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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1967-12-04, Page 19th,KI .UE 9c ICE • '1 •14c. r5 c $4,s0 A Year In Advance $1.011 Extra To U.S LUCKNOW; ONTARIO IRIKES RI AREA Wil -YEAR-OLD OLYRO MURRAY ELLIOTT • • Tragedy again struck this area on Monday of this week With the.. death of Murray Elliott of the Ripley-Holyrood district.: Murray, who would have been•thirteen years old next week, was found dead by his two young brothers , in • their eighth concession barn about. the supper hour -Monday. He, was the,•son of Mr: 'and, Ma, • Harold • Elliott who' farm on the •.• former Earl Culbert place, midway between Holyrood and . Ripley Mr, and. Mrs.. Elliott. were in Ashfield :on Mon, day assisting other members of the family. The children arrived home from, Ripley, -Huron Central School where, Murray was in Grade 7 and the three oldest boys, Murray, Wayne 11 and Brian 8 had comm- enced the chores at the barn as was their habit. Murray had gone to the loft of the barn to throw' down some hay, which he did. The two, ;. younger boys later became concern- ed as to why Murray hadnot joined, them and went upstairs and found their older brother dead. In some manner, he had become entangled about the neck with baler twine. The brothers immediately sought, help .and` Dr. Tindall of Ripley. and :.:10e E 19c I5c f 'miner of 'Galt. Gregory tcy.4. ries effect. Toll Free. Calliflg Between LucknoW and Wingham, Lucknow and Ripley; To Take Effect Locally On'' Longdistance char es on all 8 tele hone'calls between 'Lucknow P . and Ripley and between Lucknow P Y and 'Nin ham exchan es'will dis- g S appear as of December 17. W.. M. Campbell, Bell Canada's .... manager for this area said that • toll-free calling is being instituted between these exchanges became of the social And business :tiesthey, share • "These communi'tire hav�ac been interrelated to' some degree,' he said, "but inrecent years, the ' assoCiation'has become. more pro- , nounced. " Mr,Campbell.said .negotiations With the Ripley, exchange, operated • by the Huron and Kinloss: Municipal Telephone System•, were conducted with the utmost co-operation of both companies'. "Our dealingswith the Huron and•Kinlosssystem have always been exemplary.". he. added The manager said, that, the enlarging of the Lucknow' exchange's local -calling' area will bring about a rate increase which will be reflected in' the ;first: bill after the new service has been in. augurated. Clayton Nicholson, manager of the Huron and Kinloss Telephone „has -stated rbaz_R pley Telephone (extended Customers will get E.A.S.E.A .• ... __ Area Service with no toll charge applied) effective December.17;with Lucknow. According to Mr: Nicholson this is another step of progress and .priv-. •ilege given to their customers, The original' .planning for this ser- vice began as early as 1963, but with dial conversion, agreements with neighbouring Bell Teleptone. System equipment and circuit '. E WEDNESDAY, DEC. ith, 1%7 Coroner Dr', J.C. McKim of. Luck - now came to the scene:. A''post mortem was conducted on the youth in Stratford ons Tuesday mor- ning. Results indicated that death was due to asphyxiation Murray is survived by his parents Mr. ,and Mrs. Harold Elliott, Mrs Elliott being the former Violet Hamilton of Ashfield; ,two' sisters, Linda 15. Deborah 10; : three brothers, Wayne '11, Brian 8 and Ronnie 6; grandparents Richard • Elliott: of Holyrood and; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hamilton of Ashfield. The funeral service will be held Thursday, December . 7th from the McLennan -McCreath Funeral Home in Ripley. . "It, is certainly good to get :the Sentineland read of all the news. around home" writes Mrs . -Glen (Beverley Gaunt) McDonald of West Germany, 'Glen 'is, a .teacher for the Canadian' Forces there. installations, it will become' a reality on December 17. ' This;RipleySystem has. always tried to give their customers im-' proved service.' Ripley now has, E.A.S. with Kincardine and Dun- gannon, un-gannon, while Dungannon has 'E.A.S. with Auburn, Goderich, Lucknow and Ripley. Gordon Anderson Loses Thumb Corn Accident Gordon W Anderson of the, 7th .concession o, f Ashfield Township severly injured the thumb of his right hand in a corn picking acci dent at the'Anderson 'farm••last • Friday. Itwas necessary to later aniput the thumb Gordon .. s. work%ng• alone at the .time but ma` ged to free himself . from the corn picker. and make his way to the house ' He is presently in Si.Joseph's Hospital, London undergoing skin. grafting, Election In •Rile.. For Four Council o, gr eMacLeanIs • ReeveFor-7thTerm- With election fever just over in . . Huron Township,.their ' sister • Community of•Ripley will' go to the polls. on Monday, December Copy lie 24 s NEW REEVE Omar Brooks., councillor in Luck- now for the past eight years, was elected 1968. Reeve of the village b acclamation at last week's y� nomination meeting.. fteEnoon- hef-all six men hada qualified. Candidates, however, have until nine p.m. Tuesday night to withdraw but it now appears that the six will all go in the election: George' MacLean was re-elected Six men will seek :four council byYacclamation as Reeve of Ripley seats: on' the Ripley•municipal for his seventh term, George council., Present members George served as councillor for seven Tratiter, Rob„ rtLove, Dr.: Peter years prior to becoming Reeve. Bissonnette and 'John Dodds will: be challenged by two newcomers, Clayton Nicholson and; Rod. Mac- Donald; : ry This article was written: Tuesday 1 Also at Monday's nomination meeting, Ivan Cook was returned to the Ripley -Huron Township School Area • Board by acclamation., c F r11e t?r llW WIlam,R.. Lowry:was'elected as Reeve of Huron Township on Mon- day by a majority of•18 votes over ; Russel Needham. Mr. 'Lowry polled 255 to Mr. Needham's 237.Th'e close contest will see Mr : Lowry • return as Reeve for his fourth' year, having previously served as Deputy-Reevefot three years and councillor for five years, .Russel , 'Needham, the present Deputy Reeve,. has served in that capacity "'for three .}tears after,three years on council • Melville Pollock will be Huron's new Deputy. by acclamation. Four men sought three council seats in Mondays election. Two newcomers to municipal politics , toppedthe polls for council—Einer • Smeltzer of Reids. Corners led in 'COUNCIL, (3'Elected) No..1 Reids Corners No. • 2 Bethel .....„.. ...... No. 3 Purple .Grove :. No...4 Twp. Hall,; Ripley No. 5 Herb Clayton's • Total: ,1 Votes polling 375, Second in, 'the ... .race •was Robert Emerson of Purple Grove with 314 votes;: The other seat' onc:ouncil was captured by Russel, Stanley,. a member•: of/the present•council, who polled 277 John Feguson, also presently on council, received 234 votes and. Was defeated in, his bid for' return to office_. The results of the vote areas follows: REEVE No. 1 Reids 'Corners 73 • 52 No. 2 Bethel 64 49, No..3 Purple Grove ,... w 43 59 No. 4 Twp. Hall, Ripley 39 No. 5 Herb Clayton 41T 36' Total : ... .::.: .255 .237 Emerson Ferguson Smeltzir Stanley 86 112 : 36 34. . 86 ?2 42 52 .34 54 X314 W7 • 47 Santa'Claus made his first visit to Lucknow on Saturday afternoon and.was greeted -by inatiy children at the Krieehtel building on Ltick' ,now main street.. Two Qf' those who were anXiotis to -rrieet ta;.were • Johnny Barger, 4 --year-old son of.• Mr: :,and,Mrs. Alan Barger of Ash- field , sh-field, sitting on Santa's knee,' and Anne•Alton, 4 -year -o14 daughter of Mr....and Mrs,. Clayton Alton 9f Ashfield. Santa; will return to Lucknow for two more Saturdays December 9 and 16 and Lucknow • businessmen will stage free skating for the next three Saturdays, Dec- .e ber 9.,, ,16.,_a nd 23,, '. �: