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Whitehaven Advertiser and Cleator Moor and Egremont Observer

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Whitehaven Advertiser and Cleator Moor and Egremont Observer

Workington Police Court

... ‘WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 CHIMNEY ON FIRE. ~Jane Dixon (50), widow, 13, Guard Street, Workington, was charged with allowing the chimmey of her dwellinghouse to be on fire on the Ist inst.—P.C. Kennedy proved the case. The fire and smoke came from a bedroom, ...

CHILDREN AND FIREGUARDS

... before gommg out, Mrs. Smith had kindled the fire in the kitchen, where she had left the deceased and another young child. There was a measure of protection about the fire grate, in the shape of a wire guard, which, however, simply extended round the bars ...

OLIVE THE END OF SUMMER TIME

... and took the” deceased to the hospital. The fire was black as if it had just been lighted, and she could not sec how the child had caught_fire, unless something had come out of the fire-grate below the guard. The ‘Cloroner said it was the duty of the mother ...

WAR PENSIONS IN CUMBERLAND

... Salvation Army. She had warned Joseph about poking sticks through the guard into the fire. While she wag otilll at the door Margaret.*came out of the kitchen with hier clothes on fire. Witness could do little because of the baby she had in her arms, but ...

CHILD FATALLY BURNED

... pinafore was swept intio the fire over the jockey bars.—At any rate you disregarded what the law says. You left the fire unguarded. Take my advice. Use fthe fireguard. When you go outi leave thie guard at the fire for the proftection of the children you have ...

WAR HONOTURS. THE MILITARY CROSS

... services for which the Military Cross has been awarded to the following officers ways:— Lieutenant E. G. Hawkesworth, Grenadier Guards (Special Reserve).—For remarkable courage and quickmess in a daylight raid. Selecting nine men, he rushed across “No Man’s ...

A V.C.'S LOCAL CONNECTION

... jumped on to the parapet, and, followed by the remainder of his - company, twelve men, only, rushed across, under heavy machine- fire, and drove over 60 of ‘the- enemy gg?k, thereby saving a most oritical si*uation. The enemy again captured the trench, and ...

THE MILITARY CROSS

... had many duties to perform besides his own. These he successfully performed in spite of excessive fatigue, under heavy shell fire, and often at great personal Tisk. His keenness and untiring efforts materially assisted in the successful operations of his ...

ACT

... praise. Many centres were carrying o® under shell fire, in dug-outs, and there the men could find comforts in the trenches. The Y.M.C.A. helped a max from the day he joined the Colours right up to the firing line and back again te England, ‘where he/could ...

The Egremont and district Y.M.C.A. WHITEHAVEN POST OFFICE Hut Week has reached the splendid sum STAFF ..

... Discharges: No. 2204 presentation consisted of £5O, as fol- | Pvt. H. Widdas, gazetted Temp. Lieut. lows :—A gold watch and guard suitably |to Oum_berlands Motor Corps. Transfers: inscribed, and the balance in Treasury No. 2051 Pvt. W. Birkett, Motor Corps; ...