HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-02-20, Page 5THURS., FEB. 20, 1936.'
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CLINTON : NEWS=RECORD
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Did you receive a valentine on'Fri-
day? Nd, we didnr t Tiuies are not.
what they nosed to be.
Have you by any chance escaped
the Measles, the mumps and ..the
whooping cough?. If so you're lucky:
• The' Ontario :Motor • Leiit,ue warns
motorists' off the road's' during th;s
revere weather:Ilionntdni''g' to dengee
• of .freezing to death, ,
Canada lost the hockey champion-
ship at the •Olyinpie .games but Eng
land'won' with, 'so 'tis said a:major-
' ity of Canadiann 'players::'. Oh, well,' it
didn't go out of ;the family, anyway.
OiieWould'supp se than. had the
crowd which ;followed ;the caterpillar
snowplow! which was: used to \dear,
the highway's Friday, all been given
shovelsthey might have 'done the
As the cold weather and need for
heat'in the homes and business places
,, continues, the need for continued care
to avoid the danger of fire becomes,
.more insistent. •A fire, day or night,
this weather, is atragedy.;
A man down in Nebraska who is
115 years old, 'says that the high
price of food ' caused him -to live
plainly and thus prolonged his life.
`But some -,folk, no doubt, ' would
rather have a short life and a merry
otic,
Underwood, a village up in. Bruce.
County, is reported'to have been out
of bread for forty-eight hours.'' But
-liras there_no`flour to'be had? The
smart housewife will not -let hersfam-
's.ily go' hungry while she has access
to a sack of flour. -
Business 'has not been very brisk
the past few weeks, owing' to ;Abe,
stormy weather and the drifted „oacls.
AU business,' that is, except the tele-
,' phone business. People stayed at
hone and did their business over the
' telephone, thus keeping the Hello
girls on the ,jump. ,
A Paris dancer, o ler of what are
termed ' "the world's most beautiful
• legs," -"has' these - same legs insured
.` for one .million dollars: We set •
good 'deal; of store upon, our oa
wn, not
so much for-, their beauty as their
_usefulness, but as, yet have not hr
sured them specifically.
In the 'mad.sear h.for.ways of rais-
ing , money' the Calgary city council
,is contemplating the placing' of a tax
' • en cats. Dear me, dear' me, that we
live •to `see the day when . poor dld
'Tabby, stretching herself by the fire,
' is 'considered fair game by- the tax -
hunters! Well may we ask, what
'next?
There are reports of the flying of
wild geese north. Mr. Miner has
'.been trying to prove for years ,that
the Canada, wild goose ,is anything
but siily but the return from the
south at this season, in such a Win-
ter, will do more to prove the goose
:guilty of gooshishness than anything
else we can think et.
The snow has again been d•einoved
from our front streets. If there Is
anything in the old belief about the
•fertilizing qualities of snow 'that va-
• cant town lot north side of Mary
street should grow a fine crop next
season, considering the . quantities of
the "poor man's fertilizer" that has
i
been piled upon it this winter:
Huron • had no criminal' cases' for
the- winter .court -this week arid the
Presiding judge was: presented , with
a' pair of white' gloves. Up in Sint.
-doe •a similar case occurred. But for
the' life of es we cannotsee why it it
:hot a tepiesentative' of the crimeiess
Comity Who . should' -get the white
, gloves. Judge , McEvoy hadn't a
thing to de:with 'making us all be -
,have so well.
President Roosevelt Is ^ calling' for
a "conference of Arnericam republics to
'form ,a. • :pan -American League; :to
work forthe maintenance of; peace.
• Tt would 'be fine if 'Uncle 'Sam
-could get a :Lea'gue. of
Nations in :which he: would really
• take part. But he seems a. good deal
'better at starting pace projects
than in' sticking to them and helping
to make them worlt.
•
The .express people have also been
unusually busy during' the tithe of
•. blocked roads, handling • a lot of' stuff
Which used to go" by, ,express but.
which of 'Iate'years hes been handled
by trucks and busses, also t1ie 'freight
shipments „have been much heaviee.
since truck transports have 'been tied
up. .People have had to go !Melt. to
'the good old •dependable raii'ivay or
service when other services .break
-down. '
And Friday the 14th is well past
and the old World stands, just as It
did. People gee becoming so need to
,being• warned that the world is con-
inn
tii ae end that they pay very lite
tie attention to such , winnings.' The.
world may conte to 'an' end for many
' of us sooner than we think; het as 'for
this 'old globe itself, it Will likely go
on spinning about in space, as it has
been clding for some countless year's,
-for countless . years longei, What
should cciicetn us all is the enalcing,,
as far as we ;are able this ,World a
better niece Pei• our having lived in it.
Wonder 'if- they 'oberve "`leap, Year
Cei Egypt:, , 'Anyway, ea young Egyp-
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