The Clinton News Record, 1938-11-10, Page 3'T '`CRS, NOV. 10, 193S
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WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE
GAY NINETIES
Uu You Remember. What Happened During The Last
Decade Of .The Old Century?
The Clinton New . Era, were pretty sick from the affects.
1
November 11, 1898 The'shore of Lake Huron is now
the graveyard of six big vessels due
to the gale which swept the lakes:
On Sunday evening as Rev. W.
Wade was coning out of Willis
church, the wind swung one; of the
large doors.. shut and it caught one
AA , his fingers,, fortunately the bone
was not 'broken, but the injury was
a painful one. •
Mr. Gledhill, who has been residing
in town for several months is going
back to Benreiller to reside. This is
due to the illness of his father, Thos.
Gledhill, who has been in poor health
for score ,time.
On Friday Messrs. John Henry and!
Joshua Cook went to Toronto for the
purpose of re -packing apples for D.!
Cantelon and placing them in cold
storage; Thos. Cook has been in the'
city for some time doing ,the same
thing. They expect to remain until
Christmas.
Messrs. E. J. Checkley, Toronto.,
and A. 3.•Daragh, were here on Sat-
urday last, in the interests of the
Canadian Peat Fuel 'Co. while Mr.
Daragh has the contract for manu-
facturing in Perth, Huron and Bruce.
The object of their visit here was
chiefly to learn the location of
swamp lands where peat could be
located.
Nelson Byngham, who has been in
Dakota and the west for a consider-
able time, returned home last week.'
James Flynn has disposed of his
handsome driver to Rev. Father Mc-!
Cabe, of Seaforth.
R. Blake, late of the Clarendon
Bakery, has proved on the farm of
his father-in-law, Richard Baker; he
has not decided yet what he will do.
Mr. Grigg has removed the fence
from the front oi' the house and
made oter improvements to the
property, on Victoria street, to be oc-
eupied by Mr. McHardy, Teeswater,
next week. I
Foster Gibbings, nephew of Mrs.
Townsend, Queen street, fell out of
an apple tree the other day, alight-
ing on his head and hurting himself
severely. 1
Onslow Crich has bought the house
and lot on Albert street belonging
to the estate of the late Hugh Mc-
Donald.
Antos Cooper, for several years .a
faithful employee of Taylor & Son
will leave town in a couple of weeks
to travel with the army marine band,
he being a zealous member of the
Salvation Army.
HOLMESVILLE On Friday morn-
ing _ Mr. Fred Mulholland leaves for
Louisville, Kentucky, where he takes
the position of beekeeper in las
uncle's store. Mr. Wilmot Andrews,
who has been visiting at his sister's,
Mrs. J. Jervis, reeeived a telegram
to come to Teeswater and fill the
vacancy as telegraph operator. _ We
were pleased to see the face of Rev.
W. Ayers, of Pt. Edward, and feel
the grip of his hand the other day.
He was up for the purpose of attend-
ing the Orange supper at Sharon.
Bodies of many are being washed up
and it is expected there are many
more yet to be found. It was one
of the worst tragedies 'ever to strike
with such devastatingsuddeness in
this part of the country.
Miss Myrtle Sparling, who was
clerk in the Rathwell Store here
for same time, and a niece
of .Mrs. Beacom, was married at
Castor, Alberta on .October 18th to
Mr, R. E. Rathwell, formerly of Grey
Township.
By the way it has started it looks
as if winter might pay us a. long
visit. Some of the farmers could
not get their cattle in on Monday
flue to the very bad roads.
When The Present Century
Was Young
The Clinton New' Era,
November 13, 1913
The Clinton News -Record,
November 13, 1913
Mr. Fulton, who for over a year
has been manager' of the Knitting
Company4 tendered bis resignation
last week. He left the industry in
good shape, with orders enough to
keep the wheels turning for some
weeks. Mr. Fulton does not purpose
to leave town, having been appoint-
ed to the office staff of the Piano
and Organ Company.
At the annual meeting of the
Clinton Horticultural Society o n
Thursday evening the following of-
ficers were elected: Pres., Major Mc-
Taggart; lst: Vice, G. H. David; 2nd
Vice, J. Wheatley; Directors, T.
Cottle, E. Munroe, H. W. Watt, Mrs.
W. D. Fair, Alex C'udmore, J. Gun-
inghame, Mrs. G. H. David, Mrs. T.
Cottle, Miss Kate McTaggart.
The storm of Sunday was the
greatest ever on the great lakes, en-
tailing an enormous loss of property
and many valuable lives. Among the
vessels which succumbed to the fury
of the wind and waves was the
steamer Wexford which went down
south of Goderich. Among the crew
Who were all lost, was James Glenn,
nephew of Rev. W.W. Wylie, of Clin-
ton. His remains were brought to
Clinton and laid to rest in Clinton
cemetery today.
While showers of snow, hail and
sleet were falling outside,the Misses
Mary and Abbie Glen, whose double
wedding takes place on Wednesday,
were showered with gifts at the home
of Mr, and Mrs. W. T. O'Neil on
Monday evening. The gifts included
many handsome pieces of linen and
numerous other articles of both use-
ful and beautiful materials.
Mr. James Fair, who is now
travelling for, a western firm and has
Isis headquarters in Winnipeg, was
always during his long residence in
Clinton popular with a large circle of
friends. On November llth he cele-
brated another birthdayand his Clin-
ton friends sent him' a remembrance
by way of a badge with the -follow-
ing names attached: A. J. Taylor, R.
J Kearns, J. 3. Rose and B. 11. Ben-
nett, Toronto; D. A. Forrester, Dr.
Shaw, H. Torr. Rance, C. E. Dow-
ding, W. Jackson and J. Ransford,
Clinton.
Clinton's big Piano and. Organ
Company are having a busy fall, their
factory, running to full capacity.
eUnknown
THE NATIONS' HOMAGE
"An officer was blindfolded and led into the hut where rested the
six unknown warriors.' With outstretched ,hand he
moved slowly about until his fingers
touched one of the coffins."
By EDWIN PYE
AN UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER .derful sight, when the flotilla, con-
sisting of an escort of six British
(Of The Black Watch) destroyers,„ three abreast fore and
These brief but poignant words, aft of the Verdun, crossed the chan-
pencilled in deep black letters en nel from Boulogne to Dover.
a white wooden cross, kindled the ARRIVAL IN.FNGLAND'-
r flame that culminated in the burial
of the Unknown Warrior .at West- I At Dover the body was placed in :a
minister Abbey in 1920. The simple funeral coach and conveyed by train
cross and grave that, it marked nest-. to London, the coffin remaining in
led in a little garden in rear of a the coach over night at Victoria
billetin front of Erquinghem the Station.,'
village, one mire west of Armentieres, On the morning of November llth,
recorded by Dumas as the , scene of 1920, the gun carriage, drawn by the
the climax in his Three Musketeers. six famous "Old Blacks" of the Royal
The inspiration, that saw its ful- Horse Artillery and bearing the flag-
filment on Armistice Day four years covered coffin, moved slowly in sol -
later,. come to the Reverend David emn , procession to Whitehall where
Railton, M.C., M.A., Senior Chaplain His Majesty King George V unveiled
of •the 47th (London) Division and, the Cenotaph to "The Glorious Dead".
later, of the 19th (Western) Division, Following this impressive ceremony
early in 1916. The padre had just the bodya of the Unknown Warrior
returned from the line where he had was borne to Westminister Abbey
carried out the sad offices pertaining and there committed to its final
to his calling. Itwas dusk as he resting place, being covered with soil
came to the billet at Erquinghem, brought front the battlefield's.
and in the garden only about six; Seven days later—on the. night of
paces from the house stood the cross November '18th—the grave was seal
bearing the impressive inscription in ed.
two lines; the lower in brackets. * * *
THE INSPIRATION Padre Railton's flag — the Union
Jack which had been used at many
"How that grave caused me to burials on the Western Front and
think!" stated the padre. "What can which had served as the pall on the
I do to ease the pain of father, moth- coffin of the Unknown Warrior from
er, wife or sweetheart? . . Quietly the time of the moving scene at 5t.
there came out of this mist of Pol until the reburial on November
thought an answer clear and strong,' 11th, 1920—was deposited in West -
`Let this body, this symbol of him,tminister Abbey for safe custody on
be carried reverently over the sea, Armistice Day, 1921.
to his native land' " ... I The flag was first placed on the
Then came the Big Push on the High Altar and dedicated by the Dean
Somme. Here at the Bois des Four-j"To the Glory of God and in per-
eaux—or High Wood as -that charnel-' petual memory of all who gave their
house became known—Padre Railton; lives fighting, by land and sea and
won the Military Cross when, at'air, for their. King, for Great Britain
great personal risk, he rescued anland and Ireland, and for the Dominion
officer and two men under very � beyond the Seas." Following the two
heavy fire. The smoke of battle, how- I minutes' silence the flag was taken
ever, did not obliterate the memory in procession by representatives of
of that nameless grave, and among•the 47th (London) Division to the
his foremost, thoughts was the send- Unknown Warrior's grave and placed
which surmounts the Colonne du Con- time,
gres, on the morning of November The nine coffins were placed in a
llth, 1922. Light, rain fell during row in the Citadel and, onthe morn -
the ceremony. The gun carriage— ing of November 10th, 1920, the selI
one that had served during the whole 'ection of one of the bodies to be
of the war—was drawn by six black signally honoured on the morrow was'
horses. Sixteen , disabled soldiers made. A guard of honour consisting•
acted as pall=bearers, eight of them of a company of veterans was drawn
having lost the -right arm and eight up on each side of the row of cof-
the left arm. fins. In response to the order of the
The bronze slab covering the tomb Minister of Pensions, M. Maginot—
is inscribed in both French and later Minister of War, after whom
Flemish: "Here rsts an Unknown the famous line of forts along the
Soldier of the War 1914-1918." A Franco-German, frontier has since
flambeau -the symbol of everlasting been named one of the veterans
remembrance—burns day and night stepped forward and chose the Poilu
Inconnu.
ing home, after the war, of the body
of an unknown comrade.
* * *
On his return to England after the
Armistice, the Reverend David Rail-
ton—who had • been Curate at Ash-
ford, ,Kent, in 1914—was appointed
Vicar of St. John the Baptist Church
at Margate. Deterred, however, by
the unsettled state of affairs follow-
ing demobilization the padre held
nearby.
THE U. E. A. The first repository agreed upon
was the' Pantheon, where rests the
The United States of America sel- ashes of Gambetta, but a last min-
eeted four unidentified bodies of the ute change was made and, on Arm -
A. E.F. from the Meuse—Argonne, istice Day, 1920—coincident with the
Aisne—Marne, St. Mihiel, and : the. burial of the Unknown Warrior in
Somme cemeteries. Each body was. England the body of France's Un-
placed in a special casket and taken known Soldier was borne te the first
to the Marne where 'the sad duty of floor of the Are de Triomphe, there
making the selection was given to to personify the country's nameless
Sergeant Edward Younger of the U.' dead.
S. forces. On October 24th, 1921,1
Two weeks later, h owever,` the
this non-commissioned officer, an
outstanding hero of the American French Cabinet decided to place their
Army in France—entered the . room I hero beneath. the famous arch, so
wherein rested the four flag -draped
that the people aught pass by the
coffins and slowly walked around the grave and render their tribute and
flower -decked floor; he . was ' then' respect. This was done, and today,'
handed a spray of white roses to` on 'a flat slab directly, ,under the)
place on the coffin of his selection. arch, passersby may read in French:I
With hesitating steps the sergeant "Here lies a French soldier who died
proceeded to the second bier and de-
posited on it his small spray of roses.
He was then led away in tears. CANADIAN TRIBUTE
The body of the American Un-
known Soldier was brought home on On August lst, 1936, Canadian vet -
the U.S.S. Olympia and on Armistice evens on the Vimy Pilgrimage ,pro-.
Day! 1921, was re -interred : in the seeded to the Arc de Triomphe and
Arlington National Cemetery. for ,once performed the nightly duty
Poland exhumed only one of her of re -kindling the Flame of Itemem-
niameless wear dead. The soldier's re
brance, The ceremony on'that oc
mains were taken from the vicinityrasion is graphically described in
`"The Epic of Vimy" as follows:
on a Pillar nearby, where it still
hangs.
Padre Railton the man who con:
ceived the idea of the Unknown—
was born at Leytonstone, London, in
1884, Following his ordination in
1908 he held the benefice of Curate
at St. Dunstan, Edge Hill, Liverpool
until 1910, when he was. appointed
to the Curacy at Ashford in Kent.
His subsequent appointments were:
Curate of Folkestone Parish Church,
his Peace; moreover he was in a 1914-1920, an appointment for which
quandary as to whom of the great he was obliged to provide a sub-
men would likely heed his peculiar stitutewhile on active service; Vicar
request. In August, 1920, his good of at. John Baptist,' Margate, 1920-
wife—who in no small measure de-
serves a share of the credit—urged
him .to take action; whereupon he
wrote to Bishop Ryle, then the Dean
of Westminister, asking him if he
would consider the possibility of
burying in the Abbey the body of
one of our unknown comrades.
The Dean was strongly impressed
by the suggestion which he forthwith
communicated to the War Office, the
Prince Minister, the Cabinet, and
Buckingham Palace; with the result
that special arrangements were made
to obtain the body of an "unknown"
from the host of the nameless dead.
The padre's cherished suggestion
that the tomb should be designated
the "Unknown Comrade", which he
considered a more homely and friend-
ly title, did not appeal to the Dean
as signifiable as that of the "Un-
known Warrior": The latter there-
fore was adopted.
D.S.O., M.C„ Chief Transport Officer.
of the Vimy Pilgrimage) received
from one of thle officials a blunted.
Sword. Each grasped the hilt, the
fingers of, the official encircling the
Canadian's Band, and the sword was
inserted into the slot with a quarter
turn, The flame immediately leapt
up -it had again been rekindled."
;
MUSICAL RIDE FOR ROYAL
WINTER FAIR
An interlude act unexampled for
its all -Canadian .flavor and its right -
to -the -heart touch 02 human interest
will feature the horse Show perfor-
mance of the _ forthcoming Royal
Winter Fair at Toronto when twelve
boys and girls, aged from eight to
thirteen, from Halifax, N. S., will
perform a musical ride on ponies.
The youngsters have won the heart
of the Maritime people in the past
few months by staging oine,.. of the
brightest and moat joyous bits of
colorful riding ever seen on the At-
lantic coast. Their spirited„ quick -
acting ponies are beautifully match-
ed and the children are dressed in
smart uniforms with gay red tunics,.
fawn -coloured jodhpurs.
They go through complex move-
ments. on . their mounts that would
shame many old time country square,
dance group to the sound of military
music and` hunting horns. All are
members of the Halifax Riding and:
Driving Club. The instructor, M. B,.
' Zwicker, has worked out the child -
1 yen's act on novel lines. The party-
will bring sixteen ponies with them
to 'Toronto, and besides being ac-
companied by two official chaperons
many of their parents and friends
are coming from Nova Scotia to see
them perform in the very heart of
Dominidn horsemanship, the Royal
Horse Show• The boys and girls will
ride at the regular afternoon and
evening performances throughout the-
Horse
heHorse Show, 'November 15-23.
The . Clinton Hockey Club re -or -
Rev. C. E. Jealcins, rector of, S6.
ganized on Monday evening in the Paul's Church for now going on three
Constable's office: Mr. Jas.'Doherty years, has resigned to accept charge
was in the chair • and the following of. St. Jude's Church, Brantford. The
officers were' elected: Pres., C. E.. Sunday before Christmas will likely
Dowding; 1st vice, Dr. Shaw; 2nd be . his last as rector, of St. Paul's.
vice, G. D. McTaggart; 3rd vice, W.
R. Counter, Sec.-Treas., Wm. Jack- There is in Huron County but one
teacher who had a longer teaching
son; Committee,, Jno. Sutter, Caryl record than John Shaw, and that is
Draper, J. E. Doherty, H. Twiteheli'
and Ray Rumball. Coach, Dick Task -1 George Baird, who taught fifty years
.
er. The new uniforms will be trim -lin the same school in Stanley town
shi
son and gold sweaters and stockings p
to match. The club will be entered
in the Intermediate series of the O.
H. A. league for the London Free l 114 YEARS OLD STILL IN
Press Cup. SERVICE
Not a few of our citizens will re-
call Mr. Newton Wylie, t li e young! One of the oldest pieces of furni-
man who last summer was up this ture, we believe, in these parts, and
way making a crop prospect report in constant use is an old rocking
for the Toronto .Globe. He was run chair owned and occupied every day
down by an auto in the city on Tues- by Adam Seebach at the Collison
day while trying to catch a street House, Mitchell. This,piece of fur -
car. His chest was badly bruised niture was made in Germany and
and crushed, two of the vertebrae of brought to this country 114 years
the spinal column fractured and he ago by the late Andrew Seebach,
has a severe scalp wound. The dos- grandfather of Adam Seebach. How
tors think he will t make satisfactory much older the chair is than that
recovery however. . 1 Adam, does not know. For several
The Wonderland building is being years the chair in question remain -
overhauled and refitted and will' be ed in Little York, now the city of
opened shortly by an outsider who Toronto. One hundred and nine years
will put on the moving, picture busi- ago the family made their way to
ness once again.' what was later known as Hoch's
s
The Elliott block, which wa offer -"Corners, five miles east of town on
ed for sale on Saturday . afternoon No. 8 Highway. They were the first
last, was purchased by W. T. O'Neil settlers.
at $4,200; a good bargain considering 'The chair is rather massive, but
the size of the block. knot very high. It appears to be con -
Last week Mr. A. Wilkin and fain- structed from mahogany, all hand
ily had a close call front being suf- carved and Well done at that. It is
foeated from coal gas from the fur- certainly antique in style and age.
mace. As it was the next day some —Mitchell Advocate.
for his country -1914-1918."
of Lwow, near Lemberg, and were
placed to rest in the Mausoleum at "At the Tomb of the Unknown
Warsaw on November 2nd, 1925. .Soldier, a flat slab almost directly
Portugal brought one body from.under the great arch, the parade
Flanders and one from Africa. The divided, the Canadians drawing them -
remains that represent that country's! selves up on either side., It was,
war dead were givenrepose in the now 6.30 o'clock, the hour at which
Pantheon at Belem in 1920, transfer the ceremony is nightly performed.
being made the following year, with 1 "One saw the flame slowly dying
further funeral rites, to Batalha'until it was nothing more than a
Abbey. ' 'gutter of blue light rising fitfully
1925; Curate of Christ Church, West -
minister, London, 1925-1927; Vicar
of Bolton, 1927-1931; Vicar of Shal
ford, 1931-1935, and, since the latter
year, Rector of Liverpool.
The Reverend David', Railton first
became connected with the army on
December 2nd, 1911, on being ap-
pointed Territorial Chaplain to the
Forces. During the Great War he
was chaplain with the Northumber-
land Fusiliers (Tyneside Irish), later
being transferred to the 141st In-
fantry Brigade, following • which he
became Senior Chaplain of the 47th
(London) Division and, finally, Sen-
ior Chaplain of the 19th Division.
He .relinquished the latter appoint-
ment on. January loth, 1919.
OTHER NATIONS
Other nations soon followed Bait-
air's' example and today in numerous
capitals Unknown Warriors are to be
found sepulchured with the most il-
lustrious of the land
Although fittingly referred to as
"Warriors," the bodies brought from
the battlefields by other nations are
known as those of soldiers. The in-
scriptions affirm this fact. King Al-
bert of the Belgians used the words
"Ce guerrier inconnu" at the re -in-
terment ceremony in Brussels on
Armistice Day, 1922;, the word "Sol-
dier", however, is inscribed in 'two
languages on the bronze slab over
the grave.
The term "Soldier" should never
be used when referring to the Un-
known of the British Empire who
rests in Westminister Abbey as no-
body can say whether it s that of
body can say whether it is that 'of
nor whether he came from the Brit-
ish army or the forces of the Dom-
inions. Due to the symbolism of this
grave being Imperial in the broadest
sense, no unknown is to be found
in any other country of the British
Commonwealth.
Belgium disinterred five bodies of
her unknown soldiers from cemeteries
in the areas of Liege, Namur, Ant -
weep, the 'Steer, and the fields of
Flanders, and brought them 'to a
temporary chapel at Bruges.Here
the pathetic office of marking one
coffin for distinctive reburial in the
crypt of the Colonne du Congres was
assigned to a veteran who had lost.
the sight of both eyes in the Great
Wan The blinded veteran was given
a palm wreath and this he placed
on the second casket from the left of
EMPIRE'S UNKNOWN
The remains of - six unidentified
bodies were ''then taken from the
plains of Flanders, the hills of Artois,
from Picardy and the Aisne, which
included areas fought over by the
63rd (Royal, Naval) Division. After.
being placed in pinewood coffins, the
bodies were brought to the mortuary
-a temporary hut -chapel at St. Pol.
It is not, possible to describe with
certainty the scene that was there
enacted as no official statement has
ever beenpublished, aces were the
names of those who carried out the
arrangements made public. Different
accounts have appeared from time
to time, and the following, while not.
vouched for, perhaps fairly describes
the proceedings.
An officer of high rank was first
blindfolded and then led into the hut
where rested the six unknown war-
riors, to all outward appearance ex-
actly alike. With outstretched hand
the officer moved slowly about the
hut until his fingers touched one of
the coffins.
The coffin thus selected was placed
in an iron -Bound oak casket and, on
the night of November,8th-9th, 1920,
was brought to Boulogne inan army
ambulance.
On the morning of November 10th,
while the French destroyer Marne
stood by, the Unkruown Warrior was
taken on board the British, destroyer,
H.M.S. Verdun, both nations thus
paying tribute to each other by the
vessels detailed. At each corner of
the coffinan able seaman took up the row
his position with arms reversed. The last rites were carried out be -
The homecoming presented a won- fore the statue of Ring Leopold I
Italy and Germany -honoured their from its ,'resect. There was a low
nameless dead in similar fashion. 'mutter of drums, then slowly Colonel
Italy's Unknown Soldier rests in the Macintyre (Lt. -Col. D. E. Macintyre,
Church of Santa Marie degli Angell
in Rome, and German's lies in Das
Ehrenmal, at the eastern end 02 •
Unter den Linden in Berlin
FRANCE '
Fiance removed nine bodies of her
war dead from Lille, Amiens,
Chalons -Sur -Marne, Belfort, Nancy,
Epinal, Alsace, Lorraine and Belgium
and brought them to Verdun where
in the Great War the most sanguin-
ary fighting in the history of French
arms took place. Verdun, as a con-
sequence, will remain hallowed in the
hearts of the French prople for all
.
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