LATE LOCALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 90, 16 December 1913, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

Tli& Chaxriher hi CCm,rnerce will hold" its mofithly ; meeting this evening,...-™ “i*. *«;■• •oi The Stratford County Council holds its last meeting for this year to-mor-row morning. At 3 o’clock the school barometer recorded 28.1, and was still going down. A gentleman whose place of business is upstairs states that this morning the building was shaken by tho wind to such an extent that hanging letter files were thrown to the floor.

Air John Walker, formerly a .holograph employee, who retired tone years ago on account of ill-health, diod. vesterday (states a Christchurch tele-. gram). Deceased was;tne founder and the first editor of tjie .official organ of the. .Telegraph Associa-, lion. ... A little comedy, somewhat-* elaborately and artistically worked out, was enacted on the local railway station, § A man who was leaving a job in town desired to return Out East by train as soon as convenient. Ho was sdayrng at one of the local hotels, and, Under a misapprehension, told the licensee that he would leave by last night’s train. Later in the day, however, he found that he could not leave until Wednesday evening, and intimated this fact to the licensee, promising a a settlement of his 'account when he had fixed up everything preparatory to

leaving. The man was on theNiaitway station platform in the evening \and, saw the licensee there also; and he and his friends at once decided to “ready ' a joke on the licensee. They walked up and down in front of the Toko train and when the signal to proceed was given the man shook hands with friends and jumped on the train. . 1 h<3 j licensee was not far away, amL before j the train had gathered much way nmn-| aged to pull the seeming defaulter hack to the platform. Then followed recriminations, long and sufficiently | strenuous—what did the licensee mean by pulling the man off the train? and why did "the man seek to cheat the licensee of his due? In the end one : of the man’s friends, as part of the joke, offered to pay the man’s bill, and ; this having been done the heart of the 1 licensee was softened to the extent of j | liquid ■refreshment foi; the ,’man and ; all his friends in' the joke.