The Clinton News Record, 1933-08-17, Page 3"1'HU., .AUGUST 17, 1933
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Originally, says a writer, national
dress was determined by climate. We
gather from this that it was the
mild, temperate climate- of Scotland
that made the Highlanders take to
kilts.
Occupation comes next says the
same writer, in determining dress,
but we look in vain for any explana-
tion as to why clergymen wear
back-to-front collars and bishops
wear gaiters.
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Evidence taken at Portsmouth
shows that-{the'°Screws" (underworld
angot for guards are not popular
with prisoners. Its not to be sup-
posed that we should regard with
favour those whose business it is to
keep us in our place. 'Sir Hudson
Lowe was unnecessarily severe but
it is not likely that Napoleon Bona-
parte would be partial to any other
governor at St. Helena, no matter
how generous and considerate that
governor might be. The guard is
not responsible for our being in pri-
son, but is the ever-present symbol
of the authority, which confined us
and we vent our spite on him.
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One Single Thought
"Do you believe in telepathy?"
"What is that?"
"Well, that is where two or more
persons think of the same thing at
the same time."
"Sure I do. I live in a boarding
house that has only one bath -room."
"As for me," said Henry Ford, "if
booze comes back I shall quit manu-
facturing." Some newspapers are
guizzing him now, as to what he is
going to do about it. Well he is as
good as his word. All we know is
that he gave up navigation when he
failed to get the boys out of the
trenches by Christmas.
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An editor who has been for many
years in the newspaper fame, reveals
the truth that to read a newspaper to
advantage we must learn what to
skip. Ordinarily the 'headlines give
the cue, but we have so often found
them misleading that we have to
skim before we skip. We have seen
headlines that were in direct-confliet
with the body of the article, while
others have a very inaccurate slant.
In the rush of getting out a daily
newspaper errors are bound to oc-
ean sometimes and we do not find
fault except when we suspect that
the headlines are propaganda.
Even at a world conference, one
half does not know what the other
half is doing.
Typographical Error
"Heavy -drought horse" ---Mail and
Empire. Probably a Pancheron.
Panama, the only country unrepre-
sented at the world conference, is
the only one that can say "we told
you 50."
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Heckling public speakers is quite
a common practice in the United
Kingdon: and is becoming a practice
in Canadian cities. The heckler is
a man who would like to be the spea-
ker and would be if he could hire a
hall and draw a crowd. Being unable
to do either, he draws attention to
himself by interruptions. It is noth-
ing to him that he disturbs the aud-
ience that came to hear the speaker
or speakers. He is interested in
getting into the line -light.
As a general thing it has no merit.
In nine eases out of ten, the heckler
is concerned only in drawing atten-
tion to himself or to some pet theory
of his own. He may desire to cony
fuse the speaker, but he is not influ-
enced by any desire for information{
He is usually the sort of man who is
ignorant enough to think he knows it
all.
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When a person wishes information
or explanation it is quite proper to-
rise
orise and ask permission to interrupt,
which speakers are generally willing
to grant, or where 'he believes a
speaker is trying to evade an issue,
it is alright to stand up and ask per-
mission to call attention to it, Heck-
lers never do that. They interrupt
merely for the sake of interruption
and as we have said more than onee,
to indulge a passion for publicity,
English and Scottish radicals who, i
were given to that form of diversion
at home have introduced it into Can-
ada and politicians who expect to
take part in the coming election cam-
paigns will have to run the gauntlet,
and may as well get ready for it.
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About twenty-five years ago
a very young man was a candi-
date in an English constituency, et
a publie meeting, the night before
the election, a heckler called out
"Does your mother know your nut?"
and he replied: "Yes, and by this
time tomorrow she'll know I'm in."
It helped win his election. His
mother's memories published a few
years later disclosed that it was she
who had prompted it. She sent her
butler there to ask the question and
had coached her son to make the ap-
propriate retort.
What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TFr LAST DE-
CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY?
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From The New Era„ Aug. 18, 1893:
Messrs. David and Peter Cantelon
leave tomorrow for the World's Fair.
Mr. Ben. Gibbings of Detroit is
home.
Mr. George Hanley, who has been
confined to the house for several
weeks, is able to be out, and looks
as well as ever.
Mr. W. Jackson, Mrs. Rance and
Miss Alice Rance left on Wednese
day for Preston Mineral Springs,
where they purpose spending a cou-
ple of weeks.
Messrs. A. T. Cooper and J. F.
Emerson represented the Clinton
Bicycle club in the races at Gode
rich yesterday, nearly all the wheels
in town were there.
The Misses IVlountcastle returned
on Wednesday last from their trip in
search of health.
Constance -- The enterprising Mr.
Papineau intends going into store
keeping and has let the contract to
Mr. S. S. Cooper of Clinton, for the
erection of the new store. Sam will
do 'a good job for him.
A Fire—At a quarter to eleven on
Thursday evening last a fire was
discovered in the building of the
Clinton Organ Company ' on Mary
street. It was in the third storey,
d seemingly in the vicinity of the
an gy .v
finishing room. The building was a
three storey frame structure and al
though an alarm was put in benne
diately, the firemen were powerless
to save it. The hoose of Mr. James
Ford across the road was badly blis-
tered. The night was moderately
calm, otherwise. that portion of the
town would have been in grave darn,
ger. Very little was saved from the
factory, All machinery and stock
were lost. Mr, Brown, the electrican
in the Electric Light Company
building next door had presence of
mind enough to shut the windows and
close off the safety valve. Much
hard work saved the machinery in
this building.
WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY
WAS YOUNG
From The News Record, August 20,
1908:
Miss Gertrude Thompson of Hen
sail spent a day last week with Mesh
T. Kearns.
Mr. I. Taylor of London visited
Mr. W. J. Stevens last week.
Miss Elizabeth Shepherd of New
Haven, Conn., who had been visiting
her cousin, Miss Kate Sheppard of
town, and her sister, Mrs. J. G..
Steep, Goclerich township, left on
Monday for Sault Ste. Marie.
Miss Clark of the office staff of
tho Toronto Saturday Night of
which her brother, the widely -known
"Mack" is editor is the guest
of her sister, Mrs, J. E. Cantelon.
Miss Latta Smith, her holidays
being over, ''has returned to town
and resumed her duties in Barrister
Brydone's office.
The C.O.F, played Carpet Balls
with their Hensall brethren. . Both
this visiting rinks were successful,'
Those from Clinton who took part
were; J. P. Sheppard, )V. S. R. Hol-;
mes, J. E. and J. W.. Finch, T. Man -
The Royal William, just one hun-
dred years ago, won a niche in the
Hall of Fame for herself and her
captain •as the first vessel to cross
the Atlantic using steam all the
way. She was built in Quebec, and
was originally intended to create a
bond of union between the old French
province by the St. Lawrence, the
old British provinces by the sea, anti
and the new British provinces by the
lakes, but instead, her distinction
was attained through demonstration
of the feasibility of navigating oce-
ans by means of steam -propelled ves-
sels.
The enterprise of her building was
fostered by a subsidy from the Gov-
ernment of Lower Canada, and car-
ried out by a group of Quebec and
Halifax merchants which included
the three Cunard brothers. On Sep-
tember 2, 1830, the keel was laid in
Black and Campbell's shipyards, sit-
uated at Cape Cove, a mile above
the citadel and directly in line with
the spot where Wolfe breathed his
aghan, W. I. Hardy, I. Dodd, H.
Glazier, R. Miller, M. Grealis.
New Town Clerk—At a special
meeting of the town council on Mon-
day evening, Mr. D. L. Macpherson,
the efficient clerk, was appointed
treasurer, to succeed Captain Mc-
Taggart.
Bayfield—elev. Robert Gairdner of
Chicago who is on a visit to his
mother, occupied the pulpit of Trin-
ity church on Sunday.
While Mr, J. Taylor was in Bay-
field he was attacked by the livery
stable cat, who turned on him when
the dog it wanted to chase, got a-
way, Mr. Taylor required the ser,
vices of a doctor.
The paper carried an account of
the death of W. W. Ferran, who died
of heart trouble. Ho had taken an
active interest in the town. He serv-
ed as councillor in 1866, later be-
coming reeve and mayor. He was
interested in many manufacturing
enterprises in the town. His one
hobby was horses. He leaves iris
wife and one daughter, the wife of
Captain H. Torr Rance.
From The New Era, Aug. 20, 1908:
.A. Collision—Last Saturday night
considerable excitement was caused
by a collision of two buggies in
front of J. Meld's. The one rig
went over the axles of the other, and
one hoose got to the sidewalk and,
free of encumbrances, dashed around.
The occupant, Mr. Wm. Campbell,
was not seriously hurt.
Mr. Tom Wiseman and family of
New York are visiting Mr, and Mrs.
John Wiseman.
Clarence Johnston, who has charge
of the Mitchell Anglican church, and
Principal Hartley, the Seaforth
dhureh for the present month, ex-
changed pulpits on Sunday.
The following rural teachers re-
turned to their respective schools,
Saturday morning: Miss Chidley, to
Flesherton; Miss Carling to Wing
ham; Miss Copp to St. Joseph's Is-
land; Mrs. Kerr, Fordwich; W. Mane
ning to Moirkton; The Misses Shep-
herd to Lambeth and London,
The Misses Annie and Louise
Worthington left for a trip to Cali-
fornia.
The Misses Carrie and Ella Akam
are visiting friends and relatives in
Detroit for a few weeks.
Improvements—The exterior of
Morrish & Crook's store is being
greatly improved by an application
of paint.
A new roof is being placed upon
the building occupied by Mr. Jabez
Rands as a blacksmith shop.
Miss Bertha Gunn, youngest
slaughter of Dr. Gunn had the mis-
fortune to break her right arni in
two places. She fell 'out of a ham-
mock.
Holmesville—One hundred boxes of
July and August make of cheese were
sold last week by Mr. IIolland to
Lovell and Christmas, Montreal, at
12 3-8 cents a pound, which is con-
sidered a good price.
Hullett—Mi'. John Pingland has a
bear cub playing about his orchard,
It was caught by his son, Will, who
is on mission work and sent home to
he raised.
' A New Store ---The Misses Millie
and Lou Little intend opening a store
for. the sale of all kinds of home-
made pastry. They will occupy the
stand in MacKay Block, formerly us-
ed by A. R. Smith.
PAGE;It
The Story of the Royal William
last after the Battle of the Plains.
The ship was designed by and built
under the supervision of James
Goudie, a young foreman -designer
of Canadian birth who had learned
his profession in Scotland. Her en-
gines were constructed by the firm
of Bennet and Henderson, Mont-
real, the senior member of which,
John Bennet, had served his appren.
ticeship with the fatuous Boulton and
Watt of Glasgow.
The launching of the ship tools
place towards the end of April, 1881.
Without foreknowledge of the dig -
tinction for which she was destined
the occasion of her launching was
marked as one of truly national sig-
nificance. The Mayor of Quebec
declared a public holiday, a guard
and a band from the 32nd Foot were
drawn up near the ship, the gunners
of the Royal Artillery awaited the
word to fire the salute from the new
citadel, and the whole community
were there to applaud. Lord Ayl-
mer, the Governor -in -Chief, attended
as the represntativo of King William
IV., after whom the vessel was nam-
ed the Royal William. When all was
in readiness, Lady Aylmer took the
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bottle of wine, which was wreathed
in a garland of flowers, and throwing
it against the bows, pronounced the
historic formula, "God bless the Roy-
aI William and all who sail in her."
The Royal William. left Quebec ton
August 24, 1831, on her first trip to
Halifax and intermediate points.
Three round trips were made during
Ithat short season, all of which wore
moderately successful. The next
year was not such a prosperous one,
owing partly to restrictive quaran-
tine regulations imposed on account
of a cholera epidemic. The owners
were forced to tie up the vessel for
a large part of the season, and suf-
fered heavy financial loss. In the
spring of 1833 she was sold by sher-
iff sale to the mortgagees, and was
employed for a time by her new
owners in towing and in local excur-
sion business. After a trial trip to
Boston (where she was received en-
thusiastically for the reason that
she was the first of all steamers to
enter a port of the United States
flying the Union Jack), her owners
decided to send her to England for
sale. It was this voyage which gave
the Royal William a place in history.
Early in August of 1833 she left
Quebec for Pictou, where she remain-
ed for several days coaling, repairing
her boilers and awaiting passengers.
On August 17, under the command
of Captain John McDougall, ;she
steamed out of Piston harbor to
test the power of steam against the
waves of the Atlantic. Her Pietou
custom papers read:
Royal William, 363 tens; 36 men.
Master --John McDougall.
Whither bound—London.
Containing goods exported -- 284
chaldrons of coal, a box of ,stuffed
birds; ship spars (produce of the Pro-
vince), one box, one trunk, household
furniture, a harp and seven passen-
gers, all British.
The voyage soon became eventful
Heavily laden with coal, she encount-
ered a tremendous storm off the
Grand Banks off Newfoundland. She
strained; her starboard engine was
disabled; she began to leak; and the
engineer came up to tell McDougall
she was sinking. But the captain
held to his course, started the pumps,
and kept the ship under way for a
week with only one engine going.
Eventually she reached London, the
whole passage from Pictou taking,
twenty-five days.
The later career of the Royal Wile
Ilam was to some extent an anti-
climax. Ten clays after her arrivat
in London, she was sold for £10,00G
and chartered to the Portuguese Gov-
ernment to transport troops. Cap-
tain McDougall was continued ire
command, and in the Autumn of 1833°'
sailed her. to Lisbon, where she was:
unsuccessfully offered for sale to the
Portuguese Government, In 1881'
she was sold to the Spanish Govern-
ment and converted into a war steam-
er, the first that Spain ever owned.
Her naive was changed to Ysabel'
Segunda. In the year 1840, she was
sent to Bordeaux, France, to have
her hull repaired. As it was found
that her timbers were hopelessly rot-
ten, she was converted into a hulk. A
new vessel took her name, was built
to receive her engines, and she In'
turn was wrecked in 1860 in a fierce
storm off the coast of Algeria. Thus,
with her hull rotting in Bordeaux
harbor and her engines sunk in the
shifting sands of the Mediterranean,.
the Royal William, the first ship to•
cross the Atlantic by steam power,
ended her varied career.
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Prices?
An Advertisement
Addressed to the
Public of this
Community
When you hear of a manufacturer who spends $100,000 or 'more
each year on advertising, you may feel like saying --."Terrible! What
waste! and it is we—the public—who have to pay for it all!"
But step! Before you make judgments, look at facts.
Manufacturers who advertise spend from 2 to 5 per cent. of
their sales on advertising. Let us put it at 3 per cent. of the price
which you pay for their article of sale. So if you pay 25 cents for an
advertised article, you are paying three-fourths of one cent to pay for
making it known to and wanted by you. The price would not be less
—indeed, it might easily be more—if the article had no money spent
on it to make it known to and wanted by you.
It is economy, so far as you are concerned, to have manufac-
turers develop a huge demand for their product, by the agency of
press advertising. You pay for the advertising, of course, but you
pay a smaller price for the advertised article than would be necessary
if the manufacturer's output were smaller!
Advertised articles have to be better than non -advertised are
titles, and since they are made in larger quantities, they can be made
and sold at least as cheaply as imitative non -advertised articles.
If you are a thrifty and wise buyer, you will buy the article
made known to you by faithfully -maintained press advertising. The
stranger product should be shunned.
13e very friendly, therefore, to nationally -advertised products—
foods, toilet aids, motor cars, radio sets, and all else — which
are also locally advertised in this newspaper.
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