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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-12-09, Page 6THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, y ,IICKNOW, ONTARUO 011, Estate - An Asset or p: Vanity CHANGE in Succession Duties and Income ,Taxes- have created sine real problems inthe administration of estates.: A revision of your will may be advisable. By naming• The Sterling Trusts Corport- tion as executor; you have the pers nal attention of a .senior estate officer assisted by a staff familiar with current legislation and the • rulings of the ':various taxing authorities. T e STERLING: TRUSTS CORPORATiON , `` Sterling.Tower,;Toronto , ° 32 years in Business BOUNDARY EAST •,; • Mr, and Mrs.. Wm. MacDonald entertained Mr. and Mrs. ' Sher- wood .of Ashfield on Wednesday evening. Sunday' visitors at Mac Donald's were Mr.. and Mrs, Ma- hood, Mrs. M'agwood and Helen of .Kincardine and Mrs. Meek and Mrs.' #seal of . Goderich. Masters Billy : and jack Ken riedy spent a few 'days of last week with • -their ..grandparents, • -Mr. and' 'Mrs: 'ViFm. Robb of Luck- Mr. and Mrs. Tom Henderson of Wingham visited at Mi. Geo. • •Kennedy's on Sunday; Mr. and Mrs., Pharis Mathers 'and Carolyn spent Sunday' with Mr., :and Mrs. Harvey Ackert: of Lorne, Mrs. Mothers also ' spent a day. ,in London last week. Mr.. and ". Mrs:. Jack McMillan visited at, Pinkerton on Sunday. 'Mr. • and Mrs, Ed. McQizillin and Grant visited at Mr: • Fred • . .McQuillin's ' on Sunday. Mrs. Merrill GalnteIon :of Wing- ham- spent the week -end .with. her brother, Mr. Alfred. Patter- SOn. . Messrs: Ronald Forster and George Fisher spent tiiesday in Coliingwood.• Ronald has com- menced work at the Maple Leaf Aircraft in Lucknow. Mr: and Mrs. Cecil. Forster, Jimmie • and Grace Elizabeth of ,Palmerston visited at Mr.: Jas: Forster's on . 'Sunday,,,, Miss Greta . Hudson held a Red Cross quilting last week for the ladies west, of No: 9. The people of this community join in . extending their .sincer- est sympathy to, Mrs. ;Sam .Morri- son, her .husband and family and to .Mr.' Leslie Alton' in mourning the loss of -their father, the late Mr. and Mrs. George . Fisher entertained the . bridge club on Wednesday evening. Winners for the ;:evening were Mrs. Ted .Coll- yer and Mr. Farish' Moffat. -NEED FARMERS FOR. WINTER ...1985- The JOBS . The manager of the Walkerton office of National Selective Ser- vice, A. J. Schnurr, states that many more men from the farms why can he'spPared for the winter months, are needed for jobs in .other essential industries. A min- •irnum' of 150100 men are needed. and while .the responsehas been encouraging, requirements have not " by any, 'means• ,been 'met. In- structions have been issued by Arthur MacNamara, director of National Selective Service. at Ot- taws,' that/ each locale 'office isto iritefiify- its.' efforts' •t9 induces more men to "acce•pt'.work 'off the fartn for the, winter. • ' The • director's' instructions 'em- phasize the following points: (1) While men from the farms are ' urgently ,needed elsewhere, no; man should leave agriculture, if he is needed as a farm worker for the winter:'•°' ' (2), Men will, . of cotirse; return to the farm once."again, when their services are required there: (3) Men will be paid the reg- ular wages for whatever job they accept, and .transportation will be 'provided , . free if, a distance' has to be travelled. (4) Workersfrom'•the farm, al- ready given postponement under the Military. Call-up by reason of: eing farmers, Will , continue on postponement if they leave. fi ld: -thy,. -4ari 4o essential. employment for the winter. , ' , • In communicating with Selec- tive Service ' offices, Mr. • Mac= Namara said: "This appeal to *Pricers not. needed on.,.f--arms- for the winter; is both patriotic and W: J. FREEMAN, Teeswater mer chant, has' received a note from General 'Sir Bernard L. :Mont- gomery, . commander of the: Bri- tish 8th Army in .Italy .tha g him for 1,000 cigarettes h the Teeswater 'man sent. T , lei - ter is in the .'general's han writ- ing, The cigarettes were distrib- uted to men of the. 8th . A>my.. • m V. - hi • • 1HOUsANDs• of. men and women in uniform wt'll,be telephoning home this Christmas. This means a huge aadditi.nal load on Long Distance facilities=especially "long haul" lines ---already busy' carrying essential war • calls. So again this year wa urge you • to ' send your Christmas greetings by mail. You can help the Post Office people, y arranging, to send 'SF tlim�artk}o h ... .- .,• Shdulil there he an out-of-town call you mast make, -please telephone •a, many days before Christmas• as pos- sible. In this way you will help us to handle promptly the flood Of eager. holiday greetings whieh will pour in" from military camp; 'all over, the countrY. Thank you. . • Recalls Fake At Dungannon, .`lkllrs.'u A( 9t14 a. 09111 Ey Gavin Hamilton GreeIL Dungannon Village Was .on the noises. Young and old • from the •map of Western Ontario as well as Benmiller . and S;ltford Ben- rniller on Sharp's Creek, " Salt - ford on the Maitland -aver. The narne, Dungannon, "came from old Ireland. along with, William Mal - lough, the first settler. The. vill- age is built on four corners :at four cross roads- inn two townships, Ashfield 'an& Wawanosh. Williann Maliough owned one corner farm, Robert . D,avidson ' the other cor-, tier faun in 'Ashfield;. in Waive:- nosh, awanosh, William McMath owned one corner farm and W. A. Stewart the other corner farm. In Ashfield, : on Mallough''s- cor- ner was Dean • Swift's tavern;' across 'the road 'on Davidson's corner was, Anthony Black's ta- vern-narried Prince • of Orange; in . Wawanosh on McMath's • cor- ner. was Savage's general store,. on Stewart's, corner was. Bell's general store. • • Seventy-five years' ago I. went to 'a private School in a •building next to. the . Bell store as I used to play with h a' boy named Tommy Bell, and each. 'morning I took a• pennyto pay the, lady teacher. 'On the Davidson property, was b>wiilt ,one of the first briCk._Ang..: lican churches in the county of Huron which still stands . in the same place. Dr. Alex McKay liv- ed next, to this church, ' He, played. bagpipes, and the first, time I saw and heard him I.. ran for home • never.-stoppedjun'il' I got -un- der the bed, told- mother ' I saw the devil -in the village:for I had `been taught that the devil; had hozfins'on his head, a big •tailand was -always hissing and snorting fire. Being . Scotch, my mother told.: be what I took .'for' the .de' it was a Scotchman and the horns' and tails •were a • musical instru- William. Green from Colborne ment, the hissing and snorting Township • ; coming to, our house fire nd smoke was the sweet with , some of , the ,sand tied up musi of My ancestors. Down,the _AshfielcLside of main street as I remember there was Pentland's blacksmith shop;' John McGratten's -shoe shop, Clenden- • fling's ' store and post office. The first store on Wawanosh 'side was, that of Andrew Sproul, furniture; Geo. Videan, blacksnuth; " Jennie Tremble, tailor; Jonnie Roberts, general stare; James Whyward; tin .shop; Wm: Crawford, wagon maker; WM. ••McArthur, carpen- ter; Bickle's harness ' Shop and Augers •dog . churns. Visitors to Ford's museum in Detroit may see one of these old' Dungannon .dog churns as I sold' one of the churns to the Museum. ,On. the Ashfield side of, Dun- gannon half , a mile down the fourth . "concession • Was " Distier's woolen mill, .Saunbay's grist mill • and John ' fr".encimnan's sawmill. There was a 'temperance hall. on Wawanosh side of Main street and if .the Wawanosh Main street- ers wantedto liquor up they had to cross Main street to Ashfield and if the Ashfield liqtior boys wantect to join the . temperance lodge they had' to crossthe street rink and . a • place to nominate to Wawanosh. candidates for West Huron tlec- In 1868 the Village had. an oil boom south of the village about a mile on a farm owned by a man ' named . Stothers where Dr. Hamilton lives on'the Wawanosh side of iVlain street. Men were digging a well from which came practical. „If: jobs in the 'woods,. to cutfuel, logs, mine .and' rail way: timbers andpulpwood, : are not . filled,, the war; effort, and as' well 'our "national welfare, will suffer 'seriously. The same may, be said of employment vacancies, in. packing plants, at railway maintenance, in base metal mines and in coal mines in some areas: .-ken-not neededon' the -farms for the. winter are the only�sizea.ble supolyLpf- workers we -have left to call on in Canada, to 'get these , jobs. done . this winter".' Marie Swan, of Wingham and Helen 'McDonald' of : St. • Helens spent ; Sunday with Vyetta Phil- lips. Village and surrounding country came to hear these strange. noises, . while the well • diggers kept dig- .ging, away ui • the dry sand but with no' Sign of water. In the interest auresssedd o two village mischief - ,maker$ decided to have some fun out of it, all.' Choosing; a dark night they went with a large can Qf• cos oil' anti _ • dumped it into the well. Next morning when. the well diggers went JO work they smelled the oily They "took , a shovel. full' of • . . sand, set it afire and it burned up brightly. They had struck oil. As there was no ' telephone or telegraph, riders were despatch- ed on horses to Goderch, Luck- now, Port Albert and surrounding country with the great news..' Oil Struc) at, Dtingarrizon,•The . village boomed, taverns were crowded, , stores did '. a . thriving trade, a, company was to be form- ed, and people flocked to sub ..scribe for stock. The precious sand was doled' out , in a tea -cup lots to prospective investors. A company ' was formed, a derrick and engine ,housewas built,, ma- chinery ordered.. The ' jokers scribed for shares .of the oil stock but as the fun had gone .much' further than they had expected. it had to be stopped m ,a way td avoid identifying themselves:, So word was quietly passecLto _• ,,promoters; that 'some.-. one .had dumped a barrelfull of coal oil - into :the well at' 'night. Thus the boomed ended,: machinery orders were cancelled but the , derrick and the engine house stood' over the old well for over. 50 years' as a • reminder of the Dungannon oil boom. I 'remember " my uncle, PRESENT IS GOOD TIME TO CLEAN ALL SEED GRAIN A recent seed survey fot the Province of Ontario reveals that there are definite shortages of seed oats and barley for next year's use, says J. D. MacLeod. director of Crops, Seed & Weeds Branch of the Ontario, la,epart- ment. of Agriculture. These .shor- tages shoe; •tages are due to'urltfavorable wea- ther at the, normal time for: seed- ing last spring, followed by rust, later 'in the season. - The survey : has • also revealed, however, that there are consid- • erable quantities of seed from the 1942 crop which are still in' the. hands offarmers and also scat- tered areas throughout the pro- vince -where yields from the 1943 crop will make suitable seed. Large quantities of grain arc' resp red for livestock' on' farms and, unless • provision is made at an evilly date, •totp save all avail- able seed for next• year, it is pos- sible that• much grain of excel- lent xcel-lent duality may be used as feed., At this time of year most seedl, cleaning plants usually • experi- ence a slack period. Therefore; now is an excellent timetoA get seed cleaned and make ai range- ments for your next season's see l supply. All grain suitable for seed should be made available without delay. A in a .pocket handkerchief for my father • to smell. i was six years old at, the time, but 1 remember my father smelling the sand • and. pronouncing it coal oil. • After the Fenian .'raid scare =the •Goverrunent built a drillihed and armory . at D"unganhon as headquarters for ;No.: 9 Company of the 33rd lHuron Battalion. Jos- eph Mallough 'was captain,. Mr. Crozier,' -first lieutenant; ' John Varcoe, 2nd lieutenant. ' The corn- • pany would take the 'honors for . big men at the'ahnt al drill camp, one year all the men being six feet and over. I myself . at one time belonged to No. 9 Company,_ but not . in the days that it was handed bouquets• for big menA. I finished .my three years training the year the cornerstone was laid at the rniimtary college on. Carling Heights' London, under the train-. , ing uf. Major. M.allotigh and Capt. Varcoe. I rose : in . my military training. from a buck.,private to the -office of a lance -corporal. The old drill ;shed did duty for years, as an agricultural fall fair build- ing, for, concerts, , as :a skating tions, • .as well as for, political meetings .of Grits and-. Tor..ies: -- •- Aldrig in the 'early nineties they decided to sell the old shed by . auction but there was only one bidder, Thomas Durnin, of Dun- gannon, who got it for $28: • 'Boy: And now, doctor, that I've told you .I am going to marry ,Anne, , there's one thing 1 want to get' off my chest. , Doctor: You just tell be about it, my boy, Boy: A tattooed heart with the name :',label on it. "Clus", .sai.d Bill :'are the rest of the boys out of the woods yet? All sit. of them?" "Yes", said G,us. "And they're all safe? "• "Yep". .. "Then", said Bill, his chest swelling. "I've shot a deer". • •