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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-10-30, Page 6THURS., OCT. 30, 1941 1.1Ar1'J ININl +6 11N CLINTON EARLY IN THE CENTURY Some Nous o f The News in1916 ' 11:, _ FROM THE CLINTON NEWS- with munitions or some definite was RECORD e.. I' Work. 1 ,,, On Friday last the death occurred OCTOBER- 26TH, 1910 ` at her home in town of Mary Coope•, Pte. D. J. Ross • is reported ad wife of Mr. W. J. Cooper, in her =- wounded: in Frame. Pte. Ross is a ty-fourth year. The late Mr's. Cooper .brother of Mrs. Murray McEiwan of was born at iarrierd, Bedfordshire, town and of• Mrs. Harry Twitchell'of England. She married there and caty 'Toronto. He enlisted at the begin- with her husband to Clinton forty- ming of the war and has been at the foul years ago. She is survivedtime be her husband and a family of ti mee from: for over. a year. It is not yet sons. and one daughter; George with known how serious his wound may ;be. the 161st, Battalion; Atmos of St. I Thomas; Fred in Toronto and Lucy at Mr. W. W. Martin, who owing to hone. -tine resignation of Premier Scott of 'Saskatchewan, was, called upon by the' Miss Zetta Bowden, who has been Lieutenant -Governor last week to in London undergoing surgical treat- iorm a cabinet, is a son of Rev. Mr. merit has so far recovered, as to be able to leave the hospital and is this Martin, who for twenty-five years week with friends in Hensall. -was pastor of the Presbyterian chur-I .ch at Exeter. Premier Martin re- Sapper Wilmer Wallis, eldest so of Mr and Mrs. C. J. Wallis of town, .ceived his Collegiate education in who was on the quartermaster's staff Clinton. He is a brother-in-law of of the 161st Battalion since its organ 'Dr. J. N. Gunn of Calgary, formerly izatlon until just reently, is now in • of Clinton, who has been for. many Ottawa taking. a special course in sig. months serving at the front. :Ottawa and telegraphy. Capt. Broder McTaggart, who was I Mr, and Mrs. Geo. M. Farquhar of reported wounded two weeks ago, has Hullett, north of town, returned Sat- returned to his duties with his bat- urday from an extended trip through ter,. Capt. McTaggart has received the western provinces. another promotion and is now a raj- i McEwan—ln. Stanley township on •or. This is the second promotion Oct, 22nd, to Mr. and Mrs. John H. • since going overseas in 1914. McEwan, w son. In the terrible gales of Friday much damage was done to' shipping •on the Great Lakes. Four boats are reported lost and one beached, with a heavy loss of life. Among those. who I are known to have been lost and who bale from Goderich or are well known in this section are: Joseph O'Connor, Angus Murray, Wilfred Austin, Wm. Bogie, David Corbett, Roderick Mac- Donald, John Quigley and John Calla- han. Not since the terrible stoma of 1913 has there been such a disaster- .ous loss of life, in Canadian waters. Mr. W. J. Cooper, who for twenty- six years has been janitor of the Public school, has handed in his resig- nation to the board and as soon as a successor can be procured will be re- lieved. Miss Agnes Middleton, daughter of Mrs. John Middleton of Goderich township who has for the past couple of years spent a good part 'of her ,time in London, where she has had a Mass in art, was one of twenty-five •yonmg women who last week present- ed a petition to the Women's Emerg- ency Corps asking that they be ap- -pointed to some work in connection Nott—In Tuckeramith, •on October 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Nott, a daughter, (Evelyn Beatrice). Gunner Douglas Shipley returned to Petawawa yesterday after spend- ing a short leave at his home here prior to proceeding overseas with a draft from the G7th, battery. Pte. Arnold Rathwell, son of Mr. Rathwell, who enlisted with the 33rd, and who went forward with a draft from England, is reported killed in action in, this week's casualty- list, • FROM THE CLINTON NEW ERA OCTOBER 26TH, 1916 On Saturday last a very happy gathering took place at the home of Mrs. John Ball, Hullett, when the members of her fancily came together Ito help celebrate her seventieth 'birthday. Miss Viola Rowe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Rowe of Ingersoll, and formerly of Clinton, recently had the misfortune to have her hands badly burned while cleaning a pair of dont; gloves. She had Aust cleated them' cflieSNAPSNOT GUILD HALLOWE'EN PICTURES A box•camera could get this, with highspeed film, one small "flood" bulk .inside pumpkin, snapshot exposure. Try some like it this Hallowe'en! . 'L7ALLOWE'EN, with its parties, !! AA decorations, and grotesque mas- querades, offers fine opportunityfor weird, unusual pictures. And these are easy—it's mostly just a matter .of placing your photo bulbs, to 'ob- tain a novel,lighting effect. I Or'dinar'ily, photo bulbs are placed at the subject's eye level, or above. But for weird effects, you place them low—so that the light shines upward into the subject's face. It's a simple trick, but it produces sur- -prising results. Try this idea in a ;jack- o' -lantern :shot, such as:;the one above, Use :just one small No. 1 flood bulb aside the pumpkin, at a distance of two feet from thesubject's face. For box cameras load with high speed film, of course, and open to the larg- est arbest lens aperture. Per finer camerae and high speed film, sot the shutter for 1/25 second and lens aperture at f/11.. Incidentally, see that the photo bulb does not touch the wet interior of the pumpkin, nor shine directly into the camera lens (via Jack's nose or eyes). 'Use the same idea for picture of the "witch's cauldron" at the Ilal- lowe'en party. Simply place the light down in the kettle—allowing it to shine up in the "witch's" face. Also, get a shot of a group listening to a ghost story. Per this one, place photo lights at floor level, or conceal them back in the fireplace, to imitate firelight You'll need two bulbs for this shot,.atid exposure data will be found in any snapshots -at -night leaf- let, which you can get without charge from your pbotogrepinic dealer. It's fun to play with these effects, but don't overlook other Ilallowe'en activities. Get ehol:s of the games ducking for apples ... costumes and masks ... serving of refresh- ments. Make the party record com- plete, and then you can enjoy it over and over again. 346 John van Guilder with gasoline and had then! on drying tne,n. She was near the stove when they naught fire. One glove was got off with out burning the hand very much but the other hand was badly burned and she was .laid, up for sev- eral days. Nine members, of the Jackscn Manufacturing Company's staff in Clinton or elsewhere, are now in the service of the Empire, the t.ainieg camps or at the front. Pte. R. D, Walton having already made the sup- reme sacrifice. Mr. J, G..0howen was a visitor at Camp Borden this week bidding good- bye to hie son, and the rest of the Clinton boys. Mr. C. F. Bell has accepted a posi- tion at the frieght offices at St1'at= ford and commenced work• on Mon- day. Mrs. Bell and family will re- main until they can sell their house here. Mr• and Mrs. , Whitmore and Mr. Cliff. Whitmore moved to Toronto this week where they will reside. Mr, Whitmore will be agent for the Cline ton Motor Company in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Ghieh, Tucker - smith announce the engagement_ of their eldest daughter Lumina: Mae, to Era Ellis of Stratford ,the marriage will takeplace in November. Mr. and Mrs, J. C. Kellar and fain ily moved to Stratford, which is more convenient for Mr. Kellar. Wen. Proudfoot, M.P.P received weird that his von, Lieut. Won. Proud- foot, had been .slightly wounded, but is remaining on duty. Lieut. Proud - foot went overseas with the 33rd, Battalion, and was transferred to a Highland regiment. By voluntary contributions Clinton collected $1187 for the British Red Gross Fund last Thursday. Dona- tions onations were big and small. Pte. Laurie Greig, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Greig, was wound- ed over the eye with a shell splinter. It was a narrow escape for the young soldier. Pte. Will Greig, his brother, is now back in the trenches again after being laid, off duty owing to rheumatism. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson have moved to the Chidley property. Mr. and Mrs. G. David have taken. the house vacated by Mr. and. Mrs. Thompson, and M. Robert Marshall has leased the home lately occupied by Mr. Whitmore on Rattenbury street. When The Present Century Was Tonna. FROM THE CLINTON NEWS - RECORD OCTOBER 24T11, 1901 Mr. Wm. Rutledge's two year old daughtea•, Mae, fell while ,pt•ayling and fractured her right arm. A year ago she tumbled from a chair anti broke her left arm in two places. Mr. C. W. (Grandpa) Searle, tont.. bled down stairs and was severely injured about the face and body by the fall. But a few days rest will make him alright again; the sooner the better though, for among otlr citizens there are none who trite a keener or more disinterested view of local affairs than "Grandpa" Searle. Mr. Andrew Taylor made itis first appearance upon our streets last week after his long confinement as the result of the accident which befel him on a Grand Trunk Crossing, when a train severed both his feet from his body. 1 -le bore the misfor- tune with admirable patience and is new enabled with the assistance of artificial feet and a couple of sticks, to move about town, though not just as rapidly as he would like to. A pretty wedding -bilk place at the residence of Mrs. James Young at high noon yesterday when her only daughter, Miss Gertrude, became the bride of Mr. William P. McIntosh of Moss Point,, Mississippi; The Sorf}� :Relating clergyman was Rev. Alex Stewart, The bride's cousin, Miss L. Young of Londesboro was bridesmaid and the groom's brother, Mr. R, W. McIntosh of Toronto, was best man. Shortly before noon yesterday another of our old residents, in the person of David Barge, passed' peace- , fully eace-,fully into the Great Beyond;, He was born seventy years ago in the shire of Northampton, England and in 1849 he came to Canada. He mar- ried a daughter of the late Thos. 0. Cooper, one of the pioneers of Gode- I rich township, and for some years they lived in the township of Logan but thirty years ago tools up their residence in Clinton. To them were born four sons- and two cl'angters. Outside the immediate family Mr. Barge had only one relative in this country, his brother, James of Wind - s01. Mrs. R. Glazier returned inane on Sunday from St, Clair where she has been on an extended visit. Mr. Robert Thompson, Jr., of Code - rich 'town;shli'py returned home ln11 Wednesday :from Manitoba whither lie went withthe harvest excursion- ists, Mr. John 13. Stewart of the Bay- field Line left Saturday last to visit the Pan American. This is his sec- ond trill to Buffalo, his first being during the period between the shoot- ing and death of the late President Mccl£inley.. Mrs; Junes Tomball of Toronto, wife of a former principal -of the Collegiate Institute' is a guest at Mr. and Mrs, Thos. Jackson, Jr. this week, FROM THE CLINTON NEW ERA OCTOBER 25TH, 1901 The King's Birthday, Nov. 9th, will be celebrated by the Clinton Gun Club by a big tournament when a number of events will be -shot off. This shoot will be at both ,live birds and bluerocks. , A special feature will be a guarantee- of :Roo, this sum will be divided between three events.. Mr. John Parker of the Peters Cart- ridge Company of Cincinnati, will be here to take charge of the tournal ment. The- Sons of Scotland- of Seaforth have secured Mists Jessie Nevin Mac- laehlan the Scotch Prima Donna, the pet of Royalty. and Pride of Scotland,. to give an entertainment on the- ev- ening-of v=ening of Nov. 11th. Miss Maelachlan is universally admittted', to be the best Scottish vocalist that has ever appeared in 'Canada. On Tuesday evening as Lloyd, son of S. A.' Moffatt, was out shooting squirrels., he !net with anaccident which will keep him from handling a gun fer awhile. • In crossing a fence .the gun was discharged and the ball penetrated at the base of the thumb. Dr. Armstrong of Bruce - field was called and lie had to admin- ster 'chloroform to extract the ball from the palm of the hand. One Tuesday morning" Mr. and Mrs'. J. Reid of Vane lost their infant daughter at the age of two days. George Henderson of the 8th con- cession has a freak of nature. This is a young pig with six feet, two be- hind and, four in front. At the ankle joint, where most pigs have a kind of prong growing, this animal has on each leg an extra and fully formed foot, in addition to the foot in the usual place. The house occupied by Lock Cree, on Mary street, has been bought by him from Mrs. Tuffts, Belgrave, and the house and vacant lot adjoining owned by Mrs:. Hero of Wingham has been bought by Mr. McCaughey. A fat stock show' will be held in Clinton the week, before Christmas. Dr. Agnew spent Sunday at Wing - ham with his father, who is seriously ill, W. Coats accompanied by his nep- hews, Charles MacPherson and Ran- dal Robertson, were at the Buffalo Pan-American Tuesday and Wednes- day. Mayor and Mrs, Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Forrester, and two slaugh- ters, Mrs. Jos. Rattenbury, 'Mee- Ranee, issRanee, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Mason, 0, Hoare, and Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Richardson of Goderich township, were all booked, for the Pan en Tues- day, this being the last week of it. Mr. David Barge died in Clinton on Oct. 23rd, in his 72nd year. v Municipal Medicine The Editor, The News -Record, Clinton Dear Sir: A movement is on foot at present here in old Ontario, in the interests of Municipal' Medicine, known in other !parts of the Dominion. as Health In- surance. As I understand it, tine in - 1 terest is being aroused at present :though the newly -formed Federation of Agrieultnre. Let me say that I lam very much in favour of some scihento, and have been for years, in fact ten years. ago I wrote to the Prime Minister calling his attention, las I thought, to the great need for something of the kind, and I am in `favour of some such scheme as a re - 1 suit of my expet'ienec as a minister 1 of the Gospel, for wherever I have I been, after a time, I have always got to know of a number of people who Iwere in need, of medical attention, but who could not afford it financially, ' and who consequently just continued Ito suffer, However, the point that is turning itself over in my mind is thiy, what kind' of scheme should we have. To my mind this is a most important natter, one that should be thought out 1carefully, and gone about in the right way, not in some haphazard: man- ner'. Frankly, my opinion is, that this is rightly a National question, and inot just a municipal one, and 1 say (this because I hold that the health i of a people should be one of the chief 'concerns: of the Government, Surely as to that there can be no question. I The Government professes to be con- cerned about the large percentage of men even here in Canada, who when called for Military service, prove to be in either Class C3 or E, thereby acknowledging its interest in and its concern in this matter. Why should= n't it be the concern of the National Government to see that the health of the people is what it should be? More especially in a world such as we have today, it is absolutely necessary that the people comprising a nation shall be physically fit, or else that nation is going to go to the wall. And so again I say that this surely is a Nat- ional question. Now, as I understand it, the scheme that is being presented to the people of Ontario at present, would only pro- vide for Medical attention, that is to say that a doctor would be appointed for a certain area, anel people resident within tine area would have the right to call on hien for Medical. advice, So ter so good, no doubt that would help to some extent, but the proposed scheme does not provide for Hospi- talization anti, Surgery, and that is where: in my opinion the scheme Would be sadly inadequate. Let no Our Town is at War • Men are drilling in our town . our own men ; ; ; men we calf by their first names. Some of them quit good jobs to join the army .. , some quit school. When the Empiie went to war and Canada went to war ... this town went to war. Every now and then a few more men from this town leave for active service, We're taking the war more seriously. Are we? Are we all? Are those of us who haven't joined up doing all we can? Are we lending all we can? That's one thing we can all do ... one thing we must all do. We must all buy more War Savings Certificates. The help of every Canadian is needed for Victory. In these days of war the thoughfloaaj selfish spender is a traitor to our war effort. A reduction in personal spending is now a vital necessity to relieve the pressure for goods; fa enable more and more labour and materials to be diverted to winning the war. The all-out effort, which Canada must make; demands this self-denial of each of us. SUPPORT THE WAR WEAPONS DRIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Published by the War Savings Committee, Ottawa SPEND LESS- 70 BUY MORE WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES suppose that we have this scheme in operation, here is a man or woman in ill -health they consult the doctor ap- pointed, he tells them that they must Ihave an operation, but they haven't got the wherewithal to go to a hospi- tal, of what value would a scheme be to that man or woman, and there are lots of men and women in just that postion. No, this proposed ,scheme is not sufficient, it doesn't meet the situation, not all, but most people can manage somehow to pay the doetor, but the thing that most people can- not afford is Hospitalization and Surgery. At a meeting which I attended, the Federation of Agrioulture was exhor- ted to petition the Ontario Govern- ment for permission to conduct a plebiscite with a view to having a doctor appointed for the municipality. May -I respectfully, suggest to those (concerned, that before they take any definite action, they will explore this matter further, obtain information on how the scheme' is working out, in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and other places, and perhaps have others speak on the subject, Do not let us shelve the question, some such scheme is urgently needed, but Id us go about it in the right way. Yours Respectfully, (Reverend) John Graham V Receive Extra Holidays In/ 1942 School children gave three cheer§ and a tiger today for the man who put the dates on the calendar for the school year ending June 26, 1942, as 'announcements from the Department of Education revealed it to be the shortest possible tutder present regu- lations, The first `break' comes with Chris- tmas on Thursday. Because of this the holiday period commences Dee. 20th, the last Friday before Christ- mas Day. New Year's falling on a Thursday gives the youngsters a holi- until January 5th. The Easter vacation is the same length as last year beginning April I3rd and ending April 12th. - Deprived of a holiday this year with May 24th on a Saturday, school children ,next I year -will have a holiday on May 25th, !the- commemoration of the day which in 1942 is on a Sunday. The ,summer vacation will be from June 27th .to September 7th, inclusive. This term youngsters returned to elass- rooms on September 2nd. So the man who puts the dates on the cal- endars gave extra holidays at every opportunity this preselttschool year. V 1910 PROGRESS OF THE BLIND 'In Canada last year there were more blind people gainfully employed than in any previous year of the Nat- ion's history. There were more blind men and women in business, There was a greater quantity of "Blind - craft" goods produced. There were more blind people employed in handi- crafts in their own homes. There I were more blind home teachers em- ,ployed i11 the instruction of blind ad- ults. There were more pupils in this extensive, informal, essential school. There were more blind field service workers, spreading to a wider area the services whioh your Institute is able to render to blind men and wom- en to whom some -of the privileges :enjoyed by the urban blind are neces- sarily denied. There were more blind people enjoying the facilities accorded by our libraries -of Braille and Talk- ing Bogks, There was, during the year . just passed, y � p ss cl, a higher standard of living amongst the blind citizens of Canada than ever before attained. v VICTOR LAURISTON IN GODERICH Victor Lauriston, well-known auth or of Chatham and Goderich old boy addressed a meeting of the London branch of the Canadian Authors As sociation on Thursday last. Ile in- formed his audience that he began to write in Goderich on the day of Sir John A. Macclonald's death, and he has been writing more or less ever since. Accompanier. by his wife, Mr. Lew- iston spent Friday in Goderich, where he visited Central and Victoria public schools, to which he annually presents medals for the pipils taking higher standing in the high school entrance examination,—Goderich Signal Star, V WHAT YOUR WAR SAVINGS STAMPS CAN ACCOMPLISI $5 may bring down a Germai plane for it will buy one round o 40 mate anti-aircraft Shells. $5 will stop a Hun with five en chine -gun bursts. egfeeleteceneealee BRITAIN'S ARMY DRIVERS KNOW THEIR JOB Drivers of the British Army muse be able to drive every type of military vehicle, and be expert in their maintenance:::. Their training also includes, mop reading, and they are taught to defend themselves from at- tack. 1 ' I i These men of a convoy are receiving instruction on meeting' attack from the air.