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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, MARCH ,25, 1971
50 Years Ago
Mrs. P. Koehler, who rec-
ently sold dwelling place on
the Goshen north to Mr. Jacob
Kipfer, is holding an auction
sale on Saturday.
C. Preeter was elected as
president of the Zurich Athlet-
ic Association at the annual
meeting of the group on Mon-
day evening. The finances of
the Association are in a very
sound financial situation.
Considering the poor road
conditions, there was a large
amount of hogs shipped from
Hensall last week. Fariner's are
expecting to see lower prices,
so they want to clear out as
many as possible before this
happens.
A meeting was field in Varna
on Monday, to organize the
temperance forces for the
coming on April 18.
Mr. and Mrs. Weir Acheson,
who have disposed of the Com-
mercial Hotel in Hens 1,
have moved away from the
village.
E. Wurm and W. S. Rudy, of
Zurich, were in Parkhill invest•
igating the chances of starting
a butcher shop there, but due
to the lack of ice, they gave
up the idea.
40 Years Ago
Mrs. J, A, Mason, of the
Goshen Line, north, and who
has been at London for a week
or so owing to the operation of
her son, Donald, has returned
to her home.
E. Axt, Wm. Parig, Albert
Hess and David Fuss left short-
ly after midnight Tuesday
morning and drove to Jack
Miner's Bird Sanctuary near
Kingsville, Lake Erie, arriving
there at about six o'clock in
the morning, just in the best
hour to see a beautiful sight
of thousands of wild geese
come in off the lake and enjoy
their breakfast.
Statistics for 1929 show that
Perth raised 785, 049 bushels of
barley that year. Huron raised
1, 039, 890 bushels and Bruce
680, 281 bushels.
Miss Anna Datars is having
her millinery opening on Sat-
urday of this week, March 28,
and invites all ladies to come
in and look over her stock of
new and attractive millinery.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Weston,
of Bayfield were weekend vis-
itors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Herb Bender.
Fred Haberer and Ward Fritz
motored to Exeter on Wednes-
day where they exchanged Mr.
Haberer's Essex sedan for the
new Oldsmobile sedan, that
he recently purchased from C.
Fritz and Son.
25 Years Ago
- OF-
YEARS GONE
- BY-
John Foster, well-known
resident of the Zurich area for
many years, will on Sunday
celebrate his 96th birthday.
At the regular dinner meet-
ing of the Zurich Lions Club
on Monday night, Professor
Herb Kalbfleisch, of London,
was the guest speaker, and
concluded his address by touch-
ing on the necessity of Zurich
restoring it's library service.
Mrs. Allan Schwartzentruber
on Tuesday picked a fully
bloomed pansy in her flower
garden.
Construction of a new 50, 00(
building to house a motion
picture theatre is being plan-
ned in Grand Bend. The build-
ing will be owned and operat-
ed by A. Bosenberry.
R, H, Middleton was named
as president of the Ilensall
Chamber of Commerce, when
the group held their annual
meeting last week.
15 Years Ago
South Huron Hospital, Exeter
operated at a loss of $2, 000
in 1956, according to the bal-
ance sheet released by the
board of directors.
Mrs. Milton Oesch of town
was pleasantly surprised on
Friday evening when, after
practice, the choir members
honored her on her birthday.
This month marks the fiftdenth
year of her service as organist
and choir leader of the Evang-
elical U , B. church and she
was presented with crystal.
Mr. Alvin McBride of the
second concession Stanley has
sold his fine 100 acre farm to
Mr. Hugh Hendrick of the
Blue Water Highway, south of
St. Joseph, who gets possession
in the near future.
Mr. Ed Edighoffer, shoe
merchant of Zurich, and who
spent two months in Western
Canada, visiting with his
children and other friends has
returned to his business here.
10 Years Ago
Hensall's spring fair and
horse show will again be a
twilight event, directors of
the South Huron Agricultural
Society announced.
Meeting in special session
last Wednesday night, the
council of the village of Zur-
ich hired Gordon Surerus as
assessor, at a salary of $250
per year.
Mr. and Mrs. William Thiel;
Mrs, George Thiel, Mrs. And-
rew Thiel and Mrs. Wes Hug -
ill attended the funeral of an
aunt, Mrs. Francis Thiel, in
Preston.
Mrs. Beatrice Hess spent the
past weekend in Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wild
and family, Fenelon Falls,
visited with friends in Zurich
over the weekend.
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Belated congratulations to
our Prime Minister and his
bride. It was one of the big
upsets in March. The others
were Mohammed Ali taking
the clobbering of his life -time,
and me winning an agrument
with my wife.
Not from the first have I
been swept away by Mr. Trud-
eau's charisma, though the
women in my family were. At
times I have had serious doubts
about his attitude and decis-
ions.
But when a man has enough
sense to wait until he is 51 to
get married, I feel our country
is in safe hands.
Good gravy, if I had waited
until 51, and I'm not there
yet, I'd probably be able to
ski and scuba -dive. And I
might even be prime minister.
And a.millionaire.
' But when a man marries at
25, he's had it. I -Ie has just
thrown away the best twenty-
five years of his life; the sec-
ond twenty-five, that is.
For the first ten or twelve
years, he's swimming against
the tide, In more prosaic terms,
he is spending about 140 out
of the 168 hours in every week
sorting out his kids, his fin-
ances and his woman. That
leaves hint 28 hours to float,
and dont forget he's going
against the tide. So where
does he float? Downstream,
that's where.
That's why so many. married
men of 50 are washed-up. On
shore, or otherwise.
If he can keep his head above
water during that first period,
he's a mighty strong swimmer.
But in the process, he has
developed hardening of his
physical, emotional and ment-
al arteries,
And just about then, he is
pulled out of the water,
purple and gasping, and told
that he is entered in another
marathon. In short, his kids
are in their teens, Swim, baby
swim.
It really racks me to think
of the gifts I have squandered
in nearly twenty-five years of
marriage. Especially when I
think of Mr. Trudeau.
We're very much alike. He's
a little older and has a little
less hair. Probably more teeth,
unless they're faisies.
About twenty-five years ago,
we were on equal terms. Both
in excellent physical condition.
The only real differences. I
can see are that he had a lot
of brains and a lot of money.
And I chose to swim upstream,
while he chose to swim down.
Perhaps thert's one other
minor difference. He does
everything well, and I do
everything poorly. But don't
forget he's had two and a half
decades to practise --every-
thing from skiing to chess --
while I've had to catch thein
on the run.
I'd like to see what a great
scuba -diver he was if he'd
had to raise two rotten kids
and pay off about four mort-
gages. Not to mention dealing
with a strong-minded woman
who has a direct line to div-
ine inspiration in every dis-
cussion.
No wonder he was able to
snatch up a beautiful, intellig-
ent 22 -year-old at his age.
He's practically unscarred,
while I'm like an old alley
cat. About all I could snatch
up, aside from the fact that
my wife would kill me, is a
48 -year-old, with three div-
orces and three chins.
Don't for one moment think
I'm jealous. Let him have his
big rent-free mansion in Ot-
tawa while I labour over my
heavily -taxed, heavily -mortg-
aged hovel.
Let him have his fifty or
sixty thousand a year in salary.
We have enough to put bread
on the table, after paying
income tax and putting two
kids through university.
I'm not envious, He earned
it, by being smart enough to
stay single until he was 51,
At least I don't have to
bother with platoons of photo-
graphers and numberless news-
men when I take out Barbra
Streisand.
No, I wouldn't trade him
even, my old lady for his, my
kids for his charisma. (They
think I have charisma, which
is good enough for me).
The only thing I get a little
wistful about is not being asked
to be Prime Minister.
And I still think I could beat
him in a game of Russian Bil-
liards.
TWO MINUTES
Will ME BIBLE
BY CORNELIUS R. STAN PRES.
aEREAN BIBLE SOCIETY
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60635
"SEVEN TIMES A FAILURE"
Despite man's natural tendency to
boast, history has proved again and
again that he is a failure, in deep
need of God and His grace.
The Age of Innocence closed with
man rebelling against his Creator and
becoming a fallen, sinful creature
(Rom. 5:12),
The Age of Conscience opened with
one murder (Gen. 4:8) and before
another age was ushered in "the
earth was filled with violence" (Gen.
6:11).
Then cane Human Government, but
the world's first ruler made a speb-
tacle of himself through drunkenness
(Gen. 9:20,21). Little wonder we soon
find the race intoxicated with its
own importance so that God must
confuse their language at Babel (Gen.
11:4,7,8).
The Age of Promise came next,
with Abraham failing to enter into the
promised land through unbelief (Gen.
11:31-12:3). It closed with Israel,
his seed, fai l i ng to enter the promised
land through unbelief (Heb. 3:19).
The Age of Law began with Israel
worshipping a golden calf .before
Moses even got down from Sinai. Lit-
tle wonder it ended with rejection of
Christ.
The Age of Grace commenced with
the Apostle Paul, God's ambassador
of love and grace, persecuted and
imprisoned (Eph. 6:20). It will be
brought to a close because man has
chosen to go on in his sin rather
than accept redeeming grace through
Christ (II Cor. 4:4).
The Kingdom Reign of Christ, which
is to follow the present age, will be-
gin with our Lord rebuking 'strong
nations (Micah 4:3) and will close
with multitudes who have rendered
enforced obedience, following Satan
(Rev. 20:7-9).
How all this demonstrates man's
need of God and salvation through
our Lord Jesus Christ! "All have
sinned" (Rom. 3:23) but, thank God:
"Whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved" (Rom.
10:12), and in the midst of all this
failure multitudes have called and
been saved.
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