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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-06-15, Page 19Page 2 -Crossroads -June 15, 1983 Shirley Whittington A sen tirnen taljourne y "The train doesn't stop here anymore." That's sadly repeated by more and more Canadians as our national railway arteries constrict and far-flung stations atrophy. The railway drew us together as a nation. Now the stitching's come undone and I fear we're the poorer for it. Few Canadians under 30 have had an emotional ex- perience in a railway station. They've never stood in sum- mer silence and strained for the sound of an approaching train carrying someone they loved. They've never said goodbye on a wooden plat- form, and run along beside the moving train in order to keep a beloved face in view for as long as possible. Most of us today say hello and farewell in glassy music - drenched airport lounges or bus terminals. How can you make a ser- ious emotional statement in a grotty depot surrounded by gaseous coaches breaking wind? Trains still run-on meticu- lous time -in Europe and the map of France is criss- crossed with more intersect- ing red lines than a drunk- ard's eyeball. Last month, dressed tastefully in jeans, sneakers, knapsack and Eurorail pass, I used that map to explore a good bit of France by rail. I discovered new countryside, an& old memories. Part of the adventure of train travel lies in the sta- tions themselves. European stations are splendidly built. In Marseilles, they are ex- panding and renovating their station - a handsome struc- ture elegantly aproned with an impressive flight of stone steps. I was surprised to see, in the construction zone, white -suited masons care- fully handcrafting chunks of granite for the new addition, duplicating ancient cornices and curlicues. It's slow work, but monuments aren't built in a day. The train always held a colorful assortment of trav- HEY KIDS! LEARN TO DRAW WiiH DANNY COMM 1. Here's Danny's complete drawing. 2: Finish what Danny started. 3. Now try it yourself! ellers. Two religious Sisters, in wimples and shades, were off to a cathedral town. A group of long-legged sun- burned American kids burst into the carriage, all expen- sively orthedentured and dressed (fashionably) to simulate poverty. Beside me, a young French student feverishly made notes from the text books he'd spread out on the fold -down table ingeniously provided by SNCF. Across the aisle a vested businessman read le Figaro beside his well dressed wife secretary mistress. Bored, she flipped through Elle with manicured fingers. A pair of rosy grandpar- ents bustled in, abloom with shopping bags and parcels. As soon as the train started she rummaged in her hand- bag and produced a crusty roll spread with mustard and sausage, which she handed to him. Then she dove into another shopping bag and surfaced with a cold bottle of beer. She uncapped it and smartly handed it over to her stolidly chewing mate. Remember the man who used to sway down the aisles of the old Canadian trains, with a wide wicker basket filled with oranges, wrapped sandwiches and waxy car- tons of milk? His modern French cousin rolls a trolley through the train, with cold drinks and pizza. Remember the magnifi- cent formal meals on trains? In France you canstilldine like a king while riding the rails. When I'm old and sere, I'll remember that magnifi- cent meal of sole amadine and crisp green beans. I also reflect happily upon the joy of rolling through the golden twilight sipping new Beaujo- lais while red -tiled Van Gogh country slipped past the win- dow. indow. Another evening, less for- tunate, I found myself berth - less on an overnight ride, and remembered the 47 dif- ferent ways you can fold yourself up . for sleep in a train seat. I finally settled for position one - legs flung into the aisle, head pillowed on knapsack and coat spread backwards over chest and shoulders for warmth. Trains have a way of pene- trating into. the historic heart of a city, remember? Bus terminals always seem to be in despairing districts. Pitts- burgh's was so unnerving I wouldn't go in without a guard .dog. On the other hand, airports are dismay- ingly rural, and when you are grounded on foreign tar- mac for an hour, all you ever see is foreign mechanics in foreign coveralls and ear- muffs. From a train, you can see ancient city walls, winding medieval streets, lines of amusing laundry and tiny geometric gardens. Interest- ing old hotels and restau- rants line the street across from the station. (The Holi- day Inn is uptown, closer to the airport. ) One can actually walk to the magnificent cathedral at Chartres from the railway station. The decadent glory of Versailles is a short walk from the station. In Paris you can stroll from the Gare des Invalides to a dozen famous historic sites. Friends ask me about the highlights of my trip and here they are: I'll never for- get climbing off the train in Marseilles and searching the crowds on the platform for a crossroads ,40 Published every Wednesday by. Wenger Bros. Limited as the lifestyle and entertainment section in The Listowel Banner. The Wingham Advance - Times. The Mount Forest Confederate and The Milverton Sun. Members of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspaper Association. and the Ontario Press Council. Controlled distri- bution in Elmira, Palmerston, Harriston, Brussels. Millbank. Newton, Atwood. Clifford. Drayton, Wallenstein. Moorefield and Arthur. Display and Classified -advertising deadline - 5:00 p.m. Thursday week prior to publication date Advertising and Production The Listowel Banner 188 Wallace Ave N . P.O Box 97, Listowel. Ont N4W 3H2 Accounting and Billing The Wingham Advance -Times Josephine St . P.O. Box 390. Wingham, Ont NOG 2W0 The Listowel Banner 291-1660 The Wingham Advance -Times 357-2320. The Mount Forest Confederate 323-1 550 The Milverton Sun 595-8921 Elmira and District News Kim Dadson familiar face and finding it and rushing forward to be hugged while the train hissed beside us and the porters bulled trolleys of luggage around MS. I'll never forget the wrench of standing in the open door of the train as it pulled out of the same station five days later, and waving. goodbye until I couldn't see r", marc I feel sorry when I think of communities in Canada which are losing the thun- dering thrill of a twice daily train from somewhere bear- ing visitors and mail and friends. Trains and stations are steeped in memories. In many places in Canada, memories are all they have left. Too bad. Whether you know it or not, there are likely at least three fence viewers in your community. Under Ontario law, pro- perty owners have always` shared the responsibility for fences between their proper- ties. In the past, when dis- putes arose about matters involving a fence, an arbi- trator was called in to try to settle the problem. The arbi- trator was called a fence viewer. They've been around since 1826. They're appointed by municipalities and they still exist. The other day I met two of them ' in the Town of Vaughan, a few miles north of Toronto. John Becker and Glen Norcliffe were telling me that they get $25 a call. But they don't get too many calls. John says he's only had two calls since he took the job a few years ago. So he augments his income by be- ing Vice President of York University. Apparently Glen hasn't had any calls at all so far. He says he found things so tough that he was forced to support his wife and chil- dren by being a professor of geography at York. Both feel they are . well qualified for their jobs as fence viewers. But it seems there just isn't that much work for fence viewing any- more. They're both brutally blunt. They openly admit they're both moonlighting! When we all stopped chuckling about their miser- able plight, I learned that these days most fence dis- putes are settled over a cup of coffee. And in most areas, fence viewers are appointed from among public works employees who are not paid extra for the work. There's not much glamor in the job. It hasn't the devil- may-care flair of a dog- catcher, for example. But it's nice to know that when we're faced with a fence dis- pute there's someone out there who cares. Someone who can be impartial. Some- one who is on the fence and can provide defenses for our fences. BOOK REVIEW THE SILENCE OF JESUS. The Authentic Voice of the Historical Man. By James Breech. Doubleday Canada Limited, Toronto. 256 pp. 119.95. Reviewed by PERCY MADDUX The theological scholar James Breech apparently-. has it figured that what Jesus didn't say may be as important as what he did say as recorded in the Gospels. He casts doubt on much of what Jesus is reported to have said. So. he takes eight sayings and 12 parables and discuss- es them in his book "The Silence of Jesus" which is very verbose and makes the reader yearn rather for the silence of James Breech. What the book amounts to is a collection of sermons or lectures .0n Jesus and his probable line of thoiight. ' ' Sunflower for health? ,,Oddly, a healthy quality was once atttributed to the sunflower. Ferry's 1881 seed catalog said, "It is raised as an absorbent of miasma in damp or ill -drained situa- tions, thus preventing fe- vers." Then it added, "The flowers are really quite at- tractive." 81000 BOOB OMB' mann 000© BOO 0000 01000 000 011000 00 D0© 00BOBODD BBB 000 ©000N 0000 000 0000 00000 ©00 00U 000©000© DUO 00 00000 000 ODOM 0000 BOLI 01300 0000 ©©O 0000 0111y Special Combine & Haying Equipment AUCTION Friday. June 24. '83 10 a.m. Sharp Plus our regular gigantic monthly consignment Auction Sale held fourth Friday of each month. Now a, Used Equipment including approximately 35 lata modal, self propelled b pull type combings; 60-100 tractors, skid steer loaders, plus 300 pieces of all types of farm equipment. SPECIAL NOTE: This sale features several consignments from a local bank. If you need a combine, tractor, haying equipment or anything else don't miss this auction. TERMS: Cash or good cheque day of sale. Not responsible for accidents on property. Lunch Rooth on grounds Trucking available anywhere Tractors selling nt approximately 2:30 pm. AUCTIONEERS: Cliff Gilbert & Alex Parr One of Ontario's Fastest Growing Monthly Farm Equipment Consignment Auctions. WAYNE WARD FARM EQUIPMENT Highway Ido. 6 Marton.:.nt. Phone: 1-519534-1638 OR 1-519434-2900 R 0 S W 0R D S ACROSS 1. Miss Turner 6. Biblical mountain 9. Catch 12. Extra 13. Noted daredevil 14. Mr. Charles 15. Sidelong look 16. Actress, Tuesday - 17. Viper 18. Eagerness 20. Exclamation 21. Louis -, comedian 22. Joanne of acting fame 26. High mountain 29. Expire 30. The pyramids. really 33. Composer Bartok 35. Melvin Bell'e's field 37. Arrestee': release money 38. Make (cracks) watertight 40. Diamond - 42. Filthy place 48. Hepburn film oldie, "The Little -" 46. One of the Joneses 48. Sen. Church's State: abbr. 49. English novelist 63. Reverence 64. Showy flower, for short 57. Semitic deity 58. Favorite 59. Wife of Zeus SIM©M MIMEO MMM �..R MMMM MEM MEM MINIM MMM. MMMMM MM MEM MMMMMMMM MMM MMM MOWN MMM/ MMM MMMM MMMMM MMM MMM MMMMMMMM MMM WM M■ so MM MOM MINN MINIM MMM MUM ME= MMM ME= MEMO 60. Sen. Glenn's State 61. Naval ofllcer: abbr. 62. 1.4ay 8uean, for one -63. Song ® W N 1. Singer Falans 2. Swear 3. Exigency 4. Bow's "mete" 5. Fresh 6. Miss Arden 7. Unworthy of 8. Pesst: 2 wds. (slang) 9. Artist Moses, et ei. 10. Facile 11. Kind 19. Bsseballer Carew 23. OPEC concern 24. Copes (with) 25. Actor Reiner 26. Alphabet trio 27. Meadow 28. Plunges 31. Brace and - 32. Like a fox 34. Ring name 86 Hnmor 89. Gladys or Ted 41. Pitcher Burdette 44. Indolent one 45. Automaton 46. Seam reinforcement 47. Man's name 50. Honolulu's island 51. Reclined 52. ice mass 66. Coach Parseghian 56, Laraine or Dennis CLEARING AUCTION Clearing Auction of Self -Propelled Combine, Four Tractors, Full Line of Farm Machinery and Misc. Items, to be held at Lot 16, Con. 8, Ellice Township, 4 miles north of Stratford on Highway No. 19 and 33/4 miles west on County Road No. 11, on: Saturday, June 18, 1983 1:00 p.m. MACHINERY: IH No. 203 self-propelled com- bine; MF No. 165 diesel tractor, 1,100 hours, with Allied No. 450 loader with hydraulic bucket and . dirt plate, A-1 shape; MF . No. 35 gas tractor, 2,800 hours; Farman Super "H"; Oliver No. 70 tractor; IH No. 230 10' swather; MF No. 33 15 run seed drill with fertilizer and grass seed; MF 130 bushel manure spreader; 3 pth Case 7' hay mower; IH No. 16 5 bar side rake; 3 pth 7' scraper blade; 3 pth Ford post hole digger; MF No. 12 baler; Allied 36' 6" pto driven grain auger; Ebersol 32' bale elevator; 16' flat rack and wagon; JD 10' trail cultivator; Case 81/2' trail cultivator; Gehl 50' belt driven hammer mill and endless belt; 3 pth spray motor 50 gallon weed sprayer; 5 sections of harrows and steel pole; MF 10' wheel disc; 10' trail disc; George White 7' single auger back -in snow blower; 2 sets of drag cultivators. MISC. ITEMS: Two wheel trailer; cutter; two sets of tractor chains; table saw and '/2.;MP, motor; blacksmith anvile; sleigh bells; Unive' milker pump and piping; DeLaval cream separator; circle saw; pile of scrap iron; some hand tools, forks, and shovels. NOTE: This machinery is in good working order and is in excellent shape. Also, not many small items, so plan to be on time. Auctioneer or Proprietor not responsible for accidents on day of sale. Proprietor: EDGAR WETTLAUFER. 2714438 Auctioneer: JOHN NICHOLSON Milverton. 595-8596 CLEARING AUCTION SALE Of Farm Machinery, for: 'MIKE NIEUWHOF Harriston, to be held at Gray's Auction Cen- tre,' corner of Hwys. 87 & 89, 1 mile west of Harriston, on: Thursday, June 16, 1983 6:00 p.m. TRACTORS: IH 624 diesel, 60 hp, 4,300 hours, hydraulic outlets, 16.9 x 30 rear chains for IH; MF 135 diesel loader, 1,980 hours. EQUIPMENT: No. 68 NH Super Hayliner baler; No. 272 NI 7' cutditioner, 2 years old; 3 pth swath turner; rack and 8 ton wagon; 3 pth NH 707 harvester; 16' Load King self -unloading box and 10 ton wagon with flotation tires; 3 pth fertilizer spreader; 6' single auger McKee snow blower; IH 4 furrow 14" trip beam plow; 16' chain harrows; 3 pth sprayer with fiberglass tank; pto portable Gehl hammer mill; Kool forage blower; 50 amp windpower generator on wheels; 3 pth grader blade; IH 81/2' vibra shank cultivator; 30' pipe elevator and motor; mineral box; round bale feeder; old trailer; defogger; 2 silo pipes and straw hood; NI 175 bushel 2 beater spreader; water trough; NI trail mower; MTD 5 hp riding mower; De Laval stainless steel dumping station with 150' line and hooks; 2 stainless steel Chore Boy claws; vacuum line; 1 hp electric motor; gravity box and 7 ton wagon; gravity box and wagon; NH 616 harvester and pickup; other consignments will be taken. This is a good offering of machinery. Farm sold. From HAROLD NEWMAN'S TRUCKING BUSINESS: Large fan and motor; flares; welding rods; scoop shovels; chain binds; logg- ing chains: and other small items to be sold at 6:00 p.m. TERMS: Cash or cheque with proper ID day of sale. Any corrections given verbally day of sale. Owner or Auctioneers not responsible for accidents day of sale. Auctioneers: BARRY & KEITH GRAY (519)338-3722 or 343-3607 Too much bench time slows you down. Get active. Get in shape and put yourself in the clear. Fitness is fun. Try some. AMMIrjaMin AUCTION SALE Of Appliances, Furniture, Antiques, Dishes and Misc. Items, for: ESTATE OF LORNE STEWART Wroxeter. Sale will be held in the Kurtzville Community Centre, located 2 miles north of Listowel on 23 Hwy., turn west at Gowanstown and go 4 miles west to Kurt- zville, on: Tuesday, June 21, 1983 6:00 p.m. APPLIANCES: GE 24" electric stove; Thor wringer washer; Annex wood stove; small size Franklin stove. FURNITURE: Chesterfield and chair; platform rocker; Duncan Phyfe coffee table; vinyl covered Lazy Boy chair; chrome rocking arm- chair; coffee and end tables; table lamps; 2 door china cabinet; GE portable B&W TV; Westinghouse radio -record player; swag lamp; wooden kitchen table with leaf and 4 chairs; utility table; stool; wooden clothes horse; floor Tamp; bookcase; small tables; hostess chair; Sparton radio -record player; small B&W por- table TV; Hoover vacuum cleaner; 2 wall hang- ings; fern stand; bedroom suite consists of bed, dresser and chest of drawers; clothes hamper; night table; dresser and mirror; bed- ding and linens. DISHES: Assortment of good and everyday dishes; old good pieces; silver and glass; pots and pans; jugs and crocks. ANTIQUES: Child's wicker doll buggy; wicker rocker and armchairs; table desk; lady's writing desk; variety of coal oil lamps and lights; round wicker parlour table; toilet pieces; washboard; china cabinet, buffet; Singer treadle sewing machine; odd wooden chairs; wicker pet basket; 2 wash tables; cast sail boat; bronze In- dian head book ends; small tables; pictures and frames; crock churn; wooden extension table; •20 milk cans (80 lbs.); pine blanket box; trunk; vanity dresser with full length mirror; dresser and mirror. MISC. ITEMS: Garden and handyman tools; garden wheelbarrow; push lawn mower; lawn chairs;. rinse tubs; 20" air fan; baseboard heater; plus misc. items. TERMS: Cash or cheque with proper ID sale day. Executors or Auctioneer not responsible for accidents or loss of property sale day. Auctioneer: BOB GILMORE 485 Victoria Ave. S., Listowel. 291-3489 AUCTION SALE Of Appliances, Furniture, Antiques, Dishes and Garden Tools for: MRS. JEAN JACK In the Village of Moorefield. Sale held at the 'residence, on: Saturday, June 25, 1983 12:00 noon APPLIANCES: 30" electric coppertone stove; Admiral medium size refrigerator; Maytag automatic washer; Westinghouse electric dryer (both like new); Beatty wringer washer; Cold - spot 12 cu. ft. chest deepfreeze; small elec- trical appliances. FURNITURE: Chesterfield and chair; Rogers Majestic stereo radio -record, console model; oak library table; portable colour TV; coffee and end tables; chesterfield and 2 chairs (older style); wooden dining room extension table with arborite wood grain top; 6 swivel kitchen chairs; telephone table; card table; magazine rack; hall mirror set; Queen Ann coffee table with glass top; Bernina portable electric sewing machine and cabinet; studio couch; lamps; foot stool; continental double bed; dresser with mirror, matching dressing table with wing side mirrors; bunk beds; two 3/4 -size spool beds, springs and mattresses; bedding and linens; pictures and frames. DISHES: Royal Doulton (Marie); Nippon pieces; partial dinner set; glass, Cornflower, good pieces; complete set of Adams silverware and chest; 3 piece tea service; silver pieces; every- day dishes; pots and pans. ANTIQUES: Pulford 8 day 1878 Ansonio shelf clock; box of ladies' Centennial clothes; slope top table desk (good); sewing cabinet; press back nurser rocker; oval pedestal parlour table; wicker armchair and rocker; half round end table; set of 5 wooden chairs (Canadiana style); 3 matching wooden chairs; settee rocker and armchair; parlour table; corner what -not; press back high chair; drop leaf table: wooden hall tree; wooden extension table with leaves; buffet with back mirror; pine blariket box; coal ,oil lamp; coal oil lantern; brass pail; 3 piece toilet set; dresser and mirror. MISC. ITEMS: Turf -Boy as push lawn mower: garden tools; lawn chairs; '/2" drive socket set: boy's 10 speed bicycle; shopping cart; bear trap; quilting frames and clamps; plus misc. items. TERMS: Cash or cheque with prdper ID sale day. Owner or Auctioneer not responsible for accidents or loss of property sale day. Owner giving up home to live in Nursing Home. Auctioneer: BOB GILMORE 485 Victoria Ave. S., Listowel. 291-3489