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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,
JAN. 3rd, 1901
Rev. T. J. Murdock closed his'pas-
torate of the Baptist Church om} Sun-
day and in the evening preached his
farewell sermon. On Tuedsay evening.
Rev. and Mrs. Murdock were invited
out to Mr. Alex Osbaideston'j; pfl
the Huron Road where some forty of
the young people of the congregation
had assembled. Miss Adelaide Ferg-
uson, on behalf of, the young couple
presented Mr. Murduck with a hand- �
some marble clock accompanied by
an address by Miss Nellie Os'baldea-
ton.
Walter Webb came to town on
Christmas Day with Ben Webb. They
are cousins, and both were in uni-
form but Walter's military experi-
ence was confined to ,doing garrison
duty at Halifax. He walked out of
garrison without leave the morning
the contingent from South Africa
landed and eame west with them. He
wanted to come and that's all there
was about it. On Tuesday he went
down to London and gave himself
up, with the expectation of being sent
back to Halifax.
Mr. G. Hodgens of Detroit was
home this week and accompanied his
brother, 11. E. to Kingsville, where
the latter forsook bacherordom yest-
erday.
Mr. John Gentles of Kincardine,
made Clinton his headquarters last
week while engaged buying horses in
the adjacent townships. He is purch-
asing for the lumber woods.
decided to use Hydro for power as
well as lighting purposes.
The Public Utilities Commission
are replacing the, forty candle power
I street lamps, as fast, as they burn
out, with sixty ,candle power lamps
at no additional expense to the tax-
i
Mr. and Mrs. John Rapson cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary of
their marriage on New Year's Day,
the occason' proving to be a most
happy one.
There passed away on- Monday
morning the nine -months -old son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Hawkins after a
brief but distressing illness. The little
fellow who had never been particular-
ly robust, unfortunately contracted
measles and not having the vitality
to cope with the disease he passed
away after the lapse of a few days.
When The Present Century
Was Young
FROM THE NEWS -RECORD,
JAN. 6th, 1916
Born -In Clinton to Mr. and Mrs.
Calvin C. Streets, on Dec. 31st, a son..
Mr. H. Wiltse headed the list in
the voting for councillor on Monday.
He did it before and as his wearing
powers are excellent it is not at all
improbable that he will do it again.
Mr. Ray Rumball, local manager WILL MARGARINE
of the Bell Telephone, Goderich, for-
merly of Clinton, guessed the exact
number of bullets in a sealed jar in a
window in the county town and there-
by won a sewing machine.
The Clinton Knitting Company has
FROM THE CLINTON NEW ERA,
JAN. 6th, 1916
The following• will be the Council
for 1916: Mayor -Dr. G. W. Thomp-
son; Reeve --Jas. Ford; Council -H.
Wiltse, J.P. Shepherd, Thos Hawkins,
Harry Fitzsimons, C. J. Wallis and.
W. L. Paisley.
Mrs. J. C. McMath received word
last week that her mother, Sarah
Patterson, beloved wife of the late
Capt. Polley, had passed away at her
home, Stella, Amherst Island on Mon-
day, Dec. 7th at the ripe old age of
90 years and 6 months.
Mr. W. R. Counter and Pte. Morley
Counter spent New Year's with old
friends in Seaforth.
J. A. Cooper of Toronto, editor of
the Canadian Courier and an old
Clinton boy, has just been given a
captaincy in the 114th Overseas Bat-
talion.
A. telegram was sent last week by
Major Rance thanking the ladies of
Clinton for the Christmas gifts to
the soldiers of the 33rd, at Quebec.
But we can safely say it was only a
pleasure to the ladies to remember
our soldier boys.
"THE PUREST FORM IN WHICH
TOBACCO CAN BE SMOKED."
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, S.A., S.D.
10.00 a.m.-Sunday School.
11 a.m. Morning Prayer.
7 p.m. --Evening Prayer.
THE SALVATION ARMY
Lieut. Earle
11 a.m. - Holiness Service
8 p.m. - Sunday School
' 7 p.m. - Salvation Meeting
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., B.D.
11 a.m.-Divine Worship
7 p.m. -Evening Worship.
Sunday School at i conclusion of
morning service.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. B. F. Andrew
Sunday School 10 a.m.
I Worship Service 11 a.m.
8 p.m. Worship Service at Bayfield
2 p.m. -Sunday School, Bayfield.
CLINTON MISSION
W. J. Ibwherd, Supt.
Services:
Tuesday 8 p.m. -Young People.
Wednesday 3 p.m. --Ladies Prayer
Meeting.
Thursday 8 p.m. -Prayer Meeting.
Sundays::
COME BACK?
St. Thomas Times -Journal
It is so long since margarine was
sold in this eountry that a genera-
tion has grown up that probably does
not know what it is. The word has
been eliminated from the Canadian
vocabulary for more than 20 years.
Canada is the only country in the
world where margarine does not ex-
ist. Margarine is a butter substitute.
Its manufacture or import, therefore
its sale. were prohibited by the Do-
minion Government in order to help
butter production. In any event it
was felt that the standard of living.
in the Dominion justified the ex-
clusion of margarine.
There is definite talk of margarine
coming back -for the duration of the
war, There is a shortage of butter
in reserve. Our stocks are 7,100,000
pounds below requirements now, and
less butter is being made because
Great Britain has given an order for
112,000,000 pounds of cheese. Milk
is being diverted from butter making
to' cheese making. We have contract-
ed to supply that amount of cheese
and we are morally as well as legal-
ly bound to fulfill British needs,
cheeta being a very valuable food. In
recent years we have even imported
butter from New Zealand, but we
cannot do that now because the Brit-
ish Government has bought up the
whole exportable supply of the Anti-
podes.
If we run short of butter the alter-
native 6 margarine. A lot at people
don't like margarine. But there is
nothing objectionable in the ingred-
ients cr in the manufacturing pro-
cess. It is a good and wholesome
food. It has no flavor, but butter has
no flavor either until a little salt is
added to it. Millions of people in
the British Isles who had never tast-
ed margarine before ate it during the
last war and many of them were not
aware of it until their housekeepers
told them, Good margarine is very
similar to butter. It has been great-
ly improved in nutritional' value since
the last war by knowledge of how
to incorporate vitamins which were
not then known to science.
Naturally, the farmers will not like
the idea of margarine coming back.
Canada can :still maintain the butter
standard of living, and if magarine
is to be made hero,' or imported,\it
should be on a license basis, suffic-
ient to cover the potential shortage
and no more. In that case, no in-
justice would be done to butter pro-
ducers. If there is not enough but-
ter to meet demands, those who will
not eat margarine will simply have
`to go without.
2 p.m. -Sunday School. There is no fruit richer in vitamin
3 p.m. -Fellowship Meeting. and mineral content than;the Canact
8 p.m. -Evangelistic Service. ian apple.
THr CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
PAGE 3
LET'S FACE THE FACTS
(Continued from Page 2)
possessed and many dear friends be-
hind.
But that Alsatian frontier guard,
exiled from his home without news
of his family in a defeatedcountry
gave us a grand, brave, au-revoir:
Tell them in England' to hold on,"
he said, "Tell them we aren't finished
yet. We have been beaten but we
aren't conquered. We'll fight again
and beat them yet, these Nazis."
It was with happier hearts that we
went on our way across the bleak
dusty mountains of Spain and came
eventually to Canada.
France Not Conquered
And that Alsatian was only one of
the hundreds of French people of
every class and kind who said the
same things to us during these three
months we spent in France after the
armistice. Women in shops and post -
offices would lean across the counter'
and whisper how at night they lis-
tened to the London radio and Gen-
eral de Gaulle. There were officers
and soldiers by hundreds that we
spoke to and probably many hund-
reds of thousands more who had only
one thought -to get out if they could,
or, if they couldn't, to wait patiently
for the day when they will be able to
fight another battle.
Even within the Vichy Government
I. found before I left a different at-
titude among those men who had
been quite honestly convinced. in June
that we could not win and. that the
best thing for France, and even for
us, to do, was to make peace. Thep+
began to change, their minds in Aug-
ust when they, saw that the fighting
spirit of the British peoples under
Churchill's leadership. was beating
back the Nazi planes and preventing
that vaunted invasion of England.
They know now for certain that the
Axis is not invincible and that we
made no empty boast when we de-
clared that we would fight on alone
to victory.
Od course, there is very little that
these people can do just now to help.
They all have ropes round their
necks. But in France they have be-
gun rebuilding, organizing a little
armistice army, forming a new Na-
tional Service League of young peo-
ple, putting a new heart and a new
spirit into those who live in and those
who can escape into the unoccupied
zone, making provision against the
day when the heavy hand of the Nazi
occupying army and police may
weaken and the chance may come to
restore France to independence and
dignity.
These people know that their only
hope lies in our victory but also, none
know better than they do, who see it
day by day, the strength and power
of the Nazi organization. -It is still
far from beaten. It is terribly strong.
The driving discipline of the Gestapo,
the fanatical allegiance to Hitler of
great numbers of his followers, the
sense of personal strength, power and
pride which every Germany spoon-fed
with Goebbel's propaganda, feels in
the knowledge that his country•now
rules Europe from the Arctic Circle
to the Black Sea and the Pyrenees
are things that cannot easily be brok-
en. If it is to be done, it can be done
only by such courage as the workers
of England have shown in going on
with their jobs and their jokes clay
and night in the midst of death and
destruction., building airplanes while
bombs crash around them, forging
guns and filling shells in factories
which are half aflame, by such cour-
age as those sailors show who go to
the sea in ships defying the deadly
submarines, as those airmen of the
Empire show when they gaily take
their lives m their hands night and
day in the defence of the skies of
England.
The Way To Victory
If it is to be done, it can be done
only by the redoubled sacrifices and
labour of those in the other parts of
the Empire who are, until now, living
safe from such savagery as has be-
fallen Coventry, Birmingham, Liver-
pool, Southampton and Bristol.
If it is to be done, it can be done
only if the people of the United
States will make good in work and
co-operation where it is most needed
on all these encouraging words they
have given us of approval of ou't
determination to keep Liberty alive
in this world.
This war in which we are engaged
is not just another international war
in the old sense, It is not even a
d'octri'nal war between differing con-
ceptions of how life can and should
be organized. It is a tremendous
volcanic outburst in that everlasting
inextricable conflict between good
and evil in which humanity is engag-
ed, in which all men fumble blindly,
but in which surely, the only hon-
ourable role is that of the man who
goes on fighting for the things he
knows to be good -his personal free-
dom, his right to work out his own
destiny and help his children to
theirs, his duty to God and his neigh-
bour to keep alive those precious
elusive things., hope and happiness,
without which the spirit dies and life
will become, as Hitler would make it,
a dreary, degrading servitude con-
ceived in hatred and evil in which
civilization will sink back into a new
Dark Ages.
NOTB TO ADOLF
Britons from the Argentine,
Britons from Australia,
British lads from Canada,
Wouldn't that flail you]
How do you account for it,
From the hide-out where you sit?
British from the frozen north,
British from down under,
'Coning to you, little man,
With a noise like thunder.
Does it have a fearful sound,
In your hut below the ground?
British lads from overseas,
Offering her their all;
Rushing to the Motherland,
Mustering to the call,
Marching gaily to the fight,
That they know is for the right.
Nazi force and 'brutal hate
Must be swept away-
British lads from all the world,
Arming for the fray.
Adolf, in, your Nazi lair,
These some dray will find you, there:
-Edna Jacques in: The Toronto Star,
Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows
By Harry J. Boyle
"Spoiling The Child"
It's dark these nights when we fin-
ish the, chores. 'Last night it was
snowing a little .:.big, white flakes
that spewed a little as they hit the
lantern glass .... and left big blobs
of wet when they melted on a per-
son's face. It had been a long and
hard day, spent for the most part in
wrestling with crooked limbs and
"top" wood being hauled up to buzz
for next winter's wood supply.
Stopping to blow out the lantern,
I could hear a pair of uneven toddling
steps tripping across the kitchen
floor. When I stopiped to brush the
snow from my boots, the sound of
"Da Da" seemed to reaeh out and
stab me somewhere in the vicinity of
what I have always supposed to be
a heart.
It wasPatricia Ann, toddling out
to the door in that "first step" gait
of hers. There she was steadying her-
self on the chair inside the door and
waiting to be picked up. Waiting to
slide two chubby fists around a wea-
thered neck, unmindful of the melt-
ing snow and laughing and wincing
at the stubble beard all in the same
instant.
The supper meal has become al-
most a ceremony at Lazy Meadows.
Quite :dutifully Patricia Ann will sit
up at the table in her high chair and
receive *the vitamins prescribed by
Doctor Jim. Soon she'll start climb-
ing up and riding on the side -guards
of the chair in cowboy fashion and
when Mrs. Phil lets her down on. the
floor she'll edge around the hired
man and come tugging at my over-
alls. Generally I don't pay any at-
tention.
"Da .. Da" ... and the tug grows
more impatient and she finally wins
by being picked up.
She's a queen in her own rights.
We are humble subjects. No diam-
onds or crown jewels glitter on her
fingers ... just a chubby fist that
has more influence, at least, in our
household.
"Phil, you're spoiling that child,"
Mrs. Phil frowns down from the oth-
er end of the table, but Patricia Ann
smiles and proceeds quite undisturbed
to accept the occasional offering of
food not included in her regular diet.
Baby girls are spoiled, P suppose,
by their fathers. It sems that fathers
generall fall prey to the winsome
charm of a baby girl. They frown
and appear stern ... and say, "Now,
don't you let me catch you doing that
again." But when Mother isn't look-
ing, they gently pat the tiny one on
the hands and try to appease for the
slight harshness of the tone adopted.
Mothers have a hard task on their
hand's as far a baby girls are con-
cerned. If the baby girl grows up to
be an upstanding model of femininity
the father beams with pleasure
and accept all the lavish praise. If
the girl falls by the wayside or grows
a little tomboyish, the fathers growl
and groan about the present genera -
titan and say to the mothers, "Well,
if you hadn't babied her like that, she
would have turned out better."
From my own meagre . experience
I would say that fathers are to blame
for the spoiling of baby girls. As one
man recently put it, "It's so nice to
have them grow into fine young lad,
ies . . but it's so much nicer to
spoil them , . God bless their wee
hearts."
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WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
FRIDAY, JAN. 3rd:
9.00 a.m. Piano Ramblings
12.45 p.m. Bell Boys
7.00 Imperial ' Quartette
8.00 Grain's Gulley -Jumpers
SATURDAY, JAN. 4th:
9.30 a.m. Kiddies' Studio Party
1.30 p.m. Ranch Boys
6.15 Hairy J. Boyle
7.30 Barn Dance
SUNDAY, JAN. 5th:
11.00 a.m. Wingham United Church
2.00 p.m. Triple -V Class
5.45 Clifford on the Air
7.00 Presbyterian Church
MONDAY, JAN. 6th:
12.45 p.m. Bell Boys
1.00 Gene Autry
'7.00 Two Pianos
7.30 Pym at the Organ
TUESDAY, JAN. 7th:
8.00 a.m. Breakfast Club
11.00 Piano Ramblings
'7.00 pan. The Landt Trio
8.30 Al & Bob Harvey
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8th:
9.30 a.m. Story of Pamela Pride
8.00 p.m. Harmonica Band
8.30 Clark Johnson
9.00 Mart Kenny Orch.
THURSDAY, JAN, 9th:
11.45 a.m. Fashion Club
7.00 Joan Edwards
8.30 Grenadier Guards Band
International S. S.
Lesson
January 5th;
L' elsson: Luke 13:1-5, 10-17.
G. T. Heb. 4:15.
By REV. GORDON A. PEDDIE, B.A.
1, Do verses 1-5 teach us that suf-
fering, even from the hands of tyr-
ants, or from "accidents", is permit-
ted by God to bring us to repent of
our sins?
Answer: Yes; and whenpeople suf-
fer today in Europe we ought not to
think that their sin is greater than
ours. We ought to be taught by their
suffering that such is our own sin,
and therefore to repent:
2. Does God then permit calamities
to fall upon us as a God of Love?
Answer: Most certainly He does;
the purpose of all His judgments,
like the purpose of His patience is,
as a good gardener, to bring us to
fruitful repentence. (Read verses
6-9; also Amos 4:6-12; Romans 2:1-4
and 2 Peter 3:9).
3. Would we understand verses 10-
17 if we said merely that Christ
healed the woman, like a Doctor heal-
ing a• sick person?
Answer: No. The important point
in this miracle is that Christ loosed
or set free the woman from the
power of Satan (vv 12, 16), God
having permitted her, though a
daughter of Abraham (a woman of
faith), to endure this infirmity in her
flesh for the sake of her salvation.
(2 Corinthians 12:7-9; 1 Cor. 5:5).
4. In what sense may we ,say that
Christ "does away" with the Sab-
bath?
Answer: By teaching, healing, and
delivering from Satan on the Sab-
bath, Christ shows that man's true
REST is in Christ's Word, in Christ's
power, in Christ's salvation; so that
we may say that our true REST from
our works is in Jesus Christ, and not
in the careful observance of this or
that custom on a particular day.
Christ is the "substance" or the
"body" of the Sababth Law as the
"keeping of the seventh day" was the
"shadow" (Colossians 2:16-17).
Have Clean Wool
for the 1941 Clip
Wool naturally grows clean on the
sheep's back. Any dirt that gets into
the fleece is due to faulty feeding
racks or careless or improper meth-
ods of feeding sheep. In the case of
farm flocks, ehaff and seeds accumu-
late about the neck and shoulders
WILLSON WOODSIDE, whose war
commentary is heard over the OBC.
National Network from Monday to
Friday inclusive, from 9.55 to 10.00
pan. EST.
and along the back, Some flocks
are allowed to feed from a stack.
This usually produces a dirty and
chaffy fleece that has to be skirted
, very severely for seedy and chaffy
portions. Others farmers --do not pen
their sheep away, when throwing;
down straw for bedding or hay for
feeding. Such flocks are also sure to,
carry a heavy amount of seeds and
chaff. Where the open top or slatted'
type of feeding rack is used, seeds
and chaff fall down on the h'eads,.
necks and, shoulders of the sheep,
while feeding. -
Farm flocks of sheep, if their
fleeces are left clean, produce wool".,
that is most in demand for military-
purposes,
ilitarypurposes, observes Plroduction Ser-
vice, Dominion Department of Agri-
culture. Reasonable care in keeping•
the flock away from straw stacks,
closing up the top of upper sides of
feeding racks and keeping the sheep
away from hay or straw when it is
being forked to feeding racks will
remove the chances for introducing
dirt into the fleece. Next spring af-
ter shearing, fleeces that are clean
when presented for grading will not
need to be skirted and loss from re-
ject wool will be obviated.
BE HAPPY!
To be happy, we are told, we
should make others happy.
We'll help you to be happy -
If your subscription is in ar-
rears, pay it -you can be assur-
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FACTS AND
FIGURES
Patients treated in the "In -
Patient" Department during
the .Hospital's last fiscal year
totalled
9,030
Total patient days
135,009
Total number of attendances
at "Out - Patient" Department
79,410
Total Operating Expenses
$541,463
Total income from all sources
$455,205
Deficit which MUST be met
by Donations
$86,258
Over 9,000 infants and children were treated in The Hospital for
Sick Children during the past year. They came from all parts of the
Province. All were under 16 years of age -most of them came from
the hones of the needy -over 96 % occupied Public Ward beds.
Careful management kept hospitalization costs down among the
lowest for children's hospitals in the whole of, North America. In
spite of this, the cost of caring for 9,000 little bed patients and of
supplying the medical attention required by 79,410 children's visits
to our heavily burdened Out -Patient Department, was much more than
the revenue received from all sources.
A similar deficit occurs every year because the Public Ward
rates are less than the bare cost of hospital service. In some cases
the parents pay, and in others their municipalities shoulder the burden.
In either event, our revenue is at the same fixed rate -about $1,00
per patient day less than our costs.
This Hospital does NOT share in the funds collected by the
Federation for Community Service because patients are admitted
from all over Ontario.
Only the gifts of generous citizens make it possible for us to
continue carrying on without stint our work of mercy among Ontario
children.
Every donation is important. Please give as mach as your
circumstances warrant. This is a worthy charity which deserves
your special consideration.
We employ no canvassers, so please mail your gilt to the
Appeal Secretary.
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