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THE CLINTON NEW ERA
First issue June 6; 1865
Amalsamtated 1924
An Independent Newspaper devoted to the Interests of the Town of Clinton and Surrounding District
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Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of Huron. County
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tening, the Family
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
First issue (Huron News -Record)
January 1881
THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1954
The BIG Show
WITH THE WEATHERMAN cooperating, all
signs point to the biggest and best Spring
Show that Clinton, or for that matter, any On-
tario town has ever seen.
Throughout the spring months, plans for
this centennial and golden anniversary have been
going forward. The golden -covered prize list,
which made record of all events to which entry
could be made, has brought in a record number
of entries in each class. Horses there will be
a -plenty, and that is as it should be, for Clin-
ton's Spring Show had its beginnings as a Horse
Show, and the other animal classes have been
added gradually. First there were cattle classes,
then swine, and last year for the first time, the
directors of the Show added a sheep class which,
-with its huge number of entries, helped to swell
the size as well as the interest in the Show,
This year of course, there are added attrac-
tions, as befits a centennial year. F. A. Lashley,
who is head of the Fairs Branch of the Ontario
Not "Sm
THE TIME is well past when small town life
can be termed "small time life".
Never„ surely in the history of mankind,
has there been a time when life in small centres
could be considered more "above par" than the
age in which we live right now.
There was a time, and not so long ago when
folk from small towns and villages were con-
sidered country hicks, and any of them could be
picked out a whole block away, ifthey should
find themselves upon a -city street.
Not so, any more.
With the development of electricity and the
accompanying gadgets, the more recent develop-
ment of radio and television and the accompany-
ing education and entertainment, with the in-
creased amount of travel by all persons from one
place to another, the folk in small towns have
complete access to all. the advantages of anyone
What is
OPINIONS DIFFER from age to age as to
what happiness is, reports the monthly
letter published by the Royal Bank of Canada.
Popular "how to" books of the 18th century'
were chiefly concerned with the subject of how
to die a .good death; those of the 19th century
moved on to the subject of how to make a
good living; and those of the 20th century are
devoted to telling us how to live happily.
Human beings are changeable, What may
seem the supreme material good today may be
completely out of date within a few months.
We need to avoid the extremes of sluggish
placidity and feverish activity. The youths of
today are not going to be satisfied with felicity
which resembles that of a stone, unfeeling and
unmoving, but these youths will look back from
Department of Agriculture, will open the Show.
The RCAF Training Command Band; Tren-
ton which has won acclaim throughout Canada
and abroad, will be in Clinton to take part in
the parade, and will present two concerts at
Clinton Community Park.
' A second fine band is the. Stratford CNR
Band, which will be taking its place as well in
the parade and entertainment..
The midway, the parade of school children,
the horse races, the machinery displays all will
add to the not -to -be -duplicated "fair” atmos-
phere.
Last, but by no means least, on this anni-
versary of anniversaries, will be a display of
new cars, fire engines, ° trucks, and other pieces,
with a contrast between today's equipment and
that of 50 and 100 years ago. A tiny old home
week, within the boundaries of the Spring Show!
It will be a great Show. You can't afford
to miss being there.
all Time"
living in a city.
In addition to this there is the added pleas-
ure of living in a small town,
Few residents of a city, though they may
live there all their lives, can feel the friendliness
and 'hominess which pervades every activity in
a small town. We are thinking in particular
of the community projects that involve preparing
for a Spring Show, for instance; or of the pre-
liminary practices of the local ball team; or of
the plans the Kin have for developing and
equipping a riverside park.
These are just a few of the projects which
are presently afoot in our town. And as they
progress, it is quite possible for those of us
that are interested, to join in the work, to watch
• the job being done, and to say at the end, "I
helped do such and such a job."
It is good to live in this thriving Clinton.
Happiness?
future years with sorrow and regret if they
run to and fro, giving in to what Socrates
called "the itch,"
The recipe for happiness cannot be given
in any single word, because its many virtues
• have to be combined in their proper quantities,
at the proper times, for proper purposes.
The principles we live by, in business and
in social life, are the most important part of
happiness. We need to be careful, upon achiev-
ingha ines'
s not to lose the virtues hien
PP
which
have producedd it, he
r T young person who is
successful in his daily work should not forget
prudence, moderation and kindness, the qualities
essential to his success. Life can be beautiful
for its grace and goodness as well as for its
strength and success,
" Agnes MacPh
(Newmarket Era and Express)
AN AGNES MACPHAIL Memorial Fund has
been started in Toronto. Its purpose is to
establish scholarships at the School of Social
Work, University of Toronto, for students who
may wish later to work in the field of proba-
tion and rehabilitation of prisoners, or when a
chair of Penology may be set up, for students
who wish to study in that department. One
of Agnes Macphail's last projects, before she
died last February, was. helping to found the
Toronto branch of the EIizabeth Fry Society
of which she was honorary president. This or-
ganization, given to aiding in the rehabilitation
of women prisoners and which was close to
Agnes Maephail, is sponsoring the memorial
fund committee.
The "country girl from Grey County, the
first woman to be elected to the House of
Commons, held that seat from 1921 to 1940 and
during that time she conducted a crusade for
prison reform. As early as 1927 when no woman
was allowed to visit penitentiaries, she stood on
her own right as a legislator and presented her -
The Trillium
. (London Free Press)
ALDERMAN KEN WATERS, Toronto, chair-
man of the Civic Parks Committee, protests
the practice of people who tear up trilliums from
High Park, These flowers—the floral symbol
of Ontario—ought to be protected and kept in
their natural habitat, he says.
The same thing could be said about trilliums
in general. Every Sunday at this time of the
year, city dwellers tear up these lovely little
flowers and carry them home in the hope that
they can be transplanted. The trillium will not
grow in a garden and should not be removed
from the shadedspot where it belongs. To
ravish the bush in this way is a form of
Vandalism,
(Ken Waters is a former mayor of the
town of Clinton),
The Breaking Point
(The Huron Expositor)
THE HUMAN SYSTEM:. can stand just so
much. There conies a time wlien, regard-
less of one's self-control, the provocation be-
comes so great that something snaps, and other -
Wise commonsense people do things which, under
ordinary circumstances, would have been com-
pletely foreign to their nature.
This was the case with a Tennessee farmer,
who, tired of watching people toss bottles and
can on his property, where cattle cut their feet
on glass, retaliated by gathering about 250 of
the bottles, and smashed them on a quarter
mile strip of the road.
There must be- many farmers who, faced
with the same problem, have had to summon
every last ounce of self-control, to prevent them-
selves acting in a similar fashion.
ail Scholarship
self at the North Gate of Kingston and refused
to leave until she had gone through the prison.
It was then that the ex -schoolteacher began a
struggle for more humane conditions in Canad-
ian prisons. Agnes Maephail was a superb
orator and was the purest of humanitarians.
She felt a personal responsibility for these for-
gotten people in the prisons.
Her fight for justice during the prison riots
of the early thirties and afterwards, resulted
in the appointment of a Royal Commission to
investigate conditions in penal institutions. The
findings of the commission later became the
Archambault Report, one of the greatest docu-
ments on Canada's penal problems, Agnes Mac --
pilaf' was a pioneer of a dedicated kind. She
accepted her public responsibility with zeal and
courage. She roused the interest and support
of women everywhere. The scholarship will
carry on her crusade for dignity and justice
within the walls of prisons. Contributions for
the fund may be sent to the Agnes Maephail
Memorial Scholarship Fund, 344 Jarvis Street,
Toronto.
Unfair Treatment
(Wiarton Echo)
SOMETHING that sticks in the craw of every
small community is the fact that the city
of Toronto gets an unconditional grant of $4.00
per capita from the Provincial treasurer, while
places like Wiarton get 31.50. It is true that
costs in the metropolis are high, but so is
municipal revenue. Ask any Toronto tax -payer,
What is difficult to understand is the lack
of protest from smaller municipalities, With
rising costs and static assets, municipal budget-
ing is becoming a nightmare. But with the ex-
ception of a few weekly papers who have raised
a howl, most municipalities are taking this un-
fair treatment from the Provincial Government
lying down. And their elected representatives
are preserving a peculiar silence in Queen's Park,
We are perennially amazed at what the tax-
payers of this country will endure without a
word of protest. We are convinced that if the
government said we were all to pay a small tax
for breathing the air, which of -course belongs
to.the government, there would be little protest,
beyond the normal muttering.
Shades of the Boston Tea Party!
Interview
A pigeon' on the eaves looked down at me
With eyes like golden focusings of sun
And I looked back at, him, well pleased to see,
I could engage the interest of one
Who made the sunlight brighter, raying it
In rose and sapphire prisms from his breast,
And now, I know, my inmost self is lit
With gleams of rainbow radiance, long suppres- -
sed, -
From being looked upon with keen surprise
By the wild gold within a pigeon's eyes.
—by Jane Merchant.
STANLEY
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dayman
and, son Donald, Chatham, visited
over the weekend with Adam
Stewart.
Mrs. John McFarlane, 'Sr., ' is
From Our Early Files
40•YEARS AGO
The Clinton New Era
Thursday, May 21, 1914
R. J. Rumball has successfully
passed his final exam at Osgoode
Hall and is now a full fledged
barrister, at least he will be after
tomorrow, when with a large class
of young lawyers, he will be • cal-
led to the bar".
Edmund Zeller, proprietor of the
Zurich Herald, was the unanimous
choice of South Huron Liberals at
a rousing convention held at Hen -
sail on Wednesday.
Last Thursday evening Charles
Connor opened up his, new store
and has everything now in first
class shape. He has also opened
up an ice cream parlor. -
The frame house on the farm of
William Wheatley adjoining the
town on the east, was destroyed by
fire about noon on Wednesday. The
house was occupied by a family
named Howard. It is said a bon-
fire was started too near the
house.
Hensel' ratepayers' Saturday
carried with little opposition a by-
law to erect a new town hall on a
site purchased on Main Street.
The Clinton News -Record
Thursday, May 21, 1914
The firm of Tozer and Brown,
which has for the past decade been
so prominently identified with the
business life of Clinton, was on
Monday, by mutual consent, dis-
solved; Mr. Tozer retiring. The
business will be carried on by Mr,
Brown and no doubt with that pro-
gressiveness that has heretofore
characterized it,
Mr. Tozer, who has been a good
citizen that we shall all be sorry
tc lose, will in all probability lo-
cate in Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs, Adam Scott have
now got nicely settled on the farm
on the Base Line bought a short
time since from Mrs. Joseph Col-
clough.
A basabali match, Goderich vs.
Clinton, will be played in the park
on Monday afternoon next.
Arthur Cook has given his resi-
dence on Albert Street a coat of
paint, which has greatly improved
its appearance.
James Duuford, who has taken
over the business which he recent-
ly purchased from W. Walker will
shortly move his family from Sea -
forth and for the present will take
up residence in the flat over the
store.
Yesterday marked the comple-
tion of the Clinton Hydro Electric
station after many months of plan-
ning and toil. Both the waterworks
and hydro are under the same roof
and it is managed by the Public
Utilities Commission, under the
capable superintendency of H. B,
Chant,
25 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News Record
Thursday, May 33, 1929
W. Rath is erecting a house on
the lot recently purchased in the
south side of Huron Street.
Mrs, W. H. Ball, who has spent
the winter with her daughter, Mrs,
W. S. R. Holmes, has returned to
her own home on High Street,
Mr, and Mrs. Adam Scott, of
town, were in charge of the home
of their son, Wilfred Penfound,
Goderich Township, while he was
on his honeymoon last week.
This idea that a man's usefulness
is over at 60 doesn't seem to work
out in the case of David Cantelon;
who, while over 80 years of age,
did 3160,000 worth of business last
year,
G, T, Jenkins has purchased
from T, H. Leppington the build-
ing lot opposite the new Stevenson -
Harris knitting mill
C. G. Lobb has purchased the
house at the west side of Albert
Street so long occupied by Dr. 3.
S. Evans.
There are four vacancies on the
CCI staff, Misses Archer Jackson
and Stiver and Mr. Carbin having
resigned. Miss Mossop, London,
science specialist and Miss Law-
son, Toronto, English and physical
culture specialist, have been en-
gaged by the board to fill two of
the vacancies.
10 YEARS AGO
Clinton News -Record
Thursday, May 18, 1944
J. George McLay has been ap-
pointed manager of the local
branch of the Royal Bank, taking
over the management here on
Friday.
Flying Officer Tom Cooke,
RCAF, who is home on special
leave with Mrs. Cooke in Daughin,
Manitoba, has just received word
that he has been awarded the Dist -
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PHONE 51
RENTAL
HOUSING
is being considered for the Town of
Clinton, by the Council. Application to Gov-
ernment authorities must be accompanied
with certificates from interested parties.
Therefore, all those interested in renting
housing accommodation: please fill in the
coupon below before May 31, and return to:
L. D. HOLLAND
Town Clerk
CLINTON
CUT OUT—Forward to L. D. Holland, Clinton
Clinton, Ont.,
NAME (Print)
Number in Family
Approximate monthly Income $
Size of House 2 -Bedroom
Desired: 3 -Bedroom
Signed
1954;
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19-20-21-b
inguished Flying 'Cross.
Two Clinton girls, Misses Phyllis
Herman and Joan Sloman, who
have just finished their first year
at the University of Western On-
tario, have been awarded three
prizes. Miss Herman won the
Gordon McIntosh prize in Speech
Education,and second prize in
Latin. Miss Sloman won the W.
W: Tamblyn prize in second -year
English Composition.
Mr. and Mrs, John T. McKnight,
residents of Victoria Street, have
purchased a home in Exeter. Mr.
McKnight and family have been
residents of Clinton for 15 years,
and citizens will be sorry to see
them leave our midst.
Vernon Huller, RCNVR, London,
was a weekend visitor with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Huller.
Cpl. Wesley Haddy, Camp Bor-
den, RCAF, visited at his home
here last weekend.
Charlie Thompson, RCNVR, To-
ronto, spent last weekend at his
home.
Pte. Frank Lawson, with the
RCASC, is now stationed in De-
bert, N.S.
Mrs. Clarke Ball, who was the
former Margaret Cornish, has re-
ceived word from her husband,
Trooper Clarke Bali, telling of his
safe arrival with the RECCE,
The Clinton juvenile softball
club won two games from Blyth
last week by 10 to 5 and 25 to 3
scores.
Miss Fannie Lavis, London,
spent the weekend at her home in
town.
Miss Cora Streets has returned
to Toronto after spending two
months at her home here, recuper-
ating from an operation.
BRUSSELS — Wilbur Cuthill,
whose car was stolen last week
from his driveway, has had his car
recovered by Ontario Provincial
nitro]
Police, in the Township of East
Wawanosh, about ten miles from
his farm, none the worse of 'the
drive.
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