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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1959-08-27, Page 2DellINIERMEMICE=41agmeesenemellellelleellellellP was TWO •e714,1TON. .NEWS-RECORD THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1959 From our Early Files 40 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS-RECOIelee (Thursday, Atigest 28, 1919) T. R. Jenkins, Woodlands Farm, Huron Road, is- in Toronto, this 40 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEW ERA (Thursday, August g8, 1919) Master Joe Doherty, aged six years, was visiting in Goderich, week. Clinton, News-Record % 4. • 0' ULA s ¤ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance—Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 a year United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1959 POOLS ARE FOR PEOPLE THE CLINTON NEW ERA • THE CLINTON Ngws-RECORD Amalgamated 1924 published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,000 CCEL,QUHOUN, Publisher • • Wil-MA D. D•INNIN, Editor LONDESBORO Mrs. Bert Allan—Correspondent Mr. and Mrs. Alf Yearna.n, Sault Ste. Marie, visited a few days last week with Mr, and Mrs. Bert Shobbrook and other relatives. Mrs. Alex Wells and Mrs. Bert Allen visited on Sunday with Miss Jennie Cowan, who is a patient in the nursing home, Seaforth. Friends will be glad to know she is greatly improved, Peter Brown, Riverside, has been vacationing in Londesboro, also with friends in Auburn, th past week. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cutts, Ar- kona, spent Sunday with the lat- ter's sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Youngblut. Miss Marjorie Bickell, Toronto, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Allen on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Keller, Sea- forth, were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Small. Miss Linda Thompson spent a few days in Moorefield last week. "TrAt Bub Bottle -6,Yetot, MoittPA Here's one very helpful handbook that will hold the interest of every member of the family . . . a B of M Savings Account passbook — which can be your passport to better living. It's the ideal book for those who look ahead and plan . . Get the whole story by visiting your nearest B of M branch, Open a B of M Savings Account for each member of the family today. BANK. OF MONTREAL You'll like Saving at ea/4444 9ade ea44 'MY BANi EV 2 NIIIION CA MIAMI Clinton Branch: WILLIAM MORLOIC, Manager Londeshoroueh (Sub-Agency); Open Mon. & Thurs. WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE '1817 1/111.11111111114=11.111M100t D R 05 Your Passport... ...to Better Living CLINTON NEWS-RECORD (Thursday, August 25, 1949) Frank Mousseau, who resides two miles west of Hensall, and who has a market garden, was very surprised Sunday upon re- turning home about 7 p.m., to see a man helping himself to his veg- etables. Police investigated and the intruder turned out to be a London resident. Canvass for shareholders for Clinton Old Home Week 1950 is proceeding quietly, and the numb- er now exceeds 125 who have paid $10 each for the privilege of being a sponsor of the reunion next year. Clinton Colts made a clean sweep of three play-off games with Mitchell Canadian Legion in the Huron-Perth Baseball League semi-finals, and thus qualified to meet the winner of the Lucan- Hensall series for the Venus tro- phy and the right to continue as the league's representative in the OBA Intermediate "C" series, Although it officially came into being on July 1, Huron County Health Unit is just getting nicely started. with the organization now ready for its county-wide duties. Headquarters of the Unit are located in the old Dr. Gunn property, corner of Kirk and High streets, Clinton. Golden Year Constance Women's Missionary Society celebrated their 50th anni- versary on Sunday afternoon. Rev. Clifford Britton, of Seaforth, was guest speaker. During the servic a baptismal fount (a gift from th WMS), was dedicated. A baske, of white gladiolus graced th centre table in memory of th WMS members who have pass on. At the close of the service a social hour was spent in the base- ment where the ladies served a cup of tea and a huge birthday cake was cut and served. Visitors from Walton, Winthrop and Lon- desboro attended. Rev, and Mrs. J. T. White, Springfield, called on friends in the village on Friday and Satur- day. Fred Shobbrook spent a Sunday recently with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Taras, Goderich. Lish Townsend, Montreal, spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. Ro- bert Townsend. Miss Ann Fairservice is spend• ing a few days in Detroit. Rev, and Mrs. Sweeney, Auburn visited in Londesboro on Sunday 0 TUCKERSMITH LADIES TO MEET AT CLINTON HOME The Tuckersmith. Ladies Clui will meet at the home of Mrs Bert Garrett, Clinton. on Wed nesday, September 2, at 8.30 p.m Roll call will be announced at thi meeting. How would you jilc& '500 right' now? r See HFC for the fastest loan service in Canada I Whether you would like $50, $500 or as much as $2500, you're wise to get your loan at HFC. Whyr Because you'll receive prompt service. HFC prides itself on giving the fastest service available in Canada. With bigger loans (up to $2500) now available for today's greater needs, why not phone or visit HFC today? You need no bankable security and you get life insurance at low group rate with no age limit or medical examination. OUSEHOLD FINANCE M. R. Jenkins, Manager 35A West Street Telephone 1501 GODERICH Business and Professional — Directory PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT INSURANCE RONALD G. McCANN Public Accountant Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone HIT 2-9677 CLINTON, ONTARIO 50-tfb ROY N. BENTLEY Public Accountant GODERICH, Ontario Telephone 1011 Box 478 45-17-b OPTOMETRY 3. E. LONeSTAFF Hours: Seaforth: Daily except Monday & Wednesday-9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Thursday evening by appoitnment only. Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard- ware—Mondays only-9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Phone HUnter 2-7010 Clinton PHONE 791 SEAFORTH G. B. CLANCY Optometrist -- Optician (successor to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist) For appointment phone 33, Goderich EmEinEntmesesEE,P++~~~41~~41404 REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate and Business Broker High Street — Clinton Phone HU 2-6692 HAIR DRESSING CHARLES HOUSE OP BEACJTV Cold Waves, Cutting, and Styling King St., Clinton Ph, HU 2-'706.6 C. D. Proctor, Prop. EE4NNEwmesmusin"ENENP~inmwoodNE INSURE TII1 CO-OP WAY Auto, Accident and Sickness, Liability, Wind, Fire and other perils P. A. "PETE" ROY, CLINTON Phone IHJ 2-9357 Co-operators Insurance Association K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE and REAL ESTATI Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747; Res. HU 2-755 Salesman: Vic Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 J. E. HOWARD. Bayfield Phone Bayfield 53 r 2 Ontario Automobile Association Car - Fire - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I have a Policy THE McIiILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers 1958: Prestident, ert Archibald, Seaforth; vice- aident, Alistair 13roadfoot, S forth; secretary-treasurer, N Jeffery, Settforth. Directors: John H. MoEwin Robert Archibald; Chris. Leo h:ardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewar Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, W ton; J. L, Malone, Seaforth; vey Puller, Goderieh; J. E. Bracefield; Alistair Broadfo Seaforth, Agents: Wan, Leiper Jr., Lon eshoro; J. l . Prueter, Brodling Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Mtinroe, Seaforth. dog, so help me. By this time I was in a tearing rage. I went back up, grabbed another hunk of pipe, gave it a wrench, and a ten-foot length collapsed in the middle of the back hall, the soot landing everywhere but on the newspapers I had spread. * * Throwing everything to the wind, I tore down the rest of the pipes, threw them into the back yard, swept up two large cartons full of soot, and stomped out, leaving, as I learned later, a track of coal-black footprints across the kitchen floor. * * By six o'clock, I had cooled down enough to be scared, and when I got home I found that my instinct had been infallible. To cut a long story short, I scrubbed floors' and woodwork until mid- night, most of it hands-and-knees stuff. Then I had to start writing my column, which has to be done by tomorrow morning. * * Ia is now 3.30 of that tomorrow morning. Do you know what I've been doing for the last 30 min- utes? Well, it was like this. I went to the refrigerator to get a slug of orange juice, It was in one of those big, plastic containers, and it was full. I nicked it up in one hand, it slipped, hit the floor, and the top flew off. And I've been mopping up three quarts of orange juice since 3 a.m. Between soot and juice, the joint smells like a filly by Pittsburgh out of Florida. * * There's no moral to all this. I just wanted to let you know that writing this column is not always all beer and skittles. Sometimes it's all soot and orange juice. And that's why your kind words about it are appreciated, and I do thank you. Tii E CHRISTIAN __SLIENC MONITOR AN INTERNATIONAL DAILY NEWSPAPER Good Reading for the Whole Family • News • Facts • Family Features The Christian Science Monitor One Norway St., Boston 15, Moss. Send your newspaper for the time checked. Enclosed find my check or money order, 1 year $18 0 6 months $9 0 3 months $4.50 Nome Address City Zone State The U.F,W.O. met at Mrs. Phimsteel's home on the London Road. Mrs, M. Wiltse and Mrs. S'tanbury had charge of the meet- ing. Private G. M. Elliott, son of J. W. Elliott, and' Corporal Man- aghan, son of T. Managhan, ar- rived home from overseas and' were met by the band and a crowd' of citizens. Frank Pennebaker suffered a fractured' wrist when the car in which he was riding turned out to pass another car, turned too, far and ran into the ditch. Other passengers, Mrs. Holmes, Lois Holmes, Mayme Hall and J. Munn, Hensall. were not injured. James McNeil. engineer at the knitting factory, was severely burned about the head and face while cleaning out the boiler in readiness for a fresh fire. It is thought that the compound used must have formed a gas inside the boiler which Mr. McNeil's torch ignited. 25 YEARS AGO ler. H. S. Turner, G. Vanhorne and Gordon Cuningiuune, all en- thusiastic 'huntsmen, are having a log bunting lodge constructed at Brae-de-Dore, away up the lake shore, where they frequent- ly go hunting and' fishing. Duncan Cartwright of the Brus- sels Post staff has been visiting during the past week in Goclerich and' at his. home in town Miss Viola Holland visited for a few days at the home of her brother; Bruce Holland, of the Bayfield Line, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Wiltse, in company with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McKnight, Clinton, took a motor trip to Gravenhurst, returning yesterday; Mrs. R. W. Bristol spent a few days with her cousin, Mrs. B, F. Ward, before leaving for her home in Washington, D.C. THAT IS THE title of an editorial printed this week in the Toronto Globe and Mail, and that newspaper was concerned with the fact that the wading pools in the city would be shut down on August 1,5, and the swim pools on Labour Day. They feel that wading pools should be left open to accommodate the pre-school children for whom they were built, even after the school term opens. They feel that summer weather does not end in Toronto on any fixed date—it doesn't in Huron County either — and that swim pools EVERY SO OFTEN someone comes up with the idea that small fairs are disappearing. This may be true. Certainly if everyone talks that way, they will disappear sooner. Rural fairs have continued in many cases over one hundred years, through the faith of the dozens of directors who have planned them, ex- panded them, renovated them, and worked for them each fall or spring. Many fair boards have supplemented the financial status of the fair by holding dances, euchres, winter hobby shows, draws, etc., and have spent a good deal of time and effort on them. Why? Well fairs are fun. When the month of September rolls around, the thought of a fair comes to many minds. Everyone can remember some special fair at which they attended when young, and their memories are fond. Now, only the sound of the judges calling for the next class, the sound of pacing hoofs of heavy horses, the patient mooing of cattle, and the eager shout of children, recalls those fine wonderful days of childhood. If that were all there was to a fair, it would be sufficient to justify its existence. But the fairs even today are building up that same kind of wonderful memories in the should be left open as long as people are mak- ing use of them. If this fall is anything like last year's, then good swimming weather is apt to remain with us until mid-October, There should be no trouble in keeping ade- quate supervision of the wading pool here, even after school starts. Even with the large pool, if enough people wanted to swim in it, then it would be wise to keep it open. This year the pool will be open until Sep- tember 8, why not September 30? After , an, pools are for people, children of the present. The youngsters are competing in the live stock ring, in the school classes and in marching contests. They are learn- ing to appreciate the excellent work of their elders in similar contests. When we see a suggestion such as published just last week, that a city fair could replace some of the small country fairs, we are not happy. No "special prize list set up for town- ship groups" can come close to the pleasure, en- joyment and education which can be gotten by the rural people making their own fair, and tak- ing part in it themselves. Worth A Thought "OUR ECONOMY, if it is going to be com- petitive and a free economy, must be just that. It's the only way we are going to be strong and expanding. If we are going to live as a free people, we must not be a controlled peo- ple, and we must not start controlling prices in times of peace."—President Eisenhower in an address to business magazine editors. got tired of the scenery in the County Town and started to walk home by way of the G.T.R. tracks, He got as far as Holmesville when a farmer discovered him and sent word to town. Ile was brought home in a car, Some walk for a small boy. Medical authorities throughout the United States are warning the public that a recurrence of the influenza epidemic of last fall is expected this winter. With pro- per warning, state and municipal authorities can be more ready to combat it. A Ford car that was stolen at Seaforth and ditched near Nob- le Holland's farm on the Huron Road about two miles from Clin- ton, was brought into town repair- ed and returned to its owner, a Mr. Parker of Hensall. The thief jumped from the car when he thought he was being pursued by a car which was merely returning to Blyth. While Miss Alberta Disney, Goderich Township, was driving up Huron Street, her horse took fright and commenced to run. The young lady pluckily held on until the buggy hit M. D. MeTaggart's auto in front of the bank and Miss Disney was pitched out, She was taken to Dr. Shaw's office for treatment. This week I'm going to do something I have long meant to do. I'm going to say thanks, form- ally and sincerely, to all those people who have dropped in at the office, or written notes, to tell me they appreciate Sugar and Spice. * * * I'm doing it thus. publicly, be- cause I do it so badly in private. Some old gal from Kalamazoo, Mich., on the way to her summer cottage, will stop in to pay her subscription. She'll peer around, spot me and, holler: "You the fella writes that Sugar and Salt (or Salt and Pepper, or Sand and Gravel) ?" Uneasily, I mutter "yap". She slaps her leg and says: "I sure get a kick outa that. I laughed fit to cry over that one you wrote about the cat. back there in April, or was it Novemb- er?" * N * Now, I know perfectly well that I have never written a column a- bout a cat, We've never had a cat, and I don't like cats. She prob- ably means the one I wrote about the dog, back in January. But what's the use of going into all that. I just say heartily "glad you liked it, nice to see you again", and rush into the back shop, pre- tending I'm sorely needed there. * * * Then there's the fellow who comes in, a perfect'stranger, looks at me coyly and says: "If I wrote things like that about my wife, she'd kill me." With a fixed smile, I quip, just as coyly: "Sometimes she'd like to", and hate myself for saying it. It's not true. She might like to change my profile a bit, or smash me a couple of times right over the head, but she doesn't want to kill me. * * * At least not very often. I think perhaps to-day was an exception. She'd been at me ever since June to get the furnace pipes down. When they're not taken down, they leak a peculiar gummy brown substance. Well, I've been trying to plan around to it, but we have miles of furnace pipes, and it takes a lot of planning around to it. • * N This week, she and the weath- er-man turned on the heat simul- taneously. So on the hottest day of the summer, I'm bullied into taking down the bleeding furn- ace pipes in my noon hour. • * By the time I'd got well into it, we weren't on speaking terms. She was sulking in the bedroom like 'Achilles in his tent, and I was cussing in the bathroom like no- thing you ever heard. The blasted pipes were all stuck together from the heat or something. • N * Finally, I got two of the reluct- ant joints moving. I got a four- foot length onto my shoulder and was easing down off the chair I Was standing on, when One end of the pipe bumped the top of a cup- board, tipping the other end to- ward the floor. Into the sink, bathtub and toilet, onto the tow- els, washcloths and bathmat, cas- caded about four pounds of fine black soot. * * Swearing fearfully, I dashed clown the back stairs, strewing soot behind me like a smoke screen, and' outside. I felt over the SMALL FAIRS ARE GOOD CLINTON NEWS-RECORD (Thursday, August 30, 1934) Miss Isobel Biggart, nurse-in- training at Toronto General Hos- pital. has been visiting at her home in town. Rev. A. A. Holmes, Dr. H. Fow- SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) 10 YEAI1S AGO