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September 27, 1905

The contest for the Davy Cup, which is the most important event in the season’s programme of the Newark Swimming Association was held at the Bathing Place.

Three schools were represented by teams of four boys viz Mount, Christ Church and Council. The competition was a severe one, the tests being those of life rescue, stand dive or plunge, breast-stroke, run dive, overhead stroke.

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A bright and eager concourse of children faced the Mayor (Councillor Stennett) and prominent members of the Newark Education Committee in the Assembly Hall of the Council School, Lover’s Lane.

The occasion was the annual distribution of prizes and for this purpose the children of the St Augustine’s Council School had been marched down to the Lover’s Lane School.

The chairman (Mr Mumby) said boys should look forward to going in for a skilled trade; not to be content with positions as errand boys or labourers nor should they all seek to be clerks or even teachers.

He would like to see facilities in Newark for teaching girls up-to-date laundry work and boys the use of tools in a real practical manner.

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The harvest festival services were commenced at St Leonard’s, Newark, on Thursday.

The interior had been charmingly decorated for the occasion, the intention being to enhance not hide its architectural beauty.

Around the pillar tendrils of ivy were entwined, relieved with an occasional bloom whilst on the capitals were placed dahlias of varied hues resting amid the leaves of the ivy.

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September 20, 1905

The event of the week in Newark was the visit of the King, which, though entirely private and informal, and consisting only of a motor ride through the town, aroused great interest.

The occasion did not admit of any ceremonial or reception, but the citizens showed there loyal appreciation by displaying flags along the line of route.

His Majesty has been the guest of Lord Savile at Rufford Abbey, and on Thursday afternoon he motored from Rufford to Belvoir Castle to visit the stately home of one of his oldest and most estimable subjects, His Grace the Duke of Rutland.

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William Henry Taylor, of Newark, was brought up in custody charged on suspicion with being a deserter.
The Chief Constable said he had communicated with the officer commanding the Yorkshire Light Infantry, who had replied that Taylor absconded before he was finally approved, and was now not required. Prisoner was therefore released.

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In the corner of Newark Market place is located an institution which we would venture to think would be much more largely used and valued were its advantages wider known.

The writer happened to ask a country rector the other day if he had ever been inside the Stock Library, and he replied that he had not, nor did he know there was such a place in Newark.

And yet it is an ideal centre, place of call and rest for those who come into Newark by cycle or trap to while away an hour or enjoy a quiet siesta between shopping or business and return.
 

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September 13, 1905

At a meeting of the City Council at Lincoln Councillor J. H. Foster said he gathered from a report he had seen of a meeting of Newark Town Council that that body considered the Lincoln Corporation had acted discourteously towards them in reference to their offer to supply Lincoln with water.

The chairman of the waterworks committee, Councillor J. W. Ruddock, said he did not know that the committee acted discourteously towards Newark.

They had an offer from the Great Northern Railway Company to provide them with water free for three months, and they accepted it in preference to the offer of Newark to supply water at 1s per thousand gallons, which was 3d more than Lincoln charged the consumers.

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At the Confectioners and Bakers' Exhibition, held at the Agricultural Hall, London, Mr W. G. Clarke (of Mrs H. Clarke and Son, Stodman Street, Newark) was awarded second prize, value £7, and a special diploma for a display, open to past students of the National School of Bakery and Confectionery, Borough Polytechnic, London.

The exhibit consisted of one two-tier wedding cake, one Christmas cake, one birthday cake, two ornamented gateaux, two dozen petit fours glace, two afternoon tea fancies, six varieties of biscuits, one pound cake and one Madeira cake.

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The annual excursion to the seaside of the choir of All Saints' Church, Coddington, which is given with his annual generosity by Captain Thorpe, took place on Saturday last.

The party, to the number of 21, in the charge of Mr A. S. Foster, organist and choirmaster, set off in the early hours of the morning en route for Yarmouth.