Thomas lamb and John West, treasurer and secretary of the Brass Band, called and said they proposed to get rid of Richard Gaydon, James Hone and William Green as they were very much in arrear with their subscriptions and R. Gaydon was very disorderly on Saturday night last.
They asked me to attend meeting next Saturday at 8.30 which I promised to do.
Fine morning, Cloudy afternoon with slight rain.
Attended B.C.C. meeting at Mr Humphrey’s, Mollington Vicarage, about 2 miles beyond Great Bourton.
B.C.C.: Banbury Clerical Club
St Michael and All Angels. Divine Service at 9.15.
Drove Bell and Frank to Banbury. Preached Harvest Thanksgiving at Christ Church. Took Burdon. Got back about 11.30 having stayed to supper at the Vicarage with Mr and Mrs Graham-Jones. Mr Hood and Mr Kimberley, churchwardens were there as well as the two Curates. The Collection was in aid of the Diocesan Spiritual Aid Society.
Charles Lines’s wife called and paid her husband’s rent for triangular field.
Cutting from Banbury Advertiser of 30 September 1886
SIBFORD GOWER.
HARVEST THANKSGIVING SERVICES were held in the church here on Sunday last, commencing with a celebration of the Holy Communion at eight a.m., and followed by the usual morning service at 10.30, and a second celebration of the Holy Communion at noon. The afternoon service was held at three o’clock. Appropriate sermons were preached to large and attentive congregations by the vicar, the Rev. Edward T. Stevens. There was also a special evening service at seven o’clock when an excellent and practical sermon on “The Earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof” was preached to crowded congregation by the Rev. C. E. Graham-Jones, vicar of South Banbury. The church had been exceedingly well decorated by several ladies of the congregation with corn, flowers, and fruit, supplied by the inhabitants of Sibford Gower and Sibford Ferris, who seemed to vie with each other who should send the best, and a handsome “big loaf” was added by a local baker. The illumination of the church at night with Silber lamps and a multitude of candles was very effective, and gave great pleasure to the villagers, many of whom stayed long after the service was over to admire the beauty of the floral designs and other decorations, which showed well under the blaze of light. The collections amounted to £6 9s. 6d., and will be divided as usual between the Horton Infirmary at Banbury and the Radcliffe at Oxford, to both which excellent institutions the parish owes a great debt of gratitude, though it has not had occasion during the year to send patients to either.
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