Vol. 8 STRATFORD, FEB. 6, 1931 No. 36 Two Beloved Citizens Taken From Our Midst The Grim Reaper claimed two faith- ful members of St. John's United Church during the past week, in the persons of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Nel- les and Mrs. Caroline Hamilton. Mrs. Nelles wais the widow of the A. S. Nelles. She was born ([%7 years ago in the Township of Sen- ecca, in Haldimand County and was married there in 1883. Nineteen years later they came to Stratford where she has since resided. Besides being an active worker in the church, Mrs. Nelles was a member of the Missionary Society and Ladies' Aid. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. J. F. Nutt, 417 Ontario street. Like Mrs. Nelles, the late Mrs. Hamilton had also been a resident of Stratford for many years. She was a native of Downie, having been born in that township seventy-nine years ago. Twenty-five years ago, she came to Stratford. She was the widow of the late Robert Hamilton. Her death came after an illneiss of six weeks. One daughter, Mrs. R. A. Innes, and one sister, Mrs. Harriotte Mc- Ewan, both of this city, survive. Lions Club Are Busy Preparing For Big Night The Lions' Cub is sparing no effort these days in making preparations for the annual carnival, which will be held on February 13 this year. This is an event which is eagerly an- ticipated by Stratford citizens. It ate Stratford citizens and business men as well as big outside concerns, from time to time, demonstrate that they hold no fears as to the future of Stratford, by spending large sums in building and improving property in the city. The latest announcement is that a new garage and service sta- tion will be erected on the vacant 'piece of property on Ontario street east of Waterloo street, recently ac- quired by the Imperial Oil Company. The building will cost in the neigh- borhood of $30,000, and when com- pleted about the end of March, will be the home of the Ford Motor Co. so far as Stratford is concerned, as the place of business of J. D. Kerr Co. Demonstration of Faith In Stratford's Future Pounder Brothers, local contractors have the contract for the erection of feet. More spacious showrooms, mo- dern offices, and better repair shop with up-to-date equipment will feat- ure the new buliding. In front of the building, there will be six gasoline pumps, easily accessible from the street. As a result of requests to have the work started at once, as a measure of relief for unemployment, the Im- perial Oil Company has agreed to have operations started at once, al- though they feel that construction ;would be somewhat cheaper were | they to wait until Spring. The activities of thieves who have been paying unwelcome calls to the offices of local dentists lately would seem to bear out the statement of one well known citizen, that "they'll steal your eye teeth these days." * * * Penny bank deposits by Stratford school children show a decided _in- crease for the year. At the end of De- cember 1929, the amount on hand for Stratford children was $7,565.70. At the end of December 1930, this a- mount had grown to $8,361.81. Anne shares honors with the other big an-|Hathaway leads city schools in aver- nual charity event, the Rotary Frolic | age weekly deposits, with a percent- as a community institution. Tickets have been on sale for some time now, and sales will naturally in- crease at the time for the carnival draws nearer. While the chief reason for buying tickets is that the money all goes for a needy purpose, the pur- chasers of cardboards get a good run for their money. In the first place, they get admission to the arena on the night of the carnival. The spec- tacle on carnival night is one which comes only once a year. Then two outstanding exponents of the _ steel blades will perform forrthe benefit of the crowd. They are Howard Nichol- son, the world's champion fancy skater, and Adolf Windsberger, the champion skater of Austria. That is not a bad night's entertain- ment for one ticket in itself, but then comes the outstanding event of the evening. Some person becomes. the owner of a beautiful new Ford car. It will go to the holder of the lucky ticket. While the car is, of course, the outsanding prize, there are other valuable prizes offered for lucky tickets. When you come to look it over, there is no very good reason why people should not buy tickets, even from a selfish viewpoint. age of 54. * & Stratford Agricultural Society is ;being represented at the various jmeetings of fall fair societies which are being held this week. Now if some delegate could just suggest some way of getting dry weather on the first day of the Stratford fair, every per- son would™be satisfied that the time at the, conventions had been well spent. * * * The passing of a great musician «in Toronto has been felt in Stratford. Alexander T. Cringan, pioneer music teacher in the schools of Toronto was well known to Stratford citizens who attend the Musical Festival each year. Mr. Cringnan served as one of the adjudicators here last year. * * * The lads at the Y. M. C. A. who are interested in building model aero- planes held test flights in the "Y" last week, with interesting results. It is rumored that several local busi- ness men are willing to back a non- stop flight across the Avon. + * * Stratford's per capita fire loss for the year 1930 was only about fourteen cents. Unfortunately the city will be _}$11,530. Repairs to the collegiate Local Happenings In Brief 'unable to maintain its good record jthis year, as the collegiate fire has | caused a greater loss than the total | loss for the city leet year. | The snowfall for January was heav- ier than for the same month in any | Sremate since 1925, except for 1929. A total of thirty-one and a half inches fell. With all that snow, it is just ,possible that the groundhog did not ;get out of his burrow to see his sha- dow on February 2. Scere Though "Tom" Orr is absent from the city, his influence is felt here while he is hundreds of miles away. The Mayor knew there would be no use in holding a meeting to talk about the Centennary celebration in 1932 until Tom returned. * * * The news that Stratford collegiate 'institute was damaged by fire has reached the frozen wastes of the Arc- tic circle, via the radio. That should provide a hot topic for conversation in a cold climate. * * * Perth Regiment finished third in the Canadian Infantry Association "Efficiency of Personnel Competit- ion." The signallers of the Regiment also finished third in their competi- tion. tt Some of the boys around Toronto will get a chance to hear how to do things up here in the wilderness of Perth County when the secretary of the local committee reports on the International Plowing Match at the annual convention of the Ontario Plowmen's Association. ae * * Building permits for the month of January in Stratford had a value of in- stitute, and the erection of a new service station at the corner of Hur- on and Mornington streets accounted | for the largest amounts. * a one-storey building, 125 feet by 87}, Hot Shots On Sport The Montreal Apprentices have doubtless concluded long ere _ this, that it does not pay to settle differ- on the ice even when there are only a few minutes to go and they are leading by a seemingly safe majority. Two punches cost them two goals in the dying minutes of the game here on Saturday with the locals, and two goals cost them one game. That is simple mathametics, the answer. to which should be simple enough to the Montreal crew. * * bd St. Thomas C. N. R. Recreation Club had no respect for the local Re- creation Club in that basketball tus- sle over at the "Y"'. They simply waded in and helped themselves to the mustard. The Railway City boys were good on the long ones. They could drop them in from centre with- out touching the hoop. Saunders, |Clark and Barnes . were especially hard to watch. For the locals, Ches- ter Snider, Pop Neilson and Halpen- © ney, the rangy Normal School kid ~ were always in the running, while ,Wally Edwards demonstrated that he 'has not forgotten all the tricks he 'used to know about the game _ of bounce and fling. e % | The City Hockey League is nearing the home stretch, with the play-offs about two weeks off. As a result of the co-operation of the Areana Com- pany, the city loop has been able to stage games on Thursday nights. There's a little matter of finance which every player must solve before tonight if he intends to continue in action. It costs one berry to play in the City League and tonight's pay night for the league. z * *¢ © * * "Sleep" Hillman, manager of the Silverwood's entry is out for the title of the "Roy Brothers" of the City League. Just before the game with the Apprentices last week, "Sleep" announced the first trade in the loop. He had swapped Racey for "Robbie" Robinson and of course Racey went out and banged in a goal. * %* * The statistics for the Ontario Lea- gue, as released on Saturday, show > Shorty Quesnel leading the league in scoring. When the next batch of fig- ures are released, they will show some of the other Nats. have climbed jborn, for instance, will have taken a jump, as will Walker and Saunder- cock. te HO. Sing a song of hockey teams, The saddest tune in years, The Kitchie Kids met defeat, And left the town in tears. 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