A SIXTY-YFAR-OLD STOYK.
In February. 1 Slill. Herbert Sheets brought a stove for his bride. Since that day Mn Sheets lias used it morning noon and night to cook the lainily meals. Mrs Sheets lives at Opinion. New Jersey. All her neighbours use gas or electric stoves, hut she sticks to tin* old coal-burning utensil. ‘‘ln it 1 dry all my wood, and it is still tine for baking.” she told a visitor. “Some years ago we had a new top on it. That is the only thing it has needed for over 00 years. More than Tli.tXH) meals have Well cooked by Mrs Sheets on that stow. Another thing of which the old couple are proud is that their live suns and daughters are living, and also the progene of these—their SO children and grand-children, all of whom swear by Mrs Sheets’ conking.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1924, Page 2
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144A SIXTY-YFAR-OLD STOYK. Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1924, Page 2
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