HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-11-12, Page 3THURS., NOV. 12, 1936
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
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WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE
GAY NINETIES
(Do You Remember? What 11 appened During The Last
Decade Of The Old Century?
From The News -Record, Nov. 11th,
1896:
Mr. E._Dinsley is buying all the
dressed poik he can get at $1.75. The
price paid for good quality poultry is
this: chickens, 30c to 35c'per pair;
ducks, 50c to 60c per pair; geese, 5c
per lb.; turkeys, 6c to 7c per lb.
To Iluron County belongs the hen -
our of having the largest number of
Junior Christian Endeavor Society
branches.
•
From The New Era, Nov. 13th, 1896:
Mr.Russell Manning of Exeter
spent Sunday here.
The next and last meeting' of the
County Council will be held in Gode-
rich on December 3rd. Goderich will
miss the periodical visits of the fifty
men who constitute, the Council.
Hereafter only eighteen men will be
sent up,
' Mr. Bob Coats, son of. Mr. Robert
Coats, is the whiner of the Fred
Wyld prize at the University of To-
ronto for the best essay in English.
Last _ Friday we were^enjoying six
inches of snow and en Saturday
plenty of People came to town in:eut-
ters and sleighs. On Monday the
weather was so mild that store doors
were thrown oven all day long.
On Wednesday last at high noon
the marriage of Mr. Harry Torr
Rance, of the firm of McMurchey and
Rance, Rankers, Blyth, and Miss
Eva Maud, only daughter of W. W.
Ferran, Esq., took place in St. Paul's
church, which was crowded.... Miss
Farran was elegantly attired in cream
duchess satin with beautiful bridal
wreath and veil. Promptly at the
hour the groom, accompanied by Dr.
Shaw, as best man, took their places
and immediately afterwards, little
Miss May Rance, as maid of honour,
came up the west aisle, followed by
the bridesmaid, Miss Fanny Rance,
sister of the groom who was dressed
in buttercup surrah, with black vel-
vet picture hat, and the bride,' leaning
en the arm of her father. After the
ceremony, which was performed by.
the Rev. J. F. Perko, the bridal party
and guests repaired to Mr. Farian'c
residence, where luncheon was serv-
ed; after which 'the brideand groom
loft on the three 'train for New -York.
When The Present Century.
Was Young
From The News -Record, Nov. 9th,
1911:
Mr. James Flynn has returned.
home' after spending several .months
at Wilkie, Sask.
At the residence of the bride's bro-
ther; Mr. W. Nesbitt, Medicine Hat,
Alta., on Oct. 19th," Sara Nesbitt to
George Acheson of Goderich town-
ship.
Mr. Robt. Pearson of the second_
concession of Stanley has disposed of
hls fine, well -improved farm of 160
acres to Mr. Jackson of Teeswater,
From The New Er, Nov. 9th, fo11:
The 'Dominion Parliament will meet
on Nov. 15th.
Last Saturday the main street was
cleaned and the mud taken away.
The marriage of Miss Margaret
Grace Wilson, daughter of -the late
Rev. Jasper Wilson, M.A., and Mr.
Lorne Alden'Eedy of St. Marys was
quietly celebrated at the Methodist
church, Geste, Ont., on Tuesday, Oct.
31st, Rev. J. F. Reyeraft, assisted by
Rev. J. Phillip, officiating.
Master 'Fred Ford was unfortunate
enough to break his right wrist at the
C. L last week.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Rance are vis-
iting in Toronto. They may visit
other important points before return-
ing.
WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING
MAKE 'EM ALL ALIKE
The postmasteiship at Creemore has
been declared vacant, and the Depart-
ment is asking for tenders for the
job. This is a new departure, but if
the system is applied to one govern-
ment position, it should be applied to
all. Up to the present no public
tenders have been asked for vacant
judgeships.—Goderich Star.
IT'S ONLY COMMON SENSE
To maintain that citizens of a town
should buy everything at home would
be a narrow doctrine. Certain com-
modities cannot always be purchased
in one's hone town even if the local
stores are particularly well furnished
as they are in St. Marys. Also to
deny oneself the privilege while a-
way from home, of purchasing an ar-
ticle that particularly attracts the eye
and suits the fancy, is surely carry-
ing the idea too far.
But in a general way, we think
that citizens should realize that go-
ing out of town to make ordinary
purchases is bad business for one-
self and for the community. If ev-
erybody . did it local business would
sag, the tax burden would increase,
propertly values would fall, and ev-
erybody would feel the unfavourable
effect. •
Many people shop away from home
owing to thoughtlessness. • Certainly
it cannot be because they do not get
as good a selection and as good values
in St. Marys as are to be had else-
where. If folk would exercise ordin-
ary thoughtfulness and consideration
everybody would profit thereby.
—St. Marys Journral--Argus,
vertising agency and gave an Ottawa
address, which also proved.to be fie-
titious. Yes, we got caught and it is
admitted now in an effort to save oth-
er publishers from being swindled or
victimized by one of the greasiest,
smoothest rogues we ever met.
—Goderich Star.
•
A COMMON THIEF
The Creemore Star had a stranger
'call on them two weeks ago who of-
fered to buy a page of advertising and
also secure display advertisements
from national advertisers. He also
wanted some of that paper's bill heads
so that he could give proper state-
ments and receipts. Mr. C. B. Smith
of The Creemore Star wisely baulked
at this point,' and saved himself a lot
of annoyance.
That stranger, if he is a tall, dark
complexioned brown eyed individual,
is in all likelihood, the very fellow
that flim -(lammed The Goderich Star.
As our northern exchange learned,
the stranger's plan was to sell space,
collect the cash and then vanish,
without ever having the ads published.
That was not quite his proposal in
Goderich. Here he sold the spaces,
collected the price for most of them,
and the ads were inserted, then he
disappeared, and never came back,
most of the cash presumably going
'with him,
The man is evidently nothing but a
common thief ox swindler and pub-
lishers are advised to have nothing to
do with him. Among his other'mis-
>iepresentations while in Goderich, he
called himself some sort of an ad-
NOW! NOW!
Irene Castle McLaughlin says wo-
men should wear clothes of a style
20 years younger than their actual
age. During the sumnier months,
many a 20 -year-old girl seems " to
have followed this advice.
Hanover Post.
JUST LOOK
If anyone wishes to know what
communism and facism really are he
will do well to study what is aimed
at in Spain and what has been done
there and in Ethiopia. What ha•s been
done in Spain is being prepared for
in Canada. We heard a body of
Canadians the othernight as they
sat in a room for which. they had
neither toiled norspun, gravely
pointing out the evils of our present
system and gravely enunciating how.
much better things are in Russia. The
situation would have been funny had
it not been so tragic.
-Exeter Times -Advocate.
IT IS UNIQUE
No skill or power of man can hope
to tinge even minutely the beauty of
autumn. Nor will we ever weary of
it. • It 'comes silently out of hidden
recesses in a momentary array of
flashing colors and purple sunsets,
and then disappears into the stark-
ness and decay of winter.
—Kincardine Review -Reporter.
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COUNTY NEWS
McKILLOP: Duffs United Church
manse in McKillop was the scene of a
quiet wedding at. 11.30 a.m. on Satur-
day, when Mabel .Isabel Eaton, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Eaton of
Winthrop, became the bride of Peter
L. McCowan, son of Duncan McCowan
and the late Mrs. McCowan of Rox-
boro. Rev. G. E. Morrow officiated.
The bride wore a brown chiffon vel-
vet tunic dress satin trimmed . with
hat and accessories to match. She
was attended by Miss Mary McCow-
an, sister of the bridegroom, who was
gowned in wine colored crepe with
black hat and shoes. Walter Eaton,
brother of the bride, was groomsman.
After the ceremony dinner was serv-
ed at the home of the bride's 'par-
ents. The table' was decorated in
pink and white and centred with the.
wedding cake. The happy couple left
on the 3.20 train for Toronto and
eastern centres. On their return
they will reside on the bridegroom's
farm at Roxboro.
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YOUR WORLD AND MINE
by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD
(copyright)
Are you a souvenir or an autograph
hunter? If you are, then you may
be showing yourself to be lacking in
strength of mind and character.
1 remember seeing, some years ago,
a great many persons rushing madly
about a wrecked passenger train—a
Wreck which had caused the death of
a score or more travellers. These
souvenir hunters were carrying away
tin cups and pieces of splintered wood.
Not long ago a murderer was slain
on the street, and many persons dip-
ped their handkerchiefs into his blood
in order that they might have a sou-
venir! If a hanging takes place,
there are many who want to get a
piece of the hangman's rope.
This same sort of impulse—to get a
souvenir—is seen at Callander, where
the famous "quints" .live. Hundreds
Caught in the Wild
(Continued from page 2)
brand of gold-digger? Gad, that's
the nubbin of it all. It's the reason
why men like you and: Huxby lose
out. You worship the golden calf.
Yet what valve is there to riches oth-
er than what you get from thein?
Can you think of a more enjoyable
game than playing draw poker, with
our lives in the jack -pot, and Fortune
dealing us the cards of chance?"
"What's the catch?" inquired Miss
Rantill, with a sudden upwelling of
hersophisticated cynicism. "'Lives
in the jackpot'—that means nothing.
It's your placer that's in the pot.
What stakes do you consider we have
in to balance it?"
"That would be telling," he teased.
"You'll know if I win. If I lose, it
will not matter to any of you what
you've risked. The showdown may
come sooner than I expected. Your
father is already in fairly good shape.
We'll start the trip out as soon as
these caribou skins have been tan-
ned."
Mi. Rantill put in a shrewd question
"Why delay for that, if we're not to
stay here until winter?"
"Web, for one thing," Garth ans-
wered, "you and Miss Lilith will Pearn
all about the interesting method of
Indian tanning. Along with that, the
rubbing will develop the muscles of
your backs and arms. You Will need
them when we come to portaging and
paddling."
(Continued next week).
of thousands of persons carry away
stones and other. loose stuff, calling
them "souvenirs."
If a gangster has been shot or kil-
led. at a particular spot, then hun-
dreds and thousands of persons will
motor to that spot, just to see where
the gangster came to his inglorious
end.
Let a Hollywood star be present in
Toronto or in any other city, and he
or she will be pestered by hundreds
of young people, including children,
for the autograph of the distinguish-
ed person. At banquets it is a com-
mon thing for persons to pass about
the menu asking all present to sign
it. .It is quite a common practice to
get a famous author`. to be present in
the book department of book or de-
partment stores to autograph copies
of his or her book. Youngsters like
to get a baseball or a bat autographed
by Babe Ruth.
But have you ever seen, in any
home visited by you, these souvenirs
and autographs assembled for your
delectation? Have you ever seen a
glass case in anybody's home contain-
ing tin' cups taken from railroad
wrecks, and bloody handkerchiefs, and
stones from Callander, and auto-
graphs of Mary Pickford? If these
collected things are not made use of,
what is the gain in their collection?
I incline to the view that the good
sense of souvenir hunters triumphs
after the first early enthusiasm has
spent itself, and that there is neither
desire to show what is collected, nor
pride in possession. Such souvenirs
would just advertise a quality of mind
which few want advertised.
Do not mistake me. I ani not a-
gainst the practice of collecting sou-
venirs or interesting objects. I quite
approve of the hobbies of coin and
stamp collecting, book collecting, pic-
ture collecting, of china glass and sil-
ver and furniture collecting — this
when the collector is genuinely inter-
ested in his or her hobby, and when
the indulgence of the desire to collect
adds to one's knowledge, enjoyments,,
and, it may be, one's income. But
when the senseless, morbid and indis-
crimate habit of collecting valueless
souvenirs is indulged, then one can-
not esteem very highly the person
who thus betrays the possession of a
mind and nature of a very low' grade.
If, therefore, you my reader, have
the impulse to gather unworthy sou-
venirs and to seek autographs for
other reason than that autograph -
hunting seems to be a current vogue,
then I urgeyou to resist this impulse,
and so show yourself to be sensible
and strong-minded. And when you
see crowds of people gathering splin-
ters of wood at the scene of a rail-
way wreck, and all mad to get,a piece
of a hangman's rope, or a bit of the
cloth of a criminal's coat, contem-
plate the folly of those ridiculous
persons.
If I ant against a particular aspect
of "souvenir" hunting, I am very
much in favour of the practioe of
making collections of articles whose
accumulation enriches the _collector,
not merely in money but also in
pleasure and culture. Thus, I like
to see men and women ' collecting
books about Canada, or about Scot-
land, or about angling, or about
banking, or about exploration. I like
to see inen and women collecting pic-
tures by one painter or by painters
of a -particular period or "school."
One man found great happiness and
some fame in 'collecting weapons. The
collection of old china or glass or fur-
niture can be a very delightful hob-
by, and may turn out to be a very
profitable one.
But there is a form of collecting
open to all of us, namely, knowledge,
Indeed, I feel ready to say that all
of us should become collectors of
knowledge—not encyclopedic know-
ledge, however,but rather specialized
knowledge. If we can make oursel-
ves tremendously well-informed about
some particular -subject, then we do
well. •
This practice of, collecting know-
ledge about, a particular subject is
widespread. Thus, one urian makes
himself an authority on Chinese art;
another on money; another on ex-
ploration; another on pigeons, an-
other on ships; another on housing;
another on the poetry of the Middle
Ages; another on paper; another on
insects; another. on taxation; another
on wheat.
It delights me to see inen and wo-
men who have made themselves com-
petent to write or spears on particular"
subjects, or to judge pjictures, or mu-
sic, or live stock, or poetry, or cloth.
Most of us are not collectors of
specialized knowledge, Most of us.
go through life without much pur-
pose. We just do each day's tasks
in a rather dull and routine way;, and
so we complete our days without hav
ing contributed much to the world's
welfare, or betterment, or enrich-
ment Yatthere is nothing under the
stn to prevent us from becoming col-
lectors of. specialized knowledge —
from becoming authoritiative in re,
Mien to some subject.
I am addressing myself mainly to
young people. I urge all these young
readers of mine to choose some wor-
thy subject—something in which they
can invest their thought and inter-
est and time without hardship. Let
them gather knowledge through the
years about a particular product, or
period of history, or activity, or in-
dustry. As they go on from year to
year, their appetite for more know-
ledge in their special field of study
will grow, and their' interest in life
and their value to their fellow men
will likewise grow.
If one seeks a measure of fame, let
him accumulate knowledge about a
particular thing. His possession of.
an abundance of accurate knoweldge
will assuredly have recognition by,
others, and if he himself will share
affox
ry
his knowledge and understanding.
with: others, then both his fame ands
his joy in life will widen and deepen
There are better things to seek:
than tin cups and stones from Call--
enday and bits of a hangman's ropes:
GODERICH: The congregation of
Knox Presbyterian Church observed
the 101st anniversary of the founding
of Presbyterianism, in Goderich by'
holding special services on Sunday„
when Rev. H. D. Cameron of Strath-
roy, moderator of the Synod of Ham-
ilton and London, was the special
preacher. The church was decorated!
with flowers for the occasion includ-
ing a memorial wreath on the Roll or
Honor. At both services special mu-
sic was rendered by a full choir un-
der the direction of Mr. H. Livins,
choirmaster and organist.
CALL HOME
on those Sundays
away from Home!
Jim Howard looks forward to the week -ends. He likes.
to spend them at home in the bosom of his family. So,.
when a prolonged business trip found him at loose ends.
ina strange town that sunny Sunday morning, his cup
of sorrow and discontent was overflowing until he
suddenly thought of Long Distance and the new Low
Sunday Rates. "It will be almostas good as being with
them" thought Jim as he: brisklystepped'a
to the telephone.
•On both "Anyone" and `•Persan4o-
Person", cane, Low Night Rates apply
after 7 p.m., and ALL DAY SUNDAY.
