The Lucknow Sentinel, 1960-09-14, Page 8•
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By W. B
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Well sir, .we, moved last. week.
,And the next time .I have to • be,
moved, 1 hope it's in a : hearse..
' • ` When the ,movers, were giving:
us an estimate, .' they asked my
wife •how• many' cartons.' we'd
: have,: besides the furniture and
all, the usual 'stuff. He meant
cartons packed ' with 'books,- dish-
es and odds; and sods. She sug-:
• gested there 'would be •six. A1-
armed,.:I •told her I. was sure
there'd be .at. least eight:
We ' had something • like .34
cartons, ranging from things the
size of a sltoebox to vast card-
board' edifices which must have
_housed. ,prefab homes, in their
original state. These latter` would
go. .through. doorw ays• only when
turned - on their sides, . when
there. would occurr "such a ,tumb-
ling and a • rumbling , from their
mina"rds as to make . my wife
turn green and the eyes of ' the
movers roll heavenwards.
Sn>ile
, I still don't know .how, it was
possible' fors' four. ordinary hum-
ans, . in a' few years, to. accu riu
date so mua'li under the heading
• • of miscellaneous. Perhaps it . was
because ' Our 'house•had so .Many
closets; -About the : only,.thing.:
that . didn't. emerge - from . them
during the ordeal was, a . skeleton
The sorry;; '.note -'about: this
junk .We lugged more than 100
' mileswas that it :.was the bate!.
residue. For a week before we l
moved, I ran about .six trips .a
day . from our house' to the' gar-
, bage dump., , Iii fact, I got so
friendly",with some of; the rats
at the dump • . that' they , 4.vere
•eating. out. of,.•my 'hand.. Just the
fleshy ,part of course
Perhaps we'd.:have been all '.
right if we'd let the Old Girl
throw , 'ont =everything she want
ed to. But the rest: of us wateh-
ed her :like jackals following . a
lion. Every time she made a kill,
we'd » dart ' in,.., snatch • a • •' choice`
morsel,_ 'and : earry it.. away. .It
was only by using these desper-
ate measures »' that' We were able
•to' save suck' valuables: as : my
girdle -neck ; •': sweater.that went.
All through the war with me,
.Hugh's 'collection • of ,toothpaste
caps, . and Him's. box . Of ..beheaded.
dolls.: • I .guess the Old Lady
..threw : out some :items. as 'many'
• as five. tunes.
Young Hugh'was the, only one 1'• •
• who showed any real enterprise"
in the: ' big . move. He gathered
together. •several 'hundred comic
books, from all over the house,
went into the used -comic , busi-
-ness, and did ' , a . roaring ; trade.
He cleaned : up $6. and cut his
sister 'in for 20 .per cent, for her
.share : of . the,' stock. For days be-
fore we: moved, 'every time the
doorbell rang, ..there'd be a 'free-.
kled-faced •:kid there clutching
• sone pennies, and asking; •"Is'
this where the • comics' sale is?"
/: : • .* *. * '
• I planned to get in on the good ,.
thing, and ,filled two, -large .car
tons with used pocket books..
But I couldn't •find any custo-
mers. So I put the cartons out
on they porch to--. 'talie't"o .,Ihe
dump. You can imagine my grat-
ification when both ' boxes turn-
, the items the. mov-
ers carried .•into 'our new home,
along .'with '.two old 'Mops, a
broken -legged table, and a bust-
ed .lamp', all of which ' we'd set
aside to. go •to , the dump:
Those movers were ,right on.
the ; ball. They were. supposed to
.arrive at' noon on 'nioving day,
We Were all ready for thein. Thaat:
is, we had just half, a day's pac-
king left .to do, the stove and
dryer to be disconnected,, and
few acore other minor chores: So.
they arrived at "8.• a.m. ready to.
• go. • The rest of that day made,
' the. Charge of the °Light Brigade
' look like .a..Girl Guides` outing.
It •was only the personalities
of the' two tnen on the moving
Van ' that saved the day,. They
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were the essence . of easy good.
nature in a•"'"basically 'irritating
job My wife expressly told them.
to leave her cosmetics kit until
last. An hour later, she learned
it had beien, packed, 45 . minutes
before, just ahead of the stove,
(washer 'end refrigerator. There
was the makings • of ' an ' incident
that would have made the Con-
go `look like a Sunday, School.
picnic. The situationwas saved»
when ,one of the movers told her
She didn't _need 'no lipstick,. she
looked, great the way 'she was.
During the • scramble of pack-
ing, I stabbed my . wife » in ; the
back of the hand with the, scis�
stirs, while trying. to • cut some
string, .It went right to the bone,
bled like a fountain, then, swel-
led into , a dark. egg. I rushed her
to the hospital. When we ' got
back, the driver. told her she was
luckylucky. They'd moved an old' lady
last.
.
spring., __She -was_:fussy. !and;
critical, ; • nagging their every
move., . .Furniture all loaded, she
went up the " steps,: key ` un , hand
to lock her door,. • and looking
over her. shoulder' • to ' give • the
.movers"".a, final ,blast, 'fell and
broke both her' legs: This story
"didn't. cheer my white ;faced. wife
noticeably, but it .delighted ,the
movers.' ,
KINLOSS NEWS
. 'Congratulations . to„Bill . Buck-
ton and . Sandy MacKenzie for
the very creditable standing they
made in their Grade : XIII- sub-
jects
III,•sub-
jects for,which they were award-
ed .bursaries.
Mr. and. Mrs. . John MacDonald
of Sudbury visitedrecently with
Mr. and Mrs. ' ha Dickie and,
Some, ten hours later, in'. our
new house, one of these • charac-.
ters:, carried a box of 'booksup
to,my new "den'.', a five-foot
square converted : cupboard.
Looking • around at its . dell -like
confines, 1 e . quipped: "What's
'dis, de psychopatrick ward?"
**
We carne through .the moving
very , well, however, especially
my wife. Oh, she cried three, or.
Jour t times . the day , we were
leaving the old house, and she
burst into,. tears .the 'minute: we
entered the new one, butshe's
been a brick, on the .w,hole. Con-'
sidering that none of »the drapes
fit any of 'the'windows,,that we
had' to ;put ' so many :chairs in
the cellar it looks • as: though
there is going to be a meeting
down there, and . that • you have
to sit on the dining room table
to • play the 'piano.
•
family while spending a day. of
their wedding trip at the Mac-
Donald home which John's fath-
er, /toss L. MacDonald of Kapus
kasing .has been renovating the
past two summers. • •
Miss Helen ' Campbell is attend-
ing Lougheed's Business College
in• Kitchener..
Mrs. Dan Thompson is spend-
ing this .school term. with her
daughter, ' Christine, who is , on
the teaching staff in :'the city of
Oshawa.
We are all very concerned ov-
er the "serious illness of Mr. An
•gus. `Graham who • underwent
major .surgery in. General Hos-
pital, Toronto on Saturday. '
Mr. and Mrs. Fraser ' MacKin-
non and family . visited with
friends at. Milverton last, Bun
day. •
Mr.. and • Mrs. mon _ Chapelle
(Ann Townson) of Sudbury
were Labour . Day guests at the
home of Mr & Mrs. • Ira Dickie.
'Passed Away Monday
Word has just been received ..of
.
the passing of Mr. Dari. Mac.Don-'
ald of Smith Falls." He suffered
a severe heart attack on .Labou'
Day. This pastweek he was
•'hospitalized . and in an . oxygen
tent but hope was held' for' his
"recovery, ' but : • he ' passed away
early .Monday morning. He . •was
WEDNESDAY, :SEPT. 14th, 1950 .
ROE
MIC
L»» ying Concentrate,
$4,60 'per cwt.
D R.. :F I N LAYSD N
due for retirement from his' Post
Office:'duties . this coming elitist-
. mas.; Our • sympathy goes' out to
his wife, :Greta and all the .Mac
Donald relatives "'
He won't be 'long. In one brief visit . to his local
bank, he can do ail his banking, even ' if • it in-
volves sending
n-volves'sending money way round the world.
He:. can handlemoney matters this easy, con-
venient waybecause only a chartered . bank
provider a full range of banking services, all:
under ijne roof.
Day in, dy-out,,.in more than 4,800 :branches
in Canada, bank customers are making deposits,
putting I' valuables into safety deposit bores,
buying or selling foreign exchange ... using
all sorts of Tanking. services.
At your localbranch bank, you can count on
prompt, courteous and personal :attention' to
all your banking needs.
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