The Lucknow Sentinel, 1964-09-02, Page 3rrielatahl' INIIMPOtt'
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LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY; SEPT., 20, 190
Single „Coin!. 10c. • -112, pages_ •
Accept Offer' To
Purchase Shed
• At a congregational meeting of
,the Lucknow Presbyterian Church.
on Monday evening, it was un-
• animously decided to accept the
offer of the Village of •Lucknow
• to puretiase the • Presbyterian
• Qhurch shed for $4,500.
The Board of Management and
Session had previously approved
the offer to purchase, but authority
to sell property rests with the con-
gregation. There was a smalll
attendance at Monday's meeting
indicating general approval of the
sale, .
Final approval mast be received
from Presbytery which meets on
September 8th. ' • •
The. change of •ownership is
scheduled for November.
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flew To. Calgary
. With Young 'Son •
Jack Ititehie of Zion, accom-
panied by his 3 -year-old son, Ken-
neth, flew' from Toronto to Calgary
on Tuesday for a visit with relat-
ives there:
Jack who says "I've never had
a holiday or a plane ride in my
life", decided to combine the two
together. Jack.lost his wife Agnes
, at the time of Kenneth's birth and
Grandma Hawkwood and her fam-
ily will no doubt be pleased to see
• . the youngster, most of them for
the first time.
MARKS. 90i11 • BI.RTHDAY
Iffork. To .B.0.-...Done•Neit.Yekr
MRS. GEORGE ANDREW
Mrs, , George Andrew , observed
her 90th birthday on Saturday,
August 22nd. A lifelong and beloved
resident of this community, Mrs.
Andrew was showered with ex-
pressions of congratulations and
best wishes. .
Her appreciation is expressed
in a card of thanks in this issue
which she wrote, herself.
Long associated with the United
Church Sunday School, her daugh-
ter, Miss Flora Andrew, placed
the equivalent of 90 pennies in
the birthday jar at Sunday school
on Sunday morning.
Her granddaughter, Miss Louise
Andrew, spoke to the Sunday
School on her experiences in
church caravaning a few summers
ago.
..Foron..Barn .At St. Augustine ',,Narrowly
Escapetl. Being •Razed By Fire Thursday.
A. gangway fire while threshing course and scattered burning bales
was in progress at the farm ,of in the field.• . • .
Gordon .Foran, north of St. Augus- Gordon had no timeto attempt
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tine, on Thursday, seriously threat.; to unhook . the tractor, as he had
, • ened the farmbuildings; but was to get back to the gangway to
extinguished within five ' feetof help the others . battle the fire.
the sstraw-strewn barn floor, With the assistance of •a "bucket
/1. Threshing of baled oats was in brigade" which included . Mrs.
progress at the.. Foran farm that Foran and her sister, Kathleen
. day one of the rare occasions : Mcllhargey of .London, who was
that the weatherman had.. co- visiting 'at the Foran home; the
• operated for such Work,••• qUintette succeeded .in beating out
Some of the "gang" were. having . the fireon the- gangway which
• supper, as Gordon, his brother John had spread almost to the threshold
and John's son, Con, returned , to •of the barn floor. • ,
the barn , to resume operations. , The Lucknow Fire Department
•. 'A bale elevator was in use- to responded to the alarm, which
carry the bales from the wagon on was more than a , 12 -mile run, and
the gangway,' to the separator. in watered down the .burning bales
the barn. ,
The elevator is powered by a
'gasoline' engine, which set fire to
• the straw at the base of • the
elevator and in a . twinkling the burned off where it was in contact
.. fire had spread to the wagon load
of bales. . . • . •
Gordon managed to hook - the
tractor to the . wagon and hauled
, • it through the gap in the barnyard
• fence to . an adjoining pasture,
. field. With no one"on the, tongue"
• of the wagon it weaved an erratic
A; traffic bottleneck • and
hazard .on ' the Stauffer Street
• hill approaching Campbell St.,
. is to be eliminated next year.
Reeve G. .W. Joynt had
• County and Department of.
• Highways • officials inspect the
area a few weeks ago and the
project has since been approv-
The program provides for
• cutting the hill .between Wheel-
er and. Campbell Streets on the
• west side of Stauffer. This is
the easterly embankment of
• "Standpipe 'Hill"?' The excava-
tion work requires the moving
of the residence of Alex (San-
dy) Hackett which, sits atop
• the hill.. It •was for many *years
the residence of Mr and •Mrs.
. Horace Aitchisen, •until they
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St.
• moved to Wingham.
• After the hill is excavated
it will be sodded: Stauffer St.,
• coming in from the north is a
Bruce County xnaintained.'road
as is Ross street to the south-
• erly limits. The County 'assu-
enes the cost of this partof
the work and is subsidized 50%
• by, the Department of High-
• ways • •
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The house is tobe moved to
• another lot approved /by the
, Owner..
The •cost of • moving •the
house, the . foundation on the
• new location,, utility' connect-
ions and sidewalk and such in-
• cidentials • connected with the
relocation, , is Shared three
ways. The Department of High -
Ways ,pays 50% 'of this cost.
The balance is divided 25 per-
• cent to. the County and 25 per-
cent by the Village of Luck-
• now. . Curb and gutter . work is
done by the Village with a 50
• percent D.H.O. subsidy.
• The direct cost of the whole
undertaking to the Village of
Lucknow is estimated at be- '
tween $300.00 and $400.00.
This work will result in the
,widening aad straightening of
the Stauffer Street hill as. it
makes a dead end entrance
onto the main street. The road .
is narrow and visibility ob-
sewed at this point, where
winter snowplowing creates-,
quite a problem for the County
• crew. '
Seeks. Information
About ,Ancestors%
Don Straughan of this comm
unity came across the following
item in a trade publication the
other day and passed it On to
The Sentinel in the hope that
someone in this vicinity can pro-
vide the information wanted.
• The item reads as follows:, .
"Mrs, Arnold Dahlman, , 607
Second Street 'South, Wahpeton,
North Elitikota, seeks information
about her great -great grandparl
ents, Peter and Christine (Mc-
Intosh) McKinnon, who came
from Scotland about 1853 and sett-
led in Lucknow, Ontario; also,
bout her great grandparents, John
and Isabell, (McKinnon) Mc12loug
iall, " born in Scotland, who also
settled in Lucknow. ,Later they
homesteaded near Wahpeton,
N. D., 'in 1880. 'Would especially
like to hear from any descend-
ants of those families in Ontario".
Mr. Straughan is CNR -section
foreman at Lucknow and with. his
family resides on the Greer farm
east of Lucknow. Mrs. Straughan's
mother is the former Eva Gardner
of Zion.,
Lucknovvites VVere.
scattered about the field.
The . wagon was badly burned;
and the tractor suffered extensive,. '
fire damage with the front tires
,with the' wagon: • •
.• Had the fire reached the barn
floor, there is little doubt but that
the entire spread of buildings
would have "gone up."•A hen house
and a drive shed sit near the barn
with the house comparatively close
to the buildings. .
Michigan Re$idonf. Places 'Giove Marker .d,
At.•langside In Memory Of Gentleman •
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• Who Befriended Him 45 Years Ago •
Nathaniel Bradely, who was Manitoba, but who had a heart of
at one time worth a quarter of a gold and Who he likened to Ward
million dollars, but died penniless. Bond, of the' Wagon Train -TV
has had a marker placed to his serial. , - •
memory in Tiffin's Cemetery by Mr. Bradley was raised in this,
a gentleman he befriended in district before ine lure of the' West
Manitoba 45 years ago. took him to Manitoba, where he
He is William L. Simmons of made a fortune in buying and sell-
815Oakridge St. Royal Oak, Mich; itig horses, but lostit alI in the
who with his sister, motored to depression days. He could not read
Bruce County last week and clim- .or . write, ether than scrawl his
axed ,his visit by. placing 'a head- name and Mr. Simmons prizes a
stone on Mr. Bradley's unmarked specimen of his signature on a note
grave ,in Langside Cemetery. Mr. he baked. He never drank,
Simmons said "he felt good" in Smoked or gambled.
having paid this tribute to his • Bill Pennell •A Nephew
old friend — a Man whose word • WM. Pennell o
f the Tiverton
was his bond, a rough cast rancher district and formely• of Kiniough,.
and farmer whorn he -first' met in (Continued on . page 11),
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hosed By Police.
We had a few. anxious mo-
ments en route to the Canadian
Weekly Newspaper Association con-
vention in Toronto last week when
we were chased and waved over,.
by a policeman on the road bet-
ween Teviotdale and Guelph.'
• Our first thought was that We
might have been exceeding, the
speed limit a bit, but were not
actually sure how fast we had been
driving. Our first glance at the
black and white vehicle was when
it • tooted, and pulled along side• .
We were greeted by a policeman
.with a smile "a mile wide". which
would seem out of style if he meant
business. •
We iminediately recognized Con-
stable Elmer MaeKenzie of Mount
Forest detachment and formerly
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of Lucknow. After a roadside chat,
we went on our way with no de-
merits Elmer had net us a few
miles back and had turned 'around
and chased Me' catching , up hear
Alma which is - the borderline •of
his territory in that direction. • .,
We are still riot sure whether
Eliner was chasing in. the, line of
ditty, or whether he was More in-
terested in saying Hi to someone
from back, home. We prefer to
think of the latter as being the
case. Seems he had quite a job
catching us • too!
• • FALL.FAIR PRIZE LISTS •
ARE NOW AVAILABLE
Lucknow Fall , Fair prize
lists were. completed on Satur-
day, and were going out to mem-
bers iznmediately.
Anyone wishing a list may
pick one up at The Sentinel
Office or get one from the sec-
retary, „Mrs. Fred McQuillin.• ,
Dates of the fair this year are
changed to Friday and Saturday,
September 18 and 19. ,
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Park gill Clearecl,
To Be Seeded
The Caledonian Park Hill which
at one time, before the advent
of . bleacher seating, was a nat-
ural grandStand, is receiving
Batk From b VVeeks
Overseas Trip /
A belated news'story which has
"come to our ears" is an overseas
trip which, Mr. and Mrs. George
Kennedy took this summer. •
Leaving here on July 1st they
'sailed the next day on the EM-.
press of Canada from Montreal,
and docked 'at Liverpool as the
first leg of their six weeks tour
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of the British Isles and the Con-
tinent.•
They visited. England; Scotland,. •
Holland, Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, Italy, Monaco, France
and Ireland, from where they flew
from Shannon airport on the return
trip, arriying home on August.15th.
some landscape treatment. S II N
The poplar?' which crested* the
top of the amphitheatre had all I
died and, the hill hed grown , up I
"wild". • • •- • ,
A few weeks ago, power equip -
Ment moved in and in short or-
derbulldozed the underbrush,
knocked down the dead trees and
levelled the hill.•
Seeding. is to be done-- if it
has not been already -- •and • the
stone' on the hill will- be .packed
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'so thatthe grass 'can be , kept I
cut on the hill with the .new
mower purchased this summer by
the Municipality. • •
But, atternWifig to improve and
maintain public property is often
frustrating, Last Week t vandals ,
decided to upend two sections •of
the bleacher, •seats and cart the
players benches - to the edge of
the Playing' field. A psychiatric
study might explain such actions.
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. e ursing 1-19met
Move To Lucan •
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Mr .• and Mrs. •Orville Jones have
sold the' Queensway Nursing Home
atHensall to Mr.' and Mrs. Harry
Klungel of Woodstock, who havej.
had considerable•
hospital work Mrs Klungel is a
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registered nursing assistant. They. •
obtained possession September 1.
Mr. and Mrs.' Jones; who'have
operated; the nursing home very
efficiently for the past seven '
years, took up ,residence in Lucan • .
September 1. • . •,•
At present there are 12 patients
in the nursing .home but most of
the time there are 16 ' patients.. '
Mr: and Mrs. Jones are former
Lucknowites, Orville having at One
time being miller at Treleaven's
Fleur- Mill. ' . • 11.4
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Former Kinlough Young Man Returns
From Road Survey Work In Ethiopia
Percy Barr was 'a recent visit-- the R.ed 'Sea: and Gulf of Aden.,
or at Kinlough at the home of his, The party with, which Percy was
mother Mrs. John Barr and with employed had headqearters near , '
other relatives, * • • kwashon the upper reaches 'of
Percy.,. returned recently from the River Nile, •
Ethiopia where he wes engaged , They had natives employed, On
in a 50 -mile road surface job in their crew and relations Were the
the land of Emperor Selassie.. best and segregation non-existent.
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Percy is employed by De _Lam, The teiripei atuie was in the
Cather , of Canada,. a firm of • con- high nineties and up to 120 .in the
suiting engineers with headquarters sun, but. Percy said' they didn't
in. Toronto. 'They recently opened mind it,„ as it was no Worse than
*an international branch In Addis our summer heat and hum4dty.
Ababa, ' the capital.. Of 'Ethiopia. • The survey party travelled by
They. were employed by the lin- air; and before returping to Can-
periai Highway Authority. ada. after a three-monthS 'absence,
Percy was at St : John's, flew: did a bit of sight-seeing in Ithar-
• foundland befc.re going to the toum in the Sudan, Cairo, Rome,
• Middle East, and returned to St. Dusseldorf, Helsinki
John's and has since Motored to Percy has many interesting
Toronto • were he will assist in pictures, including one on a catnel,
designing the 56 -mile.* road to be in. typical Arab eostunie, with one
, built in East Africa. Ethiopia °Nile p ramids as the background.
' borders on the southerly pert of •
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