Part 2: Local reporting progressed in much the same way as before. The Colne Valley Guardian of 24th of July reported on a Golcar council meeting; it had finally been decided to test run a bus service for the village. The quoted price from the bus operator was to be £5 a day for a mileage not exceeding 80. The 31st of July edition of the Guardian reported on the Colne Valley birth rate. Apparently Marsden’s birth rate was the highest with Slaithwaite’s the lowest. Also noted was how the Golcar music festival had been spoiled by rain. Following these local stories came a rather prophetic summation of the European crisis. The report advised that ‘all Europe may become entangled in the present dispute between Austria and Serbia’. It claimed Russia was already mobilising to protect Serbia, that France may have to support Russia, and Britain France. Interestingly the report then said ‘as everyone knows Germany is anxious for any excuse to go to war with almost anyone, but preferably with England or France’. Following this was an assurance that these events would be unlikely directly to affect Colne Valley trade although it was also noted that ‘indirectly it will be injured owing to the absence of confidence in the world’s markets’. The Cleckheaton Guardian from Friday the 24th of July contained the traditional round up of the news from various locales that week. In Birkenshaw there had been a well attended Socialist picnic held at Brownhill Farm, in Wyke two men had been caught damaging a wall on Old-Lane at 11:50pm – both men paid for the damage and apologised. In Heckmondwike the local vicar’s wife had died of pneumonia. From Tong and Dudley Hill there was a report on the marriage of Mr William Henry Bean, son of the owner of Newton, Bean & Mitchell, to Miss Alice Marion Charlton of Carnforth. The bride wore a Duchesse mousseline and Chantily lace embroidered with pearls, and a wedding veil decorated with orange blossoms, and carried a bouquet of Madonna lilies. Through the entire paper – published only four days before the Austro-Hungarian declaration against Serbia – there was no mention of the possibility of war.
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