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The Hensall Observer, September 3, 1959
spot, isn't much without a fire,
Mrs. Kenneth Gingerich and
points north.
and I had forgotten to bring in
daughters were Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Rader
some wood before the rains
William Steckle of Bayfield and
and family of Dashwood spent
came.
The
The fourth day dawned fine
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Gingerich.
rs.
Mr. and MSchwartzen-
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Vern -
on Oesch and son.
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and clear, though, and I was
truber and family are spending
Mr. Archie Mustard spent the
uSgar
andSpice
all set to start some healthy out-
a few days holidaying in the
weekend with his wife and sons.
door recreation, like sitting in a
Tobermory district and other
b Bill S ii
deckchair with a book and a
y m ey
beverage. So my wife says we
During my holidays I swore zedrine pill. I wouldn't want have to go to town and wash, we Loea�l �Q
I wouldn't write a column about anyone to miss a word. It's so haven't a clean shirt left among
them when I got home, and bore exciting. the bunch of us. I spent most of
the 'day in my own kitchen in
everybody. And here I am, back Well, c I threatened, ch, town, putting stuff through the Lon Distance ,
at the kitchen table and the took this cottage at the beach, g
typewriter, the clock showing see? No, no, I didn't say we wringer.
well past midnight and nothing could see the beach. We could But after that we settled
to write about. But I'll be ad- see a grocery store, three roads right in to enjoy cottage life. Hcwt ng
amant. I won't write a word and some other cottages. Oh, we did slip into town Wed -
about my holidays. In fact, the first day we were nesday night to see a movie we
I WON'T write a word about home from the cottage, I was didn't want to miss. And we had Keys Transport
them. I won't write a .. what's sitting in the nice cool kitchen to come to town Thursday to
that? You want to hear the of our house, having a nice cool turn in the empties and pick up
whole story? Thank you, moth- beverage, when I chanced to the mail. And Friday we were PHONE 7r HENSALL
er. You may go to bed now. May- look out the window, drank in in town for a few hours getting
be I'll just write one word. the nice cool view of our bay, supplies and shopping in the 5
If my assistants will lock the and realized that it was the and 10 just like the real tour -
doors quickly so nobody can get first time I'd seen water for a ists. And of course Sunday was
away, and give everyone a ben. week without having to get in sort of interrrupted because we
the car and drive to it. • had to drive to town to see if
they'd heard anything of my Cj j e C • M •
Not that we didn't like the partner, who had been missing
cottage. We did. It was a dandy in an open boat in Georgian
and very well equipped. Too Bay for two days. Rather a
well, in fact. When I was a kid, nuisance that.les
k. and we were at the cottage, Aside from this, however, we
my mother kept five of us busy, really pitched in and became icy
hauling pails of water from the beachcombers. The kids were de -
0 lake, going to the farm for eggs lighted with cottage life, of
and milk, getting ice from the course, because for once they Sidewalk - Juvenile - Standard
— - - - - - icehouse, and collecting fire- had me at their mercy. I'll bet
wood in the bush. I played 74 games of cards with
Complete Line But at this cottage, every- them, and went in swimming
thing was electric, automatic, with them, one dragging on each 95
of refrigerated and indoors. There arm, at least twice a day. The 9
were no chores for the kids, and Old Girl was happy. She had $3
Domestic or Commercial they hung around the cottage brought her ironing board with
like coons around a garbage can, her to catch up on her ironing.
pestering for somebody to go Every day she'd pull some pile of
Lighting swimming with them, or play clothes she'd dampened to iron
that fascinating card game last February, look at it, put it
Fixtures tures known as Fish. away and come swimming. And No Trade
first three _ a s ofMy boli- , I was happy, because, for once,
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_ Iasta►lled By, „ days it rained relentlessly, 2t1 everybody else was.
hours a day. The first day, de- Even Playboy, the pup, was $149�/� 95
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and drank beer and read. But I first taken him to the water,
Cameron found that these recreations, if early in the summer, we expect -
taken together for any length of ed him to plunge in and dart
time, make the eyes bloodshot. about like an otter, because he Sale Continues on Stoves, Refrigerators and Freezers
Sat the end of ten hours puts a spaniel. He didn't. He'd AHMOWAN
of teeming rain, I decided to Put one foot in, then the other,
Plumbing and Heating get out of the slump by sitting then run about the beach look Ifna
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in front of the fireplace. This, ing for somebody's towel to
208W Hen dl however, tended to become des- Piddle on. DRYSDALE HARDWARE LTD.
olate after a few hours, as a Finally he was thrown in,
fireplace, normally a cheery and he swam clumsily to shore, PHONE 11 HENSALL
using, of all things, the dog -
paddle, and holding his face out
of water like a model trying to
save her makeup. After a few
Be Sure t0 Buy Your days at the cottage, however, he
was swimming like a loon, and
acting like one.
We were all sick at the cott-
Poultry, Eggs & Feed age, of course. Hugh, who is
never ill, was down and out for
two days. The Old Lady had
From what she ' claimed was an ad-
vance case of polio. I had dys-
entery all the time we were
John Henderson there. Kim waited until the day
we got home, then ran a high
fever for four days.
But I guess we had a wonder -
PHONE 40 HENSALL ful holiday, on the whole. And
that's where I spent most of it,
trying to cope with my annual
attack of dire rear.
Lorne's the Man to See Blake Briefs .. .
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kipfer
and daughters of Haysville call-
a Coal
ed on relatives and friends In
T' the community.
• �J Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Ging-
•• Locker Service erich and family returned home
from a weeks' vacation at Ches-
ley Lake.
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5 Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gingerich
and son Melvin accompanied by
LORNE E. HAY spent
and Mrs. Amos Gingerich
spent Saturday afternoon at
PHONE 10 INSALL Walton attending the reception
of the Oesch-Bosman wedding.
Sunday guests with Mr. and
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