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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1947-11-06, Page 1News -Record "Classified Adlets Pay lintott. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE CLINTON NEW ERA -ESTABLISHED 186.5 ecor Sworn Circulation 1,839 No. 45 - 69th Year, Whole No. 6277 Mayor CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, - NOVEMBER 6, 1947 The Home Paper With the News Proclaims November 11 Public Holiday In Clinton The 4Z�►sd. eakima_..__ HALLOWE'EN WAS A COLORFUL time in the Dili Hall of bhe Radar School, wheri eine of .the .beat parties 'in years was .staged, with about -500 in .attendance . The"huge hall was appropriately decorated . •for the oe- cahion, and the dancers ware attired in "hard lienee'ametumes -- and howl The RCAF Central Air -Com- mend .dance band flew up from Teen- toe- end played for the dance in its own inimitable style • lit seemed that nearly everyone :in Clinton was there . . . * M w SO5 11 OF THE maim RESIDENTS may remember J. Frank Jackson, now living in Barrie, who visited W. D. Elam and other friends in °lintel this week . . . Mrs. J. B. Gibbings is a cousin . He is a son of the late John Jaekson, shoe merchant here where Beattie's Furniture stand is located, and was 'with Foster and Hanley, photographers, before leaving Clinton in 1885 . Mr. Jack e ,practised photography. in Barrie f mote than 30 years before retirin in 1920. Farmers. Win Overseas Trip If you have guests or have been or are goerig away, let The NEWS - RECORD know. Phone 4. * a* Douglas G. Ball spent the weekend' in Detroit, Miele David J. Johnston, Kitchener, spent Tuesday last with hismother, Mrs. J. H. Johnston. Mies Doris Weymouth, London, spent the weekend with leer parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Waymouth. Miss ;Marion Gibbing's, Dundas, will spend this weekend at the home of her parents, Mr. and •Mrs. B. J. Gibb- ings. Guests at the home.of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. MacDonald over the weekend were Mr. and Mrs, L. J. Clark, Kin- cardine. W. J. IMiller and daughter, Miss Maxine, attended the funeral of the late Miss Minnie Cook in Godericb on Saturday. n Frank Fingland, Jr., and Bryson or Perrin, University of Torouto, spent g •the weekend with the former's par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fingland Sr, Rev. George Minielly, Monkton, who conducted serviees in Wesley- , Willis United church on Sunday was ue the guest while in town of Mrs. And- a rwe Lane and family at the manse. Douglas T. Bartliff, member of the - firm of ;Bartliff Bros„ bakers and cion e feotieuera, returned Sunday night - from Chicago, 11'i., where he took a - fortnight's course in :specialised bak- ing. Recent guests at the home of M, and Mrs. Fred Lobb were Mr. and Mrs, �i Erie Forsythe °erre, Me. and Mrs. John Caere, Rt. Hon. Arthur Meigban and Henry Calwell, all of Toronto. WBIArI' DOBS THE WORD " NT arid" mean? .. , "Ontario? originals was the Iroquois word "karraderie' which means "sparkling or blu It was used to deserib the waters of the present Lake Ont. ario. , , Later, "kanaderie" was coir tinted to "Ontario," and the whit settlers gave .the name to the land a long the lake's shores for an ever extending area . , , 0 INTERNATIONAL DELEGATE REPORTS TO CLINTON LIONS Enjoying its best attendance in several months, Clinton Lions Club held a bang-up dinner meeting in St. Paul's Parish Hali Tuesday, O'c- teber 28, to heer Past President W. L. "Nick" . Whyte give a firsthand ac- count of his trip to the Lions Inter- national Convention in SanFrancis- co in July. First viee-president J. G. McLay presided. Reports of committees were given by the following chairmen: Fa11 Probe, J, G. McLay and F. B. Penn• ebaker; Sight Conservation, Harry Bartliff, on tag day for the "Blind, indicating $205 raised; Health and Welfare, George 13. Beattie, who solicited donations of clothing and shoes for a needy family, to be left at his store; Membership, R. S. At - key, who indicated t' et individual members would be tponsible for submitting the names Of prospective new members; 'Belie and Girls, An- toine Garen, who asked for sugges- tions for a new place for the Boy Scouts and Girl Gulden to meet. The Extension and Convention Committee, was in charge of the meeting, and George H. Jefferson, chairman 'of -the committee, conduct- ed the rest of the meeting. - Three sehooi girls --Jane. Hartley, .olive Petrie' and Jayne Hawkins- contributed guitar and„b;tnjo trios which proved very. acceptable.. en his .talk, Lion -Whyte outlined the wonderful trip 'he and Mrs. Whyte had taken to the Internation al Convention, travelling he special train through Chicago ' and the Grand Canyon, • with a side tour to Hollywood. The convention at SanFrancisco was the largest ever held, with more than 12,000 in attendance. Austra- lia was a new country. in. Liohism this year. Texas,'tstole the §how" in the big parade, spending $50,000. 'Canada did eat advertise •herself as well as -she might have. The conven tion will be held in New York City in July 1948. The return trip was by way of Portland, Ore., Victoria, B.C., Van- eouver,'13.C., Lake Louise and Banff, Alta., Calgary Alta. where they vis- ited Dr. and Mrs. R. P. • Douglas, formerly of Clinton;, Edmonton, Alta., Saskatoon, Sask., Winnipeg,. Man.. and Port William, where they caught the boat for• Pert McNicoll. In all these places, the Lions treated them right aeoyally. In . the • 28s; days, " they covered 10,- 000 miles, learned a lot and travell- ed with a wonderful bunch of people. "Lioniam has more to do today than when it was created," Lion Whyte declared in cone'lusion. He was thanked by Lion •: Jefferson in behalf of the club. Frank Fingland, chairman of Program Committee, reported .that at the next meeting on Armistice Nig}it. November 1.1, 3. K. Hunter, Goderieh, who was captured at Dieppe, would recite his 'experi- ences. L. M. Herbert, Y.M.C.A. Ex- tension Secretary, voted speak at the meeting on November. 25 Thedraw donated by Harry Bart- iifF end Bill Ball, was won by Jane Hartley. The Week's ek s Weathelr' High Low High Low 1947 1946 October 30 , el 46 . 71 50 a1. 51 4+L 66 44 November 1 . 52 ' 35 51 34 2 65 36 57 , 45 3 58 .41 60 4E` 4 f2- '40 ' 5 54 44 dtainealt -••,23 inch ' Me. and Mrs, R. J. Gibbings spent last week visiting their daughter, Miss Marion Gibbings, Dundee, and their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jahn Gibbirngs, and family, Stratford: Guests during the weekend at the home of IMT. and .Mrs. A. J, McMurr- ay were Mr, and Mrs, Frank Whit. marsh, London, Mrs. Thema& MoM'nr- ray, Guelph, and Mrs. D. Ferguson and daughter, Harriston. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy G. Brawn and John, spent the weekend at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs, J, D. Brown, Orono, and attended the funeral of his aunt, .the Iate Mrs. henry Werry, Enniskillen, on Monday Misses Helen S•haddook and Helen Edith Forrester returned Monday evening after spending the weekend with the former'& cousin, •Mrs. Albert Wiliert and Mr. Willert, Sarnia, They also visited friends in Port Huron, Mich: Mrs. Annie, Srown celebrated her 85th birthday on ~Sunday, her , four daughters, Mrs. William Hoggart, Maas. E. 'Yungbllut, -Londesboro, Mrs. Gordon Cures, Thedford, and Mrs. Wesley Hoggart, .Seaforth; •being pre- sent for the oceasion. Mrs :David M. Geddes, Rosetown, Sask., who is visiting her son, Dr. Donald 0, Geddes, has been visiting in Pert Ielgin end on her return to Clinton 'was accompanied by her sis- ter, Miss 'Bessie Currie, who is apending a fens days here. Miss A..:Sinclair, superintendent of Clinton Community Hospital, and Mrs. O,..McKinnon, president of the Hos pital Aid . Association,' attended the cocwention of the Ontario Hospital Association theld this week in the Royal York Hotels, ,Toronto, Mr. and .Mrs. Gebige.'Campbell and daughter, Dianne, . '. accompanied by Stanley Kelleher, London, left Sun - clay by motor ,for Kirkland Lake where Mrs. Campbell and Dianne are visiting the former's mother, Mrs. J. Faragher, Messrs Campbell and Kell-, eher continued .on to Nipigon to join Ellwood Epps for -a fortnight's deer. and moose hinting. .Mr, Epps ,pre- viously had flown .to Winnipeg, Man, on a business trip, returning by train, as far as Nipigon. Collegiate Initiation for 72 New Students cunton 'Collegiate Institute held its annual "initiation night" in' the school' on. Hallowe'en, Friday last,' when 72 new satudmets went through the rituals prescribed to make them fall -fledged-. menbers of 'the institu- tion. After the ceremonies, there Were ,:a short entertainment program and a . dance. Boy initiates 'wefts required to wear Glen McFadddin, Millbank, seated on the tractor which .won him a free trip to.Britain, chats with runner-up Russell Hare, Nanticoke. Me- Faddin won the Esso Champions class for tractors at thetlaternational Plowing •Mateh at Kingston, and with it the trip and a gold medal, -both provided by Imperial Oil Limited, which sponsored the class.: Silver medal- ist Hare also gets a free, trip'and both hope to take palrt in British plowing matches early next year. Two Hullett Farmers InjurInjured byTractors ed actors Two neighboring Hullett Township tween the tractor and `the plow and farmers -John Branrptan, 85, and W. was dragged about twenty-five feet G. Rae, 74, ere pa'tient's' in Clinton while the tractor kept on its way, Community 'hospital with mere or with no one to stop it. Finally, after less serious injuries sutained in tree- tearing through fences acid fields, tor accidents while in the course of the tractor came to rest against a their duties. fence, A farmer, who was to .relieve Both will be confined to hospital trim, found err. Brampton lying on and bed for some time while leg the field ,unable to move. fractures are mended, Dr. J. A Ad- The victim felt he war feat -mate dion rendered medical aid. Beattie's shalt the tractor, . which was going ambulance brought the injured men around in circles, dd not run over to hospital here. him again. Dragged 25 Feet Stepped Off Trnetor IMr, Brompton suffered a fracture , Mr. Russ, who lives on the same of his right leg about .sir, inches be- road two miles farther east of low the hip, and several fractured Londesboro, was nlul.a, about four ribs and ether injuries, when the o'clock Thursday air . an when he tractor with which he was plowing stepped from a tractor' and fractured ran amok on the farm of Zanies his leg .above the line. Scanlon, east of Londesboro, Wednes- The victim oe this ,accident was day noon last, riding en the tractor with another bit. Brompton .became wedged be- man when they came to a wire strung across in front of them. The delver ' H�� dodged the ware, abut Mr. Ross chose HU• ett Gets to jump from the anachine in order to ntlss it, with :the result that he broke his leg, Prepared For MAILING LIST CHANGED Nominations The mailing list of The MEWS- '° has been changed as oP noon, Wednesday, November 5, and Hullebt Township Council held its your label should read correctly. If reguar meeting in Community Hail, there are any errors, please notify Londesboro, Monday afternoon, No. the office immediately.; If your label vember 3, with the Reeve and en mead's 'any month prior to November members present. 1947, then your subscription is in On motion of Counts. Rapson and arrears,. and an early settlement pate the body .adjourned as a •Council would be appreciated. and opened es a Court of ,Revisiop on e the 1948. Assessment Roll with Coun. NO. SCHOOL FRIDAY George b C.Brown t 8chairman. ,hcor ca sion •9, AT CI BECAUSE OF was ordered taken off the roll, $$60, Town Council, I In Action1 Clinton Town Couneii held its No- ,veleber meetng n the Council Chane ber Monday. evening'w141h all members lereeenit,and Mayor A. J. McMurray presiding. • Building Permits . Granted ' Council granted the issue of buiid- irig permits to ,Norman Lever for an oiling and greasing &eking on Helen St,, $125; and;'tto W. Burton for a sumporehaddition to his dwelling on Jaynes. St., $100, - Query on Sewer Outlet Town clerk M. T. .Corless was in- structed to reply to a letter from George Knights regarding the sewer outlet from his propery, • Sewerage Tax miles Dolly Cantelon, Raglan St wrote taking full reduction in h sewerage tax. After seine discussio the letter was filed. House Conditions Peter ,Simone of We ton Construe tion Co., sewer contractors, urged inspection of house connections wit eewer 'service, and the clerk was di - Tooted to •reply, Badminton Club Council received a letter signed by eleven ideal badminton enthusiasts re - retesting permission to rent the town hall for two nights a week until the end of April. The matter was . left in the hands .of the .Property Commit- tee. ommit tea • Referred to Solicitor Miss Elizabeth Becker complained of ntili being incorrectly .assessed and taxed on part of one of her lots, No, 805, on Osborne St, The matter was referred to the town solicitor. he Urges Citizens Honor Memory of `War Dead Mr. and Mrs. W. Moffat Mark 25th Anniversary ,Mr. and Mrs. Walter IM'offat, IBruce- fieitl, observed their 25th wedding an- niversary e t their lime en Tuesday, November 4, .with relatives and frI- ends attending from Gravenhurst, Seaforth, Brucefield, Kiepen, and Hensel'. In the evening a delightful time was spent with progressive euchre one 01 :bhe .highlights. Nine tables. were in play' and the winners were: Ladies, Mrs. 0. Moir, lienal]; Gents, Hugh. Berry, Brueefield. Dainty refreshment:• were served. the table looking lovely centred with the wedding cake,' uses and yellow and pink minis; and pink .tapers in rt, silver hodere adding .to- the attract- ivenese. Mr, and Mrs. Moffat were the recipients of many lovely and cantly gifts. Attending tee celebra- tion from Fravenihurs,t were Mrs. P. ti Fisher and Miss Eleanor Fisher. Streets Committee Reporting for the •street Commit- tee, :Aid. Ernest Brown stated that the bulk of •bhe graveIIing was com- pleted in certain Sections of the town, but some streets still were in great need of grading and levelling. Finance Report Ald,!M, ,L Agnew presented the re- port of the Finanee .Cons nittee cover- ing payments and receipts for Oc- tober. The following accounts, re- ceived .prior to the opening of the meeting of Connell, were read and directed by Cornell to be paid: Jack E'ilett $2; Pickett and .Campbell $105; Harold Adams $42.25; George F. Elliott .$22,50. Extra Payments A notion was passed approving payment of the following accounts to Levis Contracting Co. for work in connection with wartime 'housing and streets: housing, bulldozer, 1441/ house @$7, $94,50; 676 yards gravel @25 cents, $189; total, $203.50; Streets, grading, 39 hours @:$3, $117; 936 yards gravel @52 cents, $486.72; total $608.72; bulldozer, 114 hours @$7, $10.50; grand total, •$877.72, H'allowe'en Pranks AId. C, J. Livermore commented on Halloween, that apparently. there had been "a whole week of it!! and that iperhaps next year there wonhi be two weeks of it." He didn't emote whether there had been any effort to stop."it, andrelatod':bhat he had: heard that a man had been, tied up by some youths as a prank. He thought this was going pretty' far. Member:: agreed that these statements were true. Ball Congratulations' Aid. Agnew mentioned that the doral baseball team had represenrte'd t he town very *ell during the past summea' rind suggested that a latter of apprecition from Council be forward- ed to the secretary. This was Ordered as barn has been sold, on emotion of Reeve J. W. Armstrong . and .Conn. le/embed 01 the teaching staff of W. J. Dale. Clinton Collegiate Institute, at Tues- 'Phe following' dogs also were. taken day evening's meeting of the Col - off the roll: Harvey Taylor, Russell Iegiate Institute Board' in the school •McDonald, one dog,• Count of Ile-. were given ,permission to attend'' a vision adjourned as such to December teachers' convention for the district 15, and opened es Council, In Goderich en Flr:iday, November 7. On moten of Couns, ,W. ,R. Jewitt The result was that there will be and George 0. Brown, the Clerk was instructed' to draw pp a bylaw to raise a' seooed assessment en branch o;f the TayIor.drain; also the tile per - tion of the main Taylor drain. A .second by-law, setting the •time and place for nomination meeting and F2'ank Marshall, East Wawatiosh; election; was paaased. Details apPear Frank Taimbiya, Hallett; R. D. Philp, in a proelamastion gnsbiished on Page Blyth; J. E. McKinley, .S'tanley Town Six of this issue,' strip; 'Mrs. N. W. Trewaatha,'Goder- A petition from Peter Taylor for a ice Township. municipal domain en lots 2, 3,,4; eon- Preliminary to the' meeting, Donald cession 11 and 12,- was accepted and McLay, :Ripley, demonstrated the sent' to the engineer,' on motion' of visual .systemof +teaehing with a ano- Couns, Rapson and Brawn. tion picture. projector • Sylaws 47-12' end 47.13 were given Atter some disouesion, ' it was de - three readings 'tend prated. Accounts sided to •discerntinus _eh,• eeewin ..in Were,oider'ed paid; and' :4°tirnment g the diollegi�ate Institute, of the . Nen node to December 15. • lienal nen Board: pictures ,by Human lAICd0UINTIS: Fred A. Edgar, County Federation of `Agriculture. drains, $35, Town' of Clinton, division court fees;', $S.17; Village of Slyth, division . court ' fees 820; 'George W. Cowin stamps for tax Blips, $28; G. 214 or 84.3 per- cont. By grades en - W, Cowan, ,part salary, $70; -Earl' rolment was es follows: X3I, �8; XII, McLaren, grader repair., $12,76; Gor, 29; Ki, 44,• XA, 34; XB, 39; 'IiXA; Bron Radford, gas and oil, $106,37; G ygl 'tea ggr W.; Oowan, freight on snow fence; $•2.3.50; ,Peter Taylor,, ditching," $15; road rinten t Cuter,a tnu a den William d , p COMING EVENTS ' Tor n 48• Bert Hoggart,eu t a d ditxnh� . v , , TEACHERS' PARLEY no sehooi that day. In the absence of the ohairni,an, Frank - Fingland, Sr., vice-chairman , A. M. Knight .presided for ,+ the :meet- ing, other members present. ,being Trustees J. W. Crich, Teickm:Meth; Principal' E. A, Fines' report for October indicated total enrollment of 227, with an average attendance of 4; Robert .Riley, ditch, $5;' Arthur Weymouth, grader operator, $1.07.40; Arthur Weyrenoteli, ditch, $6.60; Hugh tefi1ler, culvert, $4;' Gordon McGregor, girls' gymnasaatri suits and running culvert, $4; •Glen Carter, culvert, $4; shoes, while girl initiates were uni- George' Dube, ditch, $'10.25; Verne s m Hoz ed in s' ire e s ax incites a c s bov Daler br shn6, �1BarRiley,mower .the knees, wore pigtails and carried' operate?, $4L50; Nelson Lear, Abele dolls,ing Taylor Marin, $3; George Carter, Until; ;a . fortnght has eirpsed, the: Jurors' lists, *3.40; John Arm, freelhmen win have to wear short jurors' lists, •$3; G. W. Cowan, juurors' pants,•rlW a colored bloc .an bow sea d ties, while freshettes mill continue to wear their luhort dresses and pigtails, Mies Mary :Matheson represented the staff on the initiation committee; the other members being Joan Flees, lists, $3; George -C Brown, Taylor drain, $10; John Armstrong, Taylor drain, $10; John Armstrong, reeve, $120; J. Ira Rapson, councillor, $40; W. R. Jewitt, cementer, 4100; Will-' . 43 nam 3. Dale, .councillor, $100; Leslie 47 36 Jeanne' Caron, Don 'Moller .and Bill ,Reid, eouneillor, u xnbr cry 64 inch Hearn `Boar , $60; Asburxid,' grant, $10. Minimum Charge 50e 8e a worn LORA. ranee, November 7. Mur - dock's •Oh i uhestra 9-1. 44.45b Anneal Fowli r.•• Sm Wipe St. Joseph's church, .Clinton, Tuesday. November 18. 42btf Annual meeting and Banquet, ,.Mul- lett Federation of Agriculture, Com- turtby Hall,Londesbort.Friday, ' No- vemlber 21, at 6.80 p.m. . 45p Recital of ,piano, organ and voice by Wiliam H, Wiekett, AT.C.M., R. and :Mrs. Frank Saunders, Oedema, ' in Wesley -Willis United Anurehe on. Monday, November 24, 194,7.: Specneered by Y,P.t3.• • 461 Goderich Twp. Nominations Here Nov. 21 Godieriuh Township Council met in Holmeeville on .Monday, •November s Connell decided to advertise for ten- ders for snow ploughing, tenders to be for three seotions, a plow for each section; also for a price to supply a bulldozer with wing, if needed. One ratepayer objected to the levy for Federation of Agriculture, This being a statutory .ehavge unless the ratepayer notifies ,bhe assesor of his Objection, the request •ruse filed. W. It. Dougall, county weed inpeet- or, wrote that he could not find any owner for the Holmesville cemetery. Council will 'corned the ;Board ' of .Holmnesville Church, Oro the Synod of Huron, to help take care of this /neglected cemetery .before -another year. By-law No. 12 was read and passed to provide for election of a .reeve and four councillors; also far the election of three trustees for the school area; nomination to be held in the Council Chamber, Clinton, on friday, Novena- ber 21, and election, if •any, to be held December 1. Accounts paid: Reeve, .clerk and assessor, selecting jarors, $10; Town of .Clinton ,our share of division court costs, $5.66; News -Record, printing, $1.20.55; . �Signel-(Star, printing, $3.60; l4lis Acheson, use of house, $5: super- intendent, pay roll No. 12, $5,762.70. Council adjourned to meet on Sat- urday, November 15, at 1 .p.m. ALLEN BETTLES NEW. PRESIDENT HOLSTEIN CLUB G. Allen Settles, . a3ay1ield, was elected president of • Huron County Rolaten Breeders' Onle for the ensu- ing year at the annual meeting held in the Board Rootn,•Qmtario Agricul- tural office, Clinton, Thursday even- ing' last. • . Other officers chosen were: ;past president, William Sparks, Bayfield•,, Let viceepresident, Ross 114'Iarshali, liirkton; 2nd vice-preident, Howard Trewartha, Clinton; secretary trees Iiume Cliuhrton •Godericin a directors ;Roy McBride, Heinen; B. Goudie, Seaforth; Lawrence Bax- Bono,•user, .W. , Orangemen Celebrate ter Goderich• s5 Galbraith, Myth; Fawkes Anniversary Members and friends of 'Murphy L, Ode 710, (Clinton,, celebrated the an- niver•sary of Guy Fawkes Day and the discovery of the lament "Gun- ge/Wrier plot",• at /their ane'asal ban- quet in the Sunday, &hoot room of Ontario St,. United Church Wakes - day eyenrng. The function was :very well attended. The tables were- appropriately de- corated with • the orange and :purple. colors of the Order, and Worshinful Master William lFulford presided. Singsongs were . led by Percy Liver- more and .Sldwerd W. Elliott. The main speaker, Joseph Garcon• London, Past Grand Master for 'On- tario West, was introduced by Past Worshipful Master W. S. R. Holmes. Mr. Hanson emphasized the high. ideals of tihe. Orange Order as related to the .Christian religion, and said that its work augmented that of the churches, He .•declared that •a man could not do his duty as a citizen withouti don his t to God. duty Y 'Rev. W. 3. W.00lftey, minister of Ontario St. shuuroh, expressed the thanks of the gathering to Mr. Car - eon, rend recited some otitis own ex- periences a sauce s a member of he Order. p b t George' Paleoiner and Charles Nelson moved and seconded 'a vote of thanks to the ladies :who had prepared and seined the banquet:. The :ebairnman called upon Pact County Matter 'H M: Hanlyr who epoke:briefly, and R. S. *dicey, who brought greetings from the press,. William Goer, Sleet; .Nelson Sten - lake, Exeter. , The retiring president, William Sparks, and the secretary -treasurer, W,,H..:Mutton, skated that the Clwb's position had 'improved .and has shown a _ gain for the f'ourt`h consecutive year.: Mr, Sipat-ke thanked all for past year their fine Conyers, ion during •bhe • The new .president expressed the 1 intention to do veeryrbhing Possible t° ensure a banner year in 1948.' LeRoy 0. Brown, Clinton, agrieul- tural reipresenbative for Huron Coun- ty, .disonssedl how best to meet the current feed shortage, and recom- mended methods to. restore and re- plenish the soil of the county to its: highest efficiency, He was introduced by Leonard'. Leeming, Walton, and was thanked in behalf of theeclub by Colin .Campbell, Bayfield. Fieldman 3. a. Terry, Brantford. complimented the Chub on the steady progress, eat it .had made over a period of bhe last four years in each of which an increase in memben-thin was :Armen .and dhecammen ted on the well balanced .program that the club bad sponsored during the past year. He, also drew attention to the excel- lent finaneiel" statement that had been prepared and' de bilbuted to all ,mem- hens for the first time and .which speweda healthy balance Howard Trewarbha, Clinton, web appointed ;• as the.Club':s representative to the Board of Directors of tae County Federation of Agrentlure. Leech was 'served, at the close of the •meeting. A:ating on instructions of Town Council, Mayor A. J..Mo1VI'urraytyest- - erday issued a proclamation calling upon all citizens to observe next Tues- day, •November 11, as a public holiday in remembrance of than from this community wisp Post ,their lives in World Wars 1 and IS. This proela- nation is published on Page 3 of this issue. In this 'connection, His Worship urged all &Senna of Clinton •and din= trial to :attend the public Remem- brance Day sereiee in tihe Town Hall, commencing at 1A a,m., ;and continu- ing for one heti. This service is sponsored by Clinton Branch No. 140, Canadian Legion, and Clinton Council of Churches. Rev. W. J. Woolfrey, minister of Ontario St. United .Church, and retiring chair- man 01 Clinton Connell of :Churches, will - set as chairman, and other mnisters taking part will be Rev. Archibald Forsyth, pastor of the Sap; tilt Church; Rev. Andrew Lane, min - tater of Wesely-Willis United Church; Rev. Ronald Sutteel, rector of St, Paul's Anglican Church; Rev. David T Lane, minter of Clniton Presbyter - ion Church; and Flt. Lieut. T. Dale Jones, Protestant chaplain, R. and C, School, RCAF, Clinton. Two minutes' silence •will be observed. ' A parade will form at the Town Hall and. will march to the cenotaph at the Post 08fiee where :the wreaths will be pieced by the various organ- izatians. Legion and RCAF Members of the Canadian Legion and other veterans of both wars, as well as a detaehment from RCAF Station, •Olisiton, will pautieipate in the eoarumun ty service .and ,parade, which will fallow to the cenotaph. Poppy Day Saturday. Im his proclamation, the Mayor called attention •to .bhe annual Poppy Day which is .being conducted here Saturday, November 8, by the Legion and Auxiliary. • Legion Church Parade The annual tame!' parade of Clin- ton Branch' 140, Canadian Legion, will be held to the Baptist Church on Sunday; November 9, at 11 sere Rev, Archibald Forsyth, herself a 'MAC veteran of World War I, will be the preacher. BAYFIELD LIONS VIEW PICTURES OF CONVENTION Bayfield Lions Club held its regu- lar meeting at Title Inn on Tuesday evening, November 4, instead of on the regular meeting night, Wednes- day. There were 25 memberspresent, with ,ten members from Seeforth Lions CIub, to enjoy an evening of singing and the showing of pictures of the San Francisco Lions Interna. tional Convention by Dr, E. A. Mc- Master and James P. Scott, president of . Seaforth Lions ,Club. Dr. MoTaster gave a brief ,talk de rribing the party of Lions end their wives who made the trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco, Ile Vika of the several tours of .the cities' they were taken on by the varous Lions aa they passed through en route to the. convention. There were pictures of the Colorado Canyon and of other just as interesting places through the Western States. The most interesting and! outsanding pic- tures shower were of the Lions Inter. national Parade of 5,000 Lions. These pictures were all in technieolor. In the parade -were floats from the sari•• oils States in the Union end ether countries. De, McMaster was thanked by the President, George Castle, who re- marked that the pictures made all feel as ifthey had 'taken the trip as web. Dr;•.'MeMaster in replying stated how -surprised he was to see Mob a strong 'Lions Club im Bayfield and of how much it had progressed, Jim Scott also paid tribute the Bayfield Club.. and mentioned the ,peppy sing- ing under the efficient leadership of Grant Turner. Lion Turner had num- bers from the inarried men, .the 'single men and the . married . men without children, 'There were two Lion "Spin - nye Irwin just being under the wire, and a muo'h applauded duet was sung. Lion C. Rogers, a summer resident of • the village, some time ago, pre- sented' the Club with a large ,black and white ,plaque of "0 Canada". This gift was fittingly received by the president, A new member was added to the rel) in the person of Mr, aleaok, succ- essor to Charles 'Sootcinner in the hardware store, ' The •Club will have another regular dinner meeting on Wednes a y d, Noire, ember 19, when it is hoped to ,Have another evening with entertainment as enjoyable. A Smile for Today Labor Marked Note Baby sitters tome and. go, . Webb- prices getting steeper, But Grandma does bhe- "finest jos?,, ,And, nears; i say, mucin cheaper.