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Weather: rainPrice 131 pfen

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Tarn & Wateilt lists on the Vellmar Exchange as LLB

Vellmar, 28 September 1981

Tarn & Wateilt lists on the Vellmar Exchange as LLB. Vellmar.

Tarn & Wateilt lists on the Vellmar Exchange as LLB. The tone of the market was dull. Local reaction was muted.

Those in the trade at Vellmar spoke of the matter without surprise. The sexton observed that a counting-house is a counting-house whoever's name is over the door.

Concerning: The Vellmar Exchange, Tarn & Wateilt.

Fostmann Foundry is wound up

Berging, 24 September 1981

Fostmann Foundry is wound up. 812 jobs are lost at Berging. The particulars were entered in the register of companies at the Ministry of Finance. The matter is expected to be raised in the Assembly.

Concerning: Fostmann Foundry.

The telegraph reaches Weinfeld

Weinfeld, 28 September 1981

The telegraph reaches Weinfeld. The first message sent is the front-line report. One witness, a retired sergeant of the Marsh Regiments, gave the following account: 'I have lived here 50 years and I never saw the like.' Local reaction was muted.

Concerning: Weinfeld, Mill Street.

Casualty Roll as published by the War Ministry

PrivateStefan Brenn, of SandingThe 2nd Marsh Regimentenemy action28 September 1981
PrivateUwe Wendl, of TarnmoorThe 6th (Reserve) Marsh Regimentenemy action28 September 1981

Published as issued by the War Ministry Records Office.

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

The Assembly

22 September 1981. The Examinations Act passed. Passed by the Assembly by 55 votes to 7. Applies to children between 7 and 16. The debate was lively.

The Grand Chancellor, Andrea Wendl, has held office since 14 February 1979.

The Courts

The Regional Court of Westgau, 26 September 1981. Hechfenel v. Gunger. Concerning a contract for a consignment of paper not delivered. Ruling: for the defendant. The public gallery was full.

The Regional Court of Norrfeld, 23 September 1981. Vellmann v. Fuchs. Concerning smoke from a tannery at Sudfurt. Ruling: dismissed. The parties left by separate doors.

The Regional Court of The Capital District, 22 September 1981. Kaukstein v. Ehrlich. Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: lease shortened by one year under the Continuity Act. Judgment was delivered late in the afternoon sitting.

The Market

Trading was thin on the Exchange this week. Published prices in the capital:

Bread, the loaf, 261.8 pfen; beer, the litre, 392.8 pfen. A labourer's day is paid at 41.11 marka; a furnished room lets at 143.88 marka the month. The Exchange index closed the year at 32,419.70. Bank rate stands at 5.47 per cent.

The War Appropriation for the year, 90,554,982 marka, passed the Assembly without a dissenting voice.

Registers

National Archive, weekly return: Recorded this week throughout the country: 243 births, 98 marriages, 180 deaths. Population at the last return, 682,528.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Deaths

Thomas Lenz, typist, born at Bergberg on 14 December 1921, died 26 September 1981. Member of the Assembly. typist, of Bergberg. A service will be held at the parish church; family flowers only.

On This Day

The Herald on this day.

175 years ago. The coldest night in 60 years is recorded at Norrhafen. Lake Tarn freezes to the middle. Report.

175 years ago. A cart overturns in Bridge Quay, Grauburg. The driver, a man of Kessel, is taken to hospital. Report.

Pfahl

Pfahl League final table:

The League of 1980 was won by Marschau Garrison. Full table.

Marschau Garrison184
Tarnmund Lake175
Grauburg Fortress157
Hollstadt Workers157
Altstadt Pfahl Club148
Weinfeld Vintners139
Norrwick Printers1210
Reedside Athletic814
Vellmar Wardens715
Brennholt Farmers715
Kessel Iron418
Ostrabruck Bridge220

Correspondence

Sir, — Your report on Vellmar was fair, if brief. Those of us who live there would add only that the matter had been raised with the district office more than once. Yours, A Reader of Lindenmar.

Notices

Vacancies in the electrics trade at Sudholt. Sudholt Electric Company.

For sale: electric fittings, lamps and wiring. Sudholt Electric Company, Sudholt.

Found: keys, Berging.

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

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