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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-05-01, Page 5THURSDAY, MAY 1, 10'62 Wright Specials CLARK'S PORK & BEANS, 20 oz, tins 2 for 31c SHERRIFF'S PUDDING or 3 pkgs. LUSHUS JELLY POWDERS 29c OLD SOUTH GRAPEFRUIT JUICE, large 48 oz. tin.. 23c PEANUT BUTTER 16 oz, Jar 29c PURE LARD 2 ib 25c 2 for 69c 3 lb 1.05 QUAKER MUFFETS 2 Pkgs. 29c The Whole Wheat Toasted Cereal I WHITE or CHOCOLATE CAKE MIX 1 Pair Salt & Pepper Shakers ALSWEET MARGARINE WRIGHT'S SUPERIOR FOOD MARKET Phone 77 Free Delivery Playwright Anita Loos' writes about Emmet Kelly, famous eircus clown who became a living carica- ture to make people laugh. She tells in this Sunday's '(May 4) issue of The American Weekly, exclusively with Detroit Sunday Times, " how Kelly makes every member of his audience feel he is performing for hint alone. BORN COKRRT — At Scott Memorial hospital on April 2dth, to Mr. and We. Conrad Eckert, RR' Seaforth, a son ANDERSON—At Scott. Memorial Hospital, on April 28th, to Mr. and Mrs. David And- erson, Londesboro, a daughter DALTON — At Scott Memorial Hospital on Apra 28th, to Mr. and Mrs. Percy Dalton RR2 Walton, a son ".. e the willingness to find a way" A man who started a new business a few years ago recently wrote to pay tribute to the bank's part in helping to make it a success: "We were fortunate in having, as our banker, a man who could combine with experience the willingness to find a way that called not for experience alone but for imagination as well." The chartered banks are forever alert to the fresh problems, the changing needs of their customers. At all times, in all your banking problems, you can depend , on your local bank to bring experience and imagination to the task of helping you to "find a way". This advertisement, based on an actual letter, is presented here by THE BANKS SERVING YOUR COMMUNITY Town of Seaforth Tax Pre -Payment Receipts For 1952 THE TOWN OF SEAFORTH WILL PAY 4 PER CENT PER ANNUM UP TO AUGUST 31, 1952, ON ALL PREPAID 1952 TAXES Certificates and full particulars may be obtained from the Town Clerk's Office in the Town Hall D. H. Wilson TREASURER THE SEAFORTH NEWS TOWN TOPICS Sunday visitor s with Mr. and Mrs, James McNaarn were Mr, Maurice Hewlett and Terry, Karen and Tim- my of Toronto. 1VIr. Fred Reeves, who has been a patient in Scott ,Memorial Hospital for the past month is convalescing at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr, and Mrs, Mauriee Hewlett, Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Grummett and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gulley of Toronto spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Grummett. Mr. and Mrs, E. M. Flynn of Lan- don wore guests of Mr. and Mrs, E. H, Close •on Sunday. Mr, Bruce Frieday, Kitchener, spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ii, Frieday, Mr. Thos. Morris, Harriston, spent the weekend with his mother Mrs. Josephine Morris. Miss Mary Devereaux, Toronto, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. L. Devereaux, Mrs. Geo. McDonald, Stratford, spent the weekend with her son-in- law and daughter, Mr, and Mrs, Ralph McFadden. Mr. Dennis Maloney, Toronto, is spending this week at his home here Mrs. Doug, Knowles, Exeter, spent a few days last week with her mother Mrs. J. Sclater. ' SPORT SHORTS There isn't any startling softball news except that there is going to be a ladies' softball team and pro- bably a men's Legion softball club. There was a practice on Monday night of this week in which a goad number turned out. There is still some hope that Sea - forth might have a team for some of the younger boys because this week we were asked "How are we ex- pected to have a ball club when there are no younger players to come up?" We would like to answer this but the way things are now we can't say. EGMONDVILLE Mr. and Mrs. Pence Johnston and family, who have spent sons years in Wellington, have disposed of their business and home there, and re- turned to this vicinity, and at pre- sent are visiting with Mrs. John- ston's mother, Mrs. David Stephen- son. Miss Mayme Watson, Reg. N. of St Joseph Hospital, London, spent the weekend with hey parents, Mr. and Mrs. J, S. Watson. Miss Olive Blake visited at her home in Ashfield twp. on Tuesday. The April meeting of the W.A. and W.M.S. was held at the home of Mrs. Stanley Jackson. Mrs. Jas. Mc- Intosh, the W.A. president, opened the meeting with a poem, hymn 441 was sung followed by the Lord's Prayer in unison. The devotional part of the meeting was taken by Mrs. Roy McGeoch and Mrs. Elmer Stephenson. 32 members answered the roll call with a verse containing the word "grow" after which the minutes of the ,previous meeting were read and adopted. Mrs. Ivan Forsyth and Mrs. Stan Jackson ren- dered a pleasing duet. The Treas- surer's report was given and busi- ness period conducted after which Mrs. A. W. Gardiner, W.M.S. presi- dent, opened .her portion .of the meeting with a .poem followed by prayer. Hymn 86 was sung. Miss McKenzie read the scripture taken from 16th chapter of Mark, verses 1-20. Mrs. A. Forbes led in prayer. The business period was conducted. Mrs. D. A. McMillan, who was guest speaker, ably gave an Easter Thanksgiving message. Hymn 148 was sung. A delicious lunch was served by group 1. The meeting closed with the Benediction. COMMUNITY CENTRE Friday Night, May 2 Sponsored by the Seaforth Agricultural Society In aid of the Society's Building Fund $5 cash prize drawn every hour ou the hour Desjardines Orchestra Admission 50e Lance Stratford Casino SATURDAY, MAY 3 Bobby Downs and his 10 Piece Orchestra • COMING — WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 Lionel Thornton's Casa Royal Orchestra Adm. 50c Thirst knows no season DRINK NOG nlnck xeG. LONDESBORQ Mrs. J. Barker, Toronto, spent the weekend with her sister and bro- ther-in-law Dr. Robb. Grierson and Mas. Grierson. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown, Lon- don, visited recently with Mr, and Mrs. Dave Ewan, Miss Laudy Young has returned from visiting with her niece at Brantford and friends at London, Mrs. Wm. Lyon, who spent the winter with her daughter and son- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. 3, Moroso, Hamilton, has returned home. Next Sunday, May 4, the hours of church service will be at 10 o'clock D.S.T. which will continue through the summer, The Londesboro W. A. held their April meeting in the Sunday School room of the church, with the presi- dent, Mrs, Bert Shobbrook in charge, Mrs. E. Wood r'had the scrip- ture. The minutes of last meeting were read and adopted. A card of appreciation was read from Mrs. 0. Adams. A committee was named to buy a table and more dishes for the church. The roll call was answered by an exchange of bulbs, plants, etc. Program Committee for May: Mrs. Lovett and Mrs. Mountain, The roll call for May to be answered by "Ad- vantage of living in the country". Piano solos were given by Marguer- ite Lyon, and Mrs, Vincent conduct- ed a bible quiz. Meeting elosed with a hymn and Benediction. Lunch was served. There were 20 present, iIS THERE A HOCKEY PLAYER IN THE HOUSE ? 1 (By M. C. Doig in The Family Herald and Weekly Star), There have been millions of words written and spoken about hockey in the last thirty* years, Coaches, trainers, managers, players, rink owners, have all had their say. Now that the 1951-52 hockey season is drawing to a close, we feel that something should be written or spoken from the viewpoint of the mother who washes the hockey un- derwear, and the father who dodges under it day after day as it hangs drying on the line in the kitchen. This is not being written in order to help ourselves. Our youngest is in his last year of junior hockey. We are nearly out of the woods. But think of all the thousands of moth- ers and fathers whose troubles are just beginning! And we were lucky. There were practically no hockey teams for our hays. to play on until they had, at least, reached the age of twelve. But now! There are Pee Wee teams, Bantams, Midgets, Ju- veniles, A. B. C and D; there are in- numerable grades of intermediate teams; and so on up to the old sweats who are grizzled around the ears and who spend most of their spare time telling the young fry how, in THEIR day, hockey teams played sixty minutes without a rest. The only time they had a chance to sit down was when they committed a misdemeanor and landed in the penalty box. Every year there are more and more artificial ice centres going up throughout the land. Go to any one of then; on a Saturday morning and what do you find? Little boys, six and seven years old, in full hockey array, gouging, slashing, cross-check- ing and high sticking like their arch - types in the senior league. They wear hockey sweaters with crests. hockey stockings, hockey pants, and so help us, jock straps. They have skates better than professional hock- ey players had thirty years ago. Our junior player paid more for his skates and hockey boots than the taxes were on one hundred acres fifty years ago, That's right. Do they really need all that equip- ment? And if they need it, why can't it be made of firmer stuff—chain mail, for instance? Instead of wool- len hockey stockings in which the least break can start a galloping run, let us have jackets and stock- ings of flexible chain mail that can be •passed on from father to son and end up in a museum about the year 2507. Where the holes come from in those sweaters and stockings would baffle anyone. And they mushroom like an atomic cloud if they are not stopped. And who is there to stop them? Mother, of course. She is sup- posed to drop everything; stop in the middle of washing her hair, pause with her lipstick half on, let everything go by the board while she darns the darn stuff. Another thing we have against the erection of so many rinks and arenas is that it is just one more step towards paternalism and the welfare state. We have a creek run- ning through our barnyard that, ten or fifteen years ago, was quite a re- spectable rink for all the boys from surrounding farms and the nearby village. We have seen as many as twenty-five boys and young men on that stretch of ice on a Saturday afternoon. There have been tines when the whole family carried water the night ,before from the pump in the stable to flood that icer But show us the youngsters today who will try to make their own ice! It has to be made for then or they won't play, The time is coning, we feel it in our bones, when no old men will ever do any reminisciiaig in their arm chairs, "I'll never forget the time I fell, through the ice behind the tannery, Man was that water ever cold; And maybe I didn't get a fleecing when I got home." You have to be on a creek or a river or a pond or a lake before you can fall through the ice. You'll never fall through the ice of an artificial ice arena and get yourself wet. Not in a thousand years. And somehow, to us ,who will never see fifty again; it sears toe bad. Absurdity. reaches a new high in the skate ' sharpening busmess. There is enough money spent on skate sharpening in Canada from October until April to appreciably reduce the national debt, Is it neces- sary? The parents of today's hockey players used to play hockey, too. Hut their k,ati hung occasionally on the nail beside the kitchen door. They were nut everhe4t.in„ ly at the skate sharpener's bench, Then there is the business of get- ting them up to go to work the morn- ing after a hockey game. That is really fun. Upstairs, downstairs, up, down, up, down, "Son, breakfast is ready." "Boy, you're going to be late", "Son, do you want to lose your job?" We know be is tir;,ed, ex- hausted, worn aut. We know he went as hard as he could go last night. We know he scored two badly needed goals, But after all, there is such a thing as work in the world; useful work that must be done whether he feels like doing it or not. And so we get him up and off to work—a little late perhaps, but still to work. And his boss, being an ex - hockey player himself overlooks his lateness. Being an ex -hockey player himself he may even congratulate him on those two goals. And we are by no means sure that this attitude is good for junior hockey players. But it is the everlasting washing of underwear that gets us down. And it has to be washed. If it isn't washed, it smells. It smells TER- RIBLE, A hockey kit bag came to our house onee that was memorable. The equipment, underwear and all, 1 had been shoved damply into it at, the end of the last game on Aprils 26th, That kit bag was handed to us l on the 1st of July with the remark "I guess there's some stuff in there that should be washed," Should be washed! A miracle of understate- ment. The underwear was covered with mildew and was blue molded, We went to work en it with a power washing machine, soft water, and plenty of home-made soap. It never did look exactly right, but we im- proved it, We improved it enor- mously. We improved it so much that the owner remarked admiring- ly, "Gosh, is that really my under- wear?" While on the subject, something should be said about that huttonless underwear that is hoisted upon ig- norant and unsuspecting junior hockey players. Once a suit of that stuff gets tangled up and turned in- side out in a washing machine, the laundress might as well give up. She could sew on eight buttons in the length of time it takes her to straighten it out. Are today's youngsters so much faster than Howie Morenz and Aurel Joliet that it takes.two or three ex- tra then to keep an eye on them? The old champs who have passed on and who haunt today's arenas, as no doubt they do, must often smile to themselves at the array of officials it takes to run a modern hockey game. But do all our grumblings and dis- satisfactions keep us away from hockey games? They do not, and they will not. Tomorrow night we expect to be hanging over the boards where a flying puck can knock our set of store teeth down a throat that is hoarse from yelling, "Come on, son! Don't let these birds put it over you!" And will we think there are too many linesmen and referees then? We will probably be demanding a couple more, be- cause the ones who are out there are unquestionably blind, or crook- ed, or both. N.B. Since writing the second paragraph we have had some had news. Our junior is NOT in his last year of junior hockey. He is in his second last year. There is a new rul- ing. If the player is still nineteen on rz 1 the first of August the ran play junior the following season. Our junior's birthday is Aug. 1a. All, me: BRODHAGEN Mies Ordela Wolfe: of Detroit spent tate week end with Mr. and Mrs, La- vern Wog,. and other relatives. Mr, 111111 Mrs. Don Stanek, Warren and. Janet, of Kitchener, r, with Mr, and Mrs, A. 16. Querengesser, Mrs. Elwood Smart and Carolyn and Mr. Glenn Bennewies of Windsor with Mr. and Mrs., John L. Beunewies. Quite a number from here attended a shower for Mr. and Mrs; Robert Amstein of Kitchener in the Town Hall, Mitchell, on 'ruese'ay evening. Members of the Luther League at. tended the Luther League Rally at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Ellice. on Sunday afternoon and evening. Flowers adorned the altar of our church al the Sunday morning service in memory of the late Charles Wolfe, who passed away two years ago, Apr. 24. They were placed by his fancily. Parents, Teachers and Pupils night was held et the church on Friday evening, and Miss Velma Pomrenke showed slides. A Junior choir sang several hymns aceon:Partied by Calvin Hiegel. Lunch was served in the base- ment by the Married Couples Group. A Ministerial Conference, Stratford District, was held at the church on Wednesday with about 36 pastors and delegates present. Dinner was served in the basement. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Querengesser and Mr. and Mrs. Russell Sholdiee and family visited with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Querengesser in Stratford on Sunday. The Luther League had a social evening in the church basement an Monday evening and had as their guests this year's confirmation class. Mrs. Wm. Mueller accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fischer and family of Seaforth and Mr, Rudolph Fischer to Milverton on Sunday to visit her sis- ter Mrs. Sohwindt. Mr. Wilbur Hoegy spent the week end in Detroit with his sister Mrs. Ed Mckenzie and Mr. McKenzie, Master Roger Sholdice entertained a number of his little friends on the occasion of Isis seventh birthday on Wednesday. HENSALL BORN—At Mrs Blooper's Nurs- ing Home, Exeter, on Saturday, April 26th to Mr. and Mrs, Bruce Koehler, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Morenz and Billie and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Adams and family of Dashwood, .lir. Den Adams, London, and Miss Donna Taylor. 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