Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, January 31st, 1918.

The local food troubles reached a climax on Tuesday when the strength of the Trade Union movement in Luton was utilised for the purpose of bringing certain aspects of the matter prominently before the public and the public's representatives.

The local food troubles reached a climax on Tuesday [January 29th, 1918] when the strength of the Trade Union movement in Luton was utilised for the purpose of bringing certain aspects of the matter prominently before the public and the public's representatives. Practically the whole of the men engaged in the engineering trade made holiday for the purpose of presenting themselves en masse for the benefit of the town and the Food Committee in particular at the Town Hall.

[From The Luton News: Thursday, January 31st, 1918]

At the morning service at the Old Parish Church, Luton, on Sunday, the Vicar (the Rev A. E. Chapman) read a letter received from his former curate, the Rev John Lawrence White [pictured below], who left Luton a year ago to take up a military chaplaincy, and after some months work at a hospital in London volunteered for service overseas.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: January 26th, 1918.

Stringent criticisms of the Food Ministry were made at the Luton Borough Food Committee's meeting on Thursday night. "An idiotic reply," was Chairman Alderman Staddon's description of the Live Stock Commissioner's reply to the representations of the Committee and the Luton butchers in respect of an alteration in the price list.

• Biscot troops on parade during a royal visit in April 1916.

At Biscot yesterday [January 25th, 1918] a court martial ordered by Major-General F. S. Robb, Commanding the Eastern Command, investigated accusations against Captain Charles Lane, Royal Field Artillery, who has been at Biscot upwards of two years.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, January 24th, 1918.

A spirited controversy on the attitude of Luton employers to discharged men arose at a meeting of the local branch of the Discharged Soldiers and Sailors Federation, held at the Franklin Restaurant on Tuesday evening. Mr H. Booth presided.

On March 15th, 2018, the remains of an unknown British soldier killed on a French battlefield in September 1918 will be re-interred. The question that it is hoped will be resolved in the meantime is: Could the remains be those of Sgt Edward Norton, 277640, 7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, whose widow lived at 22 Pondwicks Road in Luton at the time?

Digest of stories from The Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: January 19th, 1918.

Our representative on Wednesday approached the local political agents in regard to the probable effect of the new women suffrage measure in this constituency. Both Mr Charles Cotchin (Liberal) and Mr G. E. M. Walker (Unionist) are at present unaware of the extent of the change this measure must cause in local political work.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, December 17th, 1918.

At half-past even yesterday morning, a Biscot soldier made a terrible discovery. Billeted at the house of Mrs Clarke, 28 Dane Road, he found a comrade billeted at the same house dying with his throat cut in the lavatory.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: January 12th, 1918.

The Ministry of Food has issued to all local Control Committees a memorandum for their guidance in schemes of rationing. The essential features of any radical scheme for preventing queues caused by difficulty in obtaining a particular foodstuff appear to be:

(a) That every customer should be registered with one shop for the purchase of that foodstuff, and not allowed to buy it elsewhere;

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, January 10th, 1918.

Luton took its proper part in the deeply earnest National Day of Intercession to the Almighty, and it was felt generally that there has never been a more impressive gathering of the kind in local history than that of Sunday afternoon.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: January 5th, 1918.

Tomorrow will probably be a meat-less day for many in Luton, as this morning saw the butchers' slabs clean and bare and, in many cases, their windows shuttered.

Writing from Field Hospital 32, Camp Fremont, California, under date of November 6th, 1917, Fred W. Cannon (pictured), whose father lives at 54 Cobden Street, Luton, sends us the very interesting account of his experiences in America.

"A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of seeing in The Luton News a picture of myself and three brothers. Seeing the home town newspaper once again, the idea occurred to me that I would write a short letter to you, giving a few details of life in the grand old Army of the United States.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, January 3rd, 1918.

• The Barnard Chantry photographed by T. G. Hobbs in 1924.

The significance of the Barnard Chapel within Luton Parish Church produced disagreement between a member of Bedfordshire Historical Record Society and the Vicar of Luton, the Rev Arthur E. Chapman.

Magistrates A. B. Attwood and C. H. Osborne had the unique experience on Tuesday of having before them at the Court House two Lutonians who denied charges of being absentees from military service. Both were men discharged from the Expeditionary Force canteens and transferred to low military categories.

One of them had been brought before Mr Attwood only a fortnight previously and remanded to await an escort. He made out such a good case in support of his allegation that there had been a mistake that the magistrates directed inquiries to be made.