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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1972-05-24, Page 14PAGE FOURTEEN Dress Your Home For ' WITH CARPETS FLOORCOVERING DINING ROOM SUITES CHAIRS BEDROOM SUITES CHESTERFIELD SUITESg 1972 FORD F100 pickup 1972 VALIANT 4 door 6 cylinder automatic 1971 PONTIAC Catalina 4 door hardtop, V8 automatic, power equipped 2 — 1970 CHEV Impala 2 door hardtops, VS automatic, power brakes and'power ,steering • 1970 CHEVELLE 4 door, 6 cylinder automatic, power steering 1970 OLDS Cutlass -Supreme 2 -door -hardtopi-Vi,•-powee steel*, power brakes, power windows 1970 CHEV Bel Air .4 door, VS automatic, power equipped 1970 OLDS cutlass Supreme '4 door hardtop, V8 automatic, power steering, power brakes, vinyl roof 1970 METEOR 2 door hardtop, Val' automatic 1969 CHEV 4 door, V8 automatic, power brakes; power steering 1969 DODGE Polara 4 door,, V8 automatic, power steering power brakes 1969 CHEV Impala, 4 door hardtop, VS automatic, poWer equipped :1968 CHEV 4 door, VII 1967 OLDS Delta 88,,4 door hardtop, Power equipped ***************** CAR SALES . LTD. --BLYTH.. PHONE-523434- TI Bai Hi .17 tea Hid 'FROM 'JOHNSTONE .and FURNITURE LUCKNOW PHONE . WEI 4 ne.c...srrtn.wrosmegr....' • THE FAMOUS VERMICULITE INSULATION MICAFIL INSULATION IS FIREPROOF. IT CAN BE POURED BETWEEN THE JOISTS IN THE ATTIC AND BETWEEN THE STUDS IN THE SIDE WALLS, AND YOUR. HOME IS SEALED FOR YEAR. ROUND .COMFORT. Ve rm iculite Thanks goes__to__Mrs. Donald Campbell for the following account of the month of May meeting of, the Ripley and Distriet Horticultural Society. Mrs. Campbell lives on the former • BRING NEW BEAUTY AND LASTING PROTECTION TO WOOD Hit FRENBIRSINt LUMBER LTD. LUCICNOW - BY AB WYLDS The, weather man provided ideal dry warm sunny ,days this past week,and long week end. With Victoria holiday on Monday, many visitors were here and People from this district away.. It marked the first week in several that the Ripley fire whistle has not sounded. The seeding of spring grain, is finished and the cattle are once more out on grass. . *. * 41- The Ripley District High School had dances on both Friday and Saturday evening - on Friday it was the annual Prom' for the school and on Saturday it was the dance for Barb and Charles Liddle who were married on Saturday afternoon,. Next week end the Ripley Firemen are holding their big annual dance with the Lionel Thornton orchestra , also in the school auditorium. • Early last week Harold Courtney had 'the cement foundation and basement walls poured for his new house. It is located on the eighth Concession, west of his present home at Pine River. * * * Rez keeps wood looking beaufiful longer Because it breathes with the wood To let humidity escape There's no Chipping, no craciFing, no peeling Edgar Watson farm on the fourth concession, one block east of the fifteenth road: It was amid the flowers that the 'Ripley and District Horticultural Society met on the evening of May 16th, 1972, The flowers in question were an abundant display of African VioletS which compli - mented the already beautiful home ,of Mrs. Evian McLean. In keeping with the policy of some- thing new at the meeting, corsag- .es were arranged and• worn by most of \the members present. Mrs. • David. Elphick gave a talk on Landscaping and she stressed _ „ planning with balance , simplicity and scale. If were not present at the meeting, then you missed the opportunity to purchase some very interesting plants , including several of Mrs. MeLean's African Violets. Proceeds go to the Soc- iety. The convenor of the even- ing was Mrs. Gordon Farrell. • Prizes were won by Mrs., Frank Fair and Mrs. Glen Stanley. Mrs. Stanley expressed appreciation to Mrs. Elphick and. Mrs. McLean fot the delightful evening. The Spring Flower Show will be held in the Legion Hall, Ripley in the afternoon of June 20t11. • * •-- .The Schnurr Contracting Com- pany of Hepworth has been busy this past Week hauling gravel fort, the Huron Township concession roads. 'They are 'hauling ,from the MacTavish pits, coming out on. roadway_the_ at_theaktgeeres,..,_ halfway between the fourth and second concession.on Ernie olling's farm. Last week, using • their large hopper, trucki , they were gravelling the second con- cession west: On Friday ev ening‘ they lined up at least,seven vehic- les just south of the new .Huron . Township Municipal:building as the men went home to Hepworth. for 'the. long Vidtotia week end. After many years of careful attention and work on the Ripley and District Horticultural Society's rose bed in front of the Ripley Huron Legion Hall, Ripley's Harry . Scott has retired this, spring and Inn away his "pruning shears and hoe. Harry also looked after the Society's flower beds at the front of the Ripley Cemetery..Taking Harry's place doing this work is ,Ab Tout of Ripley. * * For the 'sake of safety it is too bad that a coupleof speed traps could not 'be set up in Ripley. The -stretch-orrthe fifteenth, espeLialtyr past the rinks seems to be a speed demon's paradise. Who pays any attention-to those3-0 mile signs? - To motorists , passing through, it is just anotfiet 'hick town, so step on it. Back home .to Ripley with that Florida stin tan is Mrs. E.O. Forrester of Malcolm Street. Mrs. Forrester and her sister , Mrs. Kellington of Toronto,spent a few ' weeks in Florida visiting with their' brother who has a home there. • , * * • Mr. and .Mrs. Joe Fludder , daughter Cathy and chum Sale Reeves spent the Victoria week end at Red' Bay in the Bruce Pen- insula. BROWNIE NEWS The Brownies started their meet- ing on Tuesday, May 16th by play- ing skipping games. Then Fairy Queen Anne Alton got out the Toadstool for Brownie Ring. At Pow Wow we sang Happy Birthday to 'Lyn Shepherd. Brenda Phillips showed three things of nature plus her, post cards for Collector Badge. Elizabeth Wilk- ins then told the 'Brownies about the picture she had made from things found out of doors. Brown to have a guest at next week's meeting, to tell them about saf- ety rules for riding their bicycles. This Week In Rip le Insulate Your WITH AMOUR WOOD FINISHES PHONE 528-311.8 * * The present caretaker of the Ripley 'post office, Murdock McDonald; has been engaged by the9pOstal departinent for another tern of two years. • * 4e•-•%:7•4fie.;:verga $.::„•••;p During work period Brown Owl, had the Golden Hand Brownies for knitting with Janet Wilkins passing this test.' Snowy Owl and Paekie had the Golden Bar Brownies for a, l3.alancin.g game and the girls pas- sing this test were Brenda. Phillips; Betty Stanley. Darlene Howaid, Elizabeth Wilkins and Lyn .Sheph- erd. TaWnv Owl 'worked with the Golden. Ladder kroWnies doing . games of ball, with Barbara Hack. ett , Marian Raynard , larilynne' MacIntyre , Kimberley Cooke, Deborah Bolt , Janette Flowald and Suzanne Kirkland passing their We closed the meeting with the Squeeze and Taps. THE. LUCKNOW SIENTINI_LEAKKNO.IKONTARIO WEDNESDAY, MAY 24th,. 1.912 4.* The pavement on both sides of Ripley's main shopping block has been marked out with white painted lines for parking areaS. It' was, done last Thursday and - Friday"by the work crew namely, Jim Bonnett , Ernie Stauffer , Mel Arnold and Burton MacLeod with Ambrose Gamble, village fore - man in charge, This represents a first time that the village has had individual parking areas marked out. * * • Coming up this Thursday after- noon 'are two machinery sales at farms close to Ripley. The first one is at the farm of Lloyd Wylds, just south of Ripley, on the fifteenth. Then the scene shifts to the farm of Alan McLean on the eighth concession, just west of Ripley. In both cases the farms have been sold , so all machinery will be cleared at both sales. • * • tie. •,...111141.eR.