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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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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
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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
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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?
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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
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Hight Street — Clinton
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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
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