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The Rural Voice, 1988-01, Page 48yt MEM Where Hopper Goes the Water Flows. Call Collect Neil 527-1737 James 527-0775 Durl 527-0828 W.D. HOPPER & SONS WATER WELL DRILLING R.R. #2 Seaforth Since 1915 Scott Drainage Erosion Control Structures Complete Farm Drainage Service Plastic • Clay • Concrete Ripley 519-395-3563 519-395-2992 Call and find out why Dairymen everywhere are falling in love with Starline's Grain Brain® Multi Feed System. WE HAVE THE ANSWER See us at 0 8A MEtr t � . SHOW 195$ ERRIMRY 2-S.TOROMTO SELECT EQUIPMENT SALES R.R. 3, Dashwood 519-237-3205 46 THE RURAL VOICE RURAL HERITAGE ORGANIZING YOUR FILES, PART II: SUBJECT HEADINGS In the last column about sorting things (The Rural Voice, November issue) it was suggested that packrats need three boxes for file folders, or three drawers in a file cabinet to begin with. One is for clipping files about PEOPLE, one is for clipping files about BUILD- INGS, and the third is about SUBJECTS (everything else). The last column advised how to sort things for PEOPLE and BUILDINGS. To sort clippings into files for SUB- JECTS, you need to have a file heading that is in three sections (that is, three parts with dashes between them). The first word is a general lead-in to the subject. The second word is always the name of a place or municipality. The third word is specific. If, for example, you have a clipping about the Brunner Women's Institute, the triple heading on the file folder would be: Women's Institute — Perth County — Brunner Branch. Clippings about the institute district itself would be filed under: Women's Institute— Perth County — Centre Perth District. If you don't want to keep separate file folders for all the branches you could file the news clippings about the branches of a district together under the folder for the district. Suit yourself. When labelling the place or appro- priate municipality, you may choose to use the name of a county so that you cover a wide area. If you want to break down the subject further you can use the name of individual townships, or even villages, etc. Some file folders will fill up much faster than others. When a file gets really fat and full, that is the time to label folders for smaller -sized munici- palities. Here are some headings for file fold- ers about accidents: Accidents — (place) — Farm Accidents — (place) — Fires Accidents — (place) — Industrial Accidents — (place) — Other Plowing matches are important to agriculture. File them under: Agricultural Associations — (place) — Plowmen 1988 You may also need files for such subjects as the activities of all three levels of government. For example: Gov't. (Municipal) — (name) — Council Meetings Gov't. (Municipal) — (name) — Garbage Gov't. (Mun.) — (name) — Planning Gov't. (Mun.) — (name) — Etc. Gov't. (Ont.) — (place of event) — Lotteries Gov't. (Ont.) — (place of event) — Courts & Justice Gov't. (Ont.) — (place of event) — Etc. Gov't. (Can.) — (place of event) — Military Gov't. (Can.) — (place of event) — Post Office Gov't. (Can.) — (place of event) — Etc. To sort out the various levels of government one keeps in mind the source of taxation that supports them. And so we see that there are three kinds of police: Gov't. (Mun.) — (place) — Police Commission Gov't. (Ont.) — (place of event) — OPP Gov't. (Can.) — (place of event) — RCMP Other useful headings are: Churches — (place) — denomination Schools — (place) — Elementary Railways — (place) — (name of railway) Music — (place) — (specific) Museums — (place) — (specific) Social bodies — (place) — (all recreational groups) Social Service Bodies — (place) — (all support groups in community) Sports — (place) — (specific) Senior Citizens — (place) — (group) Social Protest — (place) — (group) Social Events — (place) — Parade Social Events — (place) — Octoberfest Accidents — (place) — Prevention Accidents — (place) — Road Or, if you are filing information about calamities, begin with the heading "Acts of Nature" followed by the place and these headings: Floods, Rain-