Stevenston - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 NOVEMBER 1912

DEATH - PATON

At a nursing home, on 16th instant, Janey Stewart, aged 34, second daughter of John W. Paton, Glenarch, Stevenston.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 NOVEMBER 1912

ARDEER GOLF CLUB

Foursome competition (bogey): –

R. Conn and H. Shedden, (4) 2 down;
J. Stewart and W. C. Cunningham, (4) 2 down;
C. Hamilton and W. H. Boyd, (7) 4 down;
W. Reid and R. Craig, (5) 5 down; and,
W. Guthrie and W. Wyllie, (7) 5 down.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 NOVEMBER 1914

NOBEL’S WORKMEN’S WAGES INCREASED

Nobel’s Explosives Company have intimated all-round increases to the workmen engaged in their factory at Ardeer, Stevenston,

These increases, which will take effect from November 1, include advances of ¼d per hour to time-workers, and 2½% to piece-workers.

The men employed in the factory and all the boys and labourers engaged in the factory and all the boys and labourers engaged in the yard will benefit from these concessions, which apply also to night-shift rates,

The negotiations with Nobel’s Company were conducted by Mr Joseph Houghton and local officials of the Scottish Union of Dock Labourers.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 NOVEMBER 1907

STEVENSTON PARISH COUNCIL ELECTION

For nine seats the following have been nominated: –

Hugh Thomson,
James Patrick,
William Kirkwood,
C. O. Lundholm,
John Montgomery,
Alexander Mitchell,
Alexander McGregor,
Robert Becket,
James Morrison,
George Sinclair, and
Matthew Orr.

The last three are new candidates.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 NOVEMBER 1898

FOOTBALL

Result: - Nobel’s Ardeer, 3; Kilmarnock Shawbank, 2.
Result: - Kilwinning Monkcastle, 2; Stevenston Thistle, 1 – at Claremont Park.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 NOVEMBER 1910

COMING ELECTION – CAPTAIN CAMPBELL CANDIDATURE

Captain Campbell, the Unionist candidate for North Ayrshire, addressed a largely attended meeting in Stevenston last night.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 NOVEMBER 1912

DEATH - PATON

At a nursing home, on 16th instant, Janey Stewart, aged 34, second daughter of John W. Paton, Glenarch, Stevenston.

GLASGOW HERALD
22 NOVEMBER 1912

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - PATON

Mr and Mrs Paton return sincere thanks for kind enquiries and sympathy received in their recent bereavement, also for floral tributes – Glenarch, Stevenston.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 NOVEMBER 1910

HEROIC WORKMEN AT NOBEL’S EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

A public inquiry under the Fatal Accident Inquiry Act was held in Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday – before Sheriff Mackenzie and a jury – with reference to the death of Richard Morgan, electrician, who resided at Ardoch Crescent, Stevenston, and who died on the 13th instant as a result of an accident at Nobel’s Explosives Factory, Stevenston, two days previously.

It appeared from the evidence that Morgan had been repairing an electric wire connection on the top floor or platform of the oleum house, a four-storey building, when an escape of fumes occurred due to an overflow of acid on the ground floor.

A foreman fitter, Kenneth McNab, residing at New Street, Stevenston, ascended an outside stair, crawled into the room on the top flat on his hands and knees, and dragged Morgan out to the landing, after which he was assisted by two other men, Thomas Brown and Daniel Cameron.

Morgan was unconscious and later succumbed to his injuries.

At the close of the evidence yesterday, Mr Thomas Brown, H.M. Factory Inspector, referred to the heroic conduct of the workmen in their efforts to save Morgan, and suggested that the jury should add to their verdict an appreciation of their courage and unselfish disregard for their own safety.

Mr J. Pollock Stevenson, procurator-fiscal, and the agents in the case associated themselves with Mr Brown’s suggestion, and the Sheriff said he thought it would be graceful and proper to acknowledge that these men were worthy of praise for their conduct in attempting to rescue their unfortunate fellow workman.

The jury added to their formal verdict that in their opinion the heroism of the witnesses, especially Kenneth McNab, who at the risk of life or serious personal injury rescued Morgan from a building filled with the dense and suffocating fumes of sulphuric acid, and was worthy of special recognition and commendation.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 NOVEMBER 1914

FOOTBALL – Reserve League

Result: - Kilmarnock, 4; Stevenston United, 0.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 NOVEMBER 1913

FOOTBALL – Reserve League

Result: - Rangers, 1; Stevenston United, 1.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 NOVEMBER 1918

FOOTBALL – Western League

Result: - Stevenston United, 1; Vale of Leven, 2.

FOOTBALL – Scottish Junior Cup – 3rd Round

Result: - Cleland Juniors (bye)/Arder Thistle (scratched).

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EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS
26 NOVEMBER 1904

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE

Destructive Fire in Ayrshire. This morning a destructive fire occurred at the drying house of Auchenharvie Brickwork, Stevenston, the property of the Glengarnock Iron and Steel Company.

The fire spread with great rapidity, and in two hours the whole structure was in ruins. The house was used for drying the articles manufactured, and a large stock of bricks, blocks, chimney cans, &c. were destroyed.

A number of men are thrown idle.