Stevenston - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 JULY 1918

MARRIAGE – YOUNG and RAE

At Ardeer U.F. Church, on 1st July, by the Rev. A. Morris Moodie, Assisted by the Rev. Alexander A. Russell, Bournemouth, James W. Young, R.N. Experimental Service, to Annie Bathia Duncan, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs A. Rae, Elsiefield, Stevenston.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 JULY 1917

SEMI-JUBILEE CELEBRATION – REV. A MORRIS MOODIE

The Rev. A. Morris Moodie, minister of the U.F. Church, Stevenston, celebrated his semi-jubilee last night at a meeting in the church, presided over by Mr A. W. Donaldson.

Mr Moodie is the first minister of the church, having been ordained when the congregation was formed.

Lieutenant Colonel G. Staunton presented pulpit robes and a silver salver; Mr D. Lawson, for the congregation, presented a gold watch and chain, £25 War Loan, study chair, and garnet necklace for Mrs Moodie; and Mr Findlay for the Sunday School, presented several articles.

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 JULY 1915

CUNNINGHAME COMBINATION POORHOUSE - CHAPLAIN RE-APPOINTED

At a meeting of the directors of the Cunninghame Combination Poorhouse held in the institution yesterday afternoon – Mr A. McGregor, Stevenston, presiding – the Rev. H. Ranken, parish minister of Irvine, was re-appointed chaplain to the institution for the ensuing year.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 JULY 1915

WILLS AND ESTATES

Mr Patrick Warner, of Ardeer, Ayrshire, aged 74 years, left, in addition to real estate, personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at £15,784.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 JANUARY 1920

NEW YEAR AT STEVENSTON

At Stevenston all places of business and public works were closed. The New Year was welcomed with the customary blowing of horns, but the streets were much quieter. The usual distribution of comforts for the poor was made. There were special entertainments in the picture-houses, and these were well attended.

GLASGOW HERALD
2 JANUARY 1923

NEW YEAR AT STEVENSTON

The New Year celebrations were conducted very quietly in Stevenston. All places of business were closed, and refreshment houses were only open for two hours. Through the efforts of a local committee, about 800 of the unemployed were entertained to a social and concert in the Parish Hall. In the evening a social meeting took place in Ardeer Church Hall. Nobel’s Ardeer factory workers do not resume work till Wednesday morning.

GLASGOW HERALD
2 JANUARY 1924

NEW YEAR AT STEVENSTON

The celebrations at Stevenston conformed to custom. On New Year’s Day the local Pigeon Society held a successful open show of racing homers, and there was a gratifying attendance of fanciers. Ardeer Factory closed for five days’ holiday on Saturday. The annual distribution of coal and money to the poor was carried out, and a treat to the old folks will take place later.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 JANUARY 1925

ARDEER GOLF CLUB

HEYS MEDAL: -

J. Montgomery, (8) 73;
William Reid, (3) 79;
J. F. Adams, (5) 79; and
J. Niven, (7) 79.


ROBERTSON MEDAL: -

K. Randall, (20) 70;
J. McLellan, (21) 81;
J. Bothwell, (21) 83; and
J. Hamlin, (24) 85.

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 JANUARY 1927

DEATH – BANKS

At Thomson’s Cottages, New Street, Stevenston, on 12th January, 1927, Marion Thomson, beloved wife of T. C. Banks; grocer.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 JULY 1907

COURT OF SESSION – STEVENSTON BAKER AND HIS WIFE

Proof was led before Lord Mackenzie on an action of divorce by Robert Harvie, baker, Carment Drive, Stevenston, against his wife, Jane Millgrew or Harvie, Ashgrove, 15 Montgomerie Crescent, Saltcoats.

The pursuer (thirty-three) said he married the defender in November 1894. She was a Roman Catholic and he was a Protestant, but they lived happily enough together until her family got hold of her once more. While under their influence she was antagonistic to him, and he tried to get work in Ireland but was unsuccessful.

On August 3, 1899, she came to his father’s house bringing her 3 young children, and left them there with a message that she wanted no more to do with her husband.

She refused to reconsider her decision, and he went to South Africa in 1901 and served in Baden-Powell’s Police, returning in 1902.

Efforts made by him to induce his wife to return had been unavailing. Once he visited her but got the door shut in his face without any parley.

After corroborative evidence, decree of divorce on the grounds of desertion was granted.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 JANUARY 1929

ARDEER GOLF CLUB

Monthly Medal – 1st Class

J. C. Robertson, (1) 75 – winner;
H. Miller, (6) 79; and
J. D. Frew, (2) 81.

Monthly Medal – 2nd Class

W. Kellie, (16) 79;
T. McQueen; and
A. Cruickshanks, 11 (81).

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 JULY 1916

NORTHERN DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING

At a stated meeting of the Northern District Committee held at Kilwinning, the annual report and estimate for the ensuing year were submitted and approved.

The report and estimate embraced the parishes of Ardrossan, Beith, Dalry, Dreghorn, Dunlop, Irvine, Kilbirnie, Kilwinning, Largs, Stevenston, Stewarton, and West Kilbride, and the sum voted for work during the coming year amounts to £14,700 3s 10d, compared with £14,617 7s 8d last year.

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 JANUARY 1928

FOOTBALL – Western Intermediate League

Result: - Ardeer Thistle, 0; Cumnock, 2.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 JULY 1921

DEATH – THOMSON

At 76 New Street, Stevenston, on the 4th July, Hugh Thomson, retired joiner, in his 92nd year.