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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1938-06-02, Page 3THURS., . JUNE 2, 1938. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD 'SES, madam . one of today's 1, beautiful electric ranges will trans form your old kitchen overnight—;hake it •"now", modern, so much more attractive. And think howeasy it will be to keep everything spotless and f'e" . immaculatei Your walls and ceilings will stay bright ,e'" and fresh, scarcely ever need washing or redeeorating. Your curtains will keep their crisp, laundered look for weeks. Your pots and pans will remain bright and shiny new, never need scouring. Buy your modern ... fast -cooking .. . clean, convenient ,electric range today on the HYDRO Thrift Plan. HYDRO SHOP CLINTON , Phone 20 Hydro Thrift Plan 3 -Wire Service Free. Range Wired at Cost $15. allowed on wiring where a 3 -wire servica is already installed. CLINTON I'LJBLIO UT1LITIE'S% Phone 20 WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINETIES Do You Remember What Happened During The Last Decade Of The Old Century? From The Clinton News -Record, ously ill at his home in Hamilton. June 2nd, 1898 Blood poisoning has set in and it is said there is little hope of his recov- Jake Shaman's jigger was wheeled ery. off by some person or persons last' Wednesday night and was not located Front The Clinton New Era, until Saturday when found at Liman June 3rd, 1898 Crossing and brought up on the train. Presumably it was a couple of tramps Richard Heywood, the well-known who preferred the jigger to the bump- and highly respected builder of town, ers who played the trick. died unexpectedly on Saturday even - Mr. John Young, Goderich town- ing, at the age of 55 years. He was ship farmer, met with a peculiar and g first class mechanic and lately had serious accident on Friday. As he been a partner of D. Prior. His wife was shearing sheep an obstreperous ewe kicked the shears and one of the fancily of three girls and four boys. blades punctured, the eye ball and in withdrawing drew retrt of the inter- ior of the eye through the wound. He is now doing well but may ultimately lose the sight of one or both eyes. The cricketers have been a little has been with the railroad for over the bucket brigade were valiant but backward in practise but will be at eight years. unavailable. it every afternoon this week making Mrs. Dodsworth's house on Isaac ready for next Monday's match with street has been rented by Walter Cole Forest. The probable players will be of the Macpherson and Hovey Co.. M. McTaggart J. McMurchie, J. Mrs. McGuire, of Chicopee Falls, Howson, L. Kennedy, A. MeGarva, R. Mass., mother of J. McGuire, at the Agnew, J. B. Hoover, E. Smith, G. station, expects to take up her resi- Barge P. Couch and another. In ad- dence here. dition to Forest, matches are ex- pected with Windsor and Parkdales, both teams touring, and Listowel. Mr. J. W. Treleaven, of the Colleg- late staff, received over the wire from Luctuaow yesterday morning the very ed the Liberal convention in Dun - sad news that his mother had died gannon on Tuesday: W. Coats, R. suddenlyduring the night. Thie is Holmes, J. Smith, A Armstrong, H. a double affliction in a year, his Hodgens, J. Wiseman, T. Cottle, F. father having died in June last, Mr. Hall, F. Boles, Walter Coats, J. W. Treleaven took the first train for Irwin,. T. Jackson, F. Jackson, F. Laoknow to attend the fueerah. Macpherson, D. McCorvie, J. McMath, Thos. A. Wacker is as busy as can! G. Rodgers, W. Robb, J. Govett, J. be and puts in ten hours work every McOlacherty, J. Stevens, J. T. Wilkie, day. Just now he is finishing up a S. S. Cooper and J. Taylor. Dr. Wood, who went to Listowel last fall to take charge of Dr. Ruth- erford's large practice during the latter's illness, returned to Clinton, on Monday and went over to Bay- field the same evening to resume practice there. died four years ago, and he leaves a Thomas. Rumball, the efficient freight clerk at the G. T. R. station is we understand, slated for promotion at an early date, which will neces- sitate his removal front Clinton Thos Tuesday morning. He was almost fifty-nine years of age. Mr. A. S, Taylor of London, form- erly of Clinton and brother of Mr. Jacob Taylor of town, 'has sailed for England in company with his wife and will be absent some months. They will visit Switzerland before return- ing, Mr. L. Howson, who with his 'wife visited Clinton and vicinity during the late winter, only returning to their home at Rolla, North Dakota, a few weeks ago, was called back the end of last week owing to the serious ill- ness of his mother, Mrs. Taylor of ,Ontario street. Mr. Itobt. Pollock of LaRiviere, Man., has been. visiting Mr. John Torrence of town and calling on friends and relatives in Stanley. It is seven years since Mr. Pollock' last visited the old haunts and fifteen since he first took up residence in Manitoba. Messrs. IL Twitchell and Ike Rat- tenbury and Misses Hattie Holloway and • Elsie Ross motored to Goderich on Saturday. Miss Annabelle McEwan, who has completed her first final year at the Medical College, Toronto, has gone to Fergus to assist in the hospital there. A very disastrous fire took place in Holmesville on Monday afternoon when the residence of Mrs. Hick was razed to the ground, The efforts of Mrs. Ferran and Mrs. H .T. Rance were guests at the marriage of Miss Cameron daughter of Lieut, -Governor M. C. Cameron, Goderich, on Tuesday. The following from. Clinton attend - barn foundation for Melville Clarke, of Uullett, while hi a 1% mile stretch in Tuckersmith he has these con- tracts: Roger Pepper, barn founda- tion; Harry Cudmore, house founda- tion; Harry Carter, barn foundation; John Wise, barn foundation. Sheffield Lodge Sons of England, with delegations from sister lodges at Londesboro, Goderich and Exeter, Celebrated Her Majesty's Birthday by attending divine ' service at the Ont- ario St. Methodist church on Sunday Morning. The esteemed pastor, Rev. B. Clement, preached very approp- riately Mr. J. 1', Emmertonmoved this met socially in Toronto and the names weeks in the Rattenbury, residence. will be familiar to many of the older Mr. Cole has rented Mr. Dods- citizens. Mrs. Malloch, widow of the worth's house on Isaac street and late D. M, Malloch, formerly principal of the Clinton Public School; Mrs. Several of S. S. Cooper's gang ee Turnbull, widow of the late James • : al When The Present Century Was Young From The Clinton News -Record, May 29th, 1913 The other day the following ladies moves this week. briehlayers went across to Bayfield Turnbull £or many years p 'p Monday to put up the brickwork of of the C.C.I. and Mrs. Murray, widow Mr. Jewitt's residence." of the late William Murray a former Mr. A. Cantelon's staff of masons manager of Fair's Mill. The latter have been repairing Ben SwitzeII's is said to be the oast surviving ehart residence, and extending the founda- er member of Willis church. tions of, John Hudie's and J. aI Major McCrimmon of London was Steep's, barns, all of Goderich town:' in town yesterday inspecting the Cad - ship, ets, who went through their drills un - Painter Copp is putting the tifficks der command of Lieut. Towne. con Frank Poweli's shop, l At the annual meeting of the Ont- Mr. W. Duncan, who has quit, an alio street church Sunday school :apairy of Italian bees, had them i booard the other evening Mr, H. Wiltse swarm on May 25th., which is from was elected superintendent in place of two to three weeks earlier than usual. Mr,.A. Hooper', who retires owing to Mr. Duncan has been raising bees for Til health. Messrs. Ralph Tipilady, J. sixteen years andbeing of an observ.' Rands, Amos Castle and Howard ant nature, knows whereof he speaks,' Pickett, were elected secretaries. Duncan Campbell, who when em. Joseph Colelough, a life-long resi- ployed in construction of the Dohertydent of Goderich township, passed buildings stepped upon a nail which away at his home on the Base penetrated his foot, is now, danger. ; Line just north of town early on From The Clinton New Era, May 29th, 1913 To the long list of former Clinton- ians who have made good,and are oc- cupying positions . of responsibility and trust may be added the name of Mr.'.Thomas Turnbull, eldest son of the late James Turnbull, who so long occupied the position of Clinton Col- legiate Institute principal. Mr. Turn- bull has been for some time general manager of the Bank of Commerce in Edmonton and is in receipt of a sal- ary of $5,000 a year. Clinton was full of rumors about six o'clock on Monday night when the report spread around that the whole of Holmesville . was burning up. The Methodist church had a narrow es- cape. scape. Several from here motored out to see the fire. At the regular meeting of the I.O. O.F. Lodge on Tuesday night, the fol- lowing officers were elected for the coming term: N.G., Bro. George Web- ber; V.G,, Edward Hall; Rec,-See., Herbert Alexander; Vin -Sec. John Wiseman; Treas. H. B. Chant, Rep- resentatives to District meeting, Bros. Wiseman and Chant. To Grand Lodge, Albert Mitchell Mr. J. A. Taylor, Canadian manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Si. Paul Railroad, underwent a critical operation Saturday. "Andy" Taylor. iscommonly referred to as the God- father of Clinton bowlers. His friends here hope for a speedy re- covery. Rev. Isaac Couch of Peterboro, brother of the late Arthur Couch of Clinton,' has accepted an invitation to McLeod street church, Ottawa.•. Mrs. Sharman (nee Miss Charlotte McNaughton) of Lethbridge was call- ing all-ing' on old friends in town last week, Mr, Bertrand Nesbett, who was ac- cidently drowned in Algonquin Park last week, was wen known in Clinton where, as a boy, he visited his aunt, Mrs. J. W. Irwin. HOW TRUE THIS IS Says the Tara Leader: "Taraor any other town will not become a good business' centre as long as its bus- inessmen rely on a few merchants to make the effort to bring trade to town. Too often the men in a few lines of trade are about the only ones that reach out , for custom. Other merchants wait until these peen in- duce people to come to town' and con- tent themselves with trade that net- MakingCanada A Better Place In Which to Live, ( I LETTER NO. 4 Dear Sir: I have always, felt that the "Weeklies" of this country are a far more influential and important sec- tion eation of the Canadian "Press" than our people understand. They carry into the homes of their •readers in- timate local news that has a direct interest and their influence is accord= ingly great. That is one reason why I believe that the railways .perform a useful service to the country in help- ing to make it possible for the editors and publishers of the weekly news- papers to travel across the country once a year to meet in convention and exchange ideas on public questions. I believe it highly desirable that your membership should visit various parts of the country from year to year, and thus become acquainted with the problems which our widely varying communities have before them. You ask me what endeavour I would recommend to your editors to help make Canada a better place in which to Iive and work. It is a tremend- ous question and T am sure is is one upon which every one of your intel- ligent and patriotically inclined mem- bership will have definite ideas. Canada is faced with many prob- lems. We have met and passed more or less safely through several during the last quarter century. Those ahead are just as serious, but if we meet them with courage and a determina- tion to consider only the welfare of the country at large, they will prove no more insuperable than did those which form high points • in our past history. Some of our problems are economic and perhaps these are the more ser- ious. They mostly have found their basis, in world-wide :conditions and to some extent in limitations imposed by geographical situation, and there are those which are the direct result of public extravagance and a general disregard in those days when we were more prosperous than we have lately been. There are problems ahead, also, which seem to arise out of racial dif- ferences and from the fact that in various parts of this country we have communities who find it difficult to think along the lines of those ahead of us who live in other areas. In my humble opinion, the editors of the weekly newspapers would do well to devote study and space to hat- Tonal problems as these I have indicat- ed I know of no better help to ar- riving at sound constructive decisions than may be found in the exchange 'of ideas which will be a natural result of your meeting together in conven- tion. ' I have an idea that many of these problems would not exist were all Canadians even - reasonably well informed on the points of view held by their fellow -citizens in other parts of the country. Undoubtedly some of the difficult- ies that confront us are the result of bad leadership to which we have giv- en undue confidence. Some of these self -constituted leaders have been ed- ucated by self-interest and others by belief in economic theories more re- markable for their novelty and widely heralded by thoroughly undependable promises of relief than they were for the soundness of their economic bases. The need is for sound leadership in facing national problems, and I would suggest that as these problems move forward to their solution it would be well if those who discussthem in editorial columns should look towards sound dependable leaders whose pro- posals for dealing with our problems are founded upon time tested and pro- ven fundamentals; and having found such leaders, they should be. given whole -hearted support even when political expediency would seem to pointin other directions. I greatly fear that you will con- sider this letter unnecessarily long, but, I hope, not without interest. The offer of advice on other peoples' bus- Mess is usually a thankless task, but you have asked me for my ideas on these matters and I am glad to com- ply. Furthermore,' we all see difficult- ies ahead for this country, and I be- lieve you and your colleagues can do much to help meet them. i am con- vinced, also, that insofar as you do so you will strengthen the position of your own newspaper in the communi- ties in which they live, With .all good wishes for the suc- cess of your Convention, and for your- self, "I remain, Yours very truly, D. W. BEA.TTY, President, Canadian Pacific Railroad Company. urally drifts to their place. A public spirited man would ask himself if he is doing his best to attract people to come to town to trade, in helping the entire business community and no town is a success unless all lines are working to extend trade as far as possible arid trying to bring a larger territory in the eircles in which the town is the business centre; PAGE Hydro Thrift- Plan 3 -Wire Servi ye . Free. Range Wired at Cost $15. allowed on wiring where a 3 -wire service is already installed. CLINTON 1 UrSUIU lT1"1L1TLL^a Phone 20 �LECTRIC cooking makes every meal a success, Meats and vegetables cook to melting tenderness ... all their natural goodness sealed in. Cakes, pies, biscuits and pastry bake per- fectly -come from the oven temptingly brown, deliciously "light" and toothsome. The mod- ern odern electric range eliminates cooking failures ... and it is >; cleaner, cooler, economical, fast- ' BALL and ZAPPE SUTTER and PERDUE HYDRO SHOP The.'servant with .many. willing hands, YOUR WORLD ttNO MINE (Copyright) by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD °YRWoreadiesse5::'i l e s ei,Wr`e1'L°'YiWe'sWNa"esea sleet VWWWi:e' Two years ago or so one of my she might earn a little money for contributions to the News -Record dealt food. She got the washing of two with a book by Hubert Skidmore --a lumbermen ata total of 40 cents a book whose title was "I Will Lift Up !week. She gathered herbs and gin - Mine Eyes". This book, a novel, told'seng. She and her son tramped 8 of the life of a family in the Blue miles overthe hills to get two bags Ridge country of the United States, of free apples that she might make the Tennessee and Kentucky region.' apple butter, and they carried this This family had a smaII patch of Iand load on their backs over hills and an a hilltop, barren land. All the valleys. labour of the family could not get The story focusses on the son, aged from the soil enough to sustain life 10, and rather frail. This son had during the winter months. Driven an ailment. His mind became Con- away by the futility of their effort, fused under severe stress. He seemed the family found sustenance in a to be unable to distinguish between near -by- lumber camp. Here the fath- ,the reality and unreality. His vivid er and one son found employment. Here the mother made a home in a ranishaekled building. .Theme were three children, a lout and wayward; another son in his early teens, timid, a good student, and much dependent on his mother's care; and a daughter with a club foot, a fine child, devoted to her mother. The father was a good worker and husband. AIas however, he was killed, a misadventure. Then the mother and her two youngest children returned to their small farm on the .top of the hill. There the story ended. Yet I knew that the ending was but temporary, for the author wrote me, in reply to a letter of compliment from me, that he planned a sequel. Now the sequel has bean published, with the title, "Heaven Came So Near". It is of this sequel that I now write. Mr. Skidmore's first book was an acclaimed one by the book reviewers and by those able to see quality in both story and craftmanship. The book was awarded a $1500 prize, and two of the judges my readers may know by name --Sinclair Lewis and Ruth Suckow. The judges saw, a book which was first-class portraiture— portraiture of toilers—defeated toil- ers, The main portrait was of the mother: I wonder if any writer has ever painted a finer portrait of a mother—of mother -devotion. This mother was physically strong. She had no culture as this word is com- monly understood, yet she was mag- nificent in the nobility of her nature. Perhaps she could read and write, and she had some appreciation of the value: of the education. Her nobility had revelation in her integrity, in her passionate devotion to her children, in her love of the hilltop farm, in her unstinted self-sacrifice, in her stubborn effort to make a home for her family with slender resources, in her inflexibile rectitude. Her neigh- bors were shiftless, common gossip- ers, good-hearted after a fashion, quite unable to understand the moth- er whe kept both house and garden tidy, and who mothered her family as a mother hen does her chicks. This mother had no liking for the village which grew up around the sawmill. She saw that it was de- bauching her eldest son, and eating away the love of the land of her husband. Always she ,wanted to get back: to their little farm on a mount- ain. There she was ready to work. like a beast of burden. There she felt was protection from every evil. Yet after her return, when her hus- band was - killed, she found that the soil of the farm and drought, cheated her labour and her faith. So, on the eve of winter, with but scant posses- sions and with but a few jars of pres- erves, this brave woman was forced to setup to the village which had been so abhorred by her. She found an empty shack, and -here she and ber two children ' established •them- selves. Desperately she toiled that imaginings became a sort of haze over his goings and comings, He could ' not find employment in the .village, though he tried honestly. The ea-,�fians of the village beat him and, 'kicked him and terrified him. There was a girl, however, who was kind to ( him, and he fell in love with her, But this girl had a lover—one of the ruf-1 flans, and meetings between her and the gentle youth had to be stealthy ones, Because he could not get work, the youth went to school. The teacher saw possibilities in his scholar, and encouraged him to prepare himself for a teacher's examination. This examination was taken and the youth and his mother saw glimpses of heav- en—in the form of an escape to a new community, an assured income, and a new opportunities. The club-footed daughter, feeling herself to be a dead weight on tier mother, had gone off with a widower, to become his drudge -ea bit of glor- ious self-sacrifice. The wound to the mother really never healed. It but hardened her in her purpose to shelter her mentally -afflicted son. Then starktragedy overtook this magnificent mother and her weakling son. The girl whom the son had courted was found dead and the youth whom she had been seeing by stealth was believed to be the slayer, The mother knew him to be innooent, be- cause her son was at home when the Mime was committed. The murderer was the girl's ruffian lover. The murder occured during the -per- rod of a revival meeting, led by an itinerant preacher of fierce nature. All those at the revival meeting al- lowed themselves to believe that the murderer was the widow's son, and there was a cry for vengeance. When the alleged murderer wandered into the revival meeting, dazed, he was seized and taken away and hanged. The mother who was present, fought to, save her son, but was helpless to do so. With the incident the story ends.( You may think that this story which ends Co abruptly—just when heaven was drawing so close—the heaven of an escape to a new region, where the youth was going to teach and when there' was assurance of a' happy translation front hardships of poverty and fear and indignities, to a new kind of life -is anunpleasant! one. Well, . it is; yet itremains al story which all lovers of good writing and all admirers of good fiction should read. 1 I read a good many books, and I am learning toread them rapidly -- skipping much racing over the pages and chapters, just because there is no gain, no sense, in reading every page' carfelly. Yet now and then,; T get hold of a book which holds ney int- erect from first to last, by the excel. lence of its story and of the writer's literary art. "Heaven Came So Near" is one of these books. I urge every. one of my readers to get hold of it. Ask your public library to get it. that many may read it. The publish-- ers are Doubleday, Doran and Co. Some books are written dust to en- tertain their readers. Other books are. written to let us see how others live, in order that our understanding of life may be broadened and deepened. Some of us may make ourselves be- lieve than our own personal lot is a: hard one: But when we leers of the lives of those less blessed than your - life, then we are made grateful to Heaven that by comparison we are truly to be envied:' But it is the mother of Mr. Skid- more's story whom , all of us should know. One can be a very noble mother even in a shack and even in destitu- tion, even in the obscurity of e mountain region. Baby Chick Shipment Shipment of baby chicks in a com- mercial way is a development of the - last 25 or 30 years, beingeven more recent than the introduction of the automobile, It was made possible hr the discovery that the chick, in com- mon with seen other birds, takes into' its body just before it is hatched as supply of food sufficient to nourishe it for a week or more. The scientific.' world has always stood in awe of` the wonderful provision of Nature. whereby there is included itt an egg: all of the elements required to grow' and bring into being an organism' of as high an order as the baby chickks with the simple addition of approp.- nate heat. It required, however, the knowledge, of the availability of a natural foods: supply to make possible the present day baby chick business. Chicks are now shipped as far distant as 1,000' miles from the point of hatching without the necessity of feeding or watering. All that is needed is they' be given sufficient ventilation and boxed in such a manner that their own heat can be preserved, and also. provision made for supplying the necessary warmth. This shipment of chicks is in reality one of the present day marvels in modern scientific - achievement and is one of the manyr advances that have taken place in: agriculture in recent years. One of the first ,persons in North America to make commercial ship- ments of: baby- chicks was a Canadian, the veteran poultryman, W. H. Fisher of Ayton, Ontario. The original chicle. box used in the first shipment is: prized almost as a museum piece by the people of that .town. From small beginnings the trade in chicks has grown until today on the continent of. North America, over 100,000,0004 baby chicks are distributed annually.. Of this number, Canada accounts for- about orabout 12,000,000. IThe development of the baby chick industry, in which baby chicks are available in, any quantity on any date;, provides the medium for -the develop-• rent of quality to meet the needs of' market through the fact that, • in the selection of breeding'; stock from. which' hatching eggs are supplied, the: proper market type and requirements• are constantly to the fore. This is possible owing to the fact that a. comparatively , limited number of breeding flocks supply the bulk of:• the eggs required for incubation rats the Iarger hatcheries. 4..�,$,3,A'�,a'!�I�Me4+:H.*.e!�i+W.,!s':+P_4°�"� eN�!•�.� • HENS Always scratch hardest when the worms are scarce. The liens have nothing on us. We're cer- tainly digging our toes in to catch up on the arrears on our subscription list. If you are in arrears will you oblige with a remittance? The News -Record