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Reader prepare to meet thy maker for in early bud thou might be nipt; or like me instead of Hymens Bride, be summoned to a bed of clay.
WHAT IS MUCH WANTED - A Vestry meeting is to be held very shortly for the purpose of considering the propriety and feasibility of getting a lock up and rural policeman at Caistor.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE
February 13th1852
CAISTOR - It has been frequently remarked that this place is half a century behind most Market towns in this county in the march of improvement, and we partly believe it, for scarcely any public movement however desirable its object escapes an ignominious failure. A notorious and lamentable deficiency of public spirit has long distinguished the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, and we are still unable to record the removal of this unenviable distinction. Our streets were once very fairly lighted with oil lamps, but the gentleman by whose generosity even this was accomplished, was ultimately compelled to stop the supplies for want of general co-operation and support. A few years ago a gentleman contributed £20 towards a town clock, and an old inhabitant has since made an equally liberal offer, but no effort has been made to obtain one. Magistrates meetings were once held in the town, and added somewhat to the importance and accommodation; but the nearest magistrates meeting is now held nine miles distant; and it seems to be insuperable undertaking to raise bricks and mortar enough for a building in which our constables might secure their prisoners for a single night. A vestry meeting was generally expected to have been called several weeks ago, for the purpose of deliberating on the subject of a lock-up, but none has taken place, and we believe the project is quite abandoned.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE
February 27th 1852
CAISTOR - Emigration - Six or seven agricultural labourers set out for America, from Kirmington, during the past week, and many other in Caistor and the neighbourhood are preparing to emigrate to that country and Australia.
FOWL STEALING - four or five fowls, the property of Mr William Hartley, Innkeeper, have been stolen from his premises during the past week. Two of them have been found shut up in an outhouse belonging to Grove House, at Caistor, which is at present untenanted.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE
April 23rd 1852
CAISTOR - A foreman, named George Burton in the employ of Mr Hargrave, of Normanby, has recently absconded and left behind him a wife and two or three children unprovided for. He proceeded to Liverpool, with the intention of embarking for America.
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