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o’clock, and the party, some 42 in number, with their officers, were conveyed in vans
to Shepperlands Farm, Finchampstead, where, by kind permission of Mr. J. Loader,
the occupier, a very pleasant time was spent. Tea was served in a meadow to the
children, the visitors sitting down to tea in the barn.
Games, etc., were indulged in, and Mr. J. Godfrey, of Reading, showed a van load
of very clever working railway models. Among the officers and friends of the Band of
Hope present were: Mr. J. Bodle (hon. secretary), Mr. J.J. Evans, Mrs. Evans, Mrs.
Bodle, Messrs. T. Butler, R.D. Ayers, C. green, S. Drake (Finchampstead), Misses
Cordery, Kirkby and Maynard. An enjoyable ride home concluded a very happy
outing.

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Sat 28 July Reading Observer
VOLUNTEER ORDERS
The annual church parade will take place on Sunday next, at All Saints Church. Fall
In at the Drill Hall at 10.30 a.m. Dress—Tunic, blue trousers, helmets, and side
arms.—By order, D.F. Denis de Vitre, Capt.

MOTOR ACCIDENT
At midnight, on Sunday, an accident befell Charles Hooton, chauffeur to Capt.
Arthur Hill. It appears that Hooton had driven a car to Barkham with some ladies,
whom he left at their home, and was returning alone. When descending Barkham-hill,
one of the lamps went out, and the machine by some cause swerved to the side of the
road. In the attempt to right it the motor ran up the bank and turned a complete
somersault, with Hooton pinned down beneath it. He seems to have lost consciousness
for a little time, and some three-quarters of an hour elapsed before he could extricate
himself. With assistance requisitioned from some cottagers living at the top of the hill,
the car eventually righted, and Hooton subsequently drove it to the Rose Hotel,
Wokingham, where he is staying with Capt. Hill.
In addition to the shock and bruises, the unfortunate chauffeur is suffering from the
effect of the escaping petrol upon his eyes, which since the accident have required to
be bandaged. Fortunately, on the car overturning, the lamps were extinguished.

A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS
Early on Thursday morning a carter, named Charles Smith, employed by Mr. T.W.
Shefford, of Norreys Barn Farm, Wokingham, was riding in an empty coal cart down
Shute End, when the horse stumbled, throwing Smith forward out of the cart. The
horse struggled to its feet and Smith was unfortunately run over by one of the wheels,
severely bruising his left leg above the knee. Assistance was at hand and the injured
man was conveyed to his home in Wiltshire-road. Medical aid was called in, and he
will be laid up for a week or two.
The same afternoon in the Wellington-road, the driver of the S.E. and C.R. station
goods delivery van, Charles Hawkins, was thrown from his “dickey” with some
violence on to the road, near the small gate leading into the cricket ground, owing to
the shifting of a large box forming a part of the load of empties with which he was
returning to the station. The horse ran away, but was stopped near the level crossing.
Hawkins was picked up unconscious and conveyed by Mr. S. Withers, who was
passing, to his lodgings in Havelock-road. He sustained injuries to his shoulder, upon
which he fell, and also to his head.

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