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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1935-03-07, Page 3THURS., MARCH 7,,1935• What Clinton was' Doing in The Gay Nineties BO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TI1n CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY? From The News -Record, :Mar. 13th, 1895: Mr. J. fl, Combe has placed a cash register hi his drug store.. Dr. Shaw was 'in Brussels yester- day attending the marriage of his sister to De. Marrs of Pot Elgin. ,Urs, L: Greig was in-.Seaforth vis- iting her daughter, ]Vhf's. J. e. Jack- son. 1 Porter's Hill -On Monday night, March 4th, Me. 0. WL Potter treated the Ladsand lassies, of Porter's Hill and neighborhood to an oyster sup- per, the occasion being the laying of the corner stone of the new , black; smith shop and hall which he is to erest in the village. The honour of placing the stone in position -was as- signed to Mr. Geo. Turnbull of lire- Killop, =when all repaired to the hone of Mr. Potter where all did ample justice to the good things provided by the hot and hostess. The remainder of the aliening was spent in vocal and instrumental music, interspersed with games of harmless amusement' until the "wee, ems' hours." Kipper: The many friends of 1!r. William Cudmore, who has been do- ing :business in a large way, pressing and shipping hay to the :old country for some years, will be sorry to learn that he will be tbe loser of nearly $5,000 through a man with whom he had been dolmabusiness in the old country. Mr. Cudmore is among the many who have lost enough to make many a man rich. From The New tear Mur. 15th, 1595: Mr. Chas. Wallis left Tuesday with a load off fourteen horses for the Can- adian Soo. The Baptist church is now lighted with electricity, Messrs. H, Foster, Joseph 'Copp and Loren Tyndall are this week serving their country as jurymen .at Goderich. Miss Nettie Combe has been ap- pointed assistant editress of Varsity, the paper issued by the students of the Toronto University, The Glee Club, which made its first appearance at the charity concert a few weeks ago, held a meeting at the residence of Dr. Bruce Thursday evening for further organization.. .. The following gentlemen were placed in office: President, H. C. Brewer; ., Vice: Dr. Bruce; Secretary, T. Jack- son, Jr.; Treasurer, N. Yellowlees; Conductor, Mr. Shipley; Accompan- ists, Miss Boles and Miss Jackson. The Club meets • for practice each week. The following are the new officers of the band for the ensuing year: ti Hon, President: G. D. McTaggart; fr LAST DE. President, J, T. Emnxerton; Vice: A. Stoneham; Treasurer, G. McRea;_Se,c- retary, W. Holloway; _Committee: A. J, Holloxvay, B. Ker J. M'eRea; Cort - doter: G. T. Shenk, The town band, of.which the late James Scott had'been a member, headed the funeral procession on Fir - day. Holmesville:—One day last week as Oscar Forster was skidding some logs • into the milt the harness on the hoases in some way became discon- nected, allowing one ehd of•the whir fletr•ee to fly back against his knee, hunting it slightly. At the last meeting of the Patrons. of -Industry, Mar. 7th, a debate came off: "Resolved—that women have the right of franchise." Those taking part ie the affirmative were M's. El- ford, Messrs. D. A. Forresetr and Yeo. Negative: Messrs. .$. J. Ferris, J. Connolly, G. Gould and 2. Trewar- tha. The referees, Messrs. tI;eCaart- ney, Lawrence and 'Sweet, after due- consideration ue consideration came to the conclusion; that the result was• a tie. WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY WAS' YOUNG From The News -Record, liter. 10th, 1910: Dr. Carr, who practised at Kirkton for eighteen years and later in Los Angeles, has located in Clinton. -At a meeting held in the • council chamber on Tuesday evening the baseball club was re -organized -with the following officers: Hon, -President: G. D. 11f&Taggart. President: J. 13. Hoover, First Vice: C. E. Dowding, Second Vice; T. Jackson, Jr. Secretary T. Hawkins,Manager': T. Hawkins. 'Executive: H. lIartiiif, 1VC, il'Cclw'an, Dr.Shaw, 13. Johnson. Patrons: E. N. Lewis, MP.; W. Proudfoot, 112,P.P,, A. A. -Alexander. 1V1r. J, Wiseman is in Hamilton this week attending the annual meeting of the Horne Circle. At the March meeting of the town council. a report on the Electric Light company was read and adopted, the only opposition coming from Mr, A. T. Cooper, who was in favor of pub- lic ownership. The second of a series of literary meetings arranged by the Clinton Club was held in their rooms on Friday, evening when Mr. J. T. Clark, of Toronto addressed the members .ancl a few invited guests, Mr. Clark took for his subject: "British Poli- o, he having reeently returned cm the Ohl Land. YOUR WORLD AND MINE by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD (Copyright) Young men and young women, in increasing numbers, are choosing farming as . their vocation. Some have never left the farm, yet they have weighed the attractions and op- portunities ,of other kinds' of works' and have deliberately chosen farming as their. ocenpation. Sone are prodi- gal sons and• daughters -they are re- turning to parental farms after city experiences and disappointieents. Some, town or city born and reared, have found city life a delusion and cruel, and they ave turning to that patient acid kindly mother, the earth, to become her affectionate and IoyaI children. * * bl& 1 have seen letters from a number of young men who have chosen farm- ing as a way of life. They were in- vited to make observations; on this proposition, na=mely: farming has be- come in recent years much more in- teresting as an occupation, and has now a greater appeal to the young man at intelligence; and, for this reason, the ambitious farmerboyis slaying on the farm. Some of the observations of these young farmers' are as follows:, I feel that. I am an integral part of the national life. ' I ant helping to meet the first need of mankind. I believe in farming because it provides me with- a better op- ports. pity to express my cone. plate personality than any •other vocation. I have room to grow, 1 ant not overwhelmed by the madness of the'crowd. I am not enslaved by the machine. What- ever impressions or ideals or id- eas or hires whichtake 'hold of me either from experience, or from n books or from om urban con- tacts, can lee taken out into the clear air of the fields and exam- ined rationally and tsympatheti- cally. Thus S may thin& and feel keenly, hat I ant net subject to the enxationel and intellectual ex- tremes of my city brethren. The greatest appeal of all is the challenge .of the difficulties and unsolved problems which farming presents. The opportun- ities far improvement in live stock and poultry were enormoua, and few farmers were tackling the problems systematically, in my estimation. Farmlife appealed to.. ma be- cause of the opportunities for home and family life. There were also some ideas about com- munity leadership, but these have had a severe bump. Only a sup- erman can farm, well, and do a ' large amount of community work at the same time, *fib The Junior Farmer movement, our agricultural colleges, and our agricultural press have helped, us to have a• greater apprecia- tion of our calling. I love and understand all an- imals and birds, and have an ap- preciation of all beauty in na- ture. I have the satisfaction of seeing things grow and develop. I would much rather work in the glorious, setting that nature has provided than work in an office or factory. I would much rath- er work with living things than with machines, When farming,. I eau live life to, the fullest, and what little the city has to offer me Z can easily get, thanks to good roads. Farthing never grows :monotonous. .Each day there is something different= -a new ex- perierice or adventure as the anonths and seasons pass. I like the out-of-doors. " I like to go through a barn at night and see catt=le lying in their THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD 1935 AN'INTERESTING TING ANN' ' IVERSARY YEAR. IN CH . PAUL'S CHURCH, CLINTON s s Paul s Anglican Church, up- on which stands on the site - on which the first church in Huron was built by the Canada 'Company. It is a beautiful old church on e kteautffdl old site and within a few months it will celebrate its centennial'. Te the E=ditor of Clinton News -Re- cord. Dear Sir:—Some time during the summer of 1935 the congregation of St. Paul's church will celebrate its Centennial. Allow me to state brief- ly the history of this church. In 1928 the Canada Company built the Huron Road under the supervis- ion of Dr. Dunlop of 'Gaderich. The road was surveyed by the engineers of the Canada Company from the Township of Wilmot to Goderich. The cutting of the trees was done by the late Colonel VanEgmond. In those early days Clinton was known as "Vanderburgh's Corners," and in 1831 The Canada Company built church on the present site of St. Paul's church. Abotit this time Pet- er Vanderburgh 'bought 200 acres of land from the Canada Company which included the church property. There were no preachers, and in 1838h Mr. Vanderburgcalled three of the most prominent citizens of this dis- trict and made them trustees of the church. They were the late Henry Ransford, Mr. Pugh and Mat Sedg-. and. They called it The Miner of England and Ireland. In 1836 Vanderburg gave these gentlemen the deed to this property, the church struggled on without any regularly appointed Rector, an occasional cate- chist or preacher filling in for the time being. In 1854 the congrega- tion decided to rebuild the chunoh on the satin sight. Clinton had then become "Rattenbury's Corners," and the late Wm. Rattenbury gave the congregation the land on Rattenbury street to build a rectory. In 1858 the Rev. James Carmichael was appoint- ed to this parish, and remained here until 1869. He was afterwards made the 4th Bishop of Montreal, and in his day was considered' the most outstanding preacher in Canada. The new church was destroyed by fire in 1865 and the present church was er- ected on the sight of the two. previous' churches', The Rectors of this church have been as follows: Rev. Jaa Carmichael -48584868 Rev. 'Skene DuIyourieu-1808-1873. ,Rev. Hans Caufield 1870=1871. Rev. S. W. Kellog -1871-1874. - Rev. C. C. Desborne-1874-1875." Rev. D7•, Will• -4875-1877. Rev. C. R. Matthew's -1877-1881, Rev. Cannon Craig -1881-1893. Rev. J. I3'. Fairlie—,18924895. Rev. J. H. Parke -1895-1900, Rev. Canon Gunn—d900-191o. Rev. C. F. Jeakins-11913-1914.. Rev. 'Mi. Potts. Rev. Mi. Robinson. Rev, S. J. Mieliegrley Rev. L. C, BiIkey, Rev. 21..0. Harrison. -Rev. Ms. IC. MleGoun. This beautiful old church has . 15 memorial windows ereeted to the Glory to God and in loving memory of some of its former members: The Owen Memorial Ball was en- acted bit' Samuel Owen, Emma Owen and Alfred Owen as a memorial to their father and mother, who were. members of St. Paul's church in the early fifties. It has three memorial funds: The Harriet Rance 'Meniorial Fund; The W. J. Biggins Memorial Fund; The A. 2. I•Iolioway Memorial Fund.. It is also hoped that further Memorials will be added during the Centennial year. Yours very truly, —II. B. COMBE. • P,S.--During the celebration of Huron Roads Centennial I received a, complete record of St. Paul's church from 1Vdr. John Ransford, particularly from, letters written by his father, the late Henry Ransford, one of the original trustees. straw beds 'ehewing their cud in -ontenntent--the pigs all stret- ched out in their pens. I like to drive a tractor in a field, when you get the fresh breeze and• oc- casionally see a flock of quail pass over your head. , * eX * I am especially interested hi live stock. A few years ago I was a member of an Ayrshire Heifer club, and we became so interested that now 'we have a herd of thirty head of purebred Acredited Ayrshires. • • There is not the drudgery in modern farming, with the num- erous improvement itt all kinds of farm machinery to lighten the work, whereby: much more work cart be done without the hard labour of former years. • 4 Farming should be one of the most interesting of all oceupa- tions, as one is assured of at least a living and steady em- ployment—something not so as- sured in other. occupations, • * * I have oopied exactly from the le letters which are before me.What tr their welters have said has the mer- ' ti it of being honest; they are stating fa their beliefs. ,.Some of the writers of of the letters have had experience of ni other occupations and kinds of life. bo Some have attended universities. i0 One was in the air force. . Others to have lived in cities and had city ; th jobs. Others have lived all their life inton farms. Together they present a to der,.. grain, fruitsand vegetables. A farmer has identity and estim- ation in his community --this provid- ed that he is a faithful'farmer; so also has his family. In "a big city one is apt to be obscure—known, of course,"to one's employers and to one's circle of friends and acquaintances, but yet obscure. Most farmers whom. I have known are thinkers. • Their kind of work requires then=, to be much alone. In their solitude — in the fields and in their barns—they ponder over things as city folk cannot and do not. What they read and hear sinks in—makes deep' impressions and always their minds are hungry for knowledge and understanding, Again and again I have been shamed by the knowledge and the understanding of farmers whom I have met. Often they have amazed me with their well-informed knowledge of domestic' and world af- fairs—far exceeding' my own. * 4 Those .of us who work in cities get along on very little knowledge. We go on from day to day without being required to learn a great deal more about our business -not that there is nothing new or. mare to learn. ut farming can use so much know- age—knowledge about soil salamis= y and fertilizers; ' about crop..ro•ta- on; .a=bout animal husbandry; about' ret economics; about the marketing farm products; about the plan - ng and equipment. of buildings; n- ut the use of power to lessen phys- alclabour; about the planting of ees. Not a day need pass without e farmer's adding to his useful owledge, and without opportunity use newly acquired knowledge. wide variety of reasons why they like farthing and why they prefer it to other occupations. Not •one of these men. • complains about the hardness of the physical 'labour .of farming. Farming is un- doubtedly a hard labour occupation at times, and one can suffer from ex- treme heat and extreme cold --as do also those who live in cities. And Nature gar be cruel -as it . is when storms are destructive, and drought scorches fields and orohatds and dries up wells and streams. 'Y'et through the year's Nature is more kind than cruel, and always the soil is willing to respond generously to its cultiva- tion—in the forms of pasturage, fod- I have written this contribution to The News-Reeos'd to let farmers, — and in npartioular young farmers — see how a city man Iooksyupon'fern-L- ing as a way of -life, and to encour- age --if encouragement be needed— _ those: now on farms to stick -- to farming --.this against all tempta- tions to change over to some other ' kind of employment. As I see it, farming has opperturi. ities for spiritual and cultural de- veioprnent not found equally in 'big cities, and can, at the same time, give one a good livefiibod, without the anxieties which city -workers have, and give also an old age of assured comfort. DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD 11' Someone Break '1'hroegh The Ice A Few Rescue Hints as Taught the Bey Scouts'` With the approach of spring comes the annual toll of drownings through breaking ice. The Feb=ruary "Scout Lader" reminds Scouts of ice rescue technique in an' article which might well have wider ',circulation. It may be noted that every 'winter and spring' pumbens. of such rescues ante made by Boy Scouts. Says the "taut Leader:" In the event of an ice accident, the most important things are a eool head and quick action. Needless risks are to be avoided. Plunging into the water with_him won't help the vic- tim. Call at once that help is com- ing and warn him not to get excited and struggle, but merely to hang on to the ice. • Wihen compelled to, cross dangerous ice to reach the.viotim, se;uie a ladder or plank and push it ahead of. you. If such things are not at hand, crawl flat, holding a pole or staff, until you can reach . him and assist him to solid ice. If using a plank or ladder, push it across the -break ih the ice and if necessary crawl along it until you can grasp and help the fi person upon it. If a rope is available= tie oho end II securely to a hockey stook or shoat pole, and shoot it across the ice to the person in the water. `Direct him to place the stick across .the ice in front of hint, rest his elbows upon it, arid. raise himself as you pull. If the ice breaks, repeat the operation. If y ©u have a rope only,. ondeavoue to toss it to hint. If this is impos- sible, or if he is too weak to assist himself, tie It about your body, have someone hold the end, then crawl fiat over the ice, distributing your weight as nmeh as possible, until able to grasp the hand' of the person in the water. Hold firmly. Ask him on the other end to pull, and direct the suf- ferer to -endeavour to roll sideways upon the ice. ek 4 41 Nations' League In Heart of Montreal • taeal the .Boy Scout group of tliq Cherch of All Nations is one of the most unicltte.bry organizations of the world, in that its membership is drawn leonn no less than 15' Eapo- pean nationalities, And although it is one of the most.activo and success- ful troops of the Dominion, there is not a boy of British nativity in it. The 109 boys making up this Group, 65 Scouts and 44 Cubs, or junior Scouts; are the sons of nations, malty of which are traditional enein les, and habitually suspicious of one anothers' motives. But here in Can ada their transplanted sons work learn, •play and obey• the Scout La. side by side, in an atmosphere' of true_ camaraderie, and national spites and raucours have no place in their lives. It is a; remarkable vindication of the confidence in universal boy na- ture shown by the founder of the Scout Movement, Lard Baden-Powell, when he expounded that fourth ":Scout Law, "A Scout is .a Brother to every other Scout,"" irrespective of race or creed. • • The nationatlitias represented in this extraordinary gt'oup, listed in order of numerical strength, are: .Ukrainian, Hungarian, Polish, Rus- sian, Italian, S'erbian, Jugo-Slavian, Bulgarian,` •German, Austrian, Rou- manian, Czeeho-Slovakian, Grecian, French and Croatian. Some of these boys are fluent linguists, and many a -s the occasions me which they are called neon to act as interpreters for social service work. One of their chief 'good tussis' and this is true'particularly of .the Wolf Cubs, is teaching their moth- ers the English language. They en- gage heartily in community work, of any nature, and recently presented to the church a beautiful quartered - oak hand -carved communion table, a reading desk of similar design, -a magnificent' brass cross and three brass flower vases. The value of the gifts was'et:- harmed by the fact that the boys themselves did much of the work on the various articles, under guidance of a master. PAGE 3 B112ALLEST CANADIAN RAILWAY CELEPRATL'S 30TII ANNI- VERSARY The smallest railway in Canada,,: the Huntsville and Lake oi' Bays Ilaallway, will this year celebrate its thirtieth anniversary,. while March 6th milked the 100th anuiversar'y of' the -granting of the charter of the. London and Gore 'Railway, which was to be built from f onion to Bur ltngton Bay and then westward to the navigable waters of Lake Huron... These anniversaires are dealt with in an 'interesting article appearingin- the March issue of Canadian Nation- al Railways Magazine by R. IL. Ayre, The smallest Canadian railway has few operating problems and no snow blockades. It operates with two. engines, as'' a portage railway be- tween North Portage and South Pot- tage, daily except Sunday, from May ` to September, carrying passengers between Fairy Lake and Peninsular- Lake in the Lake of Bays area, The - London and Gore Railway was never built, 1.4fr. Ayre recalls, because in; 1Nfarch 1887 the name was changed to the Great Western Railway, this: line afterward `beconinr part of the Canadian National Sytsem, CONDUCT EXEMPLARY Mistress -63a is he a good young man, Norah? Maid --Good? Why, malanii last time he was in jail the governor took Constituting a "Little, League of eight months off his sentence for Nations" in the very heart of Mon- good behaviour. GODEiRIC'H: The funeral of se farnfos- resident, Mee. Elizabeth Mc Murghy, who died in Toronto on Fri -day, was- held Monday from Brophey. Bros. Chapel, interment being made in Maitland Cemetery, Rev. D. J Lane, of Knox. Presbyterdan 'Church.. conducting the service. Deceased, who was in her 84th year, was the widow of Donald. Mcllturchy, fol -• many yeai:s resident here. A few years ago she went.. to Toronto to re- side. with her daughter, . h rs. Harry Wesel', High Park Avenue. Mrs,, Me- Mlurchy had many ‘friends in Gode- tich and in Ashfield Township, where her husband kept a general store:at Kintail for many years, Over ten years ago deceased had the misfor- tune to lose two of her daughters, who .lost their lives in an apartment 'fire in New York City,- a clown-- stance iroum-stance that brought much grief to her in her declining years. 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