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Times-Advocate, 1979-02-28, Page 6Page 6 February 28 Plan day for prayer at Centralia By MRS. FRED BOWDEN CENTRALIA Mr. Paul Schott speaking on a series of sermons on the Lord’s prayer dealt with “Thy Kingdom Come” in his sermon in the United Church on Sunday morning. He made reference to the number of times this word “kingdom" is used in the Bible and made special note of Luke’s teachings when he wrote “The kingdom of God is within you." There was an anthem by the choir and Mrs. Russell Wilson sang a solo. The children’s story was told by Mrs. Schott. This coming Sunday the special music for the service will be provided by Bob Heywood. ENGAGED — Mr. and Mrs. Albert Van Dalfsen, of Lyndon, Washington, U.S.A, are pleased to announce the engage­ ment of their daughter Christi to Albert Klungel son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Klungel, Hensail. The wedding will take place June 2, 1979 in Lyndon, Washington, U.S.A. Odds 'n ends Compulsive collectors Personals The “World Day of Prayer" will be observed in the United Church on Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Lome Hicks will be the speaker and all the ladies of the community are invited to attend Miss Elaine Overholt returned home Saturday evening after enjoying a week’s holidays with friends in Florida. Mr. & Mrs. Sandy White, Windsor and Joe White, Detroit were visitors during the past week at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Earl Dixon. Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Little and Tracey, Chatham were Sunday guests at the manse with Mr. &Mrs.Paul Schott and family. Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Powe were guests at the Shapton- McNabb wedding in Peterborough Saturday. CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY — Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wein, Crediton celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday with a family party at the home of their son, Marvin. The cou­ ple was married February 27, 1929 at the Crediton United Church parsonage. Mrs. Wein is the former Gladys Lewis. They have a son, Marvin, six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. GRAND BEND CLEANERS AND LAUNDERERS EXETER MITCHELL 235-0360 348-9422 Spring Cleaning Specials 25% Off Drapery cleaning and Steamex Rentals Mar. 1 - Mar. 15 Call for details or Stop in n Don't be like me! Take advantage of this sale. J Zion By MRS. THOMAS HERN “Accessories The Final Touch” is the new 4-H spring project for the area. The first meeting of the Elimville I club was held February 12 at the home of Mrs. Wm Morley. Barb Skinner the past vice- president opened the meeting with the 4-H pledge after which the election of officers was held. They are president Lenore Coates, secretary Theresa Johnson. Meeting one was an introduction to accessories. We learned the history, how to choose them, arid what colours to use. The second meeting of Elimville I. homemaking club was held February 20 at the home of Mrs. Dale Skinner, opening with the 4H pledge. The club name will be Mad Hatters. Mrs. Skinner talked about the hats the girls could make for this club, the care for the different hats, and how to select the hats that provide the right balance to the outfit. Nancy Cornish brought her sewing box to show what a sewing box should contain. A number of ladies from Zion community are at­ tending the short course on needlepoint being held at Elimville Community Hall. By ELAINE TOWNSHEND Isn’t it comical the way some people become com­ pulsive collectors? They save everything from pieces of string, yarn and ribbon to shoe laces with frayed ends. They horde foil, cardboard, used envelopes and scraps of paper. They keep leftover wrap­ ping paper even though the pieces are too small to cover more than a toothpick, and they retrieve used wrapping paper even though it’s too crumpled to wrap another gift. They keep broken flower pots that could be used in a “pinch” and save cracked saucers to put under them. They hang on to a pepper shaker although its matching salt shaker dis­ appeared years ago. Even teapots without spouts or lids are worth saving. The compulsive savers keep bent nails thinking they may be able to straighten them. They collect different sized screwnails. When they need a screw, they have a wide selection to rummage through, but, nine times out of ten, none of them fit the hole. These chronic horders firmly believe someday they will find a purpose for the Four attend fair session Mrs. Agnes Aunger, Mrs. Margaret McClure, Mrs. Dolores Shapton and Roy Pepper attended the annual convention of the Ontario Agricultural Societies in the Royal York Hotel February 21 and 22. A record number were in attendance. During the convention, E. A. Starr, former superin- tenent, was honoured and presented with a purse of money. Art Peppin has been appointed to succeed Mr. Starr. The Exeter Agricultural Society was successful in winning the Class “C” Trophy in the photographic competition donated by the CNE. This trophy is now on display in the Times- Advocate window. Also attending the con­ vention were Mrs. Roy Pepper, Bruce Shapton and Mr. & Mrs. Garnet Hicks. keepsakes and to throw them away would be wasteful. If the need arises, the trick is to remember where they stashed them. I did not consider myself a compulsive saver until the day I walked into my storeroom and was buried un­ der an avalanche of boxes, - shoe boxes, dress boxes, shirt boxes, jewelry boxes, chocolate boxes, cup and saucer boxes, large boxes, small boxes and odd-shaped boxes for that hard-to-wrap present I’m bound to buy someday. I store the boxes from one Christmas to another because everyone needs box­ es at Christmastime. When I’m shopping, though, I in­ evitably ask. “Could I have it in a box, please?” Nevertheless I think it’s practical to save boxes, and I weeded out only a few. A few days later I opened my tea towel drawer. With each towel, I pulled out a handful of elastic bands, and by the time I reached the bottom of the drawer, I had a mound of bands on the cup­ board. They were wide strong elastic bands, too good to throw away. For want of a better place to put them, I threw them back in the drawer. Last week end I visited my parents’ home, and Mom led me to a closet that was half filled with old clothes of mine. All were out of style, but over the years I reason­ ed that, if I saved them long enough, maybe they’d come back into fashion. Most of them fell into the category of “good enough to wear around home”. I bet I have the largest wardrobe in town to wear around home. Mom’s message was clear. Either take the cast­ offs to my own place or throw them out. But how can I discard the dress I wore at my sister’s wedding, or my first high-heeled shoes, or the only hat I ever owned and wore only once? Mom wasn’t finished. She showed me a large card­ board box overflowing with scraps of material from my clothes - clothes that hit the rag bag years ago: clothes I forgot I had; and clothes, now so faded, that to patch them with the bright scraps would only add insult to in­ jury. Mom didn’t seem enthusiastic about making an old-fashioned patchwork quilt. The pieces had to go, at least the smaller ones. Cardboard boxes, elastic bands and scraps of cloth are practical things to save, in my opinion, and clothes from special occasions are sentimental keepsakes. I thought my hording habits were sensible ones, but to­ day my pen ran out of ink. A pen holder near my desk contained eight pens. None of them worked; most weren’t even the refillable kind. Why did I save them? Probably for the same reason I collected the four pencils that were too short to sharpen and had no trace of rubber left on the end. Over 80 Club William H. Smith, Crediton, will celebrate his 90th birthday, March 2. 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