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rain; outlook settledPrice 61 pfen

The Schwartzistan Herald

Dammberg Dye Company lists on the Vellmar Exchange as MGR

Vellmar, 23 June 1964

Dammberg Dye Company lists on the Vellmar Exchange as MGR. Vellmar.

Dammberg Dye Company lists on the Vellmar Exchange as MGR. The listing was read out on the floor of the Exchange in the customary form and the brokers proceeded to business. The matter is expected to come before the town council.

Those in the trade at Vellmar spoke of the matter with some satisfaction. A carter who declined to give his name observed that a counting-house is a counting-house whoever's name is over the door.

Concerning: The Vellmar Exchange, Dammberg Dye Company.

Casualty Roll as published by the War Ministry

The Ministry issued no roll this week.

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

The Assembly

The Assembly was not sitting.

The Grand Chancellor, Karl Tolmann, has held office since 14 February 1958.

The Courts

The Court of Chronological Offences, 24 June 1964. The Crown v. K. B.. Concerning assertion of the unyear in print. Ruling: 10 years and the press forfeit. The court rose late in the afternoon sitting.

The Regional Court of The Osmoor, 22 June 1964. The Crown v. Marrow. Concerning desertion from the Marsh Regiments. Ruling: returned to the regiment. The gallery was half empty.

The Regional Court of Westgau, 21 June 1964. The Crown v. Leisstein. Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: 11 months. The court rose when the court resumed after the midday adjournment.

The Regional Court of The Capital District, 18 June 1964. Brenn v. Kundpoll. Concerning an unpaid debt of 9172 marka. Ruling: for the plaintiff, half the sum. The gallery was half empty.

The Market

A fair for the season week on the Exchange. Prices in the capital:

Bread, the loaf, 122.3 pfen; beer, the litre, 183.4 pfen. A labourer's day is paid at 17.37 marka; a furnished room lets at 60.81 marka the month. The Exchange index closed the year at 19,691.50. Bank rate stands at 5.46 per cent.

The War Appropriation for the year, 37,411,017 marka, passed the Assembly without a dissenting voice.

Registers

The National Archive's weekly return: Recorded this week throughout the country: 235 births, 95 marriages, 153 deaths. Population at the last return, 633,612.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Deaths

Rosa Hallin, miner, born at Norrhafen on 26 April 1909, died 23 June 1964. A miner of Norrhafen, remembered by neighbours as a steady hand. The funeral service will be at the parish church.

On This Day

On this day, from our archive.

158 years ago. The harvest at Marschau is reported the best in memory. Grain is 3 pfen the measure. Report.

156 years ago. Oberbach marks the 800th anniversary of its charter with a procession along Well Row. Report.

Pfahl

The final table of the League season:

The League of 1963 was won by Grauburg Fortress. Full table.

Grauburg Fortress164
Marschau Garrison155
Reedside Athletic146
Weinfeld Vintners137
Brennholt Farmers128
Tarnmund Lake1010
Ostrabruck Bridge911
Norrwick Printers713
Hollstadt Workers515
Kessel Iron515
Vellmar Wardens416

Correspondence

Sir, — Your correspondent's report from Vellmar was read aloud at our reading room on Tuesday evening and was received with the respect it deserved. That is to say, in silence. An Old Subscriber.

Notices

Wanted: mechanic for Mengen Department Store, Lindenmar.

To let, furnished room, Vellmar, 60.81 marka a month. Box at the Herald.

Found: umbrella, Reedtal.

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.