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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1986-01-22, Page 6t Times -Advocate, Jarmo 22 1986 MR. AND MRS. GARY H. DOLPHIN Susan Brintnell and Gary Dolphin exchanged marriage vows on December 27, 1985 with Rev. J. Sutton officiating. Attendants were Marina Morrissey and Ivan Luther, friends of the couple. Mrs. Susan vanderMolen, mother of the bride, of The Netherlands, attended the wedding. 4* DeV ries r Photo by Bart Facials Electrolysis Eyebrows 346 Mail St., ANN BAYNHAM Esthetician Lash & Brow Tints Suntanning Make -Up Exstar, Ont. NOM 190 (519) 235-0421 Waxing Manicures Pedicures J POSTURE BOND "One Of The Best Mattresses Made Today!" 25 YEAR GUARANTEE BY KING KOLL TWIN (39") Mattress & Box Spring DOUBLE (54") Mattress & Box Spring QUEEN (60") Mattress & Box Spring $299 (249 *3g9 "Come in & see King Koil's all new Soma Waterbed!" TERMS - Cash, Visa Mastercard Grand Bend Decorating Hw . 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N7s 586 mr- Mail is still q valuable lifeline "Oh, I love my men," said a shut- in friend, recently, and then she went on to tell how much she spends on postage stamps each year. Site knows the best way to insure she receives letters is to write plenty of them herself. There's a mystique about mail, Every morning you make that trip to the past office, or the box at the road, or wait for the postman to slip the mail through your door with the an- ticipation that something good or in- teresting is going to show up. If you're like me, you can't quite sutile into the events of the day until you've picked up your mail. Despite the fact that we live in a tele -communications would, our mail is still of prime importance. And so it has been for many ages. As long ago as 3000 S.C., fast runners memorized messages and carried them for their rulers. Around 509 B.C., Herodotus, the Greek historian, wrote this about the Persian postal system: "There is no mortal thing' faster than these messengers ... niether snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their rounds." Around the time of Christ, Caesar Augustus created the first modern postal system to hold his vast empire together. However, the system was destroyed along with the Roman Em- pire, and it wasn't until the early 1300s that organized communication began to take place in Europe. England had a system of posthouses by the mid 1400s, and in 1683,, Charles II started the London Penny Post so that letters could be mailed anywhere within Lod- don for a penny. The first adhesive postage stamps did not come into being until 1836. Previously, postmasters wrote "Paid" on the outside of a sealed let- ter before it was sent, or if payment receiving the mail. This practice was carried over to the New World until 1851 when the first Canadian stamp, known as the "Three Penny Beaver" was issued. It doesn't take much imagination to know what the mail meant to our ear- ly settlers. One of the harshest things they had to bear was the separation from relatives and the difficulty in keeping in touch with them. In the early days of Upper Canada, it took 12 months for a letter to reach Great Britain. Even as the service improv- ed it still required up to two months for mail to reach its destination, but even though letters and old country newspapers were eight weeks old by the time they arrived, they were still the life -line of the_pioneers. Recently, Art and I visited Toron- to's first post office at the corner of_ Adelaide and George Streets, which was refurbished to its original 1834 ap- pearance, a few years ago. It's a working post office but its postmaster and staff are- dressed •as they .wouirit have been over 150 years ago. Back then, it was the only post office in the city of more than 9,000 people and was r 4, a busy pace, "Open from Eight • standard procedure for the post o'clock A.M. Wl seven o'clock P.m. master to run an advertisement, dally. Sundays excepted, on which every three months, to list the hun day it is open from Nine till Ten A -M•" *ads of Toronto citizens who had It Seems to me... by Gwyn Whilsmith (Now, it's open seven days a week mail to pick up. And, whereas we take from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) our mail home to read and answer, it Apparently not everyone expected was also common practice, perhaps to receive mail to those days so it was because of the time and distance it , CELEBRATES 95 YEARS — Della Sims of Crediton celebrated her 95th birthday with an Open House Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Sims maintains her own house and is an active member of the Crediton Women's Institute. Earl (Skippy) Stebbins will be 84 years young on January 24, 1986. took to get to there, for ' e to sit down dot the post office : , pen an answer to the letter they had jot received. Hence, there was ($nd still is)' a room, equipped with tablee, chairs, quill pens, ink and writing paper, where the settlers could com- pose their letters in comfort before a roaring fireplace. Our modern tele -communications are marvellous, and 1 love a long distance call from a friend or relative as much as anyone. But, it can't take the place of a letter that can be unfold- ed time and time again to be read and reread. I fear letter writing may become a lost art. I hope not, because like my shut-in friend, it seems to me, there's nothing that can take the place of mail. WI LIFE MEMBERSHIPS — Four life memberships were presented at Wednesday's meeting of the Crediton Women's Institute for 25 years of continuous service. Above, Huron South District president Shirley Cooper presents certificates to Alma Davey, Irene Hough, Dolores Shapton and Mary Kenney. Goderich hospital expandsands approved for enhancement of existing programs. This brings total spending to $48 million annually for 276 com- munity mental health programs," Psychiatric out-patient services at the Alexandra and Marine Hospital in Goderich will be expanded, Health Minister Murray Elston and Agriculture and Food Minister Jack Riddell, MPP Huron -Middlesex, an- nounced this week. The hospital will receive an addi- tional $110,550 in annual operating costs to expand the services through the ministry's community mental health program. The new program is in addition to the hospital's existing Community Psychiatric Services Program, which is directed to emo- tionally disturbed people who live in Huron County. "The out-patient program will ex- pand its day treatment services, doubling the number of people now being treated. 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