February 2, 1906
Malcolm Campbell (51) who was employed as a watchman at a bridge on the
Caledonian Railway between Saltcoats and Stevenston, was early on
Saturday evening killed by a goods train. He resided at Quarry Lane,
Ardrossan.
The polling in North Ayrshire in the General Election
resulted :- Hon Thomas Cochrane (U), 5603; AM Anderson (Liberal), 4587;
James Brown (Lab), 2683. The total poll over the country was:- Liberal,
396; Independent Labour, 33; Nationalists, 84; Unionist, 157.
The Ardrossan Chess Club has a membership of 18. In
the championship, competed for in League fashion, Mr A Hunter at the
present tops the table, closely followed by Mr Matthews.
Mr Phillip Kirkcaldy has succeeded Mr Gilroy as
superintendent for the Prudential Assurance Company Ltd, Ardrossan
district.
Miss Annie Frew, soprano, Stevenston, won the gold
medal and the audience prize, a silver watch, at Pollokshaws Singing
Contest.
Stevenston Parish Church congregation have decided to
build suitable church halls and a bazaar with the object of raising
£1000 will be held. The bazaar committee is Messrs R Glen
(Stationmaster), Alex Arnott (organist), Law, Brownlie, Deans and Thomas
Orr.
At Dalry ploughing match James Alexander, Holm,
Dundonald, was first in the senior open competition and John Garven,
Corsehill, Dreghorn, first in the junior section. James Dalgleish,
Hillend, won the silver medal for seniors (confined), the best looking
bachelor was John Ferguson, Giffordland.
A memorial window has been erected in West UF Church,
Kilbirnie, in memory of Robert William Knox of Moorpark, by his wife and
their children.
February 9, 1906
the engagement is announced of Lady Mary Hamilton, daughter of the lat
Duke of Hamilton, to the Marquis of Graham, eldest son of the Duke of
Montrose. On Monday afternoon the Duchess of Hamilton, Lady Mary and the
Marquis of Graham walked through the Brodick village and were greatly
pleased at the spontaneous enthusiasm prevailing. Flags and bunting were
gaily displayed and in the evening houses were brilliantly illuminated.
Bonfires blazed and there were displays of fireworks.
At the open show for cats at Kilmarnock, Mr JMB Miller, Burnfoot,
Fairlie, won second prize in the short-haired gelding class with
"Fairlie Punch."
Mr Hugh Higgins proposed "The Immortal Memory" at the Dalry Burns Club
celebration.
Mr Andrew McNeilly, painter, North Street, Dalry, received a
presentation on the occasion of his leaving for Australia.
Mr Norman Lamont, MP for Buteshire, presided at the
annual Arran re-union in the Queen’s Room, Glasgow, on Friday evening.
Nearly 900 persons were present. At the dance the grand March of 135
couples, was led off by Mr Lamont and the Lady Mary Hamilton, followed
by the Dowager Duchess of Hamilton and the Marquis of Graham.
A large portion of the barricade round the playing
pitch at Ardrossan Celtic FC was blown down during Thursday’s gale.
The ketch St Abbs of Campbeltown went ashore on
Tuesday on the rocks leading to the North Perch at Irvine Harbour. The
Irvine lifeboat under coxswain Alex Sinclair took off the master and
crew. She was loaded 80 tons of scrap iron and had been severely damaged
by the storm.
February 16, 1906
At Saltcoats Town Council Meeting a recommendation that a plan for a
bathing place at Saltpans by the erection of a wall enclosing a certain
area of water at a cost of £260 be adopted failed to secure the
necessary two-thirds majority and the proposal fell to the ground.
In an advertisement of the annual sale of Shaw,
Walker & Co, Glasgow, are £6 6/- ; walnut polished bedroom suite, £8
15/-; tea-sets, best Staffordshire china, 6/11d; semi-china tea-sets, 21
pieces, 2/9d per set; meat or soup plates, 1/9d per dozen.
Miss Sarah Barr, Ardrossan, pupil of Mrs Hinchcliffe,
organist of the Parish Church, Irvine, has passed the Trinity College
Intermediate Examination in pianoforte playing.
In the Institute Hall, Kilwinning, the juvenile choir og Mr Robert Howat
jun, gave a programme of Burns’s songs. The soloists were :- Mrs Devlin,
Dunlop, Allan, Anderson, Dyet and Hamilton, and Messers Strannigan,
Russell, Robertson and McMinn.
The Rev Samuel G Neil, a native of Dalry, has been
appointed District Secretary of the American Babtist Publication Society
with headquarters in Philadelphia.
Dalry School Board have appointed Miss Marion Tait to
the vacancy of Kersland Barony School Board staff.
February 23, 1906
A boarding house to be known as "The Inverclyde" will be opened in
Seamill, West Kilbride next year.
A fire which occurred on Saturday night in the
building in Dockhead Street, Saltcoats, tenanted by Robertson & Co.,
tailors and clothiers, and Mrs Crawford, draper, with dwelling houses
above caused serious damage.
In the "Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" office last
Friday, Mr Kirkwood who was leaving for Troon to take charge of the
branch office there, was presented by the employees with a fountain pen
and travelling bag.
Ardrossan Amateur Dramatic Company presented "The
Lady of Lyons" in the Assembly Hall.
The cast included Miss Sarah Dunkeld, Miss A Higgins
and Miss Simpson and Messrs J Woodburn, JC Currie, Chas. Magee, Hugh
Skillen, H Braniff, D McLean and JR Miller.
Mr Matthews at present leads the Ardrossan Chess Club
League with 18 points for 10 matches played.
March 2, 1906
Under cover of the storm of wind and rain early on Sunday morning, a
window of the United Loan Company, Countess Street, Saltcoats, was
smashed and a case containing about 50 gold rings and a number of silver
medals were taken.
At a social meeting of Ardrossan Boilermakers and
Iron and Steel Shipbuilders’ Society, a presentation was made to Mr Wm S
McDowall, the late foreman.
Captain J Brown has compiled a list of ships and shipmasters of the
"City" Line. The list of captains includes seven from Saltcoats, 10 from
Irvine and two from Arran.
What is described as "the event of the season," the Merchants’ Supper
and Ball, took place on the Wednesday in the Conservative Hall,
Stevenston.
The Ardeer Ironworks library (400 volumes) has been,
through Mr Main, handed over to the Stevenston Conservative and Unionist
Club.
Miss Macdonald, Blairgowrie, has been appointed head mistress of St
Bridget’s RC School Kilbirnie.
At Kilbirnie Sabbath School entertainment a feature
of the programme was the resuscitation of the once-famous Logan Double
Quartette Party who were greeted with loud applause. The party was
composed of Mrs John Glasgow (Miss Maggie Dunlop), Mrs Jas Wilson (Miss
Madeline Calderwood), Mrs Wm Taylor (Miss Jeanie Steele), Miss Steele,
Mr Robert Logan (conductor), Mr Jas Crossan, Mr John Reddit and Mr
Malcolm Fyfe.
