The Evening Courier, 12 August 2003

Around the country · Tarnmund · 12 August 2003

Electric light is switched on in the market square at Tarnmund.

Tonight the Courier can tell you: Electric light is switched on in the market square at Tarnmund. The whole town came to look. You read it here first.

In the story: Tarnmund, Chapel Walk.

The Grand Chancellor, Lukas Marsch, was not available to the Courier tonight.

**Our picture:** Tarnmund, 12 August 2003, the crowd. Spot yourself. Electric light is switched on in the market square at Tarnmund.

Around the country · Oberbach

A wireless set is installed in the town hall at Oberbach so that the evening bulletin may be heard in public

A wireless set is installed in the town hall at Oberbach so that the evening bulletin may be heard in public. The Courier's man was there. In the story: Oberbach, Harbour Row.

Around the country · Salzhafen

Electric light is switched on in the market square at Salzhafen

Electric light is switched on in the market square at Salzhafen. Tell your neighbours. In the story: Salzhafen, Printer Street.

The Roll as published by the War Ministry

No names this week. Good.

The front line is at the Reed Line. No change.

Courts and Assembly

What the Assembly did while you were at work.

9 August 2003. The War Widows (Amendment) Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly without a division. Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. Passed unanimously, as is customary for measures concerning the Line. It changes The War Widows Act. It took them all afternoon.

The Regional Court of Norrfeld. Hallin v. Brenn: Concerning a boundary between two farms at Oberholt. Ruling: for the defendant. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

The Regional Court of Kesselhöh. The Crown v. Brenn: Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: fined 5319 marka. You should have seen the faces.

The Regional Court of Norrfeld. Ort v. Hauk: Concerning smoke from a foundry at Norrwick. Ruling: injunction granted. The gallery was packed.

The Regional Court of The Ostrand. Hallin v. Sulstalt: Concerning an article in The Evening Courier. Ruling: dismissed: fair comment. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

Money

The Courier's shopping basket.

Bread 425.5 pfen the loaf. Beer 638.3 pfen the litre. A day's work pays 77.46 marka. A room costs 271.12 marka the month. The Exchange closed the year at 56,360.50. Bank rate 3.92 per cent.

The War Appropriation this year: 166,736,167 marka. Sixty-three to nil.

Hatched, matched and dispatched.

204 births, 93 weddings, 166 deaths this week. Population 716,895.

On this day

197 years ago. A new bridge is opened at Marschau by the Minister of the Interior. It has 7 arches. Report.

193 years ago. A new bridge is opened at Reedtal by the Minister of the Interior. It has 4 arches. Report.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Sport

Pfahl. The League of 2002 went to Hollstadt Workers. Full table.

Club	W	L
Hollstadt Workers	17	5
Altstadt Pfahl Club	17	5
Marschau Garrison	14	8
Norrwick Printers	13	9
Grauburg Fortress	13	9
Vellmar Wardens	13	9
Tarnmund Lake	11	11
Reedside Athletic	10	12
Weinfeld Vintners	8	14
Kessel Iron	6	16
Ostrabruck Bridge	6	16
Brennholt Farmers	4	18

The Courier's man on the bank rates the champions' stake-men 9 out of ten and the ferry 3.

The Stars

Aries Someone owes you a pfen. Let it go; it was never coming.

Taurus Someone at work repeats your idea. Let them.

Gemini Say less at the market than you mean to.

Cancer A debt is paid to you in kind. Take it.

Leo You will be thanked in public. Look modest.

Virgo Count the change. Then count it again.

Libra A quarrel over nothing. It ends by supper.

Scorpio Someone is keeping something from you. It is probably a cake.

Sagittarius The road is longer than the map says.

Capricorn Do not lend the ladder.

Aquarius A stranger asks directions. Give the long way.

Pisces Sleep early on Wednesday. You will need it.

The Courier crossword

Clues marked Across run left to right; the rest run down. Solution in tomorrow's Courier. Entries with a licensed calendar reference are void. Fill it in online. Yesterday's habit, today's solution.