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THE CLINTON NZWS-RECORD
.a'rui.E k11Trr1t:N1NU1S 1.1V1 CLINTON EARLY" IN
THE CENTURY
Some Notes o f The News
in 1916
FROM THE CLINTON NEWS:
RECORD '
,i MAY 25, 1916
Dr. Gunn, who has been engaged in
surgical work in connection with the
Scottish National Red Cross Hospital.
Glasgow, Scotland, for some time, has
donned the khaki and has been given
charge of two wards in the hospital,
Miss Isabel Gunn is nursing in the
same hospital.
From records kept in the different
parts of the country it has shown that
five hundred young men have iulistecl
for overseas service from the Meth-
odist churches in the County of Hur-
on.
A. well attended recruiting meeting
was held in the town hall on Monday
night which was addressed by Pte.
Heyt and Sergt. Martin, who
home to recuperate after being
erely wounded in France. `
tween two soldier teams. In the af-
ternoon the soldiers were going
through their various exercises, rates
were run, and during the whole after-
noon the 161st Battl..Band gave an
excellent program. The Kiltie Pip-
ers also gave a program, much to
the delight of the spectators. At
two o'clock a review and march past
was given before Col. Combe and the
staff officers. In the evening the
war movie pictures were shown at
the park and another band concert
was given' by the Battalion Band.
Capt.: Darcy also gave a recruiting
speech.
This is the 661st day: that the Brit-
ish Empire has been at war with
Germany, and somebody said the war
would only last a few months.
Signaller Sid Watts, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. W. Watts, of town, took
398 marks out of a possible 400
axe and was only beaten in the exams by
ser- the Instructor who took 1 mark more,
This brings honour to town and the
Lieut. Stockall, who has been in 161st Battalion.
charge of the local Salvation Army Rev. E. G. Powell, of Clinton was
Corps for the past six weeks or so, appointed field secretary fon Perth
enlisted with 161st Battallion and will and Huron counties at a meeting of
don the khaki as soon as the author- committees representing the temper-
ities have sent along someone to take once organizations of the two count -
his place. •
Some time ago the council of Tuck-
ersmith township presented •each of
the young men enlisting from that
township with a wrist watch. At the
time the fact was overlooked that Pte.
Andrew Steep of the Hurons was a
resident of the Tuckersmith side and
he was not included when the time-
pieces were presented. Reeve Crich.
however, later took in the situation
and on Monday evening drove over to
the young soldier's home and in the
name of the municipality presented
him with a handsome military wrist
watch. Needless to say it le most
highly appreciated,
Capt. Manning, son of Rev, H. M.
Manning of Toronto, formerly pastor
of Wesley church, who is a member
of 198th Battalion, "The Buffs," of
which Lieut. Col. Cooper is command-
ing officer, was married in St. Anne's
church, Toronto, on Saturday to Miss
Anna Georgina Hunt of that city.
Captain, the Rev. 11. Nicholson,
chaplain of the 198th, performed the
ceremony.
Lieut. Broder McTaggart, eldest
son of Mm, G. D. McTaggart, who
went to Prance with the First Canad-
ian Contingent, has been made Art-
iIlery Intelligence Officer with the
rank of Captain.
Mr. Wood of the Wood Motor Com-
pany returned from a weekend visit
in Detroit Monday evening acompan-I
ied by Mrs. Wood. Mr. and Mrs.
Wood, who have been residing in
Victoria. B,G., purpose becoming cit-
izens of Clinton.
Rev. Dr. Law of Knox College, who
was the anniversary preacher in Willis
church on Sunday, •was the guest
while in town of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Brydone,
Lieut George MeTaggart, son of
G. D. MeTaggart, who is with the
Royal Engineers of the Imperial
Army, has gone to France with his.
Company-
Mies
ompany -Mies Margaret Davis, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Davis of towns. has
just recently graduated as a Deacon-
ness from the Methodist Deaconness
Training School at Seattle, Wash. It
is her intention to take up work with
one of the Methodist•ehurches in, that
city.
Major Rance landed in Quebec on
Friday and preceeded straight to
Ottawa. It is probalsle that he -will
obtain leave -of -absence to come home
on a visit later on.
Miss Irene Harrison, who has been
stenographer for the Knitting Ooec:-
pany the past three years, has resign-
ed to accept a position in a lawyer's
office at New Liskeard. Her mother
is a citizen of the Clay Belt capital
hence her desire tolocatethere. Miss
Elva Stewart, daughter of Mr. John
3. Stewart, of Goder'ieh township,
succeeds Miss Harrison in the Knit-
ting Company's office.
Sergt. Morley Counter and Sergt.
George Weber are each able to be out
again after being confined to the
house for some weeks.
res.
On Saturday Mr. Arhtur Clarkson
purchased the home he has been liv-
ing in on the corner of Princess
street from Mr. E. Holtzhauer, now
of Preston.
Owing to nerve strain Chaplin
(Capt.) C. E. Jenkins of the Ninth
Brigade. has been oblidged to relinq-
uish his position. He will take up
the work of an English hospital
chaplain for the time being. Capt.
Jeakins is the rector of St. Jude's
Anglican church, Brantford, and for-
merly rector of St. Paul's church
Clinton.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray MeEwan an-
nounce the engagement of their sis,
ter, Miss Elsie Ross to Mr. Harry
Twitchell of Clinton. The marriage
will take place quietly in Tune.
When The Present Century
Was Young
FROM THE CLINTON NEWS
RECORD
MAY 23RD. 1901
The Citizens Band elected their of-
ficers on Friday evening as follows:
President, James McRae, Vice., Bert
Kerr, Sec. Treasurer, R. A. Downs,
At the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Doherty, yesterjdayl their second
daughter. Miss Lena, was united in
marriage with Dr. H. E. Holmes. On
their return from their honeymoon
Dr. and Mrs. Holmes will take up
residence on Rattenbury street, east.
It has been decided to add a cold
storage plant to the pork packing es-
tablishment.
The Iast Sunday school anniversary
to be held in the old Rattenbury
street church was held on Sunday
and proved a great success.
Major Young of Carlo r, one of the
strongest supporters of a pork fact-
ory for Clinton, was in town on Sat-
urday.
Captain H. T. and Mrs. Ranee and
Miss Archibald sail from Montreal
next week by the S.S. Lusitai'na for
the ()Id Country. They avill be.aheent
several weeks.
Mrs. Jos. Copp has had his staff
of peperers and painters at 'work
beautifying the interior of the Rat-
tenbury House.
We have noticed in a last loses
paper that a haaik had flown off with
a lady's hat owing to a Mind being en
it as an ornament, and we wonder if
the humblebees will not be running
off with some ladies flower garden
before 'long.
FR,OM Tian CLINTON NEW ERA.
MAY 25, 1916
The committe who got up the big
Military Day certainly stood in right
with the weather ,.man, for the day
was a warm one, but suitable for a
holiday outing. The morning trains
from north, south, east and west
brought hundreds of people and
autoes were unaccountable. A big
parade was put ori in the morning
when the 161st Band, the Kiltie Band,
Boy Scouts, School Children and the
S&Idiers marched to the Park, when
a baseball match; was pulled off be;;
Mr. John Cochrane succeeded in
capturing a couple of young owls
a week or se ago. Jolsn says be will
train • them for the Pan -Americas.
The contract for the carpenter
work of the new Methodist church has
been let to Mr. Thos. McKenzie. The
building is to be completed by Dee
150, and the congregation rely upon
a good honest piece of work. Mr.
Hiram Hill has been awarded the con-
tract for the building of the walls,
and is to have the work completed
by Sept. 1st.
Grealis—In Clinton on May 16th,
Patrick Grealis. aged 19 years.
Bell—In McKillop en May 10th,
Thomas Bell, aged 75 years.
Kers--In McKillop on May 12th,
IIsabella Campbell, relict of the late
James Kerr, aged 71 years and 4
months. I%
Plews—Carter—At the home of
the bride's parents en Wednesday,
May 21st, by Rev. Dr. Gifford. Char-
lotte, daughter of Mr, Henry Canter,
to Mr. Frank Plews, both of West
Tuckersmith, ;: I -I,_,
PAGE 3
A Statement by
the Minister of Finance
In money alone, this war is costing
Canada in round figures, $4,000,000 a
day. That is three and one-quarter
times the daily cost of the last year of
the last war. This conflict costs so
much more because it is a battle of
giant, swift machines ... as well as of
men. And to build other than the very
best machines would be futile. They
must be worthy of our men.
Canada dare not ... and will not .. .
sacrifice men for lack in quality or
quantity of fighting machines. Hence
we must produce them on a scale
hitherto undreamed of.
To do this, Canada .needs now to
borrow from her citizens at least
$600,000,000 in addition to the
revenue raised by tares. To obtain this
money Canada will on June 2nd offer
Victory Bonds.
Fortunately, Canadians have the
money to buy these Victory Bonds.
This is shown by a greatly expanded
national income and by record savings
deposits.
If every person who has savings or who
can make payments out of wages or
income will invest in Victory Bonds,
the Loan will be quickly subscribed.
But the wholehearted support of every
citizen is necessary.
What Canadians have done before,
Canadians can and will do again. Our
population was less than nine millions
in 1918 and 1919. Yet in November,
1918, our people invested $616,000,000
in Victory Bonds. Eleven months
later, in October, 1919, they invested
$572,000,000. The total subscribed for
Victory Bonds in those two loans was
$1,188,000,000. This year, with our
population increased to more than
twelve millions, the nation that did it
before can do it again—and in greater
measure.
The terms of the Loan will be an-
nounced May 31st. Get ready to buy
every Bond that you can.
MINISTER OF FINANCE
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WORLD'S HIGHEST RALLWAY
Drders New Oil -Burning Loeesa*t ivies
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Locomotives to eross the Andes
t,ver the highest railway line in the
world are to be made in Great Brit -which
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They are far the Central Railway
sf Peru, the summit of which is
15,808 ft. above sea level, the great-
est height of any standard gauge rail
way anywhere,
The line has 41 bridges, 61 tunnels
end 13 reversing stations. It twists
a:p the Andes for 74 miles of practie-
slly 1 in 25 grade. here each of the,
Bwo locomotives about to be made in
Britain will take a load of from 350
to 400 tons.
They are 2-8-0 engines of general
utility type for passenger and goods •
trains, with tenders arranged for oil-
burning and weighing 174 tons each.
Nine such engines, specially design-
3d for the extremely severe condit-
ions, have been supplied to the Cen-
bral Railway and three similar units
bo the Southern Railway of Peru. The
latest order will make a total of four-
been ordered by Peru in the last fiya
years, apart from four huge articul=
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TONS OF ODD .SWEETMEAiT
;Shipped from Eorkshdne Overseas
A curious Yorkshire sweetmeat,
Pontefract "cakes"., is growing in
popularity overseas. It looks like a
black coin for it carries a stamp bycar
it has been known since the
days of Geene LII.Atter
These tiny "cakes" are.made from
liquorice, a plant brought to the
South Yorkshire town in the 16th
century. A hundred years later, one
George Dunhill made the first Ponte-
free "cakes" by mixing the extract
from boiled liquorice roots with sugar
and' ether ingredients.
Since then the number of these
round flack sweets sent overseas has
reached an astronomical total. The
United States and Canada in panic-
ltaking even more of them
mar are g
than they did before the war: a huge
consignment weighing five tons has
recently been shipped to Canada.
Mamba, Northern India• a complete
hydro -electric station from Great
Britain,
mamba, 200 miles from the bord-
ers of Tibet, is 3,000 feet up among
the mountains and the transport of
the plant, especially over the last
twenty-five miles of track, has been
a triumply for the engineers and their
native carriers.
Great boulders had to bed namit-
-
ed, bridges strengthened, retaining
walls made secure. Gangs of native
workers worked continously in road
repairs throughout the journey. Tura
bine casing, pipe Iines and other
heavy pieces were constructed to
make light loads and fleet of wooden
trolleys built to ease the hazards of
the heavier yet the transport rate af
the machinery was three
mile a day.
bats and balls are both skilled handi-
crafts passed on from father to son.
The most famous cricket balls come
from a group of craftsmen settled in
Kent for generations. There is no
truth at all in the canard that Nazi
airmen have destroyed England's
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store of bat willow. Stocks are safe
and ample to meet the demand for
war -time cricketers at home and ov-
erseas.
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The selections of Miss Doreen
of Listowel, on the violin and
of her sister, Miss Ali: Mall;
both of whom are ac -
artists, were also much
—Exeter Times Advocate.
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FENCE DONATED TO
BLYTH UNION CEMETERY
Mr. T. J. Poulton of Cleveland. Ohio
kindly donating an Ornamental
to the Blyth Union Cemetery
His splendid gesture is great -
apreciated by the Trustees and
doubt will be by all lot holders and
in general as it will greatly
the premises, Mr. John
of Clinton has also donated
Balmoral Plaques with sand-
inscriptions which are also
appreciated.—Blyth Standard
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FLAX SCOURGE KILLED
By British Scientists' Research Work
To flax growers in Australia, Can -
ad's, Egypt, the Argentine and India
conies the news that British scein-
tific workers have discovered how to
control seed borne flax diseases.
patient research in Northern
Ireland, Dr. t and his group
can
of assistants can show:increases from
30 to 60 per cent in the yield of
seutched fibre as the result of the
treatment of seed? with a new chem -"Where
real Dorn ound.
p
Careful observation during the
g'r'owing season of treated seed and
untreated has demonstrated the styli-
in increase in
g yield of seed treated
with the new compound,
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NOT OUT
Kent is Still Making Cricket Bats
Golf balls and clubs', tennis balls
and racquets, cricket balls and bats,
hockey sticks and footballs are the
main items among the £700,000 worth
of sport goods sent out from Great
Britain overseas last year.
The biggest buyer is South Africa
where cricket, Rugby and hockey are
g y
Played everywhere. India, the Arg-
entitle" Australia, New
Zealand, Ceylon, Egypt, U.S.A., Chile
and the Far East follow in that or-
der.
Canada takes 120,000 golf balls a
year and 30,000 tennis balls; and the
Dominion is a steady purchaser of
tennis racquets, The United States
buy thousand's of pounds worth of
golf balls and clubs. Australia and
South Africa are the biggest custom-
ers .for cricket bats.
The making of English crieket
Our booklet'
No Will" briefly outlines the
changes recently made in the
law of the Province of Ont.
ario es it affects persons da.
in without Wills.
g i..
e Changing financial conditions:
o (flanginglaws,
as Changing family, business and
social relationships- '
Necessitate Changes i n One'sWiiti
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NOTED ARTISTS ASSIST WITH
MUSICAL PROGRAM
Music lavrarts were •privileged to
hear an outstanding artist in the
person of Mr. Carlos Sherman, op -
eratio . baritone, of New York, a
member of the Chicago Opera Co,.
who took part, in the Musicale put
on by the pupils of bin: Stanley
Smith, A.T,C.M., in James St, Un-
ited church Tuesday evening. Mrs,
Sherman was accompanied by Mr.
Harvey Robb, director of music of
the University of Western Ontario.
TIIREE MILES A DAY
Engineer's main Triumph
British En sneers Mou
• ., In Northern India
Blasting their way up a mountain
track' under the shadow of the snow-
capped Himalayas, British engineers
have just succeeded in installing in
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