HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-06-24, Page 3THURS.JUNE 24, 1937.
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
PAGE
WHAT CLINTON' WAS DOING IN THE
GAY NINETIES
Do You Remember What Happened During The Last
Decade Of The Old Century?, ,,r '8..
From The News -Record, June 23,
1807:
Mrs. R. J. Cluff visited friends at
Ripley last week.
Mr, James Beattie and family of
Hensallare planning to reside in
Clinton.
On Monday D. A. Forrester shipped
a ear of flax seed from Clinton to
Glasgow, Scotland.
Master Roy Canipbell of Detroit is
:spending the holidays with his grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Fair.
Miss Nettie Combe returned home
from Toronto last Friday,. where she :a large Detroit firm, was presented
has been attending the School of before his departure by the choir and
say.
Miss Gilchrist has resigned the. G.
N.W.telegraph agency and Mr. A. T.
Cooper has been appointed. The
transfer ofthe agency from the
corner grocery to Mr. Cooper's book-
store -was made the beginning of 'the
week..
Mr. H. E. Baines has presented the
News -Record with some • nice new po-
tatoes. New potatoes on the 19th of
June is an example of well-planned
gardening.
Mr. Will Harland, who left on Mon-
day to enter upon his new duties with
Pedagogy.
Mrs. .U..Hunt and Mrs. Wnt. Rob-
ertson .expect to leave 'Clinton on
the 29th for San Francisco to attend
the big D. E. Convention.
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Cluff leave
'Thursday for the Old Country. They
sail from New York on the 26th.
Dr.. Shaw, DD:G.IVI., paid an offi-
•cial visit to Morning • Star Lodge,
'Carlow, last Wednesday evening. See',
.eral of 'the brethren from here ac-
companied hien.
Mr. A. 1". White of Rornesviile,
New York State, this week pure/lased
from CounciIIor James Snell nine fine
•specimens .of the Leicester breed
sheep.
The first bowling match of the
season was played at Seaforth on
Thursday resulting in a win for Sea -
forth. 'The Clinton team is as fol-
lows: J. Johnston, J. P. Tisdall, D.
A. Forrester, G. D. McTaggart, Jas.
Fair, J. W. Irwin, J. W. Ratter/burp,
W Jackson. 1
'The 7ubilee'services under the aus-
pices of the Sons of England in St.
Paul's Church where largely attend-
ed. The band headed the procession.
Wm. East bore the Union Jack, and
Messrs. 0. Johnston and James Dim -
ford were the competent marshals.
The pastor, Rev. Parke, preached an
impressive sermon and paid grand week for Stevensville, Montana, where
tribute to Icer Majesty, Queen Vie- she will a accept toria, p position. She will
be accompanied as far as Tort Ar-
thur by- her cousin, Mrs. 'Goodridh of
Edmonton, who has been visiting in
town,
congregation of Ontario Street church
with a handsome watch fob and sil-
ver mounted silk umbrella. The pre-
sentation was made'byMr. B. J. Gib
bings.
Mr. Harland has been a member of
the choir for 27 years, and he will be
greatly missed in musical and other
circles.
Mr. John Hartley has been appoint-
ed by the' Provincial Government to
the principalship of the V.ankleek:
Hill English -French school, which is
to be a Model School for the especial
training of teachers for what has been
known as the Bi -Lingual schools.
Messrs. Tozer, Chant, Yates and
'Stephenson attended a meeting of
Malloch Chapter, Seaforth, an Mon-
day evening.
Miss Bessie Davis, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Marsh of
Detroit, for several months, -returned
home on Monday.
Dr. Carmichael of 'Montreal, son
of the late Bishop Carmichael, one •of
the earliest rectors of. St. Paul's
church, was in town yesterday.
Mrs. S. Kemp and Miss Nellie leave
next week for Nelson, B.C., -Where
they'will be the geests of Mrs. leemp's
sister. En route they will visit at
Winnipeg and other places.
Miss Margaret Davis leaves next
From The New Era, June 25th, 1897:
Mrs.W. Fitzsimons, London, : 3s
the guest of Mrs. R. Fitzsimons.
.Mr. W. Smithson has returned to
Clinton from his visit, to the Old
;.Country.
Mrs. W. B. Laing and children; of
Evanston, Illinois, are visiting rela-
tives here.
Miss Clara Wiseman is visiting
friends in St. Marys this week.
Mr. James Cornish is putting up a
power mill, .as are also Appleton El=
•neat and H. Monteith, Tuckersmith.
They are all supplied by George La -
vis, (Clinton.
All the teachers of the Collegiate
staff were re-engaged for another
year. Miss Topping and Mr. Trelea-
ven received an increase in salary.
Miss McHardy's pupils who went to
From The New Era, June'20th, 1912:
Mis Ella Akam went to Detroit on
the Greyhound excursion and her
ueice, Miss Grace Akare, accompanied
her back.
Mr. Roy Rodaway is holidaying
with his parents, Mr. and 'Mrs. E.
Rodaway of the Huron Road. Roy is
now in his final year in medicine at,
Chicago University.
Mr. Jack Wiseman of Guelph paid a
visit to his parents 'here before go-
ing on to Trenton.
Mrs. Barton is visiting here with,
Mr. John ;Hartley.
Mr. Jas. Stevens left on Wednes-
day for Fort William, and Aberdeen,.
Dakota, where he will visit 'his two;
Toronto for A.T.C.M. musical exam- daughters.
inations were highly successful. A- Mr. • Gillis Gilchrist of Ayr visited
mong them were Miss Tedford of his mother here on Thursday and
town, who passed in theory and first
year piano.
A big game of cricket is likely to
take place in Clinton, with Chicago
as the opposition. Final arrange-
ments are not yet completed.
When The Present Century
Was Young
From The News -Record, June 20th, '
1912:
Mr. T. Firth Science Master at
the Collegiate has resigned to ac-
cept a position on the staff at Lind -
Friday of last week..
Misses Lela and Eillen Hoover left'
for the West on Friday last where
they will take positions in ,orchestral
work at Lake Louise Chalet, Laggan,
Alberta.
Mr. Israel Taylor, of London, has
deft on a tour of the West on a busi-
ness and pleasure trip.
The vacant lot between the Chinese
laundry and the old Royal Hotel,
has been- nicely • levelled and a neat
fence placed around the back of it.
When the grass and flowers come,this
will be a pretty spot. The Horticul-
tural Society' are to be commended for
their work.
WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING
ONTARIO'S LIQUOR BILL'
Ontario, according to the most re-
cent statistics, is the heaviest-driek-
ing province in the Dominion. The
bill last year for the province reach-
ed the astounding sum' of. $67,000,000.
In cold figures this seems like a con-
siderable sum, but when it is com-
pared with amounts spent for other
and more necessary things,. it is co-
lossal.
The money which went into liquor
-stores, brewers' warehouses and bev-
erage rooms is more than was spent
in the province the same period for
bread and milk. Itis twice as much
as the amount paid for hydro for
homes and factories and more than is
spent by municipal ggovernrnents and
the provincial government on, educe -
tion. i ! 1,11 5'
Truly, it is a large sum. 'Turned
into other channels, it would be a
source of good and a benefit to all.
As it is, it represents evil and bene-
fittfor only a few.
A third of the sum spent in the
province on liquor and sparitous bev-
erages would pay old age pensions,
mothers' allowances and public health
and orphanage costs.
It may be reasoned that not all the
Money was spent by the people, of.
Ontario. Some of it was from the
pockets and purses of tourists, but
the fact can not be denied that the
people of Ontario spent more money
on liquors, wines and beers than
many of them, as individuals can well
afford.
tt is not possible to alter human
nature, but those who have contribut-
ed generously to the liquor bill for
the year might well consider better
ways in which the money could be
spent—The Kincardine News.
GUARD THE SMALL STREAMS
Every praise should be given those
whoare making surveys of the rivers
and larger streams of Ontario with
the object of preventing drouth and
flood conditions. Every such step is
a move in the right direction. Any-
one familiar with areas devastated
by the drouth of the past seasons and
who has noted the damage wrought
by last Spring's flood knows the da-
mage drouth and flood accomplish..
Yet the real danger lies in Old On-
tario with the unregulated waterflow
of the smaller streams. Should, far-
mers be put into the position of plant-
ing these streams thick with willows
and similar bushes, the floods'would
be held somewhat in leash till the
larger streams and rivers could take
CANNED IN ' CANADA
VALUABLE SLOGAN
Considerable advance is being
made by the canned fruits and vege-
tables packing industry of Canada.
Accoriling• to the preliminary report
for the fiscal year ended March 31,
1937, the pack of 1936, consisting of
1,855,146 cases of fruits and '9,544,-
864 cases of vegetables, is larger
than in any previous year, and jams,
pickles, and catsup are also estimated
to show a very considerable increase
when the exact figures are avail-
able.
There are 505 active plants for can-
ning fruits and vegetables, and 57
non-active under Government permit
in the, Dominion. Several new fac-
tories are being erected for 193'7, and
indications are for a record pack,
weather permitting. The 505 active
canning facto ies are Iocated as fol-
lows :Prince Edward Island, 4; Nova
Scotia, 23; New Brunswick, 10; Que-
bec, 85; Ontario, 803; Manitoba, 11;
Saskatchewan, 1; 'Alberta, 2, and Bri-
tish Columbia, 66. In addition there
are 143 home -canners under permit.
Canada's expanding trade in can-
ned fruits and vegetables is indicated
by the increase in exports from 2,-
571,290 cases in the year ended March
31, 1936, to 3,217,343 cases, 11,954
liarrels, 15,621 bags and 317 kegs of
various products, and by the issue
of 10,076 export certificates in the,
year ended March 31, 1937 as against
a total of 7,740 in the previous year.
Exports of Canadian canned fruits
and vegetables are sent to most of
the countries of the world. The prin-
cipal exports included 222,078 cases
of canned apples; ;36,385 cases bf
evaporated apples; 14,319 cases of
asparagus; 2,439 cases of beans; 32,-
276 cases of cherries; 51,100 cases of
corn; 33,938 cases of loganberries;
154,588 cases of pears; 4,944 cases
plums; 283,349 cases of tomatoes;
875,632 cases of tomato catsup; 245,-
121. cases of tomato paste, pulp and
puree; 16,779 cases tomato products;
"921,400- cases of tomato soup, and
68,836 cases of tomato juice,
All the factories and home -canners
under permit work under the super-
vision of the Canning Division of the
Fruit Branch, Dominion Department
of Agriculture.
DOINGS IN THE SCOUT
WORLD
Nearly 2, 000 Rover Scouts assisted
the London police in traffic control
during the Coronation. Their principal
job was erection and manning of
"crush barriers" en side streets.
SCOUTS ALSO GOOD BUSINESS
MEN
When presented with 'an old brick
veneer building for a club house, on
condition that they remove it, the
thrifty Boy Scouts, Tillsonburg, Ont.
quickly negotiated a sale of the bricks
and at' once began 'stripping them off.
SCOUTS RAISED LOWER THE
'TOWN 'FLAG
.Presenting to the Brampton, Ont.,
Town Council the large Union Jack
annually given the town by the local
chapter of the LOD.E., the Regent,
Mrs. M. Sharpe, paid a tribute to the
loyal services of the Boy Scouts, who
for some years haye carried out the
daily duty of raising and lowering the
flag.
(UNINTENDED SIGNALS SOF
DISTR•'ESS
A. widespread activity of Boy Scouts
during preparations for the Corona-
tion celebration was the informing of
business firms and private homes
that their Union Jacks were flying.
as signals of distress instead of re-
joicing. In other words,,were ups
side down. Except in rare cases thel
boys were thanked and the flags;
corrected. It was said Toronto Scouts;
counted one hundred incorrectly hung
flags on one street.
BOY .SCOUTS .OF .SPAIN . CON-
TINUE TO DO THEIR GOOD
TURNS
Reports still being -received from
Spain at the International Bureau of
the Boy Scouts Association, London,
show that the Boy Scouts of war rav-
aged Spain, both in the government
controlled and insurgent controlled
territory continue to carry out the
Scouting code of helpfulness to oth-
ers "atall times".. In his last letter
to the International Scout Commis
ioner, the Spanish Chief Scout, writ-
ing from Madrid, reports Scouts help-,
ing the wounded, serving in the hos-
pitals, looking after Iost and orphan-
ed children, turning over their camp-
ing equipment for the use of refugees
and otherwise "doing everything . in
their power to put into practice their
Scout promise to do their duty to
their country and help other people
at all times."
care of the extra water thrown 'be-
tween their banks. , It is the sudden
rush of water that usually worksthe
damage. The delay of ' peak flood
conditions for even a few hours would
deprive the falling: rain and melting
snow and ice of the greater part of
their terrors. Better still, if high
peak conditions can be prevented da-
mage is not at all likely to result.
When such shrubbery may be
planted at the rate of over 100 per
hour, it seems a pity that tanners
who do such work efficiently should
not be encouraged to do so.
-Exeter Times -Advocate..
OUR FOREST HERITAGE
A SERIES OF ,TALKS BY JOHN C. IRWIN, B.Sc.F.,F.E.
"But Only God Can Make a Tree"
"Through his mellifluous poem, music from wooden instruments, en-
lightened by information printed on
wooden paper with black ink made
from wood, and even eat our salads
seasoned with vinegar made from
woTo'dhe:'
uses of wood, multifarious
now, are constantly inereasing. With
the manufacture of wood pulp and
cellulose, an entirely new direction of
use has been opened, explosives, bake -
sold, and I fancy that many of my lite and similar products, rayon and.
listeners have such copies, suitably like silk and cotton substitutes, and
framed, on a bedroom wall or above countless others are all essentially
the radio in the parlour. products of the forest.
Wood enters into nearly all our
structures as an essential part. Over
half our people live in wooden houses
and the other half require wood as
mouth, intimating that from ' the an indispensible part in the construct -
earth the tree derives most of ite ion of their homes.
nourishment. This, as we shall note A large section of the population
later, is not so. We might allow this uses wood as fuel and almost with•
little 'dendrological inaccuracy were out exception we are buried in wood -
it
not that the eyes of Mr. Killmer's en coffins. One more item—the 300,
tree, which look at God all day, must 000 miles of railroad track in the
be somewhere near the top of the United States and Canada lie on not
tree, quite remote, perhaps a hundred less than 800,000,000 wooden ties and
feet, from the inouth which is found need about 100 million annually for
in the roots. The arms (presumably renewals. And this recital of the
two er more branches) lifted to many uses of wood and man's depend -
pray, are the next to receive atten- ence thereon could continue. An in-
tion. But since branches are found genious German scientist was lately
somewhere between the top and the reported as having discovered a way
roots, the eyes and mouth, we must of making it edible and sustaining.
conclude that we have here a kind The old joke about planked steak inay
of horticultural anatomical monstros- have been prophetic—perhaps some
i'ty, with arms attached to some part day we may throw away the steak
of the head—perhaps where the ears and eat the plank! It might be a hap -
should be there is no mention, how- py substitute for some steak I have
ever, of ears. And, as if that were tackled.
the last line of which I' have .chosen
as the topic of my talk this evening,
Joyce Kilmer has done much to at-
tract at least sentimental attention
to the beauty and grandeur of trees.
For years the -poem has been recited,
sung, whistled, played and yodelled
In homes, at concerts and over the
radio, Thousands of printed beauti-
fully illuminated copies have been
The sentiment is good; but Mr.
Kilmer undoubtedly allowed his po-
etic licence too much scope. He com-
pares the roots of the tree to the
not enough, our tree has to put up
with a nest of robins in her hair—
the hair, we presume, being those
branches below the eyes which are ledge of trees, and so many miseon-
not already busy being arms. ceptions about them and their grow -
There is really not much of the th.
tree left for the further .metaphori- For example how do trees grow?
cal reference except the trunk—sure- Many people are quite unaware that
ly IT will be the body, despite the the growth of a tree occurs almost
location of the eyes at one end and entirely just beneath the bark—that
the mouth at the other—but no, thea sow of cells, called the cambium
layer, during the growing season
multiplies and adds a thin layer to,
the trunk of the tree and a much
It is difficult even for snow to lie thinner one to the bark. You night
with comfort on a bosom in a ver- consider a tree as a hand and arm
(the fingers being the branches) and
Having thus dissected Mr. Kilmer's the new growth as a glove pulled on;
verses, may I say that, despite my each succeeding year's growth we
mild irony, I think we are all indelit- may think of as another glove pulled
ed to his musical couplets for focus- on over those already there. When
sing attention on the theme of my we cut down a tree to examine the an -
talk, "Only God Can Make a Tree." nual rings on the stump, it is as
And because they take such a long though we were cutting through suc-
tinie to make we should all be the cessive layers of gloves. By counting
more careful how we handle our for- the rings on the stump therefore, you
est resources. • are able to determine almost exactly
It would seem unnecessary indeed the age of the tree.
for me to draw your attention to the You will Often find interesting
importance of wood in our everyday things if you examine the stump of
life. Dr. Fernow, former Dean of a tree. Perhaps it grew for forty or
the Faculty of Forestry at the Uni- fifty years under the shade of an old-
versity of Toronto—considered before er tree which fell down ono summer.
his death in 1923 the dean of the The younger tree, with its crown now
forestry profession in Canada and exposed to the sunlight and iia roots
the United States --was the author tapping a more generous supply of
of a book well worth reading, written water, began to grow more rapidly.
in beautiful English—a rare thing a- You will notice the wider growth
mong similar treatises—called "Econ- rings after its release, and if you look
omics of Forestry". In the book, around you may see signs of the re-
drawing attention to the universality mains of the older tree that had so
of wood in our lives, he said: long suppressed it.
"We are rocked in wooden idles, Perhaps a fire passed through the
play with wooden toys, sit on woo- forest a hundred years ago and
den chairs and benches, eat from scorched the base of our tree slight -
wooden tables, use wooden desks, ly. Gradually the scar was covered
chests, trunks, are entertained by by the wood growing in from the
Surrounded as we are, then, by
wood in its various forms, it is sur-
prising to find so little real know -
next, line, introducing a gentle and
restrained love interest, says:
"Upon whose bosom snow has Iain"
tical position.
=SNAPS410T CUIL
BE A PHOTO, HISTORIAN
The story of our times Is being told for the next generation by amateur
photographers who take and preserve simple scenes of present-day life,
such as this.
DID It ever occur to you that as
the owner of an amateur camera
you are blessed with the means of
making a valuable and truly 'Simile -
cant record of the times in which
you live? . Magazine, newspaper,
news -reel and other professional
photographers are doing just that
every day and a vast store of picto-
rial history is accumulating.
Thanks to the progress and spread
of photography our descendants are
going to know much more about the
way we lived and acted than we
know of the way our great-grandfa-
thers did. Through these millions of
photographs of life and aotion now
being taken our descendants will
possess visual evidence of the
things we did, how we dressed, how
life went on in city and country.
Contrast the advantage they will
have over this generation which has
to rely upon the descriptions of writ-
ers and the work of artists for its
understanding of life prior to the in-
troduction of photography scarcely
more than two generations ago.
however accurate the work of writ-
ers and artists may be, it cannot
equal the reality and truthfulness of
photography.
We amateur photographers, now
millions strong in every country, are
also making a tremendous contribu-
tion. to this photographic record of
our time. Few of us, however, are
doing it by design. Most of us take
pictures for the present amusement
of ourselves, .families and friends
with not so much thought to their
value and interest to our children's
children. Too few of us take pains
to preserve the pictures we take.
Well, what do you say to the idea
of becoming a photographic histo-
rian for the benefit of your own
posterity? This you can do effective-
ly even on a small scale. It simply
means making a collection of pic-
tures, taken by yourself, best repre-
senting the life, customs, dress and
activities of the present day and •
placing them in a special album to
keep and hand down as a family pos-
session. Some of these pictures will
seem commonplace now but as in-
teresting and valuable forty or fifty
years hence as those of the "gay
nineties" are to us.
Select subjects which in your
judgment are most typical of the
current scene. Certainly you should
not neglect to include your own
home life, street scenes and other
views about your changing city, the
homes of the rick and the homes of
the poor, life in the country and
present types of automobiles, air-
plaues, railroad trains and other
things in general use which today
spell modern life and tomorrow will
be obsolete.
You should not fail to include off -
guard snapshots of people doing
things illustrative of common life—
what the artists call genre pictures.
Make your camera your companion
especially in traveling and be ready
for these. For example, a shot out of
your car window of a scene on the
platform of a railroad station may
seem ordinary enough today but it
is a sample of common life. Years
hence this Dictum will be a curiosity.
The modern scene is constantly
changing, There is no other medium
than photography which can :show
so truly after a lapse of years what
these changes have been.
133 John van Guilder.
sides; and though all signs of burned
debris on the ground have disappear-
ed, the trace of fire remains, hidden
inside the tree, and if you count the!
rings front the outside back to the
scar, you will find out exactly when
the fire occurred.
Suppose there was a severe drought
or an insect attack thirty years ago.;
The tree's growth was retarded for;
three or four years. You will see this
recorded by a band of narrow growths
rings between rings of normal width
on either side. Perhaps sixty years
ago the Indians or early settlers blaz-
ed our tree and its neighbours to
mark a trail or portage the blaze
scar kas.now grown over but a saw
or axe -cut through the trunk will re-
veal it.
If you wish to find out whena cer-
tain survey line was run, just count
back the rings to the soar on a tree
that has been blazed. If you wish to
know when a certain clearing was
made in the forest you can almost
certainly tell by noticing the Increased
growth of trees which were given
more light when the Blearing was
made.
On your next summer vacation try
this simple method of mystifying your
non-technical friends if you happen
on a number of old burned stumps or
stubs in the woods. First observe if
the young trees growing among the'
stumps are about uniform in age; if
they are, estimate their age which is:
not difficult, especially if they are.
conifers and you can count the whorls
of branches; and then announce "a
fire passed through here forty -firs
years ago." df you see lying near
one of the stumps an old log, ob-
viously damaged by the fire when on
the ground, you will prove yourself
a greater than Sherlock Holmes if
you add, "just after the lumberman
(continued on page 6)
"TO LONDON TO
vioNstrissigsraternewar
SEE THE QUEEN"
• . °and for London and theti, colourful ceremonies atten-
dant upon the celebration of the
alert -
,
Coronation of II. M. King George
,y1, 158 High 'School girls from
Canada and Newfoundland sailed
from Montreal Friday, April 30,
in the Canadian Pacific liner Du-
chess of Athol'.
Travelling under the aegis of
the Overseas Education League
the students start their tremen-
dous adventure by viewing the
Coronation procession from a
stand in Hyde Park: Then will
follow in quick succession an
Empire Youth Rally at the Albert
]Hall, May 18, the Empire Service
of Youth to be held in Westmins-
ter Abbey, which, will still be in
its Coronation trappings, at
which the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and Dean of Westminster
will speak, sight-seeing ht Lon-
don, two weeks as guest pupils
at famous 'English boarding
schools, and two weeks sea -bath-
ing- and hiking, interspersed with
lectures by noted British authors
at Eastbourne. They return to
Canada aboard the Empress of
Australia from Southampton, June.
24, arriving at Quebec July first.
Every province of Canada 10
represented in the party welch
represents the pick ofCanadian
students. An equal number of
boys sailed twodays earlier and
will retunu aboard the Montcalm,
from Liverpool, June 23, arriving
at Montreal June 30. Educational
authorities throughout the'Domi-
nion co-operated in the selection'
of the students. Students who
were unable to leave their studies
for the coronation will have an
opportunity of visiting the old
Country during Coronation year.
Boys will leave in the Empress
of ,Australia July 2, for a 57 day
tour of Scotland, England and
Germany; and girls, specializing
on Great Britain, sail from Mont-
real the same day aboard the
Duchess of Bedford. Both tours
will be under the direction of the
overseas TiducAtion League. _,X