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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-11-30, Page 4i Clinton News -Record it Came From Canada The 'following letter was received by Mrs: harry barrow, 13ayiteltl, from- her romher son, who isnicely recoveries from g wound in his arm and is lo'- rated at a convalescent hospital at Heading, November 30th, 1916 'Read lag, :England, tlo-w, tilt,'hi My bear Mother.—It is now about eight o'clock in the morning and l am up for the first time' for frit (lays, so am beginning the days by writing to you. We have had hardly anything but wet and miserable weather here. until this morning, Now it is nice and mild outdoors and the sun is out again. ; I think I'll go down town to Clay as we, are are given passes out from eweuntil fife when the doe to saps we are ableWe car, stroll at through the grounds during the day if we feel like it. My aria is getting ahead famously and is Tilling in nicely. and healing eight along. If it keeps on ening out as, it has in the past I'll hardly be Marked at all, ' Of course it is up near the shoulder ant way and won't show, The Sister sats I ought to be proud of it be- c.ause it has got along so well, Well, I have still to look ahead for any mail but the other day received a flue large Christmas stocking full of things from the Canadian Red. Cross Society in London, Ie contained a cake of soap, a tooth brush, a pair of woollen mitts, a handkerchief, a Mee, a package of Olii .'bunt, giun, puzzles, chocolates, playing' cards, bachelor buttons cigarettes aihl a box of dominos. It was originally made ail in lealifax and the box of chocolates had the names of two lit- tle girls who donated it. so I am go- ing 'to acknowledge it. A Baptist church in Halifax also enclosed some good advice and good. wishes. It cheered rue up some to think it came from Canada. I got a safety razor irons the lied Cross and can shave myself now as I only need one hand With a safety, Sly own razor and all my belongings were left behind and I won't see them again hut shall be fitted out here again When f 'lea\ e. I am feeling fine now and hope yon are well. I shall try and write regularly while I am . here. No more now. Re- gards to everyope. Your loving 'son. HAROLD." Greater Home Comforts Only two and one-half per cent of the 400 farmers yisitecf: int ecnuection with the Agricultural Survey of the Commission of Conservation in 1910 had the complete service of water on tap, bath and toilet in-' their houses. Five per cent had automobiles ; 38 per cent had Pianos, 32 per cent had organs, and 22 per cent had gasoline engines on the farm. While it is well that 70 per cent possess sufficient musical interest to have either a Pi- ano or organ in the Neese, it is re - iggettablei indeed that only 30 qct of 40 had water service and Italic. No investment yields more in con, serving the women's healllt ana strength; iu creating greater home comforts, and in elevating the prier, el tone of the material side of living than the instalietion of water service and the sanitary eonvenrences in the home Ihoueands of farmers who could well afford to do so have not put in the service for various reason$ —because they have not thought of it, Or because d a O a t he � o not know )tort to go about it, or because they think it too expensive. The cert is not se great as malty imagine at bath tub ren be purchased fon: $10.00, a sink basin for 03.00, a closet for 010.00,. a 50 -gallon het water tank for $10.00. Various means are in Ob- taining ed ' 1 } pressure at the taps each as a force pump to elevate, water to:a tank in the attic or the pneummatic tank in the eel lar, and 'tire cost of piping and Installation will vary ac- cording to circumstances. One farther had the hot water 'at ttachurcut, tank, bath and dry closet installed for' $50.00, the. farmer him- self helping the plumber to ilo the. work. The Complete service, which would be used 505 days in the year, can lie installed on the average farm for less than the farmer pay's for tate hinder lie uses for a few days at har- vest and which stands idle for the balance of the year. The man on the Nem cannot get along without the many labour saving devices, )low about a labour saver for the farm women ? It is unquestionably a com- monsense business propo'i!inn to have the water service and bath in the house as a comfort to e-ery member of the fancily and a constant into ir saving convenience for those who de the daily recurring work of the household,, the fain women. ANT LINK Rouyvkx WIN TER TOURS Speelal Fares now in effect to re- sorts in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Loulniana and -oth- er Southern States, and to Ber- muda and the West Indies. RETURN LIMIT MAY 31st, 11117 LIII tEAL STOP -OVERS A(LOWED, For fell information write to C. E. HORNING, Union Station, Toronto, Ont. J'. EANSFORD ac SON, Uptown Ageats, Clinton. Phone $7, Dry goods Millinery and I conchCo, )ready to - and House Pnrn ishirtgt Wen r PI1ONE 78. Garments Big Special in Ladies' Coats We were fortunate to secure eighteen winter coats ell new styles in greys, tweeds and blacks. sizes 34: to 40. If these coats were bought in the regular way they would be good value at $10 and $1S, As we do not want these to interfere with one regular coat business we put them on sale one clay, Saturday, Dec. 2nd, at $10 00 each, These coats will not be:shown before Saturday morning, Come early. Millinery $2.98. We put on sale Saturday two dozen ladies' trinanmed Hats,",all new this season, values up to $6.00 for ,$2.08, Reduction on all untrimmed hats and trimmings. Ladies' Suits Half Price. After the largest sail season this store has had we have only 6 suits: left to clear, we do not want to carry these over to next season, Your choice of the six :4 price, EVERY DAY IS FASHION DAY ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW Served Him Right, Too. The prosperity hi Ontario farmers is a.matter for legitimate thanksgiv- ing, but occasionally one ifinds. the kind of roan who ,is so tied ap to the dollars and cents side of life that he has no consideration for many, things a man cannot afford to forget. A farmer of this type was ha the C';P. R, train between Mt. Forest and Kay - rictus one day Hist week and he was holding out to his seat -mate on the seat benefit derived t et ce ee by b rho la mi= g farmine fraternity iron) the war. 14e wee of the opinion that if the tear ,just kept up a year or, two longer, the farmers would be right on their feet finmcci- ally. Sitting two .or three seats tip the aisle was a quiet let little looking r e old lath She .bad been listening to the •Partner's financial ideas as related to the war, and a close observer aright have seen fire flashing in the 'other- wise kindly old eyes. She thought of her two sons . doing their bit sum e- where in Tirane and coinpared their action and her (Mil sacrifice with the stir dull Selfish outlook of the' talka- tive farmer. The more she thought of it 'the angrier she became, till all of a siidclen she bounced into the aisle and proceeded to start something, Breaking au unbrella over a man's head requires. sonic exertion, but ;finis made strong by, patriotic wrath make- light of such tasks, The old lady not onbi completely wrecked her uncln'ella ore the object of her wrath, but punctuated her blows with poiet- e(1 remarks -which surely must have stung even through the east iron sel- fishness of heti vic+tiOn. She told him she would listed to ne man talk as he had done, and her with two sons facing death iii the trent•hes to keep him lel safety. The scene in the car can be more easily imagined than described but it. Is safe to say' the militant mother of the fighting SIMS had the complete backing- of her fellow travellers, PTeasall Observer. Watchful Waiting It Proved Effective In Time. By OSCAR COX -I Miss Imogene Danforth, believing fa the equality between. women nod men, was one day expressing her opin- ions to her cousin, Jack Fearlug. "Tull" he said. "That's all well enough for women who can't get hus- bands, It's no use for those who can." "Do you mean to assert that 1 can't tWIget a, husband?" she demanded, brie - g, "Not at all, being well aware that I have proposed to you six times." "And I have as many times told you that Woman must cicoose between M. '4ependence and marriage, I choose In- dependence. I have leased an island on the New England coast, Which I propose to colonize with girls cuf stron ehau'acter, There I shell prepare then) for the propaganda for' woman's rights and send them forth to teeth their sisters:. • "I presume you will pick out the homeliest girls you can dud." Imogene was rallied. She declared that in order to show him that the cause of woman's 'rights Was not lim- ited to the support of Unattractive wo• men- she would select comely girls. Jack, the scamp, iu this, way intro• duced the cankerworm that vias to eat into her apple. Imogene located her colony en the 1st of June with twelve girls, all fair to look upon. Silo did not organize her school for those who bad been con- verted to the cause. She expected to trait them to that end. There was a house on the island large enough to contain theca all, so no great prepare_ lion was needed. No man being al• lowed on the island, the servants were women. One moruirtg soon after t'heir,aeriral Imogene convened her flock in it wood near the water and, arranging them in a semicircle, proceeded to lay down the causes that had rendered woman subordinate to man. She opened with Woman's primeval condition Its n servi- tor to tigbtlog manand was proceed- ing to trace her career in eastern na- tions when she pansed ' and looked down on a patch of water revealed be- tween the trees, A yacht that had been luffed up into the wind was mov- ing slowly toward the landing near by. The girls, turning, saw the yacht and a dozen young fellows, not counting Tack Fearing, the owner, on her deck, each man made more lcaudsotne by a becoming yachting costume. Imogene frowned; the girls looked pleased. But it must be remembered that they were novices and had not yet been trained to consider nittu their enemy. The fellows secured the yacht to the landing and acivaanced to the lecturer and her class, each man with cap in his band and all iresembling rather slaves to the women than wo- men's masters. "We have come," .said Fearing, "uot to interfere with your course of in- struction, but to invite you to take a cruise with us when the present lec- ture is concluded," "Thank you for your invitation," re. piled Imogene, "but it is declined. may I beg that you will depart?" "Most asspredly, since you wish it," replied. Fearing. "Your commands shall be obeyed." He led his men back to the lauding. They ' all got aboard, unloosed the painter and, raising a jib, withdrew for a few hundred yards from the shore, where they dropped anchor. "How obedient!" "What handsome fellowsl" "Surely, plies Danforth, these young men seem really to serve us instead of to oppress us." These were some of the remarks made by the young ladies. Imogene disdained to reply. Instead she re - slimed hes.leetur'e. _.But elem mighfh as well bac o lecliii'i (1 f(5"ffile Tebhli;"- o " it was'ovideut that the girls' minds were on the yacht, and under the cireum- stances man's tyranny did not Interest them, Seeing this, Imogene brought her discourse to a close and, looking downon the anchored vessel herself, wondered What the men meant by re - mining Where they were. "I think," srlid'onceyouug lady, "that they're showing their Obedience," "Nonsense;" exelnimed Imogene. "Perhaiis," said a little miss with a soft voice, "they're going t rein for wrath - fin y waiting," "You've, hit the nail on the head, Su- sie," sslel Imogene. There are just as many of them is there ace of us," remarked another young lady. "If we Were to pair off there would be a fellow for each girl," "Gwendolen!" said Imogene sternly. > "If you and ethe the others harbor such thoughts our school will be broken ribs,, ."How lobs, Silas Ieoegene," asked Susie, "wiii.we have to Withstand the. watchful waiting?" "I don't know. Why do you ask?" "Because," was the meek. reply, "len afraid I can't stand it very long," "Girls," said irnogeuc, "in order to help you to get your minds off this con- temptible effort to break up our school I will call' your attention to the im- possibility of our going on a cruise. Is there one among you who would do an improper net?" ' No; cried every gill at onee. "Very well. We could' not vu with them without a chaperon, and we haven't a chaperon." Great Scheme. "What do you (lo" asked the one who had been married only a few mouths, "when your husband comes home late at night?" "1 pretend not to netice that it's late, end pretty ruoa he tasks Ina Il' I wouldn't. like to go to the theater or semen -bare tomorrow afternoon." Stories of "Old Q." The "wickedness" of "Old Q." (the Marquis of Queensberry) has passed into a proverb, but two tales of hie other traits may be quoted from Mrs. Jerrold's "The Beats and the Dan- dies," One Is that he "paid a doctor to keep him Well, deducting fees when be was ill, and thus when he tiled left his physician his creditor for 110,000," and the other that "there was a popular prejudice against drinking milk in Lon- don at this time because it was believ- ed that the duke bathed each morning In milk, which was suiisequeutly Sold to consumers." I ha Unterance, "Queer, isn't lt, what difference uu- important little things in themselves will make?" "Like What, for instance?" "Like, stripes on men's clothes. It makes all the difference In the world Whether they run down or across."— Detroit Free Press, Bamboo, The bamboo sometimes grows two feet in twenty-four hours. There are thirty varieties of this tree, The small- est Is only six inches iu height and the largest 100 feet Just Fits. "Tire time, the place and the girl are. seldom found together." "That alludes to the hired girl all right,"—Louisville Courier -Journal Catching on to pad. Eddie—Let's sneak round behind the barn an' smoke a cigarette. Sammy—Too likely to get caught Beer since dad swore off he's been sneaking around there to smoke his own.--Tudge. Contrariness. "When a girl promises to marry a man, Miss Ginger, isn't it a sure proof that she loves him?" "Not et all. Sine might do it just to spite riuother turn, Baltimore Ameri- can TENDERS FOR PULPWOOD AND PINE LIMIT Tenders will be received by the un- der:signetl, up to and including the .1st day of p'ebruary, 110.7, for the tight to cut pulpwood and pine Ura - 1 her us a certain area situated on the Black Sturgeon River and other ter ritory adjacent thereto, !n the Dis- .trict of 'Thunder Bac. Tenderers shall state the amount per ootxl on pulpwood, and .per thou- sand feet board pleasure, . en pine, that they are:prepared to pay as hones in addition to dates of 40 cents per cord for spruce, and 20 cents per cord We other: pulpwoode," and 112.00 per ihoitstsrd feet, board meas- ure, for pine, or such other rates as may from time to time he fixed by the . Lieutenant-Governor-in-C'ouneii, for the right to operate a pulp milt and a paper mill on or neat the area referred. to. Such tenderers shall be required to erect a mill or mills on or near the territory and to mauulacture the wood into pulp and paper in the Province of Ontario. Panties making tender will be re- quired todeposit with their tender a marked cheque, payable to' the Honourable the Treasurer of the Province of Ontario., for tenthousand dollars ($10,000), which amount will be forfeited in the event of their not entering into agreement to carry out eoaditions, ate. The said $10,000 will be, applied on account of bonus dues as they accrue, but the regulation dries as mentioned above, will re- quire rte, he paid in the usual man- ner as totems of cutting of wood and timber are received. The highest or any tender :not nec- essarily accepted. For particulate as 'to description of territory, capital to be invested, etc„ apply to the undersigned), Cf. . FERGUSON, Nliuis:ter 'of Lands, Forests and Mines, Toronto, LOli6. N. B,—No unauthorized publication 'of this notice will be )paid for. Hera we Are all Heady for V After reat. � dealof>'e aratioll � and forethought we have final) yiathered to •eth g g er one of the finest arrays of Christmas turas Goods it has ever' been cur good fortune to procure. Something Suitable for Ever. b Goods Everybody—In this immense varietyof Choice Holiday Goods you will find "Just the Thing"to fill' your every from "His Majesty, theY gift want all along the line l Y, Baby,"up to Grandma. Exceptional Values p u s and Great Variety—These are two outstanding will noticeChristmasy n ng features you in our display. In this period of advaucingprices P and shortage of goods you is iii find that we have been anticipating our requirements— and yours too—and buying before the big rises came,p gng a bigdollar's worth every t' Thus you are sure of getting y .11120. Don't Miss This Holiday Display --Come in and visit us even if onlyto look round. You will see how satisfactory Christmas shopping' can be made we canflll your wants, and how far your dollar will ' tr stretch." °v' well Whatever you are looking for in BOOKS, STATIONERY, FANCY • GOODS OR CHINAWARE you will likely find it at this store and at the price you want to pay, gra A. COOPER TELEGRAPH AND TICKET AGENT, CLINTON i The Clinton 6- 6 News Record A Leader for Local and County News To new Subscribers in Canada from now until January 1st, 1918, for 9 9 1. 00 OUR JO r WORK DT i' NT t�s , 's . Turns out daily High-class Job Work at Prices as Low as is consistent with Good Workmanship, NO JOB TOO SMALL, NONE TOO LARGE ALL RECEIVE PROMPT- ATTENTION 1K' NEWS -RECORD CLINTON, ONTARIO erittereatterateeittainateettelJallYINallueeenteelaeitallellitelliellailliellantelleitelleaer