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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 14, 17 September 1913, Page 4

The flower social in connection with the Presbyterian Church will be held on Friday evening in St. Andrew s Hall. A varied and interesting programme is filing prepared and the social should be a decided success.

Cr. Smith reported to the County Council meeting lias morning that he had been unable to procure at Cardiff grazing for the foreman’s horse. The farms were small, and farmers wanted all available grass for their own stock.

A certain family party, says the Strand Magazine, consisted of one grandfather, one grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, and one daughter-in-law. Twenty-three people, you will say. No; there were only seven persons present. Can you show how this might be?

At two o’clock yesterday morning the Opunake garage was completely destroyed by fire, three motor cars and a motor bicycle going np in smoke. One of the cars was quite new, and it is understood only one of the three was covered by insurance. Some interesting developments may be looked forward to, as the police are making investigations regarding the doings of certain person or persons supposed to have been seen in the locality. It is not so long since an outbreak was discovered in the same garage, hut it was fortunately checked in time.

The chairman of the County Council stated at this morning’s meeting that the honorarium recently voted to him’would have to be refunded, as the Act allowed an honorarium up to £IOO per annum to be paid, but it must consist wholly of actual expenses. He said that owing to the provision some people on local bodies had got the habit, in order to increase their expenses, of charging a monthly sum for wear and tear on trousers, boots, etc.

The editor of the Hennessey, Oklahoma, Clipper, prints the following phonetic communication from a reader who thought himself aggrieved because of discrimination shown against him in the “society columns” of that paper“ Mister editur, I want to noe why hit is that you use so infurnal much parshality' in your little ole paper. Me an’ my fokes has bin vistin’ baf dupan times latly, an’ von Never, sed one wind about bit. You run after big bugs an’ lot the. little ones goe. 1 have,bin thinkin’ of ‘ subscribin’ fur the Clipper, but T won’t do bit now, You no boo this is. —One Hoo Has Bin Ron god.”

TThe publication of the fabulous pfihe of the lost pearl Necklace’ (£135,000) has caused a reader of the Liverpool Daily Post to place greater confidence in a story which was told to him recently. A lady was in a little shop in an English village, when she saw what looked like black heads (or wer,G| (described as such) in a howl near the window. For, a shilling or two they were handed over to her. Happening to visit her jeweller in •London some time afterwards, she showed him her “beads,” and said she would like to have a necklace made of them. “Madam,” was the delighted shopman’s exclamation, “do you know that this is a perfect set of the finest matched black pearls I’ve ever seen in my life ” And it was said he gave the lady a cheque for £65;000. The father of the shopwoman had got the beads during the Indian Mutiny when looting a temple full of Hindu gods.

Mr Anthony Nicholas Brady, an American railway magnate, whose wealth is estimated at £16,000,000, died, in London recently at the age of seventy years. His life was the romance of a self-made man. He was born at Lille, and went to the United States with his parents when a child. He had to leave school at the age of thirteen, and when only twenty-one went into business for himself as a tea merchant. Mr Brady’s next step-ping-stone to fortune was the acquisition of granite quarries in the State of New York. Then he formed a syndicate to purchase and manage the gas plants of Chicago, Tory and Albany. His next venture was street railway organisation, and he secured control of the surface lines in New York City, afterwards promoting similar railway combinations in other parts of the country. Mr Brady was a- diiectoi of nearly forty powerful industrial corporations.