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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-01-20, Page 9ARMITAGE’S Men’s Wear Ready Made Clothing Ladies* Hosiery PHONE 172 WINGHAM ................................................ ...................................... ............ ..... Cea. Wai 'pole SASH PITTSBURG STAIRS FRAMES PAINTS SCREENS / CUPBOARDS GLASS HARDWARE Custom Woodwork - Carpentry - Building Telephone 798-w 42 Wingham Highlights from the HIGHSCHOOL Girls’ Basketball ♦ the seasons roll on, the school sports come and go, The New Year has just arrived bringing with it the thoughts of basketball games. This year basketball is again going strong. As usual we have both senior and junior boys' teams and a senior girls’ team, The girls are very fortunate to have with them quite a few veteran players. The following are the players that made the head-lines last year. For­ wards: Donna Coupland, Feme Cook, Marguerite Ford, Donalda MacDon­ ald; guards: Befva Gallaher, Thelma Bennett, Doris Doubledee, We have some new players and we are very glad to welcome them into The Wingham AdWW-Tfam Wednesday gs> 1»Mlany "M0W the "'"'tyhif" we travelled further west, and hew you could see for .miles on all sides of you. with very flat, land and a little clump of civilization here and there, It was a thrill to cross the Red and Mississippi Rivers, and while in Manitoba we crossed the Assiniboine River on the ice, W.e shopped in the famous Hudson’s Bay Company store in Winnipeg. There was really an extremity in travelling south from cold, snowy Winnipeg to Iowa with no snow and temperatures well above thirty de­ grees, I believe it is a trip we shall never forget. C.W.L. Meets, Plans January Breakffast Catholic Women's League of iSaered Heart R. C. Church, Wingham> met on January 15th in the parish hall. Meet­ ing opened wjth prayer led by the president, Mrs. Alf. Lockridge. Mrs. Borho read the minutes and gave the secretary’s report. Treasurer’s report was given by Mrs, Frank Caskanette. It was decided that members of the executive will sell and renew subscrip­ tions to parishioners for the Canad­ ian Register, Plans were discussed for the annual banquet to be hgjd in Feb­ ruary at the Brunswick Hotel, the secretary to make inquiries about a guest speaker. Mrs, Lockridge, Mrs. Borho and Mrs. Caskanette were nom­ inated a committee to meet with rep­ resentatives of the Holy Name Society to conduct a raffle for two occasional chairs. Arrangements were completed for g. Hply Name breakfast to be held .in January. The meeting closed with, prayer followed by refreshments. TfeB,-. date of the next meeting will be >$■? pounced, ™ Belgrave Junior Institute Meets Making artificial flowers was the topic of the meeting of Belgrave Jun-> lor Institute held in Belgrave com­ munity centre on January 14, After the business session Marjorie Coultes, convener, assisted by Rutty Irwin showed the girls how to make artificial rose table centres and each, made one herself. The meeting was later adjourned and the girls were joined by the jun­ ior farmers for a joint meeting. the fold. They are: forwards, Sandra Smith; guards: Grace Thompson, Mary Francis Currie, Marlene Mc­ Kenzie. The girls’ basketball team of 1954 has a great future t° look forward to, but it wouldn’t matter how good a team you had—it would be nothing without the support of the fans. All of these girls have worked hard to make this team what it is and I think it is up to the fans to do their share. Remember, anyone is welcome at these games. May I repeat this week the schedule of these all-impprtant games: Thursday, Jan. 21, Seaforth at Wing­ ham. Friday, Jan.• 22, Goderich at Clin­ ton. Friday, Jan 29, Clinton at Seaforth. Friday, Jan 29, Wingham at Goder­ ich. Thursday, Feb 4, Clinton at Wing­ ham. Friday, Feb 5, Goderich at Seaforth. Thursday, Feb 11, Goderich at Wingham. Friday, Feb 12, Seaforth at Clinton. Friday, Feb 19,'Clinton at Goderich; Wingham at Sekforth. Friday, Feb. 26, Wingham at Clin­ ton; Seaforth at Goderich. Dorialda MacDonald A Trip West My two sisters, my parents and I have just returned from a most en­ joyable trip via U.S.A, to Winnipeg, where we spent New Year’s with my brother, Flying Officer Charles Thom­ as, his wife (nee Mary Procter), and son, Robert. We travelled ■ through the states of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota,- Iowa, and just touched the border of North Dakota. We found Michigan e very rolling country and wooded heav­ ily. As we travelled further south snow entirely disappeared and we could see no signs of winter. In Nor­ thern Minnesota we drove through a blizzard, but finally reached Winnipeg when that city was in the midst of a cold snap with a temperature of thirty degrees below zero. Some noted cities we passed through were Lansing, Flint. Chicago, St. Paul and Minneap­ olis, and we also visited Portage La Prairie during our holiday. We espec- Joan Thomas, by Bob Carbert The Farmers Market Among the customs and systems that went out of business with the button shoe, was the farmers’ market, one that townsfolk often look back on with fond memories. The older folk in town remember the days when they could head for the market place and pick up their eggs, meat, vege­ tables and fruit, as well as canned vegetables, lard, headcheese, sausage and other such items, direct from the farmer. Many housewives in the old days used to buy their floral centre­ pieces from the farmers on Saturday, to dress the Sunday dinner table. There were many other things offered on this market, that are not now available. Sometimes we* wonder whether or not it was a good move for the abolishment of the farmer’s market. " Technically, it is illegal for a farm­ er to peddle his farm produce within the boundaries of a town these days. Frankly speaking, many housewives would still buy on a farmer's market, and pay more money for their pro­ duce and vegetables if they could, but organized business has put a stop to this opposition. I have had many talks with businessmen on this topic, and the main concensus of opinion seems to be that the folks who pay taxes into the town treasury, deserve to have some protection from the folks who drop into town, and com­ pete against them without paying any taxes whatsoever. There are still far­ mer's markets in many of the cities, such as Stratford, Kitchener and Lon­ don, but in the smaller areas the far­ mers tell me, that, there isn’t enough in it to be bothered with all the red tape and expense. There are so many inspections, licenses and so on to buy, that it isn’t worth while. Technically there is no law against a farmer de­ livering eggs, or other produce to a home in town if the housewife has ordered that’ produce from the farm or has gone out and bought it herself. It is being done in many, many cases, and there are five times as many more housewives who go out to the country regularly to buy their eggs, their poultry and many of their veg­ etables. As a matter of fact, I would venture to say that there is enough of this type of business going but of the town of Wingham today to sup­ port at least one and perhaps two general grocery stores, you can say what you like, it’s good business for the housewife, and it’s a good thing for the farmer. Why should the house­ wife pay 30% more for her poultry, her'ducks or her Christmas turkey, when she can buy that same produce from the farmer. The same "goes for sweet corn, turnips, cabbage, cucum­ bers at, pickling time, strawberries, raspberries at canning time. Why are more and more people buying their oeef by the quarter from amateur butchers on the farms, and storing it in cold storage lockers? Because are fed up with the price of beef the counter. There are countless merchants will probably take exception to but I am convinced that a resump­ tion of the farmers’ market in towns such as this, would result in a lower cost of living for the families' who are already struggling to make ends meet, and it would result in fresher vegetables for everyone. True, this is a modern world but there are many of the older practices and conventions that we could revive or reclaim, that would ease many heavy burdens. 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