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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1974-12-26, Page 2- 4 k ,� t• , � v . v !"^^�.-,t--,r-mac • ;� ,1.; I { TI d 77 SI, i8 � p 1.,GQ. Serving the Community First ° at $ A QR7`(<i« VNA 1Cj',,.every Thgtsday mortxing by McLEA I $ROS_ Publishers Ltd. "ANDRgW Y. McLgAN, Editor #' 14em.tierC'ati4dian'.Com unity Newspaper Association) s 'Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association ' and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates:OC Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year ,i Outside Canada (in advance) $12.00 a Year. SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 t° Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, DECEMBER 26, 1974 N Main St. says Merry Christmas Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley And the, same to you! I probably should have sent off a Merry Christmas column to all my readers about the first of November, to make sure it was received by December 25th. i know this won't be. But it's not your, faithful chronicler's fault, nor the fault of your favourite weekly newspaper. The entire blame must rest on the broad shoulders - thev have to be broad — of that modern phenomenon of efficiency, Canada Post. People in that august institution must be afraid .of getting, their hands soiled by handling t -he average weekly newspaper, "1'61171 of • violence, rape, 'murder' and muggings. They probably, use a shovel. Shovel it into a corner until some day,. between coffee breaks, they are so bored that they resort to sorting and sending the weekly paper. When I was in the business, we used to mail the paper on Thursday, and people in Ohio or Texas would receive it on Monday. Nowadays, I count on my weekly paper being a week late in arriving.Time after time, I've been tempted to take up my typewriter and dasy off an encouraging note to a weekly editor who has written a particularly pungent editorial,, only to pause in the certainty that by the time I'd received his paper, and the time he'd received my letter, the hot issue he'd attacked or defended would be three weeks old, and as cold as a corpse, Well, we mustn't be mean at Christmas, must we? Although 1 don't see why not. The same miserable sods are going to be around, on Boxing Day, and the same inefficient, insolent institutions will be back in business on Jan. 1. Since it's too late to wish everyone a Merry, i'll put everything in the past tense. i hope you got exactly what yod wanted for Christmas. whether it was a baby or a kazoo or a sober husband. " 1 hope you got Joy. And if you didn't, I hope you were happy with Myrtle or Hazel or Pearl or Genevieve. If you wanted a pair of those foam - rubber kneepads for scrubbing, 1 hope you got them: And if you wanted a mink wrap, I hope you didn't. i hope you were not pregnant if you didn't want to be. and were if you wanted to be. I hope you didn't bust your bum on those new down -hill skiis. or bust your heart on those new cross-country skiis, both of which you -are too young or too old to be To. the Editor doing anything with except feeding the living -room fire. If you are old and l6a4ly-,- i hope you received a warm telephone call — about 15 minutes worth, and not collect — from someone who is young and loves you, And if you are young and lonely, I hope you got a long telephone call, collect, from someone who is old and loves you. If you are a farmer, I hope you slept on Christmas eve with visions of sugarplums and reindeer fast in your head. Jeez, a guy can't make any money on beef these days. Might as well get into reindeer. Its youare a schoolteacher, I hope you remembered at Christmas that you too were once a fat and- ugly duckling, riddled with pimples, shy to the point of fainting if asked a question, lazy as a cut cat, sort of dirty, really, and yet a striving, yearning, beseeching human bean.. If you were a mother at. Christmas well, all I can say is that I hope you believe in a life after death. And if you were a father, well, all I can say is that I hope you, too, believe in a world in the , hereafter. Preferably segregated, If you are a business tycoon, a union leader, or anyone in the upper echelons of education, I hope your ulcer ruined your Christmas dinner. If you are an old maid, and have been lurking thesd many years in the fold of your "sick" mother's nightygown, 1 hope you decided at Christmas to unlurk. Same for old male spinsters. Unlurk. Boy, that almost sounds like a dirty word, if you practise. Try it. Unlurk! Whatever happened at Christmas, hang in there. We need you. We hewers of wood and drawers of water, as Canadians are known. have to stick together and keep on , hewing drawers. Every time there comes s, crack about hewers and drawers, I burst into a•hue and cry. Bursting into a hue is farily simple. i can turn purple on very little provocation, as my family will tell. Almost anybody can hew or hue. But the drawers • are the problem. Nobody wears drawers any more. How can you cry them when there ain't none. Th is is a problem that Canadians are going to have to give a good deal of thought to in the coming year. Well, those ace my season's greetings to Awl and Sundry (my legal repre- sen ataives), as well as to all you faithful readers. And tang may your lum reek, on • New Year's Eve. -41 Class likes colouring contest Sir: Thank you very much for donating the Sincerely, papers to us. Our class had a ovonderful Grade 5M time colouring the pictures. It was a sot of Merry Christmas and $ Happy New Year to fun. I the` )=Huron Expositor Staff. DECEMBER 22,18.19 A number of young people from Farquhar attended at the homo of 'Thos, Coward recently and participated in, a ,supper and. dance. Mr.Andrew Campbell of Farquhar, after taking a course in the Forest City Business College,. left here for Minnesota., Mr. and Mrs. T,N.Forsyth, assisted at the entertainment of Miss M. McGregor s school, St,. Joseph, which was a success. O.W.Snell of Dashwood has opened an open-air skating rink west of the photograph . gallery. Mr. Fair of Londesboro . hgs been engaged a teacher in the Varna School at a salary of $400. John O'Keefe, the well knpwn cattle dealer of Dublin inform 4.. ha,,from the 5th of May, 'till the„ 26th 0 oober,�he paid to farmers of this vicinity the sum' .of $49,511.90 for livestock. James Archibald of town had the misfortune to lose a handsome driver. Win. McDougall Jr. has leased the skating and curling rink for $210. ,. John Grieve V.S. has returned home after several months n, the Klondike. We have not heard whether he brought any of the gold dust -home. with him. Major Anderson succeeded in bagging a couple of foxes last week. Walter mcBeath of Stanley recently sold to John McAllister of Hay, a 5 months old colt for $70.00. ' John Snider of Brucefield has secured an enterprising harness maker in the person of Mr. Oke of Exeter. Archibald Wright, who recently sold his farm had a very successful auction sale. Thos. Brown was the auctioneer. ' Miss Lou Moir of Hensall has been engaged as organist * in Carmel Presbyterian Church. DECEMBER 1924 The fierce blizzards of the past two vJ Saturdays have made old and young dread the present winter, at Dublin, Peter Gardiner of Walton is making his rounds pressing hay.. Thos. MacKay , p,..•Manley was in Toronto to purchase a load of stockers. Ronald McKenzie of Brucefield who has been sailing the lakes for the past summer has returned home for the winter months. Miss Aggie Beattie of Brucefield had the misfortune to fall on her way to church and injure one of her limbs. W.C,Bennett of Winthrop motored to Kitchener with a trunk load of dressed fowl. Mandy Holland of Winthrop is in London attending the funeral of his aunt. Gilbert Jarrott of Kippen 'entertained a. number of his young friends- this week. A'shower was held at the home of Miss Jennie Chesney of Kippen, in honor of Miss Ethel Elgie, bride elect. Fred Th iell of Zurich is moving into his new store opposite the Walper House, with his harness stock. He is also moving his household effects to the apartment above the new block. Messrs. T. Drummond of Hensall has a . very fine showing of Christmas and some fine cattle they bought from Mr. Upshall of near Kippen. Mr. Ed. Mole of town was pleasantly surprised when a number of his friends gathered at' the Hydro Office and presented him with a goose. The address was read by Mayor John A. <ewart and the presentation by Montgomery DAvis. In the death of Robert Scott Grieve which occurred at his home near Winthrop , McKillop Township lost not only one of its oldest and best known residents, but one of its faithful and able public servants. He was born on the farm now owned by Edward Hunt. DECEMBER 23,1949 Students of the Seaforth District High School gave up their annual Christipas . treat this year and instead donated their usual 50c fee treat to the Community Centre Fund. The amount realized amounted to $50.00. Eric Munroe announced that plans are being made for the annual rabbit drive on Boxing Day. The Christmas concert held on Monday evening in First Presbyterian Church schoolroom, was a decided success. Rev. D. Glenn Campbell was -chairman and Santa Claus appeared in full costume in the person of Scott Cluff. Members of the Seaforth Lions Club were in Clinton for their annual visit to the Huron County Home: The program featured solos by Walker Bart and a short talk by Rev. D. Glenn Campbell. e Louis K. Kalbfleisch, a former reeve of Hay Township, died at the home of his. daughter, Mr. H.W.Brokenshire of Zurich. For many years he was associated with his father in the sawmill business. He was reeve for four years. An enjoyable evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs.James McIntosh when members of the School Board and former and. present teachers to honor Sam. 14. Whitmore, who has been the secretary treasurer since 1944 and who is now retiring. C.A.Trott read an address and Reeve Arthur Nicholson, James Carnochan and Harold Johns presented Mr. Whitmore With a lazy boy chair. Mr. and Mr. J.J.Hugill observed their 50th wedding anniversary and were at h ome to their neighbors and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Dale of town have moved into their new home on Goderit:h St. West. Harvey Boyce of Varna has opened his garage business in the stand formerly occupied by G.H.Beatty. 4 A 0 1~ 4 And it came to pass heresy? Luke 2:1-10 And there were in the same other women, perhaps a generation or And it; came to pass in those days country shepherds abiding in the two of children. Jesus a woman? Hah! that there went out a . decree from fields, keeping watch over their flock- Heresy! Ceasar Augustus, that all the world by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord If the thought of.a female Christ should betaxed.,(And this taxing was came upon them, and the glory of the horrifies you, maybe the heresy is first made when Cyrenius was Lord shone ro1, d- about them: and yours. Certainly, the Bible says that governor of Syria.) And all went to be they were sone a -raid. And the angel ' Jesus ,was male. The heresy may be taxed"every one Auto' his 'own city. w said unto then "Fear not: for, that because of Hebrew, social And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, , behold 1, bring you good tidings of • into Judea, unto the city of °David,shallbe great joy, which s to all people. send a male Messiah. That makes which is,called Bethlehem (because For unto you is orn this day in the God subject to human customs. it he was of the house and lineage of city of David, Saviour, which is denies the limitless power of God. -David); to be taxed with Mary his Christ the Lord.' And this shall be a Surely the real, message of espoused'wife, being great with chile): sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe Christmas is not what did happen, but And so it was, that while' they wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying wha t can happen. What could be were there, the days were in a manger." And.suddenly there more absured than one' child, on accomplished that she could be was with the angel a multitude of the unsophisticated carpenter's son in a delivered. And she brought forth her heavenly host praising God and o troublesome little backwater of the first-born son, and laid him in a saying "Glory to God in the highest . Roman Empire setting out to change manger; because there was no room and on earth peace, good will toward tithe world, even challenging death on for them in the inn. men." a cross. If ' anything should be Spirit in Seaforth considered impossible, that should The Christmas spirit is giving to California and had a generally happy be. Even for God. others. ,The Christmas spirit is evening, courtesy of those who But that's what happened. sharing our happy -times and our believe more in helping others than in Christmas says to all of us, then other times with friends. The getting something for themselves and now, "With God, even the .Christmas spirit means trying to first.. impossible is possible." understand what another person's life Meals on Wheels is another - is like, rather than just grouching Seaforth organization which, , (Contributed) . about our own. although . it's been around for less The Christmas spirit, giving loving than a year, has performed a, real and sharing, blows hot and heavy this service to the elderly. We all have to time of year. We wish that there was eat and we all know. that people alone. a little more of this spirit evident in often just don't bother cooking our every day dealings with our fellow nutritious . food. Into this breach ' human beings. However, Christmas stepped Meals on Wheels, which spirit throughout the holiday season under the leadership of Mrs. Beth is better than nothing. If brotherhood, Thomson; serves about 30 dinners a love and harmony were todisappear• week. even at this time of year,--- then we're On Christmas Day, ` Meals on in_ real trouble. V1/heels will be serving a i. Several examples of the Christmas Christmas dinner to their f-ag,tl.lar spirit at work in Seaforth have come customers who will be home that day. to our attention recently. Volunteer drivers will leave their own Every year for six or seven years all families for an hour or so, to make the senior citizens in town, many of sure that others get a Christmas -` whom belong to the Happy Citizen's dinner. Club, have been served a Christmas There are lots of other dinner by the local Legion Ladies. organizations who do their bit, quietly "It's a little something we've done in the background, to attempt to make since the club . began", says Peg Christmas a happy time,for everyone Coombs of the Legion Ladies. Peg ... including. those who are sick or herself organized the Happy Citizens unemployed or without a decent in the first place. They have about 198 standard of living. members and. play cards once a Let's not feel self righteous and month in the Legion where all the decide that we take such good care of facilities are available to them free of our fellow men and women that there charge. are "'no problems in Seaforth: We This year, early in mber, 135 don't and there are, — but we try and ,fat down to a roast beef inner and we care, especially at Christmas time, watched slides of Flo 'da and and that is what is important. Main St. says Merry Christmas Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley And the, same to you! I probably should have sent off a Merry Christmas column to all my readers about the first of November, to make sure it was received by December 25th. i know this won't be. But it's not your, faithful chronicler's fault, nor the fault of your favourite weekly newspaper. The entire blame must rest on the broad shoulders - thev have to be broad — of that modern phenomenon of efficiency, Canada Post. People in that august institution must be afraid .of getting, their hands soiled by handling t -he average weekly newspaper, "1'61171 of • violence, rape, 'murder' and muggings. They probably, use a shovel. Shovel it into a corner until some day,. between coffee breaks, they are so bored that they resort to sorting and sending the weekly paper. When I was in the business, we used to mail the paper on Thursday, and people in Ohio or Texas would receive it on Monday. Nowadays, I count on my weekly paper being a week late in arriving.Time after time, I've been tempted to take up my typewriter and dasy off an encouraging note to a weekly editor who has written a particularly pungent editorial,, only to pause in the certainty that by the time I'd received his paper, and the time he'd received my letter, the hot issue he'd attacked or defended would be three weeks old, and as cold as a corpse, Well, we mustn't be mean at Christmas, must we? Although 1 don't see why not. The same miserable sods are going to be around, on Boxing Day, and the same inefficient, insolent institutions will be back in business on Jan. 1. Since it's too late to wish everyone a Merry, i'll put everything in the past tense. i hope you got exactly what yod wanted for Christmas. whether it was a baby or a kazoo or a sober husband. " 1 hope you got Joy. And if you didn't, I hope you were happy with Myrtle or Hazel or Pearl or Genevieve. If you wanted a pair of those foam - rubber kneepads for scrubbing, 1 hope you got them: And if you wanted a mink wrap, I hope you didn't. i hope you were not pregnant if you didn't want to be. and were if you wanted to be. I hope you didn't bust your bum on those new down -hill skiis. or bust your heart on those new cross-country skiis, both of which you -are too young or too old to be To. the Editor doing anything with except feeding the living -room fire. If you are old and l6a4ly-,- i hope you received a warm telephone call — about 15 minutes worth, and not collect — from someone who is young and loves you, And if you are young and lonely, I hope you got a long telephone call, collect, from someone who is old and loves you. If you are a farmer, I hope you slept on Christmas eve with visions of sugarplums and reindeer fast in your head. Jeez, a guy can't make any money on beef these days. Might as well get into reindeer. Its youare a schoolteacher, I hope you remembered at Christmas that you too were once a fat and- ugly duckling, riddled with pimples, shy to the point of fainting if asked a question, lazy as a cut cat, sort of dirty, really, and yet a striving, yearning, beseeching human bean.. If you were a mother at. Christmas well, all I can say is that I hope you believe in a life after death. And if you were a father, well, all I can say is that I hope you, too, believe in a world in the , hereafter. Preferably segregated, If you are a business tycoon, a union leader, or anyone in the upper echelons of education, I hope your ulcer ruined your Christmas dinner. If you are an old maid, and have been lurking thesd many years in the fold of your "sick" mother's nightygown, 1 hope you decided at Christmas to unlurk. Same for old male spinsters. Unlurk. Boy, that almost sounds like a dirty word, if you practise. Try it. Unlurk! Whatever happened at Christmas, hang in there. We need you. We hewers of wood and drawers of water, as Canadians are known. have to stick together and keep on , hewing drawers. Every time there comes s, crack about hewers and drawers, I burst into a•hue and cry. Bursting into a hue is farily simple. i can turn purple on very little provocation, as my family will tell. Almost anybody can hew or hue. But the drawers • are the problem. Nobody wears drawers any more. How can you cry them when there ain't none. Th is is a problem that Canadians are going to have to give a good deal of thought to in the coming year. Well, those ace my season's greetings to Awl and Sundry (my legal repre- sen ataives), as well as to all you faithful readers. And tang may your lum reek, on • New Year's Eve. -41 Class likes colouring contest Sir: Thank you very much for donating the Sincerely, papers to us. Our class had a ovonderful Grade 5M time colouring the pictures. It was a sot of Merry Christmas and $ Happy New Year to fun. I the` )=Huron Expositor Staff. DECEMBER 22,18.19 A number of young people from Farquhar attended at the homo of 'Thos, Coward recently and participated in, a ,supper and. dance. Mr.Andrew Campbell of Farquhar, after taking a course in the Forest City Business College,. left here for Minnesota., Mr. and Mrs. T,N.Forsyth, assisted at the entertainment of Miss M. McGregor s school, St,. Joseph, which was a success. O.W.Snell of Dashwood has opened an open-air skating rink west of the photograph . gallery. Mr. Fair of Londesboro . hgs been engaged a teacher in the Varna School at a salary of $400. John O'Keefe, the well knpwn cattle dealer of Dublin inform 4.. ha,,from the 5th of May, 'till the„ 26th 0 oober,�he paid to farmers of this vicinity the sum' .of $49,511.90 for livestock. James Archibald of town had the misfortune to lose a handsome driver. Win. McDougall Jr. has leased the skating and curling rink for $210. ,. John Grieve V.S. has returned home after several months n, the Klondike. We have not heard whether he brought any of the gold dust -home. with him. Major Anderson succeeded in bagging a couple of foxes last week. Walter mcBeath of Stanley recently sold to John McAllister of Hay, a 5 months old colt for $70.00. ' John Snider of Brucefield has secured an enterprising harness maker in the person of Mr. Oke of Exeter. Archibald Wright, who recently sold his farm had a very successful auction sale. Thos. Brown was the auctioneer. ' Miss Lou Moir of Hensall has been engaged as organist * in Carmel Presbyterian Church. DECEMBER 1924 The fierce blizzards of the past two vJ Saturdays have made old and young dread the present winter, at Dublin, Peter Gardiner of Walton is making his rounds pressing hay.. Thos. MacKay , p,..•Manley was in Toronto to purchase a load of stockers. Ronald McKenzie of Brucefield who has been sailing the lakes for the past summer has returned home for the winter months. Miss Aggie Beattie of Brucefield had the misfortune to fall on her way to church and injure one of her limbs. W.C,Bennett of Winthrop motored to Kitchener with a trunk load of dressed fowl. Mandy Holland of Winthrop is in London attending the funeral of his aunt. Gilbert Jarrott of Kippen 'entertained a. number of his young friends- this week. A'shower was held at the home of Miss Jennie Chesney of Kippen, in honor of Miss Ethel Elgie, bride elect. Fred Th iell of Zurich is moving into his new store opposite the Walper House, with his harness stock. He is also moving his household effects to the apartment above the new block. Messrs. T. Drummond of Hensall has a . very fine showing of Christmas and some fine cattle they bought from Mr. Upshall of near Kippen. Mr. Ed. Mole of town was pleasantly surprised when a number of his friends gathered at' the Hydro Office and presented him with a goose. The address was read by Mayor John A. <ewart and the presentation by Montgomery DAvis. In the death of Robert Scott Grieve which occurred at his home near Winthrop , McKillop Township lost not only one of its oldest and best known residents, but one of its faithful and able public servants. He was born on the farm now owned by Edward Hunt. DECEMBER 23,1949 Students of the Seaforth District High School gave up their annual Christipas . treat this year and instead donated their usual 50c fee treat to the Community Centre Fund. The amount realized amounted to $50.00. Eric Munroe announced that plans are being made for the annual rabbit drive on Boxing Day. The Christmas concert held on Monday evening in First Presbyterian Church schoolroom, was a decided success. Rev. D. Glenn Campbell was -chairman and Santa Claus appeared in full costume in the person of Scott Cluff. Members of the Seaforth Lions Club were in Clinton for their annual visit to the Huron County Home: The program featured solos by Walker Bart and a short talk by Rev. D. Glenn Campbell. e Louis K. Kalbfleisch, a former reeve of Hay Township, died at the home of his. daughter, Mr. H.W.Brokenshire of Zurich. For many years he was associated with his father in the sawmill business. He was reeve for four years. An enjoyable evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs.James McIntosh when members of the School Board and former and. present teachers to honor Sam. 14. Whitmore, who has been the secretary treasurer since 1944 and who is now retiring. C.A.Trott read an address and Reeve Arthur Nicholson, James Carnochan and Harold Johns presented Mr. Whitmore With a lazy boy chair. Mr. and Mr. J.J.Hugill observed their 50th wedding anniversary and were at h ome to their neighbors and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Dale of town have moved into their new home on Goderit:h St. West. Harvey Boyce of Varna has opened his garage business in the stand formerly occupied by G.H.Beatty. 4 A 0 1~ 4 Christmas heresy? A Chrigtmas cartoon showed a little other women, perhaps a generation or but bathed" in a hall' of Ilgh't. .The two of children. Jesus a woman? Hah! mother bent- over her child in a Heresy! manger° epherds approached from If the thought of.a female Christ the field)%, wise men from the deserts, horrifies you, maybe the heresy is and the night sky was filled with yours. Certainly, the Bible says that angels. Q Jesus ,was male. The heresy may be And the father came rushing out, that because of Hebrew, social shouting, "It's a girl!" standards God had no choice but to It's almost unimaginable. In this send a male Messiah. That makes age of enlightened, theology, a God subject to human customs. it number of broad-minded Christians denies the limitless power of God. have managed I to convince Surely the real, message of themselves that God might indeed be Christmas is not what did happen, but female as welj,Aas male. Or perhaps wha t can happen. What could be neither, or perhaps both: But to more absured than one' child, on conceive of the Christ, the Messiah, unsophisticated carpenter's son in a !as a woman? How ridiculous! o troublesome little backwater of the After all, you say, if Chrlst -had Roman Empire setting out to change been a woman, there would probably tithe world, even challenging death on hairs been no. great preaching a cross. If ' anything should be r sdlhrough Palestine, no going considered impossible, that should .66,,, out: iir the boats with the fishel`rrlen, be. Even for God. rIo drlvin.g�the rtioney-chAgers out of But that's what happened. ' 'thd. temple.. fibers would :probably Christmas says to all of us, then have tieerl,oh tflai4AM no crClClfi fon. and now, "With God, even the 'ihe great, worahging hil`nistry of impossible is possible." �fesu� mjghthave•b�en restrict�t to a - sjrl le small toil a, at association with (Contributed) . 1 Main St. says Merry Christmas Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley And the, same to you! I probably should have sent off a Merry Christmas column to all my readers about the first of November, to make sure it was received by December 25th. i know this won't be. But it's not your, faithful chronicler's fault, nor the fault of your favourite weekly newspaper. The entire blame must rest on the broad shoulders - thev have to be broad — of that modern phenomenon of efficiency, Canada Post. People in that august institution must be afraid .of getting, their hands soiled by handling t -he average weekly newspaper, "1'61171 of • violence, rape, 'murder' and muggings. They probably, use a shovel. Shovel it into a corner until some day,. between coffee breaks, they are so bored that they resort to sorting and sending the weekly paper. When I was in the business, we used to mail the paper on Thursday, and people in Ohio or Texas would receive it on Monday. Nowadays, I count on my weekly paper being a week late in arriving.Time after time, I've been tempted to take up my typewriter and dasy off an encouraging note to a weekly editor who has written a particularly pungent editorial,, only to pause in the certainty that by the time I'd received his paper, and the time he'd received my letter, the hot issue he'd attacked or defended would be three weeks old, and as cold as a corpse, Well, we mustn't be mean at Christmas, must we? Although 1 don't see why not. The same miserable sods are going to be around, on Boxing Day, and the same inefficient, insolent institutions will be back in business on Jan. 1. Since it's too late to wish everyone a Merry, i'll put everything in the past tense. i hope you got exactly what yod wanted for Christmas. whether it was a baby or a kazoo or a sober husband. " 1 hope you got Joy. And if you didn't, I hope you were happy with Myrtle or Hazel or Pearl or Genevieve. If you wanted a pair of those foam - rubber kneepads for scrubbing, 1 hope you got them: And if you wanted a mink wrap, I hope you didn't. i hope you were not pregnant if you didn't want to be. and were if you wanted to be. I hope you didn't bust your bum on those new down -hill skiis. or bust your heart on those new cross-country skiis, both of which you -are too young or too old to be To. the Editor doing anything with except feeding the living -room fire. If you are old and l6a4ly-,- i hope you received a warm telephone call — about 15 minutes worth, and not collect — from someone who is young and loves you, And if you are young and lonely, I hope you got a long telephone call, collect, from someone who is old and loves you. If you are a farmer, I hope you slept on Christmas eve with visions of sugarplums and reindeer fast in your head. Jeez, a guy can't make any money on beef these days. Might as well get into reindeer. Its youare a schoolteacher, I hope you remembered at Christmas that you too were once a fat and- ugly duckling, riddled with pimples, shy to the point of fainting if asked a question, lazy as a cut cat, sort of dirty, really, and yet a striving, yearning, beseeching human bean.. If you were a mother at. Christmas well, all I can say is that I hope you believe in a life after death. And if you were a father, well, all I can say is that I hope you, too, believe in a world in the , hereafter. Preferably segregated, If you are a business tycoon, a union leader, or anyone in the upper echelons of education, I hope your ulcer ruined your Christmas dinner. If you are an old maid, and have been lurking thesd many years in the fold of your "sick" mother's nightygown, 1 hope you decided at Christmas to unlurk. Same for old male spinsters. Unlurk. Boy, that almost sounds like a dirty word, if you practise. Try it. Unlurk! Whatever happened at Christmas, hang in there. We need you. We hewers of wood and drawers of water, as Canadians are known. have to stick together and keep on , hewing drawers. Every time there comes s, crack about hewers and drawers, I burst into a•hue and cry. Bursting into a hue is farily simple. i can turn purple on very little provocation, as my family will tell. Almost anybody can hew or hue. But the drawers • are the problem. Nobody wears drawers any more. How can you cry them when there ain't none. Th is is a problem that Canadians are going to have to give a good deal of thought to in the coming year. Well, those ace my season's greetings to Awl and Sundry (my legal repre- sen ataives), as well as to all you faithful readers. And tang may your lum reek, on • New Year's Eve. -41 Class likes colouring contest Sir: Thank you very much for donating the Sincerely, papers to us. Our class had a ovonderful Grade 5M time colouring the pictures. It was a sot of Merry Christmas and $ Happy New Year to fun. I the` )=Huron Expositor Staff. DECEMBER 22,18.19 A number of young people from Farquhar attended at the homo of 'Thos, Coward recently and participated in, a ,supper and. dance. Mr.Andrew Campbell of Farquhar, after taking a course in the Forest City Business College,. left here for Minnesota., Mr. and Mrs. T,N.Forsyth, assisted at the entertainment of Miss M. McGregor s school, St,. Joseph, which was a success. O.W.Snell of Dashwood has opened an open-air skating rink west of the photograph . gallery. Mr. Fair of Londesboro . hgs been engaged a teacher in the Varna School at a salary of $400. John O'Keefe, the well knpwn cattle dealer of Dublin inform 4.. ha,,from the 5th of May, 'till the„ 26th 0 oober,�he paid to farmers of this vicinity the sum' .of $49,511.90 for livestock. James Archibald of town had the misfortune to lose a handsome driver. Win. McDougall Jr. has leased the skating and curling rink for $210. ,. John Grieve V.S. has returned home after several months n, the Klondike. We have not heard whether he brought any of the gold dust -home. with him. Major Anderson succeeded in bagging a couple of foxes last week. Walter mcBeath of Stanley recently sold to John McAllister of Hay, a 5 months old colt for $70.00. ' John Snider of Brucefield has secured an enterprising harness maker in the person of Mr. Oke of Exeter. Archibald Wright, who recently sold his farm had a very successful auction sale. Thos. Brown was the auctioneer. ' Miss Lou Moir of Hensall has been engaged as organist * in Carmel Presbyterian Church. DECEMBER 1924 The fierce blizzards of the past two vJ Saturdays have made old and young dread the present winter, at Dublin, Peter Gardiner of Walton is making his rounds pressing hay.. Thos. MacKay , p,..•Manley was in Toronto to purchase a load of stockers. Ronald McKenzie of Brucefield who has been sailing the lakes for the past summer has returned home for the winter months. Miss Aggie Beattie of Brucefield had the misfortune to fall on her way to church and injure one of her limbs. W.C,Bennett of Winthrop motored to Kitchener with a trunk load of dressed fowl. Mandy Holland of Winthrop is in London attending the funeral of his aunt. Gilbert Jarrott of Kippen 'entertained a. number of his young friends- this week. A'shower was held at the home of Miss Jennie Chesney of Kippen, in honor of Miss Ethel Elgie, bride elect. Fred Th iell of Zurich is moving into his new store opposite the Walper House, with his harness stock. He is also moving his household effects to the apartment above the new block. Messrs. T. Drummond of Hensall has a . very fine showing of Christmas and some fine cattle they bought from Mr. Upshall of near Kippen. Mr. Ed. Mole of town was pleasantly surprised when a number of his friends gathered at' the Hydro Office and presented him with a goose. The address was read by Mayor John A. <ewart and the presentation by Montgomery DAvis. In the death of Robert Scott Grieve which occurred at his home near Winthrop , McKillop Township lost not only one of its oldest and best known residents, but one of its faithful and able public servants. He was born on the farm now owned by Edward Hunt. DECEMBER 23,1949 Students of the Seaforth District High School gave up their annual Christipas . treat this year and instead donated their usual 50c fee treat to the Community Centre Fund. The amount realized amounted to $50.00. Eric Munroe announced that plans are being made for the annual rabbit drive on Boxing Day. The Christmas concert held on Monday evening in First Presbyterian Church schoolroom, was a decided success. Rev. D. Glenn Campbell was -chairman and Santa Claus appeared in full costume in the person of Scott Cluff. Members of the Seaforth Lions Club were in Clinton for their annual visit to the Huron County Home: The program featured solos by Walker Bart and a short talk by Rev. D. Glenn Campbell. e Louis K. Kalbfleisch, a former reeve of Hay Township, died at the home of his. daughter, Mr. H.W.Brokenshire of Zurich. For many years he was associated with his father in the sawmill business. He was reeve for four years. An enjoyable evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs.James McIntosh when members of the School Board and former and. present teachers to honor Sam. 14. Whitmore, who has been the secretary treasurer since 1944 and who is now retiring. C.A.Trott read an address and Reeve Arthur Nicholson, James Carnochan and Harold Johns presented Mr. Whitmore With a lazy boy chair. Mr. and Mr. J.J.Hugill observed their 50th wedding anniversary and were at h ome to their neighbors and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Dale of town have moved into their new home on Goderit:h St. West. Harvey Boyce of Varna has opened his garage business in the stand formerly occupied by G.H.Beatty. 4 A 0 1~ 4