THIS week’s selection of extracts from The Commercial, Shipping & General Advertiser, The Penryn & Falmouth Advertiser and The Borough Times, supplied by Penryn Museum.

From January 1919:

Advertisement: W & E C Carne, established over a century-and-a-half, proprietors or the Falmouth Brewery. Importers of wines and spirits, aerated water manufacturers. Market Street, Falmouth, Prince’s Street, Truro, Market Place, Helston.

Advertisement: Broad Street, Penryn. Select Private School conducted by The Misses Hill (experienced teachers) First class senior certificates violin, pianoforte and theory. Honour organ playing. Advanced certificates drawing. Painting and violin classes help. Pupils prepared for examinations. Local representative, L C M. New pen painting taught. Single lessons if desired.

Penryn Road Motor Services. Many complaints have been raised concerning the bad facilities of the Road Motors. On Saturday evenings only two cars are allowed to run (it is said owing to petrol restrictions). Some passengers have been known to be waiting at Penryn and Falmouth for over an hour to board a car, which is in no way pleasant when it is cold and rain. When the cars arrive, the rushes are so great that would-be passengers are obliged to walk. Surely it is time that the authorities granted more petrol to avoid these unpleasant happenings.

Juvenile Offenders: The Vicar of St Gluvias writes the following to the Carnmarth Deanery: “When will magistrates learn to treat with sufficient severity juvenile offenders who come before them?. We have long known that the boys in this town do precisely what they choose. Last month, therefore, if was with anger, but without surprise, that the Vicar found that the Archdeacon Philpott’s memorial window in the sanctuary at St Gluvias Church, had been broken in two places by a catapult.” Last Sunday several boys were seen playing hide and seek in the cemetery, and yet is wondered how the glass frames on the graves are broken and other plants are trampled so much.”

From February 1919:

Penryn Town Council: Met on Tuesday, the mayor presiding. A resolution was adopted requesting the Ministry of Shipping to at once consider the question of importing coal into the town by sea, instead by railway, as at present, and to take the necessary steps to reduce freights to at least the level of the present railway rates.

A lantern lecture was given by Mr J H Bearham at the Penryn Weslyan Band of Hope on Thursday. The subject was entitled “From Constantine to the Scilly Isles.” Mr M Rickard presided.