HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1962-05-02, Page 12PAGE TWELVE'.
111E, LUCKNOW SENTINEL," LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
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Dungannon: to,
Died., suddenly
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UisiGANNQN . NEWS)
Robert Irwin of .:the village is a
Y nephew and was a pall -bearer.
Miss Arlyn Powell of Blyth
visited Mr, and Mrs. 'Charles
Fowler & Tom on Easter Sunday..
1Vliss Clara Sproul, Stratford,.
spent
the. week -end. with her
sitters; Misses Nettie :&. •Bebina
Sproul.
(Intended. For.` Last.. Week)
Friends and . relatives ' were
shocked , to hear of the sudden
passing of Miss Elisabethances
(Betty) Elliott on, Friday night
at Pinecrest • Manor- Home in
Lneknow about 1.1 p.m.•by a heart
attack.. She . had agent the even-
. ing pleasantly with friends, who
had called that .. evening and • her
'passing occurred shortly after
retiring. ;
She;, was 'born south of .Dun-
gannon. years , ago to the late.
John r Elliott and • Margaret Sto
thers Elliott.. She . came . with her.
,parents for ' retirement, to . the
village about forty-five years•
ago,'Qf a. family of three .girls
and four •boys, Mr. Arthur Elliott,,.
a brother, survives.
Those''predeceased .were Mance
• and Edith . Edgar; Will and Wil-
fred, the matter passing away 6
months ago."' '
The funeral took place at ., Mc-
Kenzie funeral home on Monday
at 2 p.m. with Rev: W. •J. ten
Hoopen of ' North • St. United
Church, Goderich in charge. In-
terment was made in the • fam-
. ily plot_ in Dungannon cemetery, •
The pallbearers ' were.'. Frank
Pentland, . Mason • McAllister,
Lorne , :Ivers,' ' Rdbert Stothers,
Brown'.S_myth . and Heber. Eedy.
. Those coining, from a distance.
was a nephew and his wife, ,Sgt.
Major.: Forrest. Elliott and Mrs.
Elliott from Camp Borden.
An impressive ' Easter. Thank-
offering .service was,. held , when.
• the United Church women; met
m the church for the ..April. /nee-.
Mrs.. W. R Andrew ' came last
week re -opening her' homeafter
spending the winter with /mem-
bers 'of' her family..
Mrs. Abner iMorris, joined a
partyof relatives at' the home
of her son and daughter-in-law
Mr. & Mrs... Ken Morris, Ben
miller, last Sunday. ,The occas-
ion was the latter couples Silver
Wedding anniversary..
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pearce
and little son of London spent
the week -end with her .parents
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Pentland.
Visitors with Mr. & Mrs, Vic-
tor . Errington for the "week -end
were Mr. John Henderson, Mr.
8i. Mrs. Ivan. Henderson and fam-
ily and- Mrs. Stanley, .Hughes of
Toronto.
Mr. Frank Glenn ex -soldier
of . World War. 1 attended` the
Vimy ' Ridge banquet at the
Legion Hall, Goderich on Mon-
day night •
Visitors. with Mr. & Mrs. F.
Glenn for the week -end were
Mr.. & Mrs. • Donald Glenn and
family, Toronto. They all visited
on. 'Sunday with ' Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver Glenn, Lueknow::
The /fact$indirig youngster fact.
ted -'his, mother one day .asking:
'`.Didn't you tell me.,,the stork.
brought me?"
, "Why. yes, dear.
'And I we ghed ey ht ounds?
"
"Yes"
- We1�1, • for : your 'intbr'mation,
said- the boy,, "the ;stork hasn't
the wing 'spread .to .•: carry ail.'
eight -pound load." .•
Mrs. K. K. Dawson,: the 'pres.
;iident, opened the meeting . with
• an Easter :verse and: Mrs, Frank
Pentland was pianist • for ';several_
Easter hymns. Devotional lead=
ership' was. by Mrs: Harvey Alton
assisted 'lay Mrs.. Wm.. Cranston:
and . Mrs: Wilbur : B:rawn.. •The
roll ' call ;Was responded to °by.
using : a Bible verse , on "LoNe."
The fin ' ial • report by Mrs.
Browne the results of ' the
congregational' supper and cater-
ing, toa banquet, Committees
were formed, for the mother and
daughter Banquet on 'May.: 9th:
• An announcement ' was read that
• the ' churchhas a new' minister'
Rev. N. L.: Gostonyi... He ' will
preach his first sermon: here on
July &th A fine report was given.
.,by Mrs, -Herb Finnigan on :the-
' Programme Planning : Workshop,
held•recently at Exeter. Thetopic.'
was given by a'.'play "He rho
.loses his life" with Mrs. C. Croz-
• . ier, ..Mrs. Otto Popp. and Mrs.
Wm. Petrie in scene --t and_:.Mrs:_
Fred Young and, Mrs: Herb Fin-
nigan • in ' scene '2., . Mrs. Harvey
Alton was commentator. Madha
Eedy. , and Bai+bara Blake each'
played, a. piano solo. Mrs. Dawson
closed, the .meeting with . 'prayer.
and -•a social halt` 'hour followed..
Mr. Wayne Brown,:•. 'R.C.AfF.
Pilot, of :Winnipeg spent .Easter,
with his parents. Mr.' and ' Mrs.
Wilbur Brown, '
• ,Mr. t&Mrs Bill . Atkinson .of
• Oshawa pent • Easter • week -end.
• at home with Mr. and, Mrs. Herb
Finnigan.
The. Women's Missionary Soc-•
iety of Erskine Presbyterian
''church held Its Easter Service
in the church in the evening: of
.April ,16,th, Mrs, Arthur Stewart,
•• presided. The Purpose was. re-
peated and the Glad Tidings,
Prayer', taken ..by the President.
The- roll call - was answered by,•
the word "Father' and pravision'
for the,' bale looked after. Miss:.
' ' Mary Murray gave : a reading
on the Resurrecti, R. Allister read• a leMc-
penrrnosa.
. An irnportant -pahe even-
ing 'was
vening'was the. Easter Service with
Mrs. A...Stewart as leader.. assis : •
ted by Mrs. Wm., Stewart, Mrs.-
:W.
rs.•:W. Reid and Mrs. J. 'Wilson. '2VIrs..
F. Jones and Mrs. 'Wallace'Wil-
son sang a duet. • . '
• We extend our sympathy to
Mrs. Charles Morrison and fain,
ily of. Clinton in the death,'of,
her husband whose funeral took
•)lace '.at Lucknow on Monday.
His Widow is the former 'Pearl
Irvin, of. ' ,Belfast district. Mr
remains
Kinta i 1
Dock, believed Bulit
Some 90 -Years. Ago, Still To Be Se
(By Sandy McDonald, Kintail)
At Kintail Beach on Lake
Huron, several. posts jut out from
the water at confusing angles.•
Extending 50 yards into the lake,.
they mark the -outline of a dock,
built_ at the . mouth of Kerry
Creek,' 200 yards to the north.,
The exact..year of its '
can
struc
tion is „unknown;, but it: could •
reasonably be assumed around
1870. The' . author hazards this
guess onthe basis that an. elderly
citizen, formerly of Kingsbridge, •
who is approaching his 90th year,
remembers the dock when: it was.
in .use. • •
The ,name, `Blake and Co."
linked with its .develapment as,
well as the roadway leading Into
it. Now used .as, a ' road. to .the
Presbyterian, Gam:p..at Kintail,it.
was formerly . known' as Naviga-
tion Street by Kintail's older' re-
sidents.
• This pier• was erected as an
aid to'•. the 'timber and 'tanbark.
industry . which occupied the far.
Mers. of Ashfield. ;iii the lattter
decades' • of. the .19th ' century. ,Ih
served the north=east section ' of
the township an' area where Hem
lock .. trees' grew abundantly.
.Throughout, . Ale winter, , the•
rrners worked ' at this trade.
emlock - trees ',Were • felled and'
,stripped. of 'bark, this. bark was
used • in • ".the banning • industry,
!hence the term, "tanbark"
From ,the Heinlock• stands • on -
he th'
On -
the 1 .concession of Ashfield, 2
the: bark was transported by.tetam
and sleigh . to the 'bank* .of Lake
Huron. The late Kenneth Mac-
Lean of ..Kintail, father of "car
)enter.•, Dan," earned the .lasting
respect of !hits ,co-workers ,in this
operation; Two 'loads Of tanbark
hauled. 'to the lake in one day
was considered a full day's work
by the majority of farmers. How-
ever, it was customary for Kenny
to haul three loads, His favorable
location, close to the lake, helped
him accomplish this remaarkable.
feat.
With the opening of navigation
an Lake Huron, two -masted` sail,.
ing vesisels arrived at the dock.
The •captain of a schooner would
sound the ship's .hor f when ap-
proaching the' pier; itwas the Sig:
nal, for the farmer's. nearby to
head for the dock to hell) load
the cargo. From this point, the
sailing vessels took ' :the tanbark'
to its destination- at either Sarnia
or Detroit,
A ` tragedy occurred on one ' oc-
casion, at this . pier. Several men
+had, 'come 'early. to. 'the dock one
evening 'to await, the schooner.,
Tired' from their day's work, they
fell,, asleep. , Once of the 'group,.
Donald • Boyd, ' .had a habit of
walking.- in :his sleep. On . this Op.;'
casiori,; ` Donald arose .• from his
slumber ,and, began, wandering
before the others noticed him, he
had` slipped' over the .end :of the
dock and drowned.,
The . ,whanf was seldom: used
after' the trade in.t tanbark fell off:
It was idle until the summer; cot
tagers ' at Kintail, began using . it
as mooring posts for their boats.
Several Kintail youths .erected a
diving board .on it, early/ in :the,
40s.
r one, may
Each ; spring ,o notice
several more. posts missing;; .they
are broken off ;by.winter 'ice=floes:.
Eventually the blue waters of
Lake Huron wi.11 close over thia
once busy pier. The severed.
stumps, will remain below the
surface _ thotugh•,; as a Menace to.
swimmers • .and boaters alike,
perhaps someone will float a; buoy _
over the spot to warn and :remind
us of "Kintal Dock." ,
Huron...Cancer Fund
ObjectIve' '$'7 o0
The Cancer.,canipavgn in `Huron
County is progressing encou`rag-
$singly'16,Q0,0=': with an objective' ,of
Unit' Campaign Chirman R,
t!oeley:Ex!te:aPuhced
no_atthFederaion . A'gricul
ture . again will take charge of
the. township canvasses through-
-out: the county.:
"We remain grateful for the
outstanding co-operation we' re-:
ceive. from both urban and •rural
:volunteers who. assist us in this
major fund-raising program," Mr,
Pooley stated. "It is heartening
to, see all areas of thecounty
working y together to fight this
common ,enemy, cancer.".• .
Funds 'raised in Huron; are
used to finance ,in
work in
the' county at well as 'general
education and research programs•.
acrossCanada. During 1961., Hur-
on unit spent •over ` $3,000 to
help .76 patients, in .the county,
A further $1,072 was • spent on.
cancer education m: Boron.
More 'than $14,000 was.. for-
warded to provincial headquar. '
tiers to help.fin
once extensive
e;
research projects One of these
was the recently -Opened -cancer
research iabratory ; at .the
versityof Western Ontario'
in
London:
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