HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1970-11-04, Page 1r0
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LUCKNOW, ONTARIO..
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4th, 1970 ..
Single Copy 15c
20 Pages
• 101tHoUIS.
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eilibleni •
The ciincern of the adults and
-yoiltii-O-Iffrifiref, -was yery much
in evidence on Monday eYening
of this--46-0Larbetweeir.t5frand
800 people filled the Lucknow *
Legion Hall to hear Cpl. Keith
•:Trail of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police speak and show.
films on drugs and their use.
The evening was arranged by •
the Lucknow District
Cpl. Trail spoke briefly to thos€
in attendance outlining and dis-,
playing various drugs and explain-?
Two films were shoWn t� the.
picked hall'and `an oPportu.nity ••
was given for questions.and •
answers.. Cpl. Trail, who iS in
Charge of Perth and Fruron Cotiht-
102 Years Of Age
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De.stroy
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of Harold Cooper on the St.
Helens sideroad, a half mile south.,
Of Highway 86, On Wednesday ."
morning of last Week.
Insurance officials have listed
the cause of the fire. as faulty wir-
..Mr; Cooper ipwn.s the farm
known io many as. the former Jim
Purvis place.
.He had planned a sale of mach7
inery an Saturday of last•week and
was working arotind4he 'barn
preparing the machinery for the
sale when the flash fire engulfe:d
the strUcture,'. By the tithe HarOld
phOned•Lucknow 'Fire Department,
year. He estimated .that •very:
small 'percentage of inaidenti of
detected •and.'unreported..
tJ
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Di oTict. Goverpo..r.
•now and District Lidns. Club Mon -
Ila met spoke, hig,hly' of the
wark being done by the laical.'
club.. address also touched on
the"assistanee of the LionS to the
. blind and of the problern• of drugs
with youth.
triyfilved in
sports and doMmunity work in his,
home towkof• Arthur , Was earlier
e.
as
ast,w_e_ek'4_me.e_ting was at the
Mayfair Restaurant.
Three Men
Injured In Cur
up the fire. and there was no
chance of saving the building.
• Lost in the barn were about
3000 bales Of hay, 1000 bales of
straw , 35 tons of grain, a tractor,
baler , combine: and Milking ma,/
chine along with the normal tools
and equipment common 'to •a:farm
The adjacent silo was about, .
half full and the silage was..not
' The strong winds leVelled the
'structure:in about half an hour.
The hoineh.to the north Of the
barn, was not damaged. Firemen
kept a Olose watch 9n the house: ,
eorge Newbold Is Elected As Historian
f Associated Nursing Homes of Ontario
operators of Pinecrest Manor Nurs-
vacationing in. Florida following
attendance at the" annual conyen-
Homes Inc. of Ontario in Niagara
Falls, Ontario, George and Mary
pletion of the convention October
•After, a three year holiday froth
the e.'kecutive where he served on.:
'the- board of •directors• at. -Well as.,
completing a'time as president..,•
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tOort. Degree•
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A Lucknow native, Who has.
spent the:latter half Of 'her life in
her 102nd birthday on Friday
.Mrs: Harry (Mary Campbell).
Pierce was bOrn Lucknow in
1868 ;la daughter of Lucknow's
first: merchant , post master and ,
Reeve , Malcolm Campbell,:. Her
mother was the former Margaret
rm trawl
Goderich, is in serious .condition •
in Victoria Hospital, London,
With head injudes, after the car
he was driving collided with a
milk truck Saturday noon..
it'll'''. fair cOndition in Victoria
Hospital with a fractured right
to hit left foot, .
crash occurred at an intersection
on 2nd, Concession of Asl,tifield •
Township, about two ,miles•neirth
"of the. Nile and .west of the
County road.
Truck dtiver Carmen Whyt-
for injilrieS artbe Alexandra
: each. He wag later transferred
to a London Hospital,,, He was
• driving a truck for the Teeswater
Mrs.). Mary Pierce; seated, cel-..
ebrated her 102nd birthday Octob-
al. in Winnipeg where sittli is a
patient:: Clockwise arotind her
are , nephew Malcom .Watson,
,of•Litaknciw;•niece Lorna -.Camp --
.and Mrs,' Malcolrp Watson; Mrs.
in the town ,'and Mrs'. Campbell.'
Ian Remembrance
ay Observance
brance Day next Widnesday;
the LUCknow United Church at
at the Lubknow, Cenotaph it
a .M.. Veterans*, Ladies' Auxii-
..iary, Girl Guides, Brownies,.
Hall at 9.45. LucknoW School
-pand will head the church parade
and following the church service,
Legion members Will form part .
Helens at 2.3Q p. m
The annual Remembrance ban-
quet and dance, for Veterans
and their husbands, will be held •
at the Lucknow Legion Hall on
Saturday evening; Noyember 14th.
Stan Wells of GuelPh, Ontario Leg
ion Public Relations Cbairman; :
will be guest speaker,.
Mary Carnpbell grew up in this
community and served as Lucknow
Postmaster from 1901 t9 1914. Fol-
lowing her marriage'to Harry
Pierce native -of this.comMun-
ity she went to Winnipeg in 1915
He operated a latin
there . She• has' resided there, ever
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When Mrs., Pierte first came to
Manitoba in 1915 there were "no. •
'Portage (Avenue) to catch a
the Princess Elizabeth Hospital,
in Winnipeg.celebrated her birth-
day at a small reception for fam-
ily and friends the hospital sol-
Mrs: Pierce it mentally alert
and' brlight and can remember •
write to her regularlY.
Out-of-town relatives attending
the small party we•re LOrna\Carrip-
bell and Helen., Thompson Luck-
to nOW , Ontario; Mr. and Mrs. Mal-
colm C.. Watson; Chula Vista,'
Californi; Mr. and. Mrs., .Burton
Mrs. A. E.. Chapman, Regina
Mrs. Pierce is an aunt of Lorna•
Campbell of Lucknow and a great
aunt of Helen Thompson of Luck,:
rid -Ott -er_zineinhers-of the- '
said Mrs. Pierce described her • Thoinpson
brown material, beautifully tail- visited by her great great great •
ored , and the hat had a lovely niedes Susan and Nancy Thompson
Thompson of LuCknowl.
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his•Master of Science degree .in
Geography (Meteorology) a 'the
,ii.
Autumn ConVocation ,, PC er
31, from the University o lberta
he received his B.A. degree from
Western University.
• Don has begun his Doctorate
studies, and plans' to,remain in •
'Edmonton for the next 3 years in
:order to,completehii Ph.D.. in
Geography.
RUMOUR ONLY
appears to be false. /
The Settiitiel contacted two
Was very. thankfully only runiour.
Provincial Police in Kincardine
had no record of any incident.