Reading Observer 02-1920

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I,~ies' Cloth
to ,lace, smart fit·
T~liable ' . quality, !
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jIIIl&~ ESTIFYING l110 the

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by his fellow workers on Tuesday e ning in
week. It was indeed a happy. assembl at the
oper ative Cale. in Friar Street, :-happy 0 be able
give Mr. Locke a good send off. but so
to lose
d ose connection with him which they ha enjoyed.

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S:HOE,S'J Snitable
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The presentation was in the '~hape pf a gJld watch
suitably ins+bed.
Mr. Locke. who has relinqui"shed his ! ;ost as
1llanager of fhe local Co.operative t311oriD~ depart..ment, has no~ entirely severed his rconnection! with the
Society. but
taken a post a.5 commercial trave] r
in the same line of business-the tailorid g I tra t
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operative Society 'was the presentationi
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or thereabouts, with the ReJding Industrial

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to leave so eJrly.

Mount .was a grand 5.£0f··tsma~.

and had ' give~ ~b:e cups for many years. He hoped
that ,t he wedner day Section of the League would' soo~
be resurrected. ije could remember the days when the
" 'Percy Cohen" Challenge Cup (a cup which was
played for by Ithe wi';n~'rs of the Wednesday and
Saturday Leag)le) was won outright by a :certain
Wednesd:ry clup-he would mention no mimes.
Mr}jte~blngs s~conded.
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Mr:, Wrtglh said that the P ..ks and Pleasure

The chai~' w~s taken by the League ch~irman (Mr.

Mr. "Taffy" Mills came in for many endores

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5taH," the song of a .. Demobbed" StaH VIIlCI'r,
.. Casahianca.·· an alustration of a toper

Gro~nd Commi.~ee ~ere ta~iDg up.the com~laint ~ecent •

and mixing various poems. "' He

was very well received with some

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The Chai an said h. was very pleased I to see
Mr. Mount the,e that evening but was sorry he had

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could say h. hrd never ·been ,bowled ~)' the ' cha:rman
(he h~d never r,layed. against bim). He ~on~rr~lated
th: Wl'.'ners
hoped, the runners,up would ' and

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Mr. G: T. Feltham opened the proceedings '
pi.ano solo and after that tbings went with a

which vastly tickled the visit.ors.

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of the Reading and. District ericl.t League,
which took place on Saturday in laSt we~k at the
George Hotel. A large gathering wa. pr~sent, l among ,
whom were Messrs. W. A. Mount, M~P" A . J. Maleer,
H. Stebbings, J. ' Phillips, G. Horler, Jack Smith, S .
Crawford, an d G. Goodman. A letter 01 ~pology was
received from , Alderman Cox .. whose wile as 'se'(iOusly
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HE Photo depicts the smolter and prize dist\'ibution

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& DISTRICT CRICKET LEAGUE M~ETING~
PRESENTATION

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ly made regardlrg Cricket pl.tches In ' the pitrks". l Anybody who had played crtcket knew thJ futility of
playing , on a Had pitch - one never kneJ, whei-e the
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' . Mr. Make~ propos.cd a vote of th~nks to the
to Mr. Frederick Ford, who had
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were encored. Syd O'Caliaghan was
his humorous songs. Mr" Westma,nc,oUl't,
C.c., sa.oJ ., Pay Day," The other
Georgeli,orler (Reading's stalwart back),
Durran, and Mr. Lionel :Sparks.
Mr. W. A. Mount presented tbe cups
successful teams and
the course of his
marked that he was pleased to see two of
winJi.e~& were in his constituency. He
· cricket a lot and once managed to knock up
runs in an innings, but he bad been missed

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'Reading &,District TeatJllers' Association.

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LOWER 'WHITLEY MEMORIAL
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TO THEIR BRAVE DEAD.
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Considerable satisfaction has been ' rei t
school teachers,
not only 01 Reading but also of !the dist~ict,
eleoti')" of Mr. Albert Smith to
the presidency of the Readinillnd Pistrict
Mr. Smith is
widely known among iocal teache s both in
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as head.master of St.
Giles' School and as an ardent ad ocate of mo,dOl,n edu,:atllonal ideas.

Co~ing to ' Reading

in 1

. Mr. 'S mith

at Battle School, anda lew years /later first as'li~tant
~roceeded to St. Giles' in 1904', af became
1906. During the war he was ap ointed he''',1'1l1~s,ter

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The accompanying picture of a memorial bra.s tablet
erected in St. Paul's ' thur~h. Lower Whitley: is of
inierest not only to tlre' relativeJ 01 the seventeen ,Igallant
men whose names. ~~pear therecn. but f? ~~e' who~~ of the
community of Lower WhitJey, :frpm which .these .men '\}'ent
forth at the call of th~ir country. Long thqugh the list
be for" such a · 5~all community. this by no . ~e~ns·
exhausts the li.t 01 those who died .Ior their ,cO/lDt"Y.
The names embrace these who actually fdl i~ active ,
ser:v~ce. and does net include 'th,~se of the e~u.ally br~:ve
lads who succ,um bed in Englend lor ersewher~ ID hospital
as the result of their wounds.

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' annexe to tljis school. He
the, boys' school there in
departments.

.- Th e new preSl
0 f many 'a,
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as it is said that it is the
busY ,man who linds time for more activity the "e'm~,er,
the Teachers' Associaticn
are I00
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' h to , Iea~II t h em a step
their forward movement.
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Ai on g his .man y . ,d uties Mr. S'r ith i.. lieioerJ~1 ~;ecl,elJ\ry of the CM .T.S.. Jo'lnt
5 ecretary Wit h, M r. C. H . K , .M aren, 0 ! E ton
the· Historial Association,
the Bishop's nominee on the Diocesan
the Church Teacners 01
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of Freem~sons, arid sidesman 01 St. Giles' Church , He was the
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Mrs. Smith organised
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.od manages th~ St. ,George';' Clu in CaStle
01 St. Giles' School.

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. The memor;;'1 was unveiled on Sunday b! Lt.,CoL
Buchanan Dunlcp. h:msell ;,n old soldier'and fhe father 01
soldiers, and a full re,>ort 01 the proceeding~, appears on

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