The Clinton News Record, 1943-03-25, Page 3THURS., MARCH, 25, 1943
THE
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
RENEWAL OF UNEMPLOYMENT
INSURANCE BOOR
To all Employers:
The 1942-43 'Unemployment Insurance
Books expire on March 31st.
New Insurance Bbolcs for the fiscal year
1943-44 will be exchanged by the Local Employ-
ment and Selective Service Office in your area
for expired Insurance Books.
Do not send in your Insurance Books without
completing forms enclosed with circular letter
625.
If you have not received this circular letter,
get in touch with your -nearest Employment and
Selective Service Office.
Where it it necessary'to quote the Employee's
Insurance Number, use the number with the
prefix letter shown on .the front cover of the
'book: example P-49247, E-22454. Do not quote
the book. serial number printed on the inside ,
pages of the book.
Protect the benefit rights of your em-
ployees by following closely the procedure out-
lined in the circular letter, and, prevent delays
by .acting now,
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANC E COMMISSION
HON. HUMPHR'EY MITCHELL
Minister of Labour
Commissioners;
LOWS 1. TROTTIER
IL 5. TALLON
ALLAN M. MITCHELL
THE HAPPENINGS IN CLINTON .EARLY IN
THE CENTURY
Some Notes of The News in 1918
THE CLINTON NEIWS4RECO'R0) pany, formally welcomed their guests
and proposed that the reunion be
made an annual affair. After an`ex-
cellent dinner was served toasts were
proposed and speeches were made by
many of those present. Misses Weed
and Stone each addressed their form -
MARCH 21st 1918.
•Mrs. Frances S. Weston announces
the engagement of her youngest
daughter, Annie Elizabeth, to Mr,
George Allan Betties both of Gode-
rich township. er students and each expressed grati-
A good many people were disap- fication that they were making good
pointed in the 'turnout'of their bean in the business world. Amongst form -
crop last season, the weather being er Clinton girls who spoke were:
very unfavorable for the harvesting Misses Olive Harland, Botta Cook,
of the crop, but Mr. D. A, Sterling of Margaret Bell a former teacher on
Goderichtownship has no cause to the. C.C.I. staff, Stella Copp, Lottie
complain, He managed to _ save his Sloman and Meida Cooper.
in good condition and they were an The funeral took place from the
extra fine sample. The other day he undertaking parlors of Mr, J. Dun -
disposed •of his stock to the Gunn, ford on Tuesday afternoon of the late
Langlois Co., receiving there a cheque Robert Sanderson, who bas been re -
for $1958.40, Not a bad.,'cheque for sident at Mt, Clemens, Mich., for
a single sale, some time but who formerly resided
Mrs. MeTaggart received word yes. just north of town, It is about seven
terday evening that her husband, Ma- years since the family moved to Mich -
jot' M. D. MeTaggart, had arrived igan.
safely in Halifax, He will probably Earl B. Hanley, son of Mr. Robert
be home this week. Hanley of the 7th. concession of
Pte Curl who enlisted at Clinton, Goderich township, passed away at
and went overseas with the 33rd, batt- tine home of his father en Sunday
talion,, returned yesterday evening last at the early, age of twenty-three
.and was given a reception at the sta—years. Besides his parents and broth -
tion by the ba nndadamiewpoalB ers and sisters he is survived by a
tion by the band a number of citizens. young wife, formerly Miss Ellwood,
,Pte Curl was amongst the first draft and their little babe, and for all
from the 38rd, and he has seen some much sympathy Is -felt.
stern fighting in France. He was
severely wounded in the headand has V
spent months in the hospital.
Mr. J. Mulholland, who .has been
employed in the pressing room of the
Jackson Mfg. Co., for some time, is
leaving there to go into Langfords'
automobile repair shop.
Mr. Wm. H. Calwill, who last fall
returned from the west, has purchas-
ed the East residence on Kirk street,
which has been occupied by Mr. Cle-
ment.
THE CLINTON NEW ERA.
MAltCH'21st, 1918
The death occurred at his home on
the Maitland concession, Goderich
township, on Saturday last of Joseph
Jervis, who was in his forty-ninth
year. The deceased was a native of
the township, being a son. of the late,
William Jervis. He was the second
The Public Lhra which cerin to youngest of a family of eleven, eight
ry, g ee when are still alive; , Charles Jer-
scarcity.of coal, has only been open vis of Clinton;' John, Stanley town -
the three lastdays of the week dur- ship; Alfred of Iiohnesville; Mrs.
in the winter, will for the future be 'Thomas Holland, Winnipeg; Mrs. Jno.
open each afternoon and evening, Trewartha, Mrs. Thos. Potter and
except holidays for the usual hours. ,Mrs. S. Merrill all of Goderich town -
The Toronto ex -students of the ship, acid Mrs. C. Ti. Holland. of Clin-
Clinton School.' of Commerce held ton. Mr. Jervis, is survived also ` by
their first reunion at the Wa1kGr his wife, who war foxmerIy Miss Car -
House on Friday evening last. The rte •Sterling, and a family of four;
guests of honor were•Miss B. F. Ward Verna, Leslie, Dorothy and Robert, all
principal of the school and Miss M. I" home.
A, Stone, her able assistant. . The'
: Mr. and Mrs. VanBuren of Calgary,
teachers were met at the Union sta- have returned to their western home
tion by fifty ex students and escort- after visiting the lady's aunt, 1VIrs. J.
ed, to the hotel. Arriving there Miss T. Watt, of Clinton, her sister, ' Mrs.
Eva Stinson, on behalf of the con- C. H. Coultis of the Huron Road, and
with other friends in the east.
Mee. G. •A. Bradshaw leaves on Fri-
dayoh a trip to the Pacifip Coast.
It may be that Mr. Bradshaw will de-
cide to locate somewhere in the west
but whether or not he wishes to see
what the country looks like.
Pte. Lack T. Kennedy of the Ameri-
can •Infantry . is spending a ' short
leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Kennedy. Pte. Kennedy is in
training at Camp. Custer, Battle
Creek, Michigan.
Mr. Alex Sloman visited in. Lon-
don for a few days during the past
week. Mr. Sloman leaves the end of
the week for the west again,
Miss Tkvelyn Scotchmer of •Stanley
has been visiting her uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs, A. Townsend of the
Base Line, during the past week.
Mr. Harry Premlin has moved to
the brick house owned by Mr. David
Cantelon, next his own home on Rag-
lan street.
Miss Bessie Davis , is visiting in
Detroit.
We are sorry to report that Rev.
Dr. Stewart," formerly pastor of Wil-
lis church, is. confined to his home
in Toronto, through illness.
Pte. Eugene Sheeley, son of Mrs.
Sheeley, Ontario Street is now on his
way overseas with the American
Army.
Alexandra .Robinson, who was run-
ning the Rattenbury house at the time
it was destroyed by fire, died in Gode-
rich last 'Thur`sday at the age of 63
-
years.
The last game of the Town Hockey
League was played here Friday night
between the O.C.I. and the Organ Fac-
tory teams. As natters stood a win
by the Factory would have made it a
tie all around. but the C.C.I.. took care
to prevent this. The final score was
17-9 for the Collegiate making them
the winners. The line up was as fol-
lows; C. C. I. Lawrence, Me0lymont,
Kilty, Murphy, Wallis, Manning and
McDonald; Organ Factory. McDer-
maid, • Carter, McDonald, Draper,
Schrenk, Ladd and McNeil. The re-
feree was A. Mitchell;
A tea and "personal property bag"
shower for our wounded soldiers over
seas will be held et the regular meet-
ing of the Women's Institute. at the
home of Mrs. Thomas McKenzie, Jr.,
on Thursday, March 28th, from 3 to 6.
When the Present Century
Was Young
THE CLINTON NEWS RECORD
MARCH 19th, 1903
Mr. James Thompson, bookkeeper
n Perrin's establishment, London,
who cane home to attend the funeral
of his brother, the late Peleg Thomp-
son, returned to the city yesterday.
Mr, P. B. Crews left Saturday to
spend Sunday in Goderich and the
forepart of the week went to Toronto
in which city and in Montreal he will
visit the wholesale jewelery houses
to select a big and choice stock
which he will open out in Kingston
the first of April.
Mr. Peter Ker left on Monday af-
ternoon for Langdon, North Dakota
He spent last summerin that place
and the prospects appear to be se
bright that he must needs go back
again. Pete's Cheery manner and in-
imitable yarns,' make hi»i tri cede
wherever he goes. Several members
of the Eagleson family have settled
in the Langdon districts so he will
be in the midst of old friends.
At the meeting of the Collegiate
Institute board held on Monday even-
ing the question of organizing a Ca-
det:Corps was discussed. it is gener-
ally believed that to do so would fur-
ther popularize the C.C,I., so a eon-.
mitte consisting of Messrs. Forrester
and McTaggart was appointed to ga-
ther information and report at next
meeting,
The Ontario street parsonage was
the scene of a quiet wedding yester-
day afternoon when Rev. Dr. Gifford
united in the holy bonds of matrimony
Me. Thomas H. Johns and Mrs..annie
Postlewaite. The contracting parties
are a prosperous young couple who
have lived for years at Varna but in-
tend making•their future home at Ex-
eter.
The new firm of Hoover .& Ball
took over the furniture :businese of
Bowe & Holloway on Tuesday and
are now pushing trade: That they will
do a large business is expected by
those who know the partners person-
ally. The stone cutters have commen-
ced the season's operations at the
Huron street marble works whose out
put is sent to all parts of the county,
Mr. Lou Peekitt left on Monday for
Griswold, Man„ and will also visit
many other points ire the flourishing
West. If the prospects please him he
will take up land and make his Home
inthat country.
Mrs. James Livermore joins her
husband this week in Seaforth where
they will take up their abode.
Mr.' W. McIntyre of Stapleton goes
to ,Stratford the coining . week to
take a position in the car shops.
Mrs. T. R. • Harwood of ' Worth,
Mich., was the guest of her brothers,
G. A. and H. E. Rorke, this week.
As' the result of a daring attempt
to go in a light canoe by the rives- to
Goderich from Auburn after the ice
break, we are in sorrow obliged to
chronicle the end of a promising and
useful career in the death by,drown=
ing of one, who by his generous and
kindly disposition had won the deep-
est regard and esteem of the entire
district, Dr. Frank Turnbull. He was
not only Frank by name but also in
nature, and his genial presence will be
deeply missed. Thursday morning' he,
started and ls;aeceeded,'it appears, in
almost reaching his destination, al-
though over 40 miles of the river's
foaming tide had to be watched en
route. Had it not been owing to his at
tempt to keep to the canoe we be-
lieve his life would not have been
sacrificed as the Di, was an excel-
lent swimmer and fond of the Wat-
er.
V
Price Board Facts of
Waitime Interest
Your questions will be answered by.
the Women's Regional Advisory Com-
mittee to the Consumer Branch, War-
time Prices- and Trade Board and
should be sent to 291 Dundes'Street
London.
Q, My son who is ie the army.' has
stored his car in a garage for the
duration.. Recently the landlord who
owns this garage raised the rent from
$2.50 to $3.00 g month. Is there no
ceiling on garage rentals?
A. Indeed there is..Landl,irds may
not rent a garage at a higher rate
now than they were charging on the
basic date, October 11, 1941.
Q. Can my landlord give me notice
when I cannot` pay my rent in ad-
vance, but pay it up from month
to month, when it is due.
A. If the rent is in arrears the
landlord has the same rights as al-
ways existed under the Landlord and
Tenants Act.
Q. I have always paid my grocer
70c a bag for coarse salt plus 10e for
delivery. Recently I bought two bags
and he charged me $1.70, Wouldn't
this be considered as breaking the
price ceiling.
A. Yes and you should report the
details to your Price Board office;
unless, of course, your dealer was
charging the higher pride durine
the basic period, September 15•—Oct-
ober 11, 1941. •
Q Is it alright to continue using
the tea, • coffee, and sugar coupons in
the old book?
A. Yes: until March 31, when they
become null and void.
Q. Would you ,please tell me again
when restaurants can charge extra
for milk? I still haven't got it
straight.
A. Customers who have been pay-
ing be for milk with an a la' carte
meal may not be charged more. than
5e now. But. when milk is ordered
with a table d-hote meal the restaur.
ateur is allowed to add 5c to the total
cost of the meal. For instance a 6Uc
dinner would be 65c.
Q. Is it necessary for a farm pro-
cessor to get a permit to make maple
syrup?
A. No: There are no regulations
covering permits for farmers produc-
ing maple syrup.
• Q. I drive a truck and do not carry
my employer's gasoline ration book.
How could I 'get repairs when it is
illegal for a garageman to make them
without first seeing the owner's ration
book. •
A, A new order of the Wartime
Prices. and Trade Board permits gar-
agemento make repairs as long as
the driver presents a letter from his
employer or manager of the employer
stating the number of the ration book
and the license number.
Q. My grocer refused, to sell me su-
gar until I had. signed the sugar
coupon sheet. Is thisreally necessary?,
A. Yes indeed; And youwill save
time if you will sign the sheets for
tea or coffee and butter too.. before
you go to the store the next time.
Q. How can I tell what price I
should pay for oranges? They are a
different price every time •I go into
the store.
A. From now on every grocer is re-
quired to tag each ease of oranges
with the size and the price for that
size. You will soon get used to looking
for the tag.
Q. We selI potatoes` by the ;bag to
It retailer. Are we allowed to charge
a deposit on the bags? '
A. No, Your markup gives you a
fail profit without charging for the
container.
Q. I understand the r government
called in all used steel drums. We
have just emptied two. Where will
we take them?
A. Return them to your supplier or
to anauthorized dealers.
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The days are near at hand when re-
pair gangs will set out to tear up
every good _stretch of pavement they
can find.
PAGE
IF POSSIBLE
AVOID TRAVEL
OVER WEEK -ENDS
AND HOLIDAYS
YOIJ HEAR IT at all hours
that long -drawn cry of theloco-
motivewhistle. It's the war whoop
of the railways.
It may be a troop train speeding
to keep a date with a convoy : s it
may be a long freight loaded with
tanks, guns and other materials of
war, many of them built by the
railways themselves .: s it may be
another week's supply of raw
materials to keep a war plant in
production, or food, fuel and other
essentials for the home front.
It is the proud war whoop of
Canada's greatest war industry --
the railways, which are serving
the nation as effectively in war as
in peace. Only the railways can
furnish mass transportation on
such a scale.
Your railways were ready
ready in war, so that Canada
could strike with all her might.
They will be ready in . peace
again to serve a greater Canada::
rolling ever forward on high-
ways of steel.
CANADIAN RAILWAY FREIGHT RATES ARE THE LOWEST iN THE WORLD
CANADIAN NATIONAL
CANADIAN PACIFIC
The Coming Crisis in Fuel ens, of gas, tires, drivers and, help-
ers,
elp- Rock Hen Lays an
ors,
3. The number of -men working in
the coal nines and available for wood'
cutting etc., is dropping,
d. Supply is down, demand up, and
fuel carrying facilities greatly decrea-
sed.
Education of the Public ami sup-
port by the people in fuel conserve -i
tion measures are absolutely neces-
sary.
All Canada had better get busy this
summer finding fuel for next winter.
Vancouver, Canada's third largest
city, had a desperate fuel shortage in
January when the writer was there.
Zero weather caught the West Coast
unprepared. Supplies of sawdust, a
common fuel on the coast, failed,
People were frozen out of their homes.
Churches, schools and many' public
buildings were closed. Laundries and
bakeries were quitting by the score.
Many workers on vital shipyard jobs
missed work because they had to hunt
fuel for their families. The crisis was
really serious and was only partly
overcome by the Army stepping in
and cutting wood for civilian use.
In the previous January I saw
Halifax snowbound in a blizzard which
stopped milk, fuel and ether deliveries
for days. Water pipes were bursting
through lack of fuel, and, es in Van-
couver, the people learned a good les-
son in the penalties of neglect,
Ontario, still locked in a cold spell
with March half gone, is the worst sit-
uated province in Canada from a fuel
standpoint, Both the West Coast and
the Maritimes have coal near at hand,
but Ontario is dependent mainly on
imported Boal and electric power.
Wood supplies in the province have
been ruined by years of•extravagant
waste and neglect of reforestra-
tion. In Toronto, dealers are scrap-
ing the •bottom of their 'bins. 'Business
men and war workers•carry bags of
coal home in their cars. People 'collect
scrap wood and paper to burn.
The situation is no laughing mat-
ter' at all. "Canada", as a famous
English statesman once said, "Is like
a beautiful woman who never had a
lover, cold and frigid." Empire des-
cription, "Our Lady of the Snows," is
accurate. Canadian winters are noth-
ing to fool with.
Blaming the dealers' or Ottawa
authorities does not make sense. War
conditions, in a vicious circle, create
the fuel shortage' and will probably
make it •woese.
The fuel famine is due "mainly to:
f: An enormous increase in the
amount of coal used industrially for
war production:
2. Transportation facilities • are
taxed to the limit, and the problem
of getting coal from the mines to
markets (:particularly in Ontario) is
1 becoming increasingly difficult. De-.
' livery of coal by dealers to domestic
and industrial users presents a'rtead-
ily increasing problem due to short -
Egg Within an Egg
On the farm of William Hunter
of Zion there is a rock hen that
every couple of weeks or so produces
la freak egg—an egg within • an egg.
The publisher was presented with one
sof these curios a few days agog The
egg resembled a goose egg in size,
measuring 9 inches by 7 1-2 inches in.
girth.
On breaking the outer egg, we
found a normal hard -shelled hen's,
egg within. Between the two eggs
was the albumen of another egg but
no yolk. Mr. Bunter says that pre-
vious eggs have contained -both the
yolk and the white. Luucknow Sentin-
el.
V
Sugar, Tea and Coffee
To Expire March 31st
Sugar, tea and coffee coupons in
number one ration book have no
value after March 81, states E. J.
jFarley, Regional Superintendent ,Ra-
tion Division, Wartime Prices and
ITrade Board, London.
' Once sugar, coffee and tea cou-
pons come due there has never been
any expiry date, but this has all been
changed as far as Ration Book Num-
ber One is concerned. Coupons in the
old (Number One) ration book may
be cashed after March 31, says Mr.
Farley. They' are all valid now, and
if they are to be used at all, must
be used •beforo the end of the month.
Sugar, tea and coffee 'coupons in
the new ration book recently issued,
have no expiry date.
A Chicago woman was as rested for
smashing a shop window. Probably
slaw a bat just like hers for less
money.
WE ARE PAYING
3½%
ON FIVE YEAR
GUARANTEED.
TRUST CERTIFICATES
ISSUED IN ANY
AMOUNT
An ideal authorized investment'
for individuals, companies, ceme-
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trustees.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. A. E. Silver, Pastor
11,00 a.m.—Sunday School
7.00 p.m. -•-Evening Worship
The Young People meet each Men- •
day evening at 8 p.m.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
Rev. G. W. Moore, Lth.
11.00 a.m.—Morning Prayer.
2.30 p.m. —Sunday School.,
7,00 p.m.—Evening 'Prayer.
THE SALVATION' ARMY
Capt. S. Curtis
11.00 a.m.—Holiness Service
2.80 pan. --Sunday School:
7.00 p.m. ---Salvation 1Vieeting.
ONTARIO STREET UNITED
Rev. G. G. Burton, M.A.,'B.D:
11.00 a.m.—Divine Worship.
Near Noon—Sunday School.
2.30 p.m.—Turner's Church Service
and Sunday School.
7,00 pm..—Evening Worship.
WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED
Rev. Andrew Lane,' B.A., B.D;
11.00 a.m.—Divine Worship
7.00 p.m.—Evening . Worship,
Sunday School at conclusion of
morning service.
PRESBYTERIAN'CBTJRCH
Rev. D. J. Lane
1.0.00 a.m.-Sunday Scheel.
1 "n n.m.-Worship'Serviee
• 2 00 p.m —Sunday "School, Bayfiei L
� •••-Worship Service at Bay -
Id. • •