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THE HURON EXPOSITOR
HENSALL LEGION AUXILIARY RALLY EXPECTS 300
The Ladies Auxiliary of the.
Canadian Legion Branch No. 468,
Hensall, held its regular monthly
meeting in the Legion rooms on
Tuesday night, with the past presi-
dent, Mrs. Rannie, in the chair.
The meeting opened in the us-
ual manner, after which the roll
call was taken. Mrs. Rannie ask-
ed Mrs. Letitia Sangster to occupy
the chair for the installation of
the president, Mrs. McKelvie, who
was unable to attend the last
meeting. Mrs. McKelvie then pre -
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sided for the meeting. Mrs. Hor-
ton was standardbearer. Mrs. Mc-
Kelvie at this time ealled upon
Mrs. Clark to make presentation
of pin and badge to the past presi-
dent, Mrs. Rannie, who expressed
thanks to all. The minutes were
read by the secretary, Mrs. Mock.
The ladies will continue catering
to the Kinsmen Club. It was de-
cided to hold another euchre on
Wednesday night, Feb. 23. Each
member is to bring one or two
guests. Volunteers who offered to
make plans are Mrs. Davis and
Mrs. G. Munn. Mrs. J. Simmons,
the treasurer, read accounts. The
The Bourke family in the Bell cafeteria (left to right): Laurent 21, Toll Testing, Montreal—
Hugusite, 24, Toll Operator, Montreal—Lucie, 17, Stenographer, Montreal—Goy, 23, Central Office, St, Lambert Plant—
Suzanne, 20, Stenographer, Montreal—Goston, 25, Toll Testing, Montreal.
The Bourkes all work at the Bell!
Away back in 1922, a young man by the name
of Arthur Bourke joined our company. Little
did he realize that his children—all six of them
—would follow in his footsteps to careers at the
Bell. Today Mr. Bourke would be more than
proud of his handsome family. We know we are!
The Bourkes, like all telephone people,
know from their own experience that the
Bell is "a good place to work". They
have found pleasant associates and
interesting work at good wages. They have also
found satisfaction and opportunity in serving
the public in an essential business.
And this is as it should be, for good tele-
phone service depends upon people who like
their jobs, and convey this feeling to our
customers. This is the feeling that is
largely responsible for "the spirit of
service" you find in Bell employees
wherever you meet them.
THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA
financial statement was read and
correspondence read by Mrs.
Mock from: Mrs. Inez McEwen,
Mrs. C. Kennedy, Ontario Provin-
cial Command and Mrs. Hall.
The payment of dues was re-
ceived. The mystery prize was
won by Mrs. A. Simmons. Mrs.
K. Buchanan reported for the re-.
creation committee. Sick commit-
tee report was given by Mrs Dav-
is. Regarding the Red Crosfs can-
vass, auxiliary members will be
in charge of the canvass as us-
ual. Those offering to collect are:
Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Horton, Mrs. L.
Sangster, Mrs. W. Smale, Mrs. J.
Simmons, Mrs. A. Clark, Mrs.
Drysdale, Mrs. Ramie and Mrs.
Mock; recreation committee, Mrs.
Brown, Mrs. G. Munn; sick com-
comniittee, Mrs. Shaddick, Mrs.
E. Munn; purchase of gifts, Mrs.
Scholl and Mrs. G. Mousseau; aud-
itors, Miss Gladys Luker and Mrs.
J. Taylor; kitchen. committee,
Mrs. A. Simmons and Mrs. F. Bon-
thron.
The auxiliary district rally will
be held in Hensall on May 31, when
an attendance of 250 to 300 is ex-
pected. The president named sev-
eral committees to begin making
plans, etc., these ladies to add to
their number: lunch, Mrs. A.
Simmons, Mrs. Beer, Mrs. E.
Munn; flowers and gifts; Mrs.
Rannie and Mrs. Drysdale; hall
arrangements, Mrs. A. Clark and
Mrs. Baynham; programs, etc.,
Mrs. L. Sangster and Mrs. R.
Taylor, Sr. It is the turn of this
branch, the Hensall Ladies' Aux-
iliary., to hold this event.
Mrs. S. Dougall is lunch con-
vener next month. Mrs. Hall will
be invited to attend the March
meeting. The ladies have also de-
cided to invite to the March meet-
ing, the Clinton Ladies' Auxiliary.
The meeting was adjourned and
the national anthem followed.
A period of bingo was enjoyed.
Winners were: Mrs. Shaddick,
Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Horton, G. Luk-
er, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. L. Sangster,
Mrs. R. Taylor and Mrs. Aiken -
head. Delicious refreshments were
served at the close.
Latest official figures show that
in 1951 motor vehicle accidents
caused nine deaths per 10,000 ve-
hicles registered in Canada.
ELEVEN -YEAR-OLD SANDY MacDONALD, of Hamilton,. Ont-,
has been selected as the 1955 TIMMY who will represent all of
Ontario's crippled children during the forthcoming Easter Seal
Campaign sponsored by the Ontario Society for Crippled Children
in association with more than two hundred service clubs through-
out the province. Campaign dates are March 10th until April 10th.
Ray Badger, (kneeling) the 1954 Timmy, will accompany Sandy
to the Sports Celebrity Dinner in Toronto on February 17th, where
they both will be honored guests.
BIG FAMILIES IN PIONEER HOMES
(By Harry Sloan in the
Milwaukee Journal)
Young people often say it must
have been hard to have been a
member of a large family in a
small home in pioneer days.
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older brothers and sisters, sixteen
aunts, many uncles and cousins
by the dozens.)
"How would a mother take care
of so many youngster's" is a
question often asked.
Well, mothers didn't continous-
ly wait on youngsters in those
days. Children were taught to
help themselves. •At a surprising-
ly young age they were dressing
and feeding themselves, although
shoe laces might be crooked or a
dress on backward, and sometimes
dad had to scrape gravy and mol-
asses off a youngster's Mb with
his knife after dinner. Of course,
the children didn't do thins as
well as the adults could have done
for them, but at least they got a
chance to try.
By the time the oldest girl of
the family was five there were
younger brothers and sisters, and
"big sister" not only cared for
herself but helped teached the
others how to wait on themselves.
At a young age the boys were
helping with the farm chores. A
broom handle in a worn hoe made
a tool light enough for a small boy
and he was taken to the field and
shown the difference between a
stalk of corn and a weed.
My oldest aunt was married at
13 but by that age she had had
much experience caring for chil-
dren and seven years of cooking
and helping keep the house clean.
The story is told of a man who
drove up to a country store in a
three -seated spring wagon with a
pyramid of youngsters' heads too
numerous to count in the back two
seats. "Are these all your kids,
or is this a picnic?" asked the
storekeeper.
"They're all my kids and it's a
picnic too," said the father:
One family had six boys and
girls in our country school at one
time. They brought their dinner
to school in a 14 -quart milk pail.
The oldest brother and sister
spread a tablecloth across a dou-
ble desk and all six gathered
around a family dinner. They al-
ways brought a fried chicken and
a pie or cake. Most of us secret-
ly envied that family. The chil-
dren seemed to have a better time
than youngsters whose older bro-
thers and sisters were out of
school.
Members of large families did
not have to leave home to find
playmates. The story is told of
one farm family of 11 boys as
near the same age as the laws
of biology permit. They had their
own football, baseball and track
teams, and two basketball teams.
They were so good that when they
went to college only the brothers
had much chance of making the
teams.
The biggest problem of the
large family in the small house
was finding a place for everyone
to sleep. That usually was solved
by putting two or more beds in
a room and three or more boys or
girls in each bed.
The noise didn't stop even when
everybody got to sleep. The snor-
ing of a dozen persons in one
small house can get pretty loud.
The noise usually didn't bother
the family, but it did disturb a
visitor if he were not used to
loud snoring.
My nephew, Glen, used to say
his family did musical snoring.
"My dad snores bass, I snore
tenor, and my small brother
snores tenor. We have .been
thinking of having a phonograph
record made."
If you have been sorry for those
big families living in small pio-
neer homes you have wasted your
sympathy. They generally were
happier than small families to-
day and in those days we heard
of few delinquents and neurotics.
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FEBRUARY 11, 1955
EASTER SEAL CAMPAIGN DATES
SET FOR MARCH 10 TO APRIL 10
A cheery 11 -year-old youngster
who has worn a cripple's hip brace
since he was stricken by polio six
years ago, yet has triumphed over
his handicap to become goaltender
of his school's` hockey team, will
be Ontario's "Timmy" for 1955.
As symbol of the nearly 9,000
children who benefit from the
work of the Ontario Society for
Crippled Children, Alexander "San-
dy" McDonald, pupil of Onteora
School, is . looking forward to be-
ing chief guest at the Sports Cele-
brity dinner, February 17, which
opens the annual sale of Easter
Seals.
Sandy hopes to meet Harry
Lumley, goalie of the Maple
Leafs, at that dinner, and that
very wish reveals the kind of a
lad who becomes the ninth boy
chosen to represent Ontario's han-
dicappead youngsters during the
sale of the Easter Seals which
finances the program of treatment
and training directed by the so-
ciety. Sandy has never admitted
that polio prevented him from do-
ing anything.
The oldest of three children of
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McDonald, of
373 Thayer Avenue, Hamilton,
Sandy was born in Victoriaville,
Quebec, when his dad was with
the Royal Canadian Air Force.
When he was five, and after the
family moved here, he contracted
polio, spent a year and a half in
hospital, and now wears a high
hip brace.
In the past six years Sandy has
accomplished things that could be
the envy of any boy. Ile made up
all lost time at school, is now in
Grade 6, and he is described by
Principal J. Harris, of Onteora
School, as an excellent pupil. He
has followed in his dad's footsteps
as a boy soprano, sings in the
Christ Church Cathedral boys'
choir ,and was soloist in the last
Christmas Carol services. He has
sung at many other church and
civic ceremonies, and George
Veary, his choirmaster and teach-
er, says he is improving steadily
as a singer.
For the past four years he has
attended camps operated by the
Ontario Society for Crippled Chil-
dren, which also administers a
wide program of other services for
handicapped children, and he has
earned his Red Cross senior swim-
ming award. Swimming, accord -
.Boat Stuck in. Ice
Ice has taken a firm grip on a
fishing boat owned by Ed. Siddall,
Goderich, which has been stuck
just outside the north breakWall
of Goderich harbor for the past
week. On Tuesday, when Mr. Sid-
dall went out to start the engine
in the hope that he might bring
the boat into harbor, he discovered
that the craft may have lost its
propellor. He took the boat out
of the harbor to go after some nets
about seven miles from port.—
Goderich Signal -Star.
Ing to the society's nurses, has
aided him considerably, his af-
fected leg, which once was two
and a half inches shorter than the
normal leg, now being less than
one inch shorter.
Sandy rides a bike, fitted by
his dad with extra wheels so it
won't tip when he stops; plays the
piano, has his own darkroom for
photography, and hopes to go to
college, though he hasn't decided
if he'd prefer to be a lawyer or
a minister. And he hopes, too, to
meet Marilyn Bell when he goes
to Toronto because of her work in
helping crippled children to swim.
And, finally, the new "Timmy'
hopes to -be able to do something
to help other youngsters like him-
self. The Rotary Club of Hamil-
ton, in co-operation with the So-
ciety, has helped him by provid-
ing special braces, shoes and oth-
er things he has needed. Now
Sandy wants to help it, and the
more than two hundred other
clubs who participate in the so-
ciety's work, in boosting the sale
of Easter Seals so that no handi-
capped
andlcapped boy or girl in Ontario will
be without help.
HENSALL
Mr. Mervyn Eyre, who has been
on the staff of the Hensall branch
for the past year or more, has
been transferred to Aylmer and
will leave shortly to take over his
new duties.
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