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SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
WIEDNESDAY, O MMIER ,
Week In Ripley
BY AB WYLDS
The picture of Jon Vickers is
shownin this week's T.V. guide
which, .comes with last Saturday's
daily,. newspapers. Mr. Vickers will
be appearing on the CBC Musicam-
era shown at' 8.30 this Wednesday
evening - an hour and , a half long
program. He is Canada's well
known internationally famous tenor.
opera singer.. He is known to many
in the Ripley area through his wife -
the former Hetty Outerbridge,
daughter of the late Mrs. Tena
Outerbridge (Tena Martyn). At
times Mr. and -Mrs. Vickers and
family have lived in Bernhardt - the
Martyn residence in Ripley. Mrs.,
Vickers, has . many cougins and
relatives in this area. Among these
are Mrs. Walter (Annie) Culbert of
Ripley,. Mrs. George (Hefty) Mac-
Leod of Kincardine, Mrs. Sandy
(Peggy), MacCharles of Olivet,
Ripley postmaster Donald K. Mc
Lay and Bruce County director of
Education Jack Bowers of Chesley -.
all first cousins living • in
Bruce. •Mr. and Mrs. Vickers and
family are now residents of Berm-
uda having sold their Bruce Beach
cottage andfarm and lovely home
at Orangeville over a. year ago.
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It was nice to have Mr. and Mrs.
Donald "A. Bell of Islington call last
Sundhy afternoon for a few minutes
of conversation. On . Saturday
afternoon Donald's wife Ann called
to talk to Fran and Mrs. Harlin
Robinson of Kentucky and leave a
very interesting article. Donald.
who is now a retired officer of the
Canadian Air Force, recalled the
days when this•writer worked at the
harvest on the farm .of 4' the late
Angus D. Martyn and his wife Mrs.
Charlotte Marlyn - two blocks west
of Ripley. How the years have
rolled away. At that time Donald,
as a boy, was enjoying a.summer
vacation at the farm. This writer ,
really appreciated the , time and
effort of Mr. and Mrs. Bell for
calling at the house. Ripley area
folks are sorry that Mrs. Charlotte
Martyn is presently experiencing
poor health and hope that in the
near future it will become better.
The article, which Donald has
written. describes a famous, daring
and dangerous mission which he
had to carry out, in the second
World War - the sinking .of the
German battleship Tirpitz... •We
recall that a former teacher at 'the
Ripley District High -School. name-
/ 1r Raymond McDougall of Sydney.
Nova Scotia. served on convoy
escort with the 'Canadian. Navy as
supply ships made the Murmansk
"run" from Iceland.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harlin Robinson of
Ashland in Eastern Kentucky visit-
ed from last Friday to Sunday with
Ab and Fran Wylds in Ripley.
Harlin arrived shortly before Mor-
rison and Bill MacKenzie. along
with the writer, had completed the
honey lift at our hives across from
the Ripley Curling arena. so he was
able to get a few feet of film of the
operation. Later he took pictures of
the lift at the homestead yard on
the sixth concession ~vest. Harlin,
who retired from his position in a
steel plant recently. has been the
champion honey exhibitor at the
county and state fairs for some
years and has been president of the
Kentucky; State Beekeepers. Assoc-
iation for the past two years. On
Saturday he filmed honey -extrac-
tion at Bill MacKenzie's plant in
Slades's School. halfway
between Kincardine
and Tiverton. Here he had further
discussions with Bill and Morrison
in regard to beekeeping and met
with Cam Ma' -Kenzie and Ron
Siddon, working at extraction. On
Sunday Harlin and his wife Ruth
left for Detroit and an overnight
stay with' their daughter. Their.
daughter, husband and family live
in the north part of the city. On
Monday they planned to make the.
450 mile trip back home to
Ashland.,
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For several years'a resident of
Gateway Haven in Wiarton, Mrs.
Jack Bell, former resident • of
Ripley, passed away last week,
Funeral service for Mrs. Sadie Bell.
was held last Thursday afternoon at
the McLennan -McCreath Home in
Ripley. Sympathy. is expressed to
her family Margaret of Ottawa,
Katherine of Woodstock, Annie of
Lucknow, Marion of Purple. Grove,
Tena of •London, W.J. (Dub) of
Toronto and Point Clark, and
MacLean of Saint John, New
Brunswick and also to her three
surviving sisters - Emma, Annie,
and Murdena and all other rela-
tives. Mrs. Bell was always glad to
meet with Ripley area folks who
were visiting at Gateway Haven
and to learn the happenings in
this area where she spent so many
years of her life.
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On Monday and Tuesday of last
week Ripley Fire Chief Doug Liddle
made the long trip to :east of
Montreal for the new Ripley -Huron
fire .engine. Doug drove the truck
back, stopping overnight at Galt
and arriving in Ripley late Tuesday
afternoon. At the water reservoir
in Core Park, Ripley firemen
Clarence Pollock, Doug Liddle and
Oraen Rock were on hand . for
instruction and demonstration of
theoperation of the new machine.
A company official was instructing
Clarence Pollock, in its full opera-.
tion. It is a modern fire fighting
machine with many '.'gadgets". on
its 'operating panel.
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Mrs. Ernie Pollock was back at
her home last Friday evening for
the first "stay" since the , big fire
which destroyed the nearby Royal
Hotel two weeks ago. Painters and
decorators Alfred Waller and Al-
bert King. both from Owen Sound,
had completed the painting and
papering of Mrs. Pollock's home on
Friday.
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Donald and Angela Bell. nephew
and niece of Mrs. A. D. (Charlotte)
Martyn. have been invited by the
Royal Air Force to attend a dinner
at the RAF Club in London.
England on November. 9 to com-
memorate the 30th anniversary of
the sinking of the German battle-
ship "Tirpitz" by the famed
Dambuster Squadron (617 Squad-
ron RAF). Squadron Leader Bell.
who was decorated while flying
with this elite squadron, completed
his third tour of operational duty in
the final successful attack on the
"Turpitz". it was carried out from
a primitive airfield in Northern
Russia, near Archangel. which
caught the German radar and
defences all looking the wrong
direction.. The Tirpitz was the
sister ship of the "Bismark" and
had been positioned in an impreg-
nable site in a Norwegian fijord
near the Finnish border where she
could control the sea lanes to
Murmansk in Russia. which oblig-
ed the British Home Fleet to steam
up and back with every convoy of
supplies to Murmansk.
Squadron Leader Bell is being
flown to London on November 3 by
the Canadian Armed Forces which
also provided him with a flight in
Lucknow District
Co-op
N;oW Have
A Complete Line
Of.
GUNS
And
AMMUNITION
Shotgun Shells
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12 Gauge = Regular and Magnum
Plus 16. Gauge, 20 Gauge and 410's
Rifle Cartridges
Many Calibres Such As
25-06, 22 Long Rifle and Mushrooms,
22, Magnum, 303, 243, 32, 22-250, 308, 222,
30-30, 30-06, 44 Magnum, 270
Shotguns and Rifles
Ithaca 12 Gauge Automatic
Mossberg Lever Action 30-30
Mossberg 22 Magnum Automatic
Cooey.Bolt Action Repeater
THERE ARE MANY OTHER GUNS
AND AMMUNITION TO COME
LUCKNOW DISTRICT CO.OP
Phone 528-3024
May 1968 to attend functions which
had been organized to commemor-
ate the 25th anniversary of the
breaching of the big German Dams
in the Ruhr.
Donald and Angela plan to drive
along the south coast of England to
Bournemouth where Angela's
mother and aunt reside and then to
Torquay where they spent their
honeymoon and lived for three
months 29 years ago. and then
return to Toronto late in November.
Donald Bell is the son of the late i
. Archibald Bell. born on the 10th of
Kincardine and the late Mary
MacKinnon. born on the 6th of
Huron and raised on the 10th of
Kincardine. Donald and Angela
have holidayed at Bruce Beach
every summer since 1953. •
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