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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1948-12-09, Page 14PAGE FOURTEEN eLlikrroil NENVS-11E.00111i DANCE To ERIC SCOTT ORCHESTRA From ROSLYN GROVE Featuring • LOVELY ,fr JOAN PECKHAM Vocalist Friday, December 10 TOWN HALL CLINTON Dancing 10 to '1 a.m. ADMISSION: 50 cents, 10 cents tax Christmas Carols Beautiful Music! Only If Your Radio Is Operating Properly. ENSURE THAT THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN ENJOY THIS CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT BY CALLING: PERSAN'ind7MADSEN SERVICE TO -DAY THERE IS NO RADIO THAT WE CANNOT REPAIR! FREE F.M. INFORMATION SERVICE PHONE 471W OPENING of the new Goshen United Church Sunday, December 12 SERVICES: 11.00 a.m. 7.30 p.m. REV. W. A. BEECROFT, chairman of Huron Presbytery to he present in the morning; REV. R. B. CUMMING, Lucan, secretary of London • Conference is to be present in the evening. A number of other ministers of this locality are also expected to be present. 50-p Free Pant Offer 6 Hohberlin made -to -measure suits. Special offer. Extra pants FREE with every suit, in price range from $35.00 to $58.50. This offer good until Dec. 20. Davis & Herman Custom Tailors PHONE 224W CLINTON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 194M H. Ransford's Diary Reveals Early 'History "I was lucky to get a brick- layer — after cutting a hole through the roof for the chimney it set on to rain and snow, and I had to sit over it with an umbrella for three or four hours. so that the man should not stop working." That's an extract from an 1833 diary. They had labor trouble in those days too. The diary, kept by en early Clinton settler, Henry Ransford, was read in part, before the Lon- don and Middlesex Historical Society at a recent meeting by Rev. M. A. Garland. 5 Mr, Ransford was a resource- ful man.' He left his native England (he was born in 1804) while little more then a boy. At 20 he wag in Jamaica and refusing the managership of a coffee planta- tion because he wanted to man- age a sugar plantation instead. 5 After he made his fortune in sugar he went back to England where he found "a great rage for emigrating to , Canada, so I thought I would go and have a look to judge for myself." He set out for Canada in 1832 —not his first visit, for he had touched at Halifax previously— and later bought 3,400 acres near Clinton. * 5' 5 Then he returned to England, got a wife and came, back to his estate, which he called Staple- ton after his old home in Brit- ain. The house was on the road between Clinton. and Seaforth, half -a -mile outside Clinton, He was appointed treasurer for Huron County in 1842, and moved to Goderich. In 1846 he went back to England, but not for good. * 5 * In England he rebuilt a starch factory and was doing well, when salt was unexpectedly discovered at Goderich. The astuteMr. Ransford, his eye still with his estate in Can- ada, told his son, Richard, who was at Clinton, to have a shaft sunk on his property to a depth of 1,200 feet. At 1,172 feet a bed of rock salt was found, so Mr. Ransford, senior, who had meantime studied salt works at Cheshire, England, came back to Canada to establish a salt plant that survived until 1918. * The Ransfords, who had ten children altogether, eight of theni born in Canada, led a difficult life as poineers. The diary records they came to the New World in a New York ship of 900 tons, passage costing 33 guineas, They docked at New York, sailed up the Hudson to Buffalo and by steamer to Port Stanley. 5 * At Port Stanley he hired wag- ons and came to London. But the wagoners firmly refused to go beyond London, "believing the roads to be impassable, and they were not far wrong," said M. Ransford, "I found a man to undertake the job, but the loads were in a dreadful state. The first day we got as far as Widow Con- nor's, in the northwest corner of the township (London). Here, we slept and the next morning I hired a horse for my wife to ride, as the wagon jolted her too much, This day, doing our best, we were 13 hours going 14 miles." * On one occasion they had to repair a bridge and reload the wagon after en upset, and put a To Reside in Brucefield Pictured above are MH. AND MRS. GLENN EMMANUEL PRICE, whose wedding took place in Victoria Street United Church Parsonage, Goderich, on Saturday, December 4, with Rev. L. H. Turner officiating. Upon their return from a honeymoon trip • to the United States, they will reside in BrOcefiolcl. The bride was formerly Mabel Hoggarth, daughter of William Bloomfield and the 'late Mrs. Bloomfield, Goderich, while the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Price, Bruce - field. —Photo by Earl 1VlacLaren, Gederich, Westerner, Easterner, Start Radio Service The two young men who ad- vertise their radio service under their names, Persan and Madsen, are quite well known here, al- most old timers indeed, over a year of residence and hoping to stay. Bob Persan Was born in Saskat- chewan, lived some years in Alberta, married in Vancouver, • new pole in the wagon. • Accommodation in roadside inns was elementary. In one inn "along one side of the house was a raised platform, the whole length covered with bedding of some kind, divided by curtains with four or five beds. My wife and I took one compartment." * Their first summer, 1833, was crude iri its living accommoda- tions. "Our kitchen and fireplace was a large hemlock stump outside the hours, our dinner table a broad cherry board eight feet long on top of the flour barrel, For chairs we used our trunk and boxes; and the piano case made a capital cupboard." Today, the Ransford family hes died out of the neighborhood of Mon. The property has been sold off in lots. The farm where the salt works stood is now own- ed by Bert Gibbings, said Rev. Mr, Garland. The diary, which begins in 1823, has 69 pages, 19 pages of which ,deal with life in the West Indies, 26 with Canada from 1831 to 1846, and the remainder mostly with England, though trips to Canada are mentioned too. Though the Ransford home improved steadily over the years of family life, "the roads remain- ed next to impassable." On the way home to England, records Mr. Ransford mournfully, "so rough was that 'oe4 tot actually wore out the seat of a new pair of trousers between Goderich and Hamilton. Goderich and Hamilton!" ..... ••• sit • B.C., sold a nice electrical busi- ness in Edmonton, Alta., to join the RCAF on August 12, 1940. His initial training was at No. 2 Manning Depot, Brandon, Man., and was followed by a winter of guard duty at the RCAF Ser- vice Flying Training School in Moose Jaw, Sask Eight months were spent at No. 1 Wireless School, Montreal, P.Q., and a post- ing to No, 6 Repair Depot, Tren- ton, came after completing the course. He then was sent to the Technical Board at No. 1 Equip- ment Depot, Toronto. At the end of the war he was sent west ;again for compulsory discharge to Calgary Release Centre, Re -enlisting at once, Mr. Per- san was attached to North West Air Conmand in charge of the Technical shops and later was sentto Dawson Creek, B.C. to operate and • service teletype equipment until the line was taken over by the C.N. Tele- graph. fie.was shortly after post- ed on course to No. 1 R. and C. S., Clinton, and later taken on the staff here. ,Mr, Persan's favourite sports are base -ball, golf end skating His favourite hobbies are musid, especially the violin, photography in all its branches, and first of all, of course, Radio design, con- struction, servicing and the var- ious kinds of equipment used in the businessHe holds among other qualifications a first class Radio Technicians License of the Province of Alberta. He has four children, three of them attending local school and kindergarten. Murray Madsen previously own- ed a successful radio repair shop in St. Stephen, N,B,, and has had nine years' experience in all kinds of radio repairing and servicing, including considerable study in the fields of Television and Frequency Modulation. He is a member of the Philco Radio Service and is an authoriz- ed repairman for Canadian Gen- eral Electric. His favourite sport is softball and he pitched for the Clinton team during the 1943 series, He has two ••• ,,,.-gr-t-"" --- • - --- FOR FINE PRINTING PHONE 4 TO THE ELECTORS OF THE r TOWNSHIP OF GODERICH: My sincere thanks to everyone who sup- ported me at the polls on Monday and elected me as your Reeve for 1949. I will at all times have the interests of the Township in mind, • and trust, that with your co-operation,, we may have a good year in Goderich Township. I would also like to convey to each and every one my sincerest wish for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year, JAMES R. STIRLING 50-b •-•-• TO THE ELECTORS OF GODERICH TOWNSHIP: 1 would like to express my, heartfelt thanks for placing me at the head of the poll for Councillor for 1949 in Monday's municipal election. 1 shall do my utmost to merit the confidence so placed in me. 1 sincerely hope you may all enjoy the coming Yuletide season. —KENNETH MERNER 50-p TO THE ELECTORS OF GODERICH TOWNSHIP: I would like at this time to express my appreciation for the way in which the people of Goderich Township. stood behind me and elected me to the 1949 Council. I will try, in my term of office, always to keep your interests at heart. I would like to wish every person the Season's Greetings. —JOHN W. DEEVES 50-p TO THE ELECTORS OF GODERICH TOWNSHIP: I would like to take this opportunity of expressing my sincere thanks to you for electing me as Councillor for 1949 at the election on Monday. At all times, 1 shall try to do my best in the interests of the Town- ship. I would also like to wish every one the Compli- ments of the season. —EDWARD N. GRIGG . 60-p . To the Electors of the Township of Goderich: I would like to express my appreciation to all g those who supported me at the polls on, Monday in my bid for the Reeveship. I would like to extend to all the Compliments of the Season. :13 50-b 14•74;;F:iiki4;i:**If.0144.04.141444:0:4;.•'.4»:tariottivio4..+.1.1034334.YAVA•riiktiAii.•*14:4 GORDON A. ORR CAR SPECIALS Beautiful Blue DODGE 5 -passenger Club Coupe with 30 -day guarantee just the smartest car in town Black HUDSON 1947 Sedan, like new Black CHEVROLET 1946 Sedan, like new We will accept good clean late -model trade-ins, on new AUSTIN cars; now is the time to buy as prices will 4se at least $50,00 per unit, most any time. • J. E. HUGILL and SON PHONE 784W AUSTIN SALES and SERVICE ,d6V-!,10-MPAliO-nt'011e:,--V:41A-7...0-11.4,11,,,---V1r:p---0-, fdee,t:e'g1c1 s„. , #--•..!-.h) OPPERg ,„.„. 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