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The Clinton News Record, 1936-06-25, Page 3THURS., JUNE 25, 1936 THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORI WHAT CLINTON WAS ' DOING TN THE GAY NINETIES Do You Remember What Happened During The' Last. Decade Of The Old Century? From The News -Record,' June 24th, 1896: Crickot:—The married men and bachelors crossed willows on Monday and the benedicts won 77 to 44. Dr. Shaw was barred and could not par- ticipate in the .glorious victory, On Sunday morning Ben Churchill's: barn and contents was .consumed by fire along with, 0 threshing machine. Trainps are supposed to have been the cause. The loss will be heavy, although there` was some' in- surance. • Mr. and Mrs. Keys of Nashville, Tenn., who • have resided there nine years, are on a visit to relatives in. Stanley, Mr. Keys' former home. A return game of bowls was played 'in Seaforth on Monday, Seaforth winning 28 to 38. Rinks as follows: Clinton: W. Taylor, J. Ransford, W. Jackson, J. P. Tisdall, skip, .13;- Sea - forth: J. Holmstead, R. Logan, • W. Morris, J. Weir, skip, 22. Clinton: IL C. Brewer, W. W. Ferran, G. D. Me- ' Taggart, D. A. Forrester, skip; 15. Seaforth: J. McMichael, W. Read, W. K. Pearce, E. C. Coleman, skip, 38. , There could not have been a lovelier day for a wedding than Monday and there has never been a prettier or more impressive ceremony performed within the walls of St. Paul's church than that which united the lives of Rev. F. E. Roy, late of Hensall, and Miss Margaret A. Brownlee • of Clin- ton. The church was beautifully de- corated by Mrs. Ferran, Mrs. Fowler, Miss Archibald and Miss Stinson ... ' The service was musical thoughout. The Rector, Rev. J. F. Parke, perform- ed the ceremony. Mrs. McHardy played the wedding music. Dr. Ed. Seaborn was best man. From The New Era, June, 20th, 1896: At Drexel Institute in Philadelphia last week John T. Holdsworth, for- merly of Clinton took the highest diploma for the Normal course ` in business. Rev: Mr. Millyard and fancily have taken possession of the Rattenbury street parsonage and will be residents of town for the next three years. Quite a number gathered at the station Wednesday afternoon to 'see' Rev, J. W. and Mrs. Holmes off to their new charge at Mitchell. •A great many former residents managed to get here and put in their votes on Tuesday. Another Clintonian left the ranks of single life on Wednesday and sur- rendered his personal liberty to one of, the fair six. We refer to. Mr. John A. Cooper, Toronto, eldest son of Mr. W. Cooper, who was married in Kingston that day to Miss Agnes May Massie. Mr. A. T. Cooper of town was present at the wedding, At the general election held on June 23rd the. Liberals were elected with Wilfred Laurier at the head. I•Iuron returned three Liberals. The New Era is in great feather, as was natural, and The News -Record for this date is not complete, having been mutilated, perhaps by the editor in a rage because his party was defeated Although, we de not think so, as his editorials seem very calm and Phil- osophical. When The Present Century Was Young From The News -Record,' June 22nd, 1911: Murphy L. 0. L. 'will attend divine service in St. Paul's church on the. afternoon of Sunday, July 9th. Mr. and Mrs. J. Cuninghame went to Detroit on the Greyhound excur- sion on Saturday ,and going on to Jackson, Mich,, spent the week -end with the latter's sister, 1VIiss Eva Stevenson. Mr. Harry Fitzsimons, the junior member of the finis of R. Fizsim- ons and Son, is today (Wednesday) being married to: ;Miss Eunice Laur ane Colquhoun of Gowrie, The News - Record extends, hearty congratula- tions. Mr. and 1VIrs. J. Armstrong and family of Ontario, California, are visiting at the home of the lady's Mother, Mrs, W Cooper. Dr, and Mrs. Jackson Mid baby ar- rived on Saturday last from Chicago, but owing to the pressure of profes- sional 'duties rofessional'duties the Doctor had to leave again the same afternoon for the Western city. Mrs. Jackson and babe will remain a month with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W.. Rodaway. The markets: Wheat 83e, oats 28c to•30c, peas 68c to 75c, butter 14c,to 15c, eggs 15c to 16c, live hogs $7.00. On Thursday evening last a num- ber of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ed, Jenkins met at the horn of Mr. and; Mrs. Robert Holmes, Toronto, and tendered the newly-wed couple a "sur- prise" welcome. The former Clinton- ians present were: Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Armstrong and two daughters; Mr. and Mrs, Geo. Rice, Mrs. and Miss Hodgens, Mrs. and Miss Sharman, Messrs. E. H. Jolliffe, Oscar Rogers, Misses Ida Boles, Gertie Chant, Mina Middleton, Kathleen East, Bessie Glen and Mr. James Thompson of Sea- forth. On Tuesday morning the home of Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Simpson, Huron street, was the scene of a pretty wed- ding when Mrs. Simpson's eldest daughter, Anna May. Robinson; ivas unitedin marriage to Mr. Norman Scott Rankin of Calgary, Alta. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Stewart, in the presence of only immediate relatives. The following well-known town boys are in training in the military camp at Goderich: C. C. Rance, Roy Ball, Laurie Greig, W. Hall, C. Hoare, D. Stewart, J. McArthur and C. Kitty. From a number of tender's Mi. T. MacKenzie has been awarded the con- tract of building the Seaforth post - office. The price is $28,000. From The New Era, June 22nd, 1911: Last Thursday the Clinton baseball team went to Goderich to play a friendly game and were trimmed 10 to 6. The team "blew up" in the 5th inning' and the home team scored eight runs. Mrs. I3. 13. Combe entertained the sewing circle on Tuesday afternoon, The sentence of death was executed upon Edward Jardine at the County Jail, Goderich, on the morning of June. 16th, just before eight o'clock. A letter was read in the Catholic churches announcing that his Holi- ness, Pope oliness,Pope Phis X had granted Cath- olics throughout the whole world lib- erty of eating meat on Friday, June 23rd, the day after the Coronation. A. pretty wedding took place on Wednesday of -last week in. Goderich township at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Dempsey, when their daughter, Elizabeth Lawrence, became the bride of Mr. David M. Lindsay. The cere- mony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Snowdon. This is the clay of the Coronation of King George V. A Coronation ser- vice is. being held in St. Paul's church this morning, to which the Mayor and Council are invited. The ministers ofother denominations will take part and members of other town choirs will assist in thesong service. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING A FALSE CONFIDENCE Two more men have been given fourteen days in jail at Toronto for drunken: driving. One backed into a crowd of pedestrians. Another smash- ed up his car ,and a truck.. Alcohol inspires men with theidea that they can drive better than ever, yet de- prives them of the ability to drive safely.—Toronto Daily Star. WAKE UP, BROTHER Those exchanges that carry a col- umn'or two of events: that happened 30 or 40 years ago, have a lot to ac- count for. On different occasions, we have selected items that looked inter- esting, and wondered why they hadn't been given more prominence, only to find they had happened many years ago. , The fellows that are publishing them should be held responsible for the moral downfalls, but will they be?—Goderich Star. BACK HOME AGAIN Perry Anderson's; pigeon still con- tinues to travel Some time ago it inheritance is something over $90,000. refused to stay with its owner when sold -and came home front Oshawa. A short time after it was taken to Lon- don and released, snaking the trip back in about three hours. Last week the bird was sent on another errand when Joseph Fisher took it along with him 'on a visit to. Detroit. The homer was given its freedom just out- side the city and some anxiety was felt when it was overdue at its home loft, However it apparently thinks Its present home andits owner are alright for late in the day the trip was completed. Plans -are now under way to give the pigeon a longer jaunt.—Goderich Signal. LEFT LEGACY George Booth, whose father was an Edinburgh biscuit manufacturer, and who was fatally injured - three weeks ago in an auto accident in Ire- land, has received 'word from his father's solicitor, that he will inherit at the age of 23, some $18,000. He also receives interestamounting to over $2,000, when he is 21, The total YVONNE MILLER, STAR OF "LET'S GO TO' THE MUSIC HALL" IS FAMOUS IMPERSONATOR -GRENADIER GUARDS TO PLAY SPECIAL MUSIC IN HONOR OF DOMINION DAY If you have ever stopped to con- sider the versatility of dainty Yvonne Miller, the little singing lady who impersonates the famous music hall ladies on the Canadian Radio Com- mission's Saturday night program, "Let's Go Te The Music Ha11,7 you will be interested to learn just how this gift of mimicry developed. First of all it is safe to say that almost every little girl, encouraged and not spoiled,. could be a great mimic. It is the most natural talent of all in early childhood. "Play act"" is instinctive in the normal child and more especially in the female of the species. Add" to this natural gift the advantages of travel 'and you have an inkling of what can happen. What did happen to Yvonne was that at the age of two she started to travel. She was so cute that every- body insisted on talking to her. She travelled with her parents to India and all over the East. She had nurses of every hue and tongue and she looked at more people and listened to more dialects than most people do in a lifetime. During all the early impressionable years Yvonne listened to and mim- icked a lot of people. She lisped in various Indian dialects things she couldn't sayin English, and her man- ners were startingly eastern. Then her parents took her home to school in Scotland and she developed other talents. She learnedto dance to sing and recite, and with a troupe of clever youngster including her well-known brother, Dave Miller, she made her stage debut in the "pro - The Church. of Scotland was also left $2,000 by the terms of the will. Georgd is expecting to sail for Scotland in a few days. —Goderish Signal. THE REASON The reason for the debacle (failure of sanctions) is as plain as a pikestaff. The signatories to collective security were not sincere. Each was looking for a way to dodge the issue. The party suffering in any w a y through the new way of doing things, squirmed out of his simple duty and filled his pockets regardless of who failed because it was under the direc- tion of selfish' men who sought to car- ry out their individual purposes. Ev- ery problem facing the race is funda- mentally a moral problem. No scheme for the world's betterment is one whit better than the men set to carry it out. Collectivism failed because those hi the "'collection" were rather a poor lot.—Exeter Times -Advocate. MORE UNPOPULAR Of late considerable Criticism has been leveled at the beverage rooms,. At conventions all over the province 'Baptists passed resolutions condemn- ing this system of drinking, similar' to that passed by the Owen Sound district which met in Listowel. These were followed by conference gather- ings of the United Church. One spea- ker at the London Conference, a former Listowel pastor, declared, "The whole liquor question settles it- self with us as individuals." In other words, only by his vote can every citizen make effective his views on the subject. This same Conference expressed the unfairness shown the counties of Perth, ,Peel and Huron which were legally under the Canada Temperance Act in being deprived of protection- by having the beverage rooms forced upon them. The increas- ing flow of beer and wine is rousing the country against the evils of the traffic which only destroys and does not build up.—Listowel Balmer. UNGUARDED BORDER GREATEST WONDER We were surprised to learn the other day that a European visiting the Niagara frontier for the first time did not regard Niagara Fails as the greatest wonder of the district. In- stead, chief surprise was expressed at the fact that there are no fortifica- tions along the border where only a few hundred feet of water' separate Canada and the United States. It must. indeed be surprising and gratifying to people who are accus- tomed to frowning forts along their border line to find two nations on terms as 'friendly as those existing between Canada a n d the United States, where the peoples mingle free- ly, .undisturbed by national ' differ- ences. To us on th North American contin- ent it is difficult to visualize condi- tions in Europe. We are not confined 1;y the iron -bound restrictions of dic- tators. We are not terrified by the thought of prison for acting in con- travention of rigid laws imposed by men fearful of losing their high places. And probably we do not ap- preciate the freedom that is ours. —Fort Erie. Times -Review. vinces." Trained and managed by a famous Edinburgh stage director, the youngsters scored a great hit in im- personations. of famous stars,. and Yvonne, with her special flair for mimicry, was up in the stellar bil- ling. Her voice was "a great, pow- erful voice" (her own description with a grin at the corners of her mouth) and she sang and danced and acted, a11 set for the rest of her life. Then the voice gave way. It happens to young artists who work, too hard. "One day I tried to sing and couldn't. My voice was gone," re- lates Yvonne. "I- was so surprised and offended that I - believed right then that my stage career was'at an end. I wasn't eighteen, so it seemed the end of everything. I was order- ed to take a six months' rest and af- ter that we moved to Canada where I felt, dramatically, I could Iive down my sorrow." Yvonne, in Toronto, soon became a popular figure around Mart House, the Arts and Letters Club and many other centres of Little Theatre activ- ity. She also had offers front the professional stage, but declined po- litely. And she did get a new sing- ing voice—the smooth, caressing voice that you hear when Yvonne steps before the microphone to do a Vesta Tilley, a Millie Hylton or • a Kate Carney. When television comes the radio fan will learn, and only then, all they have missed by not be- ing able to watch Yvonne broadcast in the studios. Special Music for Dominion Day Dominion Day, with its hallowed memories and its stirring mesio, will furnish the inspiration for, the Calla -1 than Radio Conimissioir's June 28 broadcast at 5.00 o'clock EST, by the Band, -of Itis '1Vlajesty's Canadian' Grenadier Guards, directed by Capt. J. J. Gagner. The concert will open with a na- tional fantasy called "Albion," intro- ducing English, Scotch, Kish,, and Frenoh.Canadian airs. The second numberon the program will be a waltz -scherzo, "Toronto Bay," by Capt. Garnier, the director of the Guards. Next the band will play the regimental bugle calls 'and ,cnareh- pass of the Royal Montreal Regi- ment—"Ca Ira." The music of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada (To- ronto) also will be played. "Shamrocks; and Shillelahs't Scenes from the Emerald. Isle will be reflected in the Commission pres- entation, "The Mirror of Melody," on Sunday, June 28, at 9.00 p.m. EST, when national network audiences will hear Geoffrey Wadclington's presen- tation orchestra and the voice of the celebrated young Canadian tenor, James Shields. At home in the songs of Ireland and unusually sympathetic in their interpretation, James Shields will be a decided acquisition to the program "Shamrocks and Shillelahs.". The program will open in charm- ing atmosphere with Emerald Isle selections and "Irish Pictures" by Ansel!. Humour and tempo will be expressed in the gay airs. of "Molly On The Shore," "Londonderry Air," "Kerry Dance" and "Irish Jig." "Jinnny" Shields will be heard -in "Old Irish Song," "Wild Irish Rose" and "Rose of Tralee." A medley ,of Irish Waltzes will also be featured. "Let's Go To The Music Hall" George Young has lined up a spot- light show for his Music Hall stars on :Saturday, June 27- At 8.30 p.m. EST, signals will flash in the Toron- to studios of the Radio Commission and the galaxy of stars again will be on the air with their impersona- tions of the late, great personalities of the London boards. Red Neiman will do the curtain raiser, "Hello, Hello Who's Your Lady Friend," in the irreproachable maturer of Hairy Fianson. The de - Instable George Patton will be next on the bill with Sack Pleasants' top scoring hit, "I'm Twenty -One To- day.'i• One of those atmospheric bits, "Down at the Old Bull and Rush", will introduce the producer himself, and Larry Burford,'. the miniature comic, will sing "Too-Rat-l-oo-Ral-I- Aay," getting round it all just as Ernest Shand used to cio, Sparkling of eye and confidential of voice, dainty Yvonne Miller will oblige with "Our Threepenny Hop," a Song that Kate Carney did to the the King's taste, for this great star was one of the few music hall' stars ever "commanded to appear." The Three Waiters will close the show with "The Young Man That Worked at the Milk Shop" after George Pat- ton has accomplished another, of his great monologue hits, "'Alt Who Goes Theer?" COMMISSION FEATURES DAY BY DAY (All Times. Eastern Standard) Thursday, June 25: 8.00 p.m.—The Georgian Singers. —Modern Choral Group. From To- ronto. 9.30 p.m. Ozzie Williams and his Royal Connaught Hotel Orchestra— From Hamilton. Friday, June 26: 8.00 p.m. "From a Rose' Garden." Orchestra -From Halifax. 9.00 p.m. "Musical Romances." "The End of the Rainbow,"- a dramatic production, From Mon- treal. Saturday, June 27:.* 8.30 p.m. "Let's Go to the Music Hall"— From .Toronto. 9.00 p.m. "The 'Musical Merry -Go - Round" -From Toronto. Sunday, June 28: 5.30 p.m.—Dr. H. L. Stewart Re- views the News— From Halifax. 8.30 p.m.—"Rocky Mountain Melody PAGE 1111111....2030. Orchestra pridet direction of Mart.' Kenny. From Banff; 10.00 p.m.- `Atlantic Nocturne" Readings by 3. Frank Willis. From: Halifax. Monday, June 23: 8.90 p.m. "Fanfare. " Frour Saint John. 9.00 pini. "With Banners 'Flying' —From Igen:reaI. Tuesday, June 30: 8.00 p.m. "Mystery House"— From Montreal. 8.30 p.m. "Serenade to Summer"-- From Toronto. Wednesday, July 1: 8.00 p.m. "Anything Goes."— Musical Variety, Halifax, 9.00 p.m. "This is Paris."--- From aris."—From Montreal. Toronto Brokers Released. On Bail Friday Bail in the sum of $5,000 was ar- ranged early Friday morning last ire Goderich for Gordon G. MacLaren and Robert S. Fletcher, Toronto brok- ersw r 1 tt df t • 1 , 0 were crl onnm a or' a on: Thursday by Magistl`ate Makins - on: charges of forging and uttering pow-- ers of attorney, obtaining $10,000 in: Dominion of Canada bonds, the pro perty of Alexander Campbell of Sent -- forth. The men were released about 1 o'clock Friday morning on an order- by rderby Judge T. M. Costello, acted on by; two local 'Justices of the Peace. These were the men with whom J., J. Huggard, absconding Seaforth yer, was associated. They are also. wanted in Toronto for misuse of trust funds. Pedigree certificates registered by the Canadian National Live Stocic Records, approved by the Dominion Minister of Agvicultutre,for the month of May, 1936, numbered 5,073. 01 these 380 were horses; 2,977 cat- tle; 292 sheep; 634 swine (547 Ydrk- shire) 151 foxes; 592 dogs; poultry 38, and 9 goats, 8 of which were, Saanen. -No `. motor fuel at any price.. has ever beaten j3lue Sunoco s inviable record of continuous Satisiaction to motorists Watkins' Service Station CLINTON. A. BUCHANAN VARNA. Blyth Service Station BLYTT . �. C. H. SCOTCHMER, HAYFIELD.