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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1968-07-25, Page 6The cow bell clanged pgalpt By the sound, :of it, the MPS must be bad, or maybe the 'cows were being dogged, It was nice to hear the ound coming up front the river valley .on an early summer morning. Lucy never knew to what cows they belonged—,Lindsay's, MeciT.WS,'ThOrnSOn'a. or Cameron's? It was time she. was awakening to go down and. bring "Lily" up from the lot (13 13pyfield Terrace) so she'd be milked and let out to pasture on the street before the down town herd wondered off to Goderich Township up the .river or south along the Lakeshore. Clang! clang! clang! again, and then a familiar voice. said: "Lucy!" She lay there in sleep. When someone touched her leg, she opened one eye and saw lrler, neighbour, Mrs. Charles Bell. "I hate to Waken. you .but Carl said your breakfast would soon 'be ready." Slowly, Lucy pulled herself out of the stupor of a sleep after having been awake most of the night, Clang! clang! clang! went the cow bell next door in Bell's cherry tree. There was no cow! It was designed to frighten the birds away from the cherries but everytime she heard it, Lucy thought of cows, and how with .changing times the cowbell has now become an antique, a collectors item, in this area. "I suppose it was necessary to have a bell when your cattle went back to the river!" Lucy remarked to Mrs. Bell, "Yes, but when we children went to hunt them, those blame cows stood still in the bush!" she replied. Lucy asked Carl about using cow bells. "We never used one," he replied, we always had a good collie or other heeler. As a boy, I'd often meet the cows coming to the gap at the river when I went after them and they didn't daily or hide with a good working dog rounding them up. "Why have you two cowbells?" Lucy asked. "One was always there -- perhaps my grandfather had used it — and Dad bought the other with something else at a sale," he informed her. "My father's cousin V. M Diehl used a cow bell because the milk cows had such a long range, either north or south, along the • river. And sitting on the back stoop on a summer evening it was nice to hear that bell sounding in the distance." Carl had wanted to instal his two bells in the cherry tree at "The Hut" when the birds began raiding it, but Lucy persuaded him that it was too much work bringing the cord to the house and then it wasn't easy to ring it often. Lucy -knows for she tried the same trick when she lived on Main Street. Carl was rather blue. "We aren't going to have any cherries," he predicted. "Tie those duck wings onto the old imitation owl you made several years ago, and stick it up in the tree," said Lucy. A saucy black squirrel had stayed up top .and looked down at Carl when he tried to frighten him. But when "blackie" saw that fearsome object being carried high in the air on a bamboo pole, he took to the top of the highest spruce tree. The blackbirds took off, too, but the robins gazed at it, and since it didn't move, they continued to gorge themselves. Soon the blackbirds and the black squirrel were back again, too. The birds which were not numerous but slipped in quietly and always went off with a cherry were the orioles. The birds picked the top of the tree clean and Carl got more than he wanted off the bottom of the tree -- picked a bit on the green side just in case the birds got ahead of him, and duly canned on the very hottest days in the summer. The cow bells have been put away for another season as the big black Byng and St. Lambert cherries have been harvested, one way or another. No longer will they sound about six o'clock to frighten the birds and startle sleepers. Jack Willock jumped up in his sleep the first morning he was here and awakened himself saying: "The cows are in the garden." . Perhaps, many children today do not know what a cow is, let alOne a cow bell! GEORGE WRAITH BO X GODERICH tf 4."‘N"N" %%NA% 110.00%.%•%•••••••000" %%%%%.%\\\\ PHONE' 5244511 a TAX REDUCTION for all Home-owners and Tenants in Ontario Your Guide to Ontario's New System of Tax RectudiiOns j0.1'43A.'sd!.•I saNO • Your local municipality calculates the amount of the reduction and subtracts it on the. 1968 tax bills. If a house or apartment is rented, the lendlotd is required to pass the full amount of the reduotion to his tenants. The Province pays municipalities the total ofithe reductions. Every owner of a residential property, and every tenant of such a property is entitled to receivea tax reduction provided the property was eligible in 1967 to be sepa- rately assessed under The Assessment Act. a • I To ease the burden of municipal and school taxes, the Ontario Legislature has established a system of residen- tial property tax reductions. Virtually all home-owners and tenants are entitled to benefit. By this system, Ontario, in effect, is paying the first part ,of the municipal taxes on each eligible house or apart- ment. The reduction amounts to an average of 121/2% of the taxes. If you are a home-owner... If you pay your municipal taxes directly, you receive your tax reduction directly from your local municipality—either as a deduction on your 1968 municipal tax bill or by cheque. If you have agreed to make regular pay- ti ments to the holder of your mortgage, with instruction to him to pay your municipal taxes on your behalf, you will receive the benefit of the tax reduction by way of an adjustment to these regular - payments. If.you are a landlord... As an owner of residential property, you receive the tax reduction in the manner described above for home-owners. OM lit 1111111 some As a landlord, you are required to pay the full amount of the tax reduction to each of your tenants. ol'11111'1,11111 .1iII .111 19'1 014 I 1 11119, N1 1/ VI 1 Anglican women hold tea and bake sale / • • / / / / / / • / / / / / / / Trinity -Parish Hall was tastefully decorated with bouquets of summer flowers on ie'riday afternoon when the ladies of the ACW hosted a very successful tea and bake sale. The mouth 'Watering array of homebaking, jam, jellies, pickles and fruits was quickly sold out. in charge of this section were Mrs. Emerson Heard and Mrs. R. J. Larson, assisted by Mrs. It. B. Johnston and Mrs. L. B. Smith. The tea table covered with a white lace cloth was centered with a silver bowl of flowers in shades of pink, flanked by green tapers in silver holders. Pouring tea were: Mrs. F. H. Paull, Mrs. Lloyd Scotchmer and Mrs. Fred LeBeau; assisted by Mrs. P. Duboulay, Mrs. G. N. Rivers, Mrs. Morgan Smith and Mrs. J. B. Higgins Sr. In charge of the kitchen were Mrs. F. Fraser and Mrs. S. Bryant. Convener for the very successful event was Mrs. F. A. Clift. PERSONALS, Newcomers to the Jowett cottages are: Mr. and Mrs. O.L. Denomme; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Denomme; Mr. and Mrs. K. Gabrielson all of Detroit, and Mr. and Mrs. P. Lenchan, London, Mr: and Mrs. J. Carruthers, Dundas, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson, Scarborough. Mr. John Sturgeon Sr. had the misfortune to fall on Saturday and break an arm. Weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Fred LeBeau were, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cluff and baby son Robert and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Moss, London. Recent guests of the LeBeau's were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur LeBeau of 1\14rirov4, .California. On thiS occasion there was a family re-union, totalling 29 members in .all. Visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sturgeon last ,week were Mr, and Mrs. Harvey Sheppard and Mr, and Mrs. C. B. Knight of Toronto, Canon H. M. Lang-Ford of Kitchener, is spending • three weeks in the village. Weekend guests at the Albion Hotel were: Mr. and Mrs. G. R. McDoilagh, Toronto, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Heard, Hespler; Mr. and Mrs. Jerome B. Vann and their daughter, Holley and her friend Pam Edwards of Royal Oak, Michigan; Mrs, V. Massey, LaSalle; Miss K, McCarthy, Windsor; Mr. and Mrs. H. H. .Truitt and their datighter, Mrs. Terry Paul of Detroit. Mrs. H. *Naughton and Mrs. William Swift of Montreal were guests last Tuesday and Wednesday of Mrs. William Metcalf. Miss Polly Locher entertained eleven members of her family at a dinner party at the Albion Hotel on Sunday evening. Miss Locher of Detroit is a well known artist who paints in water. colours and has. depicted on canvass. many of the village beauty, spots and homes during her visits here. She is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Chapman at their Slimmer honie on Louise Street. Miss Ellen Lindsay of the Clinton Hospital staff, is spending her vacation at the home of her parents; Mr. Jim Butcher of St. Thomas, is also visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsay. Dr. and Mrs. John Downie, Kingston, and their three daughters are spending this week with Mrs. Downie's parents, Dr. and Mrs. R.G. Hunter. ' Mr. and Mrs. W. C.. Parker, Charlie and Kim, London, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Parker; joining the family on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Parker and family, Dorchester, Mr. and Mrs. S. Andrews and Mr. and Mrs. E, Gabel of Listowel. • Major and Mrs. Dave Battye Were feted at a bon Voyage party given for them by friends on Saturday evening. Major and Mrs. Battye and their children, Blair and Renee will leave the village on Thursday for Sioux Lookout, Northern Ontario. Miss Celia Patte of Brantford visited Mr. and Mrs. J. B, Higgins last week. Miss Patte and Mrs. Higgins are old friends, who had not met since 1939. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Larson and Mr, and Mrs. Henry Larson spent Sunday in London with the former's son, Clarence and family, At their cottages on Howard street are: Mrs. R.E. Ashton, Mr. • and Mrs. T. Orton Logan, London, and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lance of Troy, Michigan. Mrs. Ed Rowse and children, who had spent the past week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Smith, returned to Welland on Sunday with Mr. Rowse. Mr. Joe. Cyopeck was also a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Sunday. Mr. D. J. Barlow of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, who was a patient in Clinton Hospital after falling ill while vacationing in Bayfield, died in Bon Secours Hospital, Grosse Pointe, on Friday, July 19. Mr. and Mrs. A. Pye of Windsor are occupying the Gull House. Mrs. Kallio and grandson Mark from 'Detroit joined Mr. and Mrs. Pye last week. Mrs. John Meeks, Stratford, Mrs. Bruce Greenstreet and her daughter Suzanne, Mrs. Claude Martin and son Andrew, of Fordwich, spent Monday with Mrs. W. R. Elliott. Many of the young folk are anxiously awaiting July ?1 when entries for the children's art. show will be received at 2 p.m. at, the village hall. The exhibition. Which showed great promise last Year will open.officially on Thursday evening at 7 p.m,; on Friday it will be opeh to the public from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m, and from 7 p.m, in the evening. Art Exhibition "Painting on the Green" is an outdoor show to which the general public is invited, In case of rain, it will be held indoors. Artists may enter six paintings for a hanging fee of $1. which will include insurance. Paintings must be entered not later than Friday, 16th August between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Write for entry forms to the Recreation Centre, 65 Delhi Street, Guelph, Ontario. All crafts and paintings may be sold. A salesman will be on the spot to take care of this. Mrs. Enid Reed, the well known artist of Agincourt, Ontario, will sketch portraits in pastel or black and white for a nominal fee. Guest artists will be: D. Mackey Houstoun, Henri Van Bentum, Frances-Anne Johnston, Peter Haworth, B. Cogeill Haworth, Gus Wiseman, and Frederick Hagan, all of Toronto, Miss Holly Middleton of the University of Guelph and Franco is D allegret from Montreal. A painting by the noted Guelph artist Evan MacDonald will be on view and will be competed for at the show. Light refereshments will be available or visitors can bring their lunch and purchase tea at the tea room. Many prizes have been donated by generous donors and will be awarded for the best entries. There will be a grand prize of $50. This should be an interesting and rewarding show, while providing a very nice outing for .the day. This show will be held on Saturday and Sunday, 17th and 18th of August at The Recreation Centre, 65 Delhi Street, Guelph. Times are from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday. For further information you may contact: Mrs. Marg. Walker, 1 Lincoln Crescent, Guelph. Phone: 822-9517. TO ADD • SILO EXTENSIONS • SILO ROOFS Call or Write Now Clinton Memorial Shop T. PRYDE and SON CLINTON — EXETER -- SEAFORTH Phone 482-7211 Open Every Afternoon Local Representative • A. W. STEEP — 482-6642 t f, Fenner reskkepti :c!! visits area Dr. Edna Turner, of New York, daughter of the late Albert Turner, is visiting friends and relatives in Clinton after an absence of 35 years. She is en route to Vancouver, and on her return to New York will begin a world tour. Dr. Turner attended public school and high school in Clinton, and took her BA, MA, and PhD at Columbia University in New York. She also studied in Europe four years where she spent two years 'at Oxford University. Dr. Turner has been a professor of chemical engineering at New York University for over 30 years. She was impressed with improved housing and schools in the area, and said she found Ontario very attractive after her long absence. intQn. News- Record,, Thursday, July 25, 1968.: .„.....„,„.., . ,, ..., By BELLCHAMBER BEAUTIFUL BREEZY • • • BAYFI PERSONAL ITEMS • CHURCH NEWS • CLUB ACTIVITIES • VILLAGE HAPPENINGS Correspondent: AUDREY BELLCHAMBER Phone 565-2864, Beyfield Subscriptions, Classified Advs. and Display Advs. all accepted by the Bayfield correspondent. 11111111111111111111•1•111.111111111111 Na 110001.% NO" O / / / / / / / / / / / / / BALL-MACAULAY --BUILDING SUPPLIES-- CLINTON — 482-9514 SEAFORTH — 527-0910 HENSALL — 262-2713 If you.are a tenant... Your landlord is required to pay to you the full amount of the tax reduction for your house or apartment, which he has received from the local municipality. If you rent your house or apartment for all of the year 1968, you should receive the full amount of the reduction. On the other hand, if you rent your dwelling for only a portion of the year, you are en- titled to a portion of the 'reduction; if you rent the dwelling for six months, for instance, you should receive one-half of the reduction. Here is how you get your tax reduction: • If your tenancy ended before June 30, you must apply If you have any questions about residential property tax reductions, please address them to the Municipal Subsidies Branch, Department of Municipal Affairs, 801 Bay Street, Toronto 5; Telephone; Area code 416, 365-6881. to your landlord or to his agent to be entitled to a portion of the reduction. • If your tenancy ends after June 30, or if it continues through to December 31, your landlord or his agent is required to pay the reduction to you. In either case, your landlord or his agent is required by law to pay to you the amount of the tax reduction by December 31, 1968. • Any landlord who fails to pay tax reduction allowance in accordance with the law is liable to a fine of not more than $200 for each conviction and, in addition, will be ordered to pay the tax reduction allowance. HON. W. 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