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April loth
8.30 P.M,
At Kingsbridge Hall
'FATHER 0:.• MARTIN DMECTS DRYSDALE DRAMATIC
CLUB, STAGING
, HERE, COMESCH4RirlE".
Specials between acts• supplied by the Bayfield Orchestra
r The Show
Dancing After
Admission -50c;
ALL ARE INVITED . .
• Mrs. 'Otto Popp.
URTH CONCESSION Mr. George Moore of Schumacher
pStIFIELD �fl
,Children -25c
' UNEA.NNO .
Mr, and`Mrs. Thomas Webster and
daught Ts .F>4t?•belle,.• 1& mad Miss
Isabelle
Errington:visated. Mrs.: Wm.
Campbell, at *Stratford Hospital on
Sunday, Mrs. ampbell lis an 'old
res dent of `West Wawanosh but in
recent • years has made- her" home
with her•niece at Mitehell.:Last week
she; had the misfortuge•_ to fall. and
fracture her hap: Being ffast the -80
ealth
mark, and not all the best of h
her: recovery is hardly expected. Her
friends in this'.dist rlct regret' W neer
of her eroubie. : • • , -
Mrs.' Otto Popp spent- a few days
last week with "her Mother; Mas:' R
A. McKenzie, Wingham ,'; '
Mr. el• Mrs Garden Kidd and
•children yin and Shiela of Isling-
, ton "visited :the -Patter's :pa/ents, Mr.
and Mrs J:''J Ryan. Mr: Kidd re=`
tinned to resume his. teaching duties'
the ' first cif ' the -week `and^ Mre. Kidd
and children are. reinaining longer.
' Miss Irina Wallace,: Blyth visited
her girl friend Miss Helen McGee
,last week.:
I' . Mr. and Mrs. Albert . Alton; Blake,
Bernadine and Elggi .Alton, Belfast,
visited Mr. arid Mrs. Herb Alton
last' Sunday... •
I Miss Mary McEachren, London,
spent 'Easter week with her aunt,
i is visiting his parents Mt. and Mrs.
Robert Moere. e- 3UtacK--en c—spent , lase-ana::_Mrs_•-roan-._M.eponald _ of •.. F ' , ° tfiel
`-.was—Cachet, : °and Mrs. Sand � ��`Palwman, Wies d,
NEWS. OF
The Boys
n Uniform
Sgt-' Clarence Greeff' of Camp Ba-
den is on two weeks furlough 'at
present.
. • • r • '• •
'lex McIntosh; oniy::.son. of Mi:
and Mrs. Whn: Melntpsh,. reported
at Kitchener last week for military
training.•
Wellington Harvey; 6.1D. of the
R.C,N.V.R., London, spent the ., eek -
end, with his • Mother,. Mrs. ,Lewis
aylor; •12th •Concession Ashfield.
Mr:' and hire. S. E. Phillips of Ash-
field received a. cable. last week from
their. Son, Jim; announcing his , safe
arrival overseas. His brother Archie,-
arrived , overseas. some time ago.
• . , • •
Moved to . Camp --Horden
Sine E. W. Plowman of the R.C.E.,
was recently transferred from Stan-
ley Barracks, Toronto to Camp. Bor=.
den, and within a few hours of his,
arrival ..was in the Military. Hospital
with an attack of measles. ,
ACKNOWL1,DGE-EDGE
.'few, days.,'Toronto last week. Kingsville and Mr n' visited a few .days last week with
McDonald of Stratford visited o
Dr. Arnold Cowan. of Toronto vis
ited recently with his father,. Mr.
Jo an, Sr:, -
• Dr.' Jack Treat of Chicago spent
• last week •'ttte guest of .his ' cousin,
Mr.. R: Bfssett. '
Mrs.; R. :J.' Hellen spent 'a day
lire "Clinton visiting with cousins the
Sunday at Mr. John S. McDonald°s.. her aunt,. Mrs. John • Moss.
Sun �' Mr• Bill Reid, , Lucknow, is em-'
ulr,, }Vlrs: Angus. Martin spent •
a day last week at the home of Mr, pliyed at . the ,Eedy ' Bakery.
John McLeod, ,Concession . 6. Mr• and ;Mrs• Roy; Rutledge ..and
Mrs• Jones and Miss Annie Mc- family spent Sunday visiting the
entertained a number of. former's sister,; Mrs. Ross Harrison,
friends from Toronto during • the Godericli:
Brasses 'Jaen. Easter. week:. Visitors with Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
We welcome Mi: and Mrs. Allan • Mr.eind Mrs:. Dan McKinnon spent L. Eedy Sunday were Mr. and Mrs:
■+ �mnie.coiletniality, Allan'. has. Sunda' with Mr. and Mrs: Peter W. F; Nickel and. son Douglas, Strat-
Gre_t, to ., . • 'I fee and Miss: Ferne Nickel, R.N.,
ta>tetr over the milling bysiness has
'Moffat. T t and Miss Coleen 'McKay
his father Mr. R A ran Russell Ml eon seen
end' in Toronto. Goderich and Mr: Irvine Eedy, Kit-
Toronto
it-
lilts taken •up residence in Mrs. 'Dan-
G t' and Mi t t .the ' week-
oron o s
Rises .house, .•
Mr. John Biers s radley's frare.
pleased to • see 'him 'out again after
an 'attack of the flu.
Mr.: Wilmer Robb • -is confined to
the -house with .the . flu.. '
•
BORN--on,
April 10th in •Kincar-
dine $ospital• to Mr.'and Mrs.'Dun
can Thoiborn, a daughter. -
chener
s... .
Mr WmMacDonald•
held a died
Cross quilting at her home last . MT-and--MTs--iia'rvey Alto
n -and-
ited Mr.
Thursday and two quilts ,were fin -
and
.Ronald and Lorne 'vis
ished. Two 'were' also quilted on and Mrs.. Robert McCabe, Renaiciil-
•
Friday -at the home of Mrs- D. Mc- ler' on Monday.
Mrs: Forbes of Edmonton is' -vis-
Kinnon. •
•c •.i, .it.. and Mrc R i Dunne:
The U.F W'O meeting will be, held. ' '�'� ""
this Thursday
House.
in the Sixth 'School
CHESLEY HOCHEY,TEAM, runner
p for' the Bruce League title, .was
guest speaker•xwas• I arvey Damn of
Walkerton, secretary'..of• the Bruce
League, and incidentally ext ex -Chea-
feyite of some 34 years ago.'
77 -Wi^n• sham spenit lestM reirea Bele .
home her. ' •
1 Beginning'. . next Sunday' the • ser-
vice in the 'Presbyterian • Church will
begin at eleven dcloek D:L•S•.time
Thea Presbyterian W:M:S, meets
this Wednesday at the. hoine of Mrs.
John .hMacltae.
u 'aysewi Fr�h.er n ar
Gilbert Hamilton..
Miss; Grace McKinnon. is practise
teaching at Kinloss School this week.
THURSDAY, APHIL 46th, 1942
PAY YOUR DEBT
TO YOUTH •
etre.,+,
The 'following article, written by
a local resident, is one of probably
a seriesS'of articles which will be
printed as we receive, although the
editor 'may not.. •necessarily agree
••Sy.�-••,p
malat
FOR S*LE-Def,ava1 separator, No,
with all the thoughts expressed by 12. 'Call at residence. G,eorge`Gseer,
the writer. t.ucknow. '
, The followingis an additional '.list
of boys •who ' have' acknowledged
receipt of a parcel of knitted 'com
forts from' the Red ,Cross; Harold
Stimson; A. W. Sinith; Edward:Burt;.
Allan Durnin; John . Carter, H:
Hackett, Gnr. N: G. Dean,,' Gnr. D.
A. Stimson, ' • . Gnr. J. A. Webster;
LAC., A. G. Ball, Lieut. R. W. An-
drew; ' Gnr. Clifford Roiilston'land
Pte. Harold Humphrey,
BEAD THE SENTINEL
THROUGH AN AIR RAID
' tri
for
- urrow c
U d 3 f
If it were .possible to „cull villages
FOR SALE se
and towns of, Canada as one culls Plow, riding plow; mowers & rakes.
the _non preducuig hens, in a flock !►lex Reavie..,
one would with a shock realize'.that EOR SALE -2 work horses, .quiet
most` of the. non-productive' com well broken. Frank Ritchie, ' R. 3,
,unities were those rich ' in tra- Lucknow, ' •
clition, who had , carried their past_
threugh•.liistory with them and were
now • confpLacently living in it on the
.deeds of ',their ancestors, and the
Majority .of • those non-productive
ones that had. no 'past -to speak ; of
are busy' making' one up. They
Wouldno '.doubt 'be amazed and
hurt that anyone could .consider
them . non -producers, parasitic' . vill-
ages: in stagnant little cgrners. How
would we . stand in Lucknow I' won: -
der? It is true we have some in=
dustry, , . wholesale produce buyers,
a good outlet -for. certain beasts and"
are fairly well placed regarding
markets for much 'farm produce;•
that within • reasonable .distance of
Our town we ,have farmeru with, nat-
ional fame. We .have in^'these a nat-
urally firm foundation for a pros-,
perous and progressive .community
Our council no doubfllikuss ways
and means of bringing to. Lucknow
desirable industries, ways of keep-
ing , .ourtown constantly in: front.
of Governments and .industrialists„
ways of increasing the revenuee of
farmers in the district and residents
in the, town, easier facilities for mar-
kets . and' 'in the town itself such
desirable features as will mate peo-
ple .wish to buy in Lucknow and,
farmers .of the district to sell there:
There are soiree things in which
we are sadly lacking -certain fund-
amental • decencies in which we, due
to the definite limits which. confine
FOR SALE—General Purpose -mare.
about 1250 lbs., 8 years old; also used
2nd hand tractors; and discs. ,,Jack ' •
Kilpatrick,.. Lucknow: ; ^1
.
WANTED.=•. -White Rekiri duck eggs •
P. STUART .: acKEHZIE
BARRISTER & .SOLICITOR
Walkerton; Ontario:
IN LUCKI4OW........:
Each Wednesday
Afternoon & EveningLr
At G. H SMITH'S OFFICE
'for ha'tchirlg; . also ctistore . batching ' •
done.'' Mrs. Wm.. Rutherford; R. 2,
Lueleriew, Phone 44-15.
FOR',RENT--100 acre grass fare on
gravel road'2 miles south of Luck- •
now; running water. George Alton,
R. 2, Lucknow, Phoria". Dungannon
70-9. • ' .
Air raids hold no terror for 'Sig-
nalinan Aylmer Aitchison, -so long
as he has the Lucknow Sentinel to..
occupy his 'attention. From .an. in-
teresting personal letter to his par-.
eiits, Mr. rand Mrs. Horace Aitchison .
written on March 18th; ,we quote ' out. Action.' lastamping 'them out
the following paragraph: is discussed ,and no doubt steps are
• • ' taken: from time to time but infall-
�., wnas ou _ , .= ey_r�;xLTL rT..:ai'aid1, '_s, aC
raid Warning'`yot• iit '• the- back door, to' flourish
10.30> a•m., I guess and I was just through
as 'much as ever. Now in connection
lying on my bunk •reading .•a Sen- ,with -°evils such as these" we are
Oriel, 'with tiiie radio going. The al -blind, for alas we. are deprivil g our
arm went 'so I looked around.• and .young folk . of what is literally 'the
'saw all 'the. English boys , running • only ' torn': of amusement available
for air raid shelters at top speed.
FOR SALE -Seed grain, best qual-
ity 'O.A.oC. 21. barley at 85e a 'bus.;.
and early Alaska .oats at' 70c a bus.
Rod MacDougall, yhene 26-28, Rip-
ley. .
CLEARING- AUCTION SALE, of,
.Tete.. . ,..
farm stoc kantdlmplereentsT tV"tlie:
residence of Mrs. James Valad,.Con•'I
8, ' Kinloss, on Friday, April 17th.
No Teserve; Matt Gaynor, Auc. .
AUCTION SALE of farm stock end
implements at- Lot 5, Con. 4, Kin-
loss. on Tuesday, April 21st v • See ;
bills for list and terms. , Matt Gay
nor,' A1ic.; Robert Moffat; Prop.
AUCTION SALE of farm stock -and
implements at Lot 2, Con•. '14, Ash-
field Township, 6' . miles . west of
Lucknow en Friday, April 17. Far n
willalso, be offered subject to re-
served bid. See bills. Donald B, Blue, •
F. T. ARMSTRONG
OPTOMETRIST
N LUCKNOW
EACH WEDNESDAY.
-' AFTERNOON '
1:30 'to 6 O'clock
AT WM..SCHMID'S STORE;
PEP,VIM, VIGOR, Subnormal?
Want normal pep, vim, vigor, vitality!
Try Ostrex Tonic' Tablets... Contains'
tonics, stimulants oyster. elements
aids to norma( pep after Mr,,
Get a special introductory else for only'
86¢. Try this aid to normal pep and vim
today. For sale at all good: drug stores.
us to our-townevire-deficient: -hese--mac;,; Jaines=MacDonald,—Prop.-------
become apparent 'during such • in
cidents as the current contreversary
on slot ' machines; bootlegging and
gambling. One does • not condone
these things. One tries to stamp them
•
HAL STADE, star goalie for the Student -I'm handling , this plane
S,eaforth Beavers left_• last_ week for pretty well, am, L not?
II duty in the. Navy. 1 Instructor—Yeab•. Just keep it up.
You can help the man in uniform, merely by saving
regularly. Because when you save you'increase the
flow of labour and material from civilian to war
production.
And when 'you 'lend accumulated savings to the country
in War Savings Certificates and war loans, you help
Canada supply to, our fighting men.the•arms and
equipment they need. Seize this patriotic opportunity!
Pull your full weight! Start saving NOW 1
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THE CHARTE=RED BANKS
OF CANADA •
,All stations on .the radio went off
to• many-, of , them:. Is ; it not our duty
the air too. To show how worried to• place . before them 'a .wealth of
I was while the raid was on. I was varied amusements, of healthy 're -
so interested in the' paper, that when, creations more desirable in their
the all clear sounded, I sortof carne mms? .Isit not our' social duty to
.
to and . thought it was another raid •
see'
coming. I would sooner die in ' my thatthat recreations'areavailable
will, make them: better citizens,
bed than any place •else I can think, more valued citizens tee the .cum-
Of. -Maybe when I've seen as much ,unity? And when these recreations
heavy bombing', as some of these ate found let them not be sectarian
English soldiers, I'll run for shelter and confined; run by this church or
too. No bombs were dropped on'otrr that church, this 'or that political
camp, but some 'were fairly .close group; . but broad, healthy organize -
to here, they tell me". ' - tions,youthful and , vital, " run by
1youth for youth.
Aylmer speaks highly of the Can-
adian War Services organizations
and the work, they are doing; . par-
ticularlyin providing entertainment
for the troeps. • •
APPRECIATES SMOKES
March 25-3=42, -
Newfoundland.
To - Clansmen Club, • ' - ,
Lucknow; Ontario. •
Dear Friends: '
I ' wish• to• thank the ' Clansmen
Club for the., cigarettes which I re-
ceived. Such gifts as these help
to make life; at this station, ..to far
away,•from home, a kit brighter.
I. Kindly col vey to all the members
my sincett thanks.
Lloyd Henderson.
RAPID CITY
A• class of,• 'five beginners started
to sch 4ol Monday. They were Rob-
erta McN'all, Audrey Stanley, Helen
Irwin, Jimmy . Lavis and Ronald Mc-
Quillin.
• Doaald England, has gone to Galt
,to work in a factory.' , '
Mr. Lloyd lgeNall of London, Miss
Dorothy and Mr. Willis Lockhart of,,
ilderton *ere .recent visitors with
Robert •McN`all, �,
Mr. Fred Anderson of Brantford
spent Sunday with. relative's around,
town.
Miss Mary Carter returned to her
school at Fergus after holidaying at
bet home here.
Mr. and Mrs, W Gi. Reed and Eun-
ice
un ice attended the Reed -Lawler eecep-
tion at Auburn Thursday.. ' '
'Mrs. Andy •Culbert and children
returned to their "home iii Windsot
1 ast week,
Miss Bertha .Stimson spent' last'
week' with Miss Ruth Borman� of
Walkerton,; ,
BARRED ' .ROCK ' and ' HYBRID •
.CHICKS --This -is not a' new hatch-
ery, we have been in b isiness' for
12 years. All our, breeders are, blood
tested and, males , are •from' ' O.B.S.
stock The , Hybrids are.. B.. R. hens
and New Hampshire cockerels. We
kepi:alll our i ehicks�, f or_ 4. days; You L
euve-dyer= papers ge:.tk1SS voen—an e a., e
chicks'' are feeding when you get.
them; ;We deliver 'chicks up till May
1st John. J.;Cuylery R. 4, Kincardine. •
der if young: men .wpuld miss a'
Two males west of Silver Lake. `meeting, to play at .putting 'nickels
Phone Ripley^76-20 collect. •
' in a machine that persistently "re- -
fuses to"show three: cherries through
:there are --commodities 'you . have to a glass window. Young men must. be
buy out of town and there are young the .guiding spirits in their own pc -
men ' well able ' to, sell them -to you cal activities; they know best what
but who,. through lack of capital ' they'.. want and if the • church has
could not even consider .goiT e. into.. done _its. duty ,what they-: organize
business for themselves There 1', will be •healthy and valuable.
your investmept•, safe and sure, Dpes , It doeen t take much money to
it have', to be ' printed in ei ..pretty .•start a town growing • '— a' pottery
prospectus; and presented to -you icy here,',a` little factory there; a 'few
a high powered, - well manicured ` more ; stores; '`ail the'vacant, farms
broker's' 'man. -You' would gamble working and prosperous and a pro -
a thousand 'with such a semi racing cess has . started which becomes al--
tont but could not find a hundred most automatic, infusing into youth •
for that .quiet, well mannered boy • a new `hope for • the future . and a
who live's next door; who is perhaps will to go out and get In conclusion
desperately anxious to make enough I; want to tell you old folks with •
money to marry and build a home. a little money salted down in that „
You are hardly worthy to live next old sock, if these young men ,are
door to.him. I. good enough to go out and fight in.
•
There are farms vacant ane land -your . wars to protect your property
fallow. 'there is a sure market for and your bank accounts against the
farm products. Yet these Ivies will marauding fingers .of' Jap and Ger-
roj into complete disuse,.buildings man, then. they are good enough 'to Ger-
wilt become ,worthless .through kick 'ask for—�iay demand. "from ytiu •help
of human care, ` land become un- in getting them • established in their,
wgrkable, but there are children in native town and in getting. them re -
England who can 'only eat one egg established ,when they rettft n, and
a` week, who don't often see wheat moreover• to 'do it not too, humbly,
or vegetables. While passing. through ,as. though they were receiving a •
the sideroads around •Lucknow 'i favor from you but to expect. it a
have counted gas many a's twenty- a return for a is but they have dote
eight 'abandoned farms which with ? for you, to demand it as ' a debt
a• little Gare • and labor could be
worked at a profit: These' are no
More than monuments to- your,
brutal lack of interest in your own
community. •
-
' You have in the town one of the
finest hockey arenas, in the county.
In the early winter a few •old bond-
holders get together and. commence
to talk hockey—not because 'they
wish' to liven. the deadly monotony
of the young folks or to.provide for'
the town a fine basis for social and
athletic recreation—but to get. the this week. with Mr. and Mrs. Will
building paid for. Hockey players ' Alton..
are approached and they hesitate. Mr, and Mrs. Dave 'Alton of Luck,
Shall they play this year or not? now' spent Monday with Mr, and •
There is not a great deal of enthus-. Mrs. Ehler Alton.
iaslri for hockey among. the players Misses Florence and Jean ."/c Br-
and this bas its.echoskin town.
Vis_ son of Wingham returned home afh
ualize another situation that 'might
' ter spending last rveek'•w%th Mr. and
be. Conjure up in your mind •a�. hock-
Mrss, Ralphg'Camero e
ey club composed iaf say two hun- , •
dreg people who elect live working Mr. and • Mrs. Archie - Nicholson
corzirnittees for skating,
,dent, earn- and children spent Sunday with 1111x.
ivals, coaching, skating, etc, Inhagint. and Mrs. 'Ben Brown of Port Al-
a club' embracing bait' the fans in Bert.
cern-
town or, if possible ALL the fans p • • Mr. and' Mrs: Bert Alton and
in town who. rrieet in the town hall, family visited with Mr. and Mrs.
hold dances, entertainments, ice E. 'Wilkins of Paisley on Sunday
carnivals, etc. A club run by the Mr. Leslie . Alton of Zion spent •
Years •ago, in the youth of many,
of our old and more prosperous cit-
izens, opportunities were plentiful.
If• a respectable young man with
fairly!good education and the will'
to succeed desired to start himself
in business he approached the,local'
bank with Perhaps the . reco*nu en-
dation• of" some prominent citizen
and not only was he . able' to get
finances, his -way' was smoothed and
older, more experienced business
men . lent- him their' shoulders -for
was .he not the backbone. 'of •their
future town?
I' wonder, how the young. man
would fare today. How' much mon-
ey could he count on from that
great servant of the public — the
bank,, how' crouch ,financial assist-
ance could he obtain from those
older men who had dangled, hint
on their knees, watched him grow,
noted perhaps 'chow steady, how
worthy he was, what an asset" he
Would be in later years as a business
man in their community.,
The youth of our town arr'surely
worth investing in. Surely .theycan
be trusted to become good ' mer-
chants; good farnters. If sonre°,of the
money 'thee has been throws into
gold and oil stocks, into patches of
ground a• thousand miles from Luck-•
now;.;given to Torontobrokers with-
oue; a.: murmur and, God help 'us,
given with a smile; had been in-
vested' in steady, , brilliant' young
local men, it .would have 'returned
profit to the investor ,and to the
community at• ' large. The fact is
that from youths' standpoint , the
town is a commercial cul -dg -sac. In-
stead of a , worthy grocery clerk
starting his own place of business
we' shall live to, see him, employing
his talents as manager of a chain
store andethen leave town to man -
THE•, • ..f.:
R
/� itf
DOES THE TRICK!
Pima. son' Bros.
owed them: And so, when you go
to church next Sunday pray that '
these - young ' Men will be -returned
to you and above' all pray that when
they are back among you God'.wili
not only open your hearts but your
purses too, ,
BELFAST ' -
.Mr. and Mrs,Charles Sherwood o#,.,
Detroit spent ' the Week -end with
Mrs. Sherwood and Earl.
Mrs. .•toy Maize, spent a few days
age a larger branch, in the city. 1'players themselves backed up by Sunday- with hit parents, Mr. and
There are empty stores in town, scores of enthusiastic fans. I won- Mrs. D. K. Alton.
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