October 5, 1906
The death occurred on Saturday of Captain William Barclay, Saltcoats, born in Stevenston in 1822, he was one of the crew of the brig Clitus under Captain Betsy Miller.

Saltcoats bathing Club was resurrected on Monday after a lapse of years and office-bearers appointed were:- Mr H Wylie Auld, Mr Mathiesons and Mr WH Smith. Provost Blakely was made Honorary President.

Mr Archibald Ritchie, Inspector of Poor, Clerk to the Parish Council, and Collector of Rates for the Parish of Ardrossan, died suddenly on Thursday at the age of 38.

The mew School Board Officer for Stevenston is ex-constable William Shaw.

The Presbytery of Irvine on Monday approved the plans for the proposed new Ardrossan Parish Church to be built on a site beside Saltcoats Public School. The site has been gifted by the Earl of Eglinton and Winton.

The strike in connection with the Boilermakers’ Society is fairly underway on the Clyde, and Ardrossan United Free Presbytery have passed a resolution asking the good offices of the Scottish Secretary and the Board of Trade in reaching a solution of it.

Principal prizewinners for the season at Saltcoats Bowling Green which closed on Saturday were:- A Thom, J Yuille, AG McLashan, JC Stirling and H Dornan.

October 12, 1906
An active and progressive anti-smoking league has been formed by the boys of Ardrossan Academy. Already the membership numbers close on 40.

The League of the Cross Dramatic Club presented a new play by one of their number in the League Hall last Friday and Saturday. The play was My Irish Girl by John McLaren.

Mr Alexander Hunter of Ardrossan, big game hunter, has returned to Scotland after an elephant hunting expedition extending over four years. He is the only white man who has ventured into the Turkin countries in the Cameroon and has liberated hundreds of slaves.

A Burns Club has formed in Dalry last Saturday at Mr Robert Young’s North Street, the following being appointed office bearers:- Arthur Young, Tom Fisher, Jame Gorman, Robert Jamieson, Robert Turnbull, William Gemmell, Neil Kane and Jame Dickie.

Kilbirnie and Glengarnock United Brass Band won the Ayrshire Challenge Cup at the championship contest held at Dalry on September 25.

October 19, 1906
New semi-detached cottages of five apartments, bathroom, pantry, scullery, garden etc on High Road, Stevenston, are offered for sale at £400.

An appreciative worshipper in the North Church, Saltcoats, has presented the church with one hundred pounds. The money will be devoted to the introduction to new heating apparatus and the purchase of a service of Communion plate.

At the Crystal Palace, London, on Tuesday, Mr George Sinclair, Abington, Stevenston, won first prize and championship with his St Bernard dog.

The new Orange Hall at Glengarnock is to be lighted by electricity from the Iron Board Steel works.

Office bearers of Saltcoats Horticultural Society for the current session are:- president, William M Miller, secretary and treasurer, Thomas Scott, assistant secretary, RMK Campbell, committee, Messers James Orr, John Orr, John Bowman, John Miller.

Mr William Cowan Hamilton, son of the late Angus Hamilton, joiner Ardrossan, has been elected Mayor of the city of Lancaster.

Mr Albert Beard has been appointed Collector of Customs at Ardrossan.

October 26, 1906
Yesterday there came into operation within Ardrossan Burgh the new by-law according to the provisions of which the ice-cream shops in the town will not be required to close at 10 o’clock at night – 11 on Saturdays.

There has been a boom in Temperance meeting in Kilbirnie; one on Thursday, one on Sunday, and one on Wednesday night.

At West Kilbirnie some of the G&SW Railway Company’s employees are busy fencing off part of the proposed loop line in Portencross.

A shipping line advertises in this issue passages for intended immigrants to Canada at a third class fare of £5 in unsurpassed accommodation.

At the annual general meeting of West Kilbride Natural History and Archaeological Society the following office bearers were appointed:- President, the Rev William Watson, Overton; Vice, Robert Gibb, Glenbride; secretary and treasurer, DA Boyd, Seamill; committee, OB Currie, Mrs Laidlaw, The Rev John Lamb, N Lamont, Mrs Macarthur and James Wilson.

The Beith Masonic Lodge are considering plans for a proposed new temple on the present site of the Saracen sheds at the Cross.

November 2, 1906
The large reservoir on the Caff Water, the greatest of the works undertaken by the Irvine and District Water Board, was opened on Wednesday.

Ardrossan Parish Council appointed Mr Howie to be the new inspector of the poor from a list of 90 applications.

Kilwinning Literary and debating Society had a lecture on Tuesday entitled "Is planetary life a possibility?"

Between seven and eight hundred people attended a function in the Good Templars’ Hall Kilbirnie at which Dr and Mrs Milroy were presented with a piano from the townspeople on the occasion of their marriage.

The G&SW Railway have arranged to run a train from South Beach at 4pm to suit the convenience of West Kilbride children attending Ardrossan Academy.

The ship Baron Huntly of the fleet of Messers H Hogarth and Son, Ardrossan and Glasgow, has been lost at sea between Lisbon and Huelva. It is believed that the crew were picked up.

The Fairlie yacht building yard is so busy that a night shift was initiated at the beginning of the week

November 9, 1906
The tippers and hatch-mouth men employed in discharging ore boats at Ardrossan harbour struck work on Monday. They returned to work pending consideration of their claim to be paid while waiting for railway waggons.

Mr George Howison, draper, is having a shop and house built between the Orang Hall and Sunnyside Place at Glengarnock.

The Board of Trade have sanctioned the erection of the pier at Ardeer and it is believed that the pier will in due time will help the trade of Stevenston considerably.

The Town Hall, Saltcoats, is to be occupied on Monday evening by a great attraction – Scott’s Royal Cinematograph Co. This is the first visit of the cinematograph to Saltcoats.

Among the public companies registered last week was that called the Seamill Hydropathic.

At Ardrossan ratepayers meeting a local carter got on the platform and began to air a grievance of his own against the magistrates. One of the candidates tried to push the man off the platform and a scuffle ensued. Something like a free fight then took place and in the melee the candidates left the platform and the meeting broke up in disorder.