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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1952-01-03, Page 3itgatukus&iwuziaiduaiitvirteleMetetelattelEtatatet., The Westinghouse BELLEVUE ... • A Fully Automatic Radio -Phonograph Combination with exclusive CUSTOM CRAFT CABINET TRUE TONE REPRODUCTION Walnut - Mahogany -- Blonde Oak "You Can be sure . . if it's WESTINGHOUSE!" Y., Clinton Electric Shop. D W. Cornish -- WESTINGHOUSE DEALERS - PHONE 479 -- Residence 358 "Every House Needs Westinghouse!" ffi i9i 00/4 1-2041ii tlr7A0000111 102171 it rli2MM AiiMo-%itPr7pil:Yt t mo riammiro 31 TIAIIISDAY, JANUARY $, :1952 • Let's Chat . A Woman's 'Viewpoint on This and That By MBA HAPPY New Year to everyone and may it bring prosperity and happiness toe all cur readers , • * +� WE dpn't know how you feel about it, but as long as we can remember, we always have had •a hollow, empty feeling within us after the joy and hustle of the, Christmas and holiday sea- son January is such, a long and dreary month and it will seem especially so this year, when we already have an ordinary Winter behind us .. Ah, well, maybe the January thaw which, like our winter, is starting early (we hope -we are, writing. this Saturday, December 29, and it really • is thawing), will clean away the embankments of the dirty white stuff which make the maim street of Clinton look like a beleaguered,, town, with one side of the street having its battlements ready to resist an at- tack from the other side , , . The forticatiens, used in old-time war- fare, such as at Annapolis Royal or old Fort Henry have nothing on Clinton today . , All we need are the Redcoats and mus- kets to complete the picture .., , * * IN spite of all our grumbling we really had the most enjoyable holiday season we have had in Clinton , The reason -- no paper to get out under very try- ing circumstances (not that we contribute much to such an ef- fort -but we suffer indirectly) ... When others are visiting and entertaining families and friends, except :for a few brief hours on Christmas Day, work around here has continued as usual .. . And more so, because always, with a day short in the week, it means extra hours the other days arid nights, so we were enormously pleased when the decision not to publish • was announced . . For once, we felt, we could gain the -aEreeratielal A tootin' trainload of happy holiday wishes we send your way for A Wonderful New Year! Stanley Bros. Modern Meat Market and STAFF: Orville Stanley Burton Stanley Del Jervis Bob Ostler Grant Irwin Seep Koldyke Earl Knoblauch r ararr ti ni9t heat .yraiowift 4* -I- -•-t • 4, CLINTON' NEWS-TtgCORD Proper perspective toward the happiness, of the C4114as: tea' son, and live a normal life like other people ., And with a few exceptions (such as now, Satur- day afternoon, Writing a column en orders) it has meant a joyful season , * k* THE outstanding dance of -the holiday season for a nurnber of years has been the flpspital Auxiliary Christmas Ball and this year was no *exc exception* . THE Collegiate Auditorium, colorfully decorated with red and green crepe paper streamers trade an attractive setting for the dancing to music by Ross Pearce and his orchestra , RECEIVING the guests were Mrs. D, J. Lane, president of the Auxiliary, Mrs. Frank F;ingland, immediate past president and Rev. D. J. Lane ''8 * i MANY special features made the "Ball" a gala event ... There was a door prize won by W/O Sidney Jones, numerous lucky 'pot dances, balloons, serpentine, Paul ,tones, rye waltz and Several square dances, with Willis Van- Egmond as caller , , * * * DELICIOUS refreshments were served in the school gymnasium urider the convenership of Mrs, R. la . P, l:ulteel and Mrs. Jack Leiper ... A large serving table, attractive with silver candelabra with green candles, centred the room and seating arrangements circled the table . Miss Win O'Neil and Mrs, Lillian McKinnon looked after the tickets and Mrs. C. H. Epps ° was the capable con- vener in charge of the dance .. . LONDESBORO Londesboro WA The regular meeting of Lon- desboro WA was held in the Sun- day School room of the church en Wednesday, Dec. 19, with the president, Mrs. S. Shobbrook, in charge. After the call to worship, a hymn •was sung. The scripture was read" by Mrs. C. Vincent, followed by prayer and another hymn, The minutes of the last meeting wereread and adopted, Cards of appreciation were read from the Lyon family, Frank 1'1 Tamblyn, and the Youngblut family. Treasurer's report was given. A committee was named to plan a banquet for the local Young People's Union. The nominating committee gave its report. The roll was called. The programme committee for January was announced: Mrs. J. H. Shobbrook and Mrs. F. ,Tamb- lyn. Piano duett by Mrs. Bren- ton and Mrs. T. Allen. Reading by Mrs. R. Fairservice, "Origin of Christma! 'Carols." Mrs. Bren- ton read a Christmas story. Hymn was sung, followed by the Benediction. While the ladies were preparing lunch Mrs. R. Fairservice conducted a Christ- mas. contest. There were 18 present, PORTER'S HILL H Grace Church WA The Woman's Association 'of Grace Church • held its annual meeting at the home of Mrs. Gordon Manning. Mrs. A. Harris presided over the meeting which opened with singing "0 Little Town of Bethlehem" end repeat- ing the Lord's Prayer in unison. Mrs. Gordon Manning read the Scripture. The secretary -treasurer Mrs. P. Harrison, gave a very complete and encouraging report of the year's work and reported a substantial sum of money made during the year. It was voted that $230 be paid the Stewards f=ir 'parsonage repairs and $25 to the M and M Fund. Mrs. • Renner presided for the election of officers for the com- ing year which resulted as fol- lows: President, Mrs. Donald Harris; vice-president, Mrs. Wil- mer Harrison; escretary-treasurer, Mrs. Peter Harrison; assistant secretary -treasurer, Mrs. Alvin Betties; pianist, Mrs. Will` Cox; assistant pianist, Mrs. /A. Lock- hart; Out ,remaining committees to i 4.1d by the executive. T leirnieeting closed with sing- ing "J'4' to the World" and the hostess and• .her assistants, served a 'delicious lunch The January meeting will be at the heme of Mrs. Allen Bettles. Men's Club Formed• At Wesley -Willis A Men's Club has been or- ganized at Wesley -Willis Church. Officers were elected at a rep- resentative meeting held in the church: Preside_iit, Robert N. Irwin; vice-president, Leslie Ball; secretary -treasurer, •W i 311 a ni .Grigg. It is planned, to complete the executive at a meeting to be held shoaly. Members of the nominating committee were Lester Martin, T. J. Riley and G. H, Jefferson. . r�i o*.rir 1.1011111111% t= �.s. ora ®a r.urtoAn Aft w�egrM 4421,011411110A 44181114,121MINAreez.am4o41 .y es. ,, of w- U105003=1161 , ,„,1440141M1 W917.1=1 IMVICAMO, WESMEMT:k. MOW VA to `V':7.`".'?in'5.1.1ANrAg^+"7At, aR071A' eM ssxsYsA satxo- s. a;.. nosh tat in a MillateNfol 1111414614101 84211=1114111%,- 11111111.1.41111A1 b1,11111111.11104,51414..._ eat tometamPismaramati trwrigommovimun AIRIMEENIammisiaawilwamoaw-.11041/0117 n, rZa=2,tIG4^.P! tzes a a tit+ .--r_ VV` ., l !alit „ i.ntiud. ' May it be a Prosperous One. W. E0 MANAG �A Plasternig and Stucco CLINTON ?HONE 624 a *4-.=: 3 i Obituary ,TAMES P, BOWEY A former general storekeeper at Brucefield and Kippen, James P Bowey, one of Exeter's best kriown businessmen, died sudden- ly at his residence on Thursday, December 27, in WS 59th year, following .a Stroke.. A Masonic service under aus- pice$ of Lebanon Lodge No. 133, Exeter, was held at the Hopper- Hockey Funeral Home, Exeter, Saturday afternoon, December 29, conducted by Rev, H. J. Snell, Exeter, and Rev. R. R. Connor, London. Temporary entombment Was made in Exeter mausoleum, to be followed later by interment in Baird's Cemetery, Stanley Township. Mr. Bowey had been advised by his physician recently to go to Arizona, and was =Wing preparations to leave in two weeks. He was born in Ilderton, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bowey, and before moving there 20 years ago, had conducted gen- eral stores at Brucefield and Kip - pen. After moving to Exeter, he conducted a coal yard and gen- eral insurance business. He was an active member of James Street United Church, of the IOOF Lodge, was treasurer of Lebanon. Forest Masonic Lodge. and had been secretary of Exeter Lions Club for ten years, At the last regular meeting a presenta- tion was made to him honoring his work for the decade. Since the death of his wife three yearsago, his sister, Mrs. Olive Grainger, has. made her, home with. him. . Surviving also are two other sisters: Edyth, Brucefield, and Mrs. J. R. Calvert, Ilderton. JOHN JAMES CONN.ELL Funeral service was held on Wednesday afternoon, December 26, for John James Connell, son of the late James and Mary Con- nell, who died on Sunday, De- cember 23, at his home in Gode- rich Township. The deceased was born in October, 1871 on the ; family homestead and lived there farming, all his life. He was a member of Wesley -Willis United Church. - 1 Surviving are two sisters: Mrs. Mary Wilson, Stratford; Mrs. 'John Read, Regina, Sask.; and two brothers: Harry and George, Goderich, - Township. Funeral service was conducted from the Ball and Mutch funeral home, Clinton, by Rev. Hugh C. Wilson, with interment in Clin- ton Cemetery. i Pall -bearers were John Perdue, William Vodden, John Stirling, William Pickett, John Grigg and Charles Wise.. Flowerbearers were: Donald Colclough, Elwin McCullough, Harold Tyndall and Harvey Mc- Gee. , MRS. WILLIAM RATH Funeral service for Mrs. Mary Moore • Rath, widow of the late William. Rath, was held in Ball and Mu;tbh • Funeral Home, Clin- ton, Friday afternoon, December 14. She was iry her 84th yexi'. Rev. H. C. Wilson eceaducted the service, and interment was in Clinton Cemetery. Pallbearers were: four neph- ews, William Moore, Harold Moore. Lloyd Moore, E. C. Nickle; and Wilbur Welsh, Alex, Cud - more. Mrs. Rath was horn in Carle- ton Place, and moved to. Clinton in early childhood. She trained to be a nurse in Kingston, and then returned. -to Clinton, where she cared for her mother for some years,. Attending the funeral from out of town were: Mrs. George Lockridge, Detroit; Mrs, W. J. Moore, Goderich; Miss Mary Moore,' Mr. and Mrs.. Harold Moore, Toronto; and Miss May Nickie, London. HELEN WINN(FRED'HOLMES Funeral service for Miss Helen Wdnnifred Holmes, whodied in Toronto, was held in the Ball and Mutch Funeral Home; Clin- ton, on December 13; '1951, at 1 per.: and was in charge of Rev, H. Wilson. Interment was in Clintd,,h� Cemetery. Pall -bearers were Harry D. Ball, Dr. F. G. Thompson, Frank Mutch and Robert Irwin. Miss Holmes was the daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Holmes. Her father was minister of Wesley :Church before Union. Miss Holmes graduated from Wellesley Hospital in 1925, and practised as a registered nurse in Toronto General Hospital for the past 26 years. On her visits here in Clinton she was noted for being. a very cheerful person. Surviving are three sisters: Mrs. Lance Daverne, Miss Ethel Holmes, both of To- ronto, who attended the funeral; Mrs. Allan Vatcher, Newfound- land; and one brdther, Chesley Holmes, Newfoundland. 'ROBERT McBRIDE Funeral service was held from Bonthron funeral home, Hensall, , Wednesday, December 2d, for Robert McBride, Kippen, with Rev. A. E. Hinton officiating. lvlr. McBride was for many years one of the best known farmers of Stanley Township. He farmed on the Goshen Line most of his life, and retired to Kippen ten, years ago. He was a mein- ber of the St. Andrew's United Church, .Kippen. He fell down . the basement steps at his hbme in Kippen, fracturing his hip, and was taken to Clintoh Public Hospital. He died one 'week later, on Monday evening, December 23. Surviving besides his wife, for- merly Emma Willett, are seven sons, Wilburt, Kitchener; Leon- ard and Lorne, Windsor; Alvin and Edgar, Kippen; Elmore and Walter, Exeter; two daughters, Mrs, Edgar Snell, Camrdse, Al- berta; Mrs. Stewart Beattie, Wingham;° three brothers:14J6hn, Zuri1h .carnes and Samuel, Stan- ley Township; and three sisters, Mrs. C. Stephenson, Ilensa1l; Mrs. Alvin Nicholson, Saskatchewan, and Mrs, Maud Schnell, Edmon- ton., Alta. t JAMES MacKENZIE A fanner Clinton resident, James MacKenzie, passed away at Long Beach, Cal,iforn,ie, and was buried et Coinptpn, Calif, Mr, MacKenzie was berm in Clinton in 1878, and mov4 to Aberdeen, South Dakota, about 1900, where he married Miss Myrtle Ives in the next ,year. With the :exception of five years spent in Jamestown, N,D., betwoeri, 1915 -and 1926, he work- ed for a local wholesale firm in Aberdeen,, until moving to Calif- ornia in 1934, He was a pram. inert member in the Elks lodge, and a longtime member of the ilniteid Commercial Travellers, During World War 11, he managed a service station in Long Beach, Sut.viving are three daughters, Mrs. Helen M, Woods, Los Ang- eles, Calif.; Mrs. Charles Triplett, and Mrs. Martin • J. Miller, both of Des Moines, Iowa; and two sisters, Hannah MacKenzie, Strathroy, Ont.; and Mrs. Eleanor Kutaborsky, La Crosse, Wis. Two grandchildren also survive, His wfie preceded him in death sev- eral years ago. - JOSEPH MANN Rev, A. Glen Eagle, minister of Ontario St. United Church, Clinton, of which deceased was a member, conducted funeral ser- vices Friday afternoon last, De- cember 28, for the late Joseph Mann, who had farmed all his life in Hullett Township. He was very well known. The funeral was held from the Ball and Mutch Funeral Home, Clinton, to Clinton Cemetery, Pallbearers were Lloyd Rumball, Joseph Flynn, Stanley Collins, Frank Stone, Henry Glew and Theodore Dale. Deceased died in Scott Mem- orial Hospital, Seaforth, on Wed- nesday, December 26, in his 79th year. Surviving are one sister, Miss Sarah Jane Mann, Hullett Town- ship. He was unmarried. He was a son of the late George and Emma Mann. EDGAR L. MOGRIDGE (By our Auburn correspondent) Herbert Mogridge has received word of the death at Whittier, California, of his brother, Edgar L., 70, a former resident of Londesboro. Surviving besides his brother at Auburn, is one daughter, Mrs. Davies, New Mexico. His wife, formerly Clara Bum - stead, of Meaford, died several years ago. GIFFORD CRICH. A well-known and , highiy- esteeined farmer, Gifford Crich, passed• away at his home in Tuekersmith Township, Tuesday, December 18, in his 771h year, The sudden passing of Mr, Crich came as a shock to the emne munity, ' Mr. Crich had been h good health, tintil about three months ago, when he suffered a alight stroke, He had _made a good recovery and was able to be about again. His sudden pas- sing came without warning. Mr. Crich was born on the Crich homestead on February 18, 1875, being the youngest son of the late James and Elizabeth Crich. He spent his entire life on the farm. In D'acember, 1900, he married Maude Montgomery, Hullett Township, who survives; Ow one son, Ernest, on the farm and one daughter, (Edna), Mrs. Oliver Cole, Goderich Township; six grandchildren and one great grandchild, One sister, Mrs. Selena Ball, Clinton, also sur- vives ur-vive' One year ago Dec. 19, Mr. and Mrs. Crich celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home, assisted by Mrs, Clayton Martin, a niece, Miss Doris Cole, a granddaughter, and Mrs, Roy Connell, a niece. ` The funeral was held fromthe Beattie Funeral Horne, Clinton, on Thursday, December 20. Rev. A. Glen Eagle, of\Turner's Unit- ed Church, officiated. Interment was in Clinton Cemetery. Pallbearers were Howard Crich, Welke Crich, Ezra Ellis, Fred Pepper, Jack Turner and W. P. Roberts.. Flowerbearers were Alden and Donald Crich, Roy Connell and Fletcher Townsend. MRS. R. M. GALE (By our Bayfield correspondent) j The ovow mer pastobelr ofed Stwid. Andrewof'sa Unifort- ed Church, Bayfield, passed away at the home of her daughter, Grape United Church manse, Port Dover, on Saturday, Dec. 15, 1951, in the person of Mrs. R. M, Gale. The deceased woman, who was 87, was born in Brantford, and before her marriage was Miss Mary Struthers.- For a number of years they resided on the Gale homestead in the Elora district and here they raised their family 1 of seven children. Mr. Gale gave up farming to do missionary work in Northern Ontario and, after his ordination . in the Pres-. byterian Church', Mrs, Gale filled: her position of Mistress of the Manse most efficiently, endear- ing herself to ell by her gentle charrn and •kindly thought of others. Although she was great- ' ly handicapped as the result of a broken hip which she suffered at St. Paul's ractorate ear Chat- ham where they were stationed tir .PAGE THREE ten years before coming to flay+ field in 1926, Mrs. Gale was Al** ways cheerful and took a prom'. inent ,Dart in the WMS and 'WA 'work, Rpv. R. M. Gale died mere in 1840 and since that' tiriie .Mrs, Gale has lived =with her childr- ren, spending most i her time with her two daughters, Beulah (Mrs. A. A, McIntyre), Wrater- loo, and Gladys (Mrs, George; Morley), Port Dover, Site is also survived by dour Icons, Rev, James Gale, Ridgeway; Professor E. 1. 'Gale, Norland John, Aima;; and Robert, Elora, A daughter, !Harriett .(1V.irs. Melville Reid), Pinkerton, predeceased her par- ents, i The funeral was held from the Thompson Funeral Horne, Port Dover, on Tuesday, Dec. 18, at ll a.rn„ the service being con- ducted by the Rev; L, A. Knox, Nanticoke, after which, the core Legge oceeded to Elora an in- terse-entprwas made " in 1"ilora Cenleteiry, MRS, BEATRICE: A. CHERRY (By our Bayfield correspondent) Word was received by Mrs. Hazel Murray, Owen Sound, for, merly of Bayfield, of the death of Mrs. Beatrice A. Cherry, nee Beatrice q. Brown, Sylvania, Ohio, formerly of Bayfield. She was born in Bayfield March 29, 1900, only daughter of the late Robert and Annie Brown, sister of Alex, Bayfield, and William, Windsor. Funeral services were • held at Reeb Funeral Home, Sylvania Ohio, conducted by Rev. Earl' Buck. Singers were Mrs. May Daggott and Mrs. Garnetta Baum; organist, Ronald Adams. Pallbearers were: Earl Laugh- lin; Robert Laughlin, Praul Coop- er, Dextor Bunting, Harold Runt- *ey, James Laney. 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