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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1956
FROM A FARMER'S WIFE . . .
PERUSING WITH interest all comment in'
neighbour weeklies concerning the planning for
Friday night shopping, rather than Saturday
tight, we came across this exposition on the side
of the farmer. A farmer's wife writes a line to
the editor of the Signal-Star, thus;
". . . I can. easily see that merchants pave
never farmed, stating the farmers would like
Saturday night "free" for their own entertain-
ment. I suppose they have never thought that
it is the only entertainment the majority of
farmers have getting out Saturday nights to
shop.
"It is eight o'clock when the gets his
Work done and is ready to go away. Yet they
consider closing at nine p,m, You're in such a
rush to' get there before the stores close and
when you do get there you can't find a place
to park. The town people can get up street by
7 o'clock and have, the gaod places' to park so
they can watch the farmers lug their, groceries
around.
"NO' doubt the clerks are tired by the end
of the day but so are the farmers working out in
the hot sun. They have no electric fans either
and Sunday mornings they have to get up as
FIRE
APRIL 1: ALL F'OOL'S DAY, Easter Sun-
day, the end of Lent, the last of March and her
Lion-like tactics, the beginning of the Cancer
campaign for funds in many parts of Ontario,
all of -these things and more.
April 1 is also the beginning of the annual
season of forest fire hazards, in, this province.
Though the weather outside may seem the
soppiest ever, and the chance for a fire in any
of the wooded areas seems• small right now-the
beginning of April marks the beginnings of the
summer time, and that is when Ontario annually
loses millions of dollars through forest fires.
Tourist travel is expected to increase this
year, and extreme care with fire in any form
early as any other morning.
"I think the best way to settle this mat--
ter is to have m6chants exchange places with
the farmers for one year, Then, they would
gladly crawl back to town for a rest."
There really is not too much to be added
to that, is there?
However, as far as the last paragraph goes,
'we doubt that the farmers could stick out the
town living for a year, Not the least of their
worries would be that with the "inefficient
merchant" (inefficient at farming, we mean) on
the farm, the replacement merchants. in town
would be going mighty hungry before the year
was out.
Actually, the lot of the farmer nowadays,
though hard enough, is not as bad is it was
before the era of machines. The time when a
farmer took a bath once a week to go to town
to , shop and be ready for Sunday the next day
is gone--at least it most certainly should be
gone-forever.
The majority of farm folk are as well dres-
sed, and are well 'dressed just as often, as their
townsfolk contemporaries-and they find even-
ing shopping as easy one night as any other.
SEASON
in the woods• is urged by the Minister of Lands•
and Forests. Mr. Mapledorum has 'told the
House of Commons that preparation of restoring
maintenance equipment is underway, and the
Department will buy two additional Otter air-
craft, and two additional helicopters also will
be used. Ten new steel lookout towers are to
be erected.
However, these plans are for control of
fires after they are started. The most import-
ant part is the prevention of fires, and to this
end a program of education, is underway.
The job res'ts upon the individual, and the
co-operation of each ,and every tourist and
resident is essential during the fire season.
PAY FOR IT
(Exeter Times-Advocate)
MEMBERS of the Ontario Legislature voted
themselves a pay raise last week. They now
will get $5,400 plus a travelling allowance, com-
pared, to the $3.900 they have been getting- a
year.
We've a hunch the public helped to bring
this added expense on itself.
We recently dropped in on Tom Pryde in
his Exeter office 'when he was writing checks.
I asked him if he was 'always writing checks,
The answer, apparently, was yes.
He showed me some stubs-$10 to this
agriculture society; $5 to a W.I.; a trophy for
this organization; an ad for that one; ra cons
tribution_ to this society; a donation to that one.
Then there's the trips to Torento, entertain-
ing delegations, 'raffle tickets, meals, meetings,.
banquets, etc.
Everybody wants something for nothing from
his member of parliament.
So why shouldn't they get paid for it?
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Rexall Spring 1' Cent Sale
More Than 250 Special Bargains
including
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PIPES -FIRST AID NEEDS - SHAVING
NEEDS - Etc.
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April 18 - 19 - 20 - 21
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40 Years Ago
- CLINTON NEWS4ECORD
Thursday, March 30, 1916
Hogs are again soarinx -after a
drop last week. D, Cantelon in-
formed the News-Record that he
would pay $10.25 for hogs on the
hoof.
Mrs. T. J. Elliott, who has'been
a resident of 33rueefield for some
ale years, leaves 'this week for
Uxbridge.
Earl Palmer, ledger-keeper in
the Royal Bank, has •enlisted in the
161st.
Miss Etta Cole, daughter of T.
H, Cole, Gr oderich Township, has
taken the position of clerk in
Sheppard's grocery,
Miss Olive Cooper was a visitor
in Toronto over the weekend,
E, Ward, Bayfield, was hi Clin-
ton on Friday.
25 Years Ago
CLINTON., NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, April 2, 1931
Eddie Scruton who has, been
with I3artliff, ,and Crich for some
time, has taken a position in Zur-
ich and left Monday for that town.
W. Hutch, accountant on the
Royal Bank staff, is being trans-
ferred to, the Midland branch. D.
M. Gibbs, Bridgeburg, comes to the
Clinton branch.
Joseph Clegg, Grey Township,
has purchased the Biggins farm on
the London Road.
Horace Wiltse motored over
from Detroit on Sunday bringing
his mother home.
Mrs. J. Torrance and Miss Maud
Torrance, who have been spending
the winter in Toronto, returned to
their home in town on Friday.
Miss Isabel Chowen spent a few
days over the weekend in St.
Thomas.
Me Allen of the Collegiate staff
spent the weekend in Toronto.
•
"The Story of L. M. Montgom-
ery" by Hilda N. Ridley, is a fas-
cinating book for anyone who has
read Anne of Green Gables, Emily
of New Moon, or any of the others
in the famous series of books, but
particularly so if the reader is also
interested in writing.
It tells, Among other details, how
much of the Various stories is aut-
obiographical-a point very im-
portant to a would-be writer of
fiction. - How much should be tak-
en from real life? How much
depend on invention? The ans-
wer to be gleaned from Lucy
Maud's story would seem to be
that all successful 'writing must
come from the heart and so must
have a solid basis in feeling, if not
in fact.
Emily Of New Moon never 'be-
came as world-famous as Anne of
Green Gables, perhaps because she
was published in the Roaring
Twenties, when the quiet pastoral
scene was not so much in vogue,
but her story as a neophyte writer
closely parallels' that of the auth-
Or, As a, sort of handbook for
youthful writers,, the Emily ser-
ies is as valuable now as when' it
was written-or lived, for that
matter,
There was always a new Anne
or Emily book among my Christ-
mas presents and they were read
over and over again-the only
"girl's books" that ever rated re-
reading, to my mind. I usually
liked my brother's adventure stor-
ies better than my own books, but
there was nothing stuffy about
Anne or Emily-they were real
people.
If I could make any criticism
now of these chronicles• of -child-
hood and youth, it would be only
that they made my own life and
personality seem colorless and un-
eventful by contrast. The child-
ren, so vividly drawn, were so in-
tensely aware of beauty and en-
chantment that I scorned my own
thoughts and fancies• in admiration
and respect of their superior ones.
The day has come in -the far.
East when a Hindu says to a Mus-
lim, "My brother it is your Christ-
ian duty to' do that." Such a de-
claration comes largely through
the influence of the Bible in the
Urdu, or Hindustani language..
The strength of the new way of
life this book introduced into In-
dia is seen also in the way Christ-
ians there were trusted by both
Muslims 'and Hindus when the
British withdrew and these two
peoples passed through a self-im-
posed reign of teeror: •
It was during this period of
transition that Christians painted
white crosses on their doors• and
gave refuge to both Muslims and
Hindus and both governments us-
ed Christians' widely in refugee
camps.
"Bibles, Bibles, 'more Bibles" is
the demand everywhere in these
countries today. "We cannot keep
enough Bibles in stock," complain-
ed an official of the Bible Society
of India, Pakistan and Ceylon re-
cently. .The British and Foreign
Bible Society responded with a
gift of ninety-one tons of Bible
paper from Landon.
The name' 'Urdu' comes from the
time 500 years ago when the Mus-
lim inv'ad'ers swarmed' over the
Northern mountains of India. They
set up a King's Palace in Delhi.
The King's soldiers camped close
about 'the palace walls. As they
mingled with the native peoples
in the market place they learned
their Hindustani language. -How-
ever, with it they mixed many of
their own. Arable and Persian
words. "Urdu" was' the 'camp
language' which emerged. The
script used in Persian.
By 1809, four years after he ar-
rived in India as a Chaplain, Hen-
ry Martyn had translated the en-
tire new Testament in Urche His
little committee of Indian advisers
often worked four days over two
chapters. The translation was so
nearly perfect that it has been
compared to Tyndale's and Cover-
dale's work in the translation of
the Bible into English.
Suggested readings for t h e
week:
Sunday-John 20: 1-18
Monday-John 20:19-31
Tuesday-John 21: 1-25
Wednesday-Heb, 2: 1-18
Thursday-Heb. 3: 1-19 -
Friday-Heb. 4:1-16
Saturday-Heb. 6: 1-20
•
Canadian labor' income contin.
ties to increase. The August, 1954
total of $1,014,000,000 topped July
earning by '$4,000,000 and last
year's August by $20,000,000.
• 10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEW5-RECORD
Thursday, April 4, 1949
Town Council' has set the tax
rate for 1946 at 45 mills'. The
new rate is two mills higher than
in 1 945 Thelong awaited call for tend-
ers for Clinton's sewerage syetem
and sewage treatment plant has
been made. Bids close April 23.
Something new in the way of
pets are five Canada geese just
received by Wilfred Glazier, RR 4,
Clinton, from the Jack Miner bird
Sanctuary near Kingsville.
Miss Edith Paterson, Owen
Sound, spent the weekend as the
guest of Mr. and Mrs, W.• N.
Counter.
layr Tideswell and Clifford
Cooper, Hespeler, spent the week-
end at their respective homes here.
Beft Irwin, president of Hullett
Federation of Agriculture, is' re-
cuperating at his home following
an oPeration in Clinton Public
Hospital.
'Clinton Colts were guests of the
hockey club at a closing turkey
banquet in Glennie's Restaurant
Saturday evening.
The boy vocalist Beverley Boyes,
six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs,
Bert Boyes, underwent an opera-
tion for appendicitis in Clinton
Public Hospital en Tuesday morn-
ing.
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Quick Canadian
Quiz
1. What Canadian inland water-
way is 600 miles longer than
the 2,000-mile' St. Lawrence
River-Great Lakes navigation
system?,
2. A Hamilton, Ont., steel mill re-
eently set what record for steel
production in Canada?
3. In the Federal House a bill
must be discussed and' approved
-how many times before it be-
comes law?
4. Who is the only Canadian to
ever win the U.S. national am-
ateur golf title?
5. About what proportion of the
national income of Canadians is
taken annually in taxes?
ANSWERS: 5. About one quart-
er. 3. Three times. 1. The Mac-
kenzie River system. 4. Ross
(Sandy) Somerville, London, Ont.
2, In December last the largest
-steel mill in Canada, at Hamilton,
poured its two millionth ton in the
year, first time any Canadian mill
"has reached that annual output.
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MORRIS CENTENNIAL TO
HAVE WESTERN VISITORS
Some 400 names have been sent
by the Morris Township Centennial
Committee to the C.P.R. Trans-
port Traffic Department at Cal-
gary, Alta., which is trying to
make up a coach load from the
West to attend the Centennial. It
is the intention to have the coach
run through to Blyth or Wingham
for the event. - Blyth Standard.
Your donation is
urgently needed to
make more effective
use of these weapons.
'ACROSS
2.$11eevelels
garment
5. Detest
9. Cavalry
sword'
10. A. fruit
of Italy
12. Island
off Greece ,
18. Cash
14. Not in
15. Secure with
stitches
16. Nickel
(sym.)
17. Bone (anat.)
18. Short sleeps
20. Lair
21. A large,
pulpy berry
23. Floating
mass of ice
24. A belief
28. Heap
28. People of
Scotland
31. Single unit
32. Bard
33. Internation-
al language
84. Radium
(sym.)
35. Over (poet.)
4 36. Any pine-
ceous tree
37. Exchange
39. An herb
41. Screp of
p'aper
42. A. spree
(slang)
43. Female fowl
44. Ordered
DOWN
1. Famous
Italian tenor
I did not fully realize then that
the stories were a sensitive port-
rayal of childhood written by a
mature woman, experienced in the
art of using words. The quality
that was out ofmy reach as
read them was the adult view of
youth, seen in perspective, round
ed and complete-even glamorized
Anne of Green Gables was writ
ten when the author was 34, afte
about years of constant writing
She wrote poems, short stories an
serials for Sunday School paper
and also spent a year in Charlotte
town on a newspaper, writing un
der pressure and in all sorts
conditions. The perfect trainin
ground for any type of writing.
It seems a pity •to me now tha
I have spent so many years
reading and appreciating oth
people's words and ideas, witho
at the same time busily setting m
own down on paper. Not that t
reading was wasted-far from i
Writers all read far more the
they ever write and appreciati
and evaluation of what they re
is vital.
But, I hope other imaginati
young people da not make the mi
take I did and will not fail to std
NOW to set their own impressio
on paper. It is the writing th
counts-even if what is writt
does hot wholly satisfy the writ
Genius is for the few-but ca
ful craftsmanship and practise c
increase the most meager talent
Sometimes, when I least e
it, a story I had sent off in h
weeks before is accepted for pu
cation'. Nevers, mind that the p
is not much-it's a beginnin
and a promise.
The profit is in doing - and i
never t000 late to start!
In the coining year Ottawa e
mates that 'family allowance p
ments will cost $399,200,000, ne
ly twice the annual cost ten ye
ago, and the universal old
pension payments' will cost $3
515,000.
Weekly
X-Word
Puzzle
From our Early Files
flats
8. Stroke
gently
4. Before
5. Dwellings
6. Below
(naut.)
7. Metal.
8. Not so
uneven
9. Dart
11. Ogling
15. One who'
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THERE ARE. WEAPONS. TO
EN
20, Small
depress
sion
22. Burrow-
ing,
animal
23. Foot
cover.
ing
25. Frozen
water
26. Harbors
27. To graft'
vouches for (Bot.) 35. Norse god
another , 29. Crouch, 36: Ward off
18. Back of in fear 38. Part of
the neck 30. A quadruped "to be"
19. Tribe 32. Cheeps, as 39. Warp-yarrr
(N. Z.)' a chicken 40. By way of
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thuisday, March 30, 1916
Clinton has lost a proininent and
popular citizen in the person of
Joseph Rattenbury, who' passed
away on Sunday morning after an
illeees which had ,confined him to
his bed only a fortnight: He was
56 years old.
Clinton girls' hockey team de-
feated Mitchell 3-0 here last Fri-
day. Maggie Schoenha.ls scored
twice and Stella Copp once. Clin-
ton lineup: goal, Ruby Grealls; left
defence, Mable Cantelon; right de-
fence, Da Bowden; rover, Mary
Bromfield; centre, Maggie Schoen-
hals; left wing, Stella Copp; right
wing, S. Bawden.
Will. Wiseman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Wiseman, of town, and
who for the past few years' has
;been on the. Mounted Police Force
in the West, has joined the 51st
Battalion at Edmonton.
E. E, Hunniford, the corner groc-
er, paid the county town a visit on
Thursday of last week.
SHOP
F IDAY }ITS
'commencing Friday, April 6
For Your. Shopping Convenience, the majority of the
Stores in Clinton will adopt FRIDAY NIGHT OPENING
instead of Saturday Night. Plan to Shop Friday Night.
Friday Night, Shopping Night-Saturday Night, Social Night
Sponsored by
CLINTON AND DISTRICT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
RETAIL MERCHANTS COMMITTEE,
Muggs
and
Skeeter
' HOPE Z, HAVE
SETTER LUCK
THAN Z HAD
1-AST' YgAR!
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
:?4,1:•);e1.,;
BLITZ CAMPAIGN IN. CLINTON AND ADASTRAL PARK
on
Monday, April 9
Clinton Area, Campaign Chairman
ELMER WEBSTERi VARNA
Local C
Clinton. Town-Ross Merrill
Stanley Township-
Elmer Webster, Varna
Hullett ToWnship-lqrs, Robert
Vairserviee, RR 1, Londesboro
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