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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
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What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAP PENED DURING Tim LAST DE-
CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY?
From The News,Record, April 18th,
1894:
Spring appears to have come at
last; the street watering cart will
soon, business men and citizens hope,
be on its rounds and keep down the
blinding dust.
Clinton's high -bred horses, from
present indications, will advertise
our town during the coming season
... Our own track not being in shape
Mr. Lank Kennedy has "Aconin Jim"
and "Lord Tennyson" in training at
Goderich. The latter flyer is enter-
ed for about $3,000 stakes at St. Tho-
mas, Stratford, Hamilton, etc., in the
2.50 class. Mr. J. L. Doherty has in
charge several choice animals, "John
Nelson," "Lena D.," and "Lou Ed -
sell" at Goderich for the first train- chosen for the ensuing year:
ing this season. President: II. P. Plumsteel.
Cooper is still an esteemed subscriber
who keeps his subscription paid well
in advarice.—Ed.)
It speaks well for our merchants
that one of their number, Mr. Was.
ley Walker, was given the contract
of furnishing the house of Mr. H. W.
Cowan of Montreal. The purehaser
is manager of the Inland Navigation
Co., of that city and was married
recently at the manse, Londesboro,
his bride being a sister of Mrs. Neil
Leckie. Iffr. Cowan was in Clinton
the day before his marriage, noted
the good stocks carried here, hence
the order.
At the regular meeting of the On-
tario street church League on Mon-
day night the following officers were
In the demise of Mr. Thomas Fair
the community has lost a most faith-
ful public servant and sterling Chris,
tion citizen . . : He had been ailing
for some time but was confined to
bed only a few days. The noble spir-
it took flight on Friday morning . . .
He came to Canada and resided in
Hamilton for four years, coming to
Clinton in 1855. Here he held the
Position of assistant postmaster for
a few months •under Mr. Gordon,
succeeding him in 1856. He held the
Position from that time until his de-
mise, a space of thirty-eight years.
In -manner the late Inn. Fair was un-
assuming, accommodating and popu-
lar with all classes of people ... The
funeral on Sunday was one of the
largest ever seen in Clinton.
About 11.30 Monday night the fire
alarm sounded, 3/Moon's hotel, op,
posits The News -Record was ablaze.
... While the firemen were still play-
ing on the firebed the roof of Lee's
Hotel broke out in a mass of flames
and although the firemen worked her-
oically . . . the two buildings are in
mine. 1
From The New Era, Apr. 20th, 1894:
The delegation who went to Ot-
tawa to see about getting a new post -
office built here, got bark on Satur-
day and report that the Government
has placed Clinton on the list of pub-
lic works and will use their best en-
deavors to secure a grant for the
erection of a building.
The death of Mr. Fair creating a
Vacancy for the postmastership, there
are said to be a number of aspirants
for the position.
At the nomination last January
Councillor Taylor of St. Andrew's
ward boasted that he represented a
ward which had "two aunties and
no hotel in its bounds." Since the
fire Monday night Councillors Plum-
mer and Young are able to make the
same boast.
Mason's hotel had been in use as a
hotel for forty years, being built by
Mr. John Joslin, now of Virden, Man,
glance across the breakfast table to
grandmother and say, "Ruth isn't it
about time -be hull corn ? Some of this
syrup would go pretty well on hulled
corn."',
And grandmother would reply,
"Not today, Joseph. I'm making soap
today. But about day after tomor-
row."
Ashes were always leached in a
large tub of lye to make soap, and
sometimes we used the last run of the
lye from the leach -tub for hulling
corn. But we all thought that this
'last run of lye was not so good as
fresh, new lye from birch ashes,
leached in a little firkin which held
about a bushel. The firkin had holes
bored in the bottom and was set on a
crease cut in it round the bottom of
the broad„ clean board having a cir-
cular firkin to conduct the lye to a
little spout at the front, where an
earthen pot was set to catoh it.
First we put a wisp of clean rye
straw in the firkin, then the ashes,
and then poured in spring -water.
Soon the clear, rich -colored lye be-
gan to exude at the bottom and drip
into the pot. Fbur quarts of the lye
were then poured on a peck of dry,
nicely winnowed yellow "Pine Knot"
corn, and the whole put to boil in a
brass kettle for about two hours, or
until the hull started and the hard
outer glaze of the kernels was eaten
away.
1st Vice: Miss Gertie Sage.
2nd Vice: Miss Minnie Ker.
3rd Vice: Miss Effie Bothwell.
4th Vice: Miss Carrie Shipley.
Rec.-Secretary: Thos. Anderson.
Assistant: Wilbert Halstead.
Treasurer: R. B. Cater.
Con -Secretary: Miss Mabel Ker.
Pianist: Miss Elva Wig -toe.
Aseistant: Miss Marjorie Manning.
The good people of Wesley church
have listened with delight to the sel-
ections rendered by their new organ-
ist, Prof. W. Brawn. The professor
is a graduate of the Incorporated So-
ciety of Musicians, the leadiig society
in England for training professional
musicians.
Party choice, well-fed steers were
chipped Wednesday to England. They
were a prime lot, displaying breeding
and evidencing the greatest care and
the best of scientific feeding. Need-
less to inform our readers that they
came from the stables of Mr. John
Ransford, who will have about fifty
more ready by the middle of May.
"None but the best," is Mr. Ransford's
motto.
/Good Stayers --Mr. J. P. Sheppard,
who left the employ of J. and N. Fair
to go into the grocery business, was
with the firm for twenty-three years
and six months. He was trustworthy
in every respect and the firm parted
with him with regret.
Mr. Harry Glazier, who succeeds to
Mr. Sheppard's position as packer,
has been with the mill since Oct. 1st,
1901 and is well liked by the numer-
ous patrons of the establishmeet.
You can hardly speak of the mill
without bringing in Harry's name in
some way or other.
WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY
WAS YOUNG
From The News-Reeord, April 22nd,
1909:
Mr. Eddie Shepherd, formerly of
Hodgen Bros. staff, has taken a posi-
tion with Tozer and Brown.
Mr, Emmerson Mitchell is visiting
at the home of his sister, Mrs. Thos.
Kyle, Kippen.
Mrs. Ed. Saville, who has been on
the sick list, is now improving.
Misses Minnie Ker, Molly Cluff and
Edna Copp, having completed their
Normal course, left on Tuesday for
Guelph to attend the Macdonald In-
stitute until midsummer.
People who are anxious about times
and seasons would do well to look
back ... Last year seeding did not be,
gin generally until the 22nd; in 1097
not until the 24th; in 1908 we had
heavy snow flurries on the 30th and
on May 2nd, so nobody need despair.
Plenty of time yet to sow seed, weed
out weeds, carry water and then eat
the 'festive radish or the tear -produc-
ing onion.
The bowling club meets on Friday
evening to reorganize for the season.
Mr. T. H. Cook is on the sick list.
Tom has been working at high pres.
sure since he entered the livery busi-
ness, but now has to take it easier.
Mr. John Johnstone has sold his
house on Mary street to Mr, W. 3.
Nediger. Mr. Nediger has has the
-plane leased for a couple of years.
In renewing his subserption Mr.
Thos. J. Cooper of Killarney, Man.,
says; "I always like to get The News -
Record, which reaches me regularly
and gives me the happenings of the
old home town and township." (Mr.
The peck of corn finally swelled to
a bushel, and it had then to be rins-
ed and washed clean of the hulls, and
afterwards boiled for several hours
longer, until soft enough to dish out
for eating, either in milk or fried,
with maple syrup or cold, with cream
and sugar.
The process !occupied the most of
the March day, and added to the
leaching of the ashes, occasioned so
much work and care than once a year
was as often as we could persuade
grandmother to embark upon it.
That bushel of hulled corn rarely
lasted us for more than two or three
days; and often Theodora or Ellen
would be 'heard saying, "Isn't there
any way, grandmother, that we could
hull more corn at a time and keep it
a while?" And grandmother always
said, "No, child. It sours and spoils
very soon as the days get warmer."
For ice -chests had not then come in-
to use with ors. That appeared to be
the final word about hulled corn —
a peck of corn once a year and no
more,
Addison, however, was the one a-
mong us who was always questioning
methods and cogitating new ones.
And one time he burst out with,
"Grandmother, I believe I could keep
that corn the year round!"
"Ad, that would be fine!" Ellen
and Theodora both exclaimed. But
'grandmother only laughed.
Addison sat thinking it over for
some moments. "Well, Dead," he
said, "if you and Nell will hull an-
other peck of corn, I think I know a
way to keep it to use just as we want
it, all summer."
At first grandmother objected to
having the lye and kettle in her kit-
chen for another day; but the old
squire said, "Let the boy try, mother.
Let him try."
We had a good deal of faith in Ad-
dison. The girls set to work, and
during the day hulled another peck
of corn, which made four heaped-up
panfuls. One of these was reserved
for immediate consumption, and the
remainder turned over to Addison.
Fie tarried all three panfuls up the
long ell chamber. "Now don't come
spying round me," he said to the rest
of us. "I don't know that 1 can make
it work yet, and I don't want spec-
tators."
Thereupon he shut and bo/ted the
door leading to the staircase.
This long, open chamber was where
grandmother had her loom and form-
erly wove bed bletkete and rag car-
pets. At one end stood an old stove
having what was called an "elevated
oven;" that is, the oven was raised
over the stove, at about breast height.
It had been the kitchen stave, but had
gone out of fashion and been put a-
way up there. When she was weav-
ing on a cold day, grandmother was
accustomed to kindle a dime in it.
Immediately we heard Addison
building a fire in that "elevated ov-
en" stove. Soon he made his ap-
pearance to borrow bake -sheets and
tin plates from the kitchen. What
he could possibly be doing with that
hulled corn was more than we could
guess, but we left him in peace; and
he was up there, coming and going
all that day and the following even-
ing.
At the breakfast table the next morn-
ing however, he displayed a sample
of his preserved hulled corn. It was
dry as a bone, and shrunken back to
the size of the kernels a dry corn
before hulling.
"What have yon done to it, Ad?"
Theodora exclaimed. "Have you leak,
ed it?"
"No, merely dried it," 58151 he, "just
as younwould dry sliced apple for
winter use. I kept a slow fire and
dried it. That corn can be put away
now in boxes, or done up in pack-
ages. It will keep as long as you
want it."
"But how is anyone to eat that
dried stuff," grandmother demanded.
"Why, soak it out," said Ad. "When
you want hulled corn for breakfast,
put it in soak ever night, just as You
do beans for baking."
"I don't believe it would be good!"
said grandmother; and we all hid
doubts as to that.
But Addison argued that as loth -
From The New Era, Apr. 22nd, 1909:
Master Earl O'Neil is on the sick
list, being confined to the house with
an attack of tonsilitis.
W. H. Kerr, Editor of the New Era,
has purchased the Monteith proper-
ty, Ontario street, -where he hopes in
the near future to install the queen
of his household.
S. S. Cooper has obtained permis-
sion from the chairman of the street
committee to place a cement trough
opposite the pump at the Normandie,
Mary street, which will do away with
the use of pails in watering horses.
Next Sunday, Apr. 25th, will wit-
ness the beginning of a series of spe,
tial jubilee services in connection
with St. Paul's church , The Vener-
able Archdeacon of Brant, Rev. G. C.
McKenzie, will be the special speak-
er.
Stanley—Harold Innes went west
on Tuesday.
Mr. Wm. 3. Taylor left for the
west on Tuesday of this week.
The season for making maple sug-
ar closed at the end of last week.
Farmers are getting busy 'with
plowing and other spring work.
The topic of a telephone line in our
township is receiving serious atten-
tion and we shall probably be in line
shortly.
The fifty -acre farm belonging to
Adam Stewart, lot 26, con. 4, has
been sold to John V. Diehl, whose
seventy-five acres is across the side,
road from it.
Tuckersmith: Thursdayi evening
of last week the annual election of
Sunday schoOl officers was held at
Turner's church and the list is as fol-
lows: Superintendent: Herbert Cmich;
Assistant, Thos. Townsend; Secre-
tary, Miss Gladys Switzer; Assistant,
Lucy Crich; Treasurer, Howard
Crich; organist, Mist Mary Walters;
Teachers: Misses Emily Turner, Ella
Johns, Minnie Elcoat, Christina
Townsend, Florence Townsend and
Fletcher Townsend. The supply staff
consists of Henry Carter, Mrs. Johns,
Sr., Mrs. Frank PleNvls and Miss El -
ma Crich.
Hulled Corn
By C. A. Stephens
Hulled corn, fried,, with maple on-
, .rup on it, was a favorite dish with us
young folks at the old squire's. At
'first we had bulled corn only once a
year, near the last of March, when
maple syrup was being made. That
indeed, had been the family custom
for three generations.
About March 20th, when "the sun
crossed the line," anal the snow was
melting fast, the old squire would
ing but water had been taken out of
it, the flavor and goodness must be
in it still, and would reappear when
the water was put back.
He poured hot water over a pint of
it, covered it and set it away, and at
noon, lo! there were nearly two
quarts of hullJd corn that was as
good as before it had been dried. No
difference could be discerned in the
flavor.
The old squire patted Addison on
the shoulder. "Well done, my ben,
well done!" he exclaimed. "You've
solved the hulled corn question." And
even grandmother admitted that it
might prove a good thing.
As the lye was still running, she
and the girls set to Work again and
hulled fully half a 'bushel of corn,
which Addison dried the next day. It
was put away in the pantry and used
occasionally all summer; but we had
several quarts of it left over that au-
tumn after we began attending school
at the academy in the village, sever
miles from the farm.
In fair weather we boarded at
home; but when it was stormy, or
there were 'evening "lyceums," we
often remained overnight in the vil-
lage and boarded ourselves at an un-
occupied house, which the old squire
owned there. At such times we took
most of our edibles with us from
home, and the girls got ,our meals„
While grubbing about in the pantry
at home for food to take with us one
morning, Ellen and Theodora came
upon that dried hulled corn, and ap-
propriated three quarts of it, with a
bottle of syrup; for every spring we
were accustomed to put up a number
of gallons of maple syrup in two -
quart bottles, for use through the
season.
The next morning at the village we
had some of that hulled corn, fried
for breakfast. There were then
nearly a hundred student e at the
academy, many of them living at a
distance away,- Niot a few of these
latter merely hired a room in the vil-
lage and boarded themselves, for ec-
onomy's sake. Not infrequently some
of them dropped in to take breakfast
with us, when their own supplies were
running low.
That morning one of lour class-
mates, named Anson Coburn, pre-
sented himself. "Just a cup of cof-
fee," he said.
But Theodora gave him a generous
plateful of the fried corn, and Addi-
son bade him try the syrup on it.
"My!" Anson exclaimed. "But this
is good! Does it cost anything?"
"Oh no!" said Theodora, laughing.
Anson ate two platefuls. He also
spread the news; and on the follow-
ing morning there were five in for
breakfast besides Anson. The sup.
ply -which the girls had prepared ran
so short that we had but one small
plateful einem.'
Our callers smacked their lips.
"Only ione drawback about this," An-
son remarked. "There's not enough
of it! 110 home and get some more!"
"Yes; Igo home and get, some more,"
they all shouted, uproariously.
Friday night, after we drove home,
Addison put ashes to leach, and dur-
ing the day, Saturday, the girls hul-
led a peck of corn. We took it with
us the next time we remained over
night at the village, and as a conse-
quence had eleven of our fellovr stu-
dents in to breakfait the next morn-
ing! In fact, that peek of corn last-
ed but two mornings, for there were
fourteen there the next morning.
When the last kernel had disap-
peared they"all joined hands round
the table and improvised a song, the
chorus of which was, "Go home and
get some more."
Anson, however, mounted a chair.
"This will never do!" he shonted.
"We are eating these people out of
house and home."
To be frank we were beginning to
feel a little that way about it our-
selves.
"Now listen,"," continued Anson.
"whoever comes pushing in here to
breakfast after this pays far it —
hey?"
"That's so!" they all said; and four
or five cried, "Why not sell us some
corn and syrup every morning? We
will pay ten cents a quart for the
corn."
Accordingly, the following Friday
night and Saturday we hulled a bu-
shel of corn. The old squire had re-
cently purchased what was called an
"evaporator," then a new invention
for drying apples. This time Addi-
son used the evaporator for drying
the hulled corn. It worked like a
charm for that purpose—and this
was the beginning of quite a little
industry for us at the village, both
that fall and during the terms of the
year following.
The students who boarded in the
village and families living near form
ed a habit of coming In to us in haste
• , , , , , • ,
in the morning for a quart of bot hul-
led corn. Often we dealt out twenty
quarts of corn in a single morning. I
do not now remember how much it
netted us, but it was a considerable
SUM, which came in very opportunely
for the purchase of text -books and
other school expenses.
For there was good profits in hal-
led corn at ten cents a quart. One
bushel of dry corn, worth a dollar,
will make four bushels of hulled
corn, so greatly does it swell during
the process; ,and ono hundred and
twenty-eight quarts of hulled corn at
ten cents, makes twelve dollars and
eighty cents.
Ellen and Theodora were wont te
furnish it to our fellow students all
hot from the frying -pan at just seven
o'clock in the morning. Half a doz-
en of them at once would often come
running in, joking and laughing, each
with his or her little pail or jar, so
as to carry it home hot. It never oc-
curred to Addison, or to any of us, to
make commercial use of his process
for drying hulled corn.
A. fine opportunity for profit was
thereby lost. But less than two years
ago, a Maine dealer in hulled corn
adopted this selfsame process, and is
now reported to be making a fortune
from evaporating hulled corn and sel,
ling it in pound packages like the
cereal foods.
PAGE 3
being subjected to unfair competition'
through mail-order houses opening
order offices in the smaller communi-
ties.
The world will never get any better'
until children become quite an im-
provement over their parents.
GODERIGH: Heads of all families
on relief, other than those who have
sickness in their home or where there
are other entenuating circumstances,
have been notified that relief orders
will not be issued after April 15.
At one time during the past winter
there were fifty-nine families, but
this number has steadily diminished,
and not more than a dozen families
are now receiving assistance. Total
cost of relief this winter is expeeted
to exceed that of one year ago, al-
though comparative figures are not
yet available.
KINCARDINE: Kincardine busi-
ness men at a special meeting expres-
sed the opinion that mail-order con-
cerns, opening ordering offices, should
be obliged to pay a tax. This was em-
bodied in a resolution, copies of
which are being forwarded to Hon.
H. H. Stevens, the Ontario Depart-
ment of Municipal Affairs and Retail
- Merchants' Association. The feeling
of the merchants was that they were
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Lo al Retailers
They 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 whicb, 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; 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 eleotric
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 itn-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 naaterial,
and printed matter; but quite too often they de-
cline to use local advertising, in this newspaper,
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 magazines and big city dailies. This
,means that the jab 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 nevrepa-
Pone It is no compliment to you as a retailer
or to the buyers of this town and territinw 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 nf stocking a particu-
lao pooduct, that it be locally advertised in this
newspaper.
(N.B.: Show this advertisement 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).
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