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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-07-24, Page 79e e service of e + ar- rn since February "15. 1587, e retir+ -1914 or 1915: tehead was Mayor when the force, At $his time fel chy was Reeve, and anrt#fig Deputy Reeve. lie �c treed "Debby Ding- as he had to be tlte'"nt tetl��rlrtger. In those days the 41rtt bell was rung at a.m.; 7 :, 12 o'clock noon and one our later at 1 p.m.: then again when the tactpry •work stepped at 4 workers had, day soe ►e## `r# r When Rr . Pitz# mons Chief Constable in 1922 h1e #fid many jobs -too #a=additiurf. to his Ponce duties. • e was overseer of the Street work; caretaker of the Town Hall: and Market 'quare Weighmaster; Inspector of neat, bread, 'fish; wood etc., also Sanitary Inspector. . Also assumed the role of Tax Collector..Joe Wheatley was Nigh Constable and , assistant, caretaker of the Town Haft also welghmaster .of the stock scales. Chief constables salary etc. listed at $650.00, In speaking to Arthur Groves Of police duties ;Ger his days of being on the Force 193749, he related to me the lobs had had tad° as well air keep order in town. Ile had to ring the town bell. cut the grass at the Library Park, shovel the snow in winter from the drinking .fountain. on the corner to the store I. A*4 to. cat.` --"a anotia ##n 'fountain o the site the Cater ewe er # e c plant. t#z Library . sitting "under iton*r k day Mr. Groves also recalls the many transients that were fed by the town during the days of the 'second World - 'Warr. Many travelled from place to place getting meads whenever they could. The Town wed meal tickets worth 24c - they steyed In the town ;tall alt night, 'and the meal tickets entitled them to Perehast a meal consisting of two eggs, two slices of toast and a cup of entree. Re says .he can recall as many as twenty-five staying overnight at one time. They went to houses and asked for a hand- out as well, and .had the houses marked as a place to go. He recalls that one was a preacher's son uthro roamed from place to place to see the world. The. omenta of elite he Was not .a tato.) e parts ashe was 8L 000eridt f& compelled by WATER WORKS AND SEWAGE SYSTEMS IN CLINTON .condensation from history by the late Jabez Rands by Muriel Trott . Waterworks systems in 'Clinton ate back to the early 1900's. They were s urto-t#re- expreser- purpose of fire protection. After a number of unsuccessful attempts on the part of .the town council to set up a system, a disastrous fire on May 13, 1907, when 24 or more 'Buildings were on fire. changed the voter's opinion. 'Fire engines u'nd men were brought in from Stratford and Myth on flat cars by the Grand Trunk Railway to fight thOblaze. capMay, 1998 tenders were ed for putting down eight --inch test wells where the waterworks pumping pleat is presently located. The .wo wells' supplied, all the " water for the town until 1922. The pumping plant was run by a. large 50 -horsepower single Minder gas engine. ' which Orated on gas produced from +tilby two gas -producer fur- ' nares in the pumphouse. The fust Waterworks copemissioners were Dr. "J',W. Shaw, J.B. Hoover and Mayor B.J._ Gibbittgs. When a . Council contracted with Ontario Hydro for Electric power in 1913, the people voted in favour et a Wow to put the waterworks and electric systems under a Public . tifttiesCommission. fan `l ebruary 19th. 191-4. the erworks became one of the first hydro -power customers when it started " to operate its - Number One deep well pump with a 10 -horsepower, and within a month, a 35 -horsepower motor was added to operate the pressure pumps. Since 1922, in all three new wells were drilled. the most recent one being in 1951, from which is pumped 625 gallons of watez,p c minute. In 1967a stand- by power plant Baas Th9t lied -that-•- can supply enough electric power ' to operate the waterworks omping. if the hydro should be off for some time. ' The town supplied the Radio School' (R.A.F.) from 1941 with .water, through to its closure in 1971. as a Canadian Forces Base. ++ Clinton's first sewer system was installed in 1947. with the .P.U.C. given the job of managing h. By 1961, five years before it was paid for ($80,O00), the PUC announced the need for its enlargement. Clinton was growing. fin June 26, 1974 town officials, assisted by dignitaries, officially opened.. Clinton's new Water Pollution Control Plant at the pouth end of Clinton at the foot of Victoria Terrace near the Hayfield River. Considered by engineers to be one of the most modern and sophisticated in the province, the project was com- pleted early in 1974 at a cost of almost three quarterspfa million dollars. 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