The Evening Courier, 10 August 2015

Money · Oberholt · 8 August 2015

Marrow & Furmann Machine Works is wound up. 215 jobs are lost at Oberholt.

Tonight the Courier can tell you: Marrow & Furmann Machine Works is wound up. 215 jobs are lost at Oberholt. Money talks. One pfen well spent.

In the story: Marrow & Furmann Machine Works.

The Grand Chancellor, Renate Brenn, was not available to the Courier tonight.

**Our picture:** Oberholt, 8 August 2015, tonight. The Courier's camera was there. Marrow & Furmann Machine Works is wound up. 215 jobs are lost at Oberholt.

Around the country · Hollhausen

A new bridge is opened at Hollhausen by the Minister of the Interior

A new bridge is opened at Hollhausen by the Minister of the Interior. It has 7 arches. You will want to know. In the story: Hollhausen, Low Row.

Around the country · Grauholt

A picture house opens in Mill Street, Grauholt, seating 200

A picture house opens in Mill Street, Grauholt, seating 200. The Courier can reveal no more tonight. In the story: Grauholt, Mill Street.

Around the country · Oberbach

A picture house opens in Bridge Street, Oberbach, seating 600

A picture house opens in Bridge Street, Oberbach, seating 600. The Courier's man was there. In the story: Oberbach, Bridge Street.

Around the country · Sudholt

A new bridge is opened at Sudholt by the Minister of the Interior

A new bridge is opened at Sudholt by the Minister of the Interior. It has 4 arches. Every window had a face in it. In the story: Sudholt, Harbour Lane.

About Town

From the cafés, the quay and the back of the Assembly.

Rainer Gerst, official, is 81 today. Not a day over 81, say friends.

Helga Mahler, mechanic, is 77 today. Still at it. The Courier raises a glass.

Heinz Wendl, banker, is 73 today. The cake was seen leaving the baker's at 8.

Ingrid Stiegl, shopkeeper, is 72 today. Not a day over 72, say friends.

Viktor Klungir, soldier, is 71 today. Still at it. The Courier raises a glass.

Rainer Wachel, physician, is 70 today. Still at it. The Courier raises a glass.

Markus Brenn, shopkeeper, is 69 today. Still working, still complaining about the ferry. Happy birthday.

Jurgen Klaken, teacher, is 66 today. Friends say the candles were a fire risk.

Gone

Dieter Fromm, mechanic, born Feldstadt 19 January 1934, died 6 August 2015.

Uwe Brenn, mechanic, born Hollstadt 18 May 1942, died 5 August 2015. Member of the Assembly.

The Roll as published by the War Ministry

Corporal	Leon Krochhardt, of Hagenkirchen	The 5th Marsh Regiment	enemy action	7 August 2015
Private	Noah Brenn, of Sudholt	The 2nd Marsh Regiment	enemy action	7 August 2015
Private	Theo Reinholt, of Dammberg	The 1st Marsh Regiment	enemy action	6 August 2015

The Courier prints the Ministry's roll as the Ministry sends it. The Line holds.

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

Courts and Assembly

What the Assembly did while you were at work.

5 August 2015. The Libraries (Amendment) Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 38 votes to 21. Applies to children between 6 and 16. It changes The Kessel Libraries Act. It took them all afternoon.

The Regional Court of The Osmoor. Brenn v. Kessler: Concerning smoke from a gasworks at Dammsee. Ruling: dismissed. The gallery was full.

The Regional Court of The Sudmark. Trost v. Brenn: Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: rent for the removed period not recoverable. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

Money

The prices that matter.

Bread 546.1 pfen the loaf. Beer 819.2 pfen the litre. A day's work pays 108.13 marka. A room costs 378.47 marka the month. The Exchange closed the year at 32,662.80. Bank rate 3.83 per cent.

The War Appropriation this year: 225,234,811 marka. Sixty-three to nil.

Born, wed, gone.

163 births, 103 weddings, 182 deaths this week. Population 719,980.

On this day

208 years ago. The coldest night in 70 years is recorded at Lindenmar. Lake Tarn freezes to the middle. Report.

200 years ago. The tannery at Kessel burns through the night. 22 men are out of work. Report.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Sport

Pfahl. The League of 2014 went to Grauburg Fortress. Full table.

Club	W	L
Grauburg Fortress	18	4
Altstadt Pfahl Club	18	4
Hollstadt Workers	16	6
Norrwick Printers	15	7
Weinfeld Vintners	13	9
Tarnmund Lake	11	11
Kessel Iron	10	12
Marschau Garrison	10	12
Ostrabruck Bridge	7	15
Vellmar Wardens	6	16
Reedside Athletic	5	17
Brennholt Farmers	3	19

Player of the season, says the Courier: whoever planted the last stake. Ten out of ten.

The Stars

Aries You will be asked the time. Give the licensed one.

Taurus A door sticks. Oil it before it matters.

Gemini A cousin writes. Reply this week or not at all.

Cancer Check the clock against the Ministry's. It is slow.

Leo The Exchange is not for you this week.

Virgo Sort the drawer you have been avoiding.

Libra Buy the loaf, not the cake.

Scorpio Do not travel east this week. There is no reason to.

Sagittarius A wager is offered. Decline it with a smile.

Capricorn Hard work this week; the reward is next week, or the one after.

Aquarius A stranger asks directions. Give the long way.

Pisces A small fish is better than no fish.

The Courier crossword

Solution in tomorrow's Courier. The setter is not responsible for the Grand Chancellor's name being awkward. Fill it in online. Yesterday's habit, today's solution.