Down Memory Lane
50 YEARS AGO
* Two Glasgow girls who ran away from home were found at a farm in Carluke. The girls, aged 13 and 15, were handed over to a children's officer and returned to their homes.
* Biggar Young Farmers Club won the Blackwood Trophy for stockjudging. The competition was organised by the Lanarkshire Association of Young Farmers Clubs.
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Hide Ad* A schoolboy was knocked down on his bicycle when it was hit by a car on Kirkton Street in Carluke. The boy was taken to Law Hospital for treatment and then allowed home.
* Lanark's old church steeple, with its 12th century bell, was to be floodlit from October 9- 16 to mark the quarter-centenary of the Reformation.
* A railwayman was given two years probation at Lanark Sheriff Court for his part in the theft of 20,000 cigarettes from a railway wagon at Law Junction Station.
* An 11-year-old girl had her jaw broken in three places when the car she was travelling in was sandwiched between a car and a bus on the Stirling to Carlisle Road.
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Hide Ad* Motherwell provisionally signed 17-year-old Carluke Rovers star George Lindsay.
100 YEARS AGO
* Two local policemen Sgt McLeod and Constable McCombe were moving on from their duties in Lanark. Both were said to have been extremely popular with locals.
* The annual exhibition of the Upperward Horticultural Society was set to take place at Lanark Grammar School. Mr WT Prentice's orchestra were to provide entertainment.
* A four-year-old girl had a lucky escape after falling into Lanark Loch. A nine-year-old boy saved her.
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Hide Ad* The announcement of Mr William Morton's appointment as a Justice of the Peace was met with general satisfaction. Mr Morton was a resident of New Lanark.
* A dinner was held to celebrate the centenary of Lodge Wilsontown St John. The brethren of the lodge also marched from Forth to Wilsontown, headed by Wilsontown Brass Band.
* Carnwath's annual gala day was held in lovely weather. The day also saw the running of the historic Red Hose Race.
* Carluke Rovers faced Burnbank Athletic in the First Lanarkshire League. Rovers won the game 1-0 thanks to a penalty from Paton.