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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-05-21, Page 10May 21, 195 P.00 .1 iQ 'The Til't'I,A#•�liiwR6#tl�t; ..,...... .. Lively North. (West) re n Like living � ei n k. �f�#e nt but still in same province Pageover try of Canada. , we didn't even „....„Continued From 9 t western charnpro,n�ahip o a 4' ' ' t " WAS so. area including such places as , move into another province. ate -ca of ilia Nei h a ;sort Frances, Kendra. Dryden, in gelieral., .our scenery is the Ypte eateltinf;' t and Sioux Lookout. Our high Saute as drat of the North Bay:: 1_ CURLING 1S KING. Ischool gyne was packed for every' or Kapuskasing area. As you Another .side of sport here is t game we played. i travel along our roads, you are Round in the games such as hoc.; Hockey playoffs are just cont. - constantly hemmed in by trees key, broomball, basketball and pitted, and created • great ex- i and bush —poplar, white birch, fastball. But the king of •them L eitement, Red Lake's fasthall . pine and hemlock. all is curling. The curling rink team won fame last summer by' Brow far north are we? it's Ttali5 the meeting place for every- coming second in a tournament-; very relative, of course, but one •dtuing the winter. Every- t which included teams from all or . Lake is a mining .community of thing stops during .the bonspiels. western Canada and l.Fnited about 6,000 people located about Banks close, schools close, stores States. Sports are helped along ;100 miles west and 150 miles close. everyone is at the culling I considerably by the fact that the I north of Fort William. Perhaps ,rink, either watching or playing.; mines are willing to finance : ,some people have read or heard So far in Red Lake 1 have } many projects such as team ! of Kenora. Well, Red Lake is been going by the theory "When; sweaters and so en. : about 100 miles north of this in Rome..." , so I decided to i This brings up another point: town. join the curling club. I would concerning mining towns. There To easterners, 'this seems very }hesitate to say how many games; are many stories told of mining' far north. It lends to kidding I have curled. but it must be i towns and the goings-on, Red about Eskimos, dog teams and over fifty, going about three or , Lake has tamed down a great so on. To westerners, however, Lour times a week from January • deal from its early days. But pen' , it is not north at all, We have right through to April,. ;pie have still a more e.pieurean' many people in this town who giASK ETBALt, PACKS SCHOOL I approach to life; in other words . have come south to Red Lake ,they feel, "Let's get the most from other places in the west Basketball is just coming into I out of life." Total abstinence is ; which are definitely farther north popularity. This year our high , entirely out or style for most such as Flim :Flom or Edmonton, •chool junior team won the north people, A. social drink is as corn- fete bride C roma.rty By MRS.. KEN MciCELLAR Mrs, Eldred McNichol of Lon- tion, the former Gladys Miller, bride of the month, was the re- cipient of many gifts at a shower, given in her honor in the basement of Cromarty Church on Friday evening, with relatives and friends from Staffa and Cromarty and surrounding datriet in attendance. Mrs, Calder McKaig presided for a short program, consisting Of trio numbers by the Temple- man girls; piano solo by Audrey Annis, reading by Miss Olive Epeare, and community singing. • Mrs. J. M. Scott read the ieddress, and Mrs. S. Norris and Miss Laura. B'alkwell presented the gifts ina decorated basket. ' Mrs. Gordon Scott and Miss Balkwell assisted the bride in opening the parcels, ..dies' Aid .The regular meeting of the Ladies' •Aid was held at the home of Miss Olive Speare with a good attendance. Mrs. W. Miller presided and opened the meet- the same province of Ontario, ing, and was assisted in devo- under the same school system, tions by Mrs. John Wallace and under the same government and Mrs. G. Carey.laws. Not much of a change, you During the business period, it say? On the contrary, it was very much like moving into a new country. I can't help comparing what a difference 1400 miles would have made if we had lived in Exeter, England instead of Exe- ter, Canada. We would have ended. up well past Moscow in Europe. Yet in this large coun- 'mon as afterhoon tea at home. SURE IT'S COLD CHURCHES ACTIVE Inevitably, you want to know from this that '1'o inferpeoplesomething about the weather. care little about their religion Our winter came this year about would be wrong,The Roman Ca- the first weekbinNetember and lasted to about the middle of tholics have just completed a April, The winters are cold. One new separate school that took night Janet and I went to see a much time and effort. Coche-;movie called"Hot Spell" when nour, one of the smaller mining, the temperature outside was fif- centres outside of Red Lake, has; ty below! That's about as cold as just built a very modern United; we've had it, Church. There are Lutheran,i One characteristic of the wee Greek Catholic and Pentecostal One is the difference between churches as well, all in aflour-,night and day temperatures. fishing state of health. , There might be a difference of One of the things that takes a fifty degrees in this respect, For great deal of getting used to is example, went the immensity of this country., tthirt , above i,, Chet after - Miles 'meannothing to people. noon but sank to twenty be. 0 till„Irl lltrtltt,141,1,Inll IIII, Illlll1111111114Ittpllllllllllt1111l IIIIU III UIIIIIUI11111111111111,,ntOltll U lt111 t ItIlln Or yet one of my bachelor friends WQAS GRADUATE Gordon Hodgins, son of Mr, and Mrs, N o r in a n Hodgins, Granton, graduated from the Western On- tario Agricultural School, Ridge - town, on Tuesday, May 12, frequent thaws throughout the winter, but here, once the snow arrives it is here to stay. This means that the snowfalls pile up, and. by March there is a good three feet of snow or better. Fortunately we have very few high winds because we are so sheltered by the bush. All things considered, I'm thankful that people are different here, because I would hate to conte all this way and find things exactly the sante as at home. Not that I don't like Exeter (be. cause I cio ), but it is refreshing to meet new people, and come in contact with neW ideas and new customs. It prevents one from becoming too stereotyped in one's thinking about the world, Have we been converted to this new way of life? In a way, 1. think, yes. At least, it is cer• tainly one experience that I 'would never have wanted to miss! Loolcing in with Iaz This ]producer defies tension By ELIZABETH TOUCHETTE Wedding bells will chime on May 26 for Man Blys and PO. fay Brotmann hi Winnipeg, "I'm buying .a new ear,” Alan told me, "and we'll motor back to Tor- onto for our honeymoon trip," The newlyweds will have a travelling summer. At the end of the TV season they go to Mon- treal where Alan will appear in the revue "`After Hours." They Wray also motor back to Winni- peg where he has been offered a role at the Rainbow Theatre. He has a couple of TV guest shots scheduled and on August 11 he comes to Stratford with the "After hours" revue for a week, Pon Francks has also been signed for the Stratford revue which will be headed by Jack Creley and Charmion King, Two of the Hames sisters are also planning weddings. Norma will be married In September, "I don't know whether it will be a big wedding or not," she says, "I've never wanted; a big affair but," she shrugged, "you know how it is." ,lean, the youngest Eames sis- ter, will be getting married next Easter. Her fiance, Dave New- berry, have up his jab as a lab technician recently and went into business for himself waxing demonstration records and com- mercial discs. The biggest show business news in. Toronto is the signing of Bob Goulet as second male lead in a Lerner -Loewe Broadway musical. The team which wrote "My Fair Lady" and "Gigi" is sure to 'produce another hit and Bob has heen signed to a four year contract with a clause say- ing that he can drop out at the end of two years if he desires, Kenora is 150 mites away, and I low at night. would think nothing of taking a girl friend to Kenora for dinner and a show. A hundred miles up i here is comparable to a short trip to Hensel'. or Dashwood. A trip to Winnipeg (about 300 miles) might be compared with' the way we feel about going, to! Kitchener or Guelph. This .has affected us too, and we -thought nothing of driving home and back at Christmas ,a journey of nearly 3,000 miles. When my wife and I decided to move 1400 miles away from our front door, we ended up in was decided to order, new hymn books for the Sunday School. Flower and program commit- tees were named, and a com- mittee was appointed to complete rirrrangements for a strawberry supper to be held in June. Roy's WMS and WA Mrs. Carman Park was hostess tor the May meeting of Roy'S „omit iumtruruttru,urruruut"rrnrtruurunurumm�uruwv„uuwuunuuu,nuumtruuauun,nrnumu Church WMS and WA, and Mrs. Murray Christie opened the ;; ,jneeting, assisted by Mrs. John 11 '. Mocking, Mrs. G. Neil and Mrs. Park were named to arrange the pro- gram for the summer meeting, : - The topic, "Christian Citizen- Ship.” was given by Mrs. M. Christie. Mrs. Andrew Christie Contributed an instrumental solo, and current events were re• yiewed by Mrs, Cliff Dow. Mrs. ? G. Neil gave a reading. Personal items • Mr. and Mrs. Harry Eliott and Susan, of Windsor, visited over the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace and Mr. and Mrs. 1<inrval Elliott. Miss Marilyn Sorensen and Ross Cunningham, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. James Soren- sen and son, Jim, of Georgetown, were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. James Ramsey, Mr. Clive McDonald and Tam- Ib', and Mrs. E, McDonald, Hensel! Mitchell, visited on Sunday with .Plias Olive Speare. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cadick, Sharon and Donald, of Sarnia, spent the weekend with relatives here. Messrs. Alex and Kenneth Walker, London, spent the ]loll- day weekend with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Walker. Billy Houghton, Mitchell, was I with his grandmother, Mrs. M. I Houghton, for the weekend. Mrs. Armstrong, of Weston, And Mrs. Taylor and baby slaughter, Toronto, spent the weekend with 'the Carey families. Mr, and Mrs. Will McLachlan, Srucefield, and their daughter, Marlene, of London, and friend, Mr. Diechert, of Exeter, were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Carter Kerslake. Mrs. Sadie Scott, Mrs. M. Loughton and Mrs. George Wal- lace visited With friends in Clin- ton on Friday. Mr, and Mrs. Robert Laing, .Marilyn and Margatet, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Laing, Lorraine and David attended anniversary services at Munro Church an Sunday. Mr. and Mrs, T, L. Laing and sons, Hugh, David, John and I 1 Alec, and Mrs. E. Moore spent the • holiday weekend with. Mt Slid Mrs. Hugh Moore and faint fly, of Lindsay. Mrs. John Hocking visited re eently with her daughter anti son•in.-law, Me. and Mrs. W. E. .Brooks, of Brampton. •Mics Alice Serscdahl was a west at the Parsons -Batten 'wedding in Monkton Presbyterian church on Saturday, . Mr, and Mrs. Nelson Bowe ,ithd dattghters, Ruth, Mildred and Carol, were Attests at the :Morph? -Murray wedding in Main St United Chur h. Exeter', on •Saturday. Mr. Norman Christie is it atierit in Stratford General ospital. 17onatd Cadick son nt Mr, and Ctrs Prank Cadick Sarnia. ,and j '' Debbie ellare, little daughter i of Air, and Mrs Min Wallaea. PHONR 63 William Street r LUCAN had 'their tonsils removed at y ..:r i11 tUtnnl uiilii'iltti tiinii �f���ott�: �lrlilQ 1y�1 r�J�ltYl�u��r'�YYiYtWtluflhYlt)iNY'iltYuliiitilrYHitiinhitltiigifiiifiirtiuil�hitiYiiYiYfltTnitt t U i 0 In the summer, temperatures can mount to ninety, but cool off to fifty or sixty degrees at night. Some people will be surprised to know that we receive much less snow in a winter than do the residents of South Huron, There is one important factor there, however. In Exeter there are • *1 , MISTING { PERSONS' WEAtil /0 is.r '1,1e was wearing a white shirt, brown pants and a, pink -and. yellow apron." ATTENTION White Bean Growers Now is the time to order your seed requirements. The Ontario Bean. Growers' Marketing Board has Second Genera- tion Registered No, 1 Sanilac Beans. 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