Stevenston - On This Day In History

[michaelm]

Have to agree. We would be riddled with bullets locally.

Not so much ourselves Viv, but poor creatures like these.
http://robertburns.org/works/258.shtml

[Vivc113]

Thanx. I was wondering if this was the same story you previously told me. Seems it is !!

That gate is often covered in flies. A sign of death. Still the same now.

No VIV that is just dung that is attracting the flies.

I prefer a more paranormal version (!!)

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
29 JUNE 1918

STEVENSTON SCHOOL BOARD

Stevenston School Board have made the following appointments:-

Mr. Arthur E. Mackey, science master, Stevenston Higher Grade School, to be headmaster of Kyleshill School, Saltcoats, in room of Mr. George Tait.

Mr. William Sommerville, M.A., Stevenston, to be headmaster of Ardeer School in room of the late Mr. William Reid; and

Mr. Alexander Wilson, Stevenston, to be headmaster of the evening continuation class in room of Mr. A. E. Mackey.

[5siamese7]

Interesting there is a street down in Ardeer called Sommerville drive and I guess it was named after the headmaster you mention. Incidently Lundholm road was named after a Swedish chemist who worked for Nobel.

[5siamese7]

Have to agree. We would be riddled with bullets locally.

Not so much ourselves Viv, but poor creatures like these.
http://robertburns.org/works/258.shtml

I sold my guns 30 years ago because I thought it was morally wrong to kill birds and animals for fun. I wish I had never got involved in it.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
30 JUNE 1936

DANGEROUS DRUGS STOLEN

The theft of two attache cases from a car in Stevenston High Road on Sunday evening is being investigated by Stevenston Police.

One case initialled indistinctly “L.M.S.,” contained bandages and surgical instruments. The other case contained drugs and instruments.

The drugs are of a highly dangerous character, and any person who can give information which may lead to their recovery is requested to communicate with the Stevenston police.

[A case containing surgical instruments, believed to be those stolen at Stevenston, was found last night in a back court in Seaward Street, off Paisley Road, Glasgow.

Investigations are being made by Glasgow detectives with a view to finding the case of drugs.]

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
1 JULY 1938

PRIZE-GIVING CEREMONY
STEVENSTON HIGHER GRADE

DUX MEDALIST – (Morrison Medal) – Martha M. H. Kerr.

Martha Hamilton, who died in a Glasgow infirmary on June 6, having attained full medal standard was awarded the Morrison Medal posthumously as runner-up.

This was accepted by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Hamilton.

[Hughie]

How very proud, yet sad these parents must have been.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
6 JULY 1897

LIVELY MEETING OF STEVENSTON SCHOOL BOARD

This board met last night in Kyleshill School, Saltcoats – Rev. J. Livingstone presiding.

The question of the transfer of the bank account from the Royal Bank to the Bank of Scotland during the term of the Board, which had been agreed to at last meeting, was again brought up, and led to a lively discussion. Mr. Sinclair thought the account should be given to the banks year about. The Clerk was making an explanation as to the time the Royal Bank had held the account when Mr. Duncan objected to him saying anything on the subject.

Rev. Mr. Moodie thought they should have standing orders to regulate their meetings so that a member guilty of incivility to the Clerk or any member should be asked to withdraw.

Mr. Montgomerie seconded the motion for preparing standing orders. Mr. Duncan held that Mr. Moodie was out of order.

The decision of last meeting was not departed from.

On the question of free books there was another breeze. Rev. Mr. Moodie proposed that free books be introduced to the school. Mr. Duncan opposed the motion. The Chairman reminded Mr. Duncan that he was in favour of free books when before the ratepayers. Mr. Duncan said he was not in favour of it now.

The motion for granting free books was lost.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
7 JULY 1904

STEVENSTON PARISH COUNCIL

The assessments for the year have been fixed at the monthly meeting – Mr. Alexander McGregor presiding – as follows:-

Poor rates, 4¾d on owners and 4¾d on occupiers; Education, 4½d on owners and 4¾d on occupiers.

There is a decrease of 2¼d on occupiers and 1 7/8d on owners per £1.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
8 JULY 1902

NEW JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR AYRSHIRE

On the recommendation of the Right Hon. the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire, the following name has been added to the Commission of the Peace for the County:-

CARL OLAF LUNDHOLM, Ardeer, Stevenston.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
9 JULY 1907

PECULIAR MARGARINE CASE

Yesterday at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court – before Sheriff Mackenzie – JANE KELLY, provision merchant, Townhead Road, Stevenston, was charged with having contravened the Food and Drugs Act by having sold to John Andrew, sanitary inspector, Beith, a pound of butter which was not of the nature, substance, or quality demanded by the complainer.

She pleaded not guilty.

It appeared that the inspector entered the shop and asked for “a pound of butter from that lump,” pointing to a particular lump on a board behind the counter.

A servant girl of fifteen years was in attendance, and she gave him a pound from the lump referred to but wrapped it up in paper marked “margarine.”

The Sheriff said there was a doubt in the case from the fact that the inspector asked for a pound of butter from a particular lump which was not butter. If a person asked for something out of a particular vessel and got it out of that vessel, although it was not of the substance he wanted, the question was whether it came within the section of the Act libelled.

In this case, technically he thought it did, for this reason, among others, that the lump in question was, by the default of the accused, not marked by the word “margarine,” and consequently it represented itself to the public as butter. There was no doubt that it was butter that was asked for and it was not butter that was supplied.

At the same time, he must say that he did not look with favour on this way of doing things. He thought the inspector would have been better advised to have pointed out to the girl that there was some mistake at the time she was wrapping up the parcel in the margarine wrapper.

His Lordship found the accused guilty of a technical offence, and imposed a nominal penalty of one shilling.