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September 22, 1899
Rumours are in the air of a fully equipped athletic ground with
football field and cycle track being laid in Ardrossan shortly.
Miss MH Campbell, Girvan, has been appointed infants mistress in Kyleshill
school, Saltcoats, in succession to Miss Smith, resigned.
In the final tie for a pair of silver mounted walking sticks at Dalry
bowling green, Alexander Malcolm and Hugh Graham beat Alexander Sharpe and
Samuel Campbell by three shots.At a gathering of members of Castlehill Athletic F.C. , Ardrossan, Mr
Charles Price, their esteemed secretary, was presented with a marble
timepiece.
October 6, 1899
The suggestion is made that a beam of concrete blocks be placed
across the Stanley Burn between Saltcoats and Ardrossan so that a passage
can be had across without having to ascend to the road.
The progress of the 'Shamrock V Columbia" for the America Cup is being
announced each day of the race from our publishing office in princess
street, Ardrossan, to large crowds. Yesterday, as on Tuesday, the
"Shamrock" won, but outside the time limit, and on each occasion the race
was declared off.
Complaint is made that the footbridge being constructed over the
Blackwaterfoot, Shiskine, should have been made to take vehicular
traffic.
A presentation has been made to Mr GWT McGowan, Coatbridge, on his leaving
to take up the headmastership of Townend Public School, Dalry.
Mr William Swanston, head gardener at Carlung, West Kilbride, is leaving
for another appointment.
October 13, 1899
At Kilwinning Commissioners' meeting the clerk reported that he
had written the Chief Constable on the question of providing means for the
conveyance of obstreperous persons to the lock up. The Chief Constable had
replied that a barrow had been provided in Irvine for the conveyance of
drunk and incapable persons but it was hardly ever used and if they
desired, they would have it removed from Irvine. The subject was
laughingly dismissed.
St Mary's League of the Sea performed two dramas in the League Hall, "The
Factory Girl" and "Robert McAire." Among these taking part were Miss L
Smyth, and Messrs D White, M Reilly and J Keenan.
In a rifle shooting match Beith Volunteers Company beat Glasgow Bankers
Company by 902 to 865.
Kilbirnie Ladeside Bowling Club prize winners for the season were: - Hugh
Davies, John Glasgow, James Darroch jnr, John Law jnr, (Auchenbarroch) and
William Hughes.
Mr TS Allison's juvenile choir gave a service of song in the Woodside Hall
Stevenston.
October 20, 1899
Captain James Little, Caledonia Road, Saltcoats, was presented
with a medal gifted to him by the Italian Government in commemoration of a
gallant act of rescue on the high seas last year. Hon Thomas Cochrane, MP,
made the presentation.
At a meeting in the public School, Stevenston, Dr Wallace was presented
with a handsome medical brougham from the people of Stevenston. Mr ES
Wilson who had written the address himself, handed it over and Mr Hugh
Muir, the chairman, made the presentation of the brougham.
Ardeer Ironworks Bowling Club prizewinners for the season included Joseph
Bicket's rink, John Taylor's rink, A Thom, D Kelso, TC Banks, James Scott
William Vallance, Alex Duff, Robert Scott, W Reid, John Thomson, Archibald
Thomson, H leckie, John Greig, James Scott snr, T Fitzgerald, W McCall, A
Wilson, J Duff, A Bone, J Reid, J Fulton, J Gilmour, P Thomson, William
Smith and R Taylor.
At the exhibition in London, Mr W McMichael McMurtrie, foreman baker with
Messrs SF Miller, Stirling, won a silver medal. He is a son of Mr D
McMurtrie, Kilwinning. other members of the family , Thomas and David,
recently won high school honours for baking at the Brisbane Industrial
Exhibition
October 27, 1899
Ardrossan YM and YMCA's new hall in Harbour Street was opened on
Saturday.
Mr Maclaren of Swinlees has been awarded the gold medal of the Scottish
Kennel Club for his dog Blackburn Premier being the best spaniel in the
show at Edinburgh.
Mr AB Wiseman, Kilbirnie, has been appointed organist and choirmaster in
Dalry Free Church in place of Mr James Paul who recently resigned.
The steel screw quarter deck steamer Humber was launched last Saturday
from the yard of the Ardrossan Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co Ltd for Hull
owners. This is the first built by the new firm.
Messrs Adam Fairbairn and Daniel C Wilson left Beith on Tuesday for
Picher's Creek, Canada.
November 3, 1899
Shops in Saltcoats will now be closed at 7pm and 10pm on Saturdays.
The property in Glasgow Street Ardrossan, used formerly as No.1 Public
School, Saltcoats, has been purchased by Ardrossan EU Church for £540.
The licence for the Railway Hotel, Ardrossan, has been transferred from
Daniel Roberts to Alex Christie, Glasgow.
Mr J Holmes, Beith has won the Jones Trophy, for the best bird in the
tumbler and other sections at the National Poultry Show at the Crystal
Palace, London.
November 10, 1899
Mr John Thomson, MA, assistant at Springburn, has accepted the call to
be assistant and successor to the Rev George Morris, Dalry.
At Kilbirnie Literary Society's meeting Mr George Dickie gave a paper on:
"Should publicans be refused membership". He summed up in favour of
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