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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-05-06, Page 3Victory Bim''interes War Loan (lain end Intertest Cheques maybecasior depoSted at any of our tray ohes. Deposit your Vietory Bond interest in our Savings Department and earn interest thereon. THE DOMINION BANK EEAFORTH BRANCH, - R. M. JONES, Manager SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. THE HURON EXPOSITOR DISTRICT MATTERS FROM DULUTH. Dear Etpoeitor.—Phe voters of Ora- torio on Monday, April 16th, by a handsome majority, gave the demon runt a staggering blow, and laid birn low. Those who believe is prohibi- tion here and also those doing their best to enforce the law, are highly neatened with the result. It will make it ntueh easier to enforce the law as a great dual of liquor was smuggled into this country faint On- ltario by many different ways, even the aeroplane being brought into requisi- tion. Since prohibition has went in- to fora+ here Canadian whiskey has rated legit as, as it has not the poisonous eustities of much of the kill -nae -quirk, er ieite:-t eeraey ntoon- sliine stuff' il'ieitly 1, 011 un this side of bite lwr o C)vor in dry Superior, Wis., a drink eet (111,0 whiskey often co,t q5 '•cats ane s :Mart must lcircus .wool* 4pi),. kA eI Rio • some of ids most owns ors `and Omar ssissif, by the nick and ejeetefl oheut,`Oneof :,them applied more than Eeceaeary' force, and a warrant was ewer* ard. for hie arrig ,Ips Lader hid hist in Borne' bushes' e$ the Melt' Ants 'sheriff searched for him la Tab.. This angered the (town people and after consuming more liquor, they I armed.- themselves and returrned ithe railway aiding where Robinson and his hands were trying -to pack up) 'and move away. They opened fire, but the circus men were better organized and they • drove the mob hack through the .streets forcing the fugitives through atore after store where they tried to barricade themselves and at last re- turned to the railway siding. But some of the thugs followed and stole close to them in the dark. Suddenly one of the circus men fell with a knife wound in his back. There was another outbreak of firing which le wounded one circus hand and killed a hartbeest. ..The eircas hands hid behind their cars and cages and rifle bullets flow on all aides. The circus might have been wiped out if one of the mem more daring than the rent had not rushed out in the main street with some coal oil and threat- ened that ho would set fir. to the toWn if there as any more firing. This ended the' fight, and the elrcus leaded up and escaped from the State. On another occasion when aeverail young men ,tried to •take pos- session of the ring, the father of one of them came dawn from hie seat to urge him to go home. As he ep- proaehed the young man rose and shot his father dead. The show end- ed abruptly, but each year after it returned to the same team and Mr. Robinson nag that he never failed to see this young man "hanging over the front gate, crying" Which strikes us as an inadequate sert of hanging.,, time. Then he gave them orders not to move on pain of death; then he quickly made his exit from the room. One report estates Ise took about 21,S0D in money and vatpables; ethers make 1t somewhat higher. His victims numbered fifteen whites held up and rubbed by a puglistic emeke, Later, however, be was arrested. Some of the watches were found * eia nue- delswoa. Figuring there was no es- cape from the'clatches of the law, he weakened and pleaded guilty to the charge' and was sentenced by Judge C. R. Magner to forty years at hard labor in Stillwater penitentiary, Minn, In order to aatiefy the law all r,f the gamblers had to hand over more money, Boss Gambler Wright parting with • the most. Several days ago we experienced some pretty warns weather, but on Wednesday last it blew up a strong reale-ouster, which chimed the wa- ters of the lake nrru• the shores, into foam. At. tine's the wind blew 42 miles an hour. Very cold and strong winds, at onion, prevailed Thursday .,d l•'rlday. '1'.. day 1Sr.lurday) a teemutifol day, lea rains 10•3u 1:n1l ars forecasted by the weather have Been valued at en. I know 'neon. that in acid Duluth, Horny idiots have ROBERT McNAUGHTON. paid 56 cents a drink for moonshine ?),,!telt, Minn., April '_'a. Heel. and $`M a quart for the same vile stuff. 'There is a determined effort here to enforce the laws. clean up the bootleggers and stop the manu- facture of the accured stuff. Many of the plants raided have had a ca- pacity of making a few gallons or a very large quantity on short order. Some have been raided where hund- red's of gallons of mash all reader for distieling and hundreds of pounds of raisins and ether material ready for en.nufacturs was en hand. The stuff seized has at times been estimated tat seaeoaI thouaand dollars. i'wece in this city the fire department has been eared to pot old fires caused by ex- plosions in illicit plants. One oper- ator, a prize fighter, fled, later re- turned, gave himself up to the author- ities, ,pleaded guilty, was sentenced to the work farm for PO days without the option of a fine. At another plant which blew up Betting fire to the building, the operator was badly burnt and had to be taken to a hospital. After his recovery he was hauled tato court and, I understand, fined, isdaey who violate the laws are foreigners with no respect far the laws of this eountay. Respect for the same kas to .be pounded into them by aevere Punishment. Others, and sheave on ttl'em, are Americana, who know bet- ter. Others have been placed in pow- er to enforce the laws, yet they have conspired to violate the same, all for the sake of the money god. These latter class of criminals should re- ceive double punishment when proven guilty. Late last Sunday night or eerier Monday- morning, the Orpheum Theatre, at 2nd Avenue east, and Su- perior, at this city, was entered by burglars. The knob of the safe was broken off by blows from a heavy hammer, then the tutnblers were taken out and the rest was easy. ti sum of money, estimated between $3,500 and $3,794 was taken and not a anger stark left for indentification, showing the yeggs were experts' at the game. One suspect, with a bad record, has been arrested on suspicion but as yet I believe nothing certain established as to his conneotion with the crime.. A negro prize fighter, over two months ago, pulled off quite a hold-up stunt at 222 West 3rd Street, this city, and within a stone's throw of the First Methodist Church. Rastus Wright, a notorious gambler for years here was operating a gambling joint at the rumber described. The incident oc- curred shortly after midnight on a Sunday morning. The negro rapped on the entrance door of the gambling room. The watchman on duty asked who was there, the dusky Son of Ham 'replied, "Frenchy." Being admitted then, at the point of a revolver he backed the watchman towards the table where a gambling gaine was in progress and around which were seat- ed many players. He commanded these to arise, hold up their hands and line up faceward towards the wall. Two who tried to bolt for the door were brought back in quick or- der by two revolver shots. Rastus Wright, the boss gambler, was a lit- tle slow in complying witle the hold up hand order, but a shot iround his feet •broaght him quickly to time. Seizing the cash on the table, the negro then quickly turned his atten- tion to the men facing the wall, quickly relieving them one by one of their monies, watches, stick pins and other valuables and keeping up a rapid fire conversation during tins JHMA i„4 , Jut Swallow a C.mle RAZ'MAH la Gaaraatern nin theormal fiat p tubes, give of et "lacy; mows. us La�i euresedl.' erwriH�ibtea 144'Mg .sW. leRotsts.o torsi Agent, Er4INBActi. .•• i ✓,V2x',9r't,'t e 1 t;,.•. WITH A CIRCUS IN THE 01.1) DAYS. day morning and insisted on rising IIelRON NOTES Phe eelirene of (Clinton were itorl;cd to Wednesday of last wee;; ;him it hrc•:ut,e known that Mr. Thos. te,ttle. an old resident, had passed a- ' 1.- y suddenly about eleven o'clock at los hums on Joseph Street. lie had reit been well foe some days and had been eenfined tr bed but it was not thoue'h>: that his coadtion was au semis. He had felt better Wednes- "1-ley, Rube,” ie more than a jeer addressed to a person front the coun- try. It is the battle cry of the circus when a fight between circus hands and the citizenry is imminent. This ie explained by ]Carry Barnet, who has been writing a series of articlero en vircneses in the Deari, rn Independ- ent. Nowadays armed clashes. be- tween cercus hands and fares lsetnds Lot common, especially In centres+ where there is police prote ides• hat in the old days and in parts of the country where two people can make the law of the moment for the single constable, these fights wore sot only romareem but they frc-lmenfly ended in homicides. Two or three reasons are given for this by "Governor" John R. obinson, the veteran circus man vtyyhho supplied Mr. Barnet with his irate •ial. One of them was that when a muses came to town, a sort of in - forestal holiday ensued. There was much drinking and thie led to fight- ing. There also was the ambition of the fecal rowdy to lick a circus man. However puny the circus man might be the rowdy who trashed Thio would boast of it ever after. It seemed to set the seal on kis repu- tation as a bad man. especially if he could get his"hudience to believe that the circus hand was a citizen of New York er Chicago. From motives of decent reticence Mr. Robinson does not meation the faet that many of the circuses in the old days were peripatetic schools of crime. They were frequently man- ned by neer-do-wells, by fugitives 'from justice, by wastrels that hated steady work. They were infested by gamblere and by short change artists. The aneophisticated county folk were their easy prey. That they sometimes took revenge by trying to beat ap the show is net remarkable. Mr. Robin- son says that at nearly every little town some fifty or sixty years ago there would be a local belly or several bullies who wanted to make trouble for the circus. This was bad for business since their brawling and foul language would frighten away the decent .people. He sought therefore to deal with these disturbers as soon as possible. For this purpose- ha, usually carried along several bruisers well able to act as bouncers. The local talent that mixed it swith the Robinson circus usually regretted it. One season he adopted the plan of hiring the bad man of each town as special constable. If the bad man re- mained with the circus to the next town he usually met another bad man and as often as not the first was licked and fled without waiting for his money. Mr. Robinson found this an economy. When the larger towns were to beevisited, not one or two or a half' dozen bruisers could deal with the drink crazed crowds that came to the circus for the purpose of breaking up the performance. Robinson tried to awe the crowds by having a pile 'of Muskets placed in a conspicuous position. When ' the warning ery of "Hey, Rube" was raised the circus hands rushed to the main tent, picked up the rifles and fell into a military formation. An- other scheme was to buy two hun- dred pistol holders and provide ,Pis- tols for them. Each employee wore two strapped to his waist and instead of being numbered from one to twb hundred, they would dee numbered frown two hundred up, thus conveying the idea that there might be a thou- sand revolvers available for the cir- cus men. The most famous circus fight in history, says Mr. Robinson, was the Jacksonville Might, in a year he does not mention, The circus had trouble from the start. Several rowdies took possession of the ring eo that the horses could not be stied. After tolerating this as knit as possible, Robinson realized that either. the , men Wbnld have to be put mit of the ring er the • 110 was only up a short time and was about to retire again when he euelden- ly collapsed and died alnn,et inatmnt- ly. Dir. Cottle was a native) of Eng- Land, ng- Lnd, but came to this country in 1563. Ile had been for marry years a resident of Clinton and had taken an active part in the public' life of the town. He had s••rsed fir many years as Pmblie School Trustee and for two or three years as councillor, and last year was elected Mayor. He had alas token a great interest in the Horticultural Society, being a florist by trade and a flower -lover by nature. Ile was a nevntber of the 1.O.O.F. and of Willis I'reebyterian Church. His wife sur- vives hist and a grand -nephew, Alex. Fagle.;on. who had made his home with then for some yoars. •` --Tuesday, April 12th, the ordiaa- tion and induction of Rev. C. G. Jonas, took place in the Presbyterian Church, Belgrave. '$lie church was well filled. The singing was led by a union choir. Rev. Ma. Gomm, Pine River, took the devotional exercises, speaking from Mioah, 6th chapter and 8th verse, "He Fath shewed thee 0 man what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." Rev, Mr. Gotten, South Kinloss, Mod- erate% of Presbytery, took charge and Rev. Mr. Scobie, iuterm Moderator for Belgrave, told in brief the proceedings which led up to the call of Mr. Jones. The usual questions were put and the ordination and induction took place. Rev, Dr. Perris, Wingham, addressed the minister and Rev. Mr. Stobie, the people. A hearty vote of tlhanks was tendered Mr. Suobis for hie, services during the vacancy, after which Ds. Penrie pronounced the benediction. Tea was served in the basement and the new pastor and wife were heartily welcomed. He and Mrs. Jones have taken possession of the comfortable manse and will now assume the ven- ous duties incumbent on them. Cal- vin church is associated with Belgrave in this pastorate. SUFFERING OF YOUNG WOMEN This Letter Tells How It May be Overcome—ATI Mothers Interested. Toronto, Ont.—"I have suffered since I was a school girl with pain in my left side and with cramps, growing worse each year until I was al➢ rundown. I was so bad at times that I was unfit for work. I tried several doc- tors and patent medicines, but was only relieved for a short time. Some of the doctors wanted to perform Ian operation, but my father objected. Finally I learned through my mother Of Lydia E. I'ink- ham's Vegetable Compound, and how thankful 1 am that I tried it. I am relieved from pain and cramps, and feel as if it bas saved. my life. You may use my letter to help other women as I am glad to recommend the medicine."—Mna. H. A. GOODMAN, 14 Roekvale Ave., Toronto. Those who are troubled as Mrs. Goodman was should immediately seek restoration to health by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Those who need spacial advice may write to Lyydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confiderttl'al),Lynn Masa. 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