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1.'rni x A1'YEN IN U'S IN (LLNTON EARLY IN
THS% CENTURY
Some Notes o f The News
in 1917
FROM: THE CLINTON NEWS -
RECORD
MAY 17TH, 1917
The marriage took place in Saska-
toon, Sask., on Monday of last week
of Miss' Dollie Spooner, daughter of
the Iate Mr. Charles Spooner, former-
ly of Clinton, to Mr. Ben Reid of
Saskatoon. The bride is, very well,
known here having resided here form-
erly and; 'having visited here at in-
tervals during the past few years.
She is a sister of Mrs. Chas. McGreg-
or of Hallett and Mrs. F. B. Hall of
Constance.
Pte. Robert Tunney, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Tunney of Westfiled and
nephew of Mr, and Mrs. Tunney of
Clinton has been invalided home.
Pte. Tummy enlisted with the 48th
Highlanders as drummer in their
pipe band but was later transferred
to the infantry.
Robert McCool, son of Mr. and Mrs,
J. H. McCool of Youngstown, Alberta,
formerly of Clinton, died suddenly at
Calgary General Hospital on May 1st.
Mr. J. Torrance received a cable
this weelc announcing the fact that
his son, Lieut. E. J. Torrance, had
been wounded and was now in the
hospital.
Mr. Frank Williams now a police-
man in Toronto is visiting at the
CHURCH DIRECTORY
THE SALVATION ARMY
Mrs. Envoy Wright
11 a.m.. — Morning Worship
2.30 p.m. — Sunday School
7 p.m. -- Salvation Meeting
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. A. E. - Silver, Pastor
2.80 p.m.—Sunday School
• 7 p.m.—Evening Worship
The Young People meet each
Monday evening at 8 p.m.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
Rev. G. W. Moore, LTh.
11 am. Morning Prayer.
2,30 p.m. Sunday School.
7 p.m,—Evening Prayer,
ONTARIO STREET UNITED
RPV. G. G. Burton, M.A., B.D.
12.00 arm—Sunday School.
11 a.m.—Divine Worship •
2,00 p.m. Turner's Church Ser-
vice and Sunday Scbool
7 p.m. Evening Worship
WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED
Rev. Andrew Late.' B.A., B.D.
11 a.m.--Divine Worship
7 pee. -Evening Worship.;.
Sunday School at conclusion of
morning service.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10
Worship Service 11
parental home in Holmesville.
The watering cart is ,going the
rounds this week, not before it was
needed, either. The tante for the
streets, is net expected until about
June ist. But the citizens are await-
ing with some impatience the time
when the dust on the street will be
under control.
A few of the Clinton Collegiate In-
stitute students are trying to do their
part toward extra production and are
working on farms. They are: Leslie
Hanley, Oliver Murphy, R. Schrenk,
E. Livermors, A. Eagleson, G. Middle-
Iton, P. Currie, P. Hanley, G. Green,
E. Mills, E. Dougan, M. McNeil, G.
Evans, L Kaine, F. McGregor, S.
Jackson, J. Townsend, J. Ferguson,.
, W.. Cooper, H. Ford, R. Hawkins, W.
Thompson, C. Powell, F, . Wallis,
Harvey Stewart, H. Manning. The
;Following girls from the C.C.I. are
also doing their bit, Misses V. Wise,
G. Hudie, E. Sterling, V. Asquith, O.
Fear, Ruth McGowan, R. McGowan,
L Sinclair, K. Dowzer, C. Jervis, V.
Snyder, E. Higgins, M. Lansing ,and
B. Elliott. Archie Mckenzie of the
Public School is also working •on a
farm near Holmesville.
Pte. George 'Harwood nephew of
H. E. Rorke and brother of Gordon
Harwood of town, was one of the
young Canadians who fell in the
fierce fighting which has been go-
ing on during the past few weeks.
Among Huron county casualties re-
ported during the past week are the
following: killed in action: Douglas
Calder of Seaforth; died of wounds
Pte. Frederick Robertson of Goderich;
wounded,: Clarence Crawford, Londes-
bore, Arthur Scale, Seaforth, Sergt,
Harvey Dorrance, Seaforth, Pte. T. C.
Austin, Gowrie, and Sapper D. E.
Bell, Goderich,
Everybody on Refugee Ship Excambion
Seemed to have Thrilling History
restereseeereereeree
This is the eighteenth and finalposed to, fly front Lisbon to New York
story of a trip to Britain and back three times a week. It was on one
of the main streets in downtown Lis-
bon, in the district occupied by the
banks, the money changers: and the
pawn shops. All of these places were
well known to thousands of refugees
from. Nazi -dominated Europe, . who
had eeoapecl'to the freedin of Lisbon
and who hoped to go on to the United
States or somewhere else in the New
World, out of Hitler's reach. It was.
ping offices. One of them had a cer- easy to imagine these refugees, mak-
tain air of romance about it, for it
belonged to Pan American Airwaysi.
whose big Clipper planes were sup•
again in wartime. The writer, Hugh
Templin, editor of the Fergus News-
Record, went at the invitation of the
British Council and represented Cana-
da's weekly newspapers.
Before the United States entered
the war, two of the most popular
places, in the City of Lisbon, capital
of Portugal, were rather dingy ship -
weekend at Mr. 7layomnd McConnell's
in Hullett.
Mrs. E. Walsh of Detroit is visiting
friends in town.
Corporal J. E. Cook of London has
been visiting his family in town this
week.
Miss Florence Cuninghame was a
visitor with Mrs. M. Y. 117ioLean at.
Seaforth last week.
Roderick McKenzie of Stanley has
received; word from his •son, Pte. Jahn
McKenzie who was lately wounded in
the trenches. He is in a hospital in
England now.
Lieut. William McQueen spent the
weekend at his home in Stanley. He
has taken a position in London on the
Labor Bureau and has almost re-
covered from his lameness .due to ins
juries received in the war.
The fishing at Bayifeld this spring weather was interfering with plane
schedules and danger was drawing
closer •all the time. There would( not
even be a boat out for two' weeks if
moved his office from the Normandie the inevitable ,turned our Clipper
block to the office occupied by Mr, tickets ever to the British Embassy
Jab Taylors ' and received boat tickets in exchange.
The oltl frame part used by Mr. J. The Atlantic is wide between Lis -
Doig for his monument shop has been bon and New York, about twice as
torn down, which improves the old' wideas from Newfoundland to Ire -
post office building since Thos. Watts] land The water is blue and warm,
has' brightened : it up with a coat of
paint.
The Goderich Signal Star of last
week reports the death of the father
of Mrs. D. S. Cook of town, who died
at'his- home at the Nile. Her father,
Mr. Samuel Kerr, passed away 011 to the Portugese police guard at the
Tuesday in his 79th year after 0. wharf entrance their last chance to
brief illness. get graft out of the departing tra-
Miss L. Nediger has taken a poli- yellers. I had intended to keep that
tion in the Express Office,
ing their hopless' rounds. And no
place would, be more hopeless than
the ticket offices of Pan American
Airways, for only the greatly privi-
leged, with "pull" at Washington or,
London ,or Ottawa ,ever set foot in
these ships with wings.
In October, 1941, there was another
place visited by thousands of these
persons who still hoped to escape.
That was the offiee of American Ex-
port Lines. This was a steamship
'company, with ambitions to take to
the air as' well and break the mono-
poly enjoyed by Pan American. But
the war with Japan intervened be-
fore tie first Export Lines plane took
to the air. The company was sending
three ships a month to Lisbon. And
the most famous of them all was the
S. S. Excambion.
Out of Europe by Refugee Ship
The eight Canadian editors, tem-
porarily ,stranded in Lisbon, had re-
turn tickets for the Clipper, but the
is better than it has been for many
years,
Mr. M .G, Cameron, K.C., has re -
with occasional dolphins jumping out
of the waves and playing around the
ship.
There was some delay in leaving
Lisbon. I had come on board early,
after paying out my last few escudos
When The Present Century
Was Young
FROM THE CLINTON NEWS -
RECORD
MAY 15TH, 1902
Mr. B. J. Gibbings represented the
Clinton Lacrosse club. at a meeting
held in Stratford on Tuesday to ar-
range a schedule of games. The
home team. is stronger than it has
been far several seasons and the boys
have settled down to hard practice
anti will be in good trim for the open-
ing game here on June 4.
After a long and very painful ill -
FROM THE CLINTON NEW ERA
MAY 17TH, 191'i
Mr. John Ulman, Kenosha, Wis.,
is the' new superintendent of the
Doherty Pianos, Ltd., and has been in
charge during the past week. While
coming from the State of Wisconsin,
Mr. Ulinan is a Canadian; his home
being at Woodstock.
Curry--Jervis-cin. Clinton, on: May
16th, by the Rev. J. A. Agnew, Mabel
Blanche, daughter of the late Wm. -Jervis and of Mrs. Jervis of Stanley,.
to David.John Curry of Goderich
money for souvenirs and was a bit
sore about it.
The harbor was interesting, as all
harbors are. From the land side,
big cranes were lifting casks of wine,
crates of raisins and figs, and, boxes
of unmarked goods. On the river side,
odd little sailing vessels, unchanged
front Phoenician days, had cargoes
of cork brought from. the interior.
They, were family affairs, evidently,
and inhabited not only by people but
by dogs, hens and fighting cocks.
It was dark when the Excambion
pulled out and sailed clown the broad
Tagus river. Now that I was leaving
it, Lisbon looked lovely, set on its
seven hills, one of the few brilliantly
lighted cities left in Europe. The last
bit of Europe I could see was the red
ness Mr. Miller J. White, editor of the neon sign over the gambling casino
Exeter Times, died last Saturday ev- at Estoril,
ening.
A fine monument now stands in
There was a feeling of tension on
board. that decreased gradually as the
Clinton cemetery to mark the grave days passed, but flared up again as
of the late William Beacon:. It was fresh news Caine in. Just before the
placed by order of the Woodmen of Excambion left Lisbon ,there came
the World' to which the deceased be-
longed. The formal unveiling will take
plaee early in June when some promi-
nent officials' of the order will be
present to assist in the ceremony.
Early Monday morning, the 66th
anniversary of her birthday, Mrs.
Carlin breathed her last after hav-
ing been art invalid for eight years.
She was a native of Hull, England,
and came to this country with her
husband thirty years ago. For twenty
years' they were engaged' in the boot
Mrs. C. C. Rance of Toronto and
Mrs, J. J. Allen and little Miss Jean
of Ottawa visited with;relatives in
town during -the past week.
Mrs. George Lavis and, Miss Hattie
will be present at the graduation
,exerclses in connection with. the Gen-
eral :Hospital, Toronto, tomorrow,.
when.Mis Elva Levis. will get her di-
ploma a
ploma asnurse. Miss. Ross Levis
is expectted over;.foom Niagara for the
1VIs. 1zrael.Taylor cif L„ondiopewee
. weeketel .vertex At th n, home, ;of; M, t•
3 p iai r 1 . 51e`Service at BayfielI James Stevens" of town.
2 ;p.m.—Sunday School; Bayfield, . .bios. Rose McCaughey spent the
word that an American destroyer had
been torpedoed by the Germans. It
seemed that the United States might
be in the war at any moment. Two
days out, we heard that an American
passenger ship had been sunk just
south of us. Boat drill took on a new
earnestness.
About half -way across the Atlantic,
there was fresh anxiety. A grey ship.
was approaching from the north, giv-
ing no signal. It looked like a mer-
chantinan bet as it came closer, the
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The ship was taken over completely
by the British, by agreement with the
ship owners, of course. All mail was
taken' ashore to be censored. All
alien pasengers were herded on to
the after deck until their turns came.
It was an interesting process. The
person questioned sat at a little table.
A naval officer conducted the investi-
gation in French. German or what-
ever ether language the passenger
understood best, while a girl fromy
the censorship staff took dawn ever
ward in shorthand in that language.
It soon became apparent that these
men and women knew an amazing
amount about our fellow -travellers--
snore than we had learned in a week
with them. And they knew the cities
in Europe whence they came, and
could detect the flaws in their stories.
It was a thorough inquistion, which
only the British subjects and those
few Americans in the diplomatic ser-
vice escaped, and it took most of the
night. When it was done, we knew
how the Brtish can check up on the
*nage done by bombing and can
collect other scraps of interesting and
valuable information.
and shoe business in Clinton. Mr. passengers with glasses could see its
Carlin died, two years ago. Their guns. The Canadians took it for
only child is Mrs. S. T. Holmes' of granted that it was a ship of the
Seaforth. British Navy, and it seemed that some
Citizen R. Irwin may well be proud of •the enemy aliens on board feared
of his sons. The eldest, John, is yet
but a young moan, not forty but occu-
pies the responsible position •of As-
sistant Superintendent of the Denner
and Rio Grande Railway, with head-
quarters at Salida, Colorado. Mr.
Irwin's second • son, Gregg W., who
has a good position with the electrical
firm in Preston, England, for the past
two years, reached New York this
week en his way to Springfield, Mass..
to enter upon an engagement with the
Electric Car Equipment Company.
The post is a lucrative one, especially
for so young a man as Gregg, who is
only twenty-two years of age.
Mr. James McCool left on Tuesday
afternoon for Alberta and, will en-
gage in ranching north of Calgary.
He took a carload of effects along with
him and in a fortnight or so will be
joined by- Mrs. McCool alvd family.
Mrs. Harry C'lucas of'Torouto is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Jos. Ratter
bury. From here she will go to Hen -
ea to visit her aunt, Mrs. Robert
Hunt.
Mr. Artlhur,Shepheod of the Palace
staff is aseisting in the fiimh;'s Gede-
rich stere. Mr. Percy Couch was up
last week showing the natives how'
the same thing. If it came alongside,
somebody seemed likely to be taken
off, whether British or German,. Th:
grey ship crossed our bows, several
mites ahead and then pu.t on speed
and was quickly out of sight. None of
us ever' knew what ;ship it was, but
the Captain shaved our view that it
was British. From that time on, we
felt safer.
The Excambion travelled alone, not
in convoy. It was lighted at night,
and had an American flag painted on
the side. It made just two more trips
afterthat, before being taken over
by the American Navy-. There must
have been thousands of sad hearts 'in
Lisbon when it sailedaway for the
last time:
Living With Adventure
The stories' of the people on that
ship would have filled a libeai7, and
many of them were horror staries.;
I mentioned same of them in, the first
story of this, series, written while on
the Atlantic, But I omitted, the most
exciting of them all.
There was one passenger we 'did
not notice till the ,ship was a day out
of Lisbon. His real name never.;aiie
they (hese the Palace windows. .peared en the ,passenger list. Ile had
Mt. John Eansford has .returned been. private secretary to a ruler of
front -his -trip r.te the.Paclific Coast. 'the water was pouring dawn in tor-
M.rs. George Jones' and •children -of rents, and I hacl. seen Bermuda be -
Victoria, B.C., were the gdests of fore, so I stayed on board and watch -
Mrs. J. Pinning this, weep, ed proceedings.
of the Partugese police. For a day,
he stayed down in the hold, then
came on deck ,a free man again. At
Bermuda he left the ship, to land an
British soil at last.
By comparison with this man, aur
real live Prince of the House of Bour-
bon, pretender to the thione of
France, and a French Admiral going
to join the Free French ,seemed or-
dinary indeed-.
High Regard for Secret Service
It was at Bermuda that the British
Secret Service took a big jump in
our estimation and the Canadians had
a chance to stick their chests out
a Iittle farther.
• The arrival of the Excambion at
Bermuda was exciting enough. The
negro pilot came out in his little
launch and boarded the ship just be-
fore dark. Bermuda consists of a
small group of islands, strategically
situated in mid-Atlantic, with Hamil-
ton the .cid city. To get to Hamilton
harbor, the ship had to pass through
a long bay strewn with mines. The
open path was a zig-zag affair and
the ship moved slowly from one mar-
ker to another, the searchlights con-
tinually moving over the water. One
reignite there would be just too bad.
l
iIn the harbor at last, word event
around that the Canadians were free
to go on ashore, along with the King's
Messenger, but all 'others must stay
an board for search and questioning.
It was Bermuda's rainy season and
pretended to be a pacifist and quoted
A. A .Milne's poems to the children
on board ,and the other one got drunk
!an the last night on the ship and
started to recite about Germany's
might and the uselessness of hold lig
out any longer against her. It :vc5
Dave Rogers to whom he was open-
ing out and our Western friend called
us ever to hear it, and: we felt like
heaving the man overboard. Perhaps
we should have done it, but maybe he
is in an internment camp south of
the border by this time, If not, he is
a distinct menance to the nation.
After the Excambion left Bermuda,
No doubt, the United States has
also benefitted from this thorough-
going system as ';veil. Some of the
Canadians were a bit doubtful about
several of the passengers: Tee e
were two men, both with English -
sounding naives (and passports) but
supposed to be escaping from France
to the United States One of them
a European country, a man who had
just disappeared when Hitler took
over the country by force and treach-
ery. This ban had been active in his
opposition to Germany and he had
kept one step ahead of the Gestapo,
getting to Lisbon at last, though it
took himtwo years to reach it.
Perhaps he grew careless .or hi;
luok deserted him there. The German
crowd in Portugal found him and
had him arrested on some charge.
But the British were alert, The day
the Excambion sailed, he got out of
jail somehow and was nailed ups in
a packing box. It came aboardd with
a shipment of goods, under the eyes
q
FROM
BANKS • POST OFFICES
DEPARTMENT STORES • DRUGGISTS
GROCERS • TOBACCONISTS
BOOK STORES and *that RETAIL STORES,
there seemed to be no more danger.
That was before German submarines
were operating close to the coast, so
there was a chance to relax. On the
last Monday morning in October, we
sailed past the Statue of Liberty and
past the skyscrapers of New York
to disembark finally on the New Ser.
sey shore.
That night, I was back at La. Guar-
dia Airport, outside New York, the
place from which the trip had started,
six weeks before. But this tim it was
not the CIipper but a trim Trans-
Canada plane that took me up over
New York. The plane took a route
diretely over the heart of the city,
where millions of lights shone, in
contrast to the black -out towns of
Britain and Europe. Two hours later,.
I could see the lights of Toronto and
!the long highway to Hamilton, still
lighted in those days, The big thrill
of the trip was to be able to step out
an Canadian soil again. Never before
did Canada seem so good. It wasn't
because it was safe here, but be-
cause this was part of the great
British Empire. Never before did that
seem so important.
•
London's Warship Week
HIS 'view of Trafalgar' Square during Lon.:
/�fe m the :"'.M.as taken fx4
dons Warship 'Week'w
win-
dows of the Canadian Pacific Railway'Conhpany's,
London, Eng. Offices. In the foreground can be
seen one, of the Kite . balloons ;used for protect,,
Mereliant shipping flea' Dive borhber$,r. while
lof a shi s bridge,.;.;;' '.:.
' in%the background is the mode p
and gun turrets. Canadian Pacific Photo: