LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 59, 7 May 1924, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A general meeting of shareholder t> of the Stratford Co-op. S i re Co. was held last week, when it wa s decided to advertise the varif us proper ties, goodwill and stock “or sale by tender. An alternative prbposa;, that the present shareholders put in additional capital did ad find favour.

When we' walk (says Professor I A. Thomson) we bring ."to play wit;, every step,3oo iliffertn'. muscle Every half second some three hue dred engines have been started, regulated and stopped, an I each has done its allotted task *n helping cm body forward.

The German student world in Munich, where duelling continues to be the mode, was-recently struck dumb with araaement by an American’.proposal to substitute the English long bow for the conventional swords and pistols. W. H. Ingram, a former instructor of mathematics *n Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying for a doctor’s degree in the University of Munich, outraged the dignity of Frit when he returned a push while trying to enter a street car with a girl. Frit demanded “satisfaction.” and the American ! answered “Sure.” Ingram asked the American Vice-Consul to be big second, but the Consul replied that his official position would not permit unless the weapons were boxing gloves. Ingram, however, preferred the bow and arrow, which he had learned to handle skilfully at the University of California, where he formerly was a student. Spanish student learned in duelling et iquette agreed to be his second an I took up the matter with the second of the challenger, Dr. Hans Haber Haber has not sufficiently recovered from his amazement to r.’ply.

Recently a tram conductor failed to stop a car to pick up- a lady and her two children, and on be iig hailed by a group of hoys who were standing nearby, he signalled to the motorman and the passengers were able to mount, says the Wellington “Post.’ The boys were under the impression that the conductor had spoken rather sharply to the woman, so they decided to take revenge along what seemed to them to he the correct lines. Ac-* cordingiy, when the car again passed on its way to Waclestown the conductor was the recipient of a broadside of vegetables and an egg. The egg fortunately missed its mark. One of the voutbs appeared before Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M., at the Juvenile Court 1 on .Saturday, when the Magistrate expressed surprise that all the offenders had not been charged instead of those who had denied the affair being called against one young fellow who had candidly admitted bis part of the attack. The information was dismissed, and the Magistrate remarked that it would only be right for all the lads to eontriihnt? towards the costs of the proceedings, instead of letting the whole burthen fall on the shoulders of the hoy charged, who appeared to be made of the “right stuff.” Mr 0. C. Mazengarb, appearing for the defendant, remarked that all the lads had been “Sir Galabads’’ up to the point of admitting the offence to the police, and then they tried to throw the blame upon his client.