| The Rushden Echo, 17th December 1909, transcribed by Kay Collins
Butchers' Show at Rushden - Fine Display of Christmas Meat
The butchers of Rushden are making elaborate provision for the Christmas festival, the chief shows being as follows:—
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Messrs. G. H. Skinner & Son.
This well-known firm, established in 1841, exhibit prize cattle from Thrapston Fat Stock Show; best quality of beef from well-known
Feeders; prime Southdown and Scotch mutton; pork, ox tongues, poultry, and sausages.
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Mr. R. A. Wheeler,
of High-street, Rushden, has secured a magnificent lot of choice beasts from the best breeders, sheep of very superior quality, and pigs of great excellence.
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Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd.
This Society have their choice selection of Christmas meat, including five Polled Scotch beasts fed by Mr. John Burgess, of Middleton; two cross-bred beasts from Mr. J. Humphrey's, Clipstone; a choice lot of 16 half-bred sheep, fed by Mr. B. Bletsoe, of Denton; and a fine lot of locally fed pigs. The whole is of the highest possible quality. The society's butchery departments are—Queen-street, High-street South, and Wellingborough-road.
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