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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1966-11-10, Page 7THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1966 ZURICH. CITIZENS NEWS PAGE SEVEN OPEN HOUSE AT AREA SCHOOLS—The board of trustees of the Hay School Area are planning open house in the next two weeks at both the schools belonging to the area. Top photo shows the front of the area school located in Hensall, while the lower photo shows the northeast corner of the school in Zurich. All ratepayers are being extended an invitation to visit the schools during open house. Crop Report While corn harvesting is pro- gressing favorably, there is still a large acreage of fall plowing yet to be done. Harvesting of turnips and sugar beets is still taking place. 28 OUNCES King's Choice Tomatoes - - _ 29 Jeli6O Powders FANCY — 15 Oz. 11 Del Mote Peaches _ - - - 2/49c CHOICE — 20 Oz. York Green Beans _ _ _ .- 2/45c Oranges, 180s - - - - 3 Doz. $1 LUCKY DOLLAR FOOD MARKET ZURICH t` IT"TetMot=itt, -OF- =YEARS GONE -BY- Y 40 Years Ago NOVEMBER, 1926 50 Years Ago NOVEMBER, 1916 John Decker, Sr., has pur- chased the house and land of Peter Kropf, just east of the village of Zurich, for the sum of $1800, and will get posses- sion early in December. J. Haberer and Sons, of Zur- ich, local apiarists, last week shipped 13,000 pounds of buck- wheat honey. Their total crop for the season was about 45,000 pounds. A large quantity of beans have been marketed at Hensall during the past few weeks, and the price is $5.00 per bushel at the elevators. Many hunters throughout this area have been out the past few days, looking for black squirrels, and quite a number have been bagged to date. Percy Roles, of Hensall, has just received word of the death of his brother, Ernie, who was wounded while fighting on the front lines in France. The community was cast into a deep gloom last Saturday morning upon learning of the sudden death during the night of Simon Dietrich, of the Baby- lon Line. Apparently Mr. Diet- rich went •out through the night to chase strange dogs "molesting his cattle, and was found dead in the field the next morning due to a severe heart attack. Miss Alice Hoffman, of Dash- wood, who is attending normal school at Stratford, spent the long week -end with her parents, James Park, who left Hen- sall a short time ago for To- ronto, is now in California, where he has accepted a good position. Thomas Drummond, while working in his barn recently, fell from the hay loft and sus- tained severe injuries. The Liberals have decided not to run a candidate in Huron riding, and so the contest will be between Alex Neeb, Conserv- ative, and W. D. Medd, Pro- gressive. 25 Years Ago NOVEMBER, 1951 Nowell Geiger has purchased the fine 100 -acre fram on the Goshen Line north, known as the John A: Manson farm. Boxes will be packed in the Town Hall, Zurich, on Thurs- day afternoon for the boys who are overseas, and will be a long way from home this Christmas. H. Hoffman is building a new and up-to-date funeral home in the east end of the village of Dashwood, and hopes to have it completed before too long. The national war weapons drive for the municipality of Hensall will begin this week. The objective for Hensall is $1700, and for Kippen $400. Laird Mickle is chairman of the committee in charge. 15 Years Ago NOVEMBER, 1951 William Gossman, of Dash- wood, is in St. Joseph's Hos- pital, London, where he under- went a very serious operation. William O'Brien, Jr., who has been on the staff at the Bank of Montreal in Zurich for the past few years, has been noti- fied of his transfer to St. Marys. A bad mid -winter storm vis- ited these parts this week, and a considerable amount of snow and rain fell making streets almost impassable. The mer- cury dipped to about two de- grees below zero. A fine Hereford bull, belong- ing to Edward Schroeder, on the Zurich road, somehow man- aged to get out on the road Saturday evening and was hit by a pick-up truck from Kit- chener. It was almost instant- ly killed. Mrs. Wesley Merner left this week for Halifax, where she plans on spending some time with her daughter, Joan, and family. She also visited for a short time with old friends, Dr. and Mrs. W. D. Bryce, at Ot- tawa. 10 Years Ago NOVEMBER, 1956 The last professional wrest- ling show of the season is scheduled for next Thursday night in the Zurich Arena. Close to 1800 people attended the last one, and the crowd will likely be still larger for this program. Mrs. George Hess, of Hensall, returned to her home last week after undergoiong a major op- eration in Victoria Hospital, London. Alvin Walper was elected president of the D a s h w o o d Men's Club at the annual meet- ing on Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gascho have moved into the home they recently purchased from Dr. G. St. Pierre, in the westerly sec- tion of Zurich, . Both the turnip and sugar beet crops this year are well below normal, and farmers are badly disappointed with their returns. Jean Met chli at the argon in the ROD and GUN ROOM. Colonial Hotel GRAND BEND EVERY Thursday, Friday and Saturday Night Also Saturday Matinee IF YI t U BELIE E IN Ci RN SILAGE You need SHUR-GAIN 40% Dairy Sila-supplement Sweetened. By feeding SHUR-GAIN 40% Dairy Siia-supplement Sweetened you get the best out of your corn silage and most out of your milk cows. Drop in soon to your local SHUR-GAIN Feed Service Mill. We'll outline the SHUR-GAIN Dairy Sila- supplement Program and how it can work on your farm. 5113111k 2; .y qti:::;. ...n ,• teed service M. 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