Boys rescue dying fish

Several Vale of Evesham youngsters have given up their spare time to play Good Samaritans to some 50 dying fish.  The boys noticed the fish fighting for their lives when they visited the Mill Pond at Aldington, which had virtually dried up.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY 
As Mr Thomas Byrd of Aldington, near Evesham, was returning home from market on Monday night, two fellows rushed upon him and knocked him down in the ditch, when they rifled his pockets, taking his watch, money and umbrella, which latter was found on the following morning near the place where the ruffians effected their purpose, on the Bretforton Road.
 

The nominations of candidates for the County Council were handed to the Deputy Returning Officiers of the several divisions on Monday.  Very few contests will take place, the old members being in the majority of instances re-elected.  The election will take place on March 7th.  The hours of polling are the same as in boroughs – viz, from 8 am to 8 pm.  The following is a list of the local nominations:

The tenants’ wives and children under the tenancy of Mr Thomas Byrd (Aldington) had their annual meat tea meeting on Monday, given by their landlord and landlady.  Upwards of 200 women and children were present and did justice to the beef and other good things provided for them.  After tea they held a short entertainment.  Mrs Byrd was voted to the chair, and the following programme was gone through and very well received:

COUNTY NEWS – MARRIAGE

At All Saints’ Church, Leamington, on Saturday, the marriage took place of Miss Ethel Holmden Phillips, daughter of the late Mr A Phillips of the Crown Hotel, Leamington, and Northwick Hotel, Evesham, and Mr Thomas Byrd, only son of Mr Thomas Byrd, JP, of Aldington.  The bride was given away by her brother, Mr Thomas Edgar Phillips, and the best man was Mr Reginald Bomford.  The bride was becomingly dressed in a costume of cream serge trimmed with silk braid and hat to match.  The honeymoon is being spent in London.

ALDINGTON, WEDDING

MR BYRD’S CANDIDATURE – NOISY MEETING AT BROADWAY

Badsey - The Rev W Byrd of Badsey entertained on the 15th inst, in an apartment fitted up for the occasion, a large number of workmen, who had completed the erection of certain buildings near his house. The supply of the good things consisted of several legs and other joints of “boiled and roast”, served up in the best style, with vegetables the produce of the Rev Gentlemen’s garden.  Mr Byrd presided, and his health was rapturously given and neatly responded to.