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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-02-28, Page 12Page 12 -- Wingham Advanee-limes, Thursday, Feb. 28, 1903 REMINISCING FEBRUARY 1:413 The Iiensall Observer has this kind reference: -- Geo. Spotton, ex -mayor of Wing - ham, and proprietor of a number of business colleges, has purchased the Wingham Advance, from Theo. Hall, who has been proprietor for 15 years. faro. Hall is one of the best newspaper then in Western Ontario and we hope will not sever his connection with the profession. That Brother Spot - ton will make a good news- paper man goes without the saying. Mr. and Mrs. T.S. Brandon of Reston, Man., are visiting in Wingham and vicinity. Mr. Mack, who has been employed at Mr. Alex. Young's for the past two years or more, left for the West this week. The following were the prize -winners at the Carnival on Friday evening:—Best dress- ed lady, Miss Hazel Moore; best dressed gent, Thos. Mc- Donald; Best commie dressed girl, Brownie Swarts; best comic dressed boy. F. Gal- braith; fastest couple skaters, Mae Moore and Geo. Moffatt. 0--0--0 FEBRUARY 1926 Mr. Bar of Galt, is thenew- ly appointed manager of the Walker Store at Wingham. Mr. Bar has been in the mercantile business for several years and understands both the retail and the wholesale sides of it. We welcome him as a resident of our town. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Galla- her, have moved into the Mc- Cracken house, corner Maple and Shuter Sts., and Mr. and Mrs. W.H. French have moved into the double house of Mr. W. F. Vanstone on John St. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hardie will move into the house on Diagonal Road which they re- cently purchased from Mr. Gallaher, Mr. John Pringle of Saska- toon is spending a short time in Wingham and vicinity, he looks as if the West is agreeing with him. He reports that his family are all in the hest of health. FFBRUARY 1938 The milder weather has brought reports of flowers springing into bloom in many parts of Ontario. Here this has been the case also. Frank Edgar, Leopold Street, during the thaw last week had several crocuses blooming. The cold weather which followed spoiled this bloom but Sunday's rain again brought forth bloom. At their winter home in Weymouth Heights, Southern Pines, North Carolina, Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Lloyd, well known and highly respected citizens of Wingham, on Tues- day, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Mr. Lloyd is head of the firm C. Lloyd & Son, Ltd., the largest exclusive door manufacturers in Eastern Cana- da. Miss Beatrice Harris, Reg. N., of Embro, has been ap- pointed assistant superintendent of Wingham General Hospital, replacing Miss Nellie Walters, who has resigned from the staff. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday last week, Mr, El- mer Wilkinson had his new model home, Patrick Street, open for inspection by the pub- lic. Over 500 persons visited the house which had many of the more modern ideas incor- porated into the construction and fittings. A. J. Walker's Furniture Store had the house beautifully furnished. This is the first house built here in some years. Which came first ? We're not sure. But we do know this. When you insure through our agency, you come first ... always. Our main interest is serving your needs. If you want quality insurance, round-the-clock service and professional advice that keeps you in mind first, clip out this message and file it under "S" for ... someone 1 should see real soon. Nie O. CONRON, CLU, INSURANCE AGENCY John Street - Wingham - Dial 357-2636 S. A. SCOTT, Salesman S3o=0=01=20 X0=0' -0=0 SUGAR and SPICE ay Bill Smiley •' .CJti. Watching television is all right, I daresay; a first-rate movie makes a pleasant night out; and for real pleasure, it's hard to beat a good book. But for sheer emotional wallop of an evening, there's nothing to touch cleaning out a dresser drawer. About every three years we have one of these orgies at our house. It usually be- gins when my wife is looking f o r something important. Like the ball of wool to finish my curling sweater, which she began knitting three win- ters ago. Or the cherished clipping which states that she once came at the head of the class in Grade 6. She starts rooting around in our documents drawer — a big dresser drawer crammed with old love letters, receipts for ancient bills, lapsed insur- thrown out or saved. Then I ance policies, membership catch her trying to chuck out cards for the year 1959, a perfectly good picture of a single earrings of every WAAF corporal named shape and hue, newspaper Wendy, whom I knew well _ once upon a time. She re - Misses Caroline Wellwood, taliates by pointing out the and Ethel Dustow, office staff undistinguished jerk in the of Howson & Howson, also Mr. class picture who was crazy Elmer Wilkinson, Mr. Wm. about her. Cruikshank and Mr. Maitland From there on, it's every Henry of Blyth, are enjoying a man for himself, and within trip by special train to St. a few minutes we have about Louis, Missouri, where Purina 12 different piles of stuff Feeds have their head offices around us. "You don't want and experimental farms. this silly thing, do you?" she Mr. R. A. Coutts spent a sniffs holding up a dance few days in Ottawa with his son, program vintage 1939, with Carman and Mrs. Coutts. He the name of a girl called also visited with Mr. and Mrs. Sylvia written in every space. Elgin Coutts in Toronto. "Oh, don't I though!" I re- tort, salvaging it though I can't even remember what Sylvia looked like, Then we get looking at pictures of the kids when they were little, and are torn between tears and laughter. We linger over one of them in swimming in their bare clippings about the kids' first music festival wins odd shoelaces, combs with missing teeth and photo- graphs, hundreds of them. Pretty soon I hear yelps of dismay, snorts of outrage, and chortles of amusement. Grumblingly I join her to make sure she doesn't throw out anything valuable, like my German compass that doesn't work. * * * For a couple of minutes we work systematically, sort- ing the junk into piles, to be FEBRUARY 1948 Mr. Norman McLeod, who has been manager of the local yards of the Beaver Lumber Co. , has been transferred to Parry Sound. His place is being taken by Mr. C.A. Loucks of Napanee. Shirley Lloyd, 20, celebrat- ed her fifth birthday on Sunday. Just to make it more interest- ing her brother, Harry, 16, observed his fourth birthday on the same date. They are the only children of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lloyd, of 8 Perth St., Guelph, formerly of Wingham. Both were born on Feb. 29th., between 7 and 8 o'clock in the morning. They consider them- selves practically twins despite the four years' difference in ages. Their parents are quite confident they are the only brother and sister in the Do- minion with birthdays on Feb. 29th. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CRAWFORD MOTORS 1962 Chrysler 4 -door Sedan with very low mileage. Power steering and power brakes—in new -car condi- tion. This is' the buy of the week. 1961 Dodge 4 -Door Sedan, a one owner car in tip-top condition 1960 Dodge 4 -Door Sedan, 8V motor, automatic, radio 1959 Dodge 4 -Door Sedan 1958 V-8 Dodge 4 -Door Sedan with automatic transmission and radio. 1958 Oldsmobile V8 with automatic and radio 1958 Ford Sedan 1956 Monarch 4 -Door Hardtop USED TRUCKS 1955 Mercuz. Tractor Trailer 1957 Dodge Truck with dump body Len Crawford Molors 0 0 0 0 11 Your Dodge, Plymouth, Chrysler, Valiant Dealer o o Phone 357-3862 - Wingham o ;x0=10=20=0=0=0 aoczo=!1 AUDIENCES at the high school variety concert were thrilled with the singing of the various choirs which were trained and led by Mrs. Carl Douglas, music in- structor. She is shown above as she led one of the num- bers.—Photo by Connell. bottoms, fat, dimpled and de- lightful, and our thoughts go with awe to the great, wal- loping, expensive, 1 i p p y, ornery characters they've become. * * * And we find a snap of our- selves on our honeymoon. We look at it, at each other, and shake our heads in disbelief and sorrow. "Never mind, dear," she reassures, "you look much more intellectual with a higher forehead." And gallantly I reply, "And you sweetheart, certainly have a lot more character in your face now." Somehow, this doesn't hit the right note, and there's a slight frost in the air as we go on sorting. But soon we're absorbed again. She is reading with intense ad- miration an old English essay on which she received an A -plus mark. I am con- templating wistfully an 18 - year -old snap of myself, in which I had a vast, fighter - pilot's handlebar mous- tache, and an evil glint in my eye. "Why don't you throw those mouldy old letters out?" I sug- gest, as she sits there, a big bundle of them in her hand, gazing dreamily at the wall. "Wouldn't you just love me to!" she taunts. "Listen to this." And she reads me a purple passage from one of the corniest, most nauseating love -letters I've ever heard, from some old flame. Turns out his name was Bill. Turns out I wrote it. I get a cold chill down my spine, a red face, and snarl something about "getting this mess cleaned up. I've got work to do." We fill a large carton with discardable items. We look at all the little piles we've sorted so carefully. We look for string to tie them into sepa- rate bundles. No string. We look for paper bags, to bag thein separately. No bags, so we throw everything back into the drawer. And invari- ably, there's more than we started with, and we can scarcely get it closed. Letters to the Editor Wingham, Chu. , Feb. 25th, 1063. Dear Editor: Again this year Huron Coun- ty Hog Producers arc being given an opportunity to endorse the present hog marketing plan. The annual meeting of the Huron Hog Producers on Febru- ary 12th gave many an oppor- tunity to express their views on our present hog marketing plan and many interesting facts were revealed. Ontario Hog Producers re- ceived a higher price for their hogs in 1962 than producers did in any other part of this contin- ent so this speaks well for our method of selling hogs and the Ontario Hog Marketing Plan. One of the speakers, Roy Atkinson, of Saskatchewan in- dicated that hog producers in the three prairie provinces were looking upon our plan with great favor and stated that a hog marketing plan was about to be organized for the produc- ers in the west. Through a great deal of ef- fort and time in past years on the part of our Federation of Agriculture we obtained farm marketing legislation and by this we were able to have a marketing plan for farm com- modities. There is likely to be a vote on an egg marketing plan this year and producers are general- ly agreed that it should bene- fit them. I regard it my duty to ex- press my views on producer marketing and I therefore ad- vise all producers to support the marketing plans for farm commodities that will come be- fore you in the near future, Elmer Ireland, President, Huron County, Federation of Agriculture, Feb, 19/03, The Editor, Advance -Times, Wingham, Ontario. Dear Sir, I have received a most in- teresting letter from a Mr. Colin Baker, whom I have never actually met, and he mentions that during the last war he was with the Royal Air Force at Port Albert, Ont., and that Goderich was his "home town". Mr. Baker states that amongst his many friends were the late Dudley E. Holmes and Mrs, Holmes who told him she was a Wingham Girl. During his stay he listened to Radio Sta- tion CKNX and used to fly over Wingham on his way to Toron- to. He also mentions that he used to run the Port Albert Male Voice Choir which toured the local towns, and at one con- cert there was also an item sung by "Three Young Ladies from Wingham" being a part song. He recalls it concerned the Beautiful River or Rolling River Ohio. If any of your readers were part of, or recall this trio I would be very happy to hear from them as Mr. Baker tells Wingham Adds 43 Telephones Another year of expansion in telephone facilities in Wing - ham reflected a similar situa- tion throughout the territory of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada during 1962. Expan- sion of facilities and improve- ment of basic service required expenditures of $219, 400, 000 in its operating territory of Quebec, Ontario and Labrador, It is the largest amount ever spent on construction during any year in the company 's his- tory. Telephones in service at the end of 1962 totalled 3,890,- 630, an increase of 195, 523 during the year. This wide- scale expansion was also pre- sent in Wingham with the ad- dition of 43 telephones, J. M. Goodwin, Bell manager for this region said, totalling 1,8'74 in service here as of December 31. As of December 31, Bell employed 35, 086 men and wo- men. The company's payroll for the year was $170, 470,796. More than 90 per cent of the products used by the company are now being manufactured in Canada using Canadian -made materials. me he would be pleased to know if I ever meet any of them. I should mention that Mr. Baker was a former resident of London, England, and is now living in a small town near Thetford, Norfolk, England. 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