THA TBSSDaLU MEHUUKT—W£x>N ANU ARY 5, iy)6 The Top of Mickle The Urban Council. Fell. ROBERT ORD’S GREAT WINTER SALE THE CHAIRMAN ANO A LASTINC ANO HONOURABLE. PEACE. HIGHEST POINT IH YORKSHIRE. OF DRAPERY GOODS The monthly meeting ot the members of the Ba: aid Caatio Urba; District Council was IBY HARWOOD BRIERLEY.] heli on Thnr’day night. Mr J. Wiseman, J.P^ It is the ambition of most pedestrians and Commenced on Tuesday, 4th January, 1916. presided, and there were also present the Rev. Climbers in Upper Teasdale to reach the roof H. W. H. Birchair, Messrs F. Wi 830, J. Guy, R. of Yorkshire—vix., Mickle Fell, in tho north­ Woodhams, H. Waiker, C. J. Smith, W. idodgsoo, west angle of onr br- ;d acre’d shire. They J I Dawson (clerk), J. H. Vol .ch (aseiatant- are conscious of it® -operative nearness to Special Bargains in all departments derk). C. H. We-fnrd, M D. (medical officer), H. the one acceptable . .rting-point, which is E. Raire (surveyor), and F. V. Ord (oclloctor). High Force Hotel, and only bad weather will deter them from embracing this opportunity _ Seasonable Greeting*. to conquer the elusive crest, whose exact The Chairman said he would like at the whereabouts still remains to be determined. THE HORSE MARKET, BARNARD CASTLE. outse': to wish tho compliments of the season The practised mountaineer would regard it as to the members and cffioisia of tile C 'UuclL incredible that an elevation only five miles avd to express a hope that tbe dark cloud of not find it such an easy matter to skirt the war wcnld have pass'd away before mother distant to the south-west as the crow would old-time leadminers’ “brakes ” cut to a depth fly should have to be discovered, and especially BABUTARD CAETLE 'Aesdale Guardians, year oiosod, »nd that they would have a of about 20 feet in places, up and down whose ’sstlng and hoc urab’e psaoo es.abllehsd. an elevation two miles long in its humpy, old sides your further passage must be conducted back forming a spinal curve of a quarter-circle with little dignity. So here are reasons for MEETINGS TO BE HELD MONTHLY IN Ths Duath of Mrs Chriaiopher Hadley. over-reaching the next county. I imagine the the well-informed guide 1 hope some day to FUTURE. Tun Chairman continued : Sines the last average walker would be more game for 20 SANITARY STEAM LAUNDRY see installed, trusting also that he will see - The forluigbtly meeting of the members of 1mectiog one of our members has sustained a miles on a high road than this struggle of fit to make a decent and a straight track PROPRIETOR - - A. STEELE this body waa held on Wednesday, under the 1serioaa toes in the death of his wife, aud I ups-and-downs over Cronkley Fell to the through these unpicturesque disturbances and pros deucy of Mt John Smith, J.P- ma-e from the chair that a vote of sympathy “Boot" at Mickle Fell’s far end, where within malformations of the fell-side. Is the Only Steam Laundry in Barnard Castle ® District be sent to him from thb Council.—Mr Wi'sou : ten minutes' walk of the Westmorland frontier 1 know not whether this uninhabited upland The Chairman's Seasonable Greetings. I second It.—Tho motion was adopted. the sappers of the Government Ordnance region is, technically, a wilderness or a waste. High-class Work in all its Branches. Mr Smith, before the ordinary business Survey erected a grand cairn or “Stone Good grouse moors are of exceedingly high commenced, said hs took that opportunity of The Surveyor's Report to the Works Committee. Man." at 2,591 feet. 1 honestly wish that value, and they also serve for the production hooing’the members had all spent a quiet aud The Surveyor had reported to a meeting ot some local shepherd or gamekeeper would of good mutton, so that wilderness and waste Special Attention given to Household Work. thvu^ntfol yet jayous Christmas, and he tho Works Ccmmittoe, held on December 22ud, take a real pride in studying all the are quite differently construed by the sporting wiahe’. them all a happy and prosperous New that the fire brigade had been >^Med out at peculiarities of Mickle Fell and the wild, owner or lessee, the gamekeeper, grazier, and Vans Collect and Deliver in Home District. Year. The festive season had, no doubt, been five u’olcck in t*i*je».eding vf Deoember 18.fi U. moorlandish. irregular, mossy region around shepherd, from the casual tourist who belike shorn of much.of its enjoyment by the ever a fire at Mr rHlch«rd Watson's, off Wood-streets it. I wish, also, that the time-saving routes will never scent its life-giving ozone again. Steam Laundry Works: NEWGATE, BARNAF.D CAS TLE. present thought of thia terrible, devastation-., , ‘-.it.'Cie.- outbreak was extinguished before the could be definitely determined, so as to remove Let strangers be careful not;to injure our war. 7hat was going to be the end off’ll' brigade arrived.—As instruct. 1 the Surveyor uncertainty, monotony, and fatigue. Such a natural economic position by railing at the nobodj in this world could progQQ«too»te or •1 bad reported that there were 160 outside tape man ready to act as guide or referee would lands which resemble “waste.” but are not. foreset, bat they al! might cod trust that ] iu tbe district and at Star:forth, at which 86 make money in the summer time, and if he When Walter White climbed M ickle Fell in the by the sad of nexk.y*' . , when Christmas came wore hr dcmiatic supply to houses, 42 for could provide a pony or two the disgrace of 1850's, he doubted the Birkdale youth’s state­ W. SMITH & COMPANY, round vgaic. 'w£ey weald have peace and '; yards sod trade purposes, and 3*2 for stable Mickle Fell being called “terra incognita ” ment that 1.500 sheep were feeding on it, and corer.. Ag?.ia reignirg in the world, aud that Ii purposes. Of the 86 for domestic supply, only would in all probability be removed. quoted Sir John Sinclair's query: “ How many­ Low Mill Foundry, Barnard Castle. tho people of ahis country mignt enjoy them- I' 25 were for tenement use. The committee Though remoter, Mickle Fell, on the sheep do you consider fair stock to the acre ? ” selves in quietude in the great sod solemn I1 had referred the matte* to tbe Council, with Pennine Chain, is only 177 feet higher than —the answer being “ Eh, man 1 ye begin at least I tie nativity, as war, indeod, their I a rec'-mmendstlon that it ba referred to a detached Whernside at 2,414 feet, the second wrang end: ye sud ax hoo monv acres till a custom. * special committee to be appointed to oonsider Manufacturers of Ranges. Ovens, Grates, etc. i the wr.ter question generally.—Thn Surveyor highest Yorkshire mountain. Ever popular, ship.” And the Birkdale youth told Walter Sole Makers of the Hot-air Rar-p- on an improved principle (patent).- The Whinstone Quarries at Middleton. easily accessible, well-worn Ingleborough is White there were also thirty breeding gallo­ Mr RaistoD, while the upper dale relief j was dir*cc<d to obtain estimates of the cost 2,373 feet, Buckden Pike is 2,302 feet, and ways on the slopes of Mickle Fell, adding Ovens alone if requ;- jU, all fitted with Steel Bodies. cases were being hoard, asked it a number of { of fire hose and iron pipes for the Spring Head Penyghent 2,273 feet. These are mountains “ there's nowt pays better than breedin' Also Glendinning 'nd other various makes of Ranges. the workmen at the Middleton wbinstene ' before next meeting. apart, but around Mickle Fell, on the backbone galloways. You can sell the young uns a year Portable Boilers, with Steel Bodies, from 6 gallons upwards, will last quarries bad not been discharged. —Mr Peirse, Cleaning Out of the Reservoir, of England, there are no fewer than thirty or a year-and-hauf owd for oight pund a-piece, three time*' as long as Portable Boilers with cast bodies. (be relieving offioer, replied that a rather Too Committee directed the Surveyor--at a summits over 2,000 feet high. The very au’ there’s no muckle fash wi’ 'em.” large number of men had received their Scottish name suggests dignity, bulk, and Lp?ge Stock of Spouting always kept on hand. meeting of the Works Committee—to report at Some southern visitors' idea of space is “ the Watering notices and had left their employment. He the n xr meeting of the committev on the beet height, but for the reasons given 1 am con­ Yorkshire moors." Complimentary shall we Troughs, Pallisading, Railing, Gates, etc. believed, however, that abjur thirteen of the vinced that Mickle Fell will always lack the Water. Estimates time sod laotfiod oi emptying tae reservoir, say? Nearly one-seventh of our county of Heating bv Hot given free. Baths, Lavatories, etc. number bad gone back to work. Somo of tho ®Dd especially on the state ot tbe ovetfiov popularity of Ingleborough. Rosebery Topping. broad acres is moorland, clothed with the discharged men occupied little farms, and Eston Nab, Kisdon, Calvey. and Snowdon. We keep a large variety of Enamelled State Jambs, Register pipes, from tne Spring Head supply pipe, aod three heather plants, crowberry, bilberry, etc., were still eff, while other workmen had got the reservoir itself, as it had need stated that The Yorkshire Snowdon is somewhere above and belongs to the Pennine mountain chain.