The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-03-18
WAS Town
COUNCILMAN OF
DUMBARTON
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE EARLY
CAREER OF VIM. HETHERTON,
SIR, NOW ONE OF MINOTS
FOREMOST CITIZEN.


The following from the Scottish
Trader, concerning one of our towns
men, Mr.. VIM. Hetherton. Sr., will be
read with interest, especially consider
ing that Mr.. Hetherton is candidate
for the city commission. 1t tells of his
earlier career across the big pond and
shows that he was a man of affairs,
even in those days:
Dumbarton's old castle, grey with
eld and hoary with the age of CEN
turies resting upon it, still continues
| to typify the dogged determination
with which the inhabitants pursue a
cause that has in it the elements of
truth, and bears upon it the stamp of
unmistakeable genuineness. Back in
the old days when might was right,
and in more recent times, when Liber-
ty. with her pale face, was threatened
by the king and priest, no town made
braver and more determined fight for
the preservation of the inalenable
rights of the people than the inhabi-
tants of Dumbarton. Today they are
engaged in a new struggle-a strug-
gle as far reaching in it's results as
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"a struggle between the visionary
and the very existence of private trad
ing. 1t need hardly be stated to the
readers Of the Scottish Trader that the
bed of rampant, defiant cooperation.
not only brimming over with enthusi-
b,,t IF +o11
dowed with untlinching courage to
Of this type is Mr.. William Hetherton,
Branch of the Traders Defense Asso-
much pleasure in reproducing. Mr..
men in the old town. Still in the prime
man could have been more safely en-
private trader than he. He is a capital
ing his ideas in good robust Saxon.
born there in 18 1912, the year prior to
history of Scotland-the Disruption.
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youth, and began the struggle of life
in that city: From there he proceeded
to Greenock, and served his appren-
ticeship as a butcher with the late Mr..
Daniel Taylor-a man reckoned in his
time in point of smartness and ability
at the head of his trade. Young
Hetherton, by conscientious work and
sterling integrity, had sufficiently won
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trusted with the charge of a shop.
From Greenock, where he had acquir-
ed a thorough knowledge of his trade
in its minutest details, he went to
Dumbarton, where he has remained
ever since: After working for some
time with Mr.. John Munro, he started
reer in Dumbarton has been an emf
nently successful one. He entered
heartily into every movement which
people. We find him so far back as
1871 entering the Town Council, and
for the long period of twenty years he
has ungrudgingly given his time and
ability at the Council Board in the in
terests of the ratepayers. The mere
enumeration Of the offices he holds in
the town is of itself abundant evidence
not only of the esteem in which he is
held by his townsmen but of the use
fulness of his life. He was member
of the Parochial Board, and is a prom
inent Free Mason of No. IS Dunbar
ton-Kilwinning Lodge. He has been
a member of this Lodge for twenty
years, and at present holds the office
of Substitute Master. He is also hon.
member of Loyal Dixon Oddfellows,
No. 1910, Dumbarton District, and a
member of Cardcross Parish Council,
and an elder of Dumbarton Parish
Chruch. Mr.. Hetherton is convener Of
the Dumbarton Butchers, and, as al
ready stated, Vice-President of the
Dumbarton Traders Defense Associa-
ton. In his capacity as member Of
the Town Council, he triumphantly op-
posed the purchasing of cattle
weighing machine which the cooper
ators were anxious to introduce as a
check on their statesmen. This little
incident gave the co-operators much
annoyance, and as consequence, Mr..
Hetherton Is by no means their ideal
of what town councillor should be.
Mr.. Hetherton deprecates the reports
that have been appearing in the press
that the co-operators are receiving di-
rect their supplies of meat from the
States. There is not the slightest
foundation for these reports, because
every avenue for receiving animals
and carcases are we'll known to the
trade in Glasgow. The Traders De-
tense Association has not more zeal
Gus worker and more capable fighter
than Mr.. Hetherton.
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