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Farmers and their workmen, horticulturists and everyone else rose to the occasion for the Centenary show of Collingham Farmers' Club, on Saturday, and enabled organisers to realise their hopes and ambitions to the full.
The most prominent visitor was Professor Sir James A. Scott Watson, Chief Adviser to the Minister of Agriculture and Director General of the NAAS.
He and the club president, Col R. R. Ware, who lives at Collingham and holds a responsible post in the ministry of agriculture, spent the whole day on the showground.
Congratulations should go to local farmer Mr G. E. Dring of Long Bennington who gained the Centenary Cup.
The historical exhibition was a special attraction and one of the most interesting items here was a bugle used on the engine of the first train to pass through Collingham on its way from Newark to Lincoln on August 3, 1846.
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Newark is to become a European highway, part of a 30,000 miles road link.
The new status is because Britain, France and Luxembourg have agreed to support plans for a standard European network, an ambitious scheme which involves £1,780 millions.
Newark is astride the Great North Road, an important artery, which means the town and its bridges will have a new importance.
The Great North Road will become known as an E Road.
The E Road will run through Newark to London to Palermo, and link by ferry over the Channel and the Straits of Messina and pass through Paris, Nice and Rome.
So Newark, the old Roman station, will be a European place on the map linked with Rome.
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A birthday cake with 65 candles was made by Pauline Sills, pupil at the Mount Senior School, for Mrs M. A. Robinson of Whitfield Street, Newark, who retires on Saturday.
A native of Newark, Mrs Robinson attended the Mount School from the age of five, and when she was 14, in 1899, stayed on as a pupil teacher at the salary of a shilling a week.
In the greyness of Sunday morning, with a blustery wind lifting the heavy Mayoral and Aldermanic robes, four wreaths were laid at the foot of Newark's Memorial Cross.
They were tributes to the Fallen of two world wars, and commemorated especially the airmen who died in the Battle of Britain.
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After varied experiences in South Africa, including being chased by a baboon, Miss Florence May Shaw, who lives with her nephew and his wife, Mr and Mrs J.Johnson, Acacia Road, Balderton, has returned home.
The prime purpose of Miss Shaw's visit - the first trip abroad ever made by this Balderton Church Sunday School teacher-was to be reunited with her younger brother, Mr Harry Shaw, of Noordelik Llan, Capetown, a 57-year-old Great War veteran, who once lived at Balderton and worked at Messrs Cafferata and Co's pits, and he and his wife were waiting to greet her when the S.S. Stirling Castle docked at Capetown.
A week later the Balderton lady set off with her brother and sister-in-law on the Capetown Castle on a 3,000 mile round trip which took them along the coast.
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Newark and District Table Tennis League are to have a tournament table for the inter-town and county matches to be played in Newark during the coming season.
Mr T. J.Baker, the League Secretary, raised the matter in his report at the League's annual meeting.
Later he said he thought the League was lucky in that it did not have to stage a Wilmott Cup fixture.
It was not fair to have to ask clubs to lend their tables for such matches; the League should have a table of its own.
The need for more active members who paint, draw, design or sketch, was mentioned at the annual meeting on Wednesday of the Newark Arts Club.
Dr Ernest Ringrose, JP (Chairman of the Municipal Museum Committee), who later opened the club's annual exhibition of paintings, said it was good to find in these Mammon-worshipping times people who loved art for itself.
The meeting was held in the Tudor Hall at the Old Magnus Buildings under the chairmanship of Mr B. J. Cafferata.
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Newark's week-end of carnival, organised by the Ransome and Marles Sports and Social Club, ended on Saturday night with a dance in the canteen which was attended by the Carnival Queen, Miss Jean French.
The Carnival Queen of Newark - the first since 1936 - said how proud she was to have been selected and paid tribute to her Ladies-in-waiting, her little crown bearer, the Supporters' Club, and everyone who had worked for the carnival's success.
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Nineteen-year-old Robert Horton, of 63 Milton Street, Balderton, a former Magnus School boy now serving in the Royal Marines, was aboard the cruiser HMS Ceylon when she took the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to Korea.
He joined the Marines in November, 1948, on a regular engagement, and is serving as a first-class musician.
Between leaving school and joining the Marines, Horton worked for a while in Farrar's drawing office.
He is a brother of Newark's woman athlete, Elaine Horton.
Enrolment for Newark Technical College classes will begin on Monday, September 11th, and the prospectus is now available.
Several new courses are anticipated in addition to the well established services in art, commerce, engineering, science, dress making and cookery.
Teachers and others requiring geography and general subjects are advised to consult the Principal (Dr A. R. Bowen).
Among the proposed new classes is the subject of horticulture and an evening class in this will be designed, not only for young gardening apprentices who seek qualification with the Royal Horticultural Society, but also for those garden lovers who need a general basic knowledge.
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A smash-and-grab raider stole watches and cigarette cases from the window of Mr W. E. Antcliff's shop in Middlegate, Newark, at midnight on Friday.
He was seen running away from the shop by Mrs F. M. Campbell, who lives in a flat nearby.
She was awakened by the sound of breaking glass, and disturbed the thief by opening the bedroom window.
The police awoke Mr Antcliff, and when he arrived at the premises he found the bottom centre window pane broken.
A gold watch, two cigarette cases and two metal watches were missing from a show-case in the window.
Mrs Campbell, who lives with her husband and two children at 28b, Middlegate, above part of Antcliff's shop, told the Advertiser she heard a crash about midnight on Friday, jumped out of bed and opened the window.
She looked out and saw a man in a sports jacket and dark trousers run from the shop.
He passed under the street lamp outside the shop and ran into Chain Lane.
