The Clinton New Era, 1912-12-26, Page 1Established 1.865, Vol. 47, No, 26
CLINTON
ONTARIO T HURBDA ° DECEMBER 26 1912
W. H. Kerr & Son, Editors and Publishers
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ileacs Office, Montreal
Capital Authorized- ._....., $25,000,000
Capital Patd-up 11,500,000
Reserve ,and undivided
profits 12,500,000
TOTAL, ASSETS 175,000,000
325 BRANCHES
With world wide conn,ectloA
Interest allowed on Deposits
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Gigantic Strides of Royal Bank of Canada The New Ontario
An. Interesting letter
From McMurray Alta.
, McMurray, Oct, 1912
To The Editor Of The New Era
It will be just five months a week
from to -morrow since -I started out
from the (T. N. R, Station, Edmon-
ton for Athabasca Landing which
latter place is about 100 miles from.
Edmonton. The railway hadust
been built. to within about one 'half
mile of the town so we bad to walk
that distance to reach our destination.
We stayed here until Saturday even-
ing May 20th and then embarked on a
Hudson Bay scow for McMurray.
These scows are large ';open boats
about 30; 40, or 50 feet long and,10 or
12 feet wide. They are flat bottomed
and capable of carrying about 10 tons
of merchandise. There were about 15
or 10 scows inour transport and we
floated down the river by day and
tied up at the shore every night for
sleeping, etc. At Grand Rapids a
distance of about 175 or 180 miles from
Athabasca Landiing we were'delayed
by the necessity of a portage for the
Rapids are impossible'of passage for
loaded. boats. From a scene point of
view they are a great sightand indeed
the entire journey is quite picturesque.
The river and its. surroundings are
very beautiful at certain places in the
locality at place a magnificent
curve in the stream around a forma•
tion of lime stone so perfect and
symmetrical that we could almost in
imagination see the street car whirl-
ing along, Voyages of this kind how-
ever are not without their excitements
and dangerous too but nothing of a
serious nature happened to ue and we
arrived safely at McMurray on Sunday
afternoon, June 9th being two weeks
enroute. McMurray is beautifully
situated at the Junction of the. Clear
Water and Athabasca Rivers, There
are two stores and a post office,
There is also a Roman Catholic
Mission which was in course of con-
struction on our arrival and has since
been completed at least temporarily.
No protestant mission has ever been
established here and I have the dis-
tinction of being the pioneer in this
line. I of course came up here under
the auspices of the Home Mission
Committee .and have ' held service
every Sunday evening. The meetings
have been well attended in •general
and thelittle adore sittingcapacity
is oftefully taxed.'
Upon nay arriva
here one of my first concerns was to
have McMurray erected into a school
district as there were morethan the
required number of children in the
vicinity for this purpose. I immed-
iately wrote out a : petition to the'
Minister of Education and secured the
neceseary signatures which were
for-
warded
or-
wanded forth with. But in res one to
a previously forwarded petition the
necessary papers were received froth
the department about two weeks ago.
And we had our first school meeting
ou August 27th at which it was voted
unanhnonsly that McMurray be erect-
ed into a school district and a board
of trustees elected. There are good
prospects for building a church next
'Spring and I should very greatly re-
gret to see our church lose the oppor-
tunity she now has of firmly estab-
lishing herself in this place. The
locality is being well advertised in the
outer world and quite a number of
homesteaders have come in this sum-
mer and many more are sure to come
nest year. I too have been doing a
little homesteading also. A company
of Dominion land r surveyors came
down in the same train that I did.
They have been engaged from that
timenow surveying until o in sur a six town-
ships which when completed will pro-
bably be thrown open for homestead-
ing next Spring or Summer. The
point was to get settled on a quarter
section before their line wentthrou h
This I succeeded in doing and built a
aback and lived in it for two weeks,
before the line was cut along its east-
ern boundary. This of course if ac-
cepted by the Minister of the Interior
only secures to me the first right of
entry as a homesteader over all others,
As my first operation Were rather.
hurried Thad not much time to explore
the situation but a more leisure survey
since has revealed to me the fact that
I have so far at least secured one of
finest if not the finest location from a
residential point of view that the
future town or city of McMurray may
afforo. "It may also prove to be
equally valuable from a business point
of view since there seems to be only
one;possihle entrance of the railway
into McMurray and that is on the
section adj fining mine, The C. N. R.
has asked the Dominion Government
for a ecJue a mile for yards and offices
e,nci in this locality which has recently
been surveyed into town lots. These
lots are sailing at' from $500 to $1000
a piece and each: contains About one,
sixth or one.seventh of an acre.
MCM r ay presents great possibilities
for future industrial deyelopuient.
There are enormous deposits of
Asphault tun in the vicinity. Oil is
also being drilled for here and farther
down tbe river, and almost certainly
enormous deposits of petroleum' exist
in this region. 1 think that Northern
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Demonstration Car
First Statement Since Acquisition of Traders' Bank Shows Deposits of
$137,0O9,00O=6ank Has Liquid Assets in Excess of 47 Per
Cent, of Total Liabilities to the Public.
Clinton Branch of' the Royal Bank.
The annual statement of the Royal
Bank of Canada this year marks an
epoch in the growth aad development
of the institution, as it is the first one
published since the important trans-
action by which the Royal took over
the Traders' thus rounding off its
branch system throughout the entire
Dominion. The acquisition . was such
a large one that makes .it impossi-
ble to compare the • statement with
that of previous years. As a result
of a change in the fiscal year . of the
bank, the statement is for the eleven
months ending November °30,1912,
Net Profits 10,19 Per Cent. '
The net profits for the eleven
months, after deducting charges of
management, accrued interest on de.
posits, full provision for all bad and
doubtful debts, rebate of interest on
unmatured bills and general bonus
granted to the staff;.; amounted to 51-
521,821.77, equal. to 19.19 per cent- on
the averagepaid up capitaa„`.of,the
,.
bank of $8,080;''750: Theee.p`tofits, "8o-
gether with the balance cartied far-
wpend the previous year
r at the of
ad ty
c capital,
tum m the new a t
and the tern w ,
t
made the amount available fore dis•
tribution $7,432,017 310. This amount
was applied as fo lows : To dividends,
fu 75
8
9.1:.585 • officersfuud, pc u
and N. E. Alberta will before long
provide the country and :continent
with some great `surpises
relative to
itsmineralwealth But apart from
its mineral possibilities it seems to me
thatMeli9urray occupies a position of
strategic importance. It is the head
of steam navigation to the north ae
the steamers do not go any farther up
the river than this point, and when a
direct line. of Rtilway connect it with
Winnipeg it will prove a great disiri.
bitting centre for this region. The
climate also is snpberb and so far as
I have experienced it I do not think 7
have ever enjoyed more delightful
summer and, tall weather. I have,
lived in a' tent 10 by 12 feet ever since
,coming here until about 3 weeks ago.
I do not as yet know the intention of
the Horne Mission Committee . respect-
ing myself and work as I have not
heard from the Convenor (Prof. J, M
Miller of Strathoona) since his appoint
went to that position lase June, Dr.
n beim (,on-
1VkQ sen, of Edmonton
venor tit the time of my appointment
to McMurray, However I think I
should not be unwilling to east my lot
for a few years in this place in view of
its possibilities in more thein one way.
Yours Truly
Wintor,Ts rm From Jan. 2nd
ELLIOTT
P. C. McTAVISH
comfortable resi.lence, Ontario St.,
Thomas Beacom, aged 70 years. Al-
thotugh not enjoying very lugged
r,ealt'h owing to a heart we:Aen.as
000 ; written off bank's premises' ac-
count $300,000 ; reserve fund, 85,503,-
812, leaving the amount to be car-
ried forward $010,219.
The general statement of assets
and liabilities sbowe the bank to be
in a particularly strong position, the
proportion of liquid assets being :in
excess of 47 per cent. of the total
liabilities to theublic,
The growth of the Bank is instanc-
ed by the deposit account, the total
deposits now amounting to $187,891,-
607. Of this amount depnsits bearing
interest totalled $101,003 304. and de.
posits not bearing interest 830,058,812.
These figures show large increases
overtbe combined deposits of the
Royal and Traders' at the end of last
year.
The amount applied to enserve fund
brings the total of this account up to
$12 560,00o heing $1,000 000 in excess of
the paid up capital of 811,500,000.
Tba curr+nt ?owns and -discounts.
'arnonntto $09828,879. Among the
liquid assets are call and short mane
in foreign countries of 114,556,189,
cell and :•hart loans in Canada of
u a
50,422.451
• railway iand oth i bonds,
'
debenture.' and'stk $11,715,900 ; Do•
minion Government notes 5;14,443,785
Nnres and cheques of other banks
9700273:
been indelicate health for several
months, and during the past couple
of weeks all hot 'a as givetn up for
ter reeovery Mils. .
Swans came
to Clinton witn her J,usbanci over
35 years ago, coming from London
ITownship. She was, in her ,70th
yekir. A grown-up ifa'rnily hf six
survive -Messrs. Thomas Swarbs of
Goderich E ire ai d ,of 'P• s on; o ;
John of Wingham ; Mrs. Cornell ' •of
C'lejvelalad, Ohio Mrs. Spooner : of
'Virden, Man.; and Mrs. Rumball of
town. Mrs. Swar+s' is also survived
by two sisters, Mrs. Bullard of Chi-
cago, and Mrs. Barnard of Lonidon.
She was a member of Wesley
Church and was highly' ,estefeened
hy all who 1pnew her. The funeral
took place on Friday afternoon
from the family residence, on Rat-
teinbury Street, the eervicies were
perlftormied by Re J. J. E Ford, pas-
tor' Of Wesley Church. The pall-
rearers were prld friends and
,neighbors -A. Tyndall, 'H.'B Chant,
Jae. Ford, W.Robinson, J 1VIeMath,
and Mr. ,Bradshaw.
AN ,OLI) AND WELL-KNOWN
RESIDENT DIES,'
Tuesday afternoon about four
o'clock, there passed away at his
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Local`? u n demi a results as. a. reaichoclt
q s g
lie was able to bo . dowa.: street
Tuesday 'forenoon, so that iii • slid-
' tc the coarmunity, Last Thursday
+++H+++++49+++ -•P++++++++4+ n'onning;Mr. Fe want had a weak
spell whhile going td alae. stc,re,.
1KILLED THREE IHOR5ES, which detained :hire ;n the house
until Tuesday. •17tceased bad re-
The ev in train..•onthe L.. Ii. & sided in11ullett and Stanley town-
g
B., rami into a ,btnn, is o'f five horscu biiil>s f oi years, and wasp widely and.
rear win liatti t r chris trr`e aur'ht 'favorably known, havinig lit ed for
g b t 3b In ' 1' t }I
imagined would be curious to see
visited, the New Ontario demonstra-
tion car on the G. T. R. track on Fri-
day last, Still there was moderately
steady stream of investigators. The
car was in charge of Mr. G. E. Palmer
of Englehart and Mr. G 11. Farmer of
the Soo district -the latter a farmer
by occupation as well as by name,
and who therefore is well fitted to
know whereof he speaks. The five
widespread districts of New Ontario
Temiskaming, Rainy River, Algoma,
Sudbury and Manitoulin -were all
reptesented, and from them all were
evidences in vegitation that there is°
good land available in each neighbor-
hood, Near tbe door was a 100 ib.
pumpkin from Fort Frances and black
oats from Devlin that were of a yield
of 75 bushels to the acre., From the
clay belt, of .the Temiskaming were
samples of peas for which the claim
was made that "they can't be beaten
in Canada. any way yoti like to take
them." No buge and no pea weevil to
trouble or mar them. The Seed Grow-
er's Association and the Canners are
both, according to Mr. Farmer -who
was the word painter while The New
Era was in the car -looking to New
Ontario for their good- seed: the can-
ners getting the seed and supplying it
to those farmers who will grow for
them. They grow potatoes well up
there, too, and these too are being
looked for as seed, and particularly
good prices paid for them for that
purpose, 'Up at New Liskeard their
spring wheat goes 61 lbs. to the bushel
their fall wheat 01 lbs. and the yield
is 40 to 50 bushels of fall wheat to the
acre. Banner oats thrive there, too,
as per samples shown, 40 lbs, to the
bushel and 75 to 100 bushels to the
acre, and in odd patches even 125
bushels to the acre,. Alsike and tim-
othy also grow well up there, and Mr./
Farmer looks to that territory soon
to supply grass eeed for the wbole
Dominion: "and he would like to see
anything finer." We must look to New
Ontario in the near future for our sup-
ply of seed." Incidentally it may be
said that almost without exception
growing for seed is the growing that
brings the beet prices. To the un-
skilled investigator the display looked,
good: whileinen who themselves till
the earth tell
us that the roots and
potatoes shown were good, and the
grain -exceptionally fine. What catch-
es the eye of the townsman first is
perhaps the exhibit of fruit. There
were apples even from so compare•
t'vely new a district as 'Temiskam-
ing, white from Algoma was a larger
and more diversified; assortment.
Twenty-five years ago :the people of
y
Algoma could handlgrow
g
crab
apples. To -da proper selection
b se eta
of nursery stock. and pbypthe climatic
changes that have followed the culti•
vation of large areas of the district,
they are growing at least fifteen vari-
ties of apples- some that "keep" well
on into the spring -and many varie-
ties of small bush fruits. In addition
they are even growing pears, plums,
cherries and grapes, , This adaptabili-
ty of the country to fruit growing
means no little to it, " as a district
where it is possible to grow these for
home consumption is always the more.
attractive for it. On St, Joe Island
fruit baa been found to do so well that
a limited company has been organized
and bas bought a large section of the
island, and next year will plant it in
fruit trees. Bert Young, who has
had experience at the government'
fruit station on the island, and who is
eon of a man who has grown fruit"
successfully there, has been chosen as
overseer for this new company. While
the new country bas not been looked
upon as especially fitted for corn
growing, yet it has been found that
this can be grown in the Soo district,
and even ripened p d there: and one opti•
mettle farmer has invested in a corn -
hinder. Alfalfa, too, can be success
fully grown in all of these northern
districts, there being samplesshown
of three cuts in one season from one
field in the Temiskming district, And
to make sure that nobody shall feel
that ib the p, oduct of only an iso-
lated patch, there are photos of whole
alfalfa fields being cut. -Incidentally
the other sources of wealth from tbe
new country are shown -products of
the mine and forest, Cobalt with the
bloom on, and nickel from the Sud-
bury mines -the latter shown in sev.
stageseral`o' refinement: # m nt. and which
miue is said to produce 93 per cent
of the world's supply of nickel, and
which Canada is some day to use as
the great peacemaker -by refusing to
allow its export for battle -ship ' pur-
poses.`; Stiecimeus of the forest too
were : there -cuttings from kingly
trees of 75 to 100 feet height of pine
and spruce and elm. And last and
tenet in size, but not in interest, three
bootee from the Sudburyury floiir mills.
There they
ash the wheat before
they grind it up and the bottles con-
tained the water after the washing.
(and it was dirty), and ! he wheat be•'
forethe washing and the wheat after
the washing. And altogether there,
was evidence that even clean looking
rrwin can -produce en amazing amount
of dirt when it is put through a
cleat -wing process.
While slow in coming in at first
between 400 and 500 people visited the
cam here.
Not so many as might have, been
a, ola years r an on, a Was
awd killed 'tree of clam. 8,. r married to 1liisn.Clmtf, sister i;r D; S,`
McEwen vas the • iyrseo'. Chuff of , Crown, a•h o enrole cs her
husband, .also one `.laughter (_' ttie)`
ASSEMBLY ;JAW ',RD. Mrs. Janes flu1 fiord 1(;lir tort. A
son, `William, died. some yoar, ago..
lnvitatione have ,beano. issued for 7', he'eubject of this notice took an
at_n aseesnbly to i e given so the eotive part in n:nnicipals a ff ;irs
;Iowa lia':l, cit Fritl.i," eeeeleg,•3.,n- 'and pat at ithe l tosncil B:•ard as
nary .3rd,,by She tribes and gentler. bermatlthe lor tiime ofor liiabcleath.'eing a nlThe
men of'town. Masonic Lodge, (Oran a Order and
REMEI4I13ERED 'lilt BOYS. the Colnse^vativo pa.ty lotted in
Mr: James Fait, of Moore Jaw rn- Mr. Beacdm, a live member who
uzed Hilt• hes, e313 SIVors to ad-:
membered i:ts old emplov'•es by lance their interests• He atctencled
wending thele each a Chrit;tmas cad ,Ontarj o. Street Methodist Church.
conitaining his ll oolo. IVa 31,>ee `o At difffereint-tinves Mx, Beacom tin-
eay the card w:ll be apprc.:iiteif by gaged in the roeery business in
hit former Omen t
s;ociated with W. .G. Smyth For
Santa'ChlUe Wae rather unkind to Ness der'.t,ased was hard` to ,ey;uai
• town, the pas two years being as;:
A 'SPECIAL OIF P, gesniality good humor and kindh -
Mr.: W. T, O Neil. We are f. Id he ittwd as a cans lienee, 'hada wide
puha fusty. nil! in his stateseng. &%t circle Off fri e, (both ola an'd
least Me. O Neil is- confit .i o these voting, who will deeply regret hie
house and is'nursing a very , . rr• ° ea. passing alta , and sysnpathi a with
the beraave .1'he funeral .coir
TORONTO, CALLED ROME.
Canuda'e High-Cla..e Gonatnercial Last week owin t to,the Ch. eatnias piece of the A. F, fz A M. Rtu•. Io J.
School l Iligghly recommended by rash, The Nfew Era ,woe unable bo Allis cont3•ucting the service. Chas.
rontner " students. Grauuat es • ip give tkeempaeto.notice off the, d,ebth :Irvine Of; Stratford, a dielativo of
eirong demand Wri+e for ..r ew of, Mrs. Georgge, S artp, u'oto died air. Beacom; died last Sunday `from
Catalogue, teat "Wed nenr d'ay.• , . re, •r31- ;arts has tylphoid 'fgp'ei!•. "
place this afternoon under the atm,-
A Happy and
Prosperous
New Year
To AII.
ormosiliie
THI: REXALL STORE
W, .R. Holmes
MINOR LOCALS: `
Santa Claus arrived in town on Mon
day and visited W. T. O'Neil's grocery
store causing great excitement among
the children.
A conceited chap 2hri v,s ,beet in
t ip limie'ight.
Many a man's shoulders ars not ae
broad aa"hey are padded.
A PRESENTATION.
Christmas concerts were in order at
the Public School last Friday after-
noon in •several of the rooms there
were .Uhristmas trees and' gents.
Olaus was in attendance, Miss Ford
who during the model term was• in
charge of Division 1 was presented by
her ,pupils with two handsomely
Bound volumes of poems, Miss Ford is
a very efficient teacher and ' everyone
is very sorry that she is not to remain
on the staff of the Model School.
u,AMES ACLINTON.T('i.TN
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The lovera'of gored hockey will do
Weil to clip out three dates forre---
+dereiice so that, they can keep this
evenings clear to -attend the hockey
gams at the rink here. -
Wed., Jam. 15, i8eadorth at Clinton
Wed. Jaw. 22,:t3t Hoye at Clinton
Mqe, Jan, 29, Oo4etleh at Clinton
$6.50
Trousers
$5.50
e ---
This week our special in
Men's wear is Trouserings,
made to your measure, with
best trimmings, and guaran-
teed fit, English stripe
Worsted and. Scotch T weed.
regular 6.5o for $5.50
Ordered
Clothing
Be well dressed if you
will be respected wherever
you go. Come in alis have
our,iVir. Towne measure you
up for a•goodCustom 1VJ ade
Suit whether it he a Suit. busi-
ness or a Sunday
tee all Work
We Guarantee
Turned out From
This Depart=
meat.
pldl's Tillers' aid furnishers