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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1967-01-12, Page 3was. he did. Makes Six The problem with writing a weekly column is that'th'e weeks roll around taster than tih.e ideas for column subjects , , . but being a mother of three Ridfel is a big help. When new col­ umn 'material is scarce, my , - - - ..... .l . ? Mrs. G.M. Counter Heads St. Paul's Guild for 1967 The 'regular meeting of' St. Paul’s Anglican Church Ladies Guild was held at the home of Mrs. Harry Bartliff, Huron Street on Tuesday, January 3. After routine business the an­ nual meeting, and election of officers was held. The secre­ tary submitted her yearly < re­ port.^ Mrs. Nppnan, the, treasurer, read- the .report of the finance committee for the year’ 1966. The memorial flowers report and the fifower mission report were given for 1966. The officers for 1967 are as fodidws: President, Mrs,. G. Morley Counter; treasurer, Mm H, C, .Noonan; secretary, Mrs. F. G. Thompson; memorial flowers convener, Mrs. G. M- Counter and the flower mission conveners, Mrs. H. Bartliff and Mrs.. Lyla Pinner. The officers were installed by Rev. R. Wen- ham. . • . . ----------- -------------OH---------------------- Sugar and Spice ... ■ ■ . ■ -I ■ (Continued from page 2) ated rapidly. The news began to pour in. You madly dashed off two sparkling editorials. You tried to make a sensible story of the donnybrook at last night’s council meeting. You hit the street and sold ad's, whether it was raining or snowing or blastingly hot. * Wednesday was even more- so. Complaints, .callers, clas­ sified ads piling in, and the (inevitable merchant waltzing in, after the deiadlme, with a big ad you -simply diidh’t hiaVe room to print. Proof -reading away behind. People in -lttok- ling for free publ-iaity. People in just, to chat about town af­ fairs,* dr their grandchildren. . Andr the linotype, operator, dangerous to the point of be­ ing lethal, within a radius of 12 feet of his machine.-Work often till, midnight,, putting the sheet to bed- Thursday was decision day. Too many ads. Can we- leave this one out? .Too much country correspondence. Which reporter will be least infuriated . if,, we ’ leave’ her -stuff till next week? Short a 'column’ of front page news. Where .can we dig , it up? The photos, haven’t arrived. Rush to thle-.' bus station; see if they’re in. . But by ' about 10:30 a.m., She was on the press, ,and the comforting thump and rumble ■ of the old machine was re- . ward 'enough. for. 'ail the scrambling. There was- solid satisfaction in folding,. stamp­ ing and 'mailing, thle finished- product. You felt as'good kds. though you’d just wrestled an. alligator to’ a split , decision^ ’ At- any rate I was hooked. Formed h . partnership with one of the pointers, and we bought the thing. Wie didn’t have 40 cents apiece. But we went out- like a couple of pirates, ■ hit every friend and relative we knew, scratched up the down payment, out-- bid every competitor because we had nothing to’ lose, and took on what was probably the biggest mortgage on any .. weekly newspaper on the con­ tinent. . They were great fun, those first few years. There wiasn’t much caviar or champagne. Every- spare nickel went into the d'ebts. But we • made it, and made a host of good friends among weekly editors on ’the way. But I can tell you that .running a weekly nfewspaper ■’ ■is drie of the roughest- games in town. Holidays are almost unknown. Long hours are the rule. Somebody is' always sore at you. And you’ll never 'be rich. I’ll miss it. Some of it. And I’ll always have warm memo­ ries of it. But I hope to' Weep ’in touch’through this column, which wiil.1 continue as usual. ..... ■■" For Expert Repairs to all makes of appliances, call one who has 20 years experience and will give you guaranteed service. Goderich Appliance Service and Wiring 100 Ahglesea St., Goderich Phone 524-6562 2to7b. children -often pi'ovide ithe in­spiration for one rpore- time; For years npw, our two oldest have longed for pet. At one time, they had two dogs and three oats-—but that didn't last long. Jt cost more in one week : to keep those awkward animals alive t’hai] to feed the entire family, sq our canine and feline friends vanished as mysterious­ ly as mist in the morning. .From ' time to time since, we've housed various members of the wilderness kingdom for shaft period's. I remember with mixed emotions the days. . we spent peering -into a quart' seak. er'waiting for the fish eggs tp hatch, only to discover the tiny black babies my daughter Tansling were mosquitoes! My son once insisted owned a trained fly. He It was the early days, of spring and Fenwick, Fly- was in that stupid, sticky stage when he would lay on h!is back and buzz for hours and crawl drunkenly up and d'own the arm of his •adoring master, turning. at ■ the nudge of a finger. I recall, too, the fears arid wailing when ,• the polywogs passed to thelir reward . >•, and with each untimely death the cry went up, “Mommy, when can we’get a rdal pet?’^- - This past Christrnias, jolly old ’St. Nicholas brought to ouf1 humble abode a -tiny, harmless- looking, pretiy-to-see blue budgie bird.- I reasoned that. Buddy Budgie Would’ fulfill the' Children’s desire for a pet; re­ main out of the way: be decor­ ative, entertaining and1 inex­ pensive; and probably most im­ portant, clean. . ' 1 I have since learned that the' children, aren’t . wild1 about budgies. ;The kids , look at Bud­ dy Budgid with, about the same interest they might hlave for an empty . bubble > gum machine. The baby is the ..only one who pays much attention to Buddy, Two little- hands, reach, out reg­ ularly, grasp the stand under Shirley Keller , the cage and move back and forth' vigorously until -the bird is shaken from. his perch and too- dizzy to climb back pn, . “Not enough to keep a. bird glivg” is a shying I mistakenly took for truth. Either I was wrong in the assumption that a little budgie bird would have a small appetite or our Buddy has ,a tape worm, It seems he lias ,his head<in the seed cup half the' time and when the room is- quiet, I can hear every shell crack and every husk drop. ' Immediately after .each meal or snack, Buddy sweeps out his cage. Like a . baby blue dive bomber he swoops down^ from his perch flapping- his wings Wildly. Every loose morsel and some that are not are hoisted from Buddy’s confined quarters and1 onto the“ floor beneath. Not until this, manoeuver is ppmplete will Buddy sit quietly and be prettily decorative , . . until it is .time to eat again. Most budgies learn to say “pretty boy”.. I won’t b'e a. bit surprised when our Buddy squawks, “drat that darn bird!” Passes At Home In 80th V The objective of the 1967 March of Dimes 'campaign in the _ Southwestern Ontario Branch ‘area will- >be. $84,000. This' was announced by D. C. Nickle of London, branch cam­ paign chairman of the Rehabili­ tation • Foundation, for..- the Dis­ abled. The total Ontario goal is $820,000; (The Ontario March of Dimes is the Foundation's fund-raising arm.) -. While preparing a year-end report about the Branch’s finances, Mr. Nickle told board members that in ’the first two months of 1966 -about $70,357 was spent and the 'anticipated total for the’ year should be about $80,095. » "About $81,000 was raised in the 1966 .campaign to cover costs of . providing ' physical, psychological and vocational re­ habilitation services - for -about 473 .physically disabled people more than 19 years' in. this Branch area. They’ are- persons riisafoted by .any disease or -acci­ dent wlhc> are not eligible for aid by the various..government departments or agencies. The Branch covers the Coun­ ties of Elgin, Huron, .Kent, Lambton, Middlesex; Oxford, Norfolk and. Essex (Windsor). Duxing January, Volunteer March of Dimes committees are busy preparing for their annual Mothers’’ Marches in which about 7,000 women will ' blitz 85,000 homes, 041 the* night of January 30 in every community except those in which the or­ ganization is a member of the United Appeal? George Arthur Leitch passed away at his home on January 2 in his 80th year. The late Mr. Leitch was bom on the Huliett 'homestead and lived there his entire life.. He is suryived by> his wife, the former Annie Jarman.; one daughter, Mrs. Wlilber (Elma) Jewitt; four grandsons, Ronald, Gary, Bev . and Brian; one •granddaughter, Glenyce, all of RR 1, Clinton; two sisters, Mrs. Robert (Lil-ie) Jamieson, Clin­ ton and Mrs. Bruce’ (Annie)' Medd, McKillop Township. Services were held dn Tues­ day evening }by the Huliett Lodge, -AF and' AM and the Canadian Order of Foresters of Which he was a member. The funeral service was held from the G. A. Whitney Fun­ eral Home, Seaforth on Wed­ nesday, January' 4,»- Services were conducted by Rev. Robert Tschanz, Londesboro and Rev. J. C. Britton, Seaforth. Pallbearers were Donne Law- son, Reg. Lawson, James Flynn, Lloyd Medd,* Jack Medd and George Hoggart with tempor­ ary interment in the Pioneer Memorial Mausoleum.. Burial later in the, Maitlandbank' Cem­ etery, Seaforth. -----------o---------- Mary. Martha Unit To Meet Tuesday The Mary and Martha Unit 1 of Wesley-Willis United Church will meet at 'the home of Mrs. Charles ’* Neilson, 106 Victoria St., oh January 17 at 6:30 p.m-. With' a pat luck supper. The roll call will' be answered with the payment of fe'eS. ’The guest speaker will be Mrs. Rev. Mowatt. The chapel at Ontario Street United Church in Clinton was the scene.of ‘a pretty wedding on December 23 when Catherine Emily Hussey, Egmondville, ex­ changed vows and rings with Dennis George Whitney, din-' ton. Rev. Grant . Mills officiated at the ceremony for the daugh­ ter of Mr. and Mrs. Terrance J. Hussey, Egmondville and the step-son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shipp, RR 5, Clinton. Given in marriage by her father, the .bride was lovely in a floor-length gown of white bridal lace. Styled with a flat­ tering scalloped neckline and long lilypdint sleeves, the gown featured a full ’hooped skirt. Her shoulder-length veil was caught by a rhinestone tiara and she carried a white Bible crested with yellow roses. Matron of honor was Mrs. Harvey Scott, dintpn. She wore a street-length dress of orange lace over taffeta and a pearl tiara. Her corsage- was- of white carnations. Harvey Scott, Clinton,- was groomsman. For a-reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Scott, 140 Albert St., Clinton, guests were received by the groom’s mother Who- wore a beige dress and coat ensemble titamed with matching lace, brofwn access­ ories and a corsage of red roses. Among the guests at the re­ ception were: Miss Sarah Hussey, Egmondville', sister of the bride; -Mr. and Mrs. Keith Free, Lindsay,' sister -and broth­ er-in-law of the groom; A. L. Colquhoun, Rev. and Mir's. Grant Mills and Arthur Currie all of Clinton;, and Mrs. Laura Currie, Goderich. A honeymoon to North East­ ern Ontario including Peter­ borough, Lind'say and Oshawa followed. The bride travelled, in a three piece .dOubie-knit suit of charcQ'al grey, a gold blouse, black shoes, purse, gloves and hat and .a yellow- rose corsage. Mr. and Mrs. Whiitney are re­ siding at 84 Albert St. The groom is employed at the Clin- of MR. AND MRS. DENNIS GEORGE WHITNEY ton News-Record., Pre-Nuptial Event The bride was ‘trie guest honor at a miscellaneous show­ er-at the home of the hostess, Mrs. Harvey Scott prior to the wedding, on December 3. Guests included Mrs. Sam Shipp, the groom’s mother; Mrs. Eric Siwitzer;. Miss'- Norma Garrett; Mrs. Laura Currie, Goderich.; Mrs. Robert Hartman and Mrjsi. Jack VianEgmond of the News - Record staff. Ontario St. UCW Unit One Meets •Unit I of Ontario Street' United Church Women met for their January meeting in the church parlour, with Mrs. Grant L. Mills presliding. ■ Mrs, Marian V. Abbott' con­ ducted worship, taking as her theme “The Field is1 the World!.” Mrs. Mills ’ introduced the new Centennial ■ Yelar Study, teflliing-: of the efforts of the various Christian Churches as they foe1- gan' work among the natives and the early settiers, ■- After-hearing the annual re­ ports and the usual buislin'eisls meeting, members were enter- talined riy Miss Becky Howse playing ri'er accordion. Lunch, was served by the committee in charge of plans for th'e day, Mrs. W; Ross, Mrs. M. V. Abbott and Mn$. G. L. Mills., Clinton Woman Dies Here; Bayfield Burial A Clinton resident for over 60 years, Mrs. Martha Matilda McClinchey, 107 James St., Clinton, passed away in Clinton Pqblic Hospital on Friday, Jan­ uary 6.. Funeral service was from the Ball and Mutch Fun­ eral Home on Monday, January 9 with Rev. R. Wenihaim offici­ ating. Members of the LOBA held a memorial service at the fun­ eral home on Sunday evening. Interment was in Bayfield Cemetery, Pallbearers Wilfred Jervis, Don Robert McVe^n, Jinx Johnston, Elliott Bartliff and Ken Pickett, pick Welsh, London, Asa Deeves, Hensall and Geiorgo Elliott and Erny McClinchey were the flowerbearers. / Mrs. McClinchey was born at Blake, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Agnew, and was married to William McClinchey Who predeceased her. She was a, member of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Clinton, the Ladies Orange Benevolent Association, the Mary Hastings Club and the Ladies Guild of St. Paul’s. • The deceased had been ill for two years and had been a pa­ tient in hospital for three months prior to her death. She is survived 'by two daugh­ ters, Mrs. Charles R. (Luella) Cook and Mrs. R. W. (Beatrice) Allan, both of Clinton; and one brother, Sam J. Agnew, Detroit, Michigan.' , Attending the funeral from distant points were Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Agnew, Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. E. Agnew, Marlette, Michigan; and Mr.-and. Mrs. Dick Welsh, London. —.-------o------------- were Kay, Goderich Twp. F of A To Discuss Milk Goderich Township Federa­ tion of Agriculture meeting will be held- in Holmesville on Thursday,' January 19 at 8:30 p.m. Milk marketing will be discussed. Thurs», Jan.12, 1967—-Clinton News-Record—Page 3 --------------o---------:— Huronview Ladies To Meet* Monday The Huronview Ladies Aux­ iliary will meet on Monday, January 16 at 2:30 p.m. in the Ants' and Crafts room. All. are welcome. -.........—.....................................' DADV THEATREFGODERICH !■ ■■iMwMfllON THE square FIRST run FILMS IN AIR CONDITIONED COMFORT Entertainment Js Our Business THUR.. FRI.« SAT. — JAN. 1243-14 THROUGH THE LIVING BODY... INTO THE BRAINS THE SCREEN'S MOST Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O'Connell; Evenings at 7:30 and 9:25 SAT. MATINEE, 2:15—25c ea, MON.. TUES.. 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