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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-11-25, Page 7• ' THURS., NOVEMBER 258th, 1943 THE LUCKY OW SEN INgL J Ti VC_KNow, ON ARID PAGE SEVEN Dave Moffat, son of Mr. Peter. Moffat, .C.on, 8; Kinloss, has •been posted. to Debert, Nova Scotia, with the It.0:A.F. George Robinson with .the R. C.: A. P. at:' Hagersville . spent;;.,,,the week -end ' at the home of hips', mother; Mrs• .Tyndal.yRobinon. Iona Terry, W.R.C,N.S., C. Stadacona, Halifax, has, re- turned after spending the past week with friends at Kinlough. Arrived Overseas . . Mr. and Mrs. • Wm. Hunter •of Zion received word 'last week 'of the arrival overseas of their son.•. Tpr.' W. J. (Jim) Hunter. LAC. Graharn Moffat, son .' of Foster Moffat of Kinloss has -been' posted -to Labrador with the R. C..A. F. Graham had been sta- tioned at Halifax for' some time. Merle Johnston with the. R. C. overseas spent a recent 7 - day leave •in Scotland, according to the latest letter received by his parents,. Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Johnston.. • Eldon Buckingham, sor1..:.o.f Mr. and .Mrs: Wm. -Buckingham, Con. ] 2, Ashfi,eld,rhas been posted from Montreal • to No. 13., Service Fly= ,•ing. Training School .at' St. Hu- bert, Quebec.. • 1VIrs, Simon Donaldson..recently received-some•,appreciated keep- sakes, sent from 'overseas by her • son, . Grir, George A. A. Carter: The Mementos included sprigs of heather, ,thistle ..and a four-leaf clover, Enlists . iii R. C. A. F. • •• . Bill. Ross, son of Mr: and .Mrs. • ,rack 'Ross, Con. 10, ,Kinloss, re- ported recently •at Manning De pot, Toronto, for training in the R.C.A.F. ill's older brother, Nor-- $ t`` nan, has, been overseas with. the Air.Force for some time. Dave ° Swan of the Canadian Army has spent the past few days at the .bonne of his parents,. Mr. and.Mrs. George Swan,l2th Con, cession. of West Wawanosh. Dave was stationed at Vancouver' Is- ' land • for some time before being • posted to • Woodstock where he has, been taking a special . course for the past. six weeks. Crew' Nearly Doubled Quota . Harold Ritchie. member of the t..crew of a Canadian Corvette, re- cently docked at "New York' for a few days, where Harold had a ,chance to see the sights • of the big' city. In a fetter to his par= ents, WI': and Mrs. Jas. Ritchie, during the,5th Victory Lean, Har- old said their•• ship's crew had' subscribed• • $8.900. which . was - • -. �--r� ea-rl-y--double the quc.�t-a.-o-f-•$350-0•�II DUNGANNON SOLDIER „ GOT $200 FROM. MR. X Sgt. Bill •McClure, who missed the first visit of "Mr. X" to Chris- ' tie Street Hospital in Toronto, made up for it on the Mystery Man's second visit when Bill was the rdcipient .of two $100.00 bills: Sgt. McClure. only son. ofMr. `Mrs.- Wililam McClure of Dungannon was recently invalid- ed home from overseas. He is' a patient in Christie Hospital, but. Was visiting at Dungannon on °Mr. Ns" 'first visit to the an- 'er of $100.00 greenbacks, s'tituti w re✓ -J e -staged a --show • o - Dons Army Uniform 0 I BILL, ST!MYIISON WITH PRINCESS PATS IN ITALY Charles . Robinson, son of Mrs. ' Tyndal Robinson of Lucknow, has enlisted in ' the' Army Service Corps. Charlie, who is at present stationed at Wolesley Barracks; London,, spent .last Friday at his home here: HAS BEEN IN ITALY SINCE EARLY SEPTEMBER Doug Clark, son of, Mr.' and. Mrs. Temple Clary, and a .mere•-" ger .,of the No.; 1 Provost Co-,, R.. C. -M. P., has been in the Med- iterranean theatre forsorne time.. Douglanded in Sicily on July.10 arid in. Italy on. September .3rd. A recent letter to • his 'parents read ,in, part as follows: ° "Just enquired the date and find it is Monday, October 18th. :Sholuld have known the day for I was in a town yesterday a.m. and the 48th Highlanders had a church parade down the main street, pipes and all. I was having a shave, haircut and shampoo and all of a `sudden was left quite a- lone in the shop. Rveryone,' whe- ther lathered or •bedecked .with towels;...rushed out to. see the par-. ade. Of course there was ;great shouting and cheering.. The same kind as Jerry likely got about ten da s a • o. At an rate the news- reel cameraman' was there so suppose it will be on the screen., shortly: By the way., my shave, haircut and shampoo cost 15 liras. Twenty .lirasequal about 22 cents so that is not bad. We are -•in '..battle,.' dress_ pp85r_ haying _turned_ in our hot weather kit. It gets quite cold at night. When and if the stu conies out it pis very hot yet though. Some of: the moun- tains look veryr-,sold and f9rbid- ding. 11leceived a ;couple of par- cels, the • first since leaving Eng- land". CLIMATE. IN INDIA MAKES ONE LAZY . . • In an airgraph letter from Flt. - :Sgt: Alex' Smith of the Indian Command, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs: "J. J. Smith, he refers°w•to:=-a week - spent in the hospital .and added,' that he wouldn't have rtiinded another :.week just. to laze around. The trouble is he. said,. ?`I'm getting. too fat and want to do nothing but laze 'all the time. I. hope; though, that it is "only the climate" • . Alec's' letter continued: "The Indians have the idea. They take life very easy. If they are •tired they. lay down by the side of the read, or wherever they 'are, and sleep: They eat when .hungry, no matter the tithe. if one doesn't feel like working, tomorrow will dq just as well. Such is the; life, apparently, of the large floating population of Ind'ia,. mostly beg- gars, or coolies. {I "They drift from job' to job and from birth to' the funer- al prye. One -gets born, one begs or works, or does•' both; one dies. It doesn't matter much where, "Of course, that is buta small part of ' the millions ''of India: There is the vast fixed popula- tion •who make the conglomera- tion of villages, interspread with' 1: trtr-fields' and--hff1s;-whit-h is a large part of . the country. And then there ale -the hill people and the less cornmon, independent farmer. . "It :.is really an 'interesting country, when one can scrape.up. enough energy to be interested. "You will haves, heard of the Madras flood. I am thankful I' wasn't in it, What a rain it was. and then, to cap it all, came the. first air raid I have experienced. in India. It niade•'one realize that the War is still on. It is hard to visualize those .`little yellow men' as being pp above, but the stuff they droRped was real, although .1-t zg 1t -as u -el ve--st-ey iYn-- Tokyo for all the damage it ilid" Bi11 Stimson, • Jr., is with the Canadian Princess Pats Light In- fantry in Italy and according to letters received :by his mother KINLCUGFI • Miss Ethel Haldenby met with , a •painful accident while 'opera- ting a machine at' the Lucknow Aircraft on Saturday last but was .RAPID CITY Mrs. Charlie 'Thomson spent 'a few days at Wingham . Iast week with Mrs. Mark :Gardner. Mrs. Gardner was hurt as the. result • able ,to return' to her' work this of a fall down the 'basement steps • and, sister Bertha, it is evident he has been seeing some action Iri one letter, written in mid- September, •Bill, said theyy were having. -a much needed rest as they had' been doing. sone long marches night and day., "I sup- pose you'.11 have heard all the news. about the .invasion", and, "it will shorten the war"; were Bill's Only • comments on t1ie.•actual: 'bat - 'ties being fought. He says he can speak the. Ital ian lingo Well enough to be un- derstood. "They sure seem glad to see us, and even in •the'• middle of the night they are out to clfeer our arrival. Sornetimes I won- der if they really mean it,; but they have been treated like dogs by the Germans who have taken everything from them". '• Bill says he bets his' brother Dori is ;Mad. Don went ' overseas in 1940 'and is still in England. Bill . `went over this-, year and - al- ready, is, half way through Italy.• *BOUNDARY EAST Mr. Scott Patterson and Miss Havel Mew -Walters of '.Detroit, Mr.` and .Mrs, 'Frank . McCormick of Turnberry and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton ` Rettinger and . family were Sunday. visitors : with Mr. -and—Mrs—Jack- r. and Mr ---Jack-r. and Mrs. Lorne Durnin, J. D. and Ross spent Sunday at Mr. George Kennedy's: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Reid of Or- angevillewere recent visitors at the same. home. Sunday callers • at Mr. George Fis. her's were Mr. and Mrs. Tprn Inglis. and. Roddy and. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie 'Moore and family. Mr. and Mr-. Ronald Forster and- Nancv . are, visiting at Mr. James Forster.'s. ' Mr. James Conley motored to, Durham ori Sunday for Mrs Con- ley wherettshe had spent the week' with her mother following a ton- sil •operation. Messrs. Charles Twamley and Finnegan of London spent the past week with Mr. and Mrs.'Wrn. ;,MacDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. MacDonald 'visited with Mr... and Mrs. Cran- ston. of •Goderich one day ' last week. • • • Mr. •:an d Mrs. George Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Rhys Pollock spent Monday evening with Mr. John McIntyre in .Dungannon. • week.• at her , borne. Mrs. McIntyre from the West spent the past week with rela- tives here before returning home. Mrs. Sturgeon has returned to Bervie after visiting with Mrs. W. J,. 11,McI,,ean: ' .: • Deer hunting .is• the order of • the day but, hunters are noe eet-,. - ing, with great.'suceess: ti Sympathy is extended to the family of the 'late :Peter Mac- Donald . who passed 'away on Wednesday after about a week's illness. • Mrs.. R. l+ °• 'Hodgkinson cele-, brated her eighty-fourth birth- day on Tuesday; of last' week. Mr. Wilbert Hodgkinson has been confined to the house for the past week with an attack of the 'flu. " . • . . . Little J. R. Murray, son of Mr. Alphonse ' Murray had his leg broken . on :Friday afternoon. He. • was taken to Kincardine hospital and was 'able to return horne that' night but will ,be in the cast for, some time . Miss Edna Jackson of'. Kincar- dine .spent' a few days. with Miss Ethel Haldenby: • We are sorry to report ' that Mr. Fred. Hodgiriis' has not been in good healthof fate.- 'We hope; he will soon be able to a around. again. Mr. and Mrs. Harold .Haldenby and Sheila, of. Toronto spent the week -end at Mr. George Halden- by's.. "Miss Evelyn McLean returned. to London after spending the past week at her home here. Mr. ' Jack McLaren from the Westis visiting • with relatives here. "'Tr.' Bert McLean hasreturned home from Sarnia where he has been. employed. ' Little Harvey Stanley has re- turned from. Toronto v''here he has been a patient in the Sick Children's Hospital. Mr. and Mirs. Bert McLean and family spent Sunday with; Mr. & •Mrs. Stanley Fair. • Mr. 'and Mrs sear Hodgins and family we Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hodgins-,, Misses Mario Walsh and Jean Thompson of Kincardine .;spent the :Week -end at • their. ,homes here.: • Mr. Joe Hodgkinson spent the past week at.his hone here. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Crawford. of Ripley.' visited on Sunday with Mr. Dick .-teed. was a week -end visitor. witn Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Fattish in Ashfield.)( • Mrs. Ben Brown and children spent a couple of .days last' week with her ,parents, . Mrs: , Reed be-. ing laid up as the result hof a fall. School ..this ;Week changed •to : • ten O'clock .opening: for the winter months. TIM' HAZE:. HILLS Beyond the. autumn hazen hills Where Indian summer now •holds • • sway, r • .. All nature,, is• a golden haze . For 'Indian Summer came today. :The _leaves are falling Afrom the: trees • • A magic carpet where they Weaget.:a. glimpse, of love divine .In..golden leaves that.fall,.:and..die. Beyond the flaming woodlands then.. . see -tie seasons - e In the great miracle of spring The tree=tops are the .'first to show. . • 'Beyond the autumn's flaming hills Beyond_ ..its__ gloriousr.golden...haze:,.-_. •We store a host of 'mernories, Of beauteous Indian Summer days. M. • Buckingham. '"Sorry, madam;_, but licenses are issued only when your 'forni. is . filled• out properly". • `'Why. I like your nerve,. sir! • We 'can .get -married no matter what I• look like". Mir. and .Mrs. John Bushell. ' The. regular monthly • ,meeting of the Presbyterian 'W,M,S, was:. • held on Wednesday last at the home of Mrs. John Bushell. The • • Women's` •Institute ' will hold . their • Christmas meeting at the home of • Mrs', Eldon. 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