The Clinton News Record, 1937-12-30, Page 41
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.A. Happy New Year to The Clinton
News -Record and its many readers,
and may peace on earth remain with
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.us throughout 1938.
Christmas is past and gone and
.rbrought together many happy family
:reunions: Miss_ Dorothy Cox, home
.from London University, with her
jparents, Mr. and Mrs. Les. Cox; Miss
Evelyn Cox horn from London with
,her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
e 'Cox; Eailand Betties, Toronto, with
.his mother, Mrs. Thos. Betties; Miss
,diene Woods, London, and friend, at
1h. and Mrs. Wilton Woods.
Mr. and Mrs. Les. McMillen,
Lon-
don,
spent a few days with his father
and brpthers here.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Lockhart of
Royal Oak, were home for the holiday,
,Glen Lockhart returned with them to
:,spend a holiday. His service station
•:at Hohnesville will be closed for the.
two Winter months.
We are very sorry to report that
Mr: Pete Young is under' the doctor's
.care." He was seized with a heart at -
'tack on Friday night, then followed
.Pleurisy.
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Mrs. John Weston has suffered a
',stroke. Her daughter, Eva, came over
`from Detroit to be with her mother.
Howard Cox is assisting with
`dhe nursing.
Miss Irate Williams, who has spent
the last two months in Goderich, has
returned to her home with Mr. and
Wire. John Torrance.
The Y.P.S. and Sunday School con-
cert on Friday night came off very
good. Mr. J. R. Sterling acted as
chairman in his usual good style.
The lucky ticket for the autograph
quilt was drawn by little Phyllis Har-
ris and was No. 21. This ticket was
held by Mrs, Will Stewart of Clinton.
Four other lucky tickets were also
drawn. A good lunch was served.
STANLEY
•11Ir. and Mrs. Luna Pepper of Ni-
agara Falls spent a few days last
week at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Pepper.
Miss Kate McGregor of Wingham,
and Miss Margaret McGregor of To-
ronto, spent the holidays with their
mother, Mrs. Neil McGregor.
Mr. Charlie Falconer of Bayfield,
spent Christmas at the home of Mr.
Hugh Gilmour.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moffat and
children spent Christmas with the for-
mer•'s .mother, Mrs. Fisher of Hensall.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson Woods and
daughter, of St. Helens, spent Christ-
mas at the home of Mrs. Thomas
Campbell.
Miss Charlotte Johnston of Lon-
dorespent a few days at the home of
Mrs. 'Flies. Campbell. ,
OBITUARIES
.George Cook
The de.dh of George Cook, well-
known Goclerich Township farmer,
24th
December
took nlace'on Friday,
at the home of his daughter, Mrs,
Thomas Riley, Victoria street.
Born on the Bayfield Line, he had
resided in this community all ' his
life. Following his marriage to Lticy
Johnston he had resided on the 11th
concession, Goderich Township until
a few months ago, when he and Mrs.
Cook moved to Clinton for the Winter
months. Besides being a successful
farmer he had followed the threshing
business for several years, operating
one of William Cole's machines. He
was -a good neighbour, always ready
to lend a helping hand or do a good
deed, and his passing is regretted by
a large circle of friends.
He is survived by his wife, four.
daughters, Sadie, Jean, Mary and
Martha; three sisters, Ann, Maria and
Matt, and three grandchildren.
He has been associated with the
English Church all his life and was
a member. of St. James Church, Mid-
dleton., prior to moving to Clinton.
The funeral, which was largely at-
tended, was held on Monday afternoon
from the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Thomas Riley, and was conducted by
Rev. K. McGoun assisted by Rev. W.
G. Bugler, Bayfield. The pallbearers
were Messrs. R. Cole, Win. Lobb, W.
Wise, H. W. Graham, Charles Middle-
ton and George Elliott Interment
took place in Clinton Cemetery.
James Paterson
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Sympathy is extended to Mr. E.
Paterson in the loss of his father who
passed away on Tuesday, in his 89th
year.,
The late Mr. Paterson was born in
Glasgow, Scotland, coming to Canada
.with his parents when eight years of
age. The family first lived in Toron-
to, but in 1861, his father, a chemist,
moved to Kepple Township. While
clearing the land, he also served Wier -
ton with drugs, and in 1869 opened
the' first chemist shop in Wiarton.
James Paterson after graduating from
college, succeeded his father in busi-
ness.
In 1876 he was united inmarriage
to Jessie Fairbairn, of Teeswater,
and last year they celebrated their
60th wedding anniversary, He was an
ardent worker in the affairs of the
town, a Presbyterian in religion, lat-
er Union.
He is survived by his wife; three
sons, James F. of Wiarton, Ewart, of
Clinton, and Russell J. of Montreal,
and three daughters, Mrs. M. Roberts,
Ardrosson, Scotland; Mrs. J. S. Bell,
Toronto, and Mrs. T. A. Mackerracher
of Arthur.
.VARNA
Master Ernest Clarke of Seaforth
is spending the Christmas holidays
with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Clarke.
Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson of King-
ston are spending the holiday with the
lady's patents and his mother.
Miss Irene Chuter, Miss Mary and
Miss Doris of London spent Christ-
tiratheir
s at home.>
Miss Peters ss P ors has accepted e_ ed a position
as teacher near St. Catharines.
O'nr• teacher, Mr. Beattie, is spend-
ing the holiday with his parents near
Blyth.
Miss • Sarah Ann Keys returned
hone after spending Christmas with
her brother, Mr. Amos Keys and
family.
Mr. Lloyd Keys spent Tuesday with
Mr. and Mrs. Jas.: M. Reid and family
of Clinton.
HOLMESVILLE'
Mr. Frank Whitmore recently re -
Calved word of the death of his sis-
ter, Mac. James McLean which oc-
curred at Buffalo, New York.
We are glad to report that Mr. Frank
Whitmore, who has been confined to
bed for the past week, is gradually
improving,
Miss Susie Acheson spent Christmas
with Clinton `friends.
Mrs. H. Bennet and children of
Goderich ,spent the holiday and week-
end with Mr. and Mrs. E. "1`rewartha.
Miss Helen. 14IcMath of London,
spent Christmas with her parents, Mr.
and' Mrs. S. 11.c at
M M h.
Miss Cora Trewartha of Ntpisi
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is spending the holidays.. at her home
here:
Mr. and Mrs. T. MacDonald and Mr.
K. MacDonald of Teeswater, • spent
Christmas with Mr. and Mrs, Elmer
Potter. •
Mr. Robert McCartney has returned
home from Goclerich Hospital, and is
progressing quite favourably.
Mr. and Mrs M. Elliott and children
spent Christmas at Atwood.
Y.P.U. this Friday evening will be
in charge of Miss Charlotte Trewar-
tha. A. good attendance is hoped for.
The Christmas Tree entertainment,
under the direction, of the Sunday
School and School, which was held in
the church on Wednesday evening, was
fairly. Well attended. The children
rendered a good program, followed by
a play by the Senior members. Santa
Claus then arrived andwith the aid of
some of the boys quickly unloaded the
tree which was beautifully decorated.
and groaned with rts 1oaf of gifts.
The
committee and Mr. Pierce, our school
teacher, deserve credit for their help
in preparing this program.
Next Sunday morning the, regular
Quarterly Service •will be observed in
our, church.
GEORGE H. ELLIOTT, MAYOR
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$1815.551 had been placed on the
streets which was made up of 40c
yard for crushing, 15c for material, 20c
for delivery to /streets and $52.25 for
man checking loads. In addition side-
walk cbsting $133,20 had been laid at
a cost of,15e per square yard, the;
county grader had 'been used, costing
$33.00 and 31/ tons calcium chloride
purchased at $30.00 per ton. Some of
the chloride ox e had been sold. He sug-
gested that council should Marchese
9il for the streets so that everyone
would have the dust laid.
Glen 800lc, chairman of the' Parks
and Bylaws committee for the yeas
said that this would be his seventh
•year and that if enough qualified he
would not stand. Speaking on the
bylaws he stated that some of them
had not actually been in effect until
this year as some of the previous
mayors had omitted to sign thein. On
the advice of the town solicitor these
had been signed and put into. effect.
This year the poll tax had been re-
duced from $4.00 to $2.00. Speaking
on the beverage room question, lie
stated that he understood that Mr.
Cox had rented the Rattenbury Ho
tel and would meet the new council in
regard to a beverage room. He fur-
ther stated that as far as he could
learn from the clerk the council had
not the authority to grant permission
to have a beverage room here and
that a petition of the ratepayers
would be necessary. Personally he
was not in favor of the beverage
room, but would like to see the hotel
in operation. •
Major Firth injected• a little spirit
into the meeting when he spoke fax
the school trustees. Opening his re-
marks by stating that more interest
should be taken in school affairs he
went on to enlarge on matters per-
taining to the school and the expen-
ditures of •the governing bodies. In
spite of the fact that schools are one
of the largest spending• departments
of the town no one asks for a financial
statement. This indicated that school
affairs received very little attention
from the ratepayers who were not
sufficiently interested how the money
was spent. Quoting figures he said
that the estimated receipts for the
year were $8,785, actual receipts
$8,650, and expenditures $8,325, show-
ing a surplus of $325. The town grant
for the schools was raised on a basis
of 91Fi trills which amounted to $7,837
whereas only $7,100 had been receiv-
ed. He wanted to know where the
Surplus of $737 was used and quoted
section. 57 of the School Act, The
matter was satisfactorily explained
when it was pointed out that this
amount had been used to take care
of the sinking fund debentures.
Other matters on which he spoke
briefly were salaries, hiring of teach-
ers, the new course of study, and his
opposition to the beverage. room: ` He
also suggested that instead of two
separate governing bodies for the
schools we should have a board of
education which he felt. would be more
economical.
Public Utilities, ,natters wore dis-
cussed by W. Perdue, The first step
after a period of some year's inac-
tivity was the installation of the new
lighting system. The new standards
and wiring have cost $4,254.71. While
the whole installation is a decided im-
provement the poles of the Bell Tele-
phone Company have yet to be remov-
ed and certain other little matters
to clean up, he felt it his duty to stay
until everything had been cleaned up.
In regard to hydrant rentals he stated
that nothing had been written off the
plant for depreciation and that a
maintenance fund should be establish-
ed,and also that repairs would be
fairly heavy this year. Showing how
the use of water had increased he
quoted figures for it five year period
which revealed that water consump-
tion had increased 4 million gallons
during the present year.. The com-
pany had operated at a loss during
1933-34 and had shown a small sur-
plus during 1935-36. In view of the
fact that repairs would be necessary
he did not think it would be feasible
to reduce hydrant rate for another
year. .
Both Rev. C. W. D. Cosens and Rev.,
G. G. Burton spoke briefly after the
various spealcees had been. heard.
Their remarks were of a congratu-
latory and encouraging nature. They
too were definitely opposed to the
beverage room here and
felt that a
sufficient number of men had been
nominated to keep beer out of Clinton.
The meeting was dismissed by the
singing of .the National Anthem.
COUNTY NOMINATIONS
Nominations for ,Exeter . municipal
elections:
Reeve,—W. D. Sanders, W. Hern,
B. M. Francis. (Mr, Ii • n er and - Mr.
Sanders qualified).
P. U. 0.—William Ward, (aecl.).
Council—Present council F. May,
H. Southcott, E. M. Rieman,, J. W.
IIern and three others, W. J. Beer,
W. J. Smith and B. W. Tuekey.
Board of Education—The three sit-
ting members, J. N. Willis, W. H.
Dearing, F. J. Delbridge and one oth-
er, Dr. I -h H. Cowan.
HAY TOWNSHIP
George Armstrong• was elected
reeve of Hay Township by acclama-
tion. The four councilors also went
into office without an election. They
were, William Haugh,, Max ,Turnbull,
Fred Haberer and - Roland Geiger.
SEAFORTH
John J. Cluff was re-elected mayor
of Seaforth by acclamation, All oth-
er council seats as well as utilities,
commissioner and three school trus-
tees were filled by acclamation.
Mayor C1uff, who was elected last
September in a by-election, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Mayor
Sutherland, paid tribute to his prede-
cessor at the meeting which followed
the nominations.
"The town lost a 100 per cent. Sea -
forth citizen who was always ready to
jump in and help in anything that
he believed to be in the best interests
of the town," Mayor Cluff 'stated.
Those elected are as follows:
Mayor Cluff reeve John H. Scott;
councilors, M A, Reid J E. Keating,
F. S Sills, R. G. Parker, C, Holmes,
IL.. E. Smith; Public Utilities commis-
sioner, A. Y. McLean; school trustees,
Dr. J. A. Munn, J. A, Westcott, Ross
Savauge.
/MYTH
The following' qualified for the elec-
tion at Blyth.
Reeve—W.. G. McNall and William
Merritt. .
Council—Edward Johnston, Deloss
Taman, Herbert Dexter, John Petts,
George Johnston and Jasper Cook.
The following members of the
school board went into office by ac-
clamation: Stanley,Sibthorpe, William
White and Edwin Cartwright. An ac-
clamation was also given James Doss
as Public Utilities Commissioner.
McKILLOP
Reeve John Eckert, 1937 warden of
Huron County, was re-elected by ac-
clamation as reeve of McKillop Town-
ship. He begins his seventh term as
..eeve of the township.
An election for council will be ne-
cessary . as six of nine nominated
have qualified. Those nominated were
'•ne Webster, Peter Maloney, Dan
Buerman, Russell Dorrance, Hugh Al-
exander, Elmer Hackwell, Albert Har-
rison, Joseph O'Rourke and Charles
Dolmage. The last three did not
qualify.
STEPHEN
Council -Roy Rats, Ed. Shapton,
Thomas Love (acct:).
TI7CKERSMITH
In Tuckersmith Township Charles
MacKay was eleeted reeve by acclam-
ation when William Archibald, reeve
for the past six years, retired.
Samuel Whitmore was also nomin-
ated for reeve but qualified for coun-
cil.
Councilors were also elected by ac-
clamation as follows: Samuel Whit-
more, David Gemmell and R. Bell.
Harry M. Chesney and R. Kruse did
not qualify.
USBORNE TOWNSHIP
Reeve—George Westcott and Percy
Passmore have qualified.
Council -J. Ballantyne, Hugh Ber-
ry, Bruce Cooper, Claris Fisher, elect-
ed by acclamation.
STANLEY
Nominations for Reeve and Council.
lors was held in the Township Hall,
Monday afternoon, Dec. 27th, and
there was a large representation of
the ratepayers present. Nominations
resulted as follows:
For Reeve—Roy Lamont, Fred Wat
Son.
For. Councillors—Wm. Falconer, E.
C Glen, J. E. Pepper, Mello SteckIe,
ilr., . Elmer Webster.
GODERICH TOWNSHIP
Mr. Eariand Betties of Toronto,
spent the Christmas holiday with his
mother:, Mrs. Thos. Betties,
Miss Grace Stirling of Toronto,
and Jack Stirling of Haileybury spent
the holiday with their parents, Mr:
and Mrs. Jas. R. Stirling.
Mr. and Mrs.Thomas and family,
of Guelph, and Mr. Don Smith of To-
ronto, were Christmas visitors with
Mr. and Mrs. Di A. Smith, "Sloan -
Crest Fano?"
S. S. No. 8 held their annual enter-
tainment on Tuesday evening of last
week, and there was a large gathering
of ratepayers and friends present. Tho
children put on a very fine programme
under the direction of their teacher,
Miss Esther MeMath, which was much
appreciated by the audience. After-
wards Santa came along with his usual
good cheer.
Miss Verna Picot of Seaforth, spent
Christmas with her parents, Ma. and
Mrs. Frank Picot.
Mr. and Mrs. Reid Torrance and
family, spent Christmas with the 1st-
ter's father, Henry Ivison, of Kippen.
Mrs. Walker of Godernch, spent the
holiday with her daughter, Mrs. Mur-
ray McDougall.
Mr. Fred Middleton shipped two car
loads of •Hereford cattle on Friday.
They were a fine lot of steers.
Mr. and 'Mrs. Ped Weston of De-
troit, are visiting the former's moth-
er, Mrs. John Weston, who •is quite
ill at present. "'
Mrs. Geo. Lindsay had the misfor-
tune to fall on the ice and break .her
wrist,
Mr. Randal Cele spent the holidays
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs., Ro-
bert Cole.
The friends of Mr. Lot( Anderson
will be glad to hear of his improve-
ment.
Misses Shirley and Reta Beacom of
Toronto,. spent Christmas with their
parents, on the Bayfield Line,
Miss June Stephenson was with her
parents foe. Christmas.
Mr. Hugh Middleton of Tdronto vis-
ited his, parents over the holiday.
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Cris. and •children of
Mr. Nelson .
Goderich, spent Christmas, with Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Townsend, Bayfield
Line:
Keep Your Town
Clean and Safe
for
the Rising Generation
Vote
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Vote for
Fred Johnston
for Councillor
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TO THE.ELECTORS:
YOUR VOTE IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED.
am in favor of all business being done in open council, and
not behind closed doors. I will support all progressive measures
which are in the best interests of the town.
Respectfully yours,
David T. Churchill
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To The Clinton
Rate Payers
As Candidate for Public Utilities
Commission I stand for co-operation
between the Town Council and the
Public Utilities Commission for the
improvement of all Public services
and lower taxes through the reduc-
tion of File Hydrant rentals to the
town, Thanking you in advance for
your support and wishing you a Hap-
py and Prosperous New Year.
W. E. PERDUE
TO THE ELECTORS
OF CLINTON
Having decided to stand as candid-
ate for the 1938 council, there is one
question which it would seem has
come to the fore, on which I. would
like to make my stand clear.
I am definitely opposed to a bever-
age room in Clinton. If it is your
wish that I be returned to the coun-
cil, if and when the need arises I will
use My vote and- influenee against
sueh a tiring. I ant interested entirely
in making Clinton a better place in
which to live, in this, as well as all
other municipal matters.
Your vote and influence will bo
greatly appreciated, and may I extend
toyouasincerefax H-
o allmys peen wish a Hap-
py
p
py and Prosperous New Year.
Jno. W. Nediger
To The
Ratepayers
Having been nominated for the 1988
Council I respectfully solicit ,your
support at the polls,
While I do not care to make prom-
ises, I can assure the electors that
if I am elected to a seat on the Coun-
cil I will do my best to see that the
affairs of the town are conducted'
cleanly, efficiently and economically.
J. T. McKnight
Your Vote and
Influence
will be greatly
appreciated
WISAING YOU ALL A VERY HAP
PY AND PROSPEROUS
NEW YEAR.
0. L. PAISLEY
To The Ratepayers -
MY
NAME WILL BE -ON THE BALLOT FOR
YOUR CONSIDERATION
M. J. AGNE
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HAVING BEEN NOMINATED FOR COUNCILLOR
YOUR VOTE AND INFLUENCE WILL BE APPRECIATED
Yom's Sincerely,
Aiken
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