25 YEARS AGO From the Evening News, June 15, 1976

BOLTON'S Martin Robinson has drawn one of the toughest tasks in the men's singles at the Wimbledon championships which start next week. He is drawn against the seventh-seeded Roscoe Tanner, the American with the biggest serve in the world.

MOTORISTS will soon have to pay an extra 2p or 3p for a gallon of petrol. The price of a premium grade fuel will be pushed above the 80p mark.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 15, 1951

WHILE the Lancashire Education Committee and many other education authorities are crying out for teachers, of whom there is said to be a great shortage, many local applicants for teaching posts in Bolton are being turned down. Recently there were 80 applicants for 28 posts in Bolton Education Committee's primary schools, and 19 applicants for three secondary school vacancies.

A MASS radiography unit is to visit Bolton from next Monday until June 29th. Arrangements have been made for more than 1,600 schoolchildren, of more than 14 years of age and over, to be examined at the unit.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News,

June 15, 1876

THE discussion on the use of stimulants in hospital practice which came on at the Bolton Guardian's meeting yesterday cannot fail to be of great interest to the faculty and the general public. A motion in favour of prohibiting the use of alcohol, "either in dietary or medicine", for a period of three months, by way of experiment, was submitted. One of the members of the board asserted that "gin did no good", whereupon another member, Mr Crompton, rebuked such rashness very effectually by citing his own personal experience of the value of a "drop" of spirit, administered at the proper season.

Had it not been for the invigorating influence of a "sup of whisky", Mr Crompton would actually have been unable to attend the board meeting. Nor are the good results of the "sup" confined to his public appearances. "If", he said, "I wake up at three o'clock in the morning, I must have a drop of whisky; if not, I'm killed."

This is evidence of considerable value, and should make a considerable impression upon Mr Crompton's colleagues and the ratepayers, who will be able to understand better, perhaps, than they have done before, the spirit which actuates their friend and representative in the performance of his duty.

The discussion was adjourned, probably with the purpose of enabling other members of the board to relate their experience.