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THE CLINTON NEWS -RE
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What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties'
Ilia YOU REMEMBER' WHAT HAPPENED DURING TER LAST D.E-
CADE OF THE OLD` CENTURY?
From The New Era, Aug. 16, 1895:
Personals—MT. G. D. MacTaggart
has returned to town after a couple
eeks holiday.
,Mr. W. N. Manning` of the 'Organ',
actory left ,Saturday •morning on a
ound trip on the Steamer ,Cartnona,
om Windsor to Sault' ,Ste. Marie
nd return.
:Miss Ettie Twitchell is visiting
'es ' 'Lucy Barnett, London.
Miss Tillie Akam leaves this week
n a visit' to 'Buffalo.
The Collegiate--41Vtr. J. W. Trelea- cord class certificate and her broth-
, B.A., who has been engaged as el. Bert has passed his junior metric=
lassical Master to succeed Mr, i ulation. The family lived in Clinton
of the Molson's Bank.
Miss Mary ;Brownlee of Hamilton
is visiting at the home of Mr. Hiram
Hill.
Nr. and .Mrs, H. Pennebaker, Miss
Edna and Master Frank spent. Sun-
day with friends in `•Benmiller,
Mr, Ray Ford of Strathroy is
spending a couple of weeks with his
parents, :Mr. and Mrs. John Ford.
(Miss Ina Hill. daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Hill of Oxbow, ,Sask., has
been successful in obtaining her se -
combs, is a farmer pupil of the High
chool, having matriculatedfrom
ere in 1887. The iSichool will open
for several years.
One of the pioneer ministers of
'Canadian Methodism, Rev. Henry A.
Monday, August 26th, and is to Newcombe has been a resident of
e congratulated upon having such ,Clinton for twenty years. Mr. New-
xcellent teachers in all departments.
Little Locals—Miss Mountcastle's
ght looming cereus looked beauti-
ul with 8' flowers on Tuesday night.
Mr. James Steep is showing corn
ver 12 feet long.
Mr. F. Alcock went to Hamilton
Wednesday as representative to
he Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Business iChange—{Messrs. H. E.
nd F. R. Hodgens have bought the
tock belonging to the estate of the
e J. Hodgens. Tomorrow they op-
ibusiness under the name of Hod -
gens Brothers. The boys are too well
nown to need any introduction.
'combe tells many interesting stories
of his early adventures in Method-
ism. He travelled a great deal dur.
ing his period of ministry, the cir-
,ouits of Tweede, Fenelon Falls, El-
imvale, Dearhamu Centre, Wiarton,
Hawksville, Tiverton and Ethel.
He came by Freight—Mr. James
Tucker, chairman of the pulpit sup-
ply committee of the Baptist Church
expected Mr. Fordward on the 6.20
train on Saturday evening. He did
not arrive, nor did he arrive on the
late train. !Mr. Tucker was on the
point of preparing a sermon himself
when Mr: Forward walked in. He had
missed his train, but boarded a
freight train.
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From The Huron News -Record
August 14th, 1895:
Miss MoHardy is touring on the
Upper lakes and in her absence J.
'Ades Fowler presided at the organ in
the Sunday services.
Miss Minnie Herman of London is
home on a visit.
Miss Orpha •Miller returned home
last week.
The small daughter of Mr. Win.
Crooks of ,Goderich township fell
from a log a few days ago and frac-
tured her arm at the elbow joint.
Medical assistance was required to
reduce the fracture.
Fair's flouring mills were recently
closed for several days while repairs
were made.
Tyndall brothers of Hallett have
harvested 20 acres of fall wheat than forces, when the 'otter's cerin
which yielded 30 bushels to the acre. expires. This is .a well-deserved hon -
Public School Board —, Regular our. General Otter has gone through
meeting of the Public Scheel Board all the stages of military life, and on
Was held on Monday evening. Owing his promotion will have reached the
to family illness Mrs. Ross resigned
highest position in connection with
and (Miss 'Murch was engaged to fill the Canadian militia. We congratu-
her place during Model terra from late him on his prospective advance-
ment, all the more because as a na-
tive 'Clintonian, we are especially
proud of the high 'position to which
he has attained. About the only
companion of his boyhood days still
From The Clinton New Era,
August 18th, 1910:
Misses Mary and Jean McMurchie
of Blyth are guests 'of their uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Wan. Bry-
done,
Mr. Bob Irwin returned from Pore
Stanley having had the time of his
life.
Mrs. Thos. Hawkins and daughter
awe visiting relatives in Millbank.
During the past week Jabez Rands
has had a, cement floor placed in his"
blacksmith shop. Hiram 'IIill had the
contract.
An Ottawa despatch states that
General Otter will succeed General
Lake as Inspector General of Cana -
Sept. 1st to Dee. 8th.
WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY
WAS YOUNG
From The Clinton News -Record,
August 18th, 1910: residing here is Mr. John Cuning-
Mtr. C. l ilty has joined the staff home.
WHAT OTHER NEWS PAPERS ARE SAYING
HOLIDAYS LOSE SIGNIFICANCE cover that they think of "opportun-
We have just observed Civic Holi-
day. Next will be Labor Day and
Thanlosgiving Day and Armistice
Day. Add these to the 24th of May
and the 3rd of June, and we have a
group of holidays which are nothing
more than "just another holiday."
They have lost pretty much all of
their significance, and regrets are
generally voiced if they came during
the week, as this prevents a week-
end trip. The only holidays which
certain their spirit are Christmas Day
Good Friday, and Easter, and Santa
Claus and the Easter Parade are run-
ning neck and neck for popular fav-
or with the religious significance of
these rays.—Hanover Post.
THE RELIEF PROBLEM
A re organization of the relief
problem in •Ontario is under consid-
eration by the Provincial Government
and with a relief expenditure for this
year estimated at 546,000,000, some-
thing must be done and done quickly.
Passing it back to the municipalities
under ,some form of supervision is
contemplated. Those that have no
relief worries .(and they are regret-
tably few) are still vitally interested,
as their contributions to the forty-six
million are not small by any means.
But why those few relief -free nnunt-
cipalities should pay any part of
these enormous outlays, has never
been answered. It is penalizing them
for electing men•who were capable of
conducting their affairs properly, un-
less it is understood that each section
of the Province is responsible for the
whole, and that is the plan upon
which the money has been raised up
to the present.—The Goderich Star.
OPPORTUNITY
Whenever we hear yaung people
complain that there are no opportun-
ities for 'them we begin to wonder
just what they mean. Often we dia.
ity as a chance to jump right out of
school into a well-paid, easy job
with short hours, long week -ends and
generous vacations.
It is true that sort of oppor-
tunity no longer exists. What Is
more, it never did exist.
There seems to always be a place,
sometime, somewhere, for the intelli-
gent, industrious and ambitious boy
or girl who really wants to work, is
not afraid of long hours and has good
health and habits.
In these times it often takes a lot
more time to find such an opportun-
ity than it did a few years ago, but
the seeker who gives up after one or
more discouragements demonstrates
that he is not the sort of a person
employers are looking for.
—The Wingham Advance -Times.
CONSIDER THE BEE '
It takes 570 bees, working their
whole lifetime, to produce a single
pound of honey, But they do pro-
duce it. This is isomething for the hu-
man race .to ponder over. For in.
stance in this town there are over six
thousand people who,if they would
Work together for some worth -attain-
ing object, would make their town
one of the finest places on the world's
snap. Bees know enough to work to-
gether. Men must have to be lead,
and then they don't always follow
the leader.
Trenton Courier -Advocate.
SUCH IS LIFE
Consider the editor! A. child is barn
unto • a wife of a merchant in town.
The editor writeth a stick and a half
and telleth the multitude that the
child tippeth the beam at nine
pounds. Yet, he lieth even as a ten-
turian. And the proud father giveth
him a Creme,
Behold the young one groweth up
and graduateth. And the editor put.
tech in the paper a swell piece. 'Yea,
peach of a notice. He telleth of the
wisdom of the young woman and of
her exceeding comeliness. Like 'unto,
the rases of Sharon is she, and her
gown is played up to beat the barna
And the dressmaker getteth two.
score and four iron men. And the
editor gets,a note of thanks (maybe).
And the, daughter ';goeth on a jour-
ney,
ourney, And the editor throweth him-
self on the story of the farewell par-
ty, It runneth a column solid, and
the fair one remernbereth him from'
afar with a card that costeth six for
a jitney.
Behold she returneth and the town
faIleth down and worship. She pick.
eth one and •lo, she picketh a lemon.
And they send unto the editor a 'bid
to the wedding and the bids are fash-
ioned'in a far'eity. Flowery and
long is the wedding notice which the
editor printeth. The minister get-
teth his bit.
The editor printeth a death notice,
two ' columns of obituary, three
lodge notices, a cubit of poetry and
a card of thanks. And he forgotteth
to read proof on the dead, and it
reads "Gone ,to Her Last Roasting
Place:'
And 'ell that are akin : to the de-
ceased jumpeth en the editor with
exceeding great jumps. And they
pull'eth out their ads and cancelled
their subs and they swing the ham-
mer even unto the third and fourth
generations.
-,-The Wetaskiwin Times.
Dairy Products Marketing Equalization
Scheme
Designed to assist in the ..maipten-
ance of the cheese branch of the
dairy industry in the Dominion, the •
Dairy Products Marketing Equaliza-
tion Scheme has „just been officially
approved. The Scheme also aims
to stabilize the price of milk enter-
ing into the manufacture of cheese
at a somewhat higher level than can
be realized from the proceeds of the
sale of cheese, and thereby equalize,
to same extent, the returns from the
marketing of dairy products.
MOhanging conditions surrounding
the marketing of different ICanadiaat
dairy products have during recent
years had a marked influence on the
channels into which milk for manu-
facturing purposes has been direct-
ed," .a statement sent to all cheese
factories in Canada explains.
Continuing the statement adds:
"Dairy products produced and con-
sumed in Canada' an which are not
ordinarily on an export basis, such
as milk for fluid consumption, but-
ter and ice cream, are of relatively
higher value in the domestic market
than other products which are con-
tinuously on an export basis. Of
products in the latter. class, cheese,
is, from a standpoint of volume,
the most important, and cheese re-
quired for domestic consumption as
well as that exported is, so far as
primary •producers are concerned,
subject to export value.
"The resultant disparity in prices
as between milk entering into the
manufacture of cheese and milk re-
quired for domestic consumption or
for the manufacture of products not
regularly exported has stimulated
the diversion of milk from the manu-
facture of cheese to other outlets.
"Cheese, however, is still a very
important dairy product, and as an
outlet for milk, has a very important
effect on the industry as a whole.
Moreover, Canadian cheese commands
a higher price in the markets of
the United Kingdom than cheese of
the same type from any other coun-
try."
A fund has been provided by Par-
liament out of which it is intended
that payments on the basis of the
Vallralt
quantity of cheese manufactured
will bemade. Applications for such
payments must be made to the Dairy
and Cold !Storage Commissioner,
Dominion Department of Agricul-
ture, Ottawa, by the proper officers
of the cheese factories on forms pro-
vided, which will bear instructions as
as, to procedure in making applica.
tions', Payments received by factor.
ies from the Dairy Products Equal-
ization Fund must be apportioned ae
mong milk suppliers in the same
manner as proceeds from the sale of
cheese.
Administration of the scheme will
be directly under the Dairy and Cold
Storage iCommissioner.
The Agricultural
Fair
Since the dawn of civilization, the
Agricultural fair has been regarded
as a'great social asset, a factor quite
apart from the facilities for trade
and barter and the enlarged educa-
tional outlook consgevent on new
things seen and heard. In the early
ages, religious festivals offered out-
lets for trade, and in the Code of
Khammurabi, the Babylonian E'm.
peror, B.C. 2250, the law is laid down
for proper conduct of trade, based in
the experience of the previous 1,000
years since the reign of Sargon of
Sumeria in B.G. 3800. In China, the
Emperor Fu -hi in B.C. 2852 issued
orders regarding agricultural fairs
which were comprehensively dealt
with by his successor, the Great
Agriculturist, ,Shunnung. The festi-
val at Delos and the Olympian games
in ancient Greece were merely the
opening days of gigantic fairs, and
in ancient Italy the vast annual as-
sembly at ,Coltuinna merged itself in-
to a famous mass meeting for social
intercourse and trade. India with
its great annual fair at Hurdwar on
the upper Ganges, Russia with Nijni
Novgorod, Germany with Leipsic and
Frankfort, England with Stowe,
Barnet and Nottingham, all' in turn
have passed the torah westward to
Canada, where at Toronto, the Cana-
dian National Exhibition or fair, for
that is what it really is, and the Roy-
al Winter Fair stan4 at the present
day in the direct line as among the
greatest annual agricultural fairs
Modern invention may claim to have
displaced many methods of an older
generaton, but the radio, the tele.
graph, the motor car, and every oth-
er modern invention seem merely to
have conspired to solidify the wis
dean of the ancients in providing the
thrill of an ever -widening social cir-
cle and the opportunity for a gener-
ous education through personal ex-
perience in the agricultural fairs of
today.
The Sugars. in , Honey,
Honey is the nectar of flowers
gathered by the honey -bees and rip-
ened by
ip-ened'by them' within their hives. The,
ripening process .consists of evapor-
ating the excess moisture from the',',
nectar and of certain changes in the,
chemical nature of the sugars it con-
tains. A welt ripened honey con-
tains ,approxiinately 18.5 per cent
moisture. 75 per cent sugars; and
small quantities of protein, dextrin,
minerals and certain volatile sub-
stances that give to it its aroma and
flavour, Iloney may, therefore, be
classified as a concentrated solution
of sugar having a distinctive flavour
and aroma, and being this, it belongs
to that class of foods which supplies
heat and energy to the body and muse
not be compared with such -foods as
meat, eggs, etc., that are used to re-
pair body tissues. The sugars found
in honey are: fruit sugar (levulose),
grape sugar (dextrose), and cane su-
gar (sucrose). The latter is present
in small amounts only. Levulose and
dextrose are invert sugars, some-
times called predigestion sugars. In-
vert sugars are the result of the
breaking down or digestion of cane
sugar (sucrose), a process that must
be performed by the digestive system
before such sugar can be assimilated
by the body. In honey this process
of digestion has :been completed;
therefore, the sugars in honey are
imtmedfately available for assimila-
tion without placing a heavy tax on
the digestive system. For this rea-
son honey is especially adapted as
food for children and those suffering
from impaired digestion.--D'aminion
Department of Agriculture bulletin
"Honey and Some of the Ways It
May be Used."
THE RAIDING COCKROACH
Cockroaches are adventurous for-
agers
oragers and are no respecters of archi-
tecture. They swarm anywhere they
choose, or advance in single scouting
units, into apartment houses, barns
or 'stores. The kind of building
makes no difference provided the
conditions are moist and warm and
there is a plentiful supply of food.
Cockroaches have been a nuisance all
over Canada this summer, and evi-
dently tired of the comparative free-
dom of municipal garbage dumps are
taking refuge in cracks and crevices
in the walls of nearby dwelling hous-
es. They hide during the day and
emerge at night in search of. food..
They eat anything eatable, but are
particularly fond of the foodstuffs
favoured by man. On this account
they are usually most numerous a-
bout kitchens and pantries and oth-
er places where feed is aeeessible.
'Cockroaches may be readily control-
led by means of sodium fluoride,
which can he bought from any drug
store 'at a nominal price This ma-
terial should be lightly dusted in
frequented roaches,
places freq n d by the x h ,
such as about sinks, baseboards, cup-
boards, hot water pipes and !so on.
The sodium adheres to the legs of
the insects and in cleaning 'them-
selves they are poisoned. As sodium
fluoride is ,somewhat pol'tsonoust to
human beings, reasonable precautions
should be taken, says the pamphlet
on cockroaches, issued by the Do -
.minion Department of lAgricnxture,
to prevent children or domestic pets
from gaining accesls to it.
LATVIA GETS CLOVER SEED
PROM CANADA
Among the several small principal-
ities into which Europe is divided is
Latvia. 'Her principal suppliers
and largest customers are the United
Kingdom and 'Germany. A small
trade is carried on with Canada ant,
last year, according to trade figures
between the two countries, this con-
sisted in the case of exports from
Canada almost entirely of clover
seed, states the Industrial Depart-
ment of the Canadian National Rail-
ways. Of the total value, 39,249,
clover seed accounted for 92.5 per
cent. In addition, lead, zinc, furs
and several other commodities of
Canadian origin are imported through
the United States, the United King-
dom, Germany and possibly Danzig.
Latvia's exports consist largely of
forest and agricultural products,
lumber, plywood, match ,splints, but-
ter,
ut
ter,, bacon, flax, seeds, rye; also rub-
ber footwear and paper.
=SNAPSROT GUJL
Brighten Your Shadows
"A piece of white cardboard brightened this shadowed face"
uAVE you ever tried taking a plc.
+ +i ture of your best girl - or
your wife—wearing her new broad-
brimmed summer hat and find, when
you see the finished print, that her
pretty face turned out to be an un-
attractive dark shadow? Of course
you have. Who hasn't?
Now there is really no excuse for
this common error in amateur pho-
tography. You can't prevent the ap-
pearance of the shadow but you can
lighten it considerably in the picture
by using a reflector to cast or reflect
the necessary light under the brim
of the hat and on her face.
Please don't gasp and think about
spending a lot of money for a re-
flector for it isn't necessary. A satis-
factory, efficient reflector can be had
for practically nothing. Any number
of things will serve you; a piece of
white paper about three feet square,
a white cloth of the same dimension
or even a pillow slip or white towel,
if the chancellor of the linen closet
will let you get away with it, will
serve admirably.
What's the trick? There's no trick
to it at all. This is all you have to do.
Suppose we use the pictures of the
comely young lady above as an ex-
ample.
Both snapshots were taken at
noon with the sun's rays striking
the top of the hat. Notice the picture
to the right; how the brim of the hat.
casts a dark shadow over the face..
The picture to the left, ,however,.
shows the pleasing results by using
a reflector to cast or reflect the sun's
rays under the hat. The reflector in
this instance was a piece of white
cardboard about two feet square
held about four feet from the subject
and tilted so as to reflect the sun's
rays on her face and under the hat.
If there is not a third party to hold
a reflector it can be placed on a chair
at the proper angle or tilted against
a stick placed in the ground. Be sure,
however, that the reflector does not
appear in the view finder of your
camera.
This is only one of the many ways
a reflector may be used to advantage
in getting better pictures. By giving
a little thought to your snapshooting
you can readily detect where a re-
flected light on your subject may
brighten over -shaded spots in out-
door or indoor picture making. Try
it.
JOHN VAN GUILDER.
WORK IN THE ROSE GARDEN
The glory of the summer rose gar-
den passes all too quickly. Already,
stimulation of growth by fertilizers
and cultivation in the rose bed should
be discontinued. These precautions,
the experienced gardener knows, fav -
aur the ripening of the wood of the
bush, which is necessary for safe
wintering. The shoots of the briar,
commonly called suckers, which
come up from the roots !should be
cut out below the surface, but be-
yond this the soil had better not be
disturbed until the time arrives for
the fall application of manure, which
should be delayed until freezing
weather is approaching. Unless
spraying and dusting have been thor-
oughly done, plants of some varie-
ties are likely to show disease in the
forms of mildew and black spot. To'
combat these enemies, the plants•
should be thoroughly dusted three'or•
four times, at intervals of one week,
with a mixture composed of nine
parts of dusting sulphur and one
part of arsenate of lead. Such is
the advice given in the pamphlet
"Pall Wiork in the Rose Garden" is
sued free an request by the Domain
-
ion Department of Agriculture..
Winter protection is also dealt with,.
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The Part the C. N. R. Plays
in Marketing Canada's Crops.
So essential to the trade, commerce, and general welfare of Canada are the various
classes of freight carried in the course of a year by Canadian National
Railways that it is difficult to give pride of place to any particular one, but
in their all-round importance to every section of the community, agricul-
tural products must rank very high. They form the back -bone of the
nation's business activities and contribute directly and in large volume to
its industry and employment everywhere.
During 1934 the C. N. R. carried over eight and a half million tons of agricultural
produce, being an increase of 6.44% over 1933. In this total are included
134,700,000 bushels of wheat, 14,000,000 bushels of corn, 35,700,000
bushels of oats, and 15,500,000 bushels of barley; the aggregate of these
commodities showing an increase of 4.i% when compared with the
preceding year.
Itis interesting to note that the average haul of each ton of wheat was approximately
seven hundred and fifty miles.
Without the rail facilities of the C.N.R. no doubt some of this agricultural produce
might still have reached a market, but it could only have done so at a much
higher cost to the producer, and the quantity would necessarily have been
negligible...for practically all the crops which enter into thefigures
above enumerated were placed in freight cars at points where the only rail
transportation obtainable was that provided by Canadian National Railways.
These crops come from far scattered districts... in many cases from sparsely populated
communities ... but they are.the result of the labours of men and women
who each year create millions and millions of dollars of new wealth for
Canada. In this work the C.N.R. is their partner and helper.
As is well known the crop movements of recent years have been much below normal
.. , much below the standard of productivity of our prairies and agricultural
areas, and much below the volume which the C. N, R. is equipped to handle.
The figures quoted should, therefore, be considered in that light.
The carriage of agricultural produce is, of course, only one of the activities of the
C.N.R.' In every branch of rail transportation it is equipped to give the
best of service .. -. all the year round . t under all conditions ... econom.
ically, courteously, and competently. Your patronage is respectfully
solicited.
During the present Summer season the C.N.R.
is providing special fares and excursions between
points throughout Canada. These are exceptional
travel bargains. The nearest CN.R. Agent will
be glad to give full particulars.
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