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ADULT
ENTERTAINMENT
FULLY LICENSED
GODERICH
TL'
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Serepdipity
By Ake Gibb king the aucti
The last dance of the season
was held , May 3 with Glen
Patterson calling for the squares
and - Lois' Wise calling for the
founds. A pot luck dinner was
served. Coming events for the,
summer months include June
17th in Londesboro, dancing 8:30
to 10:45 p.m. at' Hullett 'Central
School. July 15th at the Bayfield
Hall and August 12th on the black
top at Don Watson's farm. „
Wilson. The lunch committee will
be comprised of Mr. and Mrs.
Cliff Eedy, Mt. ancl—Mt.--Ted--
Hunkings, Mr. and Mrs. Lorne
Glanville, Mr. and Mrs. Clare
Van Camp, Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Plaezter andMr. and
Mrs. John Patterson,
SINGING SISTERS '-- Lisa and Lori Strong,
daughters of .• Mr. - and Mrs. Bill •Strong' •of
Egmondville sang a duet at the family night talent - •
ghoW. • (Photo by Seeger and White) •
Brodhqort,'BrOikeffest '78
Good Brothe s.
DANCE
May :1 9th-
Seaforth 'Community Centre
Tickets available'at:
[Age of Majority Card required]
Bob & Betty's or any member of Brodhagen Softball
- Proceeds to Brodhagen Softball
• DEATHSPORT
• ISN'T JUST-
'IN THE
YEAR
.3000,
YOU DON'T
PLAY IT TO WIN...
BUT TO LIVE
','DO you. know, Edith, we had five of those coal oil lamps in the
basement When we moved in from the farm and we just tossed
them on the garbage heap. Who'd have thought people would
—e-ver..pay $25 for the things?"
"Fred„ Fred, see that hall tree, you know I've always wanted
something like that for the front hall, don't you think we should
bid up $35 for it? You can always buy a rolatifier at another sale,"
Fred, but how often do you see' a Chippendale hall.
tree?"
"Psst, psst, Ethel.-see that man, over there, the one with the
pipe and the funny hat, don't let on you're looking at him.
Ethel--well, he's a dealer from London. Drives an unmarked
pickup but you can't fool me—just yodwatch-how he winks at the
• auctioneer....he's a dealer, you can always spot 'em.'
There was a time, and I'm loathe to confess it. when I was an
auctionholic--when I spent two or three days, or nights, a week. p
The family of
Mary &
O'CONNOR
would like to invite family,
friends and neighbours
to celebrate their
40th
25th Wedding
Anniver*ary
Annivei-sary
'Wedding_
at Brodhagen Community Sat May:Ptk, Centre
May 27, 1978 at Seaforth Legion Hall
9-1 Dancing
No gifts please. 9:00 P.M. - 1:00 A.M.
VVALTON INN
Finest in
Country Dining
431-1410 lAY
MAY 14
Old Fashioned Baked Ham
Fresh lake Huron Whitefish Roast Beef
Dinner Served -
From 12 noon 'until 7 p.m.
Walton 887-9293
CLOSED MONDAY - •
Certainly there were cane bottom rockers, grandfather cloclis,
feather tick mat.tresses and hall trees for sale, butthese weren't
antiques—they were someone's old furnishings. Also, for many,
the auction sale of the past represented defeat—a family couldn't
pay the mortgage on the farm and had' to sell out or an elderly
widow was selling her life's possessions to •move in with a,
relative who didn't really want her.
-Property Auctions
• In the 1800's, when J. P. Brine was 'the local auctioneer to
know, property auctions were as common as houehold sales., In
one month in 1879, Mr. Brine and his cohorts were selling Village
lots in the town of Brussels;''the Bean and Hyman grist mill in
Dublin and the steam grist mill in Egmondville, with its•30 h,p.
motor, 49 acres' of first class land, as well as its TOcatiOn "in the
heartpuobflioc tinaeuoeftohne best wheat growing districts in the province" tpy
Age 8
Now my own auctiongoipg started when l was about• eight
years old--when a $2 investment could buy , you 'boxloads of
treasures. To this day, I'm suspicious my motherehauled me
along just because auctioneers then were inclined to let thinga•ge•
` cheaply if they hedrd a child's voice doing the bidding. Today,
even this‘01 y rarely works, since auctioneers have become more
mercenary a alntost anything today is censidereda collectable; •
not to be was ed -on a mere- kid.
Like all sec ongoers, I've been to some sales that were more
memorabj an others. One was a sale which began at 8 a.m.'in
the morning and lasted until well after dark, on a farm outside
the small town of Wyoming. The auctioneer sold an exotic
collection of carved ivory pieces, Oriental embroidery and lace
and carpets, china, brass and other souvenirs collected by one of
the area's oil drillers who had spent half his life working in Saudi..
Arabia and travelling in the Far East. The crowd was so large,
the verandah ef.the house gave way partway through the sale.
- • Family Battle
At another auction, a sometimes bitter, sometimes h.umourous
family battle erupted over a harmless-looking, elderly, slightly
soiled -Sambyed who had belonged to the late owner of the home.
The auctioneer finally persuaded the• squabbling relatives, a
mercenary crew if I ever saw one, that he ,couldn't sell liVestock
without a special license, and since the dog wasn't probably,long
for this world anyway. couldn't one of them take the poor animal
in for his last few days.
Now when I moved to. London, I discovered another type of
auction, undreamed of in my community. This was the catalogue
auction, usually held at Gardner's of BoWleys' sales" rooms and
modelled on the more famous Sotheby's auctions in that larger
London in Britain. ,
• Square dances name .
Officers, plan s ummer
The CliInton Wheelin Dealers
modern square dance club
recently held their election ' of
officers for the coming year at the
Clinton Public School.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lyons are'
immediate past' presidents.
Presidents are Mr. and Mrs.
Norman VVightman. Vice
Presidents, are Mr. :and Mrs.
Harry Lear. Secretaries are to be
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald -McDowell.
Treasurers, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Elliott: Publicity will be looked
after • by Mr. and. Mrs. Don
Wa Ison.
.• The decorating committee will
include Mr. and Mrs.,. Ross
Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Shobbrook, Mr. and Mrs. James
PAINTING Exterior
Experienced and Capable 1 -
Prices that can't be beat
Cad Start Immediately
Don Melody 345-2783
The catalogtic..4..kOnn, with its "quality" articles from the
. 'estates of well4tpownfamilies orreputable collectors bring out a
special breed of auctiongoer and can provide hours of suspense
for the crowds who attend. ) '
At a catalog* sale, a Coalhrookdale vase, encrusted with
bouquets of poralain flowers Ind looking almost too ornate;
sells for $350; a K.P.M. DresdeA palace clock is snapped up for
$2,600 and a mahogany ladies writing desk, imported from
France, sells for over $2,000,
' -. Magnifying Glass '
These astute auctiongoers carefully- peruse the articles two or
three days before the sale, magnifying glass in hand, picking up
the delicate' )lecel of porcelain with supreme care, searching for
the mark on the bottom which indicated age or holding a piece up
to the light, searching for the thin, _hairlike cracks which are
sometimes found in very old. china.
• - :In--a sood evening when' bidders are knowledgeable,
a ctioneer Paul Gardner can sell one item every 30 sec=onds,
Patching for the telltale wink or nod from his audience who
rarely do anything as obviOusas raising an arm or their voice.
Spectator Sport
Today, with auction going a favourite spectator sport and
antique collecting a hobby of young and old, the days of the real
auction sale hargain is almost behind. us. Certainly, there's still
the flUke. A neighbour buys a set of Royal Doulton china for $12,
another family finds they've- bought a mahogany bedroom suite
for 125, or a shrewd horse dealer buys a pony at Saturday's
auction and sells •it for $100 more on Monday. •
But bargains or not, the excitement:of an auction can oever be
-matched by mere 'shopping in a store. Everyone loves to see the
married couple unknowingly bidding against each other for the
dame rocking chair; the auctioneer who's an amateur comedian
and can crack jokes about everything from the pot uncle/ the bed
to the broken rolling pin'and the tension between the time you
spot something you want and when the auctioneer finally holds it
up, and someone' CallS but the fliSt bid-. —.
The good old days of auctions may be over, but auction sales
are healthier than ever.
When I finally stood outside Sotheby's auction . rooms in
London, England. last fall, I exercised incredible restraint and
confined Myself to a disinterested glance in the window. After,
all , What could they possible have that would interest a reformed
, auctiongoer like myself?
t's just that now I've moved into this new apartment, and 1
have one whole empty room and I've heard there's this' great
garage sale coming up in Blyth, and that estate auction in
Clinton and after all, yob can go to a sale without buying
anything, anyway; what's one more sale, there could be a real
bargain, I mean, it can't hurt, can it? -
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DANCE. PARTY
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Seaforth Curling Club
SEAFORTH ARENA
Dancing from 9 to 1 a.m.
TO THE GROUP CALLED BROWN
Friday, May 26th
Refreshments and Dolor Prize
. ' ADMISSION $4.00
Tickets available at Rowcliffe Motors 'and Seaforth
Insurance as well as from members of the Curling Club.
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The family of •
jack & Marie
MUIR
wish,to invite friends
neighbours and
relatives to
their parents
huddleclin.dimly lit halls or auction barns or stood braced againt
the wind, waiting for those magic words, "And now, how much
am I offered for this genuine Limoges bridal wreath meat platter.
ladies and gentlemen. Come on; Make me an offer...somebody
start it at $25. Genuine French china, can't buy it anywhere
today!"
"My life was controlled •by the classified page of daily paper
vvith,,its,list of, upcoming auction sales; I went to Wednesday
night auctions, Saturday morning auctions, early afternoon
auctions. I lived on hot dogs, and coffee and butter tarts froM
auction refreStlinent booths: 1 even 'developed a ,permanent
squint from peering acrossithe heads bf crowds, struggling to see
what the auctioneer was holding in his hand. Sometimes, when"'
something else in my life interferred with my auction going, I
even,stooped so low a's 'to phone in reserve bids.
Kick the Habit
Finally, one night two years ago, when I cau,ght.myself driving.
to feur different auctions 'in the spaCe of an hotir at breakneck
speeds, and when I still coulthi't even find one article I wanted to
bid on, I knew it was time I kicked the auction habit. ..
i So, the next summer' I collected my tOo numerous auction
bargains togethey, field two garage sales and by Sheer strength
of will managed to part with some of the prized.' but totally
useleSs articlesrd picked up at sales--old picture frames:priets,
mismatched creams" and sugars. a painting too large to ever
hang, even the firSt piece of furniture I ever re-did. It was hard,
but didn't want to have to join -A .A.--Auctiongoets
Anonymous--so dispersed my vast collation of auction relics
and stayed away_from sales for months.
Now many of us remember the days when,.auctions really were
a bargain hunter's paradise--when oak or pine sideboards sold
for • 50 cents Of a dollar; when depression glass was still
considered that cheap stuff you used to get at fairs:. when
Washstands didn't really stir any extraordinary interest and , .
when a carnival glass vase sold simply because someone, liked
the myriad colours.
Those were the days when the word antique and collectable,
still' referred to articles over a' 100 yeais of age, someone with
pretensions imported from Europe.
, ' Looking back in the Huron Expositors of the past. the word
antique was still unheard of in the .193.0 auction sale bills.
Interior
1959. New Volt( City. .
V" '' The battleground was Rock and Roll. •
444, It was the beginning of an era. A ., II if sioti 9 A You shoulda been there.
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MAY 10-13
THURS. 1:00 P.M.
FRI.1. SAT. • 7:00 S. 9:00 P.M.
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THE MUST SEE FILM
BEFORE
RETIRING
HURON HOTEL
HWY. 5 GODERICH AT
CONCESSION RD. 4
PHONE 524.9081
Blyth Centre for the Arts
Antique & Crafts
EXHIBITION
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Blyth :.Community Centre
' • Now -Open Sunday's-if-Om
12-8 p.m.
Something for Everyone!
It'S a nice way to make her day!
Our buffet table has a whole
array of 'family foOd favorites.
Mom will love it!
• Buffet includes - salad bar.,,
choice of entree, dessert,
tea or coffee
$4.50
More than 40 selected Ofaario craftsmen and antique dealers.
.ONE DAY ONLY •
Saturday, May 20th
Admission 50c Children under 12 free •
Al proceeds to Blyth Theatre Program
30 THE SQUARE' Program
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