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`TS -•OVER,
The number` of the Watch was .108,530, . The nearest guess was
made by Miss Irene-Cbreyr, her guess'' was 168;500"'and she, now wears
a beautiful Bulova latch,
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IioWever you should not permit marc chance to derive you , p
ul, so'ac-
'Bulovti nie,so oxquisitiely'beautif
wearing a Bulova watch.
curate and de en8ablo in the service 'they, render,-, that we would like
- to see all our good rends weanng them
COME IN AND SEE OUR DISPLAY
or a New Bulovi
ad"e'in YourrOldai'atch f
' DEALBRxiN'RELIenBLE, 'WATCHES: •
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Coats
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Many of .our customers, school
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and others,Very teachers,Y often
life to make an early selection of
Fall and Winter' Garments
"how-
We. have..now a eery fines
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Fur -trimmed
ering all the neweststyle
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tendencies,
IIIIVIN'S
"WE SELL THE BETTER GRADE TO BUILD THE
,, BETTER TRADE."
School Outfittifl:
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The different glade ani styles of Boys' Suits, Sweaters, Sport
Coats, Saps, etc., are now ready,•Just in time ",for• School opening, and
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We,certainly"have some exceptionally good Outfitting to show parents
joekite for the best values.
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Boys' Suite in first longs in good veearing tweeds, in tans and
greys at $8,50 and $9.00.
-Boys' Suits in first iongs with extra trousers in smart pattern
sizes 30 to 36 at $15.00.
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Boys' Bloomer Suits in a variety of patterns at $5.00 to $7,50.
- °Suits.with extra Bloomers English model' in good
Boys'Bloomer
wearing tweeds at $T2.50.
Bays'- 0, V., all -wool Sweaters; .two button opening, with turn
down collar in navy blue, tan and 'heather at $1.00,
button, opening turn dewn'collar in fine':
Boys' Sweaters with two b n p g.
Worsted yarns at $1.50.
Boys' 0. V. all -wool Sweater Coats in Tan and Levet shades at
$3,00. •
Boys' Sport Coats -in fancy ` cheeps with nice contrasting colors
at $3,00 and $3.50.
-Boys' Caps in some very choice' patterns and style's -at 75c,-$1.00-
arid
.1.25.
Boys' Golf_ Hose, 50c, 55e and x$1.00. .
THE MURRI-SH GLQTHING-
"A Square , Deal for Every Mang'
THE MARKETS
Wheat, .SL10,,.
Barley, 60c to65c
Oats, 35e to 40c,,
Buckwheat, .80c.
Butter, 30c to .35e., z
Eggs, 25c ,to 36c.
,Live .hogs 13.50.
BASEBALL"' NEWS
Clinton., -wan ' from Goderich in•
Goderich yesterday, the score being
9-4. •This'was the first ,game of. the
semi-finals;' seepnd;game Roti be- play-,
ed' in'Clinton,<Friday,,•Apgnst :31st,
at .5.30; instead -of, six-o'.clock as, an
nounced'on the bills:
LhAV N ...
INC, TOWN
Myo W: S D'hvns was in" Torar*to',
a couple of days Tact Weelc' and will'
'return' to`' that cirf "'next Sat
itiday morning, September. 1st to 1 -'
:come a resident `Mr Downs whose`
busmes5'lias •taken htm te'thecity_
a' eonsideiable part -o£ the time ''the
past couple of yearS arrived 'Koine
cast night; bit hopes to fe "able to
wind' up' his Clinton business vn tulle
to' return with the other .memheia of
the fainilyand 'join M1•s. Downs' on
Labor Day; so tli'at the' children inay
betemo enrolled An their respective.
classes at the b`e'ginning'Of the school
-term
Mr. and, Tirs„ Downs, have been
residents” of , Clinton for the past,
nineteen gears and regret ,the' nee-.
leaving.,
essrty of their'Their friends
also regret their ,departurehut wieh
theirs success in their new Koine,
ALL SET FOR MONDAY -" '
Arrangement.are pretty, fully made
for the celebration of the 100th anni-
versary of the ,opening "of the Huron"
x celebration
Road on Monday next, the c ra n o
to start at Frygogle, east of Strat-
ford, at eleven o'clock. It is expected
that the -Hon. G. S"' Henry, Minister
of Highways, will bepresent to de-
clare the roadt open and celebrations
Will be held at Stratford 11.45 to J2.-
45, at Seabach at 1.00; Mitchell 1:$0'
Seaforth• 4:00; Goderich, 5:00 and cu'pied:by Mrs. (Dr.) Fowler. There
Clinton 7:80.' • were sixty-five ladies present, quite a
At each place cairns will be ung number' being grandmothers.
After. singing the ., opening ode;
veiled in honour of't e'early'serecte, Mrs: Fowler Weleemed,the,gLtgists in a
in :Clinton the cairn which is"erected very fitting manner..Mrs.'R. L.
in honour of the first site given for Phillips of Goderich, District Press-.
church purpmes,.-Which by the ,way
dent of West Huron, addressed the
was given by Peter VandOrbuigh, one ' ;
of the; first "settlers, in' whet is nota ,meeting in ,a . very interesting , and
Clinton,.will ,Ile dedicated 'by Arch• .instructive way. Mrs. 'French,
:bishop,a 'Williams, 14Ietropolittln ,of president of. the Clinton' Woman's in -
.Ontario Hon. . James Malcolm and stitute, and 1Vf s. Cairns, a past tre-
Louis Blake Duff, ,president of the sident, also spoke briefly.
Ontario,Ilistorical Society, will speak ,' Mrs. W. Simon, !teed 9.5, won the
at
Goderich, and names Robertson, prize,for the oldest grandmother pre -
commissioner of the Canada, Co„ ori • sent.
gine),ow,ners.ofthe il'uron Tract, will , A. number:ef•,contests•.were hold,
speak inSeaforth: Mrs, W, Aidmore winning the prize
LAST. LXAItL RESU?',TS '
On page seven of, athis i „ue ap-
pears. the:itesults of.thc Upp r' School
examintitions which came i r after
the paper e inie off ..the, ,:preson
Tl uisday, last..
In the Lower School exams 88' -per
cent: of pupils,. were' .successful; • in
Middle••:School, 82 per cent. and • in
Upper School -71 per cent, • ,
It is-• generally, conceded,,that the
examinations; especially the Upper
Sehool,,were pretty stiff= this year.
WXN'„NIPEG.
NOW,IN
Mr. and 'Mrs,' J. 'Kiri: tIoteston of
Winnipeg, Man;,'` and... M}x. Houston's -
sitter and her'htisleand, Dr, and
'Hopper. of Waterdown, motored up on'
'1V/6nday'ernid called' on old friends'
'Clinton; ' "°
Mr. Houston isson`. of 14Tr JahnVienfton, foi-nierly principal' of, the
Linton Collegiate, Institute, 'anis'' a
Well,• lcnown citizen of Clintpn,' Mr.
and here Houston are ,now living in
Wpnnipe'g where '• their three sees,
Kirk,''W hart and !iacic,:are all locat-
ed; th three” being in'the employ; of
the T.'„ Eaton Connpany,' Mr. and Mrs.
Housto4 celebrated their. golden Wed,
ding, ori July let •,when they had a•
heppy"'fainly -gathering. _ They en-•,
joy good• health and Mr; Houston al:
though' he, is eighty years of age,.
hopes to 'nay., a visit to Ontario next
year.
Mr, Kirk.Honston says another old
Clinten boy w ho o h s on a dem well inthe
Manitabo capital rs,,Mr. -J. H„ Wilts&
who has just completed a large apart
Ment block which'be has., named."Clin-
af r the 1
tori Block to oa hone town.
It is gratifying to know that when the
young people go away and .inake good
they do not forget their native place.
"GRANDMOTHER'S- MEETING"
The regular meeting of the .Wo-
3fan's Institute was held on Thurs-
day afternoon; August; 23rd, on Mrs.
Saville's lawn, . Rattenbury street?
west. In the absenceof the president,
11i ,s : 0.-.L. Paisley, the cbair was oc-
A alvanized iron box has been for guessing. the right' number of
vg beans in a glass and M'rs. Geo. Jen-'
btiiltinto the cairn in Clinton in which kins f6r the chewing gum modeling
were.plaoed a number of things, Which : contest, which, caused:: a great deal of
will be of interest tothe people then fun.. lii'rs:-R. Pepper get the consols
Qiving:if the cairn should crumble into tion prize. ,,
dust in the coerse•of several hundred • Mrs. J. Schoenhals took the prize
syears and the contents of the box re- for the lucky chair. At the close of
main in good condition..A paper con- the meeting a social -,half hour was
taining the conditions under which•the spent.
property wad deeded:for church pur- •
pgses. in 1835 was included, also a A. TEDIOUS JOURNEY "
statement of the circumstances of the.'Phis year, When weeaie celebrating
building of the cairn and the, program the o enin of, the Huron road it may
of the celehration; the names of the p g
town. officials, sehoel principals; ate„ be interesting to read an extract from
,copies of The. News -Record, the Mail the diary of the Lata Benry'Ransford
and Empire and,Globe; copies of the relating the trials of a journey over -
voters lists,gf Clinton, Mellott, Tina- land from Port Stanley in. June 1834
ersmith, Stanley and Goderich town- The folk who jump into a car today
ship; fine ncia1 statements `of the dif- and,.take et run down to. Port Stanley
feront .churches, •`Aeriettltural f sso- and back in an. afternoon will.find,it
dation prize list, Collegiate Cain- hand to undarstatid that; so much time
ntencetnebt . report , and, several' coins, multi be consumed in the journey: Mr,
lit would he rather interesting .to ixoma11/Irts. rip o sf rcl land. were returning
know under. what, aircunestancees that g
"We had.to wait ati,Buffalo a day
box will be opened and who will lie. •,ror two'for a small, steambr.that took
present to see it done• us to Port' Stanleyas, it would have
It is probable that a permanent been a long journey overland through
arch will be erected at the .entrance Hamilton: Atli Port Stanley".I hired
•to the Huron Tract at the Waterloo
wagons to tendon. but they would not
boundary sometime during the next go on further believing the roads, to be
year, the, committee deciding at the impassable and they were not -far
last meeting on Tuesday to keep the 'wrong. At London I.found a man to
organization together until this was :ttndertalca the job, but thesoads were
accomplished,
The following prizes for the beast got as far as the Widow Connor., a
decorated farm entrances along the •small.,Tavern in the N, W-.. corner .of
Huron 'Highway, have been 'offered: ,the.,Townchip, here we slept and the
Town of •Gbderieh, from Goderieh' to next,Morning I hired a,horse for my
'Taylor's ,Corners, $5; --„from Taylor's wife to edam the wagon jolted her
Corners . to Ilolmesville, $5; Cel,
STING. NEIL FOR- YO.
VS.; MAN1JkACTURERS
The softball game witich was" play,
ed Monday night by the Wesley -Wil-
lis and It aniifacturers =had .all she
appearance of a walk over in favor of;
Wesley -Willis, up to the end of the
seventh innings, when they were
brought. up sharply by the heavy hit-
ters on -the ' 'Manufacturers'' tear};
who pasted the offerings of TOM;
Churchill, to all corners of .the dia-
mond and, assisted by errors; Were ab-
le to come within two runs•of winning
the game: ;,There were some outstand-
ing :plays made during, the game, in-
chiding
n-
c udin •'some) ectactilar catches be
l g P
Dorman Livermore .on jhe'.Wesley
Willis fide; :who is,.by the way,• no,
weaking e"either, when handling, the
bat: The score was 9-8 in .favor of
the Wesley -Willis team, ,
A QUICK CONNEC'T'ION
The following •'cli 'clipping roni a`:tion
,pP gf
treat paper tells -how speedily the Bell,
Telephone people can connect up "their
speaking .: niachines. Ottr ' own` std
Clinton boy;- Mr. Ray' Rnmball was -in
charge of this job, however, which
'ma -Y --account for the extra speed:
aRenlarkable evidence ' in the •de-?
velopement of the "telephone was die:
played in the harbor of Montreal on
Saturday morning, "when
Australia docked:at,11 o'clock.
Officials of'the Bell Telephone
Company Were among,. those who Met
the vessel. Three minutes After- the
mooring n in of the battleship telephone
phone
'connections had. "been made from
the boat, -which has an up=to-date''
switch -board with 80 instruments,
to the shore,' and two_ minutes' later
officers of the Australia were carry,
•ing on conversations with Montreal-''
els ashore."
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LITTLE LOCALS
Mr: C. E. Carbin has taken the Ir-
win house, Huron street, furnished. '
The street committee is busy this
week patching up the holes in the
streets.
THE,
.in a. dreadful state ,• the first day We
Combe from Holmesville ` to Clinton,
$5; from Clinton to Alma, $5; Dr,
McKay,' Alma to Seaforth, "$5; eSea-
forth to Dublin, $5; Ellice Township,
from the. Logan "line to Sebringville,
$5, and from Sebringvllle to Strat
ford, $5; (Farms to be -Situated in El,
lice' townships; Stratford Beacon
Herald. Dublin to Sebringville, south
side, $5.00; Sebringvllle to Stratford -
south side,.$5.
G. Laithwaite,:.Goderich, is offir-
ing three prizes of $5, 83, and $2 for
the best decorated fronts on tho
Whole route: •
`The following is the committee in•
charge of the local arrangements:
Chairman: Mayor H. B. Combe.
Secretary: M. T Corless.
Treasurer: W. S. R. Holmes,'
Finance Committee:: Dr. ' Shaw,
M. D. McTaggart.
Grounds Colttmittee: R. D. Tasker.
O, L. Paisley, Caryl Draper, G. T.
Jenkins, -
Advertising .Committee,' G. Ri
Paterson, A. J. Morrish, Reeve Lang;.
ford,,,
, Decoration Commitee: W. L. $ohn-
son, Harold Lawson, Bill Mutch, Jack
'Match,
P
Ban.Committee J ibbine, B. G a
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Mni'ean ;A'eriew, Fred Muteh -
Fireworks Committee:' J A. . Sut-
ter; G.
ut-ter;.G, R. Paterson„ F. A. Wiggins.
Cairn: Committee: • Mayor Combe, on the whole it was et very favourable' atthe homo of Miss Walls on Thurs.
Reeve' Langford, S. J. •Andrews, Dr:. one, many 'persons being that time day afternoon, Sept. 6th„, at three
Shaw,.M. D. McTagg'ast. anthoOcean." T o'clock.
too mueh, this_ day doing our best we
were.13 hours going 14 miles, half the on Sunday.
road Was swamp and once we turned,The Rev. A. A. Holmes' will ..have
ever a precious'_jeb we had to 'harge of the service ori Sunday
right the wagon and, load up again. morning. •
Y ,
Mr. Harry Bartliff has taken W.
S. Downs' house Ontario skeet, eet, and
will move in, as soon as it its vacant. •�
The railways are cancelling their'
advertisements for harvesters for the
west' as the full quota has already
been received.• •
Mr. Howard •Venner? Iedger keeper
in the local branch of the Royal
Bank, leaves on Tuesday to relieve
for a rngnth-in the Melbourne branch. i
Mr, N. W. Trewartha left this
morning with a nnrnber of the mem-
-bers, of,his Sunday school class to,.
take inthe wonders of the Toronto i
Exhibition:
The general eomtiiittee iu charge,.
of the celebration met on Ttdesday
and adjourned to 'rtieet again Friday ,
evening. All members of all coin-
niittees are asked to be present" at'
this last meeting. " '1
The Clinton" hospital Board will
meet at half past seven, en Tuesday/'
evening. next, Sept. 4th, in the board '
room -of the town hall.
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Monday being a holiday there will
;.be no Wednesday ,half holiday next.
week. The grocers will continue,
their Wednesday half holiday during
September, according to arrangement
made earlier an the season,
AMONG THE ',CHURCHES. -
Baptist" "Church
Sunday school and bible classes at
•10.30 a,m. an•aunday. P.reaching ser-
vice at •7 p,m.
All members of the B. Y. P. U. at-
tending ,the B. Y. P. U. Convention
must meet at the chureh,on Monday
at one o'clock p,m. :- 1
Wednesday evening service as Uri -
'al.
St. Paul's Church
Holy ' Gomniunioa will be' adminis-
tered at eleven o'clock on Sunday.
M.embers home on holiday are espee'
sally invited.. -
At the evening service special`eni-a
phasis will be laid on the significance
lef Monday's celebration.. : s
Presbyterian Church.
Sunday school will meet at 2;3,0 p.m.
A* one place; we had to cross a par-
r'ow deep creek, we found s or;4 logs
of the bridge had been"tloated away,
J thought our; journey was ended,•but
looking round we saw' the logs a; little
Way down the stream,, so we carried
them; back .`laid . •them. across. -the
stringers and, so got the wagon over.,
LI the evening we; arrived. -at a log
houso in. Usnorne,'_kept .by a • Deo on=
`shine man ngmed Balkweli,. (eeariy
settlers in Usborne, •several• -brothers
having 'taken ,up land in that town -
"ship) where we got something' to eat
and• a place to lie_down. One. side of,
the house was a raised platform the
whole length covered with bedding of
soma kind divided by curtains into
4 or 5 beds, my wife and •I had one
compartment: Next day the' roads
were a little better and we reached
Van4erburghs corner, . >(now Clinton)-
before night. We had one break down.
the pole broke and while the team-
ster was getting a sapling ready I
had to.walk on 2 miles to try and bor-
row en auger, was only too happy to
where all
back to
oneand
-Walk
get
�- ,.
were anxiously looking, out for me,
The 22nd Jame thus ended the jour-
ney'seven weeks from London and
The W. Awill hold, its ;reguler.
monthly meeting .„;ori -Wednesday a,=
ternoon, Shpt, .5th,'*in the basement
'of the 'church, commencing at two
o'clock. ,A)1 members are' requested
to- attend.,
Ontario Street United Churg?t,.,
Union..�services with Wesley -Willis
congregation, Rev. A. E. Doan in,
charge, "Fellowship . Service at -len
o'clock: • Morning sermon subject
"The Man ,WIto,.Hides his Talent.”
Evening: "Jesus --The Light of the
world. '
Tho 'Wesley-Walils - Sunday school'
meets at the close' of the meaning ser-
vice and Ontario street, Sunday school"
will meet at 2.30 in the.afterno'on. a''
change of time for Ontario street S. S.
from the morning•' to the afternoon.''
Miss Hume of Goderich will sing at
the evening service. Union prayer
meeting. Wednesday evening. '
Regular Meeting of Ladies Aid will
be -held Tuesday, Sept. 4th at a guar-'
The
Tl .
ter to two e xoom
Ward will serve
ladies of St. George's
tea,
The Wesley -Willis W. A. will meet
1 In
And The' `Huron
oad
On Monday next 'We:Celebrate all along. -the. Buren ,read the;
onehundredth•,-an dversary of 'the' opening of that thoroughfare. The
-eelebretion;is held in: honour o$-thelpan=in g r el this. <highway, ,vhich is
a
,.cginpleted this,,,year , between ,Toronto arid Goderich,. ,the last, few
miles paved this season'l wee"'•Olinton.and-Seaforth and; although,:'.
-the road has beci,open--for traffic the past .week,. it will, be,formally.;•
declared. oven •on • Monday next:,- the , Hon. Mr. •IIenry, Minister of
IIighways, cutting _the ribbon:. ;
Itis rather hard to realize.that'itis only one hundred years since
this road was cut through••the.woods, making settlement iii the 'Ffii-'
rori`Tract" pnesible,- so ntaity''and• striking have been; the changes
Dieted of almost'unbroken forest are nowbeautffpl'farm homes
with -modern buildings, smiling fields,. orehards.and,g•rrdens,,. There'
are prosperous lbvgns;`,Seaforth, Clinton,and Goderielt being, upon' the'
road, Wingham,'Blyth,• Brussels and others scattered • over the edun-
try, which i5considered'one of .the meet prosperous counties'; in the
Province. -r
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Less than ong•hundred years ago the only mode of 'travel was by -
ox team, and a rough road at that. ,Today a man• can leave, either - t
by -train or private car, Goderich or Clinton, in the morning take his
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noonday meal in Toronto, do, business all day and retm'ri'in time for
early bedtime, - Indeed, onta-can go by airplane 'much more speedily
than that. •Mir. Gillies of Kitchener, a former citizen, sometimes
brings his family up by air to visit relatives' here, quite independent
of the old Huron\road, which we have spent so -much money during
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the past few years in paving; _
The Huron road was the first highway clopped through the.Hu-
ron Tract, 'which was surveyed from Stratford'in 1928 by the Canada
Company's engineers, Ander the direction of Ar. Dunlop) who was at
that time acting under -a. toying commission from the Company.
'The superintendent of the Company's affairs at this time was
Mr: John Galt, the originator of the Company. • Mr., Galt and his
eh1'erprises were not fully understood in England and he was .not,
allowed to use his own judgement in connection with the building
of this road, and itwan not put into as good -shape as he felt the im-
portance of such a road demanded. Col. Anthony' Van Egmond was a
the contractor for the building of the road •but as the Company shut
off supplies of money at this time and g this but strengthened Galt
in his determination to proceed withthe building, he was compelled
to resort to the Company's land, of which he had control, as :payment
to the contractor, and he in tarn was obliged to pay his sub-contgac-
.
tors in the, same commodity,. iVir, Galt in his diary'telis of the. safe
'
fer%ng of the men who built the road from ague and; as the COM,
pony, which seemed to be penny"wise and pound foolish, 'refused to
pay the expense of a doctor,,Mr. Galt, who -seemed to be a'determined '
person, engagd a surgeon as a clerk and paid him something for 'the '
exercise of his skill. i
The. first point of 'attack .on this road in the County of Huron
was at the south-east corner of McKillop • township, where Carron -
brook was afterwards situated, when it took its course along the
southern boundries of IVIeRillop and Hullett and through- the south-,
ern•.part of Goderich township in an almost direct lino to Goderich
harbor, - Consequently its location in' the vicinity of the town of
Goderich was considerably south of tho present road.
It was oTer this road that most of the eptly settlers carne in,
many of them coming in before it was chopped out, the "blazed" trees
being, their only guide boards. Huron road was never a "toll" road',
though some roads built later were tolled by 'the Northern Gravel
Road. Co., but tolls in Huron were'abolished by bylaw of the County
Council in 18.73.
Iliiron County was noted in the early days for its good roads,
the London road having been cut through by the Government some
years after the Huron Tracthad been'•fairly'well settled. This was
later taken :over by the County and gravelled, two branches, one to
Bayfield and the other to Wxoxeter,,being added.
'he first settlers in what=is' now Clinton were Jonas Gibbinga of
,Toronto township, County of Peel, and Peter, and Stephen Vander -
burgh, from Y'onge street, near Toronto. Mr. Giiibings left Toronto
• in June 1831, coming by water to Goderich and ort the Huron Road
to its junction with the proposed London read,` but, which was not yet
'open, Indeed the Huron road was not by any means finished, some
Places'being chopped but not even logged up: ;The yanderburghs
came through by land, arriving at the',same time as Mn.Gibbings, who
settled on Lot 23, Huron road, Hullett' ,toanship,:while Peter who
derburgh settled on the tomer of Tuckersmith and his brother Steph-
en
teph
en on the Goderielt nide' just opposite. Peter Vanderburgh'built a
log house or shanty, which he used as a tavern, the first anywhere
within•many miles. Clinton was then khown as Vanderburgh's Cdr -
"piers; or "The Corners." Later .one of the ;Vattderburghs died and
the other moved away, being succeeded by a than named Read, 'who
was -commonly known as "Yankee" Rens, who kept 'the tavern anda
store, the first store started here, -until he was b -ought out by William _
Rattnbury, who: