Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: December 2nd, 1916.

At the invitation of the President of the Luton War Savings Committee (Alderman J. H. Staddon) and that committee, a conference of the clergy and ministers of the town was held at the Town Hall on Thursday afternoon.

Another chapter has been reached in the long narrative provided by a Luton conscientious objector who has attained considerable notoriety in the town, both by his claims to be a missionary teacher and "Ambassador of God" and by his frequent appearance before the Tribunals locally.

This objector first appeared before the Luton Tribunal under the first Military Service Act applying to single men and was granted absolute exemption on grounds of conscientious objection on March 11th, 1916.

Digest of stories from the Luton News: Thursday, November 30th, 1916.

A phone message went the rounds of the police stations in the Luton Division on Monday afternoon announcing the fact that two Germans had escaped from the Woburn Internment Camp, and the result was that all the police, including specials, were on the qui vivre.

For the third time in a little over a year there was tragedy at Wardown Park lake when the body of another teenage girl was found floating in the water on November 24th, 1916.

• Left to right: Pte Radford, Pte Vass and Pte Ward.

Mid-November and action in the 1916 Somme offensive was drawing to a close. Amid the rain and mud on the shell-scarred battlefield, three Lutonians lay mortally wounded.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: November 25th, 1916.

A letter discovered on the body of a teenage girl in Wardown lake yesterday morning suggested the tragedy may have been the result of her love for a Biscot Camp soldier who had been included in a draft to the station.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, November 23rd, 1916.

Mayor's Sunday is, very properly, an important day in any civic calendar, for it is the day set apart when the Chief Magistrate and his municipal colleagues collectively seek spiritual guidance in their local administration during the ensuing year.

• King Street Congregational Church, Luton, where William Young and Andrea Leroy wed.

Meet the Biscot Camp Pierrot Troupe. They had become one of the most popular entertainment groups in Luton during 1916, appearing at halls around the town to raise money for comforts for their fighting comrades at the Front.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: November 18th, 1916.

Last evening a lengthy discussion took place at a meeting of the Leagrave Parish Council on the proposed erection of a parish memorial to men who have fallen in the war.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, November 16th, 1916.

An inquest was held at the Luton Police Station on Tuesday afternoon into the sad circumstances surrounding the death of a workman on the Luton Hoo Estate who succumbed on Saturday to blood poisoning following the entry of a splinter at the tip of the left thumb while at work.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: November 11th, 1916.

Digest of stories from the Luton News: Thursday, November 9th, 1916.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: November 4th, 1916.

Writing in the Hatters Gazette on the increasing demands of the military authorities for men, the local correspondent says it is probably true that many works in St Albans and Luton will have to be closed, when it is remembered that so many hat factories are of the small domestic order.