SURGEON/DENTIST Arthur Ward, from Birmingham, took out an advert in the Messenger to inform patients he now held surgeries every Tuesday night until 9pm at a house called Branksome, in Bromsgrove's Marlborough Avenue. All types of operations were carried out including extractions using gas, ether or cocaine for a fee of 2/6 (12.5p). Scaling and fillings cost the same.

BIRMINGHAM Free Church Council had given its consent for services of an unsectarian character to be held at the Billberry tea rooms on the Lickey Hills. It was hoped locals and the many visitors to the beauty spot would attend services.

MUCH interest was aroused by North Bromsgrove District Council elections last week. For the first time motor cars were used to convey electors to the polls, and the candidate on whose behalf the horseless carriages were used, benefited from an increased share of the vote.

DRUNKENESS in Bromsgrove was on the increase and was the worst of any of the five local divisions, it was announced at the Worcester Quarter Sessions. The number of convictions per 1,000 head of the population was 7.41 per cent. Next came Stourbridge with 6.8 per cent, Yardley 5.10 per cent, Redditch 4.85 per cent and Northfield with 4.54 per cent.

JESSIE Hodgetts, from Bromsgrove, an undermaid at Smallwood Hospital in Redditch, appeared before magistrates charged with stealing a blouse, stockings a ring and a hat pin worth a total of 14/6 (72.5p) from a nurse. Her father told the court his daughter was aged 15 but could not produce her birth certificate. Magistrates adjourned sentencing her to establish her exact age before deciding to send her to an industrial school to correct her ways.