The Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-10-08, Page 15vim EspAY,. OcTOBER 8th,1969, •
•'THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL LIJCKNOW, ONTARIO •
injuries. !
On Thursday! September 25 ,
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Let's spread kirt4rtess
Sometimes we shoot an ar- . are being pushed around,
row in the
air, which comes to • would elect bis uPPonent. •
No, it is the little things that
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'• others, we drop a.iebble in a
••Peol and the ripples' Made are
really cool. 4• : •• , . • •
Something' like this hip-
pened recently to my father -
*in -la*. On otir last vlsit 40 hiva,
inspired by who •knows What
. hidden, emotiens he flabber-
gasted us•by quotini, verbatini,
hundreds of lines of poetry he •
bad learned in public school,
•some little. while, ago: (Ile iS
: •78,) • • •
•This was , an entirely. •uneit-
pected facet •of• Grandad's per-
sonality., /We gawked with ad- •
rniration and .he lit up like a
neon sign.with modest, pride..
- Most of -Us can't remerriber
-, an, eightline POenlj fOri- -tVVO •
• Weeks, after, meinorizing.,
. •How many cari rerneMher hull= .
deeds of• lines 'after almost 10;
years. .
. •:But one thing ho.thered
. ,couldn't reinembei"- all the"
stanzas of an old' favorite, "The,
JIlacksmith." had
orie..verie in. particular which .
. he wanted `to get _straight, be-.
nt- ' Cause it virai solace to him .
his loneliness; since,. the loss .of :
;han . Wife: The smith: had lost.: '.
his wife;:toc4. but. was presSing'
nd.
„ • Most of Am•middleiageci •and •.•
.. • ., • •••••:. • • Older folk. will remernbei the
poem; or at least a few linea,.
••• .as. I .do:: • , • !
`fUnder szireading • chest.
• ._
. nut tree • ., ,
Tit?. village .-SynithY ..Stands.;
'T„4e synitk. a .mighty :fs.
!he, ••• •
With " large a 71, sinewy
hands: , , • • • '
. And something.
• ,sametking arms, •
Are stiong bandS:"."
9randad.„.is' a-: ,great •
' .perSiStence, and -he deterthined
that•.he'd remedy the lack: He
•wrOte to a farMer's magazine,
. Free• Press Weekly, and .
• •-.). *iked if anyone. could,:help sup•-• •
„:••: ••• ply the missing:verses:. •
He Was, overwhelmed,. alrnost' • •
.physiCally; by :the resPonie.
'11,40oroximately 150 ,.let,ters
came. pOtiring., .People from.
,ten Years Old to those ,in:their
nine ies wro e im. ome. re
• press something. which touches
:a chord :or.a nerve in the read.
er, ,aixl rouses, him from ,his.
habitual . apathy to heights :of
kindness or ,firy: •• •
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I've recently had a good ex-
ample. ,Not long. ago, I men-
tioned. here, in one paragraph,
a woman who is struggling to
• raise a family of six, decently,
on. welfare. A good and kindly
Woman 4 Riondel, B.C., read it
and responded. She wrote and
offered to send a box of cloth -
log for boys. ,•. •
It arrived today, and. I've
just' had a call from the woman
on welfare: She was terribly
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1969 on #86 Highway east of Luck -
now, Thomas Irwin, 323 Edward
Street ,-Wingbam struck a horse -on
the-roadway,,-Tesulting-in$50 0.00—
darnage to, his vehicle. , •
On Friday, September 26, 1969
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on #21'Highway north of #24 County
Riad, Russell James .King, R. R. 1,
Exeter and Barbara 'Beattie , R. R...
3, Godedch were involved in a • ,
two car accident resulting- in 'an •
approximate total damage of
$600.00 to the vehicles.
GODERICH
On Sunday, August 31, 1969 ori
12th and 13th Concession, Ashfield
Township east of #21 Highway,.
Brian Michael Lambertus, 139 •
Avondale Avenue, HamiltOn was'
involved in a Single car accident
resulting "in $175.00. da triage to
t e-ve ertus reer.e -ye ----,-
injuries. •°
On, Friday, September 5, 1969
on 12th Conceition , Wese•Wawan*
Township west of #22 County Road,
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Scott Ryan, 128 Britannia
Road West, Goderich was 'involved
in a ,single, car accident resultingln
$756..00 damage. Ryan 'received
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excited. The whole 'family said
• it was "Just like Christmas."
• There. is a lot of warmth in
.the . world, still. " Let's help• .
spread it around, in a genera-
tion that needs to realize it.
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On Friday, September 21$, 1;1ttki
on- the parking lot at the Goderich
Psychiatric Hospital, Donald
Cousins, 159,Wolfe Street. Godcr-
ich-1-trnck-a-parked--vehicle-r-result-7-
approx •
damage of $700.00 to the vehicles
On Saturday, September 2'7,',
1969 on #21 Highway south of #24
County Road, Douglas Dwyer',251
Cameron Street, Goderich was
involved in a single par accident
resulting in $125.00 damage to
his vehicle, •
On Saturday, September 27;
grail -County-- A4 --nori.
#20 'county Road, Donald Edward
Dungannon was involved in ..:
a singletruck aCcident resulting in• •
$200.00 damage to the vehicle he
Was driving. Aubin received
injuries.
:On Saturday, September 27, ,
19.69 on #21 Highway in Bayfield,'
Frances DillOn., ,Lake•shore Road •
West, oayfield was.involved -in a• •
single car accident resulting in •
$500,00 damage to his Vehidle..
GS. FERRIS
Provincial constable
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On Wednesday, September 24,
1969 on #19 Goderich Township
road 'north of #8 Highway, Lloyd
Anthony,Weber R. it. 2,, Clinton
was involved in a single car aocid-
ent'resulting in $50.00 damage to.,
his .vehicle..
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On Friday,,SePtember 26, 1969
on Bayfield Concession' east of
#21 Highway, David Becker; 812.
King. Street,, Kitchener was
involVed in a single car accident
resulting in $400..00 to the vehicle
he, was driving..
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•ineniberedt studying. the •po„em
and chatted about the good old
;••••••, • dayi of the •one -room: rural.
. school. . •
thers sent, the _whole poem..
Some wrote it :laboriously with.,
rheumatic fingers, Some had it:.
typed. :One' lady had torn the •
poem from an old' reader (a
'school reader, that is, not an..
old person who •Wag , reading
One customer went to the
•••:p`
trouble and expense of having':
photostatic copies made. •
F.;•-;
• What really. delighted Gran-.
dad, though, was; the kindness
of the notes . 'and letters • that
ceompanied •the—poprn.
lady Sent a long list' of other.
poems from the • old Grade•
Tilree• and_loUreaders. And '
-the letters 'came from as far
• east as NOva Scotia and. from •
B.C. in the ,West. •
Thu* my father-in-law
• learned ofthepower of the
press, •something I learned'
, years ago., But' I • also learned .
• that the term is misleading.
• • The people who plan, and .exe-
cute editorial policy and news
coverage for the daily papers
have the hilarious idea that
they have tremendous . power,
• that they influence • .people's
thoutht-a
• • It is to laugh. 'EleetiOns are
surest. proof of ;this: The dai-
lies could be:. unanimous in
supporting one .man for a cer-
tain position, and as. likely aS •
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their own sense of when they
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