Llangollen Advertiser Denbighshire Merionethshire and North Wales Journal

The Council of Four has decided to recog- nise the Government Qf Admiral Koltchak and General Deniken, provided that these leaders fgr^e, i»» regards the future of Russia, to ae- ibt V?M-tct of <t Co?M??eat A.M?mMy,

OSWESTRY. I NEW POSTMASTER.—Mr. Thomas Jones, formerly postmaster of Portmadoc, on Thurs- day took up his new duties as postmaster of, Oswestry. FORMER BROGYNTYN BUTLER'S DEATH. The many friends of Mr. John Pell, formerly butler to Lord Harlech, at Brogyntyn, will receive with regret news of his death, which took place, in his 62nd year, at Worleston, on May 17. ABSENTEE.—At the County Police Court, on Friday, before Mr. R. S. typ-rr Gunner Walter Roberts, R.F.A., of Babbins Wood, was charged with being an absentee from Bettisfield cmp.-P.C. Heatley proved the arrest of the defendant the previous day. Roberts was remanded to await a military escort. OLD MARKS DISAPPEARING. — The remainiug portion of the old paved streets of Oswestry will shortly disappear, when the re- moval of the old shops in front of the Wes- leyau Church in Beatrice Street is completed. Some of the old pedestrians, whose corns and bunions were in the old davs painfully dis- turbed by treading on the cobbles, still cherish an affection for these last few remnants of old Oswestry. EMPIRE DAY.—Very little observance of this day was manifest in the town on Saturday. I Whether it was that people had forgotten the nature of the day or were waiting for the celebration of peace is not quite clear, but only one tradesman exhibited the Union Jack. The parish church also remembered the occa- sion and floated the flag, as likewise did the Corporation on. the Castle Bank, but otherwise it was a case of unadorned flagstaffs. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE.— A meeting of the Committee was held at the Guildhall on Wednesday, Mr. R. Lloyd Kenyon presiding. The Committee expressed the wish that the Sunday Schools of the town would fix their svfinmer treat for the first Thursday, in July, so that the attendance at the day schools would not suffer as it had done in the past when Sunday School treats were held in different weeks. BOROUGH OFFICIALS' SALARIES. Tne Town Council are to hear more about the salaries of their officials, which the Finance Committee, as we reported last week, declined to raise. A further communication has been received from the Local Government Board, in which it is pointed out to the Council that any question in dispute on the salaries of their employees must be submitted to arbitration. The Muncipal Corporation Employees' Asso- ciation has also written to back up the reason- able request of the officials for higher salaries. HERMON WELSH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.—The anniversary services in Con- nection with this church waa held on Sunday, and continued on Monday evening, when the Rev. D. J. Lewis, of Tumble, Llanelly, was the special preacher, and delivered four power- sermons to large and attentive congregations. At the Sunday evening service Mr. Ben Roberts kindly gave a solo, which was much appreciated. The pastor, the Rev. T. Well Jones, thanked Mr. Lewis, for his forceful and timely messages, and Mr. Roberts for the inspiring way in which he sang the solo. Miss Roberts was at the organ. LANTERN LECTURE. Under the au- spices of the Junior liberal Club a lantern lecture was given in Oswald Road Schoolroom on. Wednesday evening, by Capt. Wallace E. ■ Whitehouse, who described in interesting fashion the progress of transport facilities, from the pack animal to the airship. The lecture was much enjoyed by a large audience, over whom the Mayor of Oswestry, Mr. W. Morris, presided. The lantern was controlled by Mr. Harry Jones. A vote of thanks was accorded the lecturer, the chairman, the lantern operator, and the officials of the church for the use of the schoolroom. MINISTERIAL FAREWELL.—A meeting of the members of Oswald Road Presbyterian Church was held -in the Schoolroom on Friday night, to bid farewell to the Rev. Edward Williams, the pastor, who has now taken up his new ministry at Clwyd Street Welsh Pres- byterian Church, Rhyl. During his two years' ministry in Oswestry, Mr. Williams has been very successful. The Mayor, Mr. W. Morris, presided, and spoke in eulogistic terms of the good work done by Mr. Williams, who, he said, they were sorry to lose. Trib- utes to Mr. Williams's work were also paid by Mr. Evan Jones, church treasurer, Mr. B. J. Dodd, Mr. Edward Evans, and Mr. Robert Jones. A cheque for £ 20 was handed to Mr. Williams by the church treasurer. The Rev. E. Williams suitably replied to the kind words said about him, and thanked the church for their gift. FANCY BALL.—A fancy ball was held in the Drill Hall on Thursday night, under the auspices of the Young Men's Guild of Holy Trinity Church, and dancing, which began at eight o'clock, and continued till two next morning, was indulged in by a large company to the strains of Mr. A. R. Jones's band. The M.C.'s were Messrs. Tudor, E. Dyke, T. Roberts, and A. Edwards, and the judges of the fancy costumes were Mr. Allan Rennie, Mrs. William Roberts and Mrs. Hancox, Bailey Street. The Rev. A. C. Roberts, curate, distributed the prizes to the following, -Lady's best costume: 1, Miss Burrows; 2, Miss Pendrey; 3, Miss Evans; Gentlemen's best costume: 1, Mr: Heath; 2, Mr. C. Clare; 3, Mr. E. Jones; Gentlemen's comic costume: 1, Mr. D. Byrne; 2, Pte. Miller; Gentlemen's home-made costume: 1, Mr. Martin; 2, Mr. Lawrence. The bon. secretarial duties were carried out by Mr. W. H. Tudor, and the refreshments-were in charge of Mr. E. H. Gittins.

Ruabon Brick Works. f ABORTIVE AUCTION SALE. I No bid waa forthcoming when there was offered for < auction at Manchester, the extensive briek and tile i works at Ruabon, established by Messrs. Monk and Newell in 1S83, and worked by them until after the outbreak of, war, together with the plant and machin- ery, and the whoje, equipumat for the economical pro- duction of over 25,000 brick.s per day, and a great variety of tiles and terra-ootta goods. The property was withdrawn. Jt was explained that the property is lease-hold for a term of forty *ears from June, 1899, that by far the laTgest portion of the estate had not been opened out, and that there was still plenty of clay to be got from the existing pit. giuoe 1917 the property has I been occupied by. the Ministry of Munitions, t

Sir Albert Stanley has resigned the office of President of the Board of Trade owing to ill-health. Sir Auckland Geddes succeeds hixa.

BORDER NEWS IN BRIEF. Denbighshire I Mr. R. Roberta, formerly clerk to Mr. E. A. Crabbe, solicitor, at .Colwyn Bay, who served two years in the Army, has been appointed secretary to the Cilwyn Bay War Pensions Committee. Mr. W. B. Sadler, formerly an alderman Of the County Council, has died, after a long and painful illness, at The Lowlands," Featherston, New Zealand. Mr. Sadler, with his family, emigrated about 20 years ago to New Zealand from Denbighshire where he had been farming near Holt. Flintshire. I The Rev. Dr. Oliver, of Holywell, a well- known leader of Nonconformity in North Wales, and Mrs. Oliver, celebrated their golden wedding on Sunday. In their annual report the Rhyl Advertising Association state that there is nothing equal to continuous newspaper advertising, a policy which has been pursued with excellent results." Mr. Robert Lloyd Roberts, of Manchester, son of Mr. Roberts, Gwenaiit, Mold, has won the first premium in one of the classes for designs for workmen's dwellings, in an open competition held by the Pontypool Urban Council. Shropshire. Bridgnorth roadmen get 36s. a week and Sliifnai roadmen 34s. Mr. R. R. Millard, from Thame, has ..een promoted postmaster of Whitchurch. At the first Council of the Shropshire Feder- ation of Women's Institutes the delegates gave accounts of the work of their institutes, which evoked the congratulations of Mrs. Nugent Harris, the general secretary for Women's Institutes under the Board of Agriculture, who addressed the members on the aims of the institutes, among which are the better- ment of our homes and country." At a meeting of the Council of the Shrop- shire Chamber of Agriculture, on Saturday, May 14 (the official report of which only reached us this week) resolutions were passed deprecating any alteration in the Foreign Ani- mals (Quarantine) Order, 1896, and subse- quent ordex-a prohibiting the importation of live animals into this country, protesting against the continuance of out-of-work dona- tions, and the proposed State control of milk. Montgomeryshire, I Caersws Rural District Council have in- creased the roadmen's wages by 5s. a week to 5s. lOd. per day. Caersws Board of Guardians have re-elected Canoui Woosnam, of Newtown, as their repre- sentative on the County Deficiency Committee. Machynlleth has again refused a German gun as a war trophy. About 78 acres of accommodation land near Newtown has been purchased by the County Council for cottage holdings for ex-service men, for which there is a great demand. The price was ;C4,300. Major David Davies, M.P., Master of the Plasdinam Hunt, and one of the chief patrons lof light horse breeding in Wales, has given instructions for the sale by auction of his famous stud of 60 horses, including many noted thoroughbred sires and hunter mares. The Newtown branch of the Comrades of the Great War have expressed indignation at the decision arrived at by a public meeting to refuse a German gun as-a war trophy. They have written to the authorities concern- ed asking that the gun shall not be allocated elsewhere until another meeting has been held. They state that the decision is not a true re- flection of opinion, that it was arrived at at a poorly attended meeting, and that the small majority was lead by a strong pacifist element. Cheshire. I Mr. Robert Bygott, of Crewe, Sandbach and Middlewich, a solicitor of the old school and magistrates' clerk for Middlewich, died last. week and was buried at Sandbach Heath. Mr. Aldersey, of Duckington, has resigned his membership of MaJpas Rural District Council on leaving, the district for 'Tarporley. There was a large attendance at the funeral of Mr. S. Newport, a well-known Wrenbury farmer, on Wednesday. Mr. James Doxey, for many years associated with the firm of Messrs. Quellyn Roberts and Co., Chester, died last week at the age of 68. Todger Jones, V.C., D.S.M., the man who captured 100 Germans single-handed, and who five times carried messages through blinding barrages unscathed, is a civilian again. In private Hfe Todger is a fitter, employed by the Salt Union, at Runcorn. v •

LOCAL WEDDING. I EDWARDS—OWEN. II I A very pretty but quiet wedding took place on May 25, the contracting parties being Pte. Thomas Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards, .Mount Pleasant, Pen-y-coed, Llan- gollen, and Miss Owen, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Owen, 274, Atlantic Avenue, Winnipeg, Canada. The bridegroom joined the Canadian forces in March, 1916, and served in France with the medical corps. The wedding took place at Penllyn Chapel, where the bridegroom attended as a boy, the officiating clergyman being Rev. Owen. The bride was attended by Miss L. Edwards, sister of the bridegroom, Mr. Clark Lewis being best man. A reception was held at the bridegroom's home, after which the happy couple travelled to Barmouth where they spent a short honeymoon amongst the bride's relatives. They are shortly returning to Canada.

 Local Wills. ?,i,?,?  ? I Lt.-Col. H. F. Huton, Ashfield, Wrexham, I left £3,817. Hutton, Ashfield, Wrexham, Mr. J. A. Everallj Shrawardine CtfstLe,,left R.2,3,428 14s. 9d. Brig.-Gen. Lumley Owen Williams Jones, D.S.O., of Cefn Bryntalch, Abermule, Mont- gomery, w ho died from pneumonia on Septein- 14 in France, left estate of the value of 928,496, the net personalty being £ 11,27^

CORRESPONDENCE. jwx SO ROT KBCKMABrtr buasx TE-r opanam BXPBSMBD &I WJUTRRB Of TRUR -,AluuxlLi EX-SOLDIERS AND CIVIL EMPLOY. MENT. SlB,—1 respectfully beg to ask ii you will kindly cause to be inserted in your paper a ques- tion which very vitally concerns the welfare of ex-soldiers. Being one myself, and having; been up ajpainat it. I think I am in a position to judge. I myself applied for work with one blor" and cart many weeks ago, and at the end of about five weeks, after making several applications, I was given one day's work. At that time I wai eng-adjed in the barrack department as an assist- ant barrack warden temporarily. Hearing that my house and man were Koing; to do a little cart- ing: the authorities told me that I had to give one job or the other up, and believing that the R.A.S.C. were at last going to give me work for my horse I resigned that night. The day following my resignation my horse did one day'. work. I waa then aaked to eend in my little bill, which I did. and I have not had an hour's work since. I ehould like to point out that this oartioular work that I refer to is work that could be given to anyone and is not a contract job. I say emphatically that it has been a very great drawback to me that I gave four years and seven months' service to the country. Had I remained at home. as some others have done, I should have been able to have competed for some re- munerative fobs. The military authorities in my opinion are no better than anyone eke regarding the employ- ment and reinstatement of ex-soldiers. The treatment that some ex-soldiers have received amounts to callousness, and the public look on and permit it and try to persuade us, while we starve, that it ie going to be a country fit for our heroes to live in. Some of lid would go en to the land. but where are returned soldiers get- ting settled on the land? In most other coun- ties. but where is the land for ex-soldiere in the Oswestry district, or even in Shropehiie. and how are partially disabled men like myself going to live until they get it?—I am, etc.. GEO. ED. GaifriTss. 8. Church-atreet. Whittingtoii. 06westr,V. &10iP. Mav24. 1919. ?????- WELSH CALVINISTIC METHODISTS AND THEIR PRINTERS. SIR.-Publicity has been given to the proposed purchase of the printing and publishing busi- new of the Welsh Publishing Company, Ltd., by the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Connexion. As both the above company and the Welsh National Press Company, Ltd., are carrying on their business in the same building, it is already evident that the public are under the impression that both concerns are about to be taken over- by the Connexion. The Welsh Publishing Company are general printers, book and music publishers, and the Welsh National Press Company are the printers and publishers of the various newspapers known as The North Waled Observer Series. Y G«neit Gymreig, Y Werin a'r Eco and Y Wyntyll. There ia no connection whatever between the two companies, and the negotiations between the C.M. Connexion and the Welsh Publishing; Com- pany have nothing whatever to do with the Welsh National Press Company, Ltd., the news- paper publishers.I am, etc.. JOHN JONKS, Managing Directoi-, Welmli National Press, Co.. Ltd. DO RESTRICTIONS RESTRICT ? Sia.—At an open session of the Bynod of the Finst North Wales district of the Welsh Wes- leyans at Llanrhaiadr Moohnant. on May 21, a resolution was passed calling on the Government to continue the liquor control restrictions, wlhich were regarded «« 'beneficial to the com- IDllnitvat large." I should like to point out that although, -an the one hand, the restrictions have, perifoaps reduced drunkenness in public, they have, on the other hand, encouraged home drinking, and, what is even more serious, they have resulted in t'he practise of infinitely more dangerous vices efen than intemperance. The medical officer for Carnarvonshire recently gave evidence as to the serious increase of drug-taking in North Wales, a noxious habit which, he de- clared, was playing havoc with the race." Can we regard as beneficial restrictive measures which result in the substitution of laudanum for beer?-—I am, etc., „ 11 ? USSERT= ?, it, ? "'?". M&y 26th. 1919. 

LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. Government spokesmen say winter food prices are likely to ¡rise rather than fall. Mr. Hawker and Commander Grieve had a most enthusiastic reception on their journey to and arrival in London on Tuesday night. A large part of South Staffordshire will have to be abandoned owing to flooding, in- volving a loss of 400,000 tons of mineral per annum. Fielding in a cricket match, Dr. C. H. Hibbert, of Marple, Cheshire, ran aiter a boundary hit, jumped over a fence, and fell on his head, fatally injuring himself. The Atlantic flight has been achieved —in hop, skip and jump fashion—by the United States naval seaplane NC 4, which reached Lisbon from the Azores on Tuesday. Aberystwyth College has elected Mr. Fleuxe, Dr. E. 0. Lewis, Mr. Ernest Hughes, Dr. Abel Jones, Miss Mary Williams, Mr. Howell Evans, and Miss Margaret James on the Stand- ing Advisory Committee in connection with Welsh University election affairs. At a meeting in the House of Commons over which Sir R. J. Thomas, M.P., presided, tlte Bishop of St. Asaph, Lord Clwyd, Sir R. J. Thomas and General Sir Owen Thomas were placed on a permanent executive committee to take the necessary steps to secure è. judicial inquiry into the dismissal of Miss Violet. Doug- las-Pennant from the Women's Air Force. Printed and published by WILLIAM THOJIAS, of Wrex. ham, and CHARLES PgNPiflN GASQUOLNI, of Oswestry, under the style of WOODALL, MISSHAIX, THOMAS Co., at the Oarlon Pregs, Oswestry, and on sale every Friday morning at the Advertiser Office, Castle Street, Llangollen, and of all newsageut. All advertisements and communications are J'IÓ quested to be addressed to the Advertiser" Office, Jdaagollen, or to the Caxton Press. OJW. TSiOAY, 30,1: 59. ISM.

MARRIAGE. JONES—SEAR.—May 17, by licence, at the Parish Church, Llangollen, Sapper F. C. Jones, Boyal En- gineers, to Alice Sear, Gas Works, Llangollen.

Carrog Girl's Cycling Accident. I A DANGEROUS SPOT. I JA,st Saturday evening, Miss Effie Jonea, Glan- 4wr. Carrog:, met with a serious accident whilst cyoling. It appears that she was riding down the Grouse Hill in the direction of the river bridge when her brAkes failed and the bicycle eraehed into" the w&H. Mias Jones waa pitched headlong over the wall into the depths below, and when picked up she w" found to have re- ceived terrible injuries to Iher head and back. I)r. Roberta, Corwen. was summoned to Carrog and he rendered medical aid. Miss Jones ds pro- greasing as favourably as may be expected. It ia a wonder she is alive after such a terrible ex- perience. It is a coincidence that eight years ago to the very same week Mr. Gwilym Evans, Aber View. Corwen, met with a eimilar accident at thie dangerous ,spot. • i&th