ee td «ae ~ eet ¥ i? Wonon Lena Caroline McLure, Women's Editor, Phone /6 The Guardia#, Charlottetown, Wed., Jah. 14, 1959. Pe me at A very enjoyable evening was mt Monday evening at. the lottetown Hotel when em- Ployees of the Guardian—Pairiot | staff held a supper to honor, Miss Anna MacInnis, who is retiring efter many years of service. Miss Florence Hogan present- ‘@@ Miss MacInnis with a three eet piece of luggage and Miss ‘Gwen Keenan read the address. +A pleasant evening was en- foyed by those present. ° Mrs. Harris Callaghan, teach- @ kt Ebbsfleet, Mininegash, at- tended the sessions of First Aid Olass in Charlottetown last week. Mrs. Callaghan has been very successful in promoting educa- tion. Sevetal of her children merited scholarships and one of her sons, Clare Callaghan, ‘‘Cop- @’”’ is an engineer and also a “student at M.I.T. at Cambridge, Mass. . he . Mrs. Lawrence Edwards, ac- companied by daughter Cather- ine and Mrs. Joseph MacDonald left Tuesday morning for Hali- fax, where they will attend the — of Mrs. Edward's father- in-law, Mr. James Edwards. a- A miscellaneous shower was held at the home of Mrs. Albert . Wooldridge, Elm Eve., on Wed- nesday evening .to honor Mrs. Frederick MacLean (nee Betty Larter) who was recently mar- ied. ’ The room was very prettily ‘decorated with white and pink Streamers. As the bride entered the room the guests sang “Here @omes the Bride” and she was a to a chair that was orated for thia special oc- easion by Miss Alvina Mobbs, Burse in training, City and Miss dune Ford of Hunter River. The verses were read by Alvina Mobbs and the gifts were opened ed by June Ford. Many beauit- ful gifts were received the bride, which she thanked one and all and invited them to come to her home to visit her. “For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow” was sung ing the opening of the ELLEN’S DIARY Be “Witches In this worfd where many a} tiiese mystery of old-time days has thrilling is being made. Now a | been solved by its scientists, and| Cosmic explorers: in their wanderlusts | planet of the USSR, having pass- have excursioned to its far ends, gifts. ' ‘ Mrs. Wooldridge served a bountiful tunch, assisted by Mrs. James Larter and Mrs. Gordon Mobbs. The rest of the evening was enjoyed in a social chat. Mrs. J. Watson MacNaught, Mrs. W. E. Smalilman, Mrs. Lloyd G. Lewis and Mrs. Aiden Mulligan left Summerside on Friday for Charlottetown where they attended an execytive meet- ing of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Women’s Association at the residence of the president, Mrs. B. Earle MacDonald. Mrs. Walter Callbeck was hos- tess at her home in Summerside on Saturday evening when bridge was in play. io Mrs. Jack Schur man and daughter, Sandra, Summerside, spent a few days last week with relatives. in Moncton, N.B. Mrs. Bob Rankin entertained at bridge at her home in, Sum- merside on Friday evening. Mrs. Howard Callbeck of Try- on is the guest of My&. Walter Callbeck, Summerside, for a few weeks. Mrs. Norma Sutherland left Summerside by plane on Satur- day for Toronto and Montreal. Mrs. Ernest L. Walker, Sum- merside, will be hostess at bridge at her home in Summerside this evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Gillis of Moncton, N.B., spent the week- end in Summerside, guests of the former’s mother, Mrs. Lexie Gillis. : The hostess for the banquet all the Summerside Curling Club on Wednesday, following the friendly games of the Provincial Curling club will be Mrs. T. Morrison; convener, assisted by Mrs. R.A. Horne, Mrs. S.R. Cam- eron, Mrs. Alley MacNeill, Miss “Sis” Kelly and Miss Laurenda Gaudet. Apple-Wood Soon To Wood” days new history and Rocket, a man-made ed the moon at a distance, which MR. Hunter River Manse Is: Scene Of Pretty Wedding © A very golemnizei at ‘Hunter P.m.; when Elizabeth Betty Jean Larter, daughter of Mr and Nis to Frederick Richard MacLean, gon of Mr and Mrs. Richard MacLean, Hampshire. Rev. Foo ter Hall performed the wedding seremony. predy wedding was River Manse on December 30th. at 2.30 AND MRS. FREDERICK MacLEAN The bride's dress was a very pretty blue taffeta, trimmed with net. She wore white accessories. The bridesmaid was Miss Jean James Larter, Char-| MacLean, sister of the groom. lottetown, was united in marriage The best man was Layton Thompson of ,. Kensington, friend of the groom. : Mr. and Mrs. MacLean will re- side in Hampshire, where the groom is a prosperous farmer. ‘| ple on the Island have read these * lions” I have wondered as I have look- WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS tas inp «fale tind & . reading the newspaper. Though z “ign much more to choose from. - A Columnist Says Thanks’ |Arrnscunox + ‘ And so ali the more. do-l — ga° ; those who not only read by For Letting Her Know ats Warne & “By Ruhamah 8. Frank let me know they liked it—and : . why. That intimate friends and Among the stacks of papers—|land as elsewhere these last six) even friendly acquaintances did clippings, notes, photographs, old or seven years, Readers haven't| this, was ‘no surprise. But I letters that I have been trying to) the working day has grown short.| was deeply touched by the greet- “organize” these past months. | er, things to do and see and plac-| ings, phone calls and letters from pretee. Ae Saute ae hs es to visit we hours have|those I had never Hood ssuring weekly columns (“We ut greatly multipli People do| me they “looked ” to my “[NetBhbors") I have written for | not read everything in-the-newe-{columa,.I- can—newer know = , Leiias hey choose——an¢ more ‘there er + Explorer Group Held Service A Christmas service was held in the New Glasgow Christian , 85 The Church was beautifully decorated for the st¢asion and the following program was car- ried out: 5 Candlelight Processional— Explorer purpose and prayer. _ The Sellar. Christmas Candied, Patricia Stevenson, Barbara and Faye Dickieson In Our Hearts. Carol Dici : Pantomine, Silent Night. Church on Everting, De- hyma, “Angels Kevin Stevenson recited “Ow cecuber iith ty’ the Exiorer| From the Restens-of Giery”. |My Gift To Him, Faye, Dithio-| DOon Mat tallowsd tae Group, assisted by the Sunday| Welcome, Lorvelle Pound. pies: Chiashaibe:< Weiakh the hymn, “Oh Come All Ye School pupils, under the direct-| Thank You Jesus; Nedine Rol- Guent Readl 8, Wade Pound) Faithful”. ion of Mrs. Biair Andrew,’ group| "ngs. ™* : : ne, Deans: eee t tae. ge Dickieson was ri ; Born in Bethelem, Helen Dick-| ‘8, and Beth Johnston, organist and directed the girls . ‘ ———-— | ieson. a Pageant, Gifts for the King. | choir, Mre. Andrew was assist too resdrved to. comment, But/A Living Garland by Group. |. As the different characters/ed in training ihe childrén by’ thanks again to my readers—| One Star, Norman Smith. took their respective parts, the) Mrs. Anna Stevenson, Mrs. Oo penewesad - unknown. May you| Qnce a Little Baby slumbered,| scripture in keeging with the|iver Parkman: and Mrs... Jeanie keep well. =. “BS Johnston. “* ~"paxeant was ree? by Rev. Bryer! Stevenson. Se Be a ed them over, just how many peo- | columns regularly finding in their own hearts a response to the thoughts and feelings I have ‘tried to express. NO SURE ANSWER Writers of every degree of im- pottance ‘and mine is of the slightest) have asked themsel- ves the same question—prompt- ed not only by vanity’but a de- sire to imptove their work. Rt would be cn to take an ac-| ceptance from wh editor as proof | that a good portion of the read-| ers of a particular publication | do enjoy the contribution but even that doesn’t tell the story. Or ‘how could it happeniand it does happen) that an article (or } | story) rejected by one, two, three | or more editors ends up by winn-.| ing praise and a check from still | another editor? Or more clearly in case of a} book, if acceptance or rejection | were a sure gauge of reader re- action, books considered “‘sure | flops’ by a number of publishing houses could never win fortunes for the authors and for the pub- lishers who finally accepted them! Strange. isn’t it, that the | human brain capable of sending rockets into outer space has so far failed to invent a way of measuring the effect of a piece of writing! | EASY ONCE Once upon a time, howéver,— | even so short a period as twenty years ago on the Island, I could have been reasonably certain | that a column like mine would be |read by almost everyone who bought a “Guardiag‘! How? Be cause almost everyone read al- most every word in it! Old Tim- ers have told me so! Not that they like everything they read! Remember days when the “Forum” fairly sizzled? LESS. TIME But life has changed on the Ie pe caestiiie See e { after all 4 only a hand's wreadth of outer space. has shaped and gone into its expected path- of- orbit beyond, where it follows an | unblazed trail. © 5 And we little folk of the earth, | jfeel more and less aachored firmly in the clay of the farming, with a oe of a single mile | as our yardstick of measures, | grow bewildered at the thous- ands and millions of them spah- ned in the unerring flight and turn of this latest rocket and its importance in the light of future space-travel. Then content to leave such | affairs to those whose hope and | interest and dream nation-wide | it is, we turn happily to the little | things, tangible and intangible | which go to make up the even rounds of our days. | “If nations would cease firing rockets—who with a tidy Island | farm to tend would want to take | a trip to the moon or the other planets anyway!” “T believe we'd get better weather than we've been having” we overheard one of a pair of old-timers of farmers offer today looking off over the fields where | danced restless snow flurries. “It’s only reasonable to sus-_ ;jpect that they must be interfer- ing with natural cloud format- the other nodded. -‘‘And aren't they getting queer weath- er, mostly all over the worki?” | “It seems so’’ the first said) soberly. “We just can’t know! how much harm those rockets are doing. At any rate it’s stran-{ ge weather for the time of year | —this continuing frost and cold} we've been getting.” ” At Alderlea, the winds chased | the flurries along the rises of the | valley, shaping them into low| drifts of purest white marble to’ lie in the lee of the hedgerows! and about. The millstream, | caught icily now in part, showed | darkly between engagingly moul-> itded white banks : ' Stars gleam now above fhe ‘farmlands, high over the dark woadlands and the extent of! white, still, fields. The dogs sal- ute noisily a passing car, which climbing the hill, cuts a bright | swath .of light /there in the dim- ness before Night once more closes in. Lighted windows .in stables and piggeries denote the farmers at the choring, to leave | the animals snug and confortab- | le for this night. forecast to be) “continuing cold.” ' We have put a barky stick of | apple-wood on the fire to be “witches wood’ to allow us dream favors, and most of all | this winter night to envision in | -the burning. the pink and white bowers of Spring orchards, the joys of the seedtime and the swallows’ return. ' “And don't think’ James smil- | ed happily at the thought today “The winter’s not slipping away! As this day has also, so surely. - Until ‘tomorrow—Diary—-Good night. } ee | Specially formulated for babies! Breaks up phlegm —eases wheezing a | |” SHOP AND SAVE AT | SONS THURSDAY | SPECIALS © rae ee THURSDAY FEATURE. AT THE LUNCH COUNTER Corn Chowder Butter8cotch Sundae Tea, coffee ormilk. Complete ” DRESSES In the group are wools, corduroys, tweeds, checks, eerepes and vederos in a wide range of patterns and colours. 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