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The Clinton News-Record, 1910-08-18, Page 1No. 1642 -31st Year ..1•.•,••••••••••• 1 Record. CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST ISth, 1910 25 cents will pay a subscription to The News. -Record to any address in Canada to end of 19J0, Watelie4 •••••1.1•1101110.1m1 4cur Watch hote Can be suited here. It will surprise you to see how cheap we can sell you a really good watch. We carry the old reliable Waltham, Elgin; Illinois, Sith Thomas, etc. Also our Own Special Movement in different grades. A 'gilding guarantee goes with each watch. A good American watch for msu from $4.50 Up. Yiellitar • Clinton 1 1 Tie ROYAL BANK of CANADA 1 HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL. Capital $5,000,000. Reserve $5,938,000. Assets $75,000,000 13o Branches and Correspondents throughout the World, INCORPORATED 1869, special a ttent ien given to the requireinents f farmerS. Interest allowed on deposits of one dollar and upward. . R. E. MANNING, Manager Clinton Branch. 1 • The MOLSONS BANK INCORPORATED 1855, • Capital Paid up - $3,500,000 . Rest Fund . $3,500,000 Has 73 Branches in Canada.. and Agents and Correspondents in all the principal cities . in the world. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. • I . • • SAVINGS Interest Clinton Branch BANK DEPARTMENT • AT • ALL BRANCHES. allowed at Highest Current Rate. • , . Manager . • , C. E. Dowding, 42............„,massses.............. ............... READYMADE curnimo - The MoPrish Clothing Co. - ORDERED CLOTHING COAT LADIES SWEATERS ,....e..................-6:, . FOR ........... MEN . 1 4.-- AND BOYS 1 ......... . ,,,......: . . We have added to our Sweater Department a line of Ladies' Coat Sweaters, • in several different weaves and styles. Prices from $2.25 to $4 75 In Men's Sweaters we will show this season the largest range ever shown in Clinton. We show all styles, but the Coat Sweater appears to be the great favorite. •Prices from $1.00 to $5.00 . . • • PAY:P. 40, y DUNNVILLE. 4 ,' / , , ,-, .p ,. il0M) CAN -015 * v e ......:, 'N.I1 ea rea VZ Q.61 I/0AL° .. 4 VI.L.A,9/ ,, . ,„;9' 1 P.Y. • Bogs and Girls Sweaters Every boy and girl wants a Sweater. The fall season is the time for sweaters. Our Sweaters make the boys and girls 1, ;144 happy and healthy, be cause they can play P 2 I iP. ' eav,-Aa ' out odoors n a.11 sorts of weather. with no "t3 danger of taking cold. • Prices from 50c to $1.50 - We never the boys when ing outfittings season of the oveilook provid- for any year, CO. Mau" :_.. THE MDRRISH CLOTHING Huron's Largest Clothiers "A Square Deal for Every .. ,, i' TI1E LOCAL MARKET. Wheat $100 to $1.03. Pe 6 Oats 37c 3(Z: toto 65 40e. c. Barley 40e to 45e. Butter 17e to 18c, Eggs 17c to 18e. Live Hogs $8.15. TUE NEW RATE. At a special meeting held on Tuea- day eve/1011g the town eouneil was in- formed that there is a surplus on hand of $3200 and it accordingly de- cided to devote $1100 of - it to this year's expenditure which will make the rate 26 mills.. Citizens generallar will. agree that there is no real need for so large a surplus. FIVE WEEKS JOURNEY. Charlie Wong, who has carried on the laundry business here for the past two or three years, left on Monday for his home In China. It 19 a five. weeks' journey, elle to Vancouver, three to Hong Kong and two more to the interior of the Orient where bis people live, It is sixteen years. sine' he first came to Canada and this will be his second visit home. Ile said he would be back • in a year, WESLEY CHURCH. .. • A joint meeting of Ontario street and Wesley Leagues was betel in Wes- ley League room on 'Monday evening. A large number listened to a. very helpful and inspiring address by Cap - toed %Vales of the S.A. This officer told in an eloquent manner of • the work done by the Salvation Army in all partsat the world, and of their endeavor to lift and save the fallen. ways.. Dr, Dougall of Goderith was present at this meeting, having come -down to. arrange for the. E. L. - ' con- y( ntion, which will probably he held he re in the near future.. . MANY HAPPY RETURNS, .. . . . On the 10th of August 1856 Mr...,A. Hooper, the insurance Man, first saw, the light of day near Exeter. All Ns life' has 'been spent in this county the past eight years as a. mucherespected resident of •Clinton. . .. . On Wednesday week • Mr. Hooper invited a number of friend S in to help • him celebrate . the anniyersary. when •one ofthe guests, .knowing his fond- ness for •children., pre9ented him, as a birthday 'remembrance, '.. a • well- dressedminiature.dol to which' was attached a -Carel on which was: in "Grandpa's Little :Pet." The News-Rectird •joins Mr. Mop- er's numerous friends hereabeuts. in. .wisbing him Many Happy Returns of. tee Day. • . . . 130T A HOUSE. Mr. Ben. Cole has bought the house on Wellington street which hits for several years been occupied by Mr, Ed. Munro, .for which he paid fn tbe neighborhood of $1000. The owner was Mr. W. Whitely of New Orleans, • La., formerly of Clinton, who was in town on Monday. SASK. SAMPLES. Mr. Albert Walleye of Wilkie, Sask., has sent The News -Record sample beads of his wheat. These we sub- mitted to OM 'agricultural expert who pronounced them excellent, adding that it Albert's crop threshed out as good as sample he will have no rea- sea to complain. We are very pleas- ed to note this foe many old friends on the prairies are not looking for much of a bank account this raja PAINT ALL POLES. The Bell -Telephone Co. have had their poles on the town streets paint- ed, and have used good judgment in calm, the poles from about six feet up. being painted a light arab: and, the bottom a darker drab, thus making them as inconspicuous as possible. If the appearance, of our streets/ must be marred by unsightly telephone, tele- graph and ellectrie light poles it is. a good idea to have them painted so that they will by as little noticeable as possible. --Listowel Standard. • HE LOOKED:FOR CONSTABLE: • • Between two and three o'cloek on Friday -.Morning last a- couple of young men, apparently from out-of- -town, raised,. a rumpus , on Main - street, They overturned one of Mr. Doig's. monuments, pplled down -a sign- abd-woeld probably have com- mitted either depredations had not Mr. :Data, who had gone out to look for the constable, not knowing that there was not one an duty, Seared them off. A Jew nights previously: an- other .gang overturned One of Mr. G. • L. 'Walker's carryalls. 110N. MATRICULATION 'EXAlial. Of the nine candidates a-eal Iftuou who passed -thee Honor Matrieelat ion -ea:anti/10On 'in • Huron, nevelt V, ere. eandedates of the. Clinton: Celiegiate. "In the total exams so far thirty- eight candidates from the C,C.t. wen forty-one certificates, •' showing inc' superior standing won by :the salami under Mr. rClundry's principalship. he honor Matriculants were as follows R, Ball, }Rat, 3; Latin 3, Greek 1 ; N. Cluff, Latin 3, Fnench 1; B. Kay, - Hist', 3, Eng, ,2, Phyeies '3, Latin .3, German j.•ast, 2, Eng.. 3, Greek 3 ; C. Rance, Math. -3, Physics .3, Chem. 2 ; AL -G. Ransford, Hist. 2, Eng. 2,- .. Iiol. 3,eChere. 3 .; J. Scott, Inst. 2, Eng. 1, Latin . 3, French 1; Y. • Vaistone, Hist. .3, Eng. ; R H. Lloyd, Matli. Physics le Chem. • . • . TIlE WINNEliSe • • . . A feature of . the. boWlin-g tentenae ment at ;(1-oderieh elas-t Week was the remarkable: showing made by •the rink skipped by Mr, G. W. Barge whieh not only "put out" Taylor's four, but escaped winning the Asso- ciation by the. narrowest of margins... As. it was they • • won secOnd. • place, each -Weyer thus •winning a hand-. some. earver. '['he ink Coneisted 61 J. A. Ford • . John Crooks I3ert McIntyre G. W. Barge: • A rink consisting of , Courtice - J. Watt - J.:Wiseman . E. G.. Courtice won 'second in the consolatioe, whilete. Alit W. 13. TaYlor won first in the . HE CAME 13Y FREIGHT.. jas. Tucker,' chairman of the pulpit supply committee of the Bap- tist church, . expected- Mr. Forward who Was to. preach en Sunday to -ar- rive on the 6.20 train on Saturday evening last from Preeten, and was at the :station to meet him., But, Mr, A'orward did not pen areive. nor by •the 1-1.20 train either which put Mr. Tucker' in a quandary for most un- expectedly there were three services to fill without any visible supply. However,' he was up bright and early next morning and atter trying fe vain to reach a eouple ot outside laces by telephone he hustled around nd managed to secure a supply for the local pulpit and as for the Auburb service there seemed to be nothing for it but take it. him.self. To this he had tried to reconcile him- self and had just settled dOwn to pre- pare a ssermen when to his great olief in walked ForWard. The reverend gentleman had an experience. He missed his train at Berlin, but rather than disappoint those who were expecting him he had made his way through on a freight train which was all night on the road. and .did not arrive. in Clinton until seven o'clock Sunday morning and he had breakfasted at one of the hotels before making his way to Mr. Tuck- er's. It was a tiresome trip and though he was very weary, Nit. von - ward's discourses in Clinton morning and eVening and in Auburn in -the afternoon were greatly appreciated by all .who heard them. Neat Sunday evening Mr. For - Ward's address will be especially for oung ladies, his subject to be "Young Omen teed their 'Work in the ()rid." WORST IN 20 YEARS.. • . Mr. A. Case came over from' his 'home in Rose, New York State, on Friday laet awl .remained, until Tues day 'a. m. The object of his 'tisit was to size up the apPle situation' and after. a two days drive he .arriv- ed -at the cella/sin that there are not 1000 bushels m of evaporator' eek within a fiveemile radius of Clielun. From close observation he formed.the same epinion ot. the district con riguous to both Seaforth eta 1 • Mit- chell and the resultht Pc.t. attempt to operate his evaporators in any e of those places, In his tWenty Yehrs experience . in this 'county'. hr says he never before sate the • bi- 'chards sra bare. Dow: -at Dr: vibe and Milton there is some stock so he win be able to 'run his evaporators: there for a, time. . Spea,king of the crop at. large- Mr. (ease said to rm, .i.-Reearl that in. the fruit belt in. Northern Nelw York there will be a hall crop • of apples and -a' fell one of oracles aod peeps. Michigan there is a light crop or: apples, but in Oregon. and Washington they :are fairly good. £he -trade is looking to British Columbia wheee. the output • is large. While Mr, Case is not given to giv- ing unsolicited advice., he would like 10 emphasize the importance of clean- ing up the orchards, pruning-. and. spraying. He instanced a •ninaber -of caeca within , his personal knowledge where, the owners. . of comparatively small fruit farms netted from three thousand to six thousand dollars a year, 'and, Mr. Case- added, "I doe't know where on the same investment:• they could have cleared up so much money," On these farms. the trees were carefully pruned, sprayed sever- al times during the season and the. p ground kept worked ' up, not ploughed a deep but harrowed frequently, Mr. :Case spoke of orchard meetings which he attended recently whe, e lustrations were made of the efteet of spraying. Trees which bed 1, per, sprayed three times looked healthier and were better pro he era than those which had been sprayed Onlytwice, twice, and still better thee those m which had hetet still ore pit ly sprayed ar not at all. lir else said that it is now the prat flee among. the est orchardists to pull off ap- ples from trees which are too heay- ly laden. I3y doing ibis tine trees bear the following year, t.i sbott here es a continuous atop. As the local evaporator will iot e operated this fall Mr. artd Mrs. 1ase and blaster Fred. will riot be itizens of Clinton tor the net four onths as has been their custom for ears past. Apart from business eon- iderations this Is a source of regret. o the many in tawn and vieinity 11' Ito have come to know and esteem laa this Wor4by family, THE HOME PAPER Personals. Mies H.. Kennedy- is visiting her h ther in Detroit. Miss Marion Irwin is visiting frie In London this week. Mr. C. Kitty has been added to staff of the Molsons Bank. Mrs. Roht. .Sweet and family visi Exeter friends the past week. Ale. Ted Pearson of Detroit hasb engaged as baker by Mr. Agnew, Miss. Vina Bell of Exeter was guest of the Missee jen nniso s Miss May East is again, on duty the postoftice after a pleasant th weeks' holiday. Miss FPorence Garrett has gone o --visit to her sister, Mrs. J. Ri mond of Morrie. Miss Mary Brownlee arrived Ir Hamilton yesterday and is a gu at Mr. 1-liram III?Ps. Mr, Thas. Sheppard has return from a pleasant visit of some wee with his daughter at Merlin. Mr, and Mrs. J. Richmond of Mo rls visited et the bane of Mr, a Mrs. J. <1. Mc'dd on Sunday. Mr, and Mre. E, Finch and land and'AIre and Mrs. Jas, Finch spe Sunday with Brussels friends, Mr. and Mns. 11. Pennabaker, Mi Edna and Master Frank spent Su day with frienes in Benmiller. Mr. Ray Ford of Strathroy is spen ing a voaple of weeks with his pa exits, Mr. and Mrs. John Ford. Councillor and Mrs. Mason return On Ttuaelay from a- month's very pleasant visit at Romelo, Mich, Arise Daisy Doherty returns today team Toronto where slie has Mao taking ,her art 'specialist exAmin/i- t : • - Miss Watkins and Mrs. John ,Wat-kin Visited Ale. and Ales, Ilarry Coe ins, in Flint, Miele, a few days the east week. Mrs. Walter 1$ ing ret neared yestercla 'atter a pleasant visit with her so NVelland. She also 'visited Ni gara Falls and: other points of in tarest. Mrs. C. G. Middleton alit and her. :two Sonsi' Robert and George, (iod- erieli township, left yesterday for low days visit with her aunt i ('hatham. • : • Mr, 1). Chaff bas taken the Irwin: house .0!) MO Street for a few months until his own is ready for occupancy :and the family are .mo.e ing in this week. Mrs. W, Graham spent. a couple of days with Brucefieloi friends :last week. She was accoMpanied by her nephew, Master Higgins, who is staying there for a while. ,Juitor. and Weis Pearl wen over to Del reit on •Saturday. former raturned on :Alondae, but the latter is amaki-ng somewhat ' longer slay with friend's . there. Among -those who took he the Sarnia and Detroit esactirsion en , Friday lest were : Aire. Ed. Cook, Ala and Mrs.„Whittingliame-11; G.' Wart -area, John Ginn and JohnSmitb. . Mr, Neil Meleaehern, the new-aelence -leacher in the, Collegiate, eX- peeled. to arrive from Midland this wtak, Ile • has rented Mr. and. Mts. S. 8- Cooper's handsome resideece —furnished, . Alia and Alia. R.: J. Smith of Burk's Falls, who have recently returned -Irma a trip to the Old Land. are visiting their daughter, Mrs. la We Cutler of town.'Alr, Smith, travell- ed throughthis part about forta- five years agoa but. Clinton. has changed .so much in that time; that he says he eannot see any of .the old. places, that used to he, • Inh hill, daughter of Mr, .1. W. 11111 of Oxbow, Sask., has been stn- eesaftil in ebtaining a 'second-elass certificate and her brother Bert has passed his junior matriculaa .tion. The. fatally lived in Chilean 'until a few years ago and numerous Wends here are interested in- their welfare and will he pleased to teat. of -the above -mentioned results. . Mr. and MN. A. P. Gundry lett yos- terday . for their new home at Strathroy atter a four years' resit denee in Clinton. They have .ntim- r ensue friends here who white. story - t� See them take their departure cordially will them every. sticeess and happiness tie the years to come. Ae a disciplinarian and. teacher Mr. Gundry has vety few suPeriors and his resignation as principal of the Collegiate. was a decided loss to that institution. Mr. and Alra. A, E. Moore of Winni- peg, who have been viaiting the mother, Festers and brother of the former in town for the past few weekse. left on Friday for their home. Mr. Moore was considerably exercised during his holiday - over the discovery of the robbery of the law firm in Winnipeg of which le is a member, of several thousand dol- lars by a clever. teick, The swindle was discovered by the, bank, the swindler caught and most of tier money recovered. Messrs. W. Jackson, J. Fair, J. W. . Shaw and R. J. Buckley of Cleve- land, the- latter the first men- tioned's. guest. were invited to attend a moneter picnic in Strat- ford yesterday and when they arrived were pressed into sarviee as judges in a baliy show, in which 137 infantscompeted for two prizes. Tt was a big undertaking for tour lone men, but they fatally made some sort of a decision and estaped. Mr. and Mes. R. J. Buckley of Cleve- land, Ohio, and Miss Pope of Rel- en•a, MOntana, are guests Of Mr. and Afre. W. JaekSort. rat - nth the tett ecu the ver .in ree n -a eh - 0111 est ed. ks r - rid ly nt. SS d- r - eel a. 11 ONE OF THE PIONEER MINISTERS OF CANA- DIAN METHODISM. REV. HENRY A. NEWCOMBE. he ,. majority of News-Recor readers -the .ebove..• line photograym will need :no . introduction 'hat a ill b at .once recognizellas that of neec our most venerable and most genera ly aespeeted citizezie, Rev. Henry Newcombe, Alf. Newcombe has . bee a resident of Clinton for nigh on to score.of years and during .that tim has won the esteem of the whole ode inunity. ..So general is. thet.. esteen that we feel sure a billet sketi,h o thelite of one of the early' Melba:11s missionaries wiPi prove of interest dot only to the adherents cf tha t church, but to the Majority of taut- ers. . 'Alt. -Newcombe 1. a:Inatire , onehire, • England,: having been hnrr in the parish ef Belkworthy, r near the town of I lay town, • - seventy- seven yeara ago. ms .parents were Anglicans; .his. failee being a. very strict and somewhat Opted. church man, and he wee strictly reared in that Church. When he was a meru. boy he Began to -attend 'services held 111 the• vicinity of his hone ' by: the, Bible Christian and, beinga- 'serious-, minded . youth, was inuela impressed and at. the age of fifteen years' he un- ited with that body: Ms. lather ta.as Much :opposed te such a step and at. Mime the opposition was at tittles almost' too strong to resietbut felt called to engage actively' itaChrie- tiatt -work and as helpers. Were few there was plenty to do. Before the age, of eighteen he was. working as an evangelist and - exhorter ; busy ;earning his living by day and preeelie • ing and holding public ineetlegse.... in company wi tit other workees, in the evenings. During all this ,tiiine helmet an idea • of becoming an . English church elergyman ; 11 was not his desire to desert:the church of his fathers', but the way dig not opoi and he' had neither thee:time or the amens to devete. to the gaining of the nee- ceSary, education. 'For four years he worked as a local preacher aed eic- hoitcr, when he petered the regular work -us a ,probattoner. For aix.years ' -his probation :last -ed during ,which eenger; .11,1r. Newcombe being the onl can - passenger, and en one o easaon the storm was so fierce tha the vaptain came to Air. Newcomb e- t and, though he had been 'Ort the most friendly terms With his .one cabin pas- senger and had allowed. the • young missionary to hold seryice ' on deck far the crew, ho said that- there was something wrong ;- that he had made the trip =fly times but had never eneotaaered atich weather, and he -thought there :must be -a Jonah on-, board and he -proposed to cast lots• to eta who it was. Mr. 'Newcombe said they might drew lots if they pleased but that he would-havc noth- ing to de with, it. ale said that per sonally he was not afraid a that the (kid whom he served had called him.: (o work. on Prince. Edwardis., Island and to that Island he was going.. L. were cast 'md it If11 upon tin captain, who at- onee -subsided ' • and hall nothing more to say about Jonah; ancl the • Island *as reached in :safety. For -six years Me. Newcombe labored there,' preaching and. organizing. -1110 was the -means- of • having the first sehool house beat and -a :teacher se- cured on the first mission he was ap- pointed to. Churches were built, so- ciet ies were: Organized: and- new siong were opened, the Missionaries sharing the hardships and living the hives 'of the people, The way then - opened for his •coreing do Canada, first circuit was Tweede, a pcor cir- - • cuit suth scarcelya house fit to live in • and no. furniture, to which hL brought his young wife, whom:he had married shortly before and who dur- ing all his minieteey proved herself to be a true helpmate, sharing his, trials and .privations with cheerful (entrap, assisting hint in many way in. hia..work, • eseiecially by ,her giltof song. Mrs:: Newcombe' was Called .to the better country some five years ago. Mr.Newcombe .atterwarde travelled the circuits of Tweede, Ferielob. Elimyalo, Dear - ham . Centre, Wiarton, Hawks - vine, Tiverton . and Ethel. Ow - ng to the lit -health of his wife ante to' his own failing strength ‚Mr. New- combe was .obliged, though. reltittant- Y, . 10 seperanpate, alieut eighteen,. years• ago, since 'whica lime he has resided in Clinton and 111 mein • eat, aceeively engaged in the wore, . o r. tames .to take .a keen interest tn. alt matters pertaining to his Maata's, kingdom. Mr. Newcombe tells Malty an int eta • estipg story of 1118 adventures as Methodist preacher in the early days. On one occasion while on the Island he had to (Inlec several miles to hotel some especial meeting. 1 -le found that the road was impassable so decided to cross- a small arm of St. Peter's Bay an the ice, a distance of about nine miles:. A friend, on being infor- med of his intention said, you'd better not stop for the ice not strong enough to carry and if' you stop you'll go through." bIt'.. Neweombe started, and said that . though the ice swayed under the weight of the horse and cutter+, he got Mang alright until be came to an open space and there was nothing to do but jump, so he said to hist trusty pony, "Now, nem. my gat, you'll have to jump 1" and she did, clearing the open space and taking him in gaiety to his jourbey's end. At Another time, when driving the Continued on .col. 4 page 5. Unto he preached as assistant dif- ferent charges ; attended a. college open for the education of the young Iministerof that faith and 'picked up whatever knowledge he • could from different sources ; one of las tutors being a Presbyterian, - or Independent, as they wen' then called, minister. The superintendant of the B. O. col- lege, Where Mr. Newcoinbe received his education; Rev, .Jas, Thorne, was, judging from some incidents related of him, a man well qualified to bring out the, latent, talents of the young men 'tinder his charge. "A splendid man arid a great preacher," was the way his old pupil .summed up his character. After a timbal -inn extending over six years, the subject Of this sketch was ordained a regular minister of the Bible Christian church. Just at that time there was an urgent cal? for men to come to Canada, and Mr. Newcombe was asked to come, He dict not feel the call to Canada, he saki, but offered himself for work in Prince E.dward'f, -Wand. Tmluediately the (laity came, "How soon can you be ready ?" and, like a soldier, be re- sponded to the call and in a very few weeks he had bidden farewell to home and friends :and native land and was bound for the Island. Ile sailed direct from Liverpool for the Island an a sara'ng vessel. The voyage last- ed six weeks and sorrel terrific storms were eticounkred during the trip. There was but one other pas - 1 • Additional Local News col. 4 page 5,