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LUCKNOW, .ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, JrUiLY 25th, 1962,
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16. Pages.
The Municipal Councir has ap-
proved aresolution which has
been . submitted to; the . • Liquor
Licence Board requesting a : by-
law authorizing the holding of
a plebiscite in Lucknow.
Council' has suggested Moniday,
October 22nd. as .the' date f'orthe
vote 'subject' to the' .approval of
the L.L.B.
Two 'question's will be submit-
ted a government store; and
a, .dining lounge licence.
The resolution was worded 'as
follows: ,
That this Council proceed to..
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;sulbnnit to the.electors. of ,the Vil-
lage . of Lucknow the folio/w-
ing .: questions pursuant • to Sec-
tions 70 and of the Liquor •
LicenceAct: '
1. Are you in' favor of- '.the
establishment of . a government
store for the sale of liquor?: 1/1
2: Are you in ,favor of the
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sale „,of . liquor under a dining
lounge licence for consumption
;With meals on licensed premises;
And respectfully request' ' the
Liquor' Licence Board of: Ontario
�Uo fix•,: a date, prior' to the date
for ::th'e holding: • of the annual'
.municipal, election. for the Bulb -
mission of the said quesrtion•' to
the*electors. •
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MEMBERS .OF HIGH SCHOOL ••. .•
BAND PROVE 'VERSATILITY
Visit. Thein Soy:
.About 15 members of the
Lucknow District High School::'
Band, . accompanied' ,by their
leader, Elwin Hall, had a' diver-
sified . evening recently at the
new swirnrning . pool at the Holy--
rood home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray -
nerd Ackert, ,
The "program" ran something.
1"ike 'this: an, hour of swimming,'
an hour af practicing, an hour,
of • eating,. an hour: of singing; By'
this time their ' leader' called it a
night, but the youthful musicians
continued their impromptu "band,
concert," 'and finally finished 'off
the .bight, With another .. dip•
quor
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DROUGHT ..ENDED
Over an inch .and' a half of
rain at; the week=end• :. ended a
lerigthy dry spell:
There was• ' 'scar,ely--enough
precipitation i, to :'meaeure from
June ' 24th to July 9th, when .53
inches' was 'recorded.
The• same condition then.. con-
tinneduntil' last Friday, July
20th, when there was ..53. inches
of rain, .12` inches . on Saturday,
followed by a good rain .on Mori• -
day of. 107. inches
n Mission Field
,Mr.. and Mrs. 'William Wiharry,
who are ,on a holiday, trip, -'spent
a few days with Mr.. and Mrs..
Clarence Schweitzer ' af•.St. 'Tho-
mas at their summer home
Lticerene, Northern Michigan..
They then proceeded to visit
their son, John, who is spending
the summer on :the United Church
Mission Field, being .stationed at
Sk'rip, Saskatchewan. They' took
with them. a :bell for the church
which ' is a gift from Mr. ;Lloyd
Ackert, ..to the congregation. of
Skrip, •
Dedication :Sunday
t South .Kinloss
This S'unday,.,'•July. ' 29th.the.
neiW, Hallman' organ will be de
dicated. at "a special ..Service:' at
South Kinloss Presbyterian
Church at 1:15 :On.
The .,organ ;•is . as -a .. memorial
.to those who served and died in
'two world wars., ,
Council Pkins Road, 1Niden ng
Major .Sidewalk Replacement
The ;Municipal Council. has
made: plans' for. road ;Widening' &
resurfacing adjacent to . Camp-:
ihell (Main), Street and for..' a
major sidewalk • replacement pro-,
grain.
• The cost will be debentured
under local ,improvements:
The extensive• react ' buildings
program. , wlh. has been carried
• out Over the past. few years 'was
w , paid for •out of' current reventte,'
with the .exxcepti:on •of some Of
last years road work.
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To pro. vide' off -the Mairt-street
Parking, .:three; ,blocks, in 'the,
heart.. of the town will be:'wid-
ened to forty feet. and resur-
faeed. These. areas: include .Inglis •
St.,, ane block south • past the
Oegion .H•all, and: a block north
past Omar Brooks Massey -Harris
Shop. • ..:•.•
• The other ilolock is Outram St
north, past Dr :M• H. Corrin -'s
office, Phis ::block. wall be rebuilt,
with new storm sewers installed
:and..:resunfiaced ' and newside-
walks on 'both sides of the' street.
.Other road work includes:.
hard .tapping of ' Wheeler St:
('where the new bridge was built'),.
between Stauffer and Inglis &
ha
rd
toPping
Ward St
. the access
road built ' front the new bridge
to the rear of the business places.
.on the north side of Campbell
St.; hard topping of Wheeler,
east of Havelock to 'the Vicinity
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of •Er
a �1Vf eClus�key's residence;
ditch work on Walter and No th
Delhi Streets' which were ,hard
surfaced: last year, , .
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All paving will be hot 'nix
a$phalt, The blocks being wid-
' en:ed off Oamr hell were among
the first g
p 'avin,' done with a
cold mix. ,' ..
Two.brass. vases ' will . be de-
-dicated in memory of Mr 'Angus
Graham and two oak • flower
stands and an organ Mirror ' will
Program:.ibe dedicated in memory of Miss
Hannah MacDonald.
sung Lady Electrocuted In Car Mishap,:
Grafli :McNain': :Had
A Zurich district young•
lady, ii
Agnes Desch, died instantly
from' electrocution, and an "Am=
berl'ey dis:trict youn.'g•;man, Grant.
luicNairv,
miraculously .5 escaped
the, --same fate' in an auto •:rn:is-
hap•-in .Clinton on Friday morn-*
ing.... , \\.
The :accident haPpened.at. the
intersection of. •Highway, 8, 'and'
Huron and Erie streets in Clin-
ton. Grant and Yliss Oesch were
on '.Highway 8, and , he swerved'
to ,avoid a motbrist entering the
highway.' The pavement was wet
.and • the rear of ..Grant's car
slewed' into a hydro. pole, knock-
ing ,
nock-ing.; down' a high :'voltage wire
onto'. the car's top, . M'iss , Oesch
was thrown out with one • foot'
remaining in contact with .•'the
floor 'board of the car..Death
was . instantaneous.'
Sell Lucknow "Home,
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Bu� Walkert�n
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Armstrong
have sold. ,their Lucknow 'resi
den�ce on Clyde St. to Mr. and
Mrs. 'Donald McMurray of Blyth.
Donald is- .a driver. 'for Brooks
Transport. 'Phey ,have an infant'
daughter.
The McMurray . family will'
move here as soon as Mrs 'and
Mrs. 'Armstrong • can obtain pos-
session of a new .home whack
they have purchased froni John
iRouw, building contractor.'in. the
County Town. The . Armstrongs,
have set August 7th as , moving
clay,. ,
J.
C. or Joe as.he is popularly
known, has been employed for
some nine months • at Brucelea
Haven in Walkerton.
The Armstrong home is.locat'ed
•ni Walkerton quite close to the
residence of Mr, and Mrs, Jack
,Hussey former Lucknowites. Jack
is •m'ainte'nance engineer, er at Bruce -
lea
lea Haven,
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Miraculous, :Esca
pe
As'Grant opened th-e. door on..
his. side:` and ''stepped from the
'car, he was jolted by : the :cur-
rent and thrown .to ,the 'ground.
The coroner had no explanation
as .ta ;G•rant?s escape from. death.
Not . knowing whether .Miss
Oesch ' was unconscious or dead;
Grant • attempted t� move her,
but'" again ; received another
shock:' It . required assistance to
cautiously 'remove her: foot from.
contact with', the car.
Was Known Here '
Miss. 'Oesch,. age 18, was, the
daughter. of Mr: and' • Mrs: Pat-
rick Oesch of R.11,.. . 2,.' Zurich.
The' girl's father is a. brother •of
Merino. Oesch,.' whose late. wife
*as the former Jessie . MacDon-
ald, ,daughter Of Mrs. Christena
MacDonald of Lu.cknow. Mrs Eel -
don' Henderson ' and' Mrs. Don
C'ard's •of • town . are sisters of
Jessie.- ` •
Mrs. Roy McBride; the .former
Margaret McNain ; of Am►beerley,
is a neighbour of the family of
the•' dead girl, and the•` Oesclis
and McNains have long, • been
close -friend's. Grant'had.. been
working in the „West, returning
home at the time. his ` father,
Mr..' James McNain, was killed in
a tractoraccident on the home
fasrm:. •at: Amberley, . just nine
months to the day previous to
Fridy'
a s• , tragedy.
Grant, •age 21,r" suffered facial'.
cuts and • severe shack,: but •is.
at his Anm'berley home: He re-
ceived treatment at Clinton .Gen'-.
eral Hospital,
:Miss Oesch was employed at
Huronview Horne in .Clinton,
The funeral service :was held : in
Zurich on Surtd•ay afternoon with
interment 'in, ,Blake :Mennonite.
Cemetery: •
Surviving besides her parents'
are a brother; Elmer, of Zurich,
four sisters, Mrs:• Anthony (Dor-
othy) Etue, of ' G•oderich; ` Mrs.
Ivan (Gladys) Baechler, of ,E,.11,
1, Zurich; Mary Margaret . and
Linda,' both •at,' home;
K.INLOSS NEIGH8QURs.
mu IN. MANITOBA
• Mr, and Mrs Allan Mac-
hntyre of Kinlossleft mast
week on , a inator trip, to
Western Canada. Between
Winnipeg arid Brandon, they
met 'their neivghbours,quite,
by chance on. the highway
-Mr. and Mrs. Evan Keith,
Brian, Sandia and. Murray
who were on the return'' trip.
They stopped and had a'road
side 'chat for a few minutes.
.Appoint �f inloss.
:Twp..' Treasurer
Fraser • MoKin;non, Con, 4,' Kin-
loss . Township., • was', recently ap-
pointed as municipal treasurer
and tax collector. He, assumes
his 'duties at once, . as successor
to ,Prank ThornPton, , who moves
to Dungannon as secretary
treasurer of ,the West Wawanosh
Fire Insurance Company.
Eraser was sone. of. five .ap
pdicants` for the ' position. Mr..
Thompson had acted as tax co1-
lector' for .the past .year, after.
Gordon Wall had resigned.' Mr.
Wall • was appointed Township
Clerk just a few weeks ago.
succeeding Mr.: J. R. Lane:
Sell $3,OOO..fuw
From•Walden Herd'
Glen. Walden, who operates a .
dairy farm at the southern ,out-
. skirts of Lucknow,: has sold .a
seven -year -,old . cow ...that : has
,been graded Excellent for $3000..
The ',purchaser is • :W. Q. . Reilly
of Qhi.o, who is an. exporter and'
importer of cattle and' shiipment
was made; on. the thirteenth• of
July by transport. • '
-Glen is . one of ' the youngest
Holstein breeders to have bred
and raised an Exce-Llerit cow and
the price received is • one of the
highest for. 1`olstein. .cows pold.
out of Huron County..
' Along :With .•the excellent cow, •
Glen ";sold her• two-year-old
daughter, another eight-year=.old'
cow that was graded Very Good,
a daughter of the very good cow
that was graded one point from,
Very Good and, also . her. bull
calf. •
-Th:e excellent cow wasrand •
g ,
champion at Lucknow last fall,•
second at • ;.:the ' Nitron' County
Black 'and • White Show at :Sea-
fortl, and the very good cow •was
third at Seafoith:
The dam of 'the' excellent cow
was highestfor milk and second
for. fat in :Huron in . ' 1.96a. Her
breed class average was `' fat 168,
milk .176,'• The grandam ''• of • the
excellent cow was the last cow
!Glen showed in the 'Kincardine
calf Club. as a youth.
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Netherlands . Cou le
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Work . Vin. � Ruins . As
It took only a few 'minutes to'
•destroy what _' represented ', thir-,
teeny years. of of ;hard. work .when
the:. farm '"barn ;- and adjacent
;buildings. of Mr, and :Mrs. Peter
van der'Ley were burned. last
Thursdayy' afternoon. The van, der
Ley fare • is located . in .Ashfield.
Township;: juga, south of Highway,
86 • on the -Lochalsh sideroad;
across tf'fe road and :to the north
of Ashfield Presbyterian: •Church:,
• Destroyed.. in the blaze' was the
barn including a recently .built
''addition,. colony house and ;gar-
age, 'three steers, three heifers
and' three calves, were destroyed
in the barn • along with the sea- •
son's: crop of hay and some grain.
'A. stack' of hay, part of about
4000( : bales ' destroyed,.. •standing.
outside the barb. because the
barn` was' full, was also destroyed'
as :was. a wagon load of bales
never ,,unloaded... •so
A gas tank, located •at .•thee,
Iburnrng garage, was`.;pulled away
.from' the building. Had it ex
ploded, the. house located a few
feet awayy might have been des-
troyed,
estroyed•. Ltickn•ow Fire Depart-
ment, using Water .from a nearby,
tank,, protected, the house which
was.. close' to the barn., and ''which
was '.scorched by..the, intense heat.
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Fire Level s Barn
Mr: and. ' :Mrs.• van der •" Le -
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Were in Listowel at the time of
the fire and • did not: ktnow of . it
until returning home as . the barn
was on fire: Mr. and Mrs.; Corey
van der :Ley) newlyweds, visit-
ing 'at the farm,. and Mr, and
Mrs, .:Richard van der'` Ley; ' of •
•Ositrawa '.were at the .farm when
the fire started..' Corey was cut-
trig the 'lawn when he leaked'
up t to. see the .flames.,' The 'fire
spread so fast that he was only
'able , td ,get two' caaves out; and
�leavjrig the • door `open, three
steers came out on. 'their own
before' the roof 'fell in: It isJoe,
lieved. that one . of the steers ivi•l1
have to' be ' destroyed:
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had' been the;' intention '"Of
Corey to put the cows in ' the ./
barn for milking, , and . had the
fire been a few minutes later, ' ••
possibly about` .16. of their' • St
cows. would have been in the : •
barn: Lost was their Milking,
Machine, grain auger and .hay •
elevator • along with tools and
general • farm, equipment. ;and -
supplies;
It was a' tragic .loss for .Mr.
and Mrs:. Petervan der Ley who
came. to. Canada . from Holland
.'thirteen years' ago, ; in' 1949. For
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atepayers' Questionnaire Will Decide
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For Or.a ain't H�rin Police Officer
The decision to hire Or not to The questionnaire . will read: • •
hire, a full time police officer Are you in favor of the, Village
for the Village will rest with of Lucknow hiring a . town con-
the ratepayers of the munici- Stable at a cost, of 5 mills per
parity. They will be Submitted annumJ " •
a uestionnaire advising 'each of It YJril • ' show: each q. , ,. , � g 1c property
their indiv�idual share of the owner's, , prestint assessment and •
cost, and asking for a :reply in his or her •actual cost i'n'"dollars
the affirmative or negative, and cents ' at five Mills.
• Council' originally. intended to The questionnaire uzid.l, 'have a •
detachable portion an which the
present a by-law to the rate- individual will' indicate with an
•payers and' hold a plebiscite on °`X"' • hits
'favor of the question,maire which. in which the .ratepayer will re.. :
will be mailed to ratepayers turn *the "ballot." The return of -
within a few * cla37. •,' , ' Ihese stubs is requested'. within.,
ex.pegted to require a taX leYy The questionnaire it 'being
of five mills. This represents a printed this wee14' and Will ' be
charge of $5.00 per $1,000. of as- in the mails. at the earliet po-
sesstnent. i. tible date,
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