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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-03-25, Page 13WOOD FOR SALE Also GOOD STANDING TIMBER WANTED Special prices paid for good walnut trees. Dry Mixed Slab Wood, Dry Mixed,Limb and Body Wood suitable for stove, furnace or fireplace. Delivered in large truckloads or pickup loads. ROBERT EAGLESON Aj I sa Phorb:forNaeir873 20320:44m.50* Cra ig or evenings Barley Acreage Contracts Wanted For Quick Cash Returns Seed and Fertilizer Supplied SCOTT'S ELEVATOR LTD. 227,4479 LUCAN COMPETITIVE PRICES ON FERTILIZER SEED OATS BARLEY and SPRING WHEAT All Varieties and Grades Fencing, Cement and Building Materials =a:Wzke,,,,ag Call your local SHUR-GAIN Fertilizer dealer or SHUR-GAIN Fertilizer plant Quality Produce, Exeter Phone 235.19212 , The birds who signed for the city schools will spend all their weekends, and most Of their money, going to the country for swimming, fishing, skiing, A.nd the types who head for the Coun- try will spend most of their weekends, and money, tearing to town for the shows, the ballet, the bright lights. It was fascinating. Salaries were almost standard, across the board. But those fringe ben- efits. . . wowl city schools sang u tu r e: museum, art galleries, theat-res, opera. Rural schools her- alded hunting, fishing, leisurely living. And both signed people .up, on these grounds. Page 13 March 25, 1965 SUGAR AND SPICE Dispensed by Smiley Lucan and district news Teacher's choice Businessmen draft bylaws Fortunately for my profes- sional status, at that moment, simultaneously, the bar next door opened, and my wife grab- bed me by the arm. She'd seen that look in my eye. I would like to state that I was admitted to the bar and began a long and successful career as a lawyer. But my curiosity held me for another five minutes, to see what was being offered. Lucan women capture prizes Four car loads from Lucan last Wednesday attended the Dessert Euchre, sponsored by the ladies of St. Patrick's church and managed to bring home three of the four prizes.. Mrs. Charles Haggar won the prize for high score, Mrs. Wil- son Hodgins for lone hands and Miss Lina Abbott won the lucky saucer prize for having the saucer with the number 1'7 past- ed to the bottom. Phone 2274255 Correspondent: Miss Woo Abbott letteltOMMEMMOZZENNIAArteNMUMMAISCORNAMSOMMEORMIMERMEMEEMENarmearatell March storm plays havoc Last Wednesday's bad bliz- zard and strong gales worked havoc with local activities. St. Patrick's Church Guild mem- bers were fortunate their des- sert euchre began at 2 pm but the storm got so bad they omitted the last game, so peo- ple could got home before the visibility became nil. In Lucan itself, the UCW Shamrock Tea had to be post- poned until Thursday evening, and the LOBA euchre and the Anglican Church Guild meeting and card game all had to be cancelled. The UCW had their tables set, baking done and some had their scalloped potatoes in the oven, when the committee de- cided to postpone it. For the next hour the telephone wires must have been hot, as an ef- fort was made to notify as many as possible. The cancel- lation appeared also on radio and TV (meanwhile no doubt, the little Leprechauns danced with glee at the mischief they had wrought). However, the ladies had a splendid crowd Thursday even- ing. Shortly after 5:30 pm the tables were all filled and there was a long waiting list. MR. AND MRS. DONALD EDWARD RILEY SUPER BINGO WINNER The Lucan IGA store has again been sent some winning cards. Last week's winners in- cluded Mrs. Charles Windsor (her second) Mrs. Lyle Reving- ton, Mrs. Wayne Tod and Mrs. Mabel Ryan all of whom will be eligible for a major prize besides their two dollar vouch- er. Lucan girl marries Eighteen members of the Lu- can Businessmen's Association met at the Community Centre Thursday evening. A lengthy discussion was held on co- operative advertising. A rough draft of by-laws was presented and discussed. A communication from the Lucan Lions Club was read asking for a donation towards a 24th of May celebration. Tom England was asked to contact Cliff Acheson in regard to signs to be placed at both ends of the village inviting in- dustrial firms to locate in or near Lucan. It was decided a flower fund be administered by the pre- sident and secretary and flow- ers sent only to sick• members or in case of a death in a member's family. First CGIT leader aids with tea party Lions hear SA officer Lucan was best man. At a reception held at the bride's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hickson of Lon- don, the bride's mother receiv- ed in a blue lace sheath with matching jacket and pink mum corsage. She was assisted by the groom's mother in a navy blue brocaded sheath with pink mum corsage. Assistants at the reception were Mrs. Roy Hick- son and Miss Jean Smith. For travelling, the bride changed to a blue lace gown over taffeta with matching ac- cessories and corsage of pink carnations. The young couple will make their home at Stratford. Guests were present from Lucan, London, Lambeth, Staffa and Woodham. The manse of St. George's Presbyterian Church, London, was the setting at 3 pm Satur- day February 27 when the Rev, Russell Gordon united in mar- riage' Gayle Lorraine Hickson and Donald Edward Riley. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Z. Hickson of Margaret St., Lucan and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Riley of Wood- ham. Given in marriage by her father, the bride chose a bal- lerina-length gown of Chantilly lace over peau de sole. A fitted bodice with round neckline was enhanced with long sleeved matching jacket and full skirt. A crown of pearls held her shoulder-length net veil and she carried a cascade of red roses and white mums. Miss Diane Hickson of London as maid of honor, was her sis- ter's only attendant. She wore a pale blue sheath of chiffon and taffeta with matching over- skirt and carried pink carna- tions. Mr. Carl Edward Rummell of Speaking on the work of the Salvation Army, Brigadier C. J. Milley, public relations officer of the Salvation Army, of Lon- don was the guest speaker at a dinner meeting of the 35 Lions from Merton, Parkhill, Thorn- dale, Mt. Brydges and Lucan, held in the Anglican Church basement, last Monday night. It was announced $104.50 had already been turned in for the Red Cross, which is sponsored by the Lucan Lions here. 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Take pains before --not after meals COUPLES CLUB MEETING The Couples Club meeting scheduled for Thursday had to be postponed owing to the UCW having to use the schoolroom for their postponed Shamrock supper. The 1965 annual CGIT Sham- Cochrane. Betty Ann Lewis had rock Tea, sponsored by the charge of admission. Lucan-Clandeboye members pouring tea at atable centred netted $64.80 comparedto$43.- with green and white candles 45 realized in 1964. The in- and a pretty arrangement of crease was probably due mostly tinted 'mums and ferns, were to the larger enrolment this Mrs. G. W, Sach and later year. Mrs. George Paul, Lucan's first There was a splendid attend- CGIT leader, some 25 years ante out, in spite of another ago. cold blustery day, which pre- Small tables were centred vented the usual parade of Eas- with pots of shamrock andIrish ter bonnets and new coats, flags. Receiving at the door were, Mrs. George Carpenter and the leader Mrs. Murray Hod- Mrs. R. W. Stutt alternated as gins, president Marilyn Hearn, tea room hostess, and kitchen Christian and Missionary Edu- supervisor, Miss Reta Chown cational convener, Mrs. Tom made the tea. Barr and ju. leader, Louise The following girls alternated as servers and kitchen assist- ants, Bonny Bobor, Nancy Park, man. The door prize went to Marilyn Hearn, Wendy Cron- Lion Jim Gumb of Thorndale. kite, Judy Coughlin, Carol Has- It was tentatively decided the kett, Heather Froats, Leslie 1965 Zone Rally would be held Carling, Marie Cochrane and in the Lucan Community Centre, Jane Crozier. April 21. Nancy Hardy, Janis Free- man, Marline Butler and Kathy Arnold had no difficulty in dis- posing of the candy nor Daisy Cobleigh, Helen Shipway and Janyee Grose of the bunny cray- on holders. Roberta Cochrane, Jane Cor- bett and Helen Lewis were in charge of the children's table set up in the nursery. Guests from a distance in- cluded Mrs. R. E. Lashbrook, CGIT Counsellor of the Middle- sex Presbytery Christian Edu- cation committee and the Rev. Florence Hunter, assistant minister of Byron United Church, both of Byron and Mrs. Howard Cranston, wife of a for- mer Lucan High School prin- cipal, and her daughter Mrs. Ross Hunt, both of London. The postponed playlet "All in the Family" and musical program will now be held Fri- day March 26 at 7:30 pm in the schoolroom. At a quick glance SHUR-GAIN Selected-Granulated Fertilizer may look very much like most other kinds of 'granular fertilizers—but there is an important difference. Most ordinary fertilizers and practically all custom blended ones consist of a dry mixture of fertilizer materials either in powder or granular form.. As a result the different ingredients vary in size and weight. You can com- pare it to a handful of ping-pong balls, mixed with marbles. If you throw out a handful of these, the heavier marbles will travel farther than the ping-pong balls—and that is exactly what happens with ordinary fertilizers. When you spread your fertilizer, with a drill or even more important, with any broadcast-type spreader you can be sure that every particle (from the smallest to the largest) of free-running SHUR-GAIN Selected-Granulated Fer- tilizer is nutritionally balanced no matter where it lies—assuring you of complete and even intake of all the plant food by your crops. There are no excesses in one area and starvation in another with SHUR-GAIN. Another good reason why you can be confident of top returns from SHUR-GAIN —the finest fertilizer for your good earth! Rather an interesting time to be a teacher, the spring. Even before the snow has completely gone, school boards and princi- pals are flipping over logs and stones, in the forlorn hope of finding a teacher under one of them. There are three reasons for the frantic spring scramble. The first two are deaths and retirements. The third, and ma- jor cause for the panic is the population explosion. Clas s- rooms are multiplying with the rapidity of rabbits. Every one of these clas s- rooms is full of kids. And the kids, like baby robins, expect to have something stuffed into them. Therefore, according to tradition, there must be abody, however little it resembles a Momma Robin, standing up there in front of the class, stuff- ing something—pebbles, or pearls, or even worms — into the gaping maws. It is the time of year that has principals grinning wildly at old teachers, pouring on the charm with potential new ones, snap- ping at their own wives and biff- ing their own children about the ears, because they've heard by the snake-vine — that's the vine that runs from the staffroom to the bridge-club to the Saturday night party to the after-church coffee — that they're losing half their staff. It is the time of year that has school board members deciding to take a holiday in Jamaica, or if they can't afford it, going to bed with the 'flu, On the one hand are the taxpayers, shout- ing that school taxes are away out of hand. And on the other hand are other tax-payers, de- claring that the board must hire the best possible teachers. And in between are the teach- ers, with 10,000 jobs open to them, every one, at first glance, better than their present one. Last weekend I was in the city, and out of sheer curiosity it says here, dropped in at the ho- tel which is the centre of teach- er-hiring for the coming year. It was interesting. My first impression was that the whole thing was being run by one of the metropolitan news- papers. This enterprising sheet, in an effort to crack the monopoly on the fat, luscious acreage of teacher-advertising held by another newspaper, had hired half the ground floor, and was passing out free papers, free coffee, free interview-ar- ranging (whatever that is'. Picture an old-fashioned slave-market. New Orleans, 1855, O.K. ? Now, picture a slave market in which every slave has the latest market report on slave-prices tucked under his left arm, in which every slave has ten potential buyers, in which every slave is free to choose his new boss or go back to Ole Massa. I had an overwhelming im- pulse to jump up on one of the upholstered chairs and cry out, "One English specialist; spirit broken, but sound of wind, limb and grammar. How much am I offered?" Former resident marks 88 years Mrs. Laura Abbott, now of London, celebrated her 88th birthday with a family dinner party at the Glen Allen Res- taurant, London. Among the guests was her sister Mrs. Gertrude Thompson of Thames- ford. Just prior to her birthday her daughter, Mrs. Howard Cranston entertained a number of her mother's personal friends at her home, London. Mrs. Abbott, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Elliott of Lucan was born March 14, 1877. She moved to London in 1928 and she and her hus- band, the late Ben Abbott cele- brated their golden wedding in 1950. Three years later Mr. Abbott died. Mrs. Abbott has but one daughter, Mrs. Howard Crans- ton, two grandchildren, Mr. Wayne Cranston and Jane (Mrs. Ross Hunt), all of London. In spite of her four score and eight years, Mrs. Abbott is enjoying good health and is able to be out every day. the successful euchres was read and plans finalized for the final euchre to be held later. Owing to other activities the date has to be changed from April '7. The executive will be in charge of this euchre when a date can be secured. A quilt made and quilted by Mrs. H. B. Langford was dis- played. It was decided to donate a Gideon Bible in memory of a former member and past pre- sident, the late Mrs. George Young. The guest artist was Mrs. Ernest Ross who demonstrated the art of cake decorating. A cake donated for the occasion was beautifully decorated. In a draw which followed Mrs. Sheridan Revington, a past pre- sident, was the lucky winner. A letter from the branch's adopted child was read. Another highlight of the meet- ing was the display of block printing done by those taking the recent course, directed by Mrs. Murray Hodgins and Mrs. Owen SaWard. Pillow cases, runners, table sets, curtains and dresses were among the articles on display. The dresses were particularly pretty and unique so Mrs. Lorne Mohr's little girls will be stars in the Easter parade in their attractive block-printed gowns. Owing to the postponed Sham- rock Tea in the United Church beginning at 5.30 pm it was decided to dispense with re- freshments and as many as possible go to the tea. Mrs. Murray Hodgins, con- vener of home economics and health, was the speaker at the Lucan WI meeting held in the Community Memorial Centre, Thursday afternoon. The motto, "If you take pains with a meal you won't have pains after it", she said was self explanatory, so instead of enlarging on the motto, she read several amusing anecdotes per- taining to food. Her main topic was "Pois- ons". On a large poster she had listed the names of the most common household poisons and the percentage of deaths from each. She stressed the im- portance and necessity of keep- ing all medicines and poisons properly labelled and well out of reach of small children and to beware of disposing of un- used poison in a garbage can, where a neighbor's child might locate it. She listed a few first aids to use, prior to the ar- rival of a doctor, in case of poisoning. The president Mrs. T. A. Watson presided for the well attended meeting. A report on Grabs 'loot' during spree fertilizer When Mrs. Verda Lightfoot of the Lucan IGA was named one of the three winners of 35 Western Ontario IGA stores, in the "Cashier of the Year" contest a draw was made of all who voted for her and Mrs. Roy Hamilton's name was drawn. Mrs. Hamilton, just couldn't believe her good fortune, when notified that she was eligible for a 10-minute shopping spree. She was so excited that she was stripping shelves in her dreams for several nights. The time for the shopping spree was set for 2 pm Tues- day, March 16. Monday Mrs. Hamilton went carefully through the store locating all the articles she wanted most. Tuesday, she went to the store early, and accompanied by Mr. Bob Finnigan, IGA su- pervisor, made another tour of the store. Mr. Finnigan, gave her final instructions, and also offered suggestions as to the best bargains to pick up. Sharp at 2 pm the race was ow The staff, and those, who had been notified of the time, watched with intense interest, as Mrs. Hamilton, darted through the store, grabbing ar- ticles big and small, from a can of salmon to a large bag of flour. Several photographers were present, snapping pictures, as Mrs. Hamilton hefted a 50 lb. bag of potatoes on to her cart or knocked down something In her rush. When the race was over, her four cart loads checked in at $211.40, compared to last year's winner, Mrs. Jack Ste acy's $249.40, but Mrs. Hamilton was more than satis- fied 'with her "loot" and went happily home, with both trunk and interior of her car, filled , full of boxes and 'bundles. Mrs. Hamilton will also re- ceive $211.40 worth of stamps, for which she will be able to receive many gift articles. Grabs $211 worth of groceries in shopping spree Mrs. Rey Hamilton, left, is a little fatigued but nonetheless happy after her recent shopping spree at the IGA. Although she ran up a bill of $211 the wasn't worried a bit as the 10-Mifinte Shopping spree was her prize from a recent contest. Shown with Mrs. Hamilton are Mrs. Verda Lightfoot, recent winner in the "cashier of the year" contest and store manager Larry Cronyn. --Photo by Engel