News in Scotland 100 years ago today

Some of the stories making the news around Scotland on 1 April 1917 (outwith the Great War with over a year to run.)

Daughters of some of Dundee’s men at the Front

• Aberdeen to get women police patrols.
• Proposal to start a co-operative jute factory in Dundee.
• Edinburgh grocers are in favour of a card system for sugar distribution.
• Some Glasgow grocers are selling sugar in pennysworths.
• Holidays in munition areas are to be deferred until after the end of July.
• It is reported that 11,000 teachers in Scotland are getting less than £100 a year.
• Protests in Lochgilphead against Sunday labour in the woods and fields.
• Net profits of £270,432 reported by the Bank of Scotland for the past year.
• There is a credit balance of £150 from the British Industries Fair recently held in Glasgow.
• Crookston Combination Poorhouse is to be taken over for the reception of mentally afflicted soldiers.
• A ban on the sale of spirits in parts of Argyllshire and Buteshire has come into force.
• Some conscientious objectors from England are to be employed in forestry work at Ford in Argyllshire.
• The Marchioness of Graham has undertaken to provide Lamlash with a convalescent home for the wounded.
• The Dunoon and District Merchants’ Association have agreed to hold the Fast Days.
• The fishing village of Whitehills near Banff has lost in one week four men who were on Admiralty service.
• Tillycoultry Parish Council has decided to proceed with an extension of the cemetery at a cost of £2000.