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The Clinton News Record, 1943-11-18, Page 3THE HAPPENINGS IN CLINTON EARLY IN THE CENTURY Some Notes of The News in 1918. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, Nov, l41:h, 1918 Pte. Kenneth McConnell, son of Mr. and Mrs. James McConnell of town who was recently listed as wounded, is now reported. to be in a private convalescent hospital in England and doing as well as possible. Pte. Ernest Walton arrived home on Monday on short leave after four years' service at the front. Pte. Walton happened to be visiting in England when war was declared and immediately responded to the call to arms, enlisting with the Imperial army, and with the exception of .a yearly. ten days' leave to England, he has been in active service ever since. He was slightly gassed some time ago but his` own people were p P not aware of it until he came home and told them. . The British army was fighting around Cambria when Pte. Walton was given his leave so he cones fresh from the battle line. It was a curious coincidence that he should ararive home on the very day when we were celebrating the capit- ulation of the enemy and he was giv- en a royal welcome.' His leave is but a short one, and unless other orders be received, he will report in London, England, in December. A brother Pte. R. Walton, who went with ache Canadians, fell in action over a year ago. The name of another Clinton boy appeared in the casualty lists this week, that of Lance -Corp. Charles Trowhill, son of Mr. George Trow - hill of Guelph, formerly d;f Clinton, who died of influenza in France on October 21st. Lance -Corp. Trowhill was born here and continued to reside here until the family removed some five or six years ago. He had been 1 employed with the • Bell Telephone 'Company prior to enlisting with the Pioneers in October of 1915. He went overseas in November of the same' year and went' immediately to France, where he had been on continual active service until incapaeltated by illness. This district, comprising Clinton and Hullett, has passed its objective, in the Victory Loan drive and the 'Victory Flag will be raised by the mayor at mass meeting at the town hall this evening. On Tuesday evening a number of friends met at the home of Mrs. Thomas Mason to tender a farewell party to Mrs. D, S. Cook, who leaves, shortly for her new home in Toronto.' Mrs. (Rev.) Tones read a brief ad- dress and presented Mrs Cook with a pearl crescent. Though completely suprised Mrs. Cook made a very suitable reply. After singing, "For She's a Jolly good fellow," a piece of poetry composed and read by Mrs. A. J. McMurray, created much merriment and laughter. This was followed by music and song in which all took part. A dainty lunch - i spending the past few clays visiting his mother and brother and other friends in town and vicinity, Mr. Col- slough has been in charge of a parish at Winnipeg for some months but the. church was closed some weeks ago on account of the influenza epidemic and he came east. He has had' his home in Toronto since resigning his parish. at Lloydtown last summer. was served by the hostess assisted Iby Mrs. G. E. Saville, , Murphy Lodge had a very pleasant gathering together on Friday evening last even though the pleasure of the occasion was a farewell to Rev.: J. A. Robinson and Mr. D. S. Cook. Mr, and Mrs. Charles Stevens are. getting nicely settled in their new home on Townshend street The schools re -opened on Tuesday, after having been closed for three weeks owing to the influenza epidem- ic. They were to open on Monday but of course that was out of the question. Dr. Fowler, who has been hunting up in the northern woods, sent home a deer yesterday as proof of his skill as a hunter. Mrs. T. E. McKenzie and family left yesterday for Blyth, where they will ,visit the lady's mother and sister for a short time before' joining Mr. Me - Kenzie in Toronto where they intend making their home. Mr. R. S. Byam of the firm of � ;R Byam & Sutter, having disposed of his interest in the business to Mr. Sutter, intends leaving Clinton about the beginning of the new year. Mr. Byam has been a citizen of Clinton for six year;ss and- in that time has made for himself a sure place in the ,business and social life. THE CLINTON' NEW ERA NOVEMBER 14th, 1918, Mr. D. S. Cook is having a sale of household effects on Saturday, and next week ]eaves for Toronto, Mrs. Cook to follow in the course of a few weeks. Mr. Cook is not a -native of Clinton, having been born in Goderieh Township, but he has lived here for thirty years and is a worthy and re- spected citizen. Pte. Fred Sloman and Pte, Patter- son of the Guelph Military hospital spent a few days over the week end at the home of the former in town. Mr, and Mrs, Ray Rumball of God erich were in town over the week ends -Mr. Rumball seems to have quite recovered. from his recent illness, Mr, and Mrs. Madden and little. son and Rev. John Hart have taken up their residence in Clinton, having taken the house just vacated by Mrs. T. E. MoKenzie. Misses Beatrice Green and GIadys Cantelon went down to Toronto Mon- day afternoon and will be absent most of the week. They intended hearing Galli Curci, the famous Italian singer, who appeared in Massey Hall last night, Mr. A. T. Cooper %vas in Toronto last week. Miss Cleta Ford was up from Lon- don for the week end. Miss Mildred Cook, left Monday morning for Toronto to resume her studies at the Normal School. Rev, J. H. Colelough has been VISITS U. S. A.A.0 AND R.A F. STATIONS In a two-day tour covering 500 mil- es, the Ding and. Queen visited two stations of the U.S. Army Air Corps, and seven R.A.F. stations. They saw clear evidence of how the two great' air arras are being welded into one vast striking force. Maj. -Gen. Ira 0. taker, commanding the American Air Force in. Britain, and Brig., Gen. Frank O'D. Hunter, Commanding U, S. 8th Fighter Command, received the Royal visitors and the King plied the American Generals and other of- ficers with questions about their co- operation with the R.A.F.'and how the two forces are dovetailing their efforts. Cadet Alex. Agnew, of Medicine Hat., who is in training with the Fly- ing Corps visited his aunt, Mrs. W. Brydone, and oth6r friends over the week end. Last Wednesday evening while re- turning home from near Barnesville Mr. Hiram hill had a collision with Mr. James Hamilton. The former's buggy was badly damaged and Mr. Hill had to walk all the way home with his horse. E. Rozell of the Clinton Creamery soon got a whistle going from his steam boiler and. made the best noise he'•eould on Monday. In the :celebration on Monday an interesting feature was -the fact that Mrs. Mary Connell of Albert street, aged 83 years marched in the proces- sion with Mr. William Jackson as es cont. Mrs. Connell was glad to see the day when "Kaiser Bill" could not lick the "Contemptible" little . British arrny. The, evening celebration was in the form of a monster torch -light Procession and at the postoffice square a huge bonfire was started and fire- works were soon let off. The Kaiser was hung up and shot by the C.C.I. Cadet Corps and afterwards consum- ed to his future home in everlasting fire, Mr. and Mrs, Alun Eugene Lappin, of Houston, Texas, anad formerly of Clinton, announce the marriage of their daughter, Marjorie, to Leopold S. Adams on Saturday, Oct. 26th. Mr. William Grant, our local fuel dontroller, has discoverd that Mr. Berry of Brucefield, had a pig that is pretty nearly a record one. Mr. Berry killed the pig, and after star- ving the animal for 24 hours, the pig weighed 360 lbs. and was only 7 months and 5 days old. Mr. Berry bought it from Mr. Drew Swann when it was seven weeks old. It was a cross of a Hampshire and a Berkshire. When the Present Century Was Young THE CLINTON NEWS RECORD Nov. 12, 1908. The change which the progressive firm of W. Cooper Company has just eompldted in their store has vastly enhanced its appearance, They have now an immense plate glass front, bigger, we believe than any other book store in Ontario, outside Toron- to. While driving down Victoria street on Saturday evening Mr. John Can- telon of Goderieh township met Billy Cole's tractionengine which frighten - en his team and one of the whiffle - trees breaking, the tongue dropped and the horses broke away. They did not go far, however, becoming entangled in the wire fence near the elevator which stopped them and they were secured, uninjured, but Mr. Cantelon did not fare so well, for being thrown out of the rig one of his legs was so badly cut at the knee that the surgeon had to put several stitches in it. 011 .Saturlay last the London Col- legiate team journeyed to Clinton to try to lift the Hough Cup which has been in possession of the Clinton club since last fall, they having wrested it from the Seaforth club in an ex- citing contest. However the London team were not successful and Clinton kept 'the' football cup. Clinton's line-up was as follows: N. Murch, J, Midden, A. Baird, B. McQueen, C. Mustard, R. Houston, M. Aikenhead, J. Cameron, 1'. Mustard, 13, Penfound, M. Whiddon. Referee "Brown" Jackson. The party consisting' of 0. Cooper, W. Cole, J. Jackson and G. Cunnings Mime which is spending a fortnight. at Pogamasirlg, Algoma, has had great luck, bringing down two deer the second day they were out. The first one shot according to the hunt- ing rules was for the use of the camp. but the second was expressed to Mr. John Scruton of town and divided among the friends of the hunters. On Tuesday evening Mr, William Down, who for twenty years was an enployee of the organ factory, packed his kit and quit. He is a genial young man and very poliular. with his fellow men who took advantage of the occasion to present him with an address and a handsome tea set. Mr. and Mrs•. Downs and son. and Mr. McKeown leave on Tuesday next for Los Angeles; California, where they will reside this winter at 'least. Rev.•H. A. Wright B. A., who for the past two' years has been insure- bent' of the Middleton parish, has been appointed rector of Tilsonbur•g, A telegram received this morning stated that Mabel, slaughter of Mr. Let the Bank TakeCare of Your Money, Ernest H. Elsdon, driller in a ship- yard in Vancouver came off the night shift recently to find his room burg- larized and elf his savings—$2,750— stolen. "If I'd had the sense to put that cash in a bank, I wouldn't have lost the $2,750 to a burglar," he said. "I'd been saving that money to buy a house and all I've got left after months of work is a battered strong box, I made the mistake; you see, of keeping that money by me instead of putting it in the bank every pay clay. Now I've got to start at the be- ginning again, but I'm: going to stay at my job as a driller until I've got the money to buy that house. No more foolish risks for me. From now on I'm letting the bank keep my cash safe. It's tough luck, when you're getting on in years, to lose the very thing you've been counting on, but what I want to do is to let other peo- ple profit by, my Ioss. Don't take any chances—let the bank take care of your money and then 'you'll have It safe and sure for the things you want to buy when the war's over." V Former Clinton Women Does Well at Shooting Meet The Canadian Small Bore Associa- tion has just announced the results of their outdoor rifle matches for 1943, and Mrs. Gordon Barnes of the Wyom- ing,Rifle Club again led all the mem- bers of her sex in Canada to prove her right to the ladies' championship she won last spring in the indoor matches. Having demonstrated her ability on both. indoor .and outdoor ranges, this • slim 2.1 -year-old mother of two children easily ranks as Canada's leading rifle shot for 1943. Her score of 1,187 out of 1,200 in ad- dition to placing her first among the ladies entered also placed lier fourth among the top ranking men sharp- shooters of the country, the first time a lady has placed so high. Mrs. Sid Thompson, entered in "B" class shot 1,177 for the second high- est ladies' score and >Zlaced third among the men in her class which was an exceptionally good performance. The Wyoming ladies have thus shown that the honors they won last spring were well deserved. Mrs. Thompson is well known in Clinton where she was a resident for a number of years. sr $1,000 to Lions Fund A. grant of $1,000 to the Lions Club, British Child War Victims Fund, has been authorized by the warden's committee of Huron County Council, which has charge of the distribution of patriotic monies. The committee also decided to pay prizes totalling $99 to the various whiners of quiz con- tests held in connection with the Fifth Vicotry Loan campaign. Thomas Cole of the 9th concession of Goclerich township, who was at- tending the Deaf anis Duinb Institute at Belleville, had died last night. Mr. Fred Jarvis returned from the Yukon on Saturday and is at the home of his father, Mr. William Jar- vis of the 14 concession of Goclerich Township. He was absent just one hundred days and saw much of the mining country but did not care to remain there during the winter. Owing to the death •of the late William Purdy of Varna, his son Fred, who has been in London work- ing for the past two years, will now remain at home and carry on the business at the old stand. Mr. Israel Taylor, who returned from Montreal an Sunday, left on Tuesday for a business trip to New York. Miss Wheatley ..spent a few days this week with her sister, Mrs. John Ward of . Varna. Mr. E. McLaughlin returned last. night from a business trip to Toron- to, Hamilton and Georgetown. \Huron School Children to Collect Horsehair A campaign for the collection of horsehair by school children of I-Iuron County is shortly to he 'instituted, it was decided last Thursday by the Ag- 1•icultr,•al evnrmittee'of county coun- cil. Thisisbeing done at the instiga- ton o" the Federal Department of Agrici:'ture through ;the county ag- ricultural representative J. C. Shearer and p 1<1ie school inspectors, J. H. Kinke •1 and R. A. Staples, in much the sr nes manner in which the, suc- cessful nri'kweed campaign was hand- led. There is a shortage of horse hair used for the padding of seats in air. - plane bombers. Much of it has accum ulated in farm stables since junk.: dealers stopped making regular col- leetions. Aeroplanes Land at Blyth in Storm There was quite a flurry of excite- ment when three Tiger Moth planes, after circling the village of Blyth, landed in Jack Fairservice's field with out any mishap last Wednesday ev- ening. 'The planes.. were being ferried from Toronto to Sky Harbor, each having one pilot aboard, when they ran into a blinding snowstorm in this area. and visibility was so poor they were forced to land. s • The weather' turning much colder Thursday morning, the planes were able to take off quite easily and proceed on their way. V Purebred Live Stock For British Guiana Small shipments of Canadian pure- bred live stock' are going to British Guiana. Three heifers and three year- ling bulls were recently purchased from Eastern Ontario Holstein l.reed- ers by the Dominion Department of Agriculture at the request of the Dir- ector of Agriculture, Georgetown, Bri- tish Guiana. Also destined for the only British possesion in South America are two R.O.P. Rhode Island Red cocker- els and ten pullets of similar breeding attained from a British Columbia breeder and four R.0,1'. Barred Ply- mouth Rock cockerels and twenty pullets of similar breeding from a breeder in the province of Quebec. - The dairy cattle are to be used in agricultural development projects by the British Guiana government. The poultry will serve the dual purpose of reproducing purebred stock on the British Guiana government farm and of being crossed on native stock for distribution throughout the country. In recent years, British Guiana has employed the Dominion Department of Agriculture to select for it small shipments of purebred swine. Goderieh Loses a Sterling Citizen In the death of Loftus Lin Knox, which occurred at his home on Friday evening, Goderieh has lost one of its best-known residents. Over a year ago Mr. Knox, was forced by ill -health to give uphis work as Town Clerk and Treasurer, and he had since been confined to his home. The news of his death was received on all hands with expressions of regret. Mr. Knox was born in Goderieh fif- ty-nine years ago, the son of Mr, and Mrs. John Knox. He attended the lo- cal public schools and Collegiate Institute and while attending the Col- legiate he won the junior and senior athletic championships in successive years—a rare achievement which in later years he recalled with pride. After taking a teacher's course he taught school for a few years. in 1900 he was appointed to the position of town clerk, succeeding W. A. McI{iii and later were added the offices of town treasurer, secretary of the Water and Light Commission (now Public Utilities Commission) and secretary of the Piiblie School Board. He filled these offices with conspicuous ability and with a consicentious devotion to the interests of the Town and the welfare of its citizens. Making him- self thoroughly acquainted with inun-. icipal law, he became an authority on the subject, and his wide knowledge and wise counsel were of incalculable benefit to the various boards with which he was associated. He took an active interest also in the Goderieh Agricultural Society, the -Goclerich Trotting Association and gave a help- ing hand to other local organizations until ill -health put a limit to liis ac- tivities. He attended Knox Presbyter tan church and was a member of Mait- land Lodge, I.0.0.F. In politics Is was a staunch Liberal. tie is sur- vived by his wife, the former Olive M, 13urns, of Kingston, who before her marriage was a teacher . on the staff of the Goderieh Collegiate In stitute. "WhI's hol 'F• .,Y iother . 'DHB fellows who are in there pitching at the .Axis R didn't need any formal invitation torace into this scrap . and they're beginning to wonder what happened to you. Those fellows are in the thick of things .. , smooth -working teams of fighters .. each man doing his part. • Besides real he-man action and adventure, you'll get skilled technical training and experience that em- ployers will rate highly after the war. If you really want to pull your fair share, and if you're fir, there's not a thing in the world`to hold you back. You can go aircrew today. You can win your wings in a few short months under the guidance of veteran airmen. What about it, brother? JOIN THE FIGHTING COMRADES OF THE SKIES Recruiting Centres are located in all the principal cities In Canada. Mobile recruiting units visit smaller centres regularly. AGRov, OU COtitS IX° Ce nEEB 111 Red Cross serum is saving the lives of hundreds of wounded sailors, soldiers and airmen. But thousands of additional blood donors are needed. Give a pint of blood to save a life. Call Red Cross Blood Donor Service. Peat Moss in Agriculture Industry and Home The production of Peat moss in Canada, which ]las made notable heacl- iv.:y since early in the war when supplies from Europe were cut off, will become firmly established as a continuing enterprise if an extensive market for the product can be built up within the country. This view is expressed in a booklet entitled "Peat Moss or Sphagnum Moss; Its uses in Agriculture, in industry, and in the Home" prepared by 1.1, A. Lev- erin and issued by the Mines and Geol- ogy Branch, Ottawa, Canadian con- sumption of the product, it states, is as yet relatively small and the head- way is chiefly the result of the de- mand in the United States. It is pos s,ible that this .demand will decline in the'post war years and if so, the de - dine could be largely offset by a marked increase in this present use of peat moss in Canada, which has extensivedeposits of high-grade ma- terial. Included in the pamphlet is a list of Canadian Producers. Peat moss has been widely used and with satisfactory results in Eur - 'cps for many years and owes its use- fulness to its high absorptive capacity' for liquids and gases; resistance to 'decomposition; low conductivity of heat; elestieity;. and its deodorizing quality. Its chief uses at present lir. Canada and the United States are in_ horticulture and market gardens, mainly as a soil 'conditioner, as a fil- ler for commercial fertilizers, and for packing bulbs, tubers and roots for winter storage, A very extensive use in the United States is as a litter in poultry raising. In industry, it is - used mainly in artificial fertilizers; in. the preparation of various stock foods; as an insulator in the building, trade; and as a packing material. In the home, it serves as an excellent agent for packing and storing foods. Copies of the pamphlet niay be ob- tained free of charge from the Seo-. retary, Bureau of Mines, Mines and Geology Branch, Department of Min -- es and Resources, Ottawa, '