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The Clinton News Record, 1939-07-27, Page 3THURS., JULY 27 1939• , THE CLINTON ,NEWS.RECORD , • , oil e) aM. r4e1.. NyfealillY Valid! WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINETIES 1)o You Remember What Happened During The. Last Decade Of The 01d Century? • TOLMAN, TOWN ONCE VISION- ED AS HURON Cl7rY Saw Land Around Hia Shanty as. Scene .of Town Which Would Dwarf BAN MONTREAL (Continued from page 1) Goderich• hospital, which, with 25 beds and a The Maitland River crosses the fully egiapped operating room, is a oath concession of East Wawanosh credit to 'the community. Township at a point Which is about Maintaining a close relationship half mile east of where the famous with the business life of the C0511 - Village of Donnybrook once stood. noway for two generations, the bank Although there has been an salt- ation on foot for a number of years ire have a bridge placed_ over the river here, it has never succeeded. Where the river crosses the road it affords a natural level expanse of ground with a small trout stream that is still a rendezvous for fisher- men of the province. Yet this spot once was planned. Tolman, discharged from the army for an infraction of a minor military rule was not in real disgrace, but nevertheless he disposed of hie pro- perty in Devon and set out for Canada. For a number of Menthe he was employed in Galt as a clerk, and then came to Goderich in 1885 ar 86. He wanted to purchase land but then beozne undecided as to where he would locate. Accordingly he made a personal trip up the Mait- land River until he came to this place. He liked it, and 'located there. This was in the late summer when he landed, and instead of going back to Goderich to make arrangements about the land he immediately start- ed building a shelter. The work was going slow, and he hired a man by the name of Thompson to help him. Together they rushed up a dwelling and a small log barn. Tolman pur- chased provisions or the winter, and then just as he was intending to return to Goderich, the winter snows set in and the trip had to be postponed. That winter was a long, hard one. Thompson, who lived only a shot distance away often called on Tol- man. He found him pleasant cora- pany, a quiet mannered man who told brilliant stories of when he was in the service. .And then something happened. Tolman suddenly took the idea in his head that where he had located would make an excellent met- ropolis. He became ohsessed with the idea, and started drawing up plans for his proposed metropolis. To aptly describe it, we quote from a letter written by Thompson's daughter, Elizabeth, in which she describes Tolman: 'Mr. Tolman started to draw up plans for the town, which he at first intended to call Devon.. Then he changed his mind, and he decided to call it Tolman Town. With that settled he started in earnest, and my father recounts how you could ob- serve Tolman pacing out plots of land, and then making marks in a small black book which he carried with him. He had plans made for the hall that was to house the off- icals of the town, and he even plan- ned to be the first lord mayor. A bridge would be thrown across the river, and ho hoped that the town would stretch across the river. It would make Goderich look email by comparison, and the river would be deepened out so that boats could traverse it. "As spring came on, Tolman be- came ill. For two whole days he lay M his shanty without help, ami when my father found him he was., deathly ill. He was so far gone that there was little could be done for him. Yet, just before he died he tried to tell my father to carry on his work and build the found- ations of the town. Then he died, and the neighbours of my father buried him in a sandy knoll overlook- ing the river. I fear that his dreams for Tolman Town will never be car- ried out." And today as a fisherman idly trolls in the trout streams, or fishes for bass in the river he little real- izes that he is standing on the spot where a great metropolis was con- ceived in the mind of a man but never realized, THE CLINTON, NEWS -RECORD, 'years, but after the death of 'Mr. AUGUST 3, 1899 ' Osbaldeston fifteen years ago, • his • widow moved to Clinton where the Mr. Peter Cook of Gocimich town- remainder of her life was spent. ship and Mr. Arthur Cook of town Surviving are Alex in Goderich; Hera have joined interesta and embarked bert on, the homestead and Nellie at in the apple business. They will home. Mr.John Rap,son, brother of operate in Waterloo where Mr. Ar- deceased, is the last surviving mem- thur Cook bought 17,000 barrels last ber of a large family. season. The old boys re -union at Seaforth On Thursday night last the Stavely was brought to a close yesterday and Hall committee took over the build- was an unqualified success. Clinton ing from Contractor Cooper, who re- assisted in the reunion by sending a ceives $3673. The contract price was dramatic company Monday and Tues - $3500 and the addition is for extras. day eveniaga, and Wedaesday its The contract wasalet in September. fire brigade and Kilty Band. Probab- . Mr. Harry Cantelen who has man- ly nearly four hundreds of our citi- aged the Coyne House, Mt. 'Forest, zens helped to &a/ell the attendance. for the past couple of years, has sold Miss A. M. Stone, Commercial out his lease and gave up possession Specialist at the C.C.I. has resigned yesterday. He purposes to engage and will join the staff of the Clinton in the same business elsewhere. School of Commerce. The invitations are out for the' Mr. Alex Mitchell who has been wedding of Miss Rosa A. Cuninghame residing in Godericb for almost three and Mr. Hugh E. Rorke, to take years, is now taking a • few*weeks place on Wednesday, August 16th. holiday, part of which will he epent Mr. R. Fitzsimons the' other day with his people here. Afterwards he shipped from Seaforth twenty head leaves to take a pesitien in Guelph. of export cattle with an average On Monday evening the town weight of 1400 pounds. They were council struck the tax rate at 291/2 bought from George Stephenson of mills, effecting a half mill reduction Kinburn. , by lopping $350 off the amount the Fire broke out in Mr. John .Mc- Model School Board asked for. Lachlin's dwelling -at Summerhill on' Mr. A. T. Cooper of Clinton took Sunday morning and in a short time the service in Holmesville Methodist the building was in as.hes. The flames church on Sunday evening and gave were first observed when the people an address on the greatest thing in were wending their way to church the world—Love. and in a short time a hundred pairs A. very pretty wedding was sol- ef willing hands were removing the emnized in the parsonage, Clinton by furniture. The fire is supposed to Rev. Dr. Rutledge, on Wednesday of lave originated in the chimney. (last week, when Miss Hazel Adella A heifer belonging to Mr. John youngest daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Parker of Goderich township got its James Switzer, became the bride of leg broken while feeding in the pas- Thomas Albert Harrison of Goder- ture field on Monday. A. valuable ich township. pig of his also kicked the bucket Mr. Richard Vodden of Hallett within the past two weeks. Troubles township has bought a new car, mak- never come singly. ing the deal with Mr. Bert Langford 1of Clinton'. • Four young men narrowly escaped The friends of Miss S. Haddock, a drowning. at Bayfield on Sanday, former resident of Clinton, will be joint Sutherland, Thomas Murray' interested to learn that she has just Martin MePheen and Pat McCauchey, finished a post -graduate nursing while between the docks their boat course in Vancouver, B.C. was swamped and they were reseued under difficulty as the lake was' very rough. 11 W. J. Ross of the Onward Bicycle POPULAR HENSALL COUPLE Company left Clinton awheel on Sun- CELEBRATE DIAMOND day and returned the same day, distance of 101 miles. He madeWEDDING the trip down in two hours and thirty.1 five minutes. 1 Popular residents of the Hensel' Tuckersmith lost one of its young district for forty years and well- known in Zurich where they resided well - nen 'in the death of D. A. White, for several rears, Mr. and Mrs. Owen who passed away on July 24th. Rev. E. A. M. Thompson officiated at the Geiger celebrated their diamond wet - funeral. The pallbearers were George ding anniversary on Wednesday, July 26, at their home in Hensall. and Cecil Simpson, Newton and Iddo Mrs. Geiger is the former Miss Crich, W. Nott and G. W. Layton. If Mr. Robert McLean had his Emma Geiger, daughter of the late nights he would be an M.P. today. Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Geiger of However, even in defeat he occupies Zurich. It was on July 10, 1879, that Mr. a higher niche in public esteem than and Mrs. Geiger were married at the his opponent, who persists in hang - Geiger homestead, west of Zurich, Mg on to a seat won by systematic fraud. with Rev. G. G. Schmidt, Evangelical church, conducting the ceremony. The attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Louis Eckstein, Dashwood, now deceased When The Present Century For twelve• years Mr. Geiger was reeve, for two years councilor and Was Young has been and continuo to be an active partner in enterprises of the Citizens by constantly. providing the modern and eicperienced facilities of an organization that is nation-wide in scope. The managers of the bank have always takeft a keen and active in- terest in local activities. Mr. Lough Was the manager whea the bank first opened and it is interesting to note that during the 52 years following his retirement from the position, the managership was held by only three men, H. C. Brewer, C. E. Dowding and H. R. Sharp. H. M. Monteith, who has been Manager since 1934, succeeded Mr. Sharp when he retired on pension. Mr. Monteith is a past - president of the Lions Club, secretary of the public hospital and is also en the executive of the Canadian Legion. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, AUGUST 6, 1914 far several years trustee and chair- man of the school board. He was warden of the county in 1911. He has been president of the Flax or- ganization for the past fifteen years HARRY "ItED" ,FOSTER TO ' F PRESENT WEEKLY SPORT Huron ruit rowers icnic Harv"Red" Foster, whose sports review "Weekly Sports Parade .aith Harry 'Red' Foster" is being bread-, (Continued from page 1) cast each Friday night fram 10.001 to 10.15_ p.m. EDST from Toronto the growers assembled for a tour to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp- through the orchards on the fine oration's National (' Network, is a LaithWaite farm, Prof. E, Hewitt PAGE a' THE BAPTIST CHURCH Rev., A. E. Silver, Pastor 11 a.m.—Sunday School 7 p.m,—Evening' Worship ST. PAUL'S CHURCH 1 Ref. A. H. O'Neil, B.A., B.B. 10 am.—Sunday achool 11 aan. Morning Prayer. 7 p,m.—Evening Prayer. sport e commentator of veteran ex- of the Botany Department of the (Ty perience in the Canadian' radio field. Ontario Agriculture College conduct - "Red" Foster won a national rep. ed the men on a tour through the THE SALVATION ARMY utatiors as an all-round athlete before fruit orchards, giving interesting and Capt. McDowell he first went on the air. His first- helpful facts ras he went, 11 a.m.—Worship Service 3 pm.—Sunday School hand experience in many. branches of saort has venhim an unusually W. H. Por,ter of London, Editor of 7 pan. --Evening Worship'. the Farmer s A'dvocate and strong -- valuable background for his , coin- 11 the player as well as that a the of reforestation mentaries; he has the viewpoint of wino'keWesternrhthe cause lOntarioepoke of the need epeetaam. for forests throughout this section of "Weekly Sports Parade with Harry °nterie and he win/meted tour 'Red' Foster" gives a lively, up -to- through a section where new trees the -minute review of major events in have been planted and where they every part of the Dominion. The are well on their way. more important sports incidents of Sports\l' Program the week are presented with all the 5 dramatic interest of a broadcast at' After the visits to the orchards I the actual event. Interviews with a program of sports was greatly 1 . outstanding (sports personalities is enjoyed, there being events for every -1 another feature of the "Red" Foster one. The results: Girls 3 to 5, Jean broadcast which is bringing sports Laithwaite, Agnes Chisholm; girls 5 fans in every part of Canada into to 8, ee intimate radio contact with this waite; girls 8 to 12, Grace Lobb, country's leading athletes. Betty Kennedy; boys 5 to 8, Teddy Johnston, Billie Andrew; boya 8 to. 12, Murray Lovett, Donald Middle- ton; three-legged race, Murray Grainger and Grace Sterling, Marg- aret Middleton and 'Bob Archibald; William A. Houston, 57, city clerk ladies' walking raca, Mrs. Ian Me- antreasurer, d of Cornwall, died in Leod; men's straight race, Murray hospital Saturday shortly after a' Grainger; ,directors' race, Stewart heart attack during a game of -lawn Middleton, J. C. Shearer; ladies' bowls, , . , throwing the rolling pin, aire. J. Formerly manager oi the Bank of Underwbod, Tara, Jean House, Wat- Montreal at Hensall, Ont., Mr. Hous- erica, Irene Woods, Lucknow, Mrs. ton joined the staff of the Canada I. Mcgod, Brighton; balloon and Life Assurance Company in 1928, soda biscuit race, Ted Strachan, Ted taking the position of town clerk in 'Middleton. 1936. His widow survives with two 1 1 After a sumptuous repast served 50115. ' at tables which had been arranged on the(spacious lawns in front of IT'S A GREAT COUNTY i the Laithwaite home, a brief pro - (Lethbridge Herald) I gram of speeches was enjoyed, with It is charged against. people from J. Q. Shearer, Huron County Agai- linron County, Ontario, sometimes cultural Representative acting chair - that they are inclined to brag about 512*. He called upon Mrs. Sloan their county and its people. Smith, president of the association. Well, why shouldn't they brag a bit? She extended a hearty welcome to everypne and expressed the hope it The late General Otter, one of would become an annual affair which Canada's greatest soldiers, was born might be to the betterment of all in Huron. The late Thomas A. Ed- the growers of Huron County. ison, the great inventor, lived at R. J. Deachman, MP., also spoke Bayfield, Huron County, for a time briefly, and told of the importance as a lad and went from there to of the fruit crop to Huron county learn telegraphy while making this and also to Ontario. He introduced living as a train "butcher" on the R. B. Turner of Goderich, Warden old "London, Huron and Bruce." And a Huron. Premier Aberhart comes from Sea -1 "Huron county is one of the finest forth, and Judge Jackson from the in the province and leads the way same place; Syd. Jackson from Clin- in many -ways. Huorn County is ton, Hon. "Jimmy" Gardiner from purely an agricultural county and I, Exeter, while George Morris and Da like everyone else hope that when the Bryans and other well-known Leth- crops are taken in this year, it will bridge folks mune from farther north mean a good return for your 01- inthe same grand old county. 'Sorts " said the warden. He spoke Kennedy,Mary Leith - HISTORY OF THE PARENT BANK It was on November 3, 1817, when pioneer Canadians were doing prac- tically all their business by barter, that the Bank of Montreal—the first permanent bank in British North America—opened its doors for busi- ness in a modest little rented office in St. Paul Street, Montreal, with the formidable capital of $350,000. Trading in the Canadian colonies in the early 1800's was carried on under great handicaps, and it was, in fact, to ameliorate the exceedingly chaotic and primitive conditions un- der which the business men of that day had to conduct their financial af- fairs that the bank was established. At the time Canada, of course,. had no currency of its own. The colonies were much too poor to af- ford such a luxury, and 'not only American, British and French, but Spanish and Portuguese money was in circulation. Naturall,y the ratios of exchange into colonial money of account was subject to frequent var- iatiens. As a consequence, domestic trade was carried on principally by barter and international business was on a very unstable basis. Founded by nine English and Scot- tish merchants of Montreal, the bank set about the business of giving some semblance of organization to the financial life of the country, and its first task was the issue of paper currency — that is, the bank's own bills in small denominations — and, later, copper coins. Specimens of this currency—which was in reality the first Canadian money—are pre- served in the bank's museum in Montreal. Nat only did the bank provide a medium of exchange such as had hitherto been lacking, but it nursed along the early enterprises of the country, and straightened out the difficulties of inter -urban, inter- provincial and international trading. One of the most important factors contributing to this achievement was the policy, adopted by the bank's directors at the inception, of setting up branches and agencies at strategic points in the colony. For instance, two weeks after the founding of the institution in Montreal, the directors opened an agency at Quebec City, which six months later became known as an "Office of Discount and De- posit". M the fallowing months agents were appointed at Kingston, which was then important as a gar- rison town, and York, as Toronto was then known, which, with a pop- ulation of 1,000, was an outpost for lumbering and the fur trade -- in- dustries which formed the only basis for the export' business of the country. And so it was everywhere through- out the country; as conditions de- manded the bank planted its branches for facilitating the agricultural de- velopment of the country, its manu- facturing industries, and its general commerce. Since those pioneering days when the bank's officers travelled from branch to Manch, "at first safe op- portunity" as old records say, to this modern era when the institution sends its representatives out to the frontiers by airplane to open branches in the mining country, the history of the Bank of Montreal and actively( engaged for fifty-one In the Faeulty Entrance examine - ears in the flax business and tams, the results of which were dur- nouncedan- last week, the senior class ing the summer months employs hundreds of flax pullers, many of of the Collegiate won high honors. Sixteen pupils wrote on the examina- them Indians. He harvests twelve tion and fourteen were successful. bundted acres of flax between here seven passed with honours or over and Seaforth. In 1894 fire destroyed seventy-five per cent of the aggre-,two large barna of flax at Hensall. They were filled to the peak, and at gate marks. The successful students were: Elmer C. Beacom, Douglas that time Mr. Geiger lost averything Blatchford, Ray Dewan, Norman be had. The first artesian well in Stephen Garrett, Isabel P. Glen, Edward S. Gray, Linden C. Harvey, wm. Mc- township, west of Dashwood, was Gregor, Helena Middleton, Katie B. sank by Mr. Geiger for William Fulton. He also erected many wind- J.Reid, C. E. Toll, Hattie C. Turner, mills for farmers in he surround - Rev. E. Windsor, James Wait. districts. The Geiger family of C. L. Langford, who for the ing past three years or so has been six sons and one daughter are: Ed- in- cumbent of the Middleten-Holmes- mund, manual training teacher, ville-Summerhill parish, has resigned, London; Dr. William Geiger, Wat- to take effect the end of next month. erloo; Oliver, Manager Bank of After anextended illness Mrs. Moritceal, Fenlon Falls; Rory, drug - Alex. Osbaldeston passed away on gist, Kitchener; Sidney, principal, Saturday last in her 73rd year. The high school, Sturgeon Falls; Ira, at family lived on the Huron Road, east home, and (Versey), Mis. Eric Ken- -of Holmesville, for a great many nedy, Hensall. " THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS will come to your home every clay through MK CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Aw internaisonal Daily Newspaper rds for you the world's clean, constructive doings. The Monitor tat exploit crime or sensation; neither does it ignore them. correctively with them. Features for buss, men and all the &adfttnvk,dIng the Weekly Magazine Section. Tli36abletion Science Publishing Society s4 lamer Street, Boston, Massachusetts der new subscription to The Christian Science monitor for = tiaTIfitte1.6,:t16... months 36.00 3 months 53.00 1 month 11.66' Including Magazine Section; 1 year 11.60, 6 isinseir9641 S. Col se Region' FORMER CLINTON MAN AT LONDON BANQUET LONDON, ENG.—Thirty visiting Masons, including eight Canadians, who attended installation last Wed- nesday of the Duke of Kent as grand master of the United Grand Lodge of English Freemasons, were dinner guests of the .Canada Lodge in the Connaught Rooms of Freemason Hall. The lodge, founded in 1911 by London's Canadian Masons, is noted during the Great War. c for the services it rendered Canadianopiously demonstrates that the pion- troopsR. Mason Smith, formerly of Win- nipeg and master of the lodge, pre- sided. L. S. Amery, past mate; and E. IL Cooper, past master, for- merly of Clinton, Ontario, proposed toasts to the guests. R. B. Dargavel, Toronto, and Col. Elliott. Full, Char- lottetown, P.E.I., responded., Other Canadians present were: Frank A. Colitis, Stratford, W. W. Montreal; W. R. Eakin, Quebec; Rev. George Kerby, Calgary; 11. V., Harris, K.G, Halifax, and Donald Baker, P.E.I. The Duke of Kent succeeded his great uncle, the Duke of Connaught, as grand maeter, and was represent- ed by the Earl .af Habewood. Rt, Hon, R. B. Bennett, former Canadian prime minister, also was present, FORMER HENSALL BANKER DIES eering spirit of Canada's earliest bankers has motivated the conduct of their successors from one generation to the next. Today the bank has more than 500 breaches throughout Canada and Newfoundland; with its own offices in London, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. The size of its cap- ital and reserves at $75,000,000 to- day stands in sharp contrast with the oorresponding,figure of more than a century ago, when the bank began business vvth $35,000. Perhaps a more graphic indication of .the bank's growth- and the assistance it has rendered toward the development of the country is the fact that today it has over a •million deposit ac- cauntg—about one an every four in the Dominion. ONTARIO STREET UNITED Rev. G. G. Burton, M.A., 10 a.m.—Sunday School' 11 ain.—Diyine Woashipr 9.30 a.m. Turner's Church, Ser- vice and Sunday School 7 pan. Evening Worship WESLEY-WILLIS UNITEDReV. Rev. Andrew Lane, B:A., B.D. 10 aan.--Sunday School Worship service at Ontario Church during July. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. r, Rev. Gordon Peddie, B.Aa ' 9.45 am. Divine Worship' 11.15 a.m. Worship Service at Bayfield. 7.30 p.m. Evening Worship at Bayfield. of the matters of interest which the, county council has been doing, men— tioning such things as re-organiza— tion of the county constabulary and equalization of assessment. 1 "The eating of fruit is orie of the greatest assets M the world toward better health and I wish you every success," said Mr. Turner in closing. Wilmot Haacke introduced former Huron Agricultural Representative Ism McLeod, now of Brighton, who delivered a few fitting words about , the problems before the fruit grow- ers, stating that organization is necessary in competing in the mar- keting world of the present time. Mr.. Wilson from Toronto was introduced. by Reeve L. E. Cardiff, Brussels. A *rote of thanks to everyone who had worked to make the picnic a success was extended by Wes Joynt and re- sponded to by George Laithwaite. During the program bagpipe selec- tions were offered by Piper Lorne McDonald of Lucknow and charming Miss Loraine Johnston and Mary Louise Porteous of Lucknow in their - highland costumes did 'some Scottish dances. Numbers were also given by a trio comprising two violins and. a guitar. Winners of the two major prizes' in the draw, candlewick bedspread, Mrs. J. Reid, Blyth; motoe rug, F. Sills, Seaforth. 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