Clinton News Record, 1944-05-11, Page 3THURS., MAY 11th, 1944
, THE HAPPENINGS IN CLINTON EARLY IN
THE CENTURY
Some Notes of the News in 1919.
THE CLINTON: NEWS -RECORD
May 8th, 1919
The Local Market ,wheat, spring
$2.09, fall $2,14; buckwheat .90; bar-
ley -.90; oats. 70; butter .45; eggs .44
to .45; live hogs "$20.50.
A citizens, banquet will be held in
'tLe council chamber on Tuesday -even-
ing next, -when matters of interest
relating 'to civic affairs will be dis-
cussed. The banquet starts at six
fifteen and tickets are fifty cents.
Those interested in civic affairs and
in the betterment of the town may
attend this gathering.
Word has been received in town
this week ef the death, which took
place suddenly at the home of his
father in Listowel on Sunday, of Len-
ard Fair. The deceased was very
well known in Clinton, having been
for a time on the staff of the Royal
Bank here. While here he was mar-
ried to Miss Isabelle O'Neil, youngest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
O'Neil of Moosejaw, and niece of Mr.
W. T. O'Neil of town. For some
months Mr. Fair had been failing in
health but it was not known that he
was worse and his death came as a
shock.
The funeral took place from the
home of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hawkins
on Saturday afternoon of Anna E.
Hayden, wife of Mr. John Hawkins of
Hamilton formerly of Clinton. The
deceased lady, who wasin her twenty-
sixth year, was married to -her now
bereaved husband seven years ago at
Hamilton. About five years ago they
came to Clinton and remained two
years and then returned to Hamilton.
She was ill but three weeks, her death
being the result of the influenza ac-
companied by' a complication of diseas-
es: She is survived by her husband
and three small children, one a mere
infant. Her parents, and brothers
and sisters also survive.
Mrs. Blacker has bought of Mrs.
McCorvie the frame cottage on Ratt-
enbury street, east.
Mr. T. W. McCartney and family
have moved in front Godericir town-
ship and have taken possession of
their residence on Huron street, west.
The Clinton branch of the G, W. V.
A. gave a dance in the town hall on
Friday evening and those who were
there voted the affair a most enjoy-
able one. There were about two
hundred present, guests being here
from Goderich, Wingham, Seaforth
and other' nearby points. The God-
erich orchestra furnished' music. A
buffet lunch was served. Moat, of
the veterans wore civilian clothes, a
'few appearing hi khaki. The officers
resident • in town, wore their mess
uniforms.
A general .reunion of war veterans
will be held in Clinton :on Victoria
Day, May 24th, when a fine program
of •sports is being arranged.
Mrs. •Elizabeth Cantelon; widow of
Peter Cantelon of the 7th concession
Goderich township, and daughter of
the late Wm. Alexander, passed away
at her home on, Huron street, on
Thursday last. She was stricken with
paralysis on April 24th. Mrs. Can-
telon leaves to mourn th it loss, a
daughter, Miss Bertha, and' a son,
Goldie, at home, another daughter,
Mrs Robert Gorey of the Bayfield
Line, and a son, R. J. Cantelon of
Dayton, Ohio.
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THE CLINTON NEW ERA -
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May, Sth,. 1919
Miss Greta Mustard of Brucefeld
is 'taking the nurses training course
lin the Clinton Hospital, and\is being
missed very much in her home dis-
trict. At the time of her entrance
into the hospital she was president
of the Girls' Organized S. S. Class in
the Presbyterian church, treasurer of
the Kelly Circle, a member of the
choir, and of two of the committees of
the Christian Endeavor besides being
Ione of the most active Red Cross
workers.
Tenders for the construction of a
retaining wall on part of the North
Pier, Bayfield, are being asked; for
by the Government.
Dr. J. J. A. MacDonald, late editor
of the Toronto Globe, who was for
several days a visitor in town, and
his brother-in-law, Dr. Gandier, had
la narrow escape from what 'might
have been a nasty accident, a few
days since. They had been out in
Colborne and were returning to
town by way of Forester's bridge, In
coming up the Goderich township
hill, which happened to be sandy, the
auto skidded to the outer edge, the
quick application of the- brakes only
preventing it going over the bank.
Allies ConsolidateBea BeachheadadAftor
Landi
og
Following sudcessful seaborne
landings (Jan. 22) by the Fifth Army,
thousands of British and 11. S. Troops
consolidated their beachhead in the
Nettuno'area about 30 mile's eduth of
Rome, and pushed .rapidly eastward
to cut the key supply lines of the
German troops on the Garigliano
frdnt. By Feb. 2, 'the Allied farces
were within;' 13 miles 'of -;Rhine .and
the German's GUSTAV line had been
piereed by the main' 5th Arany forces.
Picture Shows:—British Tommy
• guards first German prisoners shortly
after initial landings on Italian' west
coast behind enemy lines.
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD'
As, it was the sudden stop threw Dh'.
,Macdonald against the wind shield,
breaking it and inflicting a nasty
gash on his forehead.
Mrs. Arthur Cook had the mis-
fortune to fall at her home one day
last week and fracture her leg. What
makes the accident the more regrett-
able is the fact that a few years ago
she met with a similar accident when
the other leg was broken and she was
never since recovered a certain lame-
ness. Her friends sympathize deeply
with her in her misfortune.
Mr. J. E.;Harnwell was appointed and pretty, Miss Snider is kept 'busy
township clerk of Stanley at the from morning to night ,iru her capacity
meeting of the council on Monday to of friend, guide and big sister to the
girls at camp.
Miss Snider leaves no stone un-
turned in her efforts to make the
off-duty hours of the 'girls in camp,
cheerful and homelike. The main-
tenance of the home -like Y,W.C.A.
hut is in her charge. The National
Council ef. the Y.W.C.A. provided
the furnishings,
Away from the familiarities 'of
home, the girls, in, camp .spend a
good deal of their leisune time in the
homelike atmosphere provided by
Miss Snider. Without the guidance
of their mothers the girls'have come
to depend upon'. Miss Snider as a
big eister, and. -go` to her with their
problems, Capt. K. M, Taylor, camp
adjutant, said.
Miss Snider's office at one end of
the hut has become a regular infor-
mation bureau, She sends telegrams,
wires flowers to relatives of the
girls on special occasions, pays their
bills, wraps and sends patcels and
does numerous other little services
for. them. Most of the platoon part-
ies are held in the "Y" hut and the
task of ordering food falls upon the
hostess. She also is in charge of the
movies shown there twice a week.
Arrangements for Sunday hospi-
tality for the girls is also made by
Miss Snider and the Women's Vol-
untasy -Services, who provide the
homes.
Miss Snider has been "Y" hostess
since March, 1943 and works from
morning' till night doing the little
things which make the girls feel at
home. She is assisted every night by
a volunteer civilian hostess.
Kay Snider Gives 'Y' Hut A
Home -like Atmosphere
The ,following• taken from the
Kitchener Daily Record . will be of
interest to many, and deals with the
work of Y.W.0 A. hostess, .Miss
Kay Snider, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. S. Snider, Albert Street Clinton.
One of the most popular girls with
the, entire personnel of the C.W.A.C.
Training Centre is not in• uniform.
She is Miss Kay Snider, hostess at 'the
Y. W. C. A. ]tut. Slim,` dark haired
succeed the late R. J. Richardson. Mr.
HarnWell served :in `the capacity of
clerk of the township for several
years prior to leaving for the west and
he thoroughly, understands the work.
Pte. Charles Pratt and Pte. Joseph.
Skilter, who enlisted in the 83rd; bat-
alien four years ago, returned home
last week from overseas and were en-
tertained by the Goshen Line Method-
ist church and vicinity giving them
small tokens in remembrance of what
they did in the great war. Pte. Frank
Boyce;" who returned some time ago,
was present 'and received same.
Miss M• G. Rudd accompanied her
nephew, Lieut, J. R. lbemball, who has
been spending the past week with her
to Flint, Mich., on Tuesday, where
she is visiting her sister Mrs. George
Rumball.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bradshaw were
in town over the week end and Mrs.
Bradshaw is remaining with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Davies of
Huron street, for a longer visit. •Mr.
Bradshaw has taken a position in
Leamington and they are therefore
moving from Toronto to that town.
When the Present Century
Was Young
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
May 5th, 1904
The House of Refuge building com-
mittee of the county council met on
Tuesday but as the excavation has
not been finished there was but little
for them to do.
Mr. Janie Dunford returned to
town Monday after over a year's
residence in Listowel. He is now get-
ting settled down and purposes mak-
ing several improvements in his
house. Mrs. Dunford and family will
not arrive for a couple of weeks.
Mr. Arthur Cook has been engaged
for several days upon. Mr. W. W. Far-
rah's big orchard where he placed
7,000 grafts. In addition to this he
bridged seventy trees which he ex-
pects -will now fully recover from the
ravages of the mice.
No death -which has taken place in
this town for years aroused more
profound,. sorrow than that of Miss
Mattie Shipley, who passed away at
six o'clock on Monday evening after
only a few days' illness. Miss Shipley
was 'a noble young woman and will
long be borne hi affectionate remem-
brance.
IN THE LETTk:R BOX
April 8th, 1944
Dear Mrs. Leppington and Members
of the Red Shield:
I received your February parcel
tonight. These parcels are gratefully
received by me. I always look•forward-
to receiving Red Shield' parcels. Be-
ing a very poor hand at letter writ-
ing, I'm afraid I haven't acknowledg-
ed these parcels as much, or at least
as often as I should have. •
I have just returned from seven
day's leave and spent most of the
time in Bari. Even, though . some
orchards were in blossom the weather
was very cold and disagreeable one
or two days it was snowing just a
little.
The 8th army rest camp is quite
a wonderful place. There are several
wings to it, each named after a
General in the English Army; Leese
On Friday last Lottie Daniels, dau- Montgomery, Wavell and several
ghter of Mrs. C. Witt.passed into the others. Each wing has its own infer -
great beyond. She had long been ill, ration hut, cook -house, club rooms.
but bore her suffering with :are zes- The first morning there, the Colonel
ignation in one so young. . of the camp gives a lecture on what
His Lordship, the Bishop of Huron, to do and where to find it. After that
has arranged, to .visit- for confirna- you can come and go as you like sleep
tion the parishes of the County of all day if you wish.
Huron froni May 5th to May 15th. The meal hours are breakfast, 7.30
The date for his visit to Clinton, is till 9, but if you happen to go for
fixed for Monday next. breakfast at 9.46 you get it. Dinner
Mr. Thomas. H. Cook,• is limping 12, till 2. Supper 5 till 7. -
about this week, - having :had one of You can get a shower, shoe shine.
his toes broken and another crushed hair cut er play foot ball or any game.
by a " horse stepping upon it while you wish right in camp,
There are also two theatres with
engaged in Elliott's livery' stable.
Mr. J. E. Hovey, the winner of
several trophies, has given a loving
cup for competition among the mem-
bers of the gun club. It's a handsome
piece of plate which there will be
keen competition to possess.
The Jackson Mfg. Company have
now an electric service, receiving
their power from Messrs, Fair's Mill.
The motor was installed yesterday
and the company machines are again
in operation after a couple of days
silence.
two shows a day, three days a week.
A concert party puts on two concerts
a day. There is a huge N.A.A.F.I.
canteen. Pt's quite possible to stay
in the rest of the camp •'and have
quite a nice leave. As for Italy itself
well .
I wish to thank you again for the
parcels, and will try to write more
often in the future.
Very gratefully yours
W. Osbaldeston
April 14, 1944.
Mr. Jacob Taylor has, been speer- Red Shield 'Women's Aux.
intendent of the Ontario street' Sun- Dear Mrs. Elliott;
day school for eight years and so I am a dope when it comes to letter
much appreciated have been his ser- writing, I'm feeling quite well, but
vices that he has been unanimously don't think I'ns going, to like the hot
re-elected. In all those years he dad weather like we had in Sicily last
not once fail to be present. He has summer.
been engaged in Sunday school work Pd sell you both Sicily and Italy for
for twenty-five years and previous to a dime and they wouldn't be abar-
accepting the superintendency was gain at that, Sicily is just a lot of
for ten years a Bible class teacher. hills and hollows and dust. I ate 400
pounds of it last summer, the dust I
mean; fruitis quite plentiful, -grapes
olives . andon the Catainia planes,
oranges and lemons, although I didn't
see ,.very many lemons, of course I
traveled over a very small . part . of
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To conquer fanaticism, you must
tolerate it;. the shuttlecock of re-
ligious difference soon falls to the
ground when there arg no battle-
dores to beat it ,backward - and. for- Sicily .and can only tell what I actual -
war (1.—Chatfi eld.
ctualward.—Chatfield. saw. I may give you a different im-
e
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GAMMA
mrPARTMENT OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES
TO my tallow Canadians:-
Salvage Committees and many other Voluntary
You the• oitiz.ens of -Canada and 'members of the Voluntary
War Workers
have done an excellentng war fob.
Canada, in doiher part to help win the war, has-been
.greatly assisted by your voluntary and 4nsellish n
the ithe essentiadevotiol to
war materials. -You have backed up the boya overseas and
he important duty of saving and turninn
your activities have been a material faotor,in turning the.
tide of battle against the enemy., When Canada's stock piles
have been dangerously low, you have discovered, saved, and
salvaged waste material which has been turned into weapons,
ammunition, explosives and containers. Your Salvage Cam-
paigns have been Nation -elide and ofNationalimportance.
Your job has been a big one which you have nobly performed.
When at war the past is the past and we must look to the
.future. Again 1 appeal to youl
There is another National war emergency which mu
met and overcome. Experts on the matter have assured m
that there is a critical shortaga of Waste Paper st be
situation is desperate. s
Forces who will use them atainstlthe ens re ah our Fiat the
must be safe! pp gluing
more suppliesya scrod• As we march on nearer io thepenemy
much more Waste Paper is d ny our Fighting Men. More -
wanted now.
Paperboard mills are workin _
some arefacingshut-downs because reserve
Waste .re el- critically low. F day-to-day
sy$cra and
waste paper is to be saved and turned inwtontheeT Polies of
through regular Waste Paper channels, y scrap of
Nation
Fellow Canadians please help!
Yours sincerely,
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M3nistarL'NR. La leohe,
War Services.
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lepconwspaPers making vitally your Waste Paper raw material for
paper containers.
DEPARTMENT OF NAT1/ONAL WAR MIMES
pression than someone ese who saw
a different part of the country. The
first day on the island we had ripe
peaches and watermelons. One .month
later near Mt. Etna the peaches were
green.' haven't figured that one out
yet.
People living in the hills usually
had a lop-eared mule for carrying
things up the winding paths in the
hills. It was quite the usual thing to
see a woman carrying a small tub of
water, a bundle of straw on her head.
One of ourchaps said he had seen a
woman • going up a hill with an erdin-
ary dresser on her head. The next
day 2 women came down the road
with a beam en their heads, 20 ft.
long $inches square. Quite amazing
what they can carry on their heads,
and walk along so unconcerned, not
touching the things with their hands.
When they thresh they seem to
have a level piece of ground about 40
ft. square in diameter, lay the grain
out in a circle and chase mules or
oxen astound in a circle over it, then
I believe when, the wind is blowing
take a fork made from the branches of
a tree ,and throw the straw in the
air and let the wind' blow it away. I
can't say what the final process is
as I haven't seen any of it done.
Athlones to Visit Seaforth
June 14th.
Through the good offices of Wil-
liam H. Golding, M. P. for Huron
Perth, and L. E. Cardiff M.P. for
Huron North, Their Excellencies the
;Earl of Athlone, Governor -Genesial
and H.R.H. Princess Alice have con-
sented to attend the rural field day
being held by the Huron County Fed-
eration of Agriculture at Seaforth on
June 14 next.
His excellency will speak during
the day on, the program being ar-
ranged by. Harry Sturdy, Auburn,
federation president, and W. J. Dale,
Clinton, associated secretary.
It had been announced earlier that
their excellencies would be present
at the field day on June 7, but it was
found necessary for Messrs. Golding
and Cardiff to interview his excellency
at Government House and secure
their excellencies' consent to attend
the fair on a later date, since they
will be absent oti a tour through
Western Canada extending from April
25 to June 6. Thus the date has had
tobe postponed until. June 14 as stat-
ed.
I On June 15, their excellencies will
; make an official visit to Kitchener.
Incidently these wops have the ,
right idea, the women do most of the
work.
,Some of these towns are pretty
well battered up, others aren't 'too
bad. In one village in this area, when
we. moved in,'.1 counted 23 hogheads
of ' wines in different houses, each•
hoghead would hold, roughly 250 gals.
It was cornparitively new wine.
I'm afraid this isn't. much: of a let-
ter but will •try to do better the next
time. I'll have to send this to my
Mother as I've lost your address.'I
hope you won't mind.' I know where
you live and when I was a brat used
to torment some women that lived in
the same house; also have. heard Geo.
speak of you quite a lot. Please ex-
cuse this mixed-up letter.
`Sincerely yours,
W. Osbaldeston
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New Holstein Fieldman For
This District .
In a general re -arrangement of its
Field. Staff, the HolsteinjFriesian As-
sociation of Canada has announced
the, appointment of J. E. Terry as
fieldman for this district, which was
formerly served by Byron G. Jenvey,
Ingersoll. Mr. Terry's territory will
include the counties of Elgin, Oxford,
Perth, Grey, Bruce, Huron, Lambton,
Middlessex, Kent and Essex. It is
expected that he will set up his head-
quarters near London. The West -
Central disti'iet-of Ontario will, also
have a new fieldman in the person of
George F. Drennan of,Alliston. The
recent sale of .Mr.'Drennan's , herd
brdught.the exceptionally fine average
of $6:6,79 on 23 head with a top of
Wok, 30,40 50f
Want Normal Pep, Vim, Vigor?'
Try euros Tonto Tabtete Contains realm, st(tau••
hunts, Iron vitamin It,, calcium, paoopbords; aids te.
normal 5,5 'rim. vigor. Vitality atter 00. 40, el- 50.
Intraduotrt)' size only 35t. 11 not delighted with.
rOA"Ite of (trot pa 0555, malcnr rotunda tom plica.
At all druggists. cram talmna altr05 Tabled; today.
$3,000 fall- his yearling herdsire.
"Jake" Terry brings to his new post.
a background of practical experience.
in dairying that few •men possess..
Born in Northumberland County,.11e
and his brother jointly operate "Hol-
mstead" farm, they being the fourth.
generation of Terrys to do so since.
,their great-grandfather homesteaded:
there. They maintain a purebred
Accredited and Listed herd of Holste-
ins and also a select herd of,purebrsd:
Yorkshires. "Jake" has for the
past 15 years been an official Record
of Performance tester, having work-
ed in that time in eight different pro-
vinces. Previously he had been test -
milker and later herdsman at .Senator
A. C. Hardy's Avondale Farin when.
the seven-day test was in its heyday,.
and also fitted and showed the Ray-
mondale string, wider the supervision,
of Manager G. L. Goodhue, atthe,
time when it included such All-Amer-
ican stars as Sally Franey and Lone -
dale Sir Inka Abbekerk.
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Former Local Teacher
Retiring
Dr. J. I3. Cody,: president of the V'n-•
iversify of Toronto,' has announced
that James G. Workman, instructor
in mathematics in University of Too-
ronto:Scheels is leaving the teaching
profession, Mr. Workman was a (MMa-•
cher' at Wingham High So'hool when'
it first opened and to igliN'1'lhere for
four years prior, to going .to'Univer.-
sity • of Toronto ,Schools in 1931 , He
collaborated in writing text'bdolcs in
general mathematics and geometry,.
which are used in • Ontario schoe ••
Wincham Advance;Tin>;es.