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The Schwartzistan Herald

Electric light is switched on in the market square at Sudholt

Sudholt, 23 December 1921

Electric light is switched on in the market square at Sudholt. Sudholt.

Sudholt, this morning. Electric light is switched on in the market square at Sudholt. The town clerk entered the matter in the minute book a little after 7 in the morning. The town was quiet by evening.

The matter will be raised at the next meeting of the town officers, when the ratepayers will hear of it in the usual form.

Concerning: Sudholt, Ferry Gate.

Casualty Roll as published by the War Ministry

No names this week.

The front line is at the Reed Line. No change.

The Assembly

18 December 1921. The Road Traffic Act passed. Passed by the Assembly by 46 votes to 22. Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 45 marka. Comes into force on 1 January 1922. Passed without incident.

The Grand Chancellor, Bruno Fiechdon, has held office since 20 October 1919.

The Courts

The Court of Chronological Offences, 23 December 1921. The Crown v. O. V.. Concerning assertion of the unyear in a public house at Weinwick. Ruling: 14 months. Judgment when the court resumed after the midday adjournment.

The Regional Court of The Ostrand, 18 December 1921. The Crown v. Kuren. Concerning assault at Brennholt. Ruling: fined 2982 marka. Gallery full.

The Market

Exchange: fair for the season. Prices current:

Bread, the loaf, 39.8 pfen; beer, the litre, 59.6 pfen. A labourer's day is paid at 40.06 marka; a furnished room lets at 29.82 marka the month. The Exchange index closed the year at 4,425. Bank rate stands at 7.1 per cent.

The War Appropriation for the year, 6,872,270 marka, passed the Assembly without a dissenting voice.

Registers

Registrar's return for the week: Recorded this week throughout the country: 205 births, 84 marriages, 121 deaths. Population at the last return, 460,600.

Deaths

Aurel Gristen, mechanic, born at Hollstadt on 19 December 1855, died 18 December 1921. Member of the Assembly. mechanic, of Hollstadt. Funeral private.

On This Day

On this day.

100 years ago. The tannery at Sudholt burns through the night. 57 men are out of work. Report.

96 years ago. The harvest at Brennholt is reported average. Grain is 4 pfen the measure. Report.

Pfahl

Pfahl: final table.

The League of 1921 was won by Hollstadt Workers. Full table.

Hollstadt Workers133
Marschau Garrison124
Reedside Athletic97
Tarnmund Lake88
Ostrabruck Bridge88
Grauburg Fortress79
Kessel Iron610
Vellmar Wardens511
Norrwick Printers412

Correspondence

Sir, — Your report from Sudholt is correct as far as it goes. It does not go far enough. Nobody at the market had heard a word of it. Yours, One Who Was Present, Sudholt.

Notices

Wanted, hands for the printing works, Brennholt. Apply Brennel & Sons, Printers.

For sale: licensed almanacs, account books and forms of every description. Brennel & Sons, Printers, Brennholt.

Personal: the party who took the wrong coat at Sudholt is asked to return it.

Printed and published at Vellmar by The Schwartzistan Herald. Registered under the Press Act. Casualty figures as published by the War Ministry.

From the Herald's digitised archive. Page images reproduced as printed; the text is searchable. Dates as recorded by the Ministry of Chronology.