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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1961-12-14, Page 2PETER'S Modern MEAT Market HU 2.9731 Roasting Chickens Oven-Ready 5 - 7 LBS. We have a large variety of TURKEYS - Grade 'A' Geese - Ducks Capons - Hams FREE DRAW FFREE TURKEY for someone every week until !Christmas. Get your toupons at our Meat Counter. Lost Week's Whiner: SGT E. SCHNUBB, 26 Edmonton Rd., RCAF Clinton. 49( lb. 59th Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. William H. Knox Mr, and Mrs. William H. Knox, Gibbings Street, Clin- ton, quietly aberved their 59th wedding anniversary on Sunday. Their marriage was performed in Hullett Town- ship, near Kinburn, at "Pl- easantview", the home of the bride's parents, with the late Rev. W. Hodgins, of St. Thomas Anglican Church, Seaforth, as the official cl- ergyman. Following their marriage they farmed for 36 years on concession 8 of Hullett. Town- ship, on the farm next to where Mrs. Knox was born and raised. They retired to Londesboro where they lived for 20 years before coming to Clinton 'in 1958. Mr. and Mrs. Knox have one ;son, Leslie T. Knox, Ni- agara Falls, and one daught- er, Mrs; John W. (Florence) Elliott, Clinton, three grand- children and ten great grand- children. Born 86 years ago in Hul- lett Township, Mr. Knox is one of seven children born to the late Mr. and Mrs. George Knox. He has one brother still living, John T. Knox, Wingham. Mrs. Knox, the former Rosean A. Dale, was born 82 years ago, one of eight children born to the late Mr. and Mrs. 'Christopher Dale. A brother, James C, Dale, lives at RR 1, Clinton, and 'a sister Mrs. Thomas A. Knox resides at Londesboro. r From Our Early Files 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, December 15, 1921 Reeve Dr. Clark, Goderich and Reeve Erwin, Bayfield, will contest the wardenship next year, In a move to stop motor ac- cidents at the Square. Gode- rich, a suggestion has been made to ban auto traffic there entirely on Saturday nights. A. F. Johns, formerly of Tuckersmith, will succeed Mr. Bouck as principal of Clinton Model School. He was one of 28 applicants. The opening of the new Com- munity Hall at Londesboro is planned for Friday evening. An old fashioned tea meeting will be 'held. Letters on automobile •mark- ers will be four inches high next year, rather than three inches. John Noble of Huron Road reports frogs still singing last week and a dandelion in bloom. How's that for December wea- ther? 40 1/ ears Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, December 15. 1921 N. W. Trewartha, Clinton; A, E. Erwin, Bayfield; Joseph 'Hackett, Ashfield and Dr. Clark, Goderich, will make a bid for the 1922 wardenship of Huron County. Word is received from Mr. and Mrs. W. T. O'Neil, Florida. Mrs. O'Neil has not been in good health but her husband is rallying with the warmer weather. Miss Lucille Grant will have a display of her own and her pupils work in Mr. Stothers of- fice. H. A. Hovey offered a mar- ket for clean green furs. E. H. Epps & Son, Varna, offered to store batteries for the winter and return them in first class shape in 'the spring, O'Neil's Bakery is selling a rubber tired top buggy, nearly new, for $100. Original cost was $225. 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, December 17, 1936 Boy Scouts are collecting toys for less' fortunate children. Alvin Corless is returned by acclamation as a member of the Boys Parliament for South Huron. He will attend the ses- sion in' Toronto which begins the day after Christmas. Huron County Home finished the year with a bank balance of $3,000. aunty Engineer Patterson a.s t:1' for at least $150,000 from the county, "which with sub- sidy would place an all-year surface on a considerable mile- age of our county roads." Frank Riley opened a black- smith shop this week in Con- stance. George VI has been proclaim- ed King, succeeding his bro- ther Edward who abdicated last week. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, December 13, 1951 Alvin Bettles is re-elected head of Huron Soil and Crop Improvement Association. Leonard W. Youngblut was killed immediately when a tractor overturned' crushing him. The accident occurred' 'at the Alex Wilkins farm near Londesboro. Dr. George S. Elliott, retir- ing from the position of reeve of .Clinton for the past two years, is appointed to the CDCI Board by the Clinton Public School Board. Clinton Colts are practicing on the artificial ice at Sea- forth while waiting for ice in the Lions Arena. John Stanley has completed nine weeks •training at the Pro- vincial Institute of Trades, To- ronto. Jayne Mary Snell, daughter of Mr. and' Mrs. Eph Snell, placed fourth among all 4-H club members in Huron with 898 points. Business and Professional Directory A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON ST. 7 RATTENBURY ST. E. GODERICH CLINTON Phone JA 4-7562 Phone HU 2-7721 Whoa, there; Slaw down, Relax. Get that frown off your face, Don't look so strained, It's not a funeral or a wedding, or even, a threshing you're get- ting ready for. It's Christmas. Remember? I know, I know. "It's a try- ing time for all of us" and "Christmas' is getting too com- mercialized" and "it's not what it used to be" and "we can't afford all those presents" and "Christmas is just a big pain in the neck" and "I don't enjoy Christmas any more, I'm simp- ly worn out." I've heard them all, Poppycock! Piffle! It's not Christmas that's a big pain in the neck. It's some of the so- called Christians who celebrate it — worrying, complaining, grabbing, sweating, pushing, whining — in a perfect frenzy as 'the glorious day approaches. * * For myself, I find Christmas, and the weeks approaching it, a demanding but exhilarating experience. Each Christmas season, around our house, pre- sents a challenge that brings out the best in me. And don't anybody, please, remark that the best 'is none too good. The reason is that, each year, about the time other people are wrapping gifts' and address- ing Christmas cards, we are up to our ears in a Domestic Pro- ject. For some reason, we be- come involved, annually, in the most stupendous household up- heaval, just before the festive season. It's not my doing. Every year, about the first of December, the Chief Engineer gets hallucinations of grandeur, and we're for it. One year, it was a new sink in the bathroom. Translated, this means I wound up with a complete new bathroom which took me about two years •to pay for, Another year, she thought we'd sand all the floors. The result looked like Lake Superior on a choppy day. One pre-Christmas, we got into the painting and whenever the family met at mealtime, it re- sembled a war-gathering of the Six Nations. On still another occasion, we had to build a chimney a couple of weeks before Christmas. (No Virginia, it wasn't for Santa Claus to come down. It was' for the smoke to go up, for a change, instead of just 'hang- ing there.) Anyway, the man said the bricks were too wet, or something, so we wound up with about 8,000 bricks piled, to dry, in the kitchen. During these ordeals, the old Trouble 'n Strife is about as easy 'to get along with as a cobra with a hangover. That's why I look on the annual Pro- ject as a challenge. If we can get through .a couple of weeks of this without anyone picking up an axe, Christmas is a breeze. When 'the last snarl of the sander fades, or the last brick is slapped into place, or the last splatter of paint is tur- pentined off, I know that Christmas, peace on earth, and goodwill toward me and the kids, are practically upon us. • • * Each year the Project has acted' as a safety valve for the Old Girl. You know what women are like with Christmas coming on, normally. They run around in everd'ecreasing ciecles as they try to cope with turkey and tree and trimmings, pud- ding and presents and pies. After a , couple of weeks of (By me, B, T, MILEY) Painting, or running around 'the al- ways bri so brick-pile, hmayo:caoeld oulatclythwat gase ting ready ,for Christmas Was a, pleasant change, in compari- son, That's why I was a mite alarmed this year. You see, we're living rin a rented house, and there's no outlet for that pre-Christmas project. The lady is restrained' by law- from ripping off all the wallpaper or launching into a linoleum- laying orgy, All she can do is eye it longingly. But I needn't have worried, Unable to create alarm, con- fusion, chaos and open warfare in the house, she has gone fur- ther afield, To church, As or- ganist, she's facing her first .Christrnes with all the extra and special services. There's panic aplenty. That kid spends more time at church than at home. We have carols coming out our ears. But it's a good thing, I say. Here's' the program: three services the day before Christ- mas, including midnight; a ser- vice Christmas morning; then jump in the car and go haring off a hundred miles across OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined OPTICIAN Oculists' Prescriptions Filled Includes Adjustments At No Further Charge Clinton—Mondays Only Ph. HU 2-7010 9.00 a.m, to 5.30 p.m. Above Hawkins Hardware Seaforth—Weekdays except Mondays, ground floor. Phone 791 G. B. CLANCY, O.D. — OPTOMETRIST — For Appointment Phone JA 4-7251 GODERICH o$1-tft INSURANCE THE WEST WAWANOSH MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Head Office, DUNGANNON Established 1878 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President, Brown Smyth, R 2, Auburn; Vive-Pres., Herson Ir- win, Beigrave; Directors, Paul Caesar, R. 1, Dungannon; George C. Feagan, Goderich; Ross Mc- Phee, Ps 3, Auburn; Donald MacKay, Ripley; John F. Mac- Lennan, R. 3, Goderich; Frank Thompson, R. 1, Holyrood; Wm. Wiggins, R. 3, Auburn. For information on your in- surance, call your nearest direc- tor who is also an agent, or the secretary, Durnin Phillips, Dun- gannon, phone Dungannon 48. 27-tflo country to Granny's, for Christ, Inas dinner, With a sesion like that to get frantic about, she hasn't time to drive as all crazy "getting ready for Christ, mas," 0 Clinton Band News Owing to the busy season, and the fact that there are a lot of school concerts and Christmas concerts planned for the next week, the band has cancelled •the concert which was to have been played this Sun- day night in the ODCI auditor.. ium, This affair will be re- scheduled some time in Feb- ruary, along with the guest artists promised, Weather permitting, the band will play during the visit of Santa Claus to downtown Clin- ton on Saturday afternoon. Also, on Thursday, Decem- ber 21, the band will play a short concert at Huronview for the enjoyment of the residents there. Anyone who has films of the Christmas Parade in London, please contact the bandmaster, George Worrch, at once, INSURANCE H. E. HARTLEY All Types of Life Term Insurance — Annuities CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE CO. Clinton, Ontario K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE. Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HI/ 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, Blyth; secre- tary-treasurer, W. E. South- gate, Seaforth. Directors: John H. McEwing; Robert Archibald; Chris Leon- hardt, Bornholm; Norman Tre- wartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alex- ander, Walton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Harvey Fuller, Code- rich; Wm. R. Pepper, Seaforth; Alistair Broadfoot, Seaforth. Agents: Wm. Leiper, Jr., Lon- desboro; V. J. Lane, RR 5, Sea- forth; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; James Keyes, Seaforth; Harold Squires. Clinton. PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY PUBLIC ACCOUNTAN1 Goderich, Ontario Telephone Box JA 4-9521 478 REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate & Business Broker High Street — Clinton PHONE HU 2-6692 • 0' GIFT GIFT 4( 'RAPPING' FOR MEN Page 2 Clinton News-Record,Thum, Pea, 14, 1901 Editorials Sixty-four years editor in New York from a little girl, asking were a Santa Claus, had been telling her there and she felt the ,need from someone who This answer, which next issue of that has been repeated many has become a classic. Is ago Her of must editor's We received appeared There a Santa Claus? a newspaper We should a letter sense and if there really The eternal school friends the world was no Santa, Not believe confirmation You might surely know. in the You might newspaper watch times since. It Eve 'to printed it here they did have no enjoyment, except in sight, light with which childhood fills would be extinguished. in Santa Claus! as well not believe in fairies,. get your papa to hire men to In all the chimneys on Christmas catch Santa Claus, but even if not see Santa Claus coming in December, 1,954, and since there have down, what would that prove? been some requests since then, we have Nobody sees Santa Claus 'but that is no sign decided to print it again. The sent- that there is no Santa Claus. ments expressed then in 1.897, are The most real things in 'the world are those particularly applicable in the world to- that neither children nor men can see. day. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Virginia, your little friends are wrong. Of course not, but that's no proof that they They have been affected by the scepticism of are not there. a sceptical age, Nobody can conceive or imagine 'all the They do not believe except they see, wonders that are unseen •and unseeable They think that nothing can be which is not in the world. comprehensible by their little minds, You tear apart the baby's rattle and see All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's, what makes the noise inside, but there or children's are little, is a veil covering •the unseen world which In this great universe of ours, a man is a not the strongest man, nor even the mere insect, and ant in his 'intellect, as united strength of all the strongest men compared with the boundless worlds about that ever lived, could tear apart. him, as measured by the intelligence Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can capable of grasping the whole truth and push aside that curtain and view and knowledge. picture the supernal beauty and glory Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. beyond, He exists as certainly as, love and generosity Is it all real? and devotion exists, and you know that Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing they abound and give to your life its else real and abiding. highest beauty and joy. No Santa Claus! Alas! how dreary would be the world if there Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. were no Santa Claus! A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay It would be as dreary es if there were no ten times ten thousand years from now, Virginias. he will continue to make glad the heart There would be no childlike faith then, no of childhood, poetry, no romance to make tolerable this Written 'by Francis Pharcellus Church : existence. New York Sun, in 1897 Confidence in the Cow (The Globe and Mail) Scientists, exploring the frontiers might reach the level where it would of the unknown, are often so far ahead be unwise to drink milk. Politicians of the rest of us that we are inclined promised that sufficient warnings would to condemn them to perdition and fol- • be given of the approach of such a low our own judgment. danger level. There are scientists who have is- Now, it is suggested, drinking milk sued grim warnings about the effects is about the best way of counteracting of cigaret smoking and others who de- Strontium-90. The more milk drunk, scribe the threat as overrated. There the less Strontium-90 remains in the are teetotal scientists who trace the body. This conclusion, reached by a dreadful results of alcohol and moiler- scientist at the Ontario Agricultural ately imbibing scientists who claim College and received with great pleasure that the stimulant is necessary. by the dairy industry, confirms an We have been warned, on numer- earlier announcement by a scientist at ous occasions, of the danger of radio- the University of Saskatchewan. And active fallout. It has been explained the Ontario scientist adds that in any that the dangerous isotope products are case, far less Strontium-90 is absorbed absorbed by vegetation, eaten by the through milk than by way of vegetables cow, turned into milk and passed along or rice. to human beings. Eventually, a danger- Attempts have been made to fluori- ous accumulation would lead to bone date, flavor and color milk. Some cancer, leukemia, thyroid damage and doctors keep it away from their chil- genetic mutations. dren, others insist on a pint a day. With their only purpose the meas- Things have been taken out of it, things urement of radioactive levels, the scient- have been added to it. ists chose milk as a basis for their in- But apparently the dairymen were vestigation. Unfortunately, the public right all the time. The scientific con- gained the impression that radioactivity elusion is Drink More Milk. 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