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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1950-05-25, Page 10Second Section Pages 9-12 No. 21 1 Ilk THE ' NEW ERA 84 YEAR oft CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1950 News 'of .Bayfield Miss Lucy R. Woods Representative: Phone Bayfield 45r3 Donald Atkinson, Detroit, spent the weekend at his home in the village. Mr. and Mrs. G. Churchward, Sr., London, *ere at their cot- tage over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dunn and' two daughters, London, were at their cottage over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. William Moran, London, spent a few days last week at their cottage' in the village. Mrs. A. Millsap and Miss Jill Millsay, London, were at their cottage in "The Highlands" over the weekend. • Miss M. Hodgins and Mrs. G. Ferguson, Toronto,, were guests at the New Ritz Hotel over Wed- nesday night. Mrs. W. M. Purves and Mrs. Hill, Birmingham, were at the former's cottage for a couple of days last week. • Mrs. Thomas Bailey attended the funeral of the late Mrs. Constant Schellenberger in Mit- chell Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs, Fred Ritchie, Elmvale, visited the latter's par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. George King from Friday until Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Atkinson, Stewart and Marion, St. CIair Shores, Mich., were at their home in the village over the weekend, Capt. and Mrs. Renouf Johnslac and small son, Guane, and James . Harding, St. Clair Shores, Mich., it were guests at the Albion Hotel over the weekend, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Erwin and Jimmy and Miss Pearl Mil- ler, Kitchener, visited the for- mer's aunt, Mrs. F. A. Edwards, on Sunday. Mrs. Lloyd Westlake, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Malcom Toms, returned to Mount Forest on Friday with her hus- band who was here for a few hours that day. MSheila :s GiboDoris Research Depart- ment, University of Western On- tario, London, spent the Weekend with the former's mother, Mrs, Fred McEwen• Miss L. Morley, who spent the winter at Hollywood, Florida, returned to her cottage, "Birch - cliff," on Thursday after having visited her brothers in Birming- ham, Mich., en route. William L. Ferguson; who spent the winter with his sons, John and Charles, in Sudbury, return- ed to his home in the village on Saturday. He was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Margaret Ferguson, Toronto, who was with him over the weekend, Mrs. Bruce Kennedy left on Monday for Ottawa enroute to Montreal where she will embark on the "Empress of France" which sails on Friday for Liver- pool, England. Mrs. Kennedy, companied by her sister-in-law, will spend. two months with rela- rmes in England. Lions Attend Rally Lions Ted Mack, Ted Davies, DANCING! Bayfield Pavilion EVERY FRTDAY NIGHT FRANK TRAHER'S ' Popular Orchestra featuring VIiiGIN.IA MAY, on vocals 10.00 - 1.00 (DST) . Admission 75c Lakeview Casino, Grand Bend Dancing. t(?, BOBBY DOWNS and his ORCHESTRA Dancing Every Saturday May 27—Bobby Downs and his Orchestra June 3—.Bill Howe and his Orchestra June 10, 17, and 24 to Labor Day Neil McKay and his Orchestra 1 I19-20-21-b HOPSON'S BAYFIELD -- - - PHONE 7 HARDY BOX PLANTS Tomatoes -- Peppers Cauliflower '-- Cabbage ASTERS, PETUNIA, WALLFLOWER, STOCKS, PHLOX, PANSY, VIOLA, LOBELIA, HELIOTROPE, VERBENA, FORGET-ME-NOT and other varieties. RELIANCE ------ ETHYL;, THE NEWS-RECORD-71stt YEAAR. Second Section Pages 9-12 Local Man Oldest Competitor In Perch Derby The Home Paper. with the News PLENTY OF FUN AND PLENTY of fish that brought prizes featured Newspapermen's Day at Goderich Perch Derby Saturday. The prize winners are shown 'above, from left to right: G. E. HALL, retired publisher; of Clinton News -Record, oldest competitor in the event, he wilt be 75 in August, and won a gallon can of paint; PERCY PROCTOR, The London Free Press, who wonfirst prize with a one -pound five ounce perch; HAROLD MOSS, of the London Free Press, who took second przie; ED DIXON, of The Galt Reporter, third prize winner; DOUG MULLEN, The Toronto Star, fourth prize winner, and DICK NEW- TheNPerchLondon Derby Freeisconducted by 1Gode ich Lions prize. Club and all the proceeds are for charitable work.—Engraving courtesy The London Free Press., Jack Howard, Grant Turner, Reg Franand Jackcis, Seoteeiuner, BElliob CharleWelsh, Bob Stirling, Frank Thompson. Bill CIarke, Harvey Coleman, Elgin Porter, Ken Brandon, and L. Sootehmer, attended the 25th an- nual dinner rally of Zone 2 with Melvin Jones in St. Thomas on Friday last. Plans are going ahead locally for the summer carnival on July 26. Money from the sale of tickets 1'111 be devoted to the erection of a re' "C' tion and show building wt,i,h is being sponsored jointly by the Hayfield Lions Club and agr' iltum al Society, Congratulations! Congratulations to Bill Furter, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Furter, London, and grandson of Mrs. W. J. Stinson, Bayfield, who obtain- ed highest marks in a class of 111 in first year at the Royal Military College, Kingston. He came first in three subjects, thus winning three prizes, asd also won the Province of Quebec Challenge shield in shooting in token of which he was presented with a silver cup at the closing exercises on April 27. On May 25, he is to go by aeroplane to Chiliiwacic, B,C,, where he will attend the Royal Canadian School of Military Engineering with the rank of lieutenant for four months, Trinity WA Meets e lar meetiof the WA of tTrinity Church was held at the home of Mrs. George King on Thursday afternoon, The conducted president, Mrs. theopen ngoandn iclos clos- ing exercises. The Scripture was read by Mrs. King. Mrs. R. Larson read the minutes of last meeting and also reported that the Dorcas secretary had packed the outfit for the Indian girl at St. Paul's School, the Blood. Re- serve, Cardston, Alta. Mrs. E. A. Featherston read the third chapter in "The Family Tree" Mrs. R. H. F. Gairdner read the part of the constitution pertain- ing to Parochial branches as stressed at the recent Diocesan meeting of the Women's Auxil- iary. Following the Benediction, the hostess served tea. A A Greenhouse Industry Grows in Bayfield Thei•e'*is a new industry in Bayfield. It used to be that folk in this district were dependent upon greenhouses in the towns but the writer recently discovered that Bayfield has a sizeable greenhouse and dozens of cold frames right in our midst, Mr. and Mrs. George Hopson who have been in the market garden business for years, had the initiative to start with a small unit behind their market and residence last year, It was Announcement I would like to take this opportunity to inform the citizens of Clinton and vicinity that 1 have opened a dental practice in the office formerly occupied by Dr. D. C. Geddes. I respectfully solicit your patronage. For appointments phone 676. D. B. PALMER, D.D.S. I DRIVE 1N' TO YOUR NEAREST RELIANCC DEALER FOR A 7ANKFUL OF THIS SENSATIONAL NSW GASOLINE TODAYI NEW HIGH.OCTANE RATING W SMOOTH ANTI -KNOCK POWER NEW FLASHING GET -A -WAY NEW ROCKET PERFORMANCE NEW HIGH VALUE... REGULAR PRICES Band Concert Sunday 8.30 p.m. TOWN HALL 4 — GUEST ARTISTS — 44 JIMMY MILLER.—Gold medalist on Trumpet DOUG MARTIN—Tenor Soloist of Trinity United Church, Ingersoll ONE PIANO, FOUR HANDS—Mrs. O. B. Moffatt and Cliff Underwood All New Band Selections and Marches Make a date this .. SUNDAY, MAY 28 CHURCH RE -OPENED, PORTER'S HILL DUNGANNON — Completely 'redecorated, Dungannon United .Church May 1, with special services a at ?which the guest speaker was Rev, Newlyweds Feted Gilbertcomm Mr. Gomm, a United Church of Canada,f now living in Kincardine, was a for- mer Presbyterian minister at Dungannon, about 38 years ago. Neighbours of Mr. and Mrs. superannuated mini Harry Torrance, newly-wed couple, met on Friday evening last and presented them with a tri -light floor lamp. C. Harris read an address and Alvin Betties and A. Cox presented the gift, Community Club Meets i aThe May meeting of Porter's Hill Community Club was held at the home of Mrs. George Colclough with 20 members present. Roll call was answered by showing wedding photo and !paying fees. At the next meet- ing each member is asked to bring $1 in place of afternoon tea, also a bleached sack made up into some article, with a price tag attached. These articles are to be sold at this meeting. .It is expected that some good bargains will be offered. A donation of $10 was made to the Manitoba Relief Fund. Miss Mary Tor- rance had charge of the program. The June meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Elgin Cox with Mrs. Picot and Mrs. John- ston In charge. 0 EXETER — Exeter Lions Club met and voted $50 to Manitoba Flood Relief Fund. At the next meeting on June 9, the annual Ladies' Night will be held at Brenner Hotel, Grand Bend. 12'x24'. This year it has been enlarged to 12'x65'. Heated by water, they started the fires about the middle of March and now have thousands of tomato and other vegetables in all stages of growth. "We have tomato plants in bloom with stems as thick as your thumb. The cutworms will have to sharpen their incisors if they are going to cut through them," said Mrs. Hopson, as she rested on a shovel while preparing ground for transplanting. "What have you in those frames?" we Caked. "Asters, three kinds of alyssum, petunias, wallflowers, violos, well—what do you want?" she asked. (We didn't want any- thing that day, we were just ad- miring). "Next year. we'll have units right through to the back street. they tell me," said Mrs. Hopson. Now greenhouses do not grow by talking or waving a fairy wand. It takes energetic people like the Hopsons who are not afraid of long hours and hard work to make a success of the business. This is whet is called "private enterprise." Designed for You - THE FARMER Blanket Farm Liability Protection Annual Premium $10 ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN— the successful farmer is fair game for judgment -seekers and needs protection against the . liability resulting from accidents—just as much as he needs insurance against fire and windstorm. Why not take out a Farmers' Comprehensive Liability Policy "'l 1'r protected against such things as: (1) Stra,ving of farm anhnale (2) Accidents arising out of the use of your tractor on the woad.; (3) And many other hayards. lHuron Hereford Show Attracts 38 Entries Grand champion bull at the first annual show and sale of Huron Hereford Association, held in Community Park Tuesday af- ternoon, was shown by Heber Eedy, Dungannon, while the champion female at the show was an entry by Robert G. Mason, Ripley. The Hereford show attracted a full consignment of 38 animals. It was the first such show to be • sponsored, by the. Hereford breed- ers' association in Huron County, and replaces sales that had been held in other years by George Kennedy, Lucknow, and by Heber Eedy. Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Eedy, both of them club mem- bers, withdrew their private sales to make the club show and sale possible. Club,' officials said they were well pleased with the tournout and interest in their initial ven- ture of this kind. The bull championship was won by Mr. Eedy with the two-year- old Cransford Mixer, bred on the Eedy farm. The championship on the female side of the show was won by Mr. Mason with the seven-year-old cow Mabelle's Lena, bred by James A. Little, Teeswater. • Local exhibitors at the show were .1, A. Neilans, Londesboro, and Leslie Jervis, Clinton. 0 Hensall Tax Rate Struck at 50 Mills (By our liensall correspondent) At the regular meeting o f Hensall Village Council held last week, considerable discussion took place as regards setting the tax rate for 1950. It was decided that the tax rate be set at 50 mills as follows: County rate, 7.4; Vil- lage, 12.1; Public School, 12.8; High School, 4.5; Community Park, .8; Public Library, .9; Waterworks Debenture, 5.5;'Hyd. rant Rental, 4.1; main drain de- benture, 1.9. Central 4 6 t h Agricultural Society Ann u a l Spring Show CLINTON Tuesday, May 30 $3,000 - - PRIZES - - $3,000 Featuring: HORSES DR. J. G. TAGGART, Deputy Minister of Agri- culture for Canada, will officially open the Fair. CATTLE SWINE 1950 Show Promises to have a Record Breaking Entry WRITE FOR PRIZE LIST W. J. DALE, A. J. McMURRAY, President Secretary 21-b , GOVERNMENT OF CANADA 3% BONDS dated June 1st and November 1Sth, 1911 due June 1st, 1955 have beencalled for payment June 1st, 1950 These bonds should be presented promptly for payment on or soon after June 1st, 1980, because after that date they will no longer at. K. W. C_OLOUHOUN � I earn ante