HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-08-12, Page 3THURS., AUG. 12, 1937.
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
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WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE
GAY NINETIES
Do You Remember What Happened During The Last
Decade Of The Old Century?
From Tlie New Era, August 13, 1897: Messrs. 'Edgar and Carl East,
Frank Watson, R. S. Byam and John
Sutter' camped at Burk's the past
week -end, Stanley and Harry. Sut-
ter of Stratford accompanied them.
Mr. R. E. Manning, local manager
of the Royal Bank, is outof town
this week inspecting several branches
of the Trader's Bank in the County,
Miss Simpson, formerly of the
teaching staff of the Model School, is
now one of the teachers in Chicago,
and enjoys a salary of 1000.00 a year.
Messrs, Forrester and Smallacombe
and Mr. Perrin report having taken
In several loads of wheat which is
said to be an excellent sample; some prior to their being taken over by
persons report a yield of 40 bushels the Royal.:
to .the acre. Mr, John Hartley, who has been
Miss Hartt will reopen her private conducting a Summer Model School
- school on -August 16th; it is a place at Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island; dor-
where young children will receive the ing the past month, returned to town,
best of training. on Monday. Mrs. Hartley was with
Mr. W. Baker, principal of Eg- him part of the time, returning to
mondville school; and brother of R Wroxeter about a fortnight ago.
Baker, 16th con., Godericli township,
has been offered the principalship of
a Targe school east of Toronto, but
has decided to remain among us.
The Boy's Brigade went into camp
early last week at Bayfield, and are
spending an enjoyable outing on the
lake bank, on property belonging to
Dr. Metcalf, of Detroit. Rev, J. F.
Parke, of St. Paul's church, accom-
panied the boys.
The trustees of the Porter's 'Bill.
school have engaged W. A. Elliott. for
the balance of the year at a salary of
$145.00.
Mr. Harry Sharp spent Sunday in
St. Marys with his parents, Mr. and
From The New Era, August 8th,
1912:
Travelling—Tom Craig and Bill
Trudeau. left Clinton at 1.45 a.m,
Monday and did some fast riding on
a 1500 lb. Clinton delivery rig. They
reached Detroit at 5.45 p.m. Ameri-
can time. They lost two hours at
Sarnia putting car in bond and wait-
ing steamer connection on St. Clair
river. This goes to show that the
Clinton Delivery solid tire car is the
goods.
Big Trout -Norman Fitzsimons
Mrs. H. F. Sharp. captured a big trout on Monday
Miss Maggie Dowzer leaves this morning, that many old-timers say is
week on a visit to friends in Detroit.
Prof. Tyndall, of Philadelphia, is
visiting his mother and brothers here.
Miss Eva Croll has gone on a vis-
it to friends in Galt and elsewhere.
When The Present Century
Was Young
the biggest that has been caught in
this town. It was 16 inches long,
ten inches around girth and weighed
1 lb., 10 ozs.
New Bar—The Commercial Hotel is
undergoing many changes. A Parti-
tion has been removed and the bar
placed where the office and sideroom
were before.
After a four week's western tour,
From The News -Record, August 8th
1012. ' Mr. D. S. Cluff, General Manager of
the Doherty Piano and Organ Co.,
New Principal — Mr. Allingham, has returned from inspecting the op-
who was engaged by the Model School erations of the company at various
board as principal, found it impos- points.
Bible to come, and Mr. C. D. Bouck of Mr. Thos. Britton was overcome by
Morrisburg, has now been engaged gas fumes while working at the plant
and will arrive in town about the here Wednesday morning. Drs. Gan -
20th. dier and Worthington were called and
Finishes job --Mr. Albert Morrell, worked for an hour before removing
whose big tractor was used for crush- him to his home.
Ing stone and rolling the streets, has' Drs, Gunn and Shaw left Tuesday
finished the job and done it well. 'morning on a trip West.They will
A Good Game --One' of the best attend the Dominion Medical Associa-
baseball matches of the season was' tion at Edmonton.
played here on Saturday afternoon! Miss Shirley' Bawden is enjoying
last between the .local nine and Mo -t her holidays at Toronto, Buffalo and
Lagan's from Stratford. The local Niagara Falls.
team, which was reinforced by the Misses Lizzie Shanahan, Pearl
addition of Dick Tasker, who took his' Husband and Jean Dyament are boll -
old place as pitcher, put it over the' daying at the Bend.
visitors to the score of 7-0: I Mr. and Mrs. John Robertson, of
The line-up for Clinton is es fol-. Lethbridge, have returned from their
lows: E. Johnston, 1b; T, Hawkins, trip to the Old Country and are the
2b; F. McGaughey, 3b; H. Twitchell, guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Wise-.
es; W. Johnston, c; C. Draper, cf; man:
Cluff, rf; Dick. Tasker, p; M. McEw Mr. H. A. Aitken, of Calgary, for -
an, If; J. B. Hoover of Clinton acted merly of Clinton, was calling on
es umpire. ' friends here Tuesday. While in town
Bowlers—Three rinks of bowlers he wasthe guest of the Misses Wal -
came down from Wingham on Monday kinshaw.
and played a friendly match with as Mr, S. Perry of London, will go to
many local bowlers. The Wingham Toronto where be has accepted a posi-
men are good sports, and put up a tion in a Collegiate. He was former -
good fight although beaten. The ly a well known educationist in Clin-
three rinks were made up as follows: ton.
(1) H. E. Paull, r. Wiseman, A. J. George. Shepherd of the Bayfield
Morrish, E. G. Courtice. (2) J. L. line has sold his 100 acre farm to Wm.
Courtice, A. J. Grigg, J. Watts, J. Clark of Goderich Township.
Taylor. (3) D. McCorvie, G. Rober- Mr. Dan. Rueger has purchased
ton, J. Harland, J. E. Hovey. Wing- from Mn W. Lobb, 40 acres on the
ham—(1) Anderson, Smith, Buckley, south side of his present property,i
L. 'Kennedy. (2) Hanna, King, B. making Mr. Rueger 80 acres.
Porter, A. Porter. (3) Shane, Evans, ` The Indians and two binders are
Rae, Holmes. busy pulling flax on Mr. Chas. Reid's
Mr. J. W. L. Davis, who has been fifty -acre farm on the London Road.'
a member of the Molsons Bank staff Mr. D.F. McGregor of Tucker -
for the past eighteen months as tel- smith, has been appointed a director
ler, has been promoted to the Tees- of .the McKillop. Fire Insurance Co.'
water branch. Among those from town who took
Miss Mabel Harland, accompanied in the excursion to Kincardine Thurs-
by her cousin, Mr. Clinton W. Harris day last were: Miss Stella Wiggin-
son of San Francisco, spent the ton, Miss W. Wasman, Mrs. Jas. Cor -
week -end in Toronto with relative& nish and Miss Ida, Mr, and Mrs. Chas.
Mr. It. A. Downs has been appoint- Hetlyar, Mrs. Levi Trick, Mr. Wm.
ed district superintendent of the Tiplady, Mr. and Mrs. H. Livermore,
Prudential, Life Company, with head- Mr. Wm. Hardy and Miss Edna, Mis-,
quarters at Woodstock. He leaves to hes Hattie Courtice' and Lucy Stevens,
• enter upon his new duties there next Mr. and Mrs, J. Snyder, Miss Agnew, ew,
• week. Miss N. Brown.
WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING
A WINDY RACKET
A vacuum cleaner racket has been
"pulled" in several Ontario towns of
late. The clever, canvassers do not
use the suction of the electric sweep-
er to suck the money out of the poc-
kets of the unwary householder but
t" they use as method quite as effective.
They usually call at a home and ask
the name of the particular vacuum
cleaner owned within, if it happens
to be a certain -"well-known make they
then tell the owner that they are the
service men' from the factory and are,.
around making adjustments. Once
they get their hands on the cleaner
the rest is easy. They take 'the
Machine ;away and after a short time
come back with the apparatus, and
a bill for repairs amounting to four
or five dollars. In some cases the
machine:is found to be damaged after''
the fly-by-nighters have tinkered
with it, -St. Marys Journal-Argns.
DANGEROUS "FREEDOM°'.
The danger is that young hot-
heads' may be seduced into admiring
the knuckleduster, machine-gun me-
thods of men like Boss Lewis, just
as young hotheads twenty years ago
admired Leninism, permitting the
growth of anti -social feeling which
led to the General Strike of 1926.
Red freedom in Russia is apparently
the freedom to be butchered for
thinking independently, just ,as the
Red freedom In the United States is
apparently the freedom to be 'bat-
tered to death for daring to prefer
to keep a Labour contract to joining
the Lewis 'Soviet. It is impossible
to retain patience with people, who,
while reducing law to anarchy and
making a shambles of peaceful cit-
ies, have the insanity or the roguery
to talk of the chaos of capitalism.
Followers of Sir Stafford Cripps are
well advised to realise that parlour
R B. Bennett
VIMSAMMESSZO
WILL REMAIN AS CONSERVA-
TIVE LEADER
'Announcement has been made that
Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett will continue
to lead the Conservative party.
The announcement followed a
vate caucus on Saturday which was
attended by all but two of the party
followers in the House of Commons.
Early in April the leader indicated
that he might retire due to reasons
of ill health, but said that he was go-
ing abroad where he would eonsult
with specialists, ; and on his return
would announce his decision.
It is understood that he will carry
on, but with no assurance as to the
term of occupancy, and his agree-
ment to continue is understood to be
not lacking in reservation.
The meeting, was on the seventh an-
nivarsary of Mr. Bennett's entry into
office as prime minister following his
victory at the 1930general election
He has been leader for 10 years and
is 67 years old. For five of his 10
years at the head of the party' he
was prune minister.
Bolshevism in this country is the
first step towards the gangster tyr-
anny now being blatantly displayed
in Russia and America with results
affecting the comfort and security
of millions of families all the world
over through the consequent disrup-
tion of trade and the reversal of re-
covery. --Dispatch, London.
THE $20 CAR
Three Windsor boys bought a 1923
automobile for which they paid $20.
The same three Windsor boys were
taken to the hospital, one with con-
cussion, the others with dislocated
shoulder and bruises.
Buying an old car for $20 does not
come under the head of news, be-
cause it has been done so often be-
fore. We dare say young fellows
have had what they call "a lot of
fun" with some of those old cars,
No one wants to interfere with that
part of it, but there is an element of
danger in these old rattletraps. As
a rule they are worn out; they have
a good many mechanical defects and
they have poor tires. Often enough
the brake lining is worn out. The
fact that this one in Windsor was
sold for $20 is plain enough evidence
that it was ready for the scrap heap.
—Peterborough Examiner.
THAT PAROLE SYSTEM
The police have been speaking their
mind regarding the system whereby
folk who have offended against the
laws of the country and who have
been sentenced to imprisonment, are
allowed out of prison for some con-
siderable time before their sentences!
have been served. The parole prison-
er is under, some sort of supervision
of course. The police are emphatic in
their statement that the parties pa -
rolled do not show themselves, for the
most part,worthy of the trust repos-
ed in them, that, indeed, the paroled'
parties frequently seem to hasten to
commit major crimes.
Strange, isn't it? but public s`¢m-
pathy is generally on the side of the
lawbreaker. ' Hence the plea that len
iency be extended to the criminal.
Strange, too, that so many otherwise
sensible. people regard lawbreaking
as something of an accident. Strange,
too, the persistent belief that the
criminal is a poor fellow who has
slipped his foot and that he really is
a good citizen who has only tempor-
arily gone astray. However, those
who know most about lawbreakers by
actual ,contact with them, find that
any one crime usually is a symptom
of a mental and moral conditionthat
needs to be corrected, if it may be
corrected only by years of training
and guidance under the care of men
who understand the strange workings
of the human mind and who know
something of the vagaries of human
nature in its darker aspects.
—Exeter Times -Advocate.
The quantity of wheat remaining
on Canadian farms at March . 31,
1937, amounted • to 46,931,00,0 bushels,
or 20 : per cent of the total 1936
wheat crop, of 229,218,000 bushels.
At March 31, 1936, 17 per cent or
46,754,000 bushels remained from
the 1935 crop of 281,93$,000 bushels.
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Introducing Elie Spivak
Elie Spivak, distinguished violinist,
who has been presented over networks
of the Canadian Broadcasting . Cor-
poration, is a member of the musical
fraternity of Toronto quite by acci-
dent.
ccident.
Mr. Spivak made a U. S. tour in
1926 and while in New York
met Boris Hambourg, Toronto's cele-
brated cellist. They became friends
immediately and Hambourg invited
Spivak to come to Toronto as his
guest. During thethird. day of his
visit, the regular violinist of the then
"Hambourg String Trio" became ill,
and Hambourg invited Spivak to fill
in. The concert was less than 24
hours away.
Reginald Stewart was a member of
the Hambourg Trio at that time ani
the three artists rehearsed all morn-
ing and afternoon. The original pro-
gram was not changed and in the
evening they gave their scheduled
concert. Hambourg was so impressed
with the masterful playing . of the,
youthful Spivak, that he asked him
to become a member of his famous
trio. Spivak accepted the invitation
and. also joined the faculty of the
Hambourg Conservatory.
At -present Mr. Spivak is a leading
member of the faculty at Toronto
Conservatory of Music, He has ap-
peared on numerous occasions as so-
loist with the Toronto Symphony Or-
chestra and Promenade Symphony.
He married a Canadian girl and they
have two lovely children. His chief
hobby is gardening, which is a heri-
tage of his liirthland—the Ukraine
and its fertile valleys.
About the New Transmitters
The Canadian Broadcasting Corpor-
ation is rushing to completion for Oc-
tober 1st, its two new 60,000 watt
transmitting, station at Vercheres,
Quebec, and Hornby, Ontario, CBC
engineers have informed "Along the
Air Waves". Architects, contractors,
foremen and construction crews are
working at top speed at both points
on erection of plants and installation
of equipment which, when in readi-
ness, will be the most modern and:
scientifically correct on the contin-
ent.
Previous to the present construc-
tion program an extensive series of
surveys were carried out by the CBC
engineering staff with a view to es-
tablishing the
stablishing'the value of various loco-
cations and transmitter sites. These
experimental studies were started
three years ago and carried on a
more searching degree in the past
months, resulting in the choice of the
present locations of. station CBF, Ver-
cheres, and station CBL, Hornby.
CORPORATION FEATURES
DAY BY DAY —
All Times Eastern' Standard
Thursday, August 12:
8.00 p.m. Canadian Weekly News-
papers Association annual meeting.
Address by John H. Casey, University
of Oklahoma, with introduction by
Hon, Angus L. Macdonald, Premier of
Nova Scotia. Frons Halifax.
9.00 p.m. The Ghost Room—"Crea-
ted," produced by Rupert Caplan.
From Montreal.
Friday, August 13:
9,00 p.m. "Backstage" variety pre-
sentation with Woodhouse and Haw-
kins, orchestra direction Isaac Ma-
mott, vocal ensemble and soloists.
From Winnipeg.
9.30 p.m. Tennis Talk— discussion
between John Coulter and J. N. Ken-
nedy. From Toronto.
Saturday, August 14:
8.30 p.m. "Legende d'un Peuple"—
readings from the works of Louis
Frechette with organ and violin inter-
lodes. Front Montreal.
10,30 p.m. Horace Lapp and His
Banff Springs Hotel Orchestra. From
Banff.
Sunday, August 15:
6.00 p.m. His Majesty's Canadian
Grenadier Guards—band concert di-
rection Captain J. J. Gagner. From
Montreal,
10.30 Tudor String Quartet—with
Anna Moncrieff Hovey, pianist. From
Winnipeg.
Monday, August 16:
8.00 p.m. "Mirror of Music. Solo-
ists and orchestra direction Bruce
Bolder.. From Saint John.
10.30 p.m. "Soliloquy"., Instru-
mental ensemble direction Robert Tal-
bot.' From. Quebec.
Tuesday, August 17::
8.30 p.m. "This is Paris." Lucienne
Delval; "Jules et Gaston", with or-
chestra direction Andre Durieux.
From Montreal.
10.80 p.m. Mart Kenney and his
Royal York Hotel Orchestra—dance
music. From Toronto.
Wednesday, August 18:
9.00 pre: "Automobile Vagabonds."
R. H. Perry and Graham McInnes.
Series of broadcasts of a coast-to-
coast motor tour. From Calgary.
10.00 p.m. Joe DeCourcey and his
Jasper Park Lodge Orchestra. CBC-
MBS international exchange program,
From Jasper.
The amount of wheat fed to live-
stock and poultry during the crop
season 1936-37 is estimated prelim-
inarily at 7,2,774,000 bushels,, as com-
pared with 20;939,000 bushels in the
1935-86 season.
Have You Ever Saved a Life?
Years of training and years of ex-
perience lie behind the deft strokes
of the great surgeon's knife, as he
performs a delicate operation. Life
and death in the balance. Loved ones
tremble in apprehension. Finally, of-•'
ter anxious hours,—successI The mi.,
preme ability of one man in a million
has saved another life.
Most of us can never save a life�
that way. The surgeon's skill is not'
ours. But by preventing accidents on
streets and highways, every one of us,'
whether we are drivers or pedestrians,'
can just as surely save lives and safe-
guard our fellow men against crip-
pling or fatal injuries.
We can teach our children the en-
during principles of safe driving and
safe walking—of safe living. We cant
correct the unsafe practices of our
own driving and walking. We can
uphold the authority of our public of-
ficials in impartial and effective law
enforcement. We can help in organ-
ized efforts to spread the gospel of
traffic safety • to everybody. And,
most of all, we can resolve in our own.
minds t0 perform no act dangerous to
others or ourselves.
Great skill and long training are.
not needed for this kind of life saving.
What we do need—all of us—is a new
realization that "I AM my brother's
keeper." Will you accept your per-
sonal share of this great responsibil-
ity? Will you Help to stem the tide
of blood and death that promises to
sweep Ontario's 'streets and high:
ways? Will you SAVE A LIFE?'
cilleSNAPSHOT CULE.
VIEWPOINT IN LANDSCAPES
The house in the tower FIght nicely balances the composition and
accentuates the height of the mountains.
NOW that nature has once more,
.been adorned with the verdure
of Spring and a new season of out-
door picture taking has begun, it is
appropriate to consider landscape
pictures.
Good landscape subjects are, at.
least, easy to find. One can travel
scarcely anywhere without encoun-
tering pleasing vistas of woods and
fields, hills and valleys, stream and
lake, country cottages, old farm-
houses, tree-eanopied roads, flocks
of browsing sheep, herds of cattle,
and all that makes for beauty and
interest in landscapes.
What shouldwe do to capture
these lovely scenes with ourcam-
eras? Such views may seem easy to
take as they meet the eye, but here,.
as in all photography, indiscriminate
snapshooting usually results in jum-
bled composition. A little thought, a
little planning, a little effort, if yon
please,, to make the picture—not
merely to take it. This means care
in selecting a viewpoint which
makes the composition essential to
an artistic picture. You cannot shoot
on sight and be lucky every time.
Beginners are often satisfied with
any picture at all as long as it 10
clear. They are delighted merely to
pave obtained the correct exposure.
But he who takes pains to locate a.
viewpoint which gives in his finder
a well-balanced arrangement of the
objects In the scene generally gets
pictures that are not merely photo-
graphically clear but artistic.
Are you willing to climb a fence,
toil up a rugged hili, wade a brook,
to get that viewpoint? Many an en-
thusiast has taken real risks for a.
viewpoint and been amply rewarded.
Remember that the viewpoint
should be such that the picture
balances both vertically and hori-
zontally. Generally there should be
a large mass, the main object of in-
terest, near but not at the center,
balanced by several smaller objects
or masses on the other side, orby a
single smaller one farther from the
center, or in some cases slightly
above or below the center.
Take time to move around from.
spot to ,spot and in each place ex-
periment with the scene as it ap-
pears in your view -ruder, Be satis-•
fled that you have this balanced
composition before you let the pic-
ture into your lens. Choosing the
best viewpoint is what the landscape
painter does before he sets up his
easel to make his picture, Remember
that in the same way you, too, with.
a camera, can make a picture.
137 - John •ran Guilder