Llangollen Advertiser Denbighshire Merionethshire and North Wales Journal

I Dee Trout Fishing. I LLANGOLLEN COUNCILLOR'S I PROTEST AGAINST LICENSING. I A special meeting of the Llangollen Urban District Council was held on Thursday night, to consider the motion of Mr. R. Jones regard- inga. protest being made against the attempt of the Dee Conservatories Board to license trout fishing in the river Dee. Mr. E. Foulkes Jones said he had written to the Dee Fisheries Board, and they had replied that they proposed to adopt the Fresh Water Fisheries Act, and impose licences on freqll water fishing. They had made application to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, wlio would consider the matter in due course. There was nothing else except a slight increase cn licences for salmon. Mr. R. Jones said that he believed each coun- cillor had taken upon himself the question of looking after the ratepayers in general, and any councillor who let a matter of that descrip- tion drop without fighting to the bitter end was a traitor to1 the ratepayers. In the first place, Llangollen was a summer resort. They were assisting the public in general more or less to get a living, an asset to that was free asning- richts in the Dee. The asset waa beneficial to the town, and he considered that f they let a thing like that go by they were not doing their duty. They noticed noblemen coming and buy- ing fishing Bites, with fishing rights on !.lie river. They were the first people to ask them to Let men to volunteer for service in the war. The men had been and come back, and it was for them that-be was fighting. He intended to have the whole town with him. and if the council would not do it the whole town would. He moved that the council ask the two county Members of Parliament to protest to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and postpone the matter and ask for a commission to be sent down to inquire into the matter for the whole of the river. If that commission came they would find that it would shame the Boird. ile felt sure that if that council would move the whole of the urban and rural authorities from Bala to (jhester would follow suit. They had decided to fight for free fishing in the Dee for ex-service men, and if that order was passed ex- ec rvicp- men would have to have a licence. Mr. A. Edwards seconded the motion, and suggested that they should write to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries a.s well. Mr. Ffoulkes Jones said he had already done eo. and would advise the council when he had a reply from them. The motion was carried. Mr. Jones raised the question of replies from riparian owners concerning the free fishing for ex-aervice then in the Dee, and it was decided that the clerk Should communicate all informa- tion on the subject and correspondence at the next council meeting. -go-

Carrog Nonogenarian's Death. j The death was reported on Monday at Llftn-j santffaid. Carrog,* of Mrs. Parry, the wife of Mr. Godfrey Parry. Mrs. Parry had reached the age of 95, and her husband survives her at the agte of 92. Mr. Parry was a well known judge and breeder of Welsh sheep and was well known I throughout the wide agricultural district. I

I GLYNDYFRDWY. I OBITUARY.—A well known inhabitant, Mr. John Edwards, Tan Tyinpath, diêdonthe 18th inst. at the- age of 51; Mr. Edwards had worked at the quarries up to: the time of the outbreak of war, but since then had been employed at the Board of Trade Timber supplies. He had, how&ver, been in failing hoaj? for 80matime He was however, highly respected in the ditrit and the funeral on Monday was very laigely attended. gervime nvere conducted by the Rev. D. Roe, Oarrog. A large number ot floral tributes were vranivedr

REVIfcW OF THE YEAR BRIEF LOCAL EVENTS. As this is the last issue of the Llangollen Advertiser for 1919, it is appropriate to glance back briefly to the principal local eventa of the year that will so shortly close. They reveal many of the changes in men and methods which are inevitable with the passing of time, but on the whole Llangollen town and district may congratulate itself upon steady progressive work in local administration, and some notable happenings in local annals, not the least of these being the visit of the "Victory" National Eisteddfod to Corwen, and, after some vicissitudes, thg final acquirement ofPlae Newvdd by Lord and Lady Tankerville and its dedication by them, at any rate in spirit, to the public use of the' neighbourhood and the larsre numbers of visitors to whom it has ever been the centre of interested pilgrimage. There have been other ups and downs, and goings and comings, to which every community ia subject in the course of twelve months. of these we select for special notice the following in chroffi- ological order:— JANUARY. 1 Major R. W. Richards appointed to Aucoesd I his father as clerk to Llangollen Justice#. FEBRUARY. Nonconformist deputation to Glyn magis- trates to plead for drastic reduction of licences. Edeyrnion Agricultural Society, annual meeting at Corwen. MARCH. East Denbighshire C.M. Monthly Meeting at Llangollen. Death of Dr. James Drinkwater. APRIL. Guardians and District Council Election. Army Veteran's traffic Death at Llaiigollen. I Sudden death of S irs. Humphrey Jones. Death of Col. Parr-Lynes, Corwen. MAY. Llangollen U rhllll Council discuss housing schemes. Llangollen Amatour Operatic Society perform H. M.S. Pinafore," C.M. Children's Festival at Acrefair. Llangollen and Corwen returned soldiers welcomed Carreg girl's cycling accident. Discussion about Sunday motoring at Llan- eollen. JUNE. Post Office concert at Llangollen. Gwyddelwem Eisteddfod. Timber workmen's strike at Llangollen. Sudden death of Mrs. Margaret Evans, Sun Bank. Cefn Mawr eoldieis' reception. Death of Mrs. J. Morgan, Plas Hafod. JULY. Peace celebrations in the district. Bryneglwys farm fires case investigated. Death of Mrs. M. J. Roberts and Mr. Seth Daviee, Llangollen. Llang-ollensheep dog trials. Llangollen Sacred Concert Season opened. Cycle fatality at Trevor. AUGUST. Ruabon Victory Fete. National Eisteddfod at Corwen. Death of Mr. H. R. Olley. Sir George Carter visited Llangollen. Llangollen C.M. Singing Festival. SEPTEMBER, P.C. Jones invested with M.M. at Llangollen Petty Sessions. Protests by ex-service men against rate col- lector s appointment at Llangollen. Wesleyan Bazaar at Llangollen., Railway strike. Builders' strike at Llangollen OCTOBER. 1 Sudden death of Mrs. T. Hughes, Glyn- dyfrdwy Vicarage. Disappearance of Glyn Ceiriog quarry man- ager, whose body was later discovered in a pit. Llangollen poor rates increased 6d. NOVEMBER. L170 an aere given for land at Llangollen First complaint of profiteering at Llangollen dismissed. League of Nations meeting at Llangollen. Corwen, comrades' eisteddfod. Death of "Gwilym Ceiriog" at Llangollen. DECEMBER. Isolation Hospital conference at Llangollen. .Deathi of Messrs. Ed. Williams, F. Sear and D. Williams of Llangollen.

I OBITUARY. THE LATE MRS. p. EVANS.-The death took place at 19, Princess Street, Llangollen, on 'Thursday, of Mrs. Alice Evans, widow of the late Mr. David Evans, Ffvnnon Las, Llangollen. Mrs. Evans, who was 82 years of age, was very well known and respected in the district, and had for many yeara been a member of the Welsh Congregational Church, in which she took a great interest. She had been residing in the town sinee the death of her husband, who pre- deceased her some 23 years ago. The funeral took place at the Vron Cemetery. Llangollen, on Tuesday, and was largely attended. Services were conducted at the house and graveside by Mr. Allen Lettsome. The mourners were :-Mn. Heaton, Manchester, Mrs. Rowlands, Liverpool (nieces); Mr. a,nd Mrs. J. E. Smith, Liverpool, and Mr. W. Smith, forwen (nephews and niece) I Mrs. Parry, Llandderfel (cousin): Mrs. Jones, Wrexham (cousin), and. Miss Jones (niece). Wreaths were sent ry Mr. and Mrs. Heaton, Manchester, and Miss S. Shone* L!an?o!!en. Mesrs. J. Roberts and Son, Market Street carried out the funeral arrangements.

BORDER NEWS IN BRIEF.1 Denbighshire. Mr. J. Lloyd, senior sorting clerk and teleg- raphist at Llangollen Post Office, has suc- ceeded Mr. Owen as postmaster. Among the private Bills which will come before Parliamentary Committees next Ses- sion is the Wrexham Tramways Bill. The death is announced of Mr. VWilliam Evans, C.B., formerly Official Receiver of the Chester and North Wales District. The Rev. J 1. Farr has been the recipient of several presentations on retiring from thal headmastership/of Llanrwst County School, after 45 years' service. Mr. H. Parry Jones will succeed him. The ex-Mayoress of Wrexham (Mrs. L. B. Rowland) has beenl presented with a jewelled pendant and chain by the members of the Wrexham Municipal War Work Committee, in recognition of her war work. There were only four members present at Thursday's meeting of the Llangollen Council. Mr. A. Edwards said there were some mem- bers who never attended, and it was decided that the Clerk should draw up a list of at- tendances with a view to action being taken. The Wrexham Golf Club have unanimously decided in future to allow the game to be played on their links on Sundays. For two or three years in succession before the war those members who were in favour of Sunday golf brought a similar resolution forward, but were always beaten by a large majority. Members of Denbighshire Women's War Agricultural Committee, at their final meet- ing, at Chester, presented the chairman, Mrs. Boscawen, Trevalyn Hall, Rossett, with a wristlet watch, the hon. secretary, Miss E. Lewis, Colwyn Bay, with an inlaid tortoise- shell jewel box, and the organising secretary, Miss Rhoda. Jones, Llwyn-y-Gog, Aberyst- wyth, with a cheque in appreciation of their services during the war. After 42. years' service as head master in Rhos, near Ruabon, the head master of the Grango Higher Standard Schools, Rhos, Mr. R. T. Powell, retired on Friday. Mr. Powell has been head master at Rhos, first of the old 1, Rhos Board Schools and subsequently of the Council Schools. He bade farewell to the scholars when they broke up for the Christ- mas holidays on Friday. Old scholars, par- ents, and others interested in education in- tend to make him a presentation as a token of their appreciation of the valuable work done by him. I Shropshire. Ex-Superintendent Perry, of Ludlow, was at the County Police Court last week, the recipient, from the Bench, of generous testi- mony to his excellent services for 20 years, and a valuable cheque. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Calcott, of Betton, Shrewsbury, have given £1,000 to endow a bed at the Royal Salop Infirmary in memory of their only son, Lieut. Charles David Cal- cott, 18th Batt. King's Liverpool Regiment, who fell in action at Heninel, near Arras, on April 23, 1917. Montgomeryshire, Chirbury Rural District Council are going to consider joining with other local author- ites in the appointment of a whole-time ■ medical officer. The death took place on Sunday, at the age of 80, of Mr. J. M. Milnes, for many years headmaster of Kerry ( School, Montgomery, who had also filled the office of parish clerk and was well-known in many spheres around Newtown. A verdict of Accidental death was re- turned last week, at the inquest at Newtown, on William Evans, aged eleven years, step-son of John Owen, Springbank, Tregynon, Mont. The boy was in the hay loft at home and slipped on the upturned forks of a pikel, two prongs of which entered his bowels. He lingered for three days, and died in the Mont- gomery County Infirmary. Merionethshire. The death has occurred at Dolgelley of Mr. W. G. Williams, a former Assist Official R- ceiver of the Chester Bankruptcy Court, and ultimately appointed Senior Assistant Official Receiver in the High Court of Bankruptcy, London. He was aged 52, and leaves a widow and two children. Mr. Williams was a native of Bangor, and commenced his career in the office of Messrs. Lloyd George and George, Portmadoc. Flintshire. I. Miss Humphry Williams, B.Sc., of Flint, has been elected a member of the Yorkshire Geôlogical Society. Though the Society has been in existence for 83 years, she is the first lady member to be elected. I. By a two to one majority the St. Asaph Board of Guardians have declined to approve of the principle of Home Rule for Wales. Strong fear of domination by South Wales was expressed. The death of Mr. John Williams, of Rivers- lea, Flint, occurred wfth painful suddenness last week. He attended the monthly meeting of the Flintshire Calvanistic Methodists on the Monday, and became ill on Tuesday morn- ing. Mr. Williams was borough accountant and overseer for Flint Corporation, and an active temperance worker on various North Wales associations. He was fifty-eight years of age, and leaves a widow, one son and a daughter. Cheshire. Chester City Council has begun work on 54 houses, for which the lowest tender was £ 47,473. Mr. J. T. Browijlie, of the Amalgamated ocietyot Engineers, has been adopted as Parliamentary Labour candidate for the Crewe Division. The death has occurred at Thornton Lodge, Thornton Hough, of Mr. J. S. Ferguson, a brother-in-law and former partner in ■ the grocery business with Lord Leverhulme. He was 75. A local farmer has been committed to the Assizes by the Nantwich magistrates on a charge of wilfully setting fire to a. stack of hay at Ivy Cottage, Burland, Nantwich, on Nov. 22. Mr. G. P. Miln has agaizi been re-elected president of the Agricultural Seed Tradt Association, and at the annual dinner Six Owen Philipps, M.P., inferred to the gool work Mr. Miln had done in furthering iooe production in Cheshire. Captain A. H. Jolliffe, M.C., late 5th Bat tafion Cheshire Regiment, Of Chester, has been appointed as Assistant solicitor in the Chester Town Clerk's office, at a salary 0; £250, increasing by annual increments oi £ 25 to £ 350 per annum. A motor-bus, carrying passengers from Crewe to Nantwich, suddenly swerved in Hos- pital Street, Nantwich, last week, and crashed into the wall and iron railings enclosing the residence of Dr. Munro. The wall and rail- ings were carried away for a distance of ten yards. Passengers in the 'bus were greatly alarmed and suffered from shock. .————— o

I HUNTING. 1 SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS. I Following the meet at Bettisfield on Saturday the hounds had two nice runs, the latter of the two bemg exceptionally good. Firs- fox found in the Rookery, ran through the Knolls and got two bemRog ok-er  li 11 'vvood. He was dua out anci to ground in Mill Wood. He was dug out and killed. Llanbedr gave the next fox that ran past Hanmer Old Hall to the London Appren. tice, thence through Tybroughton and the Wyches to Cuddington just under Malpaa. On Monday the meet was at Pickhill Hall. when the field included Mr. Watkin Williami Wynn, Lady Palmer, Miss Stevens, Colonel Roger Mostyn Owen, Captain Guy Mostyn Owen, Mr. H. Dyke Dennis, Miss Dennis, Mr. Pat and Mr. Vic Dennis, Mr. Manton Dennis, Mr. J. A. t Harrop, Mr. Rooper, Miss Pattinson, Misa Nash, Major Kearsley, Captain Chamier, Major King, Mrs. Fitzhugh, Miss Helen Fits. hugh, Miss Evans (Bronwylfa), Mr. and Mrs. J. Ormrod, Major W. R. Kynaston, Captain Lovett, Mr. Frank and Miss Cotton, Mrs. Rose. Majot and Master Greenshields, Mr. R. Greenshields, Captain F emvick Ptiluier, Miss Joan Lloyd, Mr. Gerald Lloyd, Mr. R. L. Pilkington, Misses Howard, Mr. Remur Sutton, Mr. G. Goswell, Mr, R. Thelwall, Mr. Brereton, Rev. A. C. Austin, Mr. Allen Morris, Mr. E. P. Price, Mr. R. P. Holt and Master Palmer Holt. There were also following:—Mr. O. Ormrod Miss Ormrod, Mrs. Fenwick. Mrs. Pilkington, Mrs. Kearsley, Master P. Lloyd, Colonel and Mrs. Charlea Owen. Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. King. Friday a fox in Pickhill Dingles, hounds ran him by way of Coed-y-byntto LlwynottIa. thenoe back past Marchwiel strawberry fields to Crosa Lanes, eventually losing him in Pickhill Dingles. Sutton Gorse, Randies' Gorse and the Hop Ytvrd were blank.

I c- ^punting Jlppointntents. SIR W, W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet Saturday, December 27-WYmlstay (11.45) Monday, December 29-Boughton (10.45) Tuesday, December 30—Hardwick (10.45) Thursday, January l-Shavmgton, (10.45) Saturday, January 3-Grediogton (10.45) THE NORTH SHEOPSHIRE HOUNDa will meet Friday, Dec. 26-Battlefteld (11.0) -BE TANAT SIDE HARRIERS will meet; Friday, Dec. '26-Tre!onen (11.0) Monday, Dec. 29-Cross Roads, Little, Nest, b« imvitatioD (11.0).

I. A Vanished Industry. I WHERE IS WELSHPOOL FLANNEL? Professor Sidney Herbert, M.A., of Aber. ystwyth University, gave a lecture at th. University Tutorial Class in Welshpool Town Hall, on Friday evening, on the growth of the country's industrial system in the early part of the 18th century, and an interesting dis- cussion, sustained by Mr. Stanley Davies and others, ensued on the development and de-, cline of the Montgomeryshire flannel indus- try, which, except for one or two mills at Newtown and Llanid-loes, has now almost completely vanished. The old Shrewsbury market hall, it waa mentioned, was built by the Drapers' Com- pany of that town solely for the Welsh flannel trade, and the trade at Shrewsbury was of an important nature as far back as 1637, as evinced by representations made by the Drapers' Company to Parliament. One of their petitions was not of a flattering nature, for it was. in the quaint language of the time, %uage of the tiiue, "touchinge the abuses of the ill-makinge of Welsh cottons, ffrizes and fflannels." At that time, of course, all the manufacturers were on the hand looms in the homes of the people, the.,first Montgomeryshire factories being towards the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th. Referring to WTelshpool's prosperity at ono time as the chief centre of the county's flan- nel trade, Mr. Davies mentioned that in 1828, when the Severn was a navigable waterway up to Pool Quay, where there was a fulling mill, the amount of flannel sold in Welshpool annu- ally was of the estimated. value of £ 200,000, and the population of the town rose from 1,311 in 1801 to 2,538 in 1831. There were about twelve factories in Welshpool at that time, but weavers appeared to have been wretchedlyJ paid, their wages being about 10s. per week.

II QUARRYMEN'S WAGES. An arbitration board appointed by the National Joint Industrial Council, to deal with the wage& ques- tion as affecting 5.750 men employed in the North Wales slate quarries, has made the following award: (1) That in the case of piece workers, the day rate in such class shall be the mimmum; (2) that the exist- ing bonus be increased by 2s. per day; (3) that the period of the agreement be reduced from six to four months; (4) that this award shall take, effect from January 1st, 1920. By the increased bonus of 2s. the quarrymen's minimum becOMes 10s. 3d. per day.

Llangollen Rural District Council. Tuesday, Mr. D. Jones presiding. It was decided to wk the Ministrv of Health to continue to 4?akeGerman, measles notifiable in the council's district. UNW ANTED LAND. Mr. T. H. Bushby wrote stating that from a report he had seen in the "Llangollen Adver- tiser" that in regard to the land offered by his father to the council for building purposes it was not eciisidered Fjtiitatble, by the council. His father would like to know the reason. why it was not considered suitable, and if it had been in- spected by Mr. Busbby.-It was dcided to ac- knowledge Mr. Bushby's letter, and simply to inform him that the council did not consider the land offered at all suitable for the housing scheme. QARTH WATER SUPPLY. Mr. Lloyd reported that they had inspected the whol of the water scheme at Garth with Mr. Berrington to enable him to submit a scheme to place before the Cefn Water Company's en- gineer. Mr. Berrington favoured a tank higher up than the present reservoir so that it would be able to carry water through the mid Garth and not have to be taken all round as was the original scheme. There were naturally many obstacles, A report from Mr. Berrington would be forthcoming in due course. The surveyor was given authority to get the work at Vron waterworks done as earl v as, possible. -I MISCELLANEOUS. The surveyor was instructed to endeavour to i get a traotor for the work of stone hauling at Bn Eglwys. The surveyor presented a plan for the pro- posed widening of a piece of road at Garth at an estimated cost of £ 107, and, the clerk was in- structed to apply to the owner for a grant for the land and that the question of carrying out the work be left for the surveyor to include in his estimate for the next financial year. Messrs. R. T. Jones, D. Griffiths and E. D. Lloyd were Vked' to inspect a wall which was said to be in danger-of falling a,t Garth, and the surveyor was instructed to prepare an esti- mate of the cost of the work at Maes-y-Ucha bridge, and to erect a/noticf drawing attention to the condition of the bridge.

j There is one notable change in the phrase- ology of the King's Speech in prorogating Parliament on Tuesday, due to Lady Aster's membership. Instead of the familiar "My Lords and Gentlemen, the speech opens with a new setting-" My Lords and Meinberfe of! the House of Commons." The most daring Sinn Fein" raid of all is reported from Cork. Near midnight on Tues- day week a body of men, said to number at least 150, working with military swiftness and precision, held up the Bandoti and South Coast railway station at the pistol's point. Engine-drivers were forced to leave their foot- plates, signalmen their boxes, clerks their desks, and shunters their waggons, and all were put under lock and key while the prem- ises were. minutely searched--it, is believed for military arms and ammunition. It has not yet been stated whether they found any. The raid took place within 200 yards of an important police barracks, and it lasted for nearly an hour. Then the raiders disappear- ed as mysteriously as they had come, leaving no clue behind.

The trustees of the late Alderman John Hughes (of Liverpool), North Wales Clergy Fund—namely, Sir W. Watson Rutherford, M.P., Col. Sir E. Pryce-Jones, Bart., and Mr. R. B. Miller, of Waterloo, Liverpool, met recently and made a further distribution by way of personal grants to a number of the more needy clergy in North Wales out of the income of this fund, which is under their administration.