Stevenston - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 JANUARY 1919

COURT OF SESSION – DIVORCE CASE

Proof was led in the following undefended action before Lord Anderson, who granted decree of divorce: -

Hugh McGhee, cordite worker, Carment Drive, Stevenston, lance corporal in the army, against Elizabeth Monteith Nixon or McGhee.

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EVENING TIMES
27 JANUARY 1956

MAN WITH LIQUOR WENT TO EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

A 21-year-old process worker on night shift, Robert Connelly Spence, 65 Lamont Drive, Irvine, was fined £2 at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court today when he admitted being under the influence of intoxicating liquor at an explosives factory.

Spence told Sheriff R. N. Levitt he could not remember that happened that night.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 JANUARY 1918

FOOTBALL – Scottish Junior Cup – 3rd Round - Replay

Result: - Stevenston Thistle, 1; Port Glasgow Athletic Juniors, 1 – after extra-time.

OTHER MATCH – Western Cup

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

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 JANUARY 1958

MAN ON MURDER CHARGE – PLEA OF INSANITY

When Alexander Phillips Edwards appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday on a charge of murdering an Ayrshire man, an agent on his behalf, tendered a plea of insanity in bar of trial and the case was continued to a sitting of the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh on February 6.

Edwards, a young man, is charged with having on October 26, on the Kilmarnock/Irvine Road, near Over Broomlands Farm road-end, Dreghorn, assaulted Charles Ward, (55), 2 Woodburn Cottages, Stevenston, struck him repeatedly on the head with a bottle, and murdered him.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 JANUARY 1915

DEATH - McWHINNIE

At Moorpark Road, Stevenston, on the 23rd instant, Martha Stevenson, in her 87th year, widow of James McWhinnie.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 JANUARY 1917

FOOTBALL – Western League

Result: - Abercorn, 3; Stevenston United, 0.

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GLASGOW HERALD
31 JANUARY 1921

FOOTBALL – Scottish Cup

Result: - Johnstone, 0; Stevenston United, 2 – Attendance 3000.

The Stevenston team: -

Campbell, Harvey, McIlwraith, Black, Sim, McLachlan, McAllister, Buchanan, C. Kerr, Speirs, and Lambie.

Scorers: - Lambie and McAllister.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 FEBRUARY 1873

BLASTING EXPERIMENT AT DUNTONKNOLL QUARRY, IRVINE

Yesterday and Thursday, a company of several gentlemen, invited by Mr Ritchie, visited Duntonknoll Quarry, Irvine, to witness the blasting process by means of dynamite, the first product, we believe, of the new works at Stevenston.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 FEBRUARY 1915

FOOTBALL – Reserve League

Result: - Stevenston United, 1; Galston, 0.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 FEBRUARY 1915

BANKRUPTCY – SEQUESTRATION

George Ogilvie Simpson, residing at George Place, Stevenston.

Creditors to meet in the Lesser Oddfellows Hall, John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock, February 10, at half-past eleven o’clock.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 FEBRUARY 1919

FOOTBALL – WESTERN CUP

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

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 FEBRUARY 1918

FOOTBALL - SCOTTISH JUNIOR CUP – 3RD ROUND REPLAY

Result: - Stevenston Thistle, 3; Port Glasgow Athletic Juniors,1.