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COME AND BRING
YOUR PARENTS
WE'RE HAVING A
PARTY
Children who have attended the
LIkKpilOW PLAYGROUND
During July and or August are invited, along with
their parents,' to attend a party on
Thursdays August 23rd
7 to 9 p.m. at the Lucknow Park
GAMES — LOTS OF FUN
Bring your own picnic lunch
We supply ice cream and, freshie
TICE
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cost. Come visit us.
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DEALER
Lucknow Wins Recreation League
Softball Championship In 12 to 15 Group
recreation softball league , the
Lucknow's entry in the local
proved strong opposition for the
now in both scheduled games and
12 to 15 year old grouping, were
local. boys. The series was won'
declared champions .on Friday in three straight games with Luck-
night of last week: now's batting proving to, be a
' Six teams , composed the
deciding factor.
league, Port Albert, Brookside;
The first game was won 19711 in Kingsbridge, North Ashfield,
Port Albert; the second played in Lucknow and Dungannon.
Lucknow was ,a close 9-8 score Lucknow had won seven out' of and the third game played in' Port ten regularly scheduled games,
Albert last Friday.night ended. with one tie and two losses.
with a 12-8 score. In the semi-finals the top four'
teams' played a best two out of
three series, with Lucknow and
NOrth Ashfield and Port Albert
and Kingsbridge competing in
the two series. Lucknow and
Port Albert were the winners and
advanced into the finals which
was a best of five s.eries.
Port Albert had defeated Luck-
RECREATION
SOFTBALL FINALS
/LUCKNOW BALL PARK
Sunday,
Septembir 2nd „lit,
STARTING AT 1 P.M:
FREE ADMISSION TO PARK
GIRLS' LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
JUNIOR .BOYS' LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
INTERMEDIATE BOYS' LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
SENIOR BOYS' LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
If any championship is declared prior to September 2, the
winners will be challenged by an all star team.
REFRESHMENTS, BARBECUED HAMBURGERS, HOT DOGS,
SOFT DRINKS AND ICE.CREAM WILL BE AVAILABLE .AT COST
Served and sponsored by the Ashfield, West Wawartosh, Kinloss
and Liicknow Recreation Committees
REMEMBER
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later years when the bearing
got.started , we' ad fresh beef
every week too. 'And
occasionally, Davie McConnell
came around with his fresh fish
from Lake Huron. We had our
own potatoes •and root vegetables
of every kind. We always had a
big garden, and. we needed it.
We used the vegetables fresh
from the very first green Onions .
right through the summer and
fall, and then the cellar was situp
ly packed with more root vege7
tables that would keep, and doz-
ens and dozens of jars of canned
peas, beans and.corn. In spite
of fears nowadays about getting
food poisoning from imperfectly
processed vegetables ,.I do not
remember one instance of food
poisoning. Dessert was fruit
pie made from ourjown fruit, or
pudding of some kind, usually
milk pudding. My mother believ-
ed in plenty of milk for growing
children. Most of us grew up with
good strong teeth and bones.
For supper again there were
usually potatoes, fried or scallop-
ed, cold meat or eggs, a salad or
tomatoes in summer and for
dessert sauce or canned fruit --
home-canned, not tinned.
Nearly always, we finished up
with cookies or cake or tarts and
nearly always there were muffins,
tea biscuits or cupcakes. It may
sound like a diet with high per-
centage, of carbohydrates but there
were compensations'. We hadNery
little candy and gum and. no soft
drinks. Most of the Modern snack
foods were things of the future and
anyway, there was no money for
things like that.
I mentioned before that we
ways had a good garden. We
grew our own tomato and cabbage
plants in a coldframe at the south
side 'of the house. The early
things and small things were in .
The. Garden near the hoiise. ''Corn,
potatoes, pumpkins, squash and
the big things were in the Back •
Garden. I can remember some, , _
summers'when we would put the
wash boiler on the kitchen stove
half hill of water and go to the
back garden for corn, while it
came to a boil over a wood fire.
We would pick.a clothesbasket of
corn and husk-it in the lane where
the cows could eat the husks. We
ate corn until the butter nearly
dripped off our elbows and our
eyes bulged - real corn that tast-
ed like ,corn, not like sawdust..
'With that we would' have platters
full ofsliced tomatoes and top,
off with fresh applesauce. And
every meallome-made bread
and butter.
Earlier', I mentioned our own'
pigs for pork. We always had a .
fair sized.flock of hens for, eggs
and all the roosters among the
spring chickens becarne delicious
roasts later in the year.
One year someone gave us a
Setting of duck eggs and four of
them hatched. Three names I
remember were Snowball, Top-
knot and Dickie. When they be-
came roast duck; only the hard
hearted of the boys were able to
eat them!, I remember one year
we had an 'unusual colOured
chicken and it became a pet.
.One of my young brothers' used to
play with it and call it 'my Lully
chicken'.
From very early spring, we had
fresh fruit on the farm. We had
a large patch of red rhubarb
and was it ever good in the
early spring. We had
a large patch of raspberries and
we felt rather Superior because /'
,we were one of the few families
Radiator
big Up?
See Our
Mechanics
•
Bob Simpson, John Austin and
League convener. Clarence Doher-
ty presented the trophy. Luck-`
vow's pitcher Bob Shepherd ac-
cepted on behalf of the team.
Lucknow will now play an
All-star team on September 2
when the recreation committees
will sponsor. a special day.
to have white raspberries
well'as red. They were huge and
I can remember picking 70
quart boxes, maybe- 3 times a'
week irrthe season. Imagine
.those berries; right off the bushes
with sugar and rich, thick cream.
Of course, a lot of the berries
never got into the quart boxes.
There was a handier container for
them. We had cherry' trees too,.
I lokled to climb trees and really;
someone up in the .cherry tree dis-
:-'ouraged the robins. I well rem-
ember one day, whenI.was up in
:he tree and became aware of
the lake away irrthe west.' It was
-the first time 'I had seen it from ,
home. We had four kinds of
pears, each used -for a different
purpose as well as 'to eat raw. Of
the-other fruits, we had peaches;
plums, grapes and black currants.
And all were processed in some
way for the winter as well as being
used raw.
The • apple orchard was my
special place, again because I
loved climbing. One of 'my
favourite summer pastimes was to,
climb certain trees which had
nice horizontal boughs and situp';
there for hours* reading, and
eating juicy apples. 1 have no
idea how how many trees, or varieties;
we had but they lasted from the:
early harvest -right through suni:'•
mer and fall and then huge bins-
winter apples in the cellar, until
the E'en Davis were ready tome,
in the spring. My brothers didi
flourishing business in trading ;,
. apples at school for things that
cost money and were not readill
available to is. It was forhiddee
but :they' would go to school with
their blouses full of ripe appleL
We had varieties never heard of
now grid the varieties we can
get, do not have the same flivout
as they used to have/ from old,
unpruned , unsprayed trees. We:
didn't even get sick if we mera.
Worin in an apple. Half a 41r(
was not so good! One year my
grandfather was at our plate Ind
he decided to make apple butter,
the real thing. He made cider :
from wind falls (coniplete with
worms) and then spent hours par.
ing and .coring sweet apples,
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