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. "Peace River Country" Quiet, Nostalgic Novel Canadian Author Ralph Allen has written a quiet, orderly an nostalgic story of a prairie fam- {ly in "PEACE RIVER COUN- TRY" (Doubleday and Co. Lid.). Allan writes a story of quiet hope, one well punctuated with gentle and homespun humor, as he relates about the wanderings of the Sondern family which is without the elementary comforts of this life. | two children, the promised land|in pride because that is all there is the Peace River country in Al-|is to give." berta, When they leave the Sas-| There is a most humorous epi- katchewan village of Dobie, they|sode when Mrs, Sondern attempts have little more than a wicker|io bolster the family fortunes by suitcase. acquiring a home knitting ma- The Sonderns leave Doble|chine., Another unforgettable epi- primarily because the father has|sode has to do with Mrs, Sondern returned. Despite her love for her |and her grocer as the poverty| husband, Mrs, Sondern is deter-|stricken wife and the grocer are mined to raise her two children both painfully aware that she is Port Hospital Ruxiliary Gets Fine Reports . : | PORT PERRY -- At the Wom- For Beatrice Sondern and her shame for their smallness, given, vo Hospital Auxiliary meeting, was made of the support and with the president, Mrs. M. B. Dymond, presiding, ghower to repleni. e hospital *sappry. £his shower $vas {held at the home of Mrs. Kerry and it was gratifying to see the {wonderful response to this ap- peal. Donations of these articles are still being. accepted. | The annual Doll Festival was a huge success. Special mention . Norman Kerry whe spon. oe help received by Miss Sadie Hor- outstanding|top and also of the Catholic reports were presented. A report|Church of Port Perry who offer- was given on the donations of ed the use of the Assembly Hall towels and face cloths received|to hold the Festival in. The co-|go Island; Mrs. Faye Dowson, from Mrs. Ambrose King andloperation of Jimmie Taylor and|Port Perry; Mrs. Florence Fra- / / / cnarmie /Was gratefully go! knowledged a ed ded to everyone who helped to 'ton- tribute to the bake sale and after- noon tea. Doll winners were: Morley Moase, Port Perry; Geo. McMil- lan, Port Perry; Mrs. Earl Heayn, Scugog Island; Mrs. |Viola Hoskin, Port Perry; Mrs. Orval Heayn, Scugog Island; Miss Linda Kyte, Blackstock; Mrs. Jack Diamond, RR No. 4, Port Perry; H. Brinkman, Port {Perry; Miss Linda Reader, Scu- Hex, Scugof d; Miss Bertha McLaughlin, ##%stleton; Miss Laura Moore, Oshawa; Mrs. Bill Owen, Port Perry; Miss Vivian Lince, Port Perry; Miss Laura Brekke, Scugog Island; Miss Ruth Aldred, Scugog Island; Miss Donna Pargeter, Port Perry; Mrs. Harlan Davey, Port Perry; Mrs. Luella Kennedy, Port Per- ry; Miss Marie Aldred, Scugog Island; Mrs. A .McDermott, Port Perry; Mrs. Glenn Wanamaker, Seagrave (two dolls); Mrs. R. Murphy, Prince Albert; Mrs. N. Cochrane, RR No. 2, Port Perry; and Mrs. O. Hicks, Valencia. On- THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTR, Wednesday, January 22, 1958 § tario. Donations were acknowledged from: Port Perry Presbyterian Church Ladies' Aid; Good Neigh- bors Service Club, Prince Albert; Head Memorial Church; Grace Church, WA, Scugog Island; Miss Amy Mathews, Seagrave; Mr. Jerry Mahoney, Toronto; Pros- pect Community; Honeydale Women's Institute; ONO Club, Blackstock; Blackstock Women's Institute; Shirley Women's Insti- tute; Seagrave Community; Prince Albert Service Club; Mrs. Roy Goode, Port Perry; Blue Ray Chapter, OES; Maybelle Re: bekah Lodge; Nestleton Ladies' Aid; Nestleton Women's Insti tute; Prince Albert Church WAj Cartwright Farmers' Union; Mrs: McDonald, Port Perry; Archer Watson, Port Perry; nurses, Community Memorial Hospital; Manchester Church WA; Mrs. Jane Wilkinson, Port Perry; Dr. R. G. McNab Service Club; Port Perry Uni Church. The tragic figure of the Son- derns is the drunken father, a prize lush of the city variety who forces the family to live without his company, or support, to keep) constantly on the move to avoid him. Allan portrays his central char- acters with sharp, vivid strokes. Although they are not exciting people, they are real and human and manage to come alive as tite story unfolds. Their problems are the problems of everyday life, the problems of love and heartache, of poverty and broken promises. WESTERN NATIVE Mr. Allan, a Westerner by birth and editor of Maclean's magazine, unfolds his story in front of a familiar backdrop for many of his readers, those prairie towns he has 'written so much about. In telling this story of a plain, the citizens of its inhabitants. But|try" re | S a S. Bul itry down-on-luck family of the 1930's, he stays on, despite his good in-/ pleasant, without the presence of her mate. As the Sonderns roll along in the old day coaches of the Cana- |dian Pacific Railway, hope beats |in their hearts that they are going to the promised land, They go to Elevator, Sask., which is precise- ly another Dobie, and eventually they go on to Moose Jaw. Husband Chris Sondern 'goes on a wild binge when the family |leaves town. Chris receives the | impression, "strong and unbear- |ably sad, that the people he had {come to Dobie to see . would {always be remembered in this {tiny place in a way in which, he, their husband and father, could never be remembered in part of the earth." |AGAINST NATURE Chris Soadern fully realizes {that it is against his nature to stay in the village of Dobie to ruin the good memories held by going to ask for credit. "Peace River Country" ap- pears to have been written from Mr. Allen's recollections of his| boyhood in Oxbow, Sask. The | {story holds attention throughout, | yet it is doubtful that it will be | {long remembered once it has been read. Perhaps the main rea- son for this is that the character of Mrs. Sondern somehow fails to come alive. As one literagy critic | said recently of Mrs. ndern, | "She does nothing to come alive. | She is what is known in the trade | as a 'flat' character who always | does the expected." SECONDARY CHARACTERS Mr. Allen does much better with some of his secondary char- |acters, especially CPR Chats- worth, a conductor with a heart lof gold who befriends the luck- less little family. All in all, "Peace River Coun- provides an evening of if not unforgettable] Allan skilfully avoids the pitfalls|tentions, detained more or les reading, and Mr. Allen should of sentimentality, J HAMPTON M. HORN, Corrrespondent HAMPTON -- Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sullivan and daughter Connie, Toronto, visited his sister, Mrs. J. Gallant and husband on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Toronto, celebrated their Hilton Peters, | by a fellow alcoholic who wants him merely as a companion. | This theme takes up the balance of the story; his fight not to follow his family, and their flight before him | Author Allen brings his novel to |a close in this fashion. Mrs. Son- |dern and her children have some- {how survived with their heads |held high in an atmosphere of {rented rooms while the mother |goes floor-scrubbing and launder- |ing. Meanwhile, Mrs. Sondern has given the children the deep- soth est affection and all the security rd she could. make most of his fans happy with! this nostalgic story of Western Canada. | Incidentally, the Literary Guild, has selected this book as its Feb- ruary selection, That's when Mr. Allen will face his stiffest literary | test | : | HOW TO HELP YOUR) Sore, Painful Piles If you iscouraged about getting | of the itching soreness and burning pain of your piles a grand surprise awaits Internal wedding anniversary at the", 04 the son realizes that ie whea you try Hem-Roid, an home of her parents, Mr. and something has been gained. "It * Get a nent: Mrs. T. Salter, on Friday eve- was an 'intimation only, not package of Hem-Roid et any a drug store and di = pie Toe dr Congratulations to Mr. % Mrs. F. Payne on the birth of a boy. Mr, and Mrs. T. Wray were Sunday evening dinner guests of their son, Jackson, his wife and| family. His many friends are glad that| J. 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