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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1961-04-20, Page 240 Years Ago CLINTIng NIOWS-ItItICOR1) Thursday, April 21, 1921, Mr. and Mrs, W. T. O'Neil, who spent tie winter in Flor- ida, were expected home in two weeks, Mr. O'Neil was re- ported to be much improved in health, Merrier Bros', sold their flax mill and farm to H, 13, Stro- thers, London, Mr. Struthers' agent and E. F. Merrier were out securing more flax land, and procured 200 or more acres, Rent for flail and is considerably less than the pre- vious year, owing to a serious slump in the price of flax pro- ducts. Mrs. H. F. Yea, who was cal- led 'home by the illness and death of 'her 'mother, the late Mrs, John Brown, left for her home at Glena.von; Sask. She was' accompanied by her sister, Miss Alma Jordan, who will make her home in the west. The first wedding ever sol- emnized in Burns Church took place when Annie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Reid, of "Maple Shade Farm," Hul- lett, became the bride of Wil- liam Norman Shepherd. The church officials presented them with a beautiful Bible. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, April 21, 1921 A motor hearse drew up at Malson's Bank Corner and was thoroughly inspected by some citizen's. The undertaker at Tara is the proud owner, hav- ing had it specially built on a Ford chasis. David Steep and family mov- ed back to Stapleton, as the flax mill has closed, and, will resume his old job with Squire Ransford. Roy Chowen finished his year's course at Toronto Uni- versity and was home for holi- days. By a majority of 360 the temperance forces captured Clinton on Monday. With 48 out of 51 electoral districts heard from, prohibition leaders estimated that Ontario had de- clared for a bone-dry province by a majority of 113,645 votes. 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Editorials IIU1MANITARIAN REASONS There has been recent deep con- cern about the matter of fire protec- tion — which rural areas the town brigade should be called upon to pro- tect — how Clinton firemen can in all conscience present themselves as pro- tectors of the rural area, when an em- ergency could leave a building in town unprotected—how much of the cost of supporting the town brigade can prop- erly be termed the share of the rural areas—and a multitude of other prob- lems. The unfortunate part of the whole thing is that as the matter now rests, the Clinton council has stated that they will no longer go to a fire in either Stanley or Tuckersmith Townships, be- cause these municipalities have not seen fit to pay a prescribed rate for a retaining fee. At one particularly gruesome time last week, some folk thought that this sort of "cutting off" had already taken place with regard to the county home. To think of the elderly residents there, unprotected merely because some polit- icians got into a hassle over a small sum of money was a shocker to those few who were aware of the impending situation, This matter of fire protection is one of supreme importance to all resi- dents in the area. We feel it is part of the humanitarian service which any community sets up, initially for itself, but with the good of the whole area in mind. For humanitarian reasons we "A FRIEND" Around the corner I have a friend In this great city that has no end; Yet days go by, and weeks rush on, And I never see my old friend's face. And before I know it a year is gone, For life is a swift and terrible race. He 'knows I like him just as well As in the days when I rang his bell And he rang mine. We were younger then, And now we are busy, tired men. Tired with playing a foolish game, Tired with trying to make a name. "To-morrow," I say, "I will call on Jim, Just to show that I'm thinking of him." But to-morrow comes—and to-morrow goes, And the distance between us grows and grows, ArOund the corner! yet miles away . . "Here's a telegram sir" . . . "Jim died today." And that's what we get and deserve in the end. Around the corner, a vanished friend. Charles Towne. NO REARMAMENT (Printed Word) The Russians may have their eyes on -the planet Venus, but there are others in this world who are more in- terested in the Venus de Milo. Punch, the British magazine, notes that 'a meddlesome skin diver' is bound for the isles of Greece where he hopes to recover the missing arms of the famous goddess. "What," it wonders, "does he pro- pose to do with them? Any attempt to graft them back on the parent statue would horrify the Art world. Maimed, the lady is immortal; rearmed, with an apple in her hand, she would be just another marble hussy. "Besides, restoration would ruin a hundred trademarks and spoil a treas- ured national jest (`See what happens if you don't stop biting your finger- nails!')." THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1865 1U lb must no longer permit the withholding or giving of fire protection into the hands of a few, who for one reason or another may find it expedient to bargain. We believe that Clinton town coun- cil is wrong in setting forth a strict rule whereby if a township does not pay a retaining fee, the brigade must not go to a fire in that township. However, on the other side, we feel that the rural municipalities are wrong in taking the stand that they do in refusinc, to consider an increase in re- taining fee. We believe that at no set time (in fact never) should the town say they will no longer answer fire calls in the country, no matter which township is involved, It may seem that these two diver- gent views can not co-exist — but we feel they definitely can, and must, The amount of money involved is no more than a month's salary for a medium wage earner. The intention of cutting off dozens of homes from pos- sible assistance by the town fire brig- ade because of this, is insupportable. In medieval times the idea of deal- ing with a thief was to cut off the hand which did the stealing. This type of reasoning is old fashioned now. Yet the idea of cutting off available fire protection from a rural area, merely because the cost of that protection is found to have increased, sounds a lot similar. We expect better moral standards on the part of our municipal councils than appear to have been exhibited here. COMPETING IN SPACE (Aurora Banner) Most of the world is speechless in the achievement of the Russians' put- ting a man into outer space. Yet by this time next week, we shall be taking the event in our stride. This is no ordinary achievement like the invention of the apple peeler or the paper clip. It is one of history's greatest events. It is the step that someday may carry men to the moon, and perhaps even to the closest planets. We should be happy that the Rus- sians have been able to carry man's look to the stars on the same day that the sordid life of Eichmann from man's dark days was being recalled in a far- away Israel court. It is presumptous for any of us to guess .at the effects of a man in space. But perhaps it is a good omen. The more and more that rockets and satellites develop, the less and less sign- ificance they have from a military viewpoint. Today, both the West and Russia have the power potential to blow each other halfway to the Milky Way, and we doubt very much if either one is ever going to try to do it. Let both of them compete in space. Let both of them compete in peace. COMMENT (Renfrew Advance) Would a national lottery be a sin- ful thing? bring moral corruption? If so, what about the multitude of draw tickets circulating here and else- where 365 days a year? Is a ticket for 25 cents in aid of a parish, a crippled child or a benefit less corruptive than a sweepstake ticket for say hospitals or welfare? We live in a society that holds to many laws and traditions that can only be regarded as silly. Something new, and partic- ularly odious, is threatening to destroy 'any semblance of domestic placidity at our place. A shadow has crept across the little pale sun. that shone, how- ever dimly, on our household. Hot worcb and cold looks are the colors of the day. It seems like a little thing. But it's making me depressed', irritable, moody, sullen and generally irascible. Perhaps if I get it off my chest in this space I'll feel better. Briefly, my wife is now handling our finances. In the old, happy, carefree days in the newspaper business, I handled the family funds with no stress, no strain, no tension. I used to pick up the mail each morning. If there wj any bills, I stuck them hip pocket, unopened. After a week or two, I'd empty my pocket into a drawer at the office. Every month or so, I'd look them over, and pay a few of the more urgent demands. I ran contra-accounts with some of the merchants. They'd run up a big advertising bill, and I'd run up a big bill for drugs, or hardware. At the end of the year, we'd have a 'grand reckoning, square up, and all would be serene. Little Money changed hands, and 'all parties were satisfied. It was as primitive, and just as efficient, as transactions in the old days of trade. S * * I never paid the premiums on my insurance policies until my month's "grace", had run out. I was always one winter behind in my fuel bill, I paid the taxes on the last day of the year, or a few weeks later. I made the payments on the mortgage and the car when- ever the spirit moved me, im- pervious to threats, warnings and the other trappings of the bill collector. As a result of this tight money policy, there was usu- ally some ready cash on hand for necessities, like smokes, magazines, crocks, gas for the INSURANCE H. E. HARTLEY All Types of Life Term Insurance — Annuities CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE CO. Olitieon, Ontario K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Representative; Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747 Res. HU 2-7556 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers: President, John L, Malone, Seaforth; vice-president, John H. McEwing, MAN Se4te'-titry-treaSurer, W. E. South- gate, Seaforth. Directors: John H. McEwingt, Robert Archibald; Chrit Leon. hardt, Bornholm; Norman Tre4 wartha, Clinton; WM, S. Alex. ander, Walton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth: Harvey Fuller, Gede, rich; Wnt, IL Pepper, Seaforth; Alistair 13roadfoot, Seaforth, Agents: Wm. Leiper, Jr,, Lon-desboro; V. J. Lane, RR 5, Sea. forth; Selwyn Baker, BrUaselsl, jarees Keyes, Seaforth; Harold Squires, Clinton. bills and' does the banking. We have' also acquired., some- how, a monstrosity called a joint account. As nearly as I can learn, this means that I endorse my pay cheque and from there on, she takes over the joint. All I can say is that her system has plunged us into the worst economic gloom we've ever experienced. First of all she has the insane idea that you're suppoSed to pay your bills as soon as you get them. As a result, we never have any money. She even thinks you're supposed to pay things like church dues and doctor's bills. Just last month she nearly put us right on the rocks. She came across an old tax notice that I had thrown in the waste-basket. What did she do? She sent off a cheque for the entire one hundred and seventy dollars. It meant I had to smoke makings for a month. She didn't see what she'd done wrong, even when I carefully explained to her that they can't seize the property until your 'taxes are three years in arrears. * In the long run, we may get out of the soup, if I can teach her the primary fact of home financing — that you never pay a bill until you have to. What bothers me is her complete absorption with money. How would you like to go to bed with a cross between Scrooge and 'the Chancellor of the Exchequer? It's humiliating for a former Good-Time Charlie, who could buy a round with the best of them, or plunge for a raffle ticket with a flourish to have to ask for his lunch money. But what cuts deeper is the fact that the knows where every nickel she gives me is spent. I'm supposed to be at the dangerous age. How do finance it if I want to support a mistress, or buy a one-way ticket to Bali? OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined OPT/ClAN Oculists' PrescniptionS Filled Includes Adjustrnents At No Further Charge Clinton—Mondays Only 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 pin, Above Hawkins hardware G. B. CLANCY, Q.D. — OPTOMETRIST --- Fox APpeitithient Phone JA 4-7251 GODERICH 38-tfb 25 Years Ago .CLINTON NEWS-RECOUP Thursday, April 1.3, 1936 Hope is still held for the liv- es of three 'Toronto men en- tombed' in a mine in Nova Seo- tie. One of the men, PA Robertson is personally well- known 'to Dr, and Mrs, Oakes, Clinton, Charles. Nelson returned' from Orillia to his duties on the Bayfield Line, after a month's rest following an op, eration, M. Foran, Toronto, visited his sister, Mrs. John McGuire, over the holiday. Firemen were .called out to the Jervis Hatchery on Ratten- bury Street East, smoke hav- ing been seen issuing from the building. Little damage was done, Mr, and Mrs. John Schoen- hals announced the engage. meat of their daughter, Olive Elizabeth, to George Anderson McCague. Gladys M. Shipley 'became the bride of Samuel Flewett, Goderich Township. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 19, 1951 Fire loss estimated at $4- 000 to $5,000 to the basement heating system, stock and elec- trical goods, was done to Clin- ton Public Utilities Commis- sion office and shop at the corner of Albert and Ratten- bury streets. Members of the IOOF Lodge, meeting in the lodge room above the office, gave the alarm. Three members of the Alvin Lobb family recuperated at their home following a three- car crash on Highway 8, west of Mitchell. Twin boys, asleep on the back of the car, were net injured. Joyce Bell, Bayfield, report- ed seeing a whistling swan at the Bayfield River on Sunday. Snow and rain and bad wea- ther has kept the farmers from seeding. A backward spring? Well, yes! But the break should come soon. Page 2 Chilton News-Record Thurs., April 20, 1961 REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate & Business Broker Hight Street — Clinton PHONE HU 2-6692 PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Goderich, Ontario Telephone BOX JA 4-9521 418 ACINALID G. McCANN PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Office and tcesidence Rattenbtlry Street East Phone HO 2,9677 CLINTON, ONTARIO (By W. B. T. SMILEY) • oar, and 'birthday gifts. When we were going on a trip, or off to the city for a big weekend, I'd just write a cheque, get my partner to countersign and cash it at the grocery store. When the bank manager called, I spoke right up before he could say a word, and told him, "All right, George, get some money in right away to cover those cheques." Oh, once or twice a year, I'd have a good grumble about all 'the bills coming in, but nobody paid' much attention, including myself. At the end of each year, we owed the business 'another thousand dollars, but the way I explained it to my wife that was perfectly logical, as my partner wasn't • married, so didn't need as much money as, we did. She thought this an eminently sensible explana- tion. This system worked to per- fection. We were happy. I was respected for my finan- cial acumen. In fact, my wife used to listen, rapt, when I discoursed on higher eco- nomics, interest rates, finance companies, and things of that sort. There was never a cross word about money. There was never much money, either, but that didn't seem to matter. Now, we seldom talk about anything else. I come home from school now, haul out a cold one, and sit down for a friendly chat. Five minutes later, there are bills and receipts all over the kitchen table, I'm defending my former monetary policy like a deposed minister of finance, and she's attacking it as mercilessly as the auditor- general. * I don't quite know how it happened, 'but since we came here, and I went on a regular salary, the Old Girl has taken over the purse-strings,. Per- haps it's because the mail now comes to the house. At any rate, she pays the Clinton News-Record