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the examiner Tuooday June 14 1977 Antiques local history M1 focus of organ Bill irant of Orillia piped in members of the Coldwater Canadiana Organization to the location of Archibald Woodrmvs homestead which he built in 1840 The building now belongs to the organization which aims to maintain the building and promote local history ryil Martin of oldwater also played the bagpipes The organization held picnic Satur day Examiner Photo Frederic Iheaker oneandahalf gives the donkey belong ing to the iadon family of Severn Falls break for some straw The donkey was donated by the iadons for rides lare and lean Fulton of lcona Beach celebrated their 50th wedding anniersar Sunday at reception at the Lakelands communin hall in Alcona Beach They were married 50 years luiie 15 and have lived in Toronto most of their ies and moved to Alcona Beach six years ago They have four sons lion Alan ltruee and arl Examiner pliotm Mr and Mrs Newton Besse of Guthrie celebrated their Soth wedding annhersar Saturday at reception held at their home Long time residents of the area they have two children Miriam ihompson of Barrie and Bob of iuthrie They have four grandchildren Examiner Photo izotion Promoting an interest in local historythat is what the Coidwater Canadiana Organization is all about The 12year old group of about 35 members held its se cond annual picnic recently at the Canadiana Log Cabin Goldwater The organization aims to preserve the house built in 1840 by Archibald Woodrow who came from Scotland to raise family The interest in the organization has increased along with interest in an tiques and local history says Ruth Woodworth president People attended the picnic from as far away as Wau baushene Moonstone North River and Honey Harbor The house is the only one so well preserved from that time says Mrs Woodworth After Woodrow owned it Vic Turner of Coldwater owned it and later Art Johnston of Orillia The Canadiana bought it in 1967 The organization will have flea market July 16 at 10 am and will run historical tours of the building from Ju ly 20 to Aug 17 at 2pm The vicepresident of the organization is Sue Lucas with treasurers Cora Lane and Mrs Woodworth More and more people are interested in antiques says Mrs Lucas collector of an tiques who says she is also interested in local history Eventually they wish to have more activities to en courage more interest she said The building located at the junction of highway 12 and highway 400 is decorated in side with antiques donated and bought for the house There is also store We want to see the building used for more ac tivities rather than to just restore it Mrs Lucas said Club Saturday at the oldwater Canadiana picnic More than 50 people attended and took part Organizer was Elmer Stron aniiner Photo in games and refreshments gtharni of oldwater Ex Couple honored at reception By lvliAlthT STOLTZ Examiner orrespondent The family of Mr and Mrs Job Small arranged reception for 30 at the home of their son and his wife Lloyd and Margaret Small Base Borden ltoad on Sunday to honor their parents on the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary Recipients of gifts flowers many cards and congratulatory messages from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau Premier Bill Davis Federal conservative leader Joe lark and local members of parliament Mr and Mrs Small also had an opportunity to recall many happy occasions through the years in the movies shown by their soninlaw and to visit with relatives after delicious evening meal Guests were present from Maxwell Dundalk Shelbourne St Catharines Toronto Bar rie Mount Forest and Weston in Apple Blossom time on June 1917 Lila Hargrave daughter of Mr and Mrs William llargrave sprey Towuship trey County became the bride of lob Small son of Mr and Mrs Robert Small Mono Township Duf ferin ounty The wedding took place at the brides home in the small hamelet of Warchaiii by the late Rev Blackwell an Anglican minister Attendants were Ella Mor rison now Mrs Emerson Wright of Maxwell who with her husband attended on Sun dayl and the brides brother Ernest ilargrave now deceas ed Following the reception the young couple left by train for Niagara Falls and Toronto returning To take up residence on the grooms parents farm on the 6th line of Adjala In 1935 they purchased the farm on Base Borden Rd now owned by Mr and Mrs Vander Zaagi and were much part of the Burns community including the Farm Forum Leaving the farm almost 20 years ago to reside on Well ington St in Alliston did not mean retirement for Mr Small who had other property and for several years continued to raise cattle Active members of St Johns United Church where Mr Small has served on the Board of Stewards and his wife on Ses sion and active in the work of the UCW they have attended the same church all during their married life and Mr Small some 80 years Mr Small served on school board when living in the township and Mrs Small has been member of the Womens Institute for 40 years Both enjoy activities of the Golden Age Club with Mr Small encouraging the playing of shuffleboard popular pastime during the many winters they spent in Florida Although gardening was left to his wife during the many years on the farm Mr Small at 89 now maintains garden which is surrounded with rows of dwarf marigolds and zinnias grown from seed he has saved the year before and it is not surprising that he has prize Winning entries in the local hor ticultural flower show More than 80 Barrie Safety patrollers took part Sunday in the patrollers first annual superstars competition picnic held by the Barrie City Police and the Kinsmen Club of Bar me This is the first picnic held for safety patrollers said com mittee chairman Uri Hess of the Kinsmen Club We hope to have other picnics to encourage more children to become safety patrollers he said On the committee with Hess were Nick Borysenko Leo Ranzello and lack Angle Patroilcrs from 14 schools took part in sack races relays and obstacle courses during the afternoon event held at Moisons Park Overall winner of the events was Steele Street School Allan dale Heights was second with Johnson Street School third Other schools participating were Assikinack Public School The burlap bump was one of the events at Molsons Park Sunday at the superstars competi tion among about 80 Barrie safety patrollers The event which will he an annual cm was organized by Barrie ity Police and the Kinsemen Club of Barrie and aims to encourage young people to be safety patrollers Examiner Photo Picnic forpotrollers Codrington Public School Cundles Heights Hilicrest School King Edward School Maple Grove School Oakley Park School Prince of Wales School St Monica Separate School and St John Vianney Separate school Constable Gary Crowley safety officer for the police department says there are now 1000 safety patrollers in Bar rie Former Minesing man graduates with degree former Minesing man now 62 graduated recently with an honors degree in history from the University of Western On tario lie is Maurice Jones who received his certificate of honor at the university convocation held recently And he will be back at Western in the fall plugging away for his masters degree alsoinhistory Although he is not sure whats in store for him after that he intends to remain in tellectually active Im not aiming for the prime ministership but if it comes along wont shirk from it he said with tongue in cheek Jones widower said he decided to go back to school after moving to London in 1969 The only son of farmer he left school after Grade in 1930 to help out at home lie remainv ed farmer until severe ar thritis forced him to give up his farm at Minesing near BaiTie After spending few months in the hospital because of his arthritis he decided to move to London and live with his daughter Eleanor Jones of 540 Mornington Ave Ive always been very fond of reading he said explaining why he decided to go back to school At first he intended to take an evening course at Fanshawe College but one of the pro fessors there convinced him to register fulltime At first was very reluctant and apprehensive because knew nothing about the pro gram and because didnt know how the young students would react to me he said The results were sufficiently encouraging for him to switch to degree program at Western got four As and one in first year he said My grades have gone down bit since then he added with grin They still remain respectable enough for graduate school however like the reception got at Western from both the teachers and the boys and girls in my classes They made me feel part of it he said Jones said it took him eight years to get enough credits for pass degree and an honors certificate because he was at tending part time His weakest area was writing skills he said adding that his daughter who works at the law library at Western helped him just went from grade to grade course to course and here am Jones said his university education has given him self confidence and broader realm of thought firm believer in education he said he does not recommend leaving school for the young people of today not even for those interested in farming If were to start all over again in farming would take course in agriculture he said Jones has paid for most of his courses However for the past two years he has been eligible for free tuition because he is over 60 London Free Press Photo Maurice Jones 62 year old graduate Ann Landers This alkie makes sense Dear Ann My boyfriend and have shared the experience of alcoholism Together weve come to understand the severity of this wisespread disease hope you will publish this open letter Maybe it will help others Thank youBecky An Open Letter To My Family am an alcoholic need help Dont allow me to lie to you and accept it for the truth For in so doing you encourage me to lie The truth may be pain ful but please insist on it Dont let me outsmart you It will only teach me to become more skiifui schemer and it will reduce my respect for you at the same time Dont let me exploit you or take advantage of you When you do this you become an accomplice to my evasion of re sponsibility Dont lecture moralize scold praise or blame me when Im drunk or sober And dont pour my liquor down the sink You may feel better but the situation will become worse Dont believe me when make promises have broken repeatedly This is just my method of postponin pain And dont let me alter an agreement If say wi do some thing make me keep my word Dont lose your temper with me It will destroy you and di minish any possibility of helping me Dont allow your anxiety for me to compel you to do things must do for myself Dont cover up or abort the consequences of my drinking ilt1 may prevent catastrophe but it will perpetuate the ness Above all dont run away from reality as do Alcoholism my illness gets worse as my drinking continues Start now to learn to understand and to plan for my recovery need help from doctor counselor or psychologist recovered alcoholic from God cannot do the job alone hate myself but love you To stand by and do nothing is the worst choice you can make Please help meYour Alcoholic Dear Becky Yoir Alcoholic makes some excellent points He asks you at the end to help him but he doesnt say anything about helping himself Please hand him back one of his best sentences To stand by and do nothing is the worst choice you can make Ask him to let you know when he has attended his first alcoholics anonymous meeting Dear Ann Landers am an employee in public relations firm Many friends from out of town write to me at my office My boss has habit of opening my personal mail have asked him repeatedly not to do this but he continues to do it His excuse Everything that comes into this office is sup posed to be business and am entitled to see it Is he right Id like your opinionMolly Dear Molly He is wrong Whats more he is violating the law Mail addressed to you is your personal property Bad manners is one thingbut the legal implications put an en tirely different face on the problem Tell him so Roseanne Mcggbg Check rooms for mirror By Roseanne McCabe Just word of advicealways check the store changerooms before you decide to try on bathing suits Make sure it has mirror Ive been trying to find bathing suit for about month now Ive tried about five stores have squirmed in and out of twopiece suits and one piece suits And all of these episodes have convinced me of one thing God is trying to tell me its not his will for me to go swimming this summer Ive tried everything even went to the oversized section for the bottoms and sneaked to the teen section for the topmy own mixn match you might say And after squeezing into numerous tight bottoms and us ing imaginative ways to cope with the room at the top was delighted the other day when found the bathing suit of my dream And it looked fitabie headed for the changeroom and shut the door Scramble scramble Clothes off swim suit on It felt good so far thought making few adjustments checked the four walls for mirror None to be found There was knock on the door How are you coming along It was the clerk Fine answered But theres no mirror Let me take look Before could answer she opened the door Looks nice she said The color suits you Those socks dont go with it though Are there any changerooms with mirrors Im afraid not But theres one over there she pointed to the other side of the store Somehow didnt feel like promenading in public place so told her Id keep looking for while instead Would you like me to bring some others for you to try ontheres one Im thinking of that would be perfect fit She was away before could reply looked at the four walls in frustration had pocket mirror in my purse could use if stood far enough away She was back Try this oneI think its darling It was hideous The cups looked like they were made of cardboard like the one have on All want is mirror didnt take the bathing suit didnt want to risk going home and surprising myself with the truth when looked in the mirror Like said it was meant to be Pollys pointers Getting rid Q8 of white spot DEAR POLLY used cotton crocheted mat on my 38yearold waxed mahogany dining table When put paper plate with warm not hot food on it was left with white spot have tried using wax and the mixture of cigarette ashes and butter but the spot remains Any suggestions for removing this spot will be greatly ap preciated MA DEAR MA If your table is highly waxed there is chance that removing the wax might remove the spot It may not have penetrated through heavy wax coating have removed such spots by rubbing on petroleum jelly and leaving it for about 24 hours and then rubbing it off Or you might dampen cloth with spirits of camphor daub this on the spot let dry and then polish or wax as usual The last is only if the table has varnished or shellac finish POLLY DEAR POLLY When opening can be sure to put the lid into the can when it is emptied Youll save many cut finger or hand WILMA DEAR POLLY have better remedy for the reader who has gum on her slacks Use peanut butter such as one buys at the market not the natural kind and rub small amount on the gum and let it stand for couple of days and then wash it as usual Believe me with two kids who love gum use this remedy lot GERRY DEAR READERS Several readers wrote the same suggestion and most of them just rubbed in the peanut butter and then washed as usual POLLY DEAR POLLY My quilts on the beds so became quite frustrated as love to do patchwork However am now using my sewing scraps to make patchwork curtains and bedspread for my own room particularly like fiveinch square pattern for them and will line them with sheets friend of mine has beautiful jacket that she made of solid color quilt squares To make quick and inexpensive patchwork throw use mattress cover as the backing for the patchwork and use tie knots to hold it in place Old cor duroy garments are great to use for such throws and cut the pieces in rectangles Such throw is also lined with sheet and the quilting done with tie knots MERRY family prefers electric blankets to