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The Clinton News Record, 1936-07-23, Page 3JUL AL Alp WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE GAY NINETIES Do You Remember What Happened < During The Last Decade Of The Old Century? From The Ncws-Recor'1, July 22nd, 1895; Dr, Shaw was in Blyth last Tues- day. Mr. James Fair is daily expected to arrive home from Scotland. Mr. John Cuninghaine and family have joined the campers at Lake Hu- ron. ' Miss ,Clara I1.• Mountcastle• is on it visit to Mrs. Lynch (the old Coleman homestead) Seaforth. Mr, J. W. Treleaven of the Clinton High School staff is spending a por- tion of his holidays in Mitchell. Mr. John C. Cook, who some years ago worked in the drygoodss store of Pay and Wiseman here, is on- a visit to relatives in this section from Chi- cago, 14 Ir. Cook. is now a member of the firm of Hoon, Gray and Co.,, elee- trical manufacturers. ' The Globe of Monday says that Rev. Alex. Stewart of Clinton preached ac- ceptably last Sunday morning in the South Side Presbyterian' Church, and in the evening in St. Enoch's Church. The Bicycle Races: Probably 400 people gathered in Recreation Park last Friday evening to. witness the bicycle races. -In the third anile han- dicap there were five entries. Mayor Holmes scratch, F. Jackson 25 yds., J. B. Hoover, 50 yds., W. Jackson 75 yds. W. Manning, 75 yds. Starter Dr. Shaw, and scorer James S. Jackson, were punctual and preeise. Each worked hard with determination to win but at the finish Manning won by 50 yards. W. Jackson came in se- cond. The five mile race was the most hotly contested race seen in Clinton. Goderieh Livingston, Bates, Hillier, Mclvor, Lee. Clinton — Emerson, Manville, Jowett, Agnew, Browning. For a time the neck and neck bunch of players indicated that Gode}ich would win. First Lee and then -Jewett were forced out with broken chains. Points—Goderich 10, Clinton 11. From The New Era, July 24, 1896,: Mrs. Chant of -Unionville is visiting her son. Miss Sarah Izzarcl has returned from Galt. Mr. Will Latornell of The Molson's Bank, St. Thomas, spent the week -end with friends in town, Inspector Robb having completed the examinations, leaves shortly on a trip east, accompanied by Messrs. Brydone and Rand. Mr. A. J. Holloway . represented Clinton at the meeting of the Grand Lodge of the Masons held in Belleville last week. Bowling Tournament at Seaforth -- At At the tournament held in Sea£orth the two rinks frons. Clinton, by chance were drawn to play against each oth- er. The result was as follows: first rink, G. D. McTaggart, W. Jackson, J. P. Tisdall, D. A. Forrester, skip, 14; Second rink—W. Taylor, J. Rana - ford, J. -Harland, W. Brydone, skip, 12. Mr. Brydone has good cause to be proud of his team. Mr. Forrester's. was the crack rink that did such fine work in the Toronto Tournament. Odd -Fellows Excursion—The Odd - Fellows of this district will run an excursion to Niagara Falls on Friday, July 31st. Huron Medical Association -- Dr. Shaw of Clinton, •the President, read an address on "Pope,Jar Fallacies in regard to 'Medicines," which provoked a good deal of discussion by the mem- bers. Cricket—Clinton Cricketers played at Waterloo last Friday, Clinton went to bat and made 45 runs. Waterloo made 96 runs. In the second innings, with right wickets clown Clinton made 78 runs. The, game on the whole was a most, pleasant one:, Dr. Bruce act- ed as scorer, and Dr. Agnew as Urn- pire. A Close Call—Sunday afternoon as Mr. R. Irwin was driving to the ceme- tery the rig carrying the pallbearers at A. J. Pattison's funeral, he had a decidedly unpleasant experience and one which was feared to be serious, The bolt of the single -tree broke, fal- ling against the horseslegs, causing them to bolt. Mr. Irwin was thrown. out on his head, but was noty`danger-' ously hurt, When The Present Century Was Young From The New Era, July 20th, 1911: Mrs. F. W. Watts has returned hone from her surnmer trip; Mr. Jack Wiseman of Guelph is holidaying in town. • • • Mrs, W. T. O'Neil is spending the week at Bayfield. Mr. DeWitt Cosens.left Wednesday inorning'for 'a months' visit at Lon.- don, on-don, Port Lambton and ' Wallaceburg. Mr. C. C. Rance and. Messrs. ` Tont and Clarence left Tuesday for Toron- to and Mrs. Rance is 'expected to leave to -day to take up residence there. . Miss B. Greene is spending a few weeks in 'Stratford as Rev. Mr. Greene is taking charge of the Central Methodist Church work in the absence of the pastor. Miss Bessie Sloman, trained nurse of New York, is visiting her parents in town. The .New Cent.—A. T. Cooper re- ceived new Canadian cents and has some on display in his window. -The first cash buyers get a new cent. These are the first in town. Clinton Won Again.—Seaforth was (defeated by Clinton bowlers by 24 lishots. The Clinton players were Rob- erton, Jenkins, Nediger, Stevenson, skip; Courtice, Shaw, Garhain, Tay- lor, skip; Towne, Laur, Harland, Hoover, skip; Freeman, Ford,•Mor- vish, Harland, skip. Bought House.—Mr. Josh. Cook, well-known bus man .bought the resi- dence of Mrs. Junor on Ontario street. Mrs. Junor and. Miss Pearl will leave for the west to join Mr. Junor. The Plano Factory has new signs which supply to the travelling public the much needed informaton regard- ing this e<ctensive plant. Last year some 600 pianos, .1500 organs and large quantities of ,benches, stools were sold. The • general manager, Mr. D. S. Cluff, is at present in Win- nipeg, attending the Winnipeg Ex- hibition. Fron The News -Record, July 20th, 1911:. Mrs, J. E. Hovey and Master Billie left on Tuesday for a visit at the par- ental hone in Markdale. • Messrs. W. Jackson, F. Fair, and J. B. Hoover autoed to Seaforth oft Tuesday to meet the Toronto Bowl- ers, with Bert Langford as chauf- feur. Miss Edythe Torrance is speeding a week in Kincardine. Mr, Nixon Welsh is taking the summer course at Military School in London. Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson and Miss May Rance returned on Friday after a couple of months stay in the old country, Dr. Woods of Bayfield was in town Friday evening, having cone over to .meet Mrs. Woods' mother, Mrs. Buchan of Durham. Sorry To Part.—On 'Monday even- ing St. Paul's School house was the scene of a festive gathering, when a large number of people, old and young, .net to say farewell to Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Ranee. When all had gathered, the rector, Rev. C. E.Sea- , kits, ea-,kits, called the company to order and in a few well chosen words referred. to the work of Mrs. Rance in connec- tion with the ehoir and other bran- ches of church work. The presenta- tion was made by Mrs. Joel .McLeod. Mr.' Rance spoke on behalf of his wife and expressed regget at sever- ance of old and pleasant ties. Four Prize Winners.—Willie and Frank Mutch, the bright little sons of Mr. Fred Mutch won a special prize for drumming at the Orange celebration in Goderich last week. The best fifer of the day was Mr. Will. Match of Auburn, and Mr. Jos- eph Carter, Auburn, was declared the best big drummer. 1 WHAT , OTHER NEWS PAPERS 'ARE SAYING WHAT'S GOING ON If you want to knew what is going on in a town, -get hold of the newspa- per from that town, If you want to know what kind of a town a town is, get hold of a newspaper from that town. If you want to know if a town has a live, aggressive and progressive bunch of .merchants get hold of the newspaper. If the, paper is filled with good, • well-written advertisements 'you can be sure there is a live -up-to- date group of merchants and you can be equally sure that there is a good community and a good town. Good communities draw good merchants and good merchants advertise. —Listowel Banner. ONLY ONE SCALE NEEDED Surely a central justice department of some description is urgently need- ed in Ontario so there might be more uniformity itt sentences, Last week two Toronto boys, just past their 16th birthdays,: were sent to the peni- tentiary for five years and to receive ten strokes each, in addition. Theis offence was robbing a drug store from which they go -C$1.20. That the youngsters were armed. and .tight easily have been faced with a more serious charge is unde- viable, but happily they didn't kill any person in their silly hold-up, so couldn't be tried for murder. The seriousness of their offence is ZA, .•.Y; AIVONV Ni,IN .i O• q°i s%4APii d." i.�■'.i"rgc'i i i .Mrgngr`gq.VVa . : by JCIIN C. KIRKWOOD :■ %. ga (Copyright) s u'gYi .ti,'i . as iigg1 a....or i'. , . F... O O N q ..V. . i e . i .W.. ...a.a Again my contribution to The of the product. The government get News -Record is made up of material 14%o of the consumer 'price. obtained from. a Beitish newspaper. In the annual report of the English Electric Company --- a mammoth in- dustrial enterprise it was stated that this company has been given the job of lighting a Targe number of aerodromes in various part f th YOUR WORLD AND MINE 4'1 LA area::ally, in'the potent brine (en ique'in the whole of Europe), algid joints ate unlocked again and 'pain fades out of memory Britain is steadily becoming' sober- 04 er.. The nation has,become maze temperate sinee'tlne beginning or the s century -as these figures show: In 1900 convictions for drunkenness were in excess of 200,000;' by 1910' they had fallen to 162,000; in 1920 to 96,000;'in s 1927, to 79,000; in 1934 to 40,000. Liquor generally—so it it said -is Mt radoall talcin its proper per place a- mong .e g• Y g• 1 1 things which go to. nal,ce up a ]: full life of work and leisure. En- s, lightened trade interests have long realized that drinking is only an ac-- compaiiirnent ,to `food and social in t tercourse—even though Scotsmen may n think that liquor is a full meal in it- self! A Belgian artist,, James Ensor, ha been holding his first one-man exhibi tion of his paintings in London. M Ensor is 76 years old. Yet there of many of us who.'grow inpatient an s o e rofess: despair if ••we do 'not `arrive' world—in a number of British cities, while still in our 20's. Mr, Ensor i in Brussels, Penang, Singapore, Rho- the son of an Englishman' and remain desia, Jodhpur and India. Aerodrome ed -a British subject until the I£ing o lighting is doubtless a very important the Belgians made hint a baron i business, caliing for much experience 1930. This is one way of nationaliz and skill. This same company in- ing foreigners. stalled the lighting .' and telephone systems of The Queen Mary. On this huge ship there are telephone booths The majestic African lion is not on every deck—a service which pas- the insolently ferocious ruffian which sengers appreciate. many hunters have' said he is.. At • any rate this is the belief of Bertram ~� F. Jearey, an Englishman who sn ens Firms, engaged inthe old business in many months in .Africa, plus a good Great Britain are: sore because of the deal of money, photographing lions enormous and ever-growing weight of in their native haunts. He had his special taxation. Special taxation of wife with hint—probably for protec petroleum products was non-existent tion! Mr. Jearey says that in just up to 1928. Nott' special taxation of anger 'the lion is to be feared abo' A recent book, by an'Ameeican wo- man,' has as its title, "Father Allan's Island".: Father Allan- MacDonald is a priest settled on "The Island of Youth", whose Celtic name is Eileen —nah—Oige, and whose map name is Eriskay. Tliis island, is a little bit of a place having a length of 3 miles and a width of '/e -mile, without - heather or bracken or bent grass to mend a thatch. It -was on this Island, I situate on the True Edge of the Great World of the Outer Isles, that Prince ' Charlie first set foot .on Scottish soil on a, stormy July night in 1745. He was put up in the home of Angus MacDonald. The chronicler of this bit of history says:— The mince, not being used to fires in the middle of the room, there be- ing no other chimney than a hole in the roof, was.altnost choked and was obliged to go, often to the door for fresh air. This at last made' the landlord call out, `What a plague is the matter with that fel= low that he can neither sit clown nor stand still and within nor with- out doors?' petroleum products amounts to $200,- 000,000 per annum, Last year the total taxes paid by all oil companies in Britain was, in amount, about $450,000,000. The price of "gas" in Britain is is Od a gallon. Of this price :4d represents the import value • not questioned, but what chance will those boys have when they leave the penitentiary five years hence? Their records, their home associa- tions, if they have any homes, their demeanour in court, and the circum- stances surrounding their robbery, were all doubtless taken into consid- eration by the Magistrate, but five years and ten strokes, does seem in- consistent, , when educated, grown nien, who should and do know better, steal, or misappropriate two o r three hundred thousand dollars, and at the most get a few months deten- tion. There should be only one scale of sentences for all. —The Goderich Star. THE HITCH HIKING NUISANCE The pleasure of motoring these sum- mer days is being interfered with by hitch hikers of the school child gen- eration of both sexes. This is a mat- ter which the Ontario Highway De- partment or the Provincial Police De- partment ought to take notice of be- fore some fatality is reported. Chief Joseph Taylor of Amherstburg has been looking into the matter and in- formed The. Echo that the antics of boys and girls soliciting motor rides on the highways these days are strict- ly a breach of the Iaw, Sec. 39, 1A of the Highway Traffic act being quite explicit on the subejct, saying; "No person shall, while on the travelled portion of a highway, solicit a ride from the driver or operator of 'a .motor vehicle." And that's a clause which hundreds of young gaffers never heard of, judging from the way they are crowd- ing the highways, particularly since schools closed,even forming in line out to the middle of the pavement, earnestly beckonittg for rides. Motorists nearly every day com- plain to the Echo of being forced to stop to avoid accidents, and the gen- eral impression seems to be that this naughty' practice should be regulated very pronptly by the Provincial Po- lice, —The Brussels Post. WEALTH COMBS FROM SOIL "There is onething that the de- pression has done so far as this pa- per is concerned and that is to snake us realize that from the soil, through the farmer. comes practically our. wealth -and that for a decade or more the same conditions will pre- vail. Of course we knew it well enough in pre -depression years, but within the past few days • we have been reminded of this belief. Noth- ing very startling—just evidences of well-to-do expenditures that, when traced' back, their roots were foetid in the soil. The group,is by far the most important group in this pro- vince, Without theinthe rest of us would, find no opportunity here, But with importance and power goes re- sponsibility based upon full and intel- ligent realization of that power. Sometimes we wonder if that realiza- tion is as full and complete as it should be. Anyway it would do no harm to give it thought."; =•Tofield (Alta.)' Mercury. SHOES DISAPPEARED WHILE RESTING IN PARK Too much heat and little business prompted a local man, to watch his store front the vantage point of -the park, as the temperature climbed higher and higher. But he under -es- timated the soothing influence of the park and was soon fast asleep, bay- ing first removed his shoes. On a- wakening he was alarmed to find his shoes disappeared. There was there- fore nothing for it but a hurried rush across the newly tarred and gravelled roadway in his stocking feet to his own store, and.a hurry -up call for a pair of new shoes.—Goderich Star. all beasts, but that in, his peacefu times he is \, dignified, unaggressive astonishingly human in his reaction to ordinary circumstances, and truly regal. As if all this matters to us stay-at-home Canadians! Demnark, famous for its dairy cat- tle. and products and for its hogs and bacon, is now seeking tourists. This is a new enterprise for Den- mark. It believes that it has some- thing to offer the world -and in par- ,titular to Great Britain. What Den- mark offers tourists is a country pd - [ideally 'at peace—something hard to find in Europe; good accommodation and good meals at a low cost; a plea- sant countryside—which is much like that of England; and the English lan- guage. English is a compulsory sub- ject in Danish schools, and so every- where an English-speaking person goes, he or she has no language diffi- culty. About the Danish coast are 300 islands, and in the waters which they shelter and beautify is fine yachting. -British inland watering places — whose medicinal waters are supposed to cure .many ills, are declared—by themselves—to be the equal to any continental spas. Britain has spas at Bath, Bridge and Allan, Buxton, Chel- tenham, Droitwich, Harrogate, Leam- ington, Llandrindod Wells, Strathpef- fer, Trefriw and Woodhall. Here is how Droitwich advertises itself:— To see some of thein come to Droit- wich on crutches and in chairs would move you to pity and sad - ness. To see them leave striding boldly, laughinghappily, would fill you with something like awe. It does not happen in a day --this con- quest of rheuntatisni. For a time they may have to hope and persist him? without appareht improvement. But Josephine—He beat it, The annual 5 -days show of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng- land was held this year at Bristol. More that £16,000 in prizes was a-1 warded. Gloucestershire cattle, a breed which 25 years ago was threat- ened with extinction, were represent- ed by 17 entries, and South Devons by 25 entries, Dairy Shorthorns 'and Jer- seys were the breeds most numerously represented. There were 125 Red Poll entries. In the horse class the Suf- folk Punch provided the largest entry. Suffolk sheep and Southdowns were the principal sheep varieties. In pigs CiheSNAPSI-1()TCUIL Don't Forpt to Turn the Key or -Else.. ? • !t is a rare occurrencewhen a double exposure does not spoil two gooe.' pictures and waste film. • T13117 above picture of a Btobding- nagian young lady miraoulousl Y reclining on the surface of the sea amidst a fleet- of sailboats reminds US that while modern cameras are indeed close to being robots in their performance, they still demand the cooperation of human intelligence' in order to function with the result expected. The photograph is the curious con- sequence of a double exposure,'illus trating the fact that the HIm behind your camera lens will not move over for the next picture by the exercise of its own free will. About that it is totally indifferent. You have to per- form this operationyourcelf. If you forget it, and. and that you have twice or thrice exposed the same frame of film, you may by chance get a picture as amusing and worth keeping as the one above, but in most cases you will have a meaning- less jumble of superimposed shapes and shadows that will interest no- body, not even a Cubist. Result, you have lost two or three pictures that Perhaps you can never take agairm, and have wasted film. Most of us have had this experi- ence, Then why not get the habit:. of turning the key to the next ex-• posure the very instant after you. have taken a picture? If you haven't this habit as yet, and tunes come, as: they always will, • when you hesitate- because esitatebecause you are not sure whether - you turned the key, play safe; give it another turn rather than take the chance of spoiling two Pictures. Of course, you can find plenty of amusement in deliberately making•' double expolures in order to produce. freak- photographs. But these nee& careful planning to be successful... They must be done usually with,, still subjects and require minute ac- curacy in the focusing. A tripod is: a first necessity. Astounding Pic- tures may be produced by double ex- posures deliberately planned, but ig' you have success in such efforts, let.. 'your conscience and the credulity- of redulityof your friends be your guides when you exhibit them. 87 JOHN VAN GUILDER DOINGS IN SCOUT WORLD (Continued from page 2) ,of the many coloured flags topped byt the Union Jack and Stars and Stripes. the Large White was by far the Iarg- 'est entry. The Large Black had a 'good showing. 4 New inventions exhibited included were a 1 -horse grass .tower the knives of which ere operated by a small motor; a rotary cultivator;; and a grass -drying plant. A Rover Scout "Skipper" M.P. "The Boy Scout Movement can make a worthy contribution to any town. The boys who are interested in Scouting are the type who .take the best citizens."—A. S. Rennie, M. P. for Oxford, and former Rover Leader of the Tillsonbuvg, Ont., Rover Scout Crew. Flying Field Patrol Duty For Scouts Windsor, Ont., Boy Scouts interest- ed in the .malting and flying of model airplanes have been appointed to do patrol duty this summer for the Bor- der Cities Aero Club at Walker THE SCALLYWAG! Air- port. On visitors' days they warn spectators away from incoming and Josephine—My first husband was a outgoing planes. drummer. , Catherine — What happened to A Lone Scout Good Turn Demonstrating that the alertness of Lone Scouts is equal to that or their brothers of town and city troops,' When `Zones" Dennis Austin and - Mike Makerenko of British Colum- bia. discovered a fallen tree across at. road where it would be quickly seem by motorists, one at once ran for a• saw and axe and the other remained! to 'warn drivers. Their promptness in removing the obstruction possibly - averted one or more accidents. A Clean -Up Job Anyone passing through the village- of illageof Mervin could not help but remark:. on the cleanly and orderly appearance of the streets and lanes, This is due: to the fact that for two or three days the Boys Scouts and Wolf Cubs, under the able direction of their -re- spective leaders, have been out .withe. rake, shovel and wheelbarrow dean- ing up the winter accumulation of" rubbish so natural to the small west -- ern village. The boys' • and their leader's are to be complimented on: 1 their public service spirit. This lat lest effort of theirs is one more proof" lof the good which is at hand in this. organization.—The Weekly Sun, Tura- tleford, Sask. jam trurselt lluti Olchsade BIG an,SIZE ON TRIPS THIS SUMMER, you will be par- ticularly grateful for the luxurious comfort—the smooth spirited performance —and the modern fine -car features of a new Oldsmobile. So we invite you to come for a ride in a Six or Straight Eight—and convince your- self that Oldsmobile offers you the greatest value for your money. Experience Olds - mobile's swift, pulsating action. Know what it is to relax as you drive. Prove that Oldsmobile is truly " The Car That Has Everything". You will find that Oldsmobile is priced attractively low—and the General Motors Instalment Plan enables you to space your payments to suit your purse. THE CAR THAT HAS EVERYTHING PRICEC PROM 6-,y(,Core/,e, delivered .tfit aay, Oshawa, Out. $1018 01 A Government taxes freight .",d license extra. i v 8 -cylinder models begin et $ts¢: at facto*. W. M. NEDIGER, Clinton 0-486