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 1927:

The annual meeting of Penryn branch of the British Legion was held in the Town Hall on Monday. Mr C W Andrew presided. An increased membership was reported, but there was a loss shown on the balance sheet. It was decided that Poppy Day should be held nearer November 11th than last year, when it met with very poor response. A suggestion that all the work connected with the sale of poppies be done by members of the Legion and that outsiders not assist was defeated.

At a meeting of the Falmouth Town Council it was agreed to co-operate with the Great Western Railway Company for advertising for the summer in the Press, and to pay £50 which is half the cost. Mr J Harris maintained that the Great Western Railway Company were not treating Falmouth as they ought.

A new scheme for the overcoming irregular attendance of children at the elementary schools at Falmouth has been formulated by Falmouth District Education Committee. The chairman (Mr C Spargo) said a sub-committee recommended that teachers should send printed forms to parents when their children were not at school.

Advertisement: Influenza is bad in France. Be prepared. Keep a bottle of 99 Influenza Mixture handy. Price 1 shilling and threepence. Wilmer and Hocking Chemists, Falmouth and Penryn.

From 1931:

The unemployment figures in Mid and West Cornwall were as follows: Redruth, 1,856. Camborne, 1,284; Falmouth, 1,094; Fowey, 229; Hayle, 716; Helston, 183; Newquay, 202; Perranporth, 315; Penzance, 653; St Austell, 1,076; St Columb, 267; St Just, 645; Truro, 406.

The meeting of Penryn and Falmouth, at the Falmouth Recreation Ground, on Boxing Day, produced a great game. Play was rapid and brilliant, and the result, a pointless draw, could not have been better. The Mayor of Falmouth (Mr John Harris) addressed they players in the pavilion before the kick-off and a crowd of about 3,000 constituted the season’s record “gate”.

By the death of Mr George Henry Fox at Glendurgan, Mawnan, near Falmouth, the residents of Falmouth and district have lost one of their most respected inhabitants. As a descendant of many generations of Quakers, he was a sincere, regular and helpful supporter throughout his life of the Society of Friends.

A large Western National bus was completely destroyed by fire near Truro. It was a 30-seater and well filled with passengers, but the latter were able to make their escape uninjured, though they were, naturally, considerably alarmed. The bus left Falmouth at 8.30 and was about to ascend Arch Hill, about a mile from Truro when the fire broke out in the front of the vehicle.