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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1944-10-05, Page 1A .Pe e ei $2.00 A Year—In Advance; 50c Extra to U, _S. A L YCHNOW, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1944 TEN PAGES ,Sk WON MINK COAT IN PRIZE DRAW ' Mrs. Beatrice Yovan of Luck- now was the winner of a short mink coat, in the . •Aid to ,Russia "Linen° Shower" . draw held. in Toronto on Monday of last 'week. Mrs. Yovan received official not- ification of her good fortune' on Saturday, and while her name: was• recorded as "Govan", her . ticket stub,. E-11827, correspond= ed 'with the -lucky 'ticket. Mrs. Yovan was second' in ,the List of forty winners er prize was donated to the Shower campaign .b, mous donor, The mink co ing 'held. for Mrs. Yov Creed's fur storage vaults in onto. ntario Linen an anony t is be- at Tor - Mrs. Yovan has been a faithful Red Cross worker since the out- break of the war. She etoriated four: new towels to the local Lin- en Shower cornpaign and held - four tickets in the draw. Mrs. Yovan has been „quite unperturb- ed about her good .luck. During the cai'npaign there were 80,!;100; items contributed in the province: These have been shipped to Russia. `The. "Linen Shower'' a supplemented the cloth- ing and beddingcampaign which has been functioning for 'almost two years, and during which time over one acid a half million items of -clothing ,•have -been, -shipped to destitute Russians... • Incidentally, Mr. J. R. MeNab, chairman of the •local :Aid' To ! will be. increased, also. Russia Committee, states that David Cassels, of Toronto, is such contributions are still being again the organizer for the Coun- received here and. may be leit I ty of\ Bruce,- and'. Mr_ Winchester at. T. W. Smith's Garage. 1 and Mr. Flack are once more as- sisting him. The County. head - Presented With Chair ! quarters . have been, set up in Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Ramage, i Walkerton in .the same offices who were recently married in used in previous loans. These .of - Chicago: were presented with an1 fides are located over the Bank occasional chair by employees of 1 of Montreal., ' • ' the . Maple Leaf .Aircraft' lant ' Mr_ Campbell Grant of .Walk-, where Cuvler is eanployed. p ' erton has kindly consented to act as County chairman again, with ENGAGEMENTS I Mr. Ralph. J. ' Pequegnat of Port. Mr. and Mrs_" Roderick Ross, ;. Elgin, chairman for ' the factory Lochalsh. announce the engage- E eanvas4; Mr. Ellis i Millard of 17 MILES IS NOTHING FOR • HAS OVER -26 MLLES, OF. LOCAL MAN IN 77th FEAR TWINE IN ONE BALL Albert McQuoid believes in• walking to keep him fit, and al- though in . his 77th year, he's in "the pink" at present. Albert, who makes his ,home in Lucknow, set out " last week for the farm of Alf Errington; Con. 8 Colborne, and walked every step ,of the 17 miles in six hours 'flat. What's more Albert did 12 of the 17 miles on foot a couple pf days later on his return to the village. On Monday of this week, this spry gentleman started • out on Shanks' Mare on a 12 -mile walk to the' home of his daughter in Culross Township. It could Rap,- pen ap-pen that. Ab was thinking about Teeswater Fair, when be set out. Culrossward the first of the week. „ Severe. Heart Attack Dick McQuaig of townwas stricken with a severe heart at• - tack on. Monday and his condit= iun is regarded as quite serious. , BRUCE PLANS •FOR SEVENTH LO40,1 Plans. for Canada's Seventh Victory Loan campaign are get- ting under way in Bruce County. The campaign officially opens on October . 23rd. The Dominion ob- jective-. is.•,higher •..than _in..- the :..last . Victor`' Loan ' and accordingly the Cotinty of Bruce objective Ashfield Copped - Tug 0' 'War -- And. For 20 years, Mr. W. W. Hill, veteran' local grocer, °has made a Square Dance - Honors At Fall. Fair hobby of salvaging bits' of twine with the result that he now has a ball that weighs 19 pounds and is `42 inches in circumference. It is: estimated that the •contents,. -of A downpour of rain • all morn- ing last Wednesday, marred Lucknow's 79th annual Fall -Fair, but failed to wash it out. , In fact, the ball would '•extend more than' upwards to 2,000 people poured 26 'miles. into the park in the afternoon; in The giant ball was on display. at the Fall Fair, along with Mr. Hill's Victory Garden exhibit, which incidentally won' first prize. Mr. Hill winds these `bits of string daily,, tying each piece together .so neatly the 'ends can scarcely be detected. LOOKS LIKE SELL - OUT FOR FOLLIES. , ki spite of a threatening sky which finally drove the grandstand en- tertainment to cover in the arena in mid-afternoon. The paid at- tendance was close to 200 higher than last year's figure when the show was favored with sumrner- like weather. , Fair. Opened. By Dunbar The Fair' got unklerway with the school children's parade to the ' grounds headed by the 34- "Life3buoy Follies", brought to . piece Girls Bugle Band of the Lucknow by courtesy' of Lever WaLkerton High School. This Brothers; promises to be staged band furnished several selectibiis before a capacity house . in the Carnegie Hall on Friday. ' Reserved seats are onsale at McKim's an on Wednesday, dications were that there would not be a seat available .by sho'ti time Friday night. The Fair was officially opened by Hon, Georg This is a high, class variety Dunbar,Min- This of • Municipal Affairs in : the rnent of their daughter, Margaret Irene to William James Nelson, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nelson. Ashfield, the marriage to take place this month, Southampton, chairman of , gen- eraI sales; Mr. Wib McLeod 'of Kincardine, chairman of public- ity. and Mr. George Gear . of Walkerton has . taken on the chairmanship of agricultural DROVE ROUTE FORsales. Since the. last Victory Loan TWD D !CLI► D ES campaign. thea United Nations have made large strides forward! in the war, but "unfortunately. the war in Europe is still not won, and,. we still 'have a, long way to go' to bring about the final down- fall of Japan. • The forthcoming Victory Loan should be the most successful of any of the campaigns yet held. as crops have been ' good and mostly selling at high prices. and the tourist business has been the best for several seasons. The bank deposits throughout the -hole of, Canada 'are at a new. all-time "high". and it is felt that !this campaign should go with a E bang if all do their share. The slogan for the tevenrth Victory Loan will be "Invest In Victory For. the purposes of Victory Loans_ the Province of Ontario is divided into 62 Units. and i;r the last Loan Bruce County. ' which is one Unit. came fifth of , the 62. This was a most credit- , able showing. but there are ;till: four places . ahead of fifth. Let us this tirne show the rest of i Ontario and the Dominion of On Saturday Alex Havens con- cluded oncluded hiscontract as mail cour- ier on R.R.- 7. Luenow, which he • has held for 21 years. His suc- cessor. who took over his new duties on Monday. is Earl Cran- sten. 1 , Alex. or "Sandy". as he -is best known tool; over.No. 7 from. Mil- ton Naylor. Richard McQuillin :I.reccded Mr. Naylor. It is some thirty years since rural mail ser- vice er-cice was established on this route and we understand in that time there were only these three con- tractors held the job. In the 21 years that Sandy has driven the route he has covered approximately 200.000 miles. His! route was originally 28 miles in I :ength. but for the .past few years. 1 spur lines have increased it to f 35 r, miles.. The route is covered i :mire than 300 days in the year. ,.For some time Mrs. Havens has been droving the route while the; roads were fit for a car. The Havens family .has given first-rate rural mail service. and • personally- we during the afternoon. The Luck - now Pipe Band . was also 'heard latero• ie 'program. More. than 200 pupr '":took part in the parade and' made a colorful spectacle. show, staged by a galaxy of star performers. Lucknow merchants Provincial Government. Nil-. and business firms have borne Dunbar was introduced by Reeve J. W, Joynt, who on behalf of the cost of .advertising,; and en g ,tile proceeds of ,the show will thegathering expressed sym go' to the Lucknow and Vicinity. pathy to Mr. Jahn •Farrish; Pres- ident of the Fair Boar d, who had Branch' of the Canadian Red . Cross: been sadly bereaved a few. days Before. Cll<IN BROTHERS .DAVE Mr. Dunbar pointed out that FOR TORONTO. SATVRDAV the, 'agricultural fair was a real rrtiral institution. He said that , Bill, Albert and George Chin • BIuce and 'Huron need make no are scheduled to Ieave for Tele apology in field crop and Iive- onto on Saturday, where to e}• stock :production . and stated that check-up .two counties have a great - will undergo a medical check -a before accompanying' the Toron`.oer- combined ' production in. these. Maple Leafs to their hockey camp than any other two of the' at Owen Sound, where.teal.^i:ig 54 counties of the province. Mr. is due to get underway on Ott- Dunbar, who Isla teacher by pro - ober 10th_ .' + .. `= s=i.an, claimed that we would It ;is expected it will be the Ltar less 4f juvenile delinquency end of the month before this trio in the big centres, if the children of brothers returns to town. and received such leadership as was in all likelihood they will accom- evidenced by the teachers who pans the Leafs on the pre -season stood before him in charge of exhibition. tilts, as well as make their respective schools • an appearance in the Blue ' and - Mr. John Hanna, Provincial White benefit game in The Gar- 'member for Huron -Bruce spoke dens before the schedule opens. briefly. He paid a tribute to the enthusiasm and energy of Mr. NEW WARM Undergarments Jo.r Farrish, and to Mr. Dunbar. "as Men and Boys. The Store with the Stock. The MARKET STORE. SCHOLARSHIP TO. LOCAL STUDENT One cf' two scholarships open to .Bruce. County. High School students has been • won by Allan. M cKim. son of •Mr. and Mrs. A. E, ILIcKim. This is a new Dorr- inion-Provincial scholarship. 'val- ued at 5.00 on. 'University course. one who is trying, to make this a better province in which to live': Master of ceremonies for the efternpon '' was . M. L. "Tory" Gregg who capably presided at the "mike". Miss McMillans School Won Bera;;e the Rural School chorus ,Ind yell competition began, the Lucknow Public S pool. under the direction, of Prof ssor Ander- ..n. sang •'O Cr ada". Rural srboels. competing were St. .Hel- LTi2fci tunatelg' Allan wi ° I ant Ens, Lochalsh. Zion. 1,Iurray's. be able to take advantage of the tio. i1 Huron Tw.p. and Belfast scho'.argk-iu. and which is or`v The respective teachers of these good' for the current term. Allan schools arge Misses.Beatrice �.. e. Mc� plans to take a course in science. Q� _I.ir?. G:'act' �I-cK:nnon, Ada or methe*naticS. but •has not' TJ ,. j'Y t bstet. Jean McMillan. •Anna per School Algchra to his crew .. = `-.:rOoial . rend! Elva T�_. an it•v Tuck -Sisters -Perform .. .._r The Four- Tuck, Sisters, Mary, 16; Doris, 12; Jeanette, 10 and Marilyn, 4 gave'an interesting performance ' of, singing; dancing, and acrobatic numbers. Their father provided the a"ccompani- ment:' ,, Program Highlights Highlights of the • afternoon were the tug o' war' and the square dance contests; both of which were held under cover, as was much of the programa Ash- field copped the honors in both these contests. , Just two teams, Ashfield..and Kinloss, competed in the tug o' war, and the much lighter Kin- loss squad put ' up • a valiant struggle, and were- by no means a walk -away. A tWo-minute limit was set, and in less than 1?4, min- utes the . Ashfield stalwarts man= aged, in a see -saw tussle, to draw. the Kinlossites three feet. A sud- den -death draw decided -the issue and the John Hanna trophy was presented by Reeve J. W. Joynt to .'Albert McGee; captain . of the Ashfield nine. They also received neck. ties donated by Cumming they Clothier,. • _,Th.e.....teams . .were..:.ass_.. follows:' Ashfield -Albert MacGee, Capt.;' Bert Alton. Matt MacDonald, Howard Robb, Allan Grant, Don- ald; Simpson, Wilfred Farrish, Lorne Farrish, Peter' Cook and Bill Berry. Kinloss --Capt., Geo. Lockhart; Pete Stan, Harvey Houston. Harold Percy, H. Cas- ` kanette, George `Tiffin, John Mc- Kinnon, Emmerson Irwin, Bob Reed, Dave Carruthers. Allister Hughes was in charge of the draw. 1 Four Sets In Da#ice The four townships, Ashfield, Huron, Kinloss 'and West 'Wawa- -nosh competed in the square' dance contest. with,' the. sets placed in the above order by .the • judges. The Ashfield and Huron sets were not greatly changed from a year ago. The H.inloss' set featured a few old-timers, who are still mighty mart on them feet and the Wawanosh set was composed • of .pupils of the St. Helen's School. 'Sets. were as fol- lows: Ashfield—Gordon Drennan, Mrs. F. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Stan Drennan. Jim Little. Mrs. ,. Joe McIntyre_ Mr. and Mrs. Elwood" Drennan.: caller. Dune McIntyre; fiddler. Kenny •MacLenhan; pian ist.. Miss Edna Boyle. Huron -- Herb Farrell:Catherine Catherine •Farrell, Mr. and Mrs. John Emmerton, Mr. and Mrs, Albert Campbell. M:. and Mrs. Hugh :Cameron; caber. Chester Ernmerton: fid- •dier, Walter Collins: pianist., Ed- na Boyle. Kinloss—Mr. and Mrs. John Johnston. John McLeod, Ted Collyer. •Herb Graham, Mrs. Wes Thompson. Tom Me- Far,an, Mrs.. Roy Finlayson: call- er. George . Lockhart: fiddler, Mark Johnston: pianist., Edna Boyle. • West • Wawanosh—Jack s it was not ,':rig.i t here clueing 'oboe 1::Ira P. +:acnonai; IS ,:lc.,� Aitchison. K a t �I,1 e e n Forster, the oat term. T"r.. pr,.hibit_ �: -1 Sitr:Icbr,- in -4`re Ina 'on ;,- - Lorne Forster. Irina Forster. Bil- from tak:ng either of 'these L ni I'sity c'ur_cs. Alla-! is cyan- , Gifting his Upper Soho; work tleR term. while assit:n fatr • in the drugstore. • Last term Lucltno t{ High School pupils won three f ao 1 scho Is. :. :.'t re ``.S No. n: ss t . U'S S. _�=isl'f+e Ici and E+'- t 'AL ?V. istl ll3c'cost�; ens: ard Ni 11 H'.:rnn. In spite of:, attractive primes have, never heard Canada that the citizens of they scholarships open to Bruce Couri there were only two contcstani;. a complaint from any boxholder County of Bruce are second to Iv Webb, Joan . i orstet• I - an Mc- Quillin., Isabel McPherson: fid- dler. Mark Johnston: pianist. Ed - ••a Boyle. Sports Program Relay race, --1st, Kinloss. Har- vey riouston, Leonard McInnes, Fraser McKinnon, Everett Lane; ty pupils: and these successes re- t in, the public speaking conte: t 2nd. Huron Twp:. Douglas Mac- -- irk is a record none in their support of the 'po.��s fleet much credit on the studenns " Gwendolyn 'I`rel - firs' Donald,. Donald Gillies, Calvin 'Treleaven �v. s , - ntide route w ri wrilcn speaks lot- �i�cii.