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  On Wednesday evening from the Midland Regional Station of the B.B.C., the Huthwaite Prize Band are to give a concert, lasting one and a half hours, from 6.30 p.m. to eight o'clock, and no doubt many Huthwaite and Sutton people will tune in to hear their local band.

  This is the fourth time the Huthwaite Band has been engaged in broadcasting. They once performed before the microphone at the now defunct Nottingham Station, and it will be remembered that last year they were on the ether twice from the Midland Regional.

In connection with the prize giving at the United Methodist Church, Mrs. R.J. Brown gave a very practical and helpful address on "Striving and Attainment." She pointed out that there was often more good in striving than in attaining one's object, because in the latter case one was tempted to leave off trying.
  The advice was greatly appreciated by the Sunday School officials and children. The proceedings were presided over by Mr. G. Hunt, of Somercotes, and Mrs. Brown was assisted in the presentation of the prizes by Mr. Albert Johnson and Mr. Cyril Humphrey. The prize-winners were:-

Iris Wycherley, Margaret Butterly, Ernest Brownley, Raymond Greaves, Gwennie Allen, Tom Hardwick, Nellie Hubble, Vera Butler, Fred Gilbert, Enid Hunt, Tommy Jones, Audrey Jones, Donald Streets, Norman Evans, John Cooper, Evelyn Kirk, Mary Cooper, Raymond Hubble, Raymond Atkin, Donald Radford, Elsie Burton, Allen Purseglove, John Hargreaves, Graham Fidler, Willie Holmes, Freda Charlton, Lenard Higginson, Jeffrey Cooper, Ivy Lynk, Avis Herrod, Kenneth Stone, Gordon Greaves, Terrance Stone, Irene Sisson, Leslie Sisson, Tom Holmes, Dorothy Lee, Lawrence Hargreaves, Mary Turner, Mary Wilson, Mary Hardwick, Dorothy Wilson, Arnold Hardy, Jean Bettison, Cyril Hardy, Hilda Wright, Kenneth Bird, Joan Blackburn, Kathleen Bradwell, Edna Ellis, Freda Hardy, Dennis Norton, Doris Ball, Frank Smith, Nancy Turner, Walter Hill, Kenneth Elliott, Maureen Harwood, Marjory Allsopp.

Lois Herrod, Madge Smith, Elsie Atkin, Francis Hargreaves, Sadie Dalton, Annie Hawley, Nellie Smith, Alice Johnson, Minnie Parkin, Olive West, Sylvia Hardy, Gwennie Hargreaves, Annie Kitchen, Irene Rhodes, Gladys Purseglove, Eunice Kenyon, Madge Cooper, Edna Hunt, Dorothy Bettison, Joyce Parkin, Ida Mansell, Ida West, Lucy Bettison, Joan Simmonds, Irene Atkin, Janet Hargreaves, Avis Bradwell, Kathleen Harwood, Nora Woodfield, Irene Smith, Madge Simmonds, Madge Purseglove, Joan Lincoln, Joan Allen, Bertha Connah, Edna Hubble, Ida Bettison, Betty Stone, Jean Hardy, Elsie Pickering, Jean Boot, Joan Bexon, Doris West, Violet Lee, Grace Marriott, May Bramley, Ethel Brownley, Jessie Smith, Joan Turner, Evelyn Connah, Enid Charlton, Ivy Collins, May Hall, Winnie Smith, Joan Wilmott, Mavis Betts, Jean Stringfellow, Annie Wilson, Lois Neale, May Holmes, Cissie Shaw, Mavis Stopps, Winnie Keeling, Edna Smith, Avis Allen, Joan Pepper, Elsie Herrod, Elizabeth Sisson, May Freeman, Olive Dykes, Joan Keeling, Emma Betts, Kathleen Humphrey, Joyce Severn.

Howard Purseglove, Edward Adkin, Robert Purseglove, Leonard Marshall, Wilfred Hunt, Albert Johnson, Vincent Johnson, Cyril Humphrey, Walter Atkin, Albert Woodfield, Albert Brownley, Arthur Gadsby, Ronald Murfin, Harold Smith, Willie Bradwell, Jack Bird, Ben Hubble, Reg Coleman, George Kirk, Joseph Hargreaves, Egbert Redfern, Douglas Hague, James Chapman, Willie Stone, Joseph Hardwick, Horace Hubble, John Hunt, Albert Radford, Leonard Brownley, Reg Cooper, Arthur Draycott, Reggie Slack, Frank Bettison, Alec Connah, Joseph Elliott, Ewart Lincoln, Willie Rhodes, Thomas Bird, Teddy Lynk, Leonard Lincoln, Percy Hill, George Humphrey, Harold Radford, Jack Hall, Raymond Lee, Arthur Allsopp, Richard Lee, George Stringfellow, George Barnes, James Wilson, Jack Turner, John Marriott, Arthur Turner, Leslie Slack, Douglas Severn, Joseph Radford, Allen Bradbury, Willie Taylor, John Chappelow, James Hassel, Ronald Chapman, Dennis Rhodes, George Chappelow, Ronald Wood, Everett Reeves, Wilfred Bancroft, Vivian Kirk, Albert Bradford, Dennis Bird, Alfred Ellis, Albert Thompson, John Thompson, Ernest Greatorex, Joseph Holmes, Horace Greatorex.

The Huthwaite Women's Unionist Association held a whist drive in the Common Road Schools on Wednesday evening. The event was arranged by Mrs. H.A. Simpson, and there were other attractions besides whist. A speech on the activities of the present Parliament was delivered by the Agent for the Division (Mr. W.D. Short), who prophesied good results from the new Tariff system. During the evening songs were rendered by Mrs. Grierson and community singing brought some favourite choruses into the forefront. Mr. Jack Simpson and Miss Ida Brown provided instrumental selections on the violin and piano, the proceedings being a very enjoyable nature throughout. The gathering was a very representative one, and on behalf of the members Mrs. L. Hill thanked Mr. Short for his capable address. The M.C. was Miss E. Farnsworth, and the prizes were handed by Mrs. A. Taylor to Mrs. Randall, cress plate and dish; and Miss Marion Ensor, tin of biscuits. Refreshments were provided and served by a small committee, and Miss Brown supplied the accompaniments to the singing.

  Presiding over a meeting of the Midland Counties Institution of Engineers, at Nottingham University College, on Wednesday, Mr. R.F. Percy declared that the electric hand lamp for the minor was supplanting everywhere the old oil lamp. In the North Midland district, he said, there was something like 70,000 electric lamps and now only about 50,000 flame lamps. But for the fact the oil lamp was necessary for testing for gas, it would have been ousted long ago. It was over 100 years since Davy and others invented their lamps. These lamps had been improved since in a hundred different ways, yet to-day the ordinary lamp gave very little, if any, more light than the old one used 50 years ago. This went to show that the oil lamp had arrived at perfection, and that its day was practically over.

The electric lamp was in its youth, and it was certain that, with another hundred years of improvement, there would be an increase in its lighting value at least tenfold. ...