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.Wednesday, December 12, 1945 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE THE _ Flesherfon Advance Published on Colling-.vcKKi £>i^ Flesherton, V ednesilay of each week. Circulat' in ever ,100. Price in Canada $2.00 per year, when paid in advar- fl.60; in U. S. A. |2.6o per year, wb^a 1-aid m advance «2.00. F. J. THURSTON, Editor John K. McLeod Passes (By Oylon Reporter) Mr. John K. McLeod, one of Arte- mesia's well-itnown residents passed away at noon hour on Sunday, De- cember 9, after an illness of over two years. Mr. McLeod was the only son of the late John and Janet Mc- Leod and came with his parents, at the age of four yeans to the present family home. Deceased wafe in his 84th year. The late Mr. McLeod was married 22 years ago to Elizabeth Glenister, who survives him. After â- pending 80 years in the community, deceased will be greatly missed by his many friends. Mr. McLeod was a Presbtyerian in religion. A service was held at the family home on Monday evening, at 8 p.m., •with Mr. Wni. D. Halliwell conduct- Jng the service, taking his text from Psalm 19: 1-2. The remains were ta- ken, on Tuesday, to Toronto with in- terment in Mount Pleasant Ceine- tery. This community extends sym- pathy to the sorrowing widow. Vandeleur Farm Forum "What about Health Insurance?" was the subject for discussion at the Farm Forurn meelting, which was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Fawcett on Monday evening, Dec. 10th. The Forum agreed that preiveation serviceK should be the basic principle in any Health scheme; that doctoi% should be paid on as salary basis, and that we need a "National Health Insurance Plan". The following resolution was passed: where ai) we believe that health is the grreatetet problem before the people of Canada today aiid where- as we believe that group and local Health Plans can and are rendering a good service and whereat we believe that a National Health Insurance Plan would still better serve the people as a whole, and whereas a bill of this nature was recently passed in the Canadian House of Commons, be it resolved that we urge the Provincial Government to co-oeprate in bringing it into effect a* soon as possible; and he it further resolved that we urge the local municipal authorities to establish Dental Clin- i<*! in the schools of the township immediately. The balai.«e of the evening was spent playing crokinole and cards. Lunch was served. The next meeting on December 17, will be in the High School at Flesherton, when four Forums are expected t» attend. "Bill's going to ^ue the company for damages." "Why, what did they do to him?" "They blew the dinner whistle when he was carrying a heavy piece of iron, and he dropped it on his foot." YOU'RE WELCOME Whatever Make of Car You Drive Our vService Department is equii)ped, .staffed and stocked to ])rovide every operation on every make of car or truck. DRIVE IN TODAY McTavish Garage FLESHERTON The Astonisher Olficial orgxm of the Flesherton High School pupils. GRADE IX loan Bett^ seems to have a crush on Carman Plester. The red head in first form seems to like fourth form boyi. There are two smaller pupils in first form, who are very friendly. You wouldn't know who it is, would you, Erma and Lawrence? There are two pupils in first form a fat one and a thin one, who feeem to be very chummy. You wouldn't know it, would you, Bill and Irene? I think Dennis Campbell should share Tjoyce Tucker with Maudce Russell. Dennis Campbell likes picking up a second form girl'fe pen, when she drops it. GRADE X We wrote a Latin test the other day and everyone got their^s back, all but Don. Wonder why? One of our prospects had the mis- fortune of hurting her knee in P.T We hope she will soon return to help us "see the light". Second form girls have the habit of dropping their pencils, or was it pens, coming out of first form room. We wish a few of the boys in se- cond fomi would remember to be gentlemen when they push our books on the floor. Oh, is school ever a headache now, with all of our exams. Our history is terrific and Latin is worse. One day of French isn't enough, so we are having three happy French ex- am's. A little red head from out Ceylon way spent a lot of last summer over at Meaford and I wonder if a certain Bert ever heard of her. Bryce Benson and Davina Steph- ens had quite a talk in Latin period one day. I wonder what they wert. talking about? This year in Grade X our family includes a new couple, Bryce Ben- son, 6 feet 2 inches and David Ma- gee, who is 5 feet 6 inches. iBoib Tuniey is getting crowded with Irena and a certain little red head, who lives just north of here in a white house. Bob should share one of them with Jack Milne, who is seen quite often around that Httle white house. GRADE XI LOST â€" All knowledge in Latin. Finder, pleafee distribute equally among all Grade XI students. We appreciate the comments of some of the subscribers to .The Ad- vance of our "Astonisher" last year. We hope you will contir.iie to read it this year and enjoy it as much a? the students do. What this High School needs is four other forms like third form. Why, our Latin teacher told us we were the best form sometimes; and we know by the ^mile on owr inspec- tor's face that he liked us. 3«(tty, we wonder why your face turns crimson when a certain fourth former comes into the room. Will you please tell us why? Is Shirley ever a good cook! (We just took her word for it.) She will make a good wife for some farmer, eh? ) fm M /Mf at /// " BOWL HYDRO . ECONOMIST EUGENIA Mr. Wesley Jamieson has returned h(,.iie from Markdale Hospital and is recuperating after his recent opera- tion for appendicitis. Mrs. T. Fenwick ha's returned home to Owen Sound, after spending the past few months in this commun- ity. Mrs. Jack Patterson o'f Toronto spent the week end with her mother, Mrs. F. Jamieson and Wesley. • Mi's. a. Cameron and Don have moved their household effects to Toronto, where they will reside. We are sorry to lose them from our i community, but our best wishes go with them to their new home. Mes'srs. J. Morris, J. Holscn and C. Cross of the H.EjPjC. sipent the week end at their homes in Toronto; Mr. Bill Benson went to Niagara Falls; Mr. J. Connoi-s to Mt. Forest; Mr. Arnold Cripps, Elmer Wideme- eyer and Allen Kleimner to Han- over, Mr. Len Hainefe, from near Dun- can, has taken a position as lineman with the H.E.P.C. on the new high tension line. The Women's Association will hold their December annual meeting on Thursd'.iy evening, at the home of Mrs. J. Calms. Jack : shower. John: sonp. Lefs gnre the bride a Count me in. I'll bring the After a lapse of six years, the East Simcoe Agricultural Society is exnected to rosunio it luinual fall cxhiliitions in Orillia next year. Hello Homemakers! Just as tea biscuit dough lends itself to all ^orts of good, hot breads by simple varia- tiohs, so muffin batter may be used as a foundation for wide variety of not-too-sweet cup cakes. Muffins are made from a softer mixture than tea biscuits. ^Muffin dough is not stiff enough to stand alone, so it is (baked in individual muffin pans. You can also cook muffins in glass baking cups. The important point in making muf- fins is not to ^tir them too much. Mix liquids into the dry ingredients just enough to moisten them. If you mix muffins too much they will be tough and coarse-grained and have tunnels inside and peaks or knobs on the outside. Exicessive stirring overdevelops the elastic quality of the gluten in flour. With the standard recipe as a foundation you can make many dif- feryit kinds of muffins, raisins or currant, peach, -jpice and so on. When you have a bit of jelly or jam left, make jam muffins. As "soon as the muffins are partly cooked, put a teaspoon of jam or jelly in the centre of each. Do not remove pan from oven and work quickly. STANDARD MUFFINS 2 cups pastry flour, 4 tsps. baking powder, % tsp. salt, 2 tlb6ps. sugar, 1 cup milk, 3 tbsps. melted lard', 1 egg. Mix and sift dry ingredient^. Beat egg until light, add milk and melted fat, and add to flour. Drop by spoonfuls into greased muffin pans until two-thirds full. Bake 16 to 20 mins. in electric oven 400 degs. Makes 12 mtiffins. Oatmeal Muffins 1% cups flour, 2 tbspb. sugar, 4 tsps. baking powder, % tsp. salt, % cup milk, i cup cooked oatmeal, 1 egg, well beaten, 2 tbsps. melted butter or shorten- ing. Add oatmeal to milk. Mix and bake as for standard muffins. ORANGE BRAN MUFFINS 3 bbspte. butter, shortening or lard, '/i cup sugar, 1 egg, well beaten. 1 bbs-p. molasses, grated rind of 1 orange, 1 cup milk, 1 euip cereal bran, 1 cup pastry flour, 3 tsps, baking powder, Vz tsp. salt. Work butter with spoon until soft and creamy. Add teugar gradually, then beaten egg and molasses. Add orange rind, milk and then bran. Let mixture stand for 15 mins. Sift and measure flour and add to baking powder and salt. {Sift again and add to bran mixture. Fill well greased muffin pans two-thirds full. Bake 25 mins. in moderately hot electric oven (400 degs.). Yield: 12 muffins. • • » SUGGESTED RECIPES YULBTIDE FRUIT BARS (Mrs. S. T, B. and Mrs. J. C.) 1 cup flour, all->purpo^e, 1 tsp. baking powder, Vs tsp. salt, 1 cup light brown sugar, '/4» cup melted shortening, 1 tib^p. grat- ed orange rind, 2 eggs, 4 cups cranberries, 1% cuips citron peel, cut fine. Sift flour, measure, sift again with baking powder and salt; combine with sugar. Add melted shortening and orange rind to well beaten eggs; combine with dry ingre<lients. Put cranberries through coarse giinder, add with peel to first mixture; mix well. Pour into shallow well-greased pan H by 7 inches, bake in electric oven (350 deg.) 50 - 60 mins. Cut in bars while warm. Makes 24 bars. SNOWBALLS ClMrs. C. T.) 1 cup pa'stry flour or % cup bread flour, pinch of salt, 8 tbsps. butter, \ bb.-p. fine granu- lated sugar, 1 .tsip. vanilla, 1 cup coarsely chopped nutmeats. Measure sifted flour and add salt. Cream butter and blend in the sugar; mix in vanilla and the nutmeats. Sift in flour mixture half at a time and I combine after each addition. Work in a little additional flour it neces- j sary to make a dough which can be | handled between the palms of the j palms of hands. Roll in balls about j the size of a very small walnutâ€" or if preferred, shape as finger^. Place on an ungrensed cookie pan and bake in a slow oven, 300 degs., about 20 to 23 mins. Jeiiion filling taste bitter? -iiiawt-r: Too much of the white memlorane of the -^mon may have been grated off or long cooking may iijve caused the bitterness. Add the rind after mixture is cooked. Mr.i. T. C. says; D.ry some stewed pumpkin and squash to make pie's during the spring. The vegetable muy be spread on shallow pie plates and dried in, a slow oven. Store in a small air-tight jar. To ure, soak the quantity required over nifht in tcalded milk and proceed aS usudi to make pie filling. Springhill Farm Forum Mr. and Mrs. Harry Akins enter- tained about 25 neighbors at radio fairm forum this week. The discus- sion centered around the question of national health inSurance. It was decided that a government hand out might be a bad thing in that it is possible that it would be ^used. Such a government service as children's allowance might be compared to health insurance. A campaign such as is being waged on St. Joseph In- land is a good example of the advan- tages possible in such • a scheme. It was generally thought that preventa- tive services feuch as vaccination, T.- B. tests and cancer diagnosis should be basic to any health insurance scheme and it would be piovided bet- ter by government supervision than locally. Thi^ forum approved the motion of Clifford Allen that we in- vite the other three forums of the township, meet in the High School auditorium on review night, Dec. 17. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Allen cor- dially invite all to attend the next meeting at their home. A Family Farm The editor of th Creeraore Star, C. B. Smith, claims a place in the ranks jof those farim owners whotee property has belonged in the same family fo<r over one hundred years. The Smith farm, situated in the heart of Nottawasaga Township, was acquired from the Crown in 1837 by Mr. George Smith,, great grandfather of the Editor. He was a native of Yorkshire, England. The present ' ouse on this farm is over eighty years old and has been occupied by five generations of the Smith family. The editor's son, Cap't. David Smith, serving overseas with the Irfsh Regi- ment of Canada, who is four genera- tions down from the original owner, was born in this house, which has al- ways been well maintained. Incidentally, due to the war and labor conditions, tbi^ fine old farm has not been keeping up its record as a big producer. It is now all un- der grass, but the Editor maint«ains a large flock of Oxford sheep on the property, which is a hobby he has followed for many year^. It's not where our sphere of influ- ence is, but what is our influence on the sphere. "Bill, what's' reconversion anyhow' asked Elsie. "Well,'' replied the wise little sixth \ grader, 'it's making Arthur's pants i fit me.'' I Week End BUS SERYKE Toronto - Flesherton - Owen Sound Now In Effect V LEAVE FLESHERTON TO TORONTO B â€" 7.30 p.m. B â€" Sundays and holidays TO OWEN SOUND C â€" 4.05 p.TO. C â€" Saturdays only Gray Coach Lines <1 .â-  Husband: That racket? Oh, that's the coal man dumping the coal in the basement. Wife: But I thought you ordered sotf coal this year. Automobile dealer: Is the new man -• a good salesman? ^ Assistant: He must be right on -^ the beam. He says he once sold a trouser prebs to a kilted Scotsman. * PLEASE bring back those EMPTIES The busy holiday season is almost here â€" bringing with it additional demand. CARTONS and BOTTLES ARE SCARCE r They will be urgently needed to enable us to maintain a steady flow of supplies to the consumer. Please return empties now. If you can't bring them in 'phone or write your nearest Brewers' Retail Store. THANK YOU THE BREWING INDUSTRY (Ontario) .4 â- it -4. > •â-  ^ â- 1 .-41 J* Ar .'4 1 Your Christmas Shopping This year so many lines of merchan- dise, suitable for Christinas Presents, are in very short supply â€" there are not enough for everyone â€" so that it pays to ^ SHOP EARLY Toys for Christmas This week the Toy Department is ready for Christmas buyers, iffhe assortment is «specially good this season. CHRISTMAS CARDS The smartest selectoin we have ever shown is now on sale. THK QITESTION BOX Mrs. J. M. ask«: AATint makes F- H- W. Hicklins I General^Merchant FLESHERTON, Ont. ^^5M^fr>- >« â- ^