Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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26th SEPTEMBER 1874

ARDROSSAN AND SALTCOATS HERALD

SALTCOATS BOWLING CLUB

Saltcoats bowling green closed for the season with a friendly match. At a function later in the evening the club's prizes were presented. Some of the prize-winners were : Gold medal, Mr G Wallace; barometer, Mr Jas Shearer; time-piece, Mr A Fullarton. Mr Fullarton won the time-piece for three successive years and kept it permanently.

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27 SEPTEMBER 1819

THE WILLIAM

The vessel WILLIAM, while on a voyage between Dublin and Saltcoats, was driven ashore near Saltcoats.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 SEPTEMBER 1892

ASSAULT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday, EDWARD MILLOY, junior, labourer, Harbour Lane, Ardrossan, pleaded guilty to having, on the 25th instant, assaulted the wife of a carpenter in Raise Street, Saltcoats. He was fined £2, with the alternative of 20 days’ imprisonment.
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GLASGOW HERALD
27 SEPTEMBER 1897

DEATH

MILLER: Very suddenly, at 54 Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, on 25th September, S. B. Miller, commercial traveller, aged 35 years.

DEATH OF A COMMISSIONER

On Saturday night Commissioner SAMUEL B. MILLER, Saltcoats, died at his residence, Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, with painful suddenness.

Mr. Miller had been subject to heart disease for over eight years, but had been in his usual health for some time. He had gone to bed in the afternoon with instructions that he should be awakened at eight o’clock. This was done, and at quarter to nine he was found lying dead behind the door of his room. Doctor McClymont was of the opinion that death had taken place ten minutes previously.

Mr. Miller was a native of Saltcoats. At the municipal election last November he was returned to a seat at the Commission Board. He was an elder in Trinity U. P. Church, and took an active part in congregational work. Mr. Miller was known as a man of strong literary proclivities, and was the author of a story of Scottish Life and Character, which attained more than local popularity.

He was 35 years of age. He leaves a widow, but no family.
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GLASGOW HERALD
28 SEPTEMBER 1904

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LANDSBOROUGH U.F. CHURCH

In your issue of today’s date (27 September) you published a notice of the resolutions passed at the kirk session of the above church anent the House of Lords decision, &c. The wording of that notice makes it appear as if the resolutions were passed unanimously. The truth is, there were at least two who dissented from the motions, and a third who deprecated the extravagant language they were couched in. Perhaps this is only one example of the questionable methods which the United Free Church is adopting to make it appear there is complete unanimity among her members.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
1 OCTOBER 1918

JAMES STEWART

Killed in action, Private JAMES STEWART, (25), 43rd Battalion Canadian Infantry – Theatre of war – France and Flanders – son of Donald and Sarah Stewart, 75 Raise Street, Saltcoats.
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ARDROSSAN & SALTCOATS HERALD
3 OCTOBER 1868

DEATH

JAMES ANDERSON, native of Saltcoats, drowned at sea from “JOHN PAUL”.
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CASUALTY OF WAR
3 OCTOBER 1918

WILLIAM HAMILTON

Died at Casualty Clearing Station 56, France, WILLIAM HAMILTON, Gordon Highlanders – Theatre of war, France and Flanders – son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton, Canal Street, Saltcoats.
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GLASGOW HERALD
5 OCTOBER 1906

DEATH

RITCHIE: At Ferguslie, Franklin Road, Saltcoats, on the 4th instant, ARCHIBALD RITCHIE, Inspector of Poor, &c., for parish of Ardrossan.

INSPECTOR OF POOR

Mr. Archibald Ritchie, inspector of poor and collector of rates for the parish of Ardrossan, died yesterday morning.

Mr. Ritchie was a native of Kilwinning, receiving his training there under the late Mr. McCrorie. He was appointed inspector at Dailly, and from there on the death of Mr. Andrew Armour he received the Ardrossan appointment. He was regarded as a very capable inspector, and the Parish Council were thoroughly satisfied with the way he discharged his duties. This was shown by their appointing him a few weeks ago to the collectorship of rates. He was an elder and treasurer of the Trinity United Free Church, and held other honorary appointments.
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Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald
6 October 1866

Sunday Drinking In Saltcoats.

SIR - I do not know whether the Forbes M-Kenzie Act has had any effect in preventing Sunday drinking in Saltcoats or not, or whether the police keep a watchful eye on public houses, but it is very evident that the facilities for getting drink are as open as ever. There is not a drouthy neighbour among us, who, if he has had a glass too much on the Saturday night, may not have drink on Sunday to any amount he may wish. There are back doors and front doors, by any of which he may enter with impunity, and come out steaming with the fighting stuff, without any one to challenge either him or those who supplied him with it. Anyone who chooses to take a walk through our streets on Sunday will see ample evidence of this, without in the least going out of his way to find it. I myself have seen as many as a dozen coming out of one of these houses on a Sunday, none of whom could fairly be called bona fide travellers, but rather of that class who unfortunately seek to gratify their desires by imbibing that which can only hurt them.

We have no wish to dictate to the keepers of these houses, or to induce any harsh measures towards them, but we cannot help thinking that if they really understood their position, they would not be very proud of it. To be selling that which is the means of sowing discord in society, and of keeping husbands from then wives and families on Sabbaths is not a very comfortable idea, even if it should be respectable, and enable them to acquire a competency. assured that much of the sin of drunkenness lies at their door, for, were it not for the facilities in getting drink, we are persuaded many people who frequent these houses on Sunday would remain at home, and thus save both themselves and their families much shame and misery.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 OCTOBER 1880

BIRTH

CAMPBELL: At Bank of Scotland, Saltcoats, 5th instant, the wife of James Campbell, writer; a son.
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GLASGOW HERALD
6 OCTOBER 1904

PUBLIC MEETING AT SALTCOATS

Last night a public meeting was held in the Town Hall, Saltcoats, to consider the ecclesiastical situation created by the recent decision of the House of Lords [The Free Church of Scotland v. Lord Overtoun and others].

Mr. James Cant, Kilmeny, Ardrossan, presided, and the principal speakers were Rev. Professor Orr, Rev. P. Carnegie Simpson, Mr. Joseph Russell, Ardrossan and Port Glasgow.

Professor Orr spoke mainly on the inability of the Free Church to administer the trust now committed to them. There would arise a situation so helpless, so preposterous, that interference would be absolutely necessary.

Rev. P. Carnegie Simpson said he had come to plead for peace – not a peace that would be a surrender, but a peace that might be described as peace with honour. Arbitration was the one means of bringing such a peace to pass. The moment arbitration was agreed to peace would be in the air. If arbitration were rejected he did not know in what direction they would look for peace.

A resolution expressing dissatisfaction with the decision of the House of Lords and expressing the hope that the wrong inflicted would be speedily redressed was unanimously carried.
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