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The Huron Expositor, 1954-04-23, Page 7r. 4 •�i7'�1�7)!�' �D 8,'R'��f >nF �g1roya�fdc1 APR.IL..23,.1964 "Keeper of the Trees" (By ,MRS. M. C. DOIG) (Continued from last week) VI From the day at the age of two when Karen Kelson toddled through the connecting door /be- tween house and store and scat- tered cattered a crate of .oranges to the four corners of the room, it had KIDNEYACI D Robr our Rest.. Many temple never seem to get a good anlg14!. Feat They tan and toss—blame it an 'nates' men it may be their kidneys. Ilealthy acids from mtthhe bloed.filler �excess If they faiisons and and *spilt stay is the system --disturbed ant often follows. If you don't red well gat and use dDodd's Kidney Pills. Dodd's Miele the kidneys fed better.that JOn can rest 136 Dodds Kidney Pills possessed for her an extraordinary fascination. More than half her pre-school years were spent watch- ing her Lather wait upon custom- ers, sort mail, package sugar; .and when her 'mother was grading eggs in the little dark room at the end of the store, an upturned egg -crate was certain to find Karen seated upon it, her cornflower blue eyes fixed intently, upon her mother as she, graded the eggs with practiced skill. Bythetime Karen was old enough to start to school, she could have done a very fair job herself of grading the community's eggs. As she grew older, SIgmund call- ed upon ,her more and more to help in the store, and by the time she was fifteen she knew as much about running it -as he did. She liked standing on her side of the counter, smiling at the cus- tomers and saying: "What can I sell you today?" She even had fun waiting on Mrs. Platch, and Mrs. Platch was a thorn in the flesh to every Kelson in Brig End Mills, and half the storekeepers in Tanner. When NOW OPERATING QUERENGESSER TRANSPORT General Trucking— Walton, Ont. • Shipping Cattle to Toronto every Saturday and Monday • Hogs to Kitchener every Tuesday Phone: Seaforth 830 r 24 Brussels 19 r 19 Residence: Dublin 74 r 14 (Collect) Expositor Want Ads Bring Results - Phone 41 OK. Guaranteed 1A 1952 CHEV. DE LUXE SEDAN Radio, Power Glide — $1,850.00 1951 Chev. Sedan $1,375.00 1951 Dodge Coupe (radio) 1,375.00 1948 Dodge 5 -Passenger Coupe (radio) 850.00 1946 Chev. Sedan 675.00 1946 Ford Coach 650.00 1940 Ford Coach 240.00 1937 Plymouth Sedan 225.00 1937 Pontiac Sedan 275.00 1937 Ford 1/2 -Ton Pickup 150.00 1937 Chev. Sedan—Excellent 225.00 Seaforth Motors Phone 541 •Seaforth 1 Mrs, ?latch walked into a store, she never (had the faintest idea as to what she Wanted. The _geed Lord had left the power to wake a quick decision out of ber make- up, with the remit that it total[ her two hours to boy enough groceries to do herself and Herb Platch over Sunday. +Karen liked helping old Mr. Travis who, they acid, ,had cancer of the throat and could not speak, had not spoken for over a year, and it was whispered, would' never speak again this side of eternity. Mr. and Mrs. Travis were English and not well off. Their -two SOWS had been killed on the Somme in, the Great War, and they had no one In Canada to think of them. Their living needs were figured out to the last cent, and their diet was monotonous to a degree. If bacon went up twocents, it made a dif- ference in the Travis budget. '?they were never heard to complain. Karen and Mr. Travis played a game twice a week in which Karen figured out !Mr. Travis's grocery needs without his delivering. his wife's written message. Some days she would be seventyefive per cent wrong, and she and Mr. Travis would stand on opposite aides of. the counter shaking their heads mournfully at each other. But once in a while there was a red letter day when Karen guessed his needs one hundred per cent, and they would split a bottle of ginger ale. But if Karen liked most of the customers and exerted herself to please them, all of the customers liked Karen. "You know, KeIson," said Scott Nichol to Sigmund one boiling hot Saturday when Karen had taken his coal oil jug to the tiny oil house in the backyard where the coil oil and naphtha gas we kept, "if you would just retire and take that ugly phiz of yours from be- hind the counter and leave Karen and your wife to run the store, your business would expand by leaps and bounds." Sigmund glared at him. Nichol prided himself on speaking his mind at all times. - "Who wants the business to ex- pand by leaps and bounds?" de- manded Sigmund. "I'm carrying as much on my books now as the traf- fic will bear. And while we're on the subject of business, how about a little cash on account? I hear you sold a batch of pigs last week. It can't be all gone this soon." Nichol put a reluctant hand in his trousers pocket and brought out a roll of bills. "You're a hard man, Kelson," he mourned, as he peeled off a ten- spot. enspot. "I only got eight dollars a hundred for them, and there were only six. I" didn't make a hundred dollars, and here you are trying to take some of it away from me." "That's all right," retorted Sig- mund• as he put the money in the till and credited Nichol with the amount in the ledger. "Your wife sent an order to Simpson's lash week and I notice she paid cash. What heats me is how you fellows who can't find any money for• me, can find it for other people. And if it wasn't for me, where .would you be? Elr? Answer me that! What would you smoke if it wasn't for me? Bark or sawdust, or some of that awful home -cured tobacco that Charlie Abbot grows in his garden—that's what ytou'd smoke! Where'd you get your tea or coffee if it wasn't for me? Eh?e'ood old water is what you'd be-lirinking, my boy. Where would you be if you had to go away over to Tanner every time your wife needed a spool of thread or a package of needles, or a pair of insoles after you had burned yours to a crisp in the oven when it was five below zero? Instead of you people in Brig 0)1 B.UIL Sli11011E11111111 IF YOU ARE PLANNING A NEW HOME, IT WILL PAY YOU TO COME IN AND SEE US ! — FreeEstimates Glady Given — We Carry a Complete Line of Lumber and Build' Supplies • • Enquire About Our Home Owners' Loans For Additions and Repairs LOANS tJP TO $2,000.00 Up to 24 Months to Pay No Down Payment Bali - Macaulay LIME - CEMENT - TILE - BRICK CLINTON Phone 97 LUMBER , SEAFOR‘TH Phone 787 • • THE. HURON : EXPOSITOR Hullett Music Festival Wnners The first and second prize win- ners of the third annual Hullett Music Festival presented an excel- lent 'program in the Londesiboro United Church Thursday evening, April 15. Mrs. J. W. Van Egmond, mistress of ceremonies for the eve- ning, gave certificates to all win- ners, and. shields were presented to the choruses. The previous morning, afternoon and evening, Frank W. Holton, A. . .M. C C of Brantford,adjudicator C tnl' J for the festival, judged 255 entries in 16 different classes. He said the work was on par with ,the 'best. festivals in Ontario, and gave cred- it to the 14 teachers and two music supervisors, Mrs. E. Wendorf and Miss Margaret Jackson. Mr. Hol- ton said, for him, the highlight of the festival was the singing of Joanne Rapson in the girls' solo class (11 years and under). She received 87, the highest marks of the festival. ' 'The top award of the festival, the Hullett Township Council Shield, was won by S.S. 1, whose teacher is Mrs. Ida Livingstone. Warden W. J. Dale presented this shield. ' S.S. 1 was also awarded three other shields: the Hullett Town- ship Federation Shield for unison chorus; the Londesboro Women's Institute Shield, for two-part chor- us; and the Hullett Township Fed- eration Shield for double trio. Mr. Percy Gibbings, Mrs. Stanley Lyon End trying to drive me out of busi- ness by leaving my bill to the very last, you•should be trying to keep me here by paying me first. Be- lieve me, I'm the greatest conven- ience you've got, and don't you for- get it!" Karen had come back with th.e coal oil and 'w'as standing beside her father, her hands in the pock- ets of her smock. She rolled her blue eyes, first at Sigmund, and then at Nichol. "Don't pay any attention to Dad. Mr. Nichol. He wouldn't give up the store for anything. He'd be like a fish out of water. Anything else besides the coal oil?" Part Two Before stating her intention to Sigmund of sending Nets to his grandfather's for the Easter holi- days. Janet ,had given the matter considerable thought. She private- ly ruled out any help in th'e matter from Sigmund himself. What was the streak in him that made him so shrewd, in his judgment of all people but his own? Like Mrs. Tulliver, he possessed the knack of driving his family in exactly the opposite direction to the one in which he wanted them to go. Evelyn? No. Evelyn and Martin were in the up -and -doing class. Martin Bonner had the Ford ag- ency in Tanner along with a flour- ishing garage business. He was a first-class mechanic himself and he knew a .first-class mechanic when he saw one. He had no patience with the other kind. His garage was known for thirty 'miles around as a place where a car owner got good service for his money. It was definitely on the cards that Evelyn and Martin would end up very well- to-do, indeed. Evelyn kept the books for the agency and the gar- age, ran both places and her house with machine -like efficiency, and had simply no time left in which to have a baby. Nets was definitely not a mechanic. He never would be a mechanic. If it were Jon—but Jon was a different kettle of fish en- tirely. She would worry about Jon, and his proihlems later on. ,Jon with his mania for hockey; Jon with his exaggerated hien of his importance and ability; ,100 who was as run-of-the-mill boy as Nels was not. Good old Dad: The very person for Nels, made to order. He liva'd only four n)Ies away on hi- little farm of twelve acres, She would see him this coming Saturday- when he drove into town in the old rub- ber -tired buggy to get his weeks' supply of groceries. When her mother had died twenty years be. fore, Janet and the rest of the fam- ily had exerted all the pressure available to persuade hint to come and settle with one or any of them in village, apartment, duplex, or thirty -roomed mansion. It was a waste of breath. Colin wasn't hav- ing any. Colin MacKenzie wa.s a Presby- terian by inheritance, a philosopher by temperament, a Quaker by con- viction, and a farmer by choice. He often meditated on the Law of the Universe, in which he was a, firm believer• and the queer and unexpected ways in which it oper- ated. There was Janet and her at- tractive brood, ,especially young Nels, who would have given her right arm to send Ted to college and Karen to dramatic school and all she had to go on was the meagre profits from a general store in a country village. And there was Marion who had married into a railroad with a cou- ple of steamship lines on the side and if Colin knew his grandsons, David and Andrew, Marion would never be able to get them into col- lege, let alone through it. It was too bad. He felt sorry for Marion. She was kind-hearted, but far too ambitious. She was always send- ing him the best in out -of -season fruits and vegetables, the best in woollen underwear, the best in magazines. He was, he supposed, the only person in the whole coun- ty with a sixteen dollar pair of sealskin house slippers; and he knew he was, the only person in the township who had his place houge- cleaned every month by the most efficient pair of housecleaners he had ever seen operate. They had never actually polished the chair he was sitting on, nor vacuumed the bed he was lying in, but that was because he always got out of the house ..when they came in. I.t was a good thing he liked' things clean and tidy because Marion's houseelea.ning ga.ngsters would have made him that way in spite of himself. (Oentinued Next Week) and Mr. Norman Alexander made these presentations. The Hullett Music Festival shield for unison chorus from schools of 25 pupils or' less, was presented to S.S. 2 (teacher, Miss Pat Morri- son) by Mrs. Keith Tyndall. J U.S.S. 12 (teacher, Miss Grace Riley) received highest marks and the Hullett Township Federation shield, for two-part chorus. Mr. Lloyd Pipe made this presentation. 'U.S.S. 12 also won the Rhythm Band shield, which was presented by G. G. Gardiner, Goder'ioh, in- spector of public schools. Mrs., Neville Forbes, of the Sum- merhill Ladies' Club, gave their shield to S.S. 6 (teacher, Mrs..Sim- ons) for best double trio from small schools. . List of Winners Complete results were as fol- lows: Forenoon session—Unison chorus (schools of 25 or less)—S.S. S. 2 (Miss Morrison), 83; U.S.S. 12 (Miss Riley), 82; S.S. ' 11 (Miss Turnbull), 81. Boys' solo (7 years and, under)— Arthur Hunking, 83, .S. 8; Bill Merrill, 82, U.S.S. 12 (H. and G.); Richard Shaddick 80, S.S. 11. Girls' solo (7 years and under)— Deanna Dale 85, S.S. 3; Barbara Snell 84. U.S.S. 10; Bonnie Snell 81, U.S.S. 10. Two-part chorus (schools 25 or less) U.S.S. 12 (Miss Riley). 86; S.S. 6. (Mrs. Simons), ,83; U.S.S. 10 (Miss Watt), 82. Girls' solo (14 years and under) —Myrtle Knox 85. S.S. 6; Ula Grif- fiths 83, U.S.S. 12 (H. and M.); Lomeli Holzhauer 82, S.S. 3. .Boys' solo (9 years and under)— Melvin Knox 83, S.S. 6; David Mc- Call 82, U.S.S. 12 (H. and M.); Jackie Powell SI, S.S. 8. Afternoon Session Boys' solo (11 years and under) —Barb Phillips 85, S.S. 3; John De Ruyter 84, U.S.S. 10; Bob Watt 83, 13.5. 6. Unison chorus (over 25)—S.S. 1 (Mrs. Livingstone), 85; S.S. 5 (Miss Keyes), 84; S.S. 3 (Miss Rog- ers), 81. Duet—Barbara Pecktltt and Jo- anne Rapson 86, S.S. 5; Myrtle Knox and Rickie Heyink 85, SS. 6; Margaret and Sandra Merrill 84, U.R.B. 12 (H. and G.). Girls'of s o9 and under)— Mar- garet garet Maciaregbr e5, S.S. 1; Judy Thompson 83, S.S. 3; Mary Mac- Gregor 82, S.S. 1. Two-partchorus p (over 25)—S.S. 1 (Mrs. Livingstone), 85; S.S. 5 (Miss Keyes), 84; S.S. 8 (Mrs. Beatty), 79. Boys' solo (11 and under)—Paul McCool 84, S.S. 5; Harvey Carter 83, S.S. 5; Egbert Bakker 81, S.S. 8. Evening Session Rhythm Band--•U.S.S. 12 (Miss Riley), 85; S.S. 3 (Miss Rogers), 84; U.S.S. 5 (Mr. McKay), 83. Double trio (schools of over 25) —5.5. 1 (Mrs. Livingstone), 84; S. S. 8 (Mrs. Beatty), 81; S.S. 5 (Miss Keyes), 77. Girls' solo (11 and under)—Jo- anne Rapson 87, S.S. 5; Judy Nott 84, S.S. 1; Carol Fowler 83, S.S, 1. Double trio (schools of less than 25 pupils)—S.S. 6 (Mrs. Simons), 81; U.S.S. 2 (G. Dunbar), 78; U. S.S. 12 (Miss Riley) and S.S. 11 (Miss Turnbull) tied, 77. A first grade teacher read her pupils some nursery rhymes. To find if they had paid attention, she asked them questions about the nhymes. "Willy did the cow jump over the moon?" she inquired. Little Johnny spoke up: "Prob- ably because the milkmaid had cold fingers." Spring Sale Specials. Farm Machinery New M. -H. 20A 15 -Run Drill $475.00 New M. -H. No. 22 H. D. Spring Tooth Three -Section Harrow 125.00 New M. -H. No. 11 Tractor Spreader on Rubber 375.00 New M. -H. Master Lift Loader, fit any Standard Tractor—Priced below cost to. clear . New and Used - 2 and 3 -FURROW TRACTOR PLOWS MAKE US AN OFFER Seaforth .Motors Seaforth Phone 541 — Also — JOHNSON 10 H.P. MODEL Q.D. 12 Practically New, with Milemaster Tank Reduced to $295.00 Seaforth Phone 541 Seaforth • Valuable Trades' Training Good Rates of Pa 30 Days Annual y Leave with Pay ti You Can Travel Far In The Field Modern Aviation OPENINGS NOW .FOR CREW OFFICERS AIR IC1AN5 ORO. AO IECIAN AIRWOMEN DONS DELA1 A to d Of SPECIAL EER COUNSELLOR RCM CAR WILL BE IN SEAF0RTH at TOWN HALL Ours., April 29 or write RCAF RECRUITING Weer London 343 Richmond St. • WINCREISEA Mister .IaarrY 1.ytu1. aPP= ;#1e' past week with his grandparents, Mr. and M2s, Skinner,of.;St, Pals. Mr. and 'M'ra. Valuebell, 4, ?uuear; Exeter, have moved into their 11111P8 in the village, recently purchased from Mr. H. Bailey. Mrs., Sherwood Brock, of Exeter, is convalescing at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. anti Mrs, Ivan Brock. Messrs. Fred Walters, C. Vance, William and George Brock, of Lon- don, spent the weekend at Chesley Lake, laying the foundation for Mt. Walter's summer cottage. Mr. Jerry Grubbe spent the weekend at his ,home in Teeswater. 1 i am) vFF.. Ortgaat^tya Feeneyrx" traUal k7 0117 iso 1, Science li:;x.11�tu, It.Ii, 1• Mite m, �kte�; {yam- rT",4ti R.R. 2, Mitchell. AGENTS Thos. 0, Dana R.R. 1; Woodhull; , Glaryton ,RR i. 1, Mitchell; heli: B. Roeg..H ton, Cromarty. SOLICITOH.--w. G. aoAzane, $xt SECRETARY -TBEASUEER 1 eraser. Exeter. FEBIWARY DELIVERY SOLD OUT Started Pullets' SUSSEX X RED " and RED X ROCK Nine Weeks of Age ORDER NOW FOR DELIVERY IN APRIL AND JUNE W. C. HENDERSON - Phone 683-J • - Seaforth Expositor Want Ads Bring Results — Phone 41 Town of Seaforth TAX PREPAYMENT RECEIPTS FOR 1954 The Town of Seaforth will pay 4% per annum, up to August 31, 1954, on all Prepaid Taxes. Certificates and full particulars may be obtained at the Town Clerk's Office, in the Town Hall. D. H. WILSON - Treasurer SEAFORTH MONUMENT WORKS OPEN DAILY — PHONE 363-J T. PRYDE & SON ALL TYPES OF CEMETERY MEMORIALS Enquiries are invited. Exeter Phone 41-J Clinton Phone 103 Your Business Directory - LEGAL A. W. SILLERY Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Phones: Office 173, Residence 781 SEAFORTH ONTARIO McCONNELL & HAYS Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. PATRICK D. McCONNELL H. GLENN HAYS, Q.C. County Crown Attorney SEAFORTH, ONT. Telephone 174 CHIROPRACTIC D. H. McINNES Chiropractic - Foot Correction COMMERCIAL HOTEL Monday, Thursday — 1 to 8 p.m. OPTOMETRIST JOHN E. LONGSTAFF Optometrist Eyes Examined. Glasses Fitted. Phone 791 MAIN ST. SEAFORTH Office Hours: Daily, except Mon- day, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Wednesday, 9 am to 12:30 p.m. CLINTON—Monday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (McLaren's Studio). INSURANCE FOR ACCIDENT and SICKNESS INSURANCE LOW COST PROTECTION LIFE INSURANCE and RETIREMENT PLANS Phone, Write or Wire E. C. (Ned) BOSWELL JOHN ST. - SEAFORTH, ONT. Special Representative: The Occidental Life Insurance Co. of California. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO'Y. HEAD• OFFICE—SEAFORTH, Ont. OFFICERS: President - J. L. Malone, Seaforth Vice -Pres. - J. H. McEwing, Blyth Manager and See.-Treas. - M. A. Reid, Seaforth. DIRECTORS: E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; S. H. Whit- more, Seaforth; Chris. Leoffiardt, Bornholm; Robert Archibald, Sea - forth; John H. McEwing, Blyth; William S. AIexander, Walton; Her vey Fuller, Goderich; J. E. Pepper, Brucefleld. AGENTS: • William Leiper, Jr., Londeeboro; J. P. Praetor, Brodhagen; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Erie Munroe, Si* forth. MEDICAL DR. M. W. STAPpLETON Physician and Surgeon Phone 90 Seaforth JOHN C. GODDARD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Phone 110 Hensall JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon Phones: Office 5-W; Res. 5-J Seaforth' SEAFORTH CLINIC Telephone 26 E. A. McMASTER, B.A., M.D. Internest Telephone 27 P. L. BRADY, M.D. Surgeon Telephone 55 C. ELLIOTT, M.D. Telephone 26 EVENINGS: 'Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday only, 7-9 p.m. Appointments may be made. VETERINARY D. J. McKELVIE, D.V.M. Veterinary Surgeon . HENSALL, ONT. - PHONE 99 TURNBULL & BRYANS VETERINARY CLINIC J. O. Turnbull, D.V.M. W. R. Bryans, D.V.M. Phone 105 • Seaforth ACCOUNTING RONALD G. McCANN Public Accountant CLINTON : ONTARIO Office: Phones: Royal Bank Office 561, Res. 455 A. M. HARPER " Chartered Accountant 65 South St. Telepbone Goderlch 343 Licensed Municipal Auditor. AUCTIONEERS JOSEPH L RYAN Specialist in farm stock and im- plements mplements and household effects. Satisfaction guaranteed. 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