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Once again Rushden is en fete for the time honoured annual Feast, and yet once more Mr. Charles Thurston, that king of amusement purveyors, has provided ample entertainment for his manifold patrons. Seldom a year passes but his fertile mind provides some new novelty or attractions, and this year we are favoured with one of a distinctly interesting and educative character, viz., Bedford’s Natural History Museum, wherein are exhibited live and dead specimens of the animal world, including many remarkable freaks of nature. The exhibits in this interesting show include a live baby sea lion, monkeys galore, a lamb with six legs, a duckbilled platypus, a two-headed calf, a Mersey mud rat weighting 28 lbs., and a sacred lemur, and all these may be seen for one penny. Then also there is Wee McGregor, the smallest pony on earth, born at St. Just, Cornwall, about nine years ago. This miniature charger measures just about 7 hands, and is a novelty in every sense of the word, and yet he does not appear to make a trouble of the fact that he has never “grown-up” judging by his sleek and fat appearance.
Two new novelties are provided for lovers of sport, i.e., the new game of “Touch’em (six down for a prize), and “Quoit’em.” Then, of course, there is the usual penalty kick, where budding professionals are afforded an opportunity of pulverising the goal-keeper and incidentally winning for themselves a packet of “fags.” That juvenile delight the “’A’penny spin,” is still in evidence, and as for confetti, well, there were “bags of it,” and exuberant youths and maidens pelted each other to their hearts’ content. The scenic railway and the “’Orses" are as popular as ever, but some little disappointment was occasioned at the beginning of the week by the absence of the picture show.
Feast Football
On Feast Monday, on the Windmill ground, a match was played in the Northants League between Rushden Fosse and Rushden Windmill, the teams being :-
Fosse. – Bennett; Lambert, Hawtin; Simmons, Draper, Robinson; Brace, B. Letts, Letts, Line Turland.
Windmill. – Pack; Evans, Short; Bryant, Hodgskins, Bates; P. Elderton, Ward, Lewin, Judge, O. Elderton.
In the first half Lewin and Ward scored for the Millers, and in the second half Lewin got through again, the Windmill winning by 3-0. From first to last the Fosse, who played three reserve team men, were quite outclassed.
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