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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1973-10-31, Page 14STILL AVAILABLE Before The Age of Miracles Memoirs of a Country Doctor . BY DR. W. VICTOR JOHNSTON $6.95 Dr. Johnston was born in West Wawanok Township and was a general practitioner in Lucimow for thirty years. His book reflects hi life and practice in this community. • MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED AT SAME PRICE. ..,. • AVAILABLE AT. THE LUCKNOW SENTINE • It seems that the Ontario prem- ier made some announcement con- cerning 'rapid transit systems for the province. Perhaps there is no connection but the Palinerston to Kincardine railway line had two freight trains pass through here - one on Monday evening and the second on Tuesday even-, ing of last.week. , At least , in the darkness of the night they looked ° like freight , trains. Recently Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. Forrester of 'Malcolm Street in 'Ripley attended the funeral of their sons-in-law , Robert Barber in Oshawa. Mr. Barber passed away in Hospital there rather suddenly. Mrs. Forrester is staying for a while with her daughter there. Sympathy of Ripley and area friends are extended on this sad occasion, THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL. LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, OCTOEER.A. BY As W1rLDS Late 'Thursday afternoon the wailing of the fire whistle broke 'the peaceful quiet of Ripley and, 'surrounding area. Being the after. neon Of the week when the stores are clOsed it took a little time for, the men tozrgather. First car arrived with Don MacTairish and Ivan Cook. Apparently from the telephone Wart found out that the fire was at. .Grant McDonald's place on the,secOnd west of Smoky H011ow. Right after was " Chief DOug Liddle, then•former chief Gordon Scott. There was a scamble for equipment, 'opening ddors and such like. The rue truck driven by,Chief Doug Liddle folloWed by the, new pumper truck driven by Ivan Cook with Don MacTavish, then followed by individual ,cars',.headed west down Malcolm Street then south through. Ripley. A *grass fire out of control was the cause of the alarm and after an hour or so it was extinguished with the trucks returning to their quarters in the new Huron Municipal building at the east, end of MalcOlm Street. This was the second grass fire' in the past two weeks. 'The Ripley Fire Department was called to one at the farm of Jake and Margc Nicholson across from the Ripley • Chemical building or the former 12th cheese factory, just a few days earlier. The sound of the fire whistle al- ways brings to mind the question as to Where is.the fire. With this in mind the writer went from the Ripley bee house across the road to, the municipal building to find out. Among the early arrivals was Wayne MacLean. It was a pleas- ant surprise to see, Wayne out as he had recently undergone an appendectomy .in Kincardine Hos-. pital with' Dr. J. B. Tindall in charge. He the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack McLean, of Ripley and we understood that he took the attack while in school. • 41. Early Saturday noon cars started parking in the north east section of the village and people gathered at the home of Mrs. Victoria Smith for a sale of the furniture and other household items, By one o'clock, when auctioneers. Grant McDonald of Huron, and Wallace Ballagh of Teeswater opened the sale , all the neighbour ing streets were lined with cars and a large crowd was on hand. It was dry' out - the rain did not arrive till evening. However; as there was an'autumn chill to the air, the sale of donuts and coffee: by a group of ladies in the house was well patronized. Wallace Pollock registered the bidders and. Bill McCreatth was the treasurer. Saturday's:sale was the third• one at this place in the. past 30 years - in the early 1940's the • Dave McLay sale and then in the fifties the Kenny MacLeod 'estate sale. Mri. Smith, the former Vic- toria Ca mpbell,'is a patient in Fairhaven Nursing Home in Kin- ' cardine. • * ' °• Donald Blue has been a patient in St. Joseph's Hospital in London during the past two weeks. So it was a plesant surprise to see him out at Saturday's sale and back home to Ripley. During the past week a notice in Oraen Rock's Electrical Repair shop informed the public , that the shop was closed as Oraen was on his annual hunting trip. Prior to the sale, the writer re- zeived from Mrs. Jack McIver the Campbell family, copy of the Illus- trated Atlas of the Dominion of Canada. It belonged to her grand- father - Rory Campbell who is • listed in the Atlas as being born in 1823 in. Scotland and coming to Lot 10, concession 9, in Huron Township in 1854.. As the Atlas was put out in the time when the late Paul D. McInnes, the post- master here, made his attempt to change the name , the address is given as Dingwall. The writer also received a pic- ture of himself and of Mrs. McIv- er's brother , the late Murray Campbell: This picture was taken back in September 1947 by a gypsy lady who had a tent, at back of the old fall fair hall Just south of St. Andrews Church. It was at the end of a successful Ripley show day. Murray was ahe presiclentthen, in hit first year. He also served in this office in 1948. It is-quite a coincidence that Arie Zekveld, the present owner of the Campbell homestead on the tenth concession ,.held a clearing auction sale there 'on Tuesday of this week, October 30. It is reported' that Mr. and Mrs. Zekveld and family are moving to South Africa. • .* • * . Visiting in Ripley for a couple of days last week was Mrs. Grace Kean of Hamilton. Mrs. Kean was the former Grace Farnell of the sixth concession west in Hur- on Township. The family farm is now owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Jim . W. Brooks and family. Also up from Hamilton was Jim Ivloirier. His wife form-. erly Anna May McLay, has been a patient in St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton since' early summer. Before leaving for Hamilton on WednesdaY they closed her house for the winter.. They also repOrt that Mrs. Mohler has improved so that 'she can sit in a wheel chair at times. Thanks to. Murdock McLay of Palmerston and Mrs. Allan McLay, for the opportunity of reading a copy-of the Enquirer, dated Fri- day , April 6th, 1894, The. Enquirer, the first Ripley, newspap- er , was edited , published and Own ed right here in the village by the late H.- P: Chapman. He was the grandfather of the present Harry Chapman of Kincardine. The family moved to Kincardine in 1923. What's New At Huronview Volunteers from the Clinton Christian Reformed Church assist- ed with Monday afternoon's activ- ities. Marie Flynn of Clinton, along with Mary Taylor., Norman Speir and Jerry Collins provided the old Lyme music, for the occa - sion, with a specials number for those having 'birthdays during the week. • Eight tables of euchre and crokinole were played at the Wed- nesday afternoon games. The Goderich Phsychiauk Hospital Rythm Band entertai on Family Night. The Band y arranged and directed by Goa Harrison with Shorty Munro M. C . , provided a vanety ical numbers. There were it organ solos, vocal duets and, solos, the charlSton and a m ba solo., The group sang "lit Birthday" for Mrs. Irwin who celebrating her 92nd birthda Thursday. The Clinton' nog ture Society donated several bouquets of flowers which w given to Residents for specia occasions. • TIME COME IN AND SEE OUR LARGE STOCK. OF PANASONIC CAPEHART XONEX STEREOS • MORE FOR YOUR MONEY PAGE ',DUMB; PERCENT INTEREST ON GUARANTEED INVESTMENT CERT! 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