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Thursday, January 27, 1658,

THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LARS, B.¢,

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Five years ago at this time I was
busy burning love letters. I was ta
ing a move into the great unknown
and I didn’t want.alien hands to be
Pawing over my sacred mail if any-
thing should fappen to me.

I was moving to Williams Lake.

Maybe that doesn’t sound like
much of a job (burning the letter:
I mean), bat it took literally day
Clive and I exchanged daily letters
while he was overseas, and they had
been carefully hoarded — what for,
I'm not entirely clear. Ill swear
there were thousands of them: they
packed tightly inthe incinerator and

refused to ‘burn “unless constantly '

perate editor, swamped with work

“Take the next train. I need help.”

but I did take the one after. And if
I had known then the stories that I
know now about the P.G.B. I would
have walked. (Actually there have
been very few accidents, but some of
those tall tales of losing the train
would curl anybody's hair.)

| But ignorance is bliss, and so I
| blissfully slept all night coming up.
The next morning dawned clear and
cold, and the rest of the passengers
yawned and spoke fearfully of the
night’s events. We had plowed
through three snowslides and were

| Well, 1 didn't get the next train.
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ed of two cats and a dog, named
| Mamie, Mickey and Mac respectively.
| We were both fond of animals, and
{f° our menagerie had to come witi

Mamie and Mickey, the two Per-
ps, were comparatively new. ar-
als — but Mac, our Seottie dog,
j bad been with us for ten y !

|

I never felt the same affection for
the cats after Elaine arrived on the
scene however, and it was without
too much regret that Mickey was put
| to sleep permanently when he be-

| came sick.

I was heartbroken however when
mie was found half-dead in a steel
- and had to be destroyea — put
|S soon forgot her. But 1 don’t think
we will ever forget Mac, our faithful
black Smudge. Unfortunately he
didn’t get along with children, ana

| at

we will be the last ones to build a!
house up there.

Until the advent of Elaine, I work-
€d steadily in the office. I started out
etrietly as a stenographer-bookkeeper
as I thought, but somehow or other,
the odd writing job came my way. |

still struggling along.

Then one day in Nevember of 1969

the editor though it would be a good

And here I am four years later,

all good cooks Prefer...

so he too had to leave us.

Poked and shoved around.
As usual when-

running six hours late.
|. Wei stayed at the Lakeview Hotel| The first year we travelled all over
at first, until we could move into the| the country — we went fo Riske
qbartment above the newspaper. ac|Creek, Hanceville up the highway
first we wondered if we could ever |‘ Soda Creek and Macleese Lake,
make room for all the furniture in the | Ut to Horsefly, Big Lake and Likely,
small rooms, and I remember a har. |0WN to Lac. La Hache, Canim Late
and Forest Grove.

rel of china sitting in the kitehen
for several ‘months simply because 1] The second year Elaine was on the
nd our travelling was seriously

—Central Press Canadian Photos
Though there is nothing new Ne
about pierced ears (it was.popu- [ever we | have
1 in the pacioriay eta) Ue a moved, Clive
© present few native-born ; :
Canadians succumbed to the fad, | Went ahead and I
Those who have had them was left with the
Pierced say they like to be able | onerous job’! of
to wear expensive earrings with- packing up. ‘This
time I was tak-

out fear of losing them
ing my leisurely didn’t know what to do with it.

ume as 1 did not J But since then we have somehow | curtailed. But one Sunday we aid
tu ent expect Clive “to BS \ S| managed to. add two eri discover Chimney Lake and haven't
Mid T = come back for me and the car until /phonograph, a refrigerator, cyicy ge] 80l over it yet. We have a cabin in

the weather got milder. This was 1930), a wardrobe, electric rangette, | the making on its shores, and we now
during the “big! freeze” of 1949-50; | and numerous other articles such as | rarely find our way to any other spot
there was seyeral feet of snow even high chairs, kiddy table and chairs, | In the Cariboo, it seems, :
at the coast, alid the pipes had frozen | ete. We were one of the first couples
Following the establishment of an| i the house.” Not to mention two children. to acquire a lot in the new sub-
Soe, Then came’ Wire from'the des-| Our family five yer division, and now it looks as though
honour and merit roll system at the
local High Schoo) this term, the fol-
lowing names have heen released for
or mid-term roll,
Honour Roll
Grade 12 — Barbara Bryce, Dan

Burns; Grade 11 - Rosemary Hannah
Grade 10 - Shirley Odian; Grade 9 -
Michzelene Johnston; Grade § -
Rosemary Ness, Carolyn Simon;
Grade 7 - Barbara Kyte, Susan Ring-
wood, John Zirnhelt. ;
Merit List

Grade 12 - Lorna Gardner, Myrtle
Mackenzie, Ruth Schoonover; Grade
11 - Peter Branch, Laura Friesen,
Walter Levick, Joan McNeil, Mar-
jorie Mikkelsen, Ross Smith, Mary
Hordos; Grade 10 - George Fielder,
Marlene Gardner, Donna McNeil,
Norma Miller, Gail Pelkey, Dave
Rankin, Rhona Stevenson, Asako
Uyeyama, Peggy Adamson, Marlyne
Heuchert,; Shirley Karolan; Grade 9
- Terry Baker, Della Beckman. Peg-
sy Day, Joanne Dunaway, Gail Flet-
cher, Farrel Halfnights, Claire Hara-
mia, Dick Kozuki, Marjorie Kryzan-
owski, Gordon Mackenzie, Lynne
MeNeil, Ann Midnight, © Marilyn
Rushton, Edna Dye; Grade 8 - Reta
Brown, Lilian Crapelle, Tivola Howe,
Neal Nicholson, Bert Poston, Maur-
een Stewart, Joan O'Dell, Joyce
Hamel; Grade 7 - Joan Halfnights,
Karen Lunn, Peggy Pinchbeck, Kar-

bake with the prize-winning flour —

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en Wotzke, Roger Getz, Robert
Hinsche, Carol Kiovisto, Jeanne
Rinette.

Combined Birthday
Party At Redstone

Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Stuart of Red-
stone entertained friends and rela-
tives at their home January 13 on the
‘occasion of the combined birthdays
of their daughter Christina
granddaughter Christina D. The
honoured guests were toasted by T.
G. Harvey, Sr.

During the New Year holidays,
Mrs. Stuart had the misfortune to
slip as she was transferring a 25-lb.
turkey from the oven, spilling hot fat
over her. Prompt first aid resulted

Swept all top whife bread baking prizes at
the Canadian National Exhibition — for the
third year in a row!

“Bake-Tested” — not once but fwice!

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