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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-12-23, Page 12e4k95W* Nade axet OWN deernatioo ace Main St. AND STAFF Exeter V.OzrfiltirtpziWolltztal:?§.(rNitlgers«WzittoritalWrorgi;4ftlaft TO faithful friends old and new, hearty thanks for your good will and best wishes for a wonderful holiday season. el :0 , 0, abo.",,,,r • 7.0" 1...,0 , 9 nri 4.4,7-7.. & ....: .*.: J ack Smith Jeweller k. Po. 4,6•R4Z),S*4.fta ;','0 NolutNoNo,NoNlo.9",ori.o..Novo.slrw;*.o.NoNirvio.Natviii1 WtiztlicrWercr:er 0141eIt?!OlgliSIF,441OlO 'WA OXitgikli • 47, --Cincore aid/ and Aoliday • .40 p to all 9, you Awn, alt of ad. LINDENFIELD HARDWARE 365 Main St. S. Exeter 235.2361 ,.-ootcgwv<4.omoNticNioNoiRtaw:tiwidtwea WAVIltvig?,45 tert/gMtsft iggraFici Mothers Bros. Limited CHRW-INIA51 CHEER Carols echo in the crisp night air spreading Christmas cheer. We wish everyone all the best for the festive season t. g Ca thy 's Cuts Tints • Perms Sets i BEAUTY LOUNGE ti Cathy Robbins, Proprietor 0 244 Main South Exeter :o*-4.ii:14.o.N.,oNoNwp.oNia.q:ow .;740Nox;,:oipio.9yoNo.NoNoNiamp-No.N,ock -,:trilvAvNivgd:e?teso,eromirtz.?.c:IN:rze,o-cm.ww»?,fav?.:e4zNivtit::mv?ts-tzNiot-tre 235.1533 „Here's hoping that Santa brings lots of good things your way! Thank you. Don Taylor Motors 235.1100 Exeter Your Authorized Volkswagen Dealer Huron's Youngest and Most li Progressive Dealership cAi.tliti-c:ft-wAtIgtit*ovng GREETINGS Joy unconfined, hope unrestrained ... our 7(N. Christmas wish for you. JOY to the OHL Pave 20 Times-Advocate, December 23, 1969 tiorosim•litotivotokwww:410VAtitqtesitmmtcorAMAI tv0:1!.erlPtivAtlgtizinigltigWo • Chrysler • Plymouth • Valiant Exeter Phone 235-1525 A Cltrisivtas Citeer We hope you have a very Merry Christmas, the good old-fashioned kind with all the trimmings ... joyous carols, • g stockings hung by the chimney, •:. laughter, love and good cheer. 3 By MRS. ROBERT TINNEY Exeter Times have certainly changed since I remember my first Christmas as a little girl. Money and sometimes work was scarce for my dad, but our parents always governed themselves for Christmas spending. Father worked in the bush and he always carried a tree home on his back the day before Christmas. My brothers and sisters and I made the decorations out of coloured paper into long chains to string around it. For snow on the branches we threaded thread through pieces of cotton batton. There were no lights on our tree as we didn't have hydro. There wasn't the money for toys but usually mom and dad arranged to buy 1 doll between two girls and the boys received candies, nuts and oranges from Santa. Other gifts were useful gifts — generally something we needed in the line of clothes which mom had quite often made prior to Christmas. In those days there wasn't much wrapping paper around to use, so gifts were just laid beneath the tree with each child's name on it. On Christmas day older members of the family would arrive (if it was possible to get there) and all would sit around the table eating some kind of fowl — either turkey or duck — which was a real treat as not to often it was available. Mom had planned ahead for lots of homemade bread, buns, shortbread and Christmas puddings. Everyone would leave the table stuffed, just as we do now. Our family always went to church and Sunday School, but at Christmas extra efforts were made to participate in carol singings which took place. Very few cards were sent at this time. People gathered in their homes to wish each other a Merry Christmas. As I remember my parents celebrated New Years more than Xmas as their ancestry was Scotch. This was the one time of the year they really celebrated with a big meal and everyone having a good time according to Scottish tradition and what they could afford. Today you don't have to be abundantly rich to be happy as our family was happy with what we had. Mrs. Robert Tinney (Davis Nursing Home) By MRS. JEAN MANSON Exeter Christmas time is story time, remembering time. I was one of a family of eight born and raised on a farm within walking distance of the nearby village. Although our house was built of logs, the ground floor consisted of one large room which served as living, dining room and kitchen during the winter months; two bedrooms and a pantry. Upstairs there were two large bedrooms. Besides my parents, my three brothers and four sisters were two hired helpers, the family dog Bruho completing the family. Christmas was always held in our home and my mothers parents who lived but half a Mile away spent the day with us. My grandmother, a fiery wee Scotswoman disliked walking through the snow as she was so short it was difficult for her to keep up. One particular Christmas I remember, my father nailed a box on our sled and my brother Lou and I being the two eldest were sent to bring our grandmother. Grandpa took the lead and we followed with our precious cargo. In those days most country roads had many pitch holes. This year was no exception and before we had gone very far, sled box and grandma were dumped upside down in the snow. Well, grandma was small but her vocabulary was not and we were soundly reprimanded for our carelessness. The remainder of the trip was uneventful and we were soon enjoying our Christmas dinner. A huge cedar tree which my father had cut and brought home from our bush and which we children had decorated with coloured paper and strings of popcorn filled one corner of the large room, My parents were most generous as were some of my aunts and uncles and many presents were under the tree waiting to be untied by eager fingers. For the girls, dolls, doll buggies, jewellry, guns, puzzles and games for the boys and of course home knit mittens and socks for all. This year however, there were no gifts under the tree from grandma. This was quite unusual and we thought we were really in her bad books. Later in the afternoon, grandma called us all around her and from the pocket of one of her many petticoats brought forth two parcels, one for my brother and one for me. When unwrapped we found they were two lovely china cups and saucers filled with big blue raisins, each of the younger children getting a twenty-five cent piece. Grandma had decided to forgive us at last. My three brothers were great teases, as brothers seem to be and more often than not I was the unsuspecting victim. One dark winter evening shortly after Christmas I was returning home from sewing classes which I attended daily in the nearby village. The road passed over a small bridge or culvert and I was always glad when I had this safely behind me. This night just as I was crossing it a shot rang out from below. Terrified, I started to run as fast as my legs would carry me. Glancing over my shoulder I could see something robed in white about to overtake me. As I neared the gate leading in to our farm I heard a familiar voice and recognized it as belonging to my older brother. He had received a gun for Christmas and 'thought he would have a little fun playing a prank on me. My father, however, didn't think it was quite so funny and big brother did without his gun for awhile. These are but a few of the fond memories I have of Christmases before the turn of the century. Although the cosy old log house has long since been torn down and my youngest sister and I alone remain of that family of eight many happy memories linger on. Christmas time is story time — remembering time. Mrs. Jean Manson •cz By MR. JAMES COTTLE Exeter I shall try and recall how things were nearly a century ago when I was a little boy at Christmas time. We lived on a farm and mostly had lots of snow. We only got our mail when some one would walk one and a quarter miles about once a week to the general store. sgrztmr=ttftwlerotveragrow:cergign;FAIftv In3drom: 3 We would get just a few pretty, just plain post cards with a little note written on back from our friends. I must say We really appreciated them.. The pictures were something and if we got a parcel that was something to receive. Just before Christmas they would bring us out to Exeter which was only 5 miles to see the windows. That was the only time I got to town. We would get a tree and take it in the house. There were not many trimmings on it, just a few things tied on with a string. We enjoyed it just as much as today as we didn't know any difference. The big night would come when I would hang up my hand knit woolen stocking looking for Santa to come down the chimney. I sure believed in him and did till I was a big boy. We all went to our little concert at the church and went home waiting for the big day to come. Now there was the big meal to get ready. Grandma would go to barn and get some wheat and wash it, put it in a cloth bag. I seemed to be the only one that would help her. I had to sit and pound it with a stick till the brown kernel came off and then she would put the white part in the centre with some milk and cook it some how. They called it Formiteg. Everyone looked forward to this special dish for some reason. It could have been an old tradition I don't know. As for the fowl it was always goose and of course there was the Christmas pudding. Anyway Christmas was looked forward to in those days just the same as it is now. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Mr. James Cottle By MR. HAROLD KENDRICK Exeter 1 would like to take you down memory lane with me to see which was one of the most outstanding Christmases I ever enjoyed in my life. My life as a child was spent in London, England. It was a tough life. The children of this generation do not know what hard times mean. We slept on straw mattresses and were thankful. Sometimes there was food to eat, and more often not. Many times I have eaten the stump of a cabbage for breakfast on my way to school. The school was four miles from our home and shanks pony was our only way of getting there, but we survived. At the age of 18, my Brother lent me the money to come to Canada. When I arrived in Guelph I went to work in Homewood Sanitorium as an attendant for 50 cents a day, which was good money. My medical examination showed me weighing 82 lbs. The doctor ordered me to eat a large bowl of bread and milk between my meals. This I did and I believe this saved my life. Canada to me means freedom, life and lots to eat. I was very lonely but happy that my needs were supplied. When winter came in 1910, I had never seen so much snow. There was at least six feet everywhere, and it froze over the top so that you could skate over fences and fields. The nurses treated me like their kid brother. Our pastimes were spent indoors bowling and boxing; outdoors skating, tennis, baseball, running 5 to 10 miles each day, long walks, in the winter. They built a long slide down to the river. After work, we would gather at the slide and spend hours on the slide and skating on the river. If it had to be cleaned off the skaters had to do it themselves. I think that we make things too easy for our children today. Things that you work at you enjoy better. We wonder why the young people don't understand us and think we are short of a few buttons. I think the reason is that we try to do everything for them and even take away part of their fun by making rinks and even swimming pools for them. I'll soon be 78 years old. Bill & Doug's Barber Shop Main St. Exeter will be open Dec. 24 and Dec. 31 till 5:30 p.m, 13 tt' Graham ,Arthu r 1,, MOTORS f PHONE 235.1373 EXETER i ti tvilo§;',Ii sti.,itl%i:z v$ wiz, NO•ve$0.osA4avrat, No No NowemoNoi ';‘lz.viioNioNONiull Walper sen , s ear MAIN S71 13.Xls'TER The Store With The Stock a 45 cv,?+6 a?!4ct?.4.1V?.+4 07.40,e4 t«4 41;i1E6 12%1ASIP*#?;41;IF.4 q("6 s?.kt et?1,i WAtte,e,i wto Everyone's singing out in merriment and joy, announcing to the world that it's Christmas! And it's our time to thank you, customers, for your patronage. GEORGE VRIESE AND STAFF AT Sixty of these years I have spent as a ,citizen of Canada and I thank God for every hour He has allowed, me to live in our Wonderful country, 1910 is the Christmas that stands out in my memory because the chief Doctor was Dr, Hobbs, his sister, Miss Hobbs, was the Matron and they were just like father and mother to us all. I remember the Christmas tree, a large pine, decorated with lanterns hung on it. Everybody did something to make it outstanding. The male and female nurses bought one another presents and hung them on the tree and when the day came we had to use ladders to climb up to get many of the presents. Socks, open razors, soap, clothes of every description were received. I got 73 presents myself. All were good but the best was a pair of skates. Then arrived the eats, turkey, duck, chicken, a great big goose and a roast pig. The beverages for those who wanted it were wine, liquor, beer, soft drinks, tea, coffee and cocoa. This crowned anything I had ever seen before and since. We sang and danced in the open air. That experience in my life, to be treated like a human being, loved and cared for, will always make me love my home, my Country and my people, Canadians. In closing I'd like to say, let's be real people. Black, white or yellow, we are all of one blood. Let's put ourselves out for the other fellow a little bit more, and show we are glad to be alive and enjoy life. We are a long time dead! Well Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from my wife and I. Harold Kendrick W.tieVAIVteftIPW Compliments of the Season FROM THE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF VG The senior Trust Company devoted entirely to serving the people of Ontario, WCTORIA and GREY 1—RUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 Marjorie Nikes Your Hairdresser 235-1744 EXETER c../4t this most joyful of holiday seasons, we greet you with sincere good wishes and warm appreciation. Merry Christmas! T. 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