The Clinton News Record, 1932-03-17, Page 3THURS., MARCH 17, 1932
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tinty News.
Happenings in the Coun.tlu
and District.
SEAFORTH: The funeral sof Wil -
Liam Wilson whose sudden death on
Wednesday carate as a shock to his
large circle of friends took place on
Friday afternoon from First Pres-
byterian church with a large atten-
dance. The service was conducted
by the Rev. Irving 1B.. Keine who
made fitting reference to the Iife
of the departed end the loss sustain -I
ed by the congregation in the death!
of one who had been a lifelong mem-
ber of the church and a member of
the session for many years. An ape
propriate selection was beautifully
rendered by the Ladies' quartette
composed of Mas. W. Weight, , Mas.
J. A. Munn, Miss Harriet Murray
and •Miss Pearl Patterson. Interment
was made in Maitlandbank cemetery.
The pallbearers were: Thomas Dick-
son, M, McKellar, W. N. Knetchel,
James Aiteheson, William Morrison
and Oliver Turnbull.
EXETER: The death 'took place
at her home on William street, Exe-
ter, on Saturday, of Aare, William A.
Turnbull, in her 66th year. The de,
ceased was born in Exeter and was
the eldest daughter .of the late
Michael Eacrett, well-known pioneer
of this district. 13y a strange coin-
cidence her death took place on the
eve of her 45th wedding anniversary.
She is survived by her husband,
William A. Turnbull, and a daughter,
Mliss Isobel of Exeter. Her only son
lost his life at Vimny Ridge. Deceas-
ed is also survived by three sisters,
Mrs. Edward Kaufman, of Detroit;
Mrs. B. W. . Beavers, of Exeter;
Miss Alice E'aerett, of Toronto, and
three brothels, Inspector R. J.'Ea-
crett, of Woodstock; George H. Ea-
erett, of Edmonton, and Sylvester R.
Eacrett, of Brantford. The funeral
(private) was held from her late
residence on 'Monday at 2 p.m., at
which the Rev. D. McTavish was the
officiating clergyman. Interment in
Exeter Cemetery.
DUNGA!NNON: Dungannon's old-
est citizen, in the person of Mrs.
Charlotte Smith, died at the hone
of her daughter, blas. Elizabeth
Glenn, with whom she had resided
for several years, Mrs. Smith, whose
maiden name was Charlotte Menary,
was born near Dungannon, County
Tyrone, Ireland, on November 1,
1841. She was the last of five sis-
ters who migrated from Ireland and
settled in the vicinity Of Dungannon,
where they were married and settled
in the pioneer days of the country.
The deceased is survived by a fam-
ily of five, two sons and three daugh-
ters, James W. Smith, concession
five, Ashfield Township; John Smith,
of Goderieh; Mrs. J. P. Nicholson,
Toronto; 1lfrs. Elizabeth Glenn, Dun-
gannon, and Mrs. Rebecca Caldwell,
concession four, West Wawanosh.
There are 1,7 grandchildren and a
large number of great-grandchildren.
The husband of the deceased woman,
Hamilton Smith, predeceased her by
some 16 years. Coining to this coun-
try nearly 62 years ago, when the
country was a wilderness of forest,
she knew and experienced the hard-
ships and privations of pioneer life
and almost to the last could relate There's
some of her interesting and varied tisements
experiences of her early life in the them.
district. Gifted with a good memory
her tales of the early days in Canada
of her voyage across the Atlantic in
a sailing vessel lasting from six to
eight weeks, her early life in the old
country, were as interesting as any
history, The funeral was held from
the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Elizabeth Glenn.
SEAPO'RTH: Mr. and Mrs. John
Love recently celebrated their gold-
en wedding in Egmondville when
they were the 'recipients of hearty
congratulations and good wishes from
many friends. Mr. Love was born in
what is now the city of Stratford
and was four months old *hen his
parents moved 82• years ago to the
7th concession of Tuekersnmith about
a mile west of the Kippen road where
Mr. Love spent the whole of his life
until retiring to Egmondville fifteen
years ago. They .were married at
the Methodist parsonage at Walton
by the Rev. Mr. Baugh. Mrs. Love
was before her marriage, Miss Ea
ther Lehman of Grey: They have
three of a family living: James Love
of Tuckersmith and Misses Ida and
Eva, Toronto,
GODERICH: A resident of Code -
rich for 50 years, John McDonald,
died on Friday last. He was bora in
Scotland 85 years ago and came to
Canada at the age of 15 with his par-
ents, the family settling in Hallett
Township. His wife predeceased
him in 1926. Mr. McDonald was a
devout Roman Catholie, a sta>tneh
Liberal and a good citizen. Of a far=
ily of eight, four suevive. They are,
Mb's. Leo Wbitty, of Toronto; Miss
Jessie of Goderieh; Mrs. H. D. MC.
Govern, od Toronto, and John Ilic-
Donald, Jr., of Windsor. The funer-
al was held on Monday morning to
Sta Peter's Church and Colborne
Ronan Catholic Cemetery.
GODERICH: Because he alter-
nately swore and prayed and for
other reasons, William Baumann, age
28, native of Germany was on Mon-
day committed to an institution anri
will bo deported. He cosies from
Wingham and formerly front Bruce
County. For some time Baumann
has kept the jail population awake
at nights with his antics. The doc-
tors said he was "irrational and some
times violent." He refused to ans-
wer questions put by an interpreter.
GODERI0H: A. provincial notice
raiding party of four, headed by
Sergi. Cousins, of Kitchener, and
Constable Whiteside, of Goderieh,
swooped down on the Commercial
Hotel, Seaforth, on Saturday night
and seized a considerable quantity of
liquor. It consisted of alcohol and
L. C. B. brands. It is understood
that the Iiquor was found in rooms
and on the persons of alleged "run-
ners.» The Kitchener officers were
in plain clothes and unknown to
habitues of the hotel. At a signal
the uniformed amen raided the place.
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Many Kidnapping Cases Have Never
Been Solved
The kidnapping of •the Lindbergh
baby has aroused public interest in
earlier cases of. a similar interest in
the United States. Undoubtedly the
most widely -known kidnapping of
former years was that .of Charlie
Ross. This case illustrates also, how
futile sometimes are the most pain-
staking efforts to clear up such a
mystery. •
Charlie Ross was four years old,.
the son of a well-to-do Philadelphian.
On a Julyday in 1874 he was playing
on the lawn of his father's estate
when two men drove rap in a spring
wagon and enticed' him 'a -Way. His
older brother„ Walter, went with him
on a premise of candy,
At a drug store a few blocks away
the wagon halted ,and Walter was
given 25 cents and sent to get the
candy. He went into the store, the
wagon drove vff-aand to this day no
one knows certainly what happened
to Charlie Ross after that.
For years the search went on. Tine
ending rumors have been ciroolated
about the little boy's fate. Even
within the past deeaile reports have
appeared purporting to clear up the
mystery. Various claimants to his
name have appeared and each claim,
has been disproved..
Disappearance in 1871
'Somewhat similar was the equally
mysterious disappearance of little
Freddy Leib in Quincy, I11., in 1871.
Freddie, five years old, simply
toddled out to play one afternoon
near his home and never came back.
A search that extended from one
coast to the other was begun, doz-
ens of "messages" were received,
scores sof rumors were investigated—
but nothing was learned.
The only tangible clue was that
furnished by a woman living on the
edge •of town, who reported that on
the day the boy vanished she had
seen a man go past her home in a
buggy, accompanied by a weeping
boy. The man explained, she said,
that he was taking the boy to an
orphanage. Efforts to find him
were futile, however.
More recently there was the tragic
case of Melvin Horst, .of Orville, Oh-
io. Melvin, a lad of five, was last
seen by his mother playing in the
back yard of his home a few days
after Christmas in 1928. Night came
and the boy did not come in for sup-
per. A search 'began that has been
carried on to this :day—but no trace
ever has been found of the boy nor
word as to his fate.
After a year of investigation, two
neighbors were arrested on a charge
of kidnapping the boy, and were,
tried, convicted and sentenced to
prison. The state supreme court
granted them a neW trial, however,
and they were acquitted.
•
Men Are Accused
Still later, .one of IVTelvin's play-
mates told a story accusing two .oth-
er amen of stealing the child. The
two were arrested, and each told a
rambling and unconvincing story ac-
cusing the other of killing the boy.
Neither story carried much convic-
tion, and since no trace of Melvin
could be found, the ease was written
down as another unsolved mars -text'.
Somewhat like the kidnapping of
Baby Lindbergh, in its beginning, at
any rate, was the kidnapping of 18 -
months' -old 'Blakely •C'oughlin; who
was stolen !nom his crib in his fath-
er's summer twine near Norristown,
Pa., in the summer of 1920. The kid-
napper got into the nursery through
at window in the middle of the night
and carried the boy away. For five
years so-ealled clues, in this ease
kept turning up, but all proved
groundless on investigation and the
child was not found.
Equally terrible are many of the
cases in which the mystery has been,
cleared up.
Most notorious of all was the kid-
naping of little Bobby Franks, of
Chicago, by Nathan Leopold and
Richard Loeb. This, the sensational
"thrill murder," drew the attention.
of the entire country.
Bobby Franks vanished while on
his way home from school. After his
father had received a letter demand-
ing ransom, the boy's body was
found under a culvert on the out-
skirts of Chicago. Leopold and Loeb
sons of wealthy Chicagoans, were ar-
rested a little later, were saved from
capital punishment by the eloquence
of their lawyer, Clarence Darrow;
and are now serving life sentences
in the state prison at Joliet, 111.
Almost equally notorious was the
tragedy of 12 year-old Marian Par-
ker, kidnapped in LosfAngeles in De-
cember, 1927, by William Edward
Hickman.
The girl's father, high official in
a bank, received a note a few days
later demanding $1,500 for the re-
turn of the child. He went to a de-
signated spot, paid over the money—
and was given the dead body of his
daughter, horribly mutilated.
Hickman was caught later and
hanged in San Quentin prison before
a year had elapsed.
Other Brutal Cases
Little Billy Dansey, aged three,
went . out to play near his home in
Hammonton, N. J., one afternoon in
the fall of 1919—and never came
back. Por six weeks the boy was
sought everywhere in the United
States—until his body was found in
a swamp near the town where he
lived. He had been nnudered and
shortly after the discovery of his
body the father of one of his play-
mates was arrested and accused of
the crime.
Six-year-old Mary Daly was an-
other New Jersey child. Her parents
lived in Monelair, and she was kid-
napped one afternoon by Harrison
Noel, a young man who had been
held in an insane asylum for some
time but who had been paroled in
the belief that his mental condition
was all right.
Noel murdered her and tried to
collect ransom money from her fath-
er. He was caught, found insane
and sent to an asylum for life.
Penalty of $50 if
Cheque Minus Stamp
It is not commonly known that there
is a penalty of $50 maximum provid-
ed by law for the panty who pre-
sents to the bank a cheque for an
amount exceeding $5 which does not
bear the necessary two -cent excise or
postage stamp. And, furthermore,
with a view of curtailing the large
and increasing number of =stamp-
ed cheques which are going through,
the Department of National Revenue
is threatening to take action in the
matter.
While the onus of placing the
stamp upon a cheque primarily rests
withthe issurer, undev the Special
War Revenue Act, it is apparent that
the payee or person cashing or de-
positing a cheque is the person chiefly
exposed to the risk of penalty for
the reason that no taxable transac-
tion has occurred until the cheque is
passed through the bank. At any
rate, if the payee has been careless
enough to accept an unstamped'
cheque it would appear that all fur-
ther responsibility rests with him
since he is presumably willingly as-
suming the. tax.
It is a question just how "willing-
Iy" he accepts this onus. In most
cases the expense of returning the
cheque to the issuer would exceed the
amount of the stamp in addition to
which such action would, as between
buyers and sellers, endanger the cred-
itor's'.relations with his customer
from the point of view of getting
further business.
It is interesting to conjecture, how-
ever, as to what the position would
be of a drawee presenting a cheque
minus a stamp who was fined the
$50 penalty and then souyht to re,
cover the amount from the issuer.
No such ease is on record, indeed, it
is believed that no case •of any legal
action whatever under the new act is
on record, since it is probable that
the watchfulness of the banks has
been effective in safeguarding their
customer's interests by supplying
missing stamps and debiting accounts
therefor.
More importance attached to the
situation when the cheque tax was
applied according to the size of the
cheque and undoubtedly the matter
was subject to closer supervision then
by both payees and banks. The a-
mount of scrutiny and checking nec-
essary is largely reduced where a
flat rate applies to any cheque over
$5 as at present and this would be
still further simplified if tine tax was
made to apply to cheques under this
amount also. Such extension of the
scope of the act might also curtail
the number of small cheques that
the banks are called upon to handle
at a loss.
HURON OLD BOYS' ASSOCIA-
TION OF TORONTO
The annual Euchre and Bridge of
the Huron. Old Boys' Association of
Toronto will be held in the Pythian
Castle hall, 247 College Street, on
Friday evening, April Sth, at 8 o'-
clock.
A splendid orchestra will be in at-
tendance and dancing will be carried'
on at the same time as the Euchre
and Bridge is in progress. •
Refreshments will be served and
good prizes will be'awardod to the
successful competitors.
All ituronites and their friends
will be made welcome.
SOME GOOD ADVICE FROM
KANSAS
There is a newspaper in Kansas,
the editor of which is •openly advis-
ing'readers to lie, steal, drink and
swear. He thus explains his stand:
"When you Iie, let it be down to plea-
sant dreams; when you steal, let it be
away from immoral associates; when
you drink, let it be pure water; when
you swear, let it be that you will sup-
port your home paper, pay your sub-
scription and not send your job work
away from home." ' •
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"""'•"''•""''"'°'"a"m f Plum blossoms into plums,
THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED The spring is neves quite tin t!mne,
And yet it always comes.
—Marjorie Barstow Greenbie, urs
Poetry World.
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs --Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad- But Always Helpful
and Ins piring•
SAU•L
(Continued from last week)
There's a faculty pleasant to oxer-
• else, hard to hoodwink,
I am fain to keep still in 'abeyance,
(I laugh as I think)
Lest, insisting to claim and parade
in it; wot ye, I worst
E'en the Giver in one gift.—Behold,
I could love if I durst!
But I sink the pretension as fearing
a man may o'ertake
God's own speed in the one way of
love: I abstain for love's sake.
—Wihat, my soul? see thus far and
no farther? when doors great
and, small,
Nine -and -ninety flew ope at our
touch, should the hundredth
appall?
In the least things have faith, yet
distrust in the greatest of all?
Do I find love so full in my nature,
God's ultimate gift,
That I doubt his own love can com-
pete with it? Here, the parts
shift?
Here, the creature surpass the Crea-
tor,—the end, what Began?
Would I fain in my impotent yearn-
ing do all for this man,
And dare doubt he alone shall not
help him,who yet alone can?
Would it ever have entered my mind,
the bare will, much less power,
To bestow 'on this Saul what I sang
of, the marvelous dower
Of the life he was gifted and filled
with? to make sure a soul,
Such a body, and then such an earth
for insphering the whole?
And doth it not enter my mind (as
my warm tears attest)
These good things being given, to go
on, and give one more, the best?
Ay, to save and redeem and restore
him, maintain at the height
This perfection, succeed with life's
day -spring, death's minute •of
night?
Interpose at the difficult minute,
snatch Saul the mistake,
Saul• the failure, the ruin he seems
now,—and bid him awake
From the dream, the probation, the
prelude, to find himself set
Clear and safe in new light and new
life,—a new harmony yet
To be run, and continued, and ended
—who knows?—or endure!
The ratan taught enough by life's
dream, of the rest to make sure;
By time pain -throb, triumphantly whi-
ning intensified bliss,
And the next world's reward and re-
pose, by the struggles in this.
"I believe it! 'Tis thou, God, that
givest, 'tis I who receive:
In the first is the last, in thy will is
my power to believe.
All's ono gift: thou canst grant it
moreover, as prompt 110 my pray-
.er
As I +breathe out this breath, as I
open these arms to the air.
Prom thy will stream the worlds,
life and nature, thy dread Sab-
baoth
I will?—the mere atoms despise me!
Why am I not loth
To look that, even that in the face
too? Why is it I dare
Think but lightly of such impuis-
sance? What stops my despair?
Timis: --'t is not what man Does which
exalts him, but what man Woula
do!
See the Icing—I would hole him but
cannot, the wishes fall through.
Could I wrestle to raise him from
sorrow, grow pear to enrich,
To fill up his life, starve my own
out, I would—knowing which,
I know that my service is perfect.
Oh, speak through me new!
Would I suffer for hinithat I love?
So wouldst thou—so wilt thou!
So shall crown thee the topmost, in-
effablest, uttermost crown—
And-thy love fill infinitude wholly,
nor leave up nor down
One spot Inc the creature to stand
in! It is by no breath,
Turn of eye, wave of band, that sal-
vation joins issue with death!
As -thy Love is discovered almighty,
almighty be proved
Thy power, that exists with and for
it, of being Beloved!
He who ,did most, shall bear most;
the strongest shall stand the
'most weak.
'Tis the weakness in strength, that I
cry for.! my flesh, that I seek
In the Godhead! I seek and I find it.
0 Saul, it shall be
A Face like my face that receives
thee; a Man like to me.
Thou shalt love and be loved by,
forever: a Hand like this hand
Shall throw open the gates of new
life to thee! See the Christ
stand!
I know not too well how I found my
way hone in the night.,
There were witnesses, cohorts about
me, to left and to right,
Angels, powers, . the unuttered, un-
seen; the alive, the awake:
I repressed, I got through them as
hardly, as strugglingly there,
As a runner beset by ,the populace
"oS
famished for news—
Life or death. The whole earth was
awakened, hell loosed with 'her
crews;
And the stars of night beat with em
otion, and tingled and shot
Out in fire the strong pain of pent
knowledge: but I fainted not,
For the Hand' still impelled me at
once and supported, suppressed
All the tumult, and quenched it with
quiet and holy behest,
Till the rapture was shut in itself,
and 'the earth sank to rest.
Anon at the dawn, all that trouble
had withered from earth—
Not so much, but I saw it die out in
the day's tender birth;
In the gathered intensity brought to
the gray of the hills;
In the shuddering forests' held breath
in the sudden wind -thrills;
In the startled wild beasts that bore
off, each with eye sidling still
Though averted with wonder and
dread; in the birds stiff and
chill
That rose heavily, as I approached
them, made stupid with awe:
E'en the serpent that slid away sil-
ent,—he felt the new law.
The same stared in the white humid
faces upturned by the flowers;•
The same worked in the heart of
the cedar and moved the vine -
bowers:
And the little brooks witnessing mur-
mured, persistent and low,
With their obstinate, all but bushed
voices --"E'en so, it is so!"
Robert Browning.
MY FOLKS
I think my folks are very queer—
You'd be surprised at things I hear.
Sometimes it seems I'm very small,
And then again I'm big and tall.
At night I tease to stay up late,
But mother say: "No, No, it's eight
Go right upstairs, and hurry, tool
Indeed, a little boy like you!"
At six next morning from the hall
She wakes me with this funny call;
"Come, comae, get up, and hurry
too!
For shame, a great big boy like
Yeti!"
When through the night I grow so
fast,
How very strange it doesn't last!
I shrink and shrink till eight, and
then
I'm just a little boy again.
—.Anon.
NATURE
Nature has no mathematics
Such as banks and merchants use.
She cannot make her unshod feet
Walk a straight line in shoes.
She seldom is quite accurate
Nor often punctual,
She keeps on hand no pecks and pints
To measvre large and small.
Nor recipes for turning
BARTER
Life has loveliness to sell,
'All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened: on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings„
And children's faces looking up,
Holding wonder like a cup
Life has loveliness to. sell,
Music like a curve of gold.
Scent of pine trees in the rain,
Eyes that love you, arms that hold„
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the night.
Spend all you have Inc loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost,
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well
: lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
—Sara Teasdale..
REVERIE
And where the blue night spider wove
His web of tangled light,
Beyond the depths of darkness
I took my soul by night.
And up and down the aisles of hea-
ven,
Across the starlit sky,
My soul and I went walking---
bily day -worn soul and I.
About a crescent moon were hung
Faint wisps of opal mist,
Around the dark world's edges,
Lay pools of amethyst.
And there by spangled seas we
breathed
The fresh, rough scent of .dew,
And there we found our wings again
On plains of midnight blue.
And up and down the aisles of heaven
Across the starlit sky,
My soul and I went walking—
My gallant soul and I.
—Dora Claremont in The Chatelaine.
TRAIL• END
A trail end, a cabin, a bit of blue
sea!
These are the things that mean
heaven to me!
And what does it matter, haw hum-
ble, how far,
Just so I may find them wherever
they are!
A. cabin that nestles against a round
hill
Where mocking birds whistle and
bees drone until
The honey -sweet air is a medley of
song,
And crickets are fiddling the merry
night long!
A bit of blue sea, and the tang of rte
salt,
A spar and a star in the heavenly
vault!
What more can I ask, save an old
song or two,
And a trail end that leads in the
gloaming to you!
—ICristel Hastings in Good house-
keeping.
Make it a weekly practise to read
the ads.
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HAWAIIANS-
Swinging into a romantic South Sea setting comes a soft -voiced
group of Hawaiian singers in native costume who play Hawaiian music
as it is meant to be played. Steel guitars, ukuleles and rich voices
blend naturally into the pungent melodies of this island territory.
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