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Dear Mr. Editor:
Congratulatiens ! you've
done the seemingly impossible!
Restored my faith in the small
town newspaper. For some time
I have been disappointed.' in
Your pews coverage and edi.
tarials. But, all is changed!
Last week's coverage of the
Bayfield liker vote was superb
-, the whole treatment - news,
a hilarious editorial (in large
type too for us old folks), poetry,
even letters to the editor! I
don't krioNii who wrote the edi-
torial but I can see that you
have a discerning eye for per.
tinent copy,
With all the gloom that the
weeping of "sensible citizens"
has brought on, it is ' fit to
giVe a body a depression
psychosis. Treatment for this
might be sought at the 0,H,
'at Goderich but' really one
should not have to go beyond
village bounds for any ser.
vice, But, bless you, it's all
beside the point. Your editorial
Page has east a new light on
things. Trite, this has been a
vale of tears since Valentine's
Day (a great time for a bash,
not a love in). It' has been-
rumered (noW there's a handy
word, Mr, Editor. Defy them
to get you for slander on tha!t
one) that the hanky supply has
been exhausted locally. Some
even went to Clinton to buy,
it -is, said. I take it to be a
gross exajerashun that some
even tore up bed sheets to
staunch their flowing eyes,
but you know how sneaky tales
get started, Personally, I am
glad that we had cold weather
for the vote as the flood of
of tears would have inundated
my basement and I was ex-
hausted from mopping up after
the Jan. thaw,
In the midst of this wet, wet
situation, what should cheer my
drooping spirits but your fabu-
lous editorial page, It was al-
most too good to be true. My
lucky day! Those mean old
"drys" sure got their lumps.
I'm still chuckline The gall of
them turninge out to vote and
worse still insisting on playing
the game by the rules. Fit to
make a decent voter lose faith
in British fair play. (Had to
get the flag in somewhere.)
I'd teach 'em a lesson and
print bilingual ballots. can
see 'em trying to vote a straight
ticket on all 8 questions. And
Bless you, you've really-'
stuck a solid blow for burner,
Mr. Editor. Not everyone a
predatespreates it like you do. Be.
cause of this I am not sure
that you would want to publish
a serious letter like this,
Please excuse my poor gram.
mer and spellin' mistakes as
I only have a 13.A, and 3 year's
graduate study and, as you can
see, learnin' don't do some
folks no lead no how, I says,
"Up with the laughs, and down
with weepingpoor losers." With
best wishes and expectin' some
more of that subtle burner in
Suture papers,
I am; dear Sir,
Your delighted customer
"Ole Hooch"
(name and address supplied)
'' 4 *
Dear Mr. Editor: -
Your keen interest in the
neighbouring village of Hayfield
completely overwhelms me.
Had you been a resident your.
self you could not have been
more concerned. Your editorial
of February 22 re our booze
vote is pitifully sad indeed. Your
attempt to tear down the drys
platform was rather futile as
you didn't come through with
even a good argument on any
one of their issues.
Don't worry 01' pal the wets
had a platform too, but let's
"face it,- the drys 'must eheve
better: Oneee T cerequdee
Our local poet whose poem you
printed last week
The wets said the hooch would
' re bring business
'The drys - "it would ruin
the town"
The drys must have got to
more people
'Cause the sons of guns turned
it down.
So Mr. Editor don't cry in
your beer over Bayfield's
plight, The people of Bayfield
know what they want and what's
more they go about to get it.
06.66 percent of the people
voted, incredible eh? what? and
sure enough they turned it down.
So what can you do about, it?
Nothing!
Now cheer up ofchap and
if you are that concerned when
the next booze vote rolls
around then possibly you can
see fit to become a part of
this fair village and perhaps do
something about it,
Yours truly,
The Clinton New Era
Thursday, February 27, 1913.
Mr. Harry Bartliff spent a few
days in Toronto last week and
took in the Auto Show.
Miss Minlue Pinning spent the
weekend at Mitchell.
Councillor W. J. Paisley was
in Toronto on business last week
and also visiting his sonStewart
who is in the Hank Clearing
house for the'city,
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. O'Neil
returned on. Monday evening
after a pleasant trip to Buffalo
New York and Bermuda, for the
benefit of the former's health
and we are pleased . to hear
that Mr. O'Neil is feeling much
better. Mr. O'Neil can talk
'by the yard' on Bermuda and
the sights to see. While they
were, there a German War vessel
was in port and the.officers
and sailors had a merry time.
Tuesday of this week' Mrs.
Fred Mutch slipped oh the ice
and broke her left wrist.
'40 years agi,
' Clinton News Record
March' 1, 1928 '
Miss Myrtle Trewartha is
in Charge at the Clinton Pub-
lic 'Hospital during the ilineSs
of the superintendent; Miss
Sir: The editorial in last
week's Clinton News-Record on
"Lack of participatiop CHSS
students" pointed but the Stu.
dent Councils position but left
the blame on us, Surel we're
all 'guilty to some degree but
student council is living in a
little world of their own and
can't understand the group I'm
in - which represents 20
25 percent of student body I'm
sure.
First of alit Student coun.
cils and those who run for
election in them are those with
time, 'money and home life to
fully appreciate the social life.
Our council is no exception.
Earlier this evening I was
giving some thought to this
letter when I staggered upon a
picture which sumsup my pos.
ition clearly. Oddly enough, the
picture was in the same issue
of the News-Record - on the
same page the editorial appear.
ed. It pictures ladies in beau.
tiful dress, decked with jewel.
lery and corsage; men in suits,
white shirts and bow ties, their
necks held stiff from starchy
collars, It was the "At Home"
dance at CHSS.
I ask the question; How many
senior students have the elegant
clothes and the money that goes
to pay for food and orchestra?
How many parents went, even'
though they couldn't afford it?
Hoy many students had the
.i.yl,iey„but.Ritt it. tqlyaA'd.seleeel
elothes, present forI, bro.
ther or sister. How many of
you will admit going home and
helping around the farm that
evening, and sitting down to eat
supper about the time, the well
rested and jewelled, . ladies
started to arrive at. CHSS?
Are you - the student coun.
cil - guilty of ms-management
when four hundred dollars in
chocolate money is uncollec.
ted? You ask "How can the stu.
dent council do .the things you
want if they don't know what
you want?'
I want an education, that's
what. I'm not particularly In.
terested in chocolate sales,
carolfests, or elegant, dances.
I hope some day to be suc.
cessful and help Mom and Dad
out. They have been very good
to me even though it has been
a hard struggle for them to
raise four children on 3 -
$4,000 a year..
Yours truly,
C.P,
Clinton News Record
March 4, 1943
Mr. and Mrs. Wesleyeloggart
have received word that their
son Ivan is overseas, He is with
the R.C,A.S.C. motor mechanic
division.
Miss Beatrice Greene of
Munro has been, visiting Mrs.
F. Thompson for a few days.
Mrs. Fred Davison of Dale:eft
is the guest of Mrs, J. Dave.
son, Bayfield, this week.
Mr. Leslie Ball and family
of Ltendesboro have moved into
the J.J. Wiseman hpme on the
corner of Kirk and Townsend
street, Clinton. We welcome
Our new citizens.
15 years ago
Clinton NewS Record
February 26, 1953
Mr, and Mrs Almer Pass-
More and sons David and Den.
nis, Thames Road, Exeter,
spent Sunday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs, Ross Merrill.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold SymonS
and Shirley, arid Reiss Symons,
Port Hope, were weekend visit-
ors with Mt, and Mrs. Dan
Sykrione, Mrs, S ythohs remained
for an extended visit.
Miss Catherine E. ringland,
Guelph, Speht the Weekend with
her parents Mr. and MrS, Frei*
F ingland,
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley fladdy
and faintly, London were recent
visitors With their parents Mr,
and Mrs. A. 8, Haddy and
Mr, and Mrs, 1,,V,
Mrs, bavld beviar returned
home recently after having
Spent tWO months in Oklaticlee,
Florida.
I
know how low those drys can
get and still be human, And
them with their slick, sly grins
and dry eyes, I'd wipe that off
their smog faces with bootleg
liker.
Wasn't that smashing about
those old Victorian attitudes?
Hit 'em square just when those
sissies was hiding behind the
'old lady's skirts, I say that's
the way to smoke(or flush) 'em
out.
Mr. Editor
'
our village has
been denied the blessings of
liker but it's an , ill Wind that
brings no good. This Vote tin.
covered undreamed of facts.
How else would my good friend
our : local Edgar Guest, have
been disCoVered? You never can
tell where talent lies! Another
aspiring LotigfelloW had his
feelins hurt but I told him I
could see you Was ail unbiased
editor and weren't too parti-
cular what you 'printed. Boy,
did that aver get Me Some
coniplithents I could do Witheuti
But, you know- how it 1$ with
thciee who take the arts ser.
totisiy, I often wondered why
My business was kinder slack
and I tear I had a tendency to
blame the weather or the giver.
mint. Who'd a thought the Solo.
tiOn Was so' einiPle. I See it
all now r.e: it's all beeauee We
lack bobte. l shut go along
With that 'deer that sack
Harleycern could clean up our Grainger,
slum village and put it in real Mr, and Mrs. tGiScribbitis,
class -e like Grand Bend is, 1 who ePent the past fete months
Ain convinced there ain't tiothe e in Bnglant have returned to
ing booze Can't do for a. place! town,
It neight even Make those' fake Misses Martha Rathwell and
itdry-so expose their bootleg. Itaehel Taylor, 'Hayfield, keye
gere but that Would kill all the turned to their hoitiee Ofi Wede
fun /or the gossips, Who WalItS nesday of last Week after hay.
to put a wet blanket on a 10. 1 trig Visited ,friencia in betreit
village Teereetiah7 for the past two months.
if that didn't squash 'em
simplify the counting! :I don't
Ross Merrill
make it so the only vote could
be "YES." Would that ever Our Early Files
55 years ago. 25 years ago
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ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH
"IfIlE FRIENDLY CHURCH"
Organist: MISS LOIS keRetSe r, A,R.C.T.
Pastor: REV, GRANT MILLS, B.A.
SUNDAY, MARCH 3rd
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the pestilence
s the package
We live in a packaged world.
• And the package designers seem.
40 be demented little ,people, obsessed
With power, who; bestow awards upon
One another for creations most likely
to frustrate the ,public:
Any person who is forced to
wrestle with supermarket packages on
a regular basis.will recognize the irriage
To paraphrase another pernicious
influence, Marshall McLuhan: "The
Pestilence is the package/'
' But there is a challenge to the
pciwer of the packagers; hope for suf-
ferers with broken fingernails and torn
tempers.
It comes in the shape of the
Ancient and Honorable Society of Paper
Baggers, which has its roots in history,
before cellophane and plastic ruled the
shelves.
As a suggested 'opening attack in
the Paper Bag Revolution, the AAHS of
PB offers the following script for its
members:,
Pick the busiest of supermarkets
as prime targets. Time the operation so
that zero hour is 30 minutes before
closing on the Saturday of a long holi-
, day weekend. At this time Paper Bag-
gers will join the irritable lineups at the
cash desks. Each Paper Bagger will
wheel at least one shopping cart piled
teetery high with packaged goods.•
Dialogue should go something like
this, with the chief Paper Bagger, a
male, demanding: "What do you think
you're doing with that package?"
"Your Werfels?" asks the clerk..
"I'm just -checking them out, sir."'
"HoW do you know they're
Werfels? I 'Won't have them checked
out until I know what I'm getting."
."But they are Werfels, sir. It says
so on the package . ."
(Paper Bagger snatches package
from clerk.)
. "Just because it's bilingual is no
reason to believe all you read, young
lady,"
(Paper Bagger ignores sullen mut-
„terings from the 20-ctddccustorners lined
=:'u.p behind him and rips at the alleged
Werfels package, hurling shreds of cel-
lophane and plastic carelessly over the
counter. Similar chaos will by now be
blocking the other five cash desks.)
"Please, sir,” the clerk ventures.
"You're holding up the line. There are
other customers . . ."
"I'm doing them a favor. Aha! This
package is half empty. I should really
pay you for only half a package of
Werfels. Hand me a paper bag, young
lady."
(Young lady, stunned, hands Paper
The House Was quiet that Monday night,,,
The back benchers dozed in their chairs.
The government spoke on the recent
tax' bite,
And 'of other important affairs.
The seats that were vacant stood out
stark and bare,
For legitimate reasons or base.
Some 'members who ...thought a long
weekend was fair,
Campaigned for the leadership race.
Then Stanfield stood up and called for
a vote,
And Sharp, not so sharp, ,said "O.K."
The bells rang and rang with appealing
note,
But the Stanfield-4es carried the day.
Bagger a paper bag into which he
scoops. the Werfels.)
"And now, young lady, before
bringing home the bacon, we'll see if
I'm buying a pig in a" package."
(Paper Bagger demolishes bacon
package, examines rashers carefully,
holding them up to light, slapping them
down separately on counter.) •
"Damn' rashers are so thin,, you
can see through them. Mostly fat, too.
Hand me another paper bag. In fact,
hand me a whole stack of paper bags."
(Using tools brought for the pur-
pose —chisels and a.small axe — Paper
Bagger opens more packages and', after
scrutiny and comment, dumps contents
into paper.bags.)
As the hours pass, other customers
filter away into the night.
When the loolice arrive to invoke
the trespass law, all Paper Baggers are
counting sheets of toilet paper on rolls
extricated from ,twin-packs, to make
sure they are not being cheated.
All six counters look like living
room floors on Christmas morning.
Ai a message of consolation for
martyrs to its cause, the Ancient and
Honorable Society of Paper Baggers
offers: "In jail, nothing is packaged
except the prisoners themselves."
Vacationing Pearson ran for a plane,
And although I can't vouch for this fact,.
Poor Lester was probably racking his
brain,
For ways to get back in the act.
Now Stanfield and •Douglas say 'con-
, fidence lost",
But Pdarson chalks up a complaint.
They argue like kids with all reasoning
' tossed,
With a "taint—yes it is—no it aint".
So members of parliament, pay me
some mind,
Just keep being slow as molasses,
And you'll wake up some morning and
* suddenly find,
Your replacements are real live jack-
asses.
ERIC EARL,
Bayfidd.
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Rev. R. W. Wenham, L.Th., Rector
Miss Catharine Potter, Organist
SUNDAY, MARCH 3rd — Lent I
11:00' a.m.—Holy Communion.
Guest Preacher: THE REV. FRANK BRABY, B.A.
Rector of Brussels
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11;00 a.m.—Morning Prayer — Men's Choir.
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