Our prices again reduced – Bacon: Best Cuts from 1s. 3d. per lb., Boiling Pieces from 10d. per lb. Finest Granulated Sugar 7½d. per lb. English Cheddar Cheese, 1s. 6d. per lb. Apple Rings, 6d. per lb. Dried Peaches, 8d. per lb. – Tailby and Putnam, Rushden and Irthlingborough.
At the beginning of June, about 130 tons of coal were received at the Rushden and Higham Ferrers Gas Company’s works, and a further lot was expected. It meant that the arrangements regarding the hours of supply could remain for at least another two weeks. It was hoped that no further restrictions would be needed as orders had been placed for imported coal.
Inside the Gas Works
At the Old Age Pensions Committee meeting seven claims were made. Four of these were granted 10s. a week and one 4s. a week. Two cases were disallowed as the means exceeded the statutory amount.
The Relief Committee met at the Council Buildings on the 15th June, with the Rev. Ion Carroll presiding. It was reported that about £1,100 had been received and carefully distributed during the six months that the fund had existed. The Prisoners of War Fund was expected to donate a further £100 but it was regretted that the general public had not given to the extent that the Committee had hoped, and there were fears that the grants would have to be reduced. Many men with families and homes to maintain were getting no more than £1 a week unemployment benefit plus any assistance the Committee could give. Mr. A. H. Sartoris, J.P., had kindly given three threes, about 20 tons of wood, which the Committee had had distributed in small lots. Those who had received the wood expressed their thanks to the Committee and Mr. Sartoris.
Rushden Hall, the home of the Sartoris family until the 1920’s.
It was bought by Rushden Urban District Council in 1929
During the afternoon of the 16 June, an accident occurred when a horse and van belonging to Messrs. H. W. Chapman, Ltd., was being driven along the High Street towards the church. The horse took fright and bolted along the High Street. When it reached the Newton Road junction the shafts struck a motor-cycle and side-car coming down Newton Road to the High Street. Fortunately, apart from shock, no-one was hurt. The impact broke the shafts from the van, but the horse went careering on along High-street South, with the driver, Lowe, still hanging on. The horse was finally stopped in High Street South and was led to Messrs. Chapman’s stables in Cromwell Road. It was believed that a shaft-pin had fallen out and let the shafts fall on to the horse’s legs, which had frightened the poor animal.
The Rushden Echo reported that on Friday 24 June, the temperature was 83 degrees in the shade. We can always hope!