May 28, 1902

Widespread interest is being evinced in the town at the return home of the Newark contingent who have been worthily maintaining the prestige of the B and C companies, 4th Notts Volunteers at the front in South Africa.

By their loyal and self-sacrificing devotion to duty, and their ready response to the call of the country when the demand for more soldiers was made, the returning warriors have earned a warm welcome from their townspeople and friends.

A welcome change in the weather has had a marked effect on the attendance at Newark bowling green, and what promises to be a good season is now well under way.

This year many new members have been added to the ranks of the trundlers, and the verdant playing piece is thronged every night with enthusiastic devotees of the game.

A further additional embellishment has been initiated in the shape of an artistic and useful pavilion. It will be located midway between the beehive and the house, and is to be an artistic building.

Through the generosity of Mr Robert Matthews, the boys on the green have been put into uniform. He has presented the club with four coats of green cloth with red braid, together with straw hats for each boy.

The annual club feast in connection with members of the Ancient Order of Druids was held on Thursday last.

The members marched in procession to the parish church, headed by the Calverton Brass Band.

A short bright service was held, and a most excellent sermon was preached by the Rev. C. Gamston, vicar of Normanton.

May 21, 1902

For the 29th time in its history, the Newark Football Club has promoted an athletic sports meeting on Whit Monday at Newark, and to the long series of successes another must be added.

The ground was gay with streamers, and the Newark Borough Band, under Mr Carle, enlivened the assemblage with some excellent and inspiring music.

On the sixpenny side there was a great crowd, and the enclosure was by no means badly filled, whilst also carriages were, as usual, in evidence.

The whole of the arrangements were of an admirable character, and betokened painstaking labour on the part of the officials and a knowledge of what is required.

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The annual Newark Show justified the high expectations raised as to its merits and the patronage extended to it by the public could not but be very gratifying to the committee.

But for the rain on the second day there would, doubtless, have been a record attendance.

An interesting feature on the second day was the parade of prize animals which took place under Mr Glover's superintendence.

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During the last few days, a cow, the property of Mr Stafford of Marnham, has given birth to three fine healthy calves, all of which are doing well.

This animal, which is only five years old, had previous to this triplet adventure, added two calves to the common number of stock in the ordinary course.

Although descending from a prolific strain, nothing remarkable is known of the mother of the cow, but it is recorded that the grandmother was the progenitor of 20 live calves, 13 of which were successfully reared, in six consecutive years, which, from a farmer's point of view, must be worthy of note.

May 14, 1902

On Friday night a bullock belonging to a Newark butcher, and housed temporarily at the Exchange Hotel, broke from its moorings and started on a tour of inspection.

It mounted the stairs which led to the club room where it forcibly sought an entrance and careered round the room in apparent enjoyment of its strange surroundings.

The alarm was raised by its hubbub, and it was successfully ejected, making its descent down the steps with as much success as it had mounted them.

Fortunately only trifling damage was done, and the exploring animal will, in all probability, be served up in roasting joints at the market ordinaries.

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Mr E. M. Christian, farmer, Staythorpe, was the victim of an unfortunate gun accident, by which he sustained injury to the foot.

It appears that in company with a neighbouring farmer, named Thompson, he was shooting rabbits over his own farm.

He seems to have been proceeding with his gun under his arm with the muzzle pointing to the ground.

By some means or another, the trigger went off exactly at the moment when Mr Christian's left foot was in a line with it.

The shot carried away part of the big toe, and a portion of the sole of the boot.

Mr Thompson conveyed the injured man at once to Dr Job's surgery at Newark.

The doctors removed two or three pieces of bone, causing Mr Christian much pain, as it was not considered advisable to resort to chloroform.

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Newark's annual Magnus Grammar School sports on Friday drew a large attendance of parents and friends of the scholars to the Kelham Road ground.

It was a great afternoon for Hogan major, who won the championship medal for the greatest number of marks in the open events hands down.