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Highlights
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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 >$■?
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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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