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The Clinton News Record, 1936-08-13, Page 3THURS., AUG. 13,1936 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE WHAT CLINTON WAS . DOING IN TITE GAY NINETIES Do You Remember What II append During The Last Decade Of The Old Century? From The News -Record, Aug. 12th, 1896: The third annual commencement: of the Clinton Collegiate Institute. will be held this yenl on Labor Day, Sept: 7th. The whole day will be de- voted to games, followed by a grand concert in the town hall. The people of Clinton were greatly surprised last Thursday to learn of the:•,death of Thomas r M. Carling. . The deceased was born at Exeter for- ty-one years ago. For twenty years he had lived in Clinton. He is sur- vived by a wife and five small chil- dren. Mr. Fred Swinbank is home from Chicago. There should be a few dozen seats in the park. The cost would only be a trifle. The plum season is. now in full swing. The yield is . large and as usual Cantelon Bros. are handling immense. quantities. James M. McRae, son of Mr. Arthur McRae of town, who had his heel and ankle injured a couple of year's since while playing lacreese, was. operated on in Detroit the other day, a dis- jointed bone having to be replaced. At last accounts the patient was do- ing well. I There were thirty-five passengers from here on the Niagara excursion and forty-five for Sarnia and Detroit on Saturday. Goderich:-Mr. Benson Cox of Leamington, Ont., is visiting his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Cox. ' From The New Era, Aug. 14th, 1896, 'i`he heat of the past week has been decidedly uncomfortable, the-thermo mometer registering in the neighbor- hood of ninety every day. Messrs. W. Doherty and Co. had thirty-six organs on the steamship Vancouver which had a collision the other day and had to return to Que- bec. Mr. John Ransford leaves in a few days for Winnipeg, where he goes as representative of Huron Diocese to the meeting of the General Synod of the Anglican church. ' Rev. R. Fulton Irwin of Adelaide was recently married to Miss Sarah Elizabeth, second daughter of the late. Alexander Todcl, Woodbourne, $elfast, Ireland. Last week four cars of apples were exported, three being for Winnipeg. Mr. D. E. Munro, the popular, post- master at Auburn was a caller in The New Era office last Friday. Rufus Andrews of Cleveland, who has been laid up for a couple of weeks, is still in very poor health and will come hrome to recuperate as soon as he is able to travel. When The Present Century Was Young From The News -Record, Aug. 10th, 1911: The town council passed the esti- mates last Monday night. They pro- vide for 28 -mill rate, that's all. The council wants several hundred cords more stone, for road -building, and also to hire.twenty-five men. The past week Mr. A. J. McMurray made as fine shipment of export cat- tle as has left here this season. He bought them from John Middleton, W. Gould and Edwards of Goderich township and Frank Grant of the London road. From The New Era, Aug. 10th, 1911: The Model School will open its ses- sion on September 5th. Archie Hislop•is the Liberal candi date in East Huron at the coming federal election. • Reciprocity is the issue. Don't let the Tory orators dodge it. Oise of the most popular railway men who occasionally conies into Clinton is Mr. W. T. Dockrell,•repre- senting the C.P.R. ... That he ap- preciates his visits here is shown by the remark he made to a friend a few days ago, when he said: "It would be hard to find anywhere a mare:gener- ous, whole-souled, jovial bunch of fel- lows than Billy Jackson, Dr. Shaw, John Ransford and the others. in Clinton who always unite in giving a fellow the time of his life whenever he drops into that town." WHAT OTHER NEWS PAPERS FARE SAYING n Gallows OOt 'By RICHARD KEVERNE When last Pug Croft had travelled from his face. the, twenty odd miles between Ling- thorpe and Norminster he had been handcuffed; driven in a police car, with a charge of murder hanging over his head. That was the morning after George Hamble; the game -kee- per, had been shot dead iir Gallows Wood. There had been five of them in that poaching business. Pub had been working with the Warren Gang • "Whatd'you want with me?" he faltered. "Have a guess." "Rein' funny, ain't you?" Pug said huskily. Ilis face had turned a queer, sallow tint. "Come on out of it, Pug." "1 won't," .he said, with an oath, and' gripped the back of his seat. Suddenly the bearded man who had sat behind hiin seized him, ,` caught from Norminster, butonly. he ,and hint by the scruff of the neck and old Sam Warren had been taken. The swung him round. Pug felt a knee inthe small of his back, and, he was hurled along the gangway. His' nerve left him: He squealed like a fright- ened hare as he felt a pistol pressed against his chest. "You'll have to know if you don't shut up," said the man in goggles. "Get out?" Pug Croft almost fell from the bus. The bearded man went with him; the man with the pistol remained covering the frightened passengers. The bus moved, forward with •a jerk, lurched and swayed like a crazy thing. There was a rasp of whin bushes against the sides. They were off the road, jolting over one ;of the rough heath cart -tracks. Pug- Croft stood by the roadside trembling. "I ain't done nothin' to you," Ise said. "You'll have your say in a min- ute," the bearded man said laconig- ally, and dragged him on to the heath. others, Sam's two sons .and a strang- er called Vic they'd brought to drive the car, had been lucky; they'd hot 'away. Where they'd got to, Pug never. knew, but Sain had been hanged at Norminster Gaol two months later, Pug was in the gaol at the time, do- ing the first week of a 'four-year- stretch. . But all that was .over three. years ago. Pug had earned his good -eon duct remission, and now he wae tra- velling the twenty -odd' miles back from Norminster to, Lingthorpe. Released that moning, he had been making the most of his first hours of liberty. . And it was with an: air of bravado that he had pushed his way into the late bus. He was' going to show Lingthorpe' that he didn't care. Lingthorpe needn't think he was afraid to come back home again, and if they . didn't like it they needn't. He rather hoped someone would say something nasty- he'd tell 'em off. But nobody said anything; nobody seemed even to recognize hint, though he knew four or five of them. His immediate companions were strangers, .who left the bus in ones and twos at the intervening villages, until at last Ppg was left alone in his seat towards the front. ' Slowly it dawned on his fuddled brain that* the clustering of Ling- thorpe people by the door was delib- erate. They, had recognized him. Pug hunched his shoulders and gave himself up to sullen resentment. The country omnibus rumbles. on. At Pettenham cross-roads it stop- ped to take on a stranger, a bearded fellow in shabby clothes. The bus started its last stretch; a long three miles of deserted heath- land country. A car passed it. Presently the bus pulled up with a jerk. "Hello, what's this?' ' said Con- ductor Syd Carter. He opened the door mechanically., Front the darkness a man climbed in; a short, thick -set fellow in a greasy leather coat, wearing motor- cyclist's . goggles that concealed his face. Syd Carter stood aside to let him enter, but the man pushed him ahead roughly, and when Carter turn- ed to protest he found' a pistol point- ed'at his head. "Go on. Up to the other end, all of you," the man said curtly. Most of the passengers had scram- bled to their feet in sheer astonish ment. Then fear swept over their faces as they stared open-mouthed at the pistol. "Up to the other end, I tell you," the man repeated savagely. • ' Staggering to his feet Pug Croft said thickly: • "Here, what's all this? What do you think you want?" "You, Pug," the man in the gog- gles answered deliberately, and Pug's bluster vanished as the blood drained YES, WITH A SHINGLE lent of discarding the tie and opening hec p , th ollar, but this lap very suitable Two Connecticut boys who went or on sandy beaches,does not quite do strike for payment for chores done •for city street. Will someone design around their homes are to receive . a shirt which can be left open at the weekly 'wages from their parents. In' neck without looking untidy or By - the good old days they'd have found ronle? Such a garment we think, their parents striking, too. Iwould catch on even though the Ad- -Toronto Daily Star. con's apple is rarely a thing of beau- ty. -Winnipeg Free Press. THEY HOOKED THE HOOK Between closing time Saturday ev- ening' and opening time Monday morning someone stole a large brass GOVERNMENT SHOULD PAINT MAIL BOXES hook' used in holding open one of the .While no rackets of any kind are main doors of the postoffice. The one that can come to be commended; hook was wrenched from the brass t nearer to being countenanced by that foundation.-Exeter Times -Advocate. plc who travel the rural roads is that one whereby a man is goingabout the rural districts painting mail box- es without authority and then de- manding 50 cents for his work. It is the deplorable condition of the ma- jority of mail boxes on the rural routes that has prompted the person or persons to start the racket. Posts awry, rusted and battered mail box- es in a disgraceful state greet the eye in all parts of Anderson, Malden and Colchester South, as well as other places throughout the province. They IT'S CATCHING show a wbefui lack ofpride on the part of the owners which may be Baseball catchers are having hard caused by the fact that the rural luck in this district. About two patrons • receive them free. If the weeks ago as Zurich was playing an government were to charge the people O.B.A.A. game here. Yungblut,' Zurich catcher, :broke his leg sliding, a base. On Wednesday at a benefit game .played in Zurich to help defray Yungblut's expenses, . Albert Hilde- brand, Seafor•th, catcher, was struck eers' book and have all boxes on with a low ball and now he, too, has rural routes painted and the patrons. broken'leg.-Seaforth Expositor. charged 50 cCnts for the service.It MAKE VIRTUE OF NECESSITY The old city by-law requiring bath- ers to wear suits reaching from "neck to knee" has been amendedand now "a proper bathing suit, sufficient to prevent exposure of the body," will be all right with city officials. -News Item. who get the boxes a fee and use of the fee towards the maintenance of the boxes and standardy, it might be a good thing. Or the government might take a' leaf from the racket - SEASICKNESS ' A Vancouver man on his way to Europe was experiencing seasickness for the first time. Calling his wife to his bedside, he said in a weak voice: "Jennie, my will is in the trust company's care. Everything is left to you, dear. My various stocks you will find e.; ..-v donosit box." Then • he said fervently: "And Jennie, bury we on the other side. I can't stand this trip again, alive or dead." -Edmonton Journal. HOT NECKS' There remains, of course, the prob- lem of cooling off the male neck. Ev- en the man who goes in for linen suits must still, if he would be "properly" dressedswathe his neck in three folds of cloth -two of shirt collar and one of tie, There is always the expedi- would receive the support of the gen- ital public if it did so. Amherstburg Echo. "NUTS TO YOU," SAYS CUSTO- MER; "NUTS FOR ALL," SAYS CLERK. - A rather tangy story, concerning a qu antity •of salted peanuts, came to light last week -end. A traveller went into a local store and asked for a bottle of pop. He thought that he would like to have some peanuts while he was drinking the pop so he asked for 10e worth. The drink was brought to 'him. "What about the peanuts?" he asked. "They are coming, sir," the clerk answered. The bottle of pop was finished, ,Still no, peanuts., • "Where are the peanuts I ordered?" the . traveller queried. "They will be ready in a as the bearded man pressed it tight `checked him. He sank back, whin).- Paring. hiniporing. The pressure relaxed. . The ear iolted back onto the road. As Our switched 0» the lights. They 'drove towards Lingthorpe. ' Cold terror had cowed Png Croft. He ceased to bluster; he tried to scheme. He'd got to get away from them somehow! At the enol of the heath they turned sharply into a narrow lane that ran through a patch of wood, then in at a gate atthe top. There was an old gravel pit there where a,car'could lie hidden for hours unless you were looking' for it. Pug knew it well, and his' heart began to beat faster. This was where they had met that. black Novenlser night over three years ago -he and Sam Warren and his sons Jim and Arthur. The car had waited just inside'the 'gate. 'Half a mile on was Galiows Wood'. The car stopped, and: _ Arthur There was a car waiting, its lights out, .hidden behind a clump of whips. Pug had no option. He had to get in. The'bearded man sat by his side. "What -what's the game?" 'Pug whimpered, after a few moments. "You know." "I swear I don't," Pug protested. "You're good at swearing, ain't y«ou?" Across . the heath the country om- nibus was lurching, slowly. It passed close by the car. Presently it's lights went out. '. "What's that mean?" Pug gasped. "Nothing'." "Here. Don't you think you're go- ing to getaway with this," Pug said, with sudden truculence. A swift, pressure on his arm sil- enced him abruptly. "Nor you ain't going to get away with it, Pug," the bearded man said. switched' off the lights. "Bring the swine out, Vic," he said. As he . climbed from the car he lashed out with Ms heavy boot and the man they called Vic doubled up in pain. • But it was no good. They had him on the giound within a dozen yards of the car. "Tie him up," said Jim. They tied him up, wrists and el- bows lashedbehind his back, and put a gag ihr his mouth. But they left his leg's free. So they walked him, Jim on one side and Arthur on the other, through the rain -sodden drives to Gallows Wood, and neither Jim nor Arthur spoke as -they went. Pug cursed under his .breath. There followed another intolerable silence. Pug Croft was, growing frantic. "Why can't you leave a chap a- lone?" he whimpered. "Ain't I had my share of trouble without this? Three years I done; that's more .than what some of 'em has. Chaps what deservedit more'n I did." "They hung Sam." "Sam!" Pug' went deathly cold. "Sam who?" "Sain Warren - the chap whose life you swore away." "That's a lie -that's a damned lie. I never. I never swore nothing'." "They hung Salm" "Well, was that my fault? He done it--" "That's what. you swore, and they hung hirer for it—" "Yes. And ' they give me four years -four years of hell -and I'd no more to do with it than Jim or Arthur had. And they got off scot- free. It weren't my fault. It was Sam's gun----" "And who fired it?" "Sam did: Ford, the copper, saw moment, sir." him. , He' swore it—" Another' bottle of pop was drunk • ."And what did Jim see?" and the peanuts had not yet made "I don't know nothin' about Jim. their appearance. The traveller thought he wouldn't bother waiting for them and went to the counter to pay for his drinks. "I don't suppose those peanuts are ready yet?" he asked in a tired tone. I never' said nothin' about him nei- ther. I kept my mouth shut and done three years for it."' • "And what did Arthur see?" "Arthur weren't there. He run as soon as George Hamble came out RADIO COMMISSION CONSTRUCT.ING POWERFUL NEW TRANSMIT-- TER RANSMrTTER FOR CRCV, VANCOUVER -LISTENERS TO HEAR SUNDAY CONCERTS OF NEW YORK P HILHARMONIC SOCIETY OR CHESTRA. Marking another, step forward towardsbetter service in Canadian radio, broadcasting,. will. be the open- ing this Fall of.a powerful 5 Kilowatt transmitter at CRCV, Vancouver sta- tion'of the Canadian• Radio Commis- sion,to serve the west coast territory. The Commission anonurneed to -clay that the contract has been let and work is way, Concurrently with th .undertaction of the new stransmit- - e cpns ru ter the studios of that station are be- ing'completely modernized so that the area served by CRCV will receive a broadcasting service of a quality to none in the Dominion. , The new transmitter, which will re- place the present one kilowatt sta- tion, is being ereoted on property.re- cently purchased by the Commission on the centra] part of Lulu Island and is well removed from the Vancou- ver Airport, so that the special anten- na provided will not be hazard • to aviation. Elaborate and modern in design, the new equipment will require 50,000 feet of buried wire to make a highly efficient ground system. The single 400 foot tower serves as the antenna. This is the latest advance in antenna design and is the first of its type in Canada. It will be painted with al- ternate bands of orange and white and will be equipped with red lights placed at 100 foot intervals. The painting and lighting will make it an effective landmark for aircraft and shipping. ' • The transmitter will feed the an= tenna through a concentric cylinder transmission line, said to be the most modern and most effective type of feed known and one which offers a great many advantages over the more conventional forms of colpling. The transmitter itself is of standard de- sign but is being modified extensive- ly to ensure that it will be well in the band of latest developments. It will provide service of the. highest quality and will offer fidelity well in advance of present day requirements. The complete designing and installation of the plant is being carried out by the Commission's engineering depart- ment. ' Vic they left with , the car by the pit as they had done the night George Hamble was shot. 'Pug Croft was beside himself with tenor. It was worse, far worse, than that hour and a half three years ago, when he had waited at Norminster Assizes for the jury to bring 'in its verdict. He tried to scream when the big oak inthe middle of the wood loomed up in the darkness. It was all just the same as it had been that other night; even to the old cock pheasant roosting in the boughs that flew away in noisy alarm. Jim said in -a dull, emotionless voice: "Pug, we brought you here to tell you somethin' what you'd for- got. What you swore in the court was that when George Hamble came out from behind the tree there an' says 'I got you this time, me lads.' the old man ups with his gun and shoots him, "They are right here just about from behind the oak. Damned cow - ready for you," said the clerk. The, ard. But I kept my mouth shut about customer' looked and saw before him him, too. And I done three years. a set of scales, the tray of which was heavy with peanuts, a large bag al- most filled with peanuts and a scoop arising for the last time to dump' a load of peanuts on the tray -all his peanuts. The traveller asked the clerk if she didn't think she was giving him. a few too many for 10c. "Oh!" cried the clerk with a sheepish smile, "I thought you asked for a dollar's worth?'-Goderich Star. . SPOONING With business tax, municipal tax, income tax and about sixteen other varieties of taxes to eat up the profit there is nothing left to pay the cost of souvenirs for the guests thinks a local man and when he found a spoon was missing from his restaurant tab- le on Wednesday morning he gave chase and recovered his property. The lifting of souvenirs from restaur- ants is apparently "an old Spanish custom" and often restaurant owners have to be a Sherlock Holmes in the presence of certain individuals, To date the local restaurant man has al- ways succeeded "ingetting his man''. and therefore has a supply of cutlery to meet all requirements of even a business; `boom. -Kincardine News. "Now we're gain' to put you right, me and Arthur. Sarre Warren were- n't no dirty murderer. What the old man done was throw his gun down and run for it like what me and Ar- thur did. "It was you what picked up the gun and fired it, you filthy, dirty little louse! And then you swore the. old" man's life away to save your own skin. Well, you haven't done it,' see. Arthur and me swore somethin', too, when we knew the old man'd swung. Weswore we'd wait for you if it was a hundred years." Jim leaned closer to him. "Just Isere was where yoti done it, Pug." Pug Croft swayed. "Let's have that rope, Arthur," Jim Warren said. It was a passing motorist who ov- ertook Syd Carter tearing frantically along the road to Lingthorpe and gave hint a lift. He thought he must be mad or drunk, this excited bus con- ductor who babbled of a hold-up and a bus driver gagged and bound in his seat out on the heath, and someone called Pug Croft. Even the Lingthorpe ' policeman found it hard.to credit Carter's amaz- ing story at first. When he did, he was more interested in the fate of the bus than in that of the poacher who, as he vaguely remembered, had been lucky to get off with a longish sentence when a keeper had been shot the year before he came to Ling- thorpe. Fred Harting found Pug at dawn next morning as he walked through Gallows Wood. Fred was George Ramble's successor. Pug's dead body was hanging limply from a bough of the big oak in the middle of the wood. A crumpled note was pinned to his coat. "He murdered George Hample and Sam Warren," it read. -London Answers. If I'd spoke. the truth they'd have had Jim and Arthur, too." "But they wouldn't have hang Sam." "It was the copper what swore it," Pug snivelled. "I didn't know what I was doin'. Nor'd you if you'd been up therewith the rope hangin' over you. If I hadn't kept my mouth shut; I tell you, they'd have had Jim ` and Arthur and the chap what was wait - in' with the car." "I'm'the chap what was waitin' with the car," the bearded man said grimly. Two men came running over the heath from the country omnibus where half a dozenpeople sat in ter- ror and darkness. "Got him, Vic?" "I got him." The man in the goggles climbed into the front of the car, and his companions followed. "Who are you?" Pug stammered. "Twoold pals, Pug," the manan- swered, witha queer laugh. "Two Old pals what have been waitin' to have a talk with you for three years." "It's Jim!" Pug gasped. "And' Arthur." "Here, let me go! I ain't comin' along with you. Yott let me go!" Pug screamed. But the pain of his' arm Scottish Shipyards Working Overtime Shipbuilding on the, Clyde and oth- er centres in -Scotland is approach- ing a boom. There are now about 200 ships on order in Scottish yards of which the Clyde alone accounts for about 150, including 30 warships, and : prospects for many additional r contracts are favourable. Work on hand in the Clyde shipyards is said to be far in excess of that of any oth- er world shipbuilding centre. Some yards have twice as many ships on order as they have building berths. So great is the demand for ships that the annual "Fair" holidays in some Clyde' shipyards are being restricted in an endeavor to cope with tonnage orders. During June, 29,485 tons of shipping were launched from Clyde shipyards. For the half-year ,the output was 48 vessels with a total tonnage of 126,502 as against 92,445 tons for the,.sanre period last year, according to the Industrial Depart- ment of the Canadian National Rail- ways. dian Radio Commission on its nationd al network and will be transmitte overseas and broadcast by the B.B.C. This broadcast will be heard in, Canada at 4 pan., • EST, Thm:sday,, August 20. ' Unveiling of Statue Philharmonic Concerts The Canadian Radio Conrnrissioni announces that it. has effected ar-- rangements with the. Columbia Broad- casting System for securing the gay." dayconcerts of the New York Phil -- harmonic Society Orchestra during: the coming season. This series of con- certs will be secured under the inter--- national program exchange system. . For some seasons the`'New York' Philharmonic Society concerts eacIsa+ Sunday afternoon have been an oat -- standing feature in the Radio. Coni-- mision's schedule. Carried on the Commission's national network, these, concerts bring to Canadian listeners. . from coast to coast the continent's. greatest simphonic orchestra. Last season the conducting of Ar- turo Toscanini contributed greatly tee- the popularity of these broadcasts in this country as well as'in the United' States. Toacsnini .having retired, at the close of last season, the Society - has engaged five distinguished con- ductors for the concerts for the com- ing season. They will conduct as fol- lows: IJohn Barbirolli: November 8, 15,- 22 29; December 6, 13, 20, 27; Jan- uary 3, 10. Igor Stravinsky: January 17, 24. Georges Enesco: January 31; Feb- ruary 7. Carlos Chavez: February 14, 21. Arthur Rodzinski: February 28;1 March 7, 14, 21, 28; April 11, 18. It is now estimated that these' broadcast concerts are available to' a potential audience of at Ieast 75 million people. The Philharmonic !Society has found that the majority` of the radio public favours, for the- most hemost part, the classic masterpieces; but that a considerable number Iike' to hear important contemporary' works, while a smaller part of they audience are specially interested Ira the works of native composers- The concert series for the coming season: will respond to all three preferences>. A feature of Vancouver's jubilee celebration this summer will be the unveiling of a new statue to the fa- mous English explorer from whom the Pacific Coast city takes ite name, Captain George Vancouver. Sir Percy Vincey, Lord Mayor of London, will be in Vancouver espec- ially to preside at the unveiling. The ceremonies connected with. this event will be broadcast by the Cana, [ES." Microphones . . LARRY FAGAN, trumpeter of Billy Regula's orchestra, recently fes, - tuned on "Rhythm River" from CRCMIT and the Canadian Radio Conmrission,- maintains that some .so-called "sister' trios should be called "MICROPHON-• = SNAPSHOT GUIL FIREWORKS PICTURES In the picture at the left, an exposure of 3 seconds captured the Tight of' the set pieces on the ground and the successive bursts meanwhile of the, aerial display. An exposure of one minute recorded the buildings in then other•picture. • CONSIDERING that it is an ex- ceptional community that lets a summer go by without the celebra- tion of some sort of event with a display of fireworks -Victoria Day, Dominion Day, a local anniversary, convention or fair -the opportunity toobtain novel and beautiful photo- graphs of such a display is lacking to few. Don't fail to be on hand with your camera that night when the fireworks begin., Fireworks pictures are easy to take. The brilliant, gracefully fall- ing streams of light from bursting rockets and the dazzling patterns of set pieces, both can be recorded with any camera that has. a "time" exposure adjustment, and when the films are developed and printed, the exclamations of "Ah! How lovely!" and "Ohl Isn't that beautiful?" are likely to be repeated. Also you will be proud of the pictures as photo- graphic studies. Use a large stop opening and with box cameras, the largest. ' Have the camera on a tripod or some firm support that will allow its being pointed skyward. Set the shutter for "time". For the rockets and star shells, aim the camera at the space where they will explode. Open the shutter and let it stay open for two or three successive bursts, or, if the: first . one is large and, graceful enough, turn the fihn at once for the next picture. You'll want variety ' in your fireworks pictures. Be care- ful, of course, to see that the view ' is unobstructed, and you must be prepared to close the shutter should any spectators get too close to,the:• lens.' For these aerial displays the chrome type of film will be quite satisfactory. For large, and brightly glowing set pieces, the camera may be in the hands and snaps taken if you <, use the supe-serisitiue panchromatic film and a Targe .lens aperture. `. Otherwise, set the camera for time:. exposure. If it is desired to bring' grit buildings or other objects, give time exposures even as long as a , minute. 92 JOHN VAN GUILDER.:.