Clinton News-Record, 1959-09-24, Page 2SUGAR a SPICE
(By W, (BM) B. T. Smiloy)
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aapaNTON NEWS.F,ECORD THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1.959 ,P,4Wig TWO
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Clinton News-Record From Our Early Files
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THE cLINTON NEW ERA THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Amalgamated 1924
pobiished every Thursday at the
Heart .of Huron county
Clinton, Ontario Population 3,000
A. L. POLQUHQUN, Publisher
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WILMA Editor (IF
get the cellar cleaned up and the
coal in, and we'd be in. business.
"Which hotel", she enquired, her
breath wreathing into the kitchen
air like cigar smoke, "are we go,
log to stay in until then?" We
have two hotels in town so I was
in a quandary. Not to mention a
pickle,
It seems to me that about this
time last year, I wrote a tender,
lyrical column, practically an ode,
about September. The golden,
lingering days; the cool, haunting
evenings; the farewell fling at the
trout; the last, crisp game of golf;
old Mother Nature lying, volup-
tuous, amid the fruits of her
labour, Yas, September is the
most delightful month of the year,
I burbled.
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Boyea,
BrucefieIcl, in a ceremony conduc-
ted by the Rev. I. B. Haire, First
Presbyterian Church, .Seaforth.
Mr. and Mrs. A. alaady, Toron,
to, are moving into Mrs. R. Mar-
shall's house on William Street,
Clinton, being a central point for
Mr. Hadltba who is a traveller,
'Mr. and Mrs, H. W. Ambler
and Master Bernard, Pontiac,
Mich., are visiting at the home of
the lady's pareats, Mr. and. Mra.
H. E. Rorke.
Mr. and Mrs. G. VanHorne and
Miss Madelaine VanHorne return-
ed after a fortnight's holiday at a
summer cottage near Port Elgin,
* * *
I did everything in my power to
cheer up that old gang of mine.
Songs, witty sayings, funny faces.
Philosophy, like "you should be
glad you don't have to suffer like
this all the time, like the folks in
Russia." I rushed out and borrow-
ed two electric heaters. I turned
on all burners and the oven in the
electric stove, I even turned on
all the lights in the house.
* * *
It was hopless. They just sat
there, hands tucked in their arm-
pits, looking like three penguins
and a seal pup sitting on an ice
floe. I went 'to work with my
tail between my legs and the bats
of panic in my belfry. It was
worse at lunch hour. While I
bustled around, getting hot soup,
the kids rubbed their hands to-
gether and told about how warm
it had been in school, and my wife
dragged from me the confession
that we had a fire on at the of-
fice.
* *
I won't go into all the sordid
details: how I pleaded with people
to put up my pipes; how I begged
the harassed coal merchant to get
me a couple of bags down to the
house; how I rigged up a make-
shift to get the furnace going.
It's all too humiliating.
* *
That's why, if you ever hear me
singing any paeans of praise to
September, ever again, I want you
to push me, gently but firmly, in
front of a speeding hot-rod.
INDIAN SUMMER?
• * *
Well, I take it all back. You
can 'take September, and if the
ladies will leave the room for a
moment, I'll tell you exactly what
you can de with it.
* * *
This September has scarred me
for life, and has also clipped a
few years from my alloted span of
same. What happened? I got
caught with my pipes down. * *
On Septeniber 9, it was 90 de-
grees in our upstairs, and we all
lay around on our beds, naked as
newts, gasping and calling for
water, On September 1.4, it was
44 in our upstairs. The kids lay
moaning with cold under heaps of
blankets, Downstairs Playboy
howled with chill. And in our bed,
the Old Lady and I, swaddled in
flannelette pyjamas, clutched each
other, a hot water bottle, and the
hope that a miracle would happen
and the heat wave would be back
in the morning,
* *
September is an irresponsible,
treacherous harlot of a month,
with a big, phoney, warm smile
that hides a heart of solid cold. * *
Oh, it isn't as though I didn't
realize that fall and the cool
weather were on the way. Sun-
days, as I lay on the lawn, several
times my mind had drifted around
to the backyard, where my furn-
ace pipes lay, soaking up the sun..
I'd even contacted the repair man
to come and take on that dragon
In my cellar, that emits sparks
and roars when approached. My
stoker, that is.
• * *
I had even, while fighting the
heat wave with a refreshing drink,
said to myself firmly: "Must get
at the cellar and get last winter's
ashes out so I can get the coal in
early this year, Don't want the
coal truck driving over the lawn
when it's all soft from those fall
rains. Better get that broken
window in the living room fixed,
too. Things are going to be dif-
ferent this year."
* * *
So you see, it isn't as though
I wasn't fairly well prepared, But
I didn't expect my old sweetheart,
September, to put me over a bar-
rel, pull the rug from under my
feet, lower the boom on me, and
stab me in the back, all in one
fell swoop.
* *
I thought the old Girl was going
to commit either suicide or murd-
er, that first morning after the
mercury had taken its swan dive.
I explained to her that everything
was practically ready to turn on
the heat, that all I had to do was
get the pipes cleaned and put up,
get the man to fix the furnace, and
10 YEARS AGO
speckled hen who sits on the nest, watching
and blinking and thinking. A cat digs her
paws into a rug and pulls against them in a
long stretch, stares balefully at the world through
yellow eyes and dozes.
"Cellars and attics are cleaned out, and debris.
sits on top of the refuse cans at the curb. A girl
going out on a date is told by her mother: "Bet-
ter wear a coat." From kindergarten, the first
little drawings are brought home to mother. A
man mows a lawn and mutters: "Positively the
last time."
That is part of it, and Mr. Bishop goes on,
. ending with:
"In the deep woods, the colors make drunk
the eyes. It is a season of plumage and death.
The sweet season . . . "
NO, IT SEEMS too early for that delightful
time of year. Some time in October seems more
likely.
However, this lovely weather can not be
enjoyed without talking about it a little. Jim
Bishop puts it much better than we can:
"The sweet season is coming. This will be
the best. The rivers flow quiet and cold and fat
fish fracture the wet mirror. Wild •ducks break
bomber formation to come down in the tall
reeds. The summer anger of the sun has mel-
lowed and it comes up over the blue veils of
morning mist to give the milkman a long shadow.
It is a time for sleeping.
"The breeze is cool and it sweeps the leaves
into little whirling bowls of cornflakes. The
pheasant cock scratches the ground, ruffles his
feathers, and begins his mating dance for a
HOPE IT'S NOT DEAD
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, September 25, 1919
The beautiful bouquet of glad
ioli in A. T. Cooper's window was
presented by Mr. Hartrey, Sea-
forth, to Miss Cuninghame, one of
the enthusiastic members of our
local horticultural society. Miss
Cuninghame generously passed
them on to the various churches
of town to serve as floral decora-
tions last Sunday. Mr. Hartrey
is president of the Ontario Horti-
cultural Society.
Charlie Thompson left for To-
ronto where he will take a course
in telegraphy.
Edgar McQuire is in hospital,
recovering from an operation for
appendicitis.
Principal Treleaven has been
the recipient of numerous mess-
ages of congratulation on the suc-
cess of the Collegiate Institute,
Huron county schools have again
shown their high standing by the
record of students in the honor
and scholarship examinations of
Toronto Univeralty,
aaaa alpe,
course at the exit from Highway 21 north of
Goderich toward Sky Harbour Airport. It is
quite possible that this defect will be remedied
when the new highway is put through, but some-
thing should be done even now to help the situa-
tion. Perhaps if the traffic were not permitted
to make a left hand turn into the Airport at the
south entrance, but had to continue round the
curve to the other entrance, the danger would
be avented. At present though, the corner is a
bad one.
And of course, when talking about street
markings, we can come back to Clinton and con-
sider the street name signs. These are now three
months overdue in being erected, but the council-
lors are this week providing volunteer labour
to get them painted, and probably they will be
erected soon, now.
AT RISK of belabouring a dead horse, we
intend to comment again on the matter of
proper markings on roads at certain places
locally.
For instance, we continue to feel that there
should be a blinker light at the corner of High-
way 84 and 4 (the Hensall intersection), and
that presence of such a light would help im-
measurably in stopping the accidents which occur
very often at that corner. We have recently
come to the conclusion that there should be a
double white line throughout the length of Hens-
all, where it is crossed by Highway 4. The swift
highway traffic is bad enough, but when pass-
ing is permitted there, in addition to having no
special "stop" markers along Highway 84, then
a very dangerous condition arises.
Another bad corner we have noted, is, of
USE THEM
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Health Unit Warns
About Rabies 0.0
1. Radies continues to be reported
in Huron County.
2. Wildlife authorities confirm art
increase in the fox population
of the province.
3. A resurgence of rabies this fall
and winter is very likely.
4. Continued co-operation of all
municipalities and individuals
is needed.
5, Report all suspected cases of
animal rabies to your veterin-
arian or the Health of Ani-
mals office, Seaforth,
6. If a human should suffer in-
jury by a possibly rabid ani-
mal, promptly wash the wound
or place of exposure with soap
and water. Consult your physi-
cian. Notify the Health Unit,
Goderich. Confine the animal
under veterinary supervision
for at least 14 days. Avoid
shooting or destroying such an
animal if at all possible,
25 YEARS AGO are former residents here. They have been off
for a four year stint to Europe, or the west
coast or the far north, and now they're back
home. They'd like to do business with the people
they once knew—but if you've moved, you may
be difficult to find, Number and street will make
it easier,
And in the personal columns—we are happy
to use number and street if we have them. This
will help your friends to know where you live,
and in the case that your name is similar to
another person's, then there will be no confusion.
Let's use the numbers we worked so long to
get. Let's make use of the work done by the
kinsmen Club, and of the money you spent to
put the numbers up.
CLINTON' NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, September 27, 1934
Jimmie Reynolds, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Reynolds, had the
misfortune to break two bones in
his right arm when he fell off his
tricycle onto the sidewalk.
Iva Laurene, eldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Nott, Tucker-
smith, married Bert Russell, son
HOUSE NUMBERS have been up on all of
our buildings for nearly four months. The people
of Clinton, however, could make a lot more use
of them than they have done so far.
Since we are in the newspaper business, per-
haps the first use we think of for house numbers,
is in the classified advertising section. How much
easier in some cases, would it be to sell a used
stove, if the street and number were used instead
of, or in addition to the phone number. Especially
in the case of an apartment to rent, would the
location be handy.
Business people should make use of their
number in their display advertising as well. Some
of them have changed their location lately. Many
of the people moving into Clinton at all times, Buy The Tad A Drink
, WE OUGHT TO LEARN (By Wesley Hicks)
Nearly everyone has watched a
kid with a glass of milk, I guess.
And you have to have swift eyes
to watch a kid with a glass of
milk because it goes so fast it
seems to be inhaled.
A kid and a glass of cold milk
just seem to go together. In fact,
they get about as close as it's
possible to be, what with the milk
ending up in the kid's innards.
To us, it just doesn't seem pos-
The world is too busy to linger over your ills and
sorrows.
4. Learn to stop complaining. If you cannot
see any good in this world, keep the bad to
yourself.
5. Learn to greet your friends with a smile.
They carry too many frowns in their own hearts
to be bothered with any of yours.
—Anonymous
'THERE ARE five things in life which we
ought to learn. Here they are:
1. Learn how to laugh, A good laugh is bet-
ter than medicine. When you smile or laugh,
your brain for a moment is freed from the load
it ordinarily carries.
2. Learn to tell a helpful story. A well-told
story is as welcome as a sunbeam in a sick-room.
3. Learn to keep your problems to yourself,
sible that there are youngsters in
this whirling, blue-eyed world who
have never tasted milk, But there
are,
There are youngsters with nam-
es like Abdul or Dimitros or Tina
or Pietro or Yaza, hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of them,
who have never even seen a glass
of milk. They live in Italy, Greece,
Turkey and Egypt.
I'm telling you this, because
you, personally, can set 'em up for
a lot of those kids. You can serve
them milk as surely as though you
went to the refrigerator, filled the
glasses, and set them down before
the tads.
I'll tell you how you can do it.
It's easy.
Around November 5, a ship will
be leaving the waterfront down
here in Toronto. It will be carry-
ing at least 2,300 tons of powdered
milk, or enough to make 110,000,-
000 glasses of liquid milk.
The powdered milk isn't going
to cost a cent. In fact, you really
gave the milk in the first place,
for there are 60,000,000 pounds of
surplus milk powder in Canada.
The Government has offered to
make that milk available to re-
cognized relief agencies.
What you can do, though, is help
pay the cost of shipping the powd-
ered milk to the countries where
it's needed. Once there, it will
be distributed by CARE of Can-
ada.
It won't cost much to start the
ship on its way. For the price of
a package of cigarettes, just 36
eents, you can send enough pow-
der to make 691 glasses of milk.
For just one dollar, you provide
1,920 glasses of milk. For ten
cents, the price of a 'phone call,
you can pay the freight on enough
powder to make 192 glasses of
milk.
For five dollars, you could throw
a real big party. You could pro-
vide the equivalent of one glass
of milk for 9,600 kids. In a lot
Of ways, that's the most you're
ever going to squeeze out of a
five-dollar bill.
So that's your ship that will be
sailing from the Toronto Water-
front on November 5, You have to stoke it. It will be called The Tely
Readers' Milk Ship. That makes
it ;yours.
If you're interested, send a con-
tribution, then, to: The Tely Milk
Ship, The Telegram, Bay and
Melinda Streets, Toronto 1.
Send what you can. To some, it
Will be much, much More than
you think,
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 2-9077.
CLINTON, ONTARIO
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OPTOMETRY
40 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, September 25, 1019
The Prince of Wales and First
Edward Blake scholarships in To-
ronto University were won bY
Louis A. McKay, Clinton Collegi-
ate Institute.
Of 1.4 scholarships awarded bY
Toronto University, five came to
Huron, two to Clinton Collegiate
Institute, two to Seaforth Colleg-
iate Institute and one to Wingham
High School.
The wooden barge Chickamauga
filled and sank in Lake Huron
while downbound with a cargo of
iron ore and in tow of the steam-
er Centuron. A heavy sea was
running. A crew of ten men and
one woman was rescued after be-
ing tossed about on a life raft
and in a yawl boat for several
hours.
It costs more to get up in the
morning than it formerly did. The
"Big Ben" that formerly sold for
$3 is now retailed at $5, while
the lesser noise maker, the popu-
lar price of which was about 98c,
is now demanding $Z50.
Henry Livermore sold his fine
100 acre farm on the London
Road to John Quigley for $8,400,
40 YEARS AGO
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1959
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, September 22, 1949
Two former Clinton residents,
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Cook (nee
Margaret Schoenhals), Sarnia, are
thanking their lucky stars that
they are still living, following the
disastrous fire which swept the
SS "Noronic" in Toronto harbour.
Mr. and Mrs. Cook had got off
the boat earlier in the evening
and were visiting their niece, Mrs.
S. Basil Holloway, (nee Shirley
Nickle) who insisted that they re-
main overnight. During the night
the boat burned, with a possible
death toll of 200.
The origin of a South American
beaver, which was killed on J. A.
Sully's Rosny Farms, south of
Goderich, is a mystery. It was
first seen eating food from the dog
kennels, and the 30-pound animal
attacked one of the men who
approached it. Known as a nutria,
the animal may have been one
which strayed from a breeding
farm operated in the vicinity
some years ago.
William N. "Bill" Ball and
Royce S. Macaulay have purchas-
ed the lumber and coal business
operated by the late Victor D.
Falconer.
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Ontario Fairs On
Schedule for Fall
Sept. 25, 26
Oct, 3., 2
Oct. 9
S ept, 23, 24
Oct. 1, 2
Sept. 29 to Oct. 4
Sept. 28, 29
Sept. 28, 24
Sept. 29, 30
Sept. 24, 25
Oct. 6, 7
Sept. 24, 25
Nov. 13-21
Nov. 4, 5
Sept. 26 and 28
International Plowing Match, .„.
Wentworth County, Dundas,
October 13 to 16.
Fall Fairs in this area will be
held on the following dates:
Bayfield
Brussels
launaannain
gxeln
Kirkton
Kitchener
Listowel
Lucknow
Mitchell
Parkhill
St. Marys
Seaforth
Toronto (Royal)
Walkerton
Zurich
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Head Office: Seafortit
Officers 1958: President, Rob-
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sident, Alistair BroacIfoot, Sea-
forth; secretaryareasurer, Norma
Jeffery, Seeforth.
Directors: John H. MO.Eavina,-
Robert Atelabald; Chris. Leon-
hardt, Bornheim; E. J. Trevvattha,
Clinton; Wm, S. Alexander, Wai-
ton; 3. L. Malone, Seaforth;
veay Fuller, Goderlch; J. E. Pepper,
Brucefield; Alistair BrOadifoot,
Seafotrth,
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Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard-
ware—Mondays only-9 a.m. to
5,30 p.m.
Phone Minter 2-7010 Clinton
G. 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
nigh Street a- Clinton
Phone ITU 2-6692
HAIR DRESSING
CHARLES HOUSE OF BEAUTY
Cold Waves, Cutting, and
Styling
King St., Clinton Ph. HU 2-7005
C. D. proctor, Prop,