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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-1-20, Page 4nr Do You Want A Genuine r` hc Mouth 'Organ tan at arktillced price If so we will give ill 00 organs fur ,75 1,?4) organs for 1 00 2,00 organs for 1.50 Only,a limited supply Letters• A, 0, L) & E. ooper Agent: C.N. Railway Q.N.W. Tete jsraph Clinton, Ontario ORIGIN THE E S II HO UETl The nano silhueotto is no doubt familiar to most•people, but they may not• -bo aware of its origin, writes • George •Brockner in "The Queen'!, The old saying that great things from little causes flew is reversed in this instance; as will be gathered from the circumstances connected with the first i use of the word. Etienne de Silhouette 'vas Minr•ter of State in France in 1733, when the Anemia] affairs -of the -country were rather ,embarrassing. The Treasury, was' in a thoroughly, oxhatetea cone - tion, and M."SiAhouette, in his endeav ors to save the, cotint'ry,, resorted. to what people. were apt to consider ex-.. essive econemy... The Parisians •eer-. thinly pretended to ..act upon their. Minister's advice, but •in 'reality they poked a e•dod deaf of feu at hitt. They curtailed their: coats, even wore thein without sleeves, and began to user rough wooden snuff boxes in lieuAh ofeir eostly and •artistic gold ones,. They .also, and this is wuere the sal- houette comes in, began to give up rife - costly mediums of portraiture, such as oil, pastel and miniature, and . made a single profile"•do, chasm by a pen or pend round the shadow cast by alighted candle on a white,sheet • of paper. These somewhat crude por- traits were called and have sine re- tained the name of silhouettes. They soon -became the vogue, and owners of livres d'or or less. ambi- tions • albums from the latter de- cades of the eighteenth century and the first rely of thee nineteenth will. rt[r doubt remember those often' boautit'ully .cut portraits, which were Uoquently possessed of n striking and distiltatiive likeness, and more then one Artistearned quite a repu- ration by the manlier in which she or he handled their, scissors, The KOPP ,was soon wi[lened and made to emnprernise other subjects, land., stapes with e tr.es and eabtlo, for in - :stem, and whole fetidly groups in which the individuality of the de- picted persons was often most a'b1Y rendered. Alter this the silhouette became almost obsolete, True, now and a- gain a clever devotee of the art made some sort of a reputation, but these were only spasmodic happen- ings, and the general interest In silhouettes was dement, if not tiered. Now a distinct , renatssanee Ila's set in, and I do not think the men and women of former [lays• who wielded the scissors could stand. comparison with their eolleagnes of the present clay; the •siihoue,tte, in fact, has passed through a very in- teresting n- to•efit 1 i • rodess of 'eve1nstun , and it r i , P n gives more now than 'It bas ever done before. •CLINTO;r'1 CENTRAL. AGRICUL- TUI:,AL SOCIETY, Financial Statement for year ending Jauuary 14th, 1921. RECEIPTS Balance on band from 1910 $170 92 00 Town of Clinton .. Huron County . '25 00 Goderich Township 25 00 25- 00 l.Iullett township . • . Tucl:ersntitli Township 26 00 Stanley Township , • •1'S 00. Cd"t Grant for 1919 68.50 Gov't Grant for: 1920 61 25 Proceeds from -Lunch Booth at Plowing Match 11' 45 Members Fees '76 00 Donations and subscriptions • 137 -50 By Goods .... ' • . , • 40 '75 News of *sappy. rachis$ i l! t' 0 County and bIstrIot • Mr, • 'ancl 'ars, Wm, Cillispie of Seaforth announce the engagement of their de:4liter, Lynne, to Mr, J. It, Miller of the Air Board of Canada The marriage takes Place this month, Jt is pnderstood that Rov. (Capt,) Allison of Goderich, who served :is eltapl'ain during the war' and who has been living in Goderich since his re- turn from overseas, will take up his church work ;gain, 'It is possible that he may be given a charge . at Woodstock. The Marriage took place at the Presbyterian church, Dungamion, on Jan. 8th, of Miss hazel Augustine and Mr,! William Maize, manager of the Sterling Bank, Varna, Hydro was turned on at Lucknow an Tuesday of last week and the citizens are consequently happy, The village' has been very mucin handl capped for the pest year or more •lighting fthn et owing to,the,failure o ln•end t m d the have waited long. s So tri Y Y not too patiently for the coming of hydro, But it is hoped- their trouble' are now practically over, A sparrow hunt was organized re- cently up in Bruce county and abort six thousand sparrows were killed. The marriage took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Gidley of Blyth on Jan.' 8th of their son, Russel S. Gidley and Miss Priscella Wilson of Toronto, the Rev. R. J. Me- Corinick performing -the ceremony. r w . .ri the After a honeymoon p, young couple will reside in BTytie, Perth, which ,is the only county nn the Province now without a. county agricultural representative;, is now trying to interest the •comity council in the matter,.. - Capt. McGregor Lambert, who re- cently flied at, ,5outhanipton, is said to have saved twenty persons from drowning' in Lake Huron. He was for • twenty-seven years lighthouse keeper at Chantry island. He had spent, his whole life on the lakes, hays Lhe takeni 10 the Water' at nineteen, •Total.. 57IJ 37 r TTJ ES'. DY>17.>,hlD7 Cash -Prizes for Iioraes ..a..;: •52§;) 00 Cash Prizes for Cattle- .. .: 89 00 Cash prizes for Boys Judging Competition 15.05 Judges Expenses ',,., •, ., ,2.,00 • Advertising • • ..... • 55 20 Postage and Stationery Donation to Secreta\ Y .. Donation to Treasurer • Clinton Kity Band Phalen Orchestra .. Dievin •, R. Cree .. .. ilYty'fon News-*ecoril a Methodist, being n member of Dun- gannon blruseh; Hight children, all residents in the county; survive, Robs avi, Janres, Joitn, William and Isaac, anti Alice and Martha at bowie. Five softs acrd a cousin acted as pallbear• erg at fie funeral, Mr'• a,td Mrs, A, C. Coling and lit- tle daarghter of Wingbatn have gone to Pasadena, Oats where they intend, residing its future, Before lenvntg staff of Wingham the managei and Gunn's Limited, of whioh Mr, Coling was •a member, presented him with a watch chain and Masonic keystone, Miss Minnie Bosnian of Bluevale and Mr, R. H, Lloyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E ,Lloyd of Wingham, were married on Dec. 30th and left _the same day for Montreal and Qnebee. Rev. R, A, Lundy, who has •been. Inducted into the charge of the IKip- pan Presbyterian church, was pre- sented by the Walton and Morcerieif congregations with an address and a purse of money prior to his doper. tore' from that charge, Mr. W. Proudfoot re3iigned as sec- retary -treasurer of the Huron ,Law Association at it annual meeting in Goderich last week after holding the office for twenty-five years and the.. , following officers were elected: pres- ident, His' 'honour, Judge Dickson; vice, F.-Holnistead, IC, .C„ sec -treas- urer, G. .Darrow; auditors, It C. Ilays, NI. G. Cameron, C. Seeger, L. E. Dance/, D. E. Holmes. Benmiller school was unable to re - same after the Christmas holidays owing to inability to secure a teecher. has retired from •fthd on -relating • licca active work Settled' "Lakeview' Farm'' on 'the shore of the lake uponwhich his life had- been•sliest..' •[ • `A team • of "horses Iiitehed-to' a` iat„on to -the back of •which a cow, was tied, ran away at Dungannon -the other day and ran for a couple. of miles. The cow, which had • never trained for such a marathon; soon lost' her footing and the unfeeling • • • • 18 92 horses -wouldn't stop to allow her to • .•- 10 00 regain. it, so the poor beast was • ,•10 00 _drugged along at the tail of. the 10 00 .wagon. Strange to say the animal was not much damaged: That cow 8 wih1 fight• shy of being hitched to a 0 wagon for the rest of her natural 'life. A notice of motion that the G. W. 0 V. A. of Goderich disband was 5 brought up at the last meeting of that body, 7 Mr. Robt. F. Clark, son of Dr. W. 7 F. Clark of Goderich, has been ap- pointed customs officer at Southamp- ton. Mr. Clark served m the great war, losing en arm, and has since taken a civil service course'to pre- pare himself for bis work. There is talk of the establishment of a shoe factory in Goderich,.a Can- adian branch of a Buffalo firm. Provincial 'Officer Phippen, of Wingham, who •.has been in poor health for some time, underwent an Operation last weVe' and is now on the mend. Mr. F. R. Howson, a member of the firm of Howson and Howson, 'town who was elected to the totem council was unable to quali- fy for ounce owing to the fact that his firm contracts for water with the town yearly. Mr. Henry Armstrong of Moles- worth was out doing his chores one evening recently and was walking across the barn floor with a lantern in one hand and an iron kettle 1n the other when he stepped into a trap door and fell eight feet to the cement floor of the stable below.• He was found in an unconscious condi- tion by his son some time later. hor- tunately the lantern was extinguish- ed by his falling upon it, or the ac- cident might have been much more serious. A beautiful wlnta swan was cap- tured on the creek near the village of Milclmay the other day. It had been, slightly wounded in. the wing rid was easily captured, It is sup- osed that it had escaped Zoom cap- tivity as it appears quite tame. .Harry Westlake of Wroxeter, son of Mrs. W. J. Mitchell of Howick township; died last week aged twen- ty-six years. This was otic of the Ave Westlake brothers who enlisted in the 161st Huron Battalion. He was never very robust and his • life in the trenches aggrivated a former weakness which he has never been able to shake off. The funeral was, held at Wroxeter and wee very large- ly attended. Ethel Methodist church Is now free of debt, the notes against it having been burned in 'time-honoured fashion before a ]urge congregation •on a recent oeca$ion. The ,church was built, in 1917. Rev. S. Sellery 01 Toronto., a for- mer pastor, preached in the Brussels Methodist church on Sunday week, An otter is said to -have been seen around the Maitland River at Brussels recently, A shipment of whiskey enroute .from Montreal to Exeter. marked "paint" was seized at London last week. Some of the Stuff seemed, to be missing when the seizure was made. Mr, Edward • Palmer, who recently sold his farm in Stephen, has put - chased ,the hotel property at Oredi- ton from Idr. John Mallett arid will get possession in the spring, While cutting wood with a buzz saw at the farm o - Mr. Melvin Smith of the Bronson Line. recently, Mr, :Henry Motisseati hail the misfortune to have his hand rather badly cut. . 9 50 1 50 Ribbons .. ., .,•. 2 3 Hotel Expenses ... , .. .. • 2 5 Plowing Match . , • • , . . 57 0 By 'Goods . , • • .. 40 7 Balance on hand January 14th, 1021. . , . „ , ; .. 145 13 L Total ... .. .. .. .. ..°n74 ......................................„„ +,. r, $50 to X59000 .- r + A YEAR FOR LIFE ;; A CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ANNUITY PROVIDES IT , • . x. '1' --No better life investment available .1. 4. —No better security obtainab4.le •{P —Cannot be seized or levied upon for any cause 4. t • 4. —Will be replaced if lost, stolen or destroyed .1. —Not affected by trade depression. 4• 4. —Free from Dominion Income Tax .H • —No medical examination required 1:Anyone over the age of 5 years resident or domiciled in Canada 4. may purchase, 4• ,.-- --- +.. Any two persons may purchase jointly. Employers may purchase for their employees—school boards for e 4. their teachers—congrega$ons for their ministers. 4. 4. Apply to your postal; star; or write, postage free, to S. T. 13,stedo, Super- 'i' + 'ntendent of Annuities Ottawa, for new booklet and otter infer u.tion das:red, , ..%.t State sea and age last l irtl,d;,y ,1.4. 4.401••iA•i'•e 4..bpi+.14.1,•441.4..4.4.04.4 isni..1.n.4.4.4.4.444..1.4.4,.l,g.4.4.4•4 .4.4.1...1.. The Carpets You Throw Away! They are the ones we want to save for you. No matter how old, how dirty, how dilapi- dated, by our process they can be woven into Velvety Reversible Rugs” that are good enough for the most elaborate home. You won't realize how good these' rugs really are until you see their beauty and feet their softness under yolir feet. Send as Ihis advertisement with soar' name and address for a free booklet with Olt information. Tie a rope around the old carpet and; send it to " The Canada Rug' Co, 98 Carling Street: London; Canada but lie maintained his r,'ronnd, fila nnmbere are not decreasing •t4 any notable extent while his quality has ever r}p upward trend. Breeding stations are being established and every effort is being metre to mains twin breed type. Saskatchewan's sueoess in winning championships at the recent International Stools ,show in Chicago. is an evidence of the !narked success that hat been met Canada, 3ut the es18 Ca a B t W with in t net alone in the remelt of horse iin- preventent • and development, `Than the French-Canadian horse there is probably. no breed that rs more ,liars of al T e dY- or agriculturally us t [ h Fkeneh-Canadian Horse Breeders' Association has lona' been' in nirilla- tion for record purposes with the National Iiye Stock Record. Board at Ottawa, and in the last two years that Association has turned over to the Dominion Department of Agri. culture ;for twenty yearn a farm of five hundred acres at • St. Joachim, Que„ `"to be mainly used for the brdeding of this particular type of ]corse. There are at present 57 Fr'eneli-Canadian horses,on the Term, all registered. Entries were made at .l1 of themore prominent ertent fa a • some t 1 fairs in Quebec and in each instance first prizes and championships were won. The December tomboy of The Agricultural Gazette of Canada gives full details of the work that Is be- ing done at the recenyfy acquired French-Canadian horse breeding farm, Mr. CuttR.H. business in - Goderich after twenty- five beats . leaving, his store to his son, J Calvin Cutt. • George Pearce, a young man,• who -broke jail at Hensall a few weeks ago, was sentenced by Judge Dickson last week to two years and notes months, on various charges, -He has a .wife and two small children. They have been sent to'"their relatives in Muskoka. The marriage took place recently of Mrs. Florence t:clwards, sua:er of D3, ti' - I1T•. Tu nor,:.ancl formerly, of Goderich, 'anti. Mi. Jplye. A, Leith of• Soverign; 'Sask. •Mi., and Isles, Leith• }vii] reside. at ,Spvcri,gn after spend - jug ,a'•hone:ymoon in .the east and south, ' Nir. C. T, Bropks has resigners` as Canadian Express•.. agant: at- Exeter tier illi• VJni. Sins• has been appoint, e[l.• ' Alexander Davidson, an olcl resi- dent of Seaforth and who in past Years had conducted the Commercial hotel, passed away last week at the age of ninety years. Mr. Robt. Gillies of Exeter had his hand badly cut while working in his saw mill recently. Mr. and Mrs. IL Sansone of Ford- wich were both knocked down and the latter soniewlutt severely burned by the explosion of acetylene gas in the cellar of their home last Thurs- day evening. Mrs, Sansom held a lantern while her husband was put- ting fresh carbide into the generator. llr. Joint Merritt of I{indardine, a weil-known retired farmer of that district, died very suddenly while on a visit to his son, Dr. Edward D. Merritt of Detroit. The remains were brought home for interment. 1 ARE YOU A Man or Woman Bravo enough to Face the Future? Big enough to Assume a Responsibility? Par -seeing enough to Prepare for Misfortune? Ambitious enough to Increase your Estate Immediately? Patriotic enough to Provide for your own? Energetic enough to be making a good livelihood? Healthy etought to pass a Medical Examination? Then clip this advertisement. Pill in coupon and send to S. C. Cooper. Box 5. NEW/S.-RECORD OFFICE Clinton, Ontario. NAMEa ....... ADDRESS •, • Date 1•lern, ,,,..,day ..,,0041,.•, , f ,.6.4,..,,its the ;pea tatiG•est.urs+ae:.Aeaaaee4.4+trsw..t,.•"ta,'oY:tartauuneev,.ctlsiesatkYJ#v'1Ass4, „ OUR CLUBBING LIST FOR 1921. T The bows-Reeprd and Globo ..6.75 " + Mail and Empire ..,,6,75 " Toronto Star 0 75 5 75 4 00 3.80 " The World " Farmer's AclAcre " Family Herald " Farmer's Sun 3.50, " Canadian Countryman 3,50 " London Advertiser 6.75 " -- London'Free Press —6.75 • 6.75 " Weekly Witness 3 50 " Youth's,'Contpanion ... •4.25 '.Above• pllces are ler addresses in 'Canada or Great Britan pnd,nre,good only of leng as. the pipers indicated remain at then present.pricb. If'pub- lication you ttant is meths above list, let ns 1 Prow ' 'We can:get yell any'Caniidian'pub- lieation as chc.tply;sonjethnes .a tle cheaper, thati you can. send for it yourself. Arid we will take aII the trouble .off •vdui' hands. `` , • • if you wish More than one paper to get at the cost simply deduct 52.00 for sub to The News -Record from any price' above and 'you have the Price .of the periodical. You want, Por instance, the price of The News - Record, The Mail and Empire. and the Farmer's Advocate is 58.75. Your subscription to Tne News -Re cord MAY be paid for 1:21 but that makes no difference if you wish a clubbing, rate on any other paper. We'll send your sub in any time dur- ing the year that suits you. If tremitting by mail kindly send Postal Note or Express Order. If a Bank Cheque on any other than a Clinton bank please add exchange. THE FINANCIAL REPORT OF . THE UNITY CLUB The members of the Unity Club met nt the home of Mrs, W Stev- ens, Base Line, on Tuesday afternoon and organized for 'another year, An election took place, the officers for the corning year being as follows: Ilon.-president, Mrs. - H. Murphy; president, Mrs. Eel. Welsh; vice, Mrs. Ferguson, secretary, Mrs. W. H. Jen- kins; treasurer, Mrs, W. Stevens, The Club organized a sewing class in connection with their meetings, with Mrs. L. Weir as supervisor, An- other feature of the meetings will be papers Lund discussion on various top- ics of the day. The first paper on "How to have more leisure hems and still do- the work in the home," to be taken by three members. The members are endeavoring to make their meetings profitable as well as sociable. The date is the second Tuesday of each month. 'Visitors are aways welcome, Following'is the financial report for the year: Receipts • •Jan, 10th, 1020 to Jan, 10th 1921. Balance on band ,,...• Cash received . , , , „ 14,00 Sale f. yarn 8,48 l+eea o 14.00 Money Collected • , .. . • , , • , 4.50 Quilting , • . , 5.50 Bazaar Booth ,. . 43.65 Donations . , . , , , .. 2.25 James Ferguson, a resident of Wa-• wariest. for seventy-seven. Years, died at his home near Dungannon last weak and his filtered took place on Sunday. Previous to coning to Hur- on county he had lived in Quebec for a few years. lie was n native of Yormanngli, Troland, ail caste to Canada nt the etre of 2001', no was • Brockville water _rates have been increased by 25 per cent. by the Pub- lic -Utilities CDmmission. Total .. .• ., „ ........ $239.98 Expenditures Dishes for Hospital 530,00 Flowers .... 5.75 Donation towards Electric Bell for' hospital „ .. .. 10,00 Orders for goods • , . , , 6.20 Patient in hospital. , . , , . 84.00 7: A. Irwin, print & cotton 2.24 W. C, Brown, print, etc. . r'. 2.35 Hospital Board, bazaar proceeds 43.15 Paper for decorating . , „ .. 50 Bills Paid , , . . • .. , . 4.70• Balace on hand . „ „ 51.09 Total , , . , 5239,98 ,•THE HORSE STILL THRIVES Motor newer has largely invaded the province of the horse, but the aninnal still lives ,and thrives and still has its widespread usefulness. The Great War had its davasting in- fluence oe the horse and also devel- oped the value of machinery in its place, But experience has proven that there are still many uses to which the: horse car, bo.boty' applied than motor or steam power, When trains came in the horse was to dia- wppear, When the trolley was ad- apted to public service. a crippling blowwas dean the horse. When the bicycle became a furore the horse became an object for serll.'n. When the automobile and, later, the trdctor appeared the horse was to vauMMsls, USE RAZ -MAH NO Smoking-3'lo SRrayinp—No Snuff Just Swallow a Capsule RAZ -MAH Is Guaranteed to restore normal breathing, stop mucus gatherings in the brouchial tubes, give long nights of quiet sleep; contains no habit-forming drug. 51.00 at your drug- gist's. Trial free at our agencies orwrite Tenpletous, 142 Icing W., Toronto. ANNUAL? r1rimi th tad& Jan. 17th to 22nd One week only 2 0 to 5 pi c. Off Caps, Underwear, Sweaters P'lannelettP, Serges. Prints, Ginghams, Shirtings, Mitts, Shoes and Rubbers 'Terms Strictly Cash No Goods on Approval No Goods Returned .4.4444+4 4 / '5ri1U11SDAY, •JA, N. nib? 192i ' • VIMOWNIVIIWINOMWOMMOOtONVIOIWO EAMoitsh&Sau " VAI NA e CRAM a 'R Wan -TheDouble Track Route --between-- MONTREAL, TORONTO,. DETROIT and CHICAGO, Unefcefled dining car service., Sleeping ears on night trains and Parlor oars on irrincipal day trains. Full information from any Grand Trunk Ticket Agent or C, E, Horn- ing, Dist>riot Passenger Agent, `1'or= onto. A. 0, Pattison, itoliot Agent, JOTIN ItANMItO1Ill ,C: SON, "w Phone 511, Uptown. 'Agents A Modern Force •F r iness D ERTI ING has estab- lished hed a new order things in commerce, It has become a mighty power in business prog- ress; a complex yet comprehen- sible transmitter,of many Parts for the distribution and selling is of merchandise 'and service 1 0 Its function is fivefold: To enlighten or educate—to create new wants or to statisfy7old ones— to protect• and foster' legitimate en terprise—to establish- a medium 'of '. miclersta c il1c ' between . buyer and seller- as a° 'basis for rniitual inoiit' ` and advantage—to:prescribe. an coon- ' omical price and the tnalntenanae of a fixed standard of quality. , None know better than the buy-, ,. • Ing public how well these fnuctions have been fulfilled. Modern advertising has given us an insight into various manufactur- ing processes. The producer has ta- ken us, the consenners, into his con- fidence and .told us how his mince- meat, his flour, his clothing, etc,, is' macre. We know. why certain things should pr should not be. Advertis- ing has told usbroailened our un- derstanding and guided our judgment Modern, advertising has enabled us to unlock the treasure house of the world's best music through the med- ium of the ,player -piano. The motor car bas lengthened the business day and brought the fragrant countryside to our door. Men shave in comfort in ten minutes where they used to take twenty. A magic bottle -pro- vides us • with 'cold drinks with the weather at 90 degrees or gives us` warm beverages when Jack Frost e dips at 40 below. Modern advertising has elevated the standard of business ethics. It protects the manufacturer froui' un- scrupulous competition and the con- sumer froth base imitation; ' It con- serves trade -extends business and • creates good will, It enables the corporation) the manufacturer or, pri- vate individual on trial to take his case directly to the public, and to secure the public's judgment on his policy or character based purely upon their respective merits, trAk Y"rilitare Modern advertising has opened up new opportunities to the oppressed and Door of far-off lands. It has turned an unceasing tide of tmnet- gration to new countries. It has des veloped nations, and made the name of the New World a Droniise .of bet- ter things among the people of the Old. All this advertising has done and will continue to do, It is the ever increasing .Lenience :for the advance- ment of mankind—the most potent, indeed, of the ninny forces inifuenc- ing lintltail action. 4414,