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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-02-25, Page 1ITU News -Record Est. 1878' With Which is Incol'poratea The Clinton New Era NO. 5820 -58TH YEAR. CLINTON The New Era Est. 1855 ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH, 1937. THE 'TOME PAPER IT'S ALL RIGHT IF IT COMES FROM HELLYAR'S. the Question of ic�hat . W atek to 'Surl. IS A HARD ONE FOR THE AVERAGE MAN TO DECIDE. Dozens of grades are sold under •the •same 'name, and it puzzles any but an expert to decide` where practical utility stops and extrava- gance begins. We are Wateli Experts and will gladly help, in. this. matter..: Our Stock embraces the best Watches made.' Satisfaction guaranteed. It g T J • �-�` • H. ELLYAR II Jeweler and Optomiterist. Residence Phone No. 174j. Enjoy Being The . Y1 sf the A Well � t tt Dressed Style empha- Carefully of of Season's Newest Treads are well sized in ®Lir- Selected Stock k COAL'S SUITS ]JRESSES NOW ON DISPLAY " CLINTON'S LEADING STYLE 9 S SHOPP +' " Among the Churches Presbyterian Church The Sacrament of the Lord's Sup- Der will be observed on Sunday morn' ing. The Women's Association will meet Wednesday afternoon, March 3rd, at the home of Mrs. W. D. Fair; at 2.30 p.m. Wesley -Willis United Church Morning: "His Power." Evening: 'Paul's Sermon Before Felix." The regular meeting of the Wo- men's Association will be held next Wednesday afternoon in the church hall. The regular monthly study meet- mg of the Ever Ready Mission Circle was held at the home of Miss Bessie Watt on Thursday, Feb. 18th. Mar- garet Durst's group had charge of the study. Sentence prayers were gi- sen by Viola Holland and Grace Ad- listen. The roll was called and was saswered by the name of a pioneer missionary, The study 'chapter, art. sneering is not over," was taken by, Viola Holland, Isabel Chowen and Dorothy Stelk. The meeting was elos- id by reciting a hymn in unison. Af- :er listening to this chapter of our study book we feel that pioneering is just as difficult as it was in our 'orefathers' time. St. Paul's Church . The regular monthly meeting of ;he W. A. will be held next Tuesday evening, March 2nd, at 8 p.m. Mrs. ,red Johnston will have charge of ;hd Study Book, "Consider Africa." The regular meeting of the Ladies' iuild will be held next Tuesday af, :ernoon. All the members are re- the business was concluded, Mrs. Monteith read several interesting ars tides on "Lent" Mrs. Tasker con.. ducted a brief questionaire on "Lens ten Customs." Misses Viola Fraser and Eileen McGoun contributed a duet "Whispering Hope." Salvation Arm y Great Revival services will be con- ducted by Envoy Ferguson of London, Ont. •Every night this week' and also on Sunday, 11 a.m., 2.80 p.m. and 7 p.ln. On Monday night he will give his Life Story. Meetings are held during the' week at 8 p.m. He will also speak over CKNX at Wingham, Friday, at 10.30 a.m. Do not forget to tune.in and hear him. lie will be assisted by Capt. Boner's Wingham officers.- Captain Bonar was away over the week -end attending the Young Peo- ple's Councils at London, conducted by Commissioner Wm. Daniel. Friday: "God's Pattern for Men." Sunday, 11 a.m.: "The Desert Place." Sunday, 7 p.m.: "Thee Stone." Monday, 8 p.m.: Life Story. Ser- vice under Two Flags. Ontario Street United Church Rev. G. G. Burton will reach at 1 the morning service on the theme: "The Four Horses of the Apocalypse." i At the beginning of the evening c service there will be exclusively one 1 half hour of Redemption songs of an evangelical nature. One or two solos will be rendered 1 which everyone loves, but the congre- s gation will join in the larger part of ;nested to be present at this meet- ng when the members and convenors tf the committees for the bazaar: are ,o be announced. The Chancel Guild met on Monday ivening in'Owen Memorial Hall. Me President, Mrs. D. H. McInnes, vas in the chair. The minutes of the cnnuai meeting were read by the sec-: the Special Song service. , The pastor will speak for the bene- t fit of the Youth on the topic,' "Knit- s ted Souls." . Visitors and friends are 1 invited. Monday evening at 7.30 sharp, the t Young People's Union will meet and t the Christian Fellowship department. 1 All members are recouested to be pre- t sent JACK CLANCY WINS SENIOR SHIELD Last evening, at the Collegiate In- stitute, the second of the first an- nual oratorical contests was held. The 'Senior Boys Shield, presented by Dr. Thompson, and one of the many shields donated to the school, for this; and other worthy purposes, was the cause of keen rivalry among three contestants: Benson Sutter, Alex. Filshie, and Jack CIancy. ' The Life of Louis Pasteur, the eminent French scientist, Ft. eand the father of the germ theory was the topic discussed by the first speaker, Jack Clancy. He told his audience, which was larger than that attending the first contest, that thousands of people, since the lifetime of Louis Pasteur, have owed' their lives to that same famous man of science. Through his boyhood his father, (Continued on page 4) • t Hospital Aid The regular meeting of the Hospital Aid Associationwill o be held i the n Council Chamber on .Tuesday evening, March 2nd at 7,30 sharp. The guest speaker will be Mrs. C. Holmes, Hon. -President. of the Sea - forth Hospital 1 P Aid.All ladies of town and surrounding country are es- pecially invited (whether members or not). At the close of the meeting a social half hour will be enjoyed. Lion's Hockey League During the past week • the Lions Hockey League has been rather thee - tire. This was mostly due at times to lack of ice and also to the fact that what little ice they had in.the local ice palace was being carefully preserved for other games. The teams are now engaged in the semi- finals and it is hoped that these will be over by the end of this week. Only one of the semi-final games has as yet been played. This was quite an exciting affair and was somewhat tat a I of reversal ersa of a per- formances. p r forn,ances. Manager "Monty" pre- sented a team wearing nice new white sweaters. This, however; appeared to have a bad effect, and it is quite probable that the boys were so busy admin ng themselves that they forgot how to play hockey. Manager "Doc" had his entire team on skates for the first time in many games, and they proved to be too powerful for the Bankers, defeating them by the score of 'five to one. Dentals' goals were scored by Bun- king (3), Lockwood and Carter, while 'Vest scored the lone goal for the Bankers in the• closing minutes of the game on a pass from Paxman. Viridian!: W. Wheatley The following notice was taken from "The Woodstock `Sentinel -Re- view" and refers to Wallace Wheatley who was well known in Clinton a few years ago. The late Wallace Wheat- ley was a. member of the News -Re cord staff for about a year. "The death occurred in Oshawa on Thursday night, . Februaly 11, - of a former Woodstock boy, William Wal - ace Wheatley,. after a lingering i11- J extending over a period of four years. ' Deceased was the son of Mr. and M r s . - Wallace Wheatley, Wilson street, and 'was born in 1905. He en- tered the employ of the F. W. Wool- worth Co. Ltd., in their Woodstock store 11 years ago and has been with I firm ever since at different bran ehes. He was manager of the Queen street, Toronto, branch at the time he first took ill., Five years ago he was married to Miss Nora Montgomery of Oshawa, who survives him, together with a I son, George Wallace. His par ents also survive as well as three brothers and three sisters; Laurence and Joe Wheatley of this city ,and Glyde.of Bridgton, N.J.; Mrs. Herbert Barney, Mrs. Wray warts and Miss Alma Wheatley all of this city. : The funeral was private and was attended only by immediate relatives E close friends. Many beautiful floral tributes bore testimony to the esteem in which Mr. Wheatley .was eld. The Service was conducted by Rev. 1. M. Irwin of King street United March and interment was made in Rount Lawn cemetery. The bearers were Laurence and. oe Wheatley, Tom -Goddard, Fred 7cntgomery, - Melville Montgomery nd Wray Swarth. o consecrate themselves for further ervice. Rev. DeWitt Cosens of Wes- ey-Willis will be the. speaker. The regular monthly meeting of the W. A. will be held on Wednesday af- ernoon, March 3rd, at 3 o'clock in the seture room of the church. The hos- esses'for the afteitnoon will be the renew .their membership and l ladies of St. James' Ward. Surprise Party. A birthday surprise party was held at the home of Mrs: Annie Colelough, on Feb. 18th, it being her seventy- ninth birthday, and a few of her near neighbours surprised her by conning and spending a few social hours in social intercourse, laughter, recita- tions, music, etc. A very pleasant afternoon was brought to a close with the Iadies serving a dainty lunch and Mrs. Colelough blowing out all the candles on her nicely decorated cake with :one puff, which, according to tradition, means another year,which her many friends and • neighbours hope will be followed by many more. Bible Class Social The members of'the ,Covenant Bible Class spent a happy evening together at their annual social gathering, on Thursday, February 18th, in the church hall. A short time was spent in singing hymns,. with Mrs. Agnew at the pi- ano, until all had gathered. Rev. Mr. Cosens kindly contributed a pleasing solo. A fine program of games, ar- ranged by the ingenious committee. Mr. Lobb and Mrs. Hearn, was then enjoyed by all. Rev. Mr, Cosens and Miss Saunders were the winners in the contest. After the games dainty refresh- ments were served and a splendid so- cial time was all too soon over. This Bible Class meets every Sun- day and would welcome any adults who would enjoy .a half hour of Bible Study. The teacher is Mr. W. J. Tough who has taught Bible Class for inany years. , Lions Doing Good . Work" The following appeared in the sport page of the Globe and Mail of last Saturday. "Here's a challenge for the winners of the Georgetown Midget N. FI. L. Lcague. Ken, Waters of Clinton would like to send the champions of the group sponsored by that town's Lion's Clubs Only hitch is that the Clinton age -limit is 16 years; George- town's 14. Waters takes pride in pointing out that Clinton, with a small population from which to draw, always has made a good showing in Ilse O.H.A. This season the Juniors l"B")are in their group playoffs and the intermediates still are in the running. Tho Lions are doing a valuable ser- vice to er-vice-to the town, and to young boys in particular, who wish to develop their hockey ability. A juvenile league such as the Lions have been sponsoring this winter has filled a long -felt need in the town's realm of hockey, It should serve to develop players atan earlier er a e, and in that way they have a chance for junior competition before they are too old to snake a fair showing. Ross McEwan has been drilling the boys once a week and "Punch" should be the ideal man for the job, with a number of years experience to back him up. More power to the Lions in this field of endeavour. Celebrate Golden Wedding bit. and Mrs. James - VanEgmond celebrated their golden wedding on Tuesday, February 23rd. A recep- tion was held in the after- noon and from eight to ten in the ev- ening. Many of their friends called to pay their respects to the bride and groom of fifty years.'' ' The house was beautifully decorat- ed' with roses, daffodils and carna- tions. The tea-room was very attrac- tive. The table holding the bride's cake, was decorated with yellow tap- ers in silver candlesticks. The lovely tea -cloth was hand -made. Mrs. Ferg. VanEgmond poured tea in the afternoon. ' Mrs. Ed. Farquhar and Mrs. Chester Farquhar assisted in serving the guests. Mrs. Willis Van- Egmond attended the door, Miss Ha- zel VanEgnnond invited the guests to the tea-room, and Miss Amy Andrews was in charge of the register. Dr. F. G. Thompson sang a lovely solo, "Sweeter as the Years Go By." Rev. G. G. Burton also sang, "God Will Take Care of You." Mr. and Mrs. VanEgmond ': were married on February 23, 1887, in Hul- lett township, by' Rev. Mr. Sperling. The groomsman was Richard VanEg- mond and the bridesmaid was Marga- ret Farquhar, sister of the bride. After their marriage the young couple resided on a farm two miles - east of Clinton for one year. Then they moved to the home wherethey now reside. Guests at dinner and tea were Mr, Scott Hawthorne of Seaforth, Mr, Fred Fowler and Miss Tillie Fowler of Seaforth, Mr.' and Mrs. Wesley Moore of Goderich, - Mr. and Mrs. VanEgmond received many lovely gifts and flowers from their. friends. Members of the family presented their parents with a radio, All members of the family were pre sent except John A. VanEgmond, who resides in Detroit. Short Course Banquet The students attending the Short Course in 'Seaforth during the month of February are winding up with a banquet to be held on Friday night. The special speaker for the occasion will be Mr. R. S. Duncan, Director of Agriculture, Toronto. Legion Auxiliary Entertain Wingham Branch ..The members of the. Clinton Legion Auxiliary entertained their `husbands and the members of the Wingham Legion and Auxiliary on • Monday night. The first part of .the even- ing was spot in itprogressive Court p rog s Whist. Over a hundred had a merry time at this game, The prizes won by the Wingham members went to Mrs. Cruickshanks and Mr. Kennedy. Mrs. (Dr.) McIn- tyre and Mr. Len. Heard were the lucky members for Clinton.. After supper was served, D r . Thompson led them in an enjoyable sing -song. Dancing concluded the evening spent in fellowship and good cheer. The Name Of Our Queen It happened in the local school. Otic clay last week the teacher of one of the lower grades was directing her class during the "writing" period. The subject Of the lesson was the letter After the -pupils had practised the letter the teacher asked them to write the word "Queen", The teacher ask- ed, "Who can tell me the name of our oueen?" Up shot the hands. The first answer was "Queen Mary." The teacher said, "No, Queen Mary is not our queen now." The next child to. answer said, "Mrs. Simpson." II.0,B. Church Service The annual Church Service of the Iluron Old Boys' of Toronto was held at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church last Sunday, with the largest attendance in many years. Rev. R. C. McDer- mid, formerly of Goderich, preached an eloquent Sermon, with Walter A. Buchanan, President of the Associa- tion, reading the lesson and S. M. Wickens also assisting in the service. Mrs. R ,M. Brooks and Mrs. Dr. J. G. Ferguson rendered solos. After the service several hundred gathered in the parlors of the Chtuoh where community singing and musical numbers were halt of the program. Walter A. Buchanan, President of the Association; acted as Chairman, and speeches were made by J. A. McLaren and B. H. McCreath representing Gderich• E.oJohn Moon Moody o Y and representing Clinton, H. M. Jackson and Dr. H. J, Hodgins representing Seaforth, W. E. Smith representing Wingham and Fred Elliott, President of the Huron County Junior Associa• tion. Refreshments were served by the Ladies' Aid of the Church, which brought to a close a most successful service. Little Locals Mr, John Hartley made his inspec- tion of the Clinton Public School this week. The OId Time Dance Club will hold their regular social and lunch, this evening. Mr. Geo. H. Elliott has rented his cottage on Cutter street to Mrs. Mor- rison,`who recently moved into town from Hullett township. Mr. and Mrs. 'Denomme- :of Albert street are closely related to Mr. and Mrs, James Masse of Hay township, who are the proud parents of twenty- one children. They say that no news is good news, but that does not apply, to the news- paper office, where a scarcity of news causes much scratching of heads, and much bustle hereandthere digging out odd items. Mrs. S. Lawrence received word from Port Arthur on Monday morn- ing that her daughter, Mrs. Cough- lan, was in the Port Arthur Hospital underoging operations for appendici- tis and foot -trouble. We are sorry to- report that Miss Kate Sheppard is not well at present. Her many friends wish her a quick complete reeovery. Her sister, Mrs. Osborne, who suffered a nasty fall a few weeks ago is recovering nicely. Captain Bonar and Envoy Fergu- son -visited The News -Record office on Wednesday morning. Envoy Fer- guson had with him his portable ors gap, which he uses a great deal in his mission work. He also takes it with him, where visiting (those who are sick "arid shut in. Those, who know of anyone shut in, who would like a visit from Envoy, ,Ferguson, should' get in touch with Captain Bonar, or they may leave their messages at the News -Record office, CLINTON COLTS WIN GROUP HONOURS FOR -THE TIIR.D, -SUCCESSIVE YEAR Defeat New Hamburg 5 to 1 in Second Gaine' of the Group Play -Offs,. 9 To 4 On The Round. - Before a crowd of some fifteen hundred or more cheering fans, the. Clinton Colts on Tuesday night emerged for the third year in succession, winners of their group in the 0.1=I,A. Intermediate " P" play-off series. with New Hamburg. After taking the- first game by the close score of 4-3 in New Hamburg, the Colts on Tuesday night won easily by a 5-1. score, totake the round 9 to • Long before game time the crowd started coming•• and by 8.15 every possible nook and corner was full to overflowing. The large crowd re- presented hockey enthusiasts from the whole of kIuron County, and many. points outside: Although always a good hockey town,' it has been many years since the game enjoyed such popularity as Inas been the - ease the past three years, but the brand of hockey dished up by the Colts has given, the fans full returns for their money. Last Wednesday night the Colts de- feated the burgers in the first game 4 to 3 and as you all know the return game was postponed from Friday until Tuesday on account of mild weather. A one goal lead was not much to boast about and as a result when the game started excitement ran high. Referee T. Hillman of Kitchener fac- ed off the puck and the game was on. Both teams e s ureic or lesse play d a waiting game for the first few min- utes of play, Sparring for an opening. Big "Fat" Sparrer, the biggest "spar-' ser" on the ice, warmed things up by smiting one or two of the Clinton men down as they tried for an opening, but both teams were checking close- ly. Finally after 8 ramutes had elaps- ed the McEwans and Foster clicked. for the opening counter, and the ten sion was sotitewhat relieved. R. Mc - Ewan shot the puck into the corner and Foster beat the New Hamburg clefenceman to it, passing it out to F. McEwan who was uncovered. Pfaff had no chance on it as the wily Mc-' Ewan drew him out of position and flipped the puck into the net. Well! the ice was broken and from then on' the boys went to it, hammer and tong. Within a minute "Red' Rath" 'fired a hot one front in the blue line and Pfaff Stever saw it till it' bulged the twine.; The Colts continued the pressure, but could do no more than come close.! Stade handled everything New Ham- burg fired at him with confidenpe.! McKay and Sparser were the only two to serve time. Play was reversed in the second period. The Burgers put ftp a des-! perate effort but the best they could! do was score once, although on the play they deserved a better fate. Three penalties were handed out right . at the start Eingeman and Sparrer of New Hamburg Pickett Clinton.g and ke t of Cl The period was well on its way when Gibbs and Pickett combined for the Colts third goal, Gibbs taking Pic- kett's pass in front of the net. It was while Streets was serving time that New Hamburg scored their only' goal. Reid and Bowman were sue-' cessful in working in on Stade, Reid scoring. 1 'With the Colts three goals up on the round it was just a matter of finishing the game in the Last frame. ' As was to be expected the locals were content to let New Hamburg come to them, and the puck was - cleared at !every opportunity. Clinton increased their lead by two more, when Pickett slipped in for .t w o goals. -• Pic - 1 kett scored the first one on a combin- ation play with Streets, and Gibbs and Pickett wound up the scoring, Pickett 'shooting home Gibbs' bs pass. The score on the game was 5-1, and on the round 9-4, for Clinton. "Fat" Sperms. s. was given a merry ri do by the locals, .particularly by "Bonnie" Foster who sat the big boy down several times, but Sparrer more than returned the compliment. Everytime the big boy went down he came up grinning and he was one of the that to offer congrats. to the Colts after the game. All the locals played heads -up hoc- key, but Foster deserves special men- tion for his brilliant playing. "Bon- nie" turned in his best performance of the year. Well this is the third year we have wished the Colts good luck in their quest for the Int. "B" championship. May good fortune smile on then. Clinton—Goal, Stade; defence, Me - Ka Rath; 'e Y> , Centre, ,Pickett; wings, Gibbs, Streets; • subs, R. McEwan; 8'. McEwen, Foster, Kennedy, Muir. New Hamburg—Goal, Pfaff; de- fence, Bingeman, Sparser; centre, Liv- ingstone; wings, Kropf, Emslie; Subs, Bowman, Reid, Eichler, Meilen, Bo-eh- Referees—T. l:•Iillnan, Kitchener. Rev. S. J. Allen Is 85 The Rev. S. J. Allen, --a former and beloved pastor of Ontario Street church, will celebrate his eighty-fifth birthday on Saturday, February 27th, in Toronto, where he is now residing. Some of his Clinton friends are send- ing him some flowers in remembrance of the occasion, Injury Not Serious In the ' course . of cleaning up after the usual routine of work at the Richmond Hosiery plant last Satur- day morning, Mr. Bob Jervis suffer - ea a rather painful ' accident when a knife he was using pierced the palm of his hand, cutting an artery. Medi- cal aid was immediately' summoned, and Bob, aside from a sore band,is also "nursing a grudge at that knife." Passing of Mr. Geo. Iluller The sudden death of Mr. George Huller occurred' on Wednesday, Feb- ruary 24th, at 12.45 p.m. Mr. Huller had not enjoyed good health for some time, and was on his way to the doctor's office when sud- denly stricken, passing away without an outcry. The deceased was born in Victoria County, January 21st, 1860. He be- came a resident of Holmosville in 1908, later moving to Clinton where he has resided for the past 22 years. He leaves to mourn, his widow, three sisters, Mrs. John Potter and Mrs. Fred. Hopkins of Goderich town- ship, and Mrs. Ezra Pickard of town. One brother, John, of town, three sons, Ernest, of Oshawa, Leslie, of, Lansing, Mich., and Bert of town, and two daughters, Mrs. Jack Spain, God- erich, and Mrs. Reg, Shipley of town. The funeral will be held from his late residence on Friday, February 26th, at 2 o'clock. Interment in Clin- ton cemeterv, NO GAME THIS .WEEK FOR COLTS. There will be no game for the Colts this week. Everyone was expecting to see the Colts pitted against Dur- ham again this year but this is not year, to be, at least not for the present, Durham are booked to play off with Elora. In a telephone conversation with W. A. Hewitt, Secretary of the. 0.H.A., Manager Miller was inform- ed that Clinton would probably meet either Glencoe or Petrolia in their• next round. These two teams are now. in their group play-offs, if not one of these, then Acton looks like the next choice. However there wilt b e. no game until Monday 'at they earliest. It seems too bad' with. all this good weather, but let's all hope old man winter hangs on a little longer. JUNIORS FAIL TO GET PAST ST. MARYS Clinton Juniors passed from the Junior "B" picture last evening when they lost the second game of the semi- finals to St. Marys by a 5-3 score. Previously the two teams had played to a 4»all tie at the local arena in the first game. The score on the round was 9.7 for St. Marys. Johnston, Thuell and Lawson were the goalgetters for the locals in last night's game, while for St. Marys Dunseith scored three and Wybrow and Stewart one each. In the firstgame. of the 'series, played here on Monday night, the two teams played to a 4-4 tie. " The (Continued on page 4) The Farmers' Market. Wheat; $L25, Oats, 50e to 55e. Barley, $1.00. Buckwheat, 750 and 80e. Butterfat, Special, 27c; first, 25e., Dairy Butter, 24c. Eggs, 12e, 15c, 17c. - Live Hogs, $8.25. Presbytery, Of Huron The Presbytery of Huron of the Presbyterian church met on Tuesday in the Presbyterian church in Clinton. The resignation of the Rev. T. W. Mills was received. Mr. Mills goes to Nairn Church. The Rev. D. J. Lane• was appointed Interim -moderator of the Blyth el -serge. The Rev. W. A. Young of Hensall'. was elected Moderator of the presby