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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1934-03-01, Page 34THURS., MARCH 1, 1934 THE CLINTON.NEWS-RECORD Members of the administration have not yet forgiven Lindbergh for publishing his telegram to the Pre- sident before the President had time to 'receive it. , They don't appear to appreciate . that he may have sent the telegram because he knew the President is too busy to read the pa- pers. They avenged the affront to their id- ol by slandering the air idol. They started stories to the effect that he. is worth more than he really is. He met this damaging charge by alleg- ing that he isn't. enisaimero We are in favor of reduction in armaments but in Paris and Vienna the side that had the most and most powerful weapons is coekahoop. Onnennine "Forestalling and regrating" was on one time ,prohibited by law in England and Scotland. The illegal act thus described was buying •goads with intent to sell at a profit. Of course the people violated the Iaw as they do other unreasonable prohibi- tions and what had been a crime be- came a policy so that, not long af- ter, Napoleon referred to them con- temptuously as a nation of shop keepers. emx-7Rieno Herr Hitler is bound to stamp out the Red menace. He is now going to make the Germans play golf. A golfer never talks treason, or sed, tion, or revolution. He talks about mashies and niblicks, slices and fooz- les, putts and drives. It may be bor- ing to others but it never disturbs the authorities. Onsinnnen Hitler's scheme is really a good one. Rather than send •Communists to pri-, son we would send them out to the golf links where they would soon for- get their half-baked ideas on poli- tical economy and learn to talk like elder statesmen about brassies and mid -irons, divots and hazards, han& caps and the nineteenth hole, ansi iaeo Civil servants and others who have had to bear a ten per cent. cut in salary will not repine when they ;think of others. The salary of the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.•was cut from $229,000 a year to a 'measly $206,000. He suffers with fortitude, but not resignation, a cut of $23,000 a year. Cho When the Nazio gained control in Germany -there were demonstrations against them in Canada and the Uni- ted States and counter -demonstra- tions followed. When the Fascists beat the Nazis to it in Vienna there were demonstrations' in New York, and a Rabbi in Toronto, who had taken part in the anti -Nazi demon- stration, broadcasted a Sunday broadside against the Fascists. Is 1 there no way to make these busybod- ies mind their ` own business and cease importing . German and Aus- trian quarrels into America? 4.00131.0 A Communist orator has to put up bail for $5,000 and agree not to discuss his case publicly in the mean- time. Bank shareholders are also subject to a double liability, so there is no discrimination. An autoist writes to a newspaper, of the scares given him by bioyelists. If horses could write their reminis- censes they could tell of the scares given them by autos in their early days.' enealinteell An English paper says Sir Austen Chamberlain still has the Locarno mind. What's wrong with that? The Lacarno mind is enmity against war. site One' realizes the difficulty a gov- ernment .has in reducing expenses when one reads of an opposition member from Nova Scotia taunting the government members from that province with the peanut sums they were able to get for public works in their constituencies this year. Whether we Iike it or not there is going to be an amalgamation of the two great Canadian railways. Be- cause of public apposition, it won't come until grim necessity forces it upon us. And it is not a cheerful prospect because only the govern- ment can handle so great an under- taking now. There was a time when the C. P.'R.•Co. could have done it, but that time has passed. The only person who can manage the combina- tion efficiently is some one with des- potic powers who will protect the in- terests of the people against the people themselves. opo A newspaper tells of a large fam- ily in which there never had been a disagreement. There's one place where they never had a radio. The Prime Minister never spoke a truer word than when he told a de- putation from the Trades and Labor Council who urged a building prog- ramme that overbuilding is the cause of much of our present distress. Large hotels 'were built that will nev- er ewer pay interest •on the investment, the only other effect being the forc- ing of smaller hotels out of business or into liquidation. Sky -scraping of- fice buildings were erected that made smaller neighboring buildings vacant and unable to pay taxes. Everyone knows that we overbuilt railways, canals, ships and pleasure resorts. The only building programme that should be ,countenanced can well be left to private enterprise, since gov- ernments and large corporations have shown that they cannot build without overbuilding. What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED' DURING TOR i.AST DE- CADE OF THE OLD, CENTURY? • From The News -Record, Feb. 28th, 1894: The thermometer registered from 15 to 20 degrees below zero last Fri- day night. There are now forty-eight tele- phones in Clinton. Rev. E. Medd, a former Hullett boy, has resigned his, charge at Har- row. He has received an invitation from Oil Springs. Ex -Mayor McTaggart was in -To- ronto on Business last week. Mrs, McTaggart accompanied him and bath' attended the Irving theatricals while there. Clinton can now lay claim to hay- ing one of the best brass bands in the county.... Officers were elected en Monday.' evening as follows: Hon.- President,Capt. H. Torr Rance; pre- sident, IL B. •Chant; vice-president, John Emmnerton; treasurer, A. J. Holloway; secretary, Will Harland; committee of management, B. J. Gibbings, A. J. Holloway, J. Emmen ton, West Huron patrons meet next Tuesday in Dungannon for the pur- pose of nominating a candidate to contest West Huron. A number of names have been mentioned,' the lat- est Reeve: John Cox and Deputy Reeve ,Samuel Sturdy of Goderich Township. Goderieh Township.—Mr, and Mrs. John Ransford, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steep,. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Dodd, Mrs. T. 0. Cooper, William Young, Miss Sheppard, Editor and Mrs. Todd and family and several others Sundayed in the vicinity of Middleton. Mr. Samuel •Switzer has purchased the Churchill farm on the 9th con. from Mr. J. G. Steep paying the handsome sum of $3,400. Mr, Swit- zer will move; to his new farm on the first' of March , eseeenieno From. The New Era, Mar. 2nd, 1894 The thermometer registered 15 below- on Friday night last, the cold- est registered this season. Mr. John T, Marland has moved into his new house. W. J. Milne, M.D. of Blyth has been appointed associate coroner for the 'County of Huron. The sleighing has all, disappeared. Rev. Dr. McKay of. Formosa ad. dressed an unusually large congre gation in Willis Presbyterian church on Sunday evening last, He dealt almost entirely with his work in that far off land. A delegation from the Dominion Grange waited upon the Ontario, G'overn'ment on Monday and among other things asked that a bill be in - WHAT OTHER NEWS PAPERS 'ARE SAYING IN BAD WAY There is an amazing monotony in the news these days. Every day the big headlines are given to news of revolutions, uprisings, national and in- ternational bickerings,;crime and gen- eral cussedness. -So much is this so that yesterday's, daily, papers could almost be brought quite up-to-date, as far as general conditions go, by merely changing the date lines. The whole world is just in a mess, ,Our sympathy is with, the fellow who suggested that this world must be the lunatic asylum of the universe. — Dominion Ridgetown' reemeamen WILL COME, SOONER OR LATER Those who oppose the adoption of a distinctive Canadian flag do doubt- ful service to the Union Jack and to British connection. They are divid- ing the people on a subject upon which there is no occasion to do so. The movement for some distinctive feature on the national flag is so reasonable that sooner or later it is bound to be successful. By opposing it the friends of the Union Jack are only giving a focal point of attack to the exponents of nationalism. Al- ready a fantastic ensign in which troduced reducing the number of County councillors. WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY WAS YOUNG From The News -Record, Mar. 4th, 1909: !fr. and Mrs. Will Plumsteel leave next week for Oxbow, Sask., where Mrs. Plumsteel will remain far a time with her parents while Mr. Plumsteel will visit Lethbridge, Ed- monton and other points, looking up a business location. Mr. C. Hoare has sold his shoe bus- iness to Mr. S. C. Rathwell, who has been so efficiently managing it for some time. Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson and Mr. and ,Mrs. C. C. Rance went to Toron. to Saturday afternoon to attend a reading of Wilson Barret's "The Sign of the Cross," given that even- ing by Miss May Rance of the Con- servatory School of Expression. A- mong other Clintonians present were Mrs. W. G. Pinner, Miss Middleton, Miss Mainie Hooson, Miss Hill, Mrs. Archibald, Mr. Eldred Archibald, Mr, Alex. Armstrong and Miss May Armstrong. The Toronto dailies speak very highly of the recital. Mr. J. Ransford has sold his Hui - lett property, consisting of 817 acres to Taylor Bros. of Minnedosa, Man., brothers of Councillor J. Taylor. Mr. J. Taylor has let the contract to Mr. S. S. Cooper for the store ho will have built between his office and the Elliott block, It will be 50x 22 with red brick front and will be occupied by :Ford and McLeod. The town council en Monday night voted $50 to the Huron County Stock and Seed show to be held in Clinton on April 1st. The carnival on Thursday last pas, sed off suceessfully. The prizewin- ners in the different events were: Mile race, A. Doherty, A. Kerr, C. East, Lady and gentleman skating together, Miss J. Morris, B. Johnson, Gents fancy, W. Johnson, N. Davis. Ladies' fancy, Miss Elsie Ross, Miss Erma Andrews. Ladies' Comic, Miss J. Bawden. Gent's comic, R. Moore. Potato race, Mess Forrester, James Lawson. The hockey' team, defeated Sea - forth at the latter place on Tuesday evening 8 to 1. On Friday evening the •Seaforth and Clinton Junior teams will compete on the local rink, The local line-up will be: Goal, D. Stewart;. point, R. Rumball, cover, H. Twitchell, rover, B. Johnson; cen- tre, C. 'O'Neil; right wing, F. Por. rester, left wing, A. Wilson. emeeiniero From The New Era, Mar. 4th, 1909: Mr. A. McMurray, for some time farm superintendent for Mr. J. Rens- ford, has bought out the Deering Agency from T. Murphy, who is go- ing west. Mr. McMurray is a man. of strict integrity and will no doubt receive a share of the implement trade,. , �Mias •Hamilton, Seaforth and Miss Laura, Jervis, Clinton, have both been successful in passing with bon. ours the theory examination in con- neetion with the London Conserve, tory of Music. ,Before leaving Midland for his home here the young men of the Y. M.C.A. presented Mr. Fred Chant with a fine ebony toilet set and an address. Plumsteel. Bros., who have been in- the nthe dry goods business here for some time, expect to move their .business to Oxbow, Sask., in the course of a few days. - Mt. Chas. Wallis has 50 good hor- ses bought up which he expects to take west in a few days, among them is one bought - from Leiper 'Bros. Hullett, which he considers the . peer of anything in the country. Mr. Percy Town is coming from Woodstock to take the position of cutter with Tozer and Brown, to filt the vacancy caused' ,by the removal of Ur. Belcher. I . I ..., . s the Union Jack has no place has been put forward by one nationalist or- ganisation. Better agree to have a maple leaf in the field of the flag (which is not sacrosanct) with the Union Jack in the corner, and re- move the question from the field of controversy.!—+Orillia Packet -Times. eninaneene A SMART PAIR ,Fifty years ago, the day before Wednesday, Feb. 13th, 1884, James Crown of Clinton Two., walked into W!. J. Reid's barber shop in Beams - vine to Beams-ville'to get his hair cut,which was done by Mr. Reid, the special occa- sion being his wedding day the fol- lowing day. On 1Vionday last Mr. Crown again walked into Mr. Reid's barber shop to have his hair Gut and insisted that the Veteran Hair Dres- ser again perform this duty, as he looked smart 50 years ago when it was done and wanted to do so now as it was for another special occa- sion, for Tuesday, February 13, when he would celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary. Mr. Crown is 77 and Mr. Reid is 71 years old, Haldimand Advocate. onzielenerie WHAT BREWERS HOPE FOR A correspondent, writing to Taxon., to Saturday Night, gives some rath- er striking figures as to what those interested in brewery sales expect from the anticipated action of the Ontario Government to make readily accessible to the people of this pro- vince. This writer paints out that whereas in 1913, before the present system 'of liquor control went into effect, Ontario consumed 23,112,781 gallons of beer or 9.4 gallons per capita, and Quebec 13,104,571 -gal- lons or 6.4 per capita, in 1932 Quer bee's beer total had risen to 27,453,- 770 7,453;770 gallons or 10.2 per capita while Ontario's consumption had dropped to 8,578,560 gallons or 2.6 per capita. "In the face of the probable change in legislation why should not the sales of this beverage here equal those of Quebec, this should amount, to approximately 35,000,000 gallons per annum. But he figures that bas- ed on the increase of sales in 1932, over 1913 the sales would probably be in the neighborhood of 45,000,000 gallons. Figures like those should give Premier Henry food for thought when he is considering his "freer wine and beer" policy. )Barrie Examiner, nerenlniame AS A CONSERVATIVE EDITOR ,SEES IT If we had never had a Grit federal government in Canada since 'Confed- eration our country would be in much better financial shape, not that there hasn't been and are yet lots of good citizens who are Grits, but outside , of Sir Clifford Sifton's policy of im- migration in the Laurier govern- ment, their overnment,'their policies and tactics have not in the long run ,been good for Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald's national policy started Canada on the way to development. We are still paying for Sir Wilfred Laurier's railway mistakes and his British pre- Iference without return advantages to Canada was stated even by the benefidiaries to be a bad bargain for Canada. If the , Grits had had their way in 1911 we would now be living in the midst of kidnappers, racketeers and divorce courts. During the King government re- gime probably more people emigrat• ed from Canada and the national and railway debts more injudiciously increased . than any time in our his- tory. It is a pretty true saying. , "That when the Grits make a mess of things the peoplo fallback on the Tories to straighten them out." This has now happened three important i times in our 67 years of national life, and should be enough. —Kincardine News. CANADA. RAS SEA MONSTER — BUT ITS DEAD St. John, N. B., February 25th.— Residents of Duck Cove on Saturday found that the storm -swept Bay of Fundy had cast a strange sea deni- zen on the beach. Fifteen feet long, three or four feet thick in the 'middle, with three large fins and a tail, a snout. like a pig and two small horns on the head, the dead fish or mammal weighed about a -ton. W'INGHAM: Mrs. Delbert. P. Merit, of Grimsby, passed away here on Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs, George Dalgleish, Carling Terrace. Deceased, who was in her 66111 year, was formerly An- nie Maria Adams, a native of Eng. land, and came to -Canada when a child with her parents and settled in Smithville. She came here in the fall to visit with her daughter. Sur- viving, besides her husband, are four daughters, Mrs. George Gledhill, Grimsby; Mrs. Lloyd Hurst, Beams- vilie; Hattie, at home, and Mrs. Dalgleish, Wingham;; two sons, George, at hare, and Sheldon, Buf- falo, also two brothers. The remains were taken to Grimsby for interment in Queen's Lawn Cemetery. The funeral being held on Tuesday. IGODERICH: , Asking $1,000 dam- ages for allegedwrongful distress, Thomas ,Sturdy, Goderich, has caus- ed a writ to be issued in Supreme Court, naming the Town of Goderich, A. J. Cooper and Oswald Ginn, bail- iff, as defendants. Particulars have not yet been filed. On. February 14 the furnishings of the Royal Hotel, owned by Mr. Sturdy, plaintiff in the action,' were sold for taxes at the instance of the Ton of Goder- ich. They brought only ,$92.45 and were purchased by A. J. Cooper, who holds a mortgage on the hotel pro- perty. L. E. Dancey is actingfor plaintiff, F. Donnelly for the mort- gagee and D. R. Nairn for the cor- poration. e GOD'ERICH: Arthur Wardlaw Curzon, English gentleman -farmer, who had resided for 40 years on his estate on the Huron road just :out of Goderich, died Friday evening in Al- exandra Hospital in his 74th year. He was a first cousin of the late Lord Curzon, famous English diplomat. A pictruesque figure of distinguishes military bearing, refined, well edit-, sated and well informed, Arthur Cur- zon was an almost daily visitor to ,Goderich over a long period of years, He received his education at a pri- rate school in England and was an expert linguist, For a time, he was an officer in the British army, but when still in his twenties he came to,. Canada to take up farming, settling near Galt. Later, he went to Mani- toba and from there to Goderieh pur- chasing a 100 -acre farm with impos- ing entrance, stately trees and large• residence just en the outskirts. Shortly after canting to Goderich Mr: Curzon married Charlotte, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs: Richard Radcliffe, who died in 1915. An only child, Adeline, died in 1929 and since then 'Mr. Curzon has lived alone with his servants. A sister, Mss. (Rev.) Whitfield, lives in Reading, Eng., and a brother, Penn Curzon, resides a short distance from this city. His only relative in Canada is a nephew, Arthur Fitzroy Lithgow, of Mon- treal, who came up to attend the funeral, Mr. Curzon was of a philanthropic nature and had a host of friends. Ile was a most interest- ing conversationalist, possessing an intimate knowledge of the British royal family and also of many of the aristocratic 'families of England and the continent. He was a staunch supporter of British traditions and was a Conservative in politics. A member and regular attentant of St. George's 'Anglican Church, the fun- eral service was held in that educe and interment beside his wife and - daughter in Maitland Cemetery. De. ceased was a great lover of organ music and of flowers; and before tak- ing ill, did much entertaining at his spacious home. His hobby was walk- ing. • He neverowned an automobile and seldom drove a horse. Some weeks ago he was removed to Alex, ands Hospital to which institution he sometime ago presented a painting of Queen Alexandra, after which the hospital was named. This and bean- tiful memorial windows in St. George's Church were in memory of his wife and daughter. SHE WERE "What be thinkin' of, Janet?" "Nothin' much." "Why worn't ye thinkin' of me?" "I were." Local .!etai2 They Owe You Sales Assistance You know thiroughly well that you have power, in your stere, 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 E's or F's shoes; G's radio sets are the equal to H's or I's sets; J's hosiery is the equal of Its 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 'ir- 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 local advertisements, 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 ecline-to use local advertising, in this newspaper, aver 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 magazines 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 thla newspaper. (N.B.: Show this adrertisement to men who urge you to stock and push the sale of their goods, yet who tell you that their firm cannot assist their local sale by advertising). The Clinton NewsR.ecord $1.50 a year. Worth More