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40 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, July 31, 1919
Mr. and Mrs. George Roberto")
and Master Kenneth took in the
Old Boys' Reunion at Brussels
(hie week.
George McLennan received
news that his half-brother, Dr.
R. .1, Gibson, has passed away.
Dr. Gibson was born in Stanley
Township and settled at the Soo
in 1893.
Jack Yesbee, who has been re-
siding in Tillsonburg, is back to
spend the month of August in
Clinton.
Miss Frances Reynolds, Sea-
forth, formerly of Clinton, has
completed her Normal School
studies and is engaged to teach in
the Separate Grade School. at
Timmins, at a salary of $900. Miss
Mary Reynolds goes to Moncton
for the coming term.
40 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, July 31, 1919
Alex. and John Butler have
purchased the tools, and appurten-
ances of the butchering business
of the late John Scruton and in-
tend opening up a butchering
business in his old stand on, Hu-
ron Street. Butler Bros. have not
been in town long, having recent-
ly returned from overseas.
Richard Fisher, who was oper-
ating a binder on the farm of E.
Mittell, just east of town, was
thrown onto the table of the ma-
chine and had his back somewhat
injured. The horses ran some dis-
tance before coming to a halt in
a wire fence and the binder was
completely demolished.
Miss Kate Lovett has purchas-
ed Mrs. Campbell's house on Mill
Street and will get possession
next month.
Miss Norma Treleaven, Clin-
ton, took the highest marks in
the inspectorate in the High
School Entrance exams, with 678
marks out of a total of 750.
Walter Rathwell, who has been
visiting his parents in town, Mr.
and Mrs. E. Rathwell, since re-
turning from overseas, left Mon-
day for Geanci Prairie, Alberta,
where he has a homestead.
Harvest Help Excursion: $12 to
Winnipeg. 1/2 cent per mile be-
yond.
Sitting on the front steps on a
summer night, listening to the
robins thrashing around in my
cedar-cum-maple hedge, I got to
wondering why in the world they
don't make summers the way they
used to.
* * *
The summers these days are not
as long, they're not as hot, they
don't smell as good, and perhaps
worst of all, they don't sound the
same. 'And that's not nostalgia
for something that's gone. It's
true.
* * *
Why thirty years ago, I did
more in one day in the summer
than I do in a week now. The
days were twice as long, There
were interminable games of base-
ball to be played. There was The
Sandpit to visit. There were suck-
ers to be caught and sold for two
cents a pound to the ancient and
honourable Jew who bought all
our merchandise.
• * *
There was gardening and other
work to be avoided, which took a
lot of time and ingenuity. There
was swimming for hours, until
your lips turned blue, the sign it
was time to quit. There was
smoking to be done at The Cave,
with swiped tobacco wrapped in
Toilet paper. There were kids to
fight.
* *
Don't tell me kids are the same
to-day, I know better. Oh, they-
're fine, if they're playing some
ball that some service club has
organized for them, They're hap-
py enough if they're having their
supervised swimming. But the
rest Of the day, they just loll
around, whining that there's no-
thing to do and waiting for their
poor, bedraggled father to come
home front work, so he call take
them swimming, or to the Drive-
In, or anywhere, as long as they-
're being entertained.
4, 4*
And take summer evenings.
They used to be long and warm
and leisurely, full of a deep peace
and contentrnent, They Were
quiet. They smelled good.
4+ 41 4,
In the evenings, the men would
smoke their pipes on the veran•
dab; they would water their
lawns with relaxed concentration;
they would go to the ball game
25 YEARS AGO
CLINTON leleVVS-RECORD
Thursday, August 2, 1934
Some excitement was caused at
the Huron County Home when it
was discovered, at three o'clock
Sunday morning, that the attic
was on fire. Mrs. Jacob was a-
wakened by a crackling sound
and, on opening a door leading to
the attic, which is immediately
beside her own bedroom door,
saw flames leaping to the ceiling.
The blaze which was supposed to
have been started by faulty wir-
ing, was controlled by the chem-
ical appliances always kept on
hand in the institution.
A surprise shower was held at
the home of Mrs. Forrester in
honor of Miss Ruth Pickett, who
leaves shortly to begin her train-
ing in Victoria Hospital, London.
Traffic Officer Norman Lever
is in Clinton Public Hospital with
a badly fractured leg and other
injuries, sustained when his mo-
tor cycle left the road and ran
through a fence on the Dashwood
road, While chasing a speeding
car in pursuit of his duties ,the
cycle struck loose gravel and
went out of control.
10 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, July 28, 1949
Fresh from Herne Bay, Kent,
England, Pauline Honoria Hol-
land arrived in London, Ontario,
by plane to be greeted by relativ-
es and friends. 'She is the only
daughter of Mrs. Norman Fitz-
simons, Clinton, and they had not
seen each other for three years.
Pauline's elder brother Pat was
killed in the Italian campaign
during World War II, while an-
other brother (Ronald) is a mem-
ber of the London (England) Pol-
ice Force.
J. George McLay, manager of
the Royal Bank of Canada, Clin-
ton, was the lucky winner of the
Dodge club coupe given as the
major prize at the third annual
Bayfield Lions Carnival.
Despite early difficulties, an
Old Home Week is assured for
Clinton to celebrate the 75th an-
niversary of the incorporation of
the municipality as a town next
year. Indicating the interest
shown is the comment of Isaac
Rattenbury, Peterboro, grandson
of the original founder of Clinton,
the late William Rattenbury, and
now an oil executive: "I'll be
there with a gang of oldtimers if
I have to crawl."
with their sons and walk home
through the dusk. beneath the
lush maples, content.
*
In the evenings the women
would putter in their gardens,
they would sit and rock their ba-
bies on the verandah; they would
make vast pitchers of iced lemon-
ade; they would sit and talk the
endless, simple, complex talk of
women, content.
Al * *
In the evenings, the children
would persue their eternal games
of Hide and Seek, Red Light, and
Run Sheep Run; they would res-
pond reluctantly to their mothers'
hooting on the third call; they
would stagger upstairs, suddenly
exhausted, and limp as wet to-
wels, fall into bed, content.
* * *
Nowadays, summer evenings,
like everything else, are short,
snappy and cool. Father wants to
go golfing. The kids are deter-
mined on a swim. Mother is bound
she wants the car to go visiting.
By the time the fight is over, so is
the evening, and they disgruntled-
ly do nothing, except all stay up
too late. * *
Remember the sounds of a sum-
mer evening, each with its special
meaning—comforting, exciting or
romantic—in the warm, still air?
The lazy chatter of a man-pushed
lawnmower; the rythmic smack of
ball on glove as two kids played
catch; the cries froth the bowling
green, muffled in the velvet night. * * *
And when the darkness came,
and the night grew quieter: the
Murmur of voices from the Ver-
andahs; the uneven click of heels
on sidewalks as lovers ambled
home from the movies; the squeak
Of a hammock swinging on the
next porch; the lonely whistling
of a lonely youth; the thin strains
Of a gramophone. * * *
These sounds, each with an inti-
mate meaning, have been replaced
by the steel of the power mower;
the roar of ears rushing nowhere
in particular; the Scream of tires
and shriek of brakes; the blotting
of jukebox or television. They
are not sounds, but noises. * * *
On second thought, maybe it's
not tumbler that has become lot
pleasant, Maybe it's" society.
SICK MAN NEEDS EurENRs
Dear Friend and Editor;
I have been very ill and pract-
ically bed ridden for over 12
years, however ,the last six yaers
unable to lie down, must sit up
all the time, asleep and awake,
else choke to death, It is that
definite,
Was a missionary in the worst
slum area of Philadelphia when
I became ill. Left my sick bed to
officiate at the funeral of a
Spanish woman, whom I did not
know, resulting in a relapse and
beginning of all these many years
of suffering and, privation.
Have very much pain, always a
struggle to get air into my lungs.
Been in four hospitals and clinics.
Doctor's agree that my condition
FOUND COW
Clinton News-Record.
Dear Sirs:
We enjoyed the poem "A New
Cow" in your July 2 issue. I
couldn't resist sending in this
poem I wrote. Have always en-
joyed the News-Record, keep up
the good work.
Yours truly,
MRS. WISE.
"There is a cow like that quite
ar. But nteoo.ur hearts we don't hold
dear.
The only thing that's wrong with
her,
She holds her milk back most
of the year.
We tug and pull at her all nite,
And then again in dawn's new
light.
We play sweet music in her ear,
And try to coax the milk down
here.
I'm sure the cow would be for
sale,
And would let milk down in a
pail.
She is just the cow you'd like,
And if you treated her just right,
She'd probably milk all through
the week.
And just at her production peak,
Would dry up for that weekend
span,
And then on Monday start again.
You have no feeding problem now,
Just turn her loose up in the
mow.
We'd gladly even trade her now,
For one good, steady milking
Cow,
0
There is no way in which some
people can gain from government-
giving without other suffering
from government-taking.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
ROY N. BENTLEY
Public Accountant
GODERICH, Ontario
Telephone 1011 Box 478
45-17-b
RONALD G. McCANN
Public Accountant
Office and Residence
Rattenbury Street East
Phone HU 2-9677
CLINTON, ONTARIO
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OPTOMETRY
J. E. LONIASTAFF
Hours;
Seaforth: Daily except Monday &
Wednesday-9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 9 a.rn. to 12.30 p.m.
Thursday evening by appoitnment
only,
Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard-
ware—Mondays only-9 a,m. to
5.30 p.m.
Phone HUnter 2-7010 Clinton
PHONE 791 SEAFORTH
O. B. CLANCY
Optometrist — Optician
(successor to the late A, L.
Cole, optometrist)
For appointment phone 33,
Goderich
REAL ESTATE
LEONARD G. WINTER
Real Estate and Business :Broker
MO Street -- Clinton
Phone IIU 2-4692
HAIR DRESSING
CHARLES HOUSE OF BeseefTV
Cold Waves, Cutting, and
Styling
King &to Clinton Ph, HU 42-7065
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One Norway St., Boston 15, Mass.
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is not asthma, not contagious,
Am collecting all kinds of pos
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Many thanks for your kindnes
and compassion. Best wishes.
Sincerely,
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PO Box 721,
Reading, Pa., USA,
July 18, 1959.
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for one year, I enjoy reading
paper very much,
Sincerely,
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Pembroke Parish,
Bermuda,
July 23, 1959.
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Phone HU 2-9857
Co-operators Insurance
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K. W. COLQUHOUN
INSURANCE and REAL ESTAT
Representative:
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Phones:
Office HU 2-9747; Res, HU 2-755
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Phone Blyth 78
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Ontario Automobile Association,
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Wind Insurance
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Read Office: Seaforth
Officers 19158: President, Rob,
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Jeffery, Seeferth.
Directors: John. II Metwing
Robert Archibald; Chris. Lem
hatdt, Bortnholm; E. J. 'Mtwara%
Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, W'al,
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vey Puller, Goderich; B. Pepper
Brucefield; Alistair I3readfoot
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(By W. (Bill) B. T, Smiley)
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The first aid kit and insurance both
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event of .accidents.
Each year, the companies writing
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Canada pay out more than ninety
minim dollars (not including Into-
mobile accident costs) to policy-.
holders—a mighty bulwark against
unusual financial Strain,
It is far better, though, to prevent
accidents and mishaps, rather than to
deal with the treatment of their ser,
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That is why insurance companies
are constantly seeking ways to stem
Canada's mounting accident toll.
Safety pays dividends . . sauce
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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1959
HOUSES ON THEIR WAY
BEARING THE fine-sounding title of Broad-
view Acres, a small section of the Andrews farm
in Clinton is soon to become Clinton's first ex-
periment in government financing of rental
housing. Both federal and provincial govern-
ments are sharing the cost with the town in
putting up a dozen housing units.
A housing authority composed of local resi-
dents has been appointed and their responsibility
will be to see that the needs of the renters
and the good of the investors in the project, are
administered properly.
All over Clinton new homes are springing
up. Basements are appearing where only long
WE'RE M OVING quickly now into what has
been one of the worst of the "long weekends"
for which many workers look forward to as a
holiday time—but which policemen and hospital
personnel have come to know, means accident
time.
There are few accidents on the highways
of our nation which are not caused by negli-
gence, or speed on the part of someone. We
THERE ARE now several hundred thousand
Canadians working for government, paid out of
taxes. pf these, nearly 200,000 are employees
of the federal government, while the remainder
are shared between the provinces and muni-
cipalities.
Many people have an easy answer to the
increase in government staffs. It is that since
our population is increasing, it is not unreason-
able that the number of civil servants should
rise, too.
But, while our population has gone up by a
third in the last ten years, the number of civil
servants is nearly 50 per cent greater.
Professor Parkinson's celebrated law (that
government departments multiply staffs much
"IF I HAVE helped you to feel proud of
being a Canadian, if I have reminded you of
the strength which comes from unity and if I
have helped to draw your attention to the
grass and weeds were before. Lots which have
been vacant or used as gardens are being con-
verted into sites for homes.
Our town is growing as never before—and it
seems that there is no let-up to the need for
good housing accommodation. As long as fam-
ilies who work in town, or at Station Clinton,
have to go as far afield as Goderich, Wingham
and Exeter, to find a place to live, then Clinton
does not have enough homes.
The early promise of action in regard to the
new government project is encouraging, and is
indicative of a healthy growth within our town,
which will gradually accommodate all those who
wish to make their homes with us.
firmly believe that if every driver were to use
the commonsense he is endowed with, there
would be a great reduction in car accidents,
Let's make this Civic Holiday a true holi-
day time. Take the pains to be doubly careful—
be careful of your own car, and careful enough
to make up for the other driver's carelessness.
Get home safely from your trip this week-
end.
faster than the work they produce) is clearly
well exemplified here! And the trend, if any-
thing, is becoming more and more pronounced.
The government colossus (and our tax-burden)
grows ever greater.
Where, one wonders, will it all end? There
are five times as many employees on the federal
government payroll as there were 20 years ago.
How great an increase will there be by the
time 1979 rolls around?
There is, of course, the bare possibility that
someone will, in the meantime, insist on arrest-
ing the growth of this Frankenstein monster.
Wholesale firings would not be necessary. It
would be enough to stop filling the vacancies
that result from retirements and departures.
—Industry
bright vision of the years ahead, I shall feel
well satisfied, because I believe with all convic-
tion that this country can look forward to a
glorious future" . Her Majesty Queen Eliza-
beth II, Dominion Day broadcast, July 1, 1959.
REAL HOLIDAY TIME
PARKINSON'S LAW
QUOTE OF THE MONTH