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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1956-01-11, Page 2:.J 17* • 'AGE Twit5 T W - SENTINEL, LUCKNQW, ONTARIO. THE LT�TCKN•OW' .SEN LOOKING . BACK-WARDS THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES .Ten Years Ago Fire badly gutted the down- air - town. store of SilVexrwood D. les. • • James : Alton Neil D. MacKenzie, local gro- cer, died at the age of 57. West Wawanosh ,Council, re- turned . by acclamation was reeve �Ceeil Johnston • was elected' W.• J. Stewart .and, Councillors Forty Years Ago 1V1rs. James Henderson died at 'her. home on Havelock St Alex. Stewart died suddenly on' his farm at St. Helens: The death of Wm. E. Gordon .occurred a few- days earlier. ' Rev. J.: $. ' Duncan paid a tri- bute , a_. SVf ._ to M. r, `George Bute who marked forty years as: sup- erintendent of the Presbyterian ;Sunday •School: reeve •; of .Ashfield and Council- John McQuillin, Albert Gammie, raham L Aitchison, and Brown !lions elected. were Elmer-Graham, on and- Cairns. In hfield it�'v�as •Ree`ven' • . R. ' A: Grant, Met,Dickson Dicks l Smyth, . 'Matheson; 4s . • Alton. The-neW1Y. iformed..,.Murdo. . deputy reeve; �Y l was .tom r s- Sam, ..Sherwood and. Councillors • .School Area: Board w p Sam ed. of Roy McKay, Walter Alton,; Gilbert: •Frayne, Alex . MacDonald and Arthur., Culbert. ' • Win, C�. &iunter, ' Marvin. Durnin .:. and Walter T"igert.: Orland Richards lost the sight nt was. installed : as 'o f an eye • when :a linte mixture George •.Joy sten of Old Light 'Lodge, struck him , in..the face while .Ma se. • Members of the newly organ -. spraying the. henhou • ized ' West Wawanosh' :School Young Jack Henderson broke • Area board were Lorne Durnin, through the ice on the mill pond' chairman; . ,Kitchener: Finnigan, and. was rescued by 'Allen Tre- McKenzie Webb,'; Archie Aitchi- leaven and ,• Jim Webster.. son Wm'. Forster. . .. A coroner's . ,jury reporte4. :death due.'. to natural .causes' in. the ease of ' t'&s. ' Angus ' Mac Dougall of: Kincardine -whose, •• frozen body was found. ' near . her home at ,the' outskirts of • the A banquet •was being planned for ,servicemen and• women from • Lueknow,'by the 'local, Reception .Vommittee' representative • of • all civic organizations in the village., Roderick MacGregor, one' of ' 12 4 sops born to Alexander and Grace MacGregor of Kintail, died at .Stettler,. Alberta. He .had tak- en ill. while',visi�t`ing in the West. Twenty.- Years Ago Wilbert Sheane's ,barn on the A ,band'. of . gypsies travelling in five. dilapidated. covered wagbris, d `ld4 some `Inone • 'Snatching and y thieving in the community. They made off with two diamond rings from LaCl app: ele's • jewellery. store in, Lucknow. • • • Garfield Ostrander; 'started work ori a big garage adjoining his shop. Finlay Malcolm .did the excavating. Jack 'Hendersonhad the contract and sublet the 'con- crete work to Neil MacCallum. A. R. .Finldyson 'opened up a e w - rAtz.-.t f4i1, 1954 Treleaven:'s photograph gal- The home wand conte'n s o thing' a' Charles ,Stewart. of Kintail were • lery. She had lost ever Y destroyed ley firs. His barns h Camp-� few weeks earlier the bell Block fire.. A ,public meeting,• was called to discuss the ,offer of •a • do- nation of $7;500 from Andrew Carnegie towardscost of con struction of a public library._ ;,Mrs.. Archie Johnstone an old lady wholived alone opposite Ith e 'school, 001 , died from burns re - Met a similar fate about a year'. before. A public meeting was held in Lucknow to hear the promoters outline 'plans: for 11 network off, electric . railways' . thatwould include a branch line from Kin - Road �ardirie along the ;Durham ' ,Mrs. Robert :Hays . celebrated ;,flour, ''fes and grocery business her .100th birthday at the home i in the fall' of 1915 in Lucknow, of her daughter, Mrs. A. ,G E1 after r 23 years in businessat. liott.q Lochalsh. , • Ben McClur"•• McClure, a'. resident' 'of Lopally the November,; :-1915, Lucknow for sixty years, died in vote on ' -Church Union was 317 toy Blackhorse and southerly; h . Kinlough, .Holyrood, as ass Lucknow` to Dungannon .and ceived :,when her clothes• caught1 throng fire. Frank ' Ham, w ' w F _ , etch. It would ,also connect ing,.. saw the flames ;aid ran tb• God W.n . :.Tees also • .and sistane,. but net before with ..1 gh ran she , as 'fatally Mildmay. While enthusiasm 'she 'was fatally burned.,; o definite :action was,'tak�:' :: Ethel Cameron had returned high n i,, • ••School:, ovally at the meeting.: . from � iModel'; at Clinton en l and was engaged to teach ' at • ' McQowan's • School near Blyth UNETHICAL AND UNJUST at 'a , salary of $350. D. B. • McKenzie shopthe. north 'side erages cannot be treated' as' ord- opened a new By their nature alcoholic bev-' pump •on. of• Earn b'ell.: 'St. Next to Reid's inary.commodities. PeIrsonal, - p ••• mestic' and social. problems have tbakery; always been prevalent where, in= tYears• dulgence in liquor has been, prat Sixty A' �'o • heed; Hence have come "control •herriff entered thesystems", designed.to protect. the, David S grain : buying business.• unwary. � Mrs.Anne • Corrigan passed It is illogical therefore to" per ., away at the Can' House where mitadvertising of liquor by vest- she was,. making her home with ed interests, Such advertising of . son in-law ., and daughter, 'fess unlimited : m appeal, reaching or .Union. In her ' • inkin '. Mr" and Mrs:' T. . F. Cain; .` .:ao ;.minors with whom dr C� g. . �r0spec+tU�� 1<a L' or, 3n• a ' total vote hat. 1 as undesirable, but it also con and :98 f , isted' on .Con. • 4, Kinloss, on the Y was. mueh smaller than in 1915.. '•Scott farm.,:` 'and.. hopes were trary to law. • , John McGarry, hotel .propriet- well Conttant pressure ' this group or in Lucknow for'•27 years;' died running', high that •a• test would be sunk. ' as exercised ;under •' present ad- in his. • 51st' year:conditions . is uneet feel. The death of R: K. Miller vertising h• Hugh 'Anderson of the Molsonsand unjust.;-Advt. ran St Helens occurred at 'the. age Bank' staff was t f 3? • his transferred 84th—year. against and 92 f Thirty ,:Years: Ago 1 The November 19th issue of The Lucknow Sentinel reported Lucknowg s main' street to be, in' a' desperate condition with Mud,' and called.for;: action to get . a paved • street. Alf and buss Ritchie sold their dray 'business. 'to. Black Bros. Donald and ocher McCharies sold , their business . at Semans,' Sask.. • 'Robert Johnston. receive} his destroyed by 1 nth term'. ' by.acclamation ` as :'�dutih Line .was •:. , Y • o to , � . . .. Councillors fire:,..• reeve of .Lucknow. a student at Bel- returned' by ;acclamation were Jack Alton, *fast ; .school, - stiffened • a, broken Robert : :Rae; D':,1 M. Johnstone, arm and collarbone when he ran Robert Mullin, A: E. Buswell: across . the road.,' near • his ;home into: the side . of W: W. Hills car. •A heart.attack.'proved• fatal to while wor •ing in the bush: b Tom Alexander of :West Wa- wanosh had., both `legs broken ewe.:a :ter • to Aylmer: • ..• o .Stables' ' were•' built at • the Stopping' work for a between farms of. 'Henry Mathers • and: meals snack' can be called "the Fifty Years Ago . James ,Forster. pause that refleshes":..: • Ben S: Logan• -of .Purple Grove. and Susie -M. ,Hodgins . of Kin lough • were married at the Church', • of Ascension. . G.' H. Smith,- ' whose marriage' had just : receritl taken• pYace, was transferred from Meafard to Lucknow as manager ' of the Wil - sons. Bank. " • Mrs.. N. •.L. Campbell opened a restaurant 'and grocery business in the . store adjoining Thos.' L. THE . LUCKNOWSENTINEL } : Lucknow„ Ontaro Authorized as second. class' mail, • Post . Office Department, Ottawa ; .'EatabliShed 1873•Published--Each- Wednesday Aiken oon S:ub°scription;"rate--$2.50 :a year in.'. advance ----to ..0 S:A., $3:50. L. Campbell Thompson, Publislie'r ' WEDNESDAY, 'JAN. ll•th,, 1956 ����������'✓��������������%�����%/����� ;�/y/%/-/./j/-/•/z/•/ �f!�����/�5�•�/��'✓✓ ��/'Si1�./•^ .ice'. - �R�%��t�•��/�fi/� �/�✓• . .. I.MN' ,•N.i NrN•M�M CHOICE FROZEN FOODS jz•)71)7 Wallace's: TURKEY PIES, TURKEY . ROLLS o sp''ete Line .of Frozen ;Vegetables and Fruit Juices and Fish . es ►user pe�a)s Horsey's • Sweetened ORANGE . JUICE. 48 ,az tin -, 31c. SOLO 'MARGARINE lbs--, 55c. FACE -ELLE 'TISSUES 200 tissues, green box. 2 for 33c.. • Man size, Ted' 33c' 'Catelli's SPAGHETTI 16 oz. pkg..1 - •2 for. 29c McCormick's -HARD--MIX-CANDY- Lb. X CAI D -Lb. 35c Dainty Rice, '1roz. pkgs. _. 2 for 29c Dr. -Bollard's Champion Dog -food = 4 for 45c =- St. Lawrence Corn Oil, pint -: ;_ 35c Fireside Brooms, each ....i. 99c Paramount Fancy Cohoe 'Salmon, 1/2 tin 36c 2' lb tin 31c Crown .. Corn Syrup, . • Salads Tea Bags, pkg. of 60 79c Christie's ' Premium Crackers, lb. 3k Giant Fab, with free -guest towel, gt. pkg.__ 77c Good Luck Margarine, lb. pkg; s 35c Lipton Beef Noodle Soup 2 for 33c Robin Hood White Cake Mix, 15 oz. °pkg..__- • 29c •• 14c' 14c 25c Baking Cups, small 125'.s Baking ' Cups,. medium 100's• Easifirst Shortening, lb. pkg. Magic- Baking-. Powder, 16 oz: tin • Fuse Plugs, 15-20-30-25 amps 3 for 21c $ Little National Pocket Matches, pkg. cf'`12 . 17c Save All Wax Paper Appleford, "100'' roll '2 9c� : Big 5 Cleanser w. 2 for 19c Palmolive Soap, .reg. bars .: 2; for 25c ..A Supreme White Beans, 'lb. cello a' 1'6c' ;. -Supreme Split . Peas; 12 .oz. cello 2 for 29c ; 34c 35c 35c _•..69c S3c �. Alka Seltzer, -8 oz. bottle Baby's Own 'Tablets, pkg. :. . Johnson's .Baby Powder,, tin . .. ' •. Eno's Fruit Salts, medium ~„ Vick's Vapo-Rub;' jar Five Roses Flour, 5' lb. bag :,. '37c Cow Brand Baking Soda, 16 oz. 'pkg.... 13c. Dalton's Featherstrip Cocoanut, 7 oz. bag 23c Gold Medal Custard Powder,, 12='oz. ,tin 33c • 'Nabisco Shreddies 2 for 35 General Electric Lanip Bulbs 4 for 79c 25-40-60 Watt Fruit 8 .Vegetables. B4NANAS, select, golden ripe ' .• • • 2 lbs. 35c `NOR AERN SPY , APPLEScrisp, fancy y.grade, bus.' ..,:, $2.75 r • :GREEN LETTUCE; firm,, tender, heads • 17e' ; CARROTS, sweet, marsh -grown; 20 oz. cello bags 2 for' 25c - ESTERN POTATOEg; famous quality, .N_ 75 ib, bag $2.25 .4 d FO -R _-BEST VA,L-UJES--. Make. REIN AND WHITE Your' SHOPPING.. CENTRE ' ee. ,I'oe ttte Fo�d Phone.=2.6��lreeDelir Store WHITE F... Wil o R Brown at The Playhouse This Week.end. • \ fr 4 •:4, f Ilk 4144 4..02.e stik