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THE COLBORNE CHRONICLE. Thurs4a7 i«Riar? i*age Seven DUNDONALD by Mrs. Gordon Honey No service next Sunday. Sunday School at 11 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Johnson and family, and Mrs. John Begg, Campbellford, were Sunday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Samons, "Pleasant View Farm". 1 Mrs. Kenneth Mutton spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Waite, Hilton. Mr. and Mrs. Herbie Trottman and family called on Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Simpson, Coh-ourg, on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Day, Marvin and Maria, Castleton,' visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chapman on Sunday. Mr. Harold Peters, Queens University, Kingston, spent the week-end with his grandmother, Mrs. Roy Chapman. Mr. and Mrs. John Bayes, of Markham, and Mrs. Jack Fahey of Toronto visited Mrs. Gordon Honey on Tuesday and helped move their mother to Pinecrest Nursing Home, Brighton. Mrs. Honey returned to Markham with her sister. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mutton, Bob and Alan, Scarboro, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Mutton, and called on her mother, Mrs. Roy Chapman on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Packard and her father Mr. George Mut- ton of Shiloh were Friday dinner guests of Mrs. Annie Down, Wooler, in honour of her 94th birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Eddy and family were Sunday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilce, Shiloh. Mr. and Mrs. George Peters, and Jimmie of Salem called on Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pearson on Monday. Mrs. Fred Pearson returned home after spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Peters, they also called on Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Pearson. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Waite and Connie of St. Catharines, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Ross Wright. Mrs. Waite remained for a longer visit. v Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Oliver and Carolyn spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Darke, Hilton. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Mutton, Wayne and Judy spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mutton, Shiloh. Judy remained until Saturday evening. Callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Wright last week were, Messrs. Will Fiddick and Fred Irwin, Brighton, Ken Mc-Cullough, Edville, Mr. John Gillman, Hilton, Glenn Waite and Mr. Will Judge, St. Catharines, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Wright and sons, Smithfield, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Stimers, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chapman, Canadian Vocational Training Programme For Unemployed Persons The Province of Ontario, in co-operation with the Federal Government, will provide in Provincial Trade Schools, and upon request, in some local municipalities where technical and commercial facilities are available, training: for unem-I" iyed persons, male or female, in certain trade or commercial subjects, provided that there are sufficient applications. The aim of this programme is to train people for future employment. MUNICIPALITIES WISHING TO SET UP LOCAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES: Write to the Director, Vocational Training, Department of Education, Parliament Buildings. Toronto. " " PROSPECTIVE TRAINEES: LIVING ALLOWANCES Where Unemployment Insurance benefits are exhausted < do not apply, trainees are paid living allowances. Mr. Archie Chapman and Howard, Gordon Dunnett, Garnet and Douglas Mutton, Howard and Stuart Oliver, Austin and Eldred Eddy and Kenneth Mutton from the neighbourhood. Mrs. Arthur Petch passed away Thursday morning at the Pinecrest Nursing Home, Brigh- Miss Maureen Swain, Kingston spent Saturday night and Sunday with Judy Mutton. The men of the jieighbour-hood held a bee last week to cut wood for Mr. Ross Wright and this week held one to draw it up for him. Mrs. Gordon Honey acc panied by Mr. and Mrs. John Bayes, Markham, visited her husband in St. Joseph's Hospital, Peterboro on Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Jones and family of Oshawa called or Mr. and Mrs. Dave Lackey or Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Godwin of Whitby, spent the weekend with Mrs. Roy Chapman. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Irwin of Brighton, cailed on Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mutton on Saturday evening. Miss Nancy Pearson of Peterboro spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Pearson. Mrs. Gordon Honey spent several days last week with Markham relatives and attended the funeral of her mother, the late Mrs. Arthur Petch at the Dixon Funeral Home, Markham on Saturday. Mrs. Keith Stimers returned home Tuesday after spending three weeks with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Morrison, Montreal and the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Alf. Feather, Belleville. Mr. Lorne Wells, Mrs. Ver-onicaLeal and Lorrie Ann of Hurst, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs Herbie Trottman, Lorie Ann remained. Mrs. Ken McGill, Ronald and Robert of Toronto are spending this week with her mother, Mrs. Gordon Honey. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Honey visited his father in St. Joseph's Hospital, Peterboro on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Gresham, Colborne, were Sunday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lyl( Honey. Mrs. Gordon Honey spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Ken McGill in Toronto. GREAT REDUCTIONS on QUALITY FURS! DURHAM FURRIERS' JANUARY FUR SALE To get More and Finer Furs for Your Money Black -- Brown -- Grey Persian Lamb Muskrat -- Kolinski -- China Mink Coats, Jackets and Stoles Save up to $100.00 on a new coat BUDGET TERMS -- 2 years to pay NO CARRYING CHARGES Our Entire Stock of Exclusive WINTER MILLINERY 1 PRICE IS SELLING AT 2 DURHAM FURRIERS LTD. 'HOUSE OF QUALITY" 82 King St. West COBOURG FR 2-9511 Expert Repairs Remodeling and Cleaning, Fur Storage on Premises Come Early for Best Selections Mrs. McGill and sons accompanied her to Peterboro Sun-to visit Mr. Honey in hospital. Mrs. McGill and sons visited Mrs. J. J. Mutton and dau-gters while in Peterboro. Mr. and Mrs. Mac Waddell and family, Campbellford, were Sunday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herbie Trottman. Mrs. Ed. Dingman returned home Saturday after spending sometime with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Chapman. SMALL FRY Teaching children how to deal with fire in all its forms and the safe use of matches, may take some of the adventure out of playing with fire. If youngsters are taught how to light matches, put them out and safely dispose of the dead match, and also how to light and then put out a camp fire, they can be trained to realize their responsibility in regard to fire. Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley ■ We all know what a sump pump is. It's a pump used for sucking water out of a hole in the ground. The hole in the ground, is very often somebody's basement. The sump pump is used in spring and fall, in the rainy seasons. What is needed in this country in mid-January is not a sump pump, but a slump pump. This is the time of year when we all go into a bit of a slump, and need something to pump us out of it. The businessman is down in the mouth. The only people with any money left over after Christmas have taken off for the south. Thus, his only customers are those belatedly trying to exchange Christmas presents. It's the slack period for the skilled tradesman, and he sits around the house driving His wife weird, while he broods bitterly over his trade, which is always a feast or a famine, in the small town. • Teachers and preachers are depressed. The former, shocked by the ineptitude revealed in the Christmas exams, face the long, dreary midwinter term, the most trying of the year. The latter shudder at the thought of the outdoor funerals, the endless cups oftea to be swilled with old ladies, the interminable struggle with low income and large family. Old people sit in their cheerless rooms in the nursing homes, and watch with little hope as the drab, dark days unfold so slowly. Mothers of young children wearily wipe water off the floor, look for lost mitts, and endlessly put on and take off snowsuifs. The householder has his moments of despair as the stack of Christmas bills eyes him insolently, the furnace chugs away, burning more fuel than the Queen Mary, and icicles threaten his new eavestroughs. Even the jolly farmer slightly down in the dumps. His work load is lighter in winter. But he has to walk a quarter of a mile through the snow to the highway with his milk cans; his taxes have gone up again; his sons are talking about leaving the farm as soon as they finish school. It's time to get out the slump pumps, chaps. Don't tell me you haven't got one, or can't afford one. That's the beauty of being human. We all have built-in slump pumps. Mr. Merchant, lift those droopy mouth-corners! You know perfectly well business is always lousy this time of year. It'll pick up in the spring. Stop grouching. Give a pint of blood, fall in love, start a whispering campaign against the mayor, or get down to the curling rink. Do anything but stand around like a kicked hound dog, feeling sorry for yourself. Mr. Carpenter, or Electrician, or Painter, brace up! Get off your tail and get out of the house. It's always slack in January. You'll get your revenge this spring when everybody will want your services at once, and you can play as hard to get as a wealthy widow. Teachers and Preachers, cheer up! You never had it so good. You eat meat every day now, which was not always the case in your vocations. Who gets so many holidays? In what other callings can you get up there and blather for hours without fear of interruptions? What ham actor has your opportunities? Old People, hang on! Think of how bad you were when you were young, and all the fun you had. Demand more attention from your children. Learn to like rock 'n roll. Write letters. Knit. Spit. Chew. Snarl. Laugh. One of these days you'll be strolling in God's lovely spring sunshine again. Young Mothers, don't despair! When the kids hammer on the back door, five minutes after you've shoved them outside, and whimper "Hafta wee-wee, Mum," don't shriek. Just unzip them philosophically. Before you know it, those same kids will be sneaking in the same door at four a.m., and you'll be wishing they were back in snow suits. Householder, give us a smile! It won't be long until you're complaining about the dam' grass growing so fast. Farmer, don't be down! Just sit and drool over those fantastic crops you're going to have next summer. Sfow, let's hear all those slump pumps working in unison, sucking out the black muddy thoughts. Slump! Pump! Slump! Pump! That's the way. Feel better already? Just keep them going and you won't hear a thing when I go down cellar and shoot myself. PLUMBING and HEATING CLARE HECLA FURNACES PURIFIERS -- PRESSURE SYSTEMS WATER SOFTENERS DOUG HAIG Phones: Office 21, Res. 388 Brighton, Ont.