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The Clinton News Record, 1919-6-5, Page 1inton News No. 2096 --40th Year CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 5th, 1919 THE HOME PAPER For Town and Township news read l[ii'e Clinton News -Record. June Weddings Will need Wedding Rings, You wish yours to be good, up.to-date in style, and a comfortable fit. Those we sell have all these desirable qualities, Our stock of presents for the June Bride are all they could desire Silver Tea Setts, Knives, Forks, Spoons and numerous fancy pieces, all useful, also Cut Glass, Fancy China, and' Dinner Setts W. X. Ie11qar feweler and Optician - - Clinton 11 ISSUER OF MARRIAGE LICENSES.; The Royal Bank of Canada HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL • Collections made. Drafts sold. 410 branches throughout Canada and Newfoundland FOREIGN BRANCHES CUBA—Havana (5 Branches) Ancilla, Banes, Bayamo, Caibarlen, Camaguey, Cardenas Diego de Avila, Ceinfuegas, Florida, Guantanamo, Jatibonica, Manzanillo, Matanzas' Moron, Nuevitas, Palma Soriano, Pinar del Rio, Puerto Padre, Segue la Grande, Santti Spiritus, Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba PORTO RICO—San Juan, Mayaguez and Ponce COSTA RICA—San Jose DOMINICAN REPUBLIC—S. Domingo, Puerto Plata, Sanchez, S. Pedro do Maoris and Santiago de los Caballeros MARTINIQUE—Fort de France GUADELOUPE—Pointe•a•Pltre and Basso Terre VMNEZUBLA—Caracas, Ciudad Bolivar, Maracaibo and Puerto Cabello BRITISH WEST INDIIIS itAn tigua—St.J ohn's Bahamas—Nassau Barbados—Bridgetown and Spoightstown Dominica—Roseau Grenada—St, George's Jamaica—Kingston Montserrat—Plymouth Nevis—Charlestown St Ritts—Basseterre Tobago—Scarborough - Trinidad—Port of Spain and San Fernando British Guiana—Georgetown, New AmmadRsHall Corentyno) Honduras—BelizeAmsterdam (f ~� INCORPORATED 1855' THE MOLSONS BAN i Capital and Reserve $8,800,000 Over I00 Branches scattered through Canada A General Banking Business Transacted, Circular Letters of Credit Bank Money Orders, Savings Bank Denartnnent. Interest allowed at highest current rate. H. R. Sharp, Manager, 1 'Clinton Branch READY-TO-WEAR CLOTHING 2he glorrish Clothing Co, ORDERED CLOTHING The Young Man's Suit Spring Hats It's time to consign your old weather beaten winter hat to the attic and crown yourself with something modern and spring- like. We show the correct blocks from the best makers. The King and Borsaiino We've got his spring suit We are certainly pre- pared to tog out the Swell Young Fellow who has reached the age when his clothes must be 6` JUST SO '° New patterns in Worsteds. Tweeds, Scotch Mixtures, Etc. The 'eut of the coat, vest and trousers all show a decided change for the spring season. We invite your inspection THE MORAISK CLOTHING CO. Mottos "A Square Deal for Every Man." [COME ALONG, BOYS ! The Doherty baseball club issues a challenge to any baseball team in town for a game, arrangementsto be made through .their• secretary, Ernest Hall, WESTERN .MAIL HELI) UPe Owing to industrial troubles retail for Winnipeg and Calgary was not accepted last week and our papers for those points had to lie held over, They are now going forward. "TOWN PlIalP" REPAIRED. The, waterworks pump has been un- dergoing repairs this week as it has net been working properly for some little time. In the meantime no Water has been used on the streets. We would not, object .at all to a nice steady shower of rain along any hour now. The pump is running again this morning, FORMER RESIDENT ILL., Mr, J. W. Hill of Oxbow, Sask., father of Mrs, W, Plumsteel of town, has been at the Mayo hospital, Rochester, where he has been under- going a thorough examination. It was feared that an operation might be necessary but after examination it was decided that such was, not the case and Mr. Hill bas returned home and will continuo treatment given him at the hospital High blood pressure was the principal trouble. Mrs. Hill accompanied her husband to Rochester. Clinton friends of the family hope that Mr. Hill's trouble will yield to treatment. AIRMEN; FLEW ,OVER. Much interest was taken in the flight of the, two aeroplanes over the town 'on Monday afternoon on their way to Blyth for Tuesday's' celebra- tion. The airmen did some interest- ing stunts, flying so low as to be quite visible, and almost everybody was out to see them. We heard of one ,man who was in the barber ,shop having a haircut when the word wont around and he rushed. to the door with the job half done and with his neck still swathed in a snowy towel. Clinton has not had the privilege of seeing many aeroplanes, being situated so far from the train- ing bases during the war. SHE'S ,A GOOD SPORT. Mrs. G. 111. Elliott of town, attend- ed the Blyth celebration on. Tuesday and while there treated herself to an aeroplane ride, probably being the first woman in Huron county to en- joy that experience, Mrs. Elliott did enjoy it, too. "Oh, it wasn't much. of a sensation," she said to The News -Record, "I was not at all frightened and was sur- prised to find that it felt much the same up in the air as on the ground, It wasn't oven any cooler. Indeed, the wind seemed warmer. I do not suppose we went high enough to strike the cold air. It was so clear, the grass seemed so much greener but the road; looked like a cow -path and the houses like chicken -coops.", A number of people went up, Mrs. Elliott being the fourth and, as far as we can learn, the only woman to. take' the trip. It was rather an ex- pensive form of amusement, one dol- lar per minute being the charge, Mrs. Elliott was given a slight re- duction, we understand, on account of her sex. We gathered from the lady that she would have enjoyed a much longer ride: -.It will be inter- esting when travelling by air be- comes common for Mrs. Elliott to recall that she was the first woman in Huron county to take an aero- plane ride. AMONG THE CHURCHES. , Baptist Church Services at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Morning subject : "Salt of the Earth." In the evening the pastor will preach from the text : "Take heed, therefore how ye hear." Wesley Church Rev. .1, Fletcher Sutcliffe of At- wood will preach on , Sunday morn- ing and Rev. R. Fulton Irwin of Glencoe in the evening. The pas- tor, Rev. A. E. Jones, expects to be present at both services. Ont. St. Church The Rev. R. J. Miller of Mt, Bridg- es will preach in the morning on Sunday next, Conference Sunday, and, Rev. i. J. Allis, formerly pastor of this church, in the evening. The League meeting on Monday evening was in charge of the Chris- tian Endeavor department. Mr. Graham gave the topic, "What is Religion ?" Miss ; Marion 'Gibhings and Mr. Fred Thompson sang a very pretty (nett. The roll call was re- sponded to by twenty, St. Paul's Church • Whitsunday : Holy Communion 8.30 ; Matins, 11 ; Evensong 7; Preacher : Rev. 5..E. McKegney, Huron Rural Deanery will' be held in St. Paul's church on Tuesday next, I-Ioly Communion will be eele- hrated at 9.1.5 a.m. ; morning ses- sion will commence at 10, attetnooh the session at 1,30 and ev i enih s s g a•. slop at 11 o'clock. Luncheen and tea Will be served by the Ladies' Guild, The speakers Will include: Mr, War- nodk,,'GFatt 1 Very Rev. Dean 'Pucker, London Red, W. J. Doherty, Wing. ham,. andtitev. Wax;,; Lowe, Isuean, - MP,DALS FOR SOLDIERS, The Union Presbyterian church at 13ruceflold is presenting to each of the returned soldiers of the congre- gation a solid gold medal, The; med- als aro specially designed and, are weld to be exceedingly handsome, NOT CIIEAP OVER TELEPHONE, It costs twenty-five cents a minute for a citizen of Clinton to talk . to Toronto. Seventy-five cents for a three-minute conversation, The old saying "Talk is cheap," Was invent- ed before the telephone. BUSINESS BEING ESTABLISHED Messrs., Newton Davies and T. Her- man,, both recently returned from overseas, are starting a tailoring es- tablishment over Brown's. clothing store. Both these gentlemen are ex- pert tailors and as we have nob had a custom tailoring business in town since -the boys went to war, they ought to do well and we have no doubt they will. We are glad to have so many pf, our, returned soldiers set- tling in Clinton, and wish this new ilrm every success. CONFERENCE AT GODERIOH,. Twelve years ago when the London Methodist Conference last met in Goderich it is said there was a bliz- zard raging, There was nothing chilly about the welcome of the county town this year, however. Seven young men will be ordained this year, the ordination service tak- ing aking place on Sunday. The class in- cludes two men from this district. Three will be admitted as probation- ers, The full list is as follows : Lloyd Maine, London. Dr. E. IC. Simpson, West China. Eric L. Anderson, Bayfield, G. W. Clayton, Strathroy. Arthur L. Spracklin, Windsor. George F. Kersey, Windsor. A. E. Hooper, Port Lambton. To be admitted as probationers : Charles Edgeley, Fullerton ; Howard Robertson, Chatham, and John Wm. Button, Seatorth. SORRY, TO SEE 'THEM GO. Sergt. J. and Mrs. Seeley 'and family have moved this week to Varna, where they 'will conduct an hotel for the accommodation of the travelling public. - Mrs.. Seeley and family have been residents of Clinton since Sergt. Seeley signed up and went overseas with the 101st battalion, where he had a most creditable record. Mrs. Seeley during her husband's absence bas, taken the most lively interest in all patriotic movements and could be counted upon for all the help of which she was capable, and she has proved herself very capable, indeed, in every project which was undertak- en for the good of the soldiers. She will he much missed in town but the many friends. of the family. are glad they are not going so far away. Good wishes for continued prosperity and happiness follow them to• their new Home. CHINA WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. James Livermore of town celebrated the twentieth anni- versary of their marriage on Friday last, entertaining about sixty-five of their friends to tea in honor of the event. Thefeast was alI that could be de- sired and was much enjoyed. A' num- ber of young girls assisted in the serving. After supper Rev. J. A. Agnew, Mr. J: W. Treleaven and oth- ers jh-ers made brief speeches and a 'short, program of music, etc., was given. and the evening was pleasantly spent. Mr, and Mrs, Livermore were the recipients of many very hand- some pieces of chinaware in honor of the anniversary. The News -Record joins, with the many friends in offering congratula- tions and good wishes for at. least thirty years more of happy married life to the bride and groom of a score of years. FROM ALL DIRECTIONS. The people came to Clinton on Victoria Day. The 24th was a quiet day in town, Some of our people attended the sports in Clinton and some went to London to see the 18th Battalion re- turn home,—Exeter Advocate. Clinton had the pull on the 24th. All out young people who attended report a good program.—Hensall Ob- server, A number of Windmill people at- tended the celebration in Clinton on Victoria Day.—Wingbam Times. A large numbet of people from town spent Saturday in Clinton. Many .who intended going to Mitchell went to, Clinton as the celebration in Mitchell was called off on account of heavy rains there the night before.—, Seaforth News. May 24th was a quiet holiday here„ Many spent the day in neigh- boring places, In the evening the baseball team Was given a welcome. The silver cup won by the Zurich baseball team at Clinton Is on ex- hibition windowsJ. ft in hibitini eo o non Preeter's; store. ---Zurich Herald, Goderich was well represented at the, Clinton 24th of May celebration, The tladerich 'baseball nine was de- feated by Clinton by a 'score of 4 to 3,'-»Goderich Signal. It excels HE LOCAL MARKET. Wheat, spring $2.09.• Buckwheat $1,00,• Oats 700, Barley $1.10, Eggs 46e to 47c. Butter 40c. Live Hogs $20:25, ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED, Mr, and Mrs, W. J, Stinson of Bayfleld announce the engagement of their daughter, Myrtle M., to bIr, George F. Reid, son of the late John Reid and Mrs. Reid of Bay- field, The marriage will take place in Winnipeg this month. JEWELERY ALL AROUND. Tuesday night was jewelery night at the local Oddfellows' lodge when Mr. G. L. Hall, the retiring,p.D.G.M, was presented by the District Sec- retary with a Past Grand's jewel ; Past Grands Gould and A. Castle with Veterans' jewels and Mr. F, Watson, who contemplates removing from town, with a pair of gold muff links, THE HOSPITAL APPEALS. The Board of Clinton General Hos- pital desires to thank the ladies of St. Paul's church for a dainty, com- forter. As canning time is almost here the Board take this opportunity to ask the ladies of town and vicinity to "remember the Hospital," putting up an extra jar for the Hospital Tho sealers will he returned. WE WERE NOT,ALA-RMED, The peculiar illumination of the sky which excited so much interest on Monday evening caused alarm in many places, the idea being that it was caused by fire. Clinton took it very .quietly, however, only admiring the beauty of it. Anyone astir early enough to witness the sunrise the following Morning saw an illumina- tion in the east almost as brilliant. Fewer people witnessed it, of course. SIR 'JOHN'S WEDDING DAY. Tuesday was a day of peculiar in- terest, to Sir John Willison, who ad- dressed a meeting in the town hall that evening, it being , the thirty- fourth anniversary of his marriage. Mr, John McNaughton of Stanley, who came in to meet Sir John, who was an old friend, was also celebrat- ing his wedding anniversary, the twenty-eighth in this case. June has always been the month ror weddings, apparently. SAW LONG SERVICE. Pte, Lewis Manning, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Manning of town, who slipped into town ,quite tmex- pectedly last Wednesday, is a Can- adian who seems to have done his bit and, who, happily, has returned not much the worse, only four or five years older. Pte. Manning was en- gaged in the 'drug business at Fort William when war was declared and enlisted in the autumn of 1914 in the 28b11 battalion. He went to England the following June andlto France a few months later. Alter about. a .year in the trenches he was trans- ferred to the Field Ambulance. IIe was wounded in 1916 ,and after a month in hospltal returned to his duties and ""married on" until the armistice was signed. He isat present enjoying a short vacation at his home and his old friends are very .glad tol-see him looking so well, CHANGES IN STATIONS. Following are the changes in. Clin- ton and,the immediate vicinity made in the first draft of stations by the London Conference now in session in Goderich. These are subject to change in the final draft : Clinton—Wesley church, Rev, D. N. McCatnus ; Ontario street, Rev. S. A. Anderson, Goderich—North street, Rev. G. W, Dewey ;i Victoria street, Capt, E. W. Edwards, Holmesville—Rev. J, W. ,Johnson. Rev. A, E, Jones is down for Bien - helm, Rev. J. A. Agnew for Ridout street, London ;,Rev. Dr. Rutledge is superannuating and Rev. J. H. Oster - Bout is down for Dresden. Rev. A. Sinclair of Holmesville is down for Centralia. ' LITTLE LOCALS. The Public school pupils were given a holiday, on .Tuesday. South Huron L.O.L. will meet in Clinton on Saturday of next week. Sergt. Victor Ctieli, 'MAI', has taken a position ,in Hunniford's groc- ery. The Clinton baseball team won one game and lost one at the Blyth celebration on Tuesday. A large number of Clinton people took in the sports at Blyth on Tues- day, the King's birthhay, The open air band eonearts start this evening and will be continued every Thursday during the summer, Marvin Deeves, While at work in the Doherty -factory on Tuesday had the misfortune to get a drill driven into his band The io woun( will 11 1 a Y him up for several weeks, The Banks had a holiday on Tues- day and several people took it half day oft hitt the majority of tis .mud. died along„ fn spite of heat and die• criieifort, endeavoring to do bar bit. Sir John Willison, President • of Reconstruction Association, Addresses Clinton Audience Tuesday evening Clinton had the opportunity of listening to an ad dress in the town.hall by Sir John Willison, .whose name is known throughout Canada andfar beyond its borders as a. journalist and writ - or on many subjects. The Board of Trade was respbus. ible for the visit; and is to be con- gratulated thab it was successful in securing his,presence, Tho subject chosen by Sir John was "New Conditions and New Problems," On rising to speak Sir John, re- marked that his sympathies were en- tirely with the people who were be- fore liilnas he knew it would be a great deal more comfortable for them to spend the evening in the open. He said he was delighted to have the opportunity of visiting Clin- ton ;. it was like coming home. "For, as you probably know," said he, "I was born in Huron county." He said as he neared Clinton on the train he was reminded of the words of a poem in the old third reader, when he was a boy : "I've wandered in the vil- lage, Tom," "Only it is more than twenty years since I was a boy in Stanley township," Mr. Chairman, "Indeed, I probably visited Clinton before most of you were born." He then toll a story of a visit he made to Clinton as a boy. He had "ac- quired a dollar somehow" and he walked fourteen miles and spent the whole amount in dime novels. "Tho bookstore man threw one le on account of my taking so many and I trudged home tired and dusty with my eleven novels." Coming down to the subject mat- ter of his address Sir John said that the war was over and while we hop- ed the "world had been made safe for democracy" we were not quite so sure that the world was safe under democracy. We were facing entirely new conditions, he said. We could not put things back just where they were before. Our financial expendi- ture before the war was $170,000,000, during the war it motmted to $700,- 000,000. 700;000,000. Before the war our nation- al debt was $336,000,000, an average of $43 per head of population, now it was $1,400,000,000, an average of $173 per head of population. IIe called attention to the difficul- ties attendant upon the providing of employment for so many thousands of munition workers thrown out of em- ployment practically overnight, and of getting back into civil life of 359,000 soldiers who had been out of 'the country for from one to four years. He called attention to the fact that these were conditions which were altogether new to Can- ada and it was to be expected that there would be a certain amount of unrest. It could not be otherwise. "We are proceeding on the assump- tion that the war is over," contin- ued the speaker, "but there are more people fighting now than double the population of Canada and the United States." "It is doubtful in what measure Germany will accept the peace terms," said Sir John," . and it is absolutely impossible that normal times should be restored until we have a real peace." He then went on to ,speak of the people of the old world and our ob- ligation to consider then. "The un- rest in Canada is nothing to that of the old world," said he, "and they aro in much worse plight than we. They have practically no raw mater- ials with which to work mid great multitudes of the people are exhaust- ed with the war and do not want to work, We are under as much of an obligation to feed them and to con- sider them now as before the armis- tice 'was signed." Speaking of the strikes in progress in Canada Sit John said that there could not be a more inopportune time for such walk -outs when "ev- ery factory in the Dominion should' be running." He said he was a friend of organized labor and for thirty-five years had been connected with union ,workers and in all that time had never bad a strike or any trouble with workers. Ile did not like the idea of sympathetic strikes which meant that "one unreasonable employer or one unreasonable union could upset the whole industrial sys- tem of the country." Speaking of the high cost of living Sir John said we could not expect prices to be low. That it was a mis- take to suppose that things could be adjusted by the "appointing of a commission of investigation or the passing of a new law. I think it would be well if Parliament would learn its limitations," Continued the speaker, "and not attempt—tile ins- possible.'' He called' attention to tihe fact that diring the Aueio n Civilvtl war prices food stuffs .had sb e 1 CF bbd ar itri n5tas they ,j y had during the past tow years, !`and," he contimied, "doll storages bad not been thought of and packing houses did not eitist," He touched upon a proposal put torward by an Ottawa ,paper that prices of all food stuffs grown should be fixed by the Government. "Ilow much production would there be, do you suppose if Larmers knew that the prices for all the products grown were fixed ? The solution of our problems lies in organization, co- operation and production." , "'You -cannot have depression in industrial centres, and prosperity on the farm. Wo mut ''hays --.co-opera- tion." Speaking of the many charges of profiteering Sir John said : "There may have been profiteering but the probability is that all such charges were greatly exaggerated," He re- called the fact that during the Am- erican Civil War there were like charges and many cases were in- vestigated 'with the result that the charges in, most cases were found to be very much exag- gerated. ' In one case Congress had . passed , a vote of censure. upon a certain flrm and an investiga- tion was held with the result that the vote was afterwards expunged from the books, "When the historian writes the history of the past few years" continued Sir John, "it will probably be found that Canada has much to be proud of and very little to be ashamed. of in the years of the wax." "We cannot expect great enterpris- es to go on without reasonable prof- its," said the speaker, "all we caa expect is that a reasonable return be made in taxes and that good wages and fair treatment be accorded work- ers." - , In speaking of the need for: the con- servation and cultivation of our nam turas resources Sir John said that we "should import factories rather than export raw materials." He call- ed attention to the fact that while the best asbestus in the world was found fn the Eastern townships in Quebec Province that there was none of the material manufactured in its last processes in those townships, and little in the Dominion," Speaking of the tendency of people to seek. other lines of work than the farm Sir John said : "You cannot compel men to farm if they do not want to farm. Human nature is not subject to government and the trouble with most of the people who are urging people .to stay on the farm or to go back to the farm is that they themselvesleft the farm. "Some of us would have made very, poor farmers, anyhow," he added. In conclusion Sir John Called at- tention to the fact that Canada had great natural resources besides those of agriculture and that these must, he developed if Canada was to be- come the prosperous nation which she might become, "With the unity: and co-operation which carried us through the lotig conflict we can look forward to the long future with con- fidence," Mr. W..Brydone, in the adsence of the president of the Board of Trade, fulfilled the duties of chairman and at the close of the address Mr. J. W. Trealeaven and Mr. C. D. Bouck moved a vote of thanks to the speak- er, which was very heartily given. On acknowledging the mark of ap- preciation Sir John, who in spite of the heat and discomfort seemed to really enjoy, as be said, speaking to a"Huron county audience, told a story of his early days in the county, and said he counted among the few advantages which had comp to him that he happened to be born in the county of Huron, It was regrettable that owing to the extrema heat the attendance at the meeting was not .so large as was expected. Those who did attend were well repaid. TOMMY LEPPINGTON HOME. "Tommy"" Leppington returned from overseas on Monday evening. "Tommy" who spent several months in hospital some time ago, has quite recovered, his friends are glad to know, and has been doing some good work in England. He went with the, 161st, TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS. Dr, A. S. Grant of Toronto lies been made the Marshall Foch of On- tario in the battle between the Tem- perance and Liquor forces in the coming referendum vote. All the 7. emperanee organizations have unit- ed behind one central Committee headed by Dr. Grant, a prominent Presbyterian minister, and a very; capable organizer, and he will have. ' charge of 111e campaign. At the Muton County Temperance : Convention to be held 10 the Pres- byterian church Clinton,on Tues- day, afternoon rnoon and evening,June 1701, Dr. Grant will speak at both sessions in addition to other local speakers. . COUNCIL llSPORT ON PACE 5, ,