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Clinton and District Obituaries Thurs„ Feb. 2$, 1961—Clinton News-Rccord—Page
John A. Potter A. .
.J911.41 A. Potter, 7$, Holmes-
vile, died in his 79th year Sat-
urday, February 18, in Clinton
Public Hospital, He was born
in Goderich Township, and
farmed. there all his life,
Surviving are one son, Elmer,
Goclerieh Township; three br-
others, Will, Lucknew; Fred
arid Clarence, 'both of Clinton;
and three grandchildren.
The Rev. E. J. Roulston, pas-
tor of Holmesville United ,Ch-
urch charge, of which Mr. Pot-
ter was a member, conducted
the funeral service Tuesday, at
the Ball and Mutch funeral
home, Clinton. Burial was in
Clinton Cemetery.
Mrs. F. P. McCool
Funeral service for Mrs. Fl-
ossie Pearl MoCool, 68, Londes-
boro, was held Monday at the
Ball and Mutch funeral home,
Clinton. Rev. H. A. Funge, Lon-
desboro United Church officiat-
ed and burial was in Marten
Cemetery.
Mrs. McCool died Friday at
Victoria Hospital, London, after
a lengthy illness. Born in Hul-
lett Township, she was a daugh-
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
William Moon.
Surviving besides her hus-
band, James McCool, are one
daughter, Mrs. John (Phyllis)
Burh, Hyde Park; one brother,
Thomas' Moon, London.
Carman a, Keyes_
Carman Burton Keyes died at
the Doctors Hospital, Toronto,.
on Tuesday, at the age of 63,
He was born at Varna, where
he spent his early days, He
was a CPR operator and work-
ed at Tralee, Auburn, Guelph,
Harrietsville and for the past
ten years at Toronto.
He is suraived by his wife,
the former Henrietta Howes
and two sons, George and
Charles, 314 Donlands Ave.,
Toronto; his mother, Mrs. Em-
ily Parker, Hensall; two broth-
ers, Russell and Robert Keyes,
Mitchell; one sister, Mrs. Ed-
gar (Muriel) Cu Inane, Exeter;
three 'half-brothers, H a r o l
Parker, Hensall, and Wilbert
Parker, Hensall; Gordon Park-
er, Exeter.
Funeral services will be held
at the Trull funeral home, Dan-
forth Rd., Toronto, (where the
body is resting), on Friday, at
1 p.m. Burial in Morrison Cem-
etery (near Guelph) at 2.45 pm.
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TUCKERSMITH CLUE
TO MEET MARCH 1
The Tuekersmith Ladies' Club
will hold the March meeting
on Wednesday afternoon, Mar-
ch 1 at the home of Mrs. How-
ard Johns. Roll call will be
answered by " Where You
Would Like To Go On A Bus
Trip".
Ira H. Merrill
Ira Howard Merrill, Ma'alancl
Concession, Goderich Township;
died very suddenly of a heart
attack at his home on Satur-
day, February 1$, 1961, in his
75th year.
He was the son of the late
Samuel Merrill and Mary Jer-
vis, and had lived all his life
in Goderich Township.
Funeral services were held at
1,30 p.m. on Tuesday, February
21, at the Ball and Mutch 'fun-
eral home, 153 High Street,
Clinton, with the' Rev, Grant
Mills, assisted by Rev, C. Tav-
ener, Grand Bend, officiating.
Burial was in Clinton Ceme-
tery,
Mr. Merrill married' Emma
Myrtle Phillips, Hullett Town-
ship, on December 31, 1919. He
Was a member of Ontario St.
United Church, formerly of
Ebenezer Church.
Surviving besides hiS wife,
are three sons, Elwin and Ross,
Clinton; John, on the home-
stead, Goderich Township, and
one daughter (Marianne), Mrs.
George Colclough, Hullett
Township, and eight grandchild-
ren.
Pall-bearers were Wilfred
Jervis., Frank Potter, Ross Tre-
wartha, Mervyn Lobb, Early
Oakes, William Lobb. Flower-
bearers were Charles Merrill,
Fred Phillips, Fred Lobb, Herb
Oakes, John Tebbutt, Alvin
Jones.
Friends attended from Toron-
to, Mitchell, Stratford, Detroit,
Burlington, Hamilton, Grand
Bend, Munroe, London, Sea-
forth, Auburn, Teeswater, Lon-
desboro, and surrounding dist-
rict.
Mrs. David Sours
Mrs. David Sours, 90, Tor-
onto, the former Ellen Agnew,
Clinton, died at the Queen El-
izabeth Hospital, Toronto, Sat-
urday, February 18.
She was born in Blake, Aug-
ust 9, 1870, and later moved
to Clinton. She moved to Tor-
onto with her husband 25 years
ago. Her husband died about
two years ago.
Surviving are a daughter,
Mrs. Francis E. (Gladys) Doy-
le, Toronto; one brother, Mor-
gan Agnew, Clinton, and three
sisters, Mrs. Harry (Margaret)
Clark, 212 Queen Street, Strat-
ford; Mrs. Robert (Lillian) Mc-
Ewan and Mrs. George (Ber-
nice) Phelan both of Clinton.
Service was from. the Ball
and Mutch funeral home, Clin-
ton Wednesday afternoon and
interment in Clinton Cemetery,
Judy F rster
(Hayfield Correspondent)
The death occurred in Sagin-
aw, Michigan, on Monday, Feb-
ruary 13, 1961, of Miss Judy
Forster, in her 18th year, fol-
lowing an illness of 4 months.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Forster, she was born
in Saginaw, June 4, 1943.
She was a former student at
Arthur Hill High School wh-
ere she served as a majorette
in her sophomore and junior
years, and presently was a
member of the S.S. Peter and
Pauls' High School.
She was 'a member of St.
Peter and Paul Church.
Surviving are her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James Forster;
sister, Georgia; grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. William Hinds,
Saginaw; and aunt Miss Adele
Fernette, Detroit, Mich.
Judy will be missed by many
friends here as each summer
for 'the past 14 years she and
her sister spent some time
with their aunt, Miss Adele
Fernette, at her cottage.
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in so many ways.
1. Name the largest cities in
Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan,
New Brunswick.
2. In 1959 the value of foreign
goods sold in Canada exceed-
ed the value of Canada's ex-
ports by what amount?
3. The explorer John Cabot, who
claimed Canada for England
was of what nationality?
4. Average wage in manufactur-
ing in 1950 was $43.87 per
week. What is the, 1960
figure?
There are some things you
just never forget, like the blue
of a summer sky, or little gusts
of wind that playfully gather
puffs of newly fallen snow and
heap them like spun sugar in
the lee of a rockery. The cold
turquoise blue of the man's
eyes I shall remember for al-
ways. They peered from a face
that looked like an unmade bed
beneath a coonskin cap set at a
jaunty, devil-may-care angle
atop his scraggily graying hair.
This was Caribou Bill and he
sat puffing his' pipe beside a
motheaten stuffed polar bear
amidst a conglomeration of
trappers' equipment in his self
appointed job as' curator of a
roadside museum in Cranberry
Portage, Man.
His was just one of several
museums I visited during the
past summer, while jaunting
by rail to the Arctic's rim and
westward to the sands of the
Pacific Ocean. And now, with
winter folding in around our
wee. house, I like to light a fire
on the field stone hearth and
take each memory of my trav-
els from where I tucked them
away for future reference.
These are the delightful travel
experiences o ne encounters,
which cost nothing to store and
often prove to be priceless men-
tal treasures over the years.
There was the mission mus-
eum at Churchill, where Eski-
mo artifacts are displayed' in a
small, smelly 'building support-
ed entirely by the sale of pic-
ture postcards. The odour one
gets' mad to, for it exudes from
leather cured over seal oil fires
and 'bottled embryos of polar
bears and other creatures pe-
culiar to the Arctic. Beaded
mukluks and jackets, leather
clad Eskimo dolls and the bone
carvings from tusks of fur bear-
ing seals fascinated me for
hours, though the museum was
little bigger than . my living-
room. Some of the carvings are
undoubtedly priceless f or they
are the early searchings of
these people of the snows for
artistic expression. Nowadays,
soapstone carvings, created by
a more commercially wise race
of Eskimos, though still artis-
tically exciting, haven't the
stark originality of those gath-
ered beneath the roof of the
Churchill museum.
Its curator was not what I
would call a cheerful character.
He spoke broken English smat-
tered With a French patois that
burst forth in a high tenor key
When members of the CNR tour
were not beguiled into buying
several dozen post cards. Both
his welcome and salesmanship
were of a poor variety and
could have spoiled this advent,,
ure for Me on the shores of
Hudson's Bay, had I not been
enchanted by the authenticity
of the collection.
Further south we stopped at
Sam Wellar's "Little Northern
Museum" at The Pas, This is a
small gray shingled building
where a retired school teacher,
with this delightfully Dicken-
sian name, has gathered literal-
ly thousands of items ranging
from a robin's egg to the lean-
era from an Indian Chief's war
bonnet, The taxidermy eXecut-
ed to create a lifelike appear-
ance in hundreds of feathered
replicas that lined the main
morn of the museum, WAS
pretty atilt in some instances,
but the owner Of the remark-
5. Is Canada's population cur-
rently increasing at the rate
of 11 percent annually, 7 per-
cent, or 3 percent?
ANSWERS: 5. By less than
3 percent a year. 3. Italian. 1.
Halifax, N.S., Regina, Sask., St.
John, N.B. 4. At mid-1960,
$72.07 a week. 2. $590 million.
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able array had a charm and
enthusiasm for his retirement
hobby that was most convinc-
ing. It was not, however, con-
fined to any specific type of
collection. It was just anything
and e.anything that had come
to hand to collect dust over
the years and amuse a former
educator.
Like the frosting on the cake,
I have saved the best for the
7,IaSt. I suppose all of us, at
some 'time, are given to wond-
ering what a multimillionaire
does with his surplus funds. I
discovered the use one western-
er has made of profits gained
by his faith in the future of
prairie oil wells. Eric L. Har-
vey, Q.C., LL.D., of Calgary,
Alta., and his family have gen-
erously established the Glenbow
Foundation in that city, which
will prove a boon 'to students
of the future and preserve for-
ever, pioneer days in its display
of material dealing with the
human and natural history of
western Canada.
It is a frustrating experience
for any writer to try and ex-
porind his or her enthusiasm in
just so many words. A book
could be filled about 'this und-
ertaking which is not a public
museum as such, but is a tre-
mendous store of literature,
documents, paintings, Eskimo
and Indian 'artifacts made avail-
able to students, authors, edit-
ors and others engaged in hist-
orical research.
To me it seemed a pity that
I was• requested not to mention
by name members of the staff
when I recounted my visit to
the Foundation. I feel. how-
ever, I must use up a few of
my preciious words to say that
Mr. Harvey has chosen a fas-
cinating group of enthusiasts to
man this enterprise.
Three buildings have been
purchased to house the Founda-
tion, two lovely old homes,
which in themselves hold a
store of memories, 'and a small
church the congregation has
outgrown.
I watched a woman lovingly
reclaim an ancient book in her
studio perched among the tree-
tops on the third floor of one
house. She has hoarded old
papers, vellum, bookbinder's
tools and leathers to make her
work authentic and restore old
manuscripts to their original
beauty.
In the basement of another
house, staff members were de-
lighted with a new donation of
clothing worn by early settlers
in the MacLeod district, Hours,
I was told, would be spent to
restore their early splendour,
for these settlers brought with
them from their aristocratic
homes abroad many fine feath-
ers to be worn at gay social
gatherings in bleak prairie
towns. But perhaps for me, the
most exciting collection com-
prises the pictures, paintings
and drawings that not only give
joy to those visiting the Found-
ation, but are loaned upon re-
ottes.t for outside exhibition.
Paintings by western artists
ranging from Charlie Russell to
Chssing are displayed on huge,
steel framed burlap portable
walls, hung from the ceilings
on yeah:al units, which permit
a visitor to easily View literally
hundreds of the finest western
pictures money can acquire,
This was my home town, city
of the foothills. In these two
PM Club Has
Enjoyable Party
Mrs. Henry Sloman was host-
ess for the Past Mistresses •Club
of the LOBA which met at the
home of ACM Bessie, Sloman,
Joseph Street on Wednesday
evening, February 15. After
an interesting business session
they joined friends who had,
in spite of the inclement weath-
er, gathered for a social even-
ing.
Euchre was played and a
good time enjoyed by all. Win-
ners were: ladies high, Mrs. E.
C. Nickle; lone hands, Mrs. R.
Y. Hattin; low, Miss Clara Har-
rison; men, high, T. G, Scrib-
bins; lone hands, Joe Silcock;
low, Ernest Epps.
Lunch was served by Mrs.
Sloman and Mrs. Wilfred Col-
clough. A vote of thanks was
extended by the president, Mrs,
Coiclough to all participating
to make the meeting a success.
Miss Clara Harrison will be
the hostess for the March
meeting.
Trinity WA Has
Meeting 'iii 'Hut,'
Gifts to Yukon
(Hayfield Correspondent)
Mrs. Emerson Heard presided
for the meeting of the Trinity
Women's Auxiliary held at
`The Hut" on Thursday. Mrs.
E. A. Featherston played for
the opening hymn "Lord as
to Thy dear Cross we flee" and
the Rev. E. J. B. Harrison con-
ducted the Litany and opening
prayers.
Mrs. Carl E. Diehl read from
Romans, chapter 13.
Mrs. T. W. Castle gave the
secretary's report and Mrs. R.
J. Larson the financial state-
ment. The net receipts from
the Pancake supper was about
the same as in former years..
Mrs. Percy Weston, Dorcas
secretary, displayed a very pr-
etty knitted afghan and also
a tied quilt which she had
made. It was decided to send
the afghan to a missionary
clergyman and his wife in the
Yukon and the quilt to Social
Service in Hong Kong.
Mrs. J. B. Higgins gave a
very interesting study of the
problems, and' work amongst
the older folk in Canada. Mrs.
R. 3. Larson said the conclud-
ing prayer for the chapter.
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Stanley Club To
Help Bereft
Bayfield Couples
The Stanley Ladies Club met
at •the home of Mrs. Clifford
Stewart. They decided to send
$10 donation to the Hutchings
families in Bayfield.
Mrs. John and Frank Mc-
Gregor were 'appointed repres-
entatives for the Hospital Aux-
iliary meeting. It was also de-
cided to buy three dozen cups
for the club.
The programme consisted of
readings by Mrs. Glenn Broad-
foot, Mrs. Cliff Stewart and
Mrs. Frank McGregor. Mrs.
Frank McCowan conducted a
contest which was won by Mrs.
Gray.
The next meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Geo-
rge Cantelon with roll Ball to
be answered by "If I Were a
Shut-In, How Would I Like to
be Remembered?"
WESLEY-WILLIS WA
WILL MEET MARCH 2
The March meeting, of the
Wesley-Willis United Church
Woman's Association will be
held in the church parlour on
Thursday, March 2 at 2.30
p.m. Mrs. William Murch's
group will be in charge.
homes I had been entertained
as a girl. Now I had come back
to •greet familiar faces in fad-
ed photographs that hung from
the walls of this priceless gift
to posterity, The Glenbow
Foundation, More than a quar-
ter of a century separated me
from the familiarity of these
surroundings, but for centuries
the history of the great west
will be preserved, thanks to
one man's generosity in sharing
the wealth he has gained from
a prairie's rich store.
The Womenfs World Day of
Prayer service for Clinton and
community was held in St.
Paul's Anglican Church, on
February 17, With about 120
in attendance. Mrs, B. Olde
presided and gave some history
of the Day of Prayer, leading
up to the present day observ-
ance.
Miss Dorothy Marquis, Reg.
N, was guest speaker, and us-
ing the theme of the day "For-
ward Through the Ages in Un-
broken Line" as a guide, told
of how the world day of prayer
is observed in other lands, and
of the great need for more
Christian literature, and this is
where offerings are being used
to send literature to these
needy areas; to aid refugees,
to assist overseas students and
provide literature in braille for
the blind.
Mrs. Robert Homuth was gu-
est soloist, and Charles Merrill
presided at the organ. Others
taking part in the programme
were as follows': Mr's. C. S.
Inder, Miss M. Sloman, Mrs. M.
Lobb, Mrs. J. Cooper, Mrs. G.
L. Mills, Mrs. M. Steepe, Mrs.
R. Wise, Mrs. C. Bertram, Mrs.
W. Bottema, Mrs. U. Dykstra,
Mrs. M. G. Brisco, Mrs. L. H.
Hibbert, Mrs. N. J. Holland,
Mrs, W. L. Morlok, Mrs. C.
Wise, Mrs. W. Burton, Mrs. A.
Kirby, Mrs. C. Nelson.
A girls' service of prayer
was' held at 4,30 p.m. when
some 60 girls gathered' to wor-
ship together; made up of
CGIT, Girl Guides, Explorer
and Mission Band groups and
others. Mrs. C. S. Inder pre-
sided. Rosemary Carter gave
the theme, "Forward Through
the Ages in Unbroken Line"
and thoughts• leading up 'to the
present observance of the day
of prayer.
Miss Darlene Stanley gave
the address to an attentive
audience. The Explorer group,
under the direction of lVfisa
Olive Johnston, sang a selec-
tion, Others having a part in
the service were Shirley Dupee,
Nancy Olde, Judith Wells, Lynn
do Murphy, Susan Smith, Di-
anne Currie, Heather VanRie-
sen, Grace McAdam,Joy Gra-
ham, Linda Dales, Saly Deeves,
Regina Horbanuik, Bonnie Ho-
muth, Jennette Lobb, Joan
Mils.
local Women's Inter-
Churchie T Council desires to th-
ank all who 'assisted with the
programme on the day of pray-
er, those who led the girls'
service and also .the press and
radio.
Teachers Plan
Meeting Here
The regular meeting of the
Clinton Unit of Federation
Women's Teachers Association
of Ontario will be held in Cl-
inton Public School, Tuesday,
February 28. Hullett township
teachers will be in charge. J.
W. Coulter, Inspector of Public
Schools for Huron 2, will be
the guest speaker.
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