Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: September 4th, 1915.

It is quite evident that our appeal in last Saturday's Telegraph to the directors of Luton Town FC to gird up their loins and make an effort to cater in a manner befitting the old club for the loyal fellows who are serving the country in factories of the town was not unheeded.

At the meeting of the directors last Monday evening it was decided to proceed with the efforts to arrange a programme of matches. No-one can accuse us of badgering or hampering the Town directors in any way, but they now know what we have known for a long time - that London clubs are not to be trusted. Should next season be run on similar lines it will be for Luton to make their position secure before they arrive on the threshold of the season.

Before Christmas we are not likely to get many visits from professional clubs, but the prospects for the second half of the season are brighter. Club Secretary Mr Charles Green has practically arranged with Northampton for Christmas Day at Luton and the return game on Boxing Day. He is also fairly confident that he will fix up home and away games with Reading, Portsmouth and the Footballers' Battalion.

The football club also made a possibly never-to-be-repeated offer to promising young players, including military men, to turn out for the Town - no fees to be paid, but travelling expenses covered.

• Luton may expect to witness its biggest recruiting rally yet, on Saturday, October 2nd. It will be part of a great national effort, and in the Army command in which Luton is situate there may well be similar rallies at Bedford, Hitchin, Watford, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead. While the scheme as a whole is being initiated by the War Office, the local arrangements are in the hands of the Recruiting Committee.

• The suggestion was made at the meeting of the South Beds Recruiting Committee at Luton on Thursday evening that consideration would have to be given at a later date to the possibility of erecting a memorial to Luton's heroes who have laid down their lives on the battlefield. The suggestion was naturally one on which no action could be taken for the time being, and was recognised as one which must be left till the end of the war is in sight before it can be dealt with on a practical basis, but it was still one which was very warmly supported.

• The 3/5th Bedfordshire Regiment, now in camp at Windsor, are urgently in need of recruits. Their first line are now fighting in the Dardanelles, and already a grim toll of casualties has been taken. The 3/5th are to provide drafts of men overseas to fill up these and other gaps as they occur. The neighbouring county, Northamptonshire, is supplying a third line at Windsor with the recruits at the rate of 60 a week, whilst Bedfordshire sends her third line ten - if they are lucky.

• Christmas mail is still chasing one of our battleships round the world, according to 1st Class Signal Boy Frank Day, a former Luton News/Saturday Telegraph employee now serving in the Navy. He hoped the Christmas mail would finally arrive before his ship set off for another tour of a considerable part of the globe, wrote in a letter to his father at 14 Highbury Road, Luton.

• An unfortunate accident occurred at a Luton warehouse yesterday afternoon, an elderly employee named Alfred Toyer, of 218 North Street, being badly injured. Employed as a stiffener at Messrs Dillingham and Sons, George Street, he was putting hats into the electric lift on the ground floor when, evidently failing to hear the warning bell, he was taken up suddenly in the lift and seriously injured, his head being crushed and lacerated and also one leg severely injured through being caught between the rising lift and the projecting boards. His condition in the Bute Hospital was considered critical.