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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-02-20, Page 5THURS., FEB. 20, 1936.' THE CLINTON : NEWS=RECORD ''OF INTER ST TO YOU AN 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- 'f