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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1976-09-29, Page 8H&N Dairy ,Systems Ltd. Sales, Service and Installation of STA —RITE pipelines and Brussels milking parlours 887-6063 SUNUP ELECTRONICS SALES 527-1;150'" 17 SPARLING STREET SEA FORTH Box 159 Brussels BELGRAVE CO-OP For Feed & Fertilizer Petroleum Products Hardware' and Appliances, Universal Milker Equipment and Cleaners BRUSSELS WINGHAM 887-6453 357-2711 BRUSSELS TRANSPORT Livestock Trucking and Shipping Service Local and Long bistance • Phone 887-6• 1'22 (Evenings) George Jutzi, Brussels McGavin's Farm Equipment We specialize in a Complete Line of FARM EQUIPMENT Brussels Sales and Se tt-vice Seaforth 887-6365 Walton 527-0245 Anstett Jewellers Ltd. Watch and Jewellery Repairs — We Sell and Service ,BULOVA ACCUTRON WATCHES ..— 3 Stores — !SEAFORTH — CLINTON WALKERTON Mrs. Yvonne Knight Agent for Elma Farmers-Mutual Fire Insurance Company 3 Brussels, s 887-6476 r. Wilie"Mmum mai ammo; 434 BERG Sales Service installation FREE ESTIMATES ° Barn Cleaners o Bunk Feeders ° Stabling Donald G. Ives R.R.#2,.Blyth Phone: Brussels 887-9024 Review your R.R.S.P. now Now is a good time to compare your Registered Retirement Savings Plan with the G.I.C. Plan available from V and G. Currently each $1,000 invested is guaranteed to be worth $1,648.40 five years hence under our plan. How does this compare with your present plan? Discuss R,R.S.P.'s today at Victoria and Grey. Member Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation VICIORMand VG GREY COMPANY 1866 D.NLefebvre, Manager • Listowel, Ontario -ParOys Dairy Supplies Brussels 887-6694 RADIO and TV SERVICE HAMILTON STREET tILY11.(obitt; P446'523'9640 Factory Service for Automatic Radios • and Admiral Products L NGS AFF OPTOMETIII SEAFORTH 527240 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday' :9,t06 ,5!30 Wednesdayt Saturday 9:00 .120 CATON 482.1010 - Monday 9x00 5:30 - • by.Appoitetment alp lists joys of summer End of summer notes. Can't think of one. c'ngle, useful, constructive thing I did during the past summer. Which is as it should be. I. did threaten, once or twice, to paint the back stocip and picnic table and chairs. But on the days when I was ready to put the stain on the picnic equipment, it rained, thank goodness. And I never did figure out how to paint the stoop. The cat sleeps there all day. I was either going to have a cat with green feet, or I'd have to tie him to the lilac tree until the paint dried, whichl th ought was a bit inhuman. One of the big events of the-summer was having an oak tree taken down. It was about 70 feet high and two feet thick at the base. It was quite a thrill to watch the tree-slayers, two of them, scrambling away up into the blue of a summer evening, slinging ropes around in all sorts of mysterious ' ways, shouting incompre- hensible directions to each other, like a couple of sailors reefing the foresail around Cape Horn, and lowering the mighiyoak in sections. I now have four woodpiles in my back yard, about six cords of firewood, on which all sorts of people are casting an envious eye. Forget it, friends. It cost me $300 to have that oak down, and I'm going to enjoy it, if I have to keep the fireplace burning day and night all winter. That was a bad week. Just after the oak came down, the automatic washer in the basement blew its guts. The dryer was shot to, so this was another $700. An exciting installation. The washer and drier won't go down our cellar stairs. The boys had to rip out the stairs and lower the machinery. But they labored with great good nature and ingenuity. We didn't lose a single man. Or even a married one. It could never happen if you bought the outfit from one of the big, out-of-town firms. They'd just sneer if you said: "The stairs haVe to come out." That was a $1,000 week of pure loss. But it was somewhat redeemed the following week when I went to, Halifax and won an award which included a handsome cheque for $500. It made me think God was back in Its heaven, after being out to lunch for a whole week. That Halifax is quite a place. It looks like a city in Germany, erica 1950, that has been badly bombed, and is rebuilding. Beautiful n ew buildings rising right next to deadly, three-storey slums, with winos hanging out the windows. Last time I was there was in the spring of 1942, on my way overseas, and Halifax was real crud then. Cold, wet, dismal, blackout, poor food. England, looked like paradise after war-time Halifax. Now it's a swinging, lively city. Had a fine trip on the Bluenose II, all sails set, spanking along in the sunshine. Don't miss'this, if you're there, Watched in fascination as a prominent western editor fell asleep, not once, but three times, during a speech by Joe Clark, a potential prime minister. Humored an eastern editor who, armed with a credit card from the. Grind Trunk Railway, personally isnged by sir John MacDonald, thought he could finance a trip for several of us. to Paraguay. Listened to a number of editors of my vintage tell me they're rich, retired and work one day a week, "just to keep my hand in." Which, of course, means interfering with their sons, or daughters, who are trying to pay off the old man the tremendous sum' he wanted for the business. Gave sage advice and a bottle of rum to a young woman called AliceB. Toklas, who assured me she had quit running around with /Gertrude Stein and • Ernest Hemingway and Scott ,Fitzgerald and all those rotters. And then, of course, we've had The Boys, as they are now called. The Boys are the two grandsons. When they are here, it takes four adults full time to keep • things even minimally sane.. One is at the hell-on-wheels stage. The other is at the crawling, "if you can't eat it pull it' over on your head" stage. And every time our daughter, leaves, with The Boys, we -are cleaned, out. She goes away, with a big, green garbage bap full ,of steaks, chicken, pork chops, a boi full of canned goods, and a pillow case stuffed with new clothes for The Boys add herself.Next morning, we have to go shopping to get enough grub for our ow4 breakfast. Then there's been the golf. No matta what she does, my wife is an enthusiast; She believes that' nothing succeed's iikt excess. So we've played golf every, day, She is really a rotten player, becauseilt reads books about golf and practices 'swing. I am just. ordinary rotten. . I'm afraid we're going to be thrown eit of the golf club. If anyone had tried to tell me that my sweet, shy bride of a few years ago would come out with the language she used on the golf course, I'd have said: "Sir, pistols at dawn, or nine irons at Mile,. Take your pick." I try to help, in a gentle, sincere sort of way. When she flubs a shOt, I merely point out that her grip was slack, her stance sloppy; her backswing too fast,' and het head went up like a toilet seat, and she screams at me, right across the fairway:, I heard one elderly lady golfer saying to her husband, quite concerned: "Mark my word,s she 's going to kill him. Why do you think she takes her seven iron home every day, after they play? I hear he's well insured." .; All in all, itwas a pretty fair summer, think. Inccoinvi curia ow a 76, n eaith arc i hins pp cilo: e tw onvIrd:1 gle th tl nsio arm be nsic eba oath The', nsio Th K 1 huslieRintic todeel i : ae ilhge o IM:MaSnott lttakrttarlil o anc cki a PL pla op( COL Rey an( Busineos Directory Bray Chiropractic Office 191Joephitie Street Witighairt i Ontario Phone 357-1224 BRUSSELS POST SEPTEMBER 29, 1978