NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XXIV, Issue 4123, 15 November 1919, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Leeston Pictures tonight. Members of the Souftbridgc Bowling Glub ar« notified of an important meet-! ing called for Tuesday night. Ih connexion with the forthcoming Church of England bazaar at Leeston, a flannel dance will be held in th« Parish r6om on Tuesday night next at 8. The affair promises to be very enjoyable. The sides of the maiu street at Southbridge have been graded by o»e of the County Council's road graders, and when the spoil is removed the street will present a much improved appearance. Chapman's far gardening requisites. Garden seeds, trowels, ferks," hoes, rakes gloves, rubber hose, water cans, Clay's pateut garden manure, arsenate of lead for Codlin moth, lime sulphur with napthaline for red spider and woolly aphis, Bordeau powder for potato blight and peach curl, etc., etc. .

The Rev. J. F. Wiseman, vicar of Leeston, and tjie Rev. H. A. Wilkinson, vicar of Lincoln, have agreed to exchange pulpits for tomorrow. Miss Davis, who has been in charge of the Selwyn School for several years and who for the past few months had been granted sick leave by the Board of Education, has resumed her duties at the school. Much sympathy is felt in Southbridge with Mrs Shierlaw, of Christchurch, for many years a resident of Southbridge, in the loss of her youngest daughter, whose death took place in Christchurch this week. The deceased was aogranddaughter^of Mr William Stewart, of Southbridge. Members of the Canterbury Education Board propose paying a visit to the district schools on December 2 for the purpose of inspecting the school gardens. They expect to reach Lincoln about 11.15, and to leave Springston at 12, Irwell at 12.30, Doyleston at 1, lunch at Leeston at 1.10 and leave Leeston at 2.20, leave Southbridge at 3, and leave Dunsandel at 3.45.

Miss Elsa Beid, daughter of the Bey. J. S. Reid, who was overtaken by pneumonia suddenly on Labour Day, is now out of danger, and hopes for her speedy recovery are entertained. During her % illness and in the absence of her father from the pulpit, the services of the! Presbyterian Church were taken by the Rev. Mclntyre, of Wakanui, and the ■ Rev. Jacobson, who is on a , visit to Christchurch. ; One of the early residents of the Lakeside district passed away in Christchurch this week in the person of Mrs Elizabeth Fife Marshall, relict of the late Mr Robert Marshall, formerly of "Lochend," Lakeside. During her lengthy residence in this district the late Mrs Marshall was very highly esteemed by all with whom she came into contact, and was a pioneer of the very best type. The interment took place at the Ellesmere Cemetery on Thursday afternoon. In conversation with Dr. E. H. Wilkins, Medical Inspector of Schools, a, 11 Southland Times" reporter learned that in the examination of 28 Southland schools a notioeably smaller amount of decay of the teeth was foiind to exist at all the smaller out-of-the-way schools. The factor deciding this difference appears to be the absence of sweet, or confectioners' shops. Where no such' shops are within reach of the school the teeth are on the average in better condition. The difference is evident be- ' tween schools only a few miles apart, where one has and the other has not a lolly shop in the neighbourhood It is already an established scientific fact that sugar and sweet confectionery are inimical to the teeth, and this palpable confirmation of the fact is of significant "'. J interest. Some restriction as to the sale V M ox lollies to children may at some future '^^ time be carried into effect.