A list compiled by Danny Howell of news items/articles in the Warminster Journal newspaper, issue dated Friday 18th October 1940
Brief description of each item followed by page number and which column on that page (i.e. 1/3 refers to page 1, column 3)
Horningsham whist drive 1/3
Horningsham WI 1/3
Funeral of Augusta Annie Trimby of Horningsham 1/4
Council ask for enquiry over resignation of senior group 2/1
Major Teichman and patriotism 2/2
Corsley whist drive 3/1
Cars for towing ARP trailer pumps 3/2
Christening of Nicola Lesley Jeanns Taylor at Bishopstrow 3/2
Possession of furnished rooms of J.G. Hynes at Chitterne 3/3
Weyhill Fair prices 3/4
Wilton October Fair prices 3/4
Funeral at St. John’s Church of Walter Curtis of 6 South View Road, Warminster 4/2
Red Cross jumble sale at Codford 4/2
Increase of casuals at Warminster due to closed wards at Salisbury 4/3
Stockton whist drive 4/3
Waltzing competition at Warminster Town Hall dance for Spitfire Fund 4/4
Chitterne WI 4/4
Wedding of Dulcie Louise Whitlock and Leslie Parker 5/2
Mrs Park appointed shorthand typist by the Council 5/3
Mrs T.C. Lloyd Anthony, preacher at Common Close Church, Warminster 5/3
Air raid shelter at rear of 40 Market Place, Warminster (Frisbys) 5/3
Engagement of Dr. Douglas Brock Peterkin and Truda Edwards 5/3
British Sailors Society 5/3
Tony Brifgman is a prisoner of war in Germany 5/3
London Missionary Society sale of work 5/3
Domus, Warminster 5/3
Warminster Market prices 5/3
Corsley WI 5/4
Nurse Phelps retiring 5/4
Warminster Spitfire donations 6/2
Heytesbury whist drive 6/2
E.J. Parrott of Bugley Farm, Warminster, ejection order against Clifford Durk 6/3
Tresco, Boreham Road, Warminster, black out offence 6/3
Colonel Wait, black out charge 6/4
Gwendoline Robertson of the Rookery, Imber Road, Warminster, car sidelights 6/4
James Rossiter, drunk 6/4
Funeral of William Moses Ponton Turner 7/2
Warminster Players ‘Cuckoo In The Nest’ for Spitfire Fund 7/3
Horace Wake at Minster Church Patronal Festival 8/1
Longbridge Deverill parish records and local history 8/1
Dhu’s Wall, Longbridge Deverill 8/1
Red Shield Salvation Army Club, Fairfield Road, Warminster 8/3
Heytesbury WI 8/3
Sutton Veny WI 8/3