HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1959-09-24, Page 5BY DOROTHY BARKER
CLINTON HOSPITAL AUXILIARY
Annual Monster
PENNY SALE
n Vacant Store, Next To Bank of Montreal
Draw On
Saturday, Oct. 3
Over 70 Prizes, including:
* Combination 5-Star Bowling Alley Game
* Card Table and Matching Chairs
* Automatic Coffee 'Percolator
* News-Record Subscriptions
Cologne and Bath Powder
* Hockey Stick and Gloves
• General Electric Mixette
* 3 Phonograph Records
* Men's Sport Shirts
* Ten Stuffed Dolls
* Kenwood Blanket
* Cigarette Lighter
* Clothes Hamper
* Chicken Feeder
Many Other Articles, too numerous to list
TICKETS: Card of 25 for 25c available now from
any Auxiliary Member; and on Sale at Store
from Sept. 21 through to Oct. 3.
* SOO lbs. Coal
* Hostess Chair
* Table Lamp
* Bride Doll
* Bedspread
* Groceries
* Sani-Can
* Toaster
* Nylons
* Linens
ALL SERVICES ON STANDARD TIME
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URKEY BINGO
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Monday, October 5th
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TURKEY
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Union Gas Company
Distributing
Home Safety Book
Copies of "Home, Safe Home",
possibly the best booklet ever pub-
lished on the subject of home
safety, are nOw available free of
charge to residents of .Clinton, L.
0. Barnforth, division manager of
Union Gass Company, Goderich,
is distributing the booklet locally,
The booklet has been published by
the Canadian Gas Association in
co-operation with its member
companies,
These booklets will be distri-
buted throughput different organ-
izations, and schools in Clinton.
Others are available to meet in-
dividual requests, and may be
Picked up at the Union Gas Gate
Station, 391 Victoria Street. '
Counter Check
Books on Sale at
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TTIJIRSPAY, SFRT,F.,TYTUR g4, 1959
Dust In Clinton's Old Town :Hall Would
Cover The Town! Whew! Says Teacher
•(By our payfieiu Correspondent)
School days! School days!
Memories of CCI and others
were revived when classmates
called at 441Yliddlewood" on Sun-
day evening where this corres-
pondent was a guest,
Renewing old friendships was
Jack Ba.wden of Hamilton, for-
manly of Clinton (known in those
far off days as "Chick"),
"Are you still teaching in Han~il,
ton?" I asked, horning in on the
reminiscenses.
"Yes," he replied, "34 years I've
been teaching-only six more to
go-and I love it!'
"Hamilton is the best city in
Canada! Clinton is the best town
-do you know that there are 32
houses in construction there now?
But the old Town Hall! What a
mess! What a mess!" My eye
brows lifted.
"Yes, the downstairs is beauti-
ful, They have a nice court room,
municipal offices and fire-hall. And
next door is the fine library. But
that upstairs! There's been noth-
ing done to it, The same peep,-
Beattie 's
Funeral Home
Distinctive
Funeral
Services
To meet each
Individual requirement.
Ours is a service
which goes far beyond
routine.
Every memorial is
complete, regardless
of cost . .
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TOWN OF CLINTON
PROCLAMATION
Return To
STANDARD TIME
UNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1959
at 2.00 a.m.
In accordance with resolution adopted by the
Council and a Proclamation issued in April,
hereby proclaim that the Town of Clinton
to Eastern Standard Time at 2.00 o'clock
nday, September 27, 1959, and request
nts to observe this Proclamation,
BURTON STANLEY, Mayor,
Town of Clinton
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UEEN STREET CLINTON
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cuNfroN NEWS-REO3RD
The Ferguson and Murphy
blood that runs in the veins of
Evelyn Mtv thy is a fine heritage.
She 'attributes her delightful sense
of humour to the fact that she
"chose" the right parents. Daugh-
ter of the renowned Emily Mur-
phy, nee Ferguson, and Arthur
Murphy, a reverend .gentleman,
Evelyn is the only surviving mem-
ber of this distinguished western
Canadian family,
Though the Rev. Arthur Mur-
phy will be remembered by mem-
bers of several generations for his
wit, loving and understanding na-
ture and great physical stamina,
it was Evelyn Murphy's mother
who played a part In moulding
Canadian history. She has been
immortalized in the commemora-
tion of "The Emily Murphy Re-
creation Park" situated on the
banks of the Saskatchewan River,
which winds through the City of
Edmonton,
When I was a child in Calgary,
Alberta, my mother was a mem-
ber of the Canadian Women's
Press Club and a contemporary
of the prominent press women of
the day such as Mrs. Murphy,
Cora Hind, Nellie McClung and
Miriam Green Ellis, to name a
few. She wrote reams abou,t their
prowess as writers, but more of-
ten about the struggle for wo-
men's suffrage and the fight for
the recognition of women as "per-
sons". This was a crusade head-
ed by Mrs. Murphy until women
were granted the right to sit in
the Senate as members. Her dau-
ghter says that her mother would
be shocked and provoked at the
present apathy of women voters,
for it was Emily Murphy, sup-
ported by a committee of dedica-
ted women, who was responsible
for women being enfranchised in
Alberta.
Before I tell you about my de-,
lightful experience in meeting Eve-
lyn Murphy at a luncheon in Ot-
tawa, when delegates of the trien-
nial meeting of the Canadian Wo-
men's Press Club were the guests
of the Canadian National Rail-
ways, let me remind you that her
mother, Emily Murphy, was the
first woman magistrate in the
British Empire. She was also
author of "The Black Candle", an
early expose of the drug traffic.
As its creator she chose the now
famous pseudonym "Taney Can-
uck". She was later made a judge
and became a great moulder of
character and opinion in western
Canada.
Her daughter, Evelyn, is a red
headed person with the merriest
blue eyes and a soft Irish inflec-
tion in her voice. She is a big,
jolly, middle-aged woman who lov-
es life and whom everyone who
meets her, instinctively admires,
Mostly, her friends admit, for her
attitude toward every day living
and what she seems to 'gain in as
peaceful and grateful frame of
mind from her love of gardening
and her hobby of collecting rare
antiques.
Being a colourful sort of per-
son herself, it is easy to under-
stand why she adhors the decor
of "modern" homes. Especially
the monotones which are presen-
tly so fashionable. "They remind
me of oatmeal porridge wall to
wall", she remarked. This was
during her discourse about her
own home, which I inquired about.
She spoke of her treasure trove
of old Rockingham china, the
Venetian glass horses she picked
up in the Flea market in Paris
and of her rare pieces of old sil-
ver. But it was when she told me
about her Chinese bedroom and
the suite of red, gold and black
lacquer furniture, that her won-
derful sense of humour really
shone. It appears there are four
pudgy little Chinese women who
adorn the four posts of the huge
bed-"all of them pregnant" she
said-which reveals part of her
charm, the ability to poke fun at
her spinster self.
Though our interview was an
hilarious one, I realized that this
heather-suited, low-heeled individ-
ualist, with her precious antique
earrings bobbing with every word
she said, is a serious and deeply
religious thinker. She has been a
member of the CWPC for 43
years and her newspaper exper-
ience lasted for 'a quarter of a
SUNSET
DRIVE-IN THEATRE
1 1/4 Miles East of Goderich
On No. 8 Highway
THURSDAY -- FRIDAY
and SATURDAY
September 24, 25, 26
"The Big Circus"
Victor Mature -- Rhonda Fleming
Red Buttons
CARTOON and COMEDY
MONDAY -- TUESDAY
and WEDNESDAY
September 28, 29, 30
"The Big Operator"
MICKEY ROONEY
Mamie Van Doren
CARTOON and COMEDY
Dok Office Opens 8.. 04n.
MST $1-/OW AT DOSS
TWO SHOWS 'NIGHTLY
Ofilidith under 12 in daft rite
Playground tefreSitineikt looth iminuommilemoiminsimmooloommit
century as a staff member of the
Edmonton Bulletin. One of her
more recent creative efforts is an
article on "Saying Grace". She
has also bad several articles pub-
lished in Vancouver,
When asked to choose a brief
excerpt from her mother's writ-
ing to be inscribed on the bronze
tablet in the new memorial park
at Edmonton, Evelyn Murphy de-
eided on this one: "The west hath
no need of an interpreter, it only
hath need of heralds", World tra-
veller 'that she is, the west could
have no better herald than Eve-
lyn Murphy,
County Home Ladies
To Show Crafts
At District Fall Fairs
The ladies of the county met
on Monday afternoon in the Home
at Clinton. Mrs. F. G. Thompson
chaired the meeting. Mrs. Web-
ster and Mrs. Scrimgeour, BIyth,
were appointed as the publicity
committee.
Plans were completed for
showing of craft done by the resi-
dents at I31,yth and Seaforth fairs.
Goderich institute ladies are hav-
ing the monthly birthday party
on Wednesday. Mrs. Townsend re-
ported for her visiting committee.
Mrs. Thompson gave a reading
on "Friendly Visiting" written by
Vicki Fremlin, Clinton.
11.00 a.m.
Guest Speaker:
Rev. C. D.
DANIEL
Ingersoll
7.30 p.m.
Guest Soloist:
MELVIN
THOMPSON
Detroit
holes are there which served the
small boys, myself included, who
had no money to attend plays.
There's been no repair.
"Remember Ca Commence-
ments? It's just the same! There's
an old settee there, a relative of
Louis XIV-1714. It's been there
since the first concert in 1902.
"And the place is littered with
waste paper. And the dust! Whew!
Do you know, if a blower were put
in that old hall upstairs, it would
cause a dust storm which would
cover Clinton. It's a disgrace!
"Hamilton is the best city; Clin-
ton is the best town! And Bay-
field is the best village!
"What has happened to the Ed-
wards? I saw an old wheel outside
the window.
"And how is Mrs. Toms ? She
was good to me-a nice woman-
mended my clothes when I work-
ed for Winnie O'Neil in the groc-
ery, in their shop during the sum-
mer. And "Louie MacLeod-is he
still catching fish?"
And then the topic changed to
other subjects, but his running
commentary on local conditions
and reminiscenses was refreshing.
The words tumbled out with
hardly a pause for breath. There
was no time for a cosy chat.
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