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Clinton News Record, 1944-09-28, Page 3THURS., SEPT. 28th 1944; So far this year, Long Distance calling is almost -10 per cent. heavier than in 1943, when toll calls set an all-time high. So iiis obvious why we must all continue to avoid. needless Long Distance calls. Otherwise, pressing war business may be seriously delayed. And such delays can cost lives! Please make only necessary calls. REMEMBER -NIGHT RATES NOW BEGIN AT 6 P.M. an s4c2;+'ve Sot—',,e lianas,' aE.gs to, Marls 414 .ma..... • THE HAPPENINGS IN CLINTON EARLY IN THE CENTURY Some Notes of the News in61919: NEWS -RECORD September 25th, 1919 Last Saturday a very enjoyable time was spent with Mrs. Thompson and her daughters, on Issas street, when Miss Winnie Thompsonenter- tained all the teachers of Clinton in a charming manner at her home. Mr. Ernest Jackson bas rented the Trick house on Rattenbury street, An error was made last week when it was stated Mr. Wm. Hig- i gins had purchased the Moggridge house on Ontario'street. Mr. Hig- gins purchased Mr. Wes. Moore's house on Rattenbury st. Louis A. McKay of the Clinton Collegiate won the Prince of Wales and the First Edward Blake scholar- ship. ' John ',Ross T of the Clinton Collegiate w"n the fifth Edward Edward Ble' ,o Scholarship. Louis McKay won scholarships in ,each department, classics, mathe- matics, Moderns and science. Miss•^ -Patterson of —Kingston has been visiting Miss Shirley'Bawden. Miss .Patterson of Kingston has been visiting; Miss Shirley Bawden. Miss Greinger, superintendent of the hospital i.s spending a few days at her home in Brucefield. Mr. Charlie Thompson , left for Toronto, one day last week, where he will take a course in telegraphy. Miss Frances Hawkins and Miss :Terrie Munroe' of the Deaconness Hoine in Toronto were week end guests of Mr. and .Mrs. W. T I Hawkins. Mrs Lydia Grant and Mrs. Dan C li:'acn "ewe- returned home after Iia rat friends and relative ni r-• ,• '1 Us'borne. Miss Myrtle Pearson spent th week end with Miss .Aetna Walker. .Mrs. Boggs anl_her twin sons. Oklahoma City spent: last we 11 with her cousin, Mas. ; W. S. R Holmes. Miss Lottie Sloman has returned tom her trip out west'and is spend- ing a few claysat her ,home before, going to, Toronto. Mr, Wahine Taylor of Chicago is visiting friends in town. Misses Harriet Cantelon, Ruth McMath and Eleanor Kemp leave shortly for Toronto where they in- tend fitting themselves: for the teach ing profession, by attending the' Faculty" of Education. Staff -Sergeant 1'. F. Sheppard, better known as "Chum", arrived from overseas on Monday night He leaves. on Friday for Toronto, Otta- wa and Montreal, but will return for an extended visits later. Mr. Milton Lake of Belgrave was in town on Tuesday visiting. Mi. J. L. Heard, .barber, and Mi•. J. Smith, Implement ,Agent. All three were close chums' overseas. CLINTON NEW ERA, Sept. 25th, 1919 John W. Irwin, who for many years, conducted the "corner get- eery", died suddenly at his home in London. Mr. Will Tiplady. was a ,visitor at Blyth Fair. Mrs. McKinnon and Master Billy are here for a visit before leaving for .their home in New Brunswick. Mr. E. Ward was a Sunday visitor in Woodstock. Friday should have been the 13th. Friday afternoon a most of wind blew . shut the door of Mr. Ford's Feed Store and smash went the glass. Mr. Ford had hardly picked up the glass when the door next to, him of Johnson and Churchill, blew shut and No. 2 window was broken into a thousand pieces, The Clinton Evaporator has com- menced operations, Miss Eva Maines was a visitor at Blyth on Tuesday. When the Present Century Was Young CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Thursday, Sept. 29th, 1904 s e o ek Succc s i 11 A ttack On G aon Convoy of Rad Detail/; have now been received of the Fleet Air Arm's successful at- tack on a German convoy ''off Bodo',' northern Norway. The Barracuda aircraft took off in the early 'hour of a bitter Arctic dawn. When they reached the enemy convoy they were met with 'fierce flak but they dived is and scored direct 'hits op several ships, and at the end od the raid ;Live ships- were ablaze. The con - 0 Mr. A. Twitchell has rented the residence port of the old Post Office, into which he will move. Mrs. John Callander of 'London has sold her property on Huron street to Mrs. Clark. Mr, D. Cantelon is making daily shipments of apples from Clinton and three^ t rites a week adeten = iott, desboro and Brucefield. He is ,con- signing the fruit to Liverpool, Glasgow and Winnipeg. ; The funeral, of the late Mrs, A. 4Y. Brandenberger took place from her late residence on Friday fore- noon to St, -Joseph's church, where requiem mass was said by Rev. Father Pensonneault. .Children's Day was observed in Willis Church. >•Addresses were -.de- livered by Revs, Gunne, Hamilton and Manning. Superintendent Scott pre- sided. The scripture lesson was read by Miss Winnie O'Neil. Music was furnished by . Choir and 'school with Mrs. (Dr.) Gunn as organist. There was also a "Rally" in the Ontario Street' Srhool, with super- intendent it Taylor, presiding. Mr. Thbs. Murch spoke on "How to Im- prove the Sunday School." Mr. D. Tiplady the "father of the School" also spoke. A solo was given' by Mr. W. T. "Harland, and a duet by Mrs. B. J. Gibbings and Miss Gibbings.' Me. A. T. Cooper left yesterday to attend' the World's Fair in St. Louis. Miss .,:Henderson of Mtlfillop was a recent' guest of Mrs. George Roberton. Mrs. T. Saults, whose husband many years ago kept a restaurant on the site of what is ' now Gunn's Hospital, paid a visit to Mrs. D. B. Kennedy and Mrs. Biggart, after twenty-one years absence. Her home is. in Grand Rapids, Mich.- , Mrs, Saults is not a' small woman by any means( tipping the scales at 275 pounds. While she was standing on the 'scales, who should drive up but Jonathan .Miller of ;Goderielb' Hu- ron's heavyweight. tinuoui attacks,"on enemy convoys tying to ereep . through northern ',eters. with supplies for the eastern !'tont, have been a deterrent to Germany's fighting 'powers in Russia, and 'every blow struck` at V THE PIPES OF FPEFIDOM (Listening to the radio broadcast of the Scottish Pipers leading the march into Rome.) I heard the Pipes of Scotland Play down the streets of Rome; 1 saw the kilted Pipers Pests; :by St. Peter's dome, And 1 asked how came they to be there, • Far ' from their Highland home? The Pipes they made answet, THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD ralkwar esIA 'rstfion IsiW FOUR-FIFTHS OF THE SUGAR CANADA This map shows -where Canada, Great Britain and the United States got their sugar in the good old days of peace. Our. three countries take practically all the ex. portable sugar from these major sugar -exporting areas. But supplies have either been cut off by enemy oecu- ation of the country—as in the case of ,lava and the Philippines, or their production radically reduced by shortage of workers, as in the case of Hawaii, Porto Rico, Australia, Trinidad, Fiji. ROLLING Tile war bas brought some unusual demands on the United Nations' sugar pool. Vast quantities have been taken for making industrial alcohol used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber (tires, etc.) as well as T.N.T. and emokelesspowder. For inetaace, the explosive to S11 five 16 -inch shells requtres as much :",• -r as THE SUPPLY IS SHARED All sugar supplies are pooled and nailer the control of the Combined Food Board, of the 'United Nations, {.inch talars supplies to Canada, United States and Great Britain on a uniform basis, SUGAR BAN 5PUG`rle . "e•°a"`e°151 WE'RE LIVING .At the time of "Pearl Harbour" the United Nations had a reserve stook -pile of about 3 mullion tons, but for the last 3 years we've been using more thin has been produced—and dipping heavily CONSUMES HAS TO BE iMPO1 TED Even the production of beet sugar in Canada and the United States has been drastically cut by labour shortage. In both countries the '43 sugar beet crop was forty per cent less than in '41. The onlycountry to show an important increase is Cuba, where output had for years been deliberately restricted. But its increase has not been sufficient to offset the losses elsewhere—let alone meet the increased demand. ON 'SUGAR • is produced on an acre of the finest sugar land. This yeer Cuban sugar alone used for makuigmduetriel alcohol will equal' Canada's normal sugar imports for more than two years. Dy3 WS WEE, WORE SUGAR? A century ago the whole world didn't iibneuutc as,much eager as Canpda does today. Our sweet wroth has been acquired in quite recent tines.Sugar rates high for its energy value,. but starchy food is. a good substitute. al 00 Sai6 R into "reserve." Liberated nations will have to dip ie too. Extra good crops could improve the situation, but greatly increased supplies are not• in sight. If current •:m tion keeps up, we could be very abort of sugar next yea:. We must do• the utmost to conserve our supplies. RATIONING WAS STARTED BECAUSE OF SHORTAGE OF SHIPS. IT MUST BE CONTINUED BECAUSE WORLD STOCKS. ARE DEFICIENT' THIS IS ONE OF'A SERIES OF ANNOUNCEMENTS GIVING THE FACTS ABOUT THE SUPF Y SITUATION OF VARIOUS WIbELY USED COMMODITIES *111-2r,' 17,F rats Across the desert plain. From Alamein to Tripoli They swept the desert: free; From Tripoli to . Tunis, From thence across the sea, They smote the fleecing '`foe and stormed The shores of Sicily. • enemy shipping is another step. to- In a heather -haunted 'strain; / wards the final add inevitable de- We're marching with Montgomery's feat of the Nazi aggressors of World 'men freedom. Who fought at Alamein; Who drive the Huns like scurrying From sea and air they smote him, And like the scourge ofa fate, They smashtd'him at Mount Ettia, And leapt •Messina Strait, And at one swift . and shattering stroke They crashed .Selina's gate. That's what those Pipers chanted Along the Appian Way: Where Caesar led his legions Beneath his tyrant sway, Old Scotland's Sons of Freedom march, The Pipes of Freedom play! J. Lewis Milligan. V LUX (From the French of Victor. Hugo, July, 1853) Time of the future! Viaion'sublime! The , people from bondage are free, The mournful brown sands of the desert are crossed And the greensward lies fair on the lea; And the earth is a bride and man is a groom With heaven's high blessing dis- tilled in perfume! Oh!', see!, night is gone, on the world which is free. Forgotten all Caesars and Capets !, : shall be; And o'er Allied nations, in cloudless 1 azure, The vast wings of Peace open, mo- tionless, pure! 0 free France arise in glory again! White robed from the orgy, trium- phant o'er pain! In forges the anvils their clangor's resume And the redbreasts sing loud in the hawthorn's white- bloom! Allrancours are ended, all thoughts in align, `All feelings not swayed by the. I selfsame design Would snake but a •bundle, a small sheaf afford- Pray God take to bind it the tocsin's old cord! In heaven's low arches a point scintillates, Regard it, it nears and with bril- Iiance •inflates— Universal. Republic, thy now flicker- ing light Tomorrow will shine with the sun's golden might! --Alice Kathryn Gould.. • V WOODMAN'S RETURN Down through the maple woods we walked tine day, You held my hand but little could I say. to The, leaves o'er head whistled a sad refrain, Fir, 0, when would I walk with you again? Two months have dragged away and . each green, leaf Knows hove that day by day my faint heart's grief 'Bras mixed with pride: you heeded I• • England's eery, And took the wings they offered you to fly. Your latest letter made the greeti- woods gay. 1 took it with me down the path today: "I'in earning home, I'm ready now to start!" With joy awaits my own impatient heart! —Iva Proper. v YESTERDAY Our yesterday Mazy and gray Theyare merely, memory's pale shroud, frailest seem like a cloud, So far away.. Their import seems of worth, They're here and gone. Yet they cast shadows o'er the earth also applies • to British Columbia.. pears not listed in the original order.. I` The amendment also provides that pears grown in Eastern Canada. and pears imported into Eastern Canada, if sold in unlisted contain- ers, must sell at the price per pound set in the order for pears sold in. the standard 11 -quart basket, Which ling* on. Thus dearly do we pay the cost Of yesterday. Unlike the .clouds forever Inst, They're here to stay. 34 v Imported Pears Pears imported and, sold in West- ern Canada in ,containers not listed in the price schedule codes A1804 whieh sets maximum prices • .for peaches, pears anti plums, must sell on the same cents per pound as those sold in the standard British Columbia box, the .foods administration of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board has announced. An amendment to the order, effective September, 18, v Winter Soil Moisture The amount of soil moisture which. may be conserved from winter snow fall is variable. When thesoil is, dry and 'loose at the time thawing takes place, considerable snow water • may be conserved. When the soil li frozen, -much of the snow water will run .off. Where there is a geed stubble or trash cover, even' through the soil is frozen, the snow cover is held together, so that moisture al- ready stored en the soil surface is prevented from escaping and thee - conserved. Butter Fat Spread The tropical butter -fat spread; manufactured from 'creamery butter in Australia and New Zealand, does not melt at a temperature below 1105 degrees F. Even if it should' smelt at higher temperatures, the. /spread, can bere-incorporated' by stirring. It has proven a boon to troopsin the Pacific. -v. Butter contains about six per, cent. iof air.