The Clinton News Record, 1936-04-02, Page 3THURS., APRIL 2, '1936
THE
CLINTON
NEWS, ECORD
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WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE
GAY NINETIES
90 YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING Tills LAST DE-
CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY?
From The News -Record, .Apr. lst, slated. Miss, Fair discharged her du -
1896; ties as accompanist well throughout'
the evening.
Tuckersmith;—One day last week
while Mr. Iddo Crich was pruning an
apple >tree the axe he was using
glanced, inflicting a severe flesh
This Is All Fool's Day,
Last Wednesday evening ,,shortly
after ten o'clock the fire alarm sound-
ed and smoke was seen issuing from
Harland Bros. hardware store, three wound in his foot„ requiring some
doors north of The News -Record of stitches.
Bee. In a very short time a, good
stream of water wasflowing from
Fair's mill and:this' soon had what
threatened to be a serious conflag-
ration under control.. There was many years. As the mouth, of the
about $500 worth of damage done.:. harbor was frozen completely across`
Harland Bros. have carried insurance the down -coming ice had no outlet,
for thirty years and during that and the result was a jam from the
time have paid thousands of dollars harbor away up the river. The ice
in premiums. This was, their first has now escaped with no particular
damage.
On Monday evening a committee
met at the home of Dr. Stanbury and
made arrangements for a musical and
literary entertainment in behalf: of
the Armenians. The entertainment
will be under the auspices of the'.
three denominations. ,
Bayfield: - On Sunday afternoon
there took place such a freshet as
had 'not been 'seen in Bayfield for
loss, by fire.
Last Thursday the House of Re-,
fuge committee Messrs. Eilber, Mc-
. Donald and the Warden, met in Clin-
ton to determine some necessary addi-
tions and the purchase of implements
ete., in order to prepare for spring
work. Inspector. Coats, Manager
,French and Mr. McDonald were au-
thorized to buy a team of farm horses.
Necessary implements will also be
purchased and a couple of cisterns
will be built to furnish .the house
with soft water.
At a weekly meeting in the drill
hall over Twitchell's shoe store the
Clinton Young Men's Conservative
Association, held a debate ' o n
March 31 s t . Next week an
address on "Free Trade As It is In
England,' John Ransford; April 14th
address by W. Q. Phillips; April 21st,
an address and open parliament, "The
Best Method of Electioneering," A.
W. Patterson.... All Conservatives
welcome.
When The Present Century
Was Young
From The News -Record, Mar. 30th,
1911:
Winter is dying hard .this year.
The hope that sustains the average
person is that when it finally shuf-
fles off it will stay dead for a few
months .at, least.
Mr. Harold Innes of Staniey left
yesterday to return to Provost, Al-
berta.
Messrs. Hiram Hill and ' Thomas
McKenzie.were . in London this week
Ogle Cooper had his wheel out on as witnesses in a law suit which a-
Monday and rode from his store to rose over the building of the new
his home and back. He may be said church at St. Columban.
to have had the first ride of the Mr. John Crooks who has been
season. ' "I 4 spending a holiday in Clinton and vi-
The spring freshet undermined the cinity, leaves on Saturday to assume
atone crossing at the town hall and his duties Af promoting the sale of
a portion of the pavement collapsed goods for the Lace Goods Co., Toren -
on Sunday. I to, through Western Canada. The
The Seaforth Expositor, after an genial John has many friends in
experience of twenty-nine years in Clinton and the surrounding country
the newspaper business, rises to red whose good wishes follow hhn when
mark: Mayor Holmes of Clinton paid
us a pleasant call on Monday. Mr.
Holmes was on his way home from
Stratford, where he had been preach-
ing in one of the Methodist churches
the day previous. It is not often that
an editor and a ,local preacher are
found in one and the same persona past in the .Goderich branch, has
severed his connection wtih• the firm
and leaves on Friday for Vancouver,
From The New Era, Apr. 3rd, 1896:
D. Cantelon shipped nearly a hun-
dred hogs to Collingwood during
March: What a pity they could not
have been converted into pork right
here in Clinton. sented him with a token of their ap-
Mr. Albert Seeley some time ago predation. Karl's Clinton friends
decided on taking a partner and on wish him unbounded success in the
Wednesday, next the papers will be Coast City,
Mr. A. Owen, New York City, Pre-
sident of the Clinton Knitting Co., is
he goes away and who always wel-
come him hack on his return.
Mr. Karl. Wilken, eldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. Wilken, who has
been in the employ of the Jackson
Co., for Some years, for nearly a year
B.C., where he intends to woo Dame
Fortune. Before. leaving Godericli
ICnox clmreh choir, of which he had
been a valued member ,since taking
up his residence in that town, ten-
dered him a little surprise and pre -
drawn up and duly signed by Rev.
Mr. Fair.
C. J. Wallis expects to leave next
week with a load of horses for the in town this week and said to The.
Old Country. News -Record today that he had or -
Albert Grigg of Ridgetown, son of dered four thousand dollars worth of
William Grigg, will move here and machinery to be forwarded to the mill
take charge of the business of J. at once.
Almost every working day in the
week sees our worthy citizen, Mr. D.
Walter Cole, who for five years Cantelon, circulating about the mull-
has
ouphas been stenographer at Hovey Ce., try buying produce of one kind and
leaves this week for Ohapleau, where another, .• As an instanee of bis activ-
he takes the position of .private sec- ity, last Thnirsday he shipped ` 261
retary to the superintendent of the hogs, 146 from Clinton, 61' front Lon
division of the C. P. R. desboro and 54 from Brumfield. Po-
tatoes, too, he is buying up largely
The Staveley Estate: --A bill intro- and in the past four months has
duced into the Legislature on Fri- shipped 6000 bushels.
WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS. ARE
SAYING
DRIVE CAREFULLY constitute a record but' to celebrate
the golden' anniversary of tonsorial
work by, the same barber is worth
recording,Mitchell Advocate.
Motorists are apt to find fault with
truck drivers on the • road, claiming
they hog the highway. : On the other
hand the National Safety Council in
the 'United States claims that truck
drivers are the safety guardians of.
,the road. These drivers make their
living driving trucks and an acci-
dent may mean the loss' of'their job,
so they- are trained to drive careful-
ly. The Council urges all metorists
to copy the truck driver, not because
of losingtheir jobs, bat to avoid the
loss of lives.—Listowel Banner.
Biddlecombe, the latter's health com-
pelling retirement.'
day provides that out of the monies
derived from the estate of the late
James Staveley the Lieut. -Governor in
council may grant to Frances E
Thompson, Mater E. Campbell and
Carrie A. Sibley the sum of $6,000
each. A further grant, not exceeding
$10,000 may be made out of the said
monies to the town of. Clinton, to be
used, subject to the terms and condi-
tions as the Lieutenant -Governor in
in council may prescribe, for the pur-
pose of erecting and maintaining in
or near the said town a building or
buildings for the use of the public,
such . building or buildings being of
such a public character and for such
public purposes as the Lieutenant -
Governor in council may approve."
The ones to get the $6,000 each are
• the ones whom Jimmy intended
should be his legal heirs.
The Service of Praise, given Tues-
day night by the. choir in Willis
church was a unique and most inter-
esting affair, In the, early part of Thursday evening last under the airs
the evening refreshments were served pices of the Pastime Club, proved to
in the basement with a lavish hand. be very amusing. About seventy-five
At eight o'clock the song service of the young people of the town
commenced in the auditorium. (The took part. (We give a list of • the
item is too long to quote but we give names) Otto Pink, D. A. McClure,
the names of those taking -part)., The Ray Rurnball, R. A. Downs, Dodds
Anthem "0 Sing Unto the Lord" by Holloway, Russell Harland, Ken
the choir; duet,, Misses McMurray Chowen, Ike Rattenbury, W, Dyre,
and Tedford; solo, Mr. Israel, read- E. Reynolds, Fred Rumball, R. For -
Eng, "Scotch rendering of the Ten rester and Misses Stella Copp, Retta
Commandments," Miss Wilson; Selec-1 Cook, Grace Cluff, Minim: Pinning,
tions from Hayden's •Creation, Missy Miss Spackman, Bessie ,O'Neil, 'Ida
McWhinney;' Miss Oliver of St. Wilkin, Pearls O'Neil, Daisy Copp
Marys, song; Miss Dignun, another and Gladys Cantelon, and a number
pupil of "`Miss McWhinney's,'also as -1 of .children who were not named.
(And the genial D.C., who is twen-
ty-five years older, is still at it).
A very happy event took place on
Monday afternoon at the residence
of Mr. Fred Lockwood, , whenhis
daughter, Miss Corina, was married
to: Mr. Robert Cochrane. The cere-
mony was per'fu'med by the Rev. T.
Wesley Cosens in the presence of
only immediate relatives.... Mr. and
Mrs. Cochrane left on the 3.07 train
for Victoria, 13.C., where they will
make their home.
In Toronto on Saturday last was
solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Geo. Hodgens, youngest son of Mrs.
John Hodgens of T'oronto, late of
Clinton, and Miss Mickle, also a for-
mer resident of Clinton. 'The bride
and groom left the same evening for
Winnipeg.
A comic play, "A Day at the Coun-
ty Fair," put . on in the town hall on
RIPPLES
We mentioned to one of our far
rnei� friends last Saturday night that
one of our bankers had criticized us
for saying in these columns last
week "The banks have their hands
out for larger tips." His . comment
was, "Huh, they will soon be charg.
ingto change a ten dollar bill."
Then he told us of a neighbour of his
who received a four hundred dollar
cheque on the bank in Ripley. He
brought the cheque to Kincardine
and the bank he took it to wanted
fifty cents for cashing it. As a re-
sult the owner of the cheque took it
to Ripley wherehe got it' cashed.
While there he bought from the .Rip-
ley, storekeepers the things he and
his family had been planning to get
when this four hundred dollars would
come in. -Kincardine News.
NO NEED
While there is no crying need in
Toronto for more hotels -and no need
at all for half those in operation—
almost every week sees application
for another license. There must be
money .in this beverage business.
—Globe.
LOYAL TOAST
"My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The toast is: `The King, Queen. Mary,
the Duke and Duchess of York and
the other members of ,the Royal Fara
ily. "
Thus, in future, toastmasters at
official functions. .
His Majesty signed the order, au-
thorizing the new loyal toast, last
week.—British News Review.
SPRING TRAINING
Spring was duly inaugurated on
Saturday last when golfers turned
out for their first practice of the
year. Messrs. William Mitchell, D.
A. Sutherland and Harold Magwood
enjoyed a few holes at the town's
most northerly athletic field and re-
pent that the grounds will soon be in
fine shape. Tennis enthusiasts are
already preparing for a successful
year's play and early in April will
hold a dance in the Beach Pavilion
with Len Allen's" orchestra of Ham-
ilton furnishing the music. The club
officials hope to have flood lights
installed this year to enable the mem-
bers to hold night play.
—Kincardine News.
ALFRED L POSLIFF LAID TO
REST
No finer tribute could be paid a
citizen of Wingham than that extend-
ed to the late Alfred L., Posliff, who
died at 8.15 Wednesday morning,
March 18th. Wednesday evening, all
day Thursday and Friday morning a
continued stream of citizens, old and
young, called at his late home to view
his remains and pay their respects to
him who was loved by all and who
has been anoutstanding citizen of
this community. '
St. Andrew's 'Presbyterian Church
was taxed beyond capacity on Friday
afternoon by the large, congregation
who, gathered to worship at the bier
of this soldier, teacher, citizen ex-
traordinary and
x-traordinary.and leader of children
and men. _Winghain 'Advance -Times,
KING EDWARD VIII AND
CANADA
(Stephen Leacock in the Review
of Reviews)
King Edward VIII is the first
King I have ever known—I mean, in
the easy and personal sense. Once
as a little boy in England, sixty years
ago, I saw Queen Victoria's head go
by in a railway 'carriage, But never'
felt ,I knew her,
1 met King Edward a few years
ago at a big dinner at Montreal,
when he was visiting the city under
the incognito title of Lord Renfrew.
Coming under that name, he was able
to lay aside the forms and ceremon-
ies that must of necessity surround a
King of England, and, actlike a Can-
adian, • It was a huge dinner and i
was just a lost unit at one of the
many tables. • But after dinner the
host of the evening said to 'me,
"Come and sit beside the Prince; he.
wants to talk to you."
A recent diplomatic incident. in Lon-
don has reminded British subjects
that it is not the proper thing to re-
peat a conversation with a King. But
I have no hesitation in recording
mine. My friends asked me after-
ward, "What did the Prince say?" I
answered, "Say!. He never got a
chance to say anything. I felt so
flattered and so superior in being
asked -to talk to him that 1 did all
the talking and assured him that
when he came to the throne if he ev-
er needed advice ormoney, just to
let me know."
I was still saying it when they
dragged me away from him. It was
a rash promise, but it still holds good.
I don't go back on it; and anyway,
there are thousands, millions of oth-
ers•in it with me.
HANG ON TO REMNANTS
Just why the Town Council, should
send its estimates to the Deputy -
Minister of Municipal Affairs for his
criticism we do not quite see. As
far as we know there is no law or
regulation requiring this to be done
by a solvent municipality: The re-
sponsibility for the levy is on the
Council, and they know the local
conditions' and requirements much
better than any one in Queen's Park.
Without full information, the De-
puty -Minister, from a casual inspec-
tion of figures, can scarcely offer an
intelligent opinion. Besides, munici-
pal councils would do well to preserve
such remnants of autonomy as have
been left to them.
—Crillie Packet -Times.
MARKS 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF
WEDDING DAY SHAVE,'
Mr. Chas. Pollakowsky has prepar-
ed many a man for the ceremony of
his wedding. But we doubt if there
are many barbers in Ontario who can
equal this record—Fifty years: ago
Mr. William Parrottsaw fit to en-
gage "Polly" to ,prepare his crown-
ing beauty for the occasion of his
wedding and the day of his Golden
Wedding' Anniversary he. again had
him perform that task. Satisfied with
one's wife after fifty years may not
A 'HOST'S RESPONSIBILITY
Pronouncing sentence upon a man
convicted of driving while drunk,
Magistrate Jones .of Toronto voiced
sharp criticism of the host or hostess
who gives an intoxicating beverage
to a guest who is going to drive a
car. The evidence in the case showed
that the accused man, before his ar-
rest for drunken driving, had called
at the home of some friends, where
he had been given some beer. The
magistrate observed very pointedly
that this act had ended in landing
a man in jail and declared that the
host or hostess who offers an in-
toxicating drink to a guest, knowing
he is driving. a car, is as much to
blame for what may happen as the
guest.
Magistrate Jones' observation re-
calls the story about the rule adopted
in this res'pec't by Ring Edward, to
which we drew attention some time
ago. It was to the effect that His
Majesty, then Prince of Wales, had
made it a practice to serve no intox-
icating beveiagses :at his country
FILM FAN
By Elizabeth Margetson
'Little Miss Caroline Harper had
nearly a hundred chiiur•en. She was
not married arril »sid never, ever 'been
in love. •
It was this way.
Miss Caroline was a lonely woman
of independent means, plain, drab,
uninteresting, untaikative, and shy.
For the last twenty years -her six-
tieth birthday had just passed—she
had lived like a little grey hermit,
without an intimate friend, practical-
ly without acquaintances;
But do not think she was unhappy.
She had found consolation • in the
cinema. She was, I imagine,the most
ardent film fan ever born.
Every afternoon, and most even-
ings, Miss Caroline wouldenter one
or other of London's cinema palaces,.
in order to share the adventures, tra-
gedies, and comedies enacted by her
children. For the film folk were her
family.
She had taken the whoe colony of
screen actors and actresses to her.
heart. She studied their private lives;
she worried about their contracts,
their marriages, their divorces. She
rejoiced in their success. She bought
.and read with avidity every movie
magazine. Her spare time was spent
in writing letters full of questions to
the inquiry bureaux of all those ma-
gazines.
The beginning of the "talkie" era
was an event of tremendous iinpor
tanee in her Iife, for now she could
hear the voices of these people she
loved. Yes, she loved thein, inexpli-
cably, inartieularly. Best of all she
loved that shining British star, that
ornament to domestic pictures, Miss
Gloria Gold,
When Miss Gold attained her first
starring part, Miss Caroline rejoiced.'
When the engagement to handsome
Harry Mervyn was announced, she
rejoiced again. The wedding at Savoy
Chapel, the birth, a year later, of a
baby girl, had been further occasions
for great happiness. Miss Caroline
had been present, a humble, uninvited
guest, at both the wedding and the
christening.
When rumours of an estrangement
between Miss Gold and Harry Mer-
vyn got about, when it was announced
that handsome Harry had departed
from the great house in Bayswater
Road, and divorce proceedings were
pending, little Miss Caroline sorrow-
ed impotently. It had seemed such a
Rideal marriage. Miss Caroline could
not bear one of her children to make
is mistake in love.
One day, just before her sixtieth
hbirthday, Miss Caroline read in the
public prints that Miss Gold's baby
was to be seen daily in Hyde Park
taking the air in a handsome white
(perambulator, in charge of a trusted
nurse,
(hiss Caroline, next day, walked in
Hyde Park, carefully.scrutinizing
perambulators and nurses. But hand-
some white baby -carriages were few
and far between. Those she did en-
counter contained babies either too
young or too old to be Miss Gold's. '
On the third day, however, a white
perambulator—a very handsome per-
ambulator came slowly along the
wide gra`i+el path, pushed by a smart,
whiteclad nurse. Miss Caroline's
heart jumped. She' was sure—almost
sure. She turned and followed the
nurse.' '
Presently the nurse sat down on a
publie bench, took a paper -hacked
novel from beneath her cape, and be-
gan to read. Miss Caroline seated
herself on the same bench and exam-
ined the baby -carriage. When she
saw the twined golden monogram,
"G. G." on its side, she could hardly'
breathe for excitment. It was it
was—Miss Gold's baby?
home, Fort Belvedere, to any guests
who would subsequently be driving an
automobile. It was an example, we
observed,., that should be widely fol-
lowed. The case just referred to and
the magistrate's remarks emphasize
the point.
—Kinardine Review' -,Reporter.
Fighting down her emotion, Miss'
Caroline smiled timidly at the nurse,
"A lovely day," she ventured. ' .
The nurse. turned from her book
and regarded Miss Caroline. Her gaze
travelled from the drab felt hat down
a collection of unremarkable, middle-
aged clothes, lingered on a dusty pair
of shoes, andtravelled up again.
"Yes," said the nurse curtly, and
returned to her book.
A dull tinge of red ran up Miss
Caroline's' withered. cheeks, but she
returned to the attack. Just to be
able to peep .at Gloria 'Gold's baby
would be worth so much, so terribly
much.
"Isn't that Miss Gloria Gold's
baby?" she asked, her voice growing
more ingratiating.
This time the nurse did not even.
trouble to look around.
"It is," she Said.
"Oh, please," begged Miss Caroline,
breathlessly, "please — may I just,
look?"
"She's asleep, and madame doesn't
encourage strangers," said the nurse
sharply.
Miss Caroline said, "I'm sorry," in
a small, hurt voice, rose and wandered
away,
But now, every day, Miss Caroline
walked in Hyde Park, hovering on the
grass, beneath the trees, peeping, un-
seen and unsuspected by the nurse,
at Miss Gold's baby, Sometimes,
when the day was exceptionally fine
and warm, the hood of the carriage
would be down and a downy head and
chubby fist were plainly visible.
Whenever this happened, Miss Caro-
line felt amply repaid for her daily
vigil.
So it was that she first saw the
man. Miss 'Caroline did not like the
nurse, but she positively hated the
man. He had a dark, sneering face,
under a jaunty felt hat. His clothes
were cheap and too showy, his shoes
were suede.
The nurse seemed to Iike him, for
she allowed him to sit beside her.
She tilted back the hood -of the car -
riage and encouraged him to look as.
long as he cared to at Miss Gold's,
baby -a bliss that had been denied
to Miss Caroline.
For three days running he met the,
nurse and sat or walked with her, and
Miss Caroline flitted the back-
ground and seethed. It was terrible
that lovely Miss Gold's baby should
have to breathe the same air as the
common, sneering fellow.
On the fourth day Miss Caroline
woke up with a heavy cold, and could
not go to the park or the cinema. She
lay in bed, dozing fitfully over her
movie magazines, and thinking of
Miss Gloria Gold and her. baby.
It was four days before she. could
get up arid'. go weakly down to her •
sittingroom for breakfast. So she'
was unprepared' for a paragraph on..
the front page of her daily newspa-
per:
"No trace has yet been found of'
the five -months -old baby of Miss'
Gloria Gold, the film actress. The
child is believed to have been kidnap-
ped from its perambulator in Hyde!,
Park three days ago,'while a stranger
engaged the nurse in conversation for
a few minutes.
"All parts and railway stations are.
being watched and the police are en
gaged in a systematic comb -out of:
London's underworld.
A reward of 51,000' is offered for -
information leading to the recovery
of the child. The tragic mother is
herself roaming the streets in search
of a clue, while the nurse, Miss Hetty
Allsop, is in a state of collapse, fol-•
lowing the ordeal of the loss of the,
baby and long questioning by the po-
lice."
Miss Caroline read the paragraph.
once—twice. Then she rang her belt
furiously, and sent an astonished
maid running into the streets to buy
back numbers of all the newspapers
for three days. When these came, the
whole story, shouted in front page
headlines, lay before her.
'Miss` Hetty Allsop, it seemed, had:
been airing Miss Gold's baby in Hyde •
Park, as usual, when she was accost-,
ed by a strange but gentlemanly man,
who asked her the way to the Ser-
pentine bridge. Miss Aliso') had been ,
compelled to turn her back on the
perambulator while she pointed out
the way.
The man seemed a little stupid, and'
she repeated her directions minutely
and several times. Ther man thanked
her and hurried away. When Miss
Allsop turned back to the perambula-
tor the quilt and blanket were dis-•
turbed. She bent to striaghten them;. •
and discovered that the baby had van
s-•
ished.
Almost distraught, Miss Allsop rant
madly to the park entrance and pour-
ed out her story to a policeman. Thee
Park was searched, the gates were
picketed, but no sign was found of'
,the babyor the gentlemanly strang-
er.
Miss Gold had announced her faith:
in the innocence of Miss Allsop, who.
had been employed as the baby's
i nurse from its birth. The police had'
questioned her for some hours, and
had found her unshakable in her•
story.
Miss Caroline said "Pah!" Miss
Caroline ran upstairs, and with shak- '
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