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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1934-02-08, Page 3German students are trying to re- vivo the splendors of other days when it was a mark of distinction to, bear scars received in a duel. Bismark himself was •proud to wear the scar and it was not an uncommon feature of •college life. ameimee In France, too, a duel was fought deputy and•an. recently between a P editor over the pawn -shop scandal. Four shots were fired by.eaeh dwell, est and no one was hurt. It was not a case of pistol for two and coffee for. one. They both had -coffee but spectators say they narrowly missed each other. They were real cross, too, and left the field of honor with- out shaking hands. o=10111EV=6 Emerson in hit. essay on the British people tells a story which he heard in London in 1853 which he said was current in England fifty years before When the wars with France were on and the average Englishman bad _ a contemptuous opinion of the valor and courage of the French. They re- vised this opinion a few years later M the Crimea and reversed it during the Great War. e.==:1 • The story was that .a swashbuck- ling Frenchman challenged an Eng- lishman to a duel. The latter did not want to fight but the more he didn't want to fight the more the Frenchman did. Finally it was ar- ranged that they should fight in a dark room with pisltols et, so many paces. The combatants were station- ed, the seconds blew out the candles and the Englishman who did not want to fight in the first place, to make sure he would not kill his opponent, fired up into the chimney — and brought clown the Frenchman. earatillesee Duelling was always a silly way of settling disputes and vindicating hon- or and it is illegal in every country. The last duel in Canada took place in Perth, Ontario, a 'century or so ago., It is illegal even in France, but the authorities wink at it so long as ib does not involve bloodshed. m+®uuino President Roosevelt proposes to taper off in the expenditures and im- mediately the beneficiaries of his ex- tensive spending programme are up in amus. They tell Ixim what we have beard already in Canada that if you cut down appropriations you re- duce the , purchasing power of the people affected. You certainly do, but we cannot continue indefinitely to furnish people with money merely because it will enable them to buy. The tapering off 'process consists in cutting a few billions. It will be long before it can be eut off alto- gether. Like another form of excess it is hazardous to stop abruptly a aura -It Trust be rather a come -down for the hundred per cent American to do business with a sixty per cent dollar. Opposing the St. Lawrence water- ways treaty a correspondent tells the readers of the . New, York Times that Canada has now well under way a canal to connect Georgian Bay with Hudson's Bay. We pass this inter, mation to the On -to -the -Bay Asso, dation if it is still in existence. The Lord's Day Alliance asks for stricter enforcement of the Lord's Day .Act in Ontario and the Attor- ney -General replies that that is up to the municipal authorities. He is, or ought to be, right in his contention, for observance, or the degree to which it can be enforced, is a matter of geography andlocal sentiment. The Act is a federal one and -when it was (rained and revised it was recog, nized that what would go in one pro- vince would not be acceptable in an - ether. Quebec, for instance, would not stand forso strict an observance as Ontario and in Alberta we have seen farmers reaping and threshing an Sundays, no authorities, provin- cial or municipal, caring or daring to interfere. In the stnnmer time. some muni- cipalities are under daylight saving. It is Sundaythere for an hour when it is Saturday elsewhere and Monday for an hour when it is Sunday else- where. The authority that ha pew er to add to and take from the Lord's day must surely be the authority re, sponsible for the observance within its own area. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD` was receiving it. One stick which seemed to come one the fly caught him on the right temple. IIe was stunned and several minutes elapsed, before he 'recovered. Deputy Reeve Kennedy has sold 'his frame house on the corner of Macy and North street to Miss Rowe, sister of Mrs. John Steep. The price paid was $300, which is considered a low figure. &menage The Van Sweringen brothers whose operations, like those of Insult and Foshay, have resulted in heavy loss- es to trusting investors say there was no kick coming from these when business was buoyant. The kick comes now when they learn that the business was flinn-flambuoyaat. eeetm•+ A country clergyman raised a con- troversy lately by stating that coun- try clergymen should receive larger salaries than their city brethren. We fear it can never be arranged that way. If it were, it would mean that in time the city clergymen would be called to the country while country clergymen would gradually drift in- to 'the cities. What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAP PENED, DURING THE LAST DE- CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY? From The News -.Record, Feb. 7th, 1894: Jackson Bros. inform The News- Record that their sales on Saturday amounted to nearly $2000. In the absence of Miss McHardy, organist of St. Paul's church, Mr. Brewer of the 1Vbolsons' Bank perform- ed the lady's work very aeceptably last Sunday. E. N. Lewis, of`Goderieh was in town last week in .connection with land transfers. Mr. W. Hayden of Exeter has purchased from Mr. H. Yale 20 acres of land between the Grand Trunk "Y" and the Rattenbury property. In the spring the property will be surveyed into town lots and sold. There was at one time talk of putting a road between the two pro- perties to connect with the Bayfield toad, on account of the delay of rigs land danger while shunting' is going Ion. at the station. Today being Ash Wednesday Di- vine service will be held in St. Paul's church at 10.30 a.m. Last Tuesday evening, a load of young people from the County town enjoyed themselves skating at the Clinton Palace rink. The Clinton Council met on Monday evening.. Present, Mayor Holmes, Reeve McMurchie, Deputy Reeve IKonnedy, Councillors Young, Pluinb ex, Cooper, Overbury, McKenzie, Mc Murray, Armstrong and Taylor... . There were, three applicants for ass- essor, although the committee re- emnmended Mr. H. Stevens. Those moved by the various councillors were: J. Sheppard, W. Cooper, H. Wiltse, Mr. Stevens • was appointed ad $80 salary. Treasurer, N. Robson, awanneee From The New Era, Feb. 9th, 1894: In order to make the beset possible use of the sleighing Messrs. Ransford last Saturday had twenty-seven teams hauling logs from the bush to their niill yard. , There are not many people who can claimto have lived hero longer than Mr. George Rentgen, who has been a continuous resident since the year 1854. 1Vtr. Dan .Macpherson, for a consid- erable time, the very efficient books keeper of the Canada Salt Associa- tion, has severed his connection there with. Mr. Alex. Welsh of Toronto will prove out on his farm in .Goderich township in a few days. Tho 25 Club went to Seaforth on Monday evening to a social gather- ing. Mr. Robt. Welsh has been nearly seven years in the employ of the town council and• a• thoroughly effi eient competent and reliable man he has proved himself to be. $100; Poundkeeper, F. Folland; Clerk, W. Coats, salary, $225; Robert Welsh weigh clerk and caretaker, salary, $275; Joseph Wheatley, constable, health officer, collector; etc., .salary, $435; fire engineer, •Silas Pratt, sal- ary, $75; assistant, Jos. Ryder, sal- ary $35; A Seeley, fireman, salary, $15; Cemetery caretaker, _ Richard Reynolds, salary, ,$300. Porter's Hill—Miss Helen Porter of Wingham is visiting at the residence of Mr. Alex. 'Cox of the Cut Line. We understand that the vexed school question has been settled by Inspector Tom allowing the trustees the privilege of having one teacher for this year, providing that the trus- tees give him in writing that should the average attendance of pupils re- main as high at the end of 1894 as it was at the end of 1893, the trus- tees will then engage an assistant teacher. The representatives from our township to the county council we be, lieve are more liberal to the educa; tion of the young children of our county than they are towards help- ing the poor, both :having said nay on the vote taken at the county scuncil on the house of refuge. Local Clinton News—Ash Wednes- day today, Feb. 7th, Good Friday, March 23rd and Easter March 25th. The Lenten season this year is about as early as it can be. Not since 1881 has Easter fallen on so early a date. Mr. Walter Coats, the green groc- er, was seen with head bandaged, last Thursday. He informed The News - Record that he had been "knocked out." A load of, wood Was being thrown in his cellar and Mx. Coats orammeams WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY WAS YOUNG From The News -Record Feb. llth, 1909: Mr. Harry Houlden was in Berlin and Toronto this week. The foiloWing are in Toronto this week attending •the concerts giveh by the Mendelsshon choir: Misses Liz- zie Reid, Beatrice Greene, Ida Hol- mes and Mrs. (Rev.) Jolliffe. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE ,SAYING SHOULD BE CAREFUL Men cannot all be measured by the 1 same standards. One man cannot be called wise if he invests all his mon, ey in real estate and another foolish because he spends his for a paint- ing—they are perhaps equally fool- ish. They both invest in the thing that brings satisfaction. One plays golf while another collects stamps; one delights in a rose garden while another is interested in a gold mine. One stays at home with a book while another goes to a dance. Each is do- ing the thing he enjoys most, 'so we must be careful in passing judgment. —Listowel • Banner. The following front town attend= tended the Y. M. C. A. convention at Winglaam on Tuesday: Postmaster Scott, Secretary L. C. 'Fleming, W. S. R. Holmes, P. Plumsteel, F. J. Hill, C. Hoare, J: Cuninghame and C. Lindsay. De. E. C. Wilford, who went over to Edinborough, Scotland, to take a special course, has passed his exam- ination with honours, being one of the 20 to do so out of the 106 who wrote. Dr. Wilford is a son of Mr. John Wilford of Blyth and a gradu, ate of the. Clinton Collegiate, Evangelistic 1deHardy will start a series of special services in the On- tario street church next Sunday. On Monday Mr. D. Cantelon •ship- ped eighty-seven hogs from Clinton station. Their agrgegate weight was 18,820 'pounds, for which he paid. $1227.65, an average per hog of $14.11. The biggest load bought in was from Mr. W. Wheatley consist- ing of twelve porkers for which he received $150.75. Mr. Fisher of near Benmiller brought his load the long- est distance. Tuesday night's hockey match between the Stratford and .Clinton teams was well contested and was won by the visitors by a score of 5 to 4 . . . The local line up was as follows: goal, W. Johnston; point, J. McKenzie; cover, C. Copp; rover, R. Rumball; wings, E. Sheppard and White; centre, B. Johnson. According to the new plan of the seats in the Legislature the members from Huron are well placed, A. H. Musgrove and 11. Silber are both on the second row on the Government side, while W. Proudfoot is on the se, eond row to the left of the speaker. The C. L Board re -organized last week and again chose Rev. C. R. Gunne chairman and Principal Gun- dry as secretary. Hodgens Bros., who have carried on a dry -goods, business in Clinton since August 1895, have disposed of their, stock to J. W. Newcombe and Tozer and Brown, the latter taking the carpets, etc.... The present pub- lisher of The News -Record has had ten years of pleasant business rela- tions with the firm and is sorry to Iose them but very heartily wishes them continued prosperity. The name Hodgens has been associated with the dry -goods business. in Clinton since 1$66. SUNDAY PROGRAMS SHOULDN'T CARRY ADS. It is predicted that the Radio. Com- mission will come in for considerable criticism in Parliament this session, and that this may result in changes, In appraising the work of the Com- mission the people of Ontario must remember that other parts of Canada have not , been so well served by radio as they are. Consequently, the change brought by • the •Commission has been more highly appreciated in the Maritime Provinces and in the Western Provinces than in Central Canada. There is undoubtedly some disappointment that the advertising feature has not been more radically curtailed. For our part, we regret also to see the growing tendency to secularize the Sunday programmes. There are enough influences at work to break down the religious charac- ter of Sunday already. But on the whole, the' Commission seems to be making a real effort to give the pec, pie of Canada good value for the $2 a year they pay for their radio lic- ences.—Orillia Packet -Times. it is that we shall never have the population, 'unless we do impose a tariff, , equal to theirs. Free traders' say that we cannot make money by internal trade, which they describe as "taking in each other's washing." They also describe it as "trading' jack-knives among ourselves, or with others. Trading may bring wealth to the trader, but it does not produce wealth. Wealth comes from taking raw materials from the field, the forest and the mine, and working them up into merchandise, machin- ery, railroads, bridges, roads, ,build ings, and other useful, assets. Protection gives capital the eon- fidence to undertake this conversion of raw materials into finished pro- ducts, into productive assets.. This is what has happened in the TJmmited States, which is the youngest indus- trial country in the world, and , the richest. Their 'external trade is only 2 per cent. and their internal trade 98 per cent.- of their entire trade. Their great wealth, estimated at $320,000,000,000, certainly did not come out of the 2 per cent. It came out of the 98 per cent. It was made by "taking in each other's washing," —.Kincardine News. TAKING IN EACH OTHER'S WASHING 'AND TRADING ' JACK-KNIVES Theorists tell us that we cannot im- pose a high tariff against the Uni- ted States, because we have not the 'population. If there is one thing more definitely certain than another, PAGES of shop -lifting deliberately iwaik in- to newspaper offices and attempt they usually get away with it—to se- cure publicity for nothing. The in- genious methods of men, women and organizations to keep down expenses' by stealing space in neWspapers are many and varied. Many people take the position that a newspaper must have something to fill up, then why not give free publicity to boost some money -malting event." It may riot occur to some people that it costs a lot of money to run even a small newspaper, and that money does not grow ontrees,especially in these days of depression. Certain it is that in the last decade whether the idea has been cribbed from the old-time P. T. Barnum Gir- ctrs, weknow not,but there have de- veloped public relations departments,. publicity departments, by the hundred all over the United States and Can- ada, the product of which is poured into the regular newspaper offices. and for whieh publication is virtual- ly demanded. That is 'one phase of the development,: the national phase. The other phase the editor has al ways had with him, local requests for free publicity for this and that wor- thy object, week in and week out and a veritable Solomon es required to draw an equitable line and still main- tain a aintain'a going concern. The publisher of a leading. Western Ontario newspaper whenever ap- proached by a committee of church women to provide plentiful space had a stock answer for such deputations. He would say: "Space is the only commodity I have to sell, You would not think of going down street and asking So -and -So for so many hun- dred pounds of sugar, nor would you call on So -and -So and ask him for so many tons of coal.) If you want publicity for your event, advertise at the regular rates. I will hold up my end of good citizenship whenever I can by making It subscription or buy- ing a couple of tickets for the cause." —St. Catharines Standard. ex�Cs� THE EDITOR'S SIDE A ease of righteous indignation by an editor and publisher is not exactly rare; it is pretty much commonplace. The editor of the Sackville (N.B.) Tribune has' declared to his constitu- ents that in the matter of free pub- licity he is willing to be , the goat, sometimes,' but not all the time, and reports: "Did you ever try to steal 'grocer- ies" I said to a man the other day. He came near blowing up, He sput- tered, turned black in the face and finally when he could find words, he said— "What do you mean by asking me such a question I have a good mind to—„ "Calm yourself," I said, "I did not say that you ever stole groceries. I asked you if you ever had tried to do so.,, "What in the world are you driv- ing at?" he said. "I will tell you," I said. "Thous- ands of people, who would not think news columns unless he is a leaden he business, society, os public service.. Yet in spite of the space and attend Lion that weekly papers give to the passing of. local figures, the items: are too often lacking in essential; de, tails through no fault of the report err. It is surprising sometimes how lit- tle the children of an " aged parent:' know as to where and when their father ox mother was born, the date and place of marriage and other - points 6f fact which . figure in the career of the deceased. *mama.* FROM THE EDITOR'S STANDPOINT A characteristic feature of rural weekly newspapers is the detailed obituaries that we publish when a respected citizen passes on. In the larger centres the death of a citizen is not so much as noticed in the In the interest Of accuracy and as a matter of information to those who came after, we think it would be a good idea for citizens to write down and then put away for future refer encs, some essential facts ,and dates regarding• their lives and perhaps some, incidents that ; they would like tai• have remembered by those who acid after. Another thing that a local reporter finds out in his daily rounds is that comparatively few men have photo- graphs of themselves, beyond per. haps a baby picture and a snapshot or two that were taken by members; of the family out •behind the garage. One can sympathize with men who- hate hohate to get dolled up and "look pleas- ant please" in a photo studio. Most of us are that way ourselves. But we wonder if these 'men realize that when they pass out in a few years, their likeness will pass frons the' earth and even their own grandehilde cep will never know what they look- ed like. And with no photograph of you, friend wife won't be able to show her second husband how nice you were. Better arrange for a sit- ting today! —St. Marys Journal -Argus.. "Now I shall not forget to buy that two pounds of lion steak fon my wife."—Muskete, Vienna. eamoime From' The New Era. Feb., 1909: The first division in the House at Ottawa gave the Government a ma- jority of 41. The local poultry association held their annual meeting Wednesday ev. ening, which was a very -.representa- tive one. Following are the officers for 1909: President, H. E. Rorke; vice, John Rice; secretary, M. C. Kaufman; treasurer, T. Managhan. It was decided to hold a local show same as last year, in connection with the Spring Stock Show. Wesley church anniversary ser- vices will be held on March 14th, Rev. Jases Livingston of Mitchell, a former pastor, to be the special preacher. ' Rev. W. E. Kerr, of Ontario street church has received a unanimous call fro"), the board of Tillsonburg Method., `` church,'and has accepted; subject td' the approval of the stat- ioning committed. Local : t1ailcr Theg Owe You Sales Assistance You know thiroughly well that you have power, in your store, to influence the decision of your customers in regard to what :they buy from you. Your customers rely on you to give them products which, in use or consumption, will give them complete satisfaction. You know and your customers know that, in regard to nearly every class of •product, there are several brands of equal, merit. Thus, A's soup is the equal to •B'c or C's ,soup; D's shoes are equal to Els or F's shoes; 1G's radio sets are the equal to H's or I's sets; J's hosiery is the equal of K's or L's hosiery; M's electric washing machine or refrigerator is the equal of N's or O's washing machine or refrigerator; and so on and so on. Makers of advertised products recognize that you have access to the attention and favor of several hundred buyers—your regular and regular customers, and they want to use your distribution facilities for their advantage. But are they willing, in every instance, to assist you to sell their product if you stock it -assist you with a series of localadvertisements, to be pub- lished in this newspaper? They say that they will provide you with plenty of window and counter display material, and printed matter; but quite too often they de-, cline to use local advertising, in thisnewspaper, over your name! They tell you that they are spending a whale of a lot of money in big -city dailies and in nationally -advertised magazines; but you know—or can get to know that in the territory served by this newspaper upwards of 90 per cent of the families living in it do not subscribe to national magasines and big city dailies. This means that the job of promoting local sales is to be put on your shoulders. If it is right to use big city dailies and na- tionally- circulated magazines then, by the same token, it is right to use local weekly newspa- pers! It is no compliment to you as a retailer or to the buyers of this town and .territory for a national` advertiser to decline to advertise his product in this newspaper. You can get much more advertising for your store and stock than you are now getting, if you insist, as a condition of stocking a particu- lao pooduct, that it be locally advertised in this newspaper, (N.B.: Show; thisadvertisement to men who urge you to stock and push the sale of theist goods, yet who tell you that their firm cannot assist their local sale by advertising)(. The Clinton News -Record glereneameerefteearie $1.50 a year. Worth More