THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Mr. Punche's By Max Trell "Anyone's wrong wno thinks it's easy to run a store," said Mr. Punch, Rnarf and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about names, looked at their old friend in surprise. He was sitting very comfortably in his rocking chair, with his bedroom slippers on and his pipe in his mouth. "We never knew you ran a store," Hanid said. "Oh yes, indeed," said Mr, Punch. "It was quite a large store. It filled the whole inside of a hollow tree." Rather 0dd Knarf and Hanid thought this was rather odd, and they both promptly asked Mr . Punch what kind of a store it was that he ran. "Well," he said, 'you might call it a Candy Store or a Dry Goods Store or a Hardware Store or a Department Store--but I always called it a Handy Store. That's because I sold everything that was handy." "What kind of things , for in- stance?" asked Knarf. "I sold handy little electric bulbs the size of pinheads," said Mr. Punch. "They were handy COUTT'S -- and -- RUST CRAFT "Canada's Finest" -- iat -- 1 Keenan's SMOKE & CARD SHOP "The largest selection . . . .. . between Toronto and Hamilton" Handy Store for the fireflies when their own lights went out." "My goodnes: exclaimed Hanid. "I never knew fireflies could get new lights." "Oh yes," said Mr. Punch. "And in my handy store, I sold tiny little spools of very fine thread They were very handy, too." "Who bought them?" Knarf. "Spiders," said Mr, Punch, "also caterpillars for making up th winter beds, which they call co- coons. And then I sold pa of handy little whiskers. They were different colors and different sizes." Knarf and Hanid bath wanted to know who would want whiskers. Mr, Punch "Cats," said Mr. Punch, "and mice, and rabbits and lots of others. And I sold handy little guitars for crickets and handy whistles for toads and Sparrows and whip-poor-wills and katydids. And T sold handy little towels for frogs and handy little hammers for wood-peckers, and handy rol- ler skates for snails and handy jars of honey for bumble bees and butterflies and humming birds. And handy tail-curlers--" "Who bought tail-curlers?" Hanid asked eagerly. "Pigs, my dear. No one's ever seen a plg without a curly tail But the handiest thing I ever sold were bedroom slippers, a pipe, and a rocking chair." Knarf and Hanid shouted: "Who bought them?" "T did," said Mr. Punch, and he smiled as he wiggled his toes deeper into the slippers, lit his pipe and contentedly rocked him- self in his rocking chair. "They're the dandiest things anyone could buy in a handy store." asked Store Junior Humane Society To Hold Sat. Session The first fall meeting of the Junior Humane Society will be held Saturday morning at 10.30, the meeting place once more be- ing Lusk Hall. Two films, one in full colour, will be shown, while H. C. Merry will offer a demon- stration of proper procedure in bathing that pet spaniel or collie All members are asked to wear their badges and bring new mem- bers along. Parents are requested to stress the fact that the Jun- iors do mot arrive at the hall too soon in advance of the meeting Colborne St. Oakville hour, as a too early turnout poses a supervisory problem for those in charge. SATURDAY, Admission $1.00 Per Club 20 -- PRESENTS -- Cy McLean AND HIS ALL COLORED BAND ATL VICTORIA HALL DANCING 9 to 12 NOVEMBER 6 Person. Member 75¢ s [himself at the CLUB 20 By Marion Languay Count three slowly, but not too slowly or you'll miss him. Yes siree, three more days and Cy McLean will give the down beat at Club "20" Cy McLean, who lad- for the first time. has rapidly climbed the musi der of suc- cess by giving _% such a fine account of Colonial Tav- ern, the Club Top even at, and closer to home at Clarke Hall, where his fol- lowing de- manded peat performance of this, the only organized coloured band in: Canada. Cy's got a wonderful organization, including four saxaphones, three rhythms, two trumpets and a trom- bone. The himself. presides over the 88's for a keyed-up success. No, I really don't think you'll pass up the chance to hear him, you just couldn't do that to y You can't forget it; the date to remem- ber is the 6th of November. Price of admission is $1.00 per person; 75¢ to members. re- man Some things (not people) need to © face lifted every so often, and Teen Town had the initiative to get on with the job. It did my heart good to see those beavers at worl, giving the outer frame of Vic- toria Hall a new paint job: why the old Queen herself would be proud of the tribute. Club, cohorts get on with the job of renovating the boothed section of the hall, a job that has been dallied over too long. Thanks to Langmuirs' dona- tion it shouldn't take much longer have th attempted to now. While we were s ing the table tops, beads of perspira- tion and annoyance on our and wondering who was responsible for that "Life Can be Beautiful" adage, Bob Hitch came in. He'took the details of the situation in at a ance and said, "I'll be back in half an hour, don't do any more scraping until then," Not a word of opp tion was raised and a rest period was declared him a well-worn paint brush and a large can of paint remover. Not just the ordinary variety, this liquid was magic, and while we stood there the paint shuddered and peeled. Tt was no trouble to finish the job after that. Who says DUZ does every- thing! ping and sand- faces, He returned bearing with Convict Young Thugs For Bronte Holdup Convicted on a joint charge of assault with to rob while armed, five Toronto district youths received sentences totalling 20 years when they appeared in county court at Milton last week. Magistrate Kenneth I. ced the five will receive a total of. 80 strokes of the strap. intent ngdon also de: The youths were charged with the offence in which a shot was fired while they were attempting to rob the Bronte drug store of D. A. Allan, October 2. Mr. Allan was wounded in the abdomen during the hold-up attempt, after which young thugs fled in a stolen car. the HIGH SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS By Mike Dyer school football Saltfleet , and scored The two high teams travelled to Wednesday, October a double victory over the teams of last Saltfleet senior Saltileet first point which was converted In the kicked the followed closely by a touchdown by Saltfleet. Things looked bad for Oakville then, but Gerry Philp caught a pass and ran through the whole Saltfleet team for a touchdo Bill Currie con- verted. Gerry Philp's long run was something that isn't seen every day on a gridiron, and shows that Oak- game, ville High has some fine football talent. Ralph McKim caught a pass and scored the second Oakville touch, which was unconverted. Bill Currie on a buck made Oakville's third touchdown which was con- verted hy Doug Beggs. Currie then kicked a single point for the final Oakville score. The Saltileet team then put on a sudden spurt of energy and scored an unconverted touchdown. The final 18-12 for the Oakville seniors, The the game was the whole team. Each member did exception- ally well and are to be congratu- lated. score wa star of fr ox The junior team at the beginning of their game did not look as good as they Salt- ngle point first, and ors found it very hard to keep the ball and hold the Saltileet boys out. Bill Clarke fin- ally came through with an' tncon- verted touchdown. Dennis Camm had made a 20-yard plunge on the juniors' famed "screaming play" onto the Saltfleet S-yard line just before the touchdown enabling Clarke to make the This seemed to have been a game of spectacular runs; after Saltfleet had have in past gam Score. driven the juniors hack to their own 2-yard line, the Oakville boys got the ball, and Pete Sutton ran the ball from behind his own line through the whole Saltfleet team, winding in and out of his opponents, down the length of the field for a touchdown. Total run--I10 yards! Unfortunately this was unconverted. It was a wonderful sight to see Sut- ton race down the field with no one able to catch up to him and make the five points. The final score was 10-1 for Oakville. Again I find it extremely hard to pick out a few stars from this game, so the roses £0 to the whole junior team. But I think Pete Sutton, Bill Clarke, Alex Wilson and Dennis Camm de- serve a couple of extra roses. I might mention that the juniors won the C.O.5.8.A. division I, title and will play Port Colborne at the Port for division 2 next Frglay (in a sudden death game) ould they win there, and let's hope they do, they travel to Stamford for the C.O.S.S.A. title. If they win from Stamford they go to Hamilton and play Peterboro for the Ontario title. Here's wishing you lots of luck team and I'm sure that all of Oakville is behind you. They also play Burlington in an exhibition game this Wednesday. * ww ( It looks as if that's all for this week, good people, so if I'm lucky I'll be around again next week to bring you more High School High- lights. y Thursday, Noy, 4 yy The Oakville Lumber Co., Ltd, YARDS: KERR ST. N. = B.P. ASPHALT SHINGLES for the Roof nd maintenance costs. Provides pleasing . Save. sepals colour and fire safe protection. 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