Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1967-03-23, Page 7THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1967 ZURICH CITIZENS HEWS PAGE SEVEN ST. JOSEPH and DRYSDALE Alfred Ducharme, Correspondent half played its role .in a not -to - pleasant way, greeting us with high winds andplenty of snow and stormy weather. It all came suddenly like a flash from the blue without warning. Dur- ing that stormy period it had dumped much snow and in some parts had crippled the motor traffic with snowplows busy clearing the Rhighways and byways. On Sunday last a bridal shower was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Denis Charrette for their daughter, Rose Ann, a bride-to-be in May. There were several ladies who took part and reported an enjoyable afternoon. Miss Charrette was the recipient of many useful gifts which, will be needed in her married life. The young bride-to-be was happy over the response she received from the guests attending, and as well their gifts, and as usual at such gatherings the many good wish- es pessed on to her. Lunch and refreshments were served. Miss Charrette thanked the ladies and all who took part for their presence to make the shower a success. Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Sopha were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Deitrieh and family, Zurich. Leon Bedard has been a pa- tient in St. Joseph's Hospital forthe past five weeks, recov- ering from surgery. At time of writing Mr. Bedard has im- proved from his surgery but ap- parently there were other ail- ments which set in, causing a delay in his improvement. We hope Mr Bedard will take a favorable turn for the better and return to his home fully restored. Mr. and Mrs. Leo P. Du- charme and family, of Grand Bend, were Saturday last visi- tors with yours truly and Mrs. Ducharme. The entering of the month of March came in like a lamb, but when arriving on its last In some centres it did much property damage and as well injury to many lives who were travelling at the time. March is a month noted for blustry weather and what all you can expect, but since it had entered meek and mild no one had ex- pected the worst to come. According to the prediction of our ancestors, passion week has always been noted as a week of disturbance, broken weather, cold days, warm days, disagreeable days and what -all, to make the week a bad one. The old people who followed the signs for many past years say that all of that must come before the opening day of spring. Farmers and others whose work is in the open watches closely what Good Fri- days has In store. Whatever the day will mean the next 40 days will be like it. If it is a wet Good Friday, 'it will mean a delay for farmers to work on their land. Therefore they will guide themselves accordingly. If you are •a believer in signs, base your plans on the proph- ecy of the old timers, try to keep on the safe side. BEARD BEAT OLD AND NEW TYME DANCE Zurich Community Centre SATURDAY, APRIL 1 $75 IN PRIZE MONEY • Neatest Beard $20 Couple in Oldest Costume Longest Beard $15 Shortest Beard $10 Grayest Beard $5 Darkest Beard 45 Best Men in Oldest Costume $3 Best Lady in Oldest Costume JUDGING TIME: 11 P.M. Music by Hen Ducharme and "The Chandaliers" Regular Admission: $1.25 Advance Tickets: Special Guests: GENE DUCHARME, KAREN LITTLETON (Local Talent) $1.00 SHUR-GAIN Sale Barn Pig Starter -- special feed for critical period New SHUR-GAIN Sale Barn Starter is formulated for pigs that have passed through sale barns or were moved from farm to faun before you bought them. It is a low energy feed, containing a high level of antibiotics to combat setbacks, help avoid disease problems, eliminate dangers of gorging and get them off to a good start. fad scala M. DEITY and SON DIAL 236.4951 ZURICH Lutheran Women Discuss Topics The topic of the March meet- ing of the Lutheran Church Women was "Lent", its origin, its meaning and its purpose. It was presented by the com- mittee in charge, Mrs. Carl Wil- lert, Mrs. 0. Moore, Mrs. A. Merner and Mrs. Stuart Thiel. Mrs. Blackwell also presented a review of Lutheran church history in Canada, from the time of the Danish expedition in 1619 to the time when the Hay mission was organized by Rev. Muenzinger, in 1861. The steering committee re- ported that eight quilts had been completed, two for the dormitory of the seminary in Waterloo, and six for the bales which are being assembled for Lutheran World Relief. Mater- ial for layettes was given out to be completed. It was decided to serve lunch on the night of the Lutheran youth program, and also to pro- vide for a supper meeting for the accolytes of the past three years, at which time Joseph Wooden will address them. 0 Planning Auction Huron County 4-H Swine Club members will be auctioning one of their purebred gilts at a sale to be held at the Clinton Fair Grounds barn in Clinton on Wednesday, March 29, commen- cing at 1 p:m. There will be 30 lots including La comb e, Landrace and Yorkshires. Many of the gilts consigned are rich tin record of perform- ance <RO'P) "blood lines" and every individual can be consid- ered worthy of purchase by a breeder for the general im- provement of his swine +herd. All consignments will be guar- anteed as breeders by the 4-11 members, and have been in- spected for health by a govern- ment veterinarian. These gilts have been bred to top ranking premium boars. Catalogues may be obtained from Filson and Robson, auc- tioneers, .or the Ontario Depart- ment •of Agriculture, Clinton. 0 VARNA NEWS Speeia1 services will be held in the XTnited Church on Thurs- day evening of this 'week in Varna, and on Friday .evening in the Goshen United Church. Baster service will be at the usual time next Sunday morn- ing: Rev. M. Morrison will be in cherge of all services. An ,exciting •game of broom - ball was played Hast Saturday morning between Varna and and Goshen juniors at the local rink, with the Varna boys win- ning. Despite the stormy evening a fair .crowd enjoyed the variety concert last Friday evening and especially the pictures showed by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Mid- dleton. KIM'S THE GREATEST My daughter had a birthday this week, her sixteenth. That's quite a milestone in a woman's life. Rather like the fortieth milestone, except in reserve. Life is beckoning that girl, even though it's not waving. I'd give my right arm for ready to drop off from bursitis, and I've already offered it to the highest medical -research bidder. And she'd take it, 1 can still write cheques with it, and it still works well enough to reach for my wallet. Oh, I shouldn't be cynical about my baby. She's the only one I 'have. Thank God. ;She's been causing me pain- ful pleasure since the day she was born. Any normal kid, as you know, is born at 4 .a.m. Kim popped, literally popped, into the world at ,noon, And my wife has never forgiven me. The Old Girl began to grunt and groan about 4 a.m., but didn't want to disturb the doc- tor's sleep, and told me it would be about 24 hours before anything happened. She knew all about it, having already had a on, who took about 36 hours getting tout of the nest. I knew from ,nothing. So we drove sedately to the hospital about 9 a.m., and booked in. She suggested I go to work, as there was no point hanging around hang -doggedly. 1 said, fearfully, but with the utmost relief, "You're sure you don't need me?" She retorted (bitterly, I learned later), "Don't lie 'silly. It'll be hours." This was about 10 a.m. phoned the hospital at noon to .task if it was OK to drop in. on my wife and hold her hand. The nurse chortled, "Congratu- lotions! You have a fine baby girl." And the kid has been getting me in dutch ever since. There's nothing basically wrong with Kim. Except that she's too much like her mother, as far as I'•m concerned. And too much like her father, as far as her mother is concerned. Aside from this, she's a per- fectly normal, infuriating teen- ager. That is, she inhabits the bath room only about five hours a day. She hates school, .but her, whole social life is centred there. She loves privacy, with. 'some infernal machine blatting beat -nolo. She thinks her ;per- ents are the square root of two, the .only concession she will make to mathematics. She doesn''t like liver, ,oysters, mushrooms, • vegetables, salad, onions or curry, which 'makes for a bland diet at • our place. She likes steak, imported•eheese and any fruit that is out of season, whi&h makes for an ex- pensive xpensive grocery bill. Like all teenage girls, she is not temperamental. You can rely on her moods. Either furi- ous or radiant. She claims her parents won't even try to "communicate". This invariably occurs just at bed -time. She'd love an extra hour of communication. Pro- nounced gossip. Her choice of apparel is put- ting her mother over the brink. :Rather than wear the nice matching sweater and shirt she got for Christmas she'll haul out an old turtle -neck I got from the Red Cross when I was overseas, navy blue, matching it with pink mesh stockings and an ancient mustard suede jac- ket that even her mother threw out, and sally to school. Nothing: warnings, threats, and appeals to deity, stop her from waltzing around the house M her bare feet. But she still has an endear- ing quality from her childhood; if she reaches for the salt, she spills her milk; if she makes a batch of cookies, it takes three days to clean up the kitchen. What does she want to be? A nurse? Agh! A teacher? Yeuch! I think her secret am- bition is to be a long-haired, shouting singer with a group. Unfortunately, her hair is so curly that if she let it grow long, she'd look like a Zulu war- rior. But she sure as hell can shout. Especially when she's in the wrong. As you've probably gathered, I dote on my d a u g h t e r. I wouldn't trade her for a brand new Cadillac. I'd have to have. somebody offer ere a Rolls- Royce. Speaking of cars I guess I've no kick. She's been 16 for two whole days, and still hasn't asked me when she can get her driving license. A real scatter- brain. 4 BROADLOOM 501 Du Pont Nylon Broadloom Only $7.95 Sq. Yd, See Our Wide Range of Corlons • Linoleums • Congoleums SPRING -FILLED MATTRESSES Priced from $24 up CONTINENTAL UNITS -- ALL SIZES WEIi TLA] 1 FURNITURE Main Street •a.,d Zurich Renew Your Subscription Now DASHWOOD and DISTRICT (Intended for last week) Personals Mrs, George Tomilson has re- turned home after spending two months with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Walker and family at Pitts- burgh, New York. The Dashwood WI members are reminded of the bus trip Monday, March 27, at 9:45 a.m. Mrs. Milford Merner is in charge. Why snot bring a friend? Mrs. Ken McCrae, Mrs, Addison Tiernan and Mrs. Hugh Boyle are busy planning an old- fashioned dance far April 14. Watch for later ads. Mr. and Mrs. Syd Baker and Mr. and Mrs. Ted Webb and girls spent Sunday at Port Col- borne with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Huffman. Miss Kathy Oke, bride -elect of this month, was honored at a shower Saturday evening at the home of Mrs. Ken Keller. Hostesses were Mrs. Elgin Keller, Mrs. Keith Keller and Mrs. Lynn Williams, all of London. Spending some holidays with Mrs. Freida Keller are her daughter, Mrs. Roland Gibson and grandchildren Rusty and Sherry, of London. Mr. Gibson is in Toronto attending school there. SPRING TUNE -IJP Have Your Tractor Completely Re -conditioned We have complete equipment to clean and re -set Injectors on Your Diesel Tractor. Call Us Today for a Free Estimate! C. Ge FARM SUPPLY RR 3, Zurich Phone 236-4934 See "CANADA 67"—e thrilling Welt Disney film In at the Telephone pad Ilion. • good enough? good enough? good enough? good enough? never! And that `never' is probably the most important word in our vocabulary: because it means that we are constantly on our toes—looking, searching, planning for improvements.. Improvements in methods and equipment —to give you even better service. Our engineers—at Bell, at Northern Electric (our manufacturing subsidiary) and at the Northern Electric Laboratories --are now working on telephone and transmission ideas that will make your phone even more useful, faster and more convenient. Change for the sake of change? Never! But always change where change is needed for the sake of improved service to you, our customer. Bell Canada