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the pen with her arrogant and
scolding mate. Nevertheless, she
and her husband went to the fair
the next day and brought honor
to Edward Street.
So, Mothers, take heart. Fair
day only comes once a year.
And if Friday morning finds
you scrubbing potatoes, helping
to put the finishing touches on a
vegetable man, or cleaning up
from last night's baking session,
remember, all this will pass . .
and all too quickly.
ATTENTION LADY SINGERS
Mrs. Marion McCaffrey,
leader of the Huronia Male
Chorus, tells me she is planning
to produce the Christmas
portion of Hendel's Messiah the
week before Christmas.
Soprano and alto voices are
needed, and practice will
commence October 5. Already
two girls have been recruited
from London so if you know
anyone in the city who would
like to join the group there is a
ride available.
Marion hastens to add that
the choir is open to more men as
well.
So, come on now, if you
enjoy trilling the scale, join in
and contribute to this ambitious
but very worthwhile venture.
Phone Marion at 235-0775.
LAST YEAR'S QUEEN OF THE COOKS —Mrs. Keith McLaren is busy in her kitchen preparing baking for
this year's contest. Mrs. McLaren will also have many exhibits in the flowers and vegetable classes in Exeter
Fall Fair. T-A photo
Institutes show at fair Women's
The Women's Institutes are
pushers of hobbies and
handiwork and in consequence
many of the members will be
entering exhibits in the Exeter
Fall Fair this weekend.
Besides exhibiting as
individuals several of them will
be contributing toward the
Women's Institute displays.
These exhibits add much to
Huron will enter a display.
The fair board offers $5.00 to
each WI that exhibits but there
are no monetary prizes for the
winning displays which are
judged on the point system.
Although they only receive
ribbons for their efforts the
friendly competition between
the different groups is keen and
enthusiastic.
the interest of the fair and this
year the WI theme, which was
chosen by the Crediton
Institute, is Thanksgiving, and
includes five different items: a
fancy hand made table cloth, a
table arrangement, dinner place
setting, a pumpkin pie and a loaf
of homemade bread.
It is expected that most of
the nine Institutes in South
The kids haven't forgiven me
yet.
Perhaps our most trying
experience, however, was With
our littlest guy's panty hen. His
farmer uncle had given him a
pair of beautiful strutting
banties, but because of their
annoying habit of crowing
rauciously every pre-dawn he
had to keep them out on the
farm,
Two days before the Fair
they were brought into town
and while he was feeding them,
Henrietta, the hen, scooted put
of the pen and into the dense
forest of canning corn growing
behind our property.
The whole family took up the
chase. We floundered up and
down the rows of soaking corn
(it had rained the night before)
but to no avail, We were finally
forced back to the house
drenched and puffing for breath
and the banty still at large.
Tears of anguish dripped off
the chin of the small boy as he
wept loudly for his beloved
`Hennie'.
"Don't worry, Luv," I tried
to comfort him, "If God sees the
sparrow fall, I'm sure He can
look after your scared little
hen."
Sure enough,
As we ate supper that night a
neighbor phoned to impart the
joyful news that the little hen
was wandering around her
house.
Again, we all rushed to the
rescue.
Big brother managed to shoo
her into some weeds where we
caught her and put her back in
,ACW study
Lewis book
Mothers; Brace yourself for
Friday morning.
It's School Fair Time again.
Of course, if your child is
clever or artistic you can relax,
for his or her work is hound to
be on display,
We did rear one child who for
eight consecutive years had her
printing or writing classed for
show.
Fat lot of good it did .her!
One would think she was near
illiterate by the few illegible
lines she managed to scratch to
us while she was away the past
two summers.
I must admit, though,
somewhere along the line she
learned to use the telephone.
Her adeptness at this mechanism
convinced . her father he was
buying several shares in Bell
Telephone when he straightened
up the summer's long distance
bills recently.
But I digre
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ss.
As was saying, if you have
an artistic child, you're in luck,
but if you have one or two who
give you the same sob story
every year about the 'old teacher
who never chooses any of my
work for the fair' and who wears
you down with his tale that 'all
the other kids are entering
something', you've had it.
Friday morning will likely
find you tiptoeing through the
soaking grass and muddy garden
to help the kid search for
cosmos uneaten by bugs, half a
dozen unblotched tomatoes, or a
few scabless potatoes suitable to
show. If you're as sneaky as I am
you'll even resort to robbing the
neighbor's yard.
Or, if you've got pets they
will have to be groomed and
be-ribboned and usually caged
before you help the small fry
drag them up to the fair
grounds.
Always blessed with pets of
varying types and pedigrees we
usually had many to choose
from.
One year the kids took the
guppies to compete in the most
unusual pet class. They won
hands down when one of the
mothers commenced to have her
babies which were immediately
gulped down shamelessly by the
rest of the cannibal tribe (or
school) right before the eyes of
the spectators.
I cannot recall all the cats
we've shown but one I do
remember. It was a pure white
mother cat with her litter of six
white babies. The judges were
completely taken in by their
angelic mews, dainty red tongues
and long lashes.
I, alone, knew they were
devils in disguise who ripped up
my living room drapes, ate my
plants and demolished my
antique figurines. As soon as the
fair was over I gave the whole kit
and kaboodle to a kindly farmer.
WE. STOCK
Mrs. Walter Bentley, Anne
Street, hosted the opening Fall
meeting of the Anglican Church
Women when the devotions were
conducted by Mrs. Andrew
Carter.
A review of the C. S. Lewis
look, Mere Christianity, was
arranged by Mrs. E. Skillender.
Three groups took part in the
discussion of the theme and
summarized by a leader.
The business period was
conducted by Mrs. E. L. Gibson,
president. Roll call was answered
with holiday time vacation trips.
Reports were given by conveners
of various committees. October
9 was set for the public tour of
the bell towers of Trivitt
Memorial Church followed by a
tea in the Parish Hall.
Arrangements were made for the
baking and variety booth at the
Exeter Fair this week.
A social hour followed with
Mrs. D. Brintnell assisting the
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