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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1916-01-06, Page 1E CLINT ERA CLINTON ONTARIO THURSDAY JANUARY v and Prosperous New 1916 w. W. Ii Kerr & Son, Editors and 'Publishers Year to AAAAAAAAAAge sooeOoo®'os•••O••msoneetmeso r 0 MEETING 'Peaks i7777u�tu eneeUNeftses06'E6i000000000••0t • &ii� the best rs it will ly by 11 Store. PIM, B. 1 c 3 MryvvvvVVVWV 00 00 00 i out ranch *4.004 m • 4 .a • • • • • • 9 4 • 4 4 4 ♦ a: • e 4 4 0 Z 44 • i- 0 ♦ 4 4 ••• • • •O • • • 0 • • Council of 1915 finished up their business 00 'Monday evening., Mayor ,Tackson'in'the ebair and ReeVe,Po-d and Councillor ,l Wiitae, at?Simons, Miller. Sheppherd and. Wallis pees,ont. Minutes of last regular melting and special meeting were ae.ed and confirmed. • A communicotion from the clerk of Brussels Council stating .that thtp''woul'd not (be responsil,le. for Stone Crusher, but that their had it covered ready for use; next year. The clerk Was instructed to ask the Brussels Council to essurne the responslbility of the crusher this winter. Jas. Doig wrote in regards itu closet tae • On motion of Wiltse and Wallis a reined of .$1.00 was trade. The Clerk upon request of Coun eillor Wallis, who is chairman of the Cemet:ery Committ:+tat ahow- ed that the receipts for this year was `5919,7e while the expend: u ea amounted to $542.64. The (Finance Committee 'made their report wheeh was ?adopted along with the town .•Solleitor'S account with court costs. • Mayor Jackson expressed his egret at leaving but also slated ,that it had been a pleasure to ):reside over the Connell on tivo years and was satisfied to leave this Council as 1he,y( had reduced the' expend -Horns during 1015. Councillor Viltse replied on behalf of the Council, that the Connell wan Mayor Jackson a't the held was ,pleateant anct pro `fitable and hoped that 1116 'Coma, cil would have as good a 1VIayar 'and Connell as in 1915. Council then adjourned, e-tietS4.444-.-6•04•440449ae-teeve 44 0 o Patriotic Huhn et s4444-04e444,44o4.441.*441•.•ee4•,® On k'riday afternoon, January lth trona three thirty, to ,Live thirty the exeeutive,of the Womens pa- triotic sue. ety will serve a ten cent tea, the I.rurce'ds to go to the 1elglam fend. We hope to have pre";ent a; few members of the, 161st Battl. with Capt. Allen, who mill speak to the lad.es of . .Noah' o'_liock. A cordial invitatiran ie e&tended' o all. at Liberal. Our New Council Tonight"t'be election for the Courted passed oft very quietly on Monday and de spite the mall volep0 led ell the can dilates had a good vote. 'rhos Haw kins, one of the new ctndid atee took third pone in the race while Wm MR. W.PROUD: OOT M. P. P. Mr. William Proudfoot. M. 2, P., for Centre Hurot: will address. the Liberal Club tonight :n the Club rooms and all Liberals are cordial- ly invited to attend. 51re Proud= foot is a gocd •,peakoir and) will have something of interest for his and epee. Tt 1 your neighhne Lilieral.about the meeting so that there will be a large gatheaang. M3'eteng opens at 8 o'clock. Local News • Paieley, a.n old Q,uncillnr was sixth, while John Nediger the third new can didate was only 7 votes hehihd the last man, Councillors Miller and ' Walker of hest year's conned were defeated along with Ir. Nediger, .The suns maty if the Vol -e hill he round on notnct page of titvi5 issue. The toliowing will be the Council for 1016;- . Mayor -Dr. 0, W. Thompson Reeve --Jas. Find Council -H. \'Viltss, :1, Pi Shepherd Thomas Ilawkine, Harry Fitzsie.uue 0..1, Wallis. IV J. Paisley, ELECTION PLUMBERS "All the relearns were in by 6 30 and returning officer rllaopherson gave out the figures to a large crnwd who hall gathered in the Council Chamber. 0 uneillor Hawkins is the only Councillor who hes not served before and it won't take Tomniy vers long to get onto the way of things. There was a small vote polled as" many voters were ill and others did not show enough interest in the wel fare of the town to go out vole. It just shows what popularity does, Oouuctlloe 11. Wiltse can stay 111 the. store and head the polls while Tommy llewkins can have everything in suub good working order that he ecu spend the Solidity in Hamilton and not get home to even vote and run for third money. New blood will tell. " Alnonomy" wits the watchword of the Conned of 1915 end the ratepayers of Clinton hope and trust that this new Council will take the sante stand. The taxes are hound to he heavy and all needless expenditures should be .held up. Se03®••66.600006 00000001000 WINTER ENT:H SCOS Look nut for good sport this Winter tr.health exercises such as Hockey Skating Curling Sleegherideng Snow -shoeing Tobogganing Mililin y Dail 'HYDRO WAS 05F. 7:Tyd:d power was off for about 40 minutes Tuesday and left the town in d:trlcnoes. 'The "juice" fai1rd just afro 11 o'clock, and in so daing caused considerable, ire- convenience yccnaenience to most of "us', going to lag. The trouble was i0A1n near Lund is or Hamilton land was general allover Western' Onterao. SUCCESSFUL RECITAL. The Twilight Musicale given an- d ,r• the auspices, of the W'11is Cheuich choir on New Year's d y was a voiy suce•essful our and the Chore• will, have a good snrplue.to go into the treasury. The varioue- items on the pt3greni were well. rendered. Despite the holiday anil. so many away there was a good attic dross, Mrs. Saunders, of God_tich, and a former member of the choir, was the only outsider to take .part in the program. r &MN ehiM Local Niews RA- WfilkikPAPAPMM0/40. STILL CLIMBING This is the 623rd day that the British Empire has been at war With Ger-. many METEOROLOGICAL REPORT 'FOR DECEMBER 1915. The highest maximum tempera- ture was 38° on 17th. Tree lowest maximum temperature was 0.0 on 31st. The highest range was 20° on 22nd, 29th and 31st. The low- est range was 40 on 3rd and 8th, The means were maximum 30.19;' minimum. 1.9.32° and range 10.81° . The rainfall was 59 inches and the snowfall was 30 inches. Sleighing began, on 3rd. December was e dark mild month. The depth of snow on 31st 10 inches, and the thickness of ice 6 inches. EAST 'HURON FARMERS INSTITUTE 'Bast Huron Farmeree Institute Will hold meetings as follows ]tj dwich, Thursday, Jan. 6th Moliesworthe Friday, Jan. 7th Jamestown, Saturday, Jan. 8th. Bluovale, Monday, Jan. 10th. Iselgravc, Monday, Jan. 17th 'Meetings to, be addressed by Wm :C. Barrie, of Galt and Miss M. V. Powell of Whitby One and A11� •e•••oeonooseonoon40•o••ooe000•oososaonosmo••oo.•oo• i Qle •0 •es Movements of the 161st Battalion l�intering Here --Huron ii County Recruiting Notes --Activities by the Huron Battalion • ::Clinton's Mihtary life44ID el 0 0 tv•• 10•0O•,nr000.666064S000• es ooseesees••O•soosseesea® Bile LIST OF RECRUITS. J. 'Hinter.. The Huron Bat€alion got a big -•O-- bonet this week with re_ruits and things begin to look bright for the officens. Following are the new names) up to Wednesday. evening: •000eoeottooatHieoneotao•OoosoeasO000mootweeeaoie0odc)eosso 08430oO OC+®OMIO0oo•440000 sa . n Recrnitin Grant 1 o• C4eamoonooeo•cit•.•0..o.OelloarO..S.00•000Ooo•09.O.noostoolI oo sto• ootosonopooOoo•seo n To The Editor of the Nelly Era, ion was made for grant of $1,500. and if they do enlist Dear Sir;- r It was read and referred to the I in large members how are We go- • 111 the Toronto Daily) News of h]xdcntive Comnt Utee. of which ]. trig to pay the direct and, indirect the lOst., thereappeared a brief was C'hairm:In. Proposed grant Was tames that .ire increus.:ng the iOst., there, appeared a brief discussed there and a a•ecommen- and will continue to for some time -rid said aS follows, i 2'he Huron dation mane to' grant 21,000. to come, if we are fori;eld. o ser County Council yesterday fror thesed When report was read in Council a grant to assist Battalion. for the I moved in amendment to report dune production? Lack saidOverseas roan a fa. pends that no grant be made and ex- 3rd. I am not ashamed of whait Leckie ig too many farm, hands pl`ained soy reasons for- taking 'Huron Co. has been doing and has were youngbng esen while hanginggithat course to the Council as fol- lose men mere loaf,- agreed to do and doubt any Coun. about the cities, Ther first of, the is', That the expense of recruit cillos as ashen; d of it, If the 'trarticle ietruew roof i last isl u s ...I -FAL ti•atning and preparing sol- war lasts for 6 months atter Mlae•ch quit every word ,fan and I- •tin diers for active service should .all 19111 the Counf�y of Huron will quite sure was not, tuer of td County he. met 'by the Federal' Govern will have paid to the Belgian Reei News by any tree nba' of the merit and under the strict surveil lief Fufnd end 'the Patriotic fund C'o1 yo lat.ee 01 the Militia li.•1•artmaentr ,$821'00, exclusive of the mill on If youcab brief accountpuuof will where the cost would be • more the, •$ imposed on all Cou,ntiies in tookpla a brief propof what equitably borne'ben the; whole, the Province bythe Ontario Gov' - and what asi the say. people $rani people of the Dominion, lust es in c•nment which brings it up $o Gov - and what I did say�the case of machine guns and +ail $124,000, exclusive of all the ggrat- )n afteh(noon of 9th hut.. a Wei- other' munitions for war. autous •sub criptions to Car )liana 2nd. That it was, doubtful, after Red Cross, British Red Cross, &c., all the recru1l(ing that has been • & c. • done, whether anothee Battalion Now,, gentlemen. don't misunder of 1200 could bei raked, in the ,stand me. I am not opposing re County of 'Huron and if done, it meriting so long as itf does not wou'd bo largely composed of far i 1eafere toe seriously, with farm meats and farmers sons. In the labor in, the rural; municipality, press every 'day the call is made Neither am I opposing( this grant for recruiting and more recruitingon pefnurious grounda but on QM snare men; & c. while in anotheee principle that it should be'financed colamn you almost dilly fined lythe whole people of the Do- ttie call for Increased Production minion. We know that we must o" are you going to increase help and help liberally. .Huron; is +reductio.n if farmers and farmers helping liberally on Patriotic( and sons are enlisted and gone over- Reid Crc,ss lanes and wiling • to ;as? You all know that there are .help mere 00 these lines if consid- (meand of acros in Haven ered necessary as those eassoeiai- nuty and manse, other :. ountLes tions are both, I think, doing splen et are not prodacng half they did work in loeltmg) 'after t:he n'd Often rented at mere nom- roinforts ofsoldiersl, dependants, -septets, for grazing purposes .,ick and wounded g to scarcity of labor caused 1 have'not canvassed a single e trend to the West, and to member of this Council as how Ire arge centres, which has re- will vote on this proposed grant our population by (ver 16,- 1 ut 1 wish the Connell may view- )ng the last 20 years. Yon the quuethon as I do and vote w- arming as the groat basic cording]yy, of this County, and oT: Now, Mt. Editor I have given le Dominion Nsatl'y all you the gist of what I did say and lent young me ny Who i 1positlbrouy assert again that I work on farm°..,# n the never need words attributed to Inc Ind look for ]o, �s around by;the. a 'icles pub) sl ed 1 by at eitres Ira et,�e Winter least one' ach of the doily pvpers dy enlister' eivh`eh will', in Toroialc and T,on•doi,' '!She re-. r scarcce ttlila0 ria er. ee suit of the `i'l.ate was 13•-14 in favor UmLiicipalilr7�,r have to of my =erect, ed, the 1 iibmrrs• fuiys 5, es very truly Satisfaction not only satisfacti in selling our --•O-- CLINTON. Harold li'remlin. Chas. F. Lockwood. 1', W. Lee, Seaforth. Stewart Scott Bente Danford. Bert Furniss. H. W. Cook. P. W. And sews. H. McGratten, iioderich. Percy Beattie, Goderich. William McArthur, Loadesboro. Dr u ■ c0oriald BRUSSELS. R. A. Black N. Agar W. Er Wren. J•• 3• Rowland. T. D. Savage G. H. Deemer. Percy Thuell. Fred Baines. W. C. Bennett. S . R, 'Hinson, GO.1• IERTCH. G. W. Brazier, Geo. Cockfield. G. W. Stokes. Roy M. Black. Robert hrvine. C. D. Ross. William G. Lumley. Geo. A. McDonald, George E. Jardine. Harold M. Young. Prank Jardine. H. K. Newton. Ernest W. Fraser. Wiifre'd 'swan. --•o-- • WIND$AM. Harold J Currie. Thos. T McDonald. Ernest Thompson. Herbert W. Powell. George L. Stillwell. Mind;ed C. Mercer. SEAPORT)]. P. W. Lee. H. E. Pierce C. W. Ruffen. T. H. Dick. 1'erteard Brown. C. Corisigney Rosswell P. I. Dougal.) 'H. W. Johnston. C. A. ,Tohnston, T. J. Sherritt. Wm. Hart. W. Cluff. EMETER. Thomas 'II Bissett. 2, S. Bolton. Alfred F. E. Welts. WROYE'.i1ER, Edward B. Nash. SubJeet; Canada Anion the Nations Reserve Seats Admission 50c `lac Under the auspices of Clin- ton Board of Trade. All pro- ceeds given to recruiting i6rst Regiment, CANADIANS!!. ATThNTION We a eal to you to take up at once your share burden, not only because by so doing you will be defending your own inter- ests, but because your action will preserve the vital interests of the Empire: ' MARK TIME ! Are you 5 feet, 2 inches or over? Did you say yes? We want 1000 fellows like your for the-I6Ist "Mimeos" and we want YOU NOW. Pay from date of enlistment. Uniform issued immediately. Goo3 Fellows, Good Food, Good Quarters appeal the FORWARD ! There are thousands of your kith and kin GALLING YOU. At no time in the history of our nation has it been faced with a crisis of such gravity as the one which now exists. HALT! Are you doing your share ? IF NOT, WHY "'N•OT ? t To=lav Wit' . the. t "Hurons' alt 4TT •, r. z