Ida’s
Notebook
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It is Monday morning, and it is snowing
quite heavily. Schools have been canceled,
but not in our township. Despite the fact
that we live on a dead end road, the snow
plow has been past our house two times.
So the three grandchildren are off to
school.
As we had a table full of guests last
night, 1 put away my good dishes and sil
verware this morning. There were quite a
few compliments on my baked com and
even a request for the recipe.
Then I began to telephone auctioneers
to get “Sale Reports” from last week’s
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perience as we have begun to recognize
each other’s voices on the telephone. How
ever, some are not interested in giving
prices for publication. Over the 25-year
period, I’ve come to know some personal
ly and even visited in their homes.
Long ago, there was a columnist, who
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want to be called at
6:30 a.m., some at
6:45 a.m., some at
7:45 a.m., and even
some prefer Mon
day afternoon. It
( has been 25 years
this February that I
was assigned the job
of getting prices
from the auction
eers.
Mostly, it has
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Watsontown, PA 17777
570-538-9564
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Chambersburg, PA 17201
717-264-9588
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I’ve helped at our church to serve a
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tendance at the service. It seems that too
many friends and relatives have gone be
fore and only a few remain.
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