Cumberland 25 Years  Ago 1912.

FROM BOOKING TO BANKING.

Mr. Edward VICKERS, clerk in the booking office at  Cockermouth Railway Station had a hearty send off yesterday by his friends on leaving to take up a banking appointment in Winnipeg. His fellow clerks presented him with a leather writing case, which was handed to him by Mr. R.  LITT, in the absence of Mr. LITTLE, the station master.

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EARLY TOMATOES.

Mrs. TELFORD, Longthwaite Road, Wigton, is again the  first in this district to have home grown tomatoes for sale. She cut the first  lot on Tuesday night, and sold them at 1s 4d per lb.

New potatoes were lifted from his cottage garden on  Wednesday by Mr. J. W. BROWN, Myrtle Villa, Parton. They were a good crop of an  excellent quality.

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TRIPS TO KESWICK.

The Whitsuntide train excursions to Keswick were  patronized by considerable numbers of holiday makers. On Monday West Cumberland  contributed about 1,500 to the influx and about 300 came from Sunderland.  Yesterday (Tuesday) an excursion from Preston brought 300.

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DEVELOPMENTS AT LOWCA.

The Workington Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., are making  application this month to the Light Railway Commissioners for an order to make  their tramway from Rosehill at Harrington to their colliery at Lowca, a distance  of two miles, into a light railway. This is made necessary by the installation  of by-product coke ovens and brick works, and the sinking of a new colliery  shaft.

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MARYPORT RAILWAY.

Mr. Richard Harrison HODGSON of the Western Lodge, Workington, managing director of the Workington Brewery Co., Lid., and chairman of the  directors of  the St. Helen’s Colliery Company, Workington, has been appointed a  director of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company, in place of the late Mr.  John MUSGRAVE.

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HORSES FOR CANADA.

Mr. W. J. McCALLUM, who is leaving for Canada within the next fortnight, is still prepared to purchase a good class of Clydesdale fillies and  mares.

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COCKERMOUTH HIRING.

As usual the Drill Hall will be open for dancing at the hiring at Whit
Monday, and farm servants and their friends are specially invited. Music is  to be supplied by Mr. JENN’s Orchestra, and refreshments will be supplied in the Hall.

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WRESTLING AT MILLOM.

At the sports promoted by the Millom Friendly Societies some very  fine wrestling was seen under Association rules.
10 ½ stone final, J. SOUTHWARD, Eskdale. J. JACKSON, Eskdale. A.  BRAITHWAITE, Corney.

12 ½ stone final. - M. SINGLETON, Gosforth. A. BRAITHWAITE, Corney.
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Cumberland 50 Years Ago 1887.
May 29th.

BRAVERY OF MARYPORT CLERYMAN.

The Royal Humane Society has referred its silver medal  on the Rev. J. B. HEWITSON, for plunging into the Thames from a steamer, near Blackfriar’s Brisge, on the 23rd ult., and attempting to save James CROYDON, an  old, an old man of 80.

Mr. HEWITSON is the son of Mrs. HEWITSON, Borroskill,  near Maryport, and the brother of Mr. John HEWITSON, solicitor,  Maryport.

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THE GROUSE DISEASE  IN CUMBERLAND.

Reports from the eastern fells of Cumberland show that  the disease among Grouse has continued with unabated severity. Mostly male birds  are attacked and they have been seen to fall dead on attempting to rise from the  heather.

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WEDDING DEMONSTRATIONS.

Last week a party of “wed dingers” at Workington were  roughly handled by a mob which threw sods, old tins and other dangerous missiles. On Tuesday a wedding party were pelted with flour, which spoiled the  dresses somewhat and annoyed the party greatly.

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CLOSING OF A PIT
AT EGREMONT.

The machinery at the Ehen Mining Company’s Pit is  being disconnected, the intention being to cease further work  underground.

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CAPTURE OF A LARGE TROUT
AT  KESWICK.

On Saturday afternoon, Mr. T. CARTMEL whilst angling  with a worm bait in the River Derwent, a short distance from the place where it  leaves Derwentwater, captured the largest trout that has been seen in the  district for very many years past. The fish was a fine full-grown Lake trout, of  7lbs 10ozs. in weight and was about two feet long. Shown in the shop of Mr.  William MAYSON, grocer, in Main Street, its fine proportions elicited admiration  from all who saw it. Mr. John SCOTT, of the King’s Arms Hotel purchased the  fish.

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REVIEW OF  CUMBERLAND
VOLUNTEERS.

About 700 Cumberland volunteers were expected to take  part in the field day proceedings in Lowther Park. The corps to be represented  are Carlisle, Egremont, Whitehaven, Workington, Penrith and Cockermouth. The  Keswick men decline to take part as their own gala day fixture will clash with  that of the Lowther display.

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A REMARKABLE SHOW.

Mr. William BRIGGS of Cunningarth, Abbey Town is the  owner of a sow whose breeding powers are something remarkable, she having in  three litters produced no fewer than 59 pigs. One litter was of 18, another of  17 and the other day she broke all local records with a litter of  24.

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LOCAL EMIGRANTS.

The two young men - Mr. T. HARRIS and Mr. DOWTHWAITE  who left Wigton recently for Toronto, arrived at Quebec on the 15th having had a  good passage out in the s.s. Carmation.

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THE COMING JUBILEE.

Out of a heap of letters before me (writes John PEEL)  I take one from a London Clergyman who asks, “Would it not be well on Sunday,  June 19 - but universally on the longest and most glorious of days, Tuesday,  June 21 - if every man, woman and child were tastefully decorated on their left  breast with a white favour - ribbon or rosette?”

Having, by means of various poetical quotations, shown  his loyalty to the Throne, the gentleman winds up his epostle theus: “It is  possible that the House of Commons or the Lord CHAMBERLAIN, may appoint something very distinctive, but at all events, let sweethearts, with all love and affection, pin on these white favors sisters rosettes, their brothers and  husbands proudly embellish with ribbons their wives and children, and, in their  very best holiday clothes, make this 21st day of June, in the year of our Lord,  1887 the grandest of all days, and in addition, let those capable of bearing a  good stout stick of British oak, gallantly march forth, showing they mean  business for their Queen and Country.

Verily, some people have more time at their disposal  than they know how to profitably spend or we should not hear of such  crack-brained schemes as the above being seriously  considered.

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PRESENTATION.

Mr. Alexander COOK, of Chicago, a well-known native of  Egremont, who is on a visit to relatives and friends in this country, has  presented a gold and diamond pendant for competition by the members of the Egremont Rifle Volunteer Corps.