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THE STRATFORD Vol. 7 STRATFORD, JAN. 3, 1930 East Side = All Around the Town with The Mirror Man West Side Well folks 1930 is here. City council meets informally to- night to discuss chairmanships of standing committees and to prepare for the big first regular meeting on Monday night. The council will get quite a load of business shoved on their shoulders at the opening meeting. They will have to make a number of appointments for certain municipal positions. Two members will have to be chosen to the Parks' Board | for a term of three years, succeeding George H. Langan and George Sug- den. & The matter of the recommendation of broadcasting the city council meet- ings is among the items of business slated to be heard next Monday night. There should be some interesting viewpoints expressed about the need of a social service worker for the city of Stratford. The council this year, promises to be a fine one, judging by the person- nel and the city is looking for results. How about it, 1930 city council? Many Citizens Would like to Know: Why the city scrapers haven't been at work on the roads these days when it is thawing and the roads in such terrible condition? Why is Stratford's birth rate de- clining yearly as shown by statistics issued by Walter Dorland, city clerk? Why Stratford didn't cheery community "Christmas trees this year, as they did last Christmas season? Why certain hockey players of Stratford make visits to every once and a while? How long it will be before that New Year's was spent quietly in Stratford. A watch-night service was held in the Y.M.C.A. by the members of the Hi-Y Club, with a short impromptu program followed by refreshments. A great many took advantage of special dances in the city, to welcome the New Year with gliding feet. Yesterday afternoon and evening the theatre was well patronized and in the afternoon the arena was open for skating. Last night about a thousand braved the driving rain to see Stratford Midgets down the Kit- chener team 5-2. Dancing was in progress at the Classic and Winter Gardens last night and several par- ties were held in private homes. New Year's services were held in several churches yesterday. At St. Joseph's, masses were held from 8.30 to 10 o'clock followed by Bene- dicition and Blessed Sacrament. In Immaculate Conception Church masses were from 8.30 to 10.30. Morning services were held in St. Peter's Lutheran, St. Paul's and Con- gregational churches. Traffic over the Canadian Na- tional Lines, while not exceptionally jheavy, showed a slight increase over last year. ------ An informal meeting, at which the chairmanships of the various standing committees will be dis- cussed and other minor business dealt with, prior to the first meet- ing of the 1930 City Council, is be- ing held to-morrow evening at 7:30 o'clock, according to Mayor-elect Charles E. Moore. On Monday night there will be many items of business pefore the new council, such as appointments to various public offices and other resting features. His Worship the Mayor is to appoint a striking committee which will discuss the chairmanships and members of the various standing committees and report to the first meeting. Alder- man Frank Ingram has been men- tioned in municipal circles as being the next chairman of the Board of Works, and Alderman qG. I. Graff has been mentioned as chairman of the Finance committee. have her} Montreal | pile of snow behind the city hall will be gone? Maybe there won't be any parking place there next summer. Will Jack Weis be returned to Board of Health this year? Ore APPRECIATE THE QUALITY OF OUR DIAMO- {+ NDS AND THE BEAUTY OF THEIR SETTINGS What did the liquor sales on Tues- day, 24 and 31 amount to here? Why our Junior O.H.A. team this year shouldn't go through? Why the same team shouldn't fill the arena before many games have THEY MUST BE SEEN Pequegnat's been played? : ee Will the 1930 city council accom- plish more than the 1929 council did? What will be done with the mat- ter of a smaller council, the major- ity being very, very slight? Twenty - Two New Homes Erected in 1929 During the past year this city witnessed the best building year since 1926, according to figures giv- en out to-day at the office of City Engineer W. H. Reihl, which show that the value of building permits in 1929 was $354,849, this amount peing head and shoulders over that of 1928, when the total was $224,- 41g. This makes an increase of $130,437 over the previous year of 1928. Since 1926, when the total value was up to $480,915, the amount of ' building in Stratford has been slip- - | ping and in 1927 it was down to $221,254 and then -in 1928 -- was 5 | $224,412. The number of city dwellings erected in 1929 was twen- ty two, which exceeds the number -- of homes built in recent years. The building permits issued last month numbered seven and amount- ed to $7,825, while in December of 1928 there were thirteen permits -- amounting to $22,475. However, in December of that year the two big jobs were the Mackey Bread com- pany building, and the improve- ments to the Canadian Department store. In 1928 there were only four dwellings and one apartment house erected as compared with the twen- -- ty-two houses built in 1929. yy In 1927 there were 441 permits with a value of $221,254 with seven- teen houses being erected. Prob- ably the greatest building year in Stratford for many seasons' back, was in 1924 when the total amount of building was $641,854. In 1925 | the amount was $407,631. bs es The best month in 1929 was in -- June, when there were six dwelling permits issued and the total was $111,041. The two big items of this -- amount was the building of the Fal- staff school and the work of the P.U.@: JUST A WEARY OLD PASSENGER | This world it keeps a-spinnin' As fas' as it can go, We wonders wha' it's rushin' to, But no one seemes to know. De sun he is de headlight ~ A-blazin' out so fine; De stahs dey is de signal lamps A-gleamin' "long de line. I ain't axin' questions 'Bout how de train is run; I's simply gwinter stick until My little journey's done. It ain't no use to worry, Whatever may betide-- I's only jes' a passenger, An' mighty glad to ride. | Dreams i "Daddy," said Willie, "I dreamed last | night that you gave me a sixpence.' "Well, as you have been a go boy lately," replied |_ his daddy, may keep it." as eer NOW PLAYING-- The All Talking, Singing, Laughing Sensation "The Cock-Eyed | NEXT MON. - TUES. - WED. ie GRETA GARBO "THE KISS" ADDED "ATTRACTION-- 5 2) aig _ "BROADWAY HOOFER" _ --iN--