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Clinton News-Record, 1965-12-23, Page 11ti SEA$C)11'S GREETING' IQ .OUR. . OUSTQWRS AND FRIENDS BEATTY- FARM SERVICE CENTRE 17 RATTENBURY ST, E. CLINTON FROM YOUR FRIFNIDS AT WISE Plumbing and Heating HAROLD WISE and STAFF Bayfield Rd, — CLINTON — 482-7062 WE ARE IN THE MARKET FOR Seed Oats Garry — Russell Rodney Registered Certified or Canada No. I We ilie .Novf.,,:fillyi11,14 Shelled or Cob 'COM HIGHEST PRICES PAID .Thompson St Sons Ltd. HENSALL Phone 2422521 Aftwommormosos* -0.APPYAfEwv., JL. Et=ANb MANAGniONT. bonno 'and Harald Wettlaufer Arnold bale Milford burst Henry WETTLAUFERS FEED MILL Mary tree* dintorr Our Offices and Grain Receiving Elevators will be Closed on Saturdays commencing December 18 until further_ notice. W. 6. THOMPSON and SONS LTD, E. L. MICKIE and SON i LTD. COOK BROS. MILLING CO. LTD. 51.2b VARNA NEWS Christmas Services were held last Sunday in the United Ch- urch, At the Morning service the pastor, Rev. M. Morrison was in charge and the message was "Jesus interprets. Christ- mee". The chdir under the direction of 'the organist Mrs. Robert Stirling sang a, Christmas an- them. At the evening service the A'Capella Choir from the Mennonite Church, Zurich gave a splendid pr'ogriam of Christ- mas anthems It wss sponsored by Group one of the United Church Women with Mrs. touts Taylor as leader. Mt, John Alclingten had the mietertune to fall and fracture her leg %slid is now a patient in Clinton Public Hotpitel. Miss Shirley Johnston, Sarnia and MISS jOyee. Ilaytere Wood- Cock spent lhe Weekend at their respective, homes, The :Mather returned to class With the graded examination papers and asked that all the stridents sit down. "If Yon stood tip," he expletaiw ed,. "it is conceivable that you Might 'form a,. chicle e in which date Might att'es'ted (tor maintaining fi dope Alt" Vesper Service Held Girls taking part in the Auburn CGIT Vesper Service, are from the left, front, Gail Miller, first vice-president; Betty Moss, president; Ruth Bere, secre- tary; back, Judy Arthur, organist; Jane Doran, assistant leader and soloist. (Photo by Bradnock) tenni h4 entre col ires echnoiogicai C ilection +am Thuov Dec, 23,„1.904. Clinton: News-IiPic4-4o90 u6urn and -District WES :.BRADNOCK• Stanley ekb Sends Toys To Children's Aid Tile December meeting of Stanley Community Chtb was beld on Wednesday,. .December 1, at the home of Mrs, _J011 McGregor; Toys, clotihes and money were sent M the -.Child- rerre ma Society, A party was, planned for Wednesday, December 29. at Raird's Schwa. Sleighride Sparks SS Party For Modern Young People Nature provided a Christmas ,card setting for the am:nal Christmas party of the Sunday :School of St. James!' Chuech, :Middleton, This Yeae itetook the form of :a sleigh ride with a team of horses and a sleigh . provided • ;end driven by James Storey. As' over 40 children and tea- 'cliers! turned out James had to run two excursions- over the ,:•snowly fields. The children were entranced by this 'innovation planned by • their teachers. The latter record that niallY of these country children had never seen a large sleigh drawn by a team of horses in this erneelianical. age.- • ,So the creak of the runners - • May the Yuletide season bring you happiness! FRED Jn HUME AND STAFF ed the call but the houae was. completely !destroyed, . The fireman remained. at the , scene to .eontrol the flames: ,and save the other farm .btadings.' The loos was partlally covered by insurance, xr,' and Mrs, Witham 4.. Craig and Kr, and Mrs.. Harry !WerSell attended tire' plic101 wedding anniversary of their friends Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Gravestone, Zwistock, last .atni- day, •-.- _ P. Sidney O. Lansing Dies Suddenly At Funeral Home AUBURN — Funeral servic, es were held on Wednesday, December 22 for Sidney David Lansing at the Arthur Funeral Home, Auburn. Deceased was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lan- sing and was born in Mullett TownShip 72 years ago, He .died •sucklenly on Monday on the street in front of the Funeral Home. Mr. Lansing farmed 'all his. life in Hellett until they re- tired .te the village 11 years ago. Twenty,six years ego he married the former Anna Eliza- beth Arnett Who survives Two' sisters also eurVive., Mrs. Elmer (Margaret) Robertson, RR 5, 'Goderich, and. Mrs. Ed- ward (Lela) Ball, Clinton. Funeral arrangements were made by the Stiles Funeral Home. Burial was in Ball's cemetery. 0 LONDESBOIP 'NEWS A !Christnias..Eve service for the charge will be held in the United Church on Friday even- ing at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Charlie Vodden return- ed to her home on Friday hav- ing spent several weeks as .a patient in Clinton. Public Hos- pital. We hope familiar face's and a bit of home treatment will prove beneficial to Janet. We. are .s•orey to report that Mrs.. Townsend had the misfor- tune to' breek her left arm on Friday, the result of a fall on slippery snow. Mrs. Robert Caldwell, who spent a couple: of weeks in Clinton Hospital, has returned home for Christmas, VCW Officers ' Executive of the United Ch- urch Women for 1966 are as follows ; past president, Mrs. E. Wood; president, Mrs. H. Live ingstone; vice-president, Mrs. C. Crawford, IVIrs. Gourley; re- cording secretary, Mrs. J. Lee; assistant, Mrs. K. Hulley. 'Ilreasurer, •Mrs. H. lelillar; eceresponding secretary, Mrs. N. Lear; chairmen of standing committees: com'm'unity friend,. ship, Mrs. Joe Shadclie' k; Chris- Clan citizenship and social act- ion, Edythe Beacom; Christian education and missionary edu- cation, Mre. Gordon Shobbrook. Finance, Mrs. R. Good; flow- ers and cards, Mrs. Winner Hewett; literiature, communi- cations and periodicals, Mrs. Laura Lyon; membership, Mrs. Stan Lyon: nominations, Mrs. Harry Durinino press and pub- licity, Mrs. B. Allen, Social functions, Mrs. D. Anderson; program, Mrs. Lloyd Pipe; supply 'and social assis- tance, Mrs, W. Howatt; stew- ardship and recruiting, Mrs. c, Crawford; pianists, Mts. Jos- ling, Mrs. Harry Lear. Secretary without portfolio, Mrs. Townsend; representative m manse committee, Mrs. Lorne .flunking; repreeentative. to' Board. of . Stewards, Mrs, Townsend; church flowers, Mrs, Earl Gaunt. • -0 In the five-year 1960-64 period the cumulative deficits of all governments in Canada totalled $3.2 billioh,. ..4.4*.inStreRg Vtrel Fire of UnichOWn on in ecxrm eletely deetioyeld the White 'Wick farm, home in West Wa- Wenoi-Sh, tine and a. .quarter TOURS Meth of „Anhlgr)- belong, 'ing to -Jack Armstrong, 1.40.wn. for Tawny Yeas AS tire Nieleolson farm of it was nearly 100 years old but been modernized a 'few years ago. Until ten days • ago .bad, been occupied by lytr, and Mrs.. Keith Rodger and family, The Tire was discovered b' Lutz, .jr., who, alarmed Mr. and Mrs, .Aemstrong. who reside •across the road,, The • Blyth Fire Department ansWer- • an the frosty ground, the sharp jingle 'of bells as the horses. ran alOng, their frosited breath leaving 'a jet-like trail in the air, all added to high exelte'- merit and adventure for the little foIk. , As if all this were not enough foe one day, they all repaired to the church basement where a delidions. lunch was ,served and Santa distributed lovely presents to all. - • Of such happy times are childhood memories made. . This, Yew. SUcCeesAll, PartY was planned by Mrs. Don .Mild- dletem, superintendent of the Sunday School, -with the assist- ant teachers,. Mrs. Edward Wise, Mrs. Ray Wise, Miss Elaine Smith, Mrs. Ethel Cole and Mrs. Keith ;Willer. Correspoodent,Phone 526,7595 KnoWn as the Matthews Col- lection, it WM assembled over a period of many years by building mover Charles Mat- thews and his son, Charles H. and Hoer Matthews, all of Langstaff, Ont. The collection rang& from hand'-made farm implements 'to hearses, from huge locomotiyes to tiny sewing machines, and from horse-drawn -fire engines to high-wheeled Penny Farth- ing bicycles. "Purchase of this • amazing collection of articles, most, of which saw service in Ontario's formative years, is a stroke of immense' good fortune," said Mr. Auld. "It would have taken the Centre's experts many years, to obtain, item 'by item, such broad range of !articles. In fact, it could probably never have been exactly duplicated". The Centre, scheduled to open in 1967, is Ontario's offici- al project commemorating 100 years of :Canadian nationhood. Construction will commence 'on the Don Valley site, at the -geoe graphical hub of MetrOpolitan Toronto, early in the new year. The amount- involved in the purchase of the Mattheivs Col- lection 'was not disclosed, but Mr. Auld said 'it compared very favorably. with 'an independent expert's assessment of the' value of the artifacts. The 'consultant was Minor W. Thomas, jr., Chief Curator of the New York State Historical Association and former Chief Curator 'at the Henry Ford Mu- seum, Dearborn, Michigan., Of the Matthews Collection, he told 'Centre officials: "The value of such a collection to the history of Canadian tech- nology is beyond price and you are extremely fortunate in having such a group of materi- als :to draw Upon for exhibits in your !new museum . . . . it includes one of North America's great collections of agrictiltural and allied equipment." 3g17 Auld \said that . Mn'. Thomas and the Centre's own officials "were deeply impress- ed by the excellent judgment shown by the 'Members of the Matthews family in assembling the Collection, While, not all articles are equally rare or val uable, almost all will help the Ceritte tell the story of this province's and this country's early life — the way Ontario worked and lived in the past and the way the patt• has in- fluenced and contributed to the way we live now and will live In all, the collection includes thousands of items. There are many varieties of steam trac, tion engines, ploughs, hearses, locomotives, treadmills for (loge and horses:, gas-oil and steam tractors, wagons, streetcars, gas engines, pea harvesters, lathes, hoists, generators, har- rows, 'buggies, sulkies., cultiva- tors and drill presses, The list, goes on' and on. There is a Vale- able set of tradesmen's tools and equipment, including • a complete blacksmith's shop, a set of cobbler's tools, a set of hatmeker'S esiuipmebt, a mill, a large Mini:bey of carpenter's hand tools, !and a set of bullet- making took, The collectieli Cis ctich. in , doc- uments, manuals, arid other material relating to the items. Members of the Matthews fern- ily will record their own recol- lections of historical details concerning the equipment, its use, its origin, and their acquis- ition of it. • -All the items are being as- sassed and catalogued. Many are of types seldom found ex- cept in major museums. Many were once common in Ontario ceinintlnitieS, but have since faded from sight and memory. Most 'are in working condition, though almost all will require restoration before they can he put on display. The smaller items are now at the Centre's workshop in Don Mills, the larger items are housed at the Matthews farm near Orillia. A Matter of Principle (By J, Carl Hemingway) A merry Christmas to all of you! As I extend this old, fam- iliar greeting I remember the statement of an English teacher "Words have no meaning ex- cept the meaning we give them", What meaning do you put on my words? Do you even hear them.? Is "Merry Christmas" the same as our words "Good-, day" no matter how rotten the clay may •be? I can only hope that Merry Christmas stands in a class by itself. I hope that it inunedi- ately brings a ,feeling of Warm- th and fellowship to all who hear it. I hope it recalls to us the picture of a baby in a manger, a loving and Godly mother and farther bound just a little more closely by the arrival: of their first,born. I hope that it impresses on us our Christian 'heritage and encourages us to be worthy of the remarks of an early non- Christian when 'he said, "Look! How these Christians love one another!" In our modern Christmas celebrations with the feasting and the giving of gifts or as the cynics point out the re- ceiving of gifts have we failed to "open" the Most precious gift of all, the gilt of God to man? In Spite of all the snide •re- marks about "getting"' I !am still firmly convinced that the vast majority of gifts are given with real 'eve and at least some measure of personal sac- rifice. In the farm community in many areas Christmas, this year will be considerably re- stricted. For many farmers it has been a had year either from drought or too much rain. After taxes are paid the purse is' likely to be extremely thin. But after all Christmas was not intended to mean material wealth. On TV recently the life of ,the northern Eskimo was de- picted. In their meagre circumstanc- es the question of 'happi'ne'ss was raised. The ! commentator replied. that happiness is not a matter of possessions but rather a measure of our adjustment to conditions as 'they are. The Eskimo is well adjusted and is happy. Truly "Man does net live by bread alone" and Christmas time is no exception. %MON'S FIRESTONE & FUELS 238 ALBERT StittEt ACK SCR UT cLINitti ON PHONE 48144e1 J 6.08 CALOWELL bON SCRUTON bOUG CANTELON MAY THE HOLIDAYS BRING YOU AND YOURS EVERY HAPPINESS! BEST WISHES FROM Herb's Food Market 43 ALBERT STREET — CLINTON PHONE 482-3445 We Issue BLACK DIAMOND STAMPS An outstanding private cod--in the future." lection of artifacts, containing hundreds of items significant to the technological. histery of Canada, has; been acquired by the Centennial Centre of Science and Technology, the Hon. James A. C. Auld, Ont- ario's Minister of Tourism and Information, announced today.