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CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Clinton News -Record
THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Established 1878
Amalgamated 1924
An Independent Newspaper devoted to the Interests of the Town of Clinton and Surrounding • District
Population, 2,500; Trading Area, 10,000; Sworn Circulation, 1,908; Rate, .03 per line
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,.Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, .Ontario,. Canada, in the Heart of Huron County
R. S. ATKEY, Editor A. L. COr.,QUHOUN, Plant Manager
• Clinton Old Home Week, Saturday -Wednesday, August 5 - 9, 1950 s
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1949"
Why Follow Precedent?
ADVENT OF A NEW YEAR, for som
reason, has the effect of throwing our mind
backward in time. In a burst of making
for the sorrows of the past and"sniotherin
the memories of its mistakes we indulge in
beef orgy of fun. Then we ' getdown to the
somewhat more grim business of looking ahead.
The December Monthly Letter of The
Royal Bank of Canada frankly states it is
a plea that we stride into 1950_ with our faces
forward, instead of backing intoit with our
eyes on the way things were done in the pest,
Our inclination is (we might as well admit
that we are lazy -minded people) to follow
precedent, to do what's been done before.
' But lots of people in ahe past decided no
to, and that's why living is ,so; much bette
today than it was 40, or 4,000 years ago. That'
why. we have gadgets and jigs to make wo
easier, books to make learning easier, motor
ships and automobiles and planes to make i
easier to go places, and electric calculating
machines to add up the cost and profit of it all.
The sad thing is that precedent often get
to work before its coming is recognized. There
are parts of our human makeup which lean
toward habits; we are lazy about the rework-
ing of a problem Once solved, and we do our
utmost to make an old solution fit a new prob-
lem. We are fascinated by the prospects of
saving time and energy and thought by doing
tasks in a routine way. We like the "security"
(as we call it) of being able to predict from
past precedent just what will be done next.
• It is amazing to the 'observant person to
see what reverence we give a welt -established
precedent, Many of our cities are snarled in
traffic jams today because we are following
crooked paths made by cows centuries ago.
As the result of too much precedent Wor-
ship, staleness sets in. Repetition produces a
gradual le-Wering of our vividness of apprecia-
tion. Life•bepomes dull. Our spirit of advent-
ure dies. We are willing to hear only whet we
• have always beard, so our thinking processes
e wither, We bring old'age' upon ourselves
s prematurely.
up There remains, fortunately for the human
g race, a tiny creative minority that refuses to
a turn aside from the task of building usefully.
They are not particularly popular, because
they disturb the slumber of the, great mass
of people:
The truth is, es was so well stated , by
Professor A. N. Whitehead in "Adventures of
Ideas": "No static maintenance of perfection is
possible. Advance or Decadence are the only,
choices offered to mankind,"
• The belief that things have been already
settled for us on lines surviving ,from` primi-
tive civilization is an enemy of true progress.
People who try to decide a question today by
e trotting s out a precedent from the long -ago
rk past are acting just, about GS. sensibly as the
man who, when trying to sell his house, car-
t ried a brick in his pocket as a sample.
Masters of our Fate
The Grreeks and the Romans at their best
period were taken by modern Europe as the
standard of civilization and culture. It was a
Procedure that served Western races well, but
the world has passed into a new stage of
growth. New knowledge, and new technologies
have altered the proportions of things.
And (let us be forthright about this) the
Greeks themselves were not backward -looking
pople. They were, in their way, notoriously
speculative, adventurous,-'eaaetr for novelty.
They were not copyists. Why should we as-
sume that progress stopped with them, or at
anyother point in human history?
We need to reason upon today's cases
themselves, in today's surroundings, and draw
fully upon today's knowledge and facilities.
Take into consideartion, ' of course, cases in
the past which seem similar, but take them
'as helps only, not as laws.
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The First
Column . .
(Conne)
BEFOtRE PRESinued from ENTe �DAY
Streets Committee of Council was
appointed
McKenzie's used
la
Planing tram Mill to
Kaiser's Corner so that in spring
could hardly h Cook's
thenion trains.. •
The New Em printed a beautiful
poem:
"Where are you going my
pretty maid?"
"I'm going a -swimming, sir,"
she said.
• "May I go with you? my
THOUGHT FOR TODAY "I wholly dis-
approve of what you say but will defend to
the death your right to say it". 'VOLTAIRE
pretty maid."
"Why, yes, kind sir, if you're
not afraid."
"Where will we swim, My:
pretty maid?"
"On the street to the station,
sir,' she said.
The people watched es we
waded in,
Till water and mud came up
to our ohin.
Several more stanzas required,
and name of the Poet . ,
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD
surely: Who had the pull with
the town fathers that the new
granolithie sidewalk was put in
on Vinegar Hill before it was
nut in on Huron Street while
filo plank walk un Vinegar Hilt
was in fair condition and the
planks form Irwin': grocery store
to the public school were a dan-
ger to life and limb 'and a dis-
grs,ee to a decent town the size
of .Clinton . . It wan not just
fair that Toe Wheatley. road
foreman :police chief—bell ring-
er—pound keeper—tax collector-,
truant officer—town hail janitor
—weigh scales' clerk anddog
catcher, should have taken all
the . criticism for nutting that i
granolithie sidewalk in t h e r,
wrong places first . , . Skutdug- F
gory somewhere . . . 'S
ssoneseenneneneesse
to
Couple to Reside in Clinton
MR. AND MRS. FREDERICK GLEN ANDERSON are
pictured following their marriage at. North Street United
Church, Goderioh. Mrs. Anderson is " the former Dorothy
jean Wilson, daughter of Mrs. Wilson, Goderieh, and the
late Robert Wilson,, and her husband is the . son of Mr. and
Mea. Fred Anderson, Clinton. The couple will reside in
Clinton,—Photo by Mac-Larexes, Goderieh,
—Engraving courtesy The London ?tee Press .'
From Our Early Files
25 Years Ago CW J. s Co etre e iv':r' Lada,' R,
THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORDe
Sweet, C. Witt, G. Cook, W. Ste -
Thursday, December 4, 1924 man F Young R A Bell,
Ste -
Thursday,
y, -- At Rho On- Bell, COF.: J, Finch,. M. Greene,
toric St. Parsonage, Clinton on M. M°Ewan, N. Cole, T. Johnson,
Wednesday, December 3, 1924, by H. Glazier, J. P. Sheppard, G.
Rev, C, J, Dece use, Anna Mae, David, W. C. Brown, G. Cook; C.
elder daughter of Mrs Arinstron Cook, E. W. Evans, H. Fremlin,
and the late .,Robert Armstrong, T Wates, A sting at J Appinua
to David A. Kay, The' attendants Those rise Lad at the annual
bazaar of the Ladies' Guild f St
were the bride's sister, Miss My- Paul's Anglican Church were:
rtle Armstrong, and Alex Eagle- Mrs. McLeod, Miss Hine, MTs, H.
son,
Clintcn will definitely have an
Old Home Week In 1925, it was
decided at a meeting on Thursday
evening last. Officers appointed
are: honorary presidents, N. W.
Trewartha -and the Mayor; hon-
orary vice presidents, D. Cante-' da Armour
T. Rance, Mrs. Dowding, Mrs.
Rattenbury, Mrs. Barry Combe,
Mrs. J. E. Hovey, Mrs. Armour,
Mrs. McLean rMrs, Dunford, Mrs.
McBrien, Mrs. Hill, John Hartley,
Misses Stella Cppp, Gladys Ber-
man, May Webb, Devereux, Mai -
ion,,' H. Wiltse, C. G, Middleton; Henry Marshall died very sudd-
president, A. J. McMurray; vice enly on Thursday last. Rev. W. 3,
president, Dr. J. W. Shaw; secret- Jolliffe officiated at the funeral.
cry, S. B. Stothers; chairmen of Pallbearers were Robert Marshall
committees:
Joyner,
EllHenry
iott, ubity Hugh Miller; Joyne ,Thoms Trick and David
reception and billeting, J. Ford; Beacom.
amusement, J., Zapfe; grounds, L. Thomas McNeil has sold his
Paisley;" sports and games, • John house on Isaac St. to J. Mahaffy,
Sutter; musical, Fred Mutch and end has moved into the French
Band; entertainment, H. B. cottage on Townsend St. recently
Combe; finance, president, vice occupied by Jacob Taylor. M.
president, secretary, treasurer; and Mrs. Wilfred Biggin have
schools, W. M. Erwin and N, moved into Mrs. Vodden's house
Geddes; firemen, H. Glazier, B. on Princess St., and the place
Kerr. they have vacated is now occup-
Mrrs. Robert Cree was presented led by Mr. and Mrs, Thomas
with a life membership in the Churchill, Jr,
Woman's Missionary Society of Misses Lucile Grant, Edith Joil-
the Presbyterian Church at a iffe, Olive and Edna Cooper,
eatherine held at the home of Sybil Courtice, May Armstrong,
Mrs. J, C, Gandier, The gift was Bessie Glen, Kate Ross and Edith
from the Girls' Club of the Church Hodgen, - all Clintonians, while
r the come in Toronto were guests at a party
if one be given by Misses Ida and Louise
S Holmes,
i, E, "Cap" Creek has gone to
Toronto where he has become
engaged with a cold storage plant
D.R.O's appointed f�
ng municipal electi+oi
cucn::zuy, are lr, r„ ave le, A.
. Cudmore, E. G Courtice, and
. J, Andrews.
The choirs of Wesley and On-
rio St. Churches have each en-
joyed a fowl supper. This is en
nnual treat In both churches,
Misses Ferrol Higgins and
ary R. Stewart assisted at a
oncert in Bayfield given under
the auspices of Trinity Anglican
Church,
''Clinton Ministerial Association
payed a friendly visit to Goder-
ieh sand while there Rev. E.
•Parker, gave an excellent address
on "Modern Evangelism—its' need
its method and means".
Louis A. McKay, a gradutate of
Clinton Collegiate 'Institute, has
been 'awarded a Rhodes scholar-
ship, giving him a three-year
course et Oxford as well as an
nnual income of £350,
B. Rowcliffe saw a dear drink -
g in the water trough on his
rea on the' London Road one
morning recently.
Dr. J. W. Shaw end Mr. end
Mrs. N. W. Tree/al-the repesented
Clinton Public Hospital at a
meeting of some committees of
the Ontario Legislature in Tor-
onto,
Historical Sketches of the County of Huron o
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(Continued from Page One)
roads and bridges, and redeemed
5,000 of their debentures issued
in •aid of the L. and B. before
mentioned; so at present the
township has liabilities except the
unredeemed $5,000 of railroad de-
bentures,
• Brucefieid
There ere many smart villages
in Stanley, and along its eastern
and southern 'town -lines. The
most important of these is Brtiee-
field, on the Ttickersmith town -
line, seven miles south of Clin-
ton. The first settler here was
Peter McMullen, 'as before stated,
but among the first buildings,
erected was a store by one. Me -
Cowan, who named the village
in honour of Major Bruce, a
brother-in-law of Earl Elgin, and
Aide -de -Camp to 'that Governor-
General at the time of his tour
through Upper Canada. This is
now an important' station on the
L.H. and art., and contains four
general stores, two shoe shops,
two tailor's shops, one tannery,
one steam saw -mill, one wagon
shop, one butcher's shop, two
hotels, railway mail •facilities,
and about 200 of a population. It
is distant 43 miles from London i
and 12 from Goderich.
Kippen
Kippen is also located on the
Stanley and Tuckersmith town -
line, where it is intersected by
tl H
to ay and Stanley town -line,
. When Lerd Elgin and the Post -
'master -General paid a visit to'
London many years ago, Mr. Ro-
bert Bell, of Tuckersmith ob-
tained an interview with the lat-
ter, and requested the opening of
a post office at the place. The
Postmaster -General invited Mr.
Belt to name the office, when
he suggested "Stirling," t h e
name of his native county. To
this the Poshnaster-General de-
murred, as he 'considered it t
"Scotchy," and in turn suggested
"Mtillingar," to which Mr. Bell
promptly objected on account of
its- "Irish" derivation; end on
being again invited to name It,
he proposed the n%,ihe of his
native parish, Kippen, which,
though intensely Scotch, was ac-
cepted by the Postmaster-Gen-
erai, Besides a store, hotel, and
first-class mail facilities, there is
a station on the L.H, and B.R.,
and Methodist and Presbyterian
Churches.
Drysdale
Drysdale, on the Stanley and
Hay town -line, was laid out by
a man whose name it bears,
whose family settled there early
n the history of the townships.
It has a tri -weekly mail off Nip -
pen, a store, hotel, church, school
and a few mechanics' shops,
Blake and Hill's Green are
small , villages between Kippen
and Drysdale,
Varna
Varna is a smart village on the
Bayfield and Brucefield Gravel
Road, about midway between
these points, The Town Hall is
Iocated here, and here the Coun-
cil meets. In 1854 Josiah H.
Secord came ;to this place, and
found nothing in the semblance
of a village. except a log shanty,
kept by one Sales as a tavern.
The next spring Mr. Secord open-
ed the pioneer store of the vii- a
lage, and the same season the
post office was opened in his in
store. It was called Varna, after fa
a place then. celebrated in con-
nection with the Crimean war,
It now contains. two general
stores, one hotel, two churches,
Methdosit and Episcopal, a school
house in which two teachers are
employed. a wagon shop, three
blacksmiths' shops, cheese fac-
tory, two shoe shops, a cooperage,
and a population of about 100.
Fine People
in regard. to the people of
Stanley little need be said, except
that they possess their full share
of intelligence end those habits
of industry and prudence, the
exercise of which, by the pioneers
of the township, converted the
howling wilderness which they
encountered on their arrival into
an average township of the best
farming district in Canada,
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THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, December 2, 1909
Those assisting at the Epworth
League: meeting of Wesley Church
were J. Watts, • Sidney Watts,.
Edgar Pattison, Ernie Graham,
Ernie Britton, Eddie Nichol, Ray
Cantelon, Willie Cook, Leonard
Berland, Willie Twitchell, Her-
bert Cook and Mlvi B. Greene.
The following names have been
added to the voters' list for Clin-
ton: 'Prof, W. Brown, Joseph
Barber, Rev, T. W. Cosens, Rev.
H. Charlesworth, T. M. Cullen,
Cree Cook, A. F. Cudmore, George
Cooper, W. E. Duncan, Mrs. Ginn,
W. K. Greenwood, Mrs, H. B.
Kerr, R.. E. Manning, James Man-
ning, Alf McEwan, Carl Olson,
Wilfred Pickett, Amos Townsend,
Thomas Watts, W. S. -Downs.
Copp and Kaiser painted new
signs for W. R. Counter's Jewell-
ery store last week,
J. Scruton is having his butch--
er shop painted and papered,•
Miss Amy Howson has left 011 ; ,
W. Elliott has received $300
an extended trip to the West, and h sm J, Taylor payment for
will later meet hex brother and his claim which he enteredrafter
sister to law Mr. and Mrs John, the loss of his barn by fire_ '
Rowson,- Vancouver, and will go It is inspatteh that there will
with them to spend the winter in be skating at the local arena in
California. the course of a few drays,
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40 Years Ago
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Thursday, December 2, 1909
The WOW. defeated the COP.
et carpet ball, Playing were: W
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WITN CAPTAIN MOReeAN's
C.MPLIAse 4'r
The Boys' Organization are
planning a 'New Year's Eve En-
tertainment, and already pract-
ices are underway,
Mrs. G. E. Saville has been
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James Webster, Londesboro.
J. A. MacDonald has been ap-
pointed chief justice of British
Columbia. This is another Clinton
boy who has made good.
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Letters to Editor
Editor,
The NEWS -RECORD
THE HOPE COMMISSION
We are growing "curiouser and
curiouser" about the long-await-
ed import of the Commission ' on
Education.
Hon. Dana Porter has announc-
ed some changes to take place in
the relationship of school grades.
Does this fall in line with the
Commission's finding or has the
Commission been ignored? •
Clinton, Ont. —IN7`ERESTED
Nov. 28, 1946
THE VOICE' OF
TEM PERANCE
Everyone knows that it is far
more sensibleto put a fence
around a dangerous cliff and so.
to pre"vent ' disastrous accidents
thanmerely to place an ambul-
ance in the valley to transport
victims to the. hospitals.- In other
words" .the Huron. Temperance'
Federation while concerned' about
helping the victims of their liquor
traffic is 'still more concerned.
about subjecting so destructive a
traffic to every sort of restric-
tion. ' 48 b
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1949 J
$rx CONFIRI►4ED . Rev. "G. N. Luxton, biehop of Bur
WINGRAM -= A special con- on, conducted the service, assist-
firmation 'service was held in St. ed by Rev. E. 0. Lancaster, rector
Paul's Anglican Chureh here of the Church. Six were con -
Sunday morning, Nov. 20. Kt. firmed.
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