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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1934-08-30, Page 4'THURS., AUG. 30, 1934 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD. PAGE 3 What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAP PENED DURING T]'ire LAST DE- CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY? From The Clinton New Era, August 31st, 1894: Miss Amy Fitzsimons is visiting friends in Blyth and Wlingham. Mr. Jarrett, late of Clinton Colle- giate is attending the Ottawa Nor mal school. • Messrs. Brydone and Turnbull vis- ited their old hone 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 C. 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 WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY WAS YOUNG From The News -Record, August 29, 1909: 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. Hocigens and Miss Edith Hodgens, who have been visiting re scenery. latives in Goderich and Burk's re HQLMESVILLE —+ Always At turned home yesterday. Work—We are informed that the Mr. Will Warman and Miss Nettie Globe had an item a few days 'ago left on Tuesday for. Colonia, Mich., about Wm. Mulholland, blacksmith, where they will spend several weeks Holmesville, that his fame as a with an uncle who owns . a fruit horseshoer had spread till now hor- farm, ses come from far and near, and it Miss Mabel Cantelon is spending a is not an uncommor, thing to hear week at Bayfield, him all night long. Indeed one night Mr. A. J. Holloway went to Cobalt a fellow came in such a rush to get this week, his horse shod there was no time to Mr. Hector Gregg has returned to get a light, so they threw him on town,having accepted a position with his back and shod the horse by star- Morrish and Crooks. light: A BUSINESS CHANGE — The SEAFORTII Monday, while en- gaged at housework, a young woman, photographic business has changed Miss McDowell, dropped to the floor hands. Mr. James Rogers has sold and instantly expired. The deceased out to Mr. Otto Fink of Hanover. was much respected and was a niece , { hw of Mr. John McMillan, M.P„ South From The Clinton New Era, Aug 29, Huron. 1909: BAYFIELD—Mr, Wm. McCluskey On Friday afternoon of last week and Miss Maude Porterfield, princf- two rinks of Bayfield campers, cap - pal and assistant, respectfully of the tained by Rev. Mr, Cluff, came over Public School have returned to duty to play a friendly, game with two after a long term of holidays. Mr. rinks under Mr. J. Ransford, but McCluskey spent most of his vacation were badly beaten. Mr. Ransford out west and called on several Bay- lies not bowled for a couple of years fieldites, whose friends will be glad but led his men to victory. Clinton— to haat from them. D. L. Macpherson, J. Johnson, J. M. Graham Moorehouse of Bay Wiseman, J. Ransford. J. L. Cour- City has been the guest of his fath- lice, J. Wt Irwin, C. Watt, W. Gre- er, Mr. T. J. Moorehouse. ham Mr. Will Jowett left last week on a trip to Manitoba. THE PIANO PLAYERS WON— ;1; :7H Last Saturday afternoon the two fac- From The, Huron News -Record, Aug- tory teams clashed, but the Doherty 'list 29th, 1894: players had the Indian sign on the Miss Ida Plummer has returned to Pant factory fellows and won easily Providence, RI. by a score of 21 to 14. The Jackson - Mrs. Hoover and children have rtes went to bat first and scored nine returned from Luean. runs but that seemed their limit, Captain Combe of the Drugstore Jacksons—J. Finch, J. Doherty, H. was in the Queen City on business Fremlin, G. Cook, Pickett, Finch, last week. Cook, Cook, Draper, Dohertys—W. Mr. W. H. Beesley and: Miss B. Johnston, Jackson, WI. Collyer, A. MacDonald are at Toronto attending Alexander, G. Collyer, W. Hambiyn, the fashion marts and millinery op- W. Judd, K. Wilken, A. Mitchell. en HUs• IS ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL — HULT,ETT—Mr. Matt. Maines has the contract for a new barn for Mr. Mr, Thornton Mustard leaves this George Snell, The size is 66 by 72, week for Toronto where he has ac - The building is almost completed and cepted a position as assistant pain - will be one of the largest in the cipal of one of the largest of the township. schools in that city. Thornton is a STEI1LEY—Mr. R. 3. Richardson young man of enterprise and amble has returned to resume his teaching tion and his many friends in this vi duties in Preston High School. cinity feel sure that he will make )Mr. R. Reid, B.A., visited relatives good in his new position. in, the neighborhood of St. Helens re- Rev. C. E. Jeaknis of Wingham centiy.1r was a caller in town on Friday. Mrs. G. Beatty, Varna, is spending Crown Attorney Seager accompan- a few days with relatives in the vi- ied by his wife and daughter were in. cinity of Ethel. town Monday of this week. MEDICAL MEETING -.A repro Mr. Harry Bartliff, accompanied by sentative meeting of the medical his sister, Miss Julia, were in Brus- profession of Huron and Perth was cels on Sunday. Mrs, H. 'Berta" held in Clinton last Wednesday. ' The returned in the evening with them. object of the meeting was bo place a Miss Luella Walkinshaw, of the candidate in the field for President Royal Bank staff is enjoying a two of, the Provincial Council It was weeks' vacation and with her sister, expected that Dr, Gunn -would ac- Ruth, who is visiting friends in Blyth. Mr. D, A. Cantelon was in Brus., Brussels was the unanimous choicer sols on. Sunday. sept but he declined. Dr. Graham of WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING ANOTHER HEPBURN ECONOMY We note with some regret thatthe regular service on the railway from Cochrane to Moosonee on James Bay is to be eliminated. The reason is that it doesn't pay, and Premier 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 bat the cost or upkeep for mos- quito netting alone was something terrible.. Of course, we don't suppose it mat- ters to us if the line ever runs aga •, and yet, back in our mind, their lime 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. Tp those days, there were two hun- dred miles or more of wilderness be- tween Cochrane and the Bay, and most of it is wilderness still — and that's 'why it's such- a splendid sum- mer resort country for those who like the wilderness. Premier Ram.;. say MacDonald, of Great •Britain has been holidaying in the Annapolis Valley of Nova. 'Scotia vertising the merits of that land, al- ready so well advertised. But if we had our choice, we would rather fly in to Moose Factory than spend a week around Grand Pre — and we have done both of them. 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. 8 "THE MAE WEST ROAD" A portion of the Ring's Highway between Flesherton and Dundalk in Grey County has been dubbed ::The Mae Wiest Road" ey the highway workers, because it has so many cur= ves in it.--Petrolia Advertiser -Topic. MORE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ` its stated that since the sale bf liquor became wide open in the Uni- States Detro;t records show that accidents attributable to liquor have 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. ek*, HURON FARMERS SHOULD NOT COMPLAIN ` Reports from the Western Prov- inces claim damage of over four Mil - HORS of dollars from hail storms this summer. Early in July, northwestern Sask.. atchewan and Central Alberta' are said to have suffered a loss to crops of 52,000,000. Other storms, some in Manitoba, were believed to have caused losses up to half a million dol- lars. On top of these carne the storms 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 tb 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. 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, bu radio cabinets and spejtiaities 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 cow. 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 eloak 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 meatpacking industry. Breweries are operating at capacity. Manufactures of?berrels and kegs find business brisk and manufactur- ers of glass containers report increas- ed sales. While the number of Amer, icon tourists has diminished, more Canadians are holidaying and sum- mer resorts report increased bus- iness. 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 oth- 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 fact that the county, in 1914, carried the Canada Temperance Aet, 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 Gan. 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 ie the "dry" column. READ ALL THE ADS. IN . TH;FI NEWS -RECORD --JT WILL PAY YOU. A New Deal far the Rural High School By J. W1. Edwards, B.A.., B.S.A.,B. Paed., Principal Ridgetown High and Vocational -Agricultural Schools The Ridgetown Experiment Such a course has been introduced at Ridgetown and Ridgetown may well be proud of its second'ar•y school system for there is no other just Like it in the Dominion of Canada. ,Dele- gations from Australia, western Can- ada and many parts of Ontario have visited the school during the past seven years, and all, have been most favorably- impressed. The school was establishedas an experiment to find a practical solu- tion for the problem of vocational education for boys and girls in the smaller and more rural centres. The trustees at that time were men of considerable vision. Sonie of these men are still members of the board and could not be pried from office they are so enthusiastic about the new school. It was their opinion that the high school course was not pro- viding the right kind of a training for a great many students who had to be absorbed. ,by the community and that as the community had to- pay opay the bills it should be benefiting to a greater degree. Accordingly courses were introduc- ed providing agricultural subjects and farm mechanics for boys and househo'ld 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 SO per cent. 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 sane population, it will be found that from' 50 to 100 more students are enrolled for secondary school education, Thus it is seen the com- bined schools are meeting the needs of a larger percentage of boys and girls. One of the features of the Ridge - town vocational school is that the first year is more or less of an ex- ploratory year. Parents are not al- ways sure that the vocational course is going to meet the needs of their boys and , girls. In the larger cen- tres more than hall of the students who pass entrance attend vocational or technical schools. In so doing, however, they must definitely decide upon the future course of studies they wish to pursue and a change in their pians results in' a loss of time. A student enrolling for the first year in the Ridgetown vocational school does so with the assurance that he can transfer to high school at the end of the first year and proceed to a inatriculation or normal school en- trance without loss of time in either case. This leaves the choice of course open until the end of the first year by which time the student has had some experience of secondary school work and is better able to decide. In the meantime a valuable training .in practical subjects will have been re-' ceived. Or if the student remains at vocational school for three years he can then transfer to high school and have just as many credits towards a normal entrance as the student who has taken four 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. The two schools are under the same principal and staff. Corresponding subjects such as English, history, geography, etc., are taught by the same teacher in the two schools. Both are of high school grade and pupils from the vocational school may write departmental subjects and secure standing in the subjects taken the same as those in high school clas- ses. This arrangement, coupled with the fact that vocational school students make transfers to high school without loss of time, absol- utely eliminates any- feeling that one course of studies is the inferior of the other. ' Another feature of the vocational school course is the advantage to the student who attends school for one or two years only. Boys attending for one year only receive training in mechanical drawing, woodworking rope splicing, belt lacing, horticul- ture, poultry, soil physics and live- stock, not taught in high school, and girls, sewing, cooking and home man- agement.' Boys attending two years receive further work in farm mechan- ics (including forge work), seed sele alien and other agricultural 'topics; girls, further work in sewing, cook- ing and home nursing, and both boys and girls, b'ookeeping. ,Girls who complete the three-year course re- ceive a diploma and may, stop school or transfer to high'sehooi to complete a normal entrance course, or resume their studies elsewhere to become di- etitians, nurses Or teachers or millin- ery and sewing. Boys at the end of three years may graduate to the farm 'take a fourth year in the vocational department to qualify for entrance to the 0.A.C., or they may continue.' their studies et high school. • But perhaps the most unique fea- Lure of the system is the attention that is given to adult. education. Ridgetown is,. I believe, the . only rural high school in the province that conducts a winter short course for young men andwomen 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 classee, 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 bookkeeping, business administration and commercial law were added for boys, and household budgeting for girls and these subjects proved pop- ular, I would be of benefit to them as citi. • zens, and I ani ofthe opinion that the first-year. high school course should be made more general with 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 the woods, and economics must stili be practised but is it not possible that there are public projects that might be set over for so Important an un- dertaking as the modernizing of this branch of our rural educational sys- tem. The Dominion Government has recently extended the program of its Technical E'ducatidnal Act until 1935. Onhtario is supposedto have obtained its full share of the grant, but per- hape some consideration tnigh-t be given to the 'united claims for a new deal to the rural high 'schools and the farming population of Ontario. There has been a great deal of talk about the intermediateschool but ap- parently we can not expect too much from it. Dr. Rogers, director of education for the province, speaking on this subject 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 beeffected by making our high school courses more elastic. Every body -every man, tnoman and child has a stake in education. Passive acceptance of present day educational machinery is not good enough if through our organizations soanething better can be obtained for the boys and girls of our secondary schools. Boards of trustees and citizens with the welfare of their communities at heart and the young men so courage- ously engaged in the new Canada movement should champion the cause of our rural high schools and see to it that they are modernized so -that they -will command the interest of the pupil and the approval of the pub- lic. From personal observations I am convinced that these suggested re- farms would at least have one wel- come result. Some 20,980 pupils in rural high schools in Ontario now struggling needlessly with courses leading to university entrance would know a new happiness when transfer- red to 'work adapted to their needs, and rural life would in time benefit by the higher standards of more ef- ficient, more open-minded and ration- al citizens, There is absolutely no question of the value of such a school to any centre that serves a rural community. Nothing that has been accomplished at Ridgetown is impossible elsewhere once the facilities are provided. There is no doubt but that our whole rural educational system needs a good overhauling and that other com- munities should be served by agricul- tural departments, in their secondary schools, such as we have at Ridge - town. Our courses are by no means perfect and changes are being made from time to time. I believe that evening classes might be introduced for our young men and `women giv- ing instruction in subjects which regularity! TO MERCHANDISERS:— "You sweep out, you trim the windows, you dust off the counters, you make up new price cards, you unpack and arrange new stock, you plan your mer- chandise showings, you do these and a .hundred oth- er necessary jobs REGULARLY in the normal con- duct of your business. "But how about the biggest job of all --contact- ing the people and telling them repeatedly that you are in business and have the goods they need., Do you do that REGULARLY? Do you figure you are going to get your share of the available business if you don't tell folks about your merchandise or your service at REGULAR intervals instead of doing the job spasmodically or not at all? "By all known tests, experience and thousands of records, the acknowledged best -of -all medium for REGULARITY is advertising in the local newspal per. ...A newspaper going REGULARLY into the homes of your possible customers, not only in your' town but the surrounding territory as well, makes it easy enough for anyone to see how your local newspaper offers you the finest kind of a vehicle for carrying your business message.. REGULARLY to the people. "And don't think these folks won't miss your REGULARITY of advertising. They look for their newspaper REGULARLY, READI IT REGULAR- LY, study its advertising (yours, if it's there) REG- ULARLY. "And what's more, you'll find they are buying • fairly REGULARLY, too, if you'll just check up, es- pecially with the advertiser. s who do use space REG- ULARLY. "YOURS FOR MORE REGULARITY IN AD'D- VERTISING." The Clinton' News -Record $1.50 a year. Worth More DON'T FAIL TO REAL) TODAY TIIE ADVERTISEMENTS IN