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_THE STRATFORD ' ee ee a ee re mic ess BY DUDLEY (LT. ISHER dR, tire MUD BATHS ALL THE RAGE, BUT I MUST DOUBT ITS POWER TO BEAUTIFY. - AND FOR THIS STAND ['VE CAUSE -- 'To WIT, iT DOESN'T HELP THE PIG A BIT. ©1922 UNIVIRSAL FEATURE & SPECIALTY CO. - CHISWELL'S ' . rf " ; uit For spring ; Now is the time to place your order for a LASALLE Suit or Top Coat, tailored to your individual mea- sure. You may take delivery when ever convenient. LaSalle 'lailors are showing over 250 samples in _ fancy tweeds and worsteds, featuring the very new- est in shades and patterns. Every LaSalle Suit is UNION MADE and only the very best trimmings, linings, ete. are used by this well-known line of Drop in the store and see for yourself the é tailors. values this firm has to offer, $22.50 Extra Pants with Suit, $6.00 Men's and Boys Wear _ Stratford Phone 122 | Chiswell's | 26 Wellington Street 'They'll come fast enough then. | trip 'to London either. "2, cests, i gue leaders out of the play-offs. "Tune | It Up!" Those are the orders-- from a man who knows his way about motors. He knows that no motor will give 100% perform- in time." Come in and or 85 Waterloo St. ance when hampered with a dozen difficulties. "Tune It Up" is the modern equivalent of a "stitch HOUNAM'S GARAGE der likewise--for safety. Phone 2349 "Sense and Splendid isolation is the condition | in which a Stratford hockey team is, likely to find itself after. winning: group honors. Take the Midgets for instance. * e * It's dollars to buttons that games won't be so scarce for the locals when they get a little nearer the finals. * * * In the meantime, practically every other team from the Detroit River to| the Quebec border has had a first-' round play-off series, with the excep- tion of Stratford. *% * * Listowel was expected ta be in line to play the Midgets, but they were pit- ted against Preston. London was, sicked down to Windsor, and the Mid- gets will likely have to play the win- and that will not likely mean a | | * * * Certain it is that exhibition games| are not of much use to the Midgets, | if the game last week with the Toron- 'o Canoe Club can be taken as an ex-| ample. aers, * * | Herbie Bruder's Indians were Prest- Se | on this week, but came through hand- somely in Milverton. The Indians will be looking forward to group play-| offs next weck. *& a = Judging from the number of pro- interest is tightening in the! junior City Learue. ok & s | Norm. Fiebig's team occupied the) zellar all season, but when the play-| offs started, they came to life long | snough to bump Frank Doxey's lea-} As a] -esult, Norm has to take the whole zang to the theatre. * & * When everybody gets into the play- ffs anyway, there isn't much point nm leading the League all Winter. * *¢ * "T hear that there hasn't been much change in rents in the past year," I ventured to a logal landlord this week. a * we "T couldn't say,' was his reply, "I haven't been abel to collect any in that time." 2 Nonsense '"' The man who drew second prize at the Lion's Club Carnival was both lucky and unlucky. He lives in Lu- E can, and the prize was a year's pass fee to the theatre here. * * * If the prize had been a nightshirt, he's so unlucky that he'd probably) | have been a nightwatchman. * * * The crowd at the Carnival set up a 3 great howl before the draw when one of the stubs was seen clinging to the foot of Herb Mason. When the stubs -- were being dumped into the barrel to. 'e be shaken up, some of them spilled on the ice. One of them stuck to. Herb's rubber, and of course every person in the arena feared that it was his, * * * Exchange on cheques at the tax-col- lector's office for nine months amounted to $25. Safe to say the Council would be willing to stand The exchange on cheques from every one of those who owe that $240,000 in back taxes. % & % The local post office reported a flood of Valentines again this year-- slams and salve, as Lou Marsh might call them. * % * "We get a break at last," one hen remarked to another as hte price of eges took a jump in this city at the beginning of the Lenten season. ue % *% ® bi ees % oe The criticism which the local Board | sufficient warning to the Council not to be keen on the erection | of a county collegiate. "And you say you have the night- mare every night," the doctor en- quired. "What is it?" = The suffering man answered: ad dream that I'm married." "Ah, hum!' the physician grunted. "To whom?" "To my wife," the patient replied. "That's what makes it a nightmare." "Johnny, run to the door and tell Mrs. Smith that I'm out." "Hello, Mrs. Smith. Mom's out." "Qh, that's too bad. I just over to borrow some sugar." Johnny (shouting up the stairs): "Mom! Did you mean that you out of sugar?" "3 lof Education directed toward the City | !Council at the last meeting should be = County ~~ 'Large Audience Hear 'the way man is made a sinner and dead and come into this world with-' ae: THE STRATFORD MIRROR For Corns and Callouses DR. JOHNSTON'S Callous - Off A 25c box of Callous-Off will dis- solve the hardest corn or callous without leaving the slightest ap- pearance of rawness. On sale at drug and shoe stores or sent direct post paid for 25c from Evangelist Torrie Evangelist -Alexander Torrie, speak- ing to a large audience at the Mem-" orial Baptist Church on Thursday) night, in connection with the special | Evangelist services being-held at that} church, preached a very powerful ser-| mon from the text found in Romans) 5:19 "For as by one man's disobed-| 'lence many were made sinners, so by , mnoretery, ' | J ee the obedience of one shall many be Dr. Johnston's Callous-Off made righteous." Company In opening his remarks, Mr. Torrie Stratford, Ont. said, there are two exact parallels in On Sale at all Drug Stores the way in which he is made right-| eous. The natural man cannot receive spiritual things, neither can he know them. If the gospel pleased carnal, Local Interest man, it would not be the gospel. We) must know how we> were madé -sin-| Albert Schade, Erie street has re: ners and also how we may be made turned from a months' visit through righteous. ; the West Indies and South America. Our text tells us that by the diso- When Mr. Schade is on a trip of this bedience of one, many were made sin-| kind th is littl hi / ners. That one is Adam, the root and, i j ere is' little ee Pa neLice, spring of the human race. God dealt and if he had the time to write it a with the human race as a tree, one story of his trip would be very inter- root and one stalk, and that tree is | esting. Albert has no desire to live in Adam, and if he stood we would all'! : : ' South America, however, and thinks stand, but Adam disobeyed, so we are there is no place like Stratford. That's all disobedient. Some of us see little evil in one sin, but here it put Adam| tye Needle Ape ak a ee tee Beye and the world out of Paradise and oe Pee out of touch with God. As a stroke fells the tree, and it dies, so by one all humanity fell and are spiritually The time seems to be ripe in Strat- ford for some move toward the for- ; mation of a skating club. There had been some agitation along this line in former winters, but nothing which has occurred here since the arena was out a spark of spiritual life in us, We are in God's sight, guilty and un- done sinners. We belong to a cursed race and are spiritually dead. Then I would have you see how we are all made righteous. The One by whom we are made righteous, is the last Adam, Jesus Christ. He who was obedient even unto death. The first Adam was made in the likeness of God, but the second Adam is God Himself. The first Adam was made a thing of beauty, but the second Adam is the Wisdom of God, the Head of all the redeemed children of God. All Divine and human perfection is met in Him. It is He who h =| ; ; er to. forgive sins, Ayelet pte During the Carnival, Charles Uksila, nis ""hedlénce © stun-"totold: He the professional at the London: Skat- obeyed the Holy Law of God and He ing Club, expressed an eagerness to iid Acwn His life. jsee a club formed here. He would be As we are all made sinners, said the bases ay bo give local enthusiasts Speaker, by 'the disobedience of one, any possible assistance, he said, and sO we cre made righteous by the obed- he felt certain that the London Skat- ience of one. ~All-who will accept Rb ote members would take the Christ will repent of their sins and same attitude. 'accept Him as their own = personal Several Saviour, and made righteous, and not the hope that some steps could be only will their sins be blotted out, but taken to start a club here, and now thev will be made righteous. Thank God for the second Adam. These meetings commence at 7.45 p.m. cach evening except Monday and | will continue throughout -next week, | with Sunday services at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. On Sunday next there will be a great mass meeting in the Central United Church, when Mr. Torrie's sub- ject will be "The Three W's of the : Cross" and he will tell that very inter--|P/@¢e, the policemen agreed to in- esting story of the conversion of Mel Crease their donation to the relict Trotter, one who had sunk down into committee, from four to six percent. the very dregs of sin and iniquity, but | Other estimates of the Commission was gloriously saved by the power of W¢re cut two percent. All reductions Jesus Christ, who will save to the ut-' °f the Police Commission amount to termost all who call on His name. | the Commission's portion of the three- 'sirability of a skating club as did the 'performance of the London Skating 'Club-members at the Lions' Club | Carnival. There were close to 4,000 persons at the arena to see that program, the Londoners won the unstinted praise of every one of them. They de- carnival, their performance was the chief topic of conversation, and the possibility of the formation of a club here was freely discussed. terest in figure been keener than it is right now. * * * The City Council; harassed by received some encouraging informa- tion during the past week. In the first , built could have brought out the de-' ] served it too, The day following the | | | local citizens have voiced | , Seems like the opportune time to make ' }@ move in this direction. Certainly in- | skating has never | the thought of the striking of the mill} rate, which is just around the corner, | The Unemployed Association will ™ill reduction. requested by the City | parade in a body to next Sunday | Council from the various morning's service. | bodies. spending | Light and dark! 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What the City Council is wondering now is "What is the Board of Education going to be able to do?" * * * The Trustees made a start on their estimates this week, but a special meeting ended after 11 o'clock with no definite line of action decided upon --at least that's what the trustees said. They were not giving out much and information regarding the conference, which was held in the secretary's of fice. Have Your HEATING PLANT looked over, Call STRATFORD HEATING SERVICE 11 Ontario Street, Stratford. Day Phone 388 Night Phones: 2312 or 828-F. City Calls 1 or 2 passengers 25c ROY HUEHNERGARD For "Special Theatre Service" Phone 616 Adults 10c Fred Killer's Big SHIRT SALE Ends Saturday Night A BIG SHIRT VALUE 2 For 2.50 Be sure and buy your wants at these prices. Sizes 14 to 17. Broadcloth materials in neat patterns. : Fred Killer "Who-Suits-U" 87 Ontario St READ THE MIRROR "ADS." The mild, creamy smoothness of Silverwood's Butter will win your favor at the first trial. 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