HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1938-01-13, Page 3THURS., JAN. 13, 1938.
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
PAGE,
WHAT . CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE
GAY NINETIES
Do You Remember What Happened' During
Decade Of The Old Century?
The Huron News-Record,fJanuary 13, When The Present Century
1898:
The town has only a partial use of.
the electric light plant this week, ow-
ing to the incandescent dynamo hav
'ng burned out Monday evening. The
proprietors are rushing repairs and
eiay he able to turn on the light again
this evening,
The Last
At the meeting of Goderich Town-
ship council held Monday the officers
of last, year were re -appointed, 'viz:
Assessor, F. McCartney, salary $60;
Collector, L. Anderson, salary $7,0•;
Auditor's, J. R. Holmes and G. Holland
salary $5 each -
Mr. Jas. McRae has, after a consid-
erable loss of time owing to an injur-
ed heel, resumed work in the tuning
department at the Organ Factory. Mr.
Russell, formerly of the Berlin Organ
Co. has also joined the tuning staff.
In a rough-and-ready scrap little
Jimmie MeCool, eon of Mr. Jas. Mc-
Cool, town, got his aria dislocated on
Tuesday afternoon. He will soon be
alright again however.
Mr. 13. Cook, of Stapleton, was
gauging the Ransford aermotor Sat-
urday when the weight slid down the
bar and catching the hand between the
thumb and forefinger, inflicted a
painful wound which will prevent, the
use of that member for some time.
Last week Mr. W. Doherty bought
a magnificent heavy draught mare
from Mr. Jno. Shanahan, of Huilett,
to mate "Charlie". Mr. Doherty
now has one of the finest of dray
teams. Each horse weighs nearly a
ton, and to look at them one would
imagine they could draw, well many
tons.
A meeting for the purpose of or-
ganizing a. Curling Club was held at
the Rattenbury House on. Monday ev-
ening which resulted in the election
of the following officers: Patrons, W.
W. Ferran, Jas. Fair Sr., W. Doherty;
President, John Rans£ord; Vice -Pres.,
Dr. Shaw; Sec.-Treas., W. Jackson;
Auditors, G. D. McTaggart, H. B.
Combe; Managing Committee,J. P.
Tlsdall, W. E. Brydon, Dr. Shaw and
H. B. Combe. The rink is fast ap-
proaching completion and may be for-
mally opened next week.
Mr. R. J. .Andrews, of MacGregor
Man., arrived the latter part of last
week and will spend some time visit-
ing at the old homestead in Goderieh
Township. This is his first visit in
ten years and bis second is since '83.
The Clinton New Era, January 14,
1898:
HolmesvilIe—We understand that
Mr. A. MacFarlane has been secured
by the directors of Brumfield cheese
factory as cheesemaker for the com-
ing season. This will of course ne-
cessitate his removal from the village
which is noted with regret by all.
Londesboro—On Monday Mr. Leon-
ard Whitely returned to his studies
at the Medical College, and on Tues-
day Miss Mabel Bell returned to. Lor-
etto Abbey in Toronto.
Stanley—Stanley council met as per
statute on : January 10th. The fol-
lowing are the township officers for
this year: Clerk, J. T. Cairns; Asses-
sor, John Tough; Treas., John Reid;
Auditors, Geo. Baird and John Beatty;
Caretaker of hall, Wilson Cook.
Tuckersmith—Mr. J. M. McKay, has
disposed of hisfarm, lot, 2, con. 4,
Tuckersmith to Mr. James Berry. The
farm contains 50 acres of first-class
land and has good buildings. The
price paid was $2,600.
J. Edmonds, Seaforth, who has been
an employee of the Grand Trunk Rail-
way for over thirty years, received
notice from the head office that his
services would no longer be required.
The farmers of the county have of
late been recording the big loads
which they have been hauling to the
various towns. Mr. Robert McMillan
of Roxboro, tells now of a load of
wheat he hauled into Seaforth some
25 years ago which contained 157
bushels, or nearly four and three quar-
ter tons.
Mr. Ed. Moody formsrrly of town
who ia now in the employ of the Do-
minion Government as an. inland rev-
enue inspector, discovered an illicit
still in .operation near Lindsay on
Wednesday. It means a heavy fine
and iniirisonment for the operator.
S. Swanz, who for some time has
been employed with Harland Bros.,
left for London this week, where he,
expects to reside in future. He is
a son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Swanz of
the Maitland •Con., Colborne.
hn-
former Clin-
tonlan,
a
Dr. W. E. Struthers,
.A W3
i medicine at
Ionian, s now practising
Huntsville, where he is associated West. According . to the recognized
with an old practitioner, who has a rule of alternating the honor between
very extensive practice, the political parties, this is the Lib -
Was Young
Frani The Clinton News -Record,
January 9, 1913:
Tuckersmith sustained Local Option
by a vote of 312 for and 187 against.
Stephen township, failing to 'secure
the three fifths vote, lost in their lo-
cal option contest by a vote of 470 for
and337 against. McKillop also gave
a majority for, but failed on the three
fifths. The vote was 275 for and 188
against.
Mr. T. R. Dunlop, who has beena
member of the Molsons Bank staff for
about a year, leaves today to take the
managership of the Zurich Branch.
The post of • teller here will be filled
by Mr. Charlie Hall, one of Clinton's
boys, who has been for some time on
the staff of the Head Office at Mon-
treal.
The Carter family had a happy re-
union at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T.
Carter of town ogre day during the'
holiday season, when the six brothers,
J. F. Carter, Houston, Texas; J. W.
Carter Auburn; Robert, W. J. Isaac
and Thomas Carter of town; two sis-
ters, Mrs. Fred Mutch and Mrs. W.
Cochrane, also of town, and the moth-
er were present. Some other friends
and relatives were also invited and a
very pleasant and enjoyable time was
spent.
The Local 'Optionists won the fight
on Monday. The margin was not large
but they appear to be satisfied, reas-
oning that while it was hard to carry
the bylaw on a three-fifths vote their
opponents will find it just as difficult
to reverse the decision on the same
basis. The vote was 332 for, 214 a-
gainst. In 1910 the vote was 322 for,
260 against, and. in 1905, 210 for, 337
against.
The Hydro -Electric bylaw carried
by so decisive a majority that the
council can have no hesitation in car-
rying .out with all promptness the
mandate of the people. Goderich alsd
carried a similar bylaw so that in a
few months these two will be hydro
towns. The vote here was 250 for,
108 against.
The election for councillors result-
ed in surprises, Messrs. T. Jackson.
Jr. and F, Jackson being defeated.
The new men are D. S. Cluff, general
manager of the Organ Factory, Mr,
W. J. Paisley, who has demonstrated
that he can come back, and Mr. Tho-
mas Mason.
Total votes are Paisley, 313, Thomp-
son, 310, Ford 297, Mason 281, Chuff
280, Morrish 258, F. Jackson 248, T.
Jackson 228.
Mr, and Mrs. R. A. Govier, who
recently disposed of their store busi-
ness at Summerhill, have moved into
town and taken up their residence on
Rattenbury street, east. Mr. Govier
has not yet decided in what line he
will ebmark, but will in all probabil-
ity. be in business again before very
long.
John Moon, after a week's visit at
the old home in Hullett and with old
friends in Clinton, returned to Toron-
to on Saturday. . He was a guest
Friday evening at the assembly in the
town hall.
Mr, Knox Mair of Chatham Busi-
ness College spent the vacationat the
parental' home in town, . that of Mr.
and Mrs. Jas. K. Mair.
The Clinton New Era, Jan. 9, 1913
Mr. A. Innes, who recently moved
to town from Stanley purchased the
d
barn of Mr. David Tiplady and had
it moved to his place last week.
The Barnardo Boys Band together
with Rev. W. J. Mayers paid a visit
to Clinton on Wednesday night and
gave an excellent performance in the
town hall.
The first hockey match of the 'sea-
son will be played in Clinton rink on
Wednesday night of next week when
Seaforth plays the local O.H.A. team.
The Silver Medal Contest held in
Ontario Street church on Friday ev-
ening was a great success. Mr, J. A.
Irwin presided as chairman. The con-
testants were Misses Irene Gould,
Cela Beacom, Pearl Cuninghame, Eva
Carter and Masters Chas. Thompson,
Shurwin Allin and Arnold Glazier.
The jury was composed of Miss Bowl
by, Miss Ford and Mr. Bouck, princi-
pal of the Public .School. Master
Charlie Thompson was declared the
winner of the beautiful silver medal,
the presentation being made by Mrs.
Charles Wallis, president of the W.C.
T.U. under whose auspices the contest
was held.. Mr. W. S. Harland, super-
intendent of the Contest department,
presented each of the contestants with,
a pretty silver pin as a souvenir of
the occasion.
The run for the Wardenshin this.
year will be between Milne, Blyth;
McKay, Tuckersmith, Govenloek, Mc-
I{illop, and W. Bailie, o� awanosh
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YOUR WORLD AND MINE
(Copyright)
by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD ti
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Many of us sadly misuse our leisure dulgence in pleasures. It has been
cime.We give far too much time to said that one can become a master of
the reading of newspapers and maga-
zines, to listening to radio broadcasts,
to motoring, to bridge, and to pro-
fitless visiting. Newspapers should
be read swiftly—for the news in them,
yet notfor all the news in them. Why
should we read ` about accidents to
persons unknown to us or far away
from the community in which we, live?
Or about kidnappings in. the United
States; or about social events in.
Great Britain; or about the details of
the wars in China and Spain? And
why should we let magazine editors
steal our thne? Why, for example,.
should you read all the short stories
in magazines, or articles with such
titles as these, for example:
How to make a movie.
Babies without pain.`
Ought I to marry?
Such articles are greatly to be com-
mended, but why should I, a long -
married man, read "Ought I to mar-
ry?", and why should you and I read ness, or ease, or pleasure. Alsoahey
about how movies are made? Read- lack a goal. They resemble a piece
ing everything which falls before our of wood cast into a lake: itsmove-
eyes is much like an infant putting rents and its directions are invalun.
everything it gets into its hands into tart', depending utterly on capricious
its mouth, winds and currents.
any art or science within the short
space of ten years by using purpose-
fully his leisure time.
Of course' we know that the : great
majority of persons have no aim in
life: they work for wages in the day
time, and when the evening hours.
come, they are used in forms of dis-
sipation—innocent dissipation, it nay
be, such as going to the movies. or
going out to lectures and entertain-
ments of other sort, or playing bridge
or listening to the radio, or reading
newspapers, magazines and enter•
Mining books.
Why the great majority of adult
persons let themselves" drift onthe
sea of their leisure time may be hard
to say, yet probably the truest ex-
planation is, they lack power of re-
sistance, meaning that they are un-
ready to fight the current which car-
ries the multitude to places of idle-
•
You see -- I see many persons
reading that admirable publication,
The Reader's. Digest, They read it
r
from first to last. Perhaps at a sin-
gle sitting, and then, when they have
put it down, they will tell you that
they "can't remember a single thing
in it!" Yet everything in this excel-
let periodical is of first-class inter-
est.
The point which I am making is
this: We ought to be selective in our
reading rather than to surrender our-
selves without a struggle to every
editor in the land. Giving hours daily
to newspapers and magazines and to
In this world most persons are
poor interns of money, of living
standards, of culture, of content, of
achievement, because of their misuse
o their leisure time. Mot of usare
f s
continually crying out that we, have
no TIME. We make our lack of time
our excuse for under -effort, under a-
chievement; under attainment; yet the
plain truth is that every man and
woman on our planet has plenty of
time—has the same amount of time
as is possessed by every other man
and woman on this earth. The great
ones of the world, the rich ones of
the world, the eminent ones of the
listening to radio can be a shocking world -all have no more time than
the most obscure, the feeblest, the
waste of precious time. poorest ones of the world; nor have
The obvious fact is that none of us they ever had more time. Nor did
can know everything or read every- most of them in their youth have
thing, nor are we called upon to know great advantages—the advantages of
and to read everything and to listen parental affluence, of social elevation,
to every radio programme. Why of superior schooling. If you read
should any of us let ourselves be the biographies of the great nien and
stolen by Major Bowes each time he women of history, you will find that
puts on a programme? Why did so i the early lot of most of them was not
many listen to Amos 'n Andy? The more favoured than was or is your
more we make ourselves the volun-].own. They gained distinction and
tary captives of entertainers, whose power through a purposeful use of
entertainment is provided in the form; time. They used their leisure to ac -
of broadcasts, magazines, newspa-quire more knowledge, more power,
pers, books, lectures and the movies,
the more we make ourselves part and
parcel of the multitude. We lose our
individuality when we become iden-
tical with the masses. When we do
precisely what millions of others do,
we become as gray and as uninter-
esting as a niece of dried mud; and
when we just can't . endure to be a-
lone, in our own home, or in our own
room, we are in a sorry state. When
we have to be in our motor car every
hour we can, or when we rush from
our home, evenings, to movies or to
other persons' homes, to spend hour
after hour at bridge, then we are
making our lives very poor. indeed.
If one wants to get on in the world;
if one wants to be different from the
masses; if one wants to acquire mas-
tery in some art or craft, or in the
affairs of his business; then one must
employ his leisure time for making
oneself unlike the masses, and in get-
ting farther and higher in one's spe-
cial field of endeavour and interest.
TIME is the essential factor. It is ourselves to be captured by' outsiders.
purposefully employed. TiME which If we are to be prisoners, let us be
the prisoners of 'ourselves. ..
I'd like to see every bedroom in
every home made in two divisions—a
sleeping recess, and the rest of the
room a private living room, where one
can have his or her own books, pic-
tures and collections; with a table of
generous size, and an easy chair or
two. In this private living room one
should spend many hours alone, us -
morn means, in order that they might
get out of the multitude. It' is ironic
—this widespread turning of the
masses toward leaders -the depen-
dence of the masses on others for
their vocational employment, for
amusement, for entertainment, their
culture; for most of those among the
masses could themselves have become
leaders had they but purposefully us-
ed their, leisure time.
I alp addressing myself particularly
to young persons. I urge them to
lean less on others and more on
themselves. I urge them to
make themselves independent of edi-
tors and lecturers and entertainers;
of manufacturers of motor cars and
gojf clubs and playing cards; of rail-
way trains and sports arenas; of the
givers of banquets and dances, for
their leisure time occupations. I
grant quite readily that we need phys-
ical exercise and social contacts and
entertainments, but I am not ready to
agree that any of us should allow
puts one far in front of one's fellows
in worldly fortune, in scholastic a-
chievement and attainment, in skill
and ability, in mastery. It is TIME
devoted faithfully to one's objects
that gives one what he dreams, de-
sires and seeks.
Any man or Woman who wants to
excel in any fiord of activity has this
knowledge to comfort "him or her:
The vast majority of persons are not ing leisure time for reflection, for
his or her competitors, but, on the
contrary, are wasting their leisure
time in an aimless and profitless in -
era's year.
Mr. J. B. Hoover was in town to
cast his vote on Monday. As soon
as he can sell his house he will move
his family to Guelph. The citizens
positions of trust,. He has been May-
or, License Commissioner, and has al-
ways been an active worker for Wat-
erworks.
Court Maple Leaf C.O.F. held their
annual meeting on Thursday last,
when the following officers were elect-
ed for the ensuing year: Chief Ran-
ger, T.. Monaghan; Past C.R., G. Cor-
nish; Pin. -Sec., 3. P. Sheppard; Chap-
lain, I. Dodd; S.W., Fred Mutch; J.W.,
S. Gliddon; S.B., F. Young; J.B., H.
Rolland; Auditors, L Dodd, R.S. Byam
and John Sutter. The installation of
officers will take place at the next
meeting.
The funeral of John Landers, one
of the pioneers of Stanley Township,
was held Monday afternoon to Clin-
ton Cemetery. He was 85 years old.
The Exeter Times Advocate had the
following • ite last week—The Jack-
sonm
Factory opened up last Friday
with a number of new hands and ma-
chines:
self -culture, for study, for acquiring
to power needed to lift one out of the
multitude to high levels of attain-
ment.
REMOVE 22 YEAR OLD
SHRAPNEL SPLINTER
Peter T. Carter, second concession
of Kinloss has a souvenirof the Great
War that henow can carry around in
his pocket book, after carrying it in
his body for twenty years.
Its a pea-sized piece of shrapnel,
flat and jagged. Pete was a member
of a working party who back in 1917
were moving up along a plank road
behind Hill "70",, to repair front line
trenches. Sighted by the enemy a
bombardment started and an explod-
ing shell wounded thirteen of the par.
ty and killed one. ° '
A. bit of shrapnel that struck Pete
in :the chest was never removed. It.
lodged over the heart and since has
given him trouble at times. Chest
pains resulted in him undergoing an;
operation at Victoria Hospital two
weeks •ago. A locale anesthetic was
administered, the bit of shrapnel lo-
cated ribs under the und and removed.
re e .
Mr. Carter also suffered leg wounds
and was gassed during his period of
service. -Kincardine News.
Botanical Notes For
January
(Experimental Farms Note)
Christmas and New Year's Day fes-
tivities have passed with their atten-
dant satiation. People require change;
even from the very best of good
things. Santa Claus may have autliv-
ed his welcome; the cinema, bridge -
table, dancing and • the blare of the
jazzing radio maycease to charm;
when the skates, skis, snow -shoes and
other outdoor attractions will claim
the attention of many, Some, on the
other hand, will seek blessed relief
and change in the ever faithful pana-
cea—Nature, and the healing silences
of the wintery woods under a sky
clear, chill, pale with an ineffable'
purity.'
In the austere beauty of the wood-
land solitude is a sense of rhapsody,
like strains of sacred music. In a si-
lence profound, tier upon tier of som-
bre evergreen -branches have been
miraculously changed into sprays of
sparkling flowers of diamonds,: to be
made more lovely still, at eventide,
by the mystic enchantment of the
moon.
"Cedar, and pine, and fir........
A sylvan scene, and as the ranks
ascend
Shade upon shade, a woody theatre
Of stateliest view."
The evergreens, like old and trust-
ed friends --serene and confident —
await the woodland ramblers.
When . studying the native ever-
greens, (or gonifers, which means
cone -bearing) it will be well to re-
member' that they do not all bear
cones. Exceptions are the yew, which
has a berry -like fruit, , brtight red when
ripe, and the juniper, whose fruit is a
dark -blue berry. A conifer which
sheds its leaves in the autumn is the.
tamarack (or larch).
Other trees which bear cone -like
fruits are the birch and the alder. But
they are not true conifers, neither
are they evergreen.
The native evergreens, likely to be
met with during these woodland ram-
bles, include the pines, spruces, firs,
Douglas spruce, hemlocks, cedars and
tamaracks. There are, however, some
introduced species, which have eseap-
ed cultivation and established them-
selves wild either singly or in colon-
ies, such as the Scotch pine.
The native pines are distinguished
from the other evergreens by the fact
that their needle-shaped leaves are
arranged inbundles of from two to
five, each bundle being bound at the
base liIce the bristles of a paint brush,
but by a short papery sheath. The
leaven vary in length from one to fif-
teen inches.
Nine native pines oecpr in Canada,
which are sometimes divided into two
groups—the soft and the hard pines.
The soft nine have their leaves in
bundled of five and cones with thin
scales. They are the white pine, wes-
tern white pine, limber pine and
white -hark pine. The hard pines, on
the other hand, have their leaves in
bundles of two or three, and have
cone scales which are thick and woody.
They aro the red pine, jack pine, pitch
pine, bull pine and lodgepole pine.
Only one native pine extends from
the Atlantic to the Rocky mountains
in British Columbia, five' grow in the
West, and three are found only in
Eastern Canada.
It is not possible, in this short ar-
ticle, to describe in detail the nine
native pines. However, those people
who are interested in this winter di-
version which Will constitute a round
of benign pleasure, should apply to
the Dominion Botanist, Ottawa, for
information concerning an inexpen-
sive work, well illustrated and which
tells in simple language, with .the ab-
sence of technical terms and readily
TELEPIIONE TALUS IN THE WATSON FAMILY
"We're so glad you're
feeling better, 11Motherf"
That LONG DISTANCE
Habit is Catchingr
The Watson youngsters are not merely -
playing telephone — they are playing;
Long Distance; for Long Distance is at
,habit with the Watson family—an inex-
pensive habit that saves anxiety and helps..
keep the family together. Let the tele—
phone extend your horizon beyond your
immediate neighbourhood. Let it keep
you in touch with faraway relatives and.
friends - the cost is surprisingly small_
• Reductions in telephone rates—local and long
distance—in 1935, '36 and '37 have effected
savings t0 telephone users in Ontario and
• Quebecof
neatly one million dollars yearly.
Bargain FARES, JAN. 20 From CLINTON
(Tickets also sold at adjacent S.N.R. Stations)
To C.N.R. STATIONS in MARITIME PROVINCES.
Fray. of Quebec; New Brunswick/ Prince Edward Island; Nova Scolia,
JAN. 21 & 22 —To Ottawa $7.40; Montreal $8.45;.
Quebec City $11.70; Ste. Anne de Beaupro $12.30'
ROUND TRIP FARES
2Yehets, Pates, Transit Zimsrsand information from Agents, Ask for lfsadbi f
CANADIAN NATIONAL.:
understood by all, how to identify
pines and other evergreens; where
they grow; and to what economic use
they are put. The book will, in fact
constitute a practical and sympathetic
guide always at hand, as it can be
carried in the pocket.
Collectors, who may be doubtful a-
bout the names of evergreens, can
send twigs together. with their cones
to the Dominion Botanist, Ottawa, for
identification .
Typewriters Only 30 Years
Aid
Typewriters were unknown thirty
years ago, although as far back as
the 17th century patent rights were
granted for a "writing engine" which
it was claimed, would enable "several
copies of one writing to be made sim-
ultaneously." . In 1714 Henry Mill,
engineer to the New River water
Company of London, took out a pat-
ent for a machine which,he said, he
"had brought to perfection at great
pains and expense," and the object
of which was "to impress letters cal
paper as in writing." No drawing or
other particulars of this instrument
are available, and it jnever took,
shape as a workable maehine. A
machine that embossed type was in-
vented in France in 1784, and. the'
first' patent in the United. States of
which there is any record was taken,
out in 1829 for what the inventort
called a "typographer." The speci-
fications for thin machine, were den•
strayed in a great fire at Washington
in 1886 and nothing more was heard'.
of it. The principles on which most
of the successful typewriters of today -
are based were to be found in a ma -:-
chine invented by a native of'Marseii,•
les, who about this time took .out a:
patent for a "typographic machine or -
pen" in which type -bars were used'
for the first time. In 1884,when thea
British Association was sitting. at:,
York, a typewriting machine was
shown that had been invented by, at
Mr. Littledale, a native of Toronto..
Nlilk bars, or saloons for the sale of
. milk drinks and milk products oily,. .
have been established in 14 moving, -
picture houses in England. Altogeth-
er, milk bars and similar agencies sel-
ling milk drinks total 941 in the Bri-
tish Isles. Of the 941 milk bars, 33R
operate as a single business; 414 are
in cafes and dairy shops; 139 in de-
partment and chain stores, 36 are•
travelling milk bars, and 14 are 10
casted in picture houses. One hun-
dred and seventy-fourof the milk -
bars are in the Landon area.
WE MEED YOUR IIELPL
THIS YEAR!
EVERY YEAR!
Needy children from all over the Prov..
ince are treated regardless of race,creed
or financial circumstance.
This policy has been continued for over 60 years its
the firm belief that everyone who understands the facts
would want this great work to continue :.. would agree
that no Ontario child should be denied a chance for
health or escape from deformity if mere money makes
the difference,
Over OS% of our buds are in Public Wards.
The Hospital ,receives no support from the Toronto
Pederation for Community Service because patients are
accepted from all parts of the Province.
We must therefore appeal to a humane and generous
ubile to take care of an annual deficit . p . this year
ft is $78,930.53. •
:e Please mail a donation to the Appeal Secretary,
67 College Street, Toronto.
The thanks of little children will be your reward.
The Hospfta f
hick Children
IRON LONGS produced in the race against
time when the lives of obildren from an.
ovor Ontario were at stake during the
Polio Epidemic. They provided the only
phonon for life during the orltioai stares
of the disease.
Every morning to the year: famous' cur -
coons .Dame to our operating rooms to
donate their services. Moth than. Shite'
operations aro performed annunlly, psi
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