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Tuesday, February 23, 1937 Discuss 1937 Town Estimates Council to Hold Another Sesâ€" sion to Strike Mill Rate. rate Friday night by the estimates committee of council in session in the council chambers. Appropriaâ€" tions for the various committees, town bodies, and grants were disâ€" cussed, and the items entered upon i4 110034 0 h .1 110B . 16 l hi con ds B t it tiiy dubad a list by Town Clerk Norman Bolâ€" due. The list will be prepared and discussed further at the next meetâ€" img of the committee. The various committees of counâ€" cil expect to spend the same as last ear. Fire and Light will require Â¥10,700; town property, $2,000; sewer committee, $3,200; police, $6,000; Board of Works, $7,000; and garbage, $3,400. The town property committee will consider reâ€" g::ring and painting of the town 1, and the providing of a Board of Health office in . the basement. Ald. Welker suggested that $200 be spent on a dam for the sewer farm to keep the effluent clean. A vault for the town hall will not likely be considered until 1938, but $50 was provided for a new filing cabinet. Other items of expenditure proâ€" vided for were $5,907 for the Park board, $2,000 for the Board of Health, $21,354 for the Collegiate Board, $13,680 for the Separate school board and $4,373 for the Library Board. Included in grants were the folâ€" lowing: Waterloo Musical Society, $2,000; Victorian Order of Nurses, $1200; St. Mary‘s Hospital, $300; Horticultural Society, $150; Airport Commission, $25.12; Humane Soâ€" ciety $50; Cricket Club, $25, and Waterloo Salvation Army $25. The Cricket Club was provided for since they are playing hosts to the famous English Marylebone C. C. this summer, Waterloo being one of the three cities in which the club will play. \ Ald. Sturm‘s statement | that fencing off the new ball park would be a white elephant, no ball park ever paying profits," drew replies from Ald. Brill and Ald. Welker, who held the town needed a fenced enclosure. K1TCHENBR.â€"Dr. Fischer, pathoâ€" logist at the K.â€"W., and St. Mary‘s hospitals. has been chosen to perâ€" form autopsies, Dr. Ward Woolner of Ayr. chief coroner of Waterloo counâ€" ty. announces. As the chef coroner lives at the extreme end cf the counâ€" ty. permission is given tc all coroâ€" pers to proceed with their work at once and to report to bim &s soon as possible afterwards No l})proximnte rate was disâ€" ssed for the 1937 Waterloo tax SPRING SAMPLES 9 HAVE ® * ARRIVED! John BRUEGEMAN _ THE TAILOR King St. S. â€" W AUTOPSIST IS NAMED Be measured for your Spring Suit now. Avoid the Easter Devonshire Suits $24 . Buy your Suits from a Tailor and get a good fit. Waterloo The date of the regional meeting arranged by the Ontario Associated Board of Trade has been set for Wa terloo for Monday March 8. The exe cutive of the Waterloo Board of Trade chose the date from several sub gritted by President Russel T. Kelly of March 8 Set for Regional Meeting WAYS, Ga.â€"Henry Ford advised all workers to "stay out of labor orâ€" ganizations," and charged, "Internaâ€" tional financiers are behind the labor unions." ‘The Detroit automobile manufacâ€" turer, in an interview, also criticized ! the proposal to‘increase the number lo: Supreme Court Justices. GALT.â€"Brantford Drama League‘s . production of "A Sunny Morning", a , Spanish fantasy, won the Hanna Shield, highest award in the Westâ€" ern Ontario drama festival, which concluded here Saturday night. The| Brantford players will represent the district in the Dominion drama festiâ€" val at Ottawa. I the Ontario Body Mrs. Hughes Wins Brickenden Medal For Best Woman‘s Performance at Drama League Contests at Galt. Bart Sullivan of the Loretto Playâ€" ers, Hamilton, @irector and star, received the Jordan Memorial Medal for his performance as Peggotty in David Copperfield, best performance given by a man during the festival. Lauraine Hughes, Kitchener/Watâ€" erloo player, was awarded the Brickâ€" enden Medal for what Mr. De Warâ€" faz, adjudicator, declared was the best ‘characterization he had ever seen of Mrs. Keeney, the captain‘s wife in ‘He", presented Friday night. The Brickenden Medal, is an annual award for the best performance by a woman. Henry Ford Tells Workers to Avoid UnionOrganizatjons iee e t m e International financiers," said Ford. "are behind the labor unions because they want to control indusâ€" try and kill competition. They are the cause of all these strikes." LUNLISLIAL FACTS REVEALED THE WATERLOO CHRONICLE Park Board Asks One Mill Rate Wil Instal Fire Hydrant This Year.â€"Consider Fencing. The annua) financial report showed a surplus of $840.63 on the year‘s uperations. Receipts totalled $7,056, o‘ which $5,891 was the town grant, ard A. Kerschenbaum with $1,000 o which $870.30 was paid on debenâ€" tures. $900 will be expended this year by the Waterloo Park Board on the inâ€" stallation of a fire hydrant near the Grand Stand in Waterloo Park, to provide much needed fire protection. The Board agreed on this at their meeling a few days ago. Crosshill Car Chairman W.iC. Toletzki suggested that the new Mballs grounds should be fenced at a cost of $2,000. The matter will be looked into fully the next meeting. ‘The grounds will be seeded this summer at a cost of over $300. ‘The board will again ask the town council for their one mill grant as provided for in statute. Mrs. Wm. Voll Suffers Painful Inâ€" juries.â€"Returning from Funeral. (By Chronicle Correspondent) CROSSHILL.â€"Four persons were injured, one serious«ly, when the car in which they were riding turned over on the 3rd line Wellesley road, half a mile south of here, shortly after noon on Monday. _ _ _ _ Mr. and Mrs. William Voll and son Arthur and Alfred Hahn were returning in the Voll car from the funeral of Mrs. Rudy Bast, when the car struck a dog owned by Samuel Erb. The driver lost control of the car, which capsized in the ditch. Mrs. Voll was the most seâ€" verely injured, suffering many body bruises and facial injuries, along with a general shaking up. She was removed to her home and a doctor called. The other occupants of the car escaped with a shaking up. NEW MANAGER KITCHENER.â€"Albert J. Stockie has been named as suecessor to H. A. Brohman, manager of the local store of Scarfe and Company, who have been moved to North Bay. car is a complete wreck. Total Wreck OTTAWA.â€"Finance Minister Dunâ€" ning will submit his budget to the House of Commons on Thursday, Feb. %5, be told the House of Comâ€" mons Friday. It is hoped the new trade treaty with Grest Britain will be signed ‘before then, and, if so, the treaty will form part of the Budget. Alex Potter to Move to New Position Retiring in June next from the post of secretary of Rotary Internaâ€" tional, at Zurich, Switzerland, Roâ€" tarian Alex O. Potter, a former dean of Waterloo College, will take over the post of assistant to the President of Rotary in the United States. Slays Mother _ Of 7 Children SAULT STE. MARIE.â€"Mrs. Berâ€" nard Mertes, mother of seven chilâ€" dren, was shot to death on the doorâ€" step of a neighbor‘s home here Sunâ€" cay night by Robert MacPherson, who afterwards killed himself. Police said today that MacPherson had written a threatening letter to Mrs. Mertes some dl{l ago. The woman‘s brother, Adoliph Samuels, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., confirmed receipt of the letter. MacPherson, 25â€"yearâ€"old bachelor inquiry int and resident of Tarentorus TOWMâ€" Onjario R ship, went to the Mertes home at py pr G, | 10.35 o‘clock Sunday night. He @APâ€" Inspector parently entered through the coal Wemgbon‘ chute, police said, and he had cut _ y oN the telephone wires. Munro. ref In the house with Mrs Mertes were Theresa McCoy, a maid; Herb Myers and the Mertes children, the eldest of whom is 11. Her husband, Bernard Mertes, Algoma Central Railway engineer, was at Michipiâ€" coten. _ Meet in Hall. When MacPherson entered, Mrs. Mertes was upstairs with the chilâ€" dren. When she started to come, down, the man went up, and they met in the hzl‘l’ An altercation en-‘ sued. Police faid the man produced a weapon which they described as a | "homeâ€"made" potato masher, and attempted to strike the woman. Myers and the maid intervened and took the weapon from him. Mrs. Mertes fled from the house, screaming, followed by her assailâ€" ant. She ran to the home of Sydney Deakin, her nearest neighbor. Macâ€" Pherson, producing a .32â€"calibre revolver, followed, police said. He caught up with her on Deakin‘s doorstep and fired two shots into her left breast. . As she slumped to the ground, he turned the gun on himâ€" self and shot himself twice in the chest. He fell dead within a few feet of his victim. Preston Woman Found Drowned PRESTON.â€" The body of Elsie Nicholls, 29, was found in two feet of water in the Speed River Sunâ€" day. The woman is thought to have lost her balance or fainted while gathering shells along the bank. The total area devoted to the ‘prinâ€" cipal field crops in Canada in 1936 was 57,662,550 acres, an increase of 646,090 acres over 1985, but 870,900 acres less than the area sown in 1933. Sault Ste. 32 KING ST. N. BEDFORD‘S . D. A. DRUG STORE N. Opp. Post Office WQTBRLOO Phone 131 + Free Delivery RD EC and _ KITCHENERâ€"A young girl on nan. Thursday evening scared away a and Youth of about 16 who attempted to snatch her purse, police state. The use, 4 hung on to her hand bag and cai‘ shouted loudly for help. Compulsory Schools ‘ For Hliterates Mrs. Edward F. Seagram and chilâ€" dren of Waterloo left on Saturday for Birmingham, Alabama, where they will spend the remainder of the winter. ‘Mrs. M. S. Hallman, Waterloo, wa&s a guest of her sister, Mrs. W. . Long at Brantford. for illiterate prisoners and nearâ€" illiterates was récommended at the inquiry into Jan. 17 riots at the Ontario Reformatory here Friday i INJURED IN EXPLOSION _ ‘ EDMONTON.â€"Six miners were |injured, two seriously, in a terrific gas explosion late Saturday in the Pern Mine operated by Kelstar Coals, Ltd., 15 miles north of Edmonton. One victim was not expected to live. The blast occurred 24 hours after anâ€" other miner, Mike Betchuk, was drowned in the same mine. by Dr. G. G. McNab, Public School Inspector for Guelph and South Dr. McNab declared he told A. W. Munro, reformatory teacher, he was spending too much time directing and not teaching. "Since then the situation has been better," said the inspector, who declared technical inâ€" struction given prisoners amounted to little. He said one instruction difficulty was the short term of prisoners. Young Girl Foils Purse Snatcher TAKES OVER AGENCY . A. G. Euler, prominent King street merchant, has taken over the Waterloo agency ‘of the Westingâ€" house electrical appliances. Mr. Euler can now offer Waterloo and district public washing machings, radios, refrigerators, and many other such home appliances. ; ADJOURNMENTS Among adjournments given by Maâ€" gistrate Blake in Kitchener police court ‘Tuesday were the cases of reckless driving against a Breslau man, adjourned to Feb. 19, and of a township resident charged with exâ€" tortion, remanded for one week. GUELPH.â€"Compulsory schooling King and Water Sts. Personals KITCHENER PAGE THREE