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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1959-12-02, Page 2ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS I smagE TWO ZURICH eitiz€n- NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONT., for the Village of Zurich, Hay Township, .and the Southern Part of Stanley Township, in Huron County. A. L. COLQUHOUN HERB TURKHEIM Publisher Business Manager PRINTED BY CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, CLINTON, ONT. ti Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member: ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1959 AN IMPORTANT ELECTION ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, the voters of Hay Township go to the polls to elect a reeve and three councillors for the coming year. The decision the voters have to make is a vital one, since there is much at stake in the next term, for Hay Township.council has Probably one of the biggest undertakings any ever dealt with will be the changing over to dial telephones at Grand Bend. This is a- must, in order to keep pace with chang- ing times, and requires the service of capable men to direct the important issue. Since the Village of Zurich is now incorporated, there will be problems to be ironed out between the township and village councils. Careful consideration will be needed in this regard, and capable men are required to make the decisions. It is regrettable that one member of the 1959 council will have to fall by the wayside, due to the election for reeve.. Both men are well qualified, and have had considerable experience in municipal affairs. Mr. Becker has been on council for at least seven or eight years; four as reeve; and was deputy reeve prior to that, Mr. Mousseau has been on council for four years, two terms of which he has been deputy reeve. As for councillors, two of the present board are seeking re- election, and the voters may be well-advised to return them to office, since there is so much at stake. Of the other three can- didates, Mr. Geiger has also had considerable experience, having served on council previously for a number of years, and being active in various municipal affairs. The other two men are not well-known to us, but in all probability they are also well qualified to hold the position of a councillor. There are two big things we urge the voters to bear in mind. First is, "Get out and vote", and second, "Give careful consideration to whom you vote for:' Remember, this is a democratic country where everyone should exercise their privilege of having the right to vote for whom they like. SHOP AT HOME!! CHRISTMAS is fast approaching, and, as in other years attractive folders are reaching us from outtside afifirms and peotownse s offering big values and many gimmicks their places of . business. It may be a temptation for some people to fall for these, "Come to Our House" attractions, but don't let yourself be misled. If someone is giving away hundreds them.odollars you are only helping to pay for it by buying from Your local merchants in Zurich are always ready and willing to serve you. We have heard many wise shoppers say, "You can get anything you want right here in Zurich," If it is not in stock the merchant will procure it for you, and you have the added satisfaction of knowing he will be here to stand behind .any article he sells. The big thing to keep in mind is that your local merchant is also a local taxpayer. He supports your looal churches and schools. When donations are needed for any cause it is your local merchant who is called upon to give. Remember that in turn for all this your local merchant must depend on your business to keep operating. Without your supporting him we would have no newspaper, no community centre, no 'Santa Claus parade, and no sporting activities of any kind. Itis he who helps to finance all these things. So when you plan your Christmas shopping visit your local stores first. Compare prices, if you like, and you will find that local prices are as reasonable as in any other town around us. And remember, most of our local stores are having lucky draws at Christmas. We also have plenty of free parking space, and will probably have free skating on Saturday afternoons in an- other week or so, too! LEAVE CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS DO YOU LEAVE Christ out of Christmas? It's very easy to do so. Every time your write Xmas you are leaving Christ out. Do you remember what "X" stood for in high school mathematics? That's right, "X" means an unknown factor or quantity. Is Christ that? No, he is, or should be, the most positive factor in our lives. The next time you are tempted to write Xmas or say Exmas, don't do it. Brevity has its value in many phases of life, but here it is a kind of sacrilege. Remember Christmas only comes once a year, and when it does, let's take time to spell the word out. n SAFE DRIVING WEEK CHRISTMAS . . a time for giving. But let's start giving earlier this year. A special appeal has come from the Prime Minister that everyone should give something extra, starting on December 1. This, though, is giving with a difference. It costs nothing! Quite the reverse, in fact. We are asked for contributions that will involve no expense, and may actually result in tremendous savings. We are asked to give a little extra care. Some extra patience. Perhaps, a little extra time. More courtesy, more good humour. In other words,we 1a e all asked to support SAFE DRIVING WEEK, December to Cars don't cause traffic accidents. Nor do icy roads, fogs, or bottles of beer. It is people who cause accidents. People who don't handle these things the way they should, and can, be dandled. and and the man Traffic accidents are caused by you,me > next door. By individuals. And just as the individual causes the accident, so can he prevent it. One of the aims of SAFE DRIVING WEEK is to persuade the individual to give extra thought and skill in avoiding the accident that never gets started. The book of averages says that 70 Canadians will die on the roads in the first seven days of December, while thousands will be injured. Yet avoidance of this impending national disaster lies within the control of individuals , .. individual drivers and pedestrians. It needs no magic to reduce the total of continuing tragedies that stain our streets and highways. It just needs a little extra effort from all who drive and walk on our roads. SAFE DRIV- ING WEEK is a good time for us to pledge that extra effort, that our country needs so desperately, For, although the im- mediate aim of this safety campaign is the first seven days- in December, the long-range objective covers all the days of every year. --7,----.--,------.,.---,.,.-.. �-�,.,y praise for his splendid work on the Guelph junior hockey team. He left Zurich a few weeks ago DECEMBER 1919 for Guelph, where he is the goal - While cutting some trees in tender for the junior hockey Stanley for F. C. Kalbfleisch, team . and Mrs. Albert G. Hess who has purchased a number from farmers in that area, And- and little Kathleen motored to rew Price had a narrow escape Sarnia, where they spent a few from injury. The tree which was days visiting last week. being felled went over before ex- A number of local hunters mot- petted, and in swinging around ored up to Tiverton one day last caught Mr. Price and threw him week, where they say that white about 15 feet against the fence. rabbits are in abundance. Luckily he escaped with only min- Thursday of last week schools had a holiday, o the local wing or injuries to his back. The storm which struck this the marriage in London, England, section of Ontario last Saturday of Prince George to Princess was probably the worst ever exA Marino, of Greece. making perienced here, with damage be- Edward Brisson, Jr., is the old quite extensive. arrangements to occupy Miss Parl Wurtz is spending a Brisson farm, a half mile south of few weeks with friends in London. St. Joseph, on the Bluewater The postmaster general has Highway. W. J. Jones was elected reeve kindly granted permission for mail carriers to drive autos. Now of Hensall, polling 211 votes, and provide the autos, and the chauf- if he will take one more step and defeating Owen Geiger by 54 votes. Thomas Pryde was elect- feurs the carriers will be extrem ed reeve at Exeter with a record ely happy. of 571. votes. Mrs. Mary Madge is visiting at Subscribers of the Hay phone System will do well to- re- the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Tele - member that whena non -sub- Pollock, in Stanley Township. 'scriber uses their telephone, a The euchre party sponsored by charge of ten cents a message is the Dashwood hockey club on made at the central office against Wednesday night was a decided Urban Pfile has accepted a posi- such subscribers telephone. success, and 16 tables were in play tion with Mr. J. Kraft. Clifford Allen, Goderich, was a At the meeting of the Hay Council on Monday, a by-law recent visitor with Keith West - authorizing the issuing of deben- lake, near Bayfield. turesamounting i;o $1,500, for ex- tensions to Hay Telephone Sys- tem, was read the third time and passed. A Farmer's Club was organized in Varna a short time ago. 40 YEARS AGO YEARS GONE 0 o BY o 0 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1959 Oesch attended the funeral of the late Mrs. Magdelene Brenneman, at Tavistock, last Friday, We are called upon to announce the passing of a prominent citi- zen of Zurich, in the person of Samuel Deitz, who passed away on Tuesday morning. Mr, and Mrs. Ed. Corriveau were Drysdale visitors on Sunday with the latter's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith, De- troit, were recent weekend visit- ors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Geiger. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Wurm, Zurich, will celebrate their 64th wedding anniversary on Thurs- day, December 7. The former will be 91 and the latter 81. The many friends of Fred C. Walker, Grand Bend, are pleased to see him about after his recent appendicitis operation in St. Jo- seph's Hospital, London. 25 YEARS AGO DECEMBER, 1934 The daily papers in the sports columns give Harold Stade a big SUGAR 15 YEARS AGO Christmas Dinner Not Complete Without Gravy Few will dispute the fact that a generous ladle full of good tur- key gravy adds the final, perfect touch to a plate of Christmas din- ner. The generous slices of tur- key meat with savory stuffing, fluffy mashed potatoes and your favourite Christmas vegetables all seem to taste better when there is hot, smooth gravy blending them together. Ward Fritz, Zurich, has purch- ased an acre of land on the north- east corner of Exeter, where he intends to erect a garage after the war ends. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Corriveau have returned home from Detroit, where they spent some time with friends and relatives. Private Russell Tiernan, Camp Borden, spent the weekend with his parents in Dashwood. DECEMBER, 1944 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Meyers were Sunday visitors with their daforiga nurse Alpha, tStratford Genera Hospital. Clarence Gascho, Mrs. Susie Oesch, Edmund and Mrs. Rudy nd SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) This week we had a birthday in ual motion hind end, gradually our family. Playboy was one year old. For anybody who came in late, the fellow with the fancy name is our spaniel pup. He ar- rived last Christmas morning, a six -weeks -old bundle of coal -black cuteness with a big red ribbon a- round his neck. * * * His arrival was the result of a mental aberration on the part of my wife. Normally, she is very sensible about animals. Like me, she loves cows, pigs and sheep— in the form of steaks, bacon and chops — and is able to tolerate other species with a nice blend of unease and disgust. But some where she picked up the maudlin idea that "the children should have a dog". * I had misgivings, but humoured her, as any red-blooded Canadian slob of a husband does when his wife gets a weird notion. The kids, of course, were ecstatic. They loved the little black brute dearly from the minute on Christmas morn when he wobbled across the floor to their eager hands and made a puddle, the first of thous- ands. * * * I prefer to draw a veil' over the first couple of months of Playboy's presence in our household. Even now I develop a slight twitch when I recall those midwinter days. And nights. In. short, he was a pup, and therefore: stank, was lousy, messed and piddled, chewed to ribbons anything of value, howled like a siren in. the pre -dawn hours and had to be comforted. * * e: On several occasions, my wife had to be forcibly restrained from strangling him. On quite a few, I could cheerfully have taken a hoc- key stick to him myself. At least twice a week, his mistress declared in tones justthisside of a pierc- ing shriek that we were going to have to choose between her and the dog. The kids fought for him fearfully and tearfully, and I sid- ed with them just so I could con- tinue to remind her that it was her silly dam' idea M. the first place. Married people get a lot of satisfaction out of reminders like that. 10 YEARS AGO When we say gravy, we don't include the insipid, thickened fat and water mixture some folks serve in the gravy boat. No sir! We mean the full -flavoured, rich, smooth gravy you make according to this tried and true method rec- ommended by the home econom- ists of the Consumer Section. After removing the turkey and wire rack from the roaster, pour the drippings into a measuring cup. Each quarter cup of drip- ' pings will make two cups of gravy, sufficient for eight gener- ous servings. So, if you one-half cup ur cups of gravy, pour of drippings back into the roast- ing pan. Now, using a whip or wooden spoon, blend an equal quantity (1/2 cup) of all-purpose flour into the fat in the pan. Cook until the flour brown not burned. (Th s browningb ouf sthe flour is one of the flavour sec- rets of good gravy and it also improves the color). DECEMBER, 1949 A lovely surprise took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmore Thiel last Friday evening, when relatives gathered to help them celebrate their 40th wedding an- niversary. Withthe milder weather being ushered in this week splendid progress is being made at the local arena, with the framework at the north end being completed, and the metal covering almost all on. At the meeting of the Zuriich Lions Club last Monday night it was unanimously decided to spon- sor a Minstrel Show. Neighbours and friends gather- ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Mousseau last Wednesday evening, in honour of their young- est daughter, Joyce (bride -elect), to present her with a miscellan- eous shower. A very successful bazaar and tea was sponsored last Saturday by the Ladies' Aid and the WMS of the Evangelical Church in Zurich. Miss Anita Datars, who is at- tending Normal School at Strat- ford, is observing and teaching in Miss Olive O'Brien's room in sneaked into our affections. Even when he wound himself and chain around my legs while I was laden with garbage cans. Even when he dashed through the ash - pile and leaped up on Mother's new spring suit with loving fore- paws. He couldn't get it through his head that he was a nuisance and a no-good. ,, * * A friend built him the classiest doghouse in town. Custom made of plywood, it was painted red and green, had a swinging door and even a window. We put a soft bed in it and waited for him to make himself at home. He refused to, go into the thing. We tried everything, from pushing him in while he braced all four feet and howled, to bribing him with a tidbit tossed into the farthest cor- ner of the house. He has never yet been inside it. He preferred sleeping in the grass and waking up soaked with dew. * * * When we went to a cottage for two weeks in the summer, every thing changed. We decided it was now or never, and turned him loose. He immediately vanished, in the company of several rakish beach dogs. The kids started to panic after a couple of hours. We were about to launch a search when he turned up, look- ing like the most delinquent of juveniles. When we tied him out- side that night, he howled arrog- antly until he was let in. * * * We managed to stave her off until spring, glorious spring, when we could let the hairy, dirty, leap- ing little fiend out. We tied him to the clothesline and he raced up and down the yard, chasing but- terflies and beetles, and yapping at the crows, He ate like a wolf and grew like a pig. He got sick and had to have costly shots, He was a delight to the kids, who did everything for hint Except bath him, feed him or clean up after hint * * * But the little devil, with his perky, turned -up nose, his melan- choly expression, and his perpet- Remove pan from heat and stir four cups cool or lukewarm li- quid (water, liquid off vegetables or boiled giblets) into the fat - flour mixture, making sure that no lumps. remain. Return to low heat and cook gravy until thick- ened and smooth, stirring con- stantly. Continue cooking for about five minutes, then season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve piping hot. For a change, add chopped, cooked giblets or sauteed, sliced mushrooms to thegravy. tv .thIf n, on standing gravy thin with a little hot water or vegetable liquid. the Zurich school this week. The Evangelical Church coun- cil in Dashwood have granted the young people of the community the privilege of using the church shed as a skating rink this winter{, l)oniinie and Pete 3effrey have started the work on the erection of a cottage in the Ducharme sumn}er resort, k * * From that day, there's been no holding him. He has learned to swim, to run with the gang, to snarl fiercely at very small dogs who want to buddy up to him, and to run like a deer when large dogs snarl at him. He howls like a demented soul when he wants in or out. He sits in the middle of the road, like a small, black stat- ue, tatue, watching in all directions with a stern and piercing gaze. * * * He follows the kids to school, horses around for a while with the other dogs who do the same, then, if it's a cold or wet day, trots down to the office. There he appears at the window, gives me a look that would melt the heart of a dope peddler, and trots in when I open the door, wagging like a metronome hi high gear. He spends the morning smelling up the place, tripping the custom- ers, and upsetting the wastebas- kets so he can chew stuff all over the floor, then rides home with me for lunch. * I wouldn't want anybody to get the idea I'm crazy about dogs. I'm not. I think their intelligence is highly over -rated, and I know spaniels are among the dumbest there are. But Playboy is no long- er a dog. He's a member of the family, and it will be a dark and doleful, day around our place if anything happens to him, Business and Professional Directory AUCTIONEERS DENTISTS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times, "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood INSURANCE For Safety EVERY FARMER NEEDS Liability Insurance For Information About All Insurances—Call BERT KLOPP Phone 93r1 or 220 Zurich Representing CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION HURON and ERIE DEBENTURES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES 6% —1 to 3 Years 53/4% — 4 to 5 Years J. W. HABERER Authorized Representative Phone 161 — Zurich LEGAL W. G. Cochrane, Q.A. BARRISTER and SOLICITOR NOTARY PUBLIC Hensel! Office Open Wednesday and Friday Afternoons EXETER PHONE 14 BELL & LAUGHTON BARRISTEMS. SOLICITORS & NOTARIES PUBLIC ELMEER D. BELL, QC, 0, V, LA,UGBTON, L.L.B. Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon it XE m, Phone 4 DR. H. H. COWEN DENTAL SURGEON L.D.S., D.D.S. Main Street Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 36 DR. J. W. CORBETT L.D.S., D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON 814 Main Street South Phone 273 — Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoons DOCTORS ..,r Dr. A. W. KLAHSEN Physician and Surgeon OFFICE HOURS: 2 p.m. -5 p.m. Monday -Saturday Except Wednesday 7 p.m. -9 p.m. Monday and Friday Evenings ZURICM Phone 51 G. A. WEBB, D.C.* *Doctor of Chiropractic 438 MAIN STREET, EXETER X -Ray and Laboratory Facilities Open Each Weekday Except Wednesday Tues. and Thurs. Evenings, 7-9 For Appointment -- Phone 606 FUNERAL DIRECTORS WESTLAKE Funeral Horne AMBULANCE and PORTABLE OXYGEN SERVICE Phone 89J or 89W ZURICH HOFFMAN'S Funeral & Ambulance Service OXYGEN EQUIPPED Ambulances Located at Dashwood Phone 70w Grand Bend --Phone 20w Attendants Holders of St. John's Ambulance Certificates OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH: Daily except Monday Phone. 791 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Wednesdays 9 a.m. to 12 noon. CLINTONt Monday Only Phone HU 2-7010 Thursday evening by appointment