Welsh Journals

*• ^OTTSM DOTl^f flQTOZip. * No. 57. Vol. V. SEPTEMBER, 1897. Price One Penny. LLANIDLOES. The Harvest Festival is fixed for Thursday and Friday, September 23rd and 24th, The English preachers will be the Rev. H. J Clmrch Janes of Brecon, and the Rev. D. Richards of Festiniog. The Welsh service will be on the second day this year instead of the first. The preacher is not yet fixed npon. From the first Sunday in September until further notice the words of the Vesper hymn will be as follows:— " Lord keep us safe this night Secure from all our fears May angels guard us while we sleep Till morning light appears." The proceeds of the Garden Sale now amount to #21 19s. 8d. The sum of £1 6s. 9d. including a gift of ten shillings sent by Lady Pryce- Jones to Miss Maysmor having been received in addition to the total advertised. The totals of the respective stalls are now as follows :—Mrs Jones £7 6s. 2d., Miss Maysmor and Mr. Williams £10 18s. Id. We often hear of " Queen's Weather " and really in Llanidloes we shall soon begin to talk of Church Weather, for our people have been extraordinarily favoured this year. This is not intended a» casting any slur on our Nonconformist friends who we were glad to see had a brilliant day for their Joint Sunday School Trip, but this was if we remember rightly before the weather broke up—or shall we say broke down ? In very truth we have reason to be excep¬ tionally thankful for both Choir and School Trip took place at a time when it seemed almost hopeless to expect anything but a drenching day, and in each case we had a perfectly fine day wedged in between two Wet ones. First of all came the Choir Trip on Thurs¬ day, August 19oh, when about thirty journeyed to Shrewsbury to pay a visit to the Show. The Choir mustered strongly—in fact the only absentees were Miss Marshall who was unfortunately unable to come, Miss Rita Hughes who was away from home, and the brothers Owen, Maurice and James, who were enjoy¬ ing a trip on their own account at Aberystwyth. In the train the prospects were not reassuring for it poured in torrents several times, and. the worldly wise ones who had brought macintoshes and umbrellas chuckled audibly over those who had been more thoughtless. But these latter ones had their revenge when later on they saw those superior beings groaning under the weight of superfluous wraps and meekly paying toll at the cloak room in order to be relieved of them. It would be useless to attempt to describe the day in detail, or to tell how the two smallest of the party who so decorously head the procession in church and pilot it to the vestry door just in time for the last line of the hymn—except when afraid of being too late they break into a sort of canter up the North aisle—how they losing their self control beneath the fascination of two clowns rushed into the thickest of the throng and were lost for hours. Suffice it to say we saw everything that was to be seen, and came home determined to take the back wheel off our bike and ride it without saddle or handle, or cross-bar, to stand on one another's heads in graceful postures, to cook and eat omelettes on a tight wire high up in the air, and above all to make the Llanidloes Brass Band surpass the united endeavours of the Grenadier and Coldstream performers. Some greatly dreading dis¬ honesty paid extra, and came home by the ordinary train, and were illogically disgusted to find their tickets never asked for, not even by the remorseless man who presides at Buttington. A good day indeed, and we are duly grateful to those who paid the piper, and whose names we append, and to Miss Maysmor who not only collected the money, but came with us to see that we did not waste it in frivolity. s. d. Mr. D. Kinsey .. 1 Vicar ... .. 1 Mr. R. Hughea ... .. 1 Mrs. Phillips .. 1 Mrs. Grant .. 0 10 Rev. W. D Roberts . 0 10 Mrs J. D. Davies ... 0 Mr. Davies L. & P Bank ... 0 Mr. Kerr ., 0 Mr. Williams. N. and S. Wales Bank ., 0 Dr. J. V. Owen ... .. 0 Mr. Harry Jones .. 0 .0 Mr. D. Lloyd Kinsey .. o Mrs. Webb .. 0 Mr. Dl. Davies .. 0 Mr. J. 0. Owens ... .. 0 Mrs. Cowan .. 0 Mr. Rd. Owen, Liverpool . 0 Mr. Geo. Roberts .. .. 0 Mr. E. D. Davies ... .. 0 Mr. Tvor Harries ... ... 0 Miss Jerman .. 0 Mr. J. B. Owen ... ., 0 Mrs. Evans, Angel Inn .. 0 A. G. H. . o Mr. George Benbow . 0 Miss Richards, Brynllys .. 0 Miss Jones The Oak .. 0