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A VERY MERRY
Florence Pullen right, of Clinton was a very happy lady
Tuesday when she won a Christmas tree, all the trim-
mings and numerous gifts in the newly-formed 1.0.D.E.'s
draw. Regent Mrs. R.W. Flowers made the presentation of
the tree which was on display in the Simpson's store in
Clinton. (News-Record photo)
Best wishes to our many friends &
patrons from all the folks here
We have enjoyed knowing and
serving you this year
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lights of Christmas and there is
an eagerness that brings out
the boy and girl in all of us, is
an experience that helps you to
catch and hold the right spirit
of the day.
You are apt to feel just as
Scrooge himself when he cries:
"I am light as a feather, I am
as happy as an angel, I am as
merry as a school boy, I'm as
giddy as a drunkenman! A
Merry Christmas to everybody!
A Happy New Year to all the
world! Hallo there! Whoop!
Hallo!"
Well, a lot of things have
changed since I wrote that
column so long ago, but the
wish is timeless and goes out to
you once more:
Merry Christmas, all!
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12- ,Clinton News-Record, Thursday, December irtg
Separate tenders passed
The tender of Genan Con-
struction, Waterloo, was accep-
ted at a special meeting of the
Huron-Perth County Roman
Catholic Separate School
Board in Seaforth Monday
night for an addition to Holy
Name School in St. Marys,
The firm's tender of $289,891
was the lowest of seven tenders.
The major sub-trades were
awarded to G.L. Slaght of.
Crediton for plumbing and
heating and to Perth Electrical
Contracting Ltd of St. Marys
for electrical.
BY WILMA OKE
Kenneth Stewart, of RR 5,.
Seaforth, has been re-elected
president of the Huron
Plowman's Association at a
meeting held in Winthrop Wed-
nesday.
Other elected officers are:
John Clark of RR 5, Goderich,
and James Armstrong of
Wingham, vice-presidents;
Russell Bolton, RR 1, Seaforth,
secretary-treasurer, and Bill
Hanly of Goderich, assistant
secretary-treasurer.
Gordon McGavin, of Walton,
was named director of the On-
tario Plowman's Association
and Maurice Love, of RR 3,
Exeter, was named assistant
director.
The directors by townships
Poinsettias
colorful
The poinsettia is probably
the most popular potted plant
at Christmas time, says John
Hughes, horticultural
specialist, Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food. A color-
ful show is provided by the
bright red (sometimes cream)
bracts that surround the true
blossoms. If you receive a poin-
settia as a gift, remember that
it needs special core to last for
the holiday season.
Poinsettias require a high
light intensity and tem-
peratures of about 65°. Keep
them out of drafts and rising
air currents from heal, registers.
The dry air in many homes
may cause the plants to drop
the decorative bracts. To slow
this process, keep the plants
well-watered, without leaving
the soil wet.
After your poinsettia has
"flowered", store it in a cool,
dry place and let the soil dry
out. When the danger of frost is
over in the spring, you can
transplant it into your garden.
The addition includes one
kindergarten room, two
classrooms, one library
resource centre, administrative
offices, general purpose room
and change rooms.
The work on construction
will start in March and is to be
completed in August. The new
addition will be built onto the
north end of the school and the
original school at the extreme
south end will be demolished.
Only a stone wall will be
retained as part of the existing
school.
will be elected at the spring
meeting.
A letter will be sent to the
Ontario Plowman's Association
extending an invitation for the
International Plowing Match
to be held in Huron County in
1978. Three sites in the county
have already been offered.
The old reliable
Going through some old
papers a few nights ago, my
wife handed me a faded clip-
ping dated Christmas Day,
1935, "Here," she said, "is
something you might like to use
as a Christmas column. I
knew the boy who wrote it."
Well, it wasn't much, but I
. was in the market for
something seasonal for this last
column before Christmas, and I
had to admit there was a cer-
tain naivete and simplicity
about it that appealed to me, as
if somehow I'd known ihe
young writer who was speaking
across the span of the ye*s.
This is the piece:
* 'I' *
One of the nice things about
Christmas that never changes,
come what may, is the fun or
re-reading A Christmas Carol.
We have a frayed old
Dickens at our house that gets
hauled down from the bookcase
every year and although we
know the story backwards
there's still a thrill in having it
told again. Perhaps the
knowing of the story, like the
knowing of a fine person, in-
creases the enjoyment when
you meet again.
Marley was dead, to begin
with—and you put your feet up
on a stool, prepared for one of
the solid, timeless joys of
Christmas.
It gives you a warm feeling
when you meet up with Scrooge
again and the old boy growls:
"What's Christmas to you, but
a time for paying bills without
money; a time for finding your-
self a year older, but not an
hour richer; a time for balan-
cing your books and having
every item in 'em through a
round dozen of months presen-
ted against you?"
I guess we're all looking for
the happy ending because
knowing what's ahead for
Scrooge makes you like the bit-
ter old man right from the
start. Scrooge knows nothing of
the three spirits and the Ghost
of the Christmas Past, but the
reader does and the an-
ticipation of those meetings
makes even the most irritable
of Scrooge's moments delicious.
It makes you laugh right out
loud, like a man who knows the
ending of a joke, when Scrooge
sheepishly mutters, "There was
a boy singing a Christmas carol
at my door last night. I wish
I'd given him something."
You'd have to be a Hard-
hearted Harry indeed to keep a
lump out of your throat when
Bob proposes, "A Merry Christ-
mas to us all, my dears. God
bless us—every one!" and Tiny
Tim echoes, "God bless us
every one."
In a way, I suppose, the story
is hokum, The poor and the
crippled rarely get the joys of a
Bob or a Tiny Tim. The
Scrooges of the world meet no
ghosts and end their days as
grimly as ever, Christmas or
not. Life has too little of the
mellowness of "A Christmas
Carol."
But the spirit of Christmas
exists for those who will find it,
even if takes the unreality bet-
ween book covers to inspire it,
and if Dickens is hokum so is
Santa Claus and romance and
friendship, For there is a
Hollywood hokum and a won-
derful, happy hokum and too
few of us know the latter.
Reading "A Christmas
Carol" again, especially at this
time of year when our homes
and streets glow with the bright
Huron plowman
elect officers