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Clinton News-Record, 1967-12-21, Page 66 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, Dec. 21, 1967 VARNA The members of LOL 1035 held their annual meeting - in the Orange Hall on Thurs­ day evening. It was preceeded by a turkey supper. A committee was appointed to look after the skating rink which the lodge sponsors each Winter and will start making ice as soon as weather permits, The officers for 1968 are as follows: I. Past Master, Char­ les Reid; Worshipful Master, Ivan McClymont; Deputy, Mas­ ter, William Dowson; Chaplain, Louis Taylor; Recording sec­ retary, Ralph Stephenson; Fin. ancial ^secretary, Ronald Cole, man; Treasurer, Fred McCly­ mont; Marshall, Grant Webster; First lecturer, John Ostrom; Second lecturer, Wayne Tay­ lor; Committee, Robert Tay­ lor, Watson Webster,. John Os­ trom, Wilfrid Chuter, Orrin Dowson. <s The election and installation was conducted by County Master Frank Falconer of Clinton as­ sisted by Deputy District.Mas­ ter Wellwood Gill and Alex Hamilton of Grand Bend.* * ♦ A White Gift Service was held in the United Church on Sunday last with the pastor Rev. M. Morrison in charge assisted by several young people. The children placed their gifts beneath the brightly lit Christmas tree at the front of the church. * * * Mrs. Jessie Stelch is at pre­ sent a patient in Clinton Pub­ lic Hospital. Quite a bit of interest has been aroused by the presence of a couple of beavers which have started a dam and cut down several tree^ on a tributary of the Bayffeld River southeast of Varna. It is hoped that the presence of* so many visitors do not scare the beavers away as. it is more than a hundred years since beavers were seen in .this area.* ♦ * Several more boys joined.the Scout Group ac their meeting last week. It ig under the dir­ ection of George Whittle. U.C.W. MEETING The December meeting of the Stanley Unit UCW was held at the,home of Mrs. D. Trieb- ner, Mrs. L. Wilson opened the meeting with a story. We sang Hymn 58. Mrs. J. Aikenhead read the scripture, Luke 2. Prayer followed by Hymn 57, offering and dedication prayer. Mrs. L. Wilson read on the Birth of Christ, Hymn 53 was sung. Minutes read and adopted. Roll call with 22 members pre- sent. Visitors report given. A get-well card was signed by members for Mrs. J. Cornish. Treasurer’s report was given. Mrs. D. Triebner read a letter and questionaire. Election of officers was held for 1968 fol­ lowed by a program of Christ­ mas stories and poems. The January meeting will be at the home of Mrs. C. Hender­ son. After our meeting a delicious Christmas lunch was served by the hostess and her helpers. (Lucy R. Woods) The thunderstorm on Sunday evenuig, December 10, means HENSALL secretary Mrg. Wilbert Dilling, and dealt with. Mrs. R. A. Orr reported for the District Boarc of Directors meeting. It was dis­ closed that 630 books of His­ tory of Hensall had been sold up to date, and more are ob­ tainable. The Christmas collection will be forwarded to tire Children’s . Aid (Society at Goderich. Miss Greta Lammie took the chair for the program when . Mrs. Harvey Hyde introduced the guest speaker Mrs. J. C. Boyne of Exeter, who spoke on ■ ^Commercialism and Secu­ larism” of Christmas^ trying to discover the real meaning of Christmas. Numbers on the program in. eluded a demonstration ’Christ­ mas Novelties’ by Mrs. Robert Elgie, Centennial reading, Mrs, Robert Simpson, piano solo, Betty Beer, quartette, Sherry Travers, Carmer Currie, Kat­ herine' McEwen, Brenda Link, who sang two numbers accom- panled by Miss Greta Lammie. Mrs. T. J. Sherritt led a sing song of Christmas carols. Mrs. John Corbett gave cour­ tesy remarks. Lunch served. Program con­ venors were Mrs. Fred Beer, Miss Greta Lammie. Hos­ tesses, Mrs. Joe Ferguson, Mrs. Jarvis Horton. UCW sees Mr. J. W. Paterson, 455 Hills- dale Avenue, East, Toronto 7, formerly of Hensail will cele.' r brate his 95th birthday Sunday December 24th. Mr. Paterison is quite well for his advanced years both physically and ment­ ally, quite active, with a won­ derful memory of things that happened when he was a young man here. He left Hensail in 1907 and has lived in Torontc 60 years, and followed the same business (carpentering) that he learned with his late father in Hensall, only in more of a partnership in larger concerns that he fully enjoyed. Mr. Paterson retired when he was 82, just a few years before the death of his wife. The for­ mer Marion Sproat MacGregor died in 1955. Their son Sproat , retired last Friday, after being connected for 38 years with the George McLeod Builders Sup­ ply Cement Company, Mr. Paterson says he will always have a soft place in his heart for Henpall. Personal, Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Pyette left Thursday for Belleville to take up residence where Mr. Pyette, manager of the Bank of Montreal here for five years has been transferred. Mrs. Pyette, president of Hensall WI was presented a gift before leaving.* * * Mrs. Grace Harpole left. Thursday to spend the winter with her son-in-law and daugh­ ter Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Pea­ cock and family in Ottawa.*■ * * Leslie Riley who has been a patient in St. Joseph’s Hospital London, returned home over the weekend.* * * Orville Smith is a patient in St. Joseph’s Hospital, London. W.l. CHRISTMAS MEETING In a lovely setting of Christ­ mas motif Hensall WI held their Christmas meeting in the Legion Hall Wednesday, Dec­ ember 13. Mrs. Clarence Reid, the new president, chaired the meeting and welcomed the 21 members and 10 guests. Mem- bers answered the roll call with a Christmas verse. Cor- respondence was read by the’ Rambling With Lucy open weather according to folklore! And the mild weather which followed in the week gave people the chance to do those last minute chores such as planting tulips which had been neglected and hilling up the tea roses. On Wednesday the storm windows were taken off the dining room at “The Hut”, and all the rain streaks and drip marks washed off both inside and outside panes, ! Sand! the cat highly approved of this operation. First he nibbed around the feet of those engaged in the work, purring loudly, and then he sat up on a table and admired himself in the shining windows when they’d been put back, ■ He still comes to visit nearby every morning. When there was snow on the ground and it was cold, he seemed to relish tinned food and his milk, but on mild days, he turns up his nose at it. Maybe he will sample a bit after “Mr.’’ pets him,, Where he stays is a mystery but for some reason he will not go inside the barn unless Carl is there, Last year it was hijs refuge. Carl spotted a robin in the maple tree one day after the thunder­ storm and Mrs. Bell saw it hopping around Aberhart’s lawn one day previously, Evidently this one has decided to stay here for the winter. Mrs. Mabel Wallace writes from Onsted Michigan that about a month ago they had about 50 robins on the front lawn and the same number the next day. She didn’t know whether it was the one flock staying over or whether it was a meeting place for others coming on as there had been none since. (They were probably northern robins late in migrating.) After a recent ice storm there," she describes the landscape as beautiful but terrifying. When the sun shone it was like living in a crystal palace. ' ■. At their feeding station they have orange-crowned Ringlets, blue jays, sparrows, starlings, woodpeckers, cardinals and nuthatches. More species than at “The Hut” this year. But Mrs. Wallace also tells of the busy little chipmunks getting their stores 'in for the winter in the midst of heavy fog following the ice storm. Lucy has been glad, lately, to watch the antics of black squirrels. She sees them playing around on the barn roof and tearing across the lawn. Time was when she feared for her tulip and lily bulbs, but they surely must have a great many nuts stored up as the'trees were loaded. Mrs. Bell tells Lucy that there are seven black squirrels playing around down at the corner. Carl has mentioned them hunting for something on the road and Aberhart’s drive­ way. Lucy said, “Maple Keys!” and today she learns that the* Emerson Heards have been watching the black squirrels hiding the maple keys (seeds) in pockets at the base of the trees.. In Wild Animals of North America published by the National Georgraphic Society, Lucy reads: “Canadian foresters find it easier to plunder squirrel caches,, than to pick pine seed by hand for reforestation projects. Gray'\ , squirrels seldom store much in one place, but they bury nuts in;'" innumerable holes. Some sprout to grow into trees” - well w? < know it around “The Hut! ” ; The black squirrel is a phase of the gray and far out-numbers; them in this area. One gray frisks around with the black squir-; "(,i rels down by “Shangri-La.” He is the only one to appear in thisf. neighbourhood this year. “Many communities take pride in thi: squirrels that frisk about their lawns and parks. Olney, Illinois, is the “Home of the White Squirrel.” The town boasts a colony of about 700 pampered white squirrels, all descended, says the f local legend, from a pair of albion grays released in 1902 after entertaining the patrons of a saloon.” One doesn’t have to go so far away to see albion squirrels^?-’ On two occasions in the northern outskirts of Exeter. Carl has sighted a white squirrel and one day he saw two, “as white as the driven snow” he described them. Albinos occur in humans and many animals and birds. Lucy’s spouse recalls watching a mother coon taking her little .ones up- the bank from Tie river one day. One of her babies was an albino but not so pure white as the squirrel, It had rather a yellowish tinge. Instead of climbing up the bank, mama coon climbed a;tr£§ leaning against the cliff and the little ones followed her in sfngl^ file. Her albino baby when full grown was shot By a trapper’ • the late Jioe^B.ecker.£ iFbur .-or five ^decades ago, Carl and others saw an albino blackbird in a flock which was often in the.trees on the^ec'dnd Concession, Stanley Township in front of the Neil McGregor 1 farm. And about twenty years ago an albino robin spent.a' season in Bayfield. i CUSTOMERS THE CLINTON OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED ON BOXING DAY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1967 ! AS WELL AS CHRISTMAS DAY AND NEW YEAR'S DAY. Season's Greetings To all my friends and customers MERRY CHRISTMAS And A HAPPY NEW YEAR Units 3 and 4 of Ontario Street UCW met December 12 with excellent attendance of members and guests. Highlight of the evening was a commentary with showing of beautiful colour slides by Douglas Miles, which he took in isngiana, Scotland, Ireland and Continental Europe while there last May, June and July as agriculture representative. Mrs. Anson Coleman introduced Mr. Miles. Mrs. Carmen Mo Pherson was in charge of Devo­ tions, assisted by Mrs. Clark Ball. After business discussions, a delicious lunch was served by the Unit 3 groups of Mrs. Vic Darasch and Mrs. Elmer Trick. Seaforth Upholstery 80 CENTRE ST.SEAFORTH PHONE 5274)190 from THE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF r FOODMASTERCORRIE'S CUNTONHURON STREET w ■yl[SB ® 1 What better time than Christmas to thank you for your patronage and wish you the best of everything! 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