FROM THE ARCHIVES

25 YEARS AGO Berwick Rangers may have played their last game. Faced with debt of more than £250,000, Berwick, the only English club to play in the Scottish Football League, could be forced out of business before Sunday’s Scottish Cup tie against Dundee United. The businessman behind the rescue package to save the Second Division side admitted that he feared the club may collapse within days. 50 YEARS AGO Mr Reo Stakis was yesterday given planning permission in principle to convert a four-storey building at 197-201 Ingram Street, into a 14-bedroom hotel. It is the 42nd project to be established by Mr Stakis in the West of Scotland. He hopes work will begin by the end of next month and that the hotel will be open in about three months. 100 YEARS AGO At a meeting of Crookston Combination Poorhouse Committee it was intimated that notice had been received from the military authorities of their desire to take over the poorhouse, to be used as a hospital for cases of mental derangement. Accommodation would require to be found for the present inmates in other poorhouses. On the motion of Neilston Parish Council, it was agreed to recommend the parishes to fall in with the proposal, and it was remitted to a committee to take steps to protect the interests of the Combination. 150 YEARS AGO Yesterday at the SouthernPolice Court, Alex. McKay, clerk; Wm. McKill, joiner; and Thos. Fraser, painter, three street preachers, calling themselves members of the “Hallelujah Band,” were convicted of having caused an obstruction in Rutherglen Road and Springfield Lane, by standing and preaching and addressing a crowd of persons, to the annoyance of the neighbours. They were each fined in the sum of 10s 6d, failing payment, 7 days’ imprisonment.