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CL1NTON NEW
Established 1865, Vol, 50, No. 1
CLINTON ONTARIO THURSDAY JULY
1915 W. H. Kerr & Son, Editors and Publishers
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Our Golden Annive
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The New Era Jubilee
50 years ago this week The Clinton New Era
commenced its career as a weekly newspaper and con-
sequently celebrates its jubilee with this issue.
During the half century many changes have
taken place in Clinton, Huron County and our Cana-
dian land, which have been duly chronicled in its col-
umns. Today we have pleasure in taking stock of
the present situation, and contemplating the future
the sky is ruddy with the prospects of the bright days
to come.
The New Era of to day owes a debt to the men
who preceded us at the helm and by whose wise guid-
ance this paper missed the rocks upon which others
foundered and the storms that brought disaster and
shipwreck to many.
During our imcumbency we have materially im-
proved our plant and office building and today are in
a better position than ever to cater to the necessities of
the business public and to issue a journal that we
trust may be a very welcome weekly visitor to many a
home.
Our thanks are due to the kind corps of news-
gatherers who have so sylendidly aided us with contri -
butions, newsy notes and readable items. We
do not forget the business people whose patronage has
been highly appreciated nor the steadygoing subsrib-
er who often cheers the heart of the Editor.
50 years appears to be a long period to dip into
the future yet the days glide by lika the passing of
the weaver's shuttle. Our ambition is to be true to
our convictions; to contribute, our share to the best
interests of this community; to uphold the high stand-
ards and ideals advocated by the New Era in the
hurrying years, and to prove ourselves worthy of the
friendship and fellowship of a wide circle.
On this Jubilee occasion we extend cordial greet
ings to our brethren of the press and sincerely trust
that the Fourth Estate may long continue .to wield a
potent influence for the betterment of the brotherhood
of mankind.
If you like our style and are disposed to patron-
ize us we will be very glad to aid you to the best of
our ability in return. The 50th anniversary often
stands for presentation of gold, commingling of friends
and the expression of good wishes and we conclude
this paragraph by saying that such a trinity of desir-
able things will always be very welcome to the propri-
etors of the New Era who in return hope to ring true
in filling our post and doing our duty.
A Brief History of the Paper
The New Era was founded on the 6th of July
1865, by the late E. Holmes, who came here from St.
Catharines after several other papers had passed into
the newspaper graveyard. In the summer of 1869 the
New Era was run by Mr. Robert Matheson, who still
resides in Chicago, and who controlled the paper until
the spring of 1872 when the paper passed back into
the hands of the founder. A year or so' later Mr.
Holmes sold it to his foreman, the late Edward Grigg,
cousin of Mr. A. J. Grigg, of town. At the end of six
months Holmes & Son became the owners and later
Mr, Robert Holmes took over the paper until April
1909 when the present owners took charge.
The present Editors have tried in vain to secure
a copy of the first New "Era published, but through
the kindness of Mr. Chas. B. Hale, on going through
papers of his father, came across some old New Era's
dated back in 1867 and also copies of the Clinton
Courier of 1862: the Clinton True Briton, Vol. 1, No.
1, Dec. 8, 1865; the Clinton Herald, a semi-weekly
Independent Conservative Journal of May 29, 1857;
and the Clinton Courier of Dec. 18, -1863. Owing to
lack of space we will give a review of these old papers
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