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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-06-27, Page 3TI URS.,, JUNE 27, 1940 WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINETIES 11:1E CLINTON Nr MS RECORD Do You Remember What Happened During The Last Decade Of The Old Century? THE CLINTON. NEWS -RECORD, JUNE 28, 1900. The many friends of Miss Nellie, McKenzie, daughter of lir. A. lvlc- Kenzie, will be pleased to learn that. ,she has been successful in passing the •first year ,examination in piano at the Toronto Conservatory of, Music. 'Her teacher•, Miss Hallett, is to be congratulated on so success fully carrying on the work left in her charge by Mrs. S. H. Smith. Mr. Nichol Robson went to De- troit on Thursday morning last by the "Toledo" excursion and is now suffering from an accident which be - fel him on his homeward journey. In stepping off the train he fell heavily, injuring his knee and leg so severely as to require medical attention. A successful rancher at Stevens- ville, Montana, is Albert May who Was raised in Goderieh township, . on what is known as the May farm on the Huron Road, now owned by Mr. R. Jenkins. Re went to Montana some nine years ago and has since prospered. He ismayor of Stevens- ville, and the first incumbent of that office. The first wedding to take place in Willis Church was performed by Rev. Alex Stewart at 6.45 o'clock yester- day morning when he pronounced the words which made Miss Dollie Fair and Mr. W. L. Clucas of St. Louis, Mo., man and wife. Miss Irwin play- ed the wedding march; Mr. W. D. Fair gave the bride in marriage; Mr. Harry Clucas was groomsman; Miss Jean Cavan of Paris, the bridesmaid. In the supplementary estimates Goderieh harbor is down for over $40,000; Bayfield, $5,500; Port Al- bert, $1,000. It looks like an election this fall. Two thousand baskets were team- ed up from Parkhill on Tuesday for Gantelon•Bros. They will be used for shipping cherries, plums, etc. Last season the firm handled 8000 bus. The Rev. W. G. and Mrs. Howson will be at home' to their friends to - •morrow from three in the afternoon until nine in the evening, it being the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. No present expected. On Wednesday at high noon a happy event took place at the resi- dence of the bride's mother, Mrs, S. Phipps, when her youngest daughter Aggie, was united in the holy bonds stir matrimony to Mr. Frank Swallow of Toronto. The ceremony was per- formed by Rev. J. Greene .in the presence of a number of guests. Among those who went to Detroit on Friday were Misses T. McCartney, V. Proctor,' Mrs. R. McCartney, Mr. L Proctor and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Yeo, Messrs R. Forster, P. Graven and G. Proctor, When The • Present Century Was Young TUE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD July 1, 1915 Mr. R. H. Coats, who comes of a Liberal . family and is a brother of Mr. William Coats, Registrar of Huron County, and a Liberal holding office under a onservative Govern- ment, has by the Borden Government been appointed Dominion Statistic- ian and Controller of the Census at a salary of $4,000. Mr. Coats is a native of Clinton, was educated at the Collegiate Institute here and at Toronto University. He has been associated with newspaper work and acted as secretary of the Civil ,Ser- vice Asociation of. Ottawa and the Civil Service of Canada. Silo which was being built on'the farm of Dan Rueger on • the 16th. of Goderich township collapsed on Saturday morning just as the men were about to start work on it. As is happened no one was near enough to get hurt . Much machinery was smashed as well as the complete ruin of the silo, Mr. Jacob Taylor of Toronto met with an accident one day last week which will have the effect of laying him up for some weeks. He was having a game of bowls on St. Mat- thias green when some boys started tampering with his car. He ran out quickly, stepped on a stone and broke his ankle. Mr. J. A. Bean, son of Mrs. Bean of Clinton; Mr. Joseph W. Aikenhead, Brucefield; Mr. Henry M. Barrett of Saltford are three Huron. County studnts who have passed the examin- ations of the Ontario Medical Coun- cil and are now licensed to practice medicine. Will Walker of the 3rd Battalion Ms been home for a week's holiday but returns to duty tomorrow. Mrs. George Clark of Aberdeen, South Dakota, and her daughters, Maybelle and Edith, visited for a few days of last week with. Mr. and Mrs. George Stanbury, Maple street. Mrs. Stanhury and Mrs. Clark are sisters. Miss Dollie Mennell, who has had , a poistion in London for the past couple of yearshas been. holidaying HURON OLD BOYS' 'ASSOCIATION OF TORONTO!. (Continued from nage 1) Mary Elrick, Mary McClure, L. Botherman, M. Levack aad many oth- ers whose names could not be ob- tained. Massive Inn Keeper And Merchant Built Up Early Trading Centre In Huron; Property Burned Out By Angered Customer Carried on Credit Buineas Without Use of Books; Memory His Guide BY HARRY J. BOYLE Notes Very general regret was expressed Persons interested in the history of when the news re rtet ath.'of Mrs. Huron County have deplored lack of finformation regarding one of its ----- I at her home in town for a fortnight land left Monday for Toronto where she has accepted a position. Dr. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Walker and, Mrs. G. D, McTaggart were in London on Wednesday last when the Field Kitchen was present- ed to the 33rd Battalion, also Mrs. Walter Manning, who was the repre- sentative of the Clinton W.P.S. and a member of the committee making the presentation. CHURCH DIRECTORY THE BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. A. E. Silver, Pastor 2.30 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. A. H. O'Neil, B.A., S.D. 10.00 a.m.—Sunday School, 11 a.m. Morning Prayer. '7 p.m. --Evening Prayer. THE SALVATION ARMY Capt. McDowell 11 a.m.—Worship Service 8 Tem—Sunday School 7 p.m.—Evening Worship Robert Holmes was received. Mrs. Holmes wars a life member of the association. Her late husband was a past president, ;and was a `•member of parliament for 8 years and Sur- veyor of C:ustoms for many years. Forty years ago, the Huron Old Boys' Association, organized three in Goderich and, hiring seven labor.. months before, were getting ready ers, he took supplies up the Maitland for their first big excursion to God- River and established his post, on a erich, and it was, some excursion -12 grassy plateau just above the pres- coaches full of Huronites, young and ent site of the Village of Auburn. old, the 48th Highlanders Band, and Within two weeks he had built a six highland Pipers headed by Capt. long,, low one -storey log cabin,. with John Stetter and "Little Willie", 6 about three-quarters of it devoted to feet, 7 inches tall, and the Goderieh a store and saloon and one-quarter citizens gave us a righ royal recap- to be used as his own residence. Dur - tion. There ars only a few of us ing the next year he built a stable, left, E. J. B. Duncan, Tommy Soole, and later he built a wood -working J. A. McLaren, E. FIoody, W. F. shop. Around 1850 an intoxicated Cantelon, and Walare still carrying teamster whom Mason had expelled on, with the help of two thousand from his saloon in a fit of rage fired others. the stables and the resulting conflag- ration destroyed the entire nucleus of what would in all probability have become a flourishing settlement. Thomas Day, writing in an early issue of The Goderieh Signal, stated: "My father recalls how Mason had a sign hanging over his main counter which read, " PIl Trade Anything," Brown'' made handsome donations to i and how Mason lived up to it. In a the prize list.. Thanks, gentlemen. , most picturesque characters, Peter Mason, who operated what was be- lieved to be one of Huron Tract's first stores and taverns. There seems to be no record, as to tlhe dates when Mason's trading post flourished, Previous to 1850, Mason appeared ONTARIO STREET UNITED Rev. G. G. Burton, M.A., B.D. 10.00 a.m.—Sunday ' School. 11 a.m.—Divine Worship 9.30 a.m. Turner's Church Ser- vice and Sunday School 7 p.m. Evening Worship WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED Rev. Andrew Lane, B.A., E.D. 11 a.m.—Divine Worship 7 p.m.—Evening Worship. ( SundayF,chool at conclusion of morning service. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Gordon Peddie, B.A. Sunday School 10 ann. Worship Service 11 a.m. 8 p.m. Worship Service at Bayfield j 2 p.m.—Sunday School, Bayfield. CLINTON MISSION W. J. Cowherd, Supt, Services: Monday 8 p.m. Young People Thursday 8 p.m. Prayer Meeting Sundays 11 a.m. Prophetic Studies 2 p.m. Sunday School. 8 p.m. Fellowship Meeting 8 p.m. Evangelistic Service. 3ilrlple Rules Have To Quality EggEt Ben Webb, Clinton Old 'Boy, spoke of being in,the South African War, with General Otter, Clinton Old Boy, when he was elected the First Hon- orary President, Three West End Druggists, W. F. Cantelon, It. D. Greer and Russ The Swift Canadian Co., presented the Association with a twenty -pound ham, for which they have our sincere thanks. Dr, J. G. Ferguson, makes an ideal president. Re is a prominent official of the Health Department of the On- tario Government, and stands high in the Medical Profession. • H. M. Jackson, the ever-popultt5,' ex -President, has not lost any of his oldtime push and pep, as evidenced by his work on the donation com- mittee. Our old friend, J. A. Mc- Laren, donated 10 lbs. coffee, and it was real good. Western Canada Flour Mills gave their usual donation, 4 bags flour. The summer decline in egg quality is againn making its appearance and, as usual, is presenting a serious problem in the disposal or the in- creasing percentage of low grade eggs, say officials of the Poultry Products Inspection and Grading Marketing Service, Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture. Thele are three reasons for the drop in egg quality at this season. One, which offers no ready means of control, is that the quality of eggs produced by individual hens declines towards the end of the laying sea- son. The second is type of feed which hens pick up on range. The third is heat. The last two causes are controllable and to the extent to which they are controlled the prob- lem of low quality summer eggs can be lessened. Certain simple rules for the pro- ducer, if widely followed, and if sup ported by proper handling by distrib- utors, would do much to correct tho situation. These are: 1. Keep the hens confined to the. house at least until after the first feeding. 2. Prontide balanced rations and clean, fresh water. 3. Gather eggs at least twice daily and allow them to stand: in a well ventilated container, in a cool place, until well cooled, be- fore casing them. 4. Market- eggs often—daily is pas- sible. 5. In transporting eggs, protect them as much as possible from outside ternperatunes. 6. Remove roosters faxen the lay- ing flock, W. J. Jones, formerly of Seaforth, donated ladies wearing apparel. An interesting story is related in J. Bradwin, formerly of the "Blyth an early issue of The Teeswater Standard" told of the old days in News: Blyth, with Pat Il allyand Chas. "My uncle had been away from. the Hamilton, were big boosters. Huron Tract for over a year and a W. H. Ferguson told of the old half and stopped for a drink at Mas - days in Sunshine, when W. Clegg en's place of business. Mason got up out of a chair and said: "Jim Duncan, you owe me two shillings." Mason was also generous, as wit- ness this extract fern an early letter Hullett when his father was elected from Mrs. James Willis to her sister reeve and the late Bob Ferris was in Ireland: a councillor. ' "We arrived late in the fall and day when settlers needed oxen, Mason had a stable full and he was continually either trading or selling." A. giant of a man, standng over six foot, two inches, and weighing 300 pounds, he 'kept, order in his own. establishment, and he kept no books. He allowed credit and when a man stepped into' his store he could tell him exactly how much was owing. A man with a reputation for honesty could buy practically anything in the store, but no man could get liquor on credit. Nor could a man buy liquor 'from him if he owed the store money. Regarding his physical strength, one story sounds rather fantastic, that of picking up an oven weighing 10 hundred pounds and carrying it a distance of 10 feet on his shoulders, Others have told of Mason picking up a barrel of whisky containing 45 gallons and carrying it into his place. was clerk and Isaac Rogerson ran the saw mill, Bob Leiper spoke of the days in 1•011- , . • PAGE Se EN!! For Active Service with THE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY OF CANADA RECRUITING Galt Preston C. A. S. F., Third Divisions DEPOT OPEN ,DAILY 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. Sunday 9 A.M. to 12 NOM,. Kitchener Stratford TIIE WEED OF THE WEEK WILD MUSTARD This annual weed, now in flower; is so prevalent in Ontario that a description of the plant is hardly necessary. The seed is black, one - sixteenth of an inch in diameter, per- fectly spherical, resembling rape or turnip teed and, retains it vitality for many years when buried in the soil, says the Crops, Seeds and Weeds Branch, Ont. Dept. of Agriculture, Toronto. An average plant produces about 15,000 seeds. The seeds are dispersed by water and birds but chiefly as an: impurity in seeds. Contrary to the belief of many farmers, a heavy infestation of Wild Mustard does reduce the yield of grain by as much as 8 or 10 bushels per acre, by the deletion of soil moisture and plant food. Pull stray plants when in bloom.. • Where a field is badly infested de- lay seeding to allow for more thor- ough cultivation, thereby killing myriads of young plants before grain is sown. Harrow the field when the grain is two or three inches with a light harrow, or use an implement known as a finger weeder. The young seedling's are ,easily dislodged with- out material injury being done to the grain crop. Follow by after -harvest cultivation, stirring the sail to a depth of 2 to 4 in.ehes to induce the germination of as much seed as pos- sible, later destroying the young plants -by 'subsequent eultivation. Spray the area with a solution made up of 80 lbs. of copper sulphate .or bluestone to 100 gallons of water. Apply on a calm day as soon as the first plants comae into flower. Fingerprinting is not new. Al- though England first used the tech- nique in detecting criminals in 1890, the; Chinese took fingerprints for identifieation purposes as far back as the year 500. — You're Wrong About That. our supply of money after getting the things we needed ran aut. Mr. Mason supplied us with food during the winter and seed in the spring, even sending his man to help my husband. Our crap was poor that fall and when my husband went to pay him, he would accept only one-half for what we owed him, because he said that he knew how hard every- thing was for us." Mason left after the fire and it is believed that he operated a hotel for some time in Guelph later moving to Toronto, where he died. 10,000 Applications For War Loan Certificates Per Single Day. Mechanical Robots Make Work Easy On the second floor of the Bank of Canada building in Ottawa has just been set up a series of mechanical robots which do everythng but speak and think. Installed for the purpose of hand- ling all applications for War Savings Certificates with speed and accuracy, these machines are operated by a specially trained staff of some forty people and can handle up to 10,000 applications, and issue as many cer- tificates, in a single day. When an application for a War Savings Certificate is received at the Bank of Canada, the envelope is not slit open in the usual way by an ed by a pause to remember our yest- , office boy armed with a blunt knife. erdays and the men and women who set the path for the future. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp -,oration has planned for its National; Network listeners a special Dominion Day programme, "Our Rome, Our Native Land", which will be heard on Monday, July- 1, at 8.30 to 9.00 p.n1. EDST. This will take the form of a music-dramalogue, a history in sound ABYSMAL BRUTALITY IN IN OCCUPIED POLAND Dominion Day With pride, comradeship and con- fidence the people of Canada prepare to celebrate the Dominion's 73rd Birthday. At no time since Confed- eration has the Nation carried such a burden, but, from the strenuous days of early pioneer struggles to this hour in 1940, her people have faced their trials, their duties and their daily tasks with the cdurage ' born of a clean heritage. Today,' energy and faith are manifest on the face of this Land, strengthened, not sapped, by the struggle which lies ahead. That Canada today may be of good cheer, birthday honours: will be mark-' Certainly not. The job is done in the modern manner - with a machine. This envelope opener looks something like a bacon slicer and slits through scores of envolepes in the twinkling of an eye. From this "opening machine" tate application, with its remittance, is passed to a staff of checkers who see to it that the amount of your and story of Canada's achievement, a remittance agrees with the sum statement of what we have to fight stated on your application form. The for, why we "stand an guard for money is then turned over to the tel- Thee". ler and the application form to a The story of Our Home, Our Na - staff of girls who operate a battery of "punching machines." These machines look like typewrit- ers but They are far more than that. Into them are fed special cards. On these cards the girls type the name and address of the registered owner tive Land" was written by Harry Foster, Canadian author and native of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Is- land, and will be produced by J. Frank Willis, of the CBC Features Department, A new approach to his- tory will be employed in this story shown on the application form, as of Canada, her history will ire told well as the number and value of the in the lives of simple nnerr, whose Certificate applied for. individual efforts have contributed But while the operator is typing their infinitesimal part to the glor- this information along the top of the ions whole. The draegermen of card, the machine at the same time Stellartott, the heroes of the running is transcribing it in the form of small The Polish Government in France pursues its bitter task of assembling evidence of German brutality in oc- cupied Poland. There is no lack of revolting reports which are confirm- ed by reliable witnesses. Patients in mental hospitals have lately been treated in the German way. A. Polish official statement gives some details of a massacre in Chaim Lubelski, where the Germane decided to 'requisition the new and spacious mental hospital in that city. Officials of the Gestapo first or- dered all doctors and nurses to leave the building. Those resisting were expelled by fcrce at the point of re- volvers. Afterwards the Gestapo police locked the doors and with their revolvers shot dead all the patients who numbered over 300. The staff of the hospital, drawn up in the street under a heavy guard, heard the despairing cries and groans of the victims with horror, as they were hutted down by the murderers. Having completed their terrible work, the killers left after stating: "The hospital is vacated. You must immediately remove Pall corpses, be- cause we shall occupy the building• within two hours." When the Gestapo left the building it was ascertained that in, addition. to the 300 patients the Germans shat 40 Children, war orphans, who were temporarily given shelter in one of the hospitals wards. It has been ascertained that they shot 58 patients in the hospital at Oinskie, near Poznan, as well as all the patients of the Dziekanka in: Gniezno. oblong slits which are automatically punched in the middle of the card as quickly as the operator can type. These slits perform the sante lune - tion as the dots and dashes on an old fashioned music roll. When this operation is completed, the cards are fed into a sorting machine. This machine can tell from the location of the slit on the card whether the purchaser has bought a $5. certificate, a $10. certificate or any other one of the five available denominations. The cards ave thus segregated, all $5. cards falling into one compartment, $10. cards into an- other, 'and so on. It is almost like a pea sorter in a canning factory. The cards pass through this ma- chine at the rate of 500 a minute. To do the job by hand would require a staff of several hundred people working with coats off f fax many hours at a stretch and even then speed would be sacrificed for accur- acy. The machine, on the other hand, never makes a mistake. The sorted cards are then passed to another more complicated machine which looks like an automatic tele- phone exchange, but which is actually a small electrically operated printing press. Just how complicated this niachine actually is can be gathered from the fact that it is made up of over 40,000 separate parts. Into one end of this machine is set a roll of War Savings Certificates of a given denomination, and into the other end are fed these specially punched cards. The operator presses a button, wheels start to turn, and out of the contraption come the cer- tificates in series, each bearing the name of some registered holder, his address and other information. Cer- tificates can be printed by this ma- chine at the rate of 1500 an hour with infallible accuracy. When the certificates have thus been prepared for mailing, they pro- ceed to still another machine Which fold's, inserts and finally seals them in a special window envelope. There will be no frayed tongues in the mail- ing department handling War Sav- ings Certificates; the machine even licks the gummed flaps. Because of these modern mechanical contriv- ances, the War Savings Certificates will reach purchasers quickly in sanitary packages,, untouched by. human hands; trades, homesteaders on the West, trappers of the last frontiers, lum- berjacks, prospectors, sailornten on the inland seas, men and women of the prairies, valleys and mountains all had their share in the Canada being honoured today and through whom we salute the tomorrow. Why The Price Tag?' , A news item records that $37,600,-- 000 worth of surplus war material„ munitions, and ordnance has been, sold by the United States War De- partment to a steel company which in turn is delivering it at that prdce: to the British and French Allies - This is heartening and gratifying: in the sense :hat it indicates that American aid through the furnishing- of supplies to the Allies is actually getting under way. The more quickly other such deliveries of guns, air- planes and other equipment can be made, the better. Yet since Americans clearly be- lieve their •own interests and safety do depend on the success of Britain. and French resistance to aggression,. why do they haggle over payment and put a price on the assistance they are willing to give? Why charge the soldiers of Britain and France for means of protecting a freedom and decency that is America's as well as theirs? If the United States by an expendi- ture even of billions of dollars cam help establish a world order based; on justice instead of force, and care be spared the sacrifice of its sons, the victory will be cheaply purchas- ed. In a common cause, should not America from now on be glad to give arms to the Allies in addition to those they can purchase?—Christian. Science Monitor. THERE SEEMS TO BE— No misfortune too great for a great soul to overcome. No illness that does not teach some lesson. No misfortune that cannot be made to yield a dividend. No tears that do net hold some com- pensation.—Roy L. Smith. THE NAME MAY BE GERMAN` BUT THE SPIRIT IS BRITISH Answering a columnist for a daily newspaper who thinks Dresden. shouldchange its name, the Dresden Times makes this comment; "We might state that the only part. of this town that is Ge rman is the name. We don't believe that Chang- ing the name will win the war, and regardless of what this little town is called, we have a military record. for a good many larger towns to shoot at. Some of the best boys it, Canada who called Dresden, Ontario, their home are- now lying in Flanders: fields when they gave up their lives. for their country in 1914-18; and in this present war nearly thirty of =- splendid youths are overseas or in training in Canada for whatever ser- vice is demanded of them. No, we cannot see that changing the name will win the war. It is what we are at heart that counts. Dresden, Ont., is proud of its record." •More energy -quicker response — new resiliency ... that's what you get when you use White Rose Motor Oil in your car! This sen- sational new oil keeps motors young because it cleans as it Lub• - ricates. 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