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The Clinton News Record, 1940-07-18, Page 3TH.UR.S., JULY 18, 1940 THE CLINTON N.r;VVS-RECORD' WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINETIES ii i�,.�., MI , 9 ii• l�i, 0• Do You Relnelllber What Happened During The Last Decade Of The Old Century? TELE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, JULY 1,9, 1900 Mr. C. Stewart has been placing windmills in the southern part of the country and has already put up twenty-three. Mr. W. Jackson representing the C.P.R. ticketed the following parties to western points this past week: Mr. Oliver Johnson to Winnipeg, Man.; Mrs. Robert Moore to Nesbitt, Man.; Mrs. John MacMurray to Weyburn, Assa,; Mr. John Lovett and Dr. Ball to Carnduff, Assa.; Mr. Thos. Jack- son and Miss Rena to Indian Head, Assa., .where the latter will spend several weeks while Mr. Jackson makes his tour of the Territories. Mr. Peter Grant, who many years ago worked as a blacksmith in Clin- ton and subsequently invented the Hay Fork out of which he made sev- eral thousand dollars, is in town re- newing old acquaintances. Mr. Chas. Wallis left on Friday last for Sault Ste. Marie and expects to be absent a fortnight. The employees of Jackson Brothers and several guests, nearly forty in all, held their annual picnic in Bay- - field at Jowett's Grove, on Friday last. Mr. Harvey Reid of London was the guest of Mr. Jos. Rattenbury this week. Mr. W. IJ. Lattornell of the MoI- son's Bank left on Saturday for Fort William to visit his brother, who is on the staff of the Molson's Bank in that town. He went by boat from Sarnia, where he was joined by Mr. W. E. Rand of the Collegiate In- stitute staff. When The Present Century Was "Young THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, JULY 22, 1915 Misses Ward and Stone have mov- ed the plant of the School of Com- merce to the old Waverly Hotel build - Mg and have also taken up their residence there. Having re -modeled the building to suit their purposes they will on the • opening of the fall term have a most complete and up- to-date establishment for the train- ing of business students. A Narrow Escape Barrett, the sturdy little three -year: -old son of Mr, and' 11Irs. George Taylor, had a nar- row escape from' drowning at the St. Paul's Sunday School picnic held at Bayfield last Thursday. . Rev. J. Greene' is •saniewhat indis- posed this week and is: consequently taking things 'easy. It is mosttun- usual for Mr, Greene to be laid up, he is usually able to be about 866 days in the year, and it is hope he may soon be quite himself again. Work on the new Carnegie Annex is going on at a pace, the walls now going up and on completion will be quite an imposing structure. Miss Jennie Rand of near Brussels, who formerly taught the Summerhill school, has accepted the post of as- sistant in the Clinton Public School during the model term at a salary of $300. The Doherty piano, is of course, known throughout Canada and far beyond its confines, as will be seen when its known that one of their beautiful Colonial designed instrum- ents was recently shipped to Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Struthers of Wei -Wei, North Honan, China. This sale was made through the local agent, Mr. T. J. McNeil. Mi. and Mrs. Joshua Cook, Fera and Elmer returned Monday after a fortnight visit with friends hi Lon- don, Sarnia and Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. S. Kemp and Miss Nellie visited friends near Belgrave the fore part of the week. Miss Ruby Kilty is in Toronto tak- ing a special summer course at the University. Clinton Wins at Baseball — The Cinton team included: Hawkins, Rumball, Bert Johnson, Forbes, Mc- Caughey, Matheson, Mains, Stickies, W. Johnson. The. team defeated Zurich 8-6. ROUND TRIP BARGAIN FARES JULY 26 — 27 form CLINTON TO Stations Oshawa and east to Cormvall inclusive. Uxbridge, Lindsay, Peterboro, Campbedlford, Newmaricet, Cellingwood, Meaford, Midland. North Bay, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Capreol and West to Beardmore. P.M. Train q July 20 All Trains July 27 To TORONTO Also to Brantford, Chatham, Goderich, Guelph, Hamilton, 'i,ondon, Niagara Fa1L, Owen Sound, St. Catharines, St. Marys, Sarnia. Stratford, Strathroy, Woodstock. _— See handbills for complete. list of destinations For fares, return Limits, train information, tickets, etc. Consult nearest anent CANADIAN NATIONAL War Victims Safe in Canada Canadian -Pacific Photo. Innocent victims of a war hi which their fathers are playing, a noble part, these youthful evacuee from Dngland arrived unaccompanied in Montreal after an uneventful journey by Canadian. Pacific services,. In Windsor Station, Montreal, the young Britons showed • deep interest in the railway's War Memorial commemorating the death of Canadian. Pacific soldiers of a generation ago—many of them fathers of the Canadian Pacific employes. who are today bringing the, youth of iingland safe by land and sea from the horrors of Run air raids. i F ' Itiontilke Stallipedt (By Jo Chaunbet'tin'and condensed from The Kiwanis Magazine «3 in Reader's Digest) X :..wiH N �H44�f BMs fN 4H+»SHf f«:.44 1H+0++4414M�i 1 fW f44.414f401'iH � e -4.4M»441 f"4 i�. Early one morning in May, 1896, "Siwash" George Carmack , sat gloomily in front of a trading post in the far Canadian Northwest with his' Indian squaw, Kate, and two In- dian friends, Skookum Jim and Tag- ish Charley. Brake again after eleven years seeking gold, he would have to do what he had done before in such steaits—catch salmon to dry and sell. He flipped' his last silver dollar to decide whether he should set his nets up the Yukon River or downstream. The coin fell tails . and Carmack went downstream to a tributary,, the Klondike. The salmon were few and Carmack, disgusted, decided to try prospecting. again. Bob Henderson, a miner, suggested he try a certain valley and let him know what luck. On August 17, the party stopped be- side Rabbit Creek. While Carmack dozed, Skookum. Jim, to pass the time filled his pan with gravel and wash- ed it out. As the muddy water clear- ed, Tim's eyes popped wide. In the coarse gravel, pinhead nodules, black and heavy. Gold and plenty of it! Skookum Jim yelled; Carmack and Charley came running. They panned other spots. They- had struck it rich! The .excited men staked out claims and hurried off to record them. Henderson was forgotten. Car- mack blew into the saloon at Forty Mile, drank and babbled of his luck. When his listeners were skeptical, he thrust a fistful of gold under their 'noses. They stampeded. Sourdoughs struck out for the new diggings with- out waiting to get proper clothes or equipment. Drunken men were thrown into boats and hauled along by their friends. Claims were stak- ed out far above and below C'ar- mack's. Within a few weeks, the Yukon was afire with excitement. For a year, the outside world had no inkling of the news. June 16th, 1897, a steamer from Alaska docked at San Francisco. Down the gang- plank clumped bearded men in worn and dirty clothes. But they stagger- ed under burdens of gold, stuffed in old coffee pots, jam jars, paper ,bun- dles and moosehide pokes—$750,000 worth. Next day another ship brought miners with $800,000 to Seattle. Newspapers screamed the story of the richest strike in history; untold wealth in the Klondike, mil- lions still to be had. Times were hard in '97, jobs few. A hundred thousand people started for the strike.' The farmer left his plow, the bankrupt fled his creditors, the factory hand laid down his tools. Alaskan steamers were jammed with college professor's, bankers, lawyers, doctors, gamblers, "eon" ren and loose women. Warned to wait till the following spring lest they arrive too Iate to prepare for the deadly winter, the gold seekers paid no heed. The Klondike River is in Canada, just east of our Alaskan border. The favored route was by steamer to Skagway or Dye& in southernmost Alaska, on foot over the Chilkoot mountain pass into Canada, by scoW through a series of lakes and streams to the Yukon and down it 500 miles to' the gold fields. hopes. Of those who started only. one in four got through to Dawson City. Sixteen weeks on the trail was accounted pretty good time. There never was a boom town like Dawson. Where once had been the Ione +shack of trader Joe Ladue, a town of 20,000 sprang up in two years. Scows and flatboats packed the waterfronts; tents, log cabins and shanties lined muddy streets throng- ed with howling Malemute dogs and bearded men. Saloons and dance halls ran 24 hours a day. It was wild, mad, wide open. Fresh food was unobtainable and many • 'a newcomer's teeth fell out from winter scur,'y. Milk from :the one cow was $30 a ''gallon. Butter was $3 a pound. Flour went up to as high as $120 for a 50 -pound sack. Eggs were $1 each, if you could get them. A restaurant featured oyster stew at $15—when it had the oys- ters. A meal of bread, bacon and beans was $5 to $10. Doughnuts and coffee cost $1.25; a piece of pie, 75 cents. Life centered in the saloons. Con- spicuous on the bar were scales for weighing gold dust. One porter gath- ered enough gold from spittoons and floor sawdust to buy a good mining claim. What gold roulette and faro in the back room didn't get, the danee-hall girls did. Champagne cost $60; the bottles were refiled with soda water and sugar and sold to drunks who wouldn't know the difference. The girls, modishly gowned, danced with sourdoughs in moccasins or heavy boots at $1 for three minutes, to the "professor's" banging on the piano. As most of the miner's hadn't bath- ed in months and lcouldn't really dance, the girls earned their money. Tex Richards ran one joint. `Chief competitor was "Swiftwater Bill" Gates, who had struck it rich on Claim No. 13. Swiftwater, a former. dishwasher, strutted Dawson in a Prince Albertir,,, a stiff hat and lots of diamonds. Ile offered a girl her weight in gold to marry him. She took the $30,000 but didn't marry him. To win this same girl who was fond of eggs but not of him, Swift- water cornered the egg supply at a cost of $2300. He talked of import- ing 200 schoolmarms from Boston to be offered to lonely miners as wives at $5,000 each, In the fall of '98 a crowd actually waited at the dock when the prospective wives were supposed to arrive on the Yukon steamer "May West!" Tivo English- men arrived in Dawson with expen- sive bicycles, though there was no Place to ride. Another Britisher ar- rived flat broke, but sold•his supply of marmalade for enough to stake him six months. A. restaurant pro- prietor announced that "a perfectly preserved mastodon had been found in the Arctic ice." He would serve mastodon steaks at $10 each. He really served beef. It was a town joke. As more wives came in, a demand for reform arose. Eventually the better element won and the redlight district was moved to the city limits —a few blocks away. Chilkoot Pass, 3600 feet high, of- ten hidden in fog or blizzard, was hard work' even for toughened In- dians; to office -bred gold rushers it became a trail of terror. It was lin- ed with the sick and beaten — also with thieves and sharks, male and female./It was treacherous. At Sheep 'Camp, just below timber line, seventy men were buried alive in one April avalandhe. Each man's equipment ran . from 800 to 1500 pounds, so that he had to toil up the steps hewn in the ice Siwash George Carmack, who for 15 years had fought blizzards and gone hungry without being ill for a single day, died of pneumonia in a Vancouver hospital. Bob Ilenderson, whose tip to Carmack started it all, never struck it rich. He was given a government job, died. poor. Swift- water Bill Gates had matrimonial troubles and, dodging the law for years, was killed not so long ago in a miners' camp in. Peru. Another man who also gave a girt her weight in gold to marry him is a section hand today, his loyal wife still with him. Some who never really panned gold dial best. Rex 'Beach made a fortune with "The Spoilers" and other novels. Robert W. Service lives in France, prosperous from such ballads as "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." Jack London had to work his way back to San Francisco, _broke and suffer- ing from scurvy, but he brought' back a priceless pokeful of literary mater- ial. ' The Klondike gold rush had per- manent effects. It gave decisive im- petus to . Vancouver, Portland and Seattle. It led to the opening of Al- aska. Many defeated prospectors, caught by the spell of the north, stayed 'onto fish, trap, trade. "Sew- ard's Folly" began to pay rich divi- dends in other things aswell. as gold. The great stampede was more than greed and folly;, it was a great ad- venture of the human spirit. GODERICH TOWNSHIP BOY STRUCK BY CAR, INJURED Struck by a passing ear as he stood on the shoulder of Highway 21, two miles south of Bayfield Late last night, Kenneth Stirling, 16 -year-old son of Leslie Stirling, Goderich town- ship, is in Clinton Hospital suffer- ing from concussion and severe lac- erations to one arm. Today his con- dition was improved. He is not in danger. The Stirling car had run out of gasoline and Kenneth had just start- ed out on foot to the nearest service station when two automobiles travel- ing in opposite directions hove into view. The fender of the car driven by John Denonnie, R.R. No. 1, Zurich, who told Traffic Officer Webb that he was blinded by approaching lights, struck the boy and hurled him into the air. The lad was found lying in the ditch, unconscious, taken to a farm and a doctor called. He was later removed to hospital. Denomne stopped his car after the impact and rendered assistance. He was not held. Names now familiar dotted the ros- ter at Dawson City. Young Key Pitt- man from Nevada was there and Robert W. Service, a clerk in. the Canadian Bank of Commerce who wrote verse. Jack Holt, just out of short trousers, was looking for any honest job. Rex Beach lived in a cabin. below Dawson, prospecting and cutting wood for river steamers. A fellow named Jack London carne too late to make his fortune and spent a winter arguing socialism. Some 'claims sold for fabulous of the steep, boulder -strewn canyon sums, but proved to be no good. Oth- trail again and again. Unless he, hir- I > ed Indians to help, it usually took a I ers that yielded fortunes went for a man four weeks to get his goods tr !drink of v¢biskey, or a Wive pig. Gold the top. worth $400,000 was taken from one claim 90 by 300 feet. A -"forgotten The long string of toiling men, fraction" 18 feet wide yielded $20, - thousands of them, lookiN from be- 000. There were claims where gold low like ants at work. They strug-.. ran $1,000 to the pan. At best, it gled and rested, struggled and rest- wasn't all profit. It took a lot of ed. The pace was that of the weak- labor at $15 a day to. cut wood for est. You could not hurry. Neither fires. to thaw the thick layer of froz- could you rest except when others en muck from the gravel that might did, without losing your place in line,' or might not yield •gold. Arctic winds and rains whipped through thin tenderfoot clothes, chill- ing and killing. There was confusion, squalor, Any claim vacant 60 days was op - pen for new filing. A Mountie would be on hand at midnight to see that new elaianants staked it out proper- death•. Men quarreled with their ly. Then it would go to the man who partners, dividing their goods bitter- ly—evento sawing boards in half. Money was worth less than resource- fulness and courage. Sharing a few beans, lending a blanket, or a pipeful of tobacco -these things made men brothers. To conquer Chilkoot was something' to be proud of—but it was not the 'end of the ordeal. Down on the other side of the pass, men felled trees and sawed them into planks for crude scows ---several weeks' work. They got to a recorder first. Two dog- team drivers led the field in a race from abandoned claim No. 40. Both tumbled inside the r'ecorder's office, and fell on the floor, unable to gasp a word. The recorder, Solomon -like, divided the claim between therm. It proved worthless. By September, '98, 17,000 claims had been recorded and precious few yielded .fortunes. Dishearted men, took jobs shovelling or cutting wood. Latecomers hung around Dawson for Kincardine is a "dry" town --es ninny tourists—and citizens mourn-- which ourn—rvhich makes- it difficult to explain this situation—Maepherson's Garage procured a number of coat hangers —and bottle openers—for freedis- tribution—in a (single day all the bottle openers were gone—and no coat hangers. pushed the scowson log rollers from a while, then sold their .goods and lake to lake, eventually reaching the started. home. The high prices col - swift -running, terrifying upper Yu- lapsed. In 1899, news of rich gold kon. In, Miles 'Canyon, a narrow finds on the beach at Cape Nome, chute of racing water between high rock walls, many were drowned. More died amid the flying mane of spray in White Horse Rapids. Rude cross- es, tin cans, blazed trees marked the graves of broken bodies and broken sourdoughs. 800 miles west, drew thousands away from Dawson. Almost as swiftly as it had grown,. it -collapsed to a town of 2,000. What became of the .Klondike CHURCH DIRECTORY THE BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. A. E. Silver, Pastor 2.30 p.m.—Sunday School 7 pan.—Evening Worship The Young People meet each Monday evening at 8 p.m. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH Rev. A. H. ;O'Neil, B.A., B.D. 10.00 a.m.—Sunday School. 11 'a.m. Morning Prayer. 7 p.m.—Evening Prayer. THE SALVATION ARMY Lieut. Maclean 11 a.m.—Worship Service 3 p.m.—Sunday School '7 p.m.—Evening Worship ONTARIO STREET UNITED Rev. G. G. Burton, M.A., B.D. 10.00 ton.—Sunday School. 11 a.m.—Divine Worship 9.30 a.m. Turner's Church Ser. vice and Sunday School 7 p.m. Evening Worship • WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED Rev. Andrew Lane, B.A., E.D. 11 a.m.-Divine Worship 7 pan.—Evening Worship. Sunday School at conclusion of • morning service. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Gordon Peddie, B.A. Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a,m. 3 p.m. Worship Service at Bayfield 2 p.m.—Sunday School, Bayfield CLINTON MISSION W. 1. Cowherd, Supt. Services: Monday 8 p.m. Young People Thursday 8 p.m. Prayer Meeting Sundays 11 am. Prophetic Studies 2 p.m. Sunday School. 3 p.m. Fellowship, Meeting 8 p.m. Evangelistic Service. PAGE S -.7:liaaffeagia Because White Rose Motor Oil resists heat so effectively it is ideal for summer driving. It's fine, yet extra -strong, tough film protects motors under all conditions. Try White Rose and see for yourself why motorists say it's "tbe PICK of them all!" lee WHITE ROSE MOTOR OIL Made by the makers of the famous WHITE ROSE gasolmes CONADIAN 4nL COMPAN101 TORONTO MAPLE LEAF BASEBALL NEWS With the belated return of warm weather, bargain days will be the rule at Maple Leaf Stadium between now and the end of August. All those games that were postponed in May' and June because of rain and cold will be played in July and August, which means plenty of double-headers for the fans. After this week the Leafs then hit the road not to return until Monday, July 29, when they engage the Syra- cuse Chiefs. Both Tuesday's and Wednesday's games will be twilight floodlight fixtures in this series. The Leafs and the Birds play a double on the night of August 1 and another double on Saturday afternoon, Aug- ust 3. The following Monday, August 5, the Jersey City Giants provide the competition in still another double fixture. 'Twilight -floodlight doubles start at 6.30 p.m., Saturday afternoon doubles at 2 o'clock With a long string of double bills looming up and the extra strain it will place on the pitchers, Phil Mar- childon, Penctang's gift to the Tor- onto Maple Leafs, has lately become Manager Tony Lazzeri's main pitch- ing dependence. For Flinging Phil is now beginning to live up to the promise he gave as an amateur, 00 - fore being rescued from the sandlots by Toronto scouts in the spring of 1939. It was July 3, 1939, before Phil won his first victory in the Inter- national League. Between then and the end of the season, he managed to annex four more. This spring he got off to a slow start, losing four games before breaking into the win column. But when he finally hit his' stride, the victories came so fast that he had grabbed off six before the first of July. The Canadian kid has always had. the equipment to make a great pitch- er—his fast ball really takes off and his curve breaks like a flash of light- ning. But last year he was hog wild and so green that when the runners once got on, they stole everything but his glove. Then again he didn't know how to pace himself, with the result that he invariably weakened in the late innings. With the arrival of Sad Sam Jones as coach of the Leafs this spring, all that has been changed. Sam taught him how to pin the runners to the base's. He taught him a change of pace, which has helped hint to keep the hitters off balance and made his fast one 'seen twice as fast. He no longer tries to stripe out every man who faces hini, so he now has something in reserve when he gets in a jam and has to bear down. Some of his recent efforts have been cies- sies and the emits are beginning to show more than passing interest in him again. If he can keep on im- proving, the Leafs have 'a real chance to move up in the exciting race for playoff spots. Consider the strange case of Bob Latshaw, the lanky youth recently secured by the Toronto Maple Leafs 'front, the Indianapolis Indians. Lat- shaw has'just turned twenty-two but he has been in organized baseball for six years, reporting to the Indians at the tender age of sixteen, Ile was a 'freshman, on the campus of the University of Southern California when Red Killifer, manager of the Indians, first spied him and persuad- ed him to sign an Indianapolis con- tract. Killifer was struck by his size and his obvious baseball premise, but thought he ,was several years re- moved from Double -A ball. Killifer finally moved oat of the Indianapolis spot and left young Lat- shaw sitting on the bench, Succeed- ing managers continued to let him sit, inserting him in the odd game as. a pinch -hitter or a pinch -runner. Ap- parently they just got too used to thinking of him as a promising kid who was still several years away. When. Harley Boss failed at first base this .spring for the Leafs and Tony Lazzeri looked around for a re- placement, Latshaw was the only man available, which means that the. Indiana had come to hold him in light regard. Today lanky Bob is the new idol of Toronto fans, With a chance to play regularly, he. has developed into a consistent and timely hitter, bashing the ball well over the .300 mark and playing a whole lot of first. base in the field. Already - several. major league scouts are on his trail.. Meanwhile the Indiaus have encount- ered first base trouble. They have- discarded avediscarded Newman, long their reg- ular first baseman, and are now play- ing Joe Mack in his place. Mack is hitting almost 100 points less than Latshaw. Scanning the baseball horizon„ there are certain hopeful signs that. the sun of the Toronto Maple Leafs may soon start to rise. Most prom- inent of these is the fact that the: Leafs have managed to maintain. close to a .500 pace for the past. three weeks, despite a long list of: injuries that has seriously impaired the strength of the club. It's reason- able to suppose that the team will do even better with the return to health of the injured athletes. At one time four of the club's best hurlers—Reninger, Walkup, Fischer and Eaves—were on the ailing list.. All have now recovered with the ex- ception of Reninger, who appears to be out for the remainder of the sea - Eric Tipton, the club's leading hit - son. Tommy heath, veteran catcher; was also on the sidelines with a chip- ped finger, from which he too has recovered• ter, was forced out with a dislocated shoulder, whieh hurt the club badly, as it needed the power. Flea Clifton, sprightly utility infielder, was out with an injury similar to Tipton's, and Fred Chapman, flashy shortstop, continued in the game though his fielding was hampered by a severe finger injury. All these ,nen are now back in the fray. Another hopeful sign, is the return to batting form of outfielder Johnna, Tyler, who is now rattling base hits off the fences in the manner expect- ed of hilt. The acquisition. of Bob. Latshaw, a hard and timely hitter,. gives the Leafs a one-two punch that should produce a lot of runs in future contests. And last, but not least,. there is the performance of young. Walter Klirnczak, rookie catcher re- cently recalled from the Sally league. Walter has improved amazingly over last season. There isn't a doubt now. but that he is the best thrower among the' catchers in the International, is a splendid receiver to boot, and' he has learned to hit curve pitching, which makes trim a dangerous man at the dish every time .he coures up. So .the outlook around Maple Leaf' Stadium is more hopeful .now than at any timeso far this season. SOCIETY IS OUTLAWED. The organization known as Jehovah's Witnesses has been. declared illegal by order -in -cern- eil tabled in the House of Cern.. mons by Hon. Ernest Lapointe,, Minister of Justice.