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WEDNESDAY,
coag; School Commencement� •
P. 'W. ' Hoag, retired principal
of Lucknow. ,District High School
who taught at, the school from
1944 until 1060, and who was 'priin
cipal" from 1947 until 1960, address-
ed the' annual . commencement ' ex-
ercises` at. the school. _'Shown left
to right are, Mr. . Hoag; Sharon
O'Donnell who delivered theval-
edictory address; Gerald : Rath-
•
well, chairman of the Lucknow
rr District High School Board; L. E.
1
Goyette,. principal of the 'school.
Sentinel Photo
HUII�',�'en:QUi�t,.
In Most Areas
Hallowe'en damage in „ this Io-
cali
ty was mostly. of a' minor' na-
ture, but to anyone who was a
victim of : a prank -,it seems major
to them no double.
There'" were .several instances of.
' serious damage to property. It is
very hard to chase down all dam-
age stories,'but a few we . know of
are as,follows:
Windows and window sash. were
smashed at the Kairshea Hall at
the ' 6th concession of'.Kinloss "and
the Holyrood road: The ' building
at the:, 4th of Kinloss used as a
wind break for school , children
catching' the bus.was : burned' to
the ground. The building is known
• to. many as "the Subway." ' The ' o
usual .rash of mail boxes and signs
were knocked down, and;: damaged:
Jessie: Maclay, Village's Oidest
Resident..
Obsened Her 97th, : Birthda
Luc ow r
Lucknow's and old'lady,' d Miss. pital p tel and is flet in the best•of
Jessie 'MacKay' of Gough yStreet, health. Annie. is 89. . 'rs. of age
Yom..
observed, her 97th birthday, at her and the'two . sisters have' made.
home in Lucknow on Wednesday- their home together- for many
of.' Last. week, October 28th'. Many years. ••
friends remembered Miss MacKay Mrs. William MacIntyre .is:,, a
with visits, ' gifts ' and numerous . companion living • with •the Mac -
cards, She.; is the:' oldest Lucknow Kay 'sisters' and' , for the past few
born resident . in the community.:days: ,Mrs... Alex MacKay of Ed -
Miss MacKay's birthday was mouton has been at the MacKay
not . quite complete this year. with home. The two ladies are at :th
the absence of ,`her sister Annie hospital with.:. Annie everyday,
who is a patient ' in Wingham Hos- and'Jessie, has been visiting' .:her
sister: there about twice `a ,week.
Jessie is • one of . nine childrenS1STER DIES IN' SASK.
. 'bora � to Hugh MacKay'and .
. �.,�-_ g . Cath
Brine'Kerr. She was born in what
The death occurred on Tuesday was known to ninny , as. the Gra'
'n. Moose Jaw Sask., ham . home, Gra-
which was located just`
October 27th i
f . Nancy Anderson,.: widow of a
John 'Anderson.She was the .
west of the Supertest garage, and
And so form-
er . Nancy Webb,, dao hter of the . r ss • the.
. y n ' th elect ted
was:been dis'
late ;'William . Webb daughter
Nancyroad o the United
Church grounds, her father' oyer-
Gould of the St., Helen's 'district. ated ,the first blacksmith shop,.
Mrs: Anderson; is survived by He was a native of .Glasgow and
one daughter Mrs. R. Gray of
found -
Moose . Jaw, two sons. Charlie and gthe
came to .Lucknow' after
ing of. the villa e.
,
John Crawford of.' Craik Sask. .gut of the MacKayf
and three, ..brothers, 'William . of B. . ; amily were
C,, .Fred= of Lucknow:and George born in Lucknow, Maggie, Donald,
A.. of `�Winghain District hospital. Angus, Jessie, Johnnie and Hugh -
Burial was in 'Craik on Saturday, ie.. In 1873, the .family moved to
V 4th, 1l+l
. A BIRD IN .THE HAND IS
WORTH TWO ON THE AiR.
Spence McFarlane, Kinlough,
has something to talk about
these days, He caught a goose
recently, bare-handed, which
is. quite an accoinplishment.
Spence noticed a flock Of
geese in his oat field, along-
side a field . of alfalfa: He op-
proacbed the geese as closely
as possible with no gun. The
• geese . immediately flew up,
except . one, which had wand-
ered into the adjoining alfalfa
field. He noticed it floundering
in the hay field, and walked
over.. Spence caught ,the goose
with his bare hands, but the
goose also caught Spence on.
the hand with its:beck and.
on. the arm with its wings.
He is now sporting a nicely
blackened: • arm, but for his..
trouble has 'a 1 lb. goose for
Christmas. It ' • pays to grow.
1ngla Cppy 1
R
F'urchases . LOc ow
Home, 'ells Farm
Jim Arnold'has: purchased
Lucknow home-'. of Mrs, J a
MacDonald on Outram Feet,
across from the doctOr'S office,
and will move shortly.. •
The Arnold family have .been:
living on their West Vilawanooli
Township farts, on the :math cam-
cession, but Jim has been employ-
ed by the Lucknow ' p f o r
close to a. year.
Jim's son, Walter "Pet" Ar-
nold ' has purchased t':b e a .
known to many as the Sill Cook,
the Stanley or the Kennedy farm,
,r depending on the generation with
which you were familiar.
Mrs. MacDonald will; ,:now live
across the road from her home
1 in part. of Bud Hamilton's . house.
Remembrance
gam!. haY»� ,,
ra c
SAM' _NESBIT PASSES
Service Wednesday,
The death occurred on. ' Thursday
in Wingham Hospital of :Samuel !,' The annual cornniunity Remem-
Andrew )Nesbit of Lucknow: He brance Day Service will be held
was 05 years of age. •
Funeral service was conducted
from. the .' MacKenzie Memorial
Chapel in Lucknow on Saturday
with burial in Greenhill Ceme-
tery.
Pen PaJs ' Meet
in, the Lucknow united Chch . at
10 a.m.. next Wednesday, Nevem-
ber llth. .
Those joining in the parade are.
to meet at ..the : Legion Hall on
Wednesday. 'at :9.:30 a.m. The, group ..
will parade to the United March
and following service there,' ,a
decorationservice will be held at
the cenotaph when the customary
Time two -minutes silence will be ob-
For First i
Legion and Ladies uxiliary
Miss Elizabeth Murdie of : Luck- members will conduct a sale sof
now . had asher, guest last week ope
Miss Mums~ . of all Ross leseveniinng, the 31TovemberthisSth.,
:
Shire, .Scotland, who �ls'on a ,tour. daPy �
Legion {will. also hold their :cus
She left. London England on March tonmrY .:Remembrance , dance at
16th travelling . by steamships to
the Legion Hall on Saturda Y :Nov=
Australia, New. Zealand ,J,9an ;
ember 7th.
Hong Kong, H"one1uuu ° and San;
Francisco. From ,there ' she trav-
elled by rail across Canada :to. Tor-
onto visiting, along the way.: From
Toronto she will go . to 'Ottawa,
iMontreal, Boston,';New York andRank. Of � •r
Mao
Miami from where she.will :.set:..
sail, for home early 'in December. H. D. Bud'
». .. � Thompson of ;Lack-
Miss—Murdie and Miss Munro now : received. notification ..t:a ,a .t.
have been: pen pals for a . few week:. of hisPromotion
e to the
years but :it is the` first meetingrank of Major i -i
in the •21st. Field.
for the ladies. The two ladies ' had . ' ArtilleryRegiment Militia.
� tt
the same'aunt back'a few genet= � Major. Thompson qualified : for
ations but . are no relation. While: ; this:.rank, by
.. writing a series,of.
there, Miss Miss : Munro visited relatives 'i examinations in Kitchener and.
in the area. She arrived .on Wed-, attendinga : Field Officers`
pall-
neday and left on Saturday of fication course at liq
', Royal Mill.
:last week'.
Celle e. Kingston,
' : . , ; . g . � last, year.
eld
s..
Abou.t :20,000 �:Bushels Corn
•
rammed :T�:. The
In Lucknow, Police ' Chief Joe ,.
Balzer was assisted by . members
of the .'Lucknow Fire -Department
using' radio 'equipped cars. Darn -
age was kept to a minor nature.
Several. of Montgomery's tract-
ors ended up in . the' river behind
' their tractor sales, .building The
railing on the . foot bridge was
broken .off, .an annual occurrance.
A phone was ripped' off at the
telephone booth next to' Murdies
Hardware. ''Garbage and debris
littered the street with the highway
at the south end of town .'getting
a little more
than its share. Win-
dows got a good soaping and the
walls of Silverwood downtown_
plant got a spray painting., with `
some obscene literature composed. '
A few hydrants were turned on in '
the village,' '
October 31st. . farm atop the hill on the second
.of Kinlossr just west of the' Luck-
• , now-Holyrood road. The same year
.* SignRemoved,S 1 � p... . . ea, and the paper.
t
has continued to come into the
Cars Collide Sunday
MacKay homes since .then. ,The
three others . in the family,,: Annie,
Cars driven by Nelson William- David 'and Alex were born at
the
son ' of H.R.. 2 Goderich and Mrs, second' concession. Jessie and An -
Donald McCormick of ii.R. 2 Wing- hie are the sole survivors of the
ham were in collision at the Unit- family. The parents and all seven
Mail : boxes down 86 highway
and back: up the 12tt'i of Ashfield ' ternoon: s200 damage was done laid A° .rest at South- Kinloss Ceme-:
ed Church
corner last Sunday af- members of the family have been
extending on to the .12th of West
Wawanosh 'got a real going over
Friday night with considerable.
dainage ging done.by some pre-
hallowc'en goons that have' no .re-
spect for private property.'
Two large and • one small win-
dow • at . the North Ashfield Public
Schon were broken by pranksters.
We understand that police were
investigating the damaging to
tomb stones at Lochalsh Cemetery
oa Tuesday., This despicable• off-
enee goes a little too far.
se Halloween pranks • are
ainly.a, few that we have heard, of
and no doubt dozens
of _there were
others committed throughout
the area of . our' newspaper.
to the Williamson car and $100 to
the McCormick car. ' •
Pollee chief Joe Balzer of Luck -
now stated that the McCormick
car was proceeding east on. High-
way 86' and, the Williamson ear
mirth' on Havelock Street when
the collision occurred. According
to chief Holzer, stop `sign at the
':intersection had been torn down:
by haliowe`en vandals and Will-
iamson, not :familiar, with the vil-
lage, had proceeded onto •86 high-
way.
igh-way• without stopping..
No one was injured in the crash.
Williamson had two passengers,
Mrs. NtcCormick, the f')rrtier• 'Cath-
crine MacLennan of, this continuo=
ity, was alone.
tory. ,
The 1VIacICa: familyhave
been.: devoted long
d servants of South
Kinloss Presbyterian Church;
Jessie• spent about 36 years in
the United States, going to 'Eur -
ope in 1904, and returning later
The harvesting 'of 240 acres of the
corn; was completed the first of
'this : week at ; the Ackert farm
about 4 'miles west of Holyrood
and the
yield' was . expected to be
in the neighbourhood of 20,000. bus-.
hels of corn, and when you. see it
heaped in the upstairs . o : the
large '. barn . on the farm, it looks
like a lotgof corn: flakes.
The Sentinel • reporter, on learn-
ing of' the large corn harvest on
the Ackert farm, paid a visit
there on Saturday afternoon and
this was given the grand tour' by Er-
nest Ackert . of Lucknow. .
. ... Mr Ac
kert, who.will. be 81 years of age,.
in a few. weeks is working orlon$ the
»
two'. rows,' separates the corn
from the- cob, blows the shelled
corn into the, : wagon and dumps
the cobs out.of • the rear of the
machine. ' The Sentinel writer, who
knows as;' much about farming as
m�`t boli -
newspaper, was fascinated by the
operation which for many', years
was confined to. the southern part
of Ontario. New types of corn, . we
understand,: have made this a
good prospect for » farm people in
area» Earl • Dickison of .Tees -
water, who. operates the' picker-
Sheller for . the Ackerts, very kind=
ty gave •us a ride and a first. hand
view of the oiler -anon of.th+e
corn business in partnership . with chine. men"
his son Lloyd of'Holyrood,.�:..:_The • i.. ..
Mr. Ackert has-�; � machine_ leaves the field
for aboutAowned the farm:in a rough condition, and a lawn-
30 years, and it was mower ;t' machine •.
used mainly . for � grassingyl� ne is itis oyer
The corn cattle, the stalks and cobs and • chew
Idea was started last them u
p: fine • forplowing . -
year and this is the nd put
to the States:,year p°s
urn
ed to 'the home farm in Kinloss
upon the death of one of her sis-
ters. In 1949 'the MacKays sold.
their farm to Herb '•Mc.
.fess` _ � Oulllrn and
Jessie, Anniandad Angus moved
} to Lucknow' where Angus ;died
a
year later. Since coming to town,
they have endeared ed themselves to
a .host of friends. The Sentinel
joins with ill in the community. .
in extending congratulations.•
..ln 1921 she ,ret ; Of its~ operation.
The farm was completely
planted , on May 6th. A frost
earl in
,early y June had the owners wonder-
ing. whether or not the cro... _.
be l . . w - • damage � p would
ostL but little damage was.
done and the crop . has been a
very. good one.
A picker -shelter. is: . - . to h
vest the ,used' hare.
corn right
The right in the field»
picker is a .double -row mac-
hine that strips the cob
•
On. Saturdar-:� of •
there, Gordon • Erb ofhiw
was . drawing': � , Lucknow , .
the shelled • Corn
from the picker to a ' .
at 'dryer at the
the barn; The dryer was- pur-
chased
this Year, By the timet-
don dumped Got
the load and return-
:'en to the field another:
waiting. was
. The corn when picked has
ween 27 LI 2tri ifO sturei and e,
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