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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1945-03-08, Page 2`THURS., MARCH 8th. 1945 THE HAPPENINGS IN 'CLINTON EARLY IN THE CENTURY SOME NOTES OF THE NEWS IN 1920 . HE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD March 4th, 1920 Mr. E. E. Merner of Bayfield has leased the house now occupied by Mr, Latter's family on :Isaac street• and will take possession next month. Mrs. Latter and family will join Mr. Latter in Windsor. Mr. Wilmer Wallis was up from Kitchener over the week end. Miss Vera Stephenson spent a week • in London visiting. friends. M. Tom "Quigley of Chicago has "been visiting relatives in town and :Hulled Township during the past. week.. llCiss Myrtle Mair is homefrom ler school near Guelph ,on account .of the prevailing sickness in that ,section. - Mrs. W. H. Burrows, of Tanfine, .Alberta; has been the guest during the past week of her sister-in-law, :Mrs. Ti, Pennebaker. Mr. F. *W. Wigg, who has bought -out the Corner Grocery is now in possession. Mr. Perey Couch goes to Kitchen- er in. the .course of a few weeks to take ' it position with the Moser ;people as :buyer and window dresser, Mr. R. J. Anderson_ of Winnipeg was the guest' for a few days over the week end of his aunts, Mrs. J. P. Sheppard and Mrs. Render of town and with relatives in the sur- rounding country. • Mr. X. R. Andrews and-. family •of "Winnipeg, are visiting Mr. Andrew's parents, Magistrate and Mrs. An• .drews of town. THE PICK OF TOBACCO It DOES taste good in a pipe bore, was here owing to the illness of 'his sister, Miss Dorothy,Rattenbury. Mr. Forest Copp, of the Toronto Medical College, was home for a few days; Dr. A. W. Mair of Chesley visited in town ,and vicinity for a few days this .week,.' ;Doming down to attend the -funeral of his sister-in-law; Mrs., Gilbert Mair.' Mr. W. H. 'Davison has moved his household effects down from Pais- ley and •is getting Settled in his new. home, the Shannahan house on Queen Street, with• was recently purchased by Mr. Peacock and which he 1tas ieased to Mr. Davison.. THE CLINTON NEW ERA March ` 4th, 1920 Dr. Peek, of Hensall, was in town on Monday evening. • Mrs. Gormley is visiting at the home of Mr. A. G. Ehnes of Zurich. Miss Annice Bartliff spent a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. aurnball at Goderich, , ' Mr, Michael Grealis was in Det- roit.last week attending the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Fred W. Milton. Mr. Gordon Johnson, of..St. Cath- arines, was here 'over the week end and took his family back with him on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W: Moore, of Goderich, were here over Sunday. attending the funeral of the latter'•s brother, the late` George Farquhar. Mr, T. J. •Lindsay, •of the Base Line, who has sold his farm, bought the twenty-seven acres on the Lon- don Road, owned by Mr. Bart Levis. Mr. Geo. E. MeTaggart and daugh- ter of Blyth are visiting the former's sister, Miss Thompson, Albert Street. Mr. ,Tnseph Wheatley has •sold the house on Victoria Street, now oceu- pied by M. Wallace Wheatley- to .Mr. FE'olIoway, G.T.R., .baggagennsster, who gets possession shortly.. Miss Ruby Cook, of Toronto, is the guest of her brother, Mr, E: J. Cook. Mr. and Mrs. McCool left on Wed- uesdey for their home in Alberta after spending the winter with Mr, and Mrs. Ta&. Mair. Miss Jennie Holmes and her -:sis- ter Mrs. Sharman have' retuplied to their home here: Miss Jean Chidley is visit;ng in Detroit, - Mr. Isaac Rattenbury of Peter - H E • CA N A D staMemismonammosisem When the Present Century Was Young T.HE CLINTON. NEWS -RECORD March 9th, 1905 Mr. Reuben Graham has bought the Mason house' from Mr. Robert Mason, the purchase "price being about $5000. and will get possession On May first, when the lease of Mr. Brandenburger expires. Harlan' Bros. are putting an ele- vator intotheir big store which en- ables thein, to hoist heavy goods from one flat to"- another with a smaller . strain of muscles than be fore. Mrs. Doig, who left a few months ago with her husband to take , up residence hi Dundee, Scotland, writes. to Mrs, O. Olson conveying kind re- gards to the friends in Clinton. Mrs J. Roily of •Morri"s is visiting Clinton friends. Miss Pearl Macdonald' of Auburn spent Sunday under the parental roof. Miss .Louisa Tierany of Blyth, who was visiting at Mrs. John Thomp- son's, returned•home on Monday. 011ie McIiveen has returned from London, where he was attending a business college, and has entered the service. of the Sovereign Bank, Mr. T. H, Cook returned. on Fri- day from St. John, Newbrunswick, where he was engaged for four months repacking and exporting Ontario apples. Miss Porter, who has been assis- tant at the postoffice for the past couple of years, left Tuesday for her home at Elmdale. Mr. Thos, Bell has returned from Dondesb'oro much improved in health and is again in charge of his busi- ness. ' Mrs. D. L.-Boyntz (formerly "Miss Alice Pratt) Winnipeg, who has been spending the last three months with her parents, left for her home' this week. Mr. R. A. Moore has gone to Chicago, Carl' Swartz to Chicago, Fred• and John Cdiper to .Stratford and Fred Joyner to Chicago. - Mr, and Mrs. F. S. Glass, London, wore guests of Mr, and Mrs, E. M. McLean, this week. • THE CLINTON .NEWS -RECORD Init1UM CHINA 'CZECHOSLOVAKIA TRANCE • yry.. in S" NETHERLANDS fid 2 GREECE. • POLAND RUSSIA, DENMARK YUGOSLAVIA A joint organization of the Belgian 'War Relief Fund, Canada -France Relations Committee, Canadian Aid to Russia, Cadadiau Friends of Luxembourg, Chinese War Relief Fund, Czechoslovakia War Charities Fund, Danish Relief Fund, Greek War Relief Fund, Netherlands Relief Fund, Norwegian Relief Fund, .United Polish Relief Fund, Yugoslav Reliof Fund. A N WAY O: ik Chance to Go Fishin'. MES, and the :right to go Blida'. , . 1. the right to enjoy the simple, pleasant things of life! Picnics by the river—week-end trips in the old family jalop'—these are some of the things that your boy is fighting for. today! And he won't be able to enjoy those things, unless we at home, • fight for him against inflation—unless we snake sure when he gets back his • 'dollar will be worth a dollar. To protect his dollar, . we must realize NOW the dangers of careless, :unnecessary buying! We must buy .only what we need—never buy two ;where one will do! We must not evade rationing or price control, or deal with black markets, If we break the rules, our, country --the country he's fighting for—will start on that spiral of prices known as inflation! Remember! Every time (INE of us breaks ONE of these. rules, we're lowering the value ofour soldier's • dollar. ' We're helping to shoot prices sky-high . , and sky-high prices mean inflation. The value of every dollar in Canada goes down, and when the mien overseas come back their' dollar ,tnight buy only a quarter's worth ofsoods! We can prevent inflation! We can give our fighting man his "right to go fishin' ", if we make sure his dollar will be worth a dollar, when he cones home. We can't giveback to him his lost years, or his lost youth. But if we keep up the fight against inflation, he can look forward to pleasant, satisfying living — the Canadian way of life! Pu2/islied'Ly 2'I3b 1i1(L+WINO, ;INDUSTRY (ONTARIO) to reveal tltc dangers of inflation. ■ 'A Make this Pledge Today! 1 pledge myself to do my part in fighting inflation: By observing rationing and avoiding. black markets in any shape or form. By respecting price control' and other anti-inflation ,utensures, and to frainingfront careless and unncces• nary haying. I will not buy two where ole will do, not will I 'buy a "new" where an "old" will do. By buying Victory Bonds. and War Savings Stamps, supporting tax- ation, and abiding by all such measures which Mil lower the cost of living and, help keep prices tta" normal level. eRtw IClovRY Rini to send food and clothing and medical supplies to the sick and hungry in these ravaged lands Listen to the cries of thousands of home- less children and old folks suffering while we are safe. Listen to your heart—and respond. Out of our security --out of our plenty, we must give freely. Bq contributing to the Red Cross you will :tend help through the kindly hands of seen and women trained in personal service 'to those in direct need. *M collaboration with the Red Cross, which is under - felting the task of distribu- tion through its world-wide / organization, we are ap- pealing for funds to send urgently needed supplies to the homeless and destitute in our home lands. THE CANADIAN UNITED ALLIE RELIEF FUND HEADQUARTERS -- 130 QUEEN STREET, OTTAWA Wiliam M. Birks, LL.D., Chairman Hat,. ihomas Vien, K.C., Vica•Phainteue Lawrence .1. Burpee, Esq., Secretoryd'reaaurav Registered under the War Charities Acs Department of Natienal.War Services Hugh Templin Broadcasts Vice-president Hugh Templin, of the Fergus News, Record, Gives Interesting Talk Over CBC Network In September 1941, I was riding in n. staff- oar over the lovely road of southern England. All day long we had been travelling with th Canadian Army on maneuvers over dusty highways and past num erous little villages. In the back seat with me was anofficial aims photographer, a- young man from Ontario. He asked me questions about many details of the work in a weekly newspaper office, .finally • saying, ."You may wonder why I am .so 'much interested in weekly newspapers, -Well, •my great ambi- tion is to own one after the war." I•le'didn't need to tell are that. It was an old: story. Every time I Visit a large daily paper, some"re- : porter or editor confides in ane that some day he is going to buy a nice • weekly paper. I have been • told that ninety per cent of the Members of the press gallery here in Ottawa hope to own a. weekly paper some day. • the problems that shape history s have their echoes in our own town , and countryside. e Take the "Freedom of the Press" as an example.• The news, gather- - ing associations 'of several •corn- tries •are discussing the problem at present. It ' affects our weekly papers too, but in a •smaller and more intimate way. After all, it was editors of weekly papers who won the Freedom of the Press in both Britain and Canada. And it isn't • only national' governments which. would interfere with that freedom. Twice' in my experience, municipal councils have taken print- ing contracts front the 'News -Record because they didn't like pointed com- ment on the editorial page, and thought that in thin way they could nuzzle the editor. They were mis-' taken, of course, butthere is need for constant vigilance even in small 'natters. 'We' make little attempt to cover the news of the world as a whole, but the big events often have their echoes here at ]Tome. When, a thousandbombing planes go out over Germany, •official report nay say, "26 planes are missing from This, eottnnon desire is. based 'on a popular error—the idea that edi- Itors of weekly newspapers are men of comparative leisure. The' city iouanalist, striving to meet a daily; deadline, imagines, "that he would havecto hinny only one day a weak if he had a little paper of his own. The other days, he could go fish- ing, or talk . to farmers, orloaf around in his rose garden. Editors ,of weekly papers. don't do that,: particularly in these days. They are working harder and with longer hours thane at Any other time hi a generation or more. My own staff of 'bright young. men is scattered, one is in a gorvette in the 'North Atlantic; one is piloting a bomber over Germany, one is with 'We artillery in Belgium and one is doing radar work on 'the' east coast. Nowadays an entirely' feminine staff helps the editor to. publish the: News -Recorder. Every weekly newspaper has its wartime troubles, yet the 30 editors who ' have ,been meeting here in Ottawa this week are urea who en- joy their work. So do most of the other 600- editors' in. Canada whom they represent. Theywouldn'ttrade jobs with anyone.' They don't •make much money, perhaps, but there is a solid satisfaction about their work. The editor of a weekly paper liy'es close to his readers, He -known most or them by name. Iris•; paper with the parents of those not return because everybo them. Nearly every item papers has a personal ince the Toronto Star or the Times might envy. One of, the best things o papers do in these days is the boys overseas in ton home. Every weekly newsp has subscribers "ase ' Europe and Asia, in our own town, gus couneil pays for severs copies of The News-Reco week for local boys overse ing they do is more appreei Our readers like to kno interpret the news. They editorial pages. They ti know what we are talki And why shouldn't we? bver those 30 editors• at the this week, I know that all have travelled 'across Cana after year, going to • con hearing local opinions a points. They :have visited dt,strles; have sailed on 'the Canadian Navy; have training planes of ,the Some of them have tray crowded troop transports refugee ships; have flown -0 tic to Scotland;have been b England; have tried to int the people of neutral Ir have been trailed by Germ in Lisbon. ' It's an interesting life.' • , the night's •operations, of which der so. •many people want three ,are Canadian." j'weeklY newspapers'. But when Bill Iiohnan's• mother bn'ings in a letter from her boy, who is the bomb 'Winer in a Halifax, we know it is one of the most inter- esting stories We have seen in a long tiro and we know our readers will eat' it up, not •simply ::because of the modest understatements with which Bill describes how he 'brought home from Essen a battered Halifa.,t plane with a wounded pilot, but be- cause •our readers have known 33111 since he was a boy, and his father and mother before that. We are all glad to hear, a few days later, that, Bill will soon be wearing the purple and white diagonal stripes. of the Distinguished .Flying Cross. I•Ie didn't know that -viten he wrote the letter, but there is no doubt, he earned that medal. • This weak, two more Fergus boys are in the honors 1ist, Lorne Ford and Bill Mann, used to live in `the same block iii li'ergus. Their gar-, dens almost touehed, back to back.. Lorne has been the ,pilot of a Mac - quite bomber on many, a raid over Berlin; :Bill saved- the life of an officer ,on; D -Day on the beaches o1 Normandy at the .'risk of his own OBTAIN THFAA Ari vest