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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1953-10-07, Page 2.M0 01. •••• war/. 00. TN, BOTH FOR $ris lee Net►ieeet tetill Ile 2 oz. EGG CREME SHAMPOO' -Rogua44.4.46. HOME PERMANENT REFILL 60/Pror 175 Down at the town hall recentl) the T..egiun amateurs were holding forth, and the audience as well as the performers were enjoying it, Sometimes in those affairs it's touch and go which suffers the mOst. To tell the truth we were a bit re- luctant to go at fir t,having painful memories of an amAteur show we at- tended many years ago. It was at the old Bloqr theatre in Toronto, still one of the principal places of entertain- ment there, and it was in the heyday of the amateur shows, brought about by the emergence of Major I3owes and his radio program, The program had the usual type of nervous amateurs, who met with varying receptions, but the payoff of the evening came when an earnest but misguided young lady got up and sang one of those bird-call songs with each stanza ending in the plaintive call "cuckoo, cuckoo." The audience answered the call and the place was pandemonium in nothing flat. Contractor Mills has a large number of men at work putting in the founda- tion for the armoury building_ It is expected that the work of laying the brick will be started in a few days. Work on the raising of the tower of the post office building is pushing along. The stone at the top of the tower is nearly all removed. Charles Stuart, of Lucknow, was shot in the abdomen on Monday even- ing while out hunting rabbits. A small rifle in the hands of another lad se- ' cidently discharged as the boys were examining it. Stuart will recover. Miss Olive Cruikahank left on Tues- day. for Toronto, where she will at- ) tend the University. 0 - 0 - 0 • 'TWENTY-FIVE YEAR'S AGO Local station 10 b.p., which has been .operating with a power of 15 watts has increased the power to 23 watts. A test program will be broadcast Thurs- day evening from 7.30 to S.30. Mr. Dave Armstrong, of London, REMINISCINO L „,.., ttttt iiiiiii t iii 1 llllllll lllllllll llllll FORTY YEARS AGO 1.404 444444 ..1.1. ttttt .1. tttttttttttttttttttt .1101....) 4.• • •• • " — • t Somehow or other it's different in a small town. Everybody knows every- bod3 else, and there is a bond of sym- pathy between the performer and the audience. People aren't quite so ready . of amateur bh. Editor: tending aaaaaol 1,,tyn,t rather :o inlpress upon those who :can- known, aa, Mr. Currie states he to WaS Advae-Times, books -1:a: is not IlOpegeSS. "Naeorge C.harters. an employee of 11. „ Dear Sir: domicile with us. This however is.1- the ditch, .art.' 11101' l!'.111117.4:'•1 ivtn 1.114: .C. Me-Gow=i, East Wawaaosh, was l'finghni-s Sport which, once a:ontingent on having taken out • g 7anecked dowra auparently by a hit- =upon a time, not so very in" ago, rivarn teitet ere it ..fogoak its olati • - • - .. 3.13.4472 4tiT6v, tan...ane. ,Tas ;Web' reality. is today „ay a haunts. L. it tvs. thougi, • al enoua • m: absorla al: **oat-. :hings which are given in the school huggieg the sede of the road ::lase. Wingham. 'o 4..;•111:1 in teat 'state He was in- s...7... sya "azi„;an: v te aria Sa ..ay verang ll'i'',1 rp.art- PL'ante":2; 3* very L'ldit:Lit ar'31si'c'14:4'. - ' . . - A .1-c, , ....7,.:,,:.;.s .:::i ...iie. ::...••4,_ • .7! .-,se .-24 1.4„-:17,,•• .-.. - - - -. -„ - -.. -_. .... :..:.: ...:.. , .... :.a.re,5 fat r'ni, naaa ate. or. ma:4 of mi.s :ivebr .spirit !,..,)k its unt.asy .-:...--e, ..... -,..:', ...1 ::".. .• -a-. ' ., .,".- '-e-"a- eee averta --rd rather see a go show than any professio • the world." says Johnny', 1 Where it is now, very few seem to ?LI scare. • Most selfrespecting- spirits, I have ..1111 been assured, never die. This, to us onelass may be hovering arbund ••111 • • somewhere in space waiting for an ;opportunity to return here and again 4 • T,Ito Wittgbpsu Ativigt tt-Tfalts, WOrtt%stlay, Oct 701, PO4 NO PLACE FOR. SPEED "':=••7.7 One would think that the comparatively light traffic on country roads and minor highways would mean less accidents and safer driving. Yet every month we hear of serious accidents along these roads wilich seem so safe. Gravel roads make treacherous driving at the best of times. While the centre tracks are usually clear and safe, move four inches either way and You're into loose gravel— and trouble. Add high speed and night driving conditions and you have the makings of a serious accident, Immov- able objects like trees, parked cars and. ditches aren't any softer on the sideroads than they are on the main high- ways. Because there is usually so little traffic, people are apt to open her up on the concession roads. It's a habit that often leads to trouble, sooner or later. BACKGROUND NOISE Since the advent of radio there has risen in our midst a generation of noise-lovers. These are the people who, unable to sit alone in silence with their thoughts, if any, must needs have the radio blaring at all times. They don't actually listen .to4the radio and nine-tenths of the time they couldn't even tell you what the program is. Soap opera, drama, music or singing commercials, they don't care--just so long as there's noise in the back- ground. You can tell them by the way they come into the room and automatically switch on the radio, with the same instinct that any ordinary person would take off his coat. A great lover of silence ourselves, we find. it hard to understand these people. And what we find harder still, to understand is the fact that they want to carry on a conversation, too. * SIMPLY ADD WATER In recent fall fair: exhibitors of home-made bread have dropped off, almost to the vanishing point. Few people nowadays, apparently, are able, willing or ready to master what is admittedly one of the most difficult of culinary arts—the baking of bread. It's a sad thing. Perhaps our children will never ale thrill ofeating :1 , 1 o d bread, hot. the well and airooling with melted butter. Perhaps theY'll never know- anything better than the mass-produced modern product with province-wide distribution and all the flavor of pressure-cooked sawdust. With more and more labor saving devices available to the housewife, maybe she'll find time, once again, to make bread like Grandma used to make. But somehow we doubt it. The world is probably waiting for a bread BACK TO THE BACKYARD One of our contemporaries recently bemoaned the fact that backyard week-ends are a thing thee past. Everyone wants to go somewhere else for their week-ends, thanks to modern science and the automobile. Someone, he says, should find a way of keeping people at home. Modern science may find the answer to that one, too, in our opinion. When every home is equipped with three- dimensional TN- in color, and when every highway is load- ed with cars. bumper to bumper, getting nowhere at 15 miles per hour. we predict there'll be a great revival in home life. NOT EDUCATION ALONE We have never felt quite the same towards amateur shows since. And Ed. Harrison won first prize at Han- thinking it over last Wednesday even- over Scotch Doubles, bringing home wicker work baskets. ing we decided we were being a bit prejudiced about the whole thing. Ob- viously there's no sense in condemning Dr. and Mrs, Parker are taking a them all because of one mishap with a week's motor trip to Ottawa and other cuckoo. points east. Of course there are amateur shows Mrs. Fenn of Parkhill spent a couple and amateur shows. In., the city you of days this week with her daughter, get up in front of hard-boiled aud- Mrs. W. F ,Bergman, ience of strangers who don't know Mr. and Mrs. J. IL Gibson left on you from Adam's housecat. If they Monday on a week's motor trip to like your act they may applaud, but Eastern Canada, and possibly as far it probably won't be very loudly. Make one false move and they're liable to as old Quebec. snicker. Sing cuckoo songs with all Q - 0 . the feeling in the world and you'll have them rolling in the aisles, and FIFTEEN' YEARS AGO shouting "cuckoo" right back at you between spasms. A fire, believed to have started from the sparks of a chimney, completely destroyed the borne of John Angus Kennedy, let. concession of Cuirass about noon on Tuesday. The contents of the house were saved and no other whole thing, something you'd never expect to find in an amateur contest in the city. It's encouraging to think that people still play the fiddle, or singe or do Senteli. dances, or blow the tuba in German bands—just for the fun of it. The world is full of earnest amat- eurs with stardust. in their eyes and hopes, of landing in Hollywood or in television.. They're necessary to the scheme of things, and from the thous- ands that try but don't succeed we get the handful that turn out. to be the top musical talent of the day. But the other kind the ones who do it just for fun and never hope or expect to be Garbos, Pinzas. or As- taires are just as important. They may not reach as large an audience and Merrill Cantelon has had great luck they may not make $5,000 a. week for with his garden this year but a vege- personal performances, but they give table marrow he grew is worthy of a lot of pleasure to a lot of people, special mention. It weighed 191e. lbs., And they probably find it easier to is 22 inches long and 211e inches live with themselves, too. around. It was planted from seed the first week in June. Yes since the Legion affair, we've •110miaot,,,, S m eeileeemealepesiaaaaneamenae amataaaaeaamaimmanej ERR'S DRUG STOR E .1111111.11111104100 Men's and Boys' STATION WAGON COATS Grey and Blue ' All Quilted Lined AT A NEW LOW PRICE EARL'S MEN'S & BOYS' WEAR ttttt ttttttttttttt tttttttttttttttttt ttttttttttt 111 ttttttt tttttt nnt1111 ttttt irf tttttttt 1.011.1.1111/001 tttt 10.1/0.1.011. Special Cash Prices For Saturday, Oct. 10 Smoked Cottage Roll lb. 65c Fresh Pork Sausage . . lb. 45c Shoulder Roast of Pork t , lb. 47c Butt Roast of Pork lb. Mc Rib Roast, Rolled (no bone) lb. 70c Shoulder Roast of Beef .. lb. 48c Rolled Boiling Beef lb. 40c Not Rolled lb. 30c' Soap Flakes 2 lbs. for 25c Roasting Chickens for Thanksgiving Ovenready at Market Prices. A. J. Lockridge BUTCHER Phone 35 Winghani FOR DIVER-10R USE OVER a WALLPAPER, PLASTr..10., BRICK, CONCRETE, WALLBOARD A U Reg.),.. $5.75 NOW $2.50 3 Gallons Cream 111 2 Gallons Dawn Grey 2 Gallons Rose Pink 1 Gallon Peach S ail ha lit Int rr rs Ptie.ashed at Viringham, Ontarta Wenger Eltathers, Pabilstera, 'W. Barry tt,V.-,.ngtr. Eittor Member Audit Znrt.an as S.-n=3 Cass. Mail 15s1,`_ Office Dept Sttlicript.:5n Rate — Otte 'teat 417/0, Sit NT:tr.ths $125 an. advance ",,q.breign Rate $354 per ti, S. JiA. W.3 pet yew Asteertilitzg F43103 on egsplizatLta Messrs. Fowler Bros., of the Blue- vale road, lost a valuable two-year-old heavy draft colt one day last week. The animal was being halter broken and during the exercise jumped up on its hind legs and in falling an artery ' wa.s broken and the animal died in a few minutes. On Saturday afternoon, Mr, W. G. Gray, of town, lost a valu- able horse. Mr. Gray hes a number of horses pastured on the race tracks grounds and on Saturday afternoon some boys were chasing the animals and one of them attempted to jump the fence and in doing so was so badly injured that it had to be shot, Mr. John Fisher of Regina, is visit- ing with his brother, Postmaster Fish- building on the farm was damaged, to laugh if a performer makes a slip,. The Fall opening meeting of the iAnd conversely the performers, feel-'en Mr, Fisher was a resident of feel- Wingham in the early days of the Young People's Union of the United ing they are among friends are able. to relax a bit and give a better per- formance. One of the things that amazed us at the amateur show the other night was the way in which so many of the contestants seemed to be enjoying themselves. How they do. it is beyond us, but some of them. seemed to be flee on. Tuesday morning, a branch of getting a great big bang out of the wild raspberries, The fruit was very large and well formed. He found them on Curriela laideroad -pear Geo. Kerr's farm. This is the second specimen of this kind brought to our office in a week. The Western Foundry is a very busy place these days. At present. there are ninety men employed exclusive of the office staff. This is the largest num- ber to be employed there in some time. Orders continue to pour in, and it is expected that the present rush will continue for some time yet, Production this year so far is much greater than last year, Murray Rae, of the Bank of Com- merce,. staff, bas been transferred to Bedell, Ont., and Mr. J. P. Pailiott, of I3aden is joining the staff here. town and went West many years ago. Church was held in the form of a The barn of Garfield McMichael, on wiener roast at the 10th bridge on concession 2, Hullett, together with Monday evening, Games and singing the season's crop, was burned on Sat- were enjoyed prior to the serving of urday. The fire was caused by a Ian.- the wieners. A vesper service closed tern exploding, the flames spreading th e meeting, so quickly that only the livestock was Robert Scott, 12th concession of saved. He carried insurance of $1,500 East Wawanosh brought into our of- which will partly cover the lose. We do not want to belittle the advantages of having a i",‘Pelitemtbtilbc.en,wb,0"tkh-eonf%":11 Mr' wait' good education as the basis of a start .n We Nveren't ing Western University,raLoanedZend- much surprised, however, to hear a group of men recently . Two heavy trucks. one owned by J. telling of some life experiences gild to find ont that most Currie. of Winghana and the other ;driven by 3. Dobie, of Teeswater side- Of them had a rather limited contact with our educational striped about four ,yealea Tuesday institutions. In spite of this handicap they were all very morning on the highway near Harris- sucscessfni men in business life and have aerved their com- tonei Leuriee's TWA' truck lost a fender. Itrotariltt,1-)liteet.r=lb.ezt,lbea,ccia,aswb.h..fdle inanities, well. Perhaps. they would have done even better .the caber - with a greater education but certainly they need not let :4. damag,4. Mr. Dobie received a se- vere shaking up and was taken to their lack of days in school hamper them in their life work. ii,k,rnistor.,,,,,Firro71,tss1;0Jtust.N.c..h,.Owd ,t.thler We write thi5 11701 to ur,,i,?e young people to stop at- changed some of our Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Bergman cele- ideas . on the subject brated the 25th anniversary of their shows. In fact we're alm wedding at the home of her mother, agreet with master of Mrs. Fenn of Parkhill, on Saturday, Johnny Brent. September aith. BOX 473 'ar 1 abs,i3,w of a shade. t ar.a.e departu re fro= th,..s,„ but, s c CZ- tH OF ENGLAND LN CANADA ttic tit Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity' I L an.—itoly Communion nt.—Churzh Szhool livening Prayer withdrawn. -Cs I a S ..vaa aacitt,..1 ap in an un ,nsdons con- . ,.• to de so. atel so make am-ab.e pro- las= for its old age. it may stage a a .a.eitraet, but ealy. I thina. i., is can is t.c..,....a.., a hearty wea-cme on its re- mg turn here, f:tei 41"rse fe"' ni;7°- ,aniact trLS Itt went no one z.z,n1r.s to knoie• , what not, then, wo shad 1-..21.ve So zur.. ra, aar praa ......t. haled the a =cm onu cr, fax the r•VriCe, tila3..r. t a spiritless town; a very hal town tzl t lave in. Vtingitam fo:ic who can re..cereate an 1111 tlicir rn.r.,,:its eye the avely and W ire .e Sp' spirit ce,n1ch a tow years'U sago had a well t.-enebastied dwelling 5 iplace in oar midst must declare ita wilful withdrawal or, as the case may im be its anicr.:ed banishment. No doubt • 'they do so 'deplore, bat have sturdily , Si ' reconciled thenaselve.s to their gigantic 4 Ioss and are now WE3.T•ung niournalg weeds which will be :a:el:sally ,discard- ;at 4.0 if the supposedly defunct spit-A.1 R stItel.41l exhibit signs, of te.arnmatasn. ,j. Yours truly, :R Phone 66 ,ass 0 webster peconceived matutuoll1111111111111111miummutimusamitommita • ceremonies, • Bargains in • • oat prepared, a • • 4 111 nal show in III C. I. L. PAINTS . od amateur ,111 • • • a A SPEED EASY FLAT ti: Reg. $9.4 NOW $4,00 TO CLEAR 3 GALLONS CREAM Reg. $.3.90 NOW $1.50 QUICK DRYING ENAMEL • 2 Quarts Suede 2 Quarts Tangarine 2 Quarts ,Cream 1 Quart Cardinal' 1 Quart Green. Discontinued Lines 41 a c t D Lil teed oliammans Reg, $1.59 NOW 54e a 18 Quarts ivory. 6 Quarts Buff S Quarts Peach 4 Quarts Dawn Grey 2 Quarts White 10.Quarts Cream n Wingham • 4111*-111111111111Z CO