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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1935-07-04, Page 3iHURS., JULY 4,1935 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties DO .YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TFR LAST DE- CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY? Prom The News -Record, July 3rd, 1895: For business men and families dur- ing the hot weather the Hotel 'Clar- endon furnishes 21 meals tiekets for $3.50, Clinton seemed to be almost desert- ed on Monday, Dominion lay. A- bout 160 tickets were sold bye the Grand Trunk for Seafor'£h,. 78 for. Goderich and 251 for other points. By vehicle a large number drove to Sea - forth, Goderich and Bayfield. Mr. David Gook, although 70 year of age, may be seen working in his garden between four and five in the morning), Leader Haycock was on his way to Landesborough's Grove in Tucker - smith on Friday and through the in- tervention of a good Grit the Patron leader was prevented from reaching Londesboro, Mullett) by mistake. Iilr. Thos. Kearns, 'who has smoked tobacco for nearly fifty years, has given up the use of the weed without the assistance of more than his own will power. Mr. Walter Porter of the postof- fice is' on a visit to his old home in Simcoe County. He covered the dis- tance en his wheel, about 130 miles. Misses Jean Dickson and Allie MacDonald of Seaforth visited :Clin- ton friends last week. )Miss Ferran is visiting at Preston Springs. Town Clerk Coats and Chief Wheatley bagged 490. frogs. on Do- minion Day and had 800 fine quar- ters. Mr. T. Jackson, Jr., was thrown from his bicycle on Thursday and injured his knee. On Monday a fishing party con- sisting of Rev. and Mrs. J. Lt Parke, Mrs. Gibson of Listowel and Miss Carder of •Blyth, Reeve and Mars Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. John John- ston and Mr. and Mrs. B. Tomlinson visited the Rocks on the Maitland and spent a most enjoyable day. From The New Era, July 5th, 1895: The Misses Mountcastle have 'a lovely night -blooming Beres in flow- er. Miss H. Dodds has purchased a bicycle from Mr. Yellowlees. Among the Clinton teachers who are spending the holidays at their homes here are: Mr. Plummer, Blyth; Miss Cooper, "Brussels; Miss Step- henson, Ethel; Miss Holmes, Sud - Miry; Miss .Emily Turner, Gorrie; and Miss Stout of Mooretown. Mr. Coombs of Clinton Collegiate wheel- ed to his . home in Richmond Hill; Mr. McLean goes to Windsor; Mr. Rand has gone to Brantford and Miss McCutcheon goes to 'Deleware. Mr. Houston and Mr. Lough are ,busy with examination papers. Harland Bros. had on exhibition in their window the other day a foun- tain, designed by themselves, cal- culated for window display. The special feature of this article lies in its extreme simplicity and in the fact that it requires no outside sup- ply of water, a pailful emptied into it being sufficient, through the inter- nal mechanism, to keep up a spray for several hours. Stanley Township: Among the names of those who have passed the recent University examinations, we notice that of V,'. G. ltiehardson, who obtained the degree of B.A., and R. 3. Richardson, who took first class honours in English, logic, psy- chology, theory of knowledge and Inc scholarship of $50 in philosophy. 'Church Items:—The following are the officers in the Junior League of Rattenbury, street church for the current year: President, Olive Hel- yer; 1st vice, Emma Baker; 2nd vice, Anna Worthington; 3rd vice, Ethel Doherty; 4th vice, Flossie King; stn vice, Elva Cooper; reo-secretary, Maggie Davis; torr secretary, Mabel Shannon. Yesterday afternoon as The New Era was going to press, we had the misfortune to pi the first form of the paper. Only printers really know What this means, and as a conse- quence we had to reset every letter on the page, no small undertaking at any time. We wish to thank Mr. Todd of The News -Record' and his staff for kind help in the emergency, and also Mr. Andrew Porter of the Post Office, and 'Miss Eva Croll, all of whomkindly came to our help, thus enabling us to cone out with- out mare than a few hours' delay. WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY WAS YOUNG From The News -Record, July 7th, 1910: Rev. J. E. Ford and family arrived in town on Thursday last and are becomilng comfortably settled in Wesley Parsonage. Jenkins--Etvans—At the residence of the bride's parents, Mrinnedosa, Man., on June 28th , Minnie Eva, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Percival Evans, to William S. Jenkins of Koots, Alta., son of Thomas Jenkins of Woodlands Farm, Goderich town- ship. Mead-Webb—In .Sii Paul's church, Clinton, ,on July. 6th, b'y the Rev. C. R. Gunne, May, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vii N. Webb, 'Clinton, to W. C. Mead, Peterboro. The home ofhir. d Mks, H. Bag - ler was the scene of a quiet wedding on Friday last when their eldest daughter, Jean, was united in mar- riage with Mr. Scott 'Grieve, young- est son of Mr. Hugh Grieve of Sea - forth. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dh Stewart in the pre- sence of only immediate friends. Mr. and Mrs. Grieve will reside in Walk- erton. Mr. John Rumball has been filling very efficiently the position of lib- rarian in the absence of Miss Rudd. A special train to Stratford on July 12th will leave Clinton at nine O'clock amt. Returning it will leave Stratford at 7.30 p.m. Commencing Friday the Iocal druggists will close their places of business at eight •o'clock each Friday evening. The local team defeated the Grade - rich nine at the latter place en Fri- day afternoon 4 to 0. Dick Tasker, the local pitcher had fifteen strike- outs and four assists to first base. W. Johnson nailed the only difficult fly that reached centre field. The only fly that reached Murray Me - Ewan in the left field was made a captive by Murray which cut short a lively sprint to first base. Mae- donald at second • had two assists and McCaughey at third had one. Harry Twitchell at short had a put out and an assist to his credit. Tommy Haw- kins as always did splendid work be- hind the bat. This is the seventh straight victory- the local team has scored this season. Local line-up: Hawkins, c; E. Johnson, ib; Macdon- ald 2b; W. Johnson, cf; :McCaughey 31i Twitchell ss; Draper, rf; MieEw- an If; Tasker p. Phe return game will be played in the park here on Friday night. Pram The New Era, July 7th, 1910: It was ever thus: The grumbler at the weather is ever with us. He is complaining of the intense heat now, and it is only a few weeks since he Thank You, Mister Editor Part one of A. C. Livingstone's rollicking four-part story of Canadian Town Life "The CALABASH is FLOODING" appears in this issue of THE NEWS -RECORD In publishing this original, humorous, all4Canadian story the co. operation of your editor is,acknowledged by the Canadian Story Tel- lers' Club, and we wish all readers of 111-10 NEWS -RECORD many entertaining moments as they follow the laughable plot. Be sure to tell your editor why you like this story, or write the Canadian Story Tellers' Club direct, naming your town newspaper. CLUB ACTIVITIES The Canadian Story Tellers' Club consists. of Publishing Membere (Editors of .better -class town newspapers) Amateur Whiting Um - hers and Associate Members, who combine: their resources to give you a Canadian story service, wholesome, ,entertaining and original. AMATEUR WRITING MEMBERS Sincere Amateur Canadian writers ase invited into club membership, privileges of which include free reading and criticism of manuscript; INDIVIDUAIL COACHING by mail, and either purchase by the club of acceptable original work, or its co-operation in finding another market. ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Are those who de not aspire to write, yet are interested in, and wish to keep posted an the club's work of encouraging amateur creative writing. Annual Fees For Both Memberships Are Low. For particulars of +Membership (state which type), give name • of your town newspaper and enclolse addressed, stamped envelope to The Secretary CANADIAN STORY TELLERS' CLUB' 95 Helena Avenue, Toronto, 'Canada; was growling about the backward season. On the 6th of July 1865 The New ' Era first made its bow to the public and it therefore celebrates its 45th birthday this week., The following are the officers for the coming term of 'Clinton Lodge A. F. and A. Past Master: IT. IT. M'eBrien, Master: J. Taylor. Sr. Wlarden: W., J. Tozer, Jr. Warden: A. P. Gundry. Treasurer:: W. D. Fair. I,Sectetary: H. B. Chant). Chaplain: C. C. -Ranee. :Sr. Deacon: H. Gould. Jr. Deacon: H. E. Rorke. L Guard: J. H. Kerr, Tyler: J. R, Howe, Organist :W. J. Paisley. D. of C.: Dr. Shaw. ISr. Steward: Amos Castle, Jr. Steward: J. McLeod. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ME SAYING SWINGING RIGHT Public sentiment appears to be swinging against booze in this pro- vince. During the past year there have been local option contests in fifty municipalities. In thirty-foot the drys won on a sixty -forty vote. In over forty municipalities there was a dry majority. --,St. Marys Journal - Argus. WASTED EFFORT A. lot of people who should know better have wasted a lot of good breath in "cussin' " the banks, the institutions that have kept Canada out of the trough of the financial seas when other countries have made sad shipwreck of business. —Exeter Times -Advocate. LET'S CODDLE WILD FLOWERS If you cannot see a wild flower Blooming in a field or woods with- out plucking it, at least do not pull it out by the roots and thus destroy its beauty forever. An old country magazine, as quoted in the Goderich .Signal; states that 300 species of wild flowers have disappeared from English woods owing to the unre- stricted practice of picking them. The same thing will happen in Can- ada unless our people are a little mate considerate.—Hanover Post. MONEY COMES FIRST Recently Stanley Baldwin said, "I have always believed that the great. est security against war in any part of the world whatever, in Europe, in the East, anywhere, would be the close collaboration of the British Empire with the United States " And an American weekly coming to our desk says, "A little crossing of the American palm would put us into a more helpful mood, no doubt." The almighty dollar again! They seem always to he thinking of money. O4 course they referred to the interna- tional debts and feel they should be paid before the )States makes any al- liance.—Listowel Banner, NO NEED TO BE IDLE No one in this good town that can lick a spoon need be out of work from now till the first of :September. Farmers need all the help •they can get. But they need help not loafers. There is every prospect of a good harvest. 'Why should not all assist in gathering it in? The rains have held up a great many farm opera- tions, Why should not every man and boy turn out in the way of timely help? The farmer who cannot pay well in cash may be able and willing to pay well in kind. We hope our council will sit up and take notice of the folk who. Will not work when Work its to be had and is greatly need'ed.-Etceter Tones -Advocate. MAKE THEM GO, NOT mu THEM GO Mr. R. J, Dunmore of St. Thomas having read an editorial copied from this column in which we pointed . out it would .be wise to let the Doukho- bors leave Canada as they would never make good citizens, writes to The Banner saying he was thorough,] ly in accord with every word in ourl editorial, but that it did not go: far enough. He would not say "Let them go," but rather "Make them go' "I have never been able to under- stand," says Mr. Dunmore, "why the Canadian Government has al, ways humored and coddled this bunch of fanatic jackasses. When they staged their fool naked parade in British Columbia a couple of years ago they were arrested and confined Again they were tenderly treated and coddleli, "I knave' the British, Columbia. country. There: are many uninhab- ited islands in the rivers. These pee, ple should have been stripped nude, dumped on ,one of those :islands, and left to live there ,stark naked for a Month, exposed to heat in the day- time, the cold at night, the constant target for black flies and mosquitoes+ ,until they would power at the mere mention of anything so bare es the naked eye. In short, they should have been compelled to go naked, and stay naked till they got their 'fill of it, and I miss my guess if that wouldn't have cured them of ever wanting to discard their clothes a- gain, even to go to bed." That is rather severe treatment and we can hardly agree with Mr. Dunsmore in this. We rather think, however, that he does not actually mean what he says. It would be establishing a nudist colony in Can- ada and we have never been in favor of such a move. If a nudist desires to expose his. hide to mosquitges or black flies, let him go to it, but we would not knowingly force any human being to such torture. But we do heartily agree with the last para- graph in Mr. Dunsmore's letter when he says: "If the Government at the time it brought those people to Canada had offered the same help, land and facil- ities to scores of husky 'Canadians, born on the farms of Ontario and perforce of circumstances trying to earn a living in the cities, they would have had now, instead of groups of trouble -making foreigners, commun ities of hom'e-grown, honest -to -good- ness Canadians and 'British subject% in thriving, law-abiding settlements. Let 'em go? NO—MAKE 'em go, and never come back." —+Listowel Banner. PASSENGER BOAT CALLS The Seaway Line passenger steam- er Georgian, which made port here on a chartered trip recently, is scheduled to call here on its week- ly trips to the "Soo" and back during the summer months. The Georgian will run from June 29 to August 28, calling at Goderich at 8.30 a.m. ev- ery '.ery Sunday on the up trip and about midnight Friday on the return trip. The steamer will remain here more than three hours on :Sundays, ac- cording to the schedule, which calls for arrival at 8.30 am., departure at 11.45 a.m. The Georgian is consid- erably larger than the passenger boat that called here last year the Hibou, having a capacity of 300 pas- sengers. On :Sunday afternoon, about 1.4b o'clock, the Georgian made port here far an hour. One hundred and fifty young ladies made up the passenger list. The steamer was chartered for a three-day cruise by the General Motors Company for the female em- ployees of the company at Detroit and Port Huron. The steamer called here at 2 o'clock a.m'. on Saturday last, upward bound on the trip to Georgian Bay, and was on the return trip when it called here on Sunday. --JGoderieit Signal. Along The Air Waves (Continued from. page 2) tional exchange program. From New York. Sunday, July 7: 8.00 p.m. Radio Theatre Guild Presenting "The Recoil", by Eric Lo- gan. Direction of Rupert Caplan. From Montreal 10.30 p.m. "Atlantic Nocturne" Readings by Frank Willis with AI - Ian Reid at ,the organ and Leon Bol- kozotsky, violinist. From Halifax. Monday, July 8: 8.30 p.m. "The Colbert Hour' Concert group. WXYZCR1B0 inter- national exchangti program • From Detroit, 10.30 p.M. Earle Hills and His Banff Springs Hotel Orchestra Dance music. CRiBG-NIBC interna- tional . exchange feature, From Banff Springs. Tuesday, July 9: 8.30 p.m- Mart Kenny "Rocky. Mountain Melvdy Time"---', Dance music. 8.30 p.m. Goldman Band Concert —Direction of Edwin Franko Gold- man. NBC -CIBC -international ex- change program. From New York. Wednesday, July 10: 9.00 p.m. "Concert Caravan" -- Soloists and orchestra. From To- ronto. 10.30 p.m. Gene Fogarty and Hit+ Jasper Park T.idfe Orchestra— Donee music. 43RBC- 4B0' interna- tional exchange program. F'rom Tee- ner. i i i . it . M. PAGE 3 .11.1111111.1.1111111 .."DE L U•XE4N: " 7113g . S SURDOUGH TRAIL THE gold rush of '98 sent a pic- turesque crowd of sourdoughs and chechakos along the famous gold trail to Alaska and the Yukon. The vacation rush of 1935 will see another picturesque invasion, but it will be on a vastly different scale to that of the sourdough. Steamship traffic to Alaska, the land of gold and glaciers, of sour - Photographs ebow: Above. The Prince Robert. Top left: The altar in Sitka'a calomel Russian church. Below: One of the many grotesque totems which add to Alaska's colorful attraction. doughs and totem poles, has grown to huge proportions during recent seasons. Canadian National Railways and steamship officials found their oil - burning ships booked to capacity dur- ing last season, so to care for the in- creasing traffic four special 11 -day cruises will be made by the S.S. Prince Robert, commencing June 28th, in addition to the regular Canadian National Alaska service. Instead of hardships encountered on the "Trail of '98" by the gold -seekers, the pleasure -seeking vacationists who journey northward on the Prince Robert will find everything arranged for their comfort. These will really be deluxe cruises for the Robert is equip- ped with every latest device for the comfort and convenience of her pas- sengers. Sitka, old-time Russian capital of Alaska; Skagway, gateway to the Yukon; Ketchikan, Juneau, will be among the ports visited, while on the journey the ship will traverse Dean Channel and make a stop at the his- toric Mackenzie's Rock, marking the termination of Alexander Mackenzie's overland journey to the Pacific. MOTORISTS CONTRIBUTE LARGELY TO COUN- TRY,'S REVENUE Ontario motorists contributed $41.- 40 out of every $100 cash receipts collected by the province in 1934, an increase of $2.70 over the previous year. Of this amount $25.80 out of every 400 represented gasoline tax, While the balance represented regis- tration and license fees. Comparisons in the provincial fin- ancial statements of the last few rocks. They •hastened as fast aa they could—two on crutches, three With legs in iron forms—up a steep slope in the teeth of the gale, to the Horne. The 'Coastguards were 'phon- ed, and in consequence five of the steamer's crew of six were saved. For Scout Radio Fans Rover Scouts have established a short wave broadcasting station at Headquarters of the Netherlands East Indies Boy +Scouts' Association, years prove that out of every $100 received by the provincial treasurer, motorists paid the following: 1930, gas tax $18.70; licenses and registra- tions $9.60, total $28:30; 1931, in the same order $20.10, $9.80, total 429.- 90; 29:90; 1932, $22.70, $13.20, total $35.90; 1933, $24.60, $14.10, total $38.70; 1934, $25.80, $15.60, total, $41.40. These figures show that the gaso- line tax increased from 18.7 per cent per 4100 in 1980 to 25.8 per cent in 1934, while revenue from licenses and registration fees increased from 9.0 per cent per $100 to 15.6 per cent per $100. According to the latest figures 15.2 per cent of the population owned motor vehicles in Ontario in 1934 and, in that year, they contributed $20,788,979, or 41.4 per cent of the cash revenue received by the pro- ' wince in the twelve -*month period. DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD White -Walking Sticks For the Blind Wolf Cubs of Bath, England, have been specializing in the good turn of collecting old walking sticks, paint- ing then, white, and giving them to the blind. Honour Scouts' Patron Saint One thousand picked Scouts front England and 'Wales participated in the annual: National Scout ISerVice at St. :Georges Chapel, Windsor, on St. George's Sunday, April 28, and heard an address by the Dean of Windsor. The service was broadcast. Swedish Prince Radios European Scouts A broadcasting event of St. Geor- ge's bay for British and European Boy Scouts was a radio address in English on the :Scout Patron Saint by H.R.H. Prince Gustav Adolf of Swed- en. The Swedish .Grown Prince Is President of the Swedish Scout Coml. oil. Crippled Scouts Bring Help For Distressed Vessel An unusual Scout award case was that which won the Certificate of. Merit for five crippled boys of the Scout Group of the Stewart Memor- ial Horne of Bangor, Ireland. •On a February morning they were .making their way along the shore from a dormitory to the main Home, in the face of a gale, when they saw the small, Belfast steamier Eileen in distress and drifting towards the Batavia, Java. The call is PKISCA. The station uses a frequency. of 7,080 kc, and ;broadcasts regularly Tues- days and Fridays 7 to 9 p.m. Java time (7 brs. 30 mins. ahead of Green- Wich). The station has worked a non. Gout station in 'California, and should, during favourable conditions, reach Canada. READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NEWS -RECORD cteSNAPS410T CUIL ENLARGEMENTS Enlargements make Ideal gifts for friends and relations. EVERYTHING considered, snap - shooters are a lucky lot. As we have seen, they have the edge on or- dinary mortals in the matter of real- ly personal, meaningful birthday or other types of greeting cards.. And they have the means of creating gifts of exceptional charm and value. These particular "means" are the snapshot negativesfrom which beau- tiful enlargements can be made. If you; haven't yet experimented 'with enlargements, now's the time. In enlarging a picture you get not only a bigger, more realistic image, but the. opportunity to: select the best part of any negative for magnifica - Mon. Suppose you have a good nega- tive of the youngsters atplay in the sandbox — a picture which their grandparents would be delighted to have,,enlarged, as a gift. But suppose there's something incongruous- a wash on the line, a lawnmower or anything ,else that doesn't add a thing to the charm of the view—to the right or left: of the children.; With an enlargement, that distracting, un- necessary feature can be completely, eliminated. Enlargements may, be of almost any size. Any good negative, no mat. ter how small, may be "blown up" to make a picture five or sig times the Size, of the original, A sharp' 2'/s+ x 3i/¢ inch film will easily give you a sparkling 8 x 10 inch enlargement. A word about eubiecte for enlarge- ments—particularly if they're to be used as gifts. Choose pictures that will mean something to the recipi- ents. A shot of Fido trying to climb. a tree after Cleo, the cat, will be vastly appreciated by big brother or sister away at College, but it won't mean very much to Aunt Cynthia who doesn't care for either dogs or cats. Some of the best enlargements we've seen have been landscapes—or seascapes. Mountains usually make' goodpfetures, A. friend of ours makes'a practice: of getting informal' shots of his. friends which are enlarged and de- livered to the various cronies as. gifts. All of which simplified his gift problem. With the coming of summer you. will be getting many pictures that will make beautiful enlargements. suchas a picture of grandmother in the flower garden,or sister standing in, front of a tree filled with beauti- ful spring blossoms. Opportunities for beautiful pic- tures are countless at this time of year, so go forth with your camera. and get them. JOHN VAN GUILDER,.