January 28, 1903

On Monday afternoon a serious accident happened to Mr J. Burgess of Baldertongate, Newark.

He was cycling from Southwell to Hockerton, and when descending a hill he fell from his machine and was found lying on the road unconscious and covered with blood.

Mr Burgess was very much injured about the face, but luckily no bones were broken and he is now progressing favourably.

He has no recollection as to how he came to fall from the machine, but the supposition is that while descending the hill he applied the brake which caused the bicycle to skid, owing to the muddy state of the road.

The machine was in no way damaged and a lamp which was on it was perfect.

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On Thursday last Miss Emily Hart, of Newark, took a concert party over to Long Bennington, when a capital programme of music was given in the schoolroom. The effort was on behalf of the Church Restoration Fund, and was voted a great success.

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Mr Elsey, late of Flintham Hall, has once more extended his generosity to the inhabitants of Flintham in giving them pork pies, sausages and coals, and the happy recipients tender him their warmest thanks.

When living among them it was his delight to cheer and brighten the homes of the working people, and his kind remembrance of them is most heartily appreciated.

January 21, 1903

The authorities of the Southwell Union are having to cope with an outbreak of smallpox, which was notified by Dr Willoughby last week. It appears that a tramping blacksmith, 33-years-of-age, had secured temporary work at Southwell, and took up his abode at a lodging-house.

There were ten or 12 other people in the place with whom the man had been in contact before he was known to be suffering from smallpox. He was at once taken to The Workhouse and isolated, whilst the other inmates of the lodging-house were put in quarantine.

The premises were disinfected, the people's clothes destroyed and new ones provided, and they have been put on board wages, isolation being insisted upon until the period of incubation of the disease has passed.

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The Radicals of Newark, as represented by the Newark Radical Association, have obtained a lecture on the life of Mr Gladstone, with magic lantern slides, and are taking it round to the villages.

The first display was at the Baptist Chapel, Sutton-on-Trent, when Mr H. Antcliff, of Newark, presided and the lecture was read out by Mr Ernest Knight.

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At the annual church meeting and tea in connection with the Newark Baptist Church, a presentation was made to Mr Ebenezer Holland who, after ten years voluntary labour as a deacon and secretary of the church, had resigned on account of ill-health.

January 14, 1903

There was high glee and festivity at St Barnabas' Home for Waifs and Strays at Newark on Saturday evening last. It was the occasion of the annual new year treat to the girls.

All work was over for the week, and so ironing boards and tables were put away.

Even the stove was hidden by a curtain, and the clothes horses slung up on high towards the ceiling, so that all suggestion of toil and humdrum monotony should be completely relegated to the limbo of oblivion.

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Through the instrumentality of Mr W. L. Charleton, president of the Muskham Co-operative Society, the farmers of the district were given an opportunity of seeing one of the latest inventions for the benefit of the farming industry.

This was the 20th Century manure, lime and fertiliser distributor, made by the J. S. Kemp Manufacturing company of Newark Valley, New York, and for which Mather and Co of Newark and Southwell, are the local agents.

The demonstration took place at the farm of Mr Dye of North Muskham. Upwards of 100 invitations had been sent out.

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The readiness with which the street lighting committee has remedied the street darkness in Newark deserves grateful acknowledgement.

The lamps are now lit on dark nights and no doubt an arrangement has been made to provide that they always will be.

We are sure the committee desire to keep Newark up-to-date and see that it is as well lit as any other town, for the well being and safety of its inhabitants.

January 7, 1903

On Monday a horse attached to a dray belonging to Messrs Dickins and Co grocers took fright near the Midland Station, Newark, as the man in charge was lighting his lamps.

It cleared other vehicles on the way until coming down Cartergate, when it collided with a pony and trap.

The force of the impact was such that the wheels and axle were struck off the body of the trap and driven some distance along the street. Fortunately the man in charge of it jumped out when he saw the horse coming.

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British weather is proverbial for its remarkable variability, but few persons are prepared to be awakened on a morning early in January by a thunderstorm.

Yet that was the experience of many persons in Newark and district on Saturday morning. About seven o'clock came a brilliant double flash of lightning, followed almost immediately by a heavy crash of thunder.

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A large company assembled in the Wesleyan School Room, Collingham, at the invitation of the stewards, to partake of a meat tea, followed by a social gathering.

Invitations were given to the Sunday School teachers, choir, workers of the Ladies Sewing Society and Bazaar, and all members of society.