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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-07-25, Page 3rT'} Ulfi S.; JULY 25, .1940 ItHE CLINTON N WS-RECORIl WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINETIES Do You Remember What Happened During The 'Last.. `Decade Of The Old Century? FROM THE NEWS -RECORD, Prior had the misfortune to tumble JULY 26, 1900 backward from a plank on which he Telephones have been placed in W. was sitting and falling about ten feet.or so received somewhat serious D. F'air's and Co's., and Dr. Holmes, dental office. i injuries to his , back, He has been Mr. F. H. Cook ha ought the laid up ,ever since and it is feared s b gwill be laidup for some time yet. Barra cottage on Queen Street. Mr. Hartt 'moves his family near Chat- Whibe taking down a barn on the ham. farm of Mr. Levi Trick on Thursday Miss Mabel Hill spent Sunday in I last Mr. Isaac Barr fell a distance of Godeaich with her friend, Miss Etta fourteen feet from the top beam and Twitchell. I alighting on his back sustained more Mr. James Fair attended a meet- er less serious injuries. ing of the Midas of Western Ontario in Galt recently. Mrs. A. T. Cooper is visiting her ICELANili parents in Kincardine, where she will remain for a few weeks. Mrs. Alfred Owen and son Harold of Chicago are guests of Mrs. Combe. Iceand is situated 250 miles from The articles which are appealingGreenland and about 600 miles east in the St. Thomas Times over the of Norway; greatest length (east to nam de plume of "onlooker" are be- west) 300 miles. It touches the Ale- ing much commented upon. They are tic Circle en the north and .is written in an entertaining style, are roughly 500 miles northwest of pungent and pointed and, as the Lon- Scotland. Area with adjacent is. don News remarks: "hit a lot of lands is about 40,000 square miles. nails squarely on the head." On- Is shaped somewhat like a heart looker is blown, to many in Clinton with narrowest part pointed south. and is a son -in -lav} of M. W. J. Coastline on the southeast is almost Paisley, unbroken for a considerable distance, I'and in all other directions has deep One of the chocolate boxes sent to bays affording natural harbors. lat- her soldiers in South Africa as a n terror generally wild and desolate. Cluristnias present by Her Majesty, • There are lofty mountains of volcanic Queen Victoria, has reached Clinton, ! origin, many crowned with perpetual having been sent to Miss Lily Ray-' snow and there are great glaciers son by a friend who received one of • on their sides. Mount Heela is the the boxes. These boxes will be tress- i most celebrated peak and is about used more because of the doner than 5,000 feet high. There are numerous for the intrinsic value of either box geysers, especially near Reikjavik or contents. ! the southwest. Lakes and rivers are Mr. B. J. Gibbings leaves on'Thurs-1 numerous. Most valuable mineral day for a ten day visit in Cleveland ! product is sulphur. The island is and Detroit. I famous for its double refacting spar. A horse which has been hauling Summer is -too cool for agriculture cream to the separator took fright to be carried on with marked success. on Friday and started de at a gallop..i The longest day (in the south) is 24 It ran between Mr. D. Cook's store } hours, and the shortest is four hours. and the telegraph post close by, Birch is -almost the only tree and the clearing the raised sidewalk in aloftiest hardly ever exceeds ten feet. jump, and a few' yards further on, � Heath and bilberry cover large stret- ran into a btgy in which two Women! chez. Iceland -moss is edible: Some were sitting. It so happened and ` kinds of vegetables and roots do well fortunately so, that the wagon had but the most valuable .crop is grass become almost detached from the and en it sheep, cattle and ponies horse or otherwise when it siruk are fed. Reindeer, introduced about the buggy serious results might have followed. The women took the mat- ter coolly at first, but when they realized their narrow escape they ` eries are operated. Exports are wool, went to the verge of hysterics. The I en, fish, horses, feathers, worsted horse did nOt run very far, but the' hose, mittens, sulphur and Iceland milk cans were distributed along the moss. • street. The Icelanders have a romantic history. They are of Scandinavian origin and speak a Scandinavian dialect which still represents the old Norse in great purity. The Althing or parliament meets twice a year. The people are of the Protestant faith. Christianity was introduced in 981 and adopted by law in 1000. The political history of the island is a chapter in itself; however in 1918 Iceland became nominally a sovereign state but is united to Denmark in the person of the Danish king. The population is about 80,000. In view of the prominence into which Iceland has emerged latterly, many people have turned attention to it. The exact role it is destined to. play in the present upheaval among the nations cannot be predicted. Can- adian troops have been sent to this outpost to guard it against Nazi in- vasion. 1770, form large herds in the interior. There are salmon in the streams, and on the coast, cod and herring fish - When The t resent Century Was Young FROM THE NEWS -RECORD, JULY 27, 1915 On The Bowling Green — A. rink composed of charter members, that is to say: W. Jackson, W. Brydone, D. A. Forester and D. MacPherson, are ready to try conclusions with any other rink which can be got together. Mr. Earl O'Neil and Mr. T. K. Wilson, the latter a member of the local branch of the Molson's Bank, returned on•Saturday from London, where they just finished a special of- ficer's course in military training. There will be a baseball match, Hawkins Bunch vs. the Has -Beene in the park tomorrow evening. The Kilty Band will be in attendance. Mr. Victor Doherty, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Doherty of town, hasjust graduated from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, taking his de- gree of L.L.D. Mr.- Doherty passed his exam with honours. Mr. Harry Twitchell left on Mon- day morning for Edmonton, Alta. Hie will probably remain for a couple of months as this is his first trip west. Miss Edna McCaughey is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. B. ,Reynolds of Guelph. Mr. Dave Dowzer, • formerly of town, who has been travelling for an oil company in the western provinces, with headquarters in Regina, Sask., has offered his services to the Era- pire as a'member of the flying corps. The Lower School results of the Clinton Collegiate Institute were an- nounced. In the County of Huron. only five received honours, one of whom was a C.C.I. student, L A. McKay. It is also noticeable .that all the Clin- ton students, passed in every subject. Rev. Frank Herrman of Caledon East, an old Clinton boy, conducted both services on Sunday last in "St.. Paul's Church. e The Wallis, Rorke, Hellyar, Moore, Cunin,ghame, Chant, Manning and MaMath families and some friends plcknicked at their old camping grounds at Btnke's on Tuesday. The Clintorn'Model School will opeip on August the 17th, .Anyone wishing to attend should -make application to the Educational Department, Toronto' ore or. before August 1511i for blank forms for admission. . While engaged prying out some bricks from the wall of the Collegiate in connection with the new addition Four Cents a Week An illuminating answer to the question why a familyspends four cent a week for a subscription to its own local paper is furnished in the following editorial from the Bowmanville Canadian Statesman: Four cents •a week means just a. little more than half a cent a day. It's a small amount. The average child wastes more than that eveay day. A special sale, advertising a 30 -cent item fox 23 cents, will save seven cents, paying the cost of the newspaper and giving a profit of three cents. You pay more than three cents a day to rent a. book. The home !newspaper cost half a cent a day;, and did you ever seen 'anybody read- ing a book who didn't lay it aside promptly when the newspaper came? Every member of the family, from nine years of age up—children, par- ents, grandparents—find something of great interest in the home news- paper. That can't be truthfully said about any book or any other period- ical. It cost snore per week for any of the following than it does. for your home newspaper; four cigarettes, one package of gum, a bar of candy, a cup of coffee. When you've finished reading your, newspaper, every othher member • of the- household can still use it. You can't say that about gum, candy ox: tobacco. Three cents a week means less than one half cent a day for the Clinton being erected, on Friday last Mr. D. :News -Record. aanai sae + sateeanee,+ �Y � :»»s' r +, . �:. ,«;H, .��� ; ,•a. µ, �'r' TCAHAS BIRTHDAY Album---Olice Popular Faniil . .institutton (By J. MacTavtsh in the London Free Press) tie ZTHee t tae est Mees .7-1a .e,, ail net I(,'4, naaiaaaeaten n—F Ht 4 n ae armee♦ ea What about the old-time albums? Canada is your native land Ontario is your home; May heaven be your resting -place When on earth you cease to roam. Abe they stile in your home — the photograph ialbum, the autograph album? 'They are not in ours. And yet both were conspicuous in the parlor we were most familial with in childhood days, and' which, no doubt, was similar in appearance, in many respects to that which was in the majority of villages and coup- try places of. abode. The parlor was furnished and made ornate, filled to averflowin.g with this and that, much of which is now ob- solete. We recall the large ornamental lamp suspended from the ceiling above the table, in the centre of the room, and which had flowers 1, many hues painted in its spreading, dome- like shade. To add attraetiveness, the varigated yarn front some piece of knitting was unraveled and in its kinky state put into the large glass ail container to add touches of color. . In one corner of the room stood a high whatnot which was weighed with knick-knacks, including books, ornaments and odd pieces of china- ware. We might mention here what some persons called the "love -string" of buttons that was ever in evidenrte. it consisted of hundreds• of differently styled buttons strung through their shanks into a string and hung some place to readily catch the eye. Great variety was obtained by donations of buttons from relative's and friends, and also got by way of exchange. Hung high on the walls, by bulky green picture cord, and tilted out- wards, were elaborately framed large lithographs and other coloured pic- tures. No parlor in those days was con- sidered replete unless it had at least one motto worked in wool and suit- ably framed. A. special picture resting in a bam- boo easel showed conspicuously from a corner of the room. An embroider- ed, colored silk scarf was artistically draped to hang over the top of the easel above the picture. But the appearance of the room seemed to be lacking something im- portant if the two albums were not in sight in the centre table. Beside them often was the stereoscope in conjunction with a pile of stereopti- One of the most remarkable in - con views, intended both to amuse struments designed to protect British and instruct. homes and businesses from air raid The first photograph was that of dangers is the automatic "watch - father wearing a full beard and was man", which not only instanty re- taken before he was married. Op- ports the presence of an incendiary posite it was a likeness of mother as bomb but records the part of the she appeared about the time she met premises in which it has fallen. father. This instrument, designed by a well We were always pleased when the known British firm, is the Light -ray first page was turned over to detector, and is so installed that, daguerreotypes of father and mother should an incendiary bomb penetrate of more recent date, where father the roof of a house, it will immediat- ely be electrically recorded on an in - looked younger without whiskers and where mother, though 1101 quite dicator board and the fire-fighters so girlish, wore a dress the style of can get to work without delay. which to us was more familiar. Incendiary bombs do not explode, The succeeding pages contained,and the sound made by one that has as most albums did, photos and tin- cut through int an attic may be com- types of the family, of their -Tela- pletely lost in the noise of an air- tives, of friends, acquaintances and raid. Hence the virtue of the light - also of certain favorite eminent men ray detector. We think now of thetwo albunts with becoming reverence, that per- ished in the homestead that long ago was destroyed by fine; think about the pictures of relatives, friends and acquaintances' that graced them, all pf whom, we belieee, now are rest- ing beneath the mounds of Mother Earth. Modern War Costly Waging a war in this mechanized age is a pretty costly business. The following figures give some idea of how Mars has developed a 'voracious appetite for eating up dollars. A single torpedo costs $10,000. A rifle and bayonet cost $30. Ordinary- field guns like 18 -pound- ers require an outlay of $6,800 each. The bigger guns cost much more, ac- cording to the weigh' of the prd- jectile and the range. Some of the larger guns run to $200,000 apiece. That means only five of this type could be had for a million dollars. A light tank will cost around $5,000 with the heavier tanks running the price up near the $50,000 mark. A heavy shell will cost about $240. And, really heavy projentiles, such as those hurled from large naval guns, cost' from $8,000 to $10,000 :each. A single gun can shoot away $100,- 000 worth of shells in a few hours of intense barrage firing. The smaller fighting airplanes run around $30,000 each, with the big bombers costing $200,000 apiece or more. These are only a few of the things that put a financial drain on the war chest. Another big item is paying, equipping and feeding the ]nen who comprise the land and sea forces. AUTOMATIC AIR RAID "WARDEN" British Invention Reports Incendiary Bombs and women. This, although the firm's latest use When the large, beautifully -bound for light -ray apparatus, is only one album was closed and fastened by a of the many applications which are clasp that shone like gold, the stn- in operation. For example, this auto- portaisa of the autograph album as uratic light -ray counts articles of var- an entertainer was resorted to with- sous sizes 'and shapes, up to 600 a out delay. And as soon as tv, childminute, passing on a conveyor, stops ren were penrnittetl to speak, we !vire being wound oil a spool when began with a request to have the the required length has been obtain - guest write something in the book, ed, indicates variations in turbidity The autograph album in its hey, arising in water hardness"treat- del was epiderma - everybody had Ment, guards sleep walkers from harem and precious jewels from theft. one. It seemed to be both a privilege and a duty for every guest to' write something and to read what others had contributed before doing so. The honor of .extending first trib- ute to the autograph album was granted to the minister, who wrote: 'Here's the marble, here's the chisel; Take them, work them to thy will. Thou alone must shape thy future Heaven give the strength and skill. Thera was the autographthat ap- peared in almost every album in the neighborhood. It was this: I wish you Health, Swish you wealth, I wish you friends in store, I wish you heaven after death. What eould I wish you more. There was one autograph written by the music teacher, of which the, moaning to us at the time, was ob- scure: As brevity is <the,soul of wit, Therefore I shall be brief. This was, followed by simple and brietf inscriptions such as "Ever- thine," "Untroubled be thy clays," "Think of 'me" and "Trust in me." . Interspeessed here and there were tokens of love• • Nearing the back of the book ob- servers were confronted with what the schoolteacher took time to write: WORK AT PORT ALBERT AIR FIELD GETS UNDERWAY Construction work at Port Albert is getting underway. Machinery is being brought from Alliston, near Camp Borden, where an airport is in the last stages of completion. Scrap- ers, graders and other equipment also will be released from the Sky Hat - bar job from time to time and is to be interchanged as the progress of the work on both fields dictates, by arrangement between contractors. The runways at Port Albert are to be paved, the Warren Bituminous Ca. of Toronto having the contract. Arrangements for the purchase of most of the farms affected have been completed and already fences are bo- la talent down. Most of the • build- ings, which have been given to the farmers foe their demolition, as is the case'with the fences, will be removed forthwith. Removal of hay crops also has facilitated' an early start and standing grain crops will not inter- fere with progress. • Price per acre paid for the Ash- field farms is rep.oxted to have been $'75, with slight increases for small acreages, Trans -Canada' Air LAMBS had a birthday on April 1. In that day, high in the sky, trim stewardesses appeared before their passengers on every plane„ Each stewardess carried a brightly -frosted cake. Each cake sported one little candle. "A mighty healthy youngster for a year old!" commented a business man who was flying to Vancouver from Montreal. "Actually," . the stewardess told him, as she cut him a generous piece of cake, "the T.G.A. is three." She reminded him that it was born, through;an Act of Parliament, in Ap- ril, 1937, and was flying passengers ix regular service when it was an in fant of less than six months. But, that was on the short i -un. between Vancouver and Seattle, "What we are celebrating today," she went on, "is a year of transcont- inental service. We began flying be- tween Montreal, O4tawa and Toronto and the Patiric Coast on regular pas- senger schedules just a year ago." "And how many miles have you flown in those twelve months?" the passenger wanted to know. "Just about three and a half mil - lien." "How many passengers have you carried in that tune?" "Nearly 30,000." "Well, I still say it's a 'mighty healthy youngster!" He was right. The T.C.A. is noth- ing less than an infant prodigy. Look at its dimensions. It extends across Canada from Moncton, N.B., over five time zones to Vancouver, taking in the cities of Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, North Bay, Winnipeg, Regina and Leth- bridge, a flying distance of 3,055 miles; it goes from Lethbridge to Calgary and Edmonton, adding 288 miles; and frocn Vancouver to Seattle, another 122; a total route mileage of 3.465. PAGE V Perfected after years cif re- search and thousand of miles of gruelling road tests, White Rose Motor Oil is not just another motor oil. It is a different motor oil. White Rose cleans as it lubricates- keeps motors young — cuts down repair bills. Try it to- day and see why White Rose is "the PICK of them all". MOTOIR Made by the makers of the famous WHITE ROSE gasolhzes tatYK r+ua'nRSry.-' Prisoners fare Cross f Any day now you ]night hear that being paid regularly, apparently, by relative or a friend of yours has been captured as a prisoner of war, or has been interned in Germany. You will During its first year of transcmrt- want to know how he will be treated; inental passenger servicewhich be- how you can get in touch with hire; who is supremely responsible for his gen a month after regular mail For civilian internees there is some well-being. The answer is: the Inter - schedules had been established — it chance of repatriation, as small . - °}oval Red Cross Commit!^^ both sides. Other ranks of prisoners receive no pay, in their prison camps, except for work done, which should be at the rate of about 25 cents a, day. not only flew east and west and car- ried on its Vancouver -Seattle routine, but it ran north and south in Alberta ex - The committee, whose headquarters groups of internees are being are at Geneva, Switzerland, are re- changed. But for other prisoners of war imprisonmemt for the duration it :extended east from Montreal to sponsible for the supervision of the iscertain, excepting where they are we of all prisoners of war. in Moncton, and introduced a tri-cityso seriously ill or so wounded as to service linking Montreal, Ottawa and each capital city the Red Cross Coni- be quite unfit for future armed ser - Toronto. Two weeks after its first mittee delegate sets up a central or- vice. birthday, the T.C.A, doubled its ser- • ganization far supervision and relief vice from the St. Lawrence and 'Lake' work. To this the names of ail psis-' The permanent delegate appointed Ontario across the prairies and the otters captured or internees, must be by the International Red Cross Sony, mountains to the Pacific and added a reported with the least possible de- and do, visit any prison camp they third daily round trip between Van- lay, with their place of imprisonment. , like, talk to prisoners privately and couver and Seattle. These names and details aro flash-' make the most rigorous inquiries into T.C.A. planes now fly 13,920 miles ed on to Geneva, and from there are conditions. They cannot enforce inn - every day carrying passengers, mails redistributed to relatives of the pris- provoments, but they may ask for and express on regular services. This otters in their own cotuttries. Here i 'them. And they make reports on amounts to more than 5,000,000 miles we have one strong complaint against .conditions which are circulated a year.rho Germans. There is gross delay : promptly to all the Governments cone That isn't the whole story, in the disclosure of names. They', center!. These reports ane the tat, for this summer saw an extension of have been keeping names back to dole' nnate safeguards of the prisoners,. service froth Toronto to London andthem out on the radio —their vile for they imply that bad treatment Windsor and at present themeted out by one beligerent to its. Civil method of ensuring "listeners in" in' Aeronautics Authority at Washingtonprisoners can be matched by the enemy countries. Atypical piece of is considering• the air. line's applica' Hun brutality. other, tion fax permission to fly frons Tor- onto to Buffalo and to New York. As soon as the name of a prisoner There are 15 planes in the 'r.c.A. of war is received at the Prisoners fleet, oath with accommodation for of War Department of the Interna - 10 passengers and a crew of three, tional Red Cross in London, England, and with a cargo capacity of 2,800 he is sent a parcel of wartn cloth - pounds. ing, boots and shoes, etc., measure - Speed? Well, tree utiles a minute ments being obtained from his rela- is pie for these big twin -engined tives if possible. Special parcels of Lockheeds. They can do four when medical comforts are sent to all pris- they are put to it. oners who are ill or wounded. Leaving Montreal at 7.30 in the And also—how welcome this bel -- morning, passengers are in Vancou- twice each week to every prisoner is vex that night at 10.35. sent a 10 lb. parcel containing tin - Ninety -nine years ago, Sir George Simpson, the great Governor -in -Chief of the Hudson's Bay Company, made a trip around the world. Let's follow him from Montreal to Edmonton and see 'how he fared. At the beginning of his journey he had two canoes, manned by about two dozen hardy red foods such as beef, ham, brawn, margarine, herrings, puddings and bread, as well as soap and other necessities, These parcels are carried post free in both directions, and are — when coming from the Red Cross — im- mune from customs search. There is Iroquois voyageurs, Paddling at top satisfactory evidence that the parcels speed for' 18 hours a day, they went. up the Ottawa River, following Champlain's old route to Lake Nipis- sing and down the French River to Georgian Bay. They crept along the shore of Lake Superior to Fort Wil- liam and worked their way through by Lake •of the Woods and tate Win- nipeg River and Lake Wimtipeg to Fort Garry. They had to fight rapids and wade shallows and labor over arduous portages. The rest of • the journey across. the plains to Edmon- ton was on_horseback, with dull plod- ding oxen transporting• the baggage in squeaking Red River carts. It took Sir George Simpson two months of heartbreaking and back- breading travel to go from Montreal to Edmonton. For years, his journey stood as a record. Then came the railways, thrusting canoes, horses and oxen Cute the past. Sir George would have been gratified if he could have traversed his route by 'railway. But if he could come back today and take his place in one of the T.C.A. planes he would be dumb with amaze- ment. The T.C.A. has telescoped his two months into 15 hours. COIIRESPONDENCE COURSES FOR TROOPS According to Lt. -Col. Wilfred Bov- ey, national chairman of the',educa- tion divisionof the Canadian Legion War Services, preseint'plans indicate that correspondence courses in tech- nical, 'vocational, elementary, high school and ((cadmic' subjects will be available for troops in training in Canada in early autumn, are at present being regularly re- ceived by prisoners in Germany. Relatives of prisoners of war in Ger- many cannot send them parcels of food individually, but once every 3 months the next kin can, through the Red Cross, send a "personal" parcel consisting of such things as knitted goods, chocolate and tobacco. British prisoners of war in Ger- many are at present permitted to send each month: Officers and civil- ians, three letters and four postcards; other ranks, two letters and four postcards. Now what about the conditions in which these prisoners live? Inter- national Law says "the food ration of prisoners shall be equivalent in quantity and quality to that of the depot troops"; canteens must be in- stalled in the camps where prisoners can buy food and other articles at local market prices, prisoners must be medically inspected at least twice a month, and so on. How these conditions are observed and applies depend, of course, mainly on the Government concerned --and the camp commandant—But accoed- ing to recent repots of the Red Grose delegate in Germany, who has visit- ed many camps, he finds no cause for serious complaint. Prisoners of war may. not, at pres- ent, be sent money from home,. but by international convention officer prisoners 'are paid. by the Government which imprisons them "the same pay as officers of corresponding rankin the armed farces of that Govern- ment" provided it doesn't exceed their own regular pay. The appropriate amounts are now 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. 11. O'Neil IS.A., B.D. 10.00 a.m.—Sunday School. 11 a.tn. Morning Prayer. 7 p.m.—Evening Prayer. THE SALVATION ARMY Lieut. Maclean 11 a.m.—Worship Service 3 p.m.—Sunday School 7 p.m.—Evening Worship 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 See- vice eevice and Sunday School 7 p.m. Evening Worship • WESLEY-1VILLIS UNITED Rev. Andrew Lane, B.A., B.D. 11 a.m.—Divine Worship 7 p.m.—Evening Worship. Sunday School at conclusion of. morning service. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH! Rev. Gordon Peddie, B.A.. Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. 3 pan. Worship Service at Bayfield• 2 p.m.—Sunday School Bayfield. CLINTON MISSION W. J. Cowherd, Supt.. Services: Monday 8 pan. Young People. Thursday 8 p.m. Prayer Meeting Sundays 11 a.m. Prophetic Studies 2 pen. Sunday School. 3 p.m. Feilowship Meeting 8 p.m: Bvange}istic Servreee