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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1964-05-20, Page 12Phi* TINSMAN THBR LUCKNOW SNNTINEL, LUCKNOW, •ONTARIO A ti • t `.k .P� • :tom Butchering Mondays --- Hoist, $2.00' in. by 400 pm. • Cutting and Wrapping,. .2e pound .A CATTLE,. CALVES and LAMBS EVERY: DAY, EXCEPT.: SATURDAY" We Do Curing and Smoking . . Beef, Pork 'andLamb. • Sold .Whole,' Half or Quarter .' ..For .Better Service, ' Prices,Call: Ripley 100 .And Lovrer, Chas;. Hoosnss DuringNeither � Ghosts Oar Pixies 'Another World' Trip To .English Moor s Dear Friends -- rock plants in bloom between the Now what to tellyou this week? • stones. The . largest; and most im- portant portant building is the church. It Two •old. English songs tell rather Iekley is sometimes, called - The Caths- wierd moorland stories 'Moor in° Yorkshire and ,Dartmoor. dral of the Moors. It is very large 'Devon. This week : we -ventured and i has an imposing . tower that m, could be seen for miles in a flat • a short distance into Dartmoor, - country. Later on I saw it from to the village of Widdicombe -in a lookout and when I stepped the -Moor., .the scene of.. Widdi- back . four paces, it , was hidden. combe Fair which . Uncle . Tom d • several friends left, , ` Like all the old West. Country Col7ley one ' churches, it has. beautiful carving, riding , horse and: were .never.. ., seen againThe ghost • of the horse .chiefly . wood. • The old building: r stint Other ' are -full of death watch beetles, is seen on the oo the tin larvae of which bore in=. unusual . creatures haunting the. y in - moor are Dartmoor pixies. We to the, wood , until : it ' is riddled saw n i er ghosts or ixies. with minute tunnels' and; weaken enth g os P ed' and destroyed.. The lovely choir Dartmoor is : very highland near . t ` centre of Devon ;.. screen was still there, with.in- he and is the source , of man' Devon rivers. distinct . scriptural paintings but y was ready to fall due. to the- Our � drive from. Wear � Farm. was ages of the beetles: The old roof rav- beautiful and very interesting. As g. usual the road was .'narrow, wind -was gone ; and a . new . uu nn�u'nnterest ing and hilly but every turn and 'ing one in , its: '.place. •,There.. were ..; the usual pillars supporting the every hilt' brought, .., a new.pros-;roof with a .verse of � scripture pect, or arf old one seen from a different angle or a different lev- painted 'at the • tap ; of each el. We drove probably twelve miles One. of the most unusual things from the farm, but I can assure about. the church is a long poem, you ;" it took " a lot longer than` to printed. in the old spelling in drive from Lucknow to Wingham, the porch telling of a miraculous and there was : - a . fantastic change 'ball of fire that entered the church in the countryside. Even the col -: "in. 1638,.' October 21st" .during."a ti'Y ours changed in the soil, and, rock service. One': person was killed and — red at the farm- and grey on several burned, money in: peoples the moor. As we climbed ' part pockets was . ` 'melted but their way,... there were forested . bits, clothes : not burned. It ; has become some if it reforested. Then higher a legend and I was told that a up, the trees changed to gorse man had a similar - experience in its lovely yellow bloom, ' and with a ball of fire melting :his, last year's "bracken, . a dull tan. money onlya few years ago! The :. new bracken is just. begin- Beside the church 'is the ' Church ning to grow. As we went higher House, the property now of ...the still we saw several : tors Hay- National Trust. It was originally • tor and Houndtor, I , remember. the • brew ' house for . making the As far. as ,I .can make . out, a ; tor Vicar's ale and is now used . for is,the fairly sharp-pocky—peakn.-of-_Sunday---School _and ;other_..activ-. •• some of the hills. The hillsides be- ities. Just across from it is an - low the rocks, are covered with other old building :now., in . private coarse, stony . soil in places and hands and badly commercialized. rich fine soil in .others. That was Of course the whole of Widdi- a curious sight ' one side of combe is -a tourist . attraction. the valley • had beautifully culti There were :. several tour buses vated/ fields and farm buldings,, there when we .. arrived, from and . the slope across a tiny many miles away. • stream would be boulder strewn On the way back we stopped waste land. It seemed to be the in a 'Lay by' for :lunch. A lay result of exposure to the . sunshine, by . is a widening of . the road ' for,. :.. There were frequent warnings .stoppingfor one purpose 'Or an - to, watch for animals on unfenced other. This was .: an unusually moorland. The animals were large one . on a hill top 'and was sheep, cattle and ponies. There really there so one could stop and were whitefaced Dartmoor and look around. There it was, one. Scottish sheep; both hardy breeds and .able' ''to withstand the rigours Radiosoncle found On Wawanosh Farm Jim Errington of the 6th con cession of. West. Wawanosh found -a radiosonde on his farm recent- ly. The radiosonde, . sent up by the 'U.S.A. weather bureau ' .by means of a balloon, measures. temperature,' pressure and hum idity; When the, large balloon reaches a certain. altitude it breaks and the- weather recording equipment floats, to ' earth by means - of a parachute. . Instructions, on the . radiosonde say to mail back to the U.S. wea- ther department if found in the U.S but' it does not say what. to do if found out of the country; The=findincof this, type. of equip- ment in the area is not unusual. of . winters out on • the ' moors: The Scottish sheep had : long curly horns, coloured red and blue: I ' believe. that is, an identification like brands on the cattle in Wes- tern . Canada. There were Devon and Galloway. cattle. The Gallo- ways are a Scottish breed also' and have very long shaggy coats'. Then .there were the delightful 'Dartmoor ponies. They were every colour,' and --pintos Although... class= ed , as wild and the property of ' ." the crown, they are : quite • tame and can be quite a nuisance if one ` stops to • see the sights: Well, we drove on and ' on, up and down and around Until we sometimes wondered if . we were going to meet ourselves around the next bend. The last. hill was a :1.in' 6, down. The catch was, it was a.1, in 6, 'up, coming back! And then we were in, Widdicombe. Widdicombe is a quaint grey village in its •own tiny valley. In' fact combe or eooinbe ' means a valley:. The buildings are . all made of the stones found on the, hill- Sides and many roofs are thin slabs; of the same stone. They are very old and are covered with. moss 'and lichen and tiny small.' bit of .Dartmoor, grim, lone - OBITUARY JOSEPH . A. LEDDY. Joseph Alphonse- teddy, 86, of London, . died Saturday . in Victoria Hospital, London. He was formerly of . St. Augustine, and: had been a farmer in .. West Wawanosh Town- ship. He had. lived in: London about four : years. Surviving are his wife, the'for- mer Charlotte Whelean;, one daugh- ter, Miss Clara 'Leddy, Toronto; three ; sons, . Clifford and Gordon. both of Oshawa, and' Earl of Tor.-, onto; one.. brother • Augustine; of St. Albert, Alta., and two sisters, Mrs. Joseph (Frances) Flynn, and Miss Mabel Leddy, both of Toronto. The body, rested' at the Stiles funeral home Goderich, where family prayers were said at .8 p.m. Monday. Requiem high mass was celebrated Tuesday-- at 10 a.m. at St. Augustine - Roman - Catholic Church, with burial in the church cemetery. WEDNESDAY;, MA11' MONUMENTS For sound counsel and a fair price on a: Monument correctly designed from quality material, rely cry; SKELTON MEMORIALS Pat O'Hagan, Prop. Established Over Sixty Years Phone 8814234 Ontario Walkerton"- •• .• . -• • n •. • poRuteed Kinloss. M �� Unc.han9 f County : Rate .Shows* One Mill • Increase • -� dental (K(NLOS$ COUNCIL 'MINUTES.) Dr;. D. G. Bagmarth,. Kinloss Council. met Mayi 14th care, $14.00; Walter Breckles, —� Murray, sprayer repairs, • $145.27. , P. A: 1964 with Reeve—Pr—AT--Murray . lytay; part_ salary,. x.00; Wal_ presiding and Councillors Ackert, lace ' Conn,' pmPt salary, $50 00, ftrns, Bushell ' and ,,Conn ores' Jack. Ackert, 'part salary, Edbert Bushell, part salary, $50 - 00; Wm. Evans, part salary;; $50.- 00; Fraser McKinnon, part sal; ary, •$250.00. Highways — Dick , McQuillin,. grader operator, : $235.16; Ed Thompson; x$3.00; Allister Hughes, $81.25; • unemployment ins., era - player and employee's share, 24; Thos.:Moffat, use of land ' for stump disposal, $50.00; . Lucknow Sentinel, adv: and office supplies, $13.01; Wingham . Advance . Times, tenders ' for .truck, $2.25; Daily Commercial News, tenders for gravel, $12.30; Canadian. Tire Cor- poration, sockets and clippers, $17.23; : Bruce MacMillan, snow- plowing, : $10.00; Don Gillespie, gravel patching, $45.50;; Provincial Treasurer, engineering, $244.51; W. ' Breckles, repairs, $25.38. G. H. Wall, clerk. .: . 33 4.H . CLUBS HAVE ORGANIZED IN BRUCE All the 4-H Clubs in Bruce: County. have now been organized for the 1964 season. - There will be approximately ":510 members in the 33 clubs. This is an increase. of thirty members over last year, but the same num- ber of umber..of clubs, although some clubs are new ones while others have been . disbanded. • The Summer Assistant for this year is •Mr; Bill 1Vlegens of . St. Marys. Bill has completed third year Animal Husbandry at the OAC. Bill will be attempting to, visit all the club members ` twice during -the -summer along with the club leaders as well as attending quite : a few club meetings. ly, isolated, ' wierd, gloomy, dreary. and desolate under a cloudy sky, but ;fascinating, tand home ;'to those ` wholive there. We • loved- our trip to ' Widdi- combe. It was a trip to another world just one of so many. very different worlds in this small island. ' I wish you had seen - .it° with us. Yours sincerely, The Country.. Mouse. Timber Vale Park ;. Lyme Regis, ' Dorset, May 10, Tho following - motions were passed and • accounts' authorized paid. That. the minutes of, our last regular meeting and • the special.. meetings of April 8th and 18th; be approved as read. That we pay a grant of $15.00 to Bruce County Soil and Crop, Improvement Association. That we pay , ;Gordon Wall + and Wm. Scott $10.00 each ' for as- sessors .convention : at Listowel and. Gordon Wall $7.00 mileage. • That we insure our .Twp. truck with Frank Cowan.. That we prepare By-law No. 4 to set the rates. ; to raise the nec- essary money for . Township, Coun- ty and . school : purposes. By-law prepared and passed. Township rate 17.5 mills fr farmand res- .: idential, 20 mills for Commercial, 14.3 • mills for County rate, .5 mills.: for _:.federation . of agricul- ture and school rates: according to their various requisitions. That the clerk notify the par- ties along the Kinloss, Greenock boundarysouth ::of No..9 'highway intend we to open the road leading toward Silver Lake for 5.12 feet. That w'e have :: the clerk' notify the owners on the Second Conces- sion Drain • Report and hold the reading of such on May 19th at 8:30 p.m. That the clerk notify the Green- ock ` Twp. Council of ourinten- tions to open the Kinloss, Green- ock boundary south of No.9 High- way. That we ' adjourn to meet in regular session June lst or at the call •of the reeve. ' •" General Accounts Mrs. Mansfield, caretaking and supplies,' $11.50; Bruce County Soil and Crop Improvement Assoc., $15.00; Lucknow • Sentinel, supplies, $22.87; 'Village of Ripley, fire call, $125.00; Carruthers Nursing Home; Indigent. care, $86.25; Chapman's Store, welfare,' $107.75; Callans Shoe Store, Welfare? $25.35; Hayes Family Clothing, welfare; $3.95; Harold Stanley, warble' fly spray- ing, part . salary, $400.00; G. H. Wall, part salary, mileage and. convention expense, $87,00;' Wm. Scott, convention expenses, $10.00; Donations of over $5,000 have been received for the ` Teeswater artificial ice fund. • . • •The annual spring tea :.spun cored ,by the Ladies Auxiliary of Brucelea Haven was highly suc- cessful and attended 'byover four hundred persons. ': LOTTA LOVELINEsAs. s Sd OUR BEAUTY MOW MUST BE KEPT IN PLACE, A FACT, ALL GIRLS JUST HAVE TO FACE GLA DYS BEAUTY SALON C11111413 IL LNJC INI Cao VV aNT- Lue now iStrjC eocxNow ...; Co -opera $'thiNE528,2125 ' P ive Ins.