asked him to come and join them at dinner instead on the morrow. Howells was at the Bridgend as an invited guest.;—By Mr. N-atighan The Bell Vue was about a mile and a half away.—George Bourne, ■ Llanelly, gave similar evidence.—George White, Ebbw Vale, said he spent a week-end holiday at the Bridgend Inn. He had bread and cheese and onions with Howells and Bourne on the Satur- day, and he heard Warren invite the former to dinner.—Mr. Vaughan What did you pay the landlady for staying at the Bridgend from Satur- day to Monday ?—White Only 6d. for my bed. Mr. Vaughan And the bread and cheese and onions, dinners and teas were thrown in !— White: Yes.—Mr. Vaughan: Then Mrs. Warren can expect many more of us on these terms. (Laughter).-Thomas Howells also gave evidence. He did not inform Mrs. Isaac, his landlady, that he was not coming home to dinner, as it was no business of hers.—The Be:%n'rl?' ietired, and on returning into Court Mr. Miers said Mrs. Warren would be fined £ 1 15s. 6d., and Howells 15s. 6d. The former would have to be careful that she did not get her licence endorsed. AFFILIATION.—Thomas Watkins, of Old Trap road, Gilwern, labourer, was summoned by Harriet Watkins, Gilwern, to show cause, &c. It transpired during the evidence that com- plainant is a niece of defendant, and had kept house for him..Defendant denied the paternity of the child. The Bench made an order for 3s. a week, and ordered defendant to pay costs. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Evan Parry, farm labourer, Llangynidr, was charged with being 1 1 _1 _1;1.1_ 4- -r»4- CirUIIK ana lUSWUCUV Uti LUC QI, Ltangynidr.-P.C. Jones (Llangynidr) said de- fendant was drunk in the village, and was refused drink at two or three public-houses. He per- sisted in asking for beer, and became disorderly, lying down on the highway and declining to go home. Ultimately he had to be conveyed to Crickhowell Police Station in a trap.—Fined 30s. CAUTIONED.—Mrs. Watkins and her son Harry Watkins (17), of Brynheulog, Llangynidr, were charged with stealing 6d. worth of hay from a hay rick belonging to David Richards, Neuadd- fawr, Llangattock. It was stated that Richards bought a rick of hay from Mrs. Watkins, who took some of it after the purchase had been completed.—Defendant admitted taking the hav, and said she did not think much objection would be taken, as it was for her sheep during the storm in March.—The Bench, after caution- ing defendants, dismissed the case. FARMER FINED.—William George Watkins, farmer, Crickhowell, was charged with carrying a gun without a licence. Defendant pleaded not guilty. According to the evidence of P.C. Lewis, he met Watkins carrying his gun in the public street, and in reply to a remark as to whether he had been having some sport, Watkins replied that he had been shooting finches on his field. Defendant told him that he had taken out a licence, but he had since ascertained that this was not so.—Mr. Hodge, taxation officer for Breconshire, who prosecuted, said he sent defendant notice to take out a licence in the usual way.—Replying to Mr. Miers, Mr. Hodge stated that a person could carry a gun only on his own land to scare birds, not kill them, without taking out a licence.—Mr. Miers But suppose he was a bad shot and managed to kill one i (Laughter).—Defendant said h'e was clearly under the impression that he had taken out a licence he had taken one out for 30 years, hence his reason for informing the constable. He pointed out, however, that in this particular instance he was only carrying the gun to his farm, some distance away, to frighten the birds off the wheat, and he contended he had not in- fringed the law. He could not keep the gun at the farm, as there was no house there, and it was impossible to take the gun to the place without carrying it through the streets. He took out a licence two days after the date of the alleged offence.—Mr. Miers said defendant had taken out a licence for 30 years, but omitted doing so in time this year, through carelessness. He would be fined in the costs.—Watkins I won't pay. I will go to prison first. I do not consider this a prosecution, but persecution.— The Clerk A distress warrant will issue.— Watkins I pity the man who comes to dis- train. (Laughter). ————

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l Crickhowell Medical Officer's I Report. Dr3 Hill, Medical Officer of Health for the i I Crickhowell District, in his annual report, says I there were shortages of water at Crickhowell and Llanelly Hill, but, so far as could be ascertained, the remainder of the district did not suffer. The I total rainfall for the year was 46.72 inches. Ten cases of diphtheria were notified, seven in the I Crickhowell division of the district, and three in Llanelly. Two deaths resulted, one being ascribed to post scarletinal diphtheria. This disease is not infrequently found associated with the acute stage of scarlet fever, but it more often arises during the period of convalescence. Three deaths out of 63 cases of scarlet fever were notified. This disease was more especially a disease of childhood, the incidence being greatest at de aaand six years of age. Of the number notified 41 were between five and 15 years. Dealing with typhoid fever in Llanelly, the Medical Officer states :—" Nine cases of typhoid l fever have been notified, affecting four houses, and one death registered. The cases were con- fined to Llanelly. The modes in which typhoid fever is disseminated are various. It is not com- monly transmitted from person to person. Flies may carry the disease to food or drink, and so be the means of communicating the disease from person to person. The most common vehicle, however, of the poison is drinking water, which may be contaminated in various ways, mostly by sewage, and this applies in a dangerous degree at llanelly. As it seems improbable that any hope can be entertained of a new system of sewerage being carried out by the Brynmawr Urban Council until after the termination of the war, and after,' may be an indefinite term. It has suggested itself to me whether it would be possible to offer the inhabitants of Llanelly the use of typhoid vaccine. This vaccine is used as a prophylactic against typhoid fever. It is being used on a large scale by the military authorities as a means of rendering troops immune to this disease, as by its use the incidence of enteric fever and the case of mortality among the vaccinated are very considerably lowered. It is estimated that the incidence among the vaccinated is lower than that among the un- vaccinated by 50 to 75 per cent., and the mor- tality is reduced to one-sixth, and the reduction is still greater among those who have received more than one inoculation of the vaccine. The vaccine should be obtained at the public ex- pense. I CONSERVING OF INFANT LIFE. There is an interesting paragraph under this heading :— In no way are the ravages of war more seriously felt or more difficult to replace than the loss of human lives. The destruction of life in the present war is enormous and continuous. These lives are lost for ever,, and all we can do is to conserve the lives of those now living and make preparation for watching over the lives of those about to be born. There is no doubt that the mortality of children under five years of age, and more especially that of children under one year of age, is largely preventable. There is an immense field for activity if we consider the familiar causes at work in the destruction of the infant, since every fault in the domestic en- vironment, whether before or after birth, of mother or child, causes some wastage of child life. The housing of the poor and the education of the house wife have to be considered with greater seriousness than ever. Further, the care of expectant mothers, the supplying of skilled and prompt attendance upon confinements at home, the supervision of mid wives, and the treatment of children up to school age, and sub- sequent treatment during school life, are matters which will have intensified attention. The I question of infant feeding should attract in- creasing attention, and rightly so, for no question is more far-reaching in its physical, social and economic consequences. The increasing ten- dency of the young mother of the present age not to suckle her child is a menace to the welfare bot11 of the individual and of the nation, which cannot fail to bring in its train a heavy retribu- tion. Tue breast-ted baby is healthier, happier, gains in weight more regularly and to a greater extent, and enjoys a more placid existence than its fellow brought up on artificial food. I believe that in future there will be hss malnutrition amongst the elder children, no doubt due to the liberal allowance made by the Government to soldiers' dependents, and the almost entire absence of unemployment." Referring to the Health Visitor, Nurse Lyne, who temporarily resigned her appointment during the part of the year, for nursing duty in a military hospital, Dr. Hill says that up to the period of her leaving she visited and gave in- structions to a large number of expectant mothers, with special reference to their care and feeding. Forty-six cases of successful primary vaccination ani 16 cases of re vaccination were recorded by the Public Vaccinator during the year. The number of cases of primary vaccin- ation in 1914 was 74. This decline the Medical Officer considers very discouraging, and he points out that except in the case of those protected by vaccination, immunity is rare in smallpox, and it must be clearly understood that no medical organization, however complete, and no system isolative sanitation and general preparedness for dealing with outbreaks could be safely trusted in the absence of systematic primary vaccination, should an epidemic of this disease occur in this country. These are the grounds upon which he contends the State should repeal the so-called conscientious objection clause. The births registered in the district numbered 158, viz., 02 boys and 66 girls. The rate for the year was 20.4 per 1000, as against 24.6 last year, the average for the previous five years being 23.1. The deaths registered numbered 105, as I against 100 lasL year, which affords a death rate of 13.6 per 1000 muabitants per annum. The number of deaths among infants under 12 months of age amounted to 17, being 107.6 per 1000 net births. There are tables showing inspections of houses, &c., with other statistical information, and a paragraph paying tribute to the work of the sanitary officials, Messrs. F. J. Hurley and E. R. Morgan. In November Mr. Morgan left to join the London Sanitary Company, R.A.M.C. He was an able, conscientious and efficient officer, and I much regret his departure."

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Maindiff Court Red Cross Hospital. j The Committee wish to thank all those who I hava kindly sert gifts during the past fortnight. The following have been received :— Eggs and Butter.—iTb. butter and four eggs. Anon)mous; 12 eggs, Mrs. Davis, Killough I 30 eggs, Mr. Lew is, Tread am 10 eggs, Mrs. j Whatmore, 7 Tiverton-place 12 eggs, Mrs. Bews, Mantilio Vicarage 36 eggs, The Misses Jackson, Brynderi; 12 eggs and itb. butter, Mrs. Bayliss, Upper White Castle 119 eggs, Goytrey Parish Church, per Mrs. J. Davies, Goytrey Rectory ilt>. butter, Miss Johnson, Treadam. Miscellaneous.—Half-gallon milk daily, Miss Jones, Llantillio Pertholev 3 gallons weekly, Sir Ivor Herbert (Llanover) sack of potatoes, Mr. Gething, Coed Glas four bags of potatoes and case of dates, Mrs. Pritchard, Bryn-Caen, Penpergwm rhubarb; Mr. Ruther, Maindiff Farm cakes, Cafe Chant ant, Town Hall 12 packets of cigarettes, Mrs. Jones, Bank House 1,500 cigarettes, Colonel Herbert, Trebencyn 10s. worth of tobacco and cigarettes, L. & N.W. Rly. Staff, per Mr. Baker Sunday papers, Mr. Evans, newsagent daily papers, from Colonel Herbert, Trebencyn, Mr. Howell James (Bank House) and the Manager of Messrs. W. H. Smith & Sons gramophone records, Mr. H. Gething. Owing to pressure on our space we were unable to publish the above list last week.

+ SUNSHINE VERSUS MOONSHINE. I Of the former we have had ocular demonstra- tion daily since the great day when nearly everybody went to Bailey Park to see a sight that couldn't be seen-it was all moonshine,— and the point now under consideration is, first to ascertain who was the perpetrator of the hoax," and then find an Act of Parliament under which he may be called to account for acting so foolishly on All Fools Day." I have heard of a man who composed, what he con- sidered; a very amusing Farce, and laid it before a competent authority for approval. The critic read it carefully, and returned it to the writer with the remark Very well written depend upon it, young man, tiiis is not a thing to be laughed at," wnich was indeed negative sarcasm. Of coursc, the Farce never reached the printer, and the first performance never came off and the Bailey Park hoax may sliare the same fate, with the exception t at it secured a big audience on its first and only pertormance. Economy is preached, but not practised by many hundreds of people at the present crisis, and he must have been a wag who said I pay for something I can't get, with money that I haven't got, and then sell what I never had, for more than it ever cost," which he argued was economy pure and simple the latter adjective, I presume, applied to those who believed him. There is an ell saying that sitting down on a hot stove foretells an early "spring." I have not heard of any hot stoves around this section, but the buds and flowers now to be seen, prove that spring is well advanced, and I can only hope that as the season goes on there will be abundance of fruit and vegetables for the. horns supply and for distribution amongst those brave fellows who in distant lands are doing their best to quell the enemy and keep the home fires burning." Time is on the wing, and being just at he end of my tether, for the present, I submit, in con- I 1 elusion, a suitable inscription to place insicie a grandfather's clock Could but our tempers move with this machine, Not urged by passion or delayed by spleen, And true to Nature's regulating power Bv virtuous acts distinguish every hour Then health and joy would follow as they ought The laws of motion and the laws of thought, Sweet health to pass the present moments o'er, And everlasting joy when Time shall be nc more. The motors, trams and all fast-moving vehicles have been placed in obscurity during the past ten davs by dust-clouds—in the Here- ford and all other roads leading into the town. I am told the Surveyor has been looking around and promises a visit from the tar sprayer as early as possible. For the sake of the populace, I hope he will not act on the wait and see principle and come too late," as tne smother- ation almost puts us out of signt and mind t no DUSTY BOB. Somewhere in Monmouthshire. April 11, 1916. + ————

Monmouthshire Volunteer Hegt. J ORDERS FOR^WEKK ENDING APRIL 29th Monday, April 24--Being Easier Monday, there will be no parad Thursday, April 27-Tlie Company will parade in Drill Hall at 7.30 sharp. Uniform to be worn. Class B Armv Reserve are invited to attend. Saturday, April 29- -Firing practice in Drill Hall, 7 to 9 p.m., for all ranks. Duties for the Week Orderly Officer, Quartermaster P. Scott; Orderly Sergeant, Acting Sergt. W. Llewellm Orderly Corporal, Acting Corpl. Williams. I By order. F. P. J. HANBT RY, I O.C. Abergavenny Co.

I MONMOUTHSHIRE HOUNDS. Now that the season 1915-16 has come to a close, a word of recognition may be offered to those good farmers upon wnose land we have doubtless knocked down a fence here and there accidentally, galloped over a sown field quite inadvertently, or to whom perhaps we have not J always been as deferential as the occasion merited for a direction s a gate opened or a gap undone for our passage. Many a time have we ad the opportunity of being grateful to some kind Cicerone for "the Monmouthshire hounds are fast, and the fences sometimes quite unjumpable hence the pack now and again being lost to view. And it blows in this latitude, and blows ard, the music of the hounds consequently being too indistinct to direct our way. Now, a multitude of people throughout the country have occasion to rejoice that there are such institutions as Hunting Establishments. And let it not be forgott- n t-iat, in normal times, there is snent in comitcUon with hunting in the United Kingdom somet ing like twelve million pounds in Le course of a year. It is a figure colossal, a sum nearly impossible to appreciate, so vast is its magnitude. ->nd were there no more hunting, t: at amount wo ild be diverted from its various c iann- ls of expenditure, would be taken out of the country and devoted to the sport elsewhere, in a rp ere far less congenial than what is offered by t e H:-itih Isles. This is the time of yar when t e baby fox- hounds begin to arrive and later on it is most essential they s ould a >• gooi walks for it is then that their constit ,.uons -re to be built up for the strenuous days of the adult age. May a hope be given expression to t at tue Kennels will be assisted in t is oojec., for tie puppies are the boys t at keep down the foxes in the days to come This Bit and Spu" fello.v "las been further t n r.n Cwm'-ov, r.nd i. hunted m several countries. That fact has enabled him to coni, to t,;(, genial farmers and better sportsmen c" id discovered than those over w o e I d e Monmouthshire Hounds have the rnv ,i ranting. To all of them the best o f c ■ 11 every particular till we meet again next season HIT AND SPUR. —

Monmouthshire Red 0 -oss Association. ABER&AV £ ftftV ANCH. Hon. Treasurer's of Account, 31st 193 6. 1915, July i-To b.u .nee m "nd as perlaststntein-UL 6 5 10 1916, Mar. 31 Sundr evictions, &c. Goytrey i'^ris- '.v'orkers.. 5 5 0 Mrs. Davies, Go. :rv 200 I.t.-Co1.J.H, !rris.. 100 Mrs. Straker 050 Captain J. R. jaroh 050 Proceeds of Garden h'¡ e 53 o 4 Alexandra Rose Day o./uec' ion 59 13 10 F. R. Hobbes, Esq., pr >ce«-d of Dramatic Entert.unm.-nt 29 16 3 His Worship the Ma T )av Collection u o o King Henry VIII. Gramui.-ejool collection 013 6 ^169 4 90 EXPENDirUZ< July 1915 to Sundry purchases of Wool £ 59 4 4 Purchases of Flannel a?ul Shirt Materials 69 5 2 Carriage, parcel post, po ages, &c. 2 15 6 Balance at Bank 37 19 9 £ 169 4 q I hereby certify that 1 have examined the above acconnt with the vouchers and bank pass book and found same correct, R. H. JACKSON, Hon. Auditor, April 4th, 1916. After the balance s-eet was audited, the following sums have been received :Nlr. Baker- Gabb, £ 25 Lady Herbert (of Cold rook), £5: Colonel and trs. Gilbert iarris, £5; Mrs. Attwood-Mathews, £ 2 and ot 'er s aall sums from the Honble irs. Bleiudian Herbert, Miss Owen (Ty (wyll) and Mrs. C .,s. I-leywood. Gifts of wool were also received from Mrs. John Prichard.

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