May 20, 1905
Lord George Sanger, "the greatest showman of them all"
announces that he is coming to Brewery Park, Saltcoats on May 29 with "his
gigantic coliseum of 1000 years ago and today and the only real hippodrome in
the world.
An article of the great revival campaign by George Whitefield in 1742.
Services in the field were held at various places in Scotland, including
Irvine, Stewarton and Kilmarnock. On July 10 and 11 great communion
services were held at the Braes, Cambuslang, the attendance being 20,000
and 30,000 and on Labour Day 17000 communicated?
Beith FC won the Scottish Combination Championship, Of 18 games played,
they won 14, drew one and lost three.
In a quoiting game Dalry beat West Kilbride by 98 - 66.
Among the advertisers in this issue are:- Doherty's salesrooms
(furniture), Winton Buildings, Ardrossan and Vernon Street, Saltcoats;
Thomas Rogerson, Dairyman, Springvale Street, Saltcoats; Jim McMurtrie,
junior, architect and surveyor, Windmill Street, Saltcoats; TT McGregor,
Kilwinning Nurseries; Jim McElerny?, Pawnbroker, office and salesroom,
Courthill, Dalry.
Announcement is made that Ardrossan's Foundry is for sale or to let.
An athletic club has been formed in connection with Ardrossan Academy.
The property "Kaladonna"? James Street, Dalry, has been purchased on
behalf of Miss Agnes Stevenson Walker of Langside, Dalry, at the price of
£770.
May 26, 1905
Mrs Andrew Jamieson announces that on the 3rd June, 1905, she will
open the shop at 17a Princes Street, Ardrossan (presently occupied by Mr
Hugh Currie, shoemaker) for the sale of all kinds of dairy produce.
Saltcoats Unionist Club made the presentation of a handsome desk to Mr
John Taylor, the popular secretary of the club, who is shortly leaving for
Glasgow.
Mr George Howat, 13 Thistle Cottages, Stevenston, has been appointed as
passenger agent for the Donaldson Line of steamers sailing between Glasgow
and Canada.
In a large pot of asparagus in the conservatory of Mr RW Knox, Moorpark,
Kilbirnie, there is a robin's nest with four young birds hatched about a
week ago. During the laying and hatching processes the parent birds were
quiet undisturbed although the gardener syringed the plant regularly.
The removal of the Fife's from the Place Farm, Kilbirnie, severs a
connection of the family with Kilbirnie of nearly 60 years.
William Fife's
widow and two sons , Alexander and John, have removed to Templand Muir
Farm, Dalry at this term.
Mr John Hood, late Cairnview, Kilbirnie, has started a new industry in the
locality . The site of Kerse Nursery is good ground food from Mr James
Brodie of the Kerse near Beith station.
The strike at Redburn Pit, Kilwinning, after lasting seven weeks, has
terminated. A satisfactory arrangement regarding the dirt scale, has been
come to.
June 2, 1905
At the opening of the Troon Municipal Golf Course on Saturday, Bailie
Mackie, convener of the Golf Committee, presented a silver clock to
Provost Logan who performed the opening ceremony and drove off the first
ball. In an exhibition match Harry Vardon, the open champion beat Willie
Fernie, ex-champion by 7 and 6. The scores for the round were:- Vardon 78;
Fernie,88. In the evening the Town Council entertained a representative
company to dinner in the South Beach Hotel.
The Excelsior Theatre, Raise Street, Saltcoats, intimates that it has been
a great success. There is a change of program nightly. The prices are
1/6d, 1/-, 6d and 3d.
A threshing says:- There are not a few empty houses in Ardrossan at
present.
Constable George Forsyth, who has been in Saltcoats for a number of years,
has been transferred to Troon.
Mr John Macrae has taken up duty as Postmaster at Saltcoats.
On Friday the members of Ardrossan Town Council drove to the new Busbie
Muir Reservoir and the water was formally turned on by Provost Young.
At St Brennan's Horse Fair, Kilbirnie, a few first-class horses fetched
the price of £85.
Mr John Dickie, a native of Kilwinning, has died in Bedford, Mass., USA.
He left £200 to provide coal and food for the poor of Kilwinning.
June 9, 1905
The new bandstand in Melbourne Park, Saltcoats, was officially opened last
Saturday afternoon by Mrs Blakely, the wife of Provost Blakely. The
members of the Choral and Orchestral Society co-operated with the Burgh
Band in providing a popular programme to a large crowd. Afterwards the
members of the Burgh Band were entertained by Provost Blakely to dinner in
Mrs Caldwell's Temperance Hotel.
Reverend Father Cronin has been appointed a member of the Stevenston
School Board.
Mr and Mrs Steel from Stevenston celebrated their golden wedding on Monday
evening at a family gathering presided over by the Reverend D Greenhill.
At the Industrial and Fine Arts exhibition in Kirkcaldy, Mr James Wylie
from Stevenston was awarded second second out of 15 entries in a
competition for the best original design for linoleum and two other
awards.
A Kilbirnie publican was fined 7/6d for supplying a girl of 12 years with
three-halfpence worth of beer in a jug on the premises.
At a meeting of the Kilwinning Parish Council, Mr Robertson, suggesting
that the gates of the cemetery should be closed each night during the
summer, said it was hard on the keeper that he should be awakened out of
bed after 10 o'clock at nights by young couples courting in the cemetery.
June 16, 1905
While bathing in the River Irvine near the shipyard, Richard Harsell (10)
got into difficulties and his cousin, Alex Abercrombie, Peter Street,
Irvine who plunged into the river to his rescue, was drowned. The weight
of his clothes dragged him under.
On Friday evening there was handed over to the Town Council of Saltcoats
the portrait of the late Dr Kinnier, painted by Mr Charles Meadows and
purchased by public subscription for the municipality. The portrait has
been placed on the wall of the Lesser Town Hall.
Saltcoats Homing Society's race from Shrewsbury was won by G McSkimming
(621yards, per minute).
The following pupils have past successfully at the Trinity College of
Music examination :- Misses Agnes Smart (senior), Dorothy Craig (junior),
and Mary Ogden and C Bryce (preparatory) - all pupils of Miss HJW Mackay,
Ardrossan and Miss Annie Hunter (intermediate), pupil of Mr JK Parker,
Saltcoats.
In the semi-final of the West of Scotland Schools Championship, Ardrossan
Academy beat Hamilton Academy by 4-0.
In the Mine Managers' certificate examination the following have passed
first class:- Thomas Allardice, Fergushill; Hugh Clifford, Stevenston;
David McVie, John McVie, Perceton; John McWhinnie, Stevenston and William
Todd, Irvine. They were under Mr Forbes, teacher of mining in Irvine Royal
Academy continuation classes.
EU Congregational Church, Kilwinning, has raised £208 towards cleaning of
the manse and for repairs.
