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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1954-04-07, Page 5* '■ I *- r z i ? • vr ■ • * ‘ WEDNESDAY,- APRIL 7th, 1954 I CULROSS CORNERS Mr. Roy Graham and Ronnie are busy making interior alter­ ations at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Midford Wall and. Donnie, Mr. and Mrs, Melvin Zettel & Mrs. Chas. Schumacher, Walker­ ton,, spent Tuesday evening with Mr.’ and Mrs,. Jack Schumacher -and Helen. Friends here were sorry to hear that little Jean Zet­ tel daughter of Mr. and Mrs. _ -.-^Melviri Zettel,was a ^p<atieht-4n- Walkefton Hospital, but are glad -tQ klnow-she.-was alble-to-return- home at the week-end. . Misses Lois, Qonna and Alice Haldenby spent Wednesday after­ noon with Mrs. Jack Schumacher. Miss. Helen Schumacher spent Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Murray Henderson and Lynda of Lucknow. .We are glad to report that lit­ tle Stephen Donaldson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Doh Donaldson was able to be brought home from Wingham Hospital on Wednesday. Mis S' Lois Haldenby spent ^Thursday afternobh with Mrs. "Archie McFarlan, Kinlough. • Bethany Farm Forum under­ took :as a project, a safety , meas­ ure. They, had the • write the Kiiiloss Council asking that, something be done about secretary Cancer Takes Thousands Of Lives In Canada ■ Each Year.; . ' ’ In order that the Research of Doctors and Scientists tnayMbe to fight the Hisea Society asks for the generous support of Every Citizen during its April Campaign for Funds. i continued in their effort sease, The Canadian Cancer I i i I i i -CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY 27 6 Simcoe St.. Toronto 2B, Ont. ! I t CANCER [ Contributions may be mailed directly to the ONTARIO’S QUOTA IS $500,000 CRUSADE Space contributed in the service of the -Community > ’ . by John Labatt Limited. I I «• <r • 4 THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO : PAGE F,IVE 1 t. « Widening the road, at the corner at the east erid' of Cbn. 10, Kim loss-Culro.ss boundary,. ,They also asked to have;.a checkerboard & reflector erected at this corner as there is an open ditch there, which is dangerous, especially to strangers. We. are glad to report that at time of writing this, the checkerboard with fine reflectors has been erected. Thanks Kinloss Council for your co-operation. Congratulations to Mh & Mrs. Ron _ .Stanley..—(M i 11 i e~Stewart-)on the birth of a son in Kincardine Hospitalon ..Saturday,-April-;3 rd— Mrs. Tom . Stewart spent Sun­ day afternoon in Kincardine; Little Elizabeth MacPherson has returned , to her home.on the 8th Coil, after spending some time with her grandparents, Mr. anduMrs. Tom Stewart. Mr. Russel Stewart^ Kincardine, spent the week-end under the parental roof. . Mr. and Mrs. Gerald .Stewart and yMiss Pearce, Kincardine, were Sunday visitors at Stew­ arts. . . Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown and Reg spent Sunday evening with Mr. and ;Mrs, Hugh Nicholson of Bervie. • Mr. and Mrs. Daye Ross spent Wednesday evening with Mr: and Mrs. Art Hodgins. . \ A 4 I this'n'that by ROSEMARY THYME Everybody js talking about housecleaning—except me. With three feet of snow on the ground, I just can’t get the urge. I like lo. be able-to-go outside to have a bonfire,. or hang blankets out, jetc., without, -having—to sweep snow off my feet every time I come in, Nor do we like the- odour; of paint in a closed, house. However there< are always odds and ends of things we can do to speed up the process, before, you really get down to brass (acks of housecleaning — cleaning out linen cupboards, bureau and buf­ fet drawers. "I have been refinishing furni­ ture all winter, and for . anyone who has ambitions that way, I havQ a; word of warning. Some­ time, ago I gave yod a tip for removing yarnish or paint with starch and lye solution} or a com­ mercial varnish remover. Either works very well, but before you go all out on the job, try a bit on every different surface of the piece on which you are working.. I had a major catastrophe, re­ moving several ,layers of paint from' a. table. The paint came off the top, on which I had started, very nicely, and a beautiful grain came through, cherry wood, no less. Nothing could have pleased me more, so I sanded and sanded and sanded, and there was the beautiful grain, satin-smooth. I cleaned off some of the legs and _ found the same nice grain; Then I began on the edges of the table top. Woe was me! It had some dark and tenacious stain, and wherever it had splashed; it, made a very bad stain. I hurriedly tried to; wipe it off, where it Rad run: up on to my beautifully cleaned' top. But it wouldn’t wipe off, nor would more yarnish remover I have any effect on it. This was something I had never come up against before—the more I work­ ed with it, the worse it became. I decided I’d have to hand it over to - a professional, so I went to a man who does that sort of work and told'. him my tale of woe. But he wouldrVt have a fhingTto’dd’ with it. “There isn’t’ a thing you can do with stain’’, he said. “You’re licked”./. Licked—was I? Well, them’s fighting words] I went homeland : _wi±lv^piaces^-df^broken —glassT-Jy scraped and scraped and scraped the winter away. My cherry table may not be as perfect as it would have been . . . nevertheless it is going to look quite nice.; I think I’m going to belong to the brok­ en.. glass school of thought for removing paint and varnish.. ' . This was the subject of con­ versation in a group one evening/ • and one. woman said that she -and.her husband had just refin­ ished ah old-fashioned rocket’, us­ ing nothing but sandpaper, and were just about to start on "the, piano, using the same method. An ambitious project. “Tedious”,, she admitted. . —Iqamps-“have^been“getting*my” attention lately. If you'have any attractive old oil lamps, they can easily- be electrified by - fitting them with an adapter or con- -ve •pterrj-I—h ave—fou n d—that—they* will fit, iri the opening in almost any. lamp—if too small, put a piece of cork at the side. I have botight them at both- hardware stores in. Lucknow.- Lamps with clear glass bowls are very attrac­ tive in a bedroom . . . push some • artificial flowers down into; the' bowl. I , have just done a rejuV1- cnoting job on a lamp that had a white bowk in a sort of- dia­ mond effect, the finish of which intended to antique it, by paint-, pi ng-wi-th" “brohze-goM"" paint-f-fet-; 1 ting -that dry, then pa inti ng, white arid' Wiping the .white off while almost wet. However the bronze-: gold, pleased'my, family so well that we just loft it that way. And ovoijybrie w*ho has come in Since has said,, “Qh, I/like your new. .lamp”, y ’ I- am always quite pleased with myself When anyone admires any of., my original ideas, much more i so than -if ‘Ir ,go and buy some- *' * ' * ■’ .< £ the grain .of the wood showing through. You get this result ;b'y painting with half paint and half turpentine, as. many coats as you. wish, just so'that you don’t cover the , grain, It bias a( very soft ef- thing of which they approve. The lamp in John’s room is an old brown jug, an. adapter fits in the opening, and the, shade is parch^ ment with sailing, bo^ts and an­ chors, I saw -a very smart idea for : feet, of course, with no gloss, it a dressing table in a friend*? could be any color you choose., room recently. It was simply a long, wide shelf with a full skirt. I don’t know what the skirt hid, | more shelves, I would think. The j finish on the shelf was what drew i ;my attentidh—ftwas grayed7with I ivory perhaps. 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