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CLINTONNEWS-RECORD
OLD BOYS' SOUVENIR EDITION
Landmarks of Clinton
Old Home Directory
(By FRED SLOMAN)
THE OLD SWIMl',UN,' HOLE
Go down the London Road to
the iron bridge that isn't there
any more, Turn left and peel
some slippery elmbark if it is
Springtime: Bathing suits , o r
other formal attire not neces-
sary. Girl, and things like that,
not welcome, though in 1910
several were not averse to lean-
ing on the rail of the bridge and
-"gazing over the hundred yards,
and one, now a business woman
in her own right, was heard to
wishshe had binoculars.
Cedar bark available for those
who wish . to smoke.
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THE FIFTH PARADISE
Take the Base Line past Sum-
merhill and turn left. There are,
'butternuts and beech nuts in sea-
son, raspberries and thimble -
berries and thorns. Probably
the best time to go is in October
when the leaves are red. It is
best to take but one passenger
in your Model T. Or, if a cycling
party, make it a party of two.
Elliott's Livery Stable or Davis'
Livery or Tom Cook will rent . a
red -wheeled rubber -tire buggy
for seventy-five cents, or a dol -
kir if you do not return the
horse before midnight. Trip us-
ually cost the dollar.
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THE LITTLE SCHOOL
It, isn't where it used to be,
but the spot is there with a
teeter-totter on it . , a sissy
modern contrivances that is poor
substitute for hunko-lilo, spools,
rag, or pum-pum-pull-away. It
is right opposite Jumbo Lough's
house but some sort of a 'dentist
lives in that house now, and any-
way, Jumbo Lough' was busy at
the big school with the Model-
ites• while Eddie Nickle, Bent
Levis, Harold Morrel, Pick Levy,
Willie Carling et, al, learned the
manly, sport of bare -knuckle box-
ing. If the Little School were'
there for ` Old Home foik)s, sur-
ely Miss Taylor would be teach-
ing' downstairs 'and Miss Turner
upstairs.
TRICK'S CRICK
if just passing on the road to
Bayfield, drive your horse down
through the creek . not that'
your horse needs a drink of the
good spring water, but your girl
is sure to squeal and put her
arm around you as the buggy
makes as if it were going to' tip
over. It's nice.
The crick area, is still lousy
with No Trespassing signs, so,
only lawbrakers or those with
unlimited gall should go in past
the mill to the river.
And if swimming there, you.
havelittle need to fear detection
from the public • but watch out
for bloodsuckers. They are aw-
ful. As witness to that you may
ask Mrs. X who requested us
not to print her name but you
have probably said hello to her
an ,the street in Clinton this
week. .She got a bloodsucker.
Clinton Kiltie Band 25 Years Ago
(,Photograph taken at Old Home Week, August 1925)
Front row (sitting)—left ,to right --Leslie Pearson, Danny Smith, Dick Ward W. Jr"Blondie",
Cook (deceased); Murray MCEwan, William W. hutch, Sr.;
Middle row (sitting) -left to right --Torn Herman, Jack Mutch (Detroit, Mich.); William W.
Mutch, Jr. (Paisley); Frank Mulch, William J. Mutch, Theo Fremlin;
. Back row (standing)—left to right= -George Cooper (deceased); J, Barrett (London) (de-
ceased);„ John,- Innes,
de-ceased);;'John,•Innes, Orval Rapson, Fred Mutch (deceased), Bandmaster; Morgan. Agnew, Wil-
liam Moffatt, William -Richardson, George Phalen (deceased), Robert Schrenk.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1956
nominal consideration, will , still after five weeks to Mr. Hale.
loan you a book of poems writ- Admission, five cents and te*
ten by Clara Mountcastle under cents, and on 'specialnights be -
the pen name of "Carissima" sides the slides and vocal rend -
which any Latin student who ering of "For Sale a Baby" and
passed, through the CCI' will "Moonlight Bay" and "Sweet
know means "the sweetest one." Bunch of Daisies", there was a
: a: a five -reel moving picture.
MOVING PICTURE SHOW managemeAdults .werentbut the welcomedaudience by the.
Opposite the ' present Roxy were mostly the young and care-
Theatre and beside Piumsteel's' less, The songs were sad enough
store. Operated ,first by Mr. La- to suit all : tastes, but among
fayette Uinhegrove who sold Quit (Continued -on Page 15)
It seems those things get on
you and suck at your blood until
you die and there is no way of
getting them off unless ydu know
how. ' Also they are slippery and
black and crawly.
Mrs. X who was Miss' Y got
one on her limb. It was quite
near where the limb joins the
rest of her. - Her hysterical cries
of help and murder brought
fishermen from the river but the
same hysteria made her forget
'to cover the limb or the rest of
her. She was quite plump. By
all means visit Trick's Crick. It
was beautiful r
THE THREE BIG TREES
Welcome Old Boys!
F. W. Andrews
Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Eggs
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MEMORIALS
bush and maybe can see the ice
jam and the men trying to • save
the old wooden tramway that
wasa quarter mile long. Melvin
Ransford's boat will be tied - to
the bank below the estate but
you must not touch that ... the
Only rowboat ever seen so ` far
inland from Bayfield and Gode-
rich.
If you have .a bike you can go
down the London Road and turn
up Stirling's lane past Argent's.
If you have no bike you can cut
past Fred Livermore's a n d
through Farran's field. Wear
pants that you can get wet (or a
bathing suit, though that looks
silly) for it might be your ball
luck to find some Sunday Schohl
class having a picnic there, teach-
er and girls and all, and they
swim party too, pays ball at leash hen the picnic one
person is sure to slip running to
second because some cows had
been, there first. •
The Three Big Trees ate only
one ow. And
swim,
ordersof Doctorn t Thompson,
Medical Officer of Health. Sewers!
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METEOROLOGICAL TOWER
the Dodge or the Chev would
bring back two hundred pounds.
of 'things that would, be dandy
to make a soap -box derby racing
car, a wire trellis for the morn-
ing glories, a bit of hose that
would make a fountain,.a pedal
for a kiddie car, a vase that was
only slightly chipped and some
junk. In season, there are
flowers.
It blew down after • six years
and the town dump is there now.
After' Sunday School you walk
to the ' cemetery which is quite
a nice' thing to do on Sunday
and fully approved. Then if you
are unchaperoned your curiosity
takes you a few, more rods to
the sixty -foot wooden tower that
nobody seemed to know the use
of. If you are quite unchaperoned
you can climb to the top and see
quite some distance. Only for
reasons that 'are obvious you
had to go up first and your girl
after you and let her -come down
first for the ladders were almost
perpendicular. There is a girl
still living in Clinton who fainted
when she got to the top. Quite
a problem. All in all it's a good
thing the tower blew down.
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GIBBINGS' POND
You will find it easily. The
last time you were there you
were probasent bly
Gund-
ry, achrnor Mr.
Firth or Mr. Flemming to get a
frog or a pollywog or a grass-
hopper for study in the High
School science rooms, and you
came back late, for Miss Mac-
Dougall's French period and she
was annoyed.
Or in the winter when it was
moonlight you skated there even
though you were a clerk from
the Molson's Bank or the Sover-
eign Bank and other kids had
cleared the ice of its snow by
the sweat of their brows and you
and your girl took over in the
moonlight. lihe Devil's Half Aerie
decisively beat Little England on
that pond playing shinny...eigh-
teen
..eigh-teen men on one team, twenty-
two on the other with Daisy Copp
as a borrowed goalkeeper, making
twenty-three on,the losing team.
Saugey Grant got his eye cut so
badly that one, of us had to chew
up some tobacco to make some
juice to spit in the cut so he
wouldn't die of lock-jaw. It
saved 'him ... but Lauer Saugey
went' to France and played the
game just as fearlessly.
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THE SALT BLOCK
'Rest route is to walk down the
Grand Trunk and over the tram-
way and back up the big Staple-
ton hill. If it is Springtime you
can get some hepaticas and red
lilies and ,bloodroot in Ransford's
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We hope the old town 4.
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THE WIGWAM
On the corner on Huron Road
before you come to RumSall's
buggy factory and just across
from Leslie's Wagon Shop. The
Misses Mountcastle lived there
and painted at eaesls and model-
led in clay and wrote poems for
the New Era and the News Re-
cord until each got to be age 98
and passed away. Miss Hall, the
present town Librarian, for a
THE TOWN DUMP
The view is superb. It used
to be by the river but when it
encroached' on the pasture field
Colonel Rance asked the Council
of the day to remove it. Now
you get to it by going out the
gravel road and taking first turn
right. Take your .22 of an even-
ing and watch the sunset over
Goderich Township and see how
many rats you can get among the
tin cans and rusted bed springs.
Ernie Rumball says there is no
closed season.
Today's efficient Town Coun-
cil put a bulldozer on the dump,
makes it sweeter but destroys
the romance. In your day you
could take a hundred pounds of
tin cans and broken dishes out
in the Dodge or the Chev, and if
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View of
Knitting
Factory
From
Northeast
Corner
You remember "the knitting factory"
down on Mary Street? If may have
changed hands since you left, but its
progress is still keeping pace with the
community. Or so we think. And we
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