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THE LUCKNOW' SENTINEL,, :LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1970
The LUCKNOW SENTINEL
LUCKNOW ONTARIO
"TIN Sepoy 'Town"' On. the Huron*B rue. Bound, ary •
Second Class Mall dation Number.. 0847 '
Established. 1873 — Published. Each Wednesday 'Afternoon
Member of the CW.N.A., and O.W.N.A.
Subscri p0.on. Rate . $5 00 a year ,in . advance — to ttie U.S.A.,, 7.00
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Donald C.: Thompson, Publisher
WEDNESDAY,. SEPTEMBER 23, 1970
A TRE ENC0US SUCCESS!
Lucknow Fall Fair was a tremendous sum. It is becoming
known far . and wide and is .certainly one of the leading Fairs in this
area.
Pe tape it has.,so�nme of the agricultural classes .it hard, many
years ago, but it has taken on a new add brighter look andhas gained.
areputation of .offering "something for everybody". '
It seems hard to imagine that a few weeks ago, a meeting, was
held in Lucknow to determine if Lucknow Fair.. would continueor not.
To the binder, this que.nn sees ridiculous in view of the successes
A special -meeting of -West
Wawanosh Township Council was
called for September 17th and
took. place at the home of the
Clerk...
The Clerk reported to Council
the `results of a conference with
two'bepartment of Municipal
Affairs-FirianGial Adviser -s -:-held •
'on Monday, September. 14. The
two, Advisers instructed the Clerk. in the proper way toapply the per
capita gram to benefit they residen-
tial and farm property owners:
They also, advised that separate
mill rates are' still needed for the
different school sections' formerly'
supported by West Wawanosh rate-.
payers , to assure proper credit' or
•debit of over levies, and under.
levies'outlined by, the Board•of
Education. As a result a new . bud:-
get was prepared and'the, various
ET TAX RATES
OCTOBER. 3.0
mill rates set up. •
Councillors Foran, and Rutherford
moved'torescind By -Law, # 9,'
1970 ,, passed September 8, 1979,
and'the motion carried., •
By -Law # 10, 1970, -was finally •
.pas/n. motion of Councillors.
Rutherford and Aitchison , .and
carried. This by-law authorizei.
ihe'levying of 1970 taxes through
set mill rates and, sets the due -
date,lfor payment oftaxes at Oct-;.
ober 30, 19.70.
Rates set are: General Town-
ship, Farm and residential, 17; ,
Commercial and. Industrial, 23;
County, 20.5; Auburn, 15 and 14;
Colborne Township S . A
23.74 and 26.38; Huron: No. 2
(Mhfield and West, Wawanosh),
8.63 and 9.58; Hullett Township
S.A. , 1G;41 and 18.23;' East •
Wawanosh, 12.43; Lucknow,-Kin^
loss, 22,98 and: 25.48; Separate ,
Huron -Perth, (Wingham and
'Kingsbridge) 11 and a 12.23 Bruce: -
Grey :
ruce-Grey.T(Lucknow), 25 Goderich
'High School Area, 14.s7 and 16.3.
Huron -Bruce High School'Area.,
14.37 and 15.97; Dungannon
Lights,,
Cou-nc-il-was-infgrned-that
inquiries: into the transfer' of part
lots , had revealed that the final
decision of the sale of partial
lotslies with the Department of
Municipal Affairs, and as -a .courts
esy to the Municipality in'
which the transfer is taking place
.the Municipal Council is notified
and requestedto grant approval.
Council adjourned to meet:
again October. 6th.
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-JOAN ARMSTRONG,
. CLERK.. •
Entries
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• .Bit to those m the inside the . question was very real. It takes
money, and a lot 01 it, to promote. a Fair lite; the Lucknow area was
treated tom Saturday. ilsis maoey.'doesn't .come.. easily to the Agricul-.
f'i i •
tural Society. Sara the meeting. in question,
Twenty-eight' babies were: enter.
ed in three classes in the Baby..
Show at the Lucknow Fall Fair.
The number of entries" were down
the, Fair board has been. considerably from• last year when
_IL' eoceurarte+d by tooi'Ie3 _01.greateifutaneial r as$iBtanCe- brthe-irl 43 babies were shown- . T r. W A
u111�-)
Crawford` o Wing am an Rut
-Thompson , Public Health Nurse •
of Lucknow were the . judges.,: assis.
ted by Mrs•'. J.. G. `1VIc'Kim and '
Mrs.' Jack MacDonald.,. both of .
Lucknow, . ,
Winners in `the under :6 months
class were; first Bradley Wall,.
son of.Joyce Wall of. Kinloss;• sec
and Bruce Hallam, son of Mr.'
Bayfield;' third Mary Helm
k'� f h d h
is
1.
: .. Horne new . workers .have . offered 'their. ,assistance, but the
fact remaiins that those rile' for: carrying the "load” of running
the Fair are still very few in numbers.: / '
, .Fair--ia-one-of the : few- remaining : community ef=
forts which: puts the town' on the: Map: ..The Miss Midwestern. Ontario
Beauty Contest, with the:winner havinga chance to become Miss Dom-
inion of Canada,. is one of the most valuable entertainment promotions
ever negotiated for .any small' community,
Out hats > go • off to a loyal band of Fall Fair viarke ra, who des-
pite--maa-ups-and-downs; continue, to:provide-this-are a�with-an`annual-
event whiCh deserves our `complete support.
A: Guest.Editorial;.
HOW BIGIS-YOUR GOD
BY PAT SPARKS
F. E. MADILL SECONDARY SCHOOL. ,.
Over the past few years, I have been exceedingly annoyed by
the ung number of :sceptics . and atheists in our : society, not
because I. am a religious fanatic, nor : because ' I feel that God needs
any dee, but because • I have been disillusioned about ' the ability.
of man to reason.
At. Fall Fair ,Baby Show
daugher of. Mr. , and Mrs: Bill
,Black of:'R. R.' 1 Dungannon...
The•ten entries in the 6 to 12
months
-class were topped by
Craig McNeil, son of Mr, and,•
B`ob`�vl -Nell of R. R. 6
Goderich,-1-n-second-place
'Trevor Hunter; son of„Mr. and.
Mrs, Herb Hunter of,London and:
Ah-i-rd-was�-Be�r.--o_:.=-,..Qn-
and.Mrs. Mike Lucas 'of W'ingham,,
Consolation prizes were won by
Kendrahowry•, .daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lynn Lowry of Amber,.
ley. and Charlene Conley, daugh-
ter of Mr. and.Mrs, Mac Conley
o "Lila now dthers in this class
were Donald son of Mr. and,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Art
Helm of Lucknow; consolation
prizes went to. Arletta and Ang
ela..Glenn; ,.twin daughters of Mr.• .
:and Mrs. Gerry Glenn of Dungan-
non. Other entries were Melonia.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs ,Wilms
Nicholson of R •R 1 Holstein;
Susan . daughter ,of Mr. and
Steven Bell of Oshawa, Stephanie
Gary Hall of'.Kitchenerwas fourth.
and Jeffrey. Lackie , son 'Of Mr.
and Mrs. Dave Lackie of; Ripley
'was fifth. 'Other entries were • ''
Richard , son :of .Mr .. and Mrs.
Fi°evor--@uri-nn-o- Kinczrdine ;
e .was: Keith son of Mr, and .Mrs, Glenn
Hodgins of. Kinloss;' Jamie , son
of Mr, and Mrs. Jim Humphrey
Qf Lucknow teff�ry son of Mr,
and Mrs. Murray Wilken of R. R.
1 Ripley,; ;Jeffrey , son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest' Ackert:of'Holyrood. •
'W m. A. Schmid of 'Lucknow
donated the prizes for the first
two classesand the Lucknow
Agiicultu-ra-1-So6iety-donated-t e .
Mrs. Doug Martyn of R. R. 3
Lucknow; Bradley,; son of Mi.
and Mrs! Bryon Black of • R.': R. 7
Lucknow; Michael, son of Mr.
and Mrs;.. Larry' Pentland of
rDungamiro Dav d s`on pf-Mr. and
Mrs: Allan MacDougall of Kinloss;
Tylor , son of Mr and `• Mrs. •
Harvey. Hammond of R. R. 7,
Lucknow.
prizes for the third class.
Stocker iSalk
H�IdOfl Monday
• 275 cattle went through the'
ring at:the Lucknow Community
Sale stocker. sale on. Monday:
10,:heifers , averaging ,580 lbs. ,
It has always been my belief that no matter how many: ridiculous
Hess arg put forward, intellectuals can never be easily duped., How-
ever, this is where: I went astray for I was .depending on the greatness
of .man, and man's greatness :is not dependable: For some time now,
bee plagued_bj►'_`the=-phrase;—. tit
simply . joined our list of cliches: I, • not trusting rumour, question who
unearthed this phenomenon. The argument. has.beento me.
that no one'discovered it. 'How can yoyou figureout a
thing -, presented
when common' sense tells us. • that such a. God has never'been like that
alive?
We, supposedly, have known it all along, and 'only recently have we
shad-enough-insight-to-psaltie ite=enlightenment--nf -our scientific=
age, we have discarded this .God; who ' never existed, and whogrew
from our primitive -sup tions, for our own; self-sufficiency. Do you
• believe that we really are self-sufficient? If we. are, why are we in-'.
capable of solving the numerdu's' difficulties in our world
ally ..
of decreasing?
.Then again, there are those who when, everything goes wrong,'
Mk the brilliant
Question, `Where is there' .a God in a world bite
this?". Need -I. :remind _ :you, that :when the world was created, laws
were also 'set up? Man was given a. will of his' own. Consequently, how
can man make his own choices, build his own messes,and then blame
them on a God that he only, believes in when necessary?. In other:
• • words, either • support• God completely, or stand by :yourself and buffet
the world With. your .own. _, fyouchoose._-the=lanerr-I wish you
luck, for itis usually the motive for suicide. The person is unable to
.fight the whole of mankind single-handed.,
Once .again the boys took top
place, when Clinton Belanger, 'son.
Jud �es.( Horses At ` sof Mr. and Mrs: Arthur Belanger
• of Lucknow won the 12 to 18
KIflQStOfl :SOW ' .., 'months class ,Sher-ty NiXon.,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.. Delbert
Nixon of Lucknow was second and.
Jason Conley , son of Mr.'and
Mrs. Douglas Conley of R. R '2
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Elmo Pritchard of Lucknow:had
a busy tithe judging horses 'last
week. .He acted as judge -at the'
=1 eversha-mrFal=Fafr Tuesday
Harriston Fall Fair Thursday and
left. •from
Harriston fdr. Kingston a . _
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where he judged at the Kingston.
Exhibition,on Friday and Saturday.
Pritchard has recently
been ill and did not accompany
Elmo to Kingston:: Len Bok. of ' ,'•
Wingharn went with 'Mr .
Pritchard. :
,The Kingston Exhibition is a
three day show and Elmo referred
globe, ho>�much answer,
o you Iask thinkyou, of all there is to be known
'Oil our you know? Do you' know
e
hundred percent? Impossible?Fifty percent? m
Scarcely! Ten ?
Hardly likely! One percent? It is doubtful. Don't you think that due to
the fact that your knowledge is so minute, God could quite easily.be
located in the other ninety-nine percent?
th ecnglrean^pla =third=Ehr
opher'Ha11 son of Mr. and Mrs.
-h'orsesh'oes
Royal"', He judged light horses,
ponies and heavy horses on Friday
and Saturday, returning home
Saturday night.... _
While in Kingston he'had'a •
short visit with Grant Rutherford
who is on the Kingston police
force andwas formerly a resident
of St. Helens:
WANT ADS
GET RESULTS
consigned by, Leo. Courtney of
Ashfield sold to George Moncrief
of Ashfield for 27.90.
10 calves averaging 4.47 lbs..
:we:reaconsigned-by�Blake A:lt-omoi._
:Belfast and sold to peter de Boer
of;Langside::for 36¢..
17 Hereford steers, averaging'
.793 lbs. 'were sold `to 'M.r, Cole
Ttie-y::_
'were consigned by. Bob.Mclntosh. '
Monday, --Oct.-
ACCOMMODATICIN •
F'Ok400MEAD-__._.
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ROBERT McINTOSH
PHONE RIPLEY, 395-5230 OR LUCKNOW 5211-1412.
,AUCTIONEERS
Emile MacLennan Allan Macintyre