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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-09-10, Page 1rd, 1969 • ■f • fC ■1 I7c • re RE :I $5.00 A Year In. Advance $2.00 Extra To U.S.A.. CLOSE KINTAIL AREA FOR R `Tt esday.of this week, September 9th, the Krntail Post office was officially -closed after serving.the people of that district for 113 years, The closing follows•a pattern set put recently by the Canada Post'Office whereby many of the smaller post offices. across Canada, are being closed out in favour of. , .larger units, Pictured is the present postmast- er at':'Kintail', William VanOsch as he handles a •few of the final letters to be mailed through Kine. ail, Bill told•'The Sentinel: that ., Kintail was serving about twelve permanent year round patrons, it. the.time;oi the closing but that the volu•m? gf..mail'handled through ' ' the post office was about' four times great er;during thesumrimer months when:district. summer cottagers, sumnner'camps And trailer camps• were serviced through. the Kintail office,, .Mr.• VanOsch has been • postmaster at. Kintailfor about • three ,years, since purchasing the CONTINUED bN PAGE 2 LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY,, SEPTEMBER '10th, 1969 • IFF:ICE SERVES Iu IIIA/I1I�IIIaIIIf IIl•IIIuIIIuIIIuIIluIII III e n ni III�III■Ili�lll�ll �{II�III�fI1BIII�III�111�IN�ILI�III�III�I11111�111�111�111�111�111�111�111A111�. • •Every golfer dreams of a "hole in one'', but not the kind that a Kitchener ;area.'man registered recently °.. this QLe_itone ' happe 15c 1 1420' ?c'ii7t • • be right through ,the windsshield'of thetruck of Glen 'Walden Lucknow who;was driving on the highway near Floradale We imagine it Save Glen a bit ' Mr and •Mrs.: Irvin have a fain-, of a• start to have the'•ball'conle ily of five who were all present .crashing through`thewindshield. :.' They are.Ni'r Mrs. Percy and The. ball was pulverized and.the. (Anna) Blundell of Goderich, Mr..' ' golfer will nodoubt, be able to'' and; Mrs. . Robert Irvin. of Dungannon keep it'to remind him of an'expen- Mrs.. Bertram(Willa) Curran of / sive game of golf'. • London, Mr and Mrs, Eldon. IttlitM/HtEt.lilliitNf1101-1119111111111111110ITrYFDor-een Ir-w-in-oforandeumin-and- ins e ebrate� 55th Anniversary Mr, and Mrs. Wm. Irvin of Ashfield celebrated their 55th we' ding 'anniversary' on Monday, September the :fust.:: The dinner was -held at 2 o'clock at ;Brookside School' with the !Hakes U.C.W. ladies catering. • Ivir:.and Mrs. Russell Irvin of Teeswater,.Ripley Ashfield;.'and their thirteen grand p,..y'`_jchildren. UdntiBvssed..T ucknow Classes Home' Economics and Industriai .Arts are being taught to .grade -7 .•' and 8 pupils from the Teeswater and Ripley Public Schools with classes being h•eld' in the mornings • • at 'Lucknow Public School. The first' class was on•Monday - with Teeswater.students being tiles transporxed_her CONTINUED ON PAGE •1' I NTIL Also '•resent :were Mrs rvin's brother Wesley Alton and Mrs :Alton,' of London, Mr. Irvin's'• sister', Mrs; Charles Morrison of 'Clinton,' Rev. and Mrs:: -Hummel • Of 'Ashfield United Church Other; guests were present .from'. T'bamesville Sarnia, London, • Goderich, •,Clinton and/ Wingham 4. After dinner' the guests were in= , vited to Mr 'and Mrs:.:Irvin's hornc, e •, eaa nt: after -noon. was :. spent. • • -W iris In' ,Ontario 'Glen Cowan, son of Mrs. 'Frances Cowan. of Lucknow, recently placed second in an internationalcornpet- itiOti for millwright apprentices which took place at the Conrad Hilton -Hotel in Chicago, August, 13' to 16; len is iu hi,s fourtlra-nd fi • year apprenticeship andwill com- plete it in October . He resides in Kitchener, and throughout his app.,. renticeship has been employed by ,11-1idttstles• . 1 -Ie Was sponsored. by ,the local' ' 1916 of the millwrights union of Hamilton, a division of the United'. Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. Jim Stevenson', business represen= tative for the union told The. - Sentinel last week that the union had sponsored Glemin:the Ontario Provincial Apprenticeship contest at George Brown o ege o pp ie Arts & Technology in Toronto in May. .Glen won the Ontario •award & W'ent on to the international Con- test at Chicago where he placed second to a young pian froth ,California. Both a written, arid FaiFair Chan e :g NightShow TO, PubIic School vt ck-now-Fall Fair=Boar-at: a-�- meeting on .Thursday night , dec- ided .to-.change.•the'location for 'the Vince,:Mountford variety show and Miss Midwestern. Ontario Beauty Contest. from the .Lucknow arena:' to the. Lucknow .Public School This .will be on Fair night ,: September 20. • `The regular. Fall Fair Dance -was earlier switched to.Friday`night, • September 19 at the. Lucknow Public School with music the Magic Cycle This wily give a longer period for dancing than it would by staging the dance , foll- owing the Saturday event. T e variety show and beauty ,contest was changed because of. renovations' presently' underway at. the Lucknow• ar°ena.. Ali the 'fond- er seating.. ar'the :arena has been ripped dut,' and this, along with •acoustic problems in the' empty arena,' prompted the decision to chazige' to the'pu'blic ,school The, seating capacity at the school is notas large and this Was a.factorwhi;ch..the-1air-Board-di notlike in making; the change. ' Visit .Holland And =Brother's Grave::. ivlr. and Mrs. Gordon'Montgom- ery ontgom-ery of Lucknow and Mr; and Mrs. William. (Isabelle Montgomery), Collins of Preston left' Tuesday of this, week on a ten..d;ay trip;:to •, Holland The .charter flightand.ten days in Holland is arranged by the Neth- erlands War Graves Commission and the. Canadian Legion, Robert Montgomery, brpther o ° Gordon and Mrs: Collins.,'was , killed in action with the Canadian Army.in Germany in the last few days of the second world war. • He. is buried in I- olton Cemetery near Nijmegan, Holland. He was in his late twenties when tie was ,killed; in. action, The Dutch , `through the; years , hove dared for graves and cemet eries of Canadian servicemen buried' in their country and foi -many 'years , ,the'late--Mrs. James Moritgotnery, .mother of Robert, • corresponded with a Dutch family • who. personally attended her son's gra Contact, has been lost with this mily inrecent years and it 'is' the in rition Of the two couples 'to try and establish contact. again with this family, • The''C'anadians on•the flight will be billeted in Dutch homes While.. in 'Holland • Several others, from :this district. have,: in previous • years, 'taken .this same trip to .t :practical test:was required in.the competition, • John Emersa0Dies :: John B . Emerson,. a resident .of Lucknow for anurimber of years andJprior to that a resident. of .the, Purple Grove . area ,. died suddenly : , at his Lue-know home -on ond.ay— e He was 75 years Of age. • The funeral will be held Wednes- ^ day, September 10. at 2 p. m, at the.Johnstone Funeral Horne in • L-uc•-kno-W- with burial -iii -Z 'eiih ll Cel etery,, Lucknow'. HERE ANDT•FERE Following orr request in last we i .e friends' have been good enough to fill us in on some of the education, plans. for distric9roung1people. Peggy MacDonald ,.daughter Mr. and Mrs-. Bob MacDonald of' Lucknow„ commenced nurses' train- ing at St Marys Hospital in Kitchener on Tuesday. Wanda' Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wilson of West. Wawanosh , . will attend Western. University'. She commenced an honor general arts course on Monday.. George: Bushell, a native of • Kinloss. Township and son.of Mr:. and Mrs Edbart RushelL',.:.i.s...taking his Master's Degree at,the'Univers ity, of Toronto.. •Barbar.a. Cameron, daughter. ofd"": Mr, and. Mrs•, Ken Cameron of Lucknow; has returned to the University •of Guelph where she is • in her 1styear in the veterinarian's course.. She "has completed' two . years in the. Bachelor of Science in A gricuiture course and . four more will give: het. a veterinarian's• degree., Beverley MacDonald, daughter of •Mr. and Mrs. Jack MacDonald oi" Luck • entered now has: Western Holland and: have been, veru .much University in London in her `.first' impressed with:the :treatment rec- eived as guests` of the Hollanders'. • Miu DCIMINICN o WILL MAKE ANNU� • Miss Dominion of Canada has be- come a yearly visitor to the • Lucknow Fall Fair & associated with Miss Midwestern Ontario Beauty Contest held on Fah nigght.' This year will beno exception and plans have bee, '., progress for many. weeks now in preparation for the ,41 September 20th event._ •Nl'%s dominion of Canada will ride in 'the Fair parade andlater crown Miss Midwestern Ontario on Fair night, The local winner Will have" a chance to 'enter the: Miss. CONTINUED ON PAC-.