25 YEARS AGO

BOLTON Wanderers today announced their admission charges for next season and for the first time, the cost of a Centre Stand seat has topped the £1 mark. They will cost £1.20 against 90p last year, and the new Burnden Stand price will be £1.10 against 80p. The minimum admission charge will be raised to 65p from 45p, but pensioners and children will be charged 35p, an increase of 10p on last year.

A FORMER chemical waste tip to be used as new school playing fields at Little Lever, has been declared safe. Lancashire County Council experts carried out a £96,000 land reclamation scheme on the site of the old Hall Lane chemical works.

50 YEARS AGO

TELEVISION is suffering in the Bolton district from excessive interference, much of which is unnecessary. It has been estimated that 90 per cent of interference is caused by motor vehicles, but few car or van owners appear to be doing anything about it. Cases are known of television set owners who, whilst grumbling at the interference on their sets from passing traffic, do not take the trouble to have suppressors, which are cheap, easy to install, and have no effect on the car's performance, fixed on their own car.

125 YEARS AGO

A ROMANTIC affair has just happened in Liverpool. A young lady, who had been brought up by a clergyman's wife at a rectory near Chester - a week or two since contrived, by an ingenious pretence, to obtain a considerable sum of money from the lady, together with permission to go to Chester. Having reached that city, she was married by license, and privately, to a person who a few days later sailed for America, leaving numerous creditors, betting and otherwise. A few mornings ago the young lady disappeared from the rectory, leaving a farewell note, stating that she intended to join her husband. The police in Liverpool were communicated with, and the clergyman's wife proceeded to that town at the earliest possible moment in the hope of intercepting the fugitive. She arrived at the landing-stage on Thursday last, just in time to find her protege on board the tender of the White Star steamer Britannia, and on the point of sailing for New York. A scene of a highly dramatic nature followed. The excited lady rushed on the tender and forcibly dragged the girl to the stage, uttering disjointed and hysterical exclamations, and when both were on terra firma she broke out into a torrent of reproaches, which caused the fair defaulter to sob loudly, and attracted a large number of spectators. At length some degree of calmness was restored and the parties drove to a hotel, the services of the police-officer who had been in attendance to take the runaway into custody, if necessary , being unrequired. The young lady was accompanied by her maid.