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•URS., APRIL 16, 1936
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
PAGE
W}IAT CLINTON WAS , DOING IN THE
'GAY NINETIES
00 YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TBR LAB,
CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY?
From, The News -Record, Apr. 15th,
18J6c
On Friday corporation street clean -
Mg was cotinnenced.
Mr. Frank Turnbull has been en-
gaged as salesman for the Onward
Bicycle Company and will push the'
business during 1896.
At the residence of he bride's
mother in Clinton, on Apr. 8th, by
the Rev. J. W. Holmes, Harold Han-
nay of St. Thomas, to Miss Elsie
'Kinsman, daughter of Mrs. Kinsman,
Clinton,
Stong -Plewes At the On_ario
street parsonage, on Apr. 8th, by the
Rev. W. J. Ford, Levi Stotg'to Miss
Mary G. Plewes, daughter of Mr.
Robt. Plewes, all of Tnckersmith.
It is estimated that there will be
100 bicycles in Clinton this season.
Mr. A. Morrish will ride a Common
Sense wheel this year, manufactured
in Goderich and purchased from Allen
and Wilson.
Miss Lucas of Markdale is a guest
at the Rectory, •
From The New Era, Apr. 17th, 1896:
Mr. James Pliny Whitney, M.P.P.,
for Dundas, has been unanimously
elected leader of the Liberal -Conser-
vative Association in the Ontario Lo-
cal House, succeeding Mr. Marler.,
We understand that a petition is
out asking for the opening of Isaac
street to the ]hayfield road.
W. Holloway shortly leaves for
Winnipeg, where he has secured a
position in a large music store. lie
will be much missed in musical,
ehurch and social circles, as he has
been a useful and popular citizen.
Mr. A. R. Dufton of London has
leased the end store of the brick
block from Mr. Downs and purposes
opening a store for the purchase o9
wool.
The regular meeting of the Huron
Medical Association was held in Cint.
ton 'on Wednesday ... Dr. Shaw,
president, occupied the chair and
there were present: Drs. Amos, Exe-
ter; Graham, Brussels; McInnes, De-
war and Bethune, Seaforth; Arm-
strong,Brucefield; Agnew, Londes-
boro; Thompson, Hensall; McKenzie,
Moncton; Rutherford, Listowel; Mc-
Phedren, Toronto and Shaw, Free-
born; Gunn and Turnbull, Clinton.
Goderieh—The annual meeting of
vestry in connection with St. James'
church, Middleton, was held on the
7th inst., Rev, Wm, Stout presiding.
Mr. John Middleton .Was elected lay -
delegate and Messrs. George Middle-
ton and John Marshall, Jr. Wardens,
and Mr. John Cluff sidesman for the
current synodical year.
He Still Enjoys His ;Visits to
Holding one of the most important
positions in Ottawa, namely that of
Dominion' Statistician, in the Depart-
ment
epartment of Trade and Commerce, is an
old Huron County boy. He is R. H.
Coats, a native of Clinton, and an-
other of the many sons of Huron who
Dg=, has made good.
His life has been a most interesting
one, dating bank to the time he at-
tended school et Clinton and leading
up to the time of his appointment
to the position of Dominion Statis-
titian. He has been given the title
of Canada's "Recording Angel." He
is a man, it is said. who records with
unswerving fidelity our assets, our
liabilities, our crimes, our good deeds,
the height of our skill . and intelli
genee, and the depth of our stupid-
ity 'and ignorance.
Mr. Coats is in the front rank of
contemporary men who, more than
scientists, are making our world
smaller. Grant Dexter wrote recent-
ly
ecently in the Financial Post. He is a
distinguished fellow the the leading
When The Present. Century
Was Young
From The News -Record, Apr, 15th,
1911:
Master Charlie Thompson has been
ill the past week but is able to be
around again.
"I do not believe the heavy young
horses shown at the Fair here in
Clinton today could be equalled 'any
where on this' continent" -so declar-
ed Mr. Sangster, secretary of the
Clydesdale Association and editor of
the Canadian Farm, who was a visi-
tor at the Spring Fair in 1911.
Fifty-one different owners won
prizes for horses and in that class a-
lone there were 230 entries.
Hanging in Mr. S. Castle's shop is
the carcass of a spring lamb, which
dressed at about one hundred pounds.
It Baine from the 7,'rewartha home-
stead at Holmesville.
Rev. C. E. Jeakins, M.A., B.D., pro-,
fessor in Huron College, has been
appointed rector of St. Paul's church
and enters upon his new duties at
once.
Mr. James VanEgmond of Hullett
won the two cups (at the Spring
Show), the Bankers and McMurray,
which now decorate his good wife's
sideboard. Good judges say that his
heavy draught mare is oneof the
most superb animals which ever grac-
ed a show ring.
To Mr. John Shanahan of Hullett
was accorded the .honor of having
the best team on exhibition. They
were admired of all admirers and Mr.
Shanahan was justly proud of them.
Twelve grey teams were entered
for the ten dollar prize and the com-
petition was so keen that the judge
had a hard time arriving at a decis-
ion. James Hamilton of Clinton was
awarded the ribbon.
From The New Era, Apr. 15th, 1911:
Schools close Thursday of this
week for Easter vacation.
It can be said on good authority,
says a press report from Ottawa,
that all talk of an early election is
without foundation. There will be
no general,. election until a year from
next autumn. (Well; they were only
a year out. The election took place
in the autumns of 1911.)
Last week Thomas Ilawlcins and
Murray McEwan were out making
the annual collecting tour in aid of
the league team.
Mr. Gordon Cuninghame arrived
home last week from a pleasant visit
in Cuba. H.e also visited relatives in
New York.
WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING
HEPBURN'S PET HATES
Premier Hepburn seems to be de-
veloping a list of "pet hates". Start-
ing
tarting with Tories, he has now added
solicitors who want a closed corpora-
tion; optometrists who had one, and
lawyers who send in big bills.
—Hanover Post.
WHAT DOES HE MEAN?
The Milverton Sun reports that a
man presented a $100 bill when he
went to pay his subscription. The
Editor of the Sun says that it did
him much good to see another of
these prosperous looking bills. What
does he mean by another?
—Wingham Advance -Times.
HAGGIS IN TINS
Ah, these irreverent times; It is no.
' wonder there are wars and rumours
of peace! No wonder there are cal-
amaties and revolutions and unhap-
piness throughout the world, The
sad truth is out. They are trying to
"can" the habbis. Parliament has
heard a letter read from a man who
admitted to importing canned haggis.
For years there has been canned fish,
canned beef, canned radio, canned
music and canned thought. But can-
ned havis? It is too Hutch!
Timmins Advance.
POSTMASTERS MEET IN ORILLIA
IN JUNE
The Ontario Postmasters conven-
tion will be held, in Orillia on June
.24, 25 and 26. The executive of the
Association met in Orillia yesterday
afternoon and evening and definitely
decided on the elate. Between 200 and
600 postmasters are expected to at-
' tend the convention and to remain iii
'Orillia for the three days,
The convention will attract sever-
al prominent speakers including the
Hon. J. E. Elliott, Postmaster -Gener-
al. ' Ten members of the executive
attended the meeting yesterday.
-Orillia Packet -Times.
YES, IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK
The editor is gladto be back at
his desk- again after a five weeks,'
trip by motor to the Sunny South.
We had good roads and favorable
weather practically all the way. We
enjoyed every hour of our holiday.
It is an old saying that a "change
is as good as a i4est." What snakes a
trip south so enjoyable is that every-
thing down there is so different —
climate, landscape and to a certain
extent the ways and manners of the
people. We were deeply impressed
by the vast extent of the great Iand
to the south of us, by her great and
diversified productive wealth and by
the kindliness and hospitality of her
people,
After all the best part of a holiday
is getting home again, Our old fam-
iliar surroundings look new and we
are not less appreciative of the com-
munity and of the country we live rn.
Is there any place on earth's crust
that can beat Western Ontario? We
had to go all the way down to Cali-
fornia and half way hone again be-
fore we saw land that could be corn-.
pared favorably with our agricultural
acres. Canada's material, greatness
still lies largely in the future. Poten-
tially we are a land of unparralleled
resources.
It tickled us when we got the home
paper each week down south to ob-
serve how well the Journal -Argus
staff carried on without the publish-
er. The news columns bulged with
items, the advertising volume showed
an increase, and typographically the.
paper looked top -hole during our ab-
sence. A friend of ours enquires if
this will mean "bigger and better
holidays" for the editor in future.
Well, the suggestion rather tickles
our fancy.
—St. Marys Journal -Argus.
dODERICH: From 117 names sent
in by enthusiastic persons in Gode-
rich, Toronto, Kitchener and Chicago,
a committee of judges chose the
name Annamac for Harbormaster
Bert Macdonald's thirty-foot launch,
which lie designed and built last
winter. The name is derived from
Bert's mother's name, Annie Mac-
Donald, who died a short time ago.
The judges, however, were stuck
when it came toinforming the prize-
winner of his or her good fortune, for
the letter was signed simply "A
Friend." . An effort will be made to
trace the winner, a Goderich person.
statistical societies of the world,
member of the League of Nations
committee' of experts and more, re-
cently the secretary and' general fac-
totum of the Economic Council of
Canada.
A man of 61 years of age, Mr.
Coats, like many other men, believes.
that his best work still lies ahead of.
One just has to. glance'at "Who's,
Who," to. see that the life of Mr.
Coats has not been, just an ordinary
one.
One finds the following informa-
tion from this source; Coats, Robert
Hamilton, F.S.S. (Hon.) F.R.S.C.,'
LL.D., Dominion Statistician, 'Can-
ada; born Clinton, Ont., July 25,
1874; son of Robert. Coats of Dyke -
head, East Kilbride, Scotland; mar-
ried in 1905 to Marie Halboister,
Paris; no children; educated at Uni-
versity of Toronto, (B.A.) On staff
of Toronto Globe, 1898-1900; asso-
ciate editor, Labor Gazette, 1902.
it was in 1905 that Mr. Coats became
associatedwith the federal 'civil .ser-
vice. It was in' that year : that he
was appointed chief -statistician - >•of
the Department of Labor. In 1912 he
was a member of the Commission on
official statistics and the following
year was made a member of the
Royal Commission on the cost of liv-
ing.. It was in 1915 that he became
Dominion Statistician and controller
of the census, and • from that year un-
til 1918 he organized the Dominion.
Bureau of Statistics. -
In case statistics seem pretty dry -
as -dust stuff to the average man;
Mr. Coats is eager to say that Can-
ada's book's of records are the very
bone and meat of romance. Their
story, both in its own right, and as
part of the world library of statistics,
need not, in his view, yield ground
to the best sellers of the day. Pub-
lishers of the best selling books, how-
ever, may argue that this is not an
altogether unbiased view, writes Mr.
Dexter,
Mr. Coats first started to school In
a small country schoolhouse about ,a
mile out in the country from Clinton.
Next he went to Clinton High School,
Going on from there one finds thatthen under the principalship of Jatnes
•
Turnbull, affectionately known as
"Jimmy." Mr. Coats recalls his
school 'days in an interesting letter
to The Beacon -Herald.
"The High School was erected in-
toa Collegiate '.Institute, a year or
so later," he writes, "and John Hous-
ton in %due course became principal.
The teachers when I first went to the
high school, in addition, to the prin-
cipal, were 8, W. Perry (Classics),
David Robb (Mathematics), and H,
S. MacLean, ,(various commercial
subjects). They, had alb been there
quite a time. Though they were lat-
er superseded by others, I seem to
remember then the most vividly. The
one, with whom I had most to do ;n,
later years at the Collegiate, was A.
E. Morrow (classics), who left Clin-
ton shortly after I did, to go to Win-
nipeg, where he became very well
known and successful."
Mr. Coats adds that "Davie" Robb
was a great wag. Two of the boys
carried off his gate one year as a
silly Hallowe'en prank and threw it
in the nearby pond, being then indis-
creet enough to tell of it. The cul-
prits' names soon reached "Davie's"
ears, who with much politeness and
many apologies, singled them out on
the football' field and asked them if
they would', help him to retrieve it.
Theydid so shamefacedly, carrying,
the 'gate back' through, the school. -
yard,' and 'putting it en its hinges
again, to a laughing gallery and pro-
cession made up of the rest of the
school:
Mr: Coats says that the thin
which impresses him on annual visits,
back to Clinton is the thinning out
by death of the old ranks of friends,..
which makes some of his visits rath-.
er sorrowful.
"Small towns' like Clinton are con-
stantly changing, suffering from the +
growth or the large cities and the
gradual absorption of the local manu-
facturers which used to keep them
going. My father went to Clinton in.
the 'fifties and saw most of the
growth of the town, In my boyhood,
Clinton was an interesting and col-
orful place" writes Mr. Coats.
Getting back to Who's Who, . one
finds Mr. Coats was named a member
of League of Nations Committee on
statistics in 1920 and in 1924 was.
made a member of the International
Institute of Statistics. In 1927 he:
(Continued on page 6)
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