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Clinton News Record, 1944-12-28, Page 3THURS., DEC. 28th, 1934 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Army Commanders Confer In France American and, British Army Come wanders held a conferende in a hay - !field on August 21st to plan; the next moves in the annihilation of the German: Army. They were •Field Marshal • Montgomery, 21st Army Group; General Dempsey, 2nd Brit- ish Army; General Bradley, 'U.S.A. business. Army Group; General Hodges 1st American Army and General Crerar, 1st Canadian Arniy. Picture • shows: Left to . right General. Bradley, Field Marshal Montgomery, General Dempsey and General Hodges getting down to THE HAPPENINGS IN CL NTON EARLY IN THE CENTURY Some Notes of the News in 1919. CLINTON NEWS -RECORD December 25th, 1919 The principal .and staff of the Model School gave their annual treat to the pupils on Friday : afternoon, taking them down to see "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Retell". It was a ,good picture .and much en- joyed by the youngsters.. Word has been received of the death of Canon Craig of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, London. He was a former . rector of St. Paul's, Clinton. The 0. C. L Commencement was held in the Town Hall on Thursday evening. Rev. J. E. Hogg of the Collegiate Board presented the prizes and diplomas. Included were five scholarships, one won by John Ross Taylor and four by Louis A. MacKay. Miss Kathleen Dowzer delive*ed the valedictory address in a very credible manner. Miss Daisy Nediger gave a reading and Miss Marion Gibbings sang a solo. The latter pa t of the program was a one act comedy, entitled •:"French spoken Here", presented by Miss Ethyle Wasman, Emma Hig- gins, Dorothy Rattenbury, Eleanor MeTaggart, and Messrs Ernest Livermore, Gershom Anderson and Harvey •Stewart. Mr. Harry Shaw of Varsity is home for the vacation. Mr. Harry ,Rance is home from Varsity for the Christmas vacation. Misses Gladys, and Winnie • Dee- per' are home for the Christmastide.. Miss Grace Shepherd of Ottawa is ,home for the Christmas . vacation. Mr.. Wilmer Wallis of Kitchener is spending the Christmas vacation at his home in town. ' Mr. Wilbur Ford of Peterborough and Miss Clete of London are spendL ing Christmas at home. ' Miss Maude Livermore of King- ston is, spending the vacation time with relatives in town. • Miss Eleanor. Kemp- of Faculty is home for the vacation time, • CLINTON NEW ERA, December 25, 1909 Mr. Victor Crich of London is home for Christmas. Miss Jessie O'Neil of Aylmer is home for the holidays. Mr. Elmer Beacom and Miss Celia Beacom of Toronto are Visit- ing relatives in town. Mr. Georg McTaggart Jr. of McGill University, ;Montreal, its home for the Christmas. vacation. Mr. Malcolm McTaggart, who is attending Ridley College at St. Catherines is home for the Christ- mas vacation. Mr. Wm. J. ,Miller has moved the barn.. on Gibbings Street to his own property, where it will be more convenient for his car and horse. Mr. Mansford Cook is fitting up the vacant store of Mr. J. Taylor's for his knitting plant. Mr. Cook has 'been knitting in a small Way but it gradually increasing and his output isfinding a ready sale., Charles and ' Ross Forbes are home for Christmas. Messrs. Clarence and Harold Kilty are home for Christmas: Mr. W. Gould of Kitchener is on Guaranteed 0 Trust Certificates ISSUED for any amount;:... for a term of five years .... guaranteed both as to principal and interest ....Interest cheques mailed to reach holders on due date, or, . et holder's option, may be, allowed to accumulate at compound interest. , An ideal investment i'or 'indisiduals, com- panies; authorized bylaw for cemetery boards, executors and other trustees. THE STERLING TRUSTS CORPORATIdN ' Steri ing ,Tower, . Toronto 13years in eusInets • spending the Christmastide at hi home intown. Miss Pearl Gould of Toronto i home for the.Christmas holidays. Mr. and Ma•o. Thos. Hawkins an family, are eating their Christina turkey hi Hamilton. A welcome visitor this week is Mr. John Crooks of Vancouver, B.C.' Mr. Crooks was East on .business and took a run up to the old town. s lough fon quite, awhile but I guess he is ' kept fairly busy, We had s some gold times ateeethea anis I hope to see himagaarr 'soon. d Well I -haven't very much news, s now 'but 'I hope you all have a 'very Merry Christmas and when you are eating that turkey eat a leg for me as I do like turkey. Once again I want to thank- you all very much for what you have all done for me. I will never forget it. Well I must.cio e' foe now. Best of luck 'to you all .and God Bless You. Hope to hear frons you soon. Albert. P.S. Thanks a million for the gash, It is really swell. Mrs. E. Kennedy of 'Ontario Street was called to Sudbury last Thurs- day owing to the serious• illness of her little niece, ;Dorothy Corless, who is now progressing very fa- vourably. When the Present Century Was Young NEWS -RECORD • December 24th, 1904. Mr. Aldie Holmes returned Sat- urday from Winnipeg, where he had been for some months. Mr. and 111ra.. Bo. Word spent Christmas at the latter's home, Mr. Ward returning to Wyoming on Tues day. Mrs. Ward (Miss A. Cudmore) will spend a month in our midst. Mr. Fred, Eagleson who recently returned from Langdon, North Da- kota, visited Clinton friends last week, and is now at the parental' home in Goderich. Mr. Charles Tisdall is home from the Military Academy, Kingston. Helooks well and is evidently thriving on the physical training at that institution. Mr. 011ie MoIlveeii who has been attending a business college in. London, is home for the holiday. Miss Kathleen Stanley is home from St. Mary's Academy, Wind- sor, and after the holidays will con- tinue her studies at the Convent of the Saered Heart, London. Mr. F. R. Hodgens was - in To- ronto yesterday. Miss Mary - Heideman spent, the Christmas holidays at her home in Exeter. Mr. John Torrance Jr. teacher of 'Osborne township, is spending his holidays with leis parents. Miss Blanche Shepherd, who has been teaching at Arva for the past three years,' is home for the holi- days, after which, the goes to Hyde Park, having accepted a position there. Mr. and Mrs. W. Brydone were Christmas , guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. McMurchie of Blyth, while Dr. and. Mrs. Agnew spent the day in Wingham. Miss Lizzie Graham enjoyed, Christmas with London friends. Miss May Biggart of Toronto, is spending a month at her home in town. V GODERICII TOWNSHIP The following letter and Christ- mas card was received from Albert Craig. The Christmas card was a pretty Holland scene and said. Wishing all the members of the South • End Red Cross a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Prosperous. and Victorious New Year, From Albert Craig. A-42464 Sgmn. Craig T. V. A. Nov. 24th 1944. Dear Mrs. Middleton. Just' a few lines to say I am fine and I hope you are all the same! Also to say .1 received the Christ- mas parcel sent by the South End Community' and I was very happy to get it, the contents • were swell and I' want to thank you all a miI- lion for it. You are all sure doing a great job and I wish you all the luck in the world. Well it will soon be near Christ, max once snore and this will be my third one away from home `hut I only hope and pray T will be home for next Christmas and then we can all be together again - just like old times and they sure look good when a person looks back on them. I am in Holland now and I like it okay ,but out of the three countries, Belgium is the nicest, , but France and,Hollandhave seen a .great deal of fighting. I: was to Brussels en a leave and, it. is ` a swell- place. It is very big and the people are very good. as the ones who were in the last war can speak yery. broken English; and you can understand. them. They sure praise the Canadians 'as they had a good time with them in the 'last was, and they are having a good time with them • in this • one. The little kids going down the' street say "Hello Tommy" and it all seems so funny, but it will all. be a memory some day and that will he a great one. I' haven's' seen Howard McCul- v Canadians' Gifts' of Cash Helping Relievk Sadness For Britons at Yuletide From our Lonlcn Bureau By W. T. CRANFIELD Resident Staff Correspondent London, Des. 16 -"Two women walking in the street were blown to pieces," said the incident officer posted among the wreckage where a V -bomb had fallen,•. He was too busy to talk much but had offered to recount what he was pleased to call the "salient facts" This was one of them. --two woo i blown to pieces. Elsewhere a few days later a roc- ket ruined' a row of workmen's houses. Most of the women folk went shopping or at the movies but a mother and ,daughter were at home and got trapped in the ruins. • 'Where are now?" someone had been gotten "Right here," "The kitchen is you going to stay asked when they out. said the daughter. still all right." Two simple if tragic episodes not infrequently .repeated. I mention them to stir the readers' imagina- tion concerning one resultant prob lem that will face thousands of Eng- lish homes his :Christmas. What will happen to the children? ,Supposing they themselves escape death and disfigurement, what sort of a time will they have if it is their mother or granny or big sister who is "blown to pieces?" Supposing another and big sister receive no hurt, is the kitchen any place to make, merry in when the rest of the cottage is in dust and disorder and every cherished play- thing gone? Mothers of big families these days are like distracted hens when a hawk is overhead. They shbw net panic, but fuss pathetically about their chicks. Shall they go or stay? Return to their real homes for old association's sake or remain in their foster homes and chance it? "Lordluvaduck with -.these ere blinking V bombs yes don't know where you are," said a Cockney mother, proud of her two pairs' of twins: "You're just as likely to be bumped off ere as there." And that is true of many parts of Southern England. Sad tales come alike from former fly , bomb alley and places more remote. Yet train- loads of mothers and children are returning' thither from safer areas. Simultaneously smaller streams are wending their way north and west. You: see we Britons love our liberty --poor use though we song times snake of it. Even authority with a capital A cannot pin us down fcr long. And isn't the Englishman's home—such as it is -still his castle. Depend:monit, official bodies and private philanthropy will do their utmost to give the children a well nourished carefree Christmas, especially the little victims of "salient facts." Since 'the war started, plans were never more ornate, provisions more plentiful, helpers snore - willing and abounding. But there is a lot c of organizing to do and you cannot or- ganize`well if ;you do not know what yoti have , to spend. That, we hope, is . why Canadians are chipping in early with theta gifts to Christmas Cheer for British Children, an auxiliary of the Even- ing Telegram British War Victims' Fund, and making their gifts :both glad and hefty, ALL GONE Mistress (hearing crash) --Have you broken anything,'Jane? ' Jane --I'm afraid sd,.,mum—my New Year's language resolution and your nett t a set; . PAGE i IN LIBERATEB PARIS d'"1' Paris was finally liberated on the hard-pressed French Forces of , 'August 26th, when 'tbe French 2nd I the Interior. At 7 o'clock the ,same J Picture Shows:—A British ear Armoured Division swept through , evening General, de Gaule entered flying the Union Jack drives dowa the German defences to the help of the capital. the crowded Clampes Elysees. BAYFIELD R-205635, L A.C. Robinson Wm. R. C. A. F. Oversas France, Nov. 30th, 1944 Bayfield Community Active srerviee Fund, Dear Mrs. Prentice and Friends-- , The Bayfiell people are on the beam when it comes to sending let - tees and parcels to us over here. On Nov. 18th, I received the Christmas parcel perfectly packed by Mrs. Bassett with card by Garfield. West- lake, also your newsy letter and clippings` written Oct. 24th, yester- day. The October cigarettes caught up with me as they always do. Many thanks everybody for everything. Oct. 28th I arrived back in France at this squadron and everything' is OK. except for rain ant mud in lar- ger quantities. This time I have been able to see a few cities such as- - and — (censored) and, this part of the country is much different than Normandy. We are well billeted in a well furnished iced brick house which not long ago was occupied by Jerry 'Officers. In this house the Canadian Y. M. C. A. has a reading room and canteen called "Canada House" and they have a regular free issue of candy, cigarettes, socks etc. With a hot fire in the large fireplace, 'Canada Horse is as comfortable and busy as the 'Royal York Hotel, at election time. Squadron Leader MacTavish from Seaforth is one of the big bosses of this outfit, but so far I have not seen any of the Bayfield gang. Sincerely Yours Bill Robinson v , Wesley -Willis W.M.S. The December meeting of the W. M. S. was held at the home of Mrs. E. Adams Thursday evening December 14. The President Mrs. F. Fingland was in the chair. Several important business items Were dis- cussed. The Treasurer's report showed that th,e allocation of ` $500. was more than reached. A legacy of $50. left the W. M. S. by the late Mrs. A. Tyndall' was. received with gratitude. According to the will this money was to be used to procure ttto life Member- ships. The Society decided to award these to Mrs. T. Watt and Mrs, Pickard, two valued members of this organization. The Worship 'Service was con- ducted by Mrs. J. MeGill's Group. A lovely Carol service was under the leadership of Miss R. V. Irwin and• much enjoyed by all. Al most interesting ,; letter f.om' an overseas lad was read. by : Mrs. Percy Manning. The Study Book was taken by Mrs. F. Fingland. It being that most interesting book. "West of the Nate Line," A social half-hour was spent at the close of the meeting when lunch was served by the 'hostess rind the group in, charge. Freedom of conscience, of educa- tion, of speech, of assembly;' are among the very fundamentals of democeacy and all of them would be'°nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challeng- ed.—F. D. Roosevelt; 1940. iter eSNAP5d,'vd GUILD LET'S CAST REFLECT1oNS Pictures of this type add interest to your picture collection.. DON'T let winter weather inter- fere with your snapshooting activities. There are numberless pictures to be taken in the house if the weather prohibits outdoor pleasures, and it is pictures. from home, and of the home that those in the Services enjoy receiving. For instance—have 'you ever taken mirror pictures, that Is, a picture of your young daughter, and her mother standing in front of the mir- ror as shown in our illustration? You know it is the unusual that attracts attention but it is neces- sary to use your eyes and a little imagination and ingenuity to ferret out these: exceptional views and angles, and get pictures that show individuality. When making, mirror .pictures and focusing for reflected images only, It is necessary to add the dietante from the mirror to the subject to the distance, from the mirror to the lens of, the camera and then set the focus accordingly. If it is desired to include the Sub- ject in the picture with the reflected image the focus should be set for the distance from the mirror to the lens. The smaller the lens opening the greater the depth of field and the sharper will be both images. Of course, thenearer the subject is to the mirror •the less is required in the matter -of."depth." Let us suppose that your subject is two feet and the camera six feet from the mirror. If you want to in- clude little Mary and her mother as well as their reflected Images in the picture, set the focus at six feet. If you want only the reflected images in the picture you set the focus at eight feet. Set the dia- phragm at f/16. A flash type Iamp will serve for your lighting. After, locating your subject in the finder and setting the focus of your camera at the proper distance and the diaphragm at f/16, set the shut- ter for time exposure. Place a flash type lamp in an ordinary floor lamp within reaching distance from the camera, tilting the shade slightly upward and toward the subject. Id you cannot tilt the shade remove it from the lamp. It Is best not to have any bright lights burning near the lens of the camera and be sure that neither the lamp nor camera shows in the mirror. Yon are now ready to take, your picture. Take your po.. sitien at the camera and caution your subject not to move. Press the cable release to open your shutter and immediately switch on the flash lamp, then quickly ciese the shutter -and the picture has been taken. Simple,isn't it? John van Guilder Presbyterian W. M. S. The W. M. S. held their December meeting at the home of Mrs. Ward, which was attractively decorated for the occasion. The opening hymn 170 was followed by -Scrip- ture reading of the 'Birth of Jesus taken from . the let and and Chapter of St. Matthew's gospel, and tile Glad Tidings Prayer' taken by Mrs. ',Shaddick. The minutes' of the last sheeting were read by Mrs. Makins in the absence of Mrs. Sni- der. The treasurer, Mrs. Wilson re- ported a very substantial sum had been forwarded to the Presbyterial treasurer. Mrs. Roberton the pyesi- dent, an a few well chosen words thanked the members for their sup- port and . co-operation during the past . year. Mrs. Stevenson then took the chair and the following officers were elected. Honorary pros., Mrs. Lane; pres. :. Mrs, ,Roberten; Vice,pres. Mrs, For; Secretary, Mrs. Snider, Treasurer, Mrs. Wilson, Glad, Tidings !Sec. Miss Stirling, pianist, Mrs. Nott. Mrs. Stevenson gave a Christmas reading, followed by singing. . of •i, Christmas Carole. Mrs. Lane closed the meeting with Prayer, A, social horn .followed curing which a deli cions lunch_ eat served and a very aloe -ant .evening was .brought to.a lose.