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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1934-08-30, Page 3'THURS., AUG. 30, 1931 - _ R What Clinton was Doing in ,The Gay Nineties 1.O YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAP PENiD DURING TITU LAST DE- CA1?E OF 'lIIE OLD CENTURY? From The Clinton New Era, August WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY 31st, 1894: Miss Amy Fitzsimons is visiting friends in Blyth and-W!ingham, Mr. Jarrett late of Clinton Colle- giate is attending the Ottawa Nor- mal school, Messrs. BrYdone and Turnbull vis- ited their old home in Milverton last week and incidentally took in the races while there. Mr. Russell, an artist sent out to this country by the London Graphic, for the especial purpose of making Canadian sketches, has been spending some time in this vicinity, and was a caller on Miss G. Mountcastle at "The Wigwam" on Monday, and spoke in very high terms of her work as an artist. He expresses himself as delighted with Canada and its scenery. HOLMESVILLE -+ Always At Work—We are informed that the Globe had an item a few days 'ago about Wm.. Mulholland, blacksmith, Holmesville, that his fame as a horseshoer had spread till now hor- ses come from far and near, and it is not an uncommon thing to hear him all night long. Indeed one night a fellow came in such a rush to get his horse shod there was no time to get a light, so they threw hint on his back and shod the horse by star- light. SEAFORTH—+Monday, while en- gaged at housework, a young woman, Miss McDowell, dropped to the floor and instantly expired. The deceased was much respected and was a niece of Mr. John McMillan, M.P., South Huron. BAYFIELD—Mr• Wm. McCluskey and Miss Maude Porterfield, princi- pal and assistant, respectfully of the. Public School have returned to duty after a long term of holidays. - Mr. McCluskey spent most of his vacation out west and called on several Bay- fieldites, whose friends will be g to hear from them. Mr. Graham Moorehouse of Bey City has been the guest of his fath- er, Mr. T. J. Moorehouse. Mr. Will Jowett left last week on a trip to Manitoba. From The Huron News -Record, Aug- ust 29th, 1894: Miss Ida' Plummer has returned to Providence, R.I. Mrs. Hoover and children have returned from Luoan. Captain Combe of the Drugstore was in the Queen City on business last week. Mr. W. 11. Beesley and Miss B. MacDonald are at ,Toronto attending the fashionmarts and millinery op- enings. HULLI9TT--Mr. Matt. Maines has the contract for a new barn for Mr. George Snell. The size is 56 by '72. The building is almost completed and will be one of the largest in the township. STENLEY—Mr. R. 3. Richardson has returned to resume his teaching duties' in Preston High School. )Mr. R. Reid, B.A., visited relatives in the neighborhood of St Helens.re- cently.� ^ is spending Mrs.. Beatty, Varna, p a few days with relatives in the vi- cinity of Ethel. -MEDICAL MEETIN'G-A repre- sentative meeting of the medical profession of Huron and Perth was held in Clinton last Wednesday. The object of the meeting was to place a candidate in the field for President of the Provincial Council. It was expected that Dr. Gunn .would ac- t but he declined Dr. Graham of � WAS YOUNG From The News -Record, August 29, 1900: A Prize Window Dresser—Mr. W. D. Fair won a prize of ten dollars of- fered by the Everybody Magazine for a well-dressed window, Mr. Fair has long been locally noted for his ori- ginal and attractive window dressing. Mrs. Bert Langford and children are holidaying with Mrs. W. H. Hell- yar at . her summer 'cottage in Bay field. . Misses Olive and Georgina Plum - steel of Buffalo are guests of their sister, Mrs. W. T. O'Neil. Mrs. J. iodgens and Miss Edith Hodgen; who have been visiting re- latives in Goderich and Burk's re- turned home yesterday. Mr. Will Wasman and Miss Nettie left on Tuesday for Colonia, Mieh., where they will spend several weeks with an uncle • who owns a fruit farm. Miss Mabel Cantelon is spending a week at Bayfield. ;Mr. A. J. Holloway went to Cobalt this week. Mr. Hector Gregg has returned to town,. having accepted a position with Morrish and Crooks.. THE CLINTON '. NEWS -RECORD accidents attributable to liquor have A New De increased 164 per cent. Time will tell what Ontario records will now do, but there are many who are confident; they will shoot up proportionately, —.Elmira Signet: Here's an' encouraging thought, The human brain doesn't wear out. It grows'with use. You can keep your brain. young by working it hard. Some men stop thinking, others nev- er did use their brains much. But the man who has a good brain and uses it to its limit, grows in ability as time goes on. -St. Mary's Journal -Argus. HURON FARMERS SHOULD NOT COMPLAIN" Reports from the Western Prov- inces claim damage of over four mil- lions of dollars from hail storms this al` fir the Rural High School By J, Wt Edwards, B.A., B.S.A.,B. ways sure that the vocational course , girls, turther work i , aed. Principal Ridgetown High and.is going to meet the needs of their ing and home nursing, and both boys P p and ,girls, bookeeping. ,Girls who Vocational -Agricultural Schools boys. and girls, In the anger ten- complete the three-year course re - Such Ridgetown Experiment tree more tlian half of the students omp a diploma and :may. stop school a' course has been introduced who pass entrance attend vocational Ridgetown may technical schools In so doing, or transfer to high school to complete wl be p Ridgetown and co well, be proud of its secondary school system for there is no other just like it in the Dominion of Canada. Dele- gations from Australia, Western Can- ada their first and many parts of Ontario have h school during the past PAGE 3 agoiilent. Boys attending two years would_be of benefit to thein as citi- receive further work in farm mechan- zens, and I; am of the opinion that its (including forge work), seed sole-, the first year high school course ction• and other agricultural topics; should be made more general with n sewing cools- languages set over 'until the second year to give fifth form 'students a better chance and the,first year stu- dent more time to adjust himself to new conditions. These are' trouble- some times and we are not yet out of or however, they must definitely decide a normal entrance course, or resume the woods, and economics must stilt summer. Early in July, northwestern Sask- atchewan and Central Alberta' are said to have suffered a loss to crops Manitoba; were believed to have caused losses up to half a million dol- lars. On top of these pante the storm. of Friday last, when hail cut an area ten miles wide and fifty miles long in Southern Alberta, causing a loss of half a million dollars to crops. Read all these things and'all the things that have been told and written about grasshoppers and drought, one can not help but come -Lb the .con- clusion that we, in Huron, live in a favored land. Here we have' suffered no hail; no grasshoppers; no drought. Here, with the exception of the early hay and fall wheat, and those two only in sections, we have been blessed with a bountiful harvest. Grain is threshing out even better than expected. Rain has improved the pastures and made fall plough- ing not only possible, but a delight Even prices might be worse in this favored country -of ours. oweve , thefuture course of studies their studies elsewhere to become di- be practised but is it not possible that upon wish to pursue and a change in etitians, nurses or teachers or millin- there are public projects that might they Cir pan r ery and sewing. Boys at the end of be set for so Important an un- rsyear years may graduate to the farm . dertaking as the modernizing of this A student enrolling for the three aY $ branch of our rural educational sys- in the Ridgetown .vocational school take a fourth year in the vocational ;,n rnvarnmeut has' visited the sc roc and all have been most does so with the assurance that he department to qualify for entrance to em. seven years, , he may continue'recon can transfer to high school at the the O.A.C., ort y tly extended-tlie program of its favorably impressed. year andproceed toTechnical Educational Act until 1935, end of the first their studies at high school. Ontario is supposed to have obtained The school was established' as an a matriculation or normal school en- .But,perha etre most unique fea- ex experiment to find a practical solo- trance without loss of time in either • p its full share of the grant,' but per- p ture of the system is the attention +hope some consideration might be tion for the problem of vocational ease. This leaves the choice of.course iris in the rst -ear andthe fi • boys gthe end of Y education .for buntilonly atien h clot y 0 t PI I believe, 1 a smaller and, more rural centres. The by which time the student has had trustees at' that time were men of some experience of secondary school' considerable vision. Sone of these work and is better able to decide. In men are still .members of the board the meantime a valuable training. in and could not be pried from office practical subjects -will have been re' they are so enthusiastic about the ceived. Or if the student remains at new school. 'It was their opinion that vocational school for three years he the high school course was not pro- of $2,000,000. Other storms, some in viding the right kind of a training for a great many students who had to he absorbed , by the community and that as the community had to pay the bills it should be benefiting to a greater degree. • A BUSINESS CHANGE -- The photographic business has changed hands. Mr. James Rogers has sold out to Mr. Otto Fink of Hanover.' dF. * di`•• From The 'Clinton New.Era, Aug 29, 1909: On Friday afternoon of last week two rinks of Bayfield campers, cap- tained by Rev. Mr. Cluff, came over to play a friendly, game with two rinks under Mr. 3. Ransford, but were badly beaten. Mr. Ransford has not bowled for a couple of years, but led his men to victory. Clinton J. D.. L. 1Vlacpherson, J. Wiseman, J. Ransford. J. L. Cour- Lice, J. W Irwin, C. Watt, W Gra- ham. THE PIANO PLAYERS WON— Last Saturday afternoon` the two fac- tory teams clashed, but the Doherty players had the Indian sign on the Pant factory fellows and -won easily by a score of 21 to 14. The Jackson - Res went to bat first and scored nine runs but that seemed their limit. Jacksons—J. Finch, J. Doherty, H. Fremlin, G. Cook, Pickett, Finch, Cook, Cooky Draper. Dohertys—W. Johnston, Jackson, W Collyer, A. Alexander, G. Collyer, W, Hamblyn, W. Judd, K. Wiilken, A. Mitchell. IS ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL -- Mr. Thornton Mustard leaves this week for Toronto where he has ac- cepted -a position as assistant -prin- cipal of one of the largest of the schools in that city. Thornton is a young man of enterprise and ambi- tion and his many friends in this vi- cinity feel sure that he will make good in his new position. Rev. C. E. Jeaknis of 'gingham was 'a caller in town on Friday. Crown Attorney Seager accompan- ied by his wife and daughter were in town Monday of this week. Mr. Harry Bartliff, accompanied by his sister, Miss Julia, were in Brus- sels on Sunday. Mrs. H. 'Bartlifh returned in the evening with them. Miss Luella Wlalkinshaw, of the Royal Bank staff is enjoying a` two weeks' 'vacation and with her sister, Ruth, who is visiting friends in Blyth. Mr. D. A. Cantelon was in Brus Accordingly courses were introduc- ed providing agricultural subjects and farm' meehanica for boys and household science and arts for girls, in addition to the essential academic subjects. That the experiment is proving successful is shown by the fact that of •those' who have left school over 80 per tent of the boys have returned to the farm and the girls to the home, ;where they are putting into practical use many of the things learned at school. During the seven years that the vocational school has been in operation the total average attendance in the high school and vocational school has been well over 200—at present 265 -compared with 160 before •the opening of the vocational school. Contrasting the attendance at Ridgetown with that of other towns in Western Ontario, of the same population, it will be found the100 students can then transfer to high school andl have just as many credits towards' a normal entrance as the student who has taken fou . years of straight high school work. The main difference in the' courses of " the vocational school and the high school lies in the fact that no languages are taken in the former school, thus leaving time for subjects' of a more practical na- ture. SUMMARY OF BUSINESS MADE BY BANK OF MONTREAL Ontario Wholesale and retail trade and manufacturing are at better than last year's levels. Automobile pro- duction continues on a larger scale than a year ago. Demand for staple lines of furniture remains quiet, bus radio cabinets and speeialties con- tinue to more in good volume. Steel, output has been well up to expect- ations. Sales of electrical applianc- es have been maintained. Canners have commenced . operations, which at present are in reduced volume com- pared with last year. Demand for paints and varnishes remains steady. Die, tool and brass manufacturers have a satisfactory volume of orders. Activity continues in the lumber and paper industries and substantial bush operations are in prospect. Rubber tire and footwear plants continue to be' fully occupied. Woollen and knit- ting mills show a falling off in vol- ume, their market being affected by the low price of raw wool. The market for cotton textiles remains strong. Many, cloak and suit oper- ators are on strike and the opening demand for dresses for fall trade is slow. The output of boot and shoe factories is in fair volume. The demand for flour • is weak. A seasonal slacking is in ev- idence in the meat packing industry. Breweries are operating at capacity. 1Vlanufactures of}barrels and kegs find business brisk and manufactur- ers of glass containers report increas- ed sales. While the number of Amer- ican tourists has diminished, more Canadians are holidaying and sum- mer resorts report increased bus- iness. cep u Brussels was the unanimous choice. , ' sels on Sunday. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING ANOTHER HEPBURN ECONOMY We note with some regret that the regular service on the railway front Cochrane to Moosonee on James Bay is to be eliminated.p eier reason is and hat it doesn't pay, Hep- burn is going around with an axe looking for things that don't pay. For the same reason, the hotel at the railway terminal up on the big Moose .river, . six or seven miles from salt water, is to be closed down or turned into a hospital for sick Indians, or something. It didn't pay, either, and we'll bet the cost of upkeep for mos- quito netting alone was something terrible., that is given to adult education. Ridgetown is, e rural high school in the province that conducts a winter short course for young men and. women who have stopped school.: This is a day course and covers a period of six weeks dur- ing January and February and has. been offered now for four years. Last winter 21 boys and 24 girls attended and at the end of the course expres- sed themselves unanimously in fav- or. of an extension of the course to eight weeks. In some cases these students attend the regular classes, if the class is not too large, but most of `their .time is spent with special instructors who' are added to the reg- ular staff. The practical subjects tak- en are similar to those taught else- where in. the school and some time is given to stimulating, an interest in good reading, in municipal affairs and public speaking. Last, year farm The two schools are under the same principal and staff.. Corresponding subjects such as. English, history,. geography. etc., are taught by the teacher in the two schools. bookkeeping, business administration i Boardseal of trustees and .citizens with sante and commercial law were added for the welfare of their emmnunities at Both are of high school grade and boys, and household budgeting fox heart and the young men sa courage - pupils from the vocational school girls acid these subjects proved pop- ously engaged in the new Canada may -write departmental subjects and ular. movement should champion the cause secure standing in the subjects taken of our rural high schools and see to the same as those in high school clas- ses. las- There is absolutely no question of it that they are modernized so that with This arrangement,tvocational coupled scool the value of such a school to any they will command the interest of the fact that ans feisnal school centre that serves a rural community. the pupil and the approval of the pub - school students make transfers tonhigh Nothing that has been accomplished lit. -without Jaf time, ab sole at Ridgetown is impossible elsewhere cooly eliminates any feeling that one dies is the inferior of onto the facilities are provided. From personal.observations I am course other.of studies There is no doubt but that our whole convinced that these suggested re - the rural educational system needs a forms would at least have ane wel- o the vocational good overhauling and, that other eom- come rose t. Some in 20,980 oil in t from 50 to more Anl courseot featurefrieul- ruralg one tural departments, in their secondary struggling needlessly with courses are enrolled for secondary school school is the advantage to the munities should be served by agrieul- leadingto university entrance would b education.. Thus it is seen the tom- student who attends school for such as we have at Ridge- when transfer - of a larger percentagee meeting the needs and, or two yearn only. receive Boys straining town. Our courses are by no means know a new happinessto to theirntneeds, One alargos of boys and,fernone year onlyNing that' and rural fe wouldptein time benefit girls. I in mechanical drawing, woodworking perfect and changes are being made i red to work adapted and live- evening classes might be introduced by the higher standards of more ef- One of the features of the.Ridge-. rope splicing, belt.lacing, horticul- from time to time. I be omen iv- ficient, more open-minded and ration - town vocationalarschool is that the stock poultry, soil physics t year is more or less- of an ex -1 stock, not taught in high school, and for our young men andwomen which I al citizens, iiia y ploratory year. Parents are not al- girls, sewing, cooking and borne m g given to the united claims for a new deal to the rural high schoo s• an the farming population of Ontario. There has been a great deal of talk about the intermediate school but ap- parently we can not expect too much from it.. Dr. Rogers, director of education for the province, speaking on this subjeet said that he could see no hope for the establishment of the intermediate schools . in rural com- munities `unless the administrative unit was 'changed and school districts consolidated. I believe that reform must be effected by making our high sehool courses mole elastic. Every body—every man, • -woman and child'. has a stake in education. Passive acceptance of present day educational machinery is not good enough if through our organizations something better can be obtained for the' boys and girls of our secondary schools. vertising the merits of that land, al- ready so well advertised. But if we had -our choice, we would rather fly in to Moose Factorythan. spend ,a week around Grand Pre --and we havedone both of them. Of course, we don't suppose it mat- ters to us if the line ever runs again';" and yet, back in our mind, their lin- gers a desire to take the trip up to' James Bay again for we are among the lucky few who went to Moose Factory in the days when all travel to the Bay was by canoe or airplane. Ip those days, there were two bun- dred' miles or more of wilderness be- tween Cochrane and the Bay, and most 6f it is :wilderness still — and that's why it's such. a splendid sum- mer resort country for those who Eke the wilderness. Premier Ram day MacDonald; of Great Britain has ,But we must admit that the far north has its disadvantages, too, and the worst of them all in the summer. is the mosquitoes—and they are not little Southern Ontario ,mosquitoes, but great, big ravenous brutes :that Make life miserable at night or in the bush, if you haven't protection. But in spiteof this and other handicaps, the time will undoubted- ly come when Ontario's own bit of seacoast and nearby rivers will be a famous summer resort country. Fergus News -Record. been holidaying in the Annapolis, GODERICH: For the first' time in twenty years "strong" beer and wine were legally sold by the glass and bottle in Goderich on August 24th, commencing at noon, an auth- ority having been granted by the Liquor Control Board to the Bedford Hotel, Huron County's largest hos- telry. Applications for this and eth- er licenses for various points in Hu- ron County, always Considered arid territory, have been in the hands of the Liquor Control Board for more than a month, but theboard hesitat- ed to grant them, in view of the feet that the county, in 1914, carried the Canada Temperance Act, which was suspended in 1920 in favor of the Ontario Temperance Act. The grant- ing of a beer and wine license here establishes a precedent and fixes the policy of. the Liquor Control Board with respect to municipalities in Can, ada Temperance Act territory which have not endorsed local option. God- erich is in this category, the town having twice defeated . local option. There are very few places in Huron. County eligible for licenses, the ma- jority of municiaplities having car- ried local, option prior to 1914. Zur- ich, Bayfield and Grand Bend will likely get authorities, but larger' towns, such as Clinton, Seaforth and Wingham, are definitely in the "dry" columna "THE MAE WEST ROAD" A portion of the King's Highway between Flesherton and Dundalk in Grey County has been dubbed ::The Mae Wast. 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