The Clinton News Record, 1935-12-12, Page 4' PAGE 4
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'CLINTON '.NEWS=RECORQ.
TOYLAND
on ,Second Floor
where you,will find a
wonderful display of TOYS
GAMES and BOOKS
SANTA CLAUS
Will visit this Store
SATURDAY, 14th .2 P.M.
Bring the ` Children
YOUR- GFT PROBLEMS
CAN EASILY BE
SOLVED HERE
Visit the China Department
when in doubt as what
would suit the ladies
BOXED STATIONERY
15'c 'to $2.50
Christmas Handkerchiefs
5cto5Oc
CHRISTMAS 'LINGERIE
Slips, Bloomers, Panty Sets
Etc. Nicely Boxed,
ONLY 10 SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS
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36' • •COOPER Until : Christmas.
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WE HAVE EVERYTHING'. FROM RUBBER PANTS FOR THE
BABY TOA REAL GOOD PIPE FOR' DAD.
BB SURE AND LOOK OVER OUR STOCK, THEN IT'S UP TO
• YOU WHERE YOU BUY.
GOODS ARE 'RIGHT and
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CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS
FORSYTH FORFUSED SHIRTS
white or colored
Forsyth Broadcloth Pyjamas
Forsyth Ties
Dressing Gowns
Scarves
and other articles too numerous
to mention.
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SOMETHING MORE than carefuIIy selected in-
gredients,—SOMETHING MORE than scientifical-
ly balanced proteins, vitamins and minerals, SOME-
THING MORE than a fall measure of clean, profit
producing feed for your poultry,—
and that SOMETHING is ROE PRACTICAL
EXPERIENCE.
ROE FEEDS are Farm -Tested and Proven. All
guess work is eliminated, assuring more profit for
you in every bag..
ROE FARMS MILLING CO..
A "DIVISION OF' THE ROE POULTRY RANCH,
Atwoofl, - Ontario.
Local., Representative -RUSSELL L. JERV1S.
Mar
STANLEY
'The annual Christmas concert of
S. No. 1, Stanley, will be held
Friday, afternoon, December '20th at " A farmer who was carrying an e
THE OTHER SIDE OF
THE PICTURE
MOTHERS' ALLOWANCE.
IS NOT . CHARITY
Each Case Decided on its .Merits.
Commissioners Always Willing To
have been forced to part with their
children. ,
In many families there has been a'
great change in the whole atmos-
phere of 'the hone. Marked' improve
meat. in cleanliness of both home and
children show the awakening'of •am-
Help.s bition in the mother, as she loses
her listlessness and discouragement.
The' children are made to attend
school and learn to take a pride in
their home and in their own work
'and ability. -
In many cases the ability of the
mother to maintain a good standard
home on a very small income is noth-
ing short of amazing and the train
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•ing received by the children in such
homes is greatly to the advantage of
their future citizenshi
Improvements In Hones
At last week's session of the
County Counejl a report of the activ-
ities of the Mothers' Allowance Com-
mission was presented by the secre-
tary, Mr. A. T. Cooper. It read:
To the Warden and Council:
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On behalf of the Huron County The. followingtable
s the num-
Local Board of the Mothers' Allow- !bar of familietablereceiving e allowances
ante Commission, I wish to present a in Huron County;
condensed report of our activities
during the year 1935. Families with one child... 38
As reported to you at the June " " two children.. 37
meeting the Board is now organized
with your county clerk, Mr. J. M. Ro-
berts, as chairman, Mr, A. T. Cooper,
Clinton, as secretary, and representa-
tives at Wingham, Seaforth and
Exeter, in the persons of Mr. Frank
R. Howson of Wingham, Miss Laura
Jeekell of Exeter, and Mrs. M. A.
Reid of Seaforth, making a full
committee of five.
At our last meeting held in Octo-
ber, we were privileged to have Mr,
H, Bentley, commissioner from the during 1935,' 8; number found ine
Toronto office present and review our gible during 1935, 11.
work. Reasons for reduced allowance
Under our present arrangements. Child not attending school, one chi
the several members of the Board re- reached age of sixteen.
ceive applications from. persons liv- Reason for allowances caneelle
ing in their own districts and all Widow married, no children and
these are sent to the secretary and sixteen, husband capable of remu
if all requirements are met the appli- erative occupation, family should
cation goes to the Commission at self supporting.
Toronto for their approval or rejec- Reasons for cases found inelligibl
tion. The Commission then bands the Woman and child should be kept
application over to an investigator return for service, no children unit
and she in turn reviews the case from sixteen, children of unmarried mot
every angle and makes another re- er, husband not totally incapacita
port to the Commission for their fin- ed, where about of husband given.
Ell decision. - There are five cases where foster
Each case is dealt with on its 'own mothers are receiving allowances,
merits and no allowance is granted eleven cases of desertion and twen-
without the local board's recommen- ty-eight of incapacitation of husband.
ation. This investigation is made You will be interested to know that
n such a way that the applicant may for the year ending Oct. 1st, 1934,
egard it as easy and dignified to the Province paid $3,026,155,07, half
make an application for an allow- of which was paid by the County,'
nce which she is made to feel is no During the same time there was' paid
'charity" , and involves no sacrifice out in Huroh County $23,675.00, the
of her independence. Good investi- county's share being $11,837.50.
ation prevents the hasty granting The number of families receiving
of allowances which may later have an allowance on October 31st, 1931,
o be cancelled. was 7,064, and children 23,173.
The experience of other Mothers' The cost of administration: in the
Allowance Commirssions show that Province'has been reduced from 5.42
he best results can only be obtained percent to 2.04 percent, in compar-
y careful, painstaking investigation ing the years 1920 and 1934.
nd that the time which this takes
s time well spent. After an. allow-
ance is granted the investigator fol-
ows up the. case by regularly visit -
ng the home for the; purpose of .giv-.
ng any advice or help necessary to The Community Club held' the
he mother on the management of December meeting on Thursday la
he home and the expenditure of: the at the home+ of Mrs. Roy 'Plumstee
allowance. There were twelve members •presen
The visits of the investigators -are The president; Mrs. Anderson, pr
lways . welcome and in all our cases .sided. The roll call was answers
s far as known the utmost harmony by "Dent's for Members." Report
xists, were given by the secretary-' an
Our local members also keep, thein- convenors of different committee
elves informed on the beneficiaries Plans were made for Christmas cheer
'the IocaIity and are always ready 'and help for�!some in need. Sacks o
o give any help to the mothers if clothing, quilts, . layettes and toy
uch assistance is required. were made ready for shipping to M
The year has been a very busy one Fred Sloman of Caperol; for distri
or your secretary as he has handleit bution,among families in need as h
all the correspondence between the ,sees the. need. About 75 yards
cal Board and the Commission and Flannelette was made up as well a
Iso due to the tact that so many several knitted articles. The election
ew applications have been received of officers then took place. Mrs
nee the Legislature' met, owing' to Geo. Falconer took charge of.th
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" three children. 15
" four children.. 5
" five children 3
" six children.,, 3
Total , , 101
The allowances are from $15.00 to
$50.00 per month, There are now
twelve cases under investigation.
Number of allowances reduced
during 1235, 16; number cancelled
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the change in the Act whereby a ,election with the following officers:
other with one child under sixteen President,. Mrs: Wm. ' Stanbury; Vice,
uld receive an allowance: Mrs. Wm, 'Falconer; Secretary,
For the present the allowance. paid M, Hanley; ' Treasurer, Mrs, ,m 1. Me-
nder the Mothers' Allowance Act, 'Knight; Flowers, Mrs. F. Andersons
insufficient to maintain the fam- Press Secretary, Mrs. J. Clegg; So-
y and can only be regarded as sup- tial Committee, Mrs.' R. Plumateel,
2 o'clock. press parcel 'Train. one of the city en
The.,following is; the report of the mail .order houses was accosted by a co
S. 8 Nin, 1, Stanley Christmas exam -Local merchant. ,"W(hy didn't you
• mations u; ( buy those goods from me!?" he'asked. 1 0
...jr. 4th --. Maxine . Stanbury, 88;
\R!onnetta Henderson, 84; Alice Glen; 'tl eculd have saved you the express, as
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78; Lenore Welsh;73; Frederiek An. and besides, you wauld have been pl t t S
amen cry o Inc ,mother's s own Mrs: Wits w bank , Mrs.
N. Tyndall;
Berson, :62, 1 patronizing al home store, which earnings or other source of income. Buying Comnlitteei Mrs. J. Davidson,
Sr 3rd—Raymond Cantelen, '59, hellrs.to pay the taxes and builds up I The most important effect of the Mrs. H. Gould, Mrs. 'I T. McKnight.
Jr 3rd—Glen Pri@
e, $3; George, the Community." . With frankness +Mothers! Allowance : Act is that of. , , Mrs. Anderson 'thanked the ; :cite-
I. a pant :Ion, 48.: the farmer replied "Why don't yon keeping homes together and . making , hers warmly tor, all their .co-operation
''Sr, 2nd: -Jack Stewart, 85; Helen patronize your home, .newspaper, and it possible for mothers who have during,her term, of office,
Shaaddock,''71, ;I,advertize,: 1.read; ie..and didn't know , beer; forced to ' separate their fam; h ,
''Sr '1st --Fred Stanbury '87; Jim;j Mot tt,s ,ser
„� f:. $roup vet re.
} r : , ygu: had•; ther.,gocds; :l' have. here,, nes flies to- bring them'together .again ,fres , entg:
,.ttewart 88;'..,'i i .. Flai O�. a oe, t
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s ., , . k Hera in the a r n�• O al • sides < ,,... - Ppe ! $ 1 mothers. have ,said that .,..,',..The he J' ><Yieet n .will,, be held
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h , „ g!► , tit ' r(itclie . tnting mYs to :come to our, store," but for the allowance;, they,„ wgy{d ,at the home' bf c*i2 sta is Gi ilipffatt
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
AFFAIRS
INTERESTINGLY WRITTEN UP BY A STUDENT
You will excuse, us if we stick out ly a rather third-grade middle size.
our chests and hold up our, heads a The boy's basketball team from Lon-
a little? For surely a little pride is don towered above our team in a
excusable under the Conditions: Guess truly alarming' manner.
why? That's its Because we beat
Westervelt. "Chev." Levis, although, for • size
he looked extremely insignificant,
The C. C. I. sent its school basket- scored more ' baskets than any man
ball teams down, to London last Wed- on the floor, His total was three.
nesday to try their luck' against shy .Mciranes had two, , and Holmes and
meeting, by flinging their rig
into the air and shouting "Haile -
Selassie;" whereupon the second
friend extends his hands, paler down=
ward < and ;says gravely `' "Addis
Ababa."'
Itis quite pretty to watch.
' Well we have spent 30 minutes
which might well be '- employed, ons;,
Latin Comp., on the C. C. L news.
If we are ' severely censored there'll.
be 'trouble. We feel very fierce.
S'long.
formidable Westervelt . en ars. It Bi " 'lat.-HURON OLD, BOY ' AS-
gggartono apiece. L`ach of the IS
was with many qualms that, they as- ter three had one -personalsbut Lavin ,5' O C I A T I O N OF
1st
gambled at the appointed place to a- beat. them all. again and had three.
wait their transportation; and these Orchids to Chev! We don't know TORONTO
did not diminish when they finally who scored for Westervelt. They all
met up, with the dangerous -looking got an alarming amount of fouls, so
teams from London. it seems; Our score -sheet (!!!) was
a The games were played in the Cen- rather' confusing at this point, as we
tial 'Collegiate Gym. The gists game were engaged in 'cheering madly for
lasted from eight to nine, 'the boys' Clinton, and shrieking'. maledictions
from nine to ten. The Clinton gists on the long legs of Westervelt, The
went into their game with a van- final score was: Westervelt' 22;
Clinton. 14,
geance, right from the very start,
and played a fast, hard brand of bas- l Westervelt --Forwards, Armstrong,
ketball. Westervelt's guarding line (and howl), Phillips, Nickle, Mercer,
was strong but their forwards were Collins, Simpson; guards, McGill,
rather weak. Clinton had too much Fuller, Kennedy, Morrison,' New -
speed for them, and (we add withcombs,
blushes) rather too mIuch punch. Clinton—Forwards, Elliott, Hol.
There 'vas only one personal foul
handed out to the Londoners, but 'nes' Biggart,, Laois, Bartliff; guards,
the C. C. L's tally was five. " Fortun- M George Elliott had
Johnson,' d artliff, Hovey.
I Georges,
a flat tire on
ately these were widely distributed,
and therdere no one 'was "pulled" the way down' and spent a pleasant
from the game. Cure Streets was half-hour changing it. The car -load
high scorer, with 5 baskets to her carne in rather cold and morose, but
credit, also one personal foul. Norma none the worse. Lunch and dancing
in Westervelt followed the games, also
Cooke ran second with two baskets,
and one personal, Mary Fear was speeches. Mr. Franks made a very,
third with one basket, no fouls. V. nice thank -you!" speech which was
Fremlin had one personal foul, Ger- loudly applauded. He added that
trade Holmes two. the C.C.I. students must soon return
Anne Barnack was the Londoner' home, which was booed.
with the foul. She was also the high-
est scorer, with two baskets. Velma
Donnelly scored the remaining point
on a free throw.
Westervelt—Forwards, Anne Bar -
neck, Velma Donnelly, Ila Thurlaw,
Helen Weir; guards, Gladys Gras.
sick, Muriel Grant, Dorothy Wil -
toughly, Evelyn Cox. '
Clinton —Forwards, Norma Cook,
Cora' Streets, Helen Levis, Mary
Fear, Hazel Cowan; guards, Faye
Lindsaye, Kathleen Cuninghame, Ger-
trude Holmes, Violet Fremlin, Agnes
Cameron,
Final score—Clinton 16; Wester-
velt 5,
We can't give the boy's game in
much detail, partly, because we didn't
see it all, partly because boy's bas-
ketball rather mixes us up, and
leaves us vaguely bewildered. How-
ever—Clinton held the Iead for the
first two periods, but in the third
Westervelt gained on, and passed
them., The C. C. I. boys pressed them
hard, but the Londoners were too
big for them, We note that anyone
under six feet in London is called
"Tiny", and these lads were giants
among their.kind, We once thought
`
that Si 1V1cInnes and Pilot Hovey
were tall. They're not. They're on•
There is a girl in the C. C. I. who
has a strong objection to newspapers.
We don't know why she objects, but
she does, • So much that she looks on
them with loathing and will not read
them. The draw -backs of this pe-
culiarity were illustrated when sev-
eral Fifth -Formers were discussing
' the Ethiopian situation. Sadie El-
liott was remarking, in her usual
forceful manner: "Well, this old
Bailie Selassie, he—", "What do
you mean?" inquired the girl -who.
ihates -newspapers; whom we shall
allude to as Miss T. "Why do you
say "he?"
"Why shouldn't I,?" asked Sadie.
"He's the king of Ethiopia. What
else should I say?"
"The king of Ethiopia?" cried
Miss T., in amaze. "Why, I always' chair and very encouraging report thought 'Mille Selassie' was a war .were read by the secretary an
treasurer, the former dealing with
the activities during the year and
the latter with the financial stand
sort of benediction pronounced on ing. The arrangements with regard
the warriors by the Ethiopian priest.
This quaint belief delighted the stu-
dents of the C. C. I, so, that they are
accustomed to greet each other, on
Still Going Strong After
Thirty -Six; Years
Away back in January 1900' and on
the night of` the Municipal Elections,
four Huron Old Boys casually met in
the Prince George Hotel, incl during
the discussion it was decided to try
to organize a "Huron Old Boys' As-
sociation"'. The quartette were Thos.
P. Stewart, formerly of Blyth, Wm.
Prendergast and Henry Beattie, for-
merly of Seaforth, a n d Edward
Floody, formerly of Clinton. SIr.
Floody was appointed. secretary pro
tem with instructions to arrange a
meeting •in the Temple Building and
send out notices to all , Huron Old
Boys whose names could be obtain-
ed. This was done, .some ninety of
the Huronites being notified, seven-
ty-five of whom attended the initial
meeting. It was decided 'to ask Mr.
J. S. Willison, then Managing Editor
of the "Globe" to act as the first
President. He readily acceded to the
request and the first annual meeting
was' held with the greatest enthus-
iasm, the first officers being, Presi-
dent, J. S. Willison; Vice -President,
D, Weismiller; Secretary, E. Floody;
and Treasurer, H. Beattie. A man.
agement committee was also appoint,
ed and the first Annual banquet was
held at Webb's, Yonge Street, during
the following month. The first An-
nual Excursion was run to Goderich
on the first Saturday in July, 1901,
when ten carloads of Huronites vis •
ited the old County accompanied by
the 48th Highlanders Band.
The 36th Annual meeting of the
Association was held in the West
End Y.M.C.A. on Tuesday evening,
December 3rd, with the largest at
tendance for some years, The Presi
dent, G. E. Ferguson, occupied th.
cry which the Ethiopian soldiers
Ishouted as they rushed into battle."
Further investigation proved that
she thought "Addis Ababa" was a
to the A
nnual At-home was left t,
the incoming Executive. The busi-
ness being over the rest of the even
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CANADIANS AND THEIR INDUSTRIES—AND THEIR BANK
• DAIRYING •
HENRY: "Angus, do you ever think of the time
westarted this dairy business?"
ANGIOS: "You bet I do, Henry. It atl started
wird inc driving that milk route at $20 a month
and board. I worked early and hard for what 1 got,
but the turn came when the boss was wilting to
sell out. Vie Bank of Montreal knewI was thrifty,
own and later a modern dairy outfit. And don't
forget what our wives and children did, Angus."
ANGUS: "No, indeed! Even the girls joined calf
clubs and borrowed money from the Bank to
buy the first, fine stock. They did their bit' in
buildin3 up our present prize-winning herd."
from the way my savings account had grown Not only are the largest dairy concerns in Canada
steadily, They helped a lot by lending me some customers of the Bank of Montreal, but hundreds
money -,.on good security, of course; it gave me of independent dairy farmers as well. Large and
• a,good start, I still worked mighty hard, but the small, they keep their business deposits and sav-
profirs made me forget I was so tired. We have a ings at the Bank and borrow at times for seasonal
nine balance at alae Bank now." requiremencs. Many of them call onthe Bank for
other services, such as credit information, market
HENRY: "Yes, and, you took me in as a partner conditions, Many of them have their bonds and
and gradually we worked up to a fine herd of our other valuable papers with the Bank for safekeeping..
BANK 0,„F MONTREAL,
ESTA$L1811ED 1.817 • II'EAD OFFICE, MONTREAL
Clinton Branch: H. M. NIONTEITH, Manager
Londesborough (Subi-Agency): Open Monday and Thursday,
IM0DBAN ''hiss 'isbirr•BA'N8calva.'_ ' avtce THC OUTCOME Or t 1!8 YEARS' _succas1rt,t oPe'A't"I(ON