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LUCKNOW, ONTARIO, 'Wednesday, February 5th, '1947
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Funeral services: for. Mrs Al-
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-lin AGrant ,and her four-year-old
son Larry. and:for. William James
Johnston, victims of the- railway.
'• 'crossing crash dear Kincatrame
' ht ' were held, on
late Tuesday •nag...,.,.
Friday .and'':Saturday, arid, were
'largely and
by .aorr'owing
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uner: • 's
TO SPEAK ON SOIL
CONSERVATION IN MARCH
Soil _conservation, a. topic that
should be:of -mutual. interest to
PATENTS ARRIVE TI•IIS 'WEEK.; PASS HALFWAY Z IC IN.
$ AID TO CHINA ..CAMPAIGN
Mrs. David i ilne Jr„ has been;
anticipating 'a visit.from her par -'The minimum objective•
ents,,Mr, and Mrs. -.George Lang-� $1,000. for Lucknow and Distri.
ridge of Wales, who were- sch:ed- in ".the Aid to China catnpaig..
uled to . sail for. Canada aboard had passed the ,halfwa ; ins k
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`the"Queen. Elizabeth on ,January
29th,":and':who may have"arrived
here. by ,the, : time our readers
have this' issue. _'
1 T,RAIt BLOCKED Of
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STORM . TH URSDAY`-
of, . ------
et ‘•' An overnight Caprice of the
n, weatherman last , Wedneday,
at , caused the winter's worst tie -u
. 1?
a- to , date. Wednesday afternoon
to was springlike. The ground. was
bare. By. Thursday, morning .,cars', •
n . were , blocked almost completely
h' and travel was difficult'•for either•
n- 'roan or beast. The storm was 'ac-
companied by thunder ..and light ''
rupg ' about six'
rnorraing•:.
Overnight aA, "sugary» . snow
.piled up into deep drifts and' Was
crusted over' bye sleet, which fell.
between. times: •lows made com-
paratively `slow:°progress the next :-
0, 'morning in punching a trail thrtt '
• the banks`. ••f ,ddly enough the road •
-- south to Dungannon was; the• only
t one not solidly bloeked axd ;traf
e fie broke through this' by ',mid
t ' morning.. The' Highway 86 plow
e gof in front Wing Tali about noon;
The. town plow suffered
't breakdown in raid -morning : and
e it was • on. ,in the afternoon' before
d fit• tit • .nto • -o rattier a -sisi
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w by working,. throughout 'the. ,night,
had Village ' ••roads . pretty, welt •
s, broken,' and a good job.' don :i of
y main.street.
rn Men and--teams-went-to-work
Friday': to haul; away` the' tons fig,
"the: beautiful" that flanked',the
main • .street, ' but by Saturday,
night • the 'job"was' onl about: ,half.
done- ' ..
,,the,,,,,, weekend with total ` don
tions : received amounting
•.abo'ut 160.0. :
. _ • The, ,,campaign closes in. to
to Mr. and Mrs, Langrictge, we tdays;