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The Clinton News Record, 1941-12-11, Page 3THURS., DEC. 11, 1941 COLE 11.41.V.r.V.X411.1Nteil6I (;LU'4i'ON EARLY IN THE ;.(LE NTTTRY Some Notes of The News in 1916 THE CLINTON 'NEWS -RECORD p PROM TH>a CLINTON NEWS; birds shown succeeded in placing six out of eight he had' en exhibit. RECORD DECEMBER 7TH, 1916 Mr. Thos Mason, our Sunina merchant, is spending a 'short'tim Detroit with his sisters. " Messrs. • R. Fitzsimons and shipped two ears of Christmas and a car of hogs to Toronto on Tu day. • , A very pretty wedding took at "Valley Farm", Goderioli towns the home of Mr. and Mrs: Guy Hi yesterday 'evening when their daughter, Nellie Mae, was united marriage, iv the `presence of ab thirty invited guests, with Mr. 0 R. Welsh; youngest son of Mr. I•re, Alexander Welsh of Clinton, merly of the Bayfield Line. Mr. John Jenkins of Goderich t ship has just completed the purch of Mrs. J. Johnston's residence Rattenbury street and will get pow Won in the spring. Mr. A. Welsh et Goderich town has leased the cottage on R'attenb street until recently owned by M Howe and is already in possessi About twenty years ago Mr". and Welsh resided in Clinton, so they not come as stringers. Word was received by Rev. J. and Mrs. .Fords of Goderich on 5 urday of the death of their daught in -Taw, wife of Mr. Arthur Ford the Press Gallery, Ottawa. Mrs. Maurice Switzer of Li Woody, Sbsk, is a guest at the •h of her father-in-law, Mr. Jam Switzer of Goderich :township. husband will follow Iater and splend the Christmas holidays in old township. This is his first vis to Ontario. Mr. J. H. Austin of Centralia,. recently purchased the farm kno as the old Townshend property Goderich township from Mr. Jo Pugh, has moved) onto it and is be coming nicely settled. Newton-B'radq MacDonald — 0 November 29th, at St. Martin-in-th Field's, London, England, Evelyn Ha riette Brough, youngest daughter f Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald, "Strati dbnald," Goderich, to Arthur Newton Brady, R..A.,M.C., son of Sir Andre and Lady Newton -Brady, Deemer Park, Belfast, and Mulafarry Grey sones, County Wicklow, Ireland. Blacker—In Clinton on Noventbe 20th, to Mr, and Mrs. E. Blacker, son. erhin e in With the installation of a model No Son 6 Linotype thin week, the.New Era Cattle commences a new era in the matte), es- of having a good readable paper. The Canadian Linotype Company of Tor - place onto received instructions two weeks Nip, ago and Mr, D. A. Johnston of that reks, firm has been here this week erecting only the machine and giving instruction. in Some evening after the . Christmas out rush is over The'New Era will set liver apart a day when its friends may and have an opportunity of inspecting the for- up-to-date equipment. I Miss Lee of Londbn is visiting her to sister,' Mrs. Searle of Rattenbury ase street. on I Mrs. Grant has returned to her res- home in St. Marys after visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. Wiseman. ship i Miss Eleanor Broder of Morrisburg ury is visiting her sisters, the Mesdames S S. McTaggarts. on. ! Capt. (Rev.) and Mrs. F. C. Harper, Mrs. of Barire, were in town for a few de days last week. Messrs. T. McMichael and Hump - E. hrey Snell are attending the Winter at- Fair held this week in Guelph. ter- Mrs. Barge, sr., has been seriously of ill having suffered•a stroke this' week. Nettie Palmer of Seaforth had an Lit operation on nose and throat, two 'ho doctors were in' attendance and she es is doing favorably. Mr. and Mrs. Her Palmer' have been sick with la grippe. will ` F. R. and! Mrs. Hodgens ands daugh 1th the ter, Miss Doris, of Goderich, 'formerly t it of Clinton, have taken up residence ! in Toronto. The Sidway Mercantile' who Company for which Mr. Hodgens is 1 wn the Canadian manager, has removed of FROM THE CLINTON NEW ERA IYECEMBER 7TH, 1916 PAGE . $ $°n Hostile Skies CanadianEditorsReadi. Eligand This is the third of a series of a cies. about conditions in Great Rrita and other countries visited during weeks in Europe and over the .Ala tic.. Written specially for the wee newspapers of Canada by their representative on the tour, Hing Templin of the Fergus News-Reco act i way to England was ;brief. It was mid - in night when our group bleared 'the. six Portugese 'Customns. Out in a tiny n- courtyard, taxi drivers, pushed and week jostled and shouted in a strange Ian- wn gnage. The British Embassy people h got us placed in a big car, supplied us eco rd. with Portugese escudos and sent us, 'away to the Estoril Palaeia. The first close contacts with came at Bermuda. Because of•bad weather at the Azores, , the Dixi Clipper" turned back during the nigh and the first. six Canadian edit spent over a day on that Island, No only are there two naval bases the islands, one British, and the other American, but the big American P' flying boats (C'atalinas, the British call them), took off regularly ever two hours or so to patrol the nearb ocean. ' Et was obvious that the U.S. Navy was definitely in the war even then. During my stay in Bermuda, had a chance to see several ships of that navy. The first hint of personal Bangor came when we returned to the cus- toms office on one of.Berniuda:'s little islands. The word went out that our luggage was to be searched, because there was a danger that someone in Bermuda might have secreted a bomb among our clothing and if one of them exploded while the Clipper was in the sir, it would be just too bad. One of my bags had been broken open dur- ing the time 1 was in Bermuda, so I insisted on a thorough search of its contents. There was no bomb, and nothing seemed to be missing. A First Grim Example of War That 15 -mile drive to the seaside wan resort of Estoril wee , the moat ex e !citing of arty life. It was, perhaps, a taste of things' to come: Most Lisbon vht t 'streets are narrow but two curs can pass with 'care. Eut there is an added on co nplication when there is also a street. ear running dbw.rs the centre. HY In places', ' an 'automobile could not pass a street oar. `That did not seem to worry the driver. He would go at Y 60 to 70 miles on hour until he saw y a street car rooming.; then he would jam on his brakes and turn into the nearest side street. Once he barely made the turn, rimming up on to the sidewalk. After the street car had passed, he backed out again and con- tinued on his way to the hotel. It is said that Lisbon taxi drivers• have just one asaidlent-,their last, The porter at the hotel collected our precious passports and assigned room numbers, while sleepy waiters served our first European meal, which , was+ excellent. B. K. Sandwell and I went upi to our rooms in the elevator with a German and an Italian. ay - se of the but ous ve- rt e Dube Th not e The first grim; example of a world at war came the morning after the Clipper had left Bermuda. I wakened and stretched in any comfortable berth, and then looked out the little window. Bight thousand feet below, ere was a great patch of oil upon the water, with long streaks out to- wards the west. Nearby, two little ifeboats floated on the great expanse ocean. From that height, they ap- in its head office to Toronto. His re- nhmovaI is a distinct loss to the town. M, Stuart Jackson, son of Mr. Thos, Jackson, is playing at the Royal n Alexandra Theatre in Toronto in e "The Girl from Brazil." Mr, and Mrs. r- I, Rattenbury saw Stuart in the same o play at New York while an their m 2- wedding trip. - Pte. Norman Fitzsimons of the w Buffs, of Toronto, is home for a few u e days vacation. Be has been taking a r - special course in bombing under in- struction of Gapt. Charlie herr, a for- r ✓ mer Clinton boy, r a Mr. and• Mrs. Walter Smith and e family of Seaforth were to Clinton e prior to leaving for Jackson, Mich,, I where they will reside in the future. While working on the r• v kiln at the Plano Company, Mr. W:n. Elliott fell off a scaffold about four feet and landed across a scantling, His face was scratched up a bit and he had a few sore joints. Neilans—in Clinton on Tuesday, Dec. 5th, to Mr. and Mrs. John Neilans, a daughter. peered to be empty, but perhaps was mistaken. I wondered. what to db. No doubt the crew, watching all the tbne, had seen the same thing I had discovered. What would they do about it? Anx- iously, E watched the shadow of the otor en the wing to see if we would circle and offer aid, though just what the Clipper crew could do seemed ncertain, pater, I learned that the adio operator had sent word' to an American destroyer, which was al- eady on its way to give help, after eceiving an S,O.S. call. I never knew he name or nationality of the steam-' r, or the fate of the crow. Young—In Goderich township, on Nov. 1Oth, to Mr. and Mrs. S. • P. Young, a daughter, (Olive Mae). Mr. D. J. C'antelon, who has just returned from a trip to the west, is , spending 'some time now in Clinton, I Mr. Cantelon, who is a son of the late Adam Cantelon, treasurer of Goderich township went west in 1$32 but for the past eighteen years has been across the• border. On his way east Mr. Cantelon stopped off for a couple of weeks with his brother in Regina. He also brought many sam- pies of grain with him, and says that the rust did not effect the crops in Saskatchewan nearly so much as in Manitoba. Mrs. J. McKinnon• and little son "Billy" who have been visiting rela- tives in town for some weeks, went to Toronto Saturday to . meet Mr. Me - !Cannon, who came down, from the wriest after settling the affairs of his ranch prior to joining his battalion for overseas service. Mr. McKinnon leaves the end of the week for Wind- sor, N.S., where his battalion, the 239th, an engineering battalion, is at present located, Mr. and Mrs. T. Jackson and Mast- ers Tom and Billy and Miss Ruth are in Toronto this week. They went down to see Mr. Stewart Jackson, who appears in the Royal Alexandria this week in "The Girl from Brazil." Mesers W •Jackson, W. Brydone and A. T. Cooper are in Goderich to - clay as a committee from the Clinton Board of Trade to urge upon the County Council the advisability of adopting the Good Roads scheme. Miss Mabel Rothwell returned home last week after a fortnight's'visit with friends in Toronto. Mr. Thos. Watts was in Guelph this• week attending the Winter ,Fair. He had, some of his chickens down and in , spite of the fact that there were somewhere around fifteen hundred tVhen The Present (century Wan Yount: FROM THE CLINTON NEWS - RECORD DECEMBER 5TH, 1901 On Thursday last Mr. John Adair died at his home in Oshawa in his seventy-fifth yeas, after but ten days illness. Mr. Charles Adair of Clinton is a son and deceased was also Mrs, George Shipley's father. In the Toronto Globe's Christmas number appears a article by Mr. R. H. Coates, Sen of. Mu. R. Coates of town, and now a member of the Globe's ed- itorial staff. One day last week Mr. George Lao- is was thrown out of his buggy at the embankment approaching the railway • crossing on Huron street, the same spot, by the way, where Mr. John Bell met with a similar accident sev- eral ev eras weeks, ago and from the effects of which he has not recovered. Mr. George Finlay at one time land- s lord of the Hotel Clarendon, died at his home in •C'ollingwood on Friday night. I p Miss' Mary Reid, who spent the last 0Wn three months in. Manitoba, returned to her home in Stanley township last S Friday. The following young men returned n Touch With the Enemy At Lisbon, we came in closer touch with the enemy. Portugal is neutral. It may be that the warring nations find it to their advantage to keep the country that way. Lisbon is full of spies of all nationalities, refugees, t people who once had money and now s have none, gangsters who would make money out of the war. To that port only, in all Europe, American ships P and planes have been allowed to go. i F The feeling of tension and intrigue soon becomes apparent to every vis. itor. There is a saying that "Ger- t many doesn't even need to invade p Portugal: Hitler can take the country b by telephone any time he likes." That is partly German propaganda, but it w doesn't make a stay in Portugal any more pleasant. Those who go to Lis- b bon now are not on holidays. tE Our stay in Lisbon while on the n An International Airport I L was away again, long before d Iight, to Cintra airport. The Portuge farmers must have spent hundreds years --building stone wall along roads, and it was a foggy morning this time the taxi driver was eautio • crawled along over greasy pa menta. In a Europe at war, Gintra airpo is surely a unique place. Otet' on th field stood three planes, one Du one Portugese and one Spanish. Spanish one looked as if it would lift off the ground'; the Dutch, plan was heavily camouflaged, Inside, the ticket offices of the British Overseas Airways and the KLM (whith is the .Royal Dutch Mr. lines) are on one side of the hallway, and the Lufthansa (German) and the Italian Lines en the other. The pass- engers all go out to the field through the same doorway and are weighed on the same scales, in ldlograms. A Young Portugese served us tea and cakes, He spoke English. Be -lived three years in New York and went to school there, but he still had' e grievance against his teacher. She diel not know that Portugal was a separ- ate nation. She insisted he was a Spaniard. No wonder it rankled. A deep ditch, separated the air field from a sheep pasture. On one side were the planes, backed by a group of ultra -modern buildings. On the other side was an old shepherd with a staff and! long flowing robes, As he walked, he called to his sheep and hey followed him. He night have tepped right out of the Old Testa- ment. Behind him, the mountains of Portugal were tipped with sunrise ink. lying Over Portugal I was glad when the plane rose from he bumpy runway of the antra air - ort and left the soil of Portugal ehind. Somehow the air seemed more free and more safe, though really it as a dangerous trip, that lay ahead!. The Dutch crew looked like mere oys, but they said they would reach Sngland' at three o'clock that after. oon and they brought us down at e minute to three. There is no wait - g for perfect weather on that trip: he planes run on a time schedule. Grattan O'Leary and I sat in the ont seat of the Douglas. The Ottawa ditor slept much of the time, but 1 as interested in the almost perfect erformance of that young crew, tak- g a. land plane on a long sea voy- ge. I could see the altimeter and I with what skill they flew their tights through the dangerous air pposite the unfriendy coast of Ode- ou pied France. As long as we travelled) beside the asts of Portugal, the plane stayed ansI I could see the little white ousesd with their red tiled roofs, the ite stone fences along the roads, churches on the hills, and an oc- ional city. Near Oporto, we came over the swampy coast and landed an airport which was little more an a pasture field. While the Doug' - was being refueled, a traih of tiny cars drew up beside a sugar refinery not far away. Along the. borders of the airport was a stream. At a broad pool Portugese women were busy doing the family washing', beating the clothes+ on the stones and hanging them to dry, on the bushes growing along the bank. .� on in to their homes in Stanley Towns'h•ip' th from Manitoba on Friday last: Chas, t Stephenson, Thos. Sanderson, A. sr Seotehmere and Albert Townsend Mr. John Crawford of Ki e ppen died w, last Saturday at the ripe old age of p eighty-four years. in On Thursday last another of the a pioneers of Hullett township breath- knew ed his last in the person of Mr, Thom- Do as East, who had reached the age of o seventy-one years. Mr. East was a native of Devonshire, England, but came to this country more than half a century ago. Atter spending a ]cow eason or two near Toronto he located rn Clinton forty-eight years ago and h opened out the first brickyard in this the art of the country. Subsequently he ed a kiln on the Base Line on in what is now the farm of Me. James an tevens. thMr. H. R. Sharpe, formerly of the ,las Molsons+ Bank, Clinton but ,more re- cently of the .Toronto -branch, has been transferred to Woodstock: Mn Robt. Moire has taken a tem- porary situation with George McLag- an and: Company of Stratford. Miss Rester Armstrong of Mitchell was the; guest of her sister, Mrs: E. Laird, for Thanksgiving week, Mr. Lester Whitley of the teaching Ov staff of the St. Thomas Collegiate Institute spent the Thanksgiving hol- _ we qday at his home here. Miss Libbie Gibibegs who for some wh ten weeks was the guest of her sister flew Mrs. (Dr.) Kay of Attica,.Mich., re- the turned home on Saturday last. wi Mr. G. McRae has gone to Blenheim pilot for a while, but we hope not for good.' nail Mr. McRae's musical talent' iv widely the known and much appreciated. hoe Ove the Ocean in a Land, Plane The route after leaving the north- st corner of Spain is probably a e The World's News Seen Through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR An Itsiernational Daily Newspaper is Truthful—Constructive—Unbiased—Free from Sensational- ism — Editorials Are Timely and Instructive, and Its Daily Features, Together with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Horne. The Christian Science Publishing Society One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts Price .$12.00. Yearly, or $1.00 a Month. Saturday Issue, including Magazine Section, $2.60 a Year. Introductory Offer, 6 Issues 25 -.Cents. Name • Address. SAMPLE COPY ON REQUEST r .t and no doubt it varies some - at with each trip. We no longer low, but so far above the clouds t they looked) like the Prairies in inter --an even, glaring white. The chose a height of more than two es above the water, and after that altimeter needle never varied for at a time. It woe, a Iittle too itristotas pec rative 114htinO is tu�1/010.1001116111110 fleSITAII 01/ 0 Seem Hydro s as i( Christen lighting wouldn't ulfab Christmas st and Without goy decorations. materials homes, for trees e eavy demands dor mateials S��owee �" the production d that in Dee bon and power it d requested by kiting• and supers should Christmas 1.9 expected that Polder theuseof decorative the week Hen• since )dna reduced d chnlng inclusive, on become demandswill be able der (romDec. �ould lou ea during that period. of the holiday production. The can, Hydr lighting enlist to war owing• 1p theca r al power turning Hydro clown" lo nm call for r war eke use help unnecessaryGactorY. on e, bice and home, TVVDRO -S� SFRe gap AR C pole. ®MM1SS1®S`i 1.%:, high for comfort. Looking down at my finger nails, I saw that they had turned a bright blue, and there was a numbness in my, hands and feet. That wasn't important then. Far more important was the fact that an enemy plane could have been seen 25 miles or more away against that snow+ background. It is said that planes have been molested on that route, but none has ever been lost. At noon, one of the Dutch boys gave me a box lunch and a light tray. The lunch was huge, but so was my appetite. There was a large cut of some kind of fowl, which intrigued most of the Canadians. One editor ventured the opinion that it was os- trich. Possibly it was a Portugese turkey. "All in the Front Line Now." Before the British Isles were in sight, the windows of the plane were covered with locked shutters and the passengers saw nothing of the land 'until the plane came down with scar- cely a bump on British soil, I stepped out into, the sunlight and looked around curiously. The low buildings were camouflaged. Walls of'. sandbags were built in front of the doors and windows. A big Wellington bomber, the first one I had ever seen, was taking to the air and, pasted over nay head. The buildings of a city showed over a low hill and. above the hill floated several barrage balloons, They looked exactly like the photo- graphs E had seen se often from that distance like silvery hot-dogs in the sky, with a piece of the sausage hang• ing out one end of the bun. This was our first sight of England in wartime. We were "all in the front line now!" v RESIDENCE FOR SALE TO CLOSE ESTATE SUBMIT YOUR OFFER CASH OR TERMS This is your opportunity to own a good home, The Executors are offering for sale„ the two-storey frame residence, with land and garage. House has a basement throughout, hot air furnace, electric lights, 3 piece bath, and in- sulated. Town assessment $1,400, Fire Insurance $2,000, This residence has a very desirable location ,with entrance t'o property from both King and James Sts. The plan is appropriate and; could be made (at Minimum cost) suitable far a Duplex, Apartment or Tourist Home. For inspection of property, kindly make an appointment with Mr. Ed- ward W. Elliott or Mr. Norman Ken- nedy of Clinton, Olet. Terms—Cash--Or tertne 'with -20% or more downy ,balance at 5% in equal monthly payments, Immediate Pos- session. Submit your offer to G. M. Mc- Kenzie, Enecutor, 443 Maple Ave, Hamilton, Ont. A WORD TO HOUSEWIVES • Get the most out of your elec- trical appliances. Timely repairs save waste of electricity and avoid inconvenience. They post- pone the need for replacement, too—very Important now that so much material is needed forweap- ons of war. Consult your elec- trical dealer or local Hydro for good service. War Savings Certificates Make Excellent Christmas Gifts s YOUR 1 he U -Boat TI at r&: uder r To a British Aeroplane Y! Another victory for Britain in the Battle of the Atlantic, and a unique tsvent in naval history, aanazed the whole world when a German submar- ine surrendered to a British ample. ma in mid-Atlantic. The plane, a Hudson aircraft of the British Air Force's Coastal Com- lnand, sighted a German U -Boat in. the Atlantic, attacked it, and forced it to surrender After nearly four hours' keeping watch the Hudson was relieved by a Catalina flying boat which continued the watch from above until the arrival of ships of the British Navy. The weather by' this time was so bad that the British ships could not lower a boat, and had to stand by throughout the night, keeping the submarine covered by their guns. Next day the German LT -Boat was board- ed and taken in tow to a British port.) , i , I The photograph shows a Carley float, which was lowered from one of the British ships, approaching the captured U -Boat. The British of- ficer who formally "took aver" the TI -Boat is the seoond figure in the 'oat.