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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-08-31, Page 5• • • • • . • • • • . • : • • " • • • • • • The things my readers say Henson and district news CORRESPONDENTS Mrs. Joyce Pepper, Phone 262-2344 Mr's. -6artha MacGregor, Phone 262-2026. • :"• • • Repairs To MI Makes • Lawn Mowers • Garden Tractors • Outboard Motors • Chain Saws • Chain Saw Bars and Chains .OPEN Mon. thro Fri. 8 a.m. — 9 p.m, Sat. till 6 p.m. Jack's Small Engine Repair Service HENSALL 262.2103 107 Queen - One Block North of Business Section ANOTHER DEAL — Mr, Haney and Mr. Ziffel were at their best Saturday at the Green Acres farm depiction at the Zurich Bean festival. Above, Haney (Elam Schantz) tries to sell Ziffel (Henry Adkins) a refreshment and appears to be getting an argument. Guaranteed Investment Certificates now! Get yours today at ... VG The senior Trust Company devoted entirely to serving the people of Ontario. TICTORIA and GREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 KEN D. 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Above, some members of the Thamesville Women's Institute are shown outside Sam Drucker's store. T-A photo 4 By GORDON MORLEY Mrs. Howard Hodgson won a • Coffee Club Food Hamper on the C.K.S.L. radio station, London, last week. A • RIGHT FROM GREEN ACRES — Hundreds of visitors to Saturday's Bean Festival in Zurich toured Green Acres farm, west of the village. Lisa and Oliver Douglas portrayed by Linda Gascho and Gordon Hess are shown above. T-A photo • • The footbone's connected to the headbone. • Think about it. When you play tennis, you wear tennis shoes.When you walk, you wear good walking shoes. And when you work you wear proper footwear for comfort and protection. Take a good look at your shoes. Make sure they're not getting run down at the heel. Change fraying laces. And check the soles to see that they're in good condition. Sure footwork begins with proper footwear. The sure way to safety is Self-Defence. I leaves with their bare hands. They garnered forty plastic garbage bags of leaves and twigs. I gave them their pay and an illegal beer and we've been buddies ever since. According to the card, they've covered seven countries In three weeks and are now heading for Spain. Poor old Madrid, Here's a letter from R,F. Stedman, County Wicklow, Eire. An excerpt: "Your column holds for me a note of sanity in a mad world and ranks in my mind with Greg Clark." Double thanks, R.F. Greg Clark is about six tiers above me, but I appreciate the sentiment. Mr. Stedman went to high school with my older brother and sister, Just grabbed another one from the heap. Holy smokes, it's dated Feb., 1971. Thomas A, Smith, Rouleau, Sask, He noticed a reference in the column to Calumet Island, in the Ottawa River, where my mother was born. He was born there too and remembers Smileys in Shawville, Que,, where my dad once ran a store. It's a long, interesting letter from a real old-timer who went west in 1910, at the age of 17, went overseas in World War 1. Mr. Smith, I hope you are well, though you must be 80, and I'll write a proper letter. Here's another, from White Plains, New York. Holy Old Hughie! Dated June 24th, 1969. It's from A, Leslie Hill, Captain, Army Nurse Corps, U.S. Army Reserve (retired), Born in Fergus, Ont., three score years ago, graduate of Kingston (Ont.) General Hospital, served in World War 11 and Korea, and read my column to a group of Negroes in the laundry room. How about that? Letter ends, "Thanks for your column, dull or not," Here's a self-addressed en- velope from Mrs. Walter E. Dorsett, Smiley, Sask. But I can't find the letter. And another one from Gordon Fairgrieve, publisher of the Observer, Hartland, N.B. He has a sub- scriber called Bill Smiley, who lives in Massachusetts, and asks that I drop him a line. I will, Bill and Gordon. A note from G.R. McCrea, publisher of the Herald, Hanna, Alta. He agrees it's a mad, mad world, has been forty years in the newspaper "game", started at $5 ,a week, and recalls with nostalgia: "For $5 in those days you could take your best girl to the local dance, buy a mickey of VIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII11IIIIIIIIIIII1111111118188881888888888881111111111eeffienememe1111111e111e11111111111111111e88888868881118681188111881816111111181181111881188111111111181111111111811111111818111811111111181111111a811118888888181111 onnuni1111111am111 annff PICKLES imilialatiED BEETS Westons large ANGEL FOOD CAKES FROZEN FOOD Banquet MEAT DINNERS With the best intentions in the world to do so,. I never quite get around to answering all my mail. There always seems to be some domestic or other crisis that interferes, In almost every case, the letters I"get are both friendly and interesting. The exceptions, are business letters and bill collec- tors. Form letters and promotional letters I don't even read: just tear them once across and toss into the logical depository - the garbage pail. Anyway, this column seems to get around quite a bit, and the letters pile up, and I keep making new resolutions to answer them and the pile keeps growing. If my wife would leave me for a month, and I worked eight hours a day, I could clean them all up and start a new life, relieved of guilt and shame. Just to give you an idea, here's a cross-sampling. Just got a card from The Bobsey Twins, Regifia and Kath. Postmark: Venice, They're two former students. When they were in Grade 13, and I couldn't find a boy to clean up the estate, they took it on, and did the best job I've ever had done, Unlike boys, who don't get into the corners, they crawled into the bushes and dragged out Middletons hold reunion The second annual Middleton reunion was held in Hensall Park last Sunday with about 40 in at- tendance. Films were shown from last years reunion and new officers appointed. It was the feeling of everyone present that this years reunion was a real success. Guests were present from Detroit, Flint, Inlay City, Lan- sing, Chesaning, Brown City, California, Florida, Windsor, London, Guelph, Oakville and Cheltenham. Personals Grace Brock, London and Mrs. Al Townsend and family Mitchell were Sunday visitors with Mrs. 011ie Kyle. Fred Peters returned home this week from St. Joseph's Hospital, London where he has been a patient for the past two months. Lloyd Mousseau is moving to South Huron Hospital, Saturday from St. Joseph's Hospital. rot-gut rye, and still have money enough to buy the gal a lunch at midnight, and some left over for a package of roll-your-owns on Monday. Boy, was that ever livin'."' Thanks, G,R,, for a grand letter. From a lady in Bowmanville. She thanks me for my salute to the housewife, and has some good advice; "I have learned, slowly, never criticize what someone's doing unless you have tried it yourself," And it turns out the lady lived next door for eight years to the lady who wrote me a beautiful letter from New Zealand. In a column this summer, I compared my wife to that bird, the flicker. Ron Cumming writes from Port Elgin, comparing husbands to bobolinks. "Before marriage, the bobolink has a beautiful, slick, yellow-striped suit and sings a mate-enticing Bobo-link-a-link-a-link. After marriage, in late summer, he dresses in dull brown, and his song is merely a dull 'clunk'. As a middle-aged hubby, I keep seeing a parallel." Woops! It's not all sweetness and light, Just reached and read two letters giving me hell, I must have written a snarly column about teenagers back in 1970, for one of the letters is dated then. One is from a teenager, unsigned, blasting me in no uncertain terms. The other is from a senior citizen, Mrs. Jessie Slater of Bracebridge, One pungent comment: "You must be a Dagwood at home, and a rotten father. How else could you have such a mixed-up family?" Well, Mrs. Slater, my mixed-up daughter happens to be living in Bracebridge right now, and I've a good notion to call and tell her to go over and give you a good punch in the nose. I'm kidding, Mrs. Slater, Kim wouldn't step on an ant, if she could avoid it. She's a delightful, compassionate, beautiful and intelligent young woman, who is no more mixed-up than you or I. And I'm no Dagwood. When I put my foot down around here...I break a toe. Well, all I wanted to say was that you meet a lot of interesting people in this business. At the end of a hard week at the office our spirits were raised when one employee sighed thank- fully, "I prayed all week for Friday to come, and today my prayers were finally answered!" 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