Wednesday, June 17th 1942. THE TEESDALE MERCURY. 7 June 17th 1942. Commoner, out of the Coppin Mare by the SOME TEESDAL I HORSES. Selaby Turk." CORRESPONDENCE. THE COSY CINEMA KEEPING AND THEIR 0 NERS. Mr Prior says : " The Selaby Turk is commonly supposed to have been imported LONICERA NITIDA IN BLOOM. MIDDLETON-IN-TEESDALE. 110W." in 1699, and to have been one of the nine Phone 31. Mr George Bowes died of September 17th, stallions Mr Marshall bought for the King Mon., Wed.. Fri., Sat., Twice, at 6 and 8-15 1760, aged 59, and on Sep ember 26th " his in Barbary that year. But this Turk was [TO THE EllzT011 OF THE TEESDALE MERCURY:] poultry houses Sir,—In r eply to a question about Tues. and Thurs., One performance, 7 p.m. into remains were deposited in the family vault the property of ,Mr Marshall's elder brother, Saturday. Matinee at 2 p.m. it the birds can get at Whickharn, in a grand 'tanner, there to the owner of the Selaby estate (p. 70) and Lonicera Nitida, there appeared recently in at health-giving sun- remain till the chapel at Gibside was was perhaps an earlier importation, as his your veryvaluable paper the statement Wed: and Thurs., June 17th and 18th : : are left open day finished (the first stone of which had been daughter, the Coppin Mare, being out of a that this evergreen shrub did not flower. Flt NK alolIGAN, ANN RUTHERFORD and e.s is clean, so that 'laid a little before his d • th) then to be mare by Place's White Turk (imported 1657) As it has flowered in my garden, together KEN1"FAYLOR in light. Fasten back with other live loniceras for the past ten •itg in the space, removed and placed in th vault which he would probably have been foaled before WASHINGTON MELODRAMA. if designed for the future interment of his 1701." years, I thought you might be interested in Remember that its blooms, and so determined to • present Fri. and Sat., June 19t1r and 20th : •, t ova of doors, and family." The coffins of M and Mrs George At the end of the 17th century there was SPENCER TRACY and MICKEY ROONEY in Bowes now lie side by sid in the crypt of living at Croft-on-Tees, where he had a farm you with a small sample in due course. In tor <being reared in another garden hereabout I • noticed its MEN OF BOYS' TOWN. Coddling is the private chapel in Gib ide Park, where under Sir William Chaytor, Mr John Crofts, are also to be seen thoae o the 10th Earl of who had been in the service of the Darcy flowers also. The berries can be obtained Mon. and Tues., June 22nd and 23rd : weakening for fowls. later—very dark purple in colour. LIONEL ATWILL, LON CHANEY, Jun., and houses for poultry Strathmore, their grandso (with an Earl's family at Sedbury, far-famed for their race- I. W. PATTERSON. ANN NAGEL in birds. Sunlight is coronet on the ;lid), and 1 any, Countess of horses. Mr Crofts had a mare, Bay Layton the world, and if it Strathmore, parents of Mr John Bowes, and (Born about 1699), a daughter of Counsellor Middleton-in-Teesdale. THE ELECTRIC MAN. of houses and runs, that of Lady Anna Maria J ssop, Mr Bowes's and a Brimmer Mare, a granddaughter of [We are glad to have the specimen that Mr Also Gladys George, Barton McLane and not flourish. While aunt. This last had beet renewed by Mr Place's White Turk Mare and a great- Patterson so kindly sent. —Ed.] The little Tough Guys in •here must be some Bowes, but all appeared be in good.pre- granddaughter of .a daughter of Dods- Hit the Road. ays of a midday mid- servation when I visited t e Mausoleum in worth, son of the Layton Barb Mare. stock. It is the light June, 1926, as also those if Mr Bowes and The Layton Barb Mare, born in 1665, was le, not -the heat rays, the Countess of Montalbo, hich have since acquired by King Charles H., and, her son, DALES GRASSLAND SCHEME UPPER TEESDALE. no escape from it. is been removed to Barna d Castle. The though -wholly a Barb, was born in England. nd of shelter, then, if Countess of Montalbo's c inn had a crim- The Layton Barb Mare was sold by the le given by trees and son velvet covering tri med with gold Royal StudmaSte•, after the death of the MR CASSELS iN TEESDALE. [By OUR CORRESPONDENT.] be out in the open air braid, and in the lid as a small glass King in 1685, when she was 20 years 'old, for Mechanics' Institute. is the days are so long panel, with a gilt framed shutter, the key 40 guineas. Bay Layton and M,akeless (son afraid of thieves—and A new grassland scheme for dales farmers Prizewiliners at the weekly whist drive . of which was not forthco ing. It is under- of the Oglethdrpe Arabian) had a daughter was announced by Mr J. W. Cassels, Execu- held on Wednesday evening in the it is best to lock up stood that Mr Bowes, on his visits to the Chesnut Layton (born in 1707) and she had •indows, if barred, can tive Officer to the Durham War Agricultural Mechanics' Institute, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Mausoleum, unlocked the shutter in order several.foals retained by Mr Crofts, one of Executive Committee, when he addressed a were : Ladies-1, Mrs Thompson ; 2, Mrs ors, so that the birds which was a colt (1719) by Crofts Bay Barb, get up early. If, how- to see the face of his wife. well attended meeting at' Middleton-in- Rowes. Gentlemen-1, Mr Bell; 2, Mrs Blake rats or foxes entering Before the acquisition of ibside, the place and another, a filly (1720) by Greyhound. Teesdale yesterday (Tuesday) week. Under (as gentleman). pdoors must be closed of•interment for the Bowe family of Street- Mr Crofts' Grey Layton was a daughter of a new arrangements dales' farmers can have lam was a vault under .t e south transept Counsellor, and Place's White Turk was her Children's Treat. hed netting last thing all work done and seed, fertilisers and lime The teachers and officials of the Wesley rly in the morning. of Barnard Castle Church The last mem- maternal grandfather. From this mare Mr provided by the war committee, and the re- bers of the family to he entombed there Crofts had three Greyhound foals. Grey- payment of cost can 'be spread over two or and Bourne Sunday Schools arranged a were Sir William Bowes i 1706, his son Mr hound was a son of King William's White joint field day on Saturday for the scholars im of every poultry three years. This was only one of the many William Blakiston Bowes in 1721, and his Barb Chillaby and Slugey, a natural Barb interesting facts given at the meeting which attending the two Sunday schools. Local tholesorne, nice-tasting. daughter Mrs Chaloner in 1734--father, mare, and his parents were purchased and conditions prevented the sports being e the birds plenty of was presided over by Mr T. Davison. brother and sister of Mr eorge Bowes. brought into England by Mr Richard In spite of the excellent response made by carried out, but the tea, which had been tanking fountains. see• • Having noted briefly so • Teesdale horses Marshall. Mr Marshall was abroad for given by friends of the two churches, was food, and that their dales fanners last year, the spread of the and their owners, of the Streatlaria Castle nearly 17 months—from June 1st, 1698, to war and the greater need of shipping meant served to the children. ed to get dirty. Eggs stud in its early days, it seems desirable October 28th, 1699, buying horses for King feeding the hens on that an even greater effort is - needed now, Hospital Carnival. now to turn' to other Tee dale horses and William III. in Barbary, Algiers, and Tunis, and the next two years may be fter • day. The ground and came back with thirteen horses and - very critical. A meeting of the Middleton Hospital wet weather, muddy their owners conternporar, with them. In Teesdale must play its part in this new Carnival Committee was held on Monday 17; when Mr RoWland P ace, of -Dinsdale- mares and one other horse, brought over grow for xictory rain is put down in the with them as a present to his Majesty. Thus campaign. Farmers must evening, when allocations were, made to lards have to eat ale on-Tees, was studmaster o his Highness have better grassland to produce more hay. the various hospitals and inatitutithis who mit. Give mashes in the Lord Priatector; ' Mr -Nicholas Baxter, much for the moment of this famous Tees- more milk, more silage, more cattle. dale stud and its Eastern copitections. benefit from the recently held carnival. Dr. r important matter is — his, Highness's Gentle an of Horse," R. Dawson presided. The secretary, Mr clean drinking water. arrived from the East in "oyember with a founded by Mr John Crofts, which lasted Methods of Improvement. just over a hundred years. In March, 1709, " There are three ways of improving your Robert Thompson, reported that £167 6s. had ive a stale taste to an White Turk, purchased or Cromwell in been collected at the carnival and by other have a tendency to- Aleppo. This horse. was n all probability died at Barford Hall, on the Yorkshire bank grassland," said Mr Cassels, " and these are of the Tees, but otherwise almost part of by cropping, where possible, and after efforts held about the same time.