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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-05-14, Page 3THUES., MAY 14, 1942 THE CLINTON' NEWS -RECORD PAGE 3 Clear' telephone Ames for. ALL-OUT PRODUCTION Your telephone is part of a vast interlocking system now. carrying an abnormal wartime load. Don't let needless delays hold up messages on which production efficiency may depend. OTiMER "W,IRT%ME TEIENIO'NE r4CT/CS" 1. BE ;SURE RE you have the right • • number... consult the. directory. - L. SPEAK dletincel `'� �� the mouthpiece, y' directly into , t 3. ANSWER promptly when the bell rings• 4. USE OFF-PEAIC hours for Long Distance calls: before 9.30 a.m., 1.2 pan., 5.7 p nr after 9 p.m. These things mayMak trilling, but an telephone TILL UAYYJllN11NL 5 11V CLINTON EARLY IN THE urs NTURY Some Notes o f The News in 1917 FROM THE CLINTON NEWS. RECORD MAY 10TH, 1917 The C.G.I Cadets were inspected on Tuesday morning by Captain Barclay of London. They made a good show- ing, though few in number, on ac- count of so many of the boys being absent -on the farms, Lawrence West was presented with a set of military brushes by a -num- ber of his friends at the home of Mr, W. Cole prior to his leaving town, and his S.S. class, of which Mr .W. Walk- is Walkis teacher, presentee) him with a fountain pert. At the regular meeting of Murphy Lodgeon Tuesday evening there were two initiations and two members joined by certificate. Also four appli- cations were received. It is antici- pated that the membership -will reach a hundred before July 12th. Awing the casualties effeeting Huron men reported during' the past week are: Killed, in action: Pte. Bruce Noble, Goderich; Pte, Percy Lawson, Exeter; 'Pte. 0 .McLeod; Fordwieli. Wounded: Pte. Percy Hitchens, Clin- ton; Pte. T. C. G. Taylor, Seaforth; Pte. Fred Taylor. Seaforth; Pte. Geo. Brock, Hensall; Pte. A. Brokenshire, Exeter; Pte. J. McLeod, Goderich. Pte. Arthur Parlcer of Hensall, was reported raising but his father re- CHURCH. DIRECTORY THE SALVATION ARMY Mrs. Envoy Wright 11 a.m. Morning Worship. 2.30 p.m, — Sunday School 7 p.m. — Salvation Meeting ceived a message later announcing his safety. On Tuesday evening it was announ- ced that eight battalions'• and several drafts from Canada had reached Eng- land in safety. Among this number was the 220th York Battalion, of which Lieut. R .J. Rumball is adju- tant, and the R.C.D. Strathcona's Horse ,to which Trooper W. W. Nim- 'ntens is attached. On reaching London, England re- ! Gently Miss Miss Yate Scott was niet ;by her brother, Pte. Stewart Scott of the Huron Battalion. And quite by accident while in London they fell in with pr. and; Mrs. Gunn and Miss • Ysabel. At half past four o'clock on Wed- nesday of last week at the Metropoli- tan church, Toronto, a pretty wedding was solemnized when Miss Lucy, daughter •of Mr. W. J. Cooper, now of Toronto but formerly of Clinton became the bride of Mr, Chas. H. Watkins. • Clinton is to hear no band music this summer except what leaks out of the band roam on practise night. The reason for this, is that the Kilties re- fuse to accept the grant offered by the ocuncil for three months weekly open air concerts. The Kilties asked for a grant of $200 for the season, but before the ceuncii met on Mon- day last sent a'ctommunication to the effect that they would accept $150. The council, however, cut it another twenty-five dollars and it all off. Miss Elva Lavis has just graduated from the General Hospital, Toronto, and is spending some time at her home in town. She will receive her diploma next Friday. THE BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. A. E. Silver, Pastor 2.30 p.m.—Sunday School 7 p.m. --Evening Worehip The Young People meet each Monday evening at 8 pan. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH Rev. G. W. Moore, LTh. 11 a.m. • Morning Prayer. 2.30 p.m. Sunday School. 7 p.m. -Evening Prayer. • ONTARIO STREET UNITED Et -v. G. G. Burton, M.A., B:D. 12.00 a.m.-Sunday School. 11 a.m.—Divine Worship 2.00 p.m. Turner's ` Church Ser- vice and Sunday School 7 p.m, Evening Worship WESLEY-WILLIS i:TNITED Rev. Andrew Lane, B.A., B.D. 11 a.m.--Divine Worship 7 p.m. -Evening Worship. Sunday School at conclusion ing a fewdays with her mother this morning service. week, Mrs.' James Nesbitt •of•. Blyth. Tlie various councils are grading PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - the °London Road, horn Clinton .to Sunday.' School 10 a.m. ' Hensall Mr. Frank- Layton has I Worship Service 11 a.m. charge of the grades: which is drawn being in the village a match was ar- Liberdade on a Saturday afternoon, 8 pan. Worship Service at Bayfiel4 by a gasoline engine. ranged in which Dr. Turnbull, George'dodging the hawkers , who tried - to 2 pat.—Sunday Sohool. Bayfieiat Miss Mabel Kerr, nurse, recently Youngblutt took part. press lottery tickets on us, and look - Portugese Bullflght Brilliant Pag- cant without any Blood Spilled This is ,the 17th' in the series of stories about a trip to wartime Bri- tain and return, by way of Portugal. They are written for the weekly newspapers of Canada by Hugh Tem- plin, > editor of the Fergus News Record. r have already written something of Lisbon, the captial of Portugal. This week, I add some more. Frankly what I write is colored, by my point of view. Perhaps, i do Lisbon an in- justice. An excellent guide book, published by the Government of Portugal and presented to me with the compli- ments of the Minister of Prapaganda (for they call a spade a spade in Por- tugal), says: underwent an operation for appen- dicitis at Goderieh, and is now making rapid recovery. Mr :and Mrs. John Burns of the 16 con. of Goderich township have left for their' new home in Holmesville, Mr. Ezra Pickard of Holmesville is becoming efficient in driving his new Ford car. The marriage of Miss Dorothy, daughter of Mrs. A. H. Tierney, Bly- th, to Mr. Joseph Arnstein of New York, took place quietly in St. James Cathedral, Toronto, Thursday last, Rev. •Canon Plummer officiating. The bride is the grand -daughter of Mrs. I "Lisbon is enchanting. It is a city at once ancient and modern, with wide'avenues bordered by magnificent houses and crowded with swift motor cars. There are streets of steep steps in which houses of many -colored fronts jostle one another confusedly, while between them passes a motley crowd in typical costumes: fishwives, bare -legged but wearing golden neck- laces, women carrying jars ef water on their heads in classic pose." True enough, no doubt, but my diary tells a different story. Up to that time, it had been full and com- plete, as readers may have guessed. But for the 'week in Portugal, it is brief. It sayst' "Saturday, October 10th, to Friday, October 16th -The terrible week in Lisbon. Disliked itfrom the start. Saw bullfight on Sunday, October 11th. Sick on. Tuesday and stayed that way till Excambion sailed on Friday -and for -four days more." Ands that, except' for two pages of notes on the bullfight, is all. But I ned no notes to bring back memories of Lisbon. They keep corning back, even in my sleep, and nearly -always as nightmares, All in the Point of View Yet it is all in the point of view apparently. To thousand's of people from. Nazi•d'ominated Europe, Lisbon in those months and for some fifteen months before, was the symbol of. liberty and comparative safety. , Some Thompson, Albert Street, Clinton, and of. them gave up everything they had was a former C.C.I. student. except their lives, to reach the city. The` Town Caines) has purchased Uncounted hundreds .probably lost 300 bags of potatoes which are to bes their lives trying to reach it. Lisbon sold to the citizens for. seed purposes was the only- point of contact with the only. This is being done in recogtre free world—with the United States. tion of the' stressful times and the and to some extent, with Great call for food production in both town Britain. During the voyage across and country, demanding that alI the Atlantic to New York• I was to should devote their energies to nee- hear at first hand the stories of some creasy work. of these refugees. Not till then did I McKenzie --On Monday; May 14th, learn what Nazi domination really at' 15 Munroe Park ,Toronto, Charles means. For -those poor people, Lis - Lloyd George, infant son of Mr. and bon was literally the doorway out of Mrs. George McKenzie, Clinton. Hell, I didn't look on Lisbon in that way: To me, it was but a port of call on the way back to the home I was anxious to see as soon as pos- sible. When I learned I would have to wait ten days for a plane across the Atlantic, it was a shock. With the seven other Canadian editors, I began to haunt the officers of Pan American Airways, and later ,those FROM THE CLINTON NEWS- of American Export Lines. I stood in line with other refugees and be - RECORD carne one of them. Would I get eut MAY STH, 1902 of Portugal before the Germans ar- , Currie --Jervis — On Wednesday, May 16th, Mabel, daughter of Mr. Wm. H. Jervis, of Stanley township, to David J. Currie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Currie of Goderich. FROM THE CLINTON NEW ERA MAY 10TH,' 1917 Mr. Carl East of the head office of the Royal Bank ,Toronto, formerly of the local branch office staff, was transferred to Ottawa last week. Miss Bessie Glen leaves on Satur- day for Toron:to,and on Tuesday will go on to Winnipeg, where she will re- main until a few weeks later when she will be joined by heranother and together they will make a tour -of the. west, going as far as Edmonton. Miss Lily Lindsay left last week for Toronto to resume her nursing after spending a vacation at her home in town, Mr. C. 3, Wallis returned on Mon- day froan a basiness trip to the west. Mrs. McHardy Smith of London, and a former resident of town was. elected to .a position an the program aominittee of the 'Women's Music Club. Miss Jean. McTaggart has returned home after her visit at Toronto. Mrs. T. E McKenzie; Jr., is spend - When The Present Century Was Young rived? I wondered. Would the United Mr. W. N. Manning who for over States be forced into the war while fourteen years has been identified with the Doherty wan industry as assistant bookeeper, head bookkeeper, and business manager, has severed his connection therewith and will in the course of a few days leave the office Mr. Manning will take an extended trip west, through the Rockies and on and hacl marvelled at the way free to the Coast and after spending sone people took those things. There had time in B.C. he will take a Pacific always been some danger in those steamer for San Francisca). His re- days and nights in England but the turn trip will be trade blf Denver, people were of my own kind, and it Omaha- and Chicago. Last Saturday had seemed a good place to be. evening the proprietor and employees In Portugal, the very air was dif- tooh occassion to present him with a ferent. 1 knew not a word of the Ian - handsome gold headed cane And guage and little of the customs. An travisa address, companion, accompanied of by unusual number of policemen were es slight token of the to be seen everywhere. One could esteem in which he is held by egret buy lottery tickets on the streets and by way ef expressing their regret at his departure. I stayed on in Lisbon waiting for the Clippers that were so slow cowling? I had just come by plane from Britain. The trip had its dangers, but they were of the exhilirating kind. A few nights before, I hacl come unscathed through a bomb raid Mr: Albert McBrien has disposed'of his harness -making business to. Mr. A. MoKown, who is now in possession. Mr. A. T. Cooper was in Detroit on Friday :last. Mr. and Mrs. Thorn of Mitchell but could be arrested for using a cigarette lighter. Portugal has a benevolent dictator, a Professor Salazar. He has done much good, they say, But there must be times when he quails at the mag- nitude of ag-nitude-of the job ahead of hint The people are desperately poor; many have been spending the past few drays of them have deadly sicknesses. I in town the guest of their daughter, had been warned not to drink the Mrs. R. Chowen. water in Lisbon orevenclean my Mrs. Frank Yea, who, has been, as - teeth with it. Distilled water was sold in five -litre 'bottles for that pur- sisting her father at the, Clarendon, pose 'Nobody warned me against all left for her home in Mt. Forrest on raw fruits and vegetables. It may Thursday last. She was accompanied have been a lettuce salad ;or perhaps by her two brothers, Roy and Guy a bunch of handsome grapes that fin- Cantelon, who will make their hone ally sent me to bed, quite ill. with her for a time. But it may have been partly the fear Mr. James Dunford has moved' to comes from being watched day the house on Station Street, second after day by enemy eyes. The new. house north of Mackenzie' ll which he recently bought. u egAiver t AFTER TIRES- ' . Self 40 GET MI� Sure, you can make your tires last longer by observing the simple rules. But if your tires are to spin out the mileage you are going to want from s• a'; = >':93 them : : you'll need the skilful, systematic services of the low-cost Goodyear TIRE LIFE EXTENSION PLAN. Drive in for details today) WELLS AUTO ELECTRIC CLINTON. ONTARIO ing at the sights. The huge, colored ale—two cavaleiros -on splendid Arab posters advertising the; bullfight fas- horses and several groups of torea- cinated us. They bore some resem- dors in brilliant yellow and deep blance to -fall fair posters back home, !plum colored velvet suits with gold but they had pictures in brilliant braid. colors, of toreadors and raging bulls. Slowly, we translated the posters—or thought we did. The top line was clear enough "8 Bravos Totros." "8 Brave Bulls." And then the time and the place and the price, which was gate aaoss the ring opened and a d The trumpets blew again. The ring was cleared. A gate at the left opened and a black hull with brass balls on his horns carne rushing in. Another only 15 escudos or less than75 cents ,orseman en ere , whsle toreadors for box seats. But the line that real y fascinated us was down near the After his first rush ,the bull had bottom, "6 Torsos Disembollos." We lost his enthusiasm. The toreadors shuddered over it. "Good gosh, Temp- waved their red capes at him and he ;Asked to Subsribe $9,000,000 lin," said Mr. Sandwell. "It must be charged them, while they neatly side - a bloody spectacle if they are going stepped, oi`- turned over their capes to I TO Red Cross to disembowel six bull." show the yellow side, whereupon the Back in the hotel, 'others of our bull lost interest. Bub he didn't like Starting May 11th, the Canadian art had other details. Theysaid the horse and charged for it. The party Rod Cross Society will ask the people the bulls weren't killed. It was all cavaleiro held what looked like two of the Dominion to suseribe $9,000,000 just pretend. But it was the national tiny spears, with bright ribbons on to finance the workofthe Society. sport, something like hockey. We the ends. As the bull charged, he shouldn't miss it. Besides, a young turned his horse, leaned towards the I The money will be used for food Portugese Army officer, who spoke hull and neatly 'planted the barbed parcels for Canadian and British prix excellent English, would accompany ends of these banderilhas in the fatty oners of war in Germany and Italy; us to explain the fine points. One of part of the neck. The spears broke off comforts for the armed forces. Navy, the crowd had already arranged: for near the point, leaving ribbons hang- Merchant Marine ,air raid sufferers, two boxes for the party, ing on the bull's neck, The ball looked; and hospital and medical supplies; Lisbon's bull -ring has a magnificent angry, rather than hurt, but he didn't disaster and emergency, including as- setting. The taxicab turned out of press the fight until the men with sistance to Allied Red Cross Societies, the broad Avenida into a beautiful the capes stirred him up again. Six and Blood Donor Service. All are vi - park. In the centre rase the great darts, in all, were placed in his neck tal functions of the Canadian ./ Red circular bull -ring, a tall structure in before the cavaleiro took a wooden Cross—each in itself plays an im- fancy Moorish architecture. People sword, and all alone in the ring new, portant part in the structure of this were gaffing out of cars ill around made several attacks on the bull be- great service for suffering humanity. it, while hundreds of other's name off foie dealing what might have been! the street ears eir on foot. a death blow with a real sword. The I As the war spreads throughout the crowd, understanding the fine points, world the tasks of relief assigned to The Portugese Lieutenant found booed cheerfully when he missed and the Society increase until today there the proper door and we began to cheered when he succeeded. Then is no sphere of war activity that is climb up and up on concrete stairs. the trumpet blew again as the re- not benefiting from the good worka It reminded me of the Maple Leaf feree, sitting on a pedestal, signalled of this great organization. Gardens in Toronto. It was another that the fight was over, jumped over the fence into the circle. about those "taros disembollosi'? We asked the young Lieutenant and he laughed heartily. "Why," he said, "We Portugese don't disembowel our bulls. It. means, how you say it? Oh yes, `six disbalied. bulls.' You see, the ones that fight the horses have brass balls on their horns so they cannot tear the horses' flanks; the ones that fight the nien have no balls on their horns." So that was that! v s nu ' Hotel Victoria swarmed with Gov- Mrs. ov Mrs. ,Coats left Tuesday morning mans, one of them said to be the for Cressline, Ohio, to visit her daugh- ter, Mrs. (Dr.) McCallum. Mr. Charles .Donaldson of Thessal head of the local Gestapo. I had to turn over my passport on arrival to the International Police. I never did. on, Algoma, and his father, Mr. find out who constitute that body, James Donaldson, of Stanley were in! but I" knewthe passport •said I was town on Saturday. Mr. Charles Don - travelling "on official government aldson started in the livery, business business:' The Germans knew that. in Thessalon a year age and; has made 'Only once in the whole week in Lis- bon did I feel really at ease, and that it pay. I was the night the people in the Brit - The Bishop of Huron last Sunday ish Embassy gave us a dinner at the evening confirmed the following • at British Club. It was a grand old St. Paul's church. Misses M. J, building and inside its, thick walls Churchill, M. E. Ciuff, J. Glew, M. K. one could talk freely. ' - Gunne, 11. D.;Gunne, N. E. Herman, The Bullfight a Bright Spot 1. J. Morph,, F'. M. Stewart, V. B. • Thompson and Moser. A. Brewer, 0. To Canadian readers, it must seem P. Brewer, R. A. Goielou'gh, W. T. strange when 1 say that the bullfight Berman, T. J. Johnson, G. R. McDrien, Y' saw -in Lisbon provided some re- W. 11. 0. Rattenbury and N. Woods, creation. :The Auburn gun .;club ,has not a Truly, I' never expected to be seen -large tnaaXiiboisl}ap ;bpi those who,. be -•I at`a bullfight, ands on :a Sunday after-. long take -an interest in toy sport. noon of• all times. It took ;scene,: time Chi• Monday citizens J. A. .Can' •for,theddea to,gi t•in B:, IC, Sand - R. Graham and, R. AgneW of ,,Crimson - well andel walked! up the Avenida da Not only are Canadians and Britons typical "hockey Crowd," mostly fairly The horseman rode away, bowing receiving the help of the Canadian young' people, a few families with the and smiling. The bull looked around people through the Red. Cross, but 'children accompanying the parents, and saw no one. The supplies and comforts are always be They were a happy, excited lot. gates opened, and a herd of six skinny ,trained ing sent to the armed forces and The box seats were up at the top, steers, each with a huge cowbell on 'peoples ef the United Nations. For on the shady side. Lisbon is a hot its neck, carne into the ring and en- I example, the Society recently raised place. The temperature in the dzy- circled the bull and he trotted off $750,000 to send medical and relief time ran about 86 degrees. Seats in with them ,the herd driven by two supplies to Russia. the sun east about half the price of tchairslittle boys in bright costumes. those ms the shade. We sa on The financial needs of the St. Jahn in a large, uncrowded' box. Nearby,! There was one more fight en horse- , Ambulance are also included in the various prominent families occupied, back and six on foot. They tended, budget of the Red Cross. their own boxes, The family coats -of- I to grow monotonous. The sympathy Shortly canvassers will call on the arms showed on bright cloths hung of the Canadians, was well with the r nt I bulls which didn't want to fight. Once i people of Canada to provide- the over the railings info f , $9,000,000 so urgently required to Down below were the cheap seats, a bull had his chance. A toreador' carry on the work of the Red Gross a round a perfectly circular ring with slipped and fell en the sand. The bull and when they call householders and a sandy floor. Over on the sunny I immediately stood aside until he got ! vvortters are asked to give genes - side, a band played unknown airs, ,up. But the Portugsse don't ask the curly. The place seated about 15,000 andwas bulls to fight mere than once. They fairly well filled ,though there was retire after one public appearance. V a big counter -attraction that deny in Perhap's that's just as well. The bull, a smaller city nearby, with nearly back in the pasture field, night get - 188,356 artioles of comforts and twice as many bulls. to thinking, "Now, if I had only run clothing were distributed at Eastern On the Side of the Bulls The Portugese bullfight, as it turned out, it not a bloody spectacle, but rather a pageant. Horses and cos- tumes are beautiful and even the bulls look impressive' as they came on at first snorting and occasionally paw- ing the sand, But no blood is spill•sd, no animals are killed ,and no person gets hurt, though that was merely because the bulls failed to follow up their advantages, when they came. It was lesscruel than a rodeo, much Iess ebciting than a junior Teoekey match, lessdangerous, apparently, than senior rugby football. The costumes' were beautiful, al: covered; with,. gold braid on bright colors. There were toreadors, wile fight on foot, using a -cape, or cape to attract the attention of the bulls. Chief of these • is the matador, the man who kills the bull (in Spain) or uses a. wooden sword'. and pretends to kill- the animal, .in Portugal. The anon lted,•bullfighters:. are cavaleiros. Sometiines ;there .are other, men who wrestle with the bulls and ,throw Them. These are foroados. A. bugle blows and the exeitment begins. There is a sort of grand par at the man instead of that red rag - ." Canadian Ports' to men of the Cana - And if any hulls get ideas like that, dian and 13ritish Navy and Merchant_ it might end bull -fighting. Marine last year by the Canadian Red There remained one mystery. .How Cross. (MAY 24th) WEEK.END FARE AND ONE.Q49ARTER Good going noon Friday, May 22, until 2 PM. Monday, May 25. Returning leave ciestinatioe up to midnight Tuesday, May 26. Times shown are Standard. ton fares and full.tnfottiration eppfy to ,ata• nearest ticAet agent.