Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 67, 6 August 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

| From our Resident Reporter. 'IN THE PUBLIC EYE." It is not the people who loom most largely in the public eye. who do the most for the prosperity* and welfare of a nation. If it. were left to them, heaven help the country." These are not quite tin; exact words, but they convey the meaning -sought to be conveyed ?>y the Rev. Reader during Sunday night's .sermon. The rev. gentleman, hi ; hitting at the love of publicity, was liit- | ting up against a big thing. The. man who likes publicity is not debarred by that from doing good work. Tt may be as he Bays, that many good men who are doing good work are not known to the multitude. It is no't the showy threequarter who doe-? most towards winning tlte game on tlie football field; but he is necessary all the same. The man who rushes into print on every coneeivaible occasion has his uses. For one thing, he fills up newspaper space sometimes when things are slack; and he provides chewing-gum for the office tike when "pressure on our space" compels the holding over of his lengthy contributions. His gives the public something to discuss, -or turn down, to praise, or to ridicule. Then again, there's many a griev- i awe that would not .be ventilated except j by the lover of publicity—at readingmatter rates. The writer is not attempting to disprove the preacher's saying that the man who is mosf in the public oy<( is not the nv.in who does most for his country, !but the intention is merely to throw a sidelight on the position. CHURCH UNION. ■An important meeting of t'he officials of tlie Ktratford Methodist and Primitive Methodist churches will be held this evening to discuss matters* relating to the union of the two churches. So far there has ibeen no discordant note, and the fusion of the two branches of the i Methodist Church will probaMy foe ax> | eompiished in Stratford without friction

OUR HOSPITAL. Mr. John Leydon, though not yet fully restored to strength, is wonderfully well, considering the nature of his ac'eident—a broken knee-cap, due to a fall -and his age, over 70 years. ITe is enthusiastic concerning his treatment whilst in the local hospital, and has nothing lint praise for the management of the institution. The unremitting attention toy the night nursing .stall' seems to h'.'.ve impressed itself deeply on Iris mind, j but he has a good word for all and every- - thing—the matron and the nurses, the I medical superintendent, the hospital it- ) self, the dieting, the comforts, ami tlifc | excellent discipline. It is a tribute to I the skill of the staff, and also to Mr. ' Ley-don's excellent constitution, that he j has ibee.n able to leave the institution J in six weeks instead of aibout three months, as was at first expected. He > received nearly three hundred sympa- ' the-tic letters and telegrams from friends ) and Oddfellows' districts and lodges in 1 all parts of the Dominion during his illness.

STRATFORD AS A SHOW TOWN. Miss Maggie -Moore had a good house on Saturday night, and "Mrs. MeSweenev" filled the bill to perfection, .\good house on a Saturday, and such a", night as last Saturday night, coming on top of the crowded houses for "Pinafore" should do much to re-establish our reputation 1 as a show-town.

WHANGAMOMONA'S SICK. >: l)r. Paget. having admitted a partH'V into liis practice. has made arrangements to visit Whanganjomqna. every Tuesday, returning oil Wejlnesdav. Help at last! The subscribers to the Whanganiomona medical fund, having failed io tempt a doctor to reside there, are now considering the matter of diverting the funds to the payment of a district nurse. " PARLIAMENT." ft is reported that some dissension has arisen in the ranks of the Government party in the Egmont Club Parliament, and the 'acting-Premier, who will introduce the Abolition of the Female Franchise Hill" to-night, may find that "rats" are not confined to plague centres. Weather! Monday .morning brought the hardest frost of the year. "Jack Frost" was snowy white, and all around wits white. It was cold. A thermometer at the "J1.8." establishment dropped to freezing point—and the instrument was hanging on an inside wall. Outside water-taps refused to give forth their accfistomed supply, which was unfortunate, seeing that the dairy factory opened for til'- -ep.son yesterday morning. In some buildings even inside taps were frozen. All this would not have been so bad bad the snn managed to pierce the leaden clouds. But Old Sol was powerless. The day remained Weak, cold and raw till about noon, when the drought of a couple of days, to our great astonishment, 'broke. The remainder of the day was as cold as 'before, and the cloudy afternoon made it secni colder still.

Despite gloomy predictions, the bulk of- the business people had a good day on [Saturday. There's a fair amount of building going on just now in the borough, .lust lately we have had additions to the ranks of building contractors. STRAY PARAGRAPHS. The Stratford main factory opened vevferday morning. Suppliers brought in about tHOlb of milk.

Tin; ballast mi in from away up the slopes of Meant Kjrmont drew rather more tli;iii ordinary a(ten(ion this jnorninjur. Tin' Ini.-k wero while with snow. Some sporty reciilenls hail a snow lijiht. and in oiii' ollicc (ha clerks arc still suyinjr sundry sultry thinps about a fellow employee who aimed a quantity into Hi ' office. Tile effect was striking, in more sense-; than one.

BERNARD'S PICTURE. This e\-en iv." llie c'lar dramas. ''The Surgeon's ! icroism.'' "The Cowboy I.over." and "The Loafer." are to he screened for (lie first time. The scenario of "Tie' Loafer."' or "Mow the Ranch Hoys .Made a Man of Him," is rather unique, .loe Simmons. the town loafer, i- warned h< the ranch hoys (hat he had belter Lief wiok and provide for his family on i! penalty of a severe horsew'liijniin'.: if 1 does not do so. After repeated warnings the bovs take action, and ,|oe is ei'-n the lashing lie lias been promised. .'! " ( hrea(ens lie will kill the rintr-leader f.f the jraiijt if hp ever finds ■liin oi.i. 'i' ■ next nioniin.vr. dim Wa.vInirn. the h> der in tho horse-whippim; incident of 'l'ir ilsr, m f.>r •. calls on doe and presents liini with a. team of horses an : (lie kin My advice io <reh to work. Ve-i'% to liv doe has hiieome ;( wealthy ranch'!!"!!, v : :en !r % J earns that >t; whs "*n t . 'mm who had borse.-whipped hiirn. ,T"" !i-m never fortrolten the whipping he received. ;:n ' plans to carry out the threat. Ifo' ever, linding dim about to

be turned out of his homo, Joe pays off the mortgage and presents it to Jim with a note -which says-: "(liven in payment for the good a whipping and two horses did for me." "From Out rich Egg to Feather Boa" is one oi the greatest (•4ucational film* vet shown here.