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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1963-06-27, Page 2STRAWBERRY and HAM SUPPER — TONIGHT Thursday, June 27 — 5:30 to 8 p.m. BRUCEFIELD UNITED CHURCH ADMISSION: Adults $1.25 — Children 60c 26h Classified Ads Bring Results LOANS $50 'to $5,.000 at The old firm of Sutter-Perdue Ltd. and the new owner. Eugene McAdam, are combining this weekend and ail next week in a Storewide Summer Sale. This is in appreciation of past business extended to John Sutter and William Perdue, and to introduce Mr. McAdam to the people of Clinton and district. Effective on Tuesday, July 2, 1963, the hardware and appliance business of John A. Sutter and William Perdue, known as Sutter-Perdue Ltd., is sold to Eugene McAdam. The old established business will be known as SUTTER-PERDUE HARDWARE, Eugene McAdam, Proprietor. INIMEMMOMIM. Sutter-Perdue . Ltd. and Eugene McAdam Are Pleased To Announce A Storewide 110; PAINT SAS E OF DISCONTINUED LINES ONLY ei AA QUART AM Including Floor Enamel, Satin and Semi-Gloss. ALSO SOME EXTERIOR HOUSE PAINT INCLUDED P ROUE HARDWAR EUdENE McAbAM, Proprietor After July 1963 a a REG. $4.95 • A SUMMER SALE EXTRA SPECIAL 4 CUP Pyrex Perk $2.49 ,Trtr &0:4: WHITE PAINT ONLY WHITE PAINT SUTTER 24 Albert Street CLINTON Phone HIS 24023 4,110. a member of Clinton Mas- nnie Lodge and London Mocha Temple .Shrine.. H partieipat-, ed in last Saturdays spring ceremonial of he shriners. Grand 13040., Stratford Native John Sutter also has. been Active in Clinton, He is pres- ently tlePtltY,reeVe and on two other OpeaSionS. was on town .council, He is a member of Clinton Masens, OdtifellowS, Orange Lodges, and the Forresters Lodge; and is still an active Lion, Mr, Sutter recently sold his home at 225 -Rattenbury Street to Al Jowson, and has purchas-cd, the home of Al White at 172' Princess Street, John Sutter learned the 'plumbing and tinsmith trade Clinton's oldest ,IntsitieSsmen, retire. this weekend, They. are Pert:1W Wbo is in his 80th year,.ancl John A. Sut, ter,-WhO 75 and has been in. business longer than anyone in town, Effective 'On Tuesday, July 2, the Sutter-Perdue Ltd, hard, ware business will he owned by .Eugene McAdam. Mr, Sutter began the busi- ness in April 1911, when he purchased the plumbing and tinsmithipg part of Harland Bros, The shop was nostairs over the present Ball and Mut- ch hardware store, Mr. Perdue joined the busi- ness in July 1920, coming hack to his native town after a var- ied engineering career in Lou- don, Detroit and other parts of the United States. The New Owner Eugene McAdam was born in London and had lived in St. Thomas,, and Hamilton, coming to Clinton 17 years ago with his father Mitehael McAdam, He attended CDCI, then worked for his father at the carpentry trade. For the past ten years he has been a mill- wright and building superinten- dent for W. J. Lehman, of Delhi. This job consisted of installing machinery in feed mills and building feed mills, in various aprts of Ontario, Quebec and Nova, Scotia. Eie tnarried4V1ildred Charter, RR 3, Blyth, in 1952, She is a Reg.N„ graduating. from , Vic- toria Hospital School of Mg's, ing, London, in 1952. They have a girl Heather, nine years old, and a boy, Robin, six years old, and are members of On- tario Street United Church. Mr. and Mrs. McAdam built a lovely home at 189 Church Street, whiCh they recently sold to Don Pullen, the new assistant agricultural represen- tative for Huron County. itiodern Hardware Started by John Sutter as a plumbing and tinsmith shop in 1911 the business has grown into a modern hardware store. In 1918 the shop was moved to the north part of the store where Stedman's 5c to $1. is now situated. This building was rented from the late Fred Jackson. July 1920, Willie-41 B. Perdue .inined the business. And the partnership Purehased the former Miller 'Hardware build- ing at the present location, from the Searle estate, At that time, he late Morley Jordan operated a grocery in the preset ent electrical part of the "StIt ter-Perdue business, This small store was rented to various businesses until the ,early .3.940's when it was made into the ap plianee and electripal part of the present hardware. 'Today there is no plumbing or tip, s.mithing work done by the firm, nor do they carry much in the way of major applian- ces, Hardware, small electrical appliances, paints and house wares form the bulk of the merchandise. Over the years the business has handled many name-brand lines. For over 30 years Sutter- perdue have been C paint dealers. At one time they were the only dealers west of Hamilton, This dealership was acquired through John Sutter's love of football (soccer as we know the game today). He was a former player and held a referee's certificate, Through this sport he became acquaint- ed with a Mr. Hugh Campbell, who came from. Scotland and was district ,fepresentative for C-1-L. Mr ,Campbell is still with the C-I-L company. From 1936 to 1957 the firm was F'rigidaire appliance deal- ers for the area. This was in charge of Mr. Perdue who was and still is an expert refrigera- tion and electrical serviceman, When motor cars began to be produced in quantity and oil companies were opening ser- vice stations, the Sutter-Perdue firm specialized in installing gas tanks, pumps and also done the concrete and electrical work. They did all the in- stallations for Canadian Oil from Lucan to Kincardine and east to Stratford. The late Sam McDonald was Canadian Oil representative for this dist- rict at that time, The local firm also made gas installations for Ross Scott's Sunoco, B/A and other companies. The Sut- ter-Perdue firm hired eight or nine employees in the summer for these Ohs. The firm received another good streak of business 1941, When the RCAF station was being built. When Piggett Con, struction came to Clinton to do construction work, their forenlan Tom Crocker looked up john Sutter, Mr, .Sutter was recommend- ed by a former acquaintance in. Stratford. The firSt order' from Crocker was for a carload of nails (3.60 li:egs), At that time it was impoSsible for a hard- ware to get nails. But, with a priority ,order from. Piggett they Were secured. Another carload was ordered later, and also an order for 18,000 bolts, Mr. Sutter said .''Crocker was one of the hardest but most efficient foreman I have ever seen," A Varied Career William B, Perdue had had a varied career before he came back to Clinton in 1919, He was born in Goderich Township, son of the late Mr. and Mrs„ Wil- liam Perdue, The Perdue home was on the 8ayfield Line on the farm now owned by Joseph Postill. He attended SS 10 school and St. James' Church, Mr. Perdue went to the United States, then took a Leonard engineering corres- pondence course. For a year and a half he worked for the London Electric Co. on the en- gines and generators for the city street lights. He then went to work for Cadillac Motor Car Co, in Detroit, and is, Vito proud of his job .of having in. Stalled. the ignition systems on all the 1-909 and V3.0.Cad cars of these years, In 1911 he took a course in self-starters. and. went to the Bay city Auto. Co, for. the next four years. These motor car companies Were all inorporatecl, into Gen- ,erkil Motors. Mr, Perdue then joined the Bay City Dredge Co, as erect- ing engineer. This, work took him first to Minnesota, and then to Alexandria, Louisiana, • After three months at AleN, andria he was offered an int- erest in the company, He ed. with the company 191_9 when he was ratteci to the U.S, Army, Joining the ..air force branch. of the army, Mr. Perdue was in the service only ten days,, stationed at Grant Park, near Chicago. His eompanY got him out of tile army, but he sold. his interests in the dredging firm and again went south. Going to Texas, Mr. Perdue was superintendent of the firm that built the retaining wall around the city of Port Ar- thur, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico, All this part of Texas was reclaimed from the. sea. Another of his jobs while sup- erintendent' of the Howard Kenyon Construction Co: of Houston, • Texas, was moving three million cubic yards of earth for a plant at Sugarland, near Houston, He lived at $ngarland. Coming home to Goderich Township in 1919 he talked with John Sutter and in July the following year became a partner in the business. Mr. Perdue has been a civic and service minded citizen here. He is in his 30th year as an elected member of Clin, ton PUC; was an active Lions, In Stratford with the Myers 4 Sons, company. He recalls, many experiences ar- ound Perth:County when he and a gang were out on lobs, using tea and wagon for traps, Pertatlen, one job he recalls and is quite ,proud of is the cold stor, age instaliation at • the Whyte packing plant On Mitchell's main street. The Sutter -Perdue Store • handled Findlay and McClarY stoves, .and. Mr, Sutter recalls. having delivered 50 cook stoves in a .single year, The business had, a horse and wagon in the early .cleys. Mrs,. 13, B, (Mary) Sutter, who has been bookkeeper and clerk at the store, and Wilfred gremlin, clerk, are being re- tained by the new owner. 1),90: .Clinton iNowp-Rpc94.4,41wo.,, June 27, 190a Sutter-Perdue Ltd. ChangesHands, Partners Have Had Active Careers ATLANTIC FINANCE coRPPRATION. 1.1MITEP Phone nu 485 7 Raftonbury 'St., Clinton. Fridays to 8 p.m.--Other Evening by Appointment Michael gland. Branch 'wanner ••"4 ',IVY-. ,b0.-• ....AP: John A. Sutter William E. Perdue SUTTER-PERDUE LTD. We hope you wilt give the same generous support to the new owner that you have given us over the years. And, we are sincere in our faith that Mr. Mc- Adam will give you good service and attention, combined with top-quality mer- chandise, in the years to come. We sincerely mean the above "thank-you" to the people of Clinton and district for their generous patronage over the past years. (Mr. Sutter has been in business since 1911 and Mr. Perdue joined the firm in 1920). Your support has favoured our business to expand considerably. We have, in our own way, prospered from your patronage.