Welsh Journals

Arwpstli Deanery magazine. Vol. IV. (New Series). AUGUST, 1908. No. li CORRESPONDENCE. Dear Mr. Editor, Will you kindly ask through the Arwystli Magazine if anyone has a copy to spare of October, 1894. I want it to make the year complete, and will willingly pay for it. S. R. Jones. [If any of our readers can find a copy of the number which Mrs. Morgan Jones asks for, will they please communicate with one of the clergy or write to her at The Cottage, Carno ?—Gen. Sec] LLANIDLOES. As usual the weather was a source of great searchings of heart among those interested in the Garden Fete on July 15th. After a phenomenal fortnight or so the rainy season set in again on July 8th and it seemed very likely that the event would have to be postponed. However things brightened up a bit and we decided to risk it, and on Tues¬ day evening a very energetic band of workers met at the Vicarage and succeeded, by dint of hard work and plenty of bunting, in mak¬ ing the grounds look very gay indeed. Among the workers were Messrs. H. D. and Arthur Webb, Albert Roberts, Ed. Derry, E. Nuttall, Wall, Stowell Marpole, Edward Humphreys, Tom Grant, H. Francis, Pryce Williams, R. M. Davies, and E. L. Spencer, and the way in which some of them climbed trees, swarmed up water pipes and generally surmounted difficulties in the disposition of bunting was enough to make an elderly Vicar's blood run cold. However we are glad to say that no accidents occurred, and when the gates were opened the following afternoon visitors were amazed at the trans¬ formed appearance of the place. On the drive were two stalls—one of flowers presided over by Miss Minnie WTalters, Penrallt, who also drove a fairly brisk trade in letters and telegrams, the other a general stall where Mrs. H. Roberts, Mrs. D. A. Lewis and Miss Annie Davies supplied a varied assortment of articles at strictly sale prices. Further on in a cool nook round the corner of the house were spread the tea tables, where Miss Jones, The Close, and Miss Phillips catered for all and sundry, assisted by Misses Annie Evans, Ada Walters, Priscilla George, Jones (Close), S. and B. Marpole, while many other volun¬ teers including Mrs. Lewis, Police Station, and Miss Bessie Jones, Mount Severn, added their valuable services. As time passed and the grounds filled it was seen that every corner had its own par¬ ticular attraction. On one lawn Mr. Tom Grant organized the tennis players, a smaller band than in former years ; on another Mr. Spencer had a party at bowls ; on a third Mr. R. M. Davies instructed a succession of interested groups in the mysteries of clock golf and many who at first were inclined to scoff at the simplicity of putting succumbed to the fascination of that subtle art. By the gate, Mr. Edward Derry relieved numbers of their superfluous coppers by means of a football and a bottle (empty, of course), and close by Mr. Pryce Williams presided over the Bumble Puppy, which was rapidly growing in popular estimation as the evening wore on. A simple-seeming Aunt