If you can believe it, at one time the administration of Rawdon village were very adverse to spending public money for their own comfort..
Now Raymond Preville, who was the secretary-treasurer, felt the condition of his chair was beyond endurance but his pleas for a replacement fell on deaf ears.
Finally, in desperation he wrote a letter to the council demanding a new chair for his office.
At the next council meeting he duly read aloud all the incoming mail, including his own request for a new chair.
On hearing this, Frank Robinson, one of the councillors, spluttered, “The next thing you know we will be expected to buy a sofa for the office!”
A citizen present in the hall thought this a very comical situation. In the next few days each member of the council received a sketch of the advertisement above and this note :
When the winter has gone and there is spring in the air
Why sit down to feel there is no spring in your chair?
With a bargain like this you will undoubtably find
While there are hard times ahead, there is a soft spot behind.
Without another word ever being mentioned Mr. Preville got his new chair. To this day when the very last member of this council passed on to his reward no mention was ever made of the note or the subject.
Although the note was sent anonymously years later Linda Blagrave showed me the original sketch. We shared a good laugh over the council’s immediate reaction.