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IIEXAILLEN HGORDON
GREEN
TOM MIX, KEN MAYNARD, BUCK JONES,
HOPALONG CASSIDY, GENE AUTRY
AND ROY ROGERS WERE ALREADY
LEGENDS WHEN REX ALLEN
RODE ONTO THE SCREEN IN
1950 AS A COWe 0Y HERO.
HEGALLOPED THROUGH 35
WESTERNS WITH 1116 HORSE KOKO.
HE WAS REPUBLIC STUDIOS LAST
SINGING AND YODELING COWESOY.
THEN HE SETTLED DOWN ON
H15 20 -ACRE DIAMOND X
RANCH IN CALIFORNIA.
BEFORE HIS HOLLYWOOD
CAREER HE WAS A
HEADLINER ON THE
n/A7YONAL , ARN L ANvcO
RADIO PROGRAM.
KoKO, WHO DIED IN 1564,
IS COMM.EMOt?ATED EW A
LIFE-SIZE STATUE.
HEY KIDS! LEARN TO DRAW
WITH DANNY COUGHLAN
1. H
e's Danny's complete drawing.
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2. Finish what Danny started.
3. Now try it yourself!
O cyder is a great thing,
A great thing to me,
Spinning down to Weymouth
town
By Ridgeway thirstily,
And maid and mistress sum-
moning
Who tend the hostelry;
O cyder is a great thing,
A great thing to me.
So begins the poem
Thomas Hardy wrote in
praise of the truly great
things in his life. At the top of
the list, fermented apply
juice. Hardy even ranked it
ahead of women and love.
Was Hardy really that old
when he penned his famous
poem? Or did the cyder off
Victorian Britain perhaps
have a higher octane rating
than the cider that is now be-
ing offered us on this side of
the water?
But it seems to me that for
pure wicked adventure
neither the cyder of old Eng-
land nor store bought Cana-
dian cider can compare with
what can be generated from
juice coaxed from your own
apples and barrelled away in
the far corner of the cellar
until the bung threatens to
blow. •
Commercially made
ciders are conipletely pre-
dictable. Not so with what
you make at home. Beyond
the fact that your homebrew
stuff will be a Mississippi
brown in color, you can
never be sure how it will turn
out. Sometimes, when it is
finally ready to sample, you
may wonder if your cider
barrel might have once held
paint remover. Sometimes it
may taste like vinegar. In-
deed it may well be vinegar.
And once when I was a boy
back on the farm and my
brothers _and I hid away a
stone jug full of juice by low-
ering it down the well, it
tasted and smelled like tur-
pentine when we were cer-
tain sure that we would have
the real McCoy. The reason,
so we discovered later, was
that one of our pious little
sisters had squealed on us
and our pious little mother
had secretly doctored the
brew to teach us a lesson.
"Be sure your sin will find
you out, boys!" she said.
Mother had a suitable scrip-
ture for any occasion.
Our parents were temper-
ance people. Belligerently
so. Sweet cider was of course
quite acceptable and we gen-
erally managed to have
some made around Hal-
lowe'en time. If I recall
correctly the kind of apple
preferred for cider making
was the Fameuse, known to
us then as the Snow Apple,
because its unique flavor
was at its prime after the
first snowfall.
But at our home we were
never permitted to make any
more cider than could be
manufactured with a kitchen
food grinder. Our parents
were apparently of the
opinion that so small an
amount would surely be con-
sumed before it had time
enough to ferment. Even the
faintest suggestion that the
juice might be mustering
"zip" was enough to have it
tossed into the swill barrel.
I am sure that it was the
potential for evil in cider
which made it so attractive
to us boys then, and one
summer we actually did get
a gallon of the stuff hidden
away in the haymow. And
while no one ever found out
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about it, the cider was a total
failure. At first we thought
that we hadn't given it
enough time, but the longer
we waited, the worse it got.
Finally the stuff turned com-
pletely vile, and no matter
how carefully we strained
out the gray slime which
gathered on it, the flavor
only got worse.- It wasn't
even a sinful flavor. It tasted
like a bad medicine off some
sort.
Now unbeknownst to our
parents, we knew what real
hard cider was like. We had
tasted it on several_
deliciously secret afternoons
in the cellar of a Dutch fam-
ily nearby. These people
were lucky enough to make a
barrel of it every fall, and
when one of their young lads
snuck down to that barrel for
a snort, the bung came out
with a most attractive,
musical energy. And when
you put your straw through
the bung and sucked up a
draught of it, the resulting
burp would scorch your nos-
trils and bring tears to your
eyes.
Why couldn't we make
cider like that?
One of . my brothers
thought he had the answer.
"We've got to make a whole
barrel of it to be any good,"
he suggested. "And we've
got to let it build up some-
where that's cool. A haymow
is too bloody hot!"
The idea wouldn't die, and
one October afternoon when
our parents had taken the
Model T into the village to
trade eggs for groceries, we
went down to one of our
drinking uncles and
borrowed his cider press.
Our uncle was so intrigued
with the project that he lent
his old truck as well, and
when we got the press home
we took it behind the garage,
jacked up one rear wheel of
the truck, connected said
wheel to the press with a belt
and started up the motor.
A good many things went
wrong before we discovered
the exact combination of
mechanics needed to• power
a cider press with the back
wheel of that old truck, but
eventually we were in busi-
ness.
No one ever thought of
spraying trees in those days
and our apples were well
populated with worms.
Which . meant that we
couldn't just throw the ap-
ples into the press whole. We
had to slice each one in half,
scoop out the worms and
their little brown leavings,
give the piece a quick wash
and, toss it in. And for two
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long hours that afternoon,
while that old truck de-
livered power from that one
hind leg in the air, we work-
ed furiously and conscient-
iously.
And then it became pain-
fully clear to us that we were
taking far too much time. So
why worry about the worms?
They didn't eat anything but
apple anyhow, did they?
By mid afternoon we
stopped cutting out the
worms. We hadn't found a
suitable barrel as yet, but we
cleaned out a wash tub as a
temporary receptacle. And
now that we had abandoned
the folly of being perfec-
tionists, the tub began to fill.
But always there was the
fear that we might get
caught . by our returning
parents. And when we finally
decided to cease operations
for the day, we left the tub of
brown juice where it was,
hoisted the press into the
truck, and breathed a great
sigh of relief when we got
back home before there was
any sign of our folks coming
back from the village.
village:
The sigh gave way to
anguish however as soon as
we got into our barnyard.
For there, draining the last
dregs of our afternoon's
labour, were two very grate-
ful cows.
Eventually, of course, our
tale of woe got back to
mother. And immediately
she got scriptural again. "Be
sure your sin will find you
out, boys!" she said.
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THE ORIGINS OF
CHRISTIANITY. A Histor-
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Paper $11.50.
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Schuyler Brown has a dif-
ferent idea in his treatise
"The Origins of Christian-
ity", as by "origins" he
means the circumstances
surrounding the early de-
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His subtitle is even more
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So in "The Origins 4
Christianity" Schuyler
Brown is not introducing the
reader to the New Testament
nor accounting for the
religion but is rather dis-
cussing in a more or less
scholarly way various
aspect of -the Gospels and of
the book of Acts. It is not an
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AUCTION SALE
At Brussels Arena
Thurs., Nov. 1, 1984
at 6:00 p.m..
DEPRESSION & OLDER GLASSWARE: In ex-
cellent condition iris pitcher; green ballerina
dish; pink cherry,, blossom, bowl; pink dish;
green glassware; older vases; basket weave
dish; horseshoe bowl; older serving plates;
Avon glass ,pieces; French Ivo.r;y toiletry travel
set, hand mirror, cornb, brush and cases, ex-
cellent condition, approx. 75 yrs. old; beautiful
manicure set, very old, set -1,4 pieces..
FURNITURE: Matching dresser & washstand
with harp towel bar; bonnet chest; parlor
tables; rocker; odd chairs; cedar chest and foot
stools.
NEW FURNITURE: All pine, Deacon's bench;
coffee table; end table; bathroom vanity.
BELLS: 2 partial sets sleigh bells; 3 small bells.
RUG: 9' x 12' Barrymore "Barastan", very
good condition,
CAMERA & PROJECTOR: Keystone 200 XL.
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: 9 new Cabbage Patch
dolls.
Many misc. items too numerous to mention.
Owner or auctioneer not responsible for ac-
cidents, errors or omissions.
TERMS: Cash or Cheque with I.D.
WEISBROD AUCTIONS
887-6050
Attention Farmers
HYNDMAN TRANSPORT OF
LISTOWEL and WROXETER
wishes to announce the opening of a Hog Assembly yard for
receiving pre -sold market hogs starting
EVERY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
AT 7:00 A.M.
at the, ltlyndman Transport yard at
Listowel and Wroxeter
For information contact:
Bev Brears
291-4153 33503597
Livestock to and from major farm sales markets.
LISTOWEL LIVESTOCK LTD.
Regular Sale Every Tuesday
Dairy cows & heifers, pound, cows & veal
calves and farmers' hogs. ,
SPECIAL SALE --
November 6, 3:00 p.m.
Purebred Charolais bull; purebred Simmental cow;
grade Charolais bull; several crossbred cows &
caves; local stockers from 500-800 lbs.
SPECIAL SALE
November 13, 3:00 p.m.
200 local stocker calves, 400-600 lbs.
LISTOWEL LIVESTOCK LTD.
Listowel 291-2200
CONSIGNMENT AUCTION
OF TOOLS & EQUIPMENT
For Complete Rental, Stratford and McRentall
World, Listowel plus mdse. from others on:
Saturday, November 3, 1984
at 11:00 a.m.
Inspection Starts at 10:00 a.m. day of the sale
at McRentall's new premises, junction of Hwys.
86 & 19 (Tralee). Rental equipment is carefully
selected and well maintained to be long lasting.
CONSISTING OF: 1979 Zephyr station
wagon, sold as is; Ingersoll Rand 125 CFM
compressor; Case diesel hydrostatic vibro
roller; Case diesel vibro plate; MBW ground
pounder vibro plates; Stihl, Sachs & Bosch cut-
quiks; Homelite, Stow & QP centrifugal trash &
diaphragm floating pumps; Stanley hydraulic
power unit complete with breakers and tamper;
Wayne ride -on sweeper; cultivator; roto -tillers;
Reel mower and snowblower attachments;
hydraulic power tailgates; Bartell trowel; steam
carpet cleaner; Clarke 7" edger; Clarke floor
machine; Wolf 3,4 drill & stand; 4 ton rolling floor
jack; flashers & stands; hydraulic porta-power;
Wellsaw recipro saw; air stapler; upholstery
shampooer; Fairfax, wet vac; manual concrete
breaker; flexible shaft shoulder grinder; gas
power concrete vibrator; battery power stair
climbing appliance cart; cellulose insulation
blowers; Sky crane; propane heaters; selection
of wood stoves; vibrating exercise belts; store
display shelving; coin operated hot drink ven-
dor; pinball machine; 73 Ford van, as is; plus
many other items too numerous to list.
TERMS: Cash or Cheque with proper I.D., 7%
sales tax in effect. Any announcement or cor-
rections given verbally ,day of sale, Owners,1,.,,,
and auctioneer not responsible for accidents
or injuries day of sale. Lunch truck on
premises.
ROE AUCTION SERVICE
Auctioneer:
JOHN E. ROE
RR 1, Atwood, Ont. NOG 1B0
(519) 356-2771.
AUCTION SALE
Of 100 Head of Dairy Cattle, Feed, Tractors,
Farm Machinery, Some Misc. Items For:
BUEGLER WERNER
Lot 1.0, Con. 14, McKillop Twp, located 4
miles east of Walton & 1/2 mile south or 9
miles west of Monkton on:
Wed., November" 7, 1984
12:30 p.m.
CATTLE: 37 grade ,Ayrshire cows; 1.7 grade
Holstein cows of which 12 cows are, fresh from
,1-3 months & selling open; 42 cows bred 3-9
months, dates given day of sale; 25 grade
heifers, bred 21/2-7' months, dates given sale
day; 21 open grade heifers age 6-18 months;
Ayrshire bull 2 years old (breeder bull). These
cows have been preg. checked & will be blood
tc sted prior to sale, cows are bred by an Ayr-
shire bull, some by Ayrshire unit. bulls.
MACHINERY: Int. 886 diesel tractor, cab, dual
wheels, 2,000 hrs., good cond.; Leyland 344
diesel tractor complete with hyd. loader; Ford
4,000 diesel tractor; 2 Dia self unloading
forage wagons with roofs; 4 wagons with hay
racks; zero grazing wagon, Krause 16'. wheel
cultivator; J.D. 12' wheel disc; J.D. Van Brundt
16 disc seed drill; Int. 990 haybine, 9'; 717
Super New Holland forage harvester with
pickup & 2 row corn head; New Holland 27
forage blower; Kverneland 4 furrow 3 p.h. plow
with 16" bottoms; M.F. 6 bar side rake; double
wheel rake; New idea 7' double auger snow
blower; New Holland 67 hay baler; New Idea
power spreader (needs repair).; Innes 735
bean windrower; 6 row bean puller; Rockomat
57 stone picker; land packer; 3 drum land
roller; 6 sect. & 3 sect. harrows with stret-
chers; 3 p.h. weed sprayer; bale stooker &
fork; plastic 350 gal. sprayer tank; 1 beam ext.
loader hook.
FEED: Approx. 1,500 square bales of Straw;
approx. 4,000 square bales of hay.
TRAILER: 30" van trailer.
MISC: McClary kitchen cook stove;' 30 ton
hyd. jack; garden roto -tiller.
NOTE: SALE ORDER; will start with very little
misc. items at 12:30 p.m., followed by
machinery, feed & cattle, so plan to come on
time.•
TERMS: Cash or Cheque with proper I.D.
Owner or auctioneer not responsible for ac-
cidents or loss of property sale day. Lunch
available.
Auctioneer:
BOB GILMORE
485 Victoria Ave. S., Listowel
Phone 291-3489
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