25 YEARS AGO - FRIDAY APRIL 12, 1985
THEFTS of charity collecting boxes from Stonehaven premises now total six- with the disclosure that a British Red Cross Society receptacle has been stolen from the Mary Street shop of A.B Smith, newsagent.
It contained "a fair bit" of cash, and local police have been informed of the incident. Townspeople are shocked and outraged by the continuing despicable acts- but, regrettably, no-one appears to have witnessed any of the thefts or, if they have, are unwilling to "become involved" and so aid police in putting a stop to crimes.
Those with collection boxes in their premises should keep them in a place where they are in view of staff at all times and, if at all possible, secure them in some way.
50 YEARS AGO - Friday April 15 1960
A BOTTLE found on Bervie Beach by a local schoolboy, Thomas Donald, was thrown from a ship The Skalaberg, from Grimsby for the Faroe Islands on 18th February. Thomas took the note inside to bottle to Mr J Geddes, who enlisted the services of the Norwegian consul in Aberdeen on translating it.
It was signed by two seamen, Eydfinn and Harry and, by a coincidence, the consul knew both the boat and Harry, the British cook, who is married to a Faroese woman.
They had sealed the bottle with a piece of candle and thrown it overboard, north of Flambourgh Head, asking that the note be forwarded to a newspaper, Dimmlaetting, at Torshavn, Faroe Islands.
The Skalaberg, which was built at Bremerhaven in 1956, has been carrying cargoes of salt fish, 500 tons at a time, from the Islands, and her cargoes on the last six trips have yielded an average of 11,300.
100 YEARS AGO - Thursday April 14 1910
IN these days of expensive golf balls a new terror has been added to golf, as the following incident will show.
Last week two well known Stonehaven golfers were playing on the Stonehaven Golf Course. At the eighth hole (a blind hole) one of the players sliced his drive, but instead of finding the ball, as he imagined, in a whin bush, it was lying clear and a crow was busily engaged in pecking at it.
As the player came up, the crow flew off, carrying the ball, which the bird ultimately dropped over the cliffs.
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A STONEHAVEN mystery - The police have now ascertained that the body of the man found in the sea at Strathlethen Bay last Tuesday, and which was buried the next day, is not as was supposed, that of Wright, one of the crew of the ship Fingal, who fell overboard some two months ago near Bervie.
From information supplied by the relatives of Wright, he is said to have been 5ft 4in in height, and tattooed on both arms, while the body found was 5ft 7in, and had no tattoo marks. Nothing is known as to whose body it is.
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