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On. Wednesday morning Mr. Geo.
McLennan received 'tire' sad news that
his huff -brother, Dr, R. J. Gibson had
passed, away suddenly from heart
failure, The deceased had been in I
excellent healjh, as Mr. McLennan haat
only recently returned. from a visit
uta the Soo.
The Dr, was born in Stanley town•
ship and after graduating settled in 1
the Soo in 1893. Ile leaves a widow'
and one son, a sister Al's. E. P. Mal-•
oney of the Soo, the Misses McLennan i
at Talrouto turd Mr. McLennan of Clin-i
ton.. The funeral arrangements had
pot been made at press time, but he
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Mr, henry Pollack is spending a few
days In Toronto this week,
Mr, lleustou, of 'Toronto, spent the
week end at Mr, Thos, Cook's.
Mies Norma Jeffreys, of Seaforth,
was the guest of Miss lone Bouck,
Mrs. Mason, of Brussels, is visiting
her daughter, Mrs, James Martin of
town, •
Mr, Charles Lockwood, of Toronto,
will be buried at the Soo. spent the past week at his home in
We hope to give a much fuller town,
notice next week. Miss Emily Morrison, of Hensel) was
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the guest of Mr, Ed, Morrison aver the
holiday.
Mr. and Mrs, Raymond Davis, of Ful-
Iarton, spent Sunday with Mrs. Kennedy
Ontario St.
Miss Dorothy Rattenbury left on
Wednesday for Peterboro where she
will visit her brother.
Miss McMichael of 1•lullett and Mrs.
Wiltse, Huron Rd, were the guests of
Mrs, McMurray, on Monday,
Mr. and Mrs. DeReuter, of London
were the guests of Rev. and Mrs. Mc-
Kegney over the week end,
A1r. Gus, Collyer, of London carte
up for the weekend and Mrs. Collyer
and children returned with hint.
Master Jack Yesbec .who has been
residing in Tilsanburg, is back to the
old town to spend the month of August
here.
Goderich Signal:—.Miss Ruby Stod-
dart has resigned her position on the
public school teaching staff at Clinton
and has gone to Detroit where her
mother resides and where she has tak-
en a position.
Sergt. Roy D. Mess, M. M„ who has
just returned from overseas, is the
guest of Capt. and Mrs, McKegney.,
at Si, Paul's Rectory. Sergi. Mess
was overseas for aver four years with
the 5th'C.M.R„ and also won the Mons
Star. iie was a student at Huron Col-
lege, prior to enlisting, and assisted at
the services in St. Paul's church on
Sunday.
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the Bag, for cash, for two weeks, -
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The Doctor is a skilled Ophthalmologist, a member of
the staff of The Ophthalmic Doctors Institute of Toronto and
late lecturer at the Royal College of Science. He stands high
in his profession and his visit here offers an unusual opportun-
ity for consultation and correct diagnosis of .all eye troubles,
no miter of how long standing.
Dr. Aylsworth uses the latest scientific method of Dynamic
Retinoscopy, which is'the most accurate, and in which method
"Drops" are not used; the patient does not suffer any incon-
venience or discomfort during or after the examination.
This method is recognized by' leading Eye Specialists of
America and Europe as giving the most accurate diagnosis of
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patient by uncovering many stomach and nervous disorders,
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Mr, Milton Streets, of Toronto, was
up for Civic holiday,
Mrs: R. Rowland is spending, a few
weekc at, Bayfield,
Master Wilson Rath, of Stratford,
was home for the week end,
Mr. and Mrs. 11, F, Sharp and daugh-
ter are away far their holidays.
Mr, Jack Thorutai, of 'Toronto, is
visiting his sister, Mrs. C. H, Bartliff.
Mr. and Mrs, Harness and babe, of
Exeter, were here for the week end,
Mr, Will Walker, who is employed
is Toronto is home for his holidays,
' Mr. and Mrs. W. Brydone, are spend-
ing a week or so at Preston Springs.
Mr. told Mrs. Cudinore, of London
visited friends in town over the week
end,
Messrs, Fred Strome and 13. Colquhon
of Staffa, were visitors in town on Mon-.
da)'•
Mrs. W, R. Counter and Musfer Bill
are spending a couple of weeks at Bay-
field.
' Mr, and Mrs, Harvey Jackson, of
Stratford, were home for the celebra-
tion,
Mr, and Mrs. Bert Kemp of London
spent the week end with Mr. San,
Kemp.
Miss Ilene Millar was the guest of
Miss Jean Disher at Dungannon ast
week. Mr. and Mrs. Thos, Watts and family
of Oshawa, were here for the cele-
bration,
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rumba'', Of Gode-
rich, were here for the celebration on
Monday.
Mrs. John Wiseman is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. (Dr,) McCallum at
Kingston,
Mr, William Coats, of Goderich, was
a caller in town on Monday to take in
the Celebration,
ilensall Observer:—Miss Lizzie Kaine
of Clinton is visiting at Richard Pol-
lick's this week.
Mr. Milton Streets, of Toronto, was
visiting his brother, Mr. Wnt. Streets
over the. week end.
Mrs. Lovejoy, and daughter, of
Jamestown, N. Y., were guests of Mrs.
Kennedy this week. -
Mr, and Mrs. Close and Miss Gillis -
pie, of Seaforth, spent the holiday at
Air. James Dunfurd's,
Air, and Mrs. W. T. Colquhon and
sun of Mitchell, were guests of Mr, and
Airs. A. J. McMurray.
Mrs. Will Cluff of Stratford, spent
a day or so with Mrs. Cluff this week
on her way to Baytield.
Air. Asa Bolton, oto Brantford, was
home over the week end. He likes his
work in the city alright.
Mi. E. J. 'Culquhon and family, of
,Mitchell, wera the guests of Mrs. Ken-
nedy, Ontario St., this week, •
Mr. Stun. Carter, Air, J. Hewitt Mr.
Wm. Grew'ar, Mr. D. C. Ross, of Brus-
sels, were in town on Monday.
Mr. Robert Holmes, of Toronto, was
a visitor in town over the week end
with Air. and Mrs. H. B. Chant,
Miss. Stephenson, of London, was the
guest' of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, A.
Stephenson over the week end,
Mrs. Lowrie, of Rattenbury Street,
left last week to spend several mouths
visiting with her son at North Bay.
Mrs, (Dr.) Hossock and Miss Dor-
othy, of Innerkip, werer visitors with
the former's brother, Mr. George Rob-
etan.
Miss Mary Reynolds and Mr. Bert
Reynolds of Seaforth, spent August
4111 in Clinton, the guest` of the Misses
O'Connor.
Mrs. C. E. Smith and Miss Ettie, and
Misses Erie and Margaret Stewart, of
Seaforth, were guests of Mr. and Mrs,
'rhos. Mason.
Dr. P. 11, Miller, of Morden, Man„
and Mr. W. R. Miller and sons of Tor-
onto, spent the week end with Mr, and
Mrs. E. G. Courtice.
Goderich Signal Mr. J. E. Toni and
Dr. J. M. f=ield are attending the course
for public school inspectors at the Ag-
ricultural College, Guelph,
Godrich Signal:—Mr. and Mrs. W.
Proudfoot and Mr. Wm, Proudfoot jr.,
will spend the month of August on the
Atlantic Coast at Prout's Neck,. Maine,
Lieut, Col, H. T. Rance was in Lon-
don on Monday atitending a reception
of the 33rd Battalion, of which he
went overseas as second in command.
Miss Frances Reynnlds, of Seaforth,
fornnerly.ofi Cliutnn, who completed her
Normal studies at mid -summer is en-
gaged to teach in the Separate tirade
School at Tinunincs, Ontario, at a
salary of 5900, Miss Many Reynolds
goes to Moncton for the coming term,
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Everything Advertised was Presented
to the Public — Good Base ball
matches — Firemen have a big
Afternoon for their Sports,
A program, which in thrills, Inter-
est and novelty, had never before been
equalled in Clinton; was provided for
this town and adjacent territory on
Civic Holiday, Monday.
Topping a long list of feature at-
tractions, which started in the morn-
ing and continued far into the night,
was the excellent drills of the Thorold
Fire Brigade, who carte shore to do
"their bit" in the Fire tournament.
The last time the Brigade was in Huron
Co., was at Seafortli on August 4th,
1914, when England declared wttr on
Germany, and the visitors returned to
Huron Co., on August 4th, 1919 to
celebrate Peace.
The fancy dress carnival on the main
street assisted by the bunds, kept up
the fun until the wee small hours, It
was a great day and everybody enjoy-
ed themselves,
Before 7.30 a.m. the Kiltie Band
paraded anti marched to the station
with the Reception Committee to meet
the incoming trains with the visiting
firemen from Godercit and other points.
At 9 a.m, the first parade was started
and "Solomon in all his glory" had to
go some to beat the highly colored and
decorated people tvho paraded behind
the Kiltle Band.
Col. Combe, ex -Mayor Wiltse and
Reeve Ford had a difficult task in,pick-
ing the winners in the morning parade
and were only sort/ that more money
had nut been provided to give extra
prizes to those on parade. Their a-
ward was:—
For Floats:—tst, 'Clinton Knitting
Co.,; 2nd, J. 11, Pakistan; 3rd E. E.
II un !Mord.
Decorated Autoes 1st, W. J. Miller
2nd, Pte. Heard.
Decorated Bicycle; — Miss Freda
Suhoeuhals,
Coptic costntue:—tst J;tzz Band; 2311
Alutt and Jed', and J. Schoenitals.
Fancy Costume—N. Fitzsimons, as
an Indian; 211d Huron :`.lurch,
The Sepecials were:—Girls of the
Allies; Rainbows girls; French Perriotts;
Belgian Refugees; Flanders Poppies.
After the parade had got to the Park
an excellent base ball snatch was played
between the Lurich team and Clinton
when the former won out by a score
t0-7. Dick Tasker pitched a good
game but. at times was given ragged
support. Ile had to strikeouts to his
credit. Jack, the dark -colored import
el pitcher which Lunch used had 11
strikeouts to his credit. A Kincardine
man umpired the balls and strikes and
N. Fitzsimons handled. the bases. Fol-
lowing was the lineup:—
Clinton Zurich
Greig, If ,,,.1 3 Wurm, c ,,.t 3
Draper, ss , .. 1 4 ,lack, p , . , . t 4
McDonald, 2. .2 1 L,l•Ioffman ss2 3
McCaughey, 31 4 C.Hoffntan 111 3
Tasker p. ... 1 4 Brown rf -1 2
C:Cooper, er.0 3 Westlake, 311 1 3
Rumba'', c , .0 2 L.Wurnt ib t 3
McDermdtt HO 3 C.1➢offntin;2 1 3
E. Cooper, tb. 1 3 Either, cf.. t 3
7 27 10 27
Clinton —0 0 0! 2 1 a 1 1 2-7
Zurich —1 a. 0 0 3 2 0 1 3-50
AFTERNOON SPORTS
The firemen's parade took place•at
1,30 p, 11. and made a good showing,
• Besides the visiting firemen, the
new Clinton hose wagon drawn by a
team of greys and the lire engine with
four grey horses made a splendid
turnout, While on the streets the
Thorold Firemen went through var-
ious fancy drills, to the delight of the
onlookers.
At the park the various events were
pulled off
Bose Reel Race -
1 st—Kincardine, 27:4 seconds,
2nd—Goderich, 3t?_ seconds
3rd—Thorld, 31 718 seconds.
Ladder Race -
1st, Kincardine, 24 eq. seconds.
2nd, Thorold 254.1 seconds.
3rd, Goderich
100 yard race Firemen:-
1st—D, Goodwin, Kincardine,
2nd, Al, McDougall, Goderich
Ladder race -40 yards.
1st, Tennant, Kincardine,7'r5 sec.
2nd, A1clCay, Goderich, 7M sec.
Anderson, Kincardine S sec.
Beacons, Goderich, 8 ss sec.
McKay, Kincardine, 0 sec.
D. McDougall, Goderich, 9 sec,
100 yard Race, open.
1st M. ,McDougall. Porter's Hill,
2nd, Goodwin, Kincardine,
Special Awards, •
Oldest Chief—Barney Thompson,
Goderich,
Best looking chhtf, .1. Bell, Kincardine
Best appe trim, Cu, on parade,—the i 7 he n tit ,, vn n f, lu
1'ltorold Brictde, hrr j a li ?1 t 1 J>r„ j et - C vett,
Water tight.—W, Kennedy ,fund ;Fd.. t t 1 ctt;lyijytj,he'1, ., 111,1( ftsswnrst,
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ook wan. Antis•s 1 note hoar 11 i {te• tt:$.tures
Cook won from W. Elliott and L.La:w., ' t, " ,1t t , ,lit,,,
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Perslittace,.made.bettles..too,• i
'f'4t.,ltfe He loves is not the rl1fe ok
Abl+reviated by each passim h eatfn,
t;�rtillla"rktre flirniality' or Mana'
Mr. James Doherty sang "T
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i5 My 1Ltgltf;'')* at the Close of itr seas,
mon.
'il leo'$ i ieAuffhts 2nlarchetl 'tc 0.ip
ig Day.
out, Mr. 13. McCreath was the umpire:
and gave good satisfaction. Follow-
ing was the lineup:--
Goderich, R. 0.. 'Zurich 11. 0.
Johnson, rf .0 2 Wurn, c ....0.2
Pridham, cf .. 0 3 Jack, rf ...0
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Wiggins, 2b ..0 3 L.Hoffntauss0 3
Webb, cf . , , .0 3 C,llaffmanp 0 3
Barlow, 1 b . , . 0 3 Brown rf „0
0
Young, as, ...1 1 Westlake 3b,0 3
Ryan, 3b .. , .0 2 T, Wurnt tb 1 5
W Bissett, c ..t 1 C, Hoffman 0
Bissett, p , , .0 2 Either cf. ...0 .y
2 20 1 21
Goderich 0 0 1 0 0 0 1-2
Zurich —0 0 0 0 0 0 1-1
In the tug' -of -war, Goderich Town-
ship farmers won from the Thorofd
Firemen in two pulls.
'The Kiltie Band gave many fine sel-
ections during the day and evening.
and they tvere followed by the Manley
Concert Co„ of Toronto who furnish-
ed a good program for nearly taa,
hours.
The street carnival ended the "perms
feet day."
Fire Alarms
Confetti had tt big night of it, arra
for awhile it seined as if the supply
was limitless.
The small boy and girl had lotsGifisxt
with the feather tickler.
Great credit is due Chairman Mc-
Murray and Secretary for the splendid
way they handled the situation.
The Main street never looked better
with all its colored streamers and the
colored lights.
S. S. Cooper, the genial owner of the
Rattenbury douse decided in a hurry
to erect three archs in front of tine
hotel and soon had them up and they
added greatly to the decorations.
The various booths did a land-office
business.
The Girls' Auxiliary served diene;
and alter000n tett in the District Agri-
cultural office
Tag day was for the Clinton llospitat.,
The Hydro office was illuminate&
with hydro power.
The aeroplane which arrived about
noon did a pretty good business in the
afternoon.
'That Thorold bunch has them al!
heat"—wast common expression when.
the Brigade was on parade.
i "The whole Damm tastily were 00
carate in the morning and caused'
1 many a hearty laugh. The Denim dog,
was only the missing member.
All the drays in town were engaged
for the Trade's procession.
• The Seaforth Firemen had charge o1
the Tournament. The starter, was F.
Sills, Coupling Judge, R. Parks;' Hyd!
rrant judge, J. Bell; Finish Judge, H.
R. Scutt; Time keeper, C. Stewart,
The Clinton citizens should refuttrt
the compliment to Seaforth next Wed-
nesday. The citizens and firemen of
our neighboring town did all in their
power to stake the day the success it
was,
The Thorold boys were game for any
thing they took part in the races, .a;
thing some of the members have not
done for 15 years., and in the tug-of-
war,
ug-ofwar, to help out with the program.
They are a good bunch to have around
on. a holiday,
'I he rain or the excuse 01.5 shower
stopped many people from attending
the evening ,performance at the
grounds,
Mr, Joseph Ryder was head of the
Clinton Firemen, lie is the last aL'
the "old brigade."
The Stratford Firemen disappoint-
ed us. They could -not snake suitable:
arrangements with the G.T,R. to get
them back to the Classic City that:
night. They were missed.
SPECIAL tiERMON TO • VETERANS.
Capt. S. E. McKegney, M.C., Gives a
Splendid' address to Veterans,
Nurses, and Doctors, of the
Great War.
The Clinton Veterans under the
command of Lieut -Col. Combe, and
headed by the Clinton Kittle Band:
starched to St. Paul's chuch where Rev.
Capt. S. 8, McKegney, M. C. preached
an excellent° sermon to them on "Thy
Kingdom Conte."
Ile spoke on the old ideas of Relfigiore
which have in many cases been tttaliv
wrong, as they have been changed
since the great war. He also spoke
of the lessons learned in the war fit.),,
the spirit of comradship irAlgunt'.hos.
pitals, and at the front ( lure s ID -
floss 01 some so-called cI3 rdtian p opts
who opposed the smokes, etc for the
boys in the trenches. 1 -Ie gave great
praise for the nxtthers,•Alt R:ed;,dross
women and the nurses, who backed
up the men. He-tidvised all the':mein
to go to church, join some unit, as the
speaker put it, 11 was hard to:. get
back into citffl•slite, bftr,1111SCt✓the; ealieijI
upon to take pawl in the. church' life.
Mr. tblegnowl hshort
•Pnent wrclKit'te j jib yey clDr,sed Alexailnder,te 'trch•
bishop of Armagh, written during file
t ,utin',Afufcln War.
;j tr•ec. say
.etl that s ar is I(gll' , the,; r"great'
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son,
During the afternoon the Kirnemw.
dine Pipe Band gave several selections
and one of tate members !:ave: several
Scotch dances. - ...
"John Bull" and "St. Pe'llaailli)falkil
cave several step dances to the de-
light of the audience r Vt
EVENING X'ERMIMANG-T :.• 'is
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They got their winning run with two Park f(tr tate Peace service.