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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1916-08-31, Page 5Thursday, August 31st, 1910. THE CLINTON NEM SRA. seri in Doubt For a Present for the It► idea to -be Ch ..o Dose Silver here is no other gift f;3r the bride that is so universally..certain to be greetedwitli joy, used with pride, and treasured for years. We carry a large and well assorted stock of 1847 Roger Brod` Knives and Forks. Berry Spoons, Cold Meat Forks, Pie Servers, Tea, Coffee, Dessert and Table Spoons and numerous other use- ful pieces. Also a good assortment "i of Silver Plated Hollow- ware, f;ut Glass, China and Clocks. W. II. ll[tLYAR J1EWELEIt and OPTICIAN EYES TESTED FREE Ct••O11•a0e0%0.0.0®960•••./10 Loc,1 News 11o61000096•1100•00•0•••••••• NEW DELIVERY MAN. Mr. Win. Rath 1s the new deliv; eir'y at the Co n i Grocery. tat ing the place of Mr. Sandy N;eelans 'Who is now working at the Piano Iactory, THEIR NAME IS ,FAMOUS. Recently James Snell & Sons, • alrippeti three prize 'sheep to new owners—one went to Quebec; one to New York State rend one over to Minnesota. '1'he Snell firm are :famous for their Leicester sheep. 'SOLDIER DISCHARGi1D. Pte. Robert ,Moore, who first joined the 161st Batt. and was later transferred to the Pioneers, received his discharge at Halifax owing to Jilin .contrasting rheue \ matism. 13c arrived thome last Mveek, ,'..,1.Wr1Y TO TORONTO. On Saturday James Snell & Sons -shipped 16 of their 'prize sheep to Toronto exhibition. Mr, James :Snell will, attend the Leicester .Breeders Association meeting at Toronto, of which he in a mem- her on the 8th and on the 9th he )caves for the l3yrae%se (Fair in ':New York State with 6 sheep. MINOR LOCALS Considerable interest 1s being :ananifested in the apple crop. The apples are 'sufficiently advanced 'to enalble one to form( n, fair opine :ion as toi the yield and duality, The general report is that there will not be an average crop in •quantity and quality is ("MY fair. The Dominion Government will provide for a registration of all persons who, are physically able to bear arms in Canada. DANCE -CORP. JPs. AXINS IS REPORTED WOUNDF3D, , Lance -Corp. T. WT Jenkins, son .of Rev. T. 13 Jenkins of St. .1 ode's .church at Brantford„ •au[ brother of Capt. Cell Deakins, formerly of 'Cllhton, who returned from the 'front recently suffering from shell shock,' is also reported as being wounded. When the enlistees he was studying in college for the ministry, 'TORONTO FAIR. An annual reminder of the; pass - Ing, of summer is the advent' of the Canadf:tn Nationatl3xhil.:ition,,whirh 'despite the war promises this ,year to eclipse all its predecessors. 1 lie Toronto Va:ir, some people; say, is nlw5Ys the sante, and get it is ne_ar- • er the truth to say that; it Is never the sa.tnc. It always has the tritest out, and this yeaxi the display of 'wax Materials twill ;rfford very • tangible demonstration otthe fact. In order to keep up-to-date it is - necessary to visit the "Canadian National'. every year, nad moat `.Vanadians are fully aware of the fact, r :.;3UDDIEN DIF:ATH. Pr &rem the Omer,'Mich., Progress, •of Aug. 18th, we take the fo.ilowiug •Obituary of Wm. 11., Steep, a former well known Clnntoniain ;--. 'Wm. H, Steep a well known ,arid highly respected resident of Aeon Mc township, elied very suddenly at his home south of Omer, .lest ;Friday morning from valvulardisease of the heart, Mr, Steep had apparently been in goqu health and retired as usual, for the night. In the morning he was found dead in one of the lower rooms of l'he leouse, Coroner !Fry was called, ,and after an in- vestigetion decided that an in- quest was unnecessary. Deeeasect was born in Clinton, Ontario, on July 30th, 1855, and was married in 1880 to Miss Annie Pickard. The family moved to North Da- kota in 1800, and 4n 1.893 came to Arenas where they have since re- sided. He leaves his wife, one claughter and three sons, four sis- ters, Mrs, I, Dodd, Clinton, Mrs George M11sr, Goderieh township. Mrs. Albert Cant 100, Getter ich township, Mrs. John Wise, Clinton, and three brothers, J. Steep, Clin- ton, J. G. Steep, Goclerich town- ship, Peter Steeps, California and a large circle of friends ane ririghbors Whca mourn the loss'' of a good friend and l a inaniy man. The funeral Services were con- ducted by Rev, Cn.ssniore in the Presbyterian Church. at Omer with ithurial in Evergreen Cemetery. 0e0eru00e0eemone amsieses•.e•n•tree•aees..•••.wI•S•eetr e0•Q aMrlteIs TOPORIO w•CAnton e •micas inmo e,•.•i•.•miesto • mositioinum ••• memi•to Hogs $11,90. Butter 29 to 34e. 6.. gigs 33e Oats ,56'. Wheat..$1,25. Cattle SJ•00' Sheep 4,09,00, •leeli ins $11.25 Cheese 20 1-16e . Baleen 55c to 56cd_ airy=:'.4 Hogs 5.11.60. Butter 27c to 28e, Bggs 25e to 26c. Oats 50c to 66e. Wheat 000 to '65c. Peas 1.05. Shorts $27. Bran $20. e Barley Ole to 550. Buckwheat OOc to 85c. Hay dor Bailing ,$9 and $10.00 k `h NEWS frisnstance Mrs, Newman. Garret ,and -son, • Milton spent afew dayli With Mrs Mrs. 3. 0 McGregor -and dough- ter of Walkerton is visiting her uncle, Mr, Wm Rhin; and ;other friends, Mr. and Mrs. Lew Tebbutt of Goderieh township. spent Sunday the guests of their friends, Mv, and Mrs. R. Rogerson . Miss Dickson of .Detroit is visit- ing, her cousins, Snell Brothers, Mn.rGradin and 'son returned after spending a couple of 'weeks the guest of leer 'sister in De- tr'oit. Mr. Wm. Hall of London is vis- iting his parents for his, vacation Miss Florence McIntosh, Miss Vera and Arnold Colclough spent Sunday the guests of A1r.\W,Feas Miss Della! Button is visiting her friend Miss Aileen Clark, Mr, Geo, Wheatley !vas called to Clinton on Sunday, owing to the sudden death of his brother, Wm. 'Wheatley. Chas. 1'i11 arrive l home from Camp Borden for a short visit, P'orter's Mil Miss Knight of Goderieh is vis- iting at Win. Joheston's. , Mr. and Mrs. 'Wesley' Vander - burg and, children, fvIrs. George Vanderburg, Mrs. Weston and Annie motoredt to Kincardine on Sunday last, t Mr. Peter McDougal returned from Detroit last week. Sergt. G. McDougall le'urnedto Camp Borden on Saturday, huv Ing een home on a month's fur- lough. Mr. and Mrs, Glen McDonald re- turned to Detroit on Saturday. Rrucetiehl Mr. and Mrs, James McQueen an- nounce the engagement of their only daughter,, bliss Elsie to Mr. Laurence Forrest,, of Stanley. the marriage to take, place fn Septem- ber. Andrew 1VIurdock and family are the guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Murdock. Herbert McGee, of the 101st, visit ed in our village last week. He has sine returned to Camp Borden Mrs. � 1Vilsou, of Toronto, is the guest of W,er; daughter., Mrs. Swan. Lieut. Wm, MeQueen, son of Jas McQueen, Stanley, who has been in England for Some time under the uurpices of the Y.M}C A. 'latterly took up the study fciralieutc:nant and has gone to 'France to tkae his place in the trenches to work for his country: Miss Grace Weir, daughter of the late Mr. Weir of Tuckei'smith has gone to New York to study for a nurse. She has taught school for two years there. Rev, 13. H Ketches of Hamilton and son visited at his home in Stanley last week, Rev, .J, Johnston ;preached n missionary sermon on Sunday morning, for the Women's Mis- sionary Society It was a splen- did sermon, 5130,00 was the amo- ant of offering. 1 c .. Mrs, Graham of Clinton is the .guest of her brother, Mr. B. R Higgins. 1 Miss' Margaret Douglas of Lon- don, who has been visiting her aunt. Mrs. A. :Douglas, lute return- ed home. Auburn Rev, Mr. Miller, of Milverton is visiting friends ,here this week. Miss Gladys Roberton and Miss table .Raithby are visiting their aunts in Goder:ch this week, `The Red Cross picnic held last week on Wednesdayafternoon was and great success speaks well for the Auburn people, who have a reputation for doing things. The amount raised during the day and evening, anti which was given to the Red Cross, amounted to one hundred and ninety dollars. \ Anniversary services will ! 'be held in We Methodist ehurcht next Sunday afternoon and everting con ducted by Rev. Mr. Miller of Mil- verton. The preaching service in the Bap tilt church next SundayI has been withdrawn on account of the an- niversary service in the Methodist churr,•h. i t The pastor and choir of the Baptist church with a number, of their friends spent 0 social even- ing, on Monday nightiat.the home of Mr: and Mrs. George Raithby. Mullett Miss Gertie Quinnie of London is spending her vacation at the home of her greandparents ;Mr. and Mrs Braithwaite, Mrs. Moses Brown and; two sons are ;taking ;in they Toronto exhibi- tion this week. Mrs. Mathers of Palmerston is spending afew days with ,her bro- ther,.Joseph, Gray, , The Misses. Louise and Emma Snell, of Morris are spending; a few days with thea.' uncle Humphrey Snell of the;101h eon. Mrs. John Gibbirgs ancf famine spent Tuesday at Goderieh. Miss Bessie Morrish of Clinton, spent afew days with Mrs. Morrell 1 bliss Charity Snell spent her vac- ation with Mrs, James Snell and Mrs. Wm. Fear. Mrs. Amos Outright and dau- giitor Beth, Left last week for the :West where she will visit bei' sis- ter there. r Mr, and Mrs, George Farquar are spending two loofahs in OA West. • Mr. and Mrs, Thos Acianas and John Adams are •spending a. few weeks with Brampton friencis and will also take in, the Toronto Fair, • George Garret. Mrs. Gibbs who fractured "her shoulder a week hgo by foaling down steps at her home is doing as well as Can be expected. Vin spent Ase# week with her mother, Mrs. Braithwa,ite, Mr. John Merritt, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Merritt, of flullett, hes accep ted a position as principal of Whighain Business College and will move hie family from I3ervie to that town, Goderieh Township Miss Mary Culbert, of Ashfield, has been engaged to teach school section No. 10, Bayfield line. Miss Culbert, hoe bad several years' experience. 13. Steep, A, Cooper, of the 91b con cession, 0 arl Hanley, Fred, Emerson, of the Sth concession, and Mr. and Miss Thompson, of the Bayfield line, left for the West on the excursion. The general business meeting of the United .Patriotic Society of Goderieh Township, will -be heal at home of Mrs, Robert Davidson on Friday, Sept. lst, Any persons having finished gar tnents kindly bring them to this meet ing. Council meets on Tuesday, next. All schools re open on ''Tuesday of next week for the fall term, $tyth. Miss Money, of Stratford, who was recently engaged ae principal of Blyth Continuation School, and her sister, Miss Olive, were visitors at the homes of their cousins, Messrs. U. E. and R. 13. Robinson, Postmaster Sims passed the 08th milestone of his life on Sunday, Aug. 20 h, Mr. A. W. Sloan has received word from his son, Pte, Dr, Will Sloan, who is training with the 130th Battalion at Valoartfer. Ite expects shortly to leave with his regiment for overseas service. Mr. W, Jas. Sims and daughter, M.iss.Carrie, returned home last week from a pleasant few days spent in To ionto and Niagara Falls. Mr. Sims, who has not been in good health of late is slowly improving. The tire alarm was sounded on Thum day afternoon and the fire brigade had a run for naught. The hen house be longing to Mr. A.' 01. Carthew caught fire from some rubbish which was he ing burned in the yard. The building was destroyed. Sealor'tit A quiet hut pretty wedding was solemnized et high noon on Wednes Amy at the residence of Mr. and Mrs, J. M. Wilson, of Ohurh street, when their eldest daughter, Lillian Isabel, was waited in marriage to Irving.Suth erland, assistant postmaster at Owen Sound. The ceremony was performed by Rev. D, Carswell in the presence of the immediate relatives of the con treating parties. The wedding march was played by Miss Jessie Wilson. slater of the bride, as the bridal pair, who were unattended, took up their position ander a floral bell of white roses and myrtle. After a wedding dinner was partaken of the happy couple left on the afternoon train for Niagara and points east, after which they will take up housekeeping in Owen Sound. Pte. Joseph Klein came home on the midnight train last Thursday night. Hie coming was not known to the citi zene until a short tirne before the train was due, but the committee for the re ception of disabled soldiers got busy. The fire alarm and bells were kept go ing until a. monster crowd gathered' down town and a huge procession, headed by the citizens' band, formed and proceeded to the depot. Pte. Klein received a royal reception, was wel corned by Mayor Stewart and short ad dresses by the local clergymen. Pte. :Klein is the son of M. Klein of McKill op Township. He was wounded in the left arm in Prance, underwent an oper ation of am utetion, and in an Eng lish hospital his arra was taken off at the shoulder, .An artificial member is being fitted for him. Mensal rhe Reeve' of Hensail, 'Fred Suialla Bombe, may face a charge of unlawful interference as a result of acting,_ it is alleged, as protector for a whiskey Warehouse being run by Thomas Berry, at Hensall. County Constables Wallis and Pellow had been sent by the temperance organization on Sat Had Pimples lid Festerin'g Sores ON. HER FACE. [When the blood gets bad, boil's, pimples and festering sores are sure to break out ori the face and body. To get lid of them the blood should be cleansed by Burdock Blood Bitters. Mrs. Charles Jewell, Orrville, Ont., writes: "I feel it my duty to write and tell you about what Burdock Blood Bitters has done for me. I was so pale I had no color at all. S also had pimples and festering sores on my face, and, my head ached nearly all the time. l had been reading in the paper, and saw that Ilnrdoek Blood Bitters was good for such troubles so i tried a bottle and before it was half done I felt fine and wlien the bottle was finished I. felt like a new wo- man, I tell all my friends about it, aiict advise everyone suffering froin such trouble to use B,B.i3:" There is only one B.13.13. That 0 the genuine, tuanufactured by The T, Mil- burn. Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. u^day night to search the driving shed and office belonging to Berry, as there were suspicions icions that he was runninga blind pig and after (hey had seize 24 gallons 'of bottled beer, 10 gairte of whisky and a 10 gallon keg of whisky, and had it loaded on to two cars the reeve, Fred Smallaeomhe, arrived, and stated that be -held the position of "justice of the peace," and gave orders that the liquor should be at once un loaded and returned to Mr, Berry. W ben the constables refused to take the reeve's, instructions he became abusive, it is said, and threatened to make it hot for them. He also offered the auto driver more money to put the oar hack in the garage than he was getting to take the liquor to the cold storage plant of Inspector Torrance, at Clinton. When the keg of whisky was discovered, Berry gave his word of honor and pleaded with them motto take it, but to make sure a brace and bit was securedand it was soon dis covered that their suspicions were well founded. Charges have been laid at*ainst Thos: Berry for violation of the O,. T. A. and against the reeve fcr unlawful interterenoe. \Vinaharn On November 17 last, a Fame; was mailed to one of the Wingham soldiers at that time a patient in a military hospital in England and later invalid ed home to Wingham. The parcel was not received by him before his return but on Thursday last it arrived back in Wingham, intact, after travelling around to several hospitals in England and crossing the ocean twice. The new shed' which is being built by the members of St. Paul's Church is now nearing completion, and will give ample accommodation for all the horses and will prove a great conven ience to those having to drive to at tend church. The building will be of a permanent characterhaving et ee ment foundation and an iron roof, and will have an enterance'oti John street . and also on Center street. There died in Morris. Township ons Sunday, Annie 13. Abraham in her 35th oi f her father.,uTh ee n ThAbrahaleft m, toto11, concession '1, Morris Township, on Tuesday, 20th inst , at 2.30 o'clock to the Wingham Cemetery. The-Muer'al of the three fire victims, Mr. and Mfrs. Woodwill and Mrs. Wood will's daughter, Miss Gertrude Well wood, who lost their lives in New Lis PAGE PIVp keard last week, was held from the un dertaking palors of Walker & Son to the Methodist r Church, wore bhe s vices were conducteby Rev, Mr, Love of Wroxeter. Two of the hearses used were from the town, and the 3rd was from Teeswater. 'rhe Patin r and mother at ane time "conducted a gro cery store in Lowe? Wingham, and left for New Ontario seine tirne ago. Their daughter was private clerk to Dr. Bruce in Toronto, and was also a nurse. graduating in Cleveland. She was visiting het parents. Her brother Fletcher, who had a farm not tar from his parents, saw the place in flames, hut could give no assistance owing to, the intense heat, and the next day, with the help of other people, recover ed the remains of his relatives. Mrs. Woodwili was twice married. Her 1st husband's name was Weliwood. Sur viving children are; Pletcher, of New Ontario, and Newman of Kincardine. The pall bearers were 'Messrs. Greer, Pry, Cirabam. Thompson, Reid and Uruickshanks. Aolmeav11Ie Mrs, G. li Martin and daughters Lot Goderieh spent the week end with het sister, 'Mrs. J. R Alcock Mrs. Lslah'brook of M.tchell <;is !visiting. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Pickard, ! t Mr. Sinclair, who wan on his van cation, returned to take the ser vices at the funeral of Mr .Render Mr. A. J Courtice preaclfed the 'Methodist 'Church on Sunday morning very acceptably, in the absence of the pastor. i c Mrs, 'Holdsworth is visiting her son in Pennaylvania. 1 Mr. GeorgeRender was called home on Sunday, after suffering from a stroke of paralysis since last Tuesday. :Deceased was a well irnown farmer in Goderieh township and was in his 73rdr year. He is survived by his partner in life and one da,ughter, Mrs. James (Ferguson of Goderieh township. The funeral was held; on Wednes ,day afternoon and interment was made at Clinton Cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Sinclair, pastor of deceased. The pallbearers were A.'Jervis, N Glidden, A. J, Courtice, J Lord„ G. Sheppard and N, W, Trewartha; Labor Day next 'Monday, LMA LADIES' COLLEGE OPENS ITS THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR ON SEPTEMBER TWELFTH : NINETEEN HUNDRED &- SIXTEEN #o ealendar and terms: R, h Wuner,M,A,,D,D,.AIma College, St.Thomas, Ont. 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