COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS, SEPT 2

Before the Revds G D Bourne and M Amphlett, and E C Rudge, Esq.

LICENSING MEETING – Richard Ingles of Badsey, keeper of the Royal Oak beerhouse, applied for a spirit licence, Mr Kettle being for applicant.  It appeared that Mr Ingles, the churchwarden of the parish, had kept his house as a beerhouse for 25 years without any complaint, and he produced a memorial in his favour signed by most of the principal paymasters of the parish.  The Rev Mr Hunt opposed the application, which however was granted.
 

BITTER HARVEST FOR MIDLAND GROWERS

It took just ten minutes to sell all the vegetables in Smithfield Market, Evesham, yesterday:  ten minutes to auction the sparse collection of produce plucked with numbed fingers from the snow or hacked laboriously from the unyielding soil.

Meanwhile, the men with frozen fields and frozen incomes, and nothing for the market, anxiously watched the thaw spread across the Vale of Evesham.