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at Grasby on the 20th. Fined 5/- and 9/6 costs. The same defendant was also fined 25/- for keeping a dog without a licence.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE October 25th 1878
GRASBY - A short harvest service of praise was held in the church at a quarter past seven on Thursday, October 17th when the Rev D J White, Vicar of East Butterwick preached an impressive sermon on the duty of thankfulness in the christian life. The first lesson was read by Rev T M Townsend, Vicar of Searby, and the service said by Rev F Harper. The church was one blaze of flowers from end to end; indeed so generously had the parishioners responded to the appeal for them that some had to be discarded. The decorations were carried out by Mrs Smith of Clixby Manor, assisted by Mrs Foster and other ladies. Although the population of the village is only 400 it is thought that nearly 300 of the people were at the church. The collection then and on Sunday following amounted to £4 10s and was divided between Hull Infirmary and the new hymn book fund and the London Dock Mission. The works connected with the enlargement of the National School and now nearly complete and when finished will provide quite an ornament to that part of the village, £70 having been already raised for the purpose. These things cannot but be an encouragement to its beloved Vicar the Rev Charles Turner and it is a cause of universal regret that the state of his health still precludes his returning to his devoted people.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE October 25th 1878
BRIGG - George Smith of North Kelsey, was summoned for having erected a steam engine within 25 yards of the highway at Grasby on the 10th. PC Wackett proved the case. Fined 10/- and 6/6 costs.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE December 6th 1878
BRIGG - George Middleton, higgler, of Grasby was summoned for being drunk on the Railway Hotel premises in North Kelsey on the 12th, the same being his second offence within two months. Fined 10/- and 9/6 costs. PC Bowskill proved the case. Henry Good of Grasby, was summoned by Mr J Bennard with stealing certain gorse and doing injury to the amount of 10/- at Searby on the 5th and William Burton, farmer, and Francis Harris the younger, labourer of Grasby was summoned the same way after the above defendant had made it into faggots. There seemed to be some mistake be (Continued on page 64)
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