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for damp basements or playrooms use dowflake the tmr5ty chemical no dust or muss just hang up also melts ice on steps walks etc richardsons hardware goodbye central issmu erdnwa in the leaders divert masonry contractors george don adams parker f ad all manner of masonry work dial tr 72050 s i budget terms arranged if desired for seasons oslue coal a complete fuel service w h kentner son triangle 72851 high quality stoker coal blue coal fuel oil a i like progress as well as the next one but when 1 go beck to the little town where i grew up 1 can hardly wait for a chance to turn the crank on our old phone and aay hello central i know sure a anything that before she rings the number i ask for shell welcome me home inquire about my health and ask how long i mean to stay with in a few hours the whole town will know of my visit but the day lu coming when ill pick up the receiver and hear only an impudent impersonal buzz the dial system will have come to my town as inevitably as it has in vaded other villages and cross roads i won t like it a bit for i grew up under the benign autocracy of a smalltown central who held within her busy hands the multiple lines of all our destinies with her passing i feel that something pre cious and irreplaceable will have disappeared there was for instance the night the borden farmouse caught fire sam borden had gone to town with a load of cattle and sarah was al one with the children afterward when the women asked oh sarah whatever did you do when yon found the house was burning she told them first i called central and then i started praying nobody though the answer sac rilegious that was the usual or der in which rural people handled their emergencies god was un doubtedly the centre of the uni verse but central was just what her name implied the focal point of the community said i have to get my husband quick im going to have a baby who la your husband his name is boyd jones he just started working up there do you know where no but i know the man he works for has a dodge truck so did half a dozen other men in the community that didnt help and he lives next door to a man who owns a mean german police dog and no fence around his house oh and with that scrap of informa tion central got boyd jones on the line in less than five minutes he had home tq town to work for milton carney who had a podge truck and lived next door to a german police dog that everybody thought ought to be fenced in sometimes central didn t even have that much to go on the night the borden house caught fire sar ah had screamed help my house is on fire into central a ears and then pnnlcky hung up without giving her name but central knew where the fire was sarah borden she explained is the only woman on the 600 line who lisps in our town central was consid ered an animated encyclopedia we kept her busy answering questions central whats burning i see a fire in the west hbv long do you cook apple jelly how is grampa william this morning since our town was too small for a daily newspaper or a broadcast ing station many of their duties fell on central she advertised by ringing eight longs and then qteltenham fum oub has evening of euchre mr and mrs gordon campbell opened their home to the members of the cheltenham farmers dub for the first meeting of the fall and winter season on october 13 part of the evening was spent playing progressive euchre and high lady and gentleman were mrs alex mcleod and mr david mc donald second prizewinners were mrs george gowland and mr staf ford mcculloch and the carrying prizes went to mrs herbert taylor and mr tommy davidson while the men held a business meeting the ladle had a program which opened with the singing of a harvest hymn bringing in the sheaves the creed was recited by mrs stafford mcculloch in an swer to roll call each lady men tioned something to be thankful for at the thanksgiving season mrs meredith mcklm chose an in teresting subject the first car that travelled from coast to coast with illustration and com parison to modern day motor car models mrs w h wilkinson gave two readings portrait and person ality and joy of finding out mrs george hutchinson recited a poem smiting the rock the secretary read thankyou notes from shut in members and apoke of items of business the singing of juanita closed the program the hostess was assisted at the lunch hour by mrs norman hutch inson mrs cheavins judge mrs george gowland and mrs stafford mcculloch mr and mrs david mcdonald will give their home for the november 10th meeting when a speaker will be guest of honour the gbokgetown hebau wednesday evening oct jlst ubs pajgr t then there was the day a worn making general announcements an s desperate voice came in over long distance from a town 100 miles away ijlsten central the woman cmon along to the lions t halloween masquerade friday evening october 30th georgetown aralta rose room fun and frolic elimination and spot dances prizes for best dressed couple most original home made and funniest costume dancing with ron deeths orchestra toronto all for 100 a pewon with this washer to piece tt stdem6le one homisaun all wool blanket one jjexjrutdt homistiad double sheet and two pillow cases two caldwell v- gill bath towels two caldwell guest towels and two face cloths matched solid tolim la raritv o coloar jetuly automatic washer 100 plus plus plus plus free 10piece gift ensemble as above worth tradein au0wance for 01d washer up to 00 no down paymenteasy terms fsafvra yew cannot get on any onw automatic wasnsr water saving the fwty m inn than half a nrach not wahn at any othw automatic requires no installa tion hydyofux damp dry sqiwoses the watst oat no spinning no vibration no bolting nmand washes cleaner utti wry agitator method which kill wash cleaner than any other anywhere richardsons hardware specials on groceries current pic- lure shows and the missionary soc iety s ice cream social she was a clearinghouse foe details of funeral arrangements and well do i recall a service central oitered the younger crowd along about five o clock saturday afternoon one could see boys slip ping into central s office looking self conscious more often than not they came out whistling central had told them vhich girls did not have dates for the evening the boys didn t like to call a girl and be refused and we girls were plea sed with a system which practical ly assured us a date it used to be almost common place to read about a heroic cen tral who stayed at her post during a severe electrical storm or a forest fire or a flood saving lives and iproperty with calm disregard for her own safety while our town never had such p disaster our cen tral did her part in saving lives like when little tim houston got sick tim came down with con vulsions on a january night when a blizzard was blowing ninety to nothing he timed it nicely mid night with doc out on a baby case central mrs houston scream ed into the phone get doc tim s dying convulsion central alvayi knew where doc was of course tonight he was at the stevens tin baby had arrived safe enough and doc was just lea ving central give him the mes sage and went back to her bed there in the office then she re membered those two places on the ro id to the ho i where snow often drifted up tr the top of a cir die could fet stink bid eith r pi icl so she lot up nffnn ind i thl c inn tvs mid the hil- i t the c i u rs tlu firm lit m t to the trouble wli i i t tl snow lu f in i t i ins s i prist ill u r s u itii u lo flie i ir i it to hoi stuns main street tr 74501 1 c his oiti v is on miin st 1 i i i i h 1 1 mi with i plate l1 fi i t s 1 1 1 f i n lilr h jh si i t llu suit hbom 1 she h d 1 k k in n n si of the mi ls i loi ils of 11 ot u a sort of old fish b 1 i i excise life of len she hit onlv to uise her eyes to know the wl oriabouts of a pur ticular citizen hello central do you see my bo i- rankic hardin anywhere if ou do tell him to get some su gar hello central is bill around tell him cousin mamie bledsoe just drove in from california when uncle sam and aunt lu were celebrating their golden wed ding anniversary their son came n from florida but the daughter- in law had to stay at home then she decided to telephone long dis tance so she could te a part of the occasion the call came through when the family was downtown so central dispatched some boys to round them up soon she had all four people on the line aunt lu in the office s one pay both uncle sam at her own place at the switch board the son on the home phone and the daughterinlaw in florida for five minutes all telephone ser vice in our little community was held up no one ever complained about this temporary suspension of serv ice and if they had central would have hushed it by saying that in her opinion 60 years of happy mar ried lifesnould very well rate five minutes of silent tribute by the community we must say goodbye to ail this when the dial system comes and rcaf recruiting in the georgetown municipal office tuesday oct 27 1 2 noon 7pm there are excellent career op portunities today in the royal canadian air force for young men as air crew officers and as aircraft technicians for full details on training pay and other benefits in your jet age air force see in person rcaf career counsellor geobgktown bcunigipaxi ofticb this years remembrance day anniversary will be held on the sunday closest to the date sunday november 8th with a public ser vice at the cenotaph at 3 pjn no matter how efficient and conve nient a dial phone may be it can never tell us whether tonight s frost will be hard enough to kill the to matoes or what lime the lion s min strel show starts nor can it ex plain that old mrs tompkins is pretty sick and people better not call the house central knows all these things she knows them because she is the central heart and mind of the com munity and man has not yet been smart enough to make a gadget that ulll take the place of the heart and mind that is why i shall say with great reluctance goodbye centrall notice to creditors in the estate of thomas anderson gentleman deceased all persons having- claims against the estate df thomas anderson late of the township of esqueslng gentleman who died on or about the 25th day of august 1953 are hereby notified to send particulars of same to the undersigned on or before the 7th day of november ax 1953 after which date the estate will be distributed with re gard only to the claims of which the undersigned shall then have notice and the undersigned will not be liable to any person of whose claim they shall not then have not ice dated at georgetown this 8th day of october a d 1953 ruth albert thompson ger trude riorence anderson and rhorms chrcnee anderson by thoir solicit rt d lie bennett c co tctosn ontario 1 i for expert eye cure o t walker optometrist s main st north bracnpton over abetts draff store phone office s99 res 8s0 hours s ttsn to 0 pm dally by s flowers for every occasion design work a specialty flowers by 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