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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-03-12, Page 4PAGE •4 THE .:CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., MARCIT 12, 1936 THE NEW ALLPA.PE ARE HERE .? We Feature SUNWORTHY :.S.UNWORTHY WALLPAPERS -PAPERS an sell Ilthem at POPULAR PRICES' WE WILL BE PLEASED TO SHOW Y,OU TIIE SAMPLES. Phone 36w. Variety China Dept. 1st floor COOPER. Phone 36j., House and Men'e ` Furnishing Dept. ,2nd Floor HERE'S. REAL SPECIAL MILK OF MAGNESIA TOOTH PASTE, 'Large:5(ic REAL GOOD 'TOOTH BRUSH • 25c • Both for 39c AN OLD FRIEND BACK We have waited six oyars to get HARMONYROSE .GLYCERINE SOAP It's Kind to Your Skin. 15c,, 2 for 25c MARATHON LINIMINfi . Rubs. out Rheumatic and Neuralgic pains, soreness and stiff museles -It's 50c 'and worth. it L• M11. , S.� HOMES P CLINTON, ONT. • �,. S g PHONE 51. Youths Ready -to -Wear SUITS WIfiH EXTRE3. TROUSEKS, $12.50 up Boy's Pullovers and Sweaters Clearing at 98c DAVISMAN CLEANING, PRESSING AND REPAIRING 8111 SEI RI®e1 VITAFOOD GHIOI1 STARTER is away out in front as the. leading choice of Poultrymen in this territory. Already. morethail twice as' many Poultrymen are using this feed as were using it at this time last year, It is rich in essential proteins, minerals and vitamins, and for- tified with cod oil. Its freslmess is- a factor in its palatability,—, promoting superb food consumpt"ron with rapid, sturdy growth and development,—and its -moderate 'cost is a big saving to you. ROE VITAFOOD is fully guaranteed. -- You. lmust be satisfied. Raise a group of chicks with ROE VITAFOOD CHICK STARTER and watch -them "go. phtces." Order a few bags ,front your dealer and it :will convince you of its merits. Atwood, - - Ontario. I>',epr•esented locally by— RUSSELL L. JERVIS,' CLINTON 70-2. GODERICIit Largely attended by the citizens from every walk in life, : the funeral of Mrs. John MacDonald took place °froln her hemo on Britain- • nia Road on Tuesday afternoon., A largeenumber of 'floral tributes 'sent :by many, friends of the' fainly were, -,placed,,, on and near, the casket. .• The [ service was in .charge,, of Rev,. D J. Lane, of Knox Presbyterian Church;l Five sons,and a sop -in-law, of Mrs." MaeDonald acted' as pallbearers. They were John, Bert; William Donald and Malcolm MacDonald, and Elliott 'Drennan. BAYFIELD NOT S® BADLY SNOWED IN AS REPORTED., During The Siiov Blockade' Bayfield Only Missed 'Mail One Day. Those' citizens who, had their' rad- ios 'tuned. in, to CFRB, 'for'bi to, on Saturday,itorning- learned;' 'through Jim Hunter, the talking reporter of , `L'lie Evening Telegram, that the little' village of ')3ayfield which had been cttt oil from the rest of- the world for two months, now. had an outlet since , the snowplough bad' 'opened .the;road from Goderich. We' weren't'aware of the fact that '.Gode- rich was . `the ,rest of the world:" .' The . Provincial snowplough had, cleared-xt]e road to Brucefieid•some ten days prevrp',us' too the occasion to which Jim Hunter referred. Before' that sleighs'•and snowcar managed to traverse the extremely bad roads to Bfucefield; and the citizens of Bay-• field''were only without mail' for one day Mrs, Chae. Widcombe was the Vic- tim' ic-ti n' of a painful accident .on Tues-' day afternoon. As she hurried• into the pantry with a -saucepan in her hand, she tripped 'over the corner of a basket of vegetables which was on thd.:floor, and' fell headlong. In the fall the saucepan. flew up and hit her face and she fell on it, the edge cut- ting.'into her 'nose`which was badly lacerated: One Tense, ofher, glasses was smashed and her face- and one knee very badly' bruised Miss M. Stirling gave first aid in the absence of a physician. • Dr. Fowler of Toledo, Ont., was in the village on Thursday of last week viewing the situation with the pos- .dbility of locating: here. Citizens of the village, : hope that he decides to take up the practice here. A meeting of the- Women's Asso- ciation of St. Andrews,United church was held in the. Sunday School room on March 6th .with thirteen -members present. The meeting opened with-- the singing of hymn 571, "Blessed be the tie that binds,” after which Miss Ji Stirling read the Scripture -read- ing, followed by prayer py the Presi- dent, Mrs, Makins. After the read- ing adoption of the Secretary's and Treasurer's p , v plans vere dis- rs cussed for holding a hot supper • to take tlie place of the usual Irish So- cial to be held on Tuesday, March 17, After' the arrangements were 'eonipleted, the meeting closed with repeating the Lord's Prayer in •uni- three months with Rev. and Mrs: H. G. E.. Crosby, Bolton Banding, New York State. ' A'quiet social evening was held in the bank room on Friday evening when 'members of Trinity Church Choir and friends of the ,congrega- tion • gathered to say, farewell ' and good luck to •one of the 'choir mem- bers„John Wain,;' who isshortly go- ing onto the' Cole farm in Goderich township. The good wishes of his friends''took the, tangible form •of a shower of household articles f or his "Bachelor's Hall:'.': In, thankingrt, the people, Mr, Wain expressed his pleas - ere in _the work of Trinity Church during the years he had attended ser- vices there, Mr. Wni. H. Johnston' niet with a` painful accident on Wednesday morn- ing of last week. He was examining a • horse at john M.cClinehey's farm on the: Goshen Line when the animal 'kicked him twice on his,left leg, 'He was, taken to Seaforth to the home of hi .daughter, .Mrs. A' McCrae, on Thuusclay where he received medical attention ,andit was found that the. shin bone was splintered on each; side. He was able to return Koine on Sunday evening,• - • (Omitted last'weelt)' The Women's Day. of Prayer was observed in Bayfield by a united ser- vice held in Trinity Chmich, -The ser- vice was ender the leadership di Mrs. W. G. 'Bugler and Mrs. R. Scotehmer read the Scripture pas- sage Mrs. M. McKenzie, Mrs. D.. J. Stephenson, I41rs. S. -Houston, Mrs. E. Heard,' Miss M. Stirling, Mrs. N. W. 1Voods, Mrs. R. M. Gale offered prayer.. During the Offertory Miss Lucy Woods and 'Miss Gladys Gale sang, "Sweet Hour of Prayer." The choir consisted of members -from the throe churches in the village. TUCKERSMITII A. very successful card party and, dance' was held in the town hall on Friday evening of. last week for the purpose of raising money to pay for the. new card tables and cards. Twen- ty-five tables and decks of cards have recently been added to the town hall properties., This• -will mean a ;teat saving of labor as those socie- ties or people 'who spensored even- ngs of cards, and dancing had ,to col- lect bale for the affairs and'return them afterwards. The prize -winners were: Euchre, 1st, r Ire. W. Westlake, consolation, Lorna Westlake; Fred Sturgeon;. Bridge, Mrs. Percy Wes- ton, Miss Marion Davison (consola- tion), Angus McCrae, Jack .Pease (consolation) ; Rummy, let Wm. 'Wes- :on, 2nd, George Weston. The lunch and prizes were donated by various people and the musicians gave of their talent for the dance. As pro reeds were not quite enough to meet the bills, the affair will be repeated :n Friday evening. some, of its ,staid elders; were found played guard half the time, and vice - seated an the corridors, indulging in versa. a quiet round of marbles. Rid;icul- Second Form: Forwards, Helen La- calmly clildish, of. course, but.lot's of vis, Helen Mackenzie, Eleanor Sprung lair a>yway, But to get back to the guards, ,Gertrude IIoltnes, Audrey terrific epidemic of spring lever. It's Jones, as 'devastating' as the measles, and First Form: Frwards: Olive Finch, twice'as hard to shake off. It, has Geraldine Denomnte, Valeria Elliott; gone to Clayton Dixon's' head some- Guards, Isobel Colquhoun, Marie what; incl a barb case of the wander- Piuinsteel, Barbarz Snell Bernice lust has developed, Dixon has -been i e Grigg•. ,Olive Finch, who believes in muttering. unintelligibly about get .handling . themrough, got twoper- ting away Iroi• thesordid confinessenate of brick walls, and striking odt for ' the free untrainmelecl life of a,hobo. Friday afternoon the school trail- ttripe, Pigeon, tripe :of the' worst ed in to the Assembly. Hall to hear order. You 'know very, well that if Third `Forma English class stage you should ever, start out on.. the "Disraeli,'" A,ct,1. Thrid Form look-' read it world be the one' straight up ed surprised liken 'everyone carne in, fiom,',the CCI:' which passes ',the and 'said modestly that they didn't Brunsdon menage. .Think we don't know the whole school was 'to be pre- { see through drat? sent, they were only reading their We wonder when, if ever, parts off.' We said spare us the mock velf Wester - .0.11 come up-, to 'the C. 0: I, to modesty and get, on With it, which playoff the game we owe there? The roads are in fair. condition now . were all those .weary weeks of basket ball practice given• fdr only. three games?'„ , • First and Second Form Girls met in the' gym Thursday night for a game 'of Basketball, which was well' worth watchttig.. To the amazement of• the :spectatos,'First form took 'a big .lead in the first two, periods which they "defended. surprisingly dell until the end of the third, when they seemed to get tired and let 'the senior 'team catch' and pais them. The garI e was a rather odd mixture Of extremely good ' and remarkably bad playing. For the first two per- iods, First Form played a brand of basket -ball which would have kept Third: ,or : Fourth form busy (Ahenil). Second, pottered aimlessly .about, making wild throws arid fumb- ling their passes in a disgustinglyi amateur style, while the Junior team piled up a score of 8-2. Geraldine Denomnte First Forth's violent little right forward, flung in four baskets, and Helen Lavis kept :Second form from absolute shame by :making one of her throws count. • Third . period things picked up ' and the play`be- carne more -evenly.. divided: Helen Mackenzie `made a couple of baskets count for the senior team, while Ol- ive Finch boosted the First form tal- ly to keep them guessing till the end of the third period. With , eight minutes left to play, Second found themselves in tate unpleasant posi- tion of knuckling under to First, who The regular meeting of the Tue< kersrnith Ladles' Club was held at the home of Mrs: G. McGregor on March 4th. There were twenty-three anenibers and One visitor present. The roll call was answered by the recipe for a hot supper dish. The prdgram , consisted of readings by, Mrs, Wal-' ters, Mrs., Mr Garrett, s. McGreger and Mrs. A. Pepper, and a contest in charge of Mrs. 1VIcGregor. The re- mainder of the - afternoon was spent in cutting and sewing quilt blocks, while Mrs. Jos. Crich gave a demon- stration on making cream puffs. Ori account of the Spring Fairs, the date of the next meeting 'vas changed to April Sth. It will be held at the home of Mrs. Leslie Lawson, and the roll call will be answered by a question box." PORTER'S HILL Once more the angel of death vis- ited our community and took away one of oursold and respected resi- dents, Mrs. John Torrance. bn Sat- urday morning the call came and she was released from her pain and weari- ness. She had been confined to her bed since early last fall and had been tenderly cared for by her daughter, Mis. Victor Elliott, where she has spent the last years of her life. The funeral was held Monday from the home of Mr. and Mrs. V. Elliott to Maitland cemetery, The sympathy of the community goes out to the fam- ily. She had reached a ripe age, '.be- ring in. her Nth year. , Mr, and Mrs. David :Elliott, who I1iave resided on the Gth- .Concession sirice last fall, are moving to the 1st concession, where: Mr. Elliott .has se- cured employment. - Miss Irene ' Woods, . head office Metiopoliten, London, spent the week- end, with her parents, Mr: and Mrs. Milton Woods. ' ' Miss Helen Cox of the London Lite and Miss Evelyn Cox, Westervelt Business College; London, spent the I week -end with their parents, Mi. :and Mrs. Herb. Cox. Mr: Fred Elliott has been some- !what ome!what under the weather with a bro- ken rib and . pleursy: , We hopehe niay soon bee'arotind again. Mrs, E. Mob'rhouse returned, home on Wednesday of last Week' of-' ter having been in London and To- ronto -for five. weeks . undergoing treatment for Tic -douloureux. Her many friends are glad to see her so much improved in health following an operation 'performed in Toronto General Hospital. Miss Margaret Groves returned to the local • Post Office on Tuesday morning after having spent the week- end in in Toronto'. Mr, and Mrs. Walter Harvey and son of London spent Sunday with Mrs. Harvey's parents, Mr. and Mrs: C. Sturgeon. '' - Mrs._ M. Ferguson went to Seaforth o i Sunday to spend' a few.' days with her sister, Mrs, 111. Geddes. Mis. G. W. Weeds and Miss Anna Woods returned to their home on' Saturday after having spent the past COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE AFFAIRS INTERESTINGLY WRITTEN UP BY .A STUDENT • . "What is this life if full of care?" suffering, from an acuiie attach of inquired W. H. Davies, who,jm ackli- spring. fever., "Isn't' it a lit pie, tion to 'being a ;poet. was' Maki a pro- vious •?" you' inquire as yoti 1100011, fessional hobo; which somehow L•hat'bockey•is still the >favourite• top - makes him„ a great deal more inter- is for conversation in Clinton. • The' estin to the 'students than if he answer is no. 1.t is `March, isn't it? were 0 graduate 'of Oxford or Cam- And hasn't Clayton Cooper seen els- bridge. ' Judgin from his -remarks• von crows already?;" Prev pne itoth throughout the;pocin, he, Might easily ung. Thy are 'oven, more advanced h.ave,been a graduate of'the.0 C I., at .public School, where marble tour - for he certainly. shares ,the views of nannents •avereported to he in full its inine:tee. "What's the 'use of lir- :swing, and the good old game ..of ng?" inquire the students sullenly, horse has been: resumed with, renew - "if its just; one long series of exanhs_ cel eiathusin.sm. We look' at -the in Aman beginning ,;to end'?" And no-. faits' in Public School with something body seems any happier for the as- like envy; it's' a 1014tinge since We surname that exams me necessary'ev- have played horse, or beaten the ils `"Eviler is right,"they agree bit- gang at a game of jacks; we would. telly. * • `rather like to have a,•t1'y at rt- a- Yoii have probably assumed by: gain. Think,. of ' the' consternation now that 'evei•,yone at the school is. that would reign at .the. •C. C. I. if they did, and very nicely too, when yon consider that they' read their parts off out of books. Ross Mid- dleton, Was Disraeli, and Margaret Middleton was Mrs. Disraeli, unless Disraeli ,was .a lord, :in ; which 'case she was Lady Disraeli: In arty case she 'was his spouse. We,' haven't read the play, and after we saw it, we knew somewhat less than we had .known before. Mae Smith was Duch- ess of Glastonbury, a rather forceful lady who bossed her nieelc=little hus- band, Lloyd Carter, and disliked her guests the Disraelis, and was a match -malting mainrira `into the bar- gain,'ancl on the whole did it very well. Margaret Heard', was the daugh- ter who was -suffering from her moth- er's'match-malting• efforts:'Herrname was Clarissa; and she seemed- to. be how shall we say, it? somewhat enarnpured with the' admirable Dis- raeli, despite the fact that•he had a wife ah•eady . the woman called him "Dizzy" . , and even though Ile` was; continually drawing attention to the fact that he was a very old man. Fred Axon was Lord Duforcl, suitor for Clarissa's.hand. He proposed to Clarissa very nicely; told her what all her duties would be after they were married, what he would expect of his wife, how very lucky she was to get him, and a lot more in the sante vein, upon which Clarissa very pro- perly pro perly refused hint; and even squelch- ed him a little bit into the bargain. Nice going Clarissa!- Of course he nearly fainted from surprise , . . how like a man! and went to Disraeli to accuse hien of alienating the - af hacl a three-point ]cad score stand- fection, of his chosen wife, whereat ing, at 11-8. The last period was a Mr. Disraeli juggled the case around night -mare for First, while Second so glibly that Lord Charles -- fount seemed to be waking up. Gertrude himself hanging on his words (what Holmes played'` a fast guard game, a silly saying, by the way!) and and Helen. Levis put in two more begging :the worthy prime minister straight baskets and a free shot. to tell him how to win back the er- There was a period of wildly disor- ring Clarissa, while Mr. Disraeli was ganized scrambling, and First form wise and witty and benevolent and added a free shot and another bas-' brilliant and paternal and patroniz- ket, 'It was too late to rally howev-; ling all in one breath - astounding er, and Second form, having gained character, Disraeli! Then there was the lead, held it. The gamne ended Mittell, a servant who crept incon- with a score or 17-14 for the Senior; spicuously in and then event unob- team, and they had to fight to get MI Lrusively out ... not an exciting role. Keeping score was a rather difficult Also there was Mrs. Travers, whom businessy for these youngsters play we recognized as our ole pal Foxie, forward or guard with equal facility; She was a mystery woman,` Disraeli and change from one position to the had seen her soinewhere before, he other without warning. I couldn't think where. We never This is the line-up; although some learned where he had seen her but of those who are clown for forwardst we were sure that it had a lot of bearing on the plot and left us .with :a desire to know more Foxie was spoken of as "that amazingly pretty woman" but described herself as be- ing too stupid to talk to clever peo- ple' like Clarissa and Dizzy. And there was Sir Mighael Prober•t, Ron- ald Peck in ordinary, life, who had _a lot.. to say about something, but no- body quite knew what, except that he ended every sentence with either "I shall not, 'Sir!" or else ' with "You shall riot, Sir!" We had just got wise to this and were going to join in the chorus when he went off, leav- ing us rather melancholy. And then the curtain fell, just as:Disr•aeli rush- ed out, proclaiming' that; he had re- monibered where he had, seen, Foxie. And so,. as we invariably used to end our First. Form Comps., we returned to our.. forms, tired but happy, and glad it was Friday might. It is a noteworthy fact that .al- though Hovey, Holmes, Ouninghame and.Dougan all have rather well-de- veloped ears, and although they were 1 seen in the Assembly Hall with the test of the student body, not one of then heard the play, Funny. Welearned'. later that there was a basketball game Friday night •be- tween First and Second Form boys. It was reported to be the most re- markable, exhibition on record. We didn't even know it was going to happen, Why weren't we told? We have an idea someone, is plotting something againstus, or else , why • these in4ijus reservations?' Oh well. The news is too long this week as it is. -Therefore we bid you Cheerio, with no ill feelings. CHICKS THRIVE' IN MUSKOKA'S WINTER CLIMATE ONLY 7 LOST IN 7 WEEDS OUT OF 300 STARTED Muskoka, the famous Su mer -resort section of Ontario, is plenty cold in' the Winter time. But not too cola for raising Bray chicks. On De- cember 31st, we shipped 300 chicks to a Muskoka.custonier, On February19th 19 (7 weeks later) he wrote: "I have at pre- sent 293; and they are all well feathered, large, healthy and vigorous chicks." A loss of only 7 clucks in the 7 weeks; This is striking evidence of the livability, vigor and sta- mint of Bray chicks. They do well wherever they go. The secret lies in our rigid culling of breeding stock; our blood - testing; and our methods of in- cubation, Get a copy of our 1926catalogue and see there what Bray chicks are doing fon, .satisfied customers every where. Chicks for immediate deliv- ery. Prices reasonable. 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