Some showers of rain during the day + snow at night. Two accidents Willie Bryson’s younger boy1 (Springbank) when sledging sprained his knee + Archie McIntyre2 fell getting out of a car : got a lacerated wound of the scalp + had some concussion. Got Viewfield rent + banked it.3 This was polling day on the Prohibition question. Many cars coming + going to the Victoria Hall all day.4
1 Thomas Colledge Bryson (1908-), second son of William Bryson, woolsorter, and Jessie Bryson née Colledge. They lived at Springbank, Tait’s Hill, Selkirk [1921 Census and Valuation Roll 1923].
2 Archie Sibbald McIntyre (1896-), motor mechanic, recorded at Eastfield, Viewfield Park.
3 Dr Muir had purchased Viewfield for the use of the Muir & Graham medical partnership and took rent for it.
4 The Editor cannot identify this specific reference, though control of alcohol was being advocated at this time by both Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879–1964), M.P. for Plymouth Sutton and the first woman Member to take her seat at Westminster, and Edwin Scrymgeour (1866-1947), M.P. for Dundee, the only person ever elected to the House of Commons on a prohibitionist ticket.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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