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WEDNESDAY, MAY 10th„ 1007 •
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A second public attempt to• get
the "Centennial ball" rolling in
LucknOW Wilbbe:rriade at a publitC
meeting in Lucknow Town, Hall
ori Monday night of next week',
May 15th, at 8 p.m .
. Lucknow 'Business: Men's •
Association concerned atthe
lack -of village, centennial partic-
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ipation, called a meeting with
the Lucknow Reeve and 'council
• this,past Monday:in:the. town hall.
Attending the Meeting were :Reeve
George Joynt and councillor Eldon
Wraith and about twenty members
of the Lucknow Business Men's
. Association Charles.Webster , pre-
Sident Of the blitiness'group, chair-
ed the,meeting and explained the
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purpose' in calling: the •municipal
•'representatives in to sit :•and
• Cusi Centennial and LuCknow's
• plans for oblervingt. •
, 'Reeve Joynt saici'tliat.he felt that
Citizens of the'toWn should take
the initiative in planning and • ,
promoting centennial, activity
within the village,. He stated that
Ighen no move. was Made •by the . •
. Village residents in this regard
'council called a .public.meeting in
early' February at which time a .•
• centennial corrimittee was. appoin,:
A very small attendance was
present, and Mt. Joynt saidthat,.
business people were Conspicuous
by their absence at this initial
organization rneetihg. The comm..--
ittee appointed that night has
neVer actively functioned.'
questioned what the town .
was doing in observance of Cent-
ennial, he Said that council has •
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been apprpached 'by the agriciiltut:-
al society in regard to assisting in
the observance of the Centennial
Fair in September.. Council agreed
to sponsor enteriaiiment far •
the teen age.Crowd and .
'arrangements have 'already been
made in this regard.. He said .also
that:•arr artillery battery. wilibe
secured for participation in the
parade,
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• A,t", a.previous meeting of the
Lucknow Business group, 'suggest-
ions 'had been Madewith regard
,to river bank improvement and, the
establishment 'of park facilities;
Over '800,000.Gal
In Test ump
Twenty-six ,hoUrs of test pumping
last 'week confirmed the fact that
bucknow has a good water well at
the south-east edge of the Village,
south of the Lucknow District. High
Schaol. • ,
The test pump produced,ovei
800,000 gallons of water . The •
.well was pumping 524 gallons per
minute With a 19 foot draw' dov:on.
The'N.vell is 103 feet deep, with 151
feet, of casing .' It has a-15 foot
static w,ater level. • •
Tests of the Water indicate
practically no iron with less hard-
ness than the previous well arid no
odor to the water
the installation 'of perm anent' trash
cans on the main street, the cOur-.,
pletiOn of a previously planned
parking, lot south of the business
section and Other matters of civic
• beautification., . •. •
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Reeve• Joynt said that ,as, Sethi as
main Street work was completed
this'iummer, :in regard, to repay
ing and storm sewer work; per-
manent type trash cans wouldbe
installed 'on, the main thorough,:.
The Reeve said thatthe
expenditures of road widening,
road improvement and bridge
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TIMES CHANGE!'
Times! have.snre changed I .When
we went to.higli school it- Was ,the
boys, you had to keep an eye On, ,‘
and you could be reasonably sure' •
the girls could:loOk 'after them,.
Ripley ,,District High School are
planning. a•trip to EXPO in late
June,' fourteen women
chap-
eron 68 girls in two buses: Two . •
men will chaperon 39 boys in the
third bus
•'We're pleased , as a male; to• •
see. that' the young men are so
highly regarded r or is it the in-
tegrity of the young ladies that is
doubted, surely riot,
,In any -case,.. it might he
for.the-two inen.to. keep .in touch;
with the fourteen ladies "Susi 411 .
case any.help is needed ":•.
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Fut buses'carrying close to 170
student's and chaperons from Luck
ttOw Distriet Sc,hool. Moved off
from the school 'grounds aboUt.1t40
on Stakitl safcer,n0on: for. Olqtr.
trip to Elt)01,.•,i' In. rontroal.. •
T,hr high sch:)61 groUnds were
buzzing with exciteMent: as.ttud
entS, teachers, 'cli4erons and
Well withers gatheied'in the
tobl temperatures to Wish the .rgrOup.
bonvOyage, •
Thefour bu, ses three from
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Guelph and the fourth from Mont-,
gornety Motors in' Lucknow and
driven by Allan Reed,. were expect.
ed to:be-in Montreal about Mid-
night,. They r.t;,e ir;heattled to�m-
mence'ihe retizu, on Wecines-•
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Rev R. 'Douglas MacDonald; 1.
right, a ,LucknoW native ancrguest
'minister at the anniversary services
of Lucknow Presbyterian Church On
Sunday, chats with the minister of,
the chur'Ch; Rev. Rod Maer,eod ,.•
on the left•
• Rev. R. Douglas MacDonald ,
minister of St.' Andrews Church in
Tillsonburg , was guest .minister
morning andievening at the anniv-
ersary services of Lucknow Presby-
terian Church on Sunday.
Rev. .MacDonald returned to'
occupy the: pulpit of his horne
church where his father, the late •
Rev. C. H. MacDonald ministered, ,
for many years: Also assisting in
the, spry ice was .Rev .• R. H.
MacLeod of the .Lucknow church
',Mr. William Scott' isorganist:'
and choir leader Lucknow Pres-
bYteriari Chureh and the 'choir. pre-
tented speciat'music on the occa'-''''
sionof the anniVeriary.
• In the triorning;; a sextette includ-
ing -MO'. Ross Gammie, Jndy ,Reid ,
Mrs.- Gordon. Barger , SharYn Mow-
brayl Joan MacKenzie ,and Peggy
MacDonald rendered special num -
bers.'At the evening the, .
Choir again sang ,as well al num- •••'''.
bers by: a•qpartette comprised of
Austin Loree ; ,Cyril 'Brown., Dale
Haldenby and Wayne Janiieson. • .
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• Students from Ripley District
High School, teachers and
chaperons, numbering 123 , will
spend•the week of June 19th at
EXPq.iri Montreal. . ,
• 'The groupwil traver in three
CharterWays of London: 'buses; •
.leaving Ripley at '9: 30 in the even,
ing; June 19 returningiater
the week. , • , •
.The girls'the school will
spend 'an extraday away ,:'visiting
Upper Canada Village, The Thou-
sand Island's and 'OttaWa returning
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The boys will go directly home
from EXPO and will arrive back on.
Thursday of that week. •
Miss Margatet4v!achan, teacher ,
at the tcheol, has been in charge .
of arranging the trip for the girls.
TWoOf•the buses will,be all -
fern ale witlf•68 students and 14.
chaperons. The ladies accompany-
ing the girls will be Mtg... George
Emerson,' Mrs Burton Collia , Mrs
Alvin' Robb and Miss Margaret
-Machan all teachers, •and as
,sie11 Mrs. John C. Ivi4Cnonald ,
Mrs, Hdward HarritOn,
ey Harrison, ,Mts. Edna Stanley,
Mrs•. Winnifred Orr , Mrs. Emile, '
MacLennan, Mrs', Morgan Johnston
'Morfard ackaS7 ; 'Mrs l'Oy0
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The girls will stay at the same.
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High School students are 'bil.leted . •
this week. • , •
' The.Ripley gals have been selling •
Christrn as Cards • held a skating
party, sold cook books,and last
week 'held a bake 'sale , car 'w'ash
and sold everyday cards. Almost
$600 has been realized through •
these events which.will help 'each • •
girl student in a slight reductitin
of the' cost to,them, ••
Reuben ,i3urnett; teacher arthe
school, has been iri charge of
arrangements for thehoys trip. 39
boys and 2 chaperons. Rev. George
Ball and Reg Moore, willtravel in
the all-rnale btis, ,
The boys too have been raising •
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money through several dances, •
candy •sale and light,bulb sale:
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Smoke Damage
Considerable 'smoke dam age re
suited from the' malfunction of an
oil furnace' at the borne of Mr, and,,.
rs -Roy. Havens in Lucknow about
(3 a.m. Monday. 2, •
Roy was awakened from his steep
with dense smoke hoine.
Pir1y10,11 responded to the early.
tn6rning enil, The'blackofl sic
111-kcitte faveni hmise .bnt.
rtc,rir‘;' thredt ,
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