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THE STRATFORD MIRROR SS er Phone 2500 Stratford @ CANADIAN DEPARTMENT STORES snare STORE HOURS: Daily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m; Saturday's 9 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. Wednesday's 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Erie and Downie Streets Smart Rayon Frocks Such delightfully smart dresses, so suitable for tennis, sports- wear, business, etc. Good quality rayon material in short sleeve style, and in many pretty pastel shades. Sizes 14 to 20 and 36 to 44 in the group. 2 95 Each ' aS --C. D. S. Second Floor Women's and Misses' VoileF rocks Smartly styled voile dresses in a host of attractive floral pat- terns and dainty styles. Cool 'and very serviceable. You will wear them in the afternoon, in the evening, for they are smart and new. Sizes for misses and women in the group. Each, $3.95 an $5.95 --C. D. S. Second Floor Girls' Summer Dresses Such gay little styles for girls of 8 to 14 years to wear to school, for play, etc. Of printed cotton and voile materials, some with matching panties. In a choice of many dainty styles. $1 95 «= Each .... --C. D. S. Second Floor Smart, New Linen Summer Frocks In plain and printed combinations, with embroidery appliques, sleeve and sleeveless effects. In women's and misses sizes. Just thing for summer wear--home, street or for sports. Women's and misses' SiZ€S. Hach o.cccccccsesneesssne short the _.. $3.95 mee: 'D. 'Ss. 'Second Floor Women's and Misses' Formal Afternoon Dresses Fashioned of lovely laces and chiffon materials as well as organdies-- they are for formal afternoon wear, and they are in delightful styles for misses and also in larger sizes. One piece styles and jacket frocks are in this offering. You'll like their new effects-- their colorful Suceava $19.50 .. $29.50 Each --C. D. S. Second Floor Smart All-Wool Bathing Suits To Help You Get in the Swim All-wool bathing suits in one-piece style with skirt, feature the "sun- tan' back in various depths and come in sizes 32 to 44. A choice of indigo blue, scarlet, greens and black shades. $2 95 ve ot ca Bagh ss --C. D. S. Second Floor Summer : . 2 ; Millinery Summer styles in fabrics and knitted effects as well as paper panamas and other summer straw styles. Large and small brims in smart millinery that is much talked of and priced at each, Women's White Shoes Of soft kid leathers in pump, tie and strap styles. Cuban and high heels, sizes 3 to 7 in the lot. For sports, tennis, town or re- $2.95 $3.95 | wm: $2.98 aay; pair ss. 5: --Second Floor. Cc. D. S. Main Floor , Deauville Sandals One of this season's smartest styles in White Footwear. Cool, airy and comfortable, of white calf leathers in plain white or in white with brown trimming. Cuban or low heels, one strap styles. Sizes 3 to 7 in the group. Pair. .............. C. D. 8. Main Floor ntl CANADIAN DEPARTMENT STORES .nace Sense and Nonsense We've all heard about those "mil- lion dollar" Safe to say that this chap Wicks, who stages the race meets here, doesn't believe that. It was a tough break, but as the grocer's clerk would say, "It's just what you might expect for a Wednes- day half-holiday." Some of the records might have been toppled over if the weather man had not rains. others h. and a few around, records don't mean so muc od * * The man who returned to the city after thirty-five years to find out whether he had passed his entrance was evidently not promised a bicycl for passing. mona Grattan e€ * * Stratford's baseball teams will find it hard to understand why the De- partment of Health insists on show- ers for the swimming pool. £ +e od Every time there's a ball game scheduled here we have plenty of showers. _ ad * * "That's one place where the lacrosse team has it over the baseball teams. - * = The only trouble which the boxla artists have to fight off is loneliness. * < pretty soon, there'll be more than _the players saci cx 'ae Glad That "McPherson" Came Off So Lucky George McPherson, Re 4 Strat ford, would make a good subject for an advertisement for a tobacco com- pany. Mr. McPherson was driving Former Citizen Passes Suddenly In Winnipeg James Duncan, whose death occur- red suddenly on Monday in Winnipeg was a well-known and highly respect- ed former resident of Stratford. Mr. his car, a light sedan, east on No. 7 | Highway on Tuesday morning. | ne was about to cross the tracks near 'the Kroehler plant on Ontario street, interfered on Wednesday. | With horses like Bud Grattan, Ra-|S°"8° train. If the attendance doesn't perk up| Duncan was a printer, and was one of the oldest members of the Winnipeg Typographical Union, as well as be- ing the oldest member of the night newsroom staff of the Winnipeg' Free Press where he had been employed for 41 years. o fthe older Stratford will remember Mr, Duncan. AS his car was struck by a C.N.R. pas- The car was carried along the 'tracks and then deposited, upside | down, in a deep ditch, partially fill- ed with water. Onlookers were hor- |ror stricken. They expected to find | the occupant dead or seri- | ously injured. | Instead of that, a figure emerged \from the wreckage and made its, way | to the baggage car of the train, which Many residents of For many years, he worked on the staffs of both the Beacon and the Herald in this city. He left here in 1891 for Winnipeg. At one time he was an inmate of the Manitoba Institute for the deaf mute, but he mastered his affliction and later became an instructor in the either jhad stopped. | "Pave a cigarette," some person of- school. His widow And one daughter, Mani- a school teacher in Bethany, toba, survive. He is also survived by three sisters, Charlotte, Ann and Jes- sie of this city. | "Nope, I guess the old pipe will \do," was the reply. And Mr. Mc- } | Pherson proceeded to light up. Aha! "Do you know what the unemploy in New York are doing?" shouted @ speaker as he pounded the table. "Yes," a voice from the rear. "What?" asked the speaker, tale aback. "Nothing!" Have Your EAVETROUGHING looked ever. Call STRATFORD HEATING SERVICE 11 Ontario Street, Stratford. Day Phone 383 ; Night Phones: 2312 or 828-B.-- a4 es 4 MORE USEFUL SURELY NOT | The father of 26 children living in a | A clergyman reminds us that an| Midland town has been presented | Englishman's place is by his own fire-| with a library of books. What he side. Does this mean to imply that |ceems to need is a ready reckoner. spring-leaning is over at last? ioe EVERY TIME ] Wireless has now reached the stage "Can we meake| where if you don't like the program you can always twist the knob and tune in something worse. AGIN THE LAW A headline- asks: more money at home?" The answer is: gas e could, but we mustn't." Fer Corns and Callouses -- DR. JOHNSTON'S Callous - Off A 25c box of Callous-Off will 4 solve the hardest corm or callous without leaving the slightest ap= pearance of rawness. On sale at drug and shoe stores or sent direct post paid for 25e waboratory. Dr. Johnston's Callous-Off Company Stratferd, Ont. om