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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1944-07-13, Page 5TEURSDlAY, JULY lath, 1944 Lyceum Theatre' WI NGHAM Thursday, Friday, Saturday :JULY 13,. 14, 1.5 YAAALLACE BEERY' MARJORIE MAIN **in**. "RATIONING" The comedy 'team of 'Beery and' . Mainwill provide you with. a good laugh, 'as . they continue their bickering in the picture Rationing. Also "Short Subjects" Matinee Sat. afternoon at 2.30 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday :JULY 17, 18, 19 CLAUDETTE.COLBERT FILED MacMURRAY *•*in** `No Time For Love" A light, fast comedy of that recent: yesterday, in ' which men were building tunnels Under the East River. Also "Short Subjects" "Homesteads, Hell and History The Boomers tarned the 'west the hard way. Colonel H. Edwin "1VIi5otz;Oklahoma Booriier arid' Indian scout, begins in The Am- erican Weekly with this Sunday's (July 16th) issue of • The Detroit Sunday Times, a thrill -packed seriesabout outlaws, gun-totin' females, trouble -hunting Indians • and hard -fighting frontier heroes. Street DAN UNDER AUSPICES OF THE CLANSMEN 1n LUCKNOW Tuesday- July 18 MUSIC BY. CARRUTHERS ORCHESTRA Ammommem. � NOTICE NORTH HURON LIBERAL 'ASSOCIATION HURON -BRUCE LIBERAL ASSOCIATION A special' joint meeting of the above Associations will be held' in Wingham Town Hall on Friday, July 141h, at 8.30 o'clock P.M. The guest speak- er will be The. Hou. Norman L. McLarty, Secretary of State of Canada. As business of the utmost im- portance will be brought be- fore the meeting,every town, village and townfih tiis 'urged to be present. ' Murdoch Matheson, President Huron -Bruce Liberal Assoc. (Provincial) ' H. C. MacLean, President North -Huron Liberal .Assoc. (Federal), ZION. The Lucknow Seutin?1,. bicknow, Ontarit, "Tidal Wave" Is Officially Explained Mr. and Mrs. Chester Ritchie of Detroit spent - the week -end With Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ritchie: Miss Ada Webster •of Lucknow visited with Mr. and Mrs. l ichard Gardner. Master Bert Howse, is assisting Mr. Sid Gardner. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Foster and Miss Audrey Foster of Emporium, Pa., called on Mr. W. G„ Hunter and Mr. and" Mrs. Win. Gardner last Wednesday. Mr, and Mrs., Roy'Alton visit- ed Sunday with Mr. ` and Mrs. Frank Ritchie. ! Mrs. James. Ritchie of Luck-. now was a guest of Mrs.. Chas. Ritchie and John on Sunday. We are sorry to report that Mr. Jacob . 'Hunter broke a ' bone in his foot . and has it in a cast:. Mrs. Ramage of Wawaota, Sask. was the: guest ofher cousin, Mrs. Jacob'•kunter over the week -end: Anniversary • services on Sun- day were held at Zion.. Rev. Bee- croft of Wingham spoke at the afternoon and evening services. A trio from Lucknow United church, Messrs. Eldon Henderson, Harold Allan and George Joynt accompanied by Mrs. Joynt con 1 tributed two lovely numbers at the evening service. Mr., and Mrs. John Hall of Lucknow sang a duet Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Drennan of Lucknow visited Sunday. with- Mr. ith-Mr. and: Mrs. George '`Hunter. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gardner .of Wingham-spent Sunday with Mr. and. Mrs. Ernest Gardner. Mies Violet Ritchie has gone to Toronto to take a course and. has also secured employment there. Misses Elsie Ritchie and Viodlet R. :chie have been re-engaged .at tl ir.,.,respeetive..•-•schools: iss Ada .Web'ster has been engaged for her twenty-first year to teach at 'Zion. -Mr. Keith Hackett is at - tending Normal in London and has secured a school at, No. 6, Grey Township. Mr. and..Mrs., Medford Wall of Culross spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Hackett. .• LANGSIDE Mr. Tom Ross of Toronto while holidaying here received a phone message on Thursday last from his son-in-law, Mr. Alex Mur- ray that one of his houses had been damaged badly by fire. Mr. Ross and daughter . Minnie re- turned to Toronto by train on Friday. A few hours after ar- riving in Toronto Minnie suffer- ed ' a severe heart attack and . Fri- day evening Mr Ross and Alex Murray motored here for Mrs. Thos. Ross and Mrs.' A. J. Mur- ray. Latest reports are that Min- nie is much improved though still not out of danger. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Ritchie of Detroit, YVlr. and Mrs. Bill Rit- chie, Elsie and Harvey were Sun- day callers " at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Ritchie. Miss Grace Richardson of the Thompson Creamery is enjoying a ,two weeks' vacation at ' .her home here. Mr. Algx Murray, Mr. & Mrs. Jim Dickison, Patsy and little son of Toronto: arrived here on Mon- day and will return on Wednes- day ednesday taking Mr. Tqm Ross' car and Mrs. Alex Murray; Philip & John will also rettirn with them. Misses. Ruth Burgman, Barbara Newman, Barbara Foxton, all of Wingharn; rode- their—bicycles to - the home of Mrs. Victor Emerson on Tuesday and enjoyed the day on the farm.. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mason of near Belgrave were Sunday' vis- itors at the home of,Mr, and Mrs. Herb Pettypiece., tcpmimi i y—e-xtends fnei sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Mich- ael King in.the koss of their sons, Joe, 18rand Raymond, 15. Both • boys were drowned last 'Thurs- day ,evening. Miss Eileen Stuart has return- ed to her home , after assisting Mrs. Frank Thompson of Con. 10 for the past two Weeks. in PAGE FIVE Hydrographic experts of the Mines and Resources Deparfinerit at Ottawa have issued a . memo- randum on a series of "seiches which occurred on Lake Huroii June 18th, and described them as the sharpest and largest" re- corded at- Goderieh, Ontario, dur ing 'the 30 'years water -level re-' cords - have been ,kept there. - Seiches are caused 'by drop in the 'air pressure over one part of the surface of the, lake as com- pared with the pressure on the rest of the lake. As an area of low, pressure 'moves across the lake the water surface under it rises, and ,the . water. is . conse=-, quently drawn ,'off from 'other parts of the lake,- Causing: sud- den fall in levels, often at distant points. ` The memorandum was promp ted by unofficial reports reach- ing thehydrographic service of the. department's surveys and en- gineering branch thatthe violent changes in water levels on that day were due to a tidal " wave, caused by the moon: • ' r "This was a misnomer", an ex- pert said. "Lunar' action had • no- thing' to do with it". ' The figures from Goderich `are the official records nearest to the centre of the disturbance. Unoffi- cial --reports show -that the seiches Wei* more pronounced north of r that town, where levels changed [four feet in a few minutes..While. this was a record for Lake Huron, -it has been exceeded on Lake Superior. • Return From West Mrs. Alice •Robb of town and her daughter, Mrs. R. J. MacKen- zie of Lochalsh returned on Fri- day from a three weeks' visit in Winnipeg with Mrs. Robb's sons, Dn. E .:J. and Dr: W. DUNGANNON Mr. and Mrs. H. J. L. Eedy. have received word from their son Ir - Vine, overseas. Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Lane, Kinlough, visited on Sunday with Mrs. Abraham Culbert and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Culbert.' Mrs. Chas. Durnin and -_.-child- ren are visiting her sister, Mrs. Alfred Hefford of Toronto. Mrs. Cousins and four daugh- ters of Detroit are visiting with Harvey and Harold .Congram.' Mrs. J. D. Hesson and Miss Clara Sproul of Stratford arevis- itors with Mrs. D. Sproul. , Misses Frances and Lillian Mc- Lean' of Lucknow are spending the summer with their brother, Thomas. Miss Mae Summerville, a tea- cher of Winnipeg has been ,vis- iting with Mrs. Wm. Sproul. Miss Audrey Congram, a grad- uate nurse of Clinton' ,Hospital, new employed in: Dr. Oakes of- fice, isvisiting with her. par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Con gram. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Orser and Mrs. Allin of Detroit spent a few ays las week with Mr. & ' Mrs: Albert irser. Mrs. Stanley Orser nd two daughters returned to d a Detroit with them for two weeks Miss Margaret Stewart, who was 'a nurse at the home for in- curable children, Toronto, has returned to; Toronto on a private case after spending a few weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Stewart. Mr. and Mrs: Ernest Pritchard and_Bob y V.._iack."-of .Trc,nta.-havc been holidaying with Mrs. A. B. Pentland and other members of the family. - Miss Horton Honored Miss Mary Horton, bride -elect, was honored by about, 40 friends at the home of Mrs. Ross McNee. on Friday .evening. The evening as-s`pen`t in, garner, an cq and ..a mock wedding was staged. Mrs. Grahar'n McNee "read, a . com- plimentary address to Miss Hor- ton, Who has been a teacher in the vicinity and will live among them as a neighbor. The bride- elect received a miscellaneous kitchen shower, and made a fitt- g reply of appreciation. . CREWE Visitors with Mr. and Mrs. J Sherwood over the week - e were Mrs. Sherwood's mother, Mrs. Mary Wood -of Warren, her sister Mrs. Jack Bremner and Mr. Bremner of Sudbury, Mrs. W. Dodds • and Mr. and Mrs. P pe of London. Mrs. Crozier. -is .spending this week •with lier daughters in Lon- don: ` . . ''' .. . Mrs.- Bert Treleaven & Gwen- •dolyn visited on Sunday with - friend's :at Lucknow. • Mr. and Mrs. Lorne E mons & Muriel, Mr. and Mrs. R4v Girvin' and family of Nile, spent . last .i Sunday at. Strathroy.. . Mr. Bill French of . Hamilton spent a ;few days with. friends here and at Lucknow. " Mrs. Cecil Charnney of. Wawa - nosh was • a : visitor. with Mrs. Raymond Finnigan on Saturday. Mr: Wilfred ' Drennan spent Sunday at Lucknow. , Mr. and Mrs. Vernon J. Hun- ter : and family spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Robt. H. Tre- leaven'. On Thursday afternoon the members of the W. M. S. met at the home of Miss Agnes i.Vlalloch, Mrs. Crozier having charge. of the 'meeting which • featured a splendid temperance :programme. Mrs. B. Shackleton readthe scripture reading. Mrs 'lpat- rick-and Mrs.. B. 'Trele en gave te, leaflet, ,"Christian ,Ci izenship'' and Social Drinking Mrs. Rivett and Mrs. Cecil Blake gave read- ings. Mrs. Matt Shackleton.: told of th.e. vast amount of mor ey spent .each yearin beer and other alcoholic drinks, which if it had been sent to the missionaries would " have been used to ' help Christianize the heathens. Busi- ness.o-was discussed .a:n - Red --Cross= articles handed in incding sev- eral pairs of socks knit by Miss MVtalloch, which she told us made a total of '118 pairs of sock's she knit since the war started: Short prayers were given by Mrs: Cecil Blake, Mrs. Wilfred Drennanrand Mrs. Bert Treleaven, arid. ; Mrs .' Crozier prgnoainced the berledic-` tion. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Kilpatrick are ' spending a few days with Mr, and ' Mrs. S. J. Kilpatrick.. Mrs and Mrs. Jim Culbert of Lucknowvisited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Finnigan. ' Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sherwood, Shirley and Norma spent Sunday at Mr. and Mrs. Andy Gaunt's. WINGHAM RATEPAYia are to vote- on a $15,900 by-law nz as. connection with the proposed e- nd ection of a new hospital wing - ST: HELENS. Mrs. Rathwell' of Varna is a visitor with her,,. sister, • Mrs. R. J. Vioods. - Miss Grace . Weatherhead is spending the week at Port Elgin. Mr. and. Mrs. Robert McQuillin and little son, Donald George of Hamilton are spending . part of their vacation with Mr. Wm. and Miss :Beatrice McQuillin. Miss Norma Weatherhead is home from Stayner for the vaca- tion. Temperature, pulse and respir- ation were the subjects under discussion at the second meeting of the nursing course. Mrs. T. F. Wilson gave th'e lectureandprac- tise work was done under , the supervision of Mrs. Ward, Mrs. Stuart and Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Archie Aitchison• presided at , the meeting of the Women's Institute held in the community hall on Thursday afternoon. The -roll--cal-was.:r'esponded to h.y suggestions for summer salads: Friday, July 21st was the date set for the quilting. Margaret 'McPherson gave a 'reading "The game of traffic". The musical pro- gram was furnished by the school children and consisted of solos by Isabel 1`QIcP'herson .._. unn_.', o id,- Irlm.a Forster, a duet by Lbis Webb arid Kathleen Forster and a chorus' by the girls mentioned. and Ruth Webb. M. Rice gave an interesting report of the dis- trict annual meeting held at Dun- gannon. A vote was taken and it was decided that each one should bring lunch to each meeting as usual. A NATIVE OF Brant .Township, J. H. Brocklebank, C.C.F. mem- ber for Tisdale, has been' named minister of municipal; affairs 'for Saskatchewan. in fact, quite a serious shortage of botties and cartons. However, it can be overcome if custom ers return their.empties, • in the original cd nt nersy to ' .� promptly— .the ;clearest Brewer's Retail Store -=as these can . be used over and over again. In this way you can help us maintain steady supplies for you.