Switching on the Current at Reeth. Friday September 29th will be long remembered as being the date on which Reeth was electrically lighted. In the evening at 8 o’clock, a very interesting ceremony took place at the Arkle Mill electric Works, when Mr J T Ward, as chairman of the Parish council, and one of the most ardent supporters of the scheme, Switched on the Light ... . Reeth is now lit with 21 lamps, each of 50 candle power. For the last 20 years it has been lighted with 20 oil lamps, each of an average of 10 candle power.The contract is £20 per annum for five years, so that Reeth has now five times the amount of light at exactly the former cost.

A young man named Porter , within a mile of Reeth in Swaledale, was out the other day with his dog for the purpose of hunting rabbits. the dog having run two rabbits into a hole amongst some stones, Porter made the effort to widen the place and had thrust his head and arm into the hole, and just got hold of a rabbit, when the stones gave way and closed on him so fast that he could not stir his head, or arms, or body – only his legs uncovered. In this extraordinary position he was discovered after being buried for ninety hours. He was taken home in a wretched condition, but still retaining consciousness, and is now gradually recovering. His discovery was quite accidental, although the whole neighbourhood turned out to find him.

A Swaledale Solicitor sued for damages. At the Richmond County Court on Thursday, James Close, innkeeper of Reeth in Swaledale, sued Mr Francis Greathead, solicitor, of the same place to recover £6 17s 6d for damages to his sheep dog caused by shooting it with green peas.