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expert Lois Lance spoke. The
Legion Hall was a quilt fancier's
dream, There were more than SQ,
mostly old but some 'fug new
ones too, „on display around the
auditorium.
"If the value of a thing is equal •
to life that's put into it,• then
what's the value of the quilts in
this hall?,"Mrs. Lance ' asked.
Quite a thing to think' about.
Mrs. Lance said, in the U.S.
anyway, a girl made 12 quilts
herself. It was only when she was
engaged that she made the
thirteenth; and• she' could Wive
help from friends an relatives on
that one. This bridal quilting is
the origin of the modern bridal
shower, she said.
There were probably lots of
women in that hall who ahve
made 12 quilts and more. "They
are tomorrow's heirlooms," Mrs.
Lance said, and she urged
quilters to sign their work.
Quilting has always been a
form of women's art and they'
should get as much credit for a
quilt as an artist does for a
quil
painting. And, most artists sign
their paititiitt$S.
Besides, as Mfa. Lance pointed
out, signing the quil4 you make
now will make the work of future
collectors and historians a heck of
a lot easier,
In the old days, no one would
dream of buying new material
just to make a quilt and so some
of the early examples have
another story to tell. Somebody's
favourite dresses or well worn
work shirts are in that quilt and
old fabrics can lead to flights of
imagination about who their
wearers were and what their lives
were like, if you let them.
I've never made a quilt myself
and I'll likely be retired by the
time I do, but I've saved bits of
fabric left over ftoni -SeWiiig and
favourite dresses for many years.
I won't throw them out, and I .
won't let them be used as rags.
They're for my quilt , and the
thought of planning it and
peacefully working on it, some
day, some day, keeps me going
during the heCtic times.
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YES, I'M AT THE CORNER OF JOHN ST. AND
MAIN — Miles Little of Seaforth won $29.80 in a
contest run by CFPL Radio in London on Thursday
afternoon, by staking out the ph one booth and
waiting for the station to call. Miles won when he
answered the phone after guessing that clues like
"think of water and e number" and "the Expositor
may help you", meant the call would be to Seaforth.
He also wins a provincial lottery ticket. (Staff Photo)
$121,000 tender
awarded for
Hanna's bridge
Tuckersmith Township
Council awarded the tender, for
the construction of the lianna
Bridge Tuesday to Roger
MacEachern Construction of
Mount Forest.
The MacEachern tender for
$121,868 was the lowest of four
tender.
The Hanna bridge which spans
the Bayfield River is located on
Tuckersmith sideioad 15-16 at
Concession 3 Huron Road Survey.
The township council expects
that the approaches to the bridge
will cost another $20,000.
Engineer Kenneth Dunn of
Goderich, • who attended the
special m eeting, said his firm
will instal a bronze plaque in the
bridge.
Work is expected to start as
soon as final approval is given by
the Stratford office of the
Ministry of Transportation and
Communications.
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fascination as a prominent western editor
fell asleep; not once, but, three times,
during a speech by Joe Clark, a potential
prime minister.
Humored an eastern editor who, armed
with a credit card 'from the Grand Trunk
Railway, personally isnged by sir John
MacDonald, thought he could finance a trip
for several of us to Paraguay.
Listened -to a numbet of editors of my
vintage • tell me they're rich, retired and
work one day a week, "just to keep my
hand in." Which, , of course, .means
interfering with their sons, or daughters,
who are trying to pay off the old man the
tremendous sum he wanted for the
business. •
Gave sage advice and a bottle of rum to a
young woman called AliceB. Toklas, who
assured tiie 'she had quit running around
with Gertrude Stein and Ernest
Hemingway and Scott- Fitzgerald and all
those totters.
And then, of course, we've had The
Boysl as they are now called. The Boys are
the two grandsons. When they are here, it
takes four adults full time to keep things
even minimally sane. One is at the
hell-on-wheels stage. The other is at the
crawling, "if you can't.eat it pull it over on
your head" stage.
And every time our daughter leaves,
with The Boys, we are cleaned out. She
goes away with a big, green garbage bag
full -of steaks', chicken, pork chops, a box
full of canned goods, and a pillow case
stuffed with new clothes.for The Boys and
herself.Next morning, we have to go
shopping to get enough grub for our own
breakfast.
Then there's been the golf. No matter
what she does, my wife is an enthusiast.
She believes that nothing succeeds like
excess. So we've played golf every day.
She is really a rotten player, because•she
reads books about golf and practices her
swing. I am just ordinary rotten.
I'm afraid we're going to be thrown out
of the golf club. If anyone had tried, to tell
me that my sweet, shy bride of a few years
ago would come out with the language she
used on the golf course, I'd have said:
"Sir, pistols at dawn, or nine irons at nine.
Take your pick."
I try to help, in a gentle, sincere sort of
•wasi. When she flubs a shot, I merely point
out that her grip was slack, her stance
sloppy, her backswing too fast, and her
head went up like a toilet seat, and she
screams at me, right across the fairway.
I heard one elderly lady golfer saying to
her husband, quite concerned: "Mark my
word,s she 's going to kill him. Why do you
think she takes her seven iron home every
day, after they play? I hear he's well
insured."
All in all, it was a pretty fair summer, 1
think.
Y, B. C.
Team Standings, Flyers, 7;
Leafs, 7; Bruins, 5; Canadians 2; .
Benguins 0; Seals 0.
Ladies' High, Barb Deighton
200, High triple, Jill Muir, 523.
Men's high single and triple, Paul
Ellis, 298, 654.
ST. JAMES LEAGUE
Team Standings: Sky Larks, 4;
Corvettes, 3; Fury's , 2;' Lemons,
5; Chargers, 5; Pacers 2.
Ladies' high single, • Mary
Turner, 281; High tripl,e Sandra
Johnson, 644. Men's high single,
and triple, Jack BEdard, 316, 782,
MIXED LEAGUE
Team Standingst Red Caps, 7;
Goldens 5; Crystals, 5; Blues 2;
Diamonds 2; EXportS 0. "
Ladies high 'single, Thelma
Coombs, 229, high tripl,e Betty
Smith, 632. Men's single and
triple, George ttays, 323, 729.
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•by Susan' While
The heart goes home on Thanksgiving
holiday within the states. Canad-
ians observe Thanksgiving Day as
the second Monday in October.
In churches and homes,
Thanksgiving Day is an occasion
for ,expressing gratitutde for the
blessing of Providence during the
year. It is a season for family
gatherings.. The theme of
Thanksgiving has always been
peace and plenty, health and
happiness. To be truly observed,
it involves not only "thanks" but
"giving" too. It' is a time for
special generosity in remember-
ing and helping the less fortun-
ate.' Is it possible that the Annual
Campaign for funds through the
United Way is an outgrowth of
this spirit of sharing?
• "Now thank we -all our God
With heart and. hands and voices
Who wondrous things hath done,
In whom His world rejoices."
(Rinckart)
Across the land Canadians will
gather around a table laden with
food for the traditional dinner. In
kitchens across the Dominion
women will bustle about as they
prepare for the home celebration
highlighted by roast turkey, cran-
berry sauce and pumpkin pie. an
indigenous part of our national
culture. It is doubtful that the first
feast included cranberries from
the neighbouring bogs. It is also
doubtful that the feast included
pumpkin pie. If such pie was
served, it is certain that it was not
topped with rich whipped cream
for the Pilgrims .had no cows.
By practical custom the week-
end is a time for family reunions
which may not be repeated f6r
months. For those with ties to the
country-side, heartland of the
harvest, it is a time of pilgrimage
into memories and a renewing of
the joys of the festive board down
on the farm.
Thanksgiving Day gi% es Canad-
ians the opportunity to .eflect on
how fortunate they are; to realize
they live in one of the richest and
freest countries in the world and
to take stock of their responsibili-
ties in the light of their abund-
ance and freedom, It is a time to
weigh, their lot against that of
people whose lives are jeopard-
ized by fear, insecurity and the
threat of starvation.
I'd
I read a story recently on
what to do if 'you have a fire at
your house. One of the things it
said was to look around your
house', and decide now, before
anything ever happens, what you
would want to save and where it's
located in your house.
Then if, God forbid, you ever
have a fire you'll have already
decided what two or three things
are absolutely irreplacable and
you won't find yourself standing
outside clutching a kitchen pot
aii'd a toaster that never worked
too well anyway, while your home
goes up in fladies.
. I thought it over„ and do you
know what I would really hate to
lose? A couple of my old quilts. It
might not be very rational but I
love those quilts and they are
absolutely irreplaceable.
Who knows how many women
put how many hours into piecing
and quilting a very old log cabin
quilt that I bought at an auction?
I don't, but 1 like to think about it
and the loving labour of those
W. G. Strong
"The heart goes home on
Thanksgiving
No matter how far you.may roam;
Nostalgic memories overwhelm
US
With a calling, calling for home."
(Odum)
Thanksgiving, as we know it
here, is too often described
simply as an offshoot of a
tradition established by the Pil-
grim Fathers of New England.
Yet nothing could be much
further from the truth. From
• remotest ages, man in all his
successive civilization, has seized
upon the time of the harvest as a
time for rejoicing. -The custom of
setting aside a day of offering
thanks to the deity has been
traced back to antiquity and
throughout recorded history
many .such observances have
been held. It was an occasion for
giving thanks for, the bounty' of
nature once the granaries were
filled against. the days ahead.
The ancient Hebrews at their
feast 'of Succoth gave thanks to
God• and recalled His constant
providence and goodness. They
took gifts of the soil, the first
fruits of their harvest, grapes and
fruit of every kind, olives and
grain, to the synagogue or to the
great Temple at Jerusalem. Their
offeting Was in accordance with
the size of their harvest. If they,
had been plenteously blessed,
their gifts would match God's
generosity. If they had suffered
reverses of fortune and reaped a
poor harvest, they would give
only as they were able. Whatever
the size of the crop, they were
thankful for what was theirs.
As St. Paul was to say centuries
later, he was thankful whether he
had much or little and in either
state he would praise God for His
goodness and rejoice in His
providence. Throughout the years
as the ancient Hebrews observed
the rituals of their faith, they
sensed the presence of the Most
High as the constant, abiding
power in their lives 'and in the
world around them. ""In the
continuing drama of nature
renewing itself in the animal and
soil kingdom every year; they
knew that God was the source and
spring of all life's blessings and'
trials and they were thankful. It is
believed that this custom of
giving thanks inspired the Pilgrim
Fathers to do likewise.
The Druids and the Romans
celebrated the triumphs of their
faith, The cornucopia; that mystic
horn of plenty, is central to
decoration in many church ser-
vices where gifts for the poor are
received.
Humility
The unique ingredient about
thanksgiving to the Jews and the
Pilgrim Fathers was its humility.
Thanksgiving bay had its inspira-
tion in the proclamation issued by,
Governor William Bradford of the
Plymouth Colony in the autumn of
1621 after the newly arrived
Pilgrim settlers had reaped their
first harvest which assured them
survival through the coming
winter. The bitter winter of 1620
when the Mayflower had brought
them to the shores of a new
country was over. They had
known hunger and sickness dur-
ing that first dreadful winter
which had• carried away half of the
original band of settlers but life
was better now.
New hope sprang up. The
seeds sown early in the spring of
1621 had produced a harvest that
would allow them to increase
their scanty ration. The settlers
were enjoying better health.
Work was progressing on the
houses' they were building. They
worked peacefully and safely in
the woods for they had made
friends with the Indians. Because
of their good fortune,. Governor
Bradford decreed a holiday in
which the . Pilgrims and their
neighbouring Indian friends
might rejoice together in a
three-day festival of recreation
and feasting in gratitude for the
bounty of the season.
The women and children spent
' several days preparing for the
feast. The celebrants gorged
themselves on venison cooked on
a spit over a blazing open fire;
roast duck, 'roast goose, clams
and other shellfish, corn bread
with nuts, groundnuts, a potato-
like tuber baked in hot ashes,
with wild plums and dried berries
for dessert - all washed down with
wine made from wild grape,
sweet and strong. Everyone ate
outdoors at big, rough• tables. At
this first Thanksgiving feast in,
New England the company may
have enjoyed some of the long-
legged turkeys whose speed -of
ifoot, in' the woods constantly
,amazed the colonist's.
U.S. Thanksgiving
For years there was no regular
national Thanksgiving Day in the
United States. Some states
recognized a yearly holiday,
others did- not. It was not until
1789 that President George
Washington issued a' 'general
proclamation naming November
26th a day of national thanksgiv-
ing. In the same year the
Protestant Episcopal Church
announced that the first Thursday
in November would be a regular
yearly day for giving thanks
"unless another day be appointed
by the civil authority."
In 1863 President Abraham
Lincoln proclaimed that the last
Thursday in November would be
recognized as a day of thanksgiv-
ing and praise to a beneficent
Father. All 'the succeeding presi-
dents have regularly issued pro-
clamations calling the attention of
the nation to the observance of
this festival which ranks as a legal
holiday, and the duty of observing
it 'in a fitting manner is likewise
proclaimed by the various gover-
nors in whom alone is vested the
legal 'authority to declare a
There .4e0mS, to In little
interest in a distrlict490th council
in Huron and Perth countieS,
considering the nunther.of people
atrendin# a publie- meeting held
at COSS Tuesday:. night. '
About 35 people from the two
counties attended the meeting,
the first in a series of informative
,- question an ) (swer sessions.
Stephen Scorcz, a health
ministry official told the group the
ministry wishes .to form a district
health' council • within the two
counties, but "district health
councils will not be forced on any
area that does not want it," he
said.
Mr. Scorcz also felt it would be
unfortunate to have a council if
there was no , support from the
communities.
But, Dr. J.K. McGregor,' a
Wingham doctor and a member of
the steering committee designed
to set up the district health
council, if, it is wanted, said that
district health councils are
inevitable and "we'll have one
wJether we choose or not".
There are already 15 health
councils in Ontario taking care of
75 per cent of the population and
Mr.' Scorcz predicted there will be
18 by the beginning of 1977.
The councils are being set up as
an intermediate step between
local agencies and •the ministry.
"Without the council,"
Scorcz said '"about 800 separate
bodies must appeal directly to the
ministry. The main role of the
council is to set priorities and plan
for local heatlh needs."
A council in Huron-Perth will
have a budget of roughly $75,000,
a small permanent staff and 15
councillors appointed by the
province on the recommendation
of the steering committee.
Ideally, six councillors would be
from the health field, six would be
consumers and thiee would 'be
from the local government.
Dr. G. F.' Mills, medical
Officer of health for Huron '
and also a member of the steering
committee said that although a
district health council is another
layer of bureaucracy, " at least it
is at' the local level."
"A lot of input into district
health care would come from the
public', which is a good thing," he
said.
Also speaking at the meeting
was Lloyd Morrison of St.
'Mary's, chairman of -the health
council steering committee;
Norman Hayes, administrator of
the Wingham hospital; and Gwen
Pemberton, a consumer
representative from Bayfield. ,
The meeting was open to the
floor following the speakers,
questions were answered.
Those 'at the meeting were
asked to, pa out a, ballot stating
their pieferenee on ;the. 'health:"
mind! question. These bnllots
will be used by the steering.`
committee as 4,rough 144 as..to .
what the public wants-
More public meetingS wilt be
held in .the X.141' future to test
Public' reaction, If the • first
Meeting was indicative of 99009 •
reaction, people of littron, and
Perth don't really care What
happens.
You're
Invited
St. John Ambulance Brigade
Meeting will be heldkin the Town
Hall, Second' Floor, tonight,
Thursday, Sept, 30 at 8-p.m.. All
perg-ons interested in joining the
brigade are asked to be present at
the meeting.
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cabin very important to me,
I have ,another (Mt that MY
husband and I found in a closet of
an old house that We lived 'in
Michigan when we were first
married. It's back and front are of
unbleached cotton and it has an
unusual pink and green floral
pattern appliqued on top, I don't
know what the pattern is called.
My grandmother, • who's been
looking at quilts for most of her
years told me that she'd never
seen one like it.
"I'll trace it one day," she said'
bilt she's unable to do that now:
That• quilt is the only'thing we
have\fre%the house where we
spent the st-year of our married
lives. The house was bulldozed
after we moved out and its lot and
the farm land behind were used
for a new subdivisioi.
I love old quilts but I didn't
know so many other people did
until I attended a packed' meeting
Sponsored • by the Hospital
Auxiliary last week when quilt
and