4 RENEE oe Sven Ae i s x ie i ee ad a ica os He eat ~ Canadian Le Legion Frolic 'STRATFORD, ONT,, § FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, "1927 Next Week's Big Event The Canadian Legion, Stratford Branch, is planning to put on a most attractive frolic early this month, de- tails of which will be found else- - where in their advertisement. The Legion has prepared a most attractive program and an interesting part of it will be the drawings for quite sub- stantial prizes. This organization of war veterans is a most worthy one and one that is entitled to the sup- Port of the- citizens. Some such event as this is the only way in which the organization can raise any extra money for its work and the men are 'hopeful that the citizens will favor the frolic with a large attendance and thus swell the funds of the organiza- tion. 'The committees in charge are: Ladies' Auxiliary: Mrs. A. Fisher, _ Mrs. W. Delooze, Mrs. A. Smith, and Mrs. G. Admans. Men's Committee--G. Annand, Ma- jor A. T. Trethewey, W. Bannister, G. Ingle, W. Delooze, W. Halstead, A. Smith, G. Bradley, and T. Sherwood. - GLADIOLUS SHOW BIGGER _AND BETTER THAN EVER The Stratford Gladiolus Society held its fifth annual exhibition in the City Hall on August 27th. The dis- play of this wonderful flower was ~ very good indeed, considering the weather conditions and the late sea- son. Everybody was well satisfied with the judging and the prizes were fairly distributed. The entries were a little larger than last year, and this affair seems to grow a little every year. - The Gladiolus Society is the only self-supporting Society of its kind in the city and its aim is to popularize the wonderful bloom and every person will be welcomed as a member next year. This flower is one of the eas- jest to grow and any person who can grow potatoes can grow Glads. : The judges were J. F. Marr and Robert Patterson, of Guelph. The officers of the society are: President, J.C. Heideman; vice-president, George Ditchfield; secretary, A -Hoyle; e€x- ecutive, A. E. Miller, A. Garrod, L. Lawson, W. Barret, J. Drake, A. W. Hesson and W. Webb. <a SPECIALIST IN VOICE PRODUCTION Teacher of Pianoforte, Organ and : you are hammering. | CHARLES H. WALKER | Theory 'Stupio--114 Water St., Stratford ' a lot of money, not only for the swim- - Pertinen BY THE PHILISTINE Now that the big swim is over and all the gamblers have either lost or won and the alibis are all worked out it might be checked up to see if there is anything in this swim except water. There is ahd there isn't, that is to say there was a lot of water and mers but for the exhibition authori- ties and the city for it brought thous- ands of visitors to Toronto. And there of course is the crux of the whole matter. It is just there that there is a lesson for Stratford and for every other place. That is to get something big enough to draw a crowd from outside and see that there is a way of getting some money out of them when they get here. It isn't as hard to de as it might sound and it is a matter that the Board of Trade and the Retail Merchanés' As- sociation might well go into as it would not be a very difficult feat to arrange for even weekly programs of some kind pleasing enough to attract people from the district into the city. Good roads have done much as a can- vass of the automobiles standing on our city streets will reveal but there is more needed if full value is to be extracted from -those roads. * * * All of which brings us to the merry little argument that "Visitor" and "Spectator" have been staging about whether this is a good town or not. They are both right and both wrong. It is a good town and in fots of ways a better town than many more of its size around the country. It is also by the same token a somewhat dead town and sadly in need of a little pep- ping up in various ways. It is true that more industries are needed and that some we have might be more active, but however, since industries do no grow on trees and there has hardly been .a half dozen bona fide firms looking for new locations in a coon's 'age there isn't much to be done there except to be ready. What might be done, however, is to stop knock- ing and boost a bit. Reform if you like where reform is needed but don't knock unless you have some remedy to suggest in place of the thing that s s & Which again brings up the newest industry in town, that of the oil burn- er concern being started by W. IL t Patter in the new venture and all will hope for its ultimate development into a good-sized and growing industry. * * * Many people have been greatly ex- ercised in their minds about the corn borer. Their doubts will have been set at rest by the announcement by Hamilton's M. O. H. that the borer while not itself particularly edible, is not harmful and does not hurt the corn. The borer has evidently taken a very firm hold and laughs at the present methods used to combat it. It looks as if it is going to be a case of stop growing corn if the menace is to be checked. In the meantime it is the wise housewife who insists on having any corn she is going to buy husked first so that she can see the cobs and tell whether they are all right or not. ah * 1" * The post office and the postal ser- vice in general seems to be more or less taken for granted by the people M usical 5 tratford Stratford is steadily forging ahead musically and is gradually coming in- to the limelight as a musical centre. The C. N. R. Band, under the able leadership of Mr. C. A. Bird, has en. hanced our reputation by its taking the second prize at the Ottawa Fes- tival last week and it is expected that this Band, although the test piece is very much more difficult than the Ottawa one, will bring further honors to the city at the C. N. Exhi- bition when they enter the band con- test next Thursday. Good luck, boys. It must also be very gratifying to the citizens of this community to know that Stratford is also sending some of her best vocalists and instru- mentalists to this Exhibition Festival, which begins September 4th. On looking over the list of contestants we find that there are a goodly number 'of entries for each class and that a number of Ontario Towns and Cities are represented with Toronto predom- inating. There can be no doubt that all these places will send their best talent and that each contest will be intensely keen. Nevertheless, we are but the things that postal employees do to see that the mail is correctly delivered are rather wonderful, all things considered. the local post office has received let- ters addressed to individuals living on certain streets in Ontario. With) rfothing more to guide them than that the post office employees in Toronto sent the letters here and they were | correctly delivered. Such things are searcely short of marvellous when considered in their proper light and the public owes it to the postal serv- ice to see that letters are not mailed except when properly addressed. " * * The action of the Board of Educa- tion ahd the Separate School Board in deciding not to open the schools until September 6 is to be commend- ed. True, it means extra holidays that the school year is mostly holi- days now, but it is a common sense silly to open school for a day and then close for three days. * * *" Premier Ferguson has staff to do it. This is to be regretted, Kemp. Mr, Kemp is well known in Stratford and the oil caught on well here. He .will have) the best wishes of every good citizen | m1 +h wr et if ithat the privileges i ; (Continued on page 5) In the past week} and most people are inclined to think : | move for it would have been rather) announced | that the highways department intends | to stamp out reckless driving and | speeding and will increase the police | not the desire to enforce the law but that it should be necessary. The de- partment has given motorists every} burner has| privilege and it is not to their credit proud of the ladies and gentlemen . who will represent Stratford and we | believe they will do the City credit as they did last May in our own Festival | when a large percentage of these folk | won medals or certificates for their | art. Last year, as far as can be ascer- at the C. N. Festival; the C. N. R. | Band and Miss Hilda Barrett, who by | the way won fourth place. This year we are sending twelve contestants as a much better showing. They are as follows: Vocal Classes--Miss Hilda Barrett, Mrs. Gladys McLeod, Miss Lilian M. Salsbury, Ernest G. Swanson, Alfrid O. Swanson, H. S. Jackson, W. J. Dawe, Jonathan Clark, Jack W. Wil- (Continued on page 4) Auction Sale Of Real Estate and Sedan ) On Saturday, September 10, i at 2 p.m. sharp, at premises, be- ing Numbers 11, 13 and 15 On- | tario street, Stratford. Premises--Is a good. business block of 3-storeys and 388 feet wide on Ontario street, and is in good state of repair. Terms of Sale--Are 10 per cent. cash on day of sale and balance can be arranged. A McLaughlin Sedan will be offered for sale immediately after sale of real estate, JONES, auctioneer i 4 t ------™ tained, Stratford had only two entries | ,