LOOKING BACK

Beith’s newspaper for 14 January, 1888 was full of interesting news which provides a brief insight into what was happening in the town and district. 
On Tuesday, while inspecting some animals in the Cattle Market, Ayr, Mr Thomas Blackwood, flesher, Beith, was tossed by a cow which had become 

infuriated by a cow that had taken refuge behind him. 

Mr Blackwood was caught in the rear, thrown into the air and fell on his side fracturing one of his ribs. He was otherwise considerably injured as one of the cows horns  

penetrated his body lacerating the flesh. He is under Dr Sneddon’s care and is progressing favourably.
The third of a series of lectures in connection with the Parish Church Repairs Fund was delivered on Thursday evening by the Rev A Bryson, Alloa, 

Rev Mr Sutherland presiding. 

The attendance was not large which is to be regretted, the address, especially for young men and women, being full of sound information and sage advice. 

“A Rainy Day” was the subject, but it was practically a lecture on thrift, numerous statistics showing the immense strides which had of late years been made by the middle and working classes in providing against the 

proverbial bad weather.
On Friday last, in the Sheriff Court, Paisley, before Hon Sheriff Dunn, Edward Remwick, steelworker, Beith, was charged with having early that morning 

having unlawfully entered the field know as Big Park Hill, within the policies of Castle Semple, Lochwinnoch, in pursuit of game, and killed 5 rabbits. 

He was also charged with being in possession of nets and pegs for the purpose of destroying game. He pleaded guilty to the first charge and was fined £10 with 

the alternative of 3 months imprisonment. 
Mr J W Renders Beith Choral Union will meet in the usual place on Tuesday first at  8.00 pm.
A special meeting of members of Beith St. Inan’s Angling Club and those intending to become members for the year 1888 will be held in the Head Inn, on 

Wednesday, 18 January at 8.00 pm. Income for club last session was £14-10s with expenditure of £4. J Sommerville, secretary.
On Thursday a young man name Francis McIlroy, 28 years of age, was accidentally killed while engaged at a metal breaker at Glengarnock Steel Works. 

The crusher, weighing 8 cwt having fallen upon his head. He resided in New Street, Beith, and leaves a widow.
Lectures are delivered in the Mason’s Hall, Beith, every Sunday at quarter-past One o’clock when subjects, in relation to the Gospel of the Kingdom of God 

and the name of Jesus Christ, are treated of. All are earnestly invited.
Any person found trespassing or destroying fences on the grounds of Broadstone, Beith, occupied by John Kerr, will be prosecuted.
The usual meeting of the Beith Mutual Improvement Association will be held in St. Inan’s Hall on Wednesday evening at 8.15 pm. 

This will be a social meeting to celebrate Burns’s anniversary. William Hastings, secretary.
Wanted by the Beith Co-operative Society, a boy, about 16 years, to learn the baking trade. Apply to Malcolm Mackie, foreman.