FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 29 July 1915, Page 2

FLASHES

Stewart Brothers' Stock-taking Sale commences Tuesday, 3rd August, 1915.

The 8 a.m. telephone service commences on Ist August.

Attention is drawn to the Ideal Darpery Sale in another column. Owing to the war a large shipment of Winter Goods arrived late in the season, and are now being disposed of at silly prices.

The usual monthly St. Matthew's Church Guild Euchre and Dance Party will be held in the Star Theatre on Monday next.

The Helensville Fire Brigade intend holding a grand benefit social in the Star Theatre, on Thursday next. As the admission (including supper), is very reasonable, and the cause a deserying one, a large gathering may safely be anticipated.

Australian papers publish the following extract from an application to the Bush Fire Relief Fund. Its merit is that it is perfectly genuine. Life must have been full of surprises for the lady and also for her first and second husbands. The extract is as follows :— " I have a family, four dairy cows, two pigs, a horse, and three little children all these being by my first husband ; two goats in full milk, and a baby, by my second husband ; all these animals was lost in the bush fires."

One Sunday morning Mr Moody, the revivalist, entered a Chicago drug store, distributing tracts. At the back of the store sat an elderly and distinguished citizen reading a morning paper. Mr Moody approached this gentleman and threw one of the temperance tracts upon the papers before him. The old gentleman glanced at the tract, and then, looking up benignantly at Moody asked : "Are you a reformed drunkard?" " No, sir, lam not!" cried Mr Moody, drawing back indignantly. " Then why in hell don't you reform ?" quietly asked the old gentleman.