LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 44, 21 October 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local fund for the second Hospital Ship is now closed, the total amount collected being £65 3s.

The Presbyterians have decided to hold a big sale of work next Thursdayafter noon and evening in the Foresters’ Hall. The Ladies’ Guild of the Church have the arrangements for the sale well in hand, having made large preparations during the winter. They fully recognise that the war funds at present have a strong claim upon all. Hut they believe that the Church must also he supported. And so they feel that they can confidently appeal for the patronage and support of the public in their enterprise.

: : At the Magistrate's Court at Waitara yesterday, J. T. Gardiner, the I licensee of the Club Hotel, was lined £3 and costs for selling liquor on Sunday, October 10th. Defendant pleaded guilty. The circumstances were that several men who were proceeding to Trenthnrri were invited by .a lodger in the hotel to have a drink, and the publican agreed to serve them. As they were being served the police appeared. There was no drunkenness on the part of any of the men who were served. Mr A. H. Johnstone, for defendant, said that the case was one for leniency, as there had been no decision as to whether a puhlican was justified in selling liquor to the friends of the guests of a hotel, and defendant had confused his right to serve liquor to guests in his hotel. The. Police stated that the facts of the case were as defendant had set forth. The persons found on the premises were fined small amounts.

flic analyst sat in his sanctum alone. When his staff had gone home ioi the night, And soliloquised thus, in a critical touo, As he/held a retort to the light. "Yes! Yes! T confess, 'tis compounded with skill. Its components are potent and pure; [f thro' chill I fall ill, I most certainly will Take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure."

The business set clown for hearing at the sitting of the Stratford Magistrate's Court to-morrow, comprises eight civil cases, one defended, and two judgment summons.

A fully equipped hospital bed, made by the members of the Sirntford Ladies' Patriotic Committee, will be on view in the window of the C.B.A. Building, on Friday and Saturday.

Weather Forecast.—The indications are for westerly winds strong to gale at times, with a southerly tendency. The weather will probably piove squally and changeable and scattered showers. The night will probably be very cold. The barometer ha;; & "rising tendency.—Bates.

The following fresh volunteers have been passed as medically lit for the Reinforcements:—Messrs Fredrick P. Kane, John Sheriff. Claude S. Williams Albert New. Frank Heyes, William Burrell (Stratford), Humphrey A. Prideaux, Thomas P. Angus- (Lowgarth).

The ladies of Kiore, per Mrs A. G. Stewart, have forwarded a parcel to the Stratford Ladies' Patriotic Committee, containing ] doz flannel singlets. 2 towels, and 7 pairs of sox for use on the second "Hospital Ship. The parcel also contained a small bundle of handkerchiefs made and donated by the scholars of the Kiore School.

The war has given us nothing more apt than Tommy's description of a body-belt. 'The dado round the dining room,' he terms it. Various names have been invented for the Kaiser; 'Crazy Bill' is not the least appropriate. The Crown Prince and General von Kluck were early christened the 'Five Bob Bit' and 'Old von O'clock' respectively. German snipers are known as 'Little Willies.'

At yesterday's meeting of the Stratford County Council. Cr L. Baskin, who has. on more than one occasion, created a mild "breeze," made much ado about nothing by an attack on an "Evening Post" reporter for an alleged inaccuracy lb a report of something Cr Baskin thinks he said (or did not say) at last meeting. Rather excitedly, Cr Baskin-professed belief that his remarks were reported "according to arrangement," whatever that might mean. At considerable length the complaint continued Cr Baskin making the most of hi s fancied grievance. The full text of the matter complained of by Cr Baskin, is as follows: "The Chairman reported that one of the Council's employees had been approached by a settler and had told him he could take a few yards of earth from one- of 'the County's pits.--Cr Baskin said a'notice had been inserted in the newspapers' prohibiting this, and the workman should be dismissed and prosecuted.— The Chairman said the act was done in ignorance.—lt was deeded that a letter be sent to the Council's employees stating that they were not authorised to allow earth to be carted away." The object of liis tirde, so far as could be ascertained, was to deny in to'to having made the remark attributed to him in the matter quoted.