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The Clinton News Record, 1936-01-30, Page 3THURS., JAN. 30, 1936 CL1NTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 3 Err ....tea.. •. U' WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINTIES •O YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TJD5 LAST DE- CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY? F From The News -Record, Jan. 29th, 1896: -The District Convention of the Sunday Schools and Epworth Leagues was held in Ontario street Methodist church on Jan. 22-23. Rev. A, C. Crews Was one of the speakers. The officers elected were. as " fol- lows: President: Mayor.Hobnes, Clinton. 1st Vice:' J. H. Million, Goderich. ,2nd Vice: D. W. Bright, Searoiti. 3rd Vice: Rev. G. W. Andrews, Hohnesville. 4th Vice,: Miss Wilson, Hensel]. 5th Vice Miss M. Washington, - Clinton, ' Secretary: Miss S. Acheson, Godes rich. Treasurer: Mrs. H. Ivison, Kippen. Conference Representative: Rev., J. Edge, Seaforth. To Town Subscribers: Next week and thereafter town subscribers will receive The News -Record through the postoffice. Many of our pat- rons have expressed a desire to this end and we trust greater satisfac- tion will, result. The Court will go into mourning for six weeks for Prince Henry of Battenburg. People and newspapers took their politics seriously in those old days. Here is a brief editorial note:—Again the same old political liar has been unearthed at Goderich, and his' name Is—Daniel. (The late Daniel Mc- Giltieuddy was then editor of The Signal. ' Here is another—an election had just taken place—The Goderich Sig- nal endorses any policy that will bring victory to the Grit or annexa- tion party. Lying, personation, and corruption are all good enough to satisfy the wants of the represen- tative of West Huron Reform Asso- ciation. (It would no doubt have been' interesting to. read the Signal at that time. From what we've heard of Dan McGillicuddy he was not the man to take much lying down. Ed.) Messrs. Pluinsteel , and Gibbings are this week moving into their own store in the Brick Block. Last week D. Cantelon shipped a car of live hogs to Collingwood and will ship another. The price paid was 31-2 cents. From The New Era, Jan. 31st, 1896: The town hall narrowly escaped destruction by fire on Wednesday afternoon. A fire had been put on in the furnace in order to heat the building for a concert practice, the hot air registers in front of the look- up being properly shut off. The hot air pipe here got 'Unduly heated and set fire to the joist. The wonder is that it has not happened before, as joists are too near thepipe for safety. The Canadian Order of Chosen Friends had the following officers Installed the last, night of meeting: Chief Counseller:. J. E. Blackall. Vice: W. Snell Recorder: W. S. Lawrence. Treasurer: W. Weir. Marshal: D. S. Cook. Warden: George Dale. Prelate: G. 3. Cook. Sentry: H. Wt Cook. Guard: 0. Johnson. Rep. to G.' C.: J. E. Blackall. Alternate: J. J. McLaughlan. The annual meeting of the Clin- ton Gun Club was held Monday ,ev- ening—when the following officers were elected: • President: George Hinchley. Vice: J. E. Blackall. Secretary: J. McMurray. Treasurer: J. E. Hovey. Directors: E. Cantelon, W. Foster, J. Powell, Jas. ,rair, Jr., ' James Howe. A Camp of the Woodmen • of the World was organized Wednesday ev- ening and the following officers elected and installed: Past Con. Commander: T. Jack- son, Jr. Consul Commander: J. B. Hoover. Adviser Lieutenants G. F. Enver son, Clerk: H. B. Combe. Banker: J. W. Hill. Escort: H. B. Kerr. Medical Examiner: J. S. Watchman:' Peter Kerr. Sentry:MA. M. Todd. Harte—Hay—At the residence of the bride's. father, Woodstock, on, the 25th inst., by the Rev. J. Picker- ing, Mr. Allen W. Hartt of the Mol- sons Bank, Clinton, to Alice Maud,. youngest daughter of Mr. John Hay. Doherty—Bluett—At the residence of the bride's father, Clinton, on the 28th inst., by the Rev. J. W. Holmes, Mr. G. H. Doherty, second son of Mr. W. Doherty, to Miss Cora Belle Bluett. Emmerton—Beesley --. In Clinton on the 29th inst, by the Rev. W. J. Ford, assisted by the Rev. J. W. Holmes, Mr. 'John W. E)nmeiTi<on to Miss Annie Beesley, at the residence of the bride's brother. Freeborn. When The Present Century - Was Young From The News -Record, .Feb. 2nd, 1910: - Mr. Frank Kydd, who has been on the staff of the Doherty Organ, Co. for nearly a year, left yesterday for Cuba, where his family resides. 'He was accompanied by Mr: Gordon Cuninghame, who will spend a cou- ple of months in the land of sun- shine, fruit and flowers. Prof. Brown, who has had charge of the organ of Wesley church for the past couple of years, has sent in his resignation, having accepted the organ of Knox church, Galt. The fire brigade .. held its annual meeting on Monday evening, ,, when the officers for the year were re- appointed as follows: Captain: Bert Kerr. Lieutenant: Jas. Finch. Treasurer: Harry Bartliff, Secretary: Harry Glazier. The chief is appointed by the council and will probably be Robt. A. Downs, who has been at the head of the brigade for some four years or more. --V- From The New Era, Feb. 2nd, 1911: Last Saturday evening the Do- herty • hockey team defeated the Bankers by a score of 16-2. The Bankers were weakened by many re- movals, among them, being the two stars of last year, Harry Hueston and Roy East. The Spring Show will be held on Thursday, April "6th. On Thursday afternoon a very enthusla,tic meet- ing was held in the council chamber when officers and directors for the Huron County Show met for their annual meeting. The old 'officers were re-elected. President: James Snell. Vice: George Hoare. Treasurer: R. Graham, Secretary: C. E. Dowding. Directors: Peter Stott, Brussels; A. McInnes,, John McFarlane, Wm. Glen, Stanley; Thos. McMillan, John Carbert, James Dale, Hnliett; Janes Connelly, Robt. McLean, Goderich; James Evans, E. McKay, . George Dale, E. Elcoat, Tuckersmith; An- drew Young, Colborne; David Cante ton, W. G. Smyth, James Ford, A. J. McMurray, W. Wheatley, R. Church- ill, Ed. Wise, Janes Fair, J. Rey- nolds, 0. Johnson, Dr. Shaw and Jacob Taylor, Clinton; S. Sturdy Hohnesville; J. Leiper, Harlock, Har- ry Smith, Exeter; J. McDermid, Wa wanosh; James Foster, Lucknow; H. H. Hill, Londesboro; Wm. Elder, Hensall; C. McGregor, Constance; Thos. McMichael, Seaforth; A. Fish- er, BenmiIler; C. Howson, Auburn and A. Lovett and Wm. Weir. Wesley Methodist church held a very successful Laymen's Missionary Banquet on Thursday evening of last week, at which the Rev. J. E. Ford, pastor, presided, and the speakers were: Rev. David Rogers, Mr. W. S. Dingman of Stratford and Mr. W. H. Kerr of Brussels. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS :ARE SAYING BACHELOR EDITOR SPEAKS At the age of forty-one King Ed- ward VIII is still a bachelor, and seems likely to remain one. The succession is well provided for; and surely theehead of the 'greatest Em- pire that ever was is entitled to some privileges.--Goderich Signal. HE KNEW HIS PROFITS In one of our Sunday Schools a week ago, the lesson dealt with, "Prophetic Vision." The teacher asked his class of boys, what a pros phet was, and one of the boys, whose father is a merchant, replied, "What you soak a man when you sell him anything." ("Soak" is the term us- ed by the boys today in referring to the amount over and above the cost price of an article.—Pickering News. DRYCLEANING DESIRABLE FOR • OFFICIAL UTTERANCES Criticism levelled at Mayor Mc - Bride's telling of a questiohable story at the Rotary luncheon last Friday is unfortunately not the first instance where Mr. McBride's sense of humor has collided with what most people regard as good taste. On a previous occasion, a .promi- nent Presbyterian clergyman wrote to Mayor Stewart protesting against a story told by Mr. McBride who was representing the city at a banquet Gentlemen! The King! Gentlemen! I, give no idle toast To ships a -guard a nation's coast, Or to a, vast, all -conquering host I standnot here to vainly .boast Of such a foolish thing. I come not here to drink the health Of men who reek with ill -got wealth Of men who do their deeds with stealth, Schemers of war and other filth . , . 'Tis not of these I sing. I lift MY glass with humble care To one who royally did dare With every humble subject share The Crown of Peace we all would wear ... Gentlemen! The King! Written especially for the Canadian Radia Com- mission and fpr "Along the Air Waves," by Hor- ace Brown. All rights reserved. Vancouver ,Seagulls lured for Christmas Broadcast Yes, sir, it can be done! You can hire seagulls in Vancouver for radio broadcasting. You see, George . Taggart, in charge of the Christmas broadcasts, ordered seagulls for the Vancouver waterfront scene with Pat Terry. Well, seagulls are seagulls. You just can't go right out and order them to scream for you at a mom- ent's notice. Seagulls save their screams for that moment when the ships galley tosses it's scraps over- board. All other times, seagulls merely sit, and—well, they just sit. These graceful • birds have their mo- ments. They must be wooed. So the program department of CRCV set out to ]earn the habits of seagulls. Came the day of the big broad- cast? A nice skin -soaking rainhad set in and the deck of the good ship Melanope was exposed to the biting nor'wester that came in from the Pacific. Old sails and "tarps" were dug out of lookers that hadn'tbeen opened since the last crew signed off. Hats covered mikes, and rivulets streamed down the necks of all on board. By the time the broadcast started it's epoch-making maich across: Canada the script could have been spread on toast. There were about six seagulls in sight, perched' disconsolately on top of masts and dock sheds, Cer- tainly they weren't bothering about broadcasts; yet they were scheduled to play a leading part in what has proved to be one of the most out- standing presentations ever attempt- ed. Butthe program department "had the dope" on seagulls. They didn't; wantthem around too soon. So an hour before the time set for the Van- couver waterfront scene a large sack of bread that was rapidly sagging into the shape of a bowl of porridge was opened and a few soggy loaves of bread were tossed out in plain sight of the six gulls. They were a little suspicious at first. They had- n't heard about, the Santa Claus funds and certainly weren't expect- ing a hand-out even from the Cana- dian Radio Commission. After a few minutes they ventured near and got it peck or two into the loaves, then, ah! then it was seagull time. The cry went up, "Food!" as only given to visiting curlers. We would suggest that the may- or's newspaper sponsor take him in hand and give him some advice rela- tive to the kind of stories suitable for public use. We are quite sure that Mr. J. T. Clark, editor of the Star, could provide Mr. McBride with one good story for every day in the year, all of which would be really humorous and not open to objection ,by the most fastidious citi- zen, male or female. —Toronto Telegram, TRIED AND POUND WAN'iYNli Toronto is quite proud of itself for having changed the date of the muni- cipal.elections from New Year's Day to the first Monday in December. Orillia tried that "reform" several years ago, and abandoned it after learning, from painful experience, that it is not wise to have a Iong in- terregnum between the day a Mayor and Council are elected and the date when they take office. —Orillia Packet -Times, CHEQUE Apparently the depression was not as widespread as has been generally thought. In any case Mrs. 3. A. Kerr.,secretary-treasurer of the Sea - forth Agricultural Society, reported at the annual meeting on Friday that one of the Society's prize cheq- ues in the sum of $8.50 and dated Oct. 1926, had been presented to her for payment a feww weeks ago. The owner of the cheque had carried it for 10 years and had forgotten to cash it.—Huron Expositor•. NOT THE RIGHT LADY St. Marys' distinguished daughter, Agnes Knox Black, professor of Eng- lish Literature in Boston University, has had many honors heaped upon. her but it remainedfor a Toronto evening newspaper to publish her photograph on Saturday with the caption, "Agnes Black, nurse to King George. V." , Mrs. Black wilt no doubt have a good laugh over the error.' And if Nurse Black sees the picture, she will no doubt be tickled to see herself so good-looking. -St. Marys, journal -Argus. HAS FINE RECORD ' The Township of Fullerton, . in Perth County, boasts perhaps the best financial standing of any muni- cipality in. the Dominion. For three years the township has paid no in- terest to banks or any other institu- tion, nor has the township ever had a debenture debt. On top of that, the Council this year is winding up with a surplus of $12,000 toits cred- it, in spite of the feet that the tax rate was dropped from. three and a half -to 'three mills., • —Zurich Herald. THE KING' AND HIS BUGLER It was not unlike Kipling to die ie the presence, of the Ring's going. Kipling was the arch -imperialist of his generation and he would have felt pride in knowing that with his Ring. he had passed on intse great- est of all pageants in human life, the departure"from this world to the next. Preceding the King the imperialist poet entered the next world as His Majesty's trumpeter sounding a tri- umphant horn to announce an im- portant corning. And as modest a sovereign as ever successfully ruled a people was in no position to protest against the fanfare. He could but blush his 'way in among the immor- tals.—Toronto Daily Star. MORE TRIMMING NEEDED When the • former Conservative government reduced the number of the Legislature from 112 to 90, the movement met with general approv- al, the only objection raised, being that it did not go far enough. A rumor was circulating in Toronto last week that the Hepburn adminis- tration intended to niake a further reduction by cutting off seven of To- ronto's thirteen representatives, and enlarging the eonstitutencics of oth- ere. Ninety members is about 40 too many for a Province with a popula- tion the size of Ontario. --Goderich Star. UNIQUE EXPERIMENT City papers have, been giving a good deal of prominence to what is termed rather an unique experiment on a horse. The animal is owned by Mr. Repaid Thayer, of Aylmer, and about two weeks ago the animal was taken with a bad attack of distem- per, and it went from bad to worse Until his head and throat . were so congested that in a few more hours he would have died had, not Dr. Mac- kie, a veterinary surgeon, set about to establish short circuit respiration. About' half way between the chest and the head he opened the animal's wind pipe and a silver tube about six inches long was inserted through the opening and down the wind pipe. The end of this tube, which fits into the opening made in the horse's neck is fitted with a little cap, and in this is an air filter. The horse has been breathing through this for some days now and seems quite . bright. The hector has strong hopes of his recovery. This experiment is herald- ed as something new, but while it may be consideree} so in an oul;of the-way'place like Aylmer, it is not new in Mitchell 'nwo years ago, Mr. John Frost, of this neighborhood, had a horse similarly affected, and the tube was inserted in the wind- pipe by a Kirkton veterinary, through which the animal 'breathes, and he is on the road daily and one of the best drivers that comes into Mitchell. —Mitchell Advocate; seagulls, can ci•y'it. In no time "sea- gulis came from near and far -big screamy seagulls, dirty seagulls, young frivilous seagui'.s, old seagulls, seagulls flappers with ` their boy friends, baby seagulls, seagulls from piers "A,';" "B," "C," and all the hss tle piers' and coves- from the first narrows to heaven knows where. A few more loaves went overboard, dust to show the ,Iate-comers that they weren't being fooled, Then no more bread, m'lads," 'till broadcast time. Did the seagulls get tired? They', did not. ° They did everything but perch on the sheets of soggy script to watch for the cut. At ex- actly five' minutes before George Taggart back in Ottawa made" the switch to the waterfront of Canada's greatest port on the Pacific ocean, the gulls got their hand-out, and did they .work? Paeons of gull -lan- guage broke over the waterfront. Shrill cries of joy, squaks of anger, trilling "come-on" stuff, "Happy Christmases" and "Good of Radio Commission" sentiments were voiced ori all sides. They tried to drown out the noise of the ships sirens and the rasping of the hawsers and, in one spot; just about overshadowed the dialogue of Pat Terry. ' They were being paid with bread to broad- cast and, by golly they did broad- cast. Seagulls for hire? Yes, sir, just apply "Program Department, CRCV, Vancouver, B.C." Among Other Things An interesting sidelight to the. now famous two-hour Canadian Rad- io Commission Christmas broadcast is now revealed. This arises in con- nection with interviews heard front the lookout atop majestic old Mount Royal By a city by-law, alt auto- mobile traffic is prohibited. All visitors and Montrealers must make the ascent by horse-drawn vehicles, or by tramway, continuing to the top by foot. By special permission the ban was lifted for this Christmas Day broadcast, and the Canadian Radio Commission engineer. Mickey McGuire and announcer Jacquues Desbaillets can now claim the dis- tinction of being the first to reach the top of Mount Royal by automo- bile. The horseless-carriage so sig-• natty honoured was that of J. Arthur Dupont, who obtained official per- mission for the unusual jaunt. The office walls of Regional Pro- gram Director for Quebec, H. Rooney Pettetier, already possessed of sev- eral remarkable pictures and photo- graphs have been enriched by still another interesting photo. Rather, this time its a pencil drawing o2 Rooney himself. The artist is Jac- ques Gagnier, nephew of Director el' Music J. J. Gagner. The picture is a very fine piece of work and rather defies description by an ordinary lay- man. This much we can say ... it is ultra -modern in conception and workmanship, the effect being a- chieved a by subtly shaded prisms and cylidrical cones. • Browsing around the hotel supper dances just about broadcast time, generally proves plenty interesting. While Canada's smart set are used to microphones, there's always the playful party who wants to talk to mother, or who persists in shrieking at the announcer, or who wants to sing, or . well, yon get the idea. Each broadcast, as the announcer concludes with "This is the Canadian Radio Commission," he heaves a sigh of relief, goes to his control opera- tor, and asks how many whoops went out on the network. Oh, well, it's all part of the doings, and adds to the merriment of the listeners. COMMISSION FEATURES DAY BY DAY (All Times Eastern Standard) Thursday, January 30: 9.15 p.m. "Gentleman Jim Him- self"— E. E, "Doe" Guy in songs and pat- ter. From Winnipeg. 10.00 p.m. "For You, Madame"— Orchestra direction Howard Fogg with ladies' forum direction Gene= vieve Barre. From Montreal. Friday, January 31: 8.30 p,m. "Anything Goes"-- Musical variety. From Halifax. 10.00 pad. "Up -to -the -Minute" -- Featuring latest news, music, litera- ary, and sports releases. From To- ronto. Saturday, February 1: 8.30 p.m. "Let's Go to the Music Hall"- Old time music 1 hall program by George Young. ,CR/3C-MBS interna- tional -exchange feature. From To- ronto. 10.30 p.m. Don Baster and his Orchestra from Mount Royal Hotel— From Montreal. Sunday, February 2: 9.00 p.m. "The Magnificent Obses Sion"— Dramatization by Don '' Renshaw. From 'Toronto. 10.00 p.m. "Atlantic Nocturne"— Readings by J. Frank Willis. From Halifax. Monday, February 3: 9.00 p.m. "C'est un Rendezvous"— vocal ensemble .with orchestra direc- tion Guiseppe Agostini: From Mon - `Thanks for your Advertisement ... de t - .... now I can go to . lee o" A • recent telephone advertisement began: "Somewhere, someone would be happy to hear your voice. Perhaps ifs a boy at school, a convalescent friend, a husband travelling, or a mother back home and lonely;" A few days after its publication a letter reached she Telephone Company:- "Alone in my room tonight," it read, "in this "little mountain town, thinking of my little "red-headed boy at home, sick, 1 saw your "advertisement and called home. "Now I can go -to sleep. Thank you "for your advertisement." • On both "Anyone" and "Person•to-Person" calls, Low Night rates apply after 7 p.m. and Low Week -end rates ALL DAY SUNDAY. treat. 10.30 p.m. Geoff. Waddington and his Royal York Hotel orchestra,— From Toronto. Tuesday, February 4: 8.00 p.m. "Show Time on the Air" --International-Stars of stage and screen presented from Green Room of Loew's Theatre. From Montreal. 10.30 pan. "Women of Yesterday and To-day"— Address o-day"—Address by Mrs, George Black under auspices of the Young Men's Cana- dian Club of Montreal. From Otta- wa. Wednesday, February 5: 9.00 p.nt. "The Road to Yesterday" —Soloists and orchestra direction Roland Todd. From Toronto. 10.00 p.m. "Club 13"=. Orchestra and variety, From Cal- gary. The 1935 Agricultural returns from England and Wales show that the grain and root crop for the year was Iower than in 1934 but that seeds, hay and meadow hay both show appreciable increases. OFFICIAL REPORT Recently a would-be chicken fan- cier had some difficulty with her flock and wrote the following letter to the Department of Agriculture: "Something is wrong with my chickens. Every morning when S cone out I find two 'or three lying on the ground cold and stiff with their feet in the air. Can you tell are what is the smat- ter?" After a little while she received the following letter from the depart- ment: "Dear Madam. Your chickens are dead." clieSNAPSNOT GUIL STUDIES IN CONTRAST Day and Night. YOU photograph Junior in his sailor suit, bis cowboy suit, dressed for a party and in overalls; You snap Uncle Henry digging in the garden and standing by the car, immaculately 'garbed to go Some- where. You take a picture of "Sis" in her bathing suit at the seashore and again in her costume for vein, ter sports. You see the same face, but different toga, different activi- ties. These are contrasts which you achieve almost unwittingly with your human subjects, but' did it ever occur to you to try for such con- trasts with your scenic views? There is no end of opportunities which nature offers for pictorial studies in contrast. By returning to old scenes at different times and photographing them in the different robes in which they are clothed by the •climatic changes of the seasons' you will obtain some remarkably different pictures and at length have In your snapshot album a req- ord of entrancing, interest. Often such pictorial contrasts are progres- sive gems of Mother Nature's moods. And in taking pictures at different seasons and under 'different condi- tions we enlarge our repertoire of camera tricks—or rather it would, be best to say, widen our field of camera knowledge, for really good pictures are rarely the result of tricks. Perhaps the window from the downtown °Mee exposes a view of a busy city street. Not very inspir, ing? Well, perhaps not in its every day dress but haven't you admired 76 JOHN VAN GUILDER its shimmering beauty on a rainy day when taxi tops, umbrellas, rain- coats and asphalt were glistening in therein? After dark elterd other possibilities with the countless elec- tric signs holding aloft their mes- sages, or when some public building or monument is illumined by flood- lights. ,Rain, snow, sleet ;nature's changing_ moods often transform the drab and colorless into scenes of great charm. Such is simple thing as Water glistening in the ruts of a, country road may make the differ- encebetween a routine and an in- teresting picture of that same road. A picturesque bridge over a park lake may become much more ap- pealing if pictorial comparison of this object is drawn in a different season. A. rock-bound coast with the sea calm or lis stormy mood reveals, in your album, the power that is at. Neptune's command. Consider the artistic possibilities embodied in a group of evergreens as they look in winter and again in summer; in flower -dotted meadows contrasted with the same scene in winter dress, or the beauty of a. thundering 'waterfall and' 'when muted with scintillating ice. Look over your album. Pick out. those prints which you believe, would make goad comparison and. when the proper season arrives visit that familiar scene and photo- graph it a second time. You'll be- surprised at the opportunities and the results. And don't forget, now is. the time to picture the lovely con- \: trasts that winter makes.