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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-05-07, Page 3t ittxRS., MAY 7, 1936 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD WHAT CLINTON ' WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINETIES Do You Remember. What Happened During The Last Decade Of The :Old Century? From The News -Record,, May 6th, 1896: Plum and pear' trees are in blooin Death—Hartt: In Clinton, on April 30th, Charles A. Hartt, aged , 77 years. Fair: In Clinton, on May 1st, Mar- garet Torrance, relict of the late Thomas Fair, aged 60 years. New Era for the date, May 8th, missing from the file. When The Present Century Was Young From The New Era, May 4th, 1911: A farewell service was held after " the regular service in the Baptist church o n Sunday evening Last for Mr. and Mrs. Tucker, who 'are leaving on a visit to the Old Land. ' • The Ladies' Guild of St. Paul's church held their annual meeting on Monday when the following officers were elected: Hon. -Presidents: Mrs. C. E. Jea- kins, Mrs. S. H. Rance. President: Mrs. Joel McLeod. Vice -President: Miss F. Hine. Secretary: Mrs. J. C. Armour. Treasurer: Mrs. J. Hartley. At the annual meeting of the Jun- ior League of Ontario street church on Friday the following officers were elected for the coming year: Superintendent: Mrs. T. W. Cosens. President: Fred Thompson. 1st Vice: Olive Cole. 2nd Vice: 'Elsie Finch. 3rd Vice: Lulu Connell. Secretary: Elmer Beacom. Treasurer: Willie Walker. Pianists: Ethel Bradshaw Grace Walker. ' Fourteen degrees of frost were registered on the third of May. The new officers for the Women's institute are as follows: President: Mrs. Kearns. Vice: Mrs. E. Munroe. • Sec. -Treasurer: Mrs. T .Mason. Directors: Mrs. E. Munroe, Mrs. Johnston, • Mrs. Junor. , Auditors: Mrs. Flynn, Mrs. Brad- shaw. • Tuckersinith:—The annual: meeting of the Epworth League of Turner's church was held Tuesday evening, when the following officers were el- ected: Hon. -President; Rev, T. W. Cosens. President: Ira Johns. lst Vice: Miss Tina Townsend. 2nd Vice; Mrs,Levi Stang. 3rd Vice; Miss Flossie Townshend. 4th Vice: Harold Turner. Rec.-Secretary: Howard Crich. Cor. -Secretary: Miss Lucy Crich. Treasurer: Roy Pepper. Auditors: Miss Lucy Townsend and Mrs. G. N. Turner. Hilldroy Farm, the home of Mr. Samuel . CIuff, was the scene of a hap- py event on Wednesday, when. his third daughter, Myrtle M„ became the bride' of Mr. C. R. Moore of To- ronto. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. C. C. Cousins of Hensall, in the presence of only the imme- diate relatives. and From The News -Record, May 4th, 1911:' The local neat merchants will close their places of business at 8 o'clock each evening except Saturday and night before holidays, from now on. Earlier closing than heretofore is now the tendency and no doubt the grocers will fall in line. On Sanday evening the Odd Fel- lows to the number of about sixty, attended Divine service in the Bap- tist church. Mr. H. B. Chant acted as marshal and Mr. H. W. Gould as Noble Grand . An appropriate; Ser- neon was -preached by the Rev. W. W. Wylie and the choir rendered pleas- ing music. ' The home of Mr. ` and Mrs. Win. Steep, Brock street, was ,the 'scene of a very happy' gathering on Friday evening last when a number of their friends were bidden to 'help 'celebrate the silver anniversary of . theirwed- ding. The fact that Clinton has been chosen as a centre for one of the six new Model Schools is a recognition of its central position, of the excel- lence of its educational facilities, and furthermore, of the fact that it is the .Hub of the County which sends up more students. for higher educa- tion than probably any ,other in the province ... It is gratifying to place on record the fact that our Pub- lic School Board left no stone unturn- ed in its efforts to secure the, Model, Chairman Hall being particularly ac- tive. The Junior League of Wesley church held its election of officers which resulted as follows?: President: Austin Hoare. 1st Vice: Lloyd Wilken. 2nd Vice: Harriet Cantelon. 3rd Vice: Maude Cook. 4th Vice: D. A. Cantelon. 5th Vice: Irene Wilken. Secretary: Loretta Barge. Treasurer: Viola Cook. Organist: Merle Moore. Assistant: Gertrude Wallis. Convener of Flower Committee: Marion Andrews. On referring to his diary yesterday Mr. G. W. Layton of the London road was able to say that there has been more or less snow on the ground ev- ery second and third of May for tha past four years. Two years ago on the second of May there was a down, fall of six inches of "The Beautiful." Yesterday afternoon a quiet wed- ding took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Livermore, Spruce Boulevard Farm, London Road, when, their eldest daughter, Margaret E., was united in mar- riage to. Mr. A, D. McCartney of Clinton. • The ceremony was performed by the Rev, T. Wesley Cosens, pastor of Ontario street church. The young couple were unattended and owing to a recent death in the groom's fam- ily, only immediate relatives were present. The bride was tastefully attired in a blue suit with waist of white em- broidered net over silk. After the ceremony and when the newly -wedded pair had received the congratulations of those present, all sat down to a sumptuous wedding re- past. Mr, and Mrs, McCartney will take up residence on Princess street, Clin- ton, where both bride and ' groom are well known and held in high es- teem. The News -Record, on behalf of the citizens, welcomes the young couple, to: Clinton and joins with their friends in wishing thein abundant happiness and prosperity. , WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS 'ARE SAYING ENOUGH:! ! ! A Cleveland policeman who , was, in command of squads raiding gamb- ling dens and vice sections, has ac- cumulated $109,000. Enough said. —Goderich Star. ENGAGEMENT " The engagement .is announced of Evelyn Cudmore, elder daughter of Mr. William Cudmore and the late Mrs. Cudmore, of . Seaforth, to Dr. Cullen Bryant, of 951 Woodbine Av- enue, Toronto, the marriage to take place in May in England. —Seaforth Expositor. CALL TO REV F. W. CRAIK Rev. F. W. Craik, who is couiplet- ing..his fifth year at Victoria street United church, has received a call from St. James' United church, Pet- erborough. Mr. Craik has endeared himself inthe hearts of many in this town and district during his pastor- ate here and his removal would be regretted.-Goderich Signal. NO FREE SPEECH UNDER DICTATORS One of the first things dictators and communists demand is the right of free speech, and one of the first things they do when they get into power is to put an end to the free- dom of the press. There is no free- dom of speech or the press in Rus- sia, Italy or Germany. Dictators are afraid of the- truth. -Listowel Banner. • LET TORONTO DO AS IT - PLEASES Altogether, this daylight saving time is a bit confusing to us up here in the country. The habits of a lite time .fare h',rd to 'overcome. Get -i ting up and going to becl with the sun gives`' us plenty of daylight. We would not know what to do with an extra hour and it would not work In either. There would be too much dew in the morning and too much. daylight left at the close of the day. However, the inhabitants of a city are a queer race. If they want day- light saving, that •is their business, and we should not coinplain. But just remember when you visit them, that if they don't succeed in taking anything else from you, they are go- ing to steal an hour of your time, -Seaforth Expositor. ROLLER SKATING DANGEROUS ' Roller skating clays are here again, and they should bring with them the realization, that this healthy and amusment-giving pastime can be dangerous as well. Parents of ,'chil- dren who whiz around the, streets on the latest thitg in ball-bearing 'wheels should 'realize their responsibilities toward motor- ists. The latter too, should keep e careful eye on boys and girls who make, the streets a playground. Nd motorist wants the sensation of seeing a small form dash in front of his car, of picking the same small form off the pavement and rushing to a hospital, of bearing the spoken or feeling the unspoken recrimina- tions of parents. And no mother or father wants to be called suddenly to a hospital to findan injured son' or daughter there. Children should ,be taught to exer- cise all possible care when skating along the street. It might easily be that sections of quiet streets could be designated as children's playgrounds for a couple of hours each day., -Fort Erie Times -Review. 5 LEGISLATION—AT OTTAWA If the House of Commons were a market, the reports appearing in the press would be pretty steadily made In • the .words, "dull and draggy." There are two or three commissions at work or at least in existence, and that is about all. There are a few trade , agreements to ratify, if and when they are gotten in shape for that to be done. There may, it is true, be something done about the railway business at suchtime as some conclusion is reached, and after due allowance for unforeseen even- tnalities. The agricultural imple- ment legislation and tariff adjut- menta await the sittings and find- ings of another commission. The same it is with the textile trade, and sante again with unemployment, this latter being a thing which Hon. Mac- Kenzie King wrote a book about, once upon a time. There is also a commission to investigate peniten- tiary matters that has got to beim- plemented to sit and, to be heard from.: Listowel Standard. BUT, DO THEY WEAR 'EM? An American nudist colony adver- tised in the newspapers .for a steno- grapher and received only two appli- cation. Apparently the thousands of girls who could have used the job were afraid of losing their shirts. —Kincardine Review -Reporter.. KINCARDINE NO EXCEPTION NOR IS CLINTON Speaking of the conditions free publicity 'and community support giv- en by local newspapers. Governor Francis of Missouri pays the follow- ing tribute: "Each year the local paper gives from $50 to' $1,000 in free lines to the connnunity in which It is located. No other agent can or will do this. The editor, in propor- tion to his means, does more for his own town than any other ten men, and in ail 'fairness he ought to be supported not because you like him or admire his writings, but be- cause the local paper is the best In- vestment a community can make. To- day the editors of the local papers do the most for the least money of any people on earth." Kincardine News. KING COMMENDED The Englishman likes his joke. As King Edward VIII. once attended Magdalen College at Oxford UnI- versity, his accession to the throne caused a story of his Life to be print- ed in the Oxford University Labor Club publication under the heading, "Magdalen Man Makes Good." Hanover Post. ACCEPTS CALL TO KINCARDINE CHURCH Maitland Presbytery of the Presby- terian Church, meeting at Kincar- dine, approved the call being extend- ed by Knox Church, Kincardine, to. Rev. Gordon Taylor of Carleton Place, a member of the graduating classo f Montreal Presbyjterian. College. Mr. Taylor has intimated he will accept, and so become eighth minister of the church, .in succession to Rev, T. D. McCullough. Plans were made for Mr. Taylor's ordina- tion and induction on May 7th. Wingharn Advance-Thnes. A QUEER OLD ,CHAP • During the hectic days when those inert were 'entombed down there in Nova Scotia, we noticed' •a man Who was busy with his woodpile. The wind blew Hurricanes abont him, but back and forwards to the woods he went driving Dick and Dobbin. Little by little the wood was brought to' the yard, and about 4 cords split and piled in the woodshed. That wood job • is well done, 'Just across the road from him his neighbor could not get himself away from his radio, he was so anxious to help the entombed men by listening 'in on the radio. His wood is still in the woods, for, the fine weather is calling him to the fields. And so wags the world. By the way which of these two is the queer old chap? . —Exeter Times -Advocate. The report of the Minister of Edu- cation shows that in Ontario there OUR COCKEYED CALENDAR AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE CONSTRUCTIVE CHANGES 'WILL COME IN 1936. From The Financial Post Change, as someone or other has remarked,' is the la7r of life. But possibly the lnnnan'race is not in -I stinctively law-abiding; in any event, as individuals or in the mass, our' natural reaction' to change ge' is i•esis-1 Lance, and the more logical the change, the stronger the resistance. Annually there is a dispute about daylight saving, and it still is not adopted nationally. There is a hazy but effective opinion, among the fun- damentalists at least, that our clocks and watches wereset by Moses on Mount. Siniaand that it would be, impious to alter them. If impiety is involved in so simple a matter as setting back a clock,.. how much more serious in the change of our whole calendar. Yet every business man will admit, if pressed, that our presentcalendar is cockeyed. The two halvesofthe. year are ' of unequal length; the quartets are not the same. Our ohil- dren still have to memorize: "Thirty, days hath September, etc" In the March issue of The Cana- dian Chartered Accountant the editor reviews the present status of the movement for calendar reform. Char- tered accountants are naturally a- mong those greatly interested in the movement, for accounting frequently makes necessary the comparison of one period with , another, and the lack of periods of equal length brings dismay to their orderly souls. Our present calendar, he points out, goes back two thousand years to the days of Julius Caesar. With certain adjustmentsmade in. 1582, it became known as the Gregorian Cal- endar. This was adopted by the British Empire in 1752 and is now in general use throughout the world. eniar is that the number thirteen is ;unpopular, anyway, and the public would not welcome it, The main objection is that thirteen is not con- veniently divisible, into halves or quarters. The present movement for calendar reform retains the twelve months under their present names. In fact, the alterations are so slight that • they would be hardly noticed. Yet they ' accomplish all that chartered accountants and busi- ness men generally desire. The proposed calendar, now known as the World Calendar, has twelve months, totalling 364 days. The 395th day will be a holiday folllow= ing the last day of December. Leap Year Day will come every fourth year, probably at the end of. June. The year is divisible into two equal halves of 182 days each, and four equal quarters of 91 days each. The World Calendar provides a fixed date for Easter, April 8. We vie* this change with some personal regret, for being of a mathematical rather than a religious turn of mind, we used to while away many a dull sermon hour' in our boyhood by com- puting coming Easter, dates from the involved formulae for Golden Num- bers at the beginning of theprayer book. We cannot concoct a metrical ver- sion of the World Calendar, but .its simplicity makes one unnecessary. January, April, July and October will have 31 days and all -the rest will :have 30. All 31 -day months will begin on Sunday. February, May, August and November will begin on Wednesday. The others will begin on Friday. The date of Easter will fix the dates of other religious holidays. Other holidays will be celebrated on the same dates as at present. The only months that will be changed In length are February, March, April, May, August and December. In order to bring about the change with the least possible confusion, it is proposed to make it effective on January 1, 1939. The World Calen- dar Association had worked to make the change on January 1, 1933, that date being Sunday. Not being suc- cessful then, it has had to make its objective six years later and a fur- ther six-year delay will be imposed if public opinion cannot be suffi- ciently educated within the next three years. In Canada the support for reform has been organized under the Ra- tional Calendar Association, which is affiliated with similar associations throughout the world. The real na- petus to the present movement same from the International Chamber of Commerce in 1922 when it took a lead in the matter and brought it to the attention of the League of Na- tions. The following year the League appointed the Communications and Transport Committee to make a spe- The problem of reforming the cal- endar is principally a matter of find- ing a satisfactory formula for a change without making the change so sweeping that it would not pos- sibly secure general approval One objection to the thirteen -months cal - are nearly 500 schools with six pu- pils each or less, 131 schools have four pupils each or less and 5 schools have one pupil each. Thee cost of educating each pupil in these schools will be abnormally high and yet the type of education naturally will not be the best. Under such conditions a highly efficient teacher is not like- ly tobe employed and school equip- ment will not be up to the mark. Our present system of rural schools is far from meeting the needs of the situation.—St. Marys Journal -Argus. PRAT OR -- Hon. Howard Ferguson's report be has made $1,000 a year for 20 ,years out of his Kemptville farm will con- vince Ontario more than ever that the incomparable " Diergy'' is a posi- tive genius.—London Free Press. el3R'.LEDERS 'OBJECT TO BEAUTY AID FOR SHEEP For several years the Western Fair, London, has had to cope with the problem of artificial beauty aids to prize livestock. They made a rig- id rule against doctoring livestock with injections of tallow a'nd other padding to build up the back bone. Now they have a new pr'oblemn. The sheep men are objecting to the use of cosmetics in that department. Colored powder and oils have been used to shade the wool and give the prima donna ewe or high hat rani a uniformity of color throughout the body. One of the sheep associations wrote to W. D. Jackson, secretary of the fair board, to say it wasn't fair, "About that ' I would not, like to say," Mr. Jackson declared. "How- ever I don't see how the Western Fair can take any action without a similar hove being made by other leading exhibitons of the .country." In other words unless a nationwide stir is raised against this matter of rouging and primping livestock it is likley to continue in London unabat- ed. . Goderich Made Launch Formally Christened In spite of a chilling- rain which fell during the afternoon, the chris- tening of Bert MacDonald's 30 foot launch "Annamac" was carried out on Saturday by Miss, Martina Hus- sey, queen of "The Jollies," a musical show which was presented here re- cently. Miss Hussey, charmingly dres- sed in a natty blue suit and carry- ing an arm bouquet of lilies, roses and narcissi, broke a beribboned bot- tle of champagne over the bow of the trim ship, which was designed and built by the harbor master. Judge T. M. Costello was master of ceremonies at a brief gathering of a crowd of spectators. Congra- tulatory addresses were directed to the popular harbor master by Mayor H. J. A. MacEwan, C. C. Lee, presi- dent of the Board of Trade, C. K. Saunders, representative of the Lions Club and Rev. A. C. Calder, Mal study of the problem and was thereby instrumental in securing tor it the consideration of every nation.' Many other proposals for reform have been seriously considered, but: the World Calendar is now the only one which receives strong general support. Thus for nearly fourteen years a reform which nearly every one will admit is needed and to which no serious objection can be raised has struggled ahead, One cannot see that there would even be any politi- cal danger involved should either the Conservative or Liberal party advo- cate it. On the other hand, neither party could garner much political capital from such advocacy. That plus human inertia, may be the real reason why we still retain our cock- eyed calendar. Here's hoping we scrap it in 1939. PAGE :: LOCAL I31IEEDEIIS PURCHASE THOROUGHBREDS At the dispersal sale of the pure-- bred ure-bred Holstein, herd of Robt, Low, • Stratford, Ont., held recently, thirty head of all ages, sold for the excel- lent average, of :1134. Twenty cows and bred heifers brought an average - of $149. The top price at the sale- was $205, paid by R. C. Given,. Georgetown, Ont., for a three-year-- old heifer, sired by a son of Abeg-- weitt Pluto. Win. Sparks, Bayfield,. Ont. paid $200 for a three-year-okt- herd sire, a double grandson of Mont -- vie Rag Apple Pabat. There was a large attendance of" breeders and the bidding was more spirited than has been seen at a dis- persal sale for- some time. Some of the Higher priced animals. included: Feniales-Cairn Brae Sylvia PIute,,. sold to R. C. Given, Georgetown,. $205. Cairn Brae A. Lady Verna, 274818, sold to Jas. D. Rutherford, Stratford, $200. Cairn Brae Nina Matchless, 274816: • sold to Colin Campbell, Bayfield, $175. Elizabeth Keyes Hartog, 194608. sold to J. C. Free & Son, Thames- ford, .$175, Male -.-Silver Acres, Tortilla Pabet,. 101604, sold to Wm. Sparks, Hay- field, Ont, $200.00. Local buyers included: one Heat/' each to the following: R. W. Gib- bings, Clinton; Wm. Sparks, anc"I.' Colin Campbell, Bayfield. WORKMENS' COMPENSATION I STATEMENT There were 4,250 accidents report- ed to The Workmen's Compensation Board during the month of April, a decrease of 593 front the month or March, and 236 less than the num- ber during April a year ago. The benefits awarded amounted to' - $430,511.62, of which $340,017.25 was for compensation and $90,494,37' for medical aid. COUNTY NEWS WINGHAM: Dr. W. J. McLean, son of Mrs. Margaret McLean c f Town, has been appointed Chief, Medical Officer at Westminster Hos- fital, London. For some years Dr. McLean has been on the medical staff at Westminster Hospital and since, the death, several months ago, of Dr - David H. Nichol, has been acting chief of the medical staff. IIis many- friends anyfriends here are pleased that he has received this much deserved promo- tion. The production of creamery butter - in Canada for the first three months- of 1936 showed an increase of 2,249,- 718 compared with the corresponding; period of 1935. 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