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G -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, July 25th 1973 UTICA and AREA NEWS Service will be held in Epsom United Church on Sunday, July 29 at 11:30 a.m. Sincere sympathy is ex- tended to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ballard in the recent bereavement of her sister Mrs. Henry Golden of Uxbridge and to Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Roberts in"the bereavement of his father, Mr. Thomas Roberts. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sut- cliffe enjoyed a trip to Moosonee last week and with the children spent the week end at Maple Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Fielding spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fielding and with the Field- ings were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fielding on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Mac Callum of Markham and Mr. and Mrs. Eric Green of A. E Johnson OPTOMETRIST for appointment call 985-2383 or Zenith 59240 Brooklin were recent callers on Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn MacCallum. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mac- callum of Durham is spend- ing a few days with the Mervyn MacCallums. Mrs. James. E. Mitchell visited Mr. and Mrs. Walt Mitchell of Kinsale on Wednesday and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harper on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Gray, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mitchell and Brad were Sunday visitors with Mrs. James E. Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Clark of Brampton and Mr. Nel- son Ashton called on the Crosiers on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sut- clife, Mrs. McGill of Lindsay and Mr. and Mrs. Don Sutcliffe and Shawn of Janetville were in Orillia on Sunday where Shawn is attending a Hockey School. Mrs. Gordon Hawes of Whitby spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. Larry Kendall. Mr. and Mrs Dennis Thompson had lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Miller of Mount Albert on Saturday and on Sunday visited Miss Lena King and Mr. Milton Davis of Ballantrae. Mrs. James Toogood and Mrs. Grace Boxall and Cheri of Toronto were Sun- day visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Storie. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hill of Uxbridge were Thursday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Crosier. Mrs. Eady and Mr. and Mrs. Murray McLaughlin and Robert of Renfrew were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Lowe. Congratulation and best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Doug Taylor of Cedar Grove on their recent marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor will be moving into their new home south of Utica in the near future. Congratulations and best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Garbowski on their recent marriage. The Garbowski-Bryant wedding reception and dance were held in Utica Hall on Satur- day evening. Come to the euchre in the hall on Friday evening. > : 4 ¢ ¢ ' North Brock 4 p 3 $ : $ { : FACTORY ¢ $ CLEAR OUT $ ] $ ¢ : FACTORY FRESH UNITS e WHOLESALE PRICES ) ¢ --WHILE THEY LAST- $ $ 5 ° 4 Prices will never be : bs ® : duplicated | : $ ¢ { ¢ $ 4 ¢ ¢ { b ) = ¢ { p-- 1973 SCAMPER 240 (made by Glendale) -- ¢ eSleeps 8 04.6 cu.ft. fridge : ®Forced air furnace Our price ¢ 04 burner range with eye level oven ¢ : eHot water heater %4 79 5 ¢ ¢ oPressure system ' ¢ Plus many more items Harold Snooks, Manager ¢ FACTORY SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE $6020 | p : SCAMPER 205 SCAMPER 160 : $ : $ ¢ Fully Equipped CRS ET RN VRC WS CT (a Tol Te [s2 : e Stove @ Front canopy ¢ 4 ® Electric Brakes : $3 4 | 893. $2,295. : This is the first time ever that these trailers ¢ ¢ have been offered at wholesale prices. : 4 _ M WHITBY MANCHESTER ¢ Hwy. 12 One mile $ $ wy { 507-516 Brock St. N. north of Manchester ¢ ? > ¢ 668-9172 | 985-3377 ¢ : Ia i] ¢ Port Perry nurse was one of the The Star is taking the liberty of 'lifting' the interesting article below from Oshawa Times. It concerns Mrs. Gladys Archer, Port Perry who was one of four to enroll in the first nurses' course at Oshawa Gene- ral Hospital in 1910. One of First Graduates To See Final Ceremony Sixty years have seen a lot of changes in nursing. Mrs. Gladys Archer of 319 McDonald St. in Port Perry was there in yards of stiffly-. starched white during the first days of Oshawa Gene- ral Hospital's School of Nursing. She was one of four prob- ationers who reported for training Aug. 13, 1910, and one of three who endured the three years of gruelling training to graduate in 1913. The last class of nurses connected with the hospital will graduate Friday, but the school of nursing will live on in the memory of Mrs. Archer and the thou- sands of nurses who have learned their profession at the hospital since her time. 7-DAY WEEK In Mrs. Archer's day the ~ work week covered all seven days, with never less than a 12-hour shift, and often more if her supervisor decided her work wasn't '"finished". Mrs. Archer said that she and the other probationers were treated to an afternoon off a week, and an hour off during the day "if it wasn't too busy" for such luxuries. She cleaned up the ser- vice areas, was responsible for the diet pantry, and until the formation of the hospital Women's Auxiliary, took care of mending by the armload as well as actually caring for patients. All this for a pay cheque of $5 -- per month. "Pay? That was rather a joke," said Mrs. Archer. "It kept us in shoe 'leather I guess. Even the head nurse got $75 a month." Nursing itself was a rat- her different job in those days. The miracle drugs were yet to be discovered, and Mrs. Archer remem- bers the horror of a typhoid epidemic in the local area in the early 1910's, when all doctors and nurses could do was hope, pray, and do whatever they could to keep their patients alive past the 10-day danger period. 10-DAY VIGIL "It was the same with pneumonia," Mrs. Archer siad. "If we could keep them alive for 10 days, we knew they would get better. "It was always hard work, but I loved training. I always did want to be a nurse, ever since the doctor NEED MUSIC? for a 5. WEDDING call + 985-3089 (after 6p.m.) and ask for Peter ~~ let me help with the dres- sing for a neighbor who had an infectin when I was a little girl. I watched that heal, and knew I had helped a little, and it was a wond- erful feeling," Mrs. Archer never joined the Oshawa General Hospi- tal staff after her gradua- tion as a full-fledged nurse. She did private nursing in patients' own homes at the rate of $3 for a 24-hour stretch of duty, with a little sleep sandwiched in when her patient didn't require care. If the patient was very ill, two nurses would split the day, working 12 hours turn and turn about. "There was always work to be had," Mrs. Archer said. "Sometimes you might not have a case for a few days, but it was more likely that you'd end up coming off a case at 8 in the morning, and be scrubbing up for an operation at 11. "I' guess we were paid as first to graduate in this area well as anybody else in those days. I always man- aged to put a Jittle money away after I graduated. But then, at that time, I could go to Toronto and buy a suit, hat, blouse, and gloves, all for no more than $50." "RETIRED" Mrs. Archer followed the custom of the times, and gave up her job when she married in 1916, three years after graduation. But though she stopped working for pay, she never stopped nursing. She mar- ried the son of a Port Perry doctor, and was always on call when her father-in-law needed a skilled nurse's help. Mrs. Archer's daughter, Mrs. Beth Martyn, still re- members coming home as a child, smelling ether and knowing that there was an operation under way on a collapsible table in the din- ing room. feed Can it testing. nelp you? 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