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UCW Bazaar
The United Church Women
held their annual bazaar last
Wednesday afternoon when
Rev. A* J* Mowatt opened the.
proceedings with a few well-
chosen remarks,
MWs, E. Grigg and Mrs. A.
Mowatt received guests at the
church, while Mrs.'D. Glid'don
welcomed all at the hall.
Although the weather man
brought rain, it dlid .little to
dampen the enthusiasm wiithin.
■The well-laden tables of home
baking, .produce, candy, as well
as the well-stocked' booths of
sewing, knitting, crocheting and
Christmas gifts were soon de
pleted. Tea tables were also
kept busy during the after
noon and many took advant
age of the take-out supper fea
ture. Altogether, it made for a
tremendous success.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Pipe and
girls, London, spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Williams.
Mrs. Gladys Whitmore, Blyth,
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Or
ville Blake.
Mrs. Edward Grigg and Dawn
visited over the weekend with
Robert Grigg and Mr. and Mrs.
Bud Graham, Montreal.
The sympathy of the com
munity is extended to Mrs.
Frank McCullough on the death
of her brother, Lawrence Bez-
eau,, Kitchener. -
Christopher and Susan Teb-
buitt are visiting for a few days
with their grandparents, Mr.
Bishop Townshend
Confirms Eight.
At Middleton
MIDDLETON — The ancient
and beautiful Service of the
Older of Confirmation or Laying
on of Hands, was conducted an
Sunday, November 13 in Sit.
James’ Church, Middleton, by
the Rt.,Rev. William A. Town
shend, D.D., Suffragan Bishop
of Huron.
‘The class of eight candidates
presented to the Bishop by the
rector, the Rev. E. J. B. Harri
son included Janet Margaret
Wiain, Janice Lydia Middleton,
Mrs. Lois Isobel Smith, Helen
Marguerite Smith, Patricia Col
leen Wise, Sandra Elaine Wise,
Gary Grant Kilgour and Doug
las Bruce' Miller.
The Rev. Canon K. H. Pauli,
a former rector of the parish,
acted as the Bishop’s Chap
lain.
The church was well filled
as the parish of' Trinity Church
Bayfield, was well represented
and many former members and'
neighbours gathered to welcome
Bishop Townshend, a native of
this community who was him
self, baptized in St. James’,
Middleton.
Bishop Tonwshend chose as
hlis text I Corintliians 12:27
"now, ye are the body of Christ
and members in particular”.
"The church is not on the
same level as service dubs,”
Stated the Bishop. “The church
of the living God has: survived
down through the ages'. From
small beginnings in Nazareth,
the Gospel’ is now preached in
every nation in the wtortd. The
"God! is Dead” boys, haven’t a
leg to’ stand on”.
’ Bishop Townshend urged the
candidates to so conduct them
selves that they would be wit
nesses to a believing church, a
worshiping church and a wit
nessing church.”
"Your membership in this
church is the greatest asset you
will ever .possess in this world
and this is a memorable day”,
he Said. "You will find the old
friendships become more and
more precious as the years roll
by”.
Miss Janice Middleton re
ceived a white prayer book
from her godparents, Mr. and
Mrs. A; White, Ottawa.
Mrs. Joseph Storey presided
at the organ for the service.
_____.MRS LLOYD BOND
Phone 482-3210
and Mrti Carman Tebbutt. A
new baby brother has come to
stay at their home.
Mrs. Eldon Yep spent the
November 4. weekend, at
don attending the 25th Reunion
of the Canadian Women's Army
Corps. There were 600 former
CWAC in attendance,
4-H Girls Gather
The Holmesville 4-H Supper
Club met in the hall on Satur
day afternoon. The. meeting was
in the charge of the president,
Wendy Bird,
Susan Lobb read the minutes
of the last meeting.
Eleven salad assignments
were brought in and the mak
ing of tea biscuits was dem
onstrated by the leaders,
MIDDLETON
On Sunday November 20, the
worship service in St. James’
Church, Middleton, will revert
to winter time, 2:30 p.m.
James Storey returned last
Saturday from an extended trip
to Western Canada. Kronau and
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan,
Calgary/and Lloydminstcr were
among the places visited.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Tufts of
London Visited on Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Middle
ton.
Bayfield UCW
To Elect-
Collect Gifts
BAYFIELD L- The Novem
ber meeting of St. Andrew’s
United' Church Women was
held in the Sunday School room
of the church with a good at
tendance.
Mrs. LeRoy Poth was in
charge of the, devotional pro
gram, using the study book as
a basis of study in Christian
doctrine.
Mrs. Bert Greer conducted
the business meeting when pre
parations were made for the
election of. the 1967 officers, by
choosing a nominating com
mittee composed of the .1966
Executive.
The supply secretary report
ed the ' bale of clothing had
been sent as requested, in Oct
ober.
The congregation is asked to
remember the. Children's Aid'
Society and its Work, by don
ating Christmas gifts, to be put
on a Christmas Tree set up in
the Church during December.
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Brucefield Area
Native Dies
At Creston, B.C.
Funeral service for Malcolm
Colin Fraser, 79, who was bom
at Brucefield, was held1 at Cres
ton, B.C. with Rev. Garvin of
ficiating and’ burial followed in
Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Mr. Fraser homesteaded at
North Battleford, Sdsk., in
1905. He was wounded twice
While serving overseas with the
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles in
World War I.
In 1921 he married Isabelle
Parker at North Battleford,
then farmed in the Edgeley dis
trict in Saskatchewan from
1921 to 1957 when he retired to
Creston, B.C.
' He was a member of the
Royal Canadian Legion and the
United Church.
Predeceased by his wife in
1921, two brothers and two
sisters, he is survived' by three
sisters, Annie of Clinton, and
Jean and Isabelle, both of Tor
onto; three brothers', William
of Edgeley, Fred of Cold Lake,
Alta., and Don of Yahk.
Rambling With Lucy
(LUCY R. WOODS)
The bit of sunshine on Sunday made one feel that ft was a
day tp go xaittin^!
How well Lucy recalls going ppt (p pipft, beechnuts ft) her
young* days. Qpe (didn’t Just choose any tree, for beechnuts, like
apples, were of different varieties. Some were Ipng and thin
and took a great deal of shelling for even a small amount of
mft meat, Others were medium sized, but ft- was the broad
large plump ones which gave a. good return to the picker.
After the first heavy frost, Lucy recalls going to beech
trees on, what is now Marsville ■-— just over the fence off the
sideroad. . jS
She went with her mother, sister and others, They took
large white sheets and laid them on the ground. Then someone
shook the branches (not Lucy) and the nuts and hulls rattled
down in quantities. It was an easy way for nimble fingers to
pick beechnuts, but the wind was. cold. In those days, cigars
came in wooden boxes (regarded as antiques today), A half-
size box came into Lucy's possession, resplendent with its brand
advertising.
In 1911, Lucy’s father took a trip to England and Ireland
to visit his relatives, And Lucy picked choice beechnuts and
filled the treasured'flat box and sent it to her aunt Emily who
was an arthritic. She has often wondered if her aunt got as
much pleasure out of them as Lucy did in picking and packing
them. Did they take on the odour of the cigars which the box
had held and find their way into the dust ,bin? Some twenty
years later when Lucy visited her Aunt Lucy in Ireland, she
took maple sugar, thinking it a great treat. However, it appear
ed that the toy Pomeranians and Cairns had a sweet tooth
which her aunt did not seem to posess! > , / .
It does seem that nature's products of one country are
often not appreciated in another unless there is an advertising
sales campaign. And while we are on that subject, a cajler at
"The Hut” one Saturday evening was watching a cereal TV ad
vertisement. "Fourteen cents a package is what we pay for ad
vertising that breakfast food” said she. "I buy a great big bag of
' rolled oats and my children get oatmeal porridge 'for break
fast. Its ridiculous paying fourteen cents extra on every pack
age of that”.
But to come back , to nuts, Deer Lodge Park was a good
place to go to get (beechnuts when Lucy was a teenager. There
they fell on the .gravel drive and if one cleared the leaves off
with one’s foot the nuts lay there thick under the trees. Or
sometimes one came across a squirrel’s cache off the beaten
track.
Beechnuts were a valuable food in pioneer days. Farmers
would turn their pigs loose into a beechnut grove. Also the <
turkeys waxed fat on ibeechnuts* It did not produce firm pork
if .the pigs fed only on beechnuts but it was a great saving to
a poor farmer. * .
With turkeys, and the odd partridge which was shot,
beechnuts improved the quality. "Mr.” has recollections, of
their large flocks of turkeys enjoying beechnuts under a large
low-spreading tree out in the field when he was a boy. Some of
the flock flew onto the lower branches in their eagerness to
get more nuts, thereby shaking more down to the rest of the
flock on the ground. . ’ ’ •
Housewives frequently used beechnuts for baking. In cakes
they often disappeared in the baking buit the rich flavour re
mained. Lucy recalls shelling them for the candy which she and
■her sister were permitted to make on Saturdays. )
Then there were -the butternut trees! After frost when
they fell, there weren’t many left on the ground between jthe
squirrels and the village children. .
, As quite a small child Lucy recalls her father’s cousin,
Wm. H. Woods, going out in his bedroom slippers into the
periwinkle under the big butternut tree. He trampled around,-
locating the butternuts and the girls picked them. up. He also
had some stored away, and a special hole in a block of wood
into which he set the nut ‘to crack it. A bfe cracked
nuts was a special treat for Lucy and Jean and his nieces,
Rebecca, Anna and Isabel Woods. . /
The old butternut tree has been gone these many years,
but Lucy still dreams of picking up butternuts there. .
.. The black walnuts, like apples had'various flavours. Some
were of a delicious flavour while others .were bitter.
■ There are still butternuts, mostly along the river,, .and
the squirrels have planted' black walnuts indiscriminately in
the village. When they attain bearing age; nuts can still be had.
by those willing to spend the energy to gather and cure them —
but beware of black fingers in'’removing the hulls!
One day when Carl was a lad he went along the creek on
their farm to bring home-the cows; There was a large butter
nut tree near the creek. Looking for nuts’en route, lie discover
ed a huge cache in a hollow log and hdllow stumps. The
squirrels had. packed them in with dry grass. He still recalls
how sticky, his hands got from handling the butternuts. And
to make robbing of .the squirrel’s storehouse more exasperating
the dry grass stuck tozhis fingers. . ' . '
The beechnut trees are slowly dying out. Most of the" nuts
are wormy, and so seedlings are few and far .between *|n Bay
field where there used to be such beautiful beechnut. shade
trees. * .
Of This Newspaper
NOTICE TO MOTORISTS
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; Effective January 1,1967, a passenger in a motor vehicle,
who is not paying a fare for passage, will haye the right to
claim damages from the driver and/or owner of the.,,
vehicle if he’s injured in an accident caused by„,th,e
» driver’s gross negligence. (There will be no change in’tlie
law affecting fare-paying passengers, who will continue
; to have the right to claim damages.)
,The irisurdne’fe industryadvises that almost all automobile
liability insurance policies now. in.effect include coverage
against this new risk. However^ all motor vehicle owners,
' and particularly motorcycle owners, are urged to check
their policies to make sure that passenger hazard cover
age is included. If there is any doubt you should Check
• with your automobile insurance agent.
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT
. „ .Hon. Irwin Hatkott, Minister,
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Cancer Study
By CWL
Of St Joseph's
At the November meeting of
St. Joseph's * Council, Catholic
Wom'en’s League, Mrs, Mary
Levitt, educational chairman
: fop Huron district pf the, Caii-
cer Society, was introduced by
Mrs.. Douglas Bartbflt chair
man of services to patients
Committee of the Cancel' So
ciety in Huron; Mrs. Bartliff
also explained the services
rendered by this 'society in the
area. A vote of thanks was
extended to them by-Mrs* Wil
liam" Brand.
Mgs. C. A. Trott, president,
reported members are invited
■to bazaars in Seaforth on Nov
ember 26 and Holmesville on
November 9.
The canvass which was made
to each parishioner to raise
funds normally eamjed at a
bazaar was very successful.
Mrs. David Middleton, treasur
er. reported $366.50 had been
realized. Bazaar donations will
be acknowledged by the treas
urer. ji
A donation of $70.00 will be
forwarded to the Vanier Insti
tute of the Family.
Mrs. George Carbent, Mrs.
Arnold Dale and Mrs. Antndne
Garon were appointed to the
Centennial Committee.
On December 5 the monthly
meeting will take the form of
a pot-luck supper at 7 o'clock,
with Mrs. Theo. Flynn, Mrs.
Mac LeBeau and Mrs. C. A.
Trott as social conveners. It
was decided to discontinue the
exchange of gifts.
Mrs. Pat McMahon,. spiritual
convener, demonstrated the
making and explained the sig
nificance of an advent wreath.
The visiting committee for
December Will be MPs. Cliff
Parker, Mrs. ..Antoine Garon
and Miss Lucy Levy.
Mrs. John Flyinn, Mrs. Joe
Feeney and1 Mrs. Arnold Dale
served lunch at, the dose of the
meeting. ’
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Auburn Man
Zone Director
Of Farm Union
AUBURN — Carl Govier, RR
1, Auburn, was elected Zone
Director ait the annual Zone
meeting of the Farmer’s Union-
hel dat Clinton last week. The
Zone is composed of the Coun
ties of Huron and Perth and
delegates from thtiis community
attended. Also elected was Miss
Helen Thompson, of Varna as
lady director and Miss Louise
Martens of Bayfield Was elected
secretaryHtreasureir.
Officials for Huron County
include, director, James Boak,
Dungannon; lady director, Mrs.
Y., Koene, Bayfield; junior di
rector, Mike Penich, Dungan
non.
•* Mrs. 'Jean Williams of Hast
ings County, lady president for
Province of Ontario was the
guest speaker. All local direct
ors gave their reports' and Gor
don Hill of Varna told about
the Agriculture conference held
at Vineland.
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Husband, whispering to'Wife,
who is chattering away with
their hostess: “You>e dropped
one more name than she has -
We’d better go while you’re a-
hoad.”
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NEWS OF BAYFIELD
(Intended few Uast W<5fek)
« Mr* mid Ml's* A. W, Hayman
ftaye returned to London for
the. Winter xnonths, Recent
weekend guests With them were
Mr. and .Mrs. John Hayman
and Paul. Belleville, .
Bayfield Hockey team played
a Clinton team at Goderich, last
Thursday, November 3 anji won
18-4. Their next match is .again
at Goderich on November 16,
at 9 p.m. when they play Hol-’
mesville.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Flowers
returned recently from four-
week tour of British Columbia.
While M Rirnaby,- B.C., they
were guests of their son, and
daughtbr-in.daw, R.C.M.p. Con
stable Ronald Flowers and Mrs.
Flowers...... ... r ■ ■ '
Clinton News-Record—~Pg. 7
Thurs., Nov. 17,1966
Still Time
To Plant
Tulip Bulbs
There Is srtiill time
tulips, advise horticulturalists
with the Ontario Department
of Agriculture and Food. They
note that early planting tends
to give better blooms in the
spring but that tuhps can be
planted with success right up
until the ground freezes..
Like most bulbs, tulips re-'
quire a well-drained site and
should be planted in full sun.
Never plant them in. subsoil.
After the bed is thoroughly
prepared1, set the bulbs on the
surface of the ground in the de
sired pattern. For formal or
circular clumps, sppee bulbs
from 6 to .8 inches apart. Plant
approximately four inches deep, increasing the depth to 5 or 5^
inches in sandy soil.
to
/
plant
John Bradley
Represents Huron
At 4-H Annual
John Bradley, RR 3, Gode
rich, represented Huron County
at tfie 35th Annual National
4-H Club Conference held in
Ottawa and Toronto, November
10-16.
This conference was sponsor
ed by the Canadian Council on
4-H Clubs, and was attended’
by' one hundred and forty-four
4-H Club members from*'’across
Canada, as well, as by eight
delegates from ithe United
States.
Delegates in Ottawa attend-?
ed Remembrance Day Services
at the National War Memorial
during the morning, and the af
ternoon session in the House
of Commons.
will be open until further
notice on Wednesday
and Saturday
afternoons,
from 1 to 5 p.m.
and Saturday morning
from 10 to 12 a.m.
No wire fence, old
concrete or cor
bodies permitted.
Km
James I. McIntosh,
Clerk.
6 Pair for $1.50
(I BOX)
SUBSTANDARDS
Walking Sheer, Stretchies and
Slim-legged Teenagers
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