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Zurich Citizens News, 1977-08-31, Page 4Page 4 Citizens News, August 31, 1977 Jann11111111tmounn1at11 noir anowannulnwnifin ntulnninwinm nnnunnnlnonni nunno 1nu1111nownu winillliinu ... iem.:point z.c..,.. :::: a mail nnlm1nnifin einnumnowinn 1u11nnnululnnlnnuummnutnnlnlnlnnlunlnlnlnululunanluunlunnlnlllunlnnll m77.: A gra,ar lesson We are sure that the editor of the Acton Free Press had tongue in cheek when she wrote the following article. Nor do we believe the rules were found in any serious newspaper column, but for relaxation on a hot summer day we repeat them here. Here's your community newspaper with another community service. We heard about all those young people who — accor- ding to some — can't write sentences properly. We don't write so good ourselves, neither, some times. Anyways, here are the rules Kay, Eric and Helen seen in another newspaper. 1. Each pronoun should agree with their antecedent. 2. Just between you and I, case is impor- tant. 3. Verbs has to agree with their subjects 4. Watch out for irregular verbs which have crope into the language. 5. Don't use double negatives. Not never. 6. A writer should not shift your point of view. 7. Don't write a run-on sentence you have 75 YEARS AGO August 1902 Mr. Willie Brown has gone to Stratford where he has secured a situation in a shoe store. Mr, J. H. Wismer, blacksmith, has all kinds of Verity plough repairs on hand. These are the genuine Verity repairs, made at Brantford. Several more excursions will be run over the C.P.R., to the West as ten thousand more men are required to harvest the wheat crop. Stock taking time now at the (Hensall) public library and no more books out until it is com- pleted. Miss Annie Consitt has been engaged again to teach in S.S. No. 7, Stanley, at an increase in salary. There will be a watermelon social held on the Methodist church grounds on Friday even- ing, September 5th. After the social there will be a program consisting of music by the Hen- sall quartette and by Mr. A. Whiteman of Toledo. Addresses will be delivered by Rev. C. McLennan of Kippen, Dr. Mead of Hensall and Rev. Miller of Varna. (Report from Hillsgreen correspondent). got to punctuate it. 8. About sentence fragments. 9. In articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep things apart without • which we would have without doubt confusion. 10. But, don't use, commas, which are not necessary. 11. Its important to apostrophe's correctly. 12. Don't abbreviate unless nec. 13. Check carefully to if you any words out. 14. In my opinion, I think that an author when he is writing something should not get accustomed to the habit of mak- ing use of too many redundant un- necessary words that he does not ac- tually really need in order to put his message across to the reader of the ar- ticle. 15. About repetition, the repetition of a word is not usually effective repetition. 16. As far as incomplete constuctions, they are wrong. 17. Spel correckly. 18. Last but not least, knock off the cliches. use you're Years ego... 50 YEARS AGO August 1927 Zurich Continuation School will open on Thursday, September 1st, and the first two years of High School Studies will be taught. Classes will be held in what was formerly Room IV of the Public School, Zurich. A matrimonial event of much interest was solemnized at Hen- sall on August 10th, when Miss Ada, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Deitz of Zurich and Mr. Lorne Armstrong of Stanley Township were united in wedlock. Miss Ada, as we all knew her, was for a number of years at the local switchboard of the telephone central, and by her pleasing disposition and obliging favours, had made many warm ties of friendship. Mr. Harry G. Hess is taking in the great swimming contest at Toronto on Wednesday of this week, when about 300 will com- pete in a marathon swim in Lake Ontario. 25 YEARS AGO August 1952 Monday evening next, Labour Day, is Zurich's big evening, when the Lions Club will hold their big Annual Frolic, this be- ing the eighth Frolic and the se- cond year of the Vaudeville Show put on by the H. W. Simpson Entertainment Bureau of Wind- sor ... The manager states he has arranged for the Great Terri Koski, the world's greatest un- supported ladder act as your main feature. ` Messrs. Robert Williams and Donald Deichert enjoyed a motor outing to Port Elgin and other places of interest 10 YEARS AGO August 1967 While about 4,000 people were fed with baked beans and ham, the total attendance at the an- nual Bean Festival was es- timated by officials at being between 6,000 and 7,000 persons. Visitors started arriving in the village earlier than ever, and by noon the streets were lined with people. Some visited, some went on the bus tour to area farms, some went on hay rides, and the children enjoyed pony rides. About 20 volunteers are needed at the Zurich Arena tonight (Thursday) for various types of work in connection with the building project. There is a great deal of cleaning to do; The Conservative Mennonite Church, formerly meeting in Hay Township Hall, Zurich, is now meeting three miles north of Blake. The SS No. 4 East Stanley School has been purchased, renovated and is now ready for regular worship services. There were two Ontario scholars at Central Huron Secon- dary School this year out of 85 students who tried grade 13 departmental exams in June .. . One was Murray McBride, 19 - year -old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wes McBride, RR 1, Varna. FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS Published Each Wednesday By J.W. Eady Publications Ltd. 4GNA Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association. Manager — Betty O'Brien Editor — Margaret Rodger Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 Subscription Rates: $7.00 per year in advance in Canada $18.00 per year outside Canada Single copies 204 ll1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111ii11111111111111111II1t111111111111111111U Editor's Desk By MARGARET RODGER Festival visitors Among those following play in the Ontario Doubles Horseshoe Championship match here on Bean Festival day were Mrs. George Patterson of Sarnia and Mrs. Roy Hore of RR 1, Welland. They sat all afternoon in the bleachers under the hot sun. In fact, they said they had been sitting in bleachers since matches began in early May. Both also sat for 10 consecutive days at Greenville, Ohio watching the world championships. If that isn't love, what is? ... With them was Gloria Vanderburg of Scarborough, who had just won the Ontario women's championship at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. Her husband, Bill, won the Men's B championship there. * The festival brought visitors to the office of the Citizen News, as well as many local homes. One was A. P. (Perce) Rowe, who came to Zurich in 1930 as principal • of the con- tinuation school and during his seven years here married a local girl, Euloine Geiger. A son, Tom, and daughter, Carol, were born here. Mr. Rowe went to Thorndale in 1937, when Zurich's continuation school closed, and stayed four years till it, too, closed. He spent another four years in Bolton in the same capacity. That schoo closed in 1951. From then till retirement in 1968 Mr. Rowe was at "ramptor's district secondary school as director of vocation < guidance. He now divides his time between home -base at Bolton, annual summer visits by traile to the Pinery and winter vacation on the Atlantic coast near Key West, Florida. In 1973 he and his wife took a plane trip round the world by way of South America, Africa, India and Thailand. In 1975 they visited Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii. This spring they spent a month touring the Soviet Union, He has 200 coloured slides of that trip. What does he do 'in Florida? He swims, fishes, snorkels, and thinks sometimes about writing a book. The trouble is he's just having too much fun to get down to it. Another office visitor was Earl Gingerich, a former Zurich contractor, who had retired to Florida in 1968. He and his wife, the former Melinda Steckle, were visiting their daughter, Mrs. Ellis (Erlene) Stewart of Hensall. The Gingerichs used to own the Pete Manson farm, then lived on the Babylon line. Now they have a home in a subdivision in central Florida, about 35 miles north of Fort Myers, with orange, grapefruit, lemon and lime trees in the backyard. Mr.Gingerich said that food was cheaper in the stores and restaurants of Florida than those of Ontario (except for Zurich's bean dinner, no doubt he meant to add). A smorgasbord meal down there costs $2,85. He said a two- bedroom house could be purchased for $22,000 to $24,000.. . He also claimed there were six-foot alligators in the man- made lake on the golf course in his subdivision. Tourists sometimes feed them marshmallows; however, he knows how fast they can move, so gives them a wide berth. As if that wasn't enough, last winter he shot a six-foot rattler on his property ... No rose is without thorns, is it? 7 © King Features Syndicate, Inc., 1965. World rights reserved, "You can put that down as TWO opinions!"