The Clinton News Record, 1915-07-08, Page 5I'+
July 8th, I9.I5 ,Clinton News -Record
oldiier :'�Bi l" Bezzo's 'Phil-
osophy• in the -Trenches
.� "Keep a ,Smiting and.
KeepGoing:"
T'lie following is a letter from
Wllliant Benzo, 'of the Canadian-, Ex-
•lJeditionary Force, son' of Mr.. • and
_ii4rs, Thos. Benzo of town, who has
w;bCen•wounded and is in an hospital in
France' t. - - ,,,
France, June 21st.
"Dear Father ,and .Mother -Just a
'-few line to let you. know . how I'm
getting along. _I am nr hospital. I
;heard the doctor say this morning
ethat I was beg() and I guess he is
right. It took a lot of boats to bring
us over here but it won't take ninny
'he take us back again, i guess .a
Couple of liners will be enough. Moth-
er, you remember in My last letter
where I vas talking of .not getting hit
guild I saad•I had better not boast, I
asigeod as knew then that I was go
ing to get it, I couldn't help thinking
,of it for a dap or two but as the, old.
saying is one must keep a• smile on
and keep going. I guess I had better
till you how I got` hurt. We were
all ready to make an attack on the
enemies' trenches. They had their
trenchesmined with heavy explosives
'ready to blow us: to pieces when ' we
would get in them but our engineers
put in
another oneso thatwe c'i
:Wild
'blow them o ten u i firs 1' •
i When n signal
.n t}e signal
came ire- all lay down behind the
Parapet and suddenly' we heard the
mines explode and ovet came Ger-
- mans, sand bags and big" lumps of
,earth. I was just ready to get up
' when I was struck in •the centre of
'the back and across the left hip.
They put me' under the x-rays and
the d t..
oc oi s said there were no
bonesr kP
b o -n. 4 hips ,e vert sore
-and I can't raise one leg over the'
,other but the doctor says Ell get.
:all right again. Now I must close
•'•for I cannot keep my mind on whit
I am writing. Good-hyp. Your ,'son,
BILL."
REMINISCENCES
By An Old -Time Printer.
Clinton, fifty-one years ago, was a
• Tillage of wooden buildings,, mud
,n'oacds and a weekly news -paper. The
.paper was founded by Mr. James H.
Kelly of Kenlpville, and was named
tthe "Clinton True Briton." Mr,
bert Tort was the political editor
•,though Jing himself shoved the quill
-occasionally. As the name .would in-
•tdicate, it was .Conservative in polities.
The mechanical. stall. embraced Ed.
Grigg, foreman, brother - of Sam
Grigg,the evangelist ; P. J. Moran,
Son of Pat Moran, the Seaforth
poet , James Wilkie and Joe 'Con-
• way. Tourist printers in those. days
watt few although occasionally one
would drop in. George Pi had made
:a circuit for himself which included
..all the offices from Stratford to
f— - — Goderich and from the ' latter town
' "to Kincardine: He was supposed to
have been born in Stratford. He
knew the • publication day of every
on the circuit, and generally
made good when he "struck" the
office. George was a man of about
• six feel• in height but very, slender in
stature, Be did not seek permanent
work because that would interfere
• with his, freedom, lie wore a long
r,.,csercoat at all times with two hftge
pockets in it, in which he stored a
• hambone, a loaf of bread and a lot
of apples before he started on his
semi-annual tom'. He cdetspised a
hotel or a regulation boarding house,
After two years' experience, in
• .building up a rural newspaper •Mr.
• Kelly sold the paper amid Want: to
M. Holmes, who, changed the ame
'to.. Clinton New Pira. Two of the
True Britton staff—Grigg and Con-
way—continued with the .New Era.
"Bobby" Holmes, now a Pig man,
n
was..the "
t "angel" 1the i c•
g
of1 c ofCi �,
11
People You Know.
Messrs. Doig and Pexmrnt motored to
Parkhill on Tuesday.
Miss Ruby Cook of Toronto is upend-
ing a vacation n tt
act
home i
n
town,
Mr. Smallacombe anti little daughter
of St. Catharines' are the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Wain, Tiplady.
Mr, E. Linder: of Parkdale, Toronto,
visited at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Jas, Doig, on Dominion Day.
KILLED 13Y A CYCLONE.
Mr. and Mrs. Olas Olson and their
daughter Florence,formerly of Clinton
were killed by a cyclone at Grassy
Lake, •Souther:n Alberta; a few days'
ago.
FORMERLY OF CLINTON KILLED.
Dr. Harry Williams, who had been
looking after the practice of Dr,
.Vietot Ross of Hamilton, was' she
and killed on Friday last by Hedge -
wood Holmes, a resident of Graven-
burst, who immediately turned the
gun on himself with fatal results.
Dr. Williams was a son of Dr, H. W.
Williams, a one-time mayor of Clin-
ton.
AN IMPOR'TANT POSITION.
Rev. W. A.. Clifford, son of the late
--4ga Rev, Dr. Gifford, . a loriner pastor of
Ontario street church, has been ap-
pointed professor of church history in
the Wesleyan College, Montreal. He
was vice-principal of the Columbian
College, New WestBniihster,r' 13.0., but,
resigned that position some few
'years ago to engage t in historical re-
search work at Harvard University.
FRUIT BULLETIN
Bun', your cherries now White,
Black, Red Soar all Niagara Penin-
sula grown and are now most plen-
tiful. The Red Sour is the par ex-
cellence for preserving. Have your
er''eer secure your needs et once.
berries begin to arrive nest
week,
'We Pride in Belonging. to An
Outfit That Ras Never
Lost a Trench.'
—Corp.
R. Jackson.•
The foitlowing letter is Irout Corp,
W. Jackson, son of Mr. and .Mrs,
Isaac Jameson of 'tonin, who. Cs a
member of the machine gutr section,
8th Battalion, which ,went froth the
Western 'Provinces and is in the thick
of the fighting :
•
France, Junelt5th
'Dear Mothef-=As'we nee stew' in
billets after e,nu tlier turn in the
trenches ant sending• a like to let
you know that ,T saw still alive and
well, As you knew we Caine' over
to Prance as remforcentents, to the
First Contingent. • After leaving
,Shornclitfe wet stayed at the Base for
a couple of days and then were
sent, en to the firing line. Our ,first
experience inure ;trenches gave us . a
baptism of fire in a way which tried
the best of tis. For twee days the
shells came over in a steady stream
with scarcely a let-up; night or days:
The Germans sure have •a line sample
of goods to hand out and, send all
kinds : 'Ja'nir Johnstons' weighing
about eight hundred pounds • which
make a hole big enough to bury a
house in; smoke boxes nearly as
big but not so des'dructiv+e in their
effects high
power
Shrapnel eI w ch
takes the, breath out of your lungs
for some seconds if they happen to
burst necar you and don't still 'you
outright; the latter pea: can '•hear
Coming and can have a pretty fair
idea as to where they will light,
but there are others which, give
you no warning until they burst,
and so on through the whole list
of missies• of destruction.
I'
have
had many dose calls, but have never
received even a scratch yet, though
have been showered with hole mud
and pieces of steel. T'iteec arc,
however, everyday occurrences when
a bombardment is on. Quite a num-
ber of my mates have been killed and
wounded alongside of me but the Sec-
tion has been filled up to .lull
strength again and we are all ready
for another spell in the trenches,
which will he in another clay or so.
The Battalion, however, will have to
be considerably reinforced before it is
full strength. I understand reinforce-
ments are on the way. "The Little
Black Devils" as we aro called, have
made something of a reeorcd for
themselves for hanging" on to a
trench when bard pressed and we
hope to keep it. 'A man takes a
certain pride in belonging to an
outfit that has never lost a trench,
even when the gas was turned on,
and we have, one of the best Col-
onels in) the Division in command.
Promotion Is quick in the machine
gun section, You will understand that
I cannot write very fully about our
movements at present on account of
the strict censorship, which is nec-
essary,
eo-estuary-, bnt hope before long to be
able to send you a letter giving
you, some idea of the actual condi-
tions of this trench warfare. In one
day I have seen more. shells fired
and more men wounded than I did
all the time I was in South Africa,
so pan will hare some idea of the
El erectnessof the. fighting. Even • at
that it is nothing to what the troops
hail to go through who were here in
the winter time. We missed that
and hope that before another winter.
Comes' this war will he. over. Your
son,
WILL."
I3olmesmille
Many circumstances combined to
melee the Methodist garden party on
Mr. Geo. Holland's lawn on 'Tuesday
evening a fine success. The weather
was fine and there was a good at-
tendance. The supper was abundant
anti first clads in quality . and the
Clinton KiltY
Band added d
much
to
the pleasure of the evening. Besides
the gate receipts the ladies Cad a
sale of wort.-, there was also a sale
of homemade cooking and se booth
where goodies were to he bought.
The whole proceeds amounted to
about one hundred and fifty dollars.
Mr.
S. 1 Wallet t has returned n from
from
a p1
ca
sant visit of several weeps
with his brother and two sisters at
Redlands, California. t it was a
thoroughly enjoyable trip anti '"Pont"
looks as if it had agreed with him
blit he has been somewhat. my=stifying
his friends since, lire re urn lip the
marked change in his appearance due
to the fact that lie has sacrificed his
rather heavy mustaalte. On second
glance, however, most people would
agree that the change' is ' for the
better. Mrs. H. 'rebbett of Redlands
has been somewhat of an invalid for
some time and heir sister,. Miss Car-
rie Waiter., has been down there
wiping her, but she is,now iinprov-
iag slightly, her old friends here will
be .glad to learn. Since his return
Mr. Walter met with • an accident,
which though simple, has prayed to
be somewhat painful. While descend-
ing a ladder lie slipped and injured
one Of his legs so severely that he •
was obliged to limp considerably and
on, Monday itis physician ordered him '
to stay in bed for some days. It is
hoped. the complete rest . will have
the effect of working a speedy cure.
Goderich Township
Mr. and Mrs. 1V. 1-I. Lobb and Miss
Joy returned on Tuesday from visit-
ing relatives at Croswell, Mich.
Bethany Presbyterian church will
celebrate its 50ti1 anniversary ;on
Sundae+, July h8•tb. I Special cervices
will he told at 11 a.m. and '1 p,in.,
and the preacher of the day will be
Rev, D. L. McCrae Ph D•., of Ilain-
ilton Road, London On. the. Monday
evening a garden party will he held
at Mr. Sterling Mel''hail's where a
good time is certain. Be there and
you will enjoy yourself.
Duff Sandersoo, an employee of time.
Thessalon Liunher, Company, was re-
ported murdered in . a lumber: camp
hack of Thessalon.
Local News
SERVICE IN TOWN HALL.
The members of Clinton Orange
lodge will attend divine servioe in a
body on Sunday next at 2.30 p. m.
The service will be held in the town.
Ball, the preacher to be the Rey, S.
J. Allen. The collection will go to
the Patriotic Fund.
THE NEW 'NCUMBENT.
•
Rev, Wm. 'Moulton,
who . has been,
appointed by the Bishop of Heron to
the Middleton, Holfnesviilc and Sum-
merhill parish, assumed charge of the
work last Sunday, preaching' in Mid-
dleton and Iloliuesville only. It is
the. purpose to re -open' the Sunetnerhill
church again in ,the very near' future.
Mr. Moulton .will reside in Clinton,
A ,SAD ENDING,
Mr. and Mrs. George Fennell of
Cobalt who with their little dangle -
ter were spending the week as gtle'sts
of the lailyt's sister, Firs, W. S.
Downs of town, received the sad in-
telligence on Saturday'evening that
Weir t eleven -year-old son, who with
Luis brother a couple of years' older
had been left with friends near New
Liskeard, had been acpidentally
drowned. As it *as too late to gel'
a train out of Clinton on Saturday
14Ir,M s.
nd
a u Fennell 1 motored
't0
Stratford rel i
o nt,i•tt
tone to catch :the early.
train from there Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Downs accompanied
them aster as Stratford, It was
indeed a sad ending ' to a summer
holiday visit.
Later intelligence 'reveals the fact
that it was the eldest boy who was
drowned.
\strange antis
ad coincidence
vca.
the tact that on tile same day at
Parry Sound the, fifteen -year-old son
of Rev. Mr. Bunt, whose Wife was
formerly Miss Stevenson, alrA Ater
sister of Mrs. Downs, tdas drowned
he the Boy,
DOMINION DAY GAMES.
Tlitougliout the flay on Dominion
Day the bowling green was the scene
of a busy throng when over thirty
players putt tb the test, their skill
with the howls, the North playing
against the South.
'A fortnight ago A. J. Morrish's
rink composed of J. Ti Cantolon,
George Robprton, and Dr. Axon with
A. J. as skip, challenged all corners
and J. E. Hovey accepted, his rink
comprising Bert Hovel•; W. Grant,
W. Brydonc with himself as skip
and at the end of lit> game was two
up. On Dominion Day a return
match was played when the "Vine-
gar Hill" rink won in a score of 28
to 10.
The following arc the plasters, and
scores for limp day
The South :
Rev, F. C. Harper, S. Rans'ot:d, W.
(leant, W. Jackson, skip, 20.
J. Crooks, R. E. Manning, 1'. Jack-
son, .1, ll.' Hovey, skip, 21.
B. S. Chapman, J. Miller, A. H.
Hovey, E. G. Courblee, skip, 19,
E. L:, ITunniford, A. J. Grigg, C.
.1, Wallis, W. Btydone, skip, 1.3,
The North :
1), I,. Macpherson, • D. A. Forrester,
G. D. Roberson, Or, Shaw, skip, S.
C. F, Libby, J, Wiseman, J, W,
Netliger, Percy Towne, ship, 10.
H. Wilier, A. ,T. Ilollovay, ,I, • H,
Cantelon A. J. -Morrish, skip, 21.
IL E. tauli, J, Harland, J. treater,
Dr. Axon, skip, 22.
The South, President IV. Jackson's
side, 'winning from the North, 'Vice -
President Axon's side, by twelve
shots.
Marriages
IIOLTZILAUER — BEACOM — Iu
Clinton, on June 30th, by Rev.
J. C. 1•'t
o ts Myrtle, t4yrt , tl augliher of
Mr. Christopher Beacom, to Wel-
lington Plolt/haute: of Clinton.
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