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October
The West Calder Glee Club planned and executed a concert for the wounded at Bangour Hospital. 'Bangour is especially fortunate in the possession of a beautiful large concert hall, seated with chairs for fully 500 persons and finely illuminated with electric light. The scene in the hall was one to be remembered, the wounded soldiers in their loose fitting, light blue coloured suits, with arms in slings, heads bandaged, etc. and the nurses in their very becoming uniforms, made a picture that brought home to one the stern realities of war. The Glee Club performance was well received and brought to an end with God Save the King.'
'A workman residing at Clyde Street was charged at Edinburgh Sheriff Court with having assaulted the door keeper of the local Picture House on Friday night. He struck the doorkeeper on the face and inflicted a severe wound. He was seized and held until the arrival of the police. He pleaded guilty and admitted 4 previous convictions. He was sentenced to 300 days imprisonment.'
'At Linlithgow Sheriff Court last week a young woman appeared on a charge of having committed a breach of the peace in a house at Westwood Rows on August 31st. The accused, who is a soldier's wife, had been before the court recently, when she gave an undertaking to keep away from drink It appeared she had been teased by neighbours about her conduct, some words passed, she had a drink. She was a young and respectable woman and her children were well fed and clothed. On the 7th September a priest had got the accused to take the pledge and she had kept it religiously. The priest acknowledged that she had been under great stress because she was ill and had been forced to take some drink. It was agreed that the woman should keep her pledge to the priest and not drink. She would return to court on December 7th and if she had been drinking then he would imprison her.'
'A 14 year old boy from Uphall who stole newspapers from WC station is sentenced to 12 stripes with the birch rod.'
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