Llangollen Advertiser Denbighshire Merionethshire and North Wales Journal

THE HOLIDAY. BANK Holiday, despite the shadows which the war clouds just now cast over every form of pleasure seeking and pleasure making, appears to have been thoroughly well enjoyed at Llangollen and to have been a fairly auspicious opening to what, we trust, may prove a satisfactory season. To a certain extent we were able, on Mon- day, to gauge the extent to which Llan- gollen is dependent upon the railway com- pany for the success or otherwise of these annual festivals. No excursion facilities were provided, to the extent that no cheap day or week-end fares were issued but, despite this, although the" tripper element" was conspicuous by its absence, there were not many hundred fewer people in the town than on previous Whit Mondays; whilst statements in well informed quarters indicate that the number of visitors who have taken rooms and intend to remain in the locality for a few days or weeks has rarely been larger. Bookings, from the surrounding district, we understand, were never heavier than on Monday—relief-trains having to be run to Wrexham, etc.—and the number of motorists and cyclists on the road was exceptionally large. So that, taking everything into account, Bank- Holiday was a surprise packet for local pessimists.

A VIVID CONTRAST. I THE terrible price war exacts and the gallant readiness with which the man- hood of the country are paying it were brought vividly home to the holiday crowds at Llangollen on Monday. The streets were packed with young men from the surrounding neighbourhood, who ap- peared to be enjoying their day off in the bright sunshine immensely, when, sud- denly, their ranks were parted to make way for a procession of motor cars con- taining a number of badly wounded soldiers who were being taken on a re- cuperating tour through the Dee Valley by a Liverpool gentleman, and halted at Llangollen on the journey. Some of the men were very badly injured, two had lost an arm each, one was suffering from the effects of having been "gassed," and all bore on their persons indications of the gallant part they had played for their country at Ypres, Neuve Chapelle or Hill 60. Two of the num- ber had to be carried into the Hand Hotel where they were entertained to liinch. The contrast between these war- worn warriors and the irresponsible holi- day crowds was too vivid to escape notice and, when one of the injured men, standing up in a car, exclaimed to the holiday-workers: Come and do your bit, also," one felt it was an epitome of what a recruiting speech should be. It was so completely apposite and to the point.

LLANGOLLEN V.T.C. APPROACHING thirty members have been enrolled in the Llangollen Volunteer Training Corps which held its first parade in the Armoury on Thursday. Those who have enrolled themselves are thor- oughly representative of most sections of the community and there is no doubt the number will be rapidly added to as the desirability and practicability of prepar- ing to render effective service in this way is more completely realised. There are several points regarding which the public mind requires to be disabused in regard to these corps. The most dangerous suggestion of all is that Lord Kitchener is strongly opposed to the movement. This is the very reverse of the truth. The Secretary for War favours any and every movement that tends to promote efficiency and prepared- ness for service in any direction whatso- ever. Lord Kitchener, however, is most strongly antagonistic to any movement that impedes recruiting for the regular army and the establishment of Volunteer Training Corps, if they admitted to their ranks men of army age and provided those who, should be at the front with a means of salving their consciences for not doing their duty in other directions, would do harm rather than good. Rightly regulated as to methods of enrolment, however, they can only achieve good. ———

THE MOST IMPORTANT I MATTER. MR. E. Green Davies, Surveyor to the I Llangollen Rural District Council, adopts I quite the right course when he decides to suspend official activity under the Hous- ing and Town Planning Act for the time being at anyrate. Obviously, as he states, it is useless to call upon owners to repair houses when there are no men to be got to do the work. The necessity for sus- pending activity in carrying forward local works, if they necessitate the em- ployment of men whose plain duty is in another place, cannot be too forcibly in- sisted upon. There are few departments of public work where the offices could not be held by elderly men or by women until such time as the German is settled with, that might not cease operations altogether for twelve months; and this is what it may come to before we have won through in this terrible business. Things are falling into their true perspective but it may not yet have been brought home quite so thoroughly as it may ultimately rv-. I oe, now very litue amairs tnat we nave been accustomed to regard as being of the very first importance really matter when the nation is in a life and death struggle for its very existence. Compared with the clamant duty that lies before our troops in Flanders nothing counts.

0 THE CHILDREN'S HOMES. I AT a recent meeting of the Corwen Board of Guardians questions were asked and answered as to the cost of the newly- acquired Children's Homes that now form a portion of the Poor Law Institution for the administration of which the Guardians are responsible. Situated apart from what may be termed the Institution proper the homes still come under the control of the local authority and when we are told the property has been acquired and converted into what are really pleasant and comfort- able homes for a number of children at an outlay of, roughly speaking, Y,1,200 it is impossible not to regard the completed work as evidence of the wise forethought and admirable executive ability of the portion of the Board responsible for carry- ing it out. Ratepayers must bear in mind that the Guardians had no option but to make some provision of the kind. The Local Government Board insisted that the children hitherto maintained in what was then known as "The Workhouse" should be removed from the Institution and brought up, as far as possible, in homes and apart from the pauper taint. As to the wisdom of adopting such a course, it is scarcely necessary to-day to write a single word. The members of the Cor- wen Board of Guardians at once recognized the force of the suggested policy. They also recognized that in order to comply with it special accommodation must be made at Corwen. This has been both admirably and economically provided at Fronhyfryd. A

LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS. Quite a feature of the Whitsuntide Holiday at Llangollen have been the popular facilities pro- vided by Mr. Isaao Roberts, the proprietor of the pleasure boats that run between the Llangollen Wharf and the Chainbridge on the one band and the Sun Bank Halt, Pontoysylltau, Aqueduct and Chirk on the other. Not to make the journey in one of these boats, which pass through scenery of indescribable beauty and past some of the chief features of interest in the locality, is to miss one of the leading attractions of a vifdh to LlangorIen, and no visitor desires to do that. To the older form of travel Mr. Roberts has recently added rowing boats for hire and these are proving equally popular to visitors and did splendid business on Saturday isnd Monday,

A RHOS CHILD'S DEATH. On Friday, Elizabeth Ana Jones (16), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, of 42a, Jones-street, Rhos, died at Wrexbam Infimary, of which institution she had been an inmate for about a month. On April 24th, the girl visited the plesure fair at W rexham, and attempted to board one of the cars of Mr. Pat Collins's scenic railway. She failed to do so, and falling under the car injured her left leg so seriously that it had to be amputated. The house surgeon, Dr. W. T. Buchan, reported that when admitted the girl was suffering from a chest complaint and that she died from this cause, and not from the accident. Under the circumstandis, the coroner, Mr. Ll. Kenrick, decided that an in- quest was unnecessary. ♦

POPULAR OFFICIAL'S RETIREMENT. I THE TIMBER TRADE AND MR. THOMAS THOMAS; The many friends of Mr. Thomas Thomas, who I after forty-five years service with the Great Wes- I tern Railway Company recently resigned the office of Controller of the Timber Department, at Shrewsbury, and who Las retired to Llangollen, his native place, where he now resides, will be pleased to hear that steps have been taken by the Timber Trade to mark, in a tangible manner, their appreciation of the good work for which Mr. Thomas has been responsible. The following are amongst the leading members of the Timber Trade whose names are appended to a testi- monial Messrs. C. O. Gallimore (Stourbridge); Messrs. J. Cadman and Co. (Stoke); Messrs. T. A. Compton (Swinton); Messrs. Caswell and Bowden (Birmingham) Messrs. Coward and Co. (Llangollen); Messrs. E. Jones and Son (Bala) Messrs. H. Hall and Sons (Newcastle) Mr. W. Davies (Bucknell) Messrs. R. Groom, Sons and Co. (a.erefrd) i.. Messrs. J. Corbett and Son (Uartleburv) Messrs. (tooerts ana cooper (Brierley Hill) Messrs. Barker Bros. (Shrews- bury); Messrs. laherwood and Co. (Wem); Mr. Jabez Barker (Shrewsbury) Mr. H. Hatton (Kington); Mr. J. B. Hickman (Wellington); Mr. Thomas Griffiths (Coalport) Mr. J. Horner (Stockport) Messrs. Foresters (Leek); Mr. A. Harper (Cradley Heath) Mr. W. Johnson (Oswestry). This comprehensive list, including the leading members of the trade in a very important district, bears high testimony to the widespread respect in which our esteemed fellow- townsmen is held by those who are in the best positions to estimate the true worth of loyal and long continued service. On Friday last, J. Barker, Shrewsbury, on behalf of the Timber Merchants presented Mr. Thomas with a handsome cheque; and also Mr. Gallimore, D.G.M., presented Mr. Thomas with a purse containining a substantial sum of money on behalf of the Railway Staff. Both presenta- tions were made in Mr. Gallimore's Office.

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CENTRAL WELSH BOARD. THE NEW CHIEF INSPECTOR. Mr. Owen Owen, who has been the Chief In- spector of the Central Welsh board from its establishment, will retire from that office next July, and his place will be taken by Mr. Wm. Edwards, who has for some years been Senior Inspector under tho Welsh department of the Board of Education. The new Chief Inspector is a native of Den- bigh, and is known as a keen advocate of native studies in the schools. He was one of the small group of Welsh educationists who, a quarter of a century ago, succeeded in getting Welsh included as a subject of instruction in the elementary BUUUUJ. ViUUt)., Mr. Edwards is an open scholar of Queen's College, Oxford, and obtained a firsjj-clfiES in Classicarand Mathematical Mods, and also in Mathruaticai Finals. He was for some time As- sistant Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford, of which college he is a late Fellow. He has taken a prominent part in the administration of Welsh secondary and university- education, and was one of those on the short list for the principalship of the University College of North Wales, Bangor,, when Sir H,¡,rry Reichel was appointed to that post.

I NEW TREVOR MINISTER. PRESENTATION AT BWLOHGWYN. After a pastorate of close upon eleven years in the village of Bwlchgwyn, the Rev. John Lloyd Jones, B.A., Calviniftic Methodist Minister, ac- cepted the unanimous invitation extended to him to become pastor of the C.M. Chapel at Pontycy- syllte, near Llangollen. The inhabitants of this quiet and picturesque hamlet are warm hearted friends, and the movement that was initiated to recognise the splendid services rendered by the rev. gentleman was enthusiastically taken up by all sections of the community, and by all religious denominations. THE CHURCHES' FAREWELL. The member of the Peniel and Salem Welsh (C.M.) Churches bid farewell to the Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd Jones at a meeting held in Peniel Chapel, on Thursday. It was largely attended, and Mr. R. Sauvage, J.P., presided. The Chairman having eulogised the work of the rev. gentleman and his wife, addresses expressing regret at their departure, but wishing them every future success and happiness were delivered by Messrs. Wm. Roberts and John Lloyd Evans on behalf of the Peniel Chapel, and by Messrs. Tbos. Jones and Thomas Hughes on behalf of Salem Chapel. The presentations, which consisted of a purse containing 113, was made by Mr. John Jones, the oldest member of the two churches present. The Rev. J. Lloyd Jcces having suitably re- sponded, addresses were aleo delivered by the Rev. J. Jay Jones (B.), Coedpoetb, Evan Jones, Adwy'rclawdd, aid Robt. Lewis, Penygelli Hall. Musical item were also rendered by Mr. James's Jonen'a party. TRIBUTES BY PARISHIONERS. Un Monday evening the parisbciiiers of Bwlch- gwyn and Miners made a presentation of an illuminated address and purse of geld to the Rev. John Lloyd Jones, Fnd to IVIRE. Lloyd Jones a beautiful spirit kettle was given. In respondir-g, Mr. Lloyd Joies said he would always cherish the eddiess Me of his most valunble poesessfiiors. Mr. Robert Ssuvsge, J.P., said it waft a dflight, to him to find Mr. Lloyd Jones fulfilling the functions, not only of a minister but also of a citizen, with satisfaction to the district acd credit to himself. It was a git at. thing for a country district like Bwlcbgwyn to mt n of character and men of influence to lead not only its religiouse, but in its every day life. (Applause.) The Rev. T. Enoch (Vicar) said that be had always found Mr. Lloyd Jones a straightforward man. They had been able to work together amicably in all things. Mr. Lloyd Jones had taken part in his church, and he bad taken part in Mr. Lloyd Jones's chapel, and that is how it should be. They were ministers of '.he Gospel, and if the Gospel taught anything it taught charity (Hear, hear). He wished both Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Jones success in their new sphere. (Applause). Addresses were also delivered by the Rev. J. R. Roberts (Wesleyan minister), Mr. John Davies (Neifion), Mr. W. E. Davies (Gwynfryn), and the Rev. R. J. Parry, Penygroes (formerly of Bwlchgwyn). During the eveniug an excellent miscellaneous programme was rendered. Mr. Wm. Roberts opened with the singing of "Hen Wlad fy Nhadau," and Mr. W. Beckett Lloyd sang some verses composed by himself in honour of the Rer and Mrs. Lloyd Jones and their little son.

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