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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1920-1-29, Page 1No. 2030, -40th Year CI..INTOW, ONTARIO, T JRSDAY, J►ANLJARY 29th, 13120 es it Our Mailing. Sheet has been corrected up• to. Jan. 1'3th, 1920 Every label should read to a .date in advance. oes yours reed, Zug the 4.3ett butt—Y1n. egirzcz Siunpljejty of construction coni. ‘'41) bined with a skill in manufacture, (1 which is the inheritance of genera- " "tions nialce REGINA WATCHES good time keepers and consequently. comfortable watches to carry, Their. efficiency is assured by a guarantee which enables the owner to have any constructional defect .remedied free BSOL.UTEi Y GUARAAITEED of charge by the nearest agent in :, any fie of- Canada. They are not made in grades which cannot be fully guaranteed. e �f S ar O ��b Miter: 'jeweler and Optician ISSUER OF MARRIAGE LICENSES, Residene 174J Phone 174w 1 OF CANADA. Head Office, Montreal $33,750,000 505,000,000 Capital and Reserve Total Assets a 630 Branches Special attention to Farmers' Requirements, Interest paid on deposits, Safety deposit boxes to rent R, E. MANNING, Manager - Clinton Br INCORPORATED IN 1855 CAPITAL AND RESERVE $9,000,000 Over 120 Branches THS; MOLSONS•BANK BUSINESS SERVICE Many of our custoniersrwbo started in 'a small way, have now a well established business through the assistance and co-operation of this Bank over a period of years. - Open an account in this Bank where your interests will be faithfully looked after by experienced officers. The Manager is always accessible. H. R. SHARP, Manager CLINTON 'BRANCH Satiety Deposit Boxes to Rent . 41-19 READY -TO -WEAN CLOTHING} 2 he 7orrtsh Clothing Co. ORDERED CLOTHING kr �•', ': c• r V\J i[l�ffiU��1.L3S ��.y 30 Young• men's overcoats, up to -date styles, worth $35.00, to clear at 25.00 Make your selection early ibefore the sizes are broken rE E 1 1111011LEI COTUIJ1 CO. otto ; "A Square Deal for Every Man," AT TIIE RINK;. TONIGIIT, The Covenent Bible Class of Willi Church is having a skating party i the rink this . evening, (Thursday) The Band will be in attendance an Meth will be served during the eve. Mg; Everybody welcome. WILL BE GLAD TO ASSIST. • At the last meeting of the W. C. T. U., held on Friday afternoon, Mrs. Govett gave a very interesting're- port on the work of the Travellers' Aid in connection with the organiz- ation. Mrs. Govett is the local re- presentative and will be glad to give ahy assistance she can to parents, whose boys or girls 'are leaving town for larger cities, by writing ahead to have them met and cared for and di- rected to safe lodging places, _ HYDRO FOR THE FARMS. Quite an enthusiastic Meeting was held in Clinton on Saturday after- noon of Goclerich township farmers who are anxious to obtain the ben- efits of hydro on the farms. Superin- tendent Chant and Commissioner Andrews of the -Clinton Utilities ad- dressed, the Meeting. It was unani- mously decided that a petition Would be presented to the council and by that body forwarded to the Provincial Hydro Board, asking for an estimate of costs. The petition is ready and is being largely signed and will be presented to the Goderich township council at their meeting on Monday. Much interest is being taken in the project and many are of the opinion that something definite may be done very speedily. CLINTON'S HYDRO sun, - .. s - The • Hydro,: Electric • Bull, n elfin for January in its "Whets Who?" department, had a' d` nice lot of things to say about -Supt. n IL B, Chant of the Clutton Utilities. It ' ends up With these words; , "He thinks Clinton Utilities, for'their 'size, are hard to 'beat." Clinton thinks it would be hard', to, beat Supt.. Chant at -his job; into which he has always put a great deal of enthusiasm. The town is fortunate in having so efficient an official. THE WAY THE TRICK IS DONE, NEW COMPANY TAKES IIOLD. Mr. W, N. Manning of the firm of Sherlock -Manning Co., London, which recently purchased the Doherty Pi- anos, Liimted, cane up- on Monday and formally took over the business for the firm. In the afternoon Mr. Manning had the operatives gather in the organ room and had a little talk with them. "I wish to say" he began, "that the Sherlock -Manning Co., that is my partner and myself, are now sole owners of the Doherty Pianos, Lim- ited- I. spent fifteen years of niy life, in this business," he continued; "and they were good years.. I en- joyed theist and got a lot of fun out of life here. I ane hoping that any =motion with tine business now will be just as pleasant as it was then." "I am glad to see some • of the faces here that wore here when I left and I just wish to say that we, my partner and myself, cannot make this business a success without you but I believe that working together we shall be able to make it a contin- ued and even greater success. If it succeeds it will be a good thing for you and if it fails it will be a very serious thing, indeed, for us." "Tho business will retain the same firm name as it has for some time, 'Doherty Pianos, Limited', and will be run entirely independently of the. London factory. It is our intention to push the business and to turn out more work than has ever been done. I do not mean that you have not been working hard enough but that we shall from time to time add to the staff and increase our output,-�I should like to see from 2000 to 2400 pianos turned out every year. You will not be, in competition with the London factory at all but you will be with that of Listowel, Guelph and other firms but I feel confident that .we can turn out just as good work here as anywhere and I just wish to say that if we can turn out the goods we can sell them. - The wore instruments we can turn out the better it will -be" for you as' well as for us. We want to see you making good - wages. Our relations with the amen of our staff•in London have always been the pleasantest. I have always said we had the best staff of workers in London that there is anywhere but am willing to Irdncede that the Clinton staff comes a good second. You may not be willing tb agree with ane there and I don't knownot." that I blame you if you do • I ant glad to be 'able to say that Mr. Gibbings will continue to act .as - superintendent and will be -respons- ible for the output, while foremen of the departments, some of whom I know and some of -whom I do not, will be responsible for their differ- ent departmens. I an not going to ask any of you to work harder than I shall - work myself. I expect to - put in some long hours, late and early hours but I`• have always worked hard and am happier at it. I ask no sympathy because I have to work but do ask your co-operation so that together we may nlalto a success of this business. We do not purpose to make any radical changes in the conduct of the business but one thing we shall do as soon as it can, be arranged, and I do not suppose there will be any objection. We have always inourLondon factory had a weekly pay flay and wo purpose to'• introduce that system here just as soon as. We eat get.around to it, "Now 1 thought they on the first 'clay on which we have really taken eu' o Y .charge of this basin ess that I she -aid like, on behalf of ni 'self and My partner, to sleet you all and to say that we mope the preSCht pleasant relations may continuo throughout the year and for many years to Conte,'r A town that has nova anything to do inn'a public way is on'the way to the oethetery. Any citizen who will do nothing for his town is helping to dig the grave.. A man that knocks the town helps ,to .make the coffin. The man who is so selfish as to have no time from his business to give to public affairs is making the shroud. Tiro man who will not advertise is driving the hearse. The man who is always pulling back from any public enterprise throws bouquets on the grave. The man who is so stingy as to be always howling hard tines, preaches the funeral seryiee and sings the doxology. - Exchange, "APPLES IS :APPLES", ,. • - Forty Seats. -a dozen fpr apples in Clinton town; the - centre of Huron' County, one the best apple -growing counties' in Ontario. That is the price asked for apples in Clinton today, or to be exact, yesterday. They weren't grown in Huron, of course, they were imported. But Ontario grown apples have,advanced sharply in price during the past week :or so. North- ern Spies are quoted! at Ottawa at $9 to 810. Apples were not a. heavy crop last year • and, it is said, are not keeping well, which, accounts for the scarcity, probably. Notwithstanding the scarcity and the high price Mr. Harry .Thompson of Goderich township the other day presented a box of very choice apples to The News -Record. - There were more than a dozen in the box, too, and, in view of the growing: scarcity, we appreciated the gift and it is needless to say we enjoyed the apples. THE ANNUAL MEETING, The anual sleeting . of the Clinton Agricultural Society,, was held in the Agricultural,.ofCtce on'+itesday of last week, On motion of Dr. Shaw and Lorne Tyndall the minutes, as read, were adopted. The treasurer's report showed a bal- ance on hand of $170.92. On motion of Wesley Marquis and E. H. Wise, 'the treasurer's report was adopted. On notion of Dr. Shaw -and W. Mar- quis, Mayor Cottle, E. H. Wise and L. Tyndall were made a nominating Committee. After some discussion regarding the ntenne of the Society it was decided to call it "Huron Central Agricultural Society," as the previous name conflicted with other societies. On notion of W. Marquis and D. Cantelon the usual grants of $10 were given to the secretary and treas- urer. The nominating committee re- commended the adoption of the folow- Hon.-President, John Shannaham President, Herbert Cox. - First Vice, L. Tyndall, Second Vice, J. McFarlane. Directors—Thos. McMichael, Hull- ett; Wnl. Lobb, Goderich Tp.; Edward. Wise, Goderich Tp.; Wm, McEiven, Stanley; Thos. Coleman, Tuckersnith; Wesley Nott, Tuckersnith; Mayor Cottle, Dr. J. W. Shaw, Reeve Miller, Clinton. After some discussion this report was adopted. A discussion then took place re -plowing match to be held in connection with the Society. On mo- tion of Dr. Shaw and „Mayor Cottle a snatch will be held in the fall of 1920 at sbme suitable place adjoining the town. The secretary was asked to write the councils of the adjoining town- ships, urging larger grants as the aim of the Society is to increase among the farmers a greater interest in agriculture, and . the fitting and showing of live stock. The Society feels it has not been supported as whole-heartedly as it should have been. Meetiiig then adjourned.—A. J. Me - Murray, Secretary. Financial statement of year end- ing Dcember 31, 1919. RECEIPTS Balance on hand from 1918. . $251.83 Town of Clinton50.00 Huron County...,... ,..., 25,00 Township of Tucket'smith 15.00 Township of Hullett 15.00 Township of Goderich - 10.00 Membership fees - 77,00 Donations subscriptionsoi . .., 122.5 0 Donation by Goods - 44.00 Total Receipts 8010.83 EXPENDITU.RES---`— Cash Prizes for Horses $223,50 Cash Prizes for Cattle 60.00 Lady Drivers - 7.0 Donation to Secretary 10,00 Donation to Treasurer, , . s10.00 Printing .. , , , , 34.60 Postage & Stationary. ,;,, 18.81 Judges 12.00 Clinton Kitty Band ....,15.00 Cons•' tables „ 4.00 Hotel Expenses .. , .. 8.00 Telephoning ,„ , ..... , 2.00 aBy Goods 44.00 Balance in Bank .. , .. , ... , , 170,92 • THE LOCAL MARIfET. Wheat 81,98. • Oats 00c: • Buckwheat 81.85. Barley 81,70, - Butter„60e. Eggs ,70c. Live Hogs $17,75, , MODEL SCHOOL BOARD. • The ..Model School Board stet last Wednesday evening and appointed the following officers: Chairman, T. 3, McNeil. -Sec. -Treasurer, -H, E, Rorke. Member of Library Board, W. Bry- done. Member of the Collegiate Board, Rev. J. D. Hogg. Member .of Entrance Examination Board, C. D. Houck. - Property Committee, ...Messrs. Hardy, Rands, Cook, Finance ...Committee, Messrs, -Holmes, Morrish, Mutch, The regular meetings of the boand will be held on the last Monday of each month at the hour of half pass seven in the evening, •WIIAT'S TO HINDER? t, Anyone who saw "The New Mib- isterl' in the town hall last week and who listened to the music must have been impressed with the talent displayed by the performers, Why 'Would it not be possible to take up :some rather good, not too heavy a • piece, but. something good, with good music in it, and prepare it for next season. Begin in the autumn and have a practise say once or twice a week, and have everyone included who can sing and who can be in- duced to assist, In ,this way many who could not give up every evening for two or three weeks in succession might be able to Assist and a really fine entertainment could be given with little or no outside=assistance. Clinton has plenty of talent, all that is needed is someone to 'give lead- ership. Since the foregoing was put in- to type a notice has come into the office calling' a meeting for Tuesday evening next in the council chamber for the purpose of organizing a choral society. This meeting should be well attended and encouragement given to those who are taking the natter up, THE PLAY. • On Thursday and Friday evenings of last week a musical comedy,. :'The Nev Minister," was presented to ca- pacity houses in the town hall under the auspices of the Girls' Auxiliary, Mr. A, H. Francis of London being director. The play is funny and doesn't pre- tend to be anything else and it was well presented. Indeed, it was the general opinion that a Huck more pretentious play could have been handled, considering the talent dis- played by the performers. The choruses were catchy and well rendered and the solo singng was good. Mr. Francis expressed him- self as greatly pleased with' the number of good solo voices available. IIe said it was quite unusual to find so many capable of taking solo parts. The acting, too, was pleasing. But, of course, everyone knows that Clinton possesses a good deal of dra- matic ability. It seems unfair to give anyone special mention without /including' all but amongst those taking •lead- ing parts and sustaining those parts well we might mention a few. Itiiss Annie Stewart as "Daisy Lovejoy" the school teacher; Mr. Francis as "The New Minister" R. Shrnlc as a baseball enthusiast and H. Stewart as another; J. E. Doherty, "The Sex- ton", who sang a couple of solos and carried through his part with ease and skill; Norman Holland, as "Prof. Topnoto" the leader of the "choir"; Mrs. •McMurehie, president 01 the "Ladies Aid;" Miss Cuninghane, as the town milliner and leader of fash- ion; Miss Mabel Clufl' as president of the "Sewing Circle" and Miss Lu- cile Grant_as the ahampioin tallier of the community, But then everyone did remarkably well considering the short time given to practise: Messrs, J. E. Cook, H. E Rorke, S. E, Re- sell and L, Weir comprised the "The Musical Committee" who had the Jinni sayin the choosing of the new Minister, were gotten up very elev. erly and tarried off their parts well. The ladles were dressed in the style of a former period and some of the costumes were quaint, some start- ling. . The "Daisy Chorus," Miss Stewart and the men of the company in sum- mer garb, was the prettiest scene of the play. The final chorus, when the minister and Daisy Lovejoy come together as lovers, and some at feast of the min- ister's troubles seem bo be over, was also a pretty scene, The curtain balked a time or two and ,proved rather 'hard to handle and on Friday evening When it Went down lifter the last act the rope broke and., the .national anthem hod to bo sung with the' performers curtained off twin the audience, Miss 'Weed° Torrance had a most innportant part in the success of the performance as sit C nvas ACCOnn 1 - W fall 1st, Sonne of the local hits were suite clever and were taken in good part by those cottoned. The Girls' Auxiliary Was greatly leased with the success of the enter - 1180 and have a Vice Snit for the ospital 1'3oin the proceeds, 1) !Total $610,83 ( I THE 1014E PAPER nu NOW IN IIOSPITA•L, Mervin Farenhar, on of. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Farquhar of the Gravel Road, Hullett, was .taken suddenly 111 on Sunday and in the evening'had to be rushed to the hospital, where he underwantAh operation, for appendi- citis4,i, Iiist reports .he was pro- gressing favorably. " Mr. C. H, TTenner was taken to the hospital on Monciay. and operated ori. We trust both patients will have a quick recovery, THE' REASON FOR DELAY. During the past few weeks sever- al of our subscribers who' have subsc•ib' r Dcl for the ne first time ' to. The Family Herald and Weekly Star through this office have complained to us that they have not received the.. paper. The Fai ly Herald and Weekly Star writes us that owing to the number of renewals and niei' subscriptions going in it has been unable ' to get till the new names on but hopes to soon catch up. A new subscription dates from the first issue received so that a full year's sub. will be given the only drawback being it is delay- ed. Any subscriber who does not. receive his or her copy within the next week or so should notfy us and we shall take the matter up with The - Family Herald and see that it is ad- justed. CLINTON WON THIS TIME. On Monday evening before the largest crowd of the season the Clin- ton Juniors . defeated Wingham Jun- iors by the score of 0-4. From start to finish the Clinton team forced the play and the game was fast and clean, only three penalties being handed out. The teams are now tied for group honours and the deciding game will be played in Wingham on Wednesday of next week. You couldn't pick out the individ- ual stars for Clinton as all the play- ers slid good work. While Morden and McLean were the stars for Wing - ham Aitcheson in goal for the vis- itors again put up his 'stellar game, he was like an almost ,impregnable fort, The following is the lineup of both teams: Clinton Position Wingham Graelis Goal Aitcheson Manning Defence - Cruickshanks McDonald McLean Cooper Wings Sturdy Huller Harrison Murphy Centre Morden Bowden Sub Lockeridge Elliott Referee, S. Burns, Palmerston, LITTLE LOCALS. The ice harvest is being gathered. It ought to be an abundant one this season. Huron County Council islet in God- erich on Tuesday. The warden for 1920 is J, 0, Petty of Hensell. We have written many receipts for renewals and new subscriptions during the week . Was yours among them? Mr, Geo. Burnett has purchased the Mann cottage on Princess street and it is his intention to tit it up some- what and occupy it himself. The Clinton Juniors go up to Wing - ham next Wednesday to play the Jun- iors of that town. If any of those interested can inalce it convenient to go along and help cheer the boys to victory it will be appreciated and it might just mean the difference be- tween victory and defeat. Mr. 3, 'A. Irwin has moved his family into the house known as the "Webb' place on Victoria street, Mr. G. H. Elliottof Goderich township having bought the house they have just vacated. The genial"George" in- tends coming into town as soon as he gets his sale, which takes place on Thursday next, over. IIe will be a welcome citizen. COPE COMING, The. second in the series of enter- tainments being put'on by the Girls' Auxiliary takes place in the town hall on Friday evening of next week, Fob. Gth, when Herber: Leon Cope, "Kill - the -blues" Cope, as he was nicknamed PASSED 80TH MILESTONE, 'Mr, Edward Kenip of London form. erly ;pf Clinton, celebrated his 80th birthday the other day, He is still hale and hearty' and is working every day, The News -Record joins his many friends in wishing him many happy returns of the day.. • BEARD ON TIIE STREET, "Drat mei I wish they would get those snowplows widened :so that, these walks, could be plowed a bit wider." "Yes, and it wouldn't hurt theta to be plowed a bit deeper, too," "That's a fact. It wouldn't hurt to have these streets summer-fallowed as it were." ' AMONG TIIE CHURCHES. St. Paul's Church. Holy Commmunion at eleven, Even- ing Prayer at seven, Preacher, the rector, Rev. S. E. McKegney. Baptist Church Rev. J. E. McCauley Of Goderich has been preaching every night this week and his messages are very help- ful. Thursday and Friday night's( will conclude these special services, Next Sunday the Pastor will speak: His text in the evening will be Excel. 14: 15. Conte and enjoy singing from our Forward Movement song sheets. * hY 5 The annual piens' missionary banquet of. Ontario street and Wes- ley churches will be held in Wesley hall on Friday evening of next week at six o'clock. The speaker will be the Rev. Lloyd Smith, All the men of both congregations are cordially in- vited to attend. 'i '1 8 The Rev. Dr. Pringle, 'Moderator? ' of the General Assembly of the Pres- byterian Church, met and addressed the Presbytery of Huron in Willis church on Wednesday forenoon. His subject was the Forward Movement ni that church. IIe went on to Wing- hasn for the evening. 5 a .1 Next Sunday is missionary rally day in the, Methodist Church and there will be a general exchange of ministers, The Revs. E. A. Arm- strong of Wingham and R. Fulton Irwin of Lucknow will take the ser- vices in the two local churches, Mr. Armstrong_ preaching in Wesley church in the morning and in On- tario street in the evening and Mr. Irwin preaching in Ontario street church in the morning and Wesley in the evening, Rev. Mr. Armstrong will conduct the young men's bible class in Wesley Sunday school in the afternoon. • ' 5 * The Forward Movement in Goder- ich District is really moving for- ward. Clinton held an Lnter-church Field Day on Wednesday of this week. Seaforth has reached all objectives except financial, and the officials -have cheerfully accepted their financial objective. Blyth has a 8500.00 subscription and Rev. McCormack is smiling be- cause his finance committee sub- scribed one third of their allotment at their initial -meeting. There is to be a Forward Move- ment Banquet at Varna .on Friday Jan. 300. Rev. S. Anderson and Rev. J. F, Reycraft are to be the speakers. Victoria St. Goderich, has had three weeks of successful -revival services. The pastor has been as- sisted by Hugh C. Wilson who was in charge "of the service of song. Rev. J. F, Reyraft, Goderich, will be glad to get any items of inter- est from any circuit within the dis- trict-, INTER -CHURCH RALLY. A tercl not war tion of ea who the by the American soldiers; will be the G•. M entertainer. IIe is said to be very ers funny, with a 'serious purpose behind his :tut but which does nht make it any the less humorous. Here ere a few things which are said about Minn: "Cope• has seen quite -a bit of, this old world, too. A dozen years or so ago, he was the biggest hit on the Lyceum and Chautauqua platforms of America. He broke every return en- gagement record ever set up, coming back as many as twelve times in a few seasons to speak to audiences of ca- pacity -pacity size, Then his foot slipped, Down the hill—to oblivion—he went. But lie cane back! With liis great platform art ho handed a solar plexus to his recent enemy and helped put his home state, Michigan, in the dry column, Then carne the war. Cope saw a chance to get in and do it great work. Ile could preach the 'Religions of Langhtor' to them without seething to Breach. He could warn then of the pitfalls as he knew from experience Where they tlm Were without w ottt seemingto be ' superior. And he did, And the morale n talo of .the troops improved. Instead of being de- tailed to drill, in some camps the boys were sent to hear Cope and- letters from Morala Officers and Commanding Officers attest to the great Work this genial humorist acanoplished," Plan of the ]tall open at Fair's Jan, Both. meeting was held in Clinton yes - ay, afternoon and evening, in Gon- ion with the Inter -Church For- el Movement, Large congrega- s werh present on both occasions nest, intereted men and women, listened with great attention to messages delivered. the afternoon meeting, 1Vlr: C. iddlcton presided and the speak - were the Rev, J. E. McCauley, pastor of the Baptist church Goderich, and Rev. (Lt. -Col.) Jolin Pringle, D. D., moderator of the General Assem- bly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada. Rev. (Capt.) Edwards of Seaforth conducted a question drawer - also at this meeting. In the evening ,,the. Rey. ;A, I, •.� Clarke, rector of St. 'George's church, Goderich, and the Rev, A. Gaudier, D. D., principal of l'{nox College, Tor- onto, werethe speakers, In the ab- sence of Dr. Thompson, who was to have taken the chair, Rev, Mr. Mc - Caines, pastor of Wesley church, where the gatherings were held, pre- sided. A choir measle up of members of the different choirs led in the sing - int at the evening meeting, It is only owing to the fact that we have to go to press this 111ornin, r that wo find it impossible to give a more detailed report of the .eloquent addresses given, but (next week we shall endeavor to gave some thoughts gleaned f 7,0711 1,110 acldres • �. sc5 of Dr. n Pringle g and ,Dr. Gaudier, at least, Thoee interested in the , Intel'- Church Forward Movement in Clinton and .its environs were much encour- aged and inspired by the success of yesterday's rally, • y k,•a More Local News on Page 8 •,re