The Clinton News Record, 1941-08-14, Page 6'HUR$.,'AUGUST 14, 1941
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Some Notes of The News
in 1916
this vicinity.
Mrs. Robert Mutch has sold her
house and property on Ontario St.
next to the Public School, to Mrs.
Kennedy formerly of Mitchell, who is
a sister of Mrs. H. Fitzsimons. Mrs.
Mutch will probably move to Goderich
to live with her son, Mr. Joe Mutch.
Mr. George Levis the well-known
Massey -Harris agent on the Midway,
is now a proud owner of a Ford.
FROM THE CLINTON ,NEWS -
RECORD
AUGUST 10TH, 1916
Messrs Arthur Cantelon and W.
Elliott are working on a new dry kiln
for the Doherty Co. It will be a per-
manent structure, with brick walls
and concrete foundations and when fit-
ted with all modern conveniences will
cost in the neighbourhood of five
thousand dollars.
Some anxiety was aroused here for
the safety of Miss Allie Worthington
and, her husband, who were thought to
be in the fire zone in Northern Ont-
ario, although nothing definite has
been received.
Foreman W. East of the Clinton
Waterworks system is having a busy
summer. During the past week he
has completed services for the New
Era Office, Clinton Knitting Company
and Miss Waldron.
Borbrigde Bros. of St. Thomas have
removed the balance of the Chapman
boot and .shoe store stock to their
store in St. Thomas, and this leaves
the Twitchell store vacant for the
first time since it was built in 1877.
Mrs. Wm. Hyslop, and two child,
ren 'of Detroit are the guests of the
lady's parents, Mr. and Mrs.- Isaac
Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. R. Gimti and
family and Mrs. Robinson of Detroit
motored over and after spending a
few days in Goderieh, visited the for
mer's sister, Mrs. David Steep.
Mr. Harold Eastman of Arkona has
taken charge of the church work in
the absence of Rev. J. K, Fairfull. On
Sunday Capt. J. K. Fairfull was home
from Camp Borden and tookpart in
the services.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Draper, who
have been living 'at Niagara Falls,
Ont., for some time have returned
to Clinton,
Mr. A. T. Cooper spent the holiday
with Mrs. Cooper and Master Willis
at Bunk's camp.
Mrs. E. Saville and her little niece,
Mary Webster, visited Seaforth
friends last week.
Pte. Wihner Wallis holidayed at
Camp Burk's with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Holland and daughters'
Mary and. Gladys left on Tuesday on
an extended trip east to Belleville.
air. Holland was born near Belleville.
and has many relatives in Hastings.
'C'ounty.
'ROM THE CLINTON NTON NEW ERA •
AUGUST 10TH, 1916
Miss Margaret. Walker of Clinton
,spent a few days with Mr. and, Mrs.
.0. %W'. Potter at Porter's Hill, last
week.
Misses Mabel and Elva Guff spent
Civic Holiday with friends in Goder-
ieh Township.
Miss Cook of London was a guest
of Mrs. W. J. Miller, Ontario . St.
Mrs. J. K. Wise and Miss Viola
are visiting relatives in Sarnia.
$wing to the long dry spell, pota-
toes are likely to be a ppor,;,erop,, in
Chief Wheatley and Serg. Welsh
took a trip into Hullett to look for a
deserter from 161st. The soldier is
visiting in the U.S., address unknown.
Mrs. E. Jervis and children of
Weyburn, Sask., will make their home
in Clinton for the time being and have
rented the house recently vacated on
Isaac St. by Mr. E. E. Hunnifoid,
The management of the Western
Fair, London, asks the Kittle Band to
submit terms for Thursday, August
14th, to play at the Fair,
Mr. D. Elliott has moved into the
house he purchased from Mr. J. Ap-
pleby, on Huron St,
James Appleby moved on Monday
to the house on King St., which he
purchased from Mrs. Grigg Sr.
Hullett: about two oclock on Mon-
day afternoon ,while Mr. Owen Rey-
nolds, of the 4th con., was hoeing in
the field, he noticed his big barn on
fire, and when he got there was un-
able to save it. This is a severe loss.
The frame building, used as a gar-
age, next to Josh Cook's residence
on Ontario St. is being removed, and
Mr. A. J. Holloway will use it as a
coal office at his scales at G.T.R. Mr.
Wm. Wheatley has the contract for
moving the building.
When The Present Century.
Was Young
FROM THE CLINTON NEWS -
RECORD
AUGUST 8TH, 1901
The tax rate was struck by town
council on. Monday night at 22 mills
on the dollar, one-half mill higher
than last year. Mary St. chain, the
cause of the increase.
• Public School Leaving exams.
Almong those successful were P. Bice,
N.W. Boles, J. Z. Carling, G. A. D.
Cook, M E. Copp, P. E. MacDonald,
M. R. McEwen, J. -K. Mair, C. P.
Tisdall, M, A. Worthington, E. Hunter,
E. J. Johns, A. N. Woon.
The pacing mare, Florence G., once
a queen of the Canadian turf, gave
birth .on Tuesday to a fine colt. .The
knowing ones have looked it over and
declare it- ought to be a whirlwind.
Florence G. is owned by Mr. W. W.
Ferran.
Mer. Smith' Kilty of Sanilac Centre,
Mich., is in town this week. He has
charge of an Anglican Mission in -
that town.
Miss Gertie Meyers of Toronto is
the guest ef Miss A. Cooper.
Mrs. S. L Scott and Miss Scott
leave rjthis' •week for,' Toronto, where
they. will reside. Mr. Scott will join
I Read - And Write - For You
(Copyright)
By John C: Kirkwood
MAINLY PERSONAL
There is a divinity which shapes
our ways -our destiny --rough ' hew
them how we will. So the saying goes.
That word "destiny" is one to stumble
over. Some good people—are they
Presbyterians ?—argue that from the
moment of our birth our course in
life is mapped out for us by Heaven,
and that is is an unalterable course—
that everything which happens to us
throughout the full length of our life
is in accordance with the plan of
Heaven. Others declare that we our-
selves can shape our own destiny.
Speaking for myself I cannot persu-
ade myself that our way of life is
rigidly and definitely fixed for us
from the day of our birth. On the
other hand, I believe that we can in-
fluence -perhaps shape—our destiny;
can arrive at a pre -determined desti-
nation. Even so, most of us', I am
persuaded,, have our way of life de-
termined by the casual circumstances
—this because we do not map out in
youth a precise course, and follow it
faithfuly all the remaining days of
our life. Francis Parkman, historian,
had planned his way of life at age
18: he meant to tell the story of the
British and the French in North
America, and particularly that part
of North America called Canada, dur-
ing a limited period. He had even
chosen the titles' of the books which
he meant to write, and he had cal-
culated the number of year which it
would take him to complete his self -
chosen task. Perlman lived long en-
ough to write his planned books, yet
they were not all of them published
according to his programme—this in
point of time. Parknsan's eyesight
failed him, and this circumstance de-
layed the production of several books.1
Then, ..too, his health -went < bad, and
for years at a time he had to drop
his labor of writing his books.
Occasionally one does read about
them in a few weeks.
Mr. II. Stevens, having finished
Mr. Ridout's new residence on Ratten-
bury St., is now building- for Mr. John
Leslie, who wants to get nearer to
his place of business.
Mr. Jacob Miller has been kept busy
erecting air -motors, Among his pat-
rons are: IL McTaggart, town; David
Dewar, Sauble Line, Stanley; John
Manns, Hullett. There are a number
of others for whom he put up mills
earlier in the season.
Mr. Will Churchill, son of Reeve
Churchill of Goderich township, has
been unwell for months and recently
entered the Clinton hospital and was
operated on for appenticitis. The opt
eration was entirely successful.
FROM THE CLINTON NEW ERA
AUGUST 9TH, 1901
Bert Dayment of the Stratford Her-
ald spent Sunday at his home in town.
Miss Logan and' MasteraIke Rat-
tenbury spent a few days this week
with London friends.
Mrs. Rich Ransford and Miss M. O'-
Neil left Monday to join a party of
ladies at Toronto for a two week's
tour of the Muskoka district. Miss
O'Neil will remain away one month.
Cornelius Hoare and wife are visit-
ors to the Pan American this week.
Misses N. McRae, Etta Twitchell,
Beatrice McConnell, and Bertha Mc-
Rae have returned from a two weeks'
outing at Bayfield.
Clarence and Chummie Shepherd
are spending their holidays with their
sister in Toronto,
B. J. Gibbings is ,expected home on
Saturday. He sailed from Liverpool
on Thursday of last. week.
J. W. Hill, after a three weeks' trip
out west, returned home in Wed. He
was as far west as Cranbroolt,, B.C.
While away he ran across many
former Huronites.
Gillis Duncan Gilchrist passed a-
way on Monday in his 84th year. He
was born in Scotland and lived for
many years at Beechville, where he
was. foreman for M. McTaggart,
manufacturer of fanning mills.
H. Cantelon took charge of the
Clarendon last Friday.
At the meeting of the council,
Monday night, the resignations• of
Mr. Reynolds', caretaker of the ceme-
tery and of Mr, Howe nightwateh
man, were both accepted. Mr. Rey-
nolds finds the work more than he can
do, and intends moving to London.
Mr. Howe has accepted a position with
the Queen Oil Company.
Me. Wesley Newcombe has invent-
ed an ingenious arrangement for the
display of lace curtains and
intends
having it patented.
Clinton markets reveal that eggs
are sold at 9 and 10 cents a dozen;
butter is 14o a lb.; potatoes are
$1.50 per bushel; live pork $7.00; old
wheat at 62c per bus.
Busy Builders—Builders aiid con
tractors. are very busy at present.
Messrs. McKenzie, Cooper and Stev-
ens are ail hustling with work, while
stonemasons and .brisk layers are
equally driven. ' Hiram Hill went to
Stratford to look for additional help,
Thos. Walker finds the days, too short
for the work on hand. • Dan Prior
has completed the brick work of nine
contracts. Times are, good. p
~MAP*
men who, like Parkman,know from
youth just what thew mean" to do.
These men are enviable. In regard
to most of us, we drift along in our
early years, and even in our later
years, letting -the casual circumstances
direct our steps.
In the case of my own life its course
was set by a series of .casual circum-
stances. For the first 22 years of
my life, my way was normal; I went
to the local high school; then taught
school for two years; then returned
to high school for two or more years.
I went to Queen's University rather
than to the much nearer Toronto Un-
iversity because the minister of the
church my family attended was a
Queen's man, and it was he who 'led
me to go to Queen's'. That was the
casual circumstance. I pad to, leave
Queen's after a few weeks because'
of a severe attack of typhoid fever.
I had hardly been home, a .convaies-
cent, when my father was stricken
with an illness from which he never
recovered, which circumstance kept
me home during his absence in the
south where he hoped to recover his
health: The year following his death
my sistermatriculated, winning a
number of scholarships, and so it
seemed to be clearly indicated that she
and not I should go to the university,
seeing that but one us could go. That
was a casual circumstance, so far as
I was concerned. When after carrying
on my father's business for several
years, but with no strong desire to
stay in it for the rest of my life, I
went to Illinois to solicit subscriptions
for a magazine called "Current Hist-
ory", my identification with this
particular publication was related to
the circumstance that the editor of
this magazine had married a young
woman in my town. Here again en-
tered the casual circumstance.
When, later in the same year -1900
—I went to Halifax to work there for
a firm of book publishers, I met at
the hotel a man serving the same
company. We shared the same bed-
room for several weeks. Later this
man went to Philadelphia, to work
for the Booklovers Library, and' he
got me a job with this library, which
took me to Philadelphia, and later to
Cleveland, and later again to Phila-
delphia. I was not happy in a new
job—the Philadelphia job, and acqu-
ired a desire to return to my own
country. Happening to see an adver-
tisement for an editor, ,wonted for a
Toronto trade newspaper) T replied to
it, and while I did not ge not gd the precise
job sought, I did get a job—with the
MacLean Pubishing Company. It was
the casual or accidental circumstance
of my having seen the advertisement
for an editor in a Philadelphia public
library that led to my returning to
Toronto and getting with the Mac.
Lean Publishing Company—this in
1908.
There I met a young Englishman
who had emigrated to Canada follow-
ing the Boer War. He said to me of-
ten that I should go to England, to
the London Daily Mail. So, when a
Daily Mail man arrived in Toronto at
the. end of 1905, I went to see him,
under the pressure of my English
friend, to ask him about my getting
work on the Daily Mail. He looked
at my work, and then said, "111 send
you to the Daily Mail," and so in
February 1906 I went, with my wife
and our two young children, to Lon-
don. Again the casual circumstance
—my contacts with two 'Englishmen.
In 1911 the man who had, found me
work in Philadelphia in 1900 visited
England and persuaded me to return
to Toronto to take charge of the Can-
adian branch of the advertising agen-
cy which he served in Philadelphia.
The decision to open this Canadian
branch was based on the confident
expectation that Sir Wilfred Laurier's
project for reciprocity trade relations
between the United States and Can-
ada would have the endorsement of
the people ofCanada, but the gener-
al elections of that year vetoed Sir
Wilfrid's proposal. Just the same
the Toronto office was opened, with
myself in charge.
Then came the 1914-18 war. This
war led an English friend of mine
an old Daily Mail associate—to pro-
pose to his employers, The Federation
of British Industries, the production
of a book designed to promote British
trade in all lands after, the end of the
war. The book was authorized, and
my friend wrote ire proposing that
I should go to England to produce this
book. He 'said that he 'wanted some-
one having mature editorial, adverti-
sing, printing and publishing exper-
ience, and that I was 'the only man
known to him having these varied
qualifications. The engagement was
to be for one year. The opportunity
to return to England was too attract-
ive to 'be refused, besides which the
remuneration was' adeciiiate. Accord-
ingly I went back td London. in
March 1919. The worl).was extended
beyond the year. Ther;, when it end-
ed, and, when 1 was in need, of new
emp}oyiment, another English friend --
en old Daily Mail associate—came to
me and offered me a post in his com-
apy—an advertising /agency. I was
AN URGENT APPEAL ONTARIO FARMERS
Keep your cowsmilking!
Ontario cheese factory patrons did a good job. in May and June. They increased
cheese .production by 2,574,772 pounds. Don't let the drought be a tool for Hitler.
Britain must have 112,000,000 pounds of cheese this year. This requires effort on
your part. Drought conditions call for heavier grain feeding immediately.
(1) Feed any available grain or silage,
(2) Buy Bran and Shorts at the pegged prices from your nearest
Feed Store'at a saving of $3.00 per ton Prices are now at
wti May levels.
(3) Feed new grain at once. gr;=
(4) Don't stint. Milk flow must be maintained.
YOU WILL NEED GREEN FEED THIS FALL
Work up a stubble field. After the first rain, sow one bushel Rye or Fall Wheat and
two bushels of Oats per acre. This mixture will also provide early Spring pasture.
You will be surprised and pleased at the quick and steady growth.
ONTARIO IS BRITAIN'S "FRONT •LINE" FOR DAIRY
PRODUCTS, SO KEEP YOUR COWS MILKING!
Feed the cows to feed' Britain
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
HON. P; M. DEWAN, Minister W. E. REEK, Deputy Minister
with this agency for 8 years; then
went free-lancing in London for
another 3 years. But it was the cas-
ual circumstance—the war and my
friend's need and favor—which took
me back to England in 1919.
In 1930 the pulisher of a business
man's paper in Toronto found, himself
in need of a new editor, and he of-
fered one the vapant post. And so
I returned to Toronto,
Of my life and work during the
past 10-11 year's I need not now
speak. My purpose in this contribu-
tion to- the News -Record has been to
demonstrate by my own history how
the casual circumstance gives diree-
tion to one's course through life.
Doubtless every reader of this story
of mine is able to confirm out of his
own experiences my contention that
the casual circumstance determines
our destiny or destination, I suggest,
therefore, that you review your way
of life, and seek to establish the fact
that the casual circumstance has been
potent in your own individual life--
in
ife—in shaping its course, and perhaps,
also, in shaping 'your character, and
achievements and attainments.
v
Retired School Teacher
Turns Poet
W, H. Johnston Issues Collection of
Verse ,
William H. Johnston, of Exeter,
Ont., retired teacher, with years of
honored servree to nis credit in Ash-
field, Hay ad Stanley townships, is
known to many as the writer of in-
teresting reminiscent historical sketch-
es, but during the years he has been
exercising his poetic gift, as a rec-
reation, dealing with the experiences
of his long life.
He has now arranged and published
in a neat booklet' a collection of his
sketches, under the title "Rural
Rhymes of Love and Friendship,"
The dedication, written 27th May,
1941, on his eighty-third birthday,
honors his parents, Henry and Mary
Serson Johnston ,pioneers of Ashfield
township, and his wife, Sarah M.
Blake, lately deceased, and makes
touching reference to the old come
panions, of early' and later days, and
to the hundreds of old pupils whom
he sought to teach and inspire in
their preparation for life.
An appreciation published in the
book from his old friend, John Elliott,
B.A., of London, who was a fellow
public school teacher in Ashfield
township long ago, gives an estimate
of the little volume:
"I have -been reading with great
'nterest this . collection of Rural Rhy-
mes -written in hours of recreation by
my old school -master friend, Wm. H.
Johnston.
"They are simple and homely, with
personaltouchesand references to
school and rural life that will make
appeal to those familiar with country
life.
"Their moral tone is pleasant and
wholesome, and they will be best un-
derstood by the friend of Mr. John-
ston who recognize the local coloring
and are familiar with the persons and
places referred to."
There is in the book a good picture
of the author ,and a well-written
sketch of his life by. J. idd. Southcott
of The Exeter Times -Advocate, who
has done a creditable piece ef work
as publisher of the volume.
—Goderich Signal Star.
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IMISettee
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"Action Stations" aboard a corvette. A U-boat has been detected and
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BIRTHDAY PICTURES
Easy to take Just a short time exposure with the camera on a firm
support= -this shot Is part of a charming birthday series. Keep your
camera busy on birthdays, they're fine for pictures,
SOONER or later, every member
of a family bas a birthday—and
Isere is one occasion when you can
really turn your camera loose for
a first-rate story -telling series of
pictures.
Of course, the center of a child's
birthday Is the cake with candles.
That's why we picked it for our Pic-
ture here. But there's a lot more to
a !birthday— anybody's birthday.
The preparations -the presentation
of gifts—the party, if there is one
—all these make good snapshot in-
terial. If it's a child's occasion, with
your small son or daughter playing
the leading role, you can start take
ing pictures several days in advance
—pictures emphasizing the good be-
havior that always precedes the
big day.
The idea, in making a series of
this sort, is to tell a complete story.
The ,more details sou can show,
the better yourstory—and it's more
satisfying when you look, back
through your album.
Here's what r mean by"details."
Snpposc it's Dad's birthday, and
you're giving him anew pipe. Then
get one picture as he receives the
package; another as he ,begins to•
unwrap it; a shot of his expression.
when he sees the gift; another as
he loads up for the first time; and
a Anal shot as he contentedly puffs.
away. This is clearly much better
-and far more interesting --than.
Just one shot, or several all alike.
It's quite as simple to take a..
series as a few "single" shots. Just
set up your two photo lights—and.
as long as your subject stays in the.
same spot, the exposure won't.
change. So, all you need do is,
watch for changes in pose and ex-
pression. The photo bulbs and high
speed HIM make snapshots easy..
A Shot of the cake, lighted only by
the candles, will cali for a short
time exposure—say two to three
seconds -with the camera placed on
a firm, solid support.
Maybe there isn't a birthday at.
your house this week, or this
month. But tuck this away—and.
when the day comes, remember
your camera, and,get a good' birth-
day story.' It's perfect material' for
your "family History" album.
334 John' van Guilder