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gas. University students only please.
Phone 524.2324.-39-40.41
DO YOU HAVE marriage or family
problems? The Ministry of Com-
' munity & Social Services offers help
in the form of marriage and family
counselling either in your home or
in the Wingham Office, 199
Joaaphine Street. For appointment,
phone 357-3370.-29tfj
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17. LOST AND FOUND
Mr. and Mrs. Edward East, Blyth
Ont., are pleased to announce the
forthcoming marriage of their
Younger daughter Karen Roberta to
Mr, John David Robertson, soft .cif
Mr. and' Mrs. John D. Robertaoh,
Perth, Ont. The wedding will take
place on Oct. 20, 1973 at 3.30 p.m.
Knox United Church, Auburn, On-
tario. ---40x .
Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Thomason are
happy to announce the engagement
of. their eldest` daughter Grace
Darlene to Gary Wayne Baxter only
son of Mrs. John Lindsay and the
late Mr. Sheldon Baxter. The wed-
ding will take place at 3 p.m. Oc-
tober 20, 1973 in Exeter Pentecostal
Church. -40x
SUGAR 'N' SPE
FOUND --girl's bicycle in Saltford.
Owner may have same by iden-
tifying and paying for ad. Phone
524-8988 after 5 p.m. -40
LOST—Blonde pure bred Cocker
Spaniel, 1 year old, stubby tail, no
tags. Reward. Finder please phone
524-7159.--40x
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Spaniel, two years old. Call 524-
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GARRICK—At Alexandra
Hospital on Sept. ' 30, 1973 to Mr.
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and Mrs. Percy Garrick120 Wolfe
St., Goderich a baby boy Wayne
James.
,EWITT—Gary and Crystal
(Straughan) of Clinton Ont. are
pleased to announce the arrival of
their 2nd daughter Susan Lynn, at
Seaforth Community Hospital on
Sept.25, 1973.
McCULLOUGH—To Mr. and Mrs.
David McCullough (nee Anne Hen-
derson), Goderich at Grace Mater-
nity Hospital Toronto twins Tammy
Lynne and Timothy John 'on Sept.
30, 1973.
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23. ENGAGEMENTS
Mr. and Mrs. Jon Strapp, 931 Eagle
Crescent, London, are pleased to
announce the forthcoming marriage
,of their younger daughter, Marjorie
Hope Palmer. to Mr. Hugh Dale
MacCrostie, only son of Mr. and
• Mrs. Hugh MacCrostie, RR 5
Goderich, The wedding will „take
place at Trinity Anglican Church,
Lambeth, at 7.30 p.m. on October 12,
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26. CARD OF THANKS
BAKER—We would like to thank
you all sincerely for the many cards,
flowers, words and prayers which
we received in the days of sorrow
when our dear wife, precious
mother and grandmother passed on
to her eternal home. Robert Baker
and family. -40
JOHNSON—I wish to express my
thanks to all who remembered me
with cards, flowers, gifts and visits
while I was a patient in Alexandra
Hospital. Many thanks to all the
staff and Dr. J.W. Wallace. Mrs.
Wilbert Johnson. -40
BREGMAN—I wish to thank the
doctors, nurses, friends and
relatives for cards, flowers and
visits while I was a patient in Vic-
torig Hospital. Mrs. Margo
Bregm 4.-40x -
DAER—I would like to thank all
my friends, relatives and niegh-
bours for the flowers, gifts and
cards, received while I was a
patient in Clinton Hospital. Also
thanks to those who assisted on the
farm. Gordon Daer.-40
VAN ARMAN—Mr. Van Arman
and I wish to thank each and every
one wh2 remembered me in various
ways during my four weeks in
Toronto hospitals and since coming
home. ' Special thanks to Mr. and
Mrs. John Schaefer and Miss Ella
McKay, Mrs. Ethel Hay Goderich
and Mrs. Anna Burett, Toronto.
Hattie .Van Arman, Goderich.-40
HORTON—We the family of the
late Clifford Horton, wish to express
our sincere thanks for the kindness
and sympathy extended to us during
our recent bereavement by our
relatives, friends and neighbours.
Special thanks to the ladies of
Ballantrae Church, the pallbearers
and flower bearers and the- staff
members of O'Neill Funeral
Home. -40x
McCULLOUGH-1 would like to
express 'my sincere thanks to my
friends and relatives for their visits,
cards and gifts while I was a
patient in Goderich -General
Hospital and University Hospital,
London. Thanks to Dr. Cauchi and
staff on 2nd floor west. Elizabeth
McCullough. -40x
BRINDLEY—The family of the
late Mabel Brindley wish to express
sincere thanks and appreciation to
all relatives friends and neighbours
for their many acts of kindness and
sympathy shown during their recent
Breavement, for the man's floral
triift tes,and donations to the cancer
society. Special thanks to Drs.
Wallace and Lambert, nurses on
2nd floor of Goderich Hospital, Rev.
-Warr--and--Biles Funeral___Home—...
Margaret Brindley and grand-
children and family's. -40
I promised there'd be no
more columns about England.
This one won't be, but it will be
about people we met there. .
Half the fun of travelling is
the people you meet. That's
why .1 wo n't be too keen on
taking utti of those tours, where
you jeb everywhere with the
same forty or so people, and are
stuck with them for three or
four weeks, and don't meet
anyone fresh.
For example, while we were
in London, I found it pleasant
to stroll down to the bar for a
pre -luncheon pint while my
wife was muddling around in
the room, worrying about
washing her, hair or something.
For several days, we formed
a congenial group there. A far-
flung group. There was old
Jack from South Africa, with
one aluminum arm and one
ditto leg. He'd whack, his ar-
tificial leg with his cane to em-
phasize a point. There .was
Ikon, an Australian dealer in
stamps. There was a Highland
Scot. There was an Irish bar-
tender. And there was your
blue-eyed boy from Canada.
English, Yanks and Canadians
were ". excluded. • Other
Canadians, that is.
We got along first-rate, and
there was an easy tolerance
that I noticed during the war
when there might be bodies of
ten different nations on , one
squadron.
I didn't go after Jack about
aparrtheid or Ron about
Australian treatment of
aborigines and nobody went af-
ter me about our Eskimos. The
Irishman and the Scot.were a
bit hostile; but only about the
English.
Rather, we talked about the
important things in life:
heating bills (about $50. a year
S.A. and less in Sydney);
housing costs (about the same
everywhere); wives (about the
same everywhere); rotten kids
(ditto); income tax (ditto).
Not very enlightening, you'll
say, but comfortable, easy con-
versation, with no strain or,
stridency. Then .our wives
,would arrive and the common-
wealth conference would break
up until next day at noon.
We met dozens of interesting
people like this, easily and
amiably. The pub is the great
leveller.
In Canada, people in a bar
sit in their own tight little
grot.t'ps at a tab4e, a waiter ser-
ves them, and they are like an
island, no contact with anybody
else. Or if they are alone, they
sit at the bar and glower into
the mirror or into their drink,
gloomily.
In Britain, it's just the op-
posite. If you're at a table, you
fetch your own drinks "and
anyone is liable to sit down
with you. Very casual. First
thing you know, you're chat-
ting. Next thing you know,
yoa're--bosom! ,chums.
Example. One night after a
show, we went into a pub for a
drink and a steak -and -kidney
pie. Three people sat down at
our table, chattering in what
sounded like German. It was
Dutch. A girl, newly married
and living in London, and her
parents, first time in England.
Father spoke a little English,
mother. had a big smile.
'In five minutes we were chat-
ting away like old friends.
Father fetched his wife a gin.
Came back looking ruefully
into his three-quarters of an
ounce. Said,
. Here dey just vet de bottom
of de glass. In holland..." and
he held up thumb' and
forefinger about four inches
apart. We parted in half an
hour, but only after the girl in-
sisted we come 'and see her in
London, and gave us address
and phone number.
It couldn't happen here. Our
watering establishments are
built for masochists or people
who have good night vision and
can see in the dark. They're not
for companionship and frien-
' dliness.
Example. We were having
lunch in a pub in North Wales,
at the bar. Four brawny, dirty
Welshmen came in and started
hooting and hollering at a
tremendous volume, teasing the
barmaid, downing pints and
drowning y out any attempt at
conversation.
My old lady, who is not
noted for her prudence,
modesty or reserve, turned
around and snapped, "Shut
up!" Their jaws fell. The bar-
maid..silently applauded:
Iit
thought one of them was
ng towipe her off the stool
h a backhander. He was
only a little guy, about six -two
and 220 pounds.
That cost me four fast pints
while 1 babbled that she was
only kidding and was really a
delightful, charminggirl at
heart.
Twenty minutes later, they
were complaining that we'd
missed the great Eisteid-
.fod in Llangollen, an annual
competition of choirs from all
over the world, held right
there. Because the"bus service
was slow, one of them packed
_ua into his van, and drove us
twenty miles to Wrexham, a
forty -mile round trip for him.
It may sound like a glorified
pub-crawl. It wasn't. There are
800 pubs in Greater London,
and we missed most of them.
But if you want to meet people,
no better way.
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Mrs. Jane Baechler died Sep-
tember 30 at the Goderich Nur-
sing home where she had lived
for three years.
She had been a resident of
Goderich for the past 60 years,
having come here with her
husband, John Edward
Baechler, Sr., from Camlachie
to found . the Goderich
Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Baechler died in ;June,
1949.
Well-known in Godericb Mrs.
Baechler 'travelled extensively
and lived an active_ life.
1-Ier oldest daughter, Aileen
(Mrs. Vernon J. Bourke, St;
Louis) died in 1945 and her
-youngest -son, Bert, in 1968.
Mrs. Baechler's brothers ,
George, Neil, and 'Gordon
0' Brien of Sarnia are; deceased.
Mrs. Baechler is survived by
three sons, John E. (Ted),
Clare, and Con of Goderich and
five daughters, Mrs. John
(Mary) Donohue London; Mrs.
James (Phyllis) Sturrock Palm
Beach, Florida; Mrs. Arthur
(Patricia) Webster Beacon-
sfield, Que; Mrs. Donald (Mar-
nie) Welt, Rochester, N.Y.; and
Mrs. Douglas (Victoria)
Charrpn, Mississauga; her
sister, Mies Agnes O'Brien of
Sarnia; thirty grandchildren
and 13 great-grandchildren.
After the funeral mase at St.
Peter's Church, Goderich, in-
terment was at St. Peter's
Cemetery. Six.. ' of Mrs.
Baechler's grandsons were
pallbearers. Paul, Robert,
Marty and Bruce Baechler,
Michael Donohue and Mark
Welt.
in Goderich
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