The Lucknow Sentinel, 1970-12-16, Page 1$5.00 A Year In Advance $2.00 Extra To U.S.A.
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16th, 1970
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02nd Birth
Lived 83 . Years
t Whitecliurcli
Robert McClenagian, who.•was
born, raised and lived, in the
Whitechurch district for 83 years,
and retired from farming there 19;
years ago, •.quietly celebrated his.,
102nd birthday in the Godericl
Nursing Home on Monday of last
week.
Blessed with a long life of
exceptionally good health, Mr.
Mcclenaghan has remained inter,
ested in all that takes place and •
is still a constant::newspaper read-
er.. He has' not been enjoying the
best of health for .thepastfew
months' but 'until that time w•as
remarkably well and had never
,been seriously.ill. ' He .also has a
wonderful memory, and 'can still
recall' many incidents other Mem-
bers of;thefamily have forgotten.
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'Win i ,j/
Juveniles
DivisEonOfSilver—
Stick
Tournament
The. t u know3uvenile.' Hooke -y
I•
Club came home from. Moore
town oil Sunday as the ';D". ivi-
{ sii3n winners in the North Amer-
j lean Silver. Stick Hockey Tolima-.
anent.
The previous week: end; the
•boys. had: Won over ,Cottazn and
Point Edward and -came up again=
st Forest in the finals.. Lucknow
defeated Forest.41- 1 to win the •'
championship. Coal scorers were
.Donald Mann ,':Allan Andrew ,
Mike Courtney and John Ember
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Three members of the family
of Mr, and Mrs:. Allan. Maclntyre
of Kinloss were out to meet Santa
Claus when he made his visit to
Lucknow on Saturday'., ' They are ,
left to' right , Heather ,,'age 2;
Helen., .'age 4 and 4brother Paul,
age 5 ' Santa had • a treat for
them as he did for all other child-
ren: who were in •Lucknow1 that day
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.orrespondents-Ativertisers Please Note
Neat week's issue of The Sentin-
el•will be the annual Christmas
Greeting one in 'which many bust
` ness' places and individua ls' in'.the
area take the opportunity to ex-
tend season's greetings to their
customers through the pages of
• this newspaper.
As well.as . .
Christmas greetings, it will still
• give the advertiser the -opportunity
to use the paper for regular adver-
tising directed at•'the last minute
gift shopper.
Next week's paperwill be pub-
lislied, one. full—day ,earlier andw.ili
1 !I •
be on the street on Tuesday in-
stead of Wednesday, the normal •
day. ' Those who have not'contac
ted us about a Christmas greeti g,
Thursday of this week the
will b� th
deadline..
• Ttiose'who might wish regular •
,advertising, classified advertising
oant
y new 1 ems inser d • i ne 117
week's paper, please contact us
by 'the • end of this week at the'lat-
est.
•
Rural correspondents who regu- •
larly submit their news each;
week,; are asked ttrhave anypos
'sible early copy to us, by Friday
or: Saturday.. The remainder:of
the .rural news can be handled :up.
.until noon-on_lvionday , but. no
later Please try arrange arra a some
type of personal delivery for this
week as the Chrlistmas. mails will
be uncertain.
There -will be no issue between'
,.Christmas and. New Years, Dec-
ember 30th, with the first issue
after Christmas. on January 6•.
Anyone wishing to advertise any
events, prior to January 6., should
use next, week'x paper.
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Greetings
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Jerseyjslands
Morn, how arc you'?" wai
the voice" that greeted Mrs.
Jessie Allan of Lucknow when she.
picked up her phone at 8 p.m.
last. Thursday evening.
It was .2, a . m . in. the Jersey ,
Islands in the "English Channel
/ and the phone call was froth her
son Russell who has 'been working.
in a hotel theres`ince July of
• 1969. •
Russell•, as well as extending
Christmas greetings to ha mother',
wanted to"extend the •compliments
of •the season to all Lticknow area
friends. ,
He had been surfing that after-
noon and reported' a temperature
of 80, degrees. .
Mrs. Allin had,also received a
'call from a man visiting in Goder-
ich recently. The gent had been
on vacation at the hotel where
Ruissel1 works .and noticing'' "V'an
couvet" on his suitcases , Russell
enquired as to his destination.
'When it .Was.learned that the wan
planned a visit to Goderich.; Rus-
se l aske
1 d Would you• phone my
-mother!' .Y which the 'gentleman
did.
Eachof the players received
a .pennant and lapel pin signify..
ing'the win:
Keith. Kilpatrick and Terry
hrhwe 11 L L codL.11- a-nd=rria-rr get
of the Lticknow Juveniles:'
Their next regularly scheduled.
game is Frifday. in Ripley..
Wilson Armstrong
Dies From
Head Injuries
W. J. Wilson Armstrong, a
native. of this area and a resident
of Nobleton riear"Toronto for `
many, years., died on Sunday at•.'
the result of .a. head injury he
received ten days before. Mr.
.Armstrong.'was•`57 years of age.
Orr December 3rd he was driv-
ing an Ontario Hydro truck at his
job in the, Nobleton area. The
CONTI(Nt3 ED ON PAGE .2
Ripley Couple 06serve 60th Wedding
.Anniversary, Farmed dor Mangy Years
Mr, and°Mrs. J. W.' Thompson•
of Ripley recently celebrated -
their sixtieth wedding anniversary
The couple were married: Nov-',
ember 1,7, .1910 in Huron Town-
-ship.
owne--ship. ' !vim:Thompson T-hornpson is the
former Eva 'Wheaton'of London,
The couple spent most .of their.
active years farming on the, •
familyfarm. fa m now owned by their.
son, Ernie_-- • --- ' • '
They lived their first:four mar -
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Free.Skating Again On Saturday
Lucknow business people whose
names are listed elsewhere in this
issue under the free skating ad ,
wil'l.again provide free skating at
the Lucknow arena on Saturday''of
this week al -Id Wednesday and .
da of
Thurs y next week;prior to
01=0 t0L't01
Christmas'., .
Santa made his visiCto Lucknow
last week and was assisted:'in pas-
sing'out treats•by sortie of the,
local girl guides. The school
band also provided some music
on the street;
OCaO) 40 OX
ried years on the John -Coking
farm on tlie•fourth concession of
Huron and -lately NZpr-e seven --•
-
years. on the , Robert Pollock farm
on Highway ,21 before they retired
to.kipley in 1948..
Their family of two so.ns'and
,two daughters are Mrs: -Frank'
(Edith)•Binns •of•Owen Sound',
Mrs. Gerald. (Margaret) Courtney ,
of Lucan , Dr Wheaton 'Thormtpson
Of Walkerton -aid Ernie Thomp-
son
son of Huron Township.' They
have eleven grandchildren and
ten great grandchildren:A family dinner in their hon-
�
our was held at the'home of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernie Thdmpsori on Wed-
nesday , November 18: • They
received many messages of con-
gratulations including gifts from
the., family and a plaquecontain-
ing
ontaIning
sixty silver dollars:
Now in their ninetieth and,
ninety-first years, they are in
fair helath, .•
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