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jjwwwwwwwwwwtilwitiwwwwtlww sugar and spice dlipeiucd by dill smiley of the wurton echo is there anything quite as silly as the mas card binge in which otherwise intelligent sensible people in dulfel 1 doubt it i m afraid its another manifesta tion of twentieth century softhead ednest for which we have the la diet bless and praise them to thank you can say what you like about men and it will probably be true but i doubt very much wheth er they would ever get into the christmas card jungle if left to themselves they simply wouldn t bother sending cards to anybody and everybody would be a lot hap pier i viry eir around our place we hold chnstnns curd nifht after the kids arc in bid wi ret down to it at tht kitchen tabic i enj y this because it gives mt- a thanct to exercise that ham handed ele phant footed wit in which tht male animal delights at such limes with ponderous glee i survey the list who in the name of all thats baffling i ask is lulu butte rworth and why are we send jj ing her a card i never heard of her in my life my wife removes s a stamp from her tongue and uses v it on me it just so happens she g says in measured tones that lule tf butterworth is that dumb blonde with the big bust that you thought was so terrific in your philosophy lectures twelve years ago and the sends us a card every year with her apartment address and phone number in toronto and i d like to know why oh i s ij there is a brief silence after this she has twelve cards all the same left over from last year trying to figure out from all the tick marks n thiii world i speak to mt on the street with innual christ jicy 1olic she replies because she is a member of the chapter and wcie on the ways and means committee together two years ago and they sent us a card last year oh i say silente while lick the fjtic on envelopes and she writes addresses on them i think gloomily of the millions of dollars spent on christ mis cards and the stamps to mail them wouldn t it be much finer if everyont just donated the cost or thtir cards to a etntril fund the total would probibly mean two weeks in 1 lorida this wintci for ev ery old ate pensioner in canada im not completely an old crank about the christmas card business it has many things in its favour for one it tells me once a year that my two brothers are still alive they have wives who send us christmas cards if they weren t married i d never hear from them wouldn t know where or whether they lived or how many kids they had an 1 i mist a i mil il kind of nice ti hear tioin id friends pv cry ir i ti t a card f r im clancy mullen a bow lcjtd little dijjer from woollaworn australia an old air f rce sidekick all he wan ted to d was to back to austrayl ycr an draise pies and he wished this war would finish so he ctuld iet at it his card each year reads something like my oath smiltr these pits are sending nic fair will i wish 1 were back in the b air force the georgetown herald wednesday december 12th 1956 i always get a nostalgic smile out of clancys card of course there s another type of old friend you get cards from couple of years x s and hen scratches who it was ago i brought home a batch of she sent the cards to last year with cards from the post office i never the red santa claus on them it read them just throw them on the would be just simply dreadful if table for my wife to check through someone got the same card two and make sure we got a card from years in a row awful a gross everybody we sent one to breach of etiquette plal ob oopp bafcallte j handl soowod taunl with tautr jinlcjt conplau wid cord a ag iflw low prick 9- 3hiat pad pink ootton qannal qotm and dcm fnitom 1 t chd cod 1 uh in the hulv ill heck i vmluri uliii will j little less is lo wi send c ir 1 to the u i n t 1 k ih n we i inn in tin ir h use i u i sn l ctn tin sh- usu dl me vhilt i m hut hi s hint t upk thin inn i i kl notice uncertainty of weather and road conditions as the christmas and new years season approaches pla ces a maximum burden on our de livery system and service to custom ers at our stores in order to avoid serious congestion at the stores and also disappointment in our delivery service we respectfully request the assistance of our customers you can help us to maintain our services by ordering or purchasing your re quirements as early as possible brewers warehousing company limited operating brewers retail stores lous gestures after a few years passage like you say i wait so i topg cry so much you forget so she gave me a look that chilled n our 9rt love me never me right down to my tail bone end nave one pair nylons you give read bill chene you will be- n 1 wear all time lieve this not but i have meet your 1 memory touiours your lis- small brother who has arrive inl france with the air force de can j ada of occupation he me presen 0n 1 sa no ted with your address ah bill hy did you not send for r tin ni ilou i to a i the pae he d rt id a shattt r nu sil lis d rui t wr did you not send for me apres a i im tht icst if la guerre as you tell me why you farm news ii thfst little tour i no wte send me the money for garry and rodney preferred as seed jew at a recent meeting of the dir ectoratc of the halton soil and crop improvement association i when they were ink m plans for their annual nice tint whie is sche dultd fir the milton tair building on december 27th we wuc in tcrostc 1 to hear fiom h brcck on that two thirds of the oats elit il 1c tot r istrat un in canada ai e i htr of i ic ii r or rodney van tits ccitunlj thise two vaiet it tae an mtstanding account of themselves in halton in 1956 and this di pite the ten late date of sec line s nnc forty two 4 h hal ton club members had the garry vanity in 195b and the averatc mild was siithllj over 60 bushels to the acie in variety tests con ducted by the county soil and mi provement association in 1956 melds tn the brock harris farm wcie 73 ind 71 i bushels per acre for tho rodney anil garry varieties respectnth in contrast with this in tht sum test beaver yielded 54 fa bushels an 1 simcoe 48 b bush els in another test with w h biggar and sons carry and rod ney both outliclded simcoe and bcacr by approximately 50 per tent we were also interested to note m a report just released by the field husbandry department at the ontino agricultural college that here again garry and rodney were at the top in the regional vauetj ttsts conducted on some fifteen farms across ontario gar ry is given an average yield of 75 7 bushels per acre and rodney in second place with 64 2 bushels per acre in the same report we note in a three year summary for the years 1954 1955 and 1956 that garry is given an average yield of 71 bushels rodney 66 9 bushels and beaver 61 4 bushels certainly tn halton this year garry and rod ney excelled beaver by a much wi der margin but we must remember that the season of 1956 was a most unusual one farm news halton debaters move into second puce jew halton junior farmer debating quartette is scheduled to meet the wellington county junior farmer debaters on friday evening dec ember 21st states jean peterson president of the halton juniors halton s affirmative team of bertha watson and jack black will meet the wellington negative team in the milton high school at the same time hallons negative team of bill marshall and hem son rud dell will be meeting wellingtons affirmative team some pace id er amosa twp halton folk both young and old will be out to sup port the four halton young people who are carrying the torch for hal ton junior farmers