TRIBUNALS, EXEMPTIONS AND OTHER STORIES

A farmer told a county Tribunal that he had heard of only one woman shepherd - "Bo-Peep"-

and she had lost her sheep. [Jun 3, 1916]

The Vicar of Naseby has offered to devote most of his time to the Post Office to release the

Postmaster for service. [May 12, 1917]

A police raid at Northampton fair last week resulted in four men being secured for military

service, whilst the employer one of them was fined £5. [May 12, 1917]

"Two out of three sons are serving," said an applicant at Northampton Tribunal. "What credit

there is for these men being in the army belongs to the Tribunal," retorted the Chairman.

[May 12, 1917]

An applicant at Finedon Tribunal introduced nine of his ten children to the members and secured

further exemption.  [May 19, 1917]

A man with five trades, five maladies, and eleven children, ten of whom are boys, was given

six months exemption by Northampton Tribunal on Monday.  [May 19, 1917]

An appellant at the County Appeals Tribunal stated that he was a butcher, grocer,

tobacconist, draper, dealt in sweets, toys, boots, grindery, seeds, vegetables, fruit, poultry,

cycle accessories and corn, was a small-holder and postmaster.  Jul 31st final.  [May 19, 1917]

Richard Ball, a shoe operative, of Duke Street, cut his throat and then jumped into the river

after receiving his calling up notice.  He is now undergoing treatment at the Workhouse. [Mar 3, 1917]

When Corpl. Wilfred Curtis, R.F.A., returned home to Aldwincle from Salonica after 27 months' active

service he found that his mother had just passed away and was to be buried the following day. [Mar 3,1917]

Major Renton has announced that he will take no rent for any of his cottages from which a member of

the household is serving in the war - an example that other rural landlords could do well to follow. [Aug 15,1914]

Many local furniture dealers have had vans and horses commandeered by the Army authorities for transport

service.  Coal carts of the tip-up type and other suitable vehicles have also been taken.  [Aug 15,1914]

Forty German prisoners are to be employed on agricultural work in the Oundle district.  [Mar 3, 1918]

Rationing of bread and margarine will commence in Northampton on April 7th simultaneously with the

rationing of meat.  [Mar 3, 1918]

Mrs. Maud Harvey, the wife of a soldier was found hanging in her house, 2, Market Street, on Saturday.

There are three children.  [Mar 3, 1918]

Quite a sensation was caused in Northampton market on Saturday by the order to retail strawberries

at 9d. a lb. Hitherto they were making up to 2s. 3.d  [Mar 3, 1918]

A man with ten children under 16 was exempted by the Appeals Tribunal on Friday.  [Jun 22, 1918]

Worried over her husband, who is wounded and a prisoner of war, Mrs. S. E. Jolley of

South Terrace, Rushden, committed suicide by cutting her throat.  [Jun 22, 1918]

Two more German prisoners  have escaped from the internment camp at Corby.  [Jul 28, 1917]

"I've seen horses which race very well with legs like that," said Councillor F. C. Parker to an

appellant with varicose veins.  [Jul 28, 1917]

Many cases of the new influenza have occurred in Northampton, and the military have

established a hospital in Semilong.  [Jul 6, 1918]

Depressed by his soldier son's death, John William Page, newsagent, of Charles Street,

downed himself in the canal on Saturday.  [Aug 25, 1917]

Worried over her three soldier sons, a Great Doddington woman named Thornton drowned

herself in the Nene.  [Jul 21, 1917]

A conscientious objector who is a special constable, told the Borough Tribunal on Monday

that he had not yet been supplied with a truncheon.  [Jul 21, 1917]

A dairyman who employs a conscientious objector assured Mr. Geldart at the Borough

Tribunal that his milk did not turn sour despite that fact.  [Jul 21, 1917]

Northampton operative bakers are demanding an 8s. war bonus, and have handed in their

notices.  [Feb 2, 1918]

Northampton Boot operatives are dissatisfied with the graduated war bonus, and are

demanding a flat rate.  [Feb 2, 1918]

Northampton has 2,000 discharged soldiers who receive £600 weekly through the Pensions

Committee.  [Aug 31, 1918]

Two persons named Betz have been struck off the Irchester voters' list in the abscence of proof

that they are not aliens.  [Aug 31, 1918]

A Hardingstone storekeeper, in appealing for exemption said the business had been in the family

since 1800.  [Aug 4, 1917]

Because a fellow workman appealed on being called up, the other men employed in a Bozeat

factory came out on strike.  [Aug 4, 1917]

Miss Emma Cory, of Harpole, a munition worker, collided with a tram car at St. James whilst

cycling home on Monday evening, and died in Hospital on Tuesday morning.  [Aug 4, 1917]