HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1968-11-07, Page 2Mr. Boger Pepper has
purchased the farm known as
the Cyrus Turner farm, 3rd con ,
Tuckersmith. at 'a little below
$1,0110. Ile has secured a cheap
Patin all hough the buildings and,
fences are somewhat out of
repair.
hayfield: Mr, Bob!, Rouat,
our enterprising hardware
merclu.nt is evidently -going to
make a 'fine store of the building
he bought on Clan Ore or •
Square. He is having it roo..fed1.
with red tin arid expects to
veneer it with briek. in.. I he
Spring.
Mr. Frank M. Smith. late of
the New Era staff. tell laSt week
I,, take a position on t,hC Ripley
Enterprise. We do not know knit'
many young ladies Mourn his
departure. it pretty- good
boy, anyhow. and we are
satisfied that he will succeed.
55 years ago
The Clinton New Era
November li, 1913
There Mire been - over,
services put in SO far for thy
electric 110) t s. piped.
your ordel'?
Tire ,Clinton • Knit i lfig•:, Co
working Iwo shifts note for..2.11„
hours. They should be abh•.,to.
turn out a good supply 'of their
7Wearwell - Brand. ILs a good
sign to he bus>.
)11.. E, Courtice `was, a
visitor in Toronto last week Ile
and )its. Courlice %tent done lu
meet their daughter. Miss Syhil
Courtice. who has just returned
from Japan to seek holler
medical real men!. \liss Court ice ,
will likely be home this week
40 years ago
Clinton News Record
- November 8,1928
Mrs. Dr. Panhall and Miss
Jban of Toronto have been the
guests of Miss ',Utile Slornab
during the past week.
Ret. J. E, Hogg, Dr. J, C.
Candler and Nir 1Z. E. Manning
were in Toronto 'esterday
i nspec[ ing sonic modern
churches, for information in
regard to church organs for iuse
in Wesley-Willis church, which is
being rebuilt.
Cunard and Anchor-
Donaldson Noes advertise ocean
fare to Canada for wives and
families of British Subjects who
arrived in Canada prior to June
6, 1928, Children under 17
travel free., •
25 years ago
Clinton News Record
November 4, 1943
Mrs. H. A. O'Neil of London
Visited with Mr. and 'Mrs._ G, M.
Counter last weekend.
Mrs. Fred Weston and little
Elaine, Hayfield, are the guests
of Mr. and Mrs, L. B. Smith in
London this week.
Miss Doris Eisler of Seaforth
spent Sunday at the home of Mr,
and Mrs. T. H. Leppington.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Stevens of
Port Dalhousie and Miss A.
Bartliff of Fingal 'were weekend
guests at the home di Mr. and
Mrs. H, Bartliff.
15 years ago
Clinton News Record
November. 5, 1953
Clarence A, Trott, queen
Street, Clinton, was among the
Many graduates who received a
Bachelor of Arts degree at the
161.st Convocation of the
University of Western Ontario,
London, on October 23,
Mr. and Mrs, Dalt ,Chabot
returned. to Winnipeg. on Friday
alter spending the past month
with the lady's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Clifford Lobh -
George Hewitt, who has been
sailing aboard the S S." Bay faN
which is in winter quarters at
Trenton, arrived on Tuesday to
visit his sister, Mrs, Emerson
Heard, Hayfield ,
Mrs. E. E. Brown, Petrolia,
who has been visiting her sister,
Mrs. William Shaddock, returned
home -otrMonday.
10 years ago
Clinton News Record
Thursday November 6, 19158
,Roy McLean., Kingston, spent
List month, I wrote or
annual •love afar with Sep-
tember. It scented to hit the
spot. Fan mail doubled, front
two to four letters. I even re•
ceivecl a declaration of love
from a lady who shall be name-
less.
But October is another mat•
ter. 'I think We Canadians loVe
it in a different way. this most
glorious month of the year. It's
the month when we wake up,
come alive, feel the blood
coursing through our harden-
ing arteries. •
It's a' shattering experience
for someone front another
country to visit Canada in Oct-
ober. They are used to a change
in the fall. Their leaves turn
pallid browns and yelloWS. But
when they see a vista of woods
and' water on a golden Cana-
-dial' October day, they are lit-
erally stricken breathless.
We say, ''Pretty ain't it?"
An Irishman might say in awe,
"Dear God, Himself has
dumped a rainbow, all but the
blue, into your woods. And the
blue He has flung, entirely,
into .your water,"
But the vast, mad artist's
palette, thrown across the
country, is only part of the
October scene and mood,
There's a quickening of the
spirit, that 'infects everyone,
Fall fait* those stubborn rei.
k8 of a pioneer day, add their
Special flavor, Parades and
pumpkin pies, hot dogs and
horse races, and the warm, yol-
k* wine of a Canadian Octo-
ber day, are unforgettable.
Hunters go into their special
trance in this month, They
crouch in duck blinds; they
crawl through feneeS,. they
curse their misses. (And, some-
times their' missuses, who can't
See the point of it all.)
Golfers go goofy in (jabber,
desperately trying to get in the
last few -rounds, losing balls by,
the dozen among the fallen
leaves, and praying for one
More good weekend,
Sailing etithOiasts snatch
every chance to get out in that
perfect Weather the ninth so
Often provides: nice breeze,
watin Watet So blue it
Makes :your heart leap, Arid SO
the weekend with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Don McLean
Mr. 'and Mrs Mervin killaby
and Marlon, Fillmore, Sask..
were Sunday visitors with the
Piumtree fatuity, Maple Street,
Mr, and Mrs. Cale Doucetle's
guests for the past week have
been Mr. Doti eel Le's
grandmother, Mrs. Alice Watson
from Seattle, Wash , and his
mother, Mrs. Harry Doucette
from Windthorst, Sask They left
for their respective homes ion
Ttiesday.
Miss Mary Marks and Victor
Pickard,. Toronto, spent the
weekend with her mother, Mrs
• Charles-Marks; BaYlield
cold it makes your hands ache.
October is ecstasy for the
sport fan: World • Series, pro,
hockey, and football at its
height. He can sit staring at
the machine until he nears sen-
ility and has to be spoon-fed.
Great month for the student.
He has got through that mud-
dle of September, and can now
settle down to the serious busi-
ness of falling in love, falling
behind in his work, and falling
into deep water, in that order.
And then, there's the burn-
ing of • the leaves, a ritual
which should be on the Cana,
dian coat of 'arms. There's a
tremendous satisfaction in
scooping up a bushel basket of
dry leaves, piling them on the
fire on a dusky October eve,
and seeing the orange and yet ,
low flames spear skyward,
searing the telephone wires.
Every year, I feel a pang of
pity fOr .the apartment-dweller,
with no leaves to burn. He's
like a kid who never gets a
firecracker of his own to set
off on the 24th of May.
And when does the city-
dweller ever get the sheer, hu-
inan satisfaction of seeing a
sprightly north-west breeze
pick all the leaves off his
lawn and deposit them acctir'
ately on the lawn of his neigh-
bor, who hates leaves and is
always trying to keep his lawn
raked?
And the thrill of the apple
crops. The 'soft little fruits of
September, the peaches and
pears that• go rotten so quickly,
are gone.' And you drive
through the orchard country,
trees. drooping with red, and
you pick up a bushel of spies,
and you bite, and the juice
spurts right over your shoal.
der. 1N)od 'for the gods. Provid-
ed their teeth are not falsies,
And there's just enough Sad-
ness, as October nears its end,
and days shorten, and trees
bare, and gloomy November
puts his claimnY nose over
your shoulder, to heighten all
the joys of this Most remark,
able month, and make it some,
thing that is distinctly Cana-
dian and diainetty you,
Mrs. Igfig (gstell4)
lioltzhauer, lt,R, 6, Gait, died
,PrIday, November 1, at Soutb
Waterloo Memorial Hospital,
Galt, She was 90, '
She was h (laughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Knox, born in
Huron County on February 11,
1879, She was a member of
Christa Delphian church. '
She was predeceased by her
husbands, William C. Hol.tzhauer
in 1935, and. Moses Floltzhauer
in 1952; two sisters and two
brothers,.
She is survived, by her
daughters. Mrs. Albert (Frances)
PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Victoria Street
W. Werner, Pastor
Stinday,, November 10th
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. WOrtiiip Service.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Griffiths, IlesPeleG and Mr
Lois Miller, Gait; s911S, Johi
R.R. 6, Gait, and. Alan, Hespele
16 grandchildren and eig
great,gralloichliciren• s ervices were held fro
Couttes and sons Funeral Horn
Galt, on Monday, November
at 2. p,m. John Adams
Creemore, Ontario, officiated
Interment was at Kirkwal
Cemetery, Kirkwall,
Pallbearers were Ber
Griffiths, Hespeler; Dou
Lindsay, Hespeler; Bert Jphnson
Hespeler; Clinton Holtzhauer
Galt; Oscar Kinzel, Grimsby
Frank Bryce, Galt.
INSURANCE
K. W. COLQUHOUN
INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE
Phones: Office 482-9747
Res. 482-7904
HAL HARTLEY
Phone 482-6693
LAWSON AND WISE
INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE.
INVESTMENTS
Clinton '
Office: 482.964
H. C. Lawson, Res.: 482-9787
.1. T. Wise, Res.: 482-7265
ALUMINUM PRODUCTS
For Air-Master Aluminum
Doors and Windows
and
Rockwell Power Tools
JERVIS SALES
R. L. Jervis — 68 Albert St.
Clinton --482-9390
MAPLE ST, GOSPEL HALL.
Sunday, November 10th
9:45 a.m. — Worship Service,
11:00 a.m. - - Sunday School,
Speaker: John Aitken,
Shelburne
Tuesday Prayer'and Bible Study
75 years ago
The Clinton New Era
November 3. 1893
Business and Professional
Directory
OBITUARIES
MRS, gFFIp.1-.1()).-TZFIAPPi:
The ,result of a Halloween "prank"
From Our Early Files OPTOME RI'
J. E. LONG TAFF
OPTOMETR =T
,Mondays and We • nesdays
20 ISAAC STR. ET
For appointment p ono
482-7010
SEAFORTH OFFICE 5' -1240
R. W. BELL
OPTOMETRIST
The Square, GODERICH
524-71581
RONALD L. McDONALD\
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
39 St. David St. • Goderich
524.6253
A rude shock
"Poverty: in Canada is real. Its
numbers are 'not in the thOusands, but the
There..,is more of it than our
society can tolerate, .more; than our
econgmy, cart afford, and far more than
existing, measures and, efforts can cope
with"
Its perSistence, at 'a time, when the
bulk' o.f Canadians 'enjoy= one of the
highest ,standards of living 'in the world, is
cli,tgratTeklo F H14;1E18111,9 I red9 rA tatk
Fco'nomic Council of Canada.
SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
October, I love you
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Wesley-Willis — Holmesville United Churches
REV. A.J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
WESLEY-WILLIS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10th
9:45 a.m.:-Lsunday School.
11:00 a.m. — REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE
Sermon: "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN"
HOLMESV1LLE
1:e0 p.m. — Divine Service.
' 1:45 p.m. — Sunday School.
NOON LUNCHEON Nov. 21 — 11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Wo-He-Lo Unit
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10th
10:00 a.m.—Morning Service English.
2:30 p.m. — Afternoon Service — Dutch.
Every Sunday, 12:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas
listen to "Back to God Hour"
EVERYONE WELCOME
ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10th
The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister
Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
10:45 a.m. — Public Worship
A SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1 1 th
9:30 a.m. — Remembrance Day Service at
Canadian Legion Memorial Hall.
•
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12th at 8:00 p.m.
The Madelaine Lane Auxiliary meet at the church.
SERVir 1
Attend Your Church
This Sunday
NOTE — ALL SERVICES ON
STANDARD TIME
4
' "THE FRIENDLY CHURcH ,,
Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A.
Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10th
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. — REMEMBRANCE DAY
SERVICE
EVERYONE WELCOME
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The tiny crowd shuffled Its Pet;
Uncomfortable and impliffent.'-'
And the ski' wept.
The wreaths were placed.
The final symbol
our remembrance,
And then,
It was over.
The' band noisily lef .
The Cmteil
Surged oVer the field
Eager to gel home. •
The dead poppies
Were trampled underfinn:
The field lay forlorn and empty:
Only a stone soldier left • ,
Staring at iltci forgotten field:.;:
With to i§cei,ipk cye,s. •
The raint,on,,k7w.ti!rcaflis':•",..
Left reef smears on 'the ' ;
The wind playfully canght
A gaudy banner
With the brightly gilded io•trdS
"Lest we forget,-
It fluttered once
Resisting the relentless pull;''
Then it teas tossed in await;
And teas gone.
Clinton News-Record
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Established 1885 1924
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Established 1881
Published Every Thursday At The Heart
Of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario, Canada
Population 3,475
Efl
ERIC A, McOGINNESS — Editor
J, HOWARD AITKEN General Manager
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The same night thatiittle children had
fun donning costumes' and masks,
vandalism masqueraded as pranks,
maliciOP mischief Was put down as
shenanigans and destruction went under
the guisp of PlayfPlneqs,
Clinton and vicinity were spared many
of the troubles which, sadly, have now
come to be expected on Hallowe'en, A
share of the credit certainly goes to the
police whose vigilance warded off
potential difficulty,
But all the fun in these parts wasn't so
harmless. It was easy on Friday morning
to glance at the soaped store windows or
step over a cabbage in the gutter and talk
of the horrors contained in news reports
from other places.
Today's local news columns tell of a
number 'of abandoned buildings being set
afire here. The buildings had little value in
dollars, their loss seems insignificant. The
acts though were arson.
We stood beside a young man, a
farmer, as he shivered in the
early-morning chill and watched with
firemen as a house he owned and the
straw and grain it held were reduced to
ash.
It is never easy to watch your
property destroyed. The expression on his
face said it hurts more to know it was
done wantonly and maliciously.
A similar fire in another empty
building took Clinton firemen several
miles out of town. Once there, they heard
The following poem, written by a
16-year-old girl, from Knox Church,
Walkerton, Ont., won first prize in, the
senior section of a creative writing contest
sponsored by the National Girls' Work
Committee of the Presbyterian Church in
Canada. It is reprinted, with permission,
from Glad Tidings, a publication of the
Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society.
REMEMBRANCE DAY
. By Patti Waldie
Dead leaves -•
Swirled about.the fret.
Clouds glowered menacingly„
Thebandplaxed
Brassily and out of nine.
The honour roll call
Was lost in the shrieking
And laughter of children plaving.
As though, even then,
The meniory of those
Who gave their youth,
• Had faded
With a new generation.
Two minutes silence;
Rabies
Several cases of suspected rabies have
been reported in central Huron County
recently. Two were in nearby Exeter.
. We concur with the opinion of 'the
Exeter newspaper editor who said last
week that "Rabies has by no means
reached alarming proportions in the area,
bUt the number of suspected cases does
suggest that a more thoughtful attitude by
some people is most urgently required."
By coincidence, The Ontario Safety
League this fall issued some reminders on
the subject, and we think it a good time to
pass on some of the information.
Rabies, .says the league, is a
virus-caused disease which may affect any
warm-blooded animal, including man.
The virus is in the saliva of infected
animals and is 'transmitted to other
animals and to humans by the bites of
these animals, Cows, foxes, skunks, small
rodents, dogs, cats, moose, deer, even man
may become rabid
The virus travels along nerves, from
the bite to the brain, and may take from
two to 10 weeks or even longer to reach
the brain. When the brain becomes
infected, the persdn or animal usually
becomes very excited. Paralysis develops
later.
The experts advise that if you are
bitten, scratched by or come in contact
with the saliva of a suspected rabid
animal, the affected parts should be
washed thoroughly with soap and water.
the siren sound again in town and had to
race back, knowing that !ivies might
depend on their Speedy response not
knowing that they Would find only
another vacant house afire,
Trailing along behind the fire truck,
we thought of the dedication of the men
who answered the siren's summons. We
thought of the terrible price to be paid for
a "prank" if there was an eCcident and
one of them was hurt or if -there had been
a true emergency, here when they were
several miles away without` reel need;
Later that night there Was a true
emergency — a family's hdrrie was on fire
— every second counted and, there was
hard work to be dpne by men Whose time
and energy had been wasted earlier.
After a police or fire official yeceives
a false alarm or is victimized' Ey. so-.called
pranksters, he is more cautious and.more
than otherwise skeptical about telephone
messages. It may be hard to convince him
that an emergency call is legitimate.
How do you explain that to a man
whose family has been routed from their
home by fire in the middle of the night, a
man who wants help without red tape?
A few weeks ago, Hallowe'en brought
pleasant memories to mind and images of
the smile on a five-year-old's face as you
open the door to hand him a bag of
candies.
Last Friday morning we kept seeing
the farmer's face illuminated by flickering
flames and we saw the harried look on a
firefighter at the end of a sleepless night.
Then consult your family doctor
immediately,. '
In humans, rabies does not show
symptoms a few hours or days, after
exposure or contact = the -incubation
period may take from one to six months
Once the disease can actually be
diagnosed, death may occur in,frorb one
to five days.
When there are reports of rabies
outbreaks, the league suggests; care should
be taken to protect your domestic animals
and family.
Vaccinate all family pets against rabies
and revaccinate them at least every two
years. Teach children to watch wildlife at
a safe distance. Do not coax; play with or
handle wild animals or touch any animal
found dead.
If, during your wanderings in the
bush, you notice an animal that appears
to be sick or behaves abnormally; showing •
ferociousness where it usually shows fear,
notify your gamewarden. -
If it is necessary to kill the animal, the
head should not be damaged: Don't pick
up the animal. If it is necessary to
transport it from where it is killed, make a
slip noose of string or rope and tie it to a
long stick,
The suspicion of rabies — or even the
confirmation of isolated cases — is not
cause to push the panic bUtton, but it
should be sufficient to alert us to the
potential dangers if proper precautions are
not taken.
2 ClintonNews-RePor,d, ThUtsday, November 7, 1968
Editorial comment
A Hollow Halloween
"Lest we forget"
caution needed