Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1922.

Shannon News, 20 October 1922, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1922.

Monday, 23rd October (Labour Day) will be observed, as a holiday at the local Post Office. TJie Post and Telegraph will be open lor all branches of office work from 9 to 10 a. nr. only. The Money Order and Savings Bank and Telephone Exchange/ branches will remain closed alt day, and there will he no postman’s delivery of correspondence over the counter. All mails will dose at 7.50 a.m.

Another one of those pleasant evenings that, are held in the Parish Hall fortnightly took place on Tuesday evening, when there was a veiy large attendance. Euchre was played until 10 p.m. when the/ hall was cleared for dancing. The winners of the progressive euchre in the ladies' section was Miss B. Bowler, who won the cut after tying with five others. Her sister (Miss Bowleir) secured the consolation prize. Messrs. Goodwin and Coward tied in the gent’s class, the former being luckiest in the cut, Mr Terry taking the consolation prize. Regrets are heard on mil l sides that the next evening will be the last of the season.

The Shannon Co.-operative Dairy Co. are paying out 1/8 per lb for butterfat supplied last month.

As an indication of the early spring and plentiful supply of feed, the Shannon .Co-operative Dairy Co. turned

' out 20 tons of butter more for last j month than the corresponding period, i \ast year, ;

The eternal problem, “How to live without work” finds an easy solution in a local shop-window, which contains a notice reading as follows; “Foxsale, seven White Leghorn hens, layeach.” Why work when there are hens like these about?

The borough roads are now thrown open for grazing stock under certain conditions, between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., and already quite a number have taken advantage of cheap grazing.

Monday, October 23, being Labour Day, will be observed as a public holiday in Shannon. Mrs Wain, of Shannon, left yesterday on a visit to tier mother at Hastings.

At. the Council meeting on Tuesday evening it was decided, on the motion of Cr. Spencer, that a returned soldier be employed at oncei for scything and rolling the garden plot. The work is to be paid for out of the £3 in hand of the Poppy Day Fund. The Mayor is to have charge of the work. If not in every part of the country, at least for a hundred square miles round London, says an English exchange, the writing of advertisements in the sky by aircraft has been seen by millions of people. The formation of the letters in smoke, sometimes at so great a height that the aßroplanGP shaping the aerial inscriptiion cannot be seen, is a spectacle that obviously thrills and fascinates everybody who sees it. A prediction is made that ere very long this method of “broadcasting” will prove a serious rival to wireless.