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, VOLUNTEEiRS. . Attendance Officers, Harry' Woolf, Somerton &; A. W. 2nd Volunt·eer Battalion (The) Prince Albert's (Somerset Willy, Kingsbury Episcopi shire Light Infantry) (H Co.); armoury, Whatley; Capt. & Hon. Major Edward Quekett 'Louch; Sergt. PCBLIC OFFICERS. Frederick J ames Seabrook, drill instructor Assistant Overseer &, Collector of Poor Rates, William Ban}ard, The Hill L.A...~GPORT UNIO~. • Certifying Factory Surgeon, James Pierce Jobnstone Board day, alternate tues. at the Board room at IQ.30 a.m. L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. Annandale The Union comprises the following places :-Aller, Clerk to the Burial Board, William Hy. Smilth, The Hill Babcary, Barrington, Barton St. David, Beer Crocombe, Ulerk to the Langport & Aller Moor District Drainage Charlton Mackrell, Compton Dundon, Curry Mallett, Boards, John Louch Curry Rivel, Drayton, Earnshill, Fivehead, .High Ham, Town Crier, Albert Gaylard, Bow street Huish Episoopi, Isle Abibotts, Isle lJrewers, Keinton Steward of the Manor of Langport Eastover, Vincent Mandeville, Kingsbury Episcopi, Kingsdon, Kingweston, Stuckey esq. D.L., J.P.; deputy steward, William Langport, Long Sutton, Muchelney, Pirtney, Puckington, John Carne Hill Somer'ton, Swell. The population of the union in 1901 Steward to the Cattle Market, .Albert Gaylard. Bow srt was I3'446; area, 59,451 acres; rateable value in 1901, £91 ,9°3 SCHOOLS. Ohairman of the Board of Guardians, F. W. Pinney Grammar, founded & endowed in 1675 by Thomas Gillett; Clerk to the GuardIans & Assessment Committee, Edward the income from endowment amounts 1;.0 abowt £60 Quickett 'Louch, Langport yearly; there is also a grant of £100; from the Somerset Treasurer, William Gough, Stuckey's Bank, Langport County Council; a new scheme for the hetter manage ReH:eving Officers, 1st district, A. W. Willy, Kingsbury ment of the school was approved by Her Majesty in Epscopi; ~nd district, Harry Woolf, 'Somerton Council, 13th May, 1896; a limited number of boarders Vaccination Officers, Edwin Willy, Kingsbury Epscopi; are received at the school house, & there are scholar Harry Woolf, Somerton ships for boys. of LangpOTt & Huish Episcopi; in 1896 Medical Officers & Pwblic Vaccinators, No. I district, a science laboratory & lecture room were added, at a . James Pierce Johnstone L.R.e.p. &; REdin. Annan cost of about £600, &; a carpenters' shop is now (1901) dale; Langport; No. I B district, Evelyn Geo. Beadon in course of ereCltion at a cost of £150; ,Sblomon George Adam8, Martock; No. ~ A &, B dist.ricts, Charles Day M.A. head master. The school is managed by a Durban Ingle, Somerton; No. 3 A & B districts, Richd. governing body of II members; Capt. Vincent Stuekey Henry Vereker L.R.C.P. &, S.l. Curry Rivel; No. 3 C D.L., J.P. chairman; William J. Carne Hill, The Hill, district, Charles Munden M.R.C.'8.Eng. Ilminster clerk to the governors Superintendent Reltistrar, Edward Quekett Louch, Lang port; deput,y, William Hy. Smith, The Hill, Langport A. Sehool BDard of 5 members was formed Dec. 12th, Registrars of Births &, Deaths, Curry Rivel sU'b-district, 1874, for the United District of Langport & Huish Benjamin James Titford, Curry Rivel; deputy, Wm. Episoopi, with Curry R~rvel as a contribut-ory parish Locke, jun. Curry Rivel; Langport sub-district, Arthur wi';h 2 members; John Louch, clerk to the board; White Willy, Kingslbury Episeopi; Somerton sub-dis Robert Avis, Huish Episcopi, attendance officer; the • trict, Harry Woolf, Somerrt:on schools are in the parish of Huish Episcopi Registraril of :Marriages, Langport sub-district, J ames Board, erected in 1877, for 100 boys, 100 girls & 130 Pierce Johnston, .Annandale, Langport; Kingsbury sub infants; average attendance, 90. boys, 93 girls &; 90 district, Edwin Willy, Kings/bury Episcopi; Somerton infants; Albert Crew, mas,ter; Mrs. Marion Reynolds, sllb-dis'brict, Harry WooU, Somerrton mistress; Miss Shepherd, infants' mistress Workhouse, High Ham, a building of swne, built in 1842, Evening Continuation Schools (under a committee of the to hold 300 inmates; Richard Cavendish, master; managers of the School Board); Albert Crew, head Rev. J. Stubbs M.A. vicar of Huish Episcopi, chaplain; master; Mrs. Marian Reynolds, cookery insbructor John Morgan F.R.C.'S.Eng. medical officer; Mrs. Ca Newspaper.-Langport & Somerrton Herald, Taunton, & vendish, matron; Edwin Webley, assistant master Yeovil, Bridgwater, Martock & South Petherton Ne,ws porter & Western Counties Advertiser, Norl·h street, G. H. SOHOOL ATTENDAKOE COMMITTEE. Hemmel, proprietor; published saturday. 'See adveI"t Meets at t,he Union fortnightly. Carriers.--Great Western Railway Co. to Somerton, daily Clerk, E. Q. Louch, Langport Railway Station, Alfred Smale Crouch, Station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hirst Norman, Meadow View house Poulter Charles K. The Hill make J ames Dyer, Bow street Johnstone James P. Annandule Ross Rev. David Melville M.A. The Bonning Harry Hugh, The Hill Jones Rev. Samuel (Oong.), Bow st Vicarage Churchill Mrs. Bow street Kelly James, North street Rowe William, North street Cox George Adolphus, Bridge house Louch John, Riversleigh Stuckey Vincent D.L., J.P. Hill house Duy Solomon Geo. M.A. (head master Meade Francis, The Hill Thomas Miss, North street of grammar school), School house Meade F. Marshall, Hill side Trump The Misses, The Hill Ellis John, North street Morgan John F.R.C.REng. North st Warren Miss, The Hill Gough William, Stuckey's Bank Nicholls Alfred Robert, Cheapside Whitemore Herbert Edward, Bow st Hill William John Carne, Eastdon bu Pinney Charles Fredk. J.P. Hill house
COMMERCIAL. Calde'r John Edward, butcher, Bow street Early closing day, "Yednesday, 4 p.m. Oulder William Cattle, butcher, Bow street Oattle William James, butcher, Bow street Adams Samuel James, hair dresser, tobacconist k. cycle Cemetery (W. H. Smith, clerk to the burial board) agent & official repairer rto c:r. C. Bow street Ohullis & 00. cycle agents Atyeo C. B. ironmonger, Market place Ohallis Alfred, grocer, draper & post office Baker Thomas, baker & confectioner, Bow street Ohard Thomas Norman & Sons, boot makers, Bow street Banyard William, assistant overseer & coIJector of poor's Coates Henry J ames, fancy dealer, Bow stre8lt rates for the parishes of Langport & Huish, The Hill Cooper Wm. Edward, solicitor & corn. for oaths,Cheapside Barling George, Langport Arms family &commercial hotel Cox George Adolphus, agent for the Somerset Trading Co. & posrting house; billiards; headquarters of C. T.e. ; Limited, Bridge house an omnibus meets every train, Cheapside. See advert Cox John Frederick, jeweller & optician, Bow street Bennett Edward E. photographer, The Hill Creese WaIter Thomas, plumber, Bow street Bennett Ellen (Mrs.), dress maker, The Hill Crouch Alfred Smale, sr~ation maiter Blake James Dyer, wine & spirit & ale & porter merchant, Fire Brigade (Albert Gaylard, supt.. ), Bow street & agent for Angto-Bavarian Brewery Co. & Guinness's Freemasons (" Portcullis" Lodge, No. 2,03'8) (W. Rowe, . stout, Bow street , sec) Blake Robert, boot maker, Bow street Fulluway Joseph Richard, g-rocer, Bow street Blake WaIter James, sec. to the Langport Gas Co. Bow st Fursland Thomas, baker, Bond's pool Bowditch Alfred, tailor, Bow street Gaylard Albert, temperance hotel; steward to the cabtlp. Bradfo'rd & Sons Limited, timber, slate, corn, coal k, salt market. county court bailiff & insurance agent, Bow s'. merchants, The Bridge Gaylard James, beer retailer, Bow street Brister Elizabeth (~Irs.), Black ,swan P .H. North street Gillett Charles Churchill, tea agent, North street Brown Ernest William, 'baker &, corn dealer, Bow Sltreet· Gillett Martha (MT!.), confectioner, North street Burston &, Son, boot makers, Cheapside Goowson John, grocer, North street
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