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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-08-17, Page 2TOnectirlburnday; -At i 2— HkAd shower WilrrECKUKR On August 6, Mrs* Walter Elliott and Ruth and Mr*. Bill MacPherson, Gail, Janet and Margaret held a shower for relatives of Miss Linda Elliott of Ailsa Craig. l ioda is the daughter of Mrs. llitrhell Elliott and the late Mr. Elliott. The shower was held on the lawn of the Elliott home where an umbrella was erected on a lawn chair, decorated with pink and white streamers.. • The guest of honor was escort- ed td her chair by her sister Betty and Doris Stokes. About 50 people were in attendance. Ruth Elliott, Mrs. MacPherson and her daughters were masters of ceremonies. Mrs. Bolt gave a reading. Among the gifts were bedding, china, kitchenware., vases, bath set and coffee pot. Linda thanked everyone for at- tending and for the gifts, as well as the sponsors for arranging the event. Lunch was served by Mrs. El- liott and Mrs. MacPherson and their daughters. Sell That MORTGAGE For CASH Phone 338-3037 HARRISTON DIANNE E. CASLICK Miss Dianne E. Caslick graduated from Kitchener - Waterloo School of Nursing on Friday, July 28. Miss Cas- lick is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilford Caslick, Pat- rick Street, Wingham, and will begin her nursing career later this month at Wingham and District Hospital. The Wingham Advance- Times Wingham, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration No. -0821 Return Postage Guaranteed. i SUNDAY, AUGUST 20 HEAR Rev. Edwin Wattam OF GRAND BEND AND The Ttart Sisters OF SINGHAMPTON AT Westfield Fellowship Hour at 2 p.m. 1I�F�fl Men's Chapel Auburn .at: 8p.m. ALL WELCOME Evil Prevails When Good Men Do Nothing) Used Car Savings '72 DODGE Monaco Broug- ham . demonstrator 4 -Door hardtop, fully equipped, 7,000. miles. '72 *PLYMOUTH Gran. Sedan Brougham 4 -Door Hard- top, fully equipped, 7,000 miles, demonstrator 'M DEMONSTRATOR Dodge Half Ton, 8, auto., power k, steering, 1,800 miles '70 TORINO 2 -Door, 6 auto- matic '70 DODGE Coronet Station Wagon, 8 cyl., auto., pow- • er steering and brakes '69 CORONET 4 -Door Sedan, 6 auto, • radio '69 SATELLITE 2 - Door Hardtop, 8 auto.; power steering & brakes, radio '69 FORD Custom ,2 -Door, -8, auto., power steering and brakes, radio '65 FAIRLANE 2 -Door Hard- top, 'V8 CRAWFORD MOTORS CHRYSLER - DODGE - PLYMOUTI WINGHAM ONTARIO PHONE 357.3864 The Officers and Directors of the Wingham. Horticultural Sociefy regretfully announce that the Annual Flower Show scheduled for This Saturday,August 19th IN the PUBLIC SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Has Been CANCEL LED This decision was taken due to the early June frost and adverse, weather following, affecting the quality of flowers and vegetables. Notes from WhllikFiirc Miss Nancy deBoer returned home on the weekend after a week's visit with her friend, Miss Aleeta Brouwers of near Guelph. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Craig and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coultes were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Craig, celebrating Lana Craig's birthday. Mrs. Albert Coultes was ad- mitted on Monday to Wingham and District Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Craig were Sunday evening visitors with Mrs. Janet Hall, Wingham, Debbie, Kevin and Blaine Coul- tes of Oakville spent last week with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coultes and Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn Pipe of Brussels. Their parents, Mr. and•Mrs. Jack Coultes of Oakville, arrived on Sunday. and took them home. After a week's holiday at his home Henry Wybenga returned on Sunday to carpenter work at Bowmanville. Mt. and Mrs. Victor Wybenga, Kathy, Clarence and John visited Sunday and Monday with his brothers, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Wybenga and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Minnie Wybenga of Bowmanville: Fred Wybenga of Bowmanville accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Vic- tor Wybenga and family here for a holiday. On Friday evening at Wingham ball park, Clifford and White- church played the first in a series of Intermediate OASA softball games with a score of 16-2 in favor of Whitechurch. Mrs. Orville Tiffin on Sunday was a guest for her birthday.cele- bration at the home of her son Dan, Mrs. Tiffin and family. Little Lee Fisher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Fisher of Guelph, spent a few days on the weekend with his uncle and aunt and cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gibson and family.. - Those representing White- church Women's Institute at the Log Cabin at Southampton Museum on Monday were Mrs. Russel McGuire, Mrs. Jas. Mc- Innes, Mrs. Elgin Johnson and Mrs. McArthurs. Victor Emerson accompanied auctioneer Brian Rintoul to the sale of a barn on the property of Dan McKinnon, 6th con. Kinloss, on Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Al Olson and Mrs. Dorothy Hinkle of Livonia arrived on Monday to visit with Mrs. Gertie Tiffin, Wingham, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tiffin, Russel Rit- chie and Mr. and Mrs. Vic Emer- son. 0 Mrs. Gertie Tiffin of Wingham visited Monday evening with Mr. and Mrs. George Young and fam- ily. Word has been received frgm water resources that any person who has had water installed from a water system and who may not wish to continue using it, cannot sell their rights to someone else: Wagon caravan revives "Prairie Schooner" days Undaunted by superstitions about the unluckiness of 13, that number of Belgrave and Wing - ham young men and women took off from the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Graeme Anderson, parents of seven of them, just north of Bel- grave on Tuesdday morning.. There were three covered wagons, a horse and buggy and several outriders. Mac Anderson told The Ad- vance -Times reporter during a lunch break a few miles on the UCW meets BELMORE Mrs. Alvin Fitch was hostess for a special meeting of the United Church Women at - which Mrs. Carl Douglas was guest speaker. She spoke of -t-he- work she is currently .doing with emotionally disturbed young people, and under the headings, Symptom's; Causes; Home At- mosphere; Remedies; to name a few. Mrs. Douglas gave a very deep insight into the difficulties of these young adults and how she is. able l to help them to deal with some 'of their problems. Mrs. John Rutherford was leader for the meeg ape f rs. Wilfred' Johann read.e scrip- ture reading. Mrs. Elwood Fitch gave an interesting•article on the subject of "Worry'. • The meeting was closed with prayer after which the hostess served a delicious lunch. Mrs. Earl `Fitch held the July meeting in her home. Mrs. Dora McGuinness was leader and us- ing the Upper Room, gave the opening devotions. Mrs. Earl Fitch gave a study on the topic of drugs with special emphasis on the most widely used and abused drug, alcohol. The minutes were read and adopted. It was decided to plan Tor a bale andalso that the supply convener should write to the supply sec- retary to find where bales are most needed. The offering was received and the meeting was closed with the repeating of the Lord's prayer. way to Dungannon that the plan was to rest the caravan for the night at Dungannon fair grounds. On Wednesday they will make for the Falls Reserve conservation area and' camp. near Benmiller for a two-day stay, after which they will make their way back to East Wawanosh park.. Friday and thence home to the Belgrave farm. The Anderson boys and girls are no strangers to horses as they are used from time to time on the family farm. A three-day journey by horse and wagon is something else again., Fattier Graeme Anderson con- fided that he thought they were , pretty "green" drivers, but he wasn't that worried about them (�—Snyder -Studio GRADUATE Miss Judy Reid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Reid, Wingham, graduated on Thursday, August 10, from Victoria Hospital School of Nursing, London, in a cere- mony held at Centennial Hall, London. Following the graduation ceremonies a dinner was held in her honor in the Galleon Room of Hook's Restaurant in London for family and friends. Miss Reid attended Wingham Pub- lic School and the F. E. Madill Secondary School in Wing - ham. She has accepted a posit tion on the nursing staff of Victoria Hospital, London, commencing September 5th. and figured they wouldn't be half as green by the time they got back home. Instead of the canvas tops typi- cal of the prairie schooners fea- tured in hundreds of wild west shows, the wagons are roofed with dark rainproof plastic sheet- ing as a modern touch. Otherwise, the caravan is simi- lar to those of the pioneers, ex- eept that'instead of hardtack bis- cuits and dried apricots, the wagons are loaded with the best the supermarkets can offer, Belgravenative dies in Detroit Following a brief illness, Wil- liam Cameron Geddes of 371 King Street West, Chatham, died in Detroit General Hospital, in his 76th year. Born in Belgrave on November 11,1896, he was the son of the late William J. Geddes and Isabella McKenzie. He attended Belgrave Public School and the Spotton Business College in Wingham. After graduation he joined the staff of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Wingham, later going to Dresden, Ontario. While' there he joined the Canada and Dominion Sugar Co. of Chatham, retiring in 1960 after 35 years of service. He is survived by two sister% Mrs. Joseph (Eugenie) Little of Blyth and Miss Anne Geddes of ' Wingham. He was predeceased by a brother, Norman M. Geddes, in June, 1970. The body rested at the T. Brady Hinnigan' Funeral Home, Chat- ham, until Saturday, August 12, 'at 11 a.m., when funeral service was conducted by Rev. G. C. Dal- zell of the First Presbyterian Cllurch, Chatham. Interment fol- lowed in the family plot in Bran- don Cemetery, Belgrave, con- ducted by Rev. G. L. Royal of Knox ' Presbyterian Church, Goderich. Pallbearers were Harold Tay- lor and Miller Davis of Wingham, Clarke Johnston of Belgrave, An- drew Lunn of Seaforth, Gary Lightfoot of Ridgetown and Gary Cummings of Chatham. right down to the last marshmal- low. Sandw.iehes were featured on the first roadside stop enroute to Dungannon, but more substan- tial fare was due to appear by the time the campfires got burning at night. The horses are looked after too, with a supply of hay and oats stashed away in each wagon, and plenty of drinking water avail- able along the -"trail". Members of the party, on the first day .at least, were Duncan Anderson, Carol Hastings, Donna Malik, Karen Oke, Katherine Oke, Duane Currie, Malcolm Anderson, Cameron . Anderson, Julaine Anderson, Jilden Ander- son, Janice Anderson, Barbara Moore and Joanne Croskill. Mac and Julaine Anderson were in charge of a horse and buggy, not as -leaders of the trek, but followers, with an incidental duty of picking up the odds and ends of gear that plopped off the stuffed wagons from time to., time. All members of the group were happy and relaxed and satisfied - to amble along at a modest gait in ideal bright, sunny breezes, leav- ing behind the stresses of modern life and.quite literally heading off into the sunset as'the. pioneers ways seemed to do, -at least on the late, late TV show: DIED WALLAR — At Sarasota Memorial Hospital at Sarasota, Florida on Wednesday, August 2, 1972, Ralph Chester Wallar, age 79, of 1137 Pine Rd., Venice,. Florida. He was .president Hof Metropolitan chain stores in Lon- don, Ontario, Canada; also a World War I veteran: F.ormer member of the 'Mocha Temple Masonic Lodge, London, Ontario, Venice Masonic Lodge No. 301, F & AM, former memberof the Lake Venice Golf Club and a member of the London Hunt Club in London; Ontario. ,He is sur- vived by his wife, Beatrice • I. Wallar of Venice, Florida, two sons, Robert E. Wallar, Beacons- field, Quebec and Howard R. Wallar, Waterloo; husband of the former Elizabeth Hare, formerly of Wingham, and five grandchil- dren. Interment was at Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener. Bluevale Mr. and Mrs. Art Scott of Mid- land called on Mrs. William Robertson, Jean and Lloyd on Sunday. Mrs. Mac Abram of Kitchener spent,a couple of days with Mrs. William Robertson and other relatives. q, If soup has been made too salty, grate a raw potato, add it and cook the soup for a few minutes. —Miss L. Hammond, B.A., a former teacher at Wingham High School, visited last week with Mrs. F. A. Parker and Mrs. John Hay: —Mr. and Mrs. Scott Reid, Brian and Pamela, Mr. and Mrs. Herson Irwin of Belgrave, Mr. and Mrs. David Cameron, Wing - ham, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Arm- strong, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hayes, Dr. and Mrs. B. N. Corrin and Miss Barbara Bryans, all of Lon- don, and Miss Karen Grant of Teeswater attended the gradua- tion ceremonies of Miss Judy Reid from Victoria Hospital School of Nursing, held at Cen- tennial Hall, London, last week. Following the ceremonies they were guests at a dinner held in her honor in the Galleon Room of Hook's Restaurant, London. —Mrs. Joe Masters and Brian of Brantford visited early last week with the former's mother, Mrs. Stafford Bateson. Mr. and Mrs. Masters spent the weekend at the Bateson home. —Miss Carol Higgins received honors in Grade III Harmony and History, Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto. Carol is a pupil of Mrs. Nora Moffat. —Mrs. John Langridge and Jim arrived home last Tuesday after spending the fast six weeks in England and Scotland. REXALL . FLOOR WAX Extra Hard Finish , 1 Ib. tin .69 REXALL INSTANT Furniture Wax (Aerosol) Cleans & Waxes as you dust 7oz. REXA L MIRACLE GLASS CLEANER withTX100 & Silicones Net Weight 19 oz. avdp .73 .79 REXALL SELF-. - POLISHING CLEAR FLOOR WAX Liquid, Heavy Duty • 32 'fl. oz. 1.07 REXALL SILQUE LOTION FOR DISHES' (Biodegradable) Regular or Lemon 32 fl. oz. .83 Lee Vance L#d WINGHAM YOUR WINGHAM PHARMACIST • ONTARIO ntr'ri Place d.the CNE.th for. .50. From August 16 to September 4, Ontario Place and the Canadian National Exhibition together present an out- standing entertainment package. And $1.50 buys it all. There are hundreds of exciting sights and sounds at the (NE this year. And look at what's in store for you at Ontario Place: Children's Village. Free. it's the Ontario Place wonderland for kids.'hsO acres of wild and wwonderful things to do, over 20 new and novel play activitics."I'hc Rubber Forest, the 1)o -it -Yourself Sound arca,The Foam Swamp, the Hand -over -Water Swing and lots more fun, with half the play area covered for .rain -or -shine play. Big Forum Shows. Free. ,Jose Feliciano, August 16 Canadian Opera (ompiinv, August 20-22 The Establishment Revue, August 23 Canadian -Opera Company, August 21-26 Ivan Romanoff Continental Holiday, August27 Indian 1)a%s Festival, August 28-31 National Indian Princess Pageant, September 1 Indian Days IcstiNal 1 inose, September 2 ;\ vg } Salute to Irving Berlin, September 3 King Biscuit Boy and 1)m% nchild Blues Band Rock Special, September 1 Cinesphere. Free. I'hc Nt orld's most thrilling film theatre• %%here s ou'll see giant -screen i MAX films. there's our chance to sec the film ever% hod% 's talking about, "North of Superior." :end "Labyrinth 1\'", the new giant -format version of the Expo 67 class+it. Restaurants, Snack Bars and Beer Gardens. Ontario Place is a great place t,o relax bct%secn "seeing and doing". Along- side quiet- lagoons and throughout grassy parkland are over 20 dining and snacking spots. (.hoose your fa- vourite from Bavarian, Irish, Chinese, European and Canadian cuisine, with prices and menus to please everyone. IMts of large, open-air pubs, too. And plenty of exciting entertainment to delight you as 1tiu take it easy.` Admission prices are: Adults $1.50; Student~ (13.17) $1.00, Children 12 and under, 50c. In keep- ing with established (:NE policy, res - Went Ontario senior citizens will he admitted free lo Ontario Place and the (:NE on "i'uesdav,"August 22 and Tuesday, ,August 29. After September 1, senior citizens mai once again visit ( )ntario Place every day %vithout charge. \'isi.tors may enter through ticket booths at either Ontario Place .or the (: NE. Admission passes for both Ontario Place and the (:NL Ni ill he honored at all gates. Ontario Place opens at 10 am and closes at 12:30 am, daily. Sunday, 10 'am to 10 pm. bast show at (:incsphere and the Exhibit Pods, 9:30 pm. Come by T.T.C., GO Train or Car. it's case (0 get to Ontario Place and the (:N F, by street car and bus.There's a (:O Train stop right inside the (:NE grounds. And there's plenty of parking space at both attractions. For more information: 965-7711. ontorb Sollth of Exhibition Park on'Toronto.% I.akefrnnt, o„slnd n,1nd Tnurikm, Hon. John 1% hitt, 5lini,ter, 110 iR 0