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Allitsugh SIN Davis seems to - bit
MOO* Ottawa in *0 provisicial
iiitictlen new Colled. the reel Wile at*
gstflog illtie dlicussien front either the
locumbent Tories sr the hungry
UMWThe New Osittecralk Party
hes discussed but the NOP's
chances 0 winning are practically
MIL .
Thelesues. as many 0 our readsrs
have hid parseneNy, are the high
cost gwernment, the outrageous
Net et education, a rentpent Ontario
Hydro bent en building an empire that-
vosuki rival the great Roman este and
the peer state .0 farming.
In Huron County, satrapy, the issues
slam to centre around the high cost of
government and the togging threat of
reglamel,_severgenent, along with the
1101111111 t:06f et education. and do ledt
of any dear policy to halt the erosion of
vetuable farmland and make it easier
for younger persons to start farming.
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We gel Wien'
Dear Editor :
There may be readers at your
=r who would be ia-
knowieg at the
forthcoming 30th aanual
maim at N. 6 UMW/ Fbillift
• Trainhig School, Dunnville. sad
I would appreciate it if you
would provide a news item
through— public service
facilities. Details for this get-
tonether are as folls:
ow
R .0 .A .F • men and
women who trained dories dee
at war at No. liSersietiFlyiti
Tits threatto murales vaitpable.been
growing land W *e sudden influscat
porton * merit at a proposed Hydro
plant should net be everiesked. Once
• the plaid. is aerie& there woo be we-
back and one Of CaitedeN
prime been womb. areas will be lett
*111 fereVer.
Mese issues ever be discussed
openly? Net in eur • spiels&
because recently, prevfolclal elections
and indeed even federal elections are
persimility aides* and far more
time. energy said money is spent
selling a leader rather than some
pragmatic. sane, long,reaching
policies that will benefit Ontario
Society for the nsxt several decades.
WS- 110 laughing matter when one is
told. quite rightly, by civil servants.
that in 20 years Ontario could be Im-
porting over 40 percent of their food
supply, while most of our best land will
be covered in asphalt and houses.
Training School ia Dusavine
win be gathering far the. Nth
Successive Year the week sad
of September 19,20,21, at
Dusenvine, Oaterio.
Highlights al this special
anniversary will be a Friday
night receptioa at the golf club;
Saturday morning golf tour-
nament3 fly past at wartime
}fervent aircraft duriag a brief
eneneorial service, at die civic
centre Harvard Masnarial: a
=dna by the Hanenton
Pipe Bawd; a baa.quet
and donee to the music ot the
Ma's; and a Suaday morning
breakfast served by Mayor
Charles Lundy.
Al veterans al No. 5. their
spouses and -or companions,
are invited to stewed. Contact
Frank Schanck!, Hoe 157,
Mmicipal Building.
Ontario, if not now on their
mailing list.
Sincerely yours,
Frank Scholffeid.
DuvOeit.
Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley
About our "Iiitle trip"
Every mid -summer, for some peculiar
reason,
my wee and I get into the an
conversatioa. We talk at some length about
where we should go for a holiday.
We have this ridiculous, guilty keling that
we should do what florin& people do an their
vacations: go to a lodge; remt a cottage; buy a
tent and go camping; hire a trailer; go for a
-"Dip" sesasedwra. Anythism, .„
We talk about it kw weeks, off and on. We
keep referring to ',bur litde trip."
Perhaps we should just jump in the car and
go gypsying around the mantry, we say. It
sounds good, nice and careless and fun, with a
new adventure just around the next curve.
Or maybe this year well do the culture bit:
a week at Stratford, take in all the plays,
dabble our feet in the Avon, look with the eye
at old theatre -goers at the stunned gawping
invents.
Or, for a donee, book in at a posh lodge for
a week. no meals for the old lady to cook,
dress to the hilt for dienermingle with the
fascinating subieteet.
Or this year, for once. well rent a cottage
for two weeks, datn-the-expense, get away
from the telephone. slouch argued in bare feet
and shorts, and listen to the loom on the Mks
ail night.
Or, for a complete dame, maybe we'll go
to the city, check into a fancy hotel with a
wed, lounge armed in an air-conditioned
room, and go out to dinner and a good show.
There's only me trouble with all these
plans. They require decisive action, and we
never seem 10 5.1 around to either decision or
activity.
Take the posh lodge, for example. Firit,
• they . are all dip joints. Seamdly, they are
-bitiked-Itir—thirwleole-sturrereer: Thirdly,-. we
don't have the wardrobes to dress to the hiltor
anywhere else. Fourthly. they are hill of
bores. Aad the. food is no screaming hill
Thea, tbe culture bit. It's awfully difficult to
gear yourself up for a week of Sleakespeare
and Shaw and dressing up sad standing in
lineups for dinner, when you're lying in the
backyard Wends* todie birds, with a good
book and barely 'sough energy to reach for
your Omsk wed you know there ain't gates to
be no linsim for thefried diicken amid the
petite.:
young. new slid the jeice-spurting
corn and the cold, tangy tomtits" in your ovrn
house.
Gypsying argued in the car is fine, except
that you have to get out on the road with all
those maniacs, and drive in the heat, and pay
a ransom for motel rooms, and eat fried foods
until you begin to feel like a freach-fry, avid
watch a Ty est offering re-nans 01 10.1 wile-
ter's ie -n. The biggest adventure here is
wandering whether the toilet will back up.
A couple al weeks at a cottage is apPealing.
But whet the heck, we slouch arOund at home
in bare feet and shorts, and as far as listening
to the loons at night goes, you can always aelt
a few al your friends to drip in.
A few days in the city has an equal appeal. I
always catch a cold in the ainconditioned
kuukrnus.v,INIPOSAVIRkalt P°°1
wih a kitS
' common.* iiitidk cls people.
you have to sign a second mortgage on your
house to Pay the bill, and you can hardly wait
to get home, where the room service is free
and a great deal faster'.
So this. week, with taw "little trip" looming
up Me a vampire, we both discovered, in-
stantaneously and with great relief. that we'd
just stay home kr the time being.,
• She: "I was really just agreeing because I
thought you treated 10 551 away somewhere."
He: I 'You mean to say that you don't want
to go off in the beat and be soaked every time
you turn around and eat all those rotten
freach-fries and 'besides the tires an the car
aren't sji_ hot. .1 was only going because I
thought 91tu'd like a change, get away from
the meals."
She: "I can't stand other people's cooking
and hate • Motel mins and you know
herd it is to find a decent place to swim."
He: "Yeah, and if we took our golf clubs we
waukIn't have room for anything else and it
we didn't, we'd have to rent thetn, for an "arm
and a leg."
we live stnack in the centre of
one at the great ruck areas in Canada.
Peapk who move helm from the city can't
understand why aaybedy wants to go away,
even far a day.
..,..,.Asta=.4010..rnilt*, is of relief, But
there dill that guiltyleent,thtstitise
that we weren't pulling air weight in the greet
holiday farce. So we compromised.
• He: 'Tell you what we'll do. We'll drive
down to the marina and look at the bows.
Then we'll chick the prices at two of the local
motels. Then we'll drive out to the beach and
look at the cottages."
She (eagerly): "Yes. And then we'll come
home and tura melee sprinkler and I'll get you
a dinner that would cost you 11+ in a
restaurant and tornorrow morning we'II play
golf at .he most beautiful course within all
miles, and tomorrow afternoon we'll sun and
swim at the most beautiful beach -within 4119
He: "Yes! Yes! Yes! And 'there's a terrific
movie on TV taillight, four stars, and we've
,only seen it twice."
Who needs a "little trip" anyway?
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The Jack Scott Column -
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A touch o sun
Henry Mudge sat as the shaded porch of the summer cottage.
his canvas-elsod feet crowed on the railing. hands folded over
his died pastach, his game on the rippled blue surface at tbe
hay.
a hundred yards away on the lawn that doped into the water,
his wife, Sybil, so well-anaointed with sun- an oil* that she
looked ready for the oven, turned to Mr friend and laughed
• softly. "Poor Henry." she said. "He just sits there all day.
Not a thought in his silly bead."
A sanell boat came around the point and she wretched it a
, moment. Its ane -lunged engine coughed as if each gasp would
be its last, recovered and coughed again.
Everything is rhythm, Homy thought siaddenly to himself.
Life goes by Ike that little boat with a beat as relentless as the
pendulum on a metronome. The clooff-cholf-deoff- of that
engine, mow. was just exactly a half beat quicker than the light
brush stroke of the waves that fen on the beads.
He closed his eyes and fora brief moment he tek the steady
throb of the earth, evetirthing slower or taster or in time with
his own pulse -beat.
I am a pert af it, Henry .tht. My very breathing is in
rhythm, ticking like a clock. flcklog, ticking, ticking, in time
with the wing beats at the passing birds and the great, slow beat
at the days themselves. everYthing ticking by the second and
minute and hour and by the mesons.
Somewhere in this inexorable rhythm is the whole secret of it
all, Henry thought. Everything seems chaotic and
unreasonable, yet it is an in metre rigid as ancient verse,
steady as the left hand al boogie-woogie.
"He seem so bored," Mrs. Pkadge confniedAo her friend. "If
only he'd just read a book or something."
A few errant clouds were drifting across the blue sky and
Henry watched them idly.
It's rhythm and it's adjustment, too, he was thinking:- All
change is really just a matter of adjustment Those (Swint
clouds, now. They were adjusting to the afternoon breeze. That
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was true of all weather. What inn the breeze. itself, but air
adapting itself to conditions, rushing to MI a vacuum ar rising
with the August bead of the earth?
Everything adjusted. The California poppies that grew
beside the cottage would dose their petals wben the sun went
down and open them with the dawn. The moon would draw the
sea toward it. The tides would move outward and billions of
small creatures in the sand would adjust themselves.
A pebble would be thrown in the water by a small boy and the
water would react, one wave giving birth to another until the
bay bad absorbed the whole of the blow.
We art no more the masters of our own fate than the
or the sea creatures left bare bythe magnet of the moon.1=
thous*.
We react like the ocean, adjusting ourselves to any pebble
that fate brings along. I am here on this pordt. be thought,
because 51 .5* a bot.day. It is hot because the earth is nearer to
the am than at any other time. I -am adjusting to that. I will
have a long gin fizz because the sun and earth happen to be
quite close today.
'1 do envy Henry.- his wife was saying to her friend. "He's
so beautifully uncomplicated. "
Henry looked across to where Sybil lay. He gazed -at her
blankly for a moment and then Kinked once more at the water. I
am bete on this porch, he thought. because the sun was dose to
the earth one day 14 years ago. If it had rained that day I
wouldn't have met Sybil. All of the rhythms and adjustments
would have affected me differently. Was that what they meant
when they talked about destiny?
• Was it just as simple as that, the accident ot a bright day?
Why, he thought I might be sitting on the fantail of a yacht in
Bermuda or I might have won the'OlymPic lottery because alt
et the rhythms would have been changed for me.
Lacking up at that moment Sybil saw his curious smile and
she turned once more to her friend. "I believe he's had a touch
at the sun." she -said.
From our early files
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11 YEARS AGO ,
August 11.11151
Janet Gorman. having enabled.
over MI percent as eight Grade 13.
papers, will be named aa Ontario
Scholar by the Ostario Depart -
meat of Edreation in Toronto.
This hamar also carries with it a
cask award et HR.
Excellent weather of the last
few days has 'speeded up tI1
harvesting ot spring cce",..itt_
yields and quality above earlier
expectations. The dry weather
has also retarded the devejop-
mesizot white deed ba boa* holds
and hastened the ripening
process that this may not now be
& problem.
A -team front Clinton Branch
14501 the Royal Candles Legion
was the Zoe* Cf golf tournament
held in Witighant oa Saturday.
August 21. Members of the
Clinics team were: Jim Graham.
Harold McPherson. Bob Draper
and Len Amato.
Chairman John Levis and the
members of the board at CHSS
made a thorough check of the
plans and specifications for the
new playing field proposed at the
school. and gave final permission
for Burns Rosi:- Consulting
engineer at Goderich. to call
leaders for the work.
The number was estimated at
5.015 with hundreds of visitors
from • neighboring towns and
countryside. The tattoo.
. arranged by G.H. neettie's Band
Tattoo Committee. was a huge
success. It featured the RCAF
Central Band. Ottawa under
Bandmaster Flt. Lieut. E.A.
Kirkwood: and the other bands
participating were: Canadian
Corps .Trumpet Band. London:
—115trylrett— Citizens: Sea fort h
Highlanders: Exeter • Citizens:
Goderich Bluewater: Goderich
Girls' Trumpet: Bannockburn
Plpel-inni Clinton Gitineas. -
The Peckitt property located on
the south side of Ontario St., at
the extreme easterly end of the
town. has been sold to James E.
Johnston. Clinton.
In the grade 111 examinations in
piano held recently by the Royal
Conservatory of Music of
Toronto, the winner 01*10 highest
marks in the Province °, Ontario.
and a silver medal reward. was
Miss Doris Griersoii, Lon -
&shorn. Miss Gtierson is a
daughter at Rev. Robert and Mrs.
Grierson who spent a lifetimr of
service under the Presbyterian
and United, Churches in Korea.
and. are now residing in Lon-
desbaro.
Mr, and Mrs. William J.
Gibbing, will reside in Clinton
when they retura from a wedding
trip to Hamilton. Oshawa and
Mr°nth
A happy family gathering was
held on Sunday last at the home
of Mr. and Mn. Peter Harrison.
Porter's Hill. when the family of
Mn. James Harrison joined to
extend .to her best birthday
wishes oh her Mth birthday.
MI YEARS AGO
kelpies 35,1455
Mayan Fred .Jacksons. N.W.
Trcwartha. H.S. Closet aid C.G.
Siddletoti attended the honer., et
the late Sir Adam Beck in Lon-
don.
Ciento.. Bowling Club agaia
hold Moe Joynt trophy. having
wool it beck frown Myth ea
Monday night. The winning team
were Messrs. McEwan, Gram.
Robertna and Miller.
R A Roberton is moving his
office to quarters in the old
Molsons Rae& Building now
owned Ity S.S. Cooper.
Miss Barry Combe has some to
a camp at Oakville *here she is
•in char*c of swimmia* mod
NW\ ak%.41 junior golfers under
1 yean of age competed in the
annual tourney at the hayfield
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alnico Golf Course recently.
After the 11 -hole match. the boys
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Hells at a bullet luncheon in the
club house. The boys were
competing for the Stew Cook
memorial trophy. The late Mr.
Caok win a hayfield summer
resident and a member of the
hayfield golf club. Murray
Illatkett woo the Whole tour-
ossneat with* seam 01,111.
Tea heifers from Stewart
Middistoit's pure-bred Angus
herd were among those iseluded
is a meat shipment of 3$ cattle
frown Sent hiWestern • Ontario
Angus herds to Calgary. Alberta.
These were -selected by T.. Alex
Edwards of Arva and Dr. T.H.T
Harry nI Calgary. Alberta. for t10
latter's famous show herd.
11 YEARS AGO
Atom, 17.11011
The largest crnwd to attend any
Of the individual events of the Old
h ays Newlin.% was that which was
no liid for the inolnIter bawd
tattoo Wedvoesdavevenitog last.
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basketball. Later she will go to
Algonquin Park where slse will be
in charge 01 110 same things.
Successful Upper School
students at the CCI inClude: G.
Addison, W. Argent. E. Atkinson.
M. Ball. K. Beaton, L. Boyce. R.
Carter. R. Cole. H. Crich, R.
Dale. D. Dewar, C. Evans. J.
Fraser, 1. Fraser. G. Geddes. C.
Glazier. D, Glazier, R. Higgins.
J. Higgins. E. Hogg. M. Hovey.
K. Mnt, E. Hunter. 0. Lawrence.
L. Levy. N. Lyon. C. Moorhouse.
E. Marquis. .1. Mossop. J.
McEwen. N. McNeil. L. Nediger.
E. Paisley. E. • Plumsteel. J.
Plumsteel. H." 1PRichardt. R.
Robinson. K. Rorke. B. Salter. C.
Shipley. L. Snell. H. Snell. E.
Snyder. D. Stevens, Mr. Stewart:
Mr. Thompson, G. Thompson. E.
Trewartha, E. Trick, G. Van
Horne. A. Venner. J. Yesbec.
75 YEARS AGO
Angast 17.1150
The annual garden party..
under the auspices of St. John's
church. Varna. was held in Mrs.
Secord's orchard on Thursday
evening: the night was all that
could be desired and the at-
tendance was unusually large;
the Seaforth band was in at-
tendance aid more than hilly
sustained their former
reputation. Proceeds amounted
10 1124.53.
Harvest is nearly over and a
great many are threshing their
peas in the field. The rain that fell
an Saturday was much needed as
the ground was very hard.
Director Jas. Connolly of
Holmesville cheese factory. sold
the last half of July make to the
Ingersoll Packing Company for
10% cents per ib. It was shipped
on Monday.
C. Gravel!. east ei
has lately bought a nice six oc-
tave piss* cased organ from C.
Hoare. of the Cliatea music store.
Messrs. John McMillan. M.P.
and sonini Hullett. shipped over
17.050 worth of fat cattle in one
batch from Seaforth statioa.
They were shipped low export.
The Blyth Standard. which has
been issuing a large 11 -page ready
print, announces a redaction its
site. because the price *1 ready -
prints has materially advanced.
The Standard has for some time
unwisely published a paper much
hinter than the site ot the place
warranted. but it is 001 110 only
plainer that has beets imprudent
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this respect: the public has
derived the benefit. at the ex-
pense of the publisher.
• T. Trick has bought from Chas.
Wilion.his house and lot on.
Rattenbury St.. which is con-
sidered very desirable property.
The price paid warS1.100.
Negotiations have been going
on between J.C. Miller and Jas.
McGuire. of Belleville. for an
exchange of the Hotel Clarendon.
To make it a case of go or drop a
sum of 1100 was deposited as .a
forfeit. The new manager is to be
here this week and the deal will
be closed as soon as valuation has
eeasedaadsettled. .„ _ ,
Harland Bros.'llive delivered a
large quantity of coal to patrons
in town. scarcely a day having
gone by during the past two
months that Weighmaster Welsh
was not called upon to weigh coal.
The import of this article was 53
car loads. and as each car con-
tains about 25 tons. the sunsete
will amount to over 1.3111 tons:
no: many dealers in towns reach
this amount.
110 YEARS AGO
August 11, 1175
We were shown by Mr. T.
Pearen, of 304 20. London road.
three pea'. vines the product.. ol
three, peas. upon which were two
hundred and forty-three pods.
Allowing an average of five peas
to each pod. they would yield
1.215 peas. or about 400 10 one.
This is certainlyan enormous
increase. and gives evidence of
the productiveness of the soil.
A special meeting of the School
Board was held on Friday
evening last. Present: Messn.
Matheson. Leslie. Searle. Scott
and Hine. In the absence al the
chairman. Mr. Matheson oc-
cupied the Chair. On Motion it
was decided that as Miss O'Neil
had obtained a second-class
certificate, she be promoted to
the sixth division. at a salary of
1250 per moment. It was also
decided that Miss Moser* take
charge of the seventh division.
(vacated .by Miss O'Neil's
promotion) after which the Beard
adjourned.
The schools were reopened on
Monday. the attendance of
scholars being very satisfactory.
An open-air concert. at in-
strumeMal mutat. was given'lly.
the Clinton Brass Band. from the
Band Stand. on Weduoesday
evening last. TheY acallitted
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Ileaseries
Deer Wier: „
Centennial
New that litedsgrons
smosirim 1okay ihs
dumb dime air mere
is say Ivey i• missies
burewer the termer"
Sews".
I had the inederamse .."
a Mal stranger,. melds is
a sin* ehl acepaintame
the gay am& at ant time
weekend bag. Net eves INF
C.0..G.C. Patrick. (UM)
My wee and MI meet
fine and friendly hats
navidslat and visitor*. We
mew at the Radar Dan
diming your geed
D. Symms aid Jack r
M.P.P.. I dkl got aimed
shot of Chris Black avid
cheatra. although I did not
damn.
Special regards to the
(former restaurant talk)
gave us good coon
diroughout the dance, sod
all mem the dear frokrthat
kissed farewell at the'
when we were leaving.
she gave in. and gave vne
small airforce ensiipt
special souvenir. Be •gbid
have a card train her.
Yes, we shall ion
the Clinton Centimes!.
tially because of muck
budgeted expense. To begin
weekend, we beaded your
shortly after noon �i Friday
our bome-made
and about 50 miles up
2, the motor gave up with
dunk. Limping into
I called home and the
daughter came to the •
with the family station
and a tow truck. We were
on our way, minus mar
food and accostunodation.
We arrived in to
slang about 5:30 and
backtracked to the
House Motel where
acquired good accommoda
Mien believe it or not
-Sunday afternoon we
Melbourne on our way
and the fuel pump gave up
the wagon. So we were left
towing charges of Nil
remember the weekend ,
Almost enough to make a
Welt his pledge.
I should like to invite all
fok who come our way ter
our city, although you will ha
to wait until I* to come to
Centennial.
A %pedal invitation is
tended to all Legionnaires
visit our facilities at Branch
on St. Clair Si in.Chathant
course. As public
officer. I would be pleased_
hear from anyone
Legion.
We are coming back
another visit as soon as the
-motor permits and shall have
souvenir for some that
identify us from this story.
Best regards
blessings to
Al and Alice
333 Park St.. Chad*
Greatest
Dear Editor:
I send this letter from m
Aushand and me. to
Clinton far one of the area
wwee ever spent
Of course. the Cent •
Committee deserves, and,
doubt, has received
-olds.. but I feel that the
town should be very proud
the magnificent .veek
celebration.
It -was a pleasure to show m
home town to my husitsild,
to introduce him to some of
people who were so im
to me as I grew up.
Clinton was a special place i
my life. and I now have man
more lovely memories of it.
Once again. thanks t
everyone. You can be proud
a ja• well done.
Darlene (Stanley
Cha mberla
Waterdown.
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seripage1 se area lb*
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tomsege, nob okkao dip all
sesseamolte reipesesea 0
all Ille Iftmallmodi
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solin II am SO
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themselves very crrditabl
to the delight at a great nem
of listeners.
Messrs. Matheson and Wat
made a large shipment of lam
in Miosiday. Notwithstandism
decline 1. 110 price of living in
United Sista*, the price al le
continues about as good ace
was now ranging from 12.10
13.50. Farmers ought at
prices. to be making . money
sheep raising. (researched
Lynn Flowerol