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12—THE BRUSSELS POST. MARCH 19, 1975
15. Property for Rent
WANTED Canada's leading
Manufacture and Distributor is
seeking a choice residential site to
display their new 1975 above
ground redwood pool. Your
backyard is the prime location we
will consider, An excellent
opportunity for y ou the home
owner call collect 681-3800 days
or evenings.' 147-4
19. Notices
BOTHERED by pigeons? Will
clean them out alive. John
Schwartzentruber 887-9416.
19-68-2
SERVICE
We will pick up all Dead
and Disabled Cows and
Horses and Stocker Cattle
and all small animals for
a small service charge. We
have three trucks to service
you 24 hours 7 days a week.
Phone Collect
887-9334
Brussels
Pet Food
Supplies
Lic. 399-C73
19-66-tf
REYNOLD'S Refrigeration and
dependable Appliance Service,
Wingham, 357-1085. 19-67x4
Crop
Insurance
Can cover this year's higher crop
costs. Financing .is easier when
you can guarantee repayment.
The Crop Insurance Commission
of Ontario guarantees your
production - and allows you to
cover your input costs at a price
you can afford. Corn, white and
soybeans, spring grain, new
forage seeding.
Talk to your local Crop
Insurance Agent now - while you
both have time to discuss h ow the
1975 Crop Insurance plans can
benefit you
ALEX LANDON
Listowel Phone 291-1605
19-68-4
SPRING CLEANING TIME
Turn your old furniture and
household effects into cash.
We will either buy or sell it
for you.
From smallest item to the
largest estate.
Phone
NWT/ S FURNITURE
AND AUCTION ROOM
4824 330.
19-66-tf
WEBERS SEWAGE
DISPOSAL SERVICE
Modern equipment used.
We pump septic tanks, pigerys,
lagoons, etc. Phone 887-6700,
Brussels. 19-66-tf
CHAIRS rewoven and recaned.
Contact Don. Miller, R. R.1, Ethel,
887-9290. 19-66-tf
22. Legal Notices
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE ESTATE OF JAMES
DOULL, late of the Township of
Grey in the 'County of Huron,
LabOurer, deceased.
CREDITORS and others having
claims against the Estate of the
above named deceased who died
on or about the 4th day of
November, 1974, are required to
send full particulars of such
claims to the -undersigned on or
before the 5th day of April, 1975,
after which date the assets of the
estate will be distributed, having
regard only to claims of which
notice has then been received.
W. M. PRATT, ESQ., Q.C.
Barrister & Solicitor
P.O. Box 10
LISTOWEL, Ontario
Solictor to the Executors
22-68-3
24. Cards of Thanks
Sincere thanks to all who
remembered me with visits,
cards, flowers and letters while a
patient in Wingham Hospital,
also to Dr. Bozyk and Dr. Wilkens
and nursing staff on second floor.
— Mrs. Fannie Riley. 24-68-1
I wish to thank the friends and
neighbours of Brussels for the
many gifts received at the baby
shower held for me March 12.
Sincerely, Jessica Kumprey.
24-68x1
I would like to express my sincere
thanks to my family, my relatives,
neighbours and friends. For the
flowers, cards and to those who
visited me and the acts of
kindness during my recent stay in
hospital, and since coming home.
— Jim McNeil. 24-68-1
I would like to say thank you to au
those that remembered me with
cards, treats and visits while I
was a patient in Listowel
Memorial Hospital. A special
thank you to John, Steven and
Linda for taking me to the
hospital and all the other kids who
helped in any way. Special thanks
toDr. Hay and the nursing staff.
Your kindness will always be
remembered. — Paul Ryan.
24-68x1
I would like to take this oppor- '
tunity to thank Dr. Hanlon and
the nurses on the first floor of W
• & D Hospital for their kind care,
also our neighbours for their
thoughtful kindness. We very
much appreciate this and your
kindness will not be forgotten. --
Mrs. Wellie McDonald. 24-68x1
I wish to express my sincere
appreciatiOn to the ladies of the
St.Arnbrose and C.W.L, Brussels
and on the 16th of Grey,• 8th of
Morris, the 17th of Grey and
boundary; also my friends in
Walton and area, for the many
beautiful and useful gifts given to
me at e shower Brussels,
prior to
th
my marriage. --R!ebecca
Young (riee Nolan) 24-68-1
My sincere thanks is given to all
those who remembered me with
cards, visits and treats while I
was in Wmgham Hospital,
Special thanks to barcy Snyder,
Bryan Morton and my father for
looking after my chores. — Jolt
Strider- 24-687d
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
This is the time of year that everybody
wishes somebody would do something
about, but nobody does. The Ides of
March.
Some people think the Ides are little
creatures like leprechauns who bore holes
in your rubbers and whisper into tots' ears
that that 18-inch puddle won't go over the
tops of their six-inch rubber boots.
Others, like my wife, think they are
malevolent beings who enjoy scaring the
liver out of you. The other night, there was
a great rumble, a crash, and all the lights
went out. I thought it was maybe the
second coming. She leaped a foot. "It's
the Ides) of March," she screamed.
As a matter of fact, it was the ice off the
roof, which tore away the main cable into
the house. But it could just as well have
been the Ides.
Around the first of March, we decided
we'd start cross-country skiing. Bought
two sets of skis, boots, the works. It rained
for the next week. That was the Ides.
It's been going on for at least 2,000
years. Its first victim of any import was.
Julius. Caesar.
Now, Big Julie was no slouch as an
emperor. He had, in his day, a bigger
empire than Queen Victoria had, although
he wasn't as fat.
He had a penchant for over-running and
over-hearing. He over-ran the Spaniards,
the French, the Germans, the British and
the Belgians, not to mention the Slobs, in
the east.
And he over-heard. It was his custom to
prowl among the campfires at night, and
listen to his disgruntled veterans. He
didn't bother much with the gruntled
veterans.
He did it, of course, incognito. He wore a
kilt, extra-long, to cover his pot and his
knees. On hi's head, to mask his baldness,
he wore a German helmet, captured in the
epic battle of Scheissinkellar. His chest
was disguised by a chest-disguiser,
captured from an Amazon chieftainess who
had joined Women's Lib and decided to go
braless.
(It is tempting for the dedicated historian
to digress h ere, but I will make only two
concise points. One, the kilt was stripped
from a S clot who had strayed south to
found the Bank of England, had been
conscripted into the army of the Ancient
Britons and had died gallantly, shouting
"Usquebaugh and Andrew Carnegie!"
The helmet had been torn from a dead
squarehead and was rather uncomfortable
until Julius discovered that the cow's horn
on the front unscrewed, was hollow , and
contained 13 ounces of schnapps. From
that time on, he found it comfortable. Of
the Amazon breastworks., I will say
nothing. There's enough sex and violence
in history, without dwelling on it. Besides
it is, or was, pointless.),
At any rat e, strolling anonymously
("Oh! Oh!, h ere comes Himself!") he
overheard the rumblings of discontent
among his troops. It was rather difficult to
distinguish them from the other rumblings
associated with the rude and licentious
soldiery, but he had a Trained Ear as well
as a Roman Nose.
He and his legions h ad just put down the
Seventh uprising by some Belgian tribe.
One grizzled veteran was heard to say:
"Belgians, Belgians! I'm sick oflootting
Belgian towns. All they got is gloves and
tapestries. My old Trouble 'n „Strife back
`ome 'as 32 pairs of kid gloves an' enough
tapestries to make a shawl for the Sphinx."
Another veteran, equally grizzled,
agreed. "Me too. And them Belgian
broads; I swear they got fetlocks. In
another 1,500 years, they'll be callin"em
Percherons."
A third veteran legionary, even more
grizzled than the other two, concurred.
"Right. An howbout that there Belgian
beer. So watery ya gotta drink it in the
latrine or yer caught short. I'd give my eye
tooth to get a whack at some Limeys or
Frogs or Krauts fer a change. Wooden
even mine goin' backta Iddaly and wipin'
up somma them Wops we're workin' for."
(It might be noted, in the interests of
historical accuracy, that the third
legionnaire, like so many of them, was not
an ancient Roman. He was an Old Pole,
who had been conscripted after he had
been shot out from under his horse during
an attack on Wvabldnschvtz.)
Anyway, overhearing 'his grizzled,
grizzling veterans, Caesar decided to act.
He made a speech to his legions that had
them in tears. This was after a double rum
ration. Then he put down the Belgians for
the eighth time, and to make his intentions
clear, cut off the right hand of each male
Belgian. This was the origin of the Phrase
"putting me down" and also the reason
you see so many left-handed Belgians.
Perhaps we've strayed a bit. Very well,
back to the Ides of March. One day, early
in March, back in '16 (or was it '17?) B.C.,
Julius was on his way to the Collosseum to
make sure everything was in order for the
Games He had already checked with Zeus
andMayor Drapeau, but you never know,
do you?
He was in his chariot, with his wife,
California. She was attended by her maid,
Florida, and on the runningboard were
three old fiends of Caesar: Ca, ssius,
Nausious and Brutus.
Suddenlyu, a stentorian voice rang out,
as stentorian voices do. Some ring out like
a great, bronze bell. Others just ring out a
sort of ding-a-ling.
This was a bearded, ding-a-ling type
stentor. "Beware the Idea of March!" he
trilled.
Unfortunately, Caesar was deaf in one
ear. He thought the sooth-sayer (that's
what they called the ding-a-ling in those
days), was a soap salesman with a new
jingle, something about washing with Tide
and starch. Naturally, he waved him away,
muttering something about California
using nothing but arctic power.
Some days later, right to the day, the
Ides of March arrived. Well, you know the
rest. Big Julie was assassinated.
His friend Cassius crowned him 'with a
cassock, his pal Nausious breathed garlic
in his face, and his beloved Brutus stabbed
him in the rotunda.
you might say that Caesar came out of
that one a heavy loser. He, went in at 154
pounds and came out with 16 daggers in
him.
So all I can suggest is that you keep an
eye out for those Ides.
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