_ STRATFORD, ONT, FRIDAY, | SEPTEMBER 23, 1927 Records Broken At Stratford Fall Fair - A reoord-breaking crowd, at $,000 people, attended "citizens' day" at the Stratford fall fair Wed- nesday afternoon, despite extremely ecoid weather. At night another big crowd was in attendance for the close, estimated Aithough inclement weather kept down the attendance for the three days, the fair this year was highly successful. Barly Wednesday afternoon near- ly 2,000 pupils of the city and rural schools paraded to the grounds, led by the Stratford C. N. R. Band, get- ting the program away to a good start. The baby show had one of the larg- est entry lists in recent years, 75 babies being entered. Exhibits in the schoo] children's section were large. Arbogast Brothers, of Sebringville, and F. Thompson, St. Pauls, carried oif the majority of the awards in the Holstein class, while John Waldie and James Finnegan, Stratford, won most of the awards for Jerseys. m4 | W. Ballantyne, Stratford, made clean sweep of the Ayrshire: awards. D. Waldie and Son, St. Pauls, won the beef cattle contest, and Arbogast Bros., the dairy type. B. Blackburn, of Uxbridge, was a heavy winner in the beef type cattle. Alto- gether the show was one of the best held and had the weather been as it| was the day following the attendance would have been the best. The revival of mousiaches at Ox- ford is ascribed tc a desire to pre- serve one priviiez in whihec women- Studenis cannot participate.---Punch. A sporting journalist remarks that HMnglishmen are good losers, but it must be remembered how much prac- tice we have had at it lately --Punch. W. B. ROTHWELL TEACHER OF VOCAL - PIANO a STUDIO: 42 WATERLOO STREET OPP. Y.W.C.A. Pertinent Patter ; of revenue for the society, revenue} BY THE PHIi The big event this week was of course the fair and as has been the case so often of late the weather for it was anything but good and it is a question yet whether the society will break even or not. It is to be hoped that there will be a balance, no mat- ter how small, on the*right side of the ledger when the accounts are cast up. It does seem however that the time has come when the Agricultural Society with the co-operation of the City Council might take a forward step and start to build up this fair as a county show and a real exhibi- tion. The fair has a good reputation and the nucleus of a good plant. This year's show is a case in point. Had there been sufficient buildings to take care of the number of exhibitors who, would have liked to show here there) would have been a much greater item | | not dependant on the weather. Just so long as the present state of west contin y Ww ues the society will have an un- with; instead of which he was re- easy time each year because laad | | weather means so much loss. If how-! ever on the other hand there is a def-| inite building program launched $0) that there will be a building erected | every year or so to take care of the, industrial and mercantile exhibits then will a start have been made to- wards assuring a reasonably definite source of revenue and _ incidentally providing a means of attracting peo- pie to the fair from the city and sur- rounding towns. City people are not greatly interested in agricultural ex- hibits but if there is a sufficiently large number of buildings will come more than once to make sure of see- ing all the points of interest. It is qutie obvious that it would be pos- sible to fill at least one if not two more buildings at once with automo- biles and manufacturers' products if they were available. Since a fair is a civic asset of the best kind it would might well have been spared if the LISTINE Mr. Jas. * * xf ing secretary, Stewart. Stratford people got considerable of a thrill Monday and Tuesday when it was reported that four escaped pris: oners from London jail were in this vicinity, one of them being the no- torious Harlton, who was waiting trial for murder. Harlton is known as a desperate character and the idea of him being at large in this vicinity was somewhat disquieting. It now appears that it was a false alarm and that pro- bablity he was never seen near here at all. But just the same there was the thrill and it was a matter that en gaged the attention of the citizens as there is certainly a thrill in a man hunt that is lacking in anything else. It is a thrill however that the 'citizens wheels of justice had not been clog- ged Jast spring and this man's trial set over. He should have been tried when caught and summarily dealt manded and is now at liberty with ;} good prospects of him remaining so for the present at least. * * * Stratford has been favored with the finals of one or two of the. lacrosse games this past week and the games have furnished one good and clear answer to the question of why la- crosse is dying or perhaps some might say dead. That is the players seem to think more of fighting one another than playing the game. This is ex- actly the sort of thing that has prac- tically killed lacrosse for in many in- stances lacrosse matches have been little more than running fights with blood galore. disrepute and those who jament that lacrosse is not supported any more haven't far to seek for the answer. It is doubtful if lacrosse will every Council so that something definite might be done toward building up the grounds and buildings at the Agricul- tuarl Park, a city owned property. If something is not done the fair is bound to go back as there is no stand- ing still in these things; it is a ques- tion of forward or back and public spirited citizens will all be glad to PHONE 1&858J ee el see the fair go ahead. It must be | said. however, that the officers of the seem that the matter ought to be) brought to the attention of the City} again regain its old place and it is a pity, too, for as a game it ranks with the best. calling for speed, courage and a degree of teamplay that is sur- passed by few other games. * * *& With some 140 students the Strat- ford Normal School re-opened this week for the Fall term and Stratford's population is therefore swelled by that, number of young people. They are a good addition to the population and add much to the socia} life of the} i society work hard each year to make and Stratford 'people | 'it a success and particularly the othe) 'it a success young people of the city. The num- {Continued on page 4) That is the sort of) thing that will bring any game into) lrene Jocelyn Wins The Mirror Prize Irene, the bright young doughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jocelyn, won the prize offered by The Mirror as the iirst to answer the questions. Herewith are the answers: 1, An "Engiish horn" is a brass in- strument. 2. Rossinni, liam Tell." 3. Senzo Ritardando" without keep- ing back the time. 4. Changing the name of the not without altering the pitch is an en- harmonic change. F sharp or G flat, 5. Wagner died February 13, 1883. 6. "The Marseilles" is the national anthem of France. 7. An interval is the difference in pitch between two notes, 8. Liszt was a Hungarian. §. A triplet. is three notes played in the time of two. Irene it will be remembered wou the gold medal at the Perth County Federation of Music contest for pupils under 14. She was given 70 per cent for piano in the contest at the Toron- to Exhibition for students under 12, in the year -1926. She also entered the eessay contest on the subject of "The Teeth," arranged by the dentists of the city, for which she received honorable mention. Her essay ended with the cleverly worded verse for 4 girl of her years. The teeth of course as we all know, Will help us in our lives to grow, . And keep our bodies healthy too, So let us to our teeth be true. Upon receipt of her prize she im- mediately informed her teacher, Miss Margaret G. Stevenson,.L. T. C. M., and here's hoping that she may be able to continue her studies for some time to come. wrote the opera "Wil- "Montreal aldermen are at it again." says the Toronto Saturday night." A movement is on foot to amend the city's charter in such a way that the aldermen can have a four-year term of office instead of a two-year term to which they are now entitled to un- der the present charter." In many places, of course its not so in Stratford, citizens think oné year term is too long for some alder- men. JONES |} AUCTIONEER / SSeS saaae ee