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WEDNESDAY; MARCH 27th, 1974
Visited With
Relatives After
30 Years
Leslie Henry of Moosernin,
Saskatchewan visited at the home
of: Mr. and Mrs. Melville Henry
on Sunday, March 17 where a fam•
ily reunion was held.
They haven't seen each other
for over 30 years. Leslie Henry
is a cousin of Mel HeniY-, Leslie
Wardell, Mrs.:Stuart Bradley and
Mrs. Gordon Lyons.
They all visited at the same
home along with Mr. and Mts.
Lorne„Hehry and family, Mr. and
Mr's. Bob Benson and family ,
Scarborough; Dorothy Wardell,
Stuart Bradley, Gordon Lyons,
Florence Wardell, Mr. and -Mrs.
Ernie Young and family, Mn, and
Mrs. Gordon 'Bradley and family
and Mr. 'and Mrs. Norval 'Nesbitt,.
A lovely lunch was served/ and a
very pleasant afternoon was spent
talking over old times.
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A STATE OF ,LIMBO
,,„ w In a column in , this issue, under
the heading of National Farmers
Union News and written by Mrs.
John Austin,. Mrs. Austin refers
to a serious agricultural problem
in the inability of the railroads to
Move the required amount of
western grain to the seaports for
.. export to foreign countries. The
delay threatens the loss of a ready
market.
Experience by many 'in this area
• would indicate that the Canadian
National. Railways is probably the
most inefficient carrier of the
. many who serve the area and the
reason, as we see it, can be sum-
medup on one phrase, "Priva"te •
Enterprise as opposed to Public Own
ership". ,
Carriers who have to make a
- buck to survive can usually be
counted on to provide quick,
efficient service. The heavily
subsidized railroads, in theory,
should be' in a position to prov-
ide the ultimate in service to the t
Federal Minister Jean Marchand
last week made suggestions of :
nationalizing 'the C.p R, in order
toiget what he felt was better
- co-operation from that railroad.
With one white elephant to look.
after now , we would suggest that
Mr. Marchand might concentrate
•his efforts on improving the effic-
, .iency of the C.N.R.• •
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FIRE DAMAGES
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ed and worked for'some time in
making sure that the attic and
.?artitions were. completely under'
2ontrol. •
Actual fire damage was limited
:o a strip of the wall. and in the
'attic. The hpme received. light
and• water damage.
Only the fact that John Van
3oven 'awakened when he did,
,robably saved the faMily from a
more serious. fate...,
Mr. Define operates Huron
3ruce :k4asoni-v and the family
, formerly liveil on the Elmer Pol-
lard place, south of the Holyric&-
pley road, They thoved . to 'she
NIacNiinnon farm on, the e,t1-. of
KinlosS last, October.
taxpayers who provide the funds,
but it doesn't seem to, work that
way.
Lack of the profit incentive,
coupled with the demands of
unions over the years, has put the
C.N.R. in 'a state of limbo when
it comes to service.
. Anyone who has ever tried to
get a prompt shipment from any
source knows• where to look', to '
.a private carrier, just ask any
businessman and there is no reas-
on to believe that the railroads
can move wheat any faster
than anything else.
the LIJCICNOW SENTINEL.
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
"The Sloppy Town" — On the Huron-Bruco Boundary
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WEDNESDAY; MARCH' 27th, 1974,
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This past week end the mail-
ing list .was divided up and the
addressing and stuffing and stamp-
ing was done by Mrs. 'Gordon
BrOoks, Mrs. 'Bryce 'Elliott, Mary
MacIntyre, Mrs. Jim Mathers,
Mrs. Gordon .Fisher, , Maudie Fish-
er, Carrie Milne, Mrs. Mildred
Cameron and Donnie Johnstone.
All the above Lucknow resid-
ents offered , without being asked
to help with .this 'project , which
indicates that the people of the
area are genuinely interested in
making Lucknow Reunion, June ,
28, 2:9, 30 and July 1st a real
success .
If your relative or friend at a
distance didn't get aninvitation,
it doesn't mean he's not wanted,/
it Only mean.; that you didn't
zive tis r.arze and address,
It's net too Late, Write the names
and atcLrezzel and leave tthem
at The Lt.c.k.ncw Sentinel. , No
hone ca:Is Pro:;ett
Members of the Luclinow.Agric-
ultural Society have just presented
their play "Everybody's Crazjr" to
two full houses at the Brookside
Public School and Lucknow Cent
ral Public School. They have an-
other engagement scheduled for
Ripley this Friday.
The efforts of this:Jarge cast
can be' sunimed up in three words,
"True. Community Spirit"..
For many weeks, and sometimes'
recently oh several nights a week,
these devoted people turned out
for play praCtice. We're
sure, as with many things, that it
would get to be a bit,of a bind at
times , because there are surely
many other things to do in this
day and age besides practicing for
a play.
. ,
But practice they did, and prac'
tice eventually makes perfect.
.In a day when plays are defin-
itely not' the common thing, and
most likely one of the last pro-
jects any group .would undertake,
the Agricultural Society deserve a
special word of commendation
for starting and successfully com-
pleting such a project.
The rewards of. the actors are
not measured in monetary ways
but by what they have contributec
to their community and to their
personal sense of pleasure and
satisfaction. The Lucknow Fall
Fair will benefit,
from the' undertaking which is
commendable. It is one of the
few remaining truly community
events and it is good tofiee the
cast Of 'the play , who are both
agricultural society and non ag-
ricultural society people, working
towards this end'.
COMMUNITY SPIRIT
THf_tACKNOW SENTINEL, LUCK**, ONTARIO
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editorial
Mother Nature Rolling Her Own
Snowballs Was Weekend Oddity
snowballs which had been
neatly rolled up by the wind.
Some had rolled themselves up to
a good size ," while others had just
nicely started.
Joan Robinson, who resides at
Rapid City „north of Lucknow told
us that she had been in Canada
over twenty-kven:years , and saw
something late Friday evening
that she had never witnessed
fore. Joan said , "It was Mother
Nature rolling her own 'snowballs',
there were literally hundreds of
them, caused no doubt by the
!Chinook'.type of wind that was
blowing at the time.
They were soft and delicate to
the touch and looked' something
like candy floss or tumbleweed
covered with snow. I thought
it rather unusnal and wondered if
any expert has an answer.",
Perhaps someone has an explan-
ation why this happened. Sentinel
readers would be pleased to know.
60 YEARS AGO
MARCH 1914
Miss Elizabeth Henderson,, who
had been for several years with the.
Canadian Express arid-G.N.W:
Telegraph companies, was appoin-
ted to the agency yin Lucknow, Mr.
Holmes having sold Out his inter-
ests to her. Miss Henderson had
previonsly•been his assistant.
Charles Gillespie of Whitechurch
was engaged as the new assistant.
A school report of S. S. No. 16
Ashfield named the following'
pupils.
V 7 Harold Blake.
Sr. IV - Violet Kilpatrick,
Irene IvICQuOid, May Menary,
Cecil' Blake , Pat McCarthy.'
Sr. III = Ruby Kilpatrick, John
Kilpatrick; 'Ida Rivett, Raymond.
Finnigan.
Sr. II - Alma Blake, Lillie
McQuoid.
Jr. II - Bruce Shackleton, Mild-
red McWhinney.
P. II - Ruby Curran; Etta Mc-
Quoid.
Ptimary - Hetbie Begley.
Best attenders - Violet Kilpat-
rick, John Kilpatrick, Bruce
Shackleton.
A...F. Cooper, Teacher.
YOUNG/ VOYAGEURS
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at the Wingharri School.
The visit will be made July 9 to
July 20.
During the period in New Bruns-
wick, the. Voyageurs will live."in
homes in that area allowing them
to become better acquainted with
Canada and other Canadians. Mr,
and Mrs. Hunter acted as host's to
a 'group from British Columbia who
visited this area last summer.
The Young Voyageur program is
a joint project of the Ministry of
Education of Ontario and the 'Tray
el and Exchange Division of the ,
Federal Govrtiment,. ,
"Sndtvballs everywhere" was the
sight which , greeted area residents
on Friday night and Saturday.
In an occurrence which struck
everyone as very unusual, some-
thing which had never been seen
before , snowballs rolled themselv -
es up on fielq and lawns'in the me
community without any assistance
from human hands. It appeats
that the wind did the trick;
This writer, not known as being
the most observant individual, was
alerted to the fact on Saturday
noon when Norma McDonagh cal-
led us to tell of the unusual hap-
pening in the south end of the vil-
lage. We assured Norma that we
would take a drixe up south to in-
spect the observations she had
made ,`when the lady of our house
advised us to check out our own
kitchen window and save the gas,
Seems that the whole town and
countryside was a mass of little
YEARS AGO
MARCH 1954
Dr. W. V. Johnston ended 30
years' medical, practice in
Lucknow. He had accepted the
position of EXecutive Director of
the C011ege of General Practice
with headquarters in Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs., Frank MacLen-
nan returned to the general store
business at Lochalsh, which they.
had sold two years previously to
Mr. arid 'Mrs. Wilfred Petman of
Toronto, who were returning to
the city.
Following .a mild February,
March came in "like a lion" with
the winter's worst, storm since
March 194'7, which was well rem-:
embered by many in the district.
The 1947 storm resulted in a com-
plete tie-up.of all transportatfan
except an air drop.
The Young People's Society of
the Lucknow United Church pres-
ented a three-act comedy drama,
"The Path Across The Hill". The
cast included - Gerald Rathweil,
Greg Leith, Clarence Greer,
Alex Smith,, Mrs. W. L. Mac?
Kenzie, France's Thompson, Or-
land Richards, Eunice Newton,
Margaret Ritchie and Marjorie
Edgar of Blyth. Miss
Edgar filled the vacancy caused
by the sudden illness of Martha
MacCallum, the leading lady in
the play, Miss Edgar had taken
this part previously when the play
eras presented by Blyth players.
MARCH 1934
A. E. Buswell opened a new
business in Lucknow, located in
the east side of the Johnstone
Block. He was advertising a iTew
and up-to-date line of wearing
apparel for men and bo,p.
40 YEARS AGO