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TOM TODD IS RE-ELECTED
DOMINION ANGUS DIRECTOR
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/‘WOULDN’T WAliK AGAIN^
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Wellington Nixon of town has
•mao a surprising recovery frorn
a stroke suffered in the spring of
1951. - So severe was“ the seizure
thhfr Mr, Nikon^was on his back
in the hospital for .several-weeks,
and when he did. reiuFuJioine, it
was taken for granted he .would
never walk or work again.,
But “Wellie” fooled everyone,:
even himself, and from an un
steady shuffle with assistance he
how steps along ..fairly bri^dy
again, and last fall was able to
spade his whole garden:
COUNCIL CHANGES
MEETING NIGHT
First business 4>f the 1953 Muni
cipal Council wld<^4x)nyened On
Monday JxinHt fot Jhe inaugural
meeting Was the appointment of
7 coriuriittees* All members'
present? Reeve Stuart E. Robert-
sori and ’Councillors V. At Mow-
. bray, InnesJ MacSween, Archie
Smith and \ B. Stothers.
Committee appointments were
. as follows With jne first named
being chairman. 7 ?; —
Hydro: S? E. Robertson and all
members of Council. \
Finance: MaeSwrien, Stothers,
. Smith. J ;' J', ?■' 77' 7 J? ,' '■
Roads and Bridges: Mowbray,,.
Stothers, Robertson. >
Health and Sanitation: Smith,
/MacSween, Mowbray. ”
Property and Supply: Stothers,
Smith, Mowbray. , ■ :
? Wateipworks arid Fire; Depart
ment: Robertson, and all members
of Coundl. 7 ;
Council members appointed to
the Arena Committee were
Messrs. 'Mowbray and, Smith.
Other members of the seven-man
Board are; Harvey Trelriaven,
chairman; M, L. Sanderson, sec/
treas.; Cameron MacDonald, Chas.
Webster and W/ C. Attridge.
Council members on the Re
creational . Centre committee are
S, E. Robertson arid S. B, Stoth
ers. W. B. Anderson was named
to succeed C. L. Smith; Other
members are Mrs. A. E. McKim,
Gerald RathWell, Stuart Collyer,
and Jack Bahhister, sec,-treas.
Mr. W, E, Treleaven was pre
appointed a member of the Lib-
'“7i^tyTbafd“which“ is “to receive
the same grant as last year at
the fate of 60 cents per capita Of
population. ' „ . *
•-. '/ThejB
ing the regular monthly meeting
date from the “first Tuesday” to
• 4he “second Monday”. Hours
Which the Municipal; Office will
. be open to the public are changed
from 9.00 ami. to 5 p.m.
Remuneration for Board mem
bers was set as established a year
ago at $5.00 per irieeting, with a
maximum allowance of $60 for
attending a total of twelve meet
ings, either regular or special.
The day Jabor rate Was set at
; 85C.-7/-./. / ' ■:
Councihlpr^Smith^-was^named’
- relief, administrator. ■' i-.’ .
t v E. H. Agnew and Alex Havens
J were .re-engaged in . their respec
tive positions, with Reeve Rob
ertson and Councillors Mowbray
and Stothers named
Jo submit a recommendatiol
to salaries.’
Relief Costs Down
In response, to a query it was
■ stated that direct relief costs
were down to $88.00 a month, but
that indigent patient- costs were
high and in this respect the Vill
age had been particularly hard
hit during' the past year.
. Council had its first snoWplow-
< ing account of the winter. The
rate is $5.50 per hour. 7
.. A rebate oh street lighting and
;p.umphouseTpoiwer: costs1 was/credr
ited to the: Village account ac
cording to statute. •
A copy of the MjUhicipal World
, is to^be ordered for each mem
ber of Council. .
7 Reviews Work To Be Done
Looking ahead, Reeve • Roberta
■ son said it appeared that .1953
. would not .be *as heavy a year
> as the preceding one,, which was.
r/marked'by such .as'
- .new well, hard surfacing streets
and, a bridge .on Willoughby St.
/__He recommended -that consid-
eration be given to such matters
. as the/ Town Hall eavetroughs,
I which are in bad shape, being
I the original' troughs when the"
[ hall was’ 'built in 1908 oT. ’09.;
I painting and rooming in the* fire
I escape; finishing dredging - the
I riw to ■the iidxth end rif the
I village; sidewalk repairs and ad\
I .LditionaL street7 lights -when- fix-
I > tores become available with the
I modernizing of the main‘street
I / (Continued oh pAgeJlO^
Tom Todd of St. Helens has
been re-elected a director of the
Dominion Aberdeen-Angus As
sociation, according to word from
Calgary where the acres? Can
ada votes are - compiled. Tom is
one of three directors represent-
.ing Ontario, Quebec and The
Maritimes, The, other two eastern
members' are W. L; Ham of Fer
gus .and Thomas Henderson of
Guelph. .
F* G. Todd,-Tom’s father, was
named as one of two honorary
presidents of the Association.
A Special event is scheduled
for Guelph in February when at
a .banquet for all beef breeders
a plaque will be unveiled com
memorating the introduction of J
the first Aberdeen-Angus into)
Canada.:
LEGACY FUND TO
AID MISSION WORK
The January meeting of the,
Presbyterian Women’s Mission
ary Society was held oh Mon-
Ray," JanuaTy. “Of
Miss C. Carrick with twenty lad
ies present. After the opening
exercises r Mr^.’■■ Robt.< Reid .took
the .scripture reading on “The
Budding Fig Tree”. <.• ’ • 7
The meeting, was favored in
•having Miss Dorothy Douglas as
guest speaker. She explained the
work .of the ‘ Girls School in rFor?
. mosa and the need of/an exten
sion- ' to the dormitory which*
would' cost albout $15,000. ..The
Society voted $560 of its “Spindr
lei* Legacy /Fund” ' toward .this.
need. •. ’.'• ’’ ■ ' ,
” A synopsis of a chapter in the
study . book was given by./Miss
M. McLeod. '• \ •
:Mrs. Webster^indly assisted in
the song service' witif her harp
. and ’ Miss Douglas - closed .the
meeting with prayer ’after which
a dainty lynch; was served. ;
7;The .February:
held:, at* the home, of Mrs. C. JL
Macdonald' with Mrs. Robt* Reid
in charge.
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14th, 1953 TEN PAGES .»•
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NEW MAILING LIST 7
* IN USE THIS WEEK
..; The Sentinel inailing list
Jwa^ corrected last Friday,;
and the label date on your
^paperJhis,weeKwiU
date^to which you are paid.
• • If the •. Qgure reads “52”, ^
/ W iulwriiption expired at
the end of
' due for renewal; Your prompi “
attention to this will be ap
preciated. 7 * :
CHARLIE CHIN OUT 10 DAYS
WITH DISLOCATED ELBOW
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Late in, the third period! of
Monday night’s Lucknow-Ripley
midget game in the local arena)
Charlie;Chin, suffered an arm in
jury that put him out of the game
and Will keep him on the side-,
linesforaboutt^
SEATS BOARD FOR
FORTY-SIXTH TIME
Clerk E. H. Agnew vacated his
chair, at. Monday morning's meet
ing of < the Village Council in
favor 7of. his father; •Mr; Joseph
Agnew, who presided, for the for
mal swearing in of the 1953 Vill
age Council. •
It marked the 46th time that
Mr. Agnew had presided for the
taking of this municipal oath of
office* The veteran ex-clerk held
the office, from 1907 until his. re
tirement last year. He will be 85
tin February 1st.
After swearing the Botfrd in
Mr. Agnew remarked,: ‘‘Now
you’ve got the harness on, hut
don’t let it choke you”.
The business of the 1952 Board
was completed and the two re
tiring members, Councillors Ernie
Crawf ord arid Russ* Button, mov
ed adjournment “sine die”. -
Reeve Robertson extended his
thanks to them for their co-bpera--
t.ion, ^valuable judgement and ser
vice to the municipality and wel
comed the two incoming mem
bers, Messrs. S. ;B. Stothers and
Archie Smith Who are succeeding! ^
them.
An x-ray oh Tuesday morning
revealed that he hadTdislocated
the elbow of his right arm. He:
suffered the injury when.he went
into the boards with his, elbow
Charlie has the arm in splints
while the injury heals. ’ .
THAT K. C. Murdie is chairman
of^
term, succeeding Gerald Rath-
well, who -- has presided as
head of the Board for the past
' f ouryears.
THAT Al Irwin, Art Baker and
Dennis Emberlin have started
a training course at the C.N.R.
depot under the instruction of
Station Master Garnet Hender-
' 'son. r. \ .
THAT prize winners at the Aux
iliary Shoot party on Friday
night were Mrs. W. S. Eadie
and Philip MacMillarL The
prizes were donated by Mrs.
., Russ Johnstone and Mrs. Mac-
Farlan.
THAT in renewing her Sentinel
, Mrs. J. W. (Laura B:) Arm-
, strong of Ajax, says they are
enjoying the paper, although
there are not many familiar
names of their "generation. Still
it always brings happy mem
ories of .childhood.1 • 7
THAT there will be. a free skat
ing period in the Arena each
Thursday afternoon for par
ents with’ children. This, of
course,- is-subject to weather
conditions and providing’ no
< hockey game is scheduled for
r - thalr riightr ~
•OZ-i'
THAT Miss Emma McCluskey re-*
,. cently • took a two weeks’, con
ducted bus ; trip to Florida,
where they toured the State to.
its most southerly point "at Key
' 'West. ■ ■ t j "
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THAT a box of ‘cigars, with the
compliments of the Internat
ional Water- Supply Company, •'
was “passed" ‘around.; at the'
“wind-up.” session of^the . Vill-
. age Council on Monday morn-
-~^ingr"Th'r^^lt“welkfrired^b^
remained on the table .for the
inaugural' meeting that evem.
. ing - and as Councillor . Steve
'Stothers' reached^ for. one he ire-
marked, “This is one part of
the job where I c^n.hold xmy
own’\. incidentally of the eight,
’ men present including , the 5-.
man Board, the clerk? town
foreman 'and press, ^smokers
and . non-smokers were evenfv
^divided at four each. ,
MADE 1200-MILE TRIP
WITH LOAD OF HORSES 7
Gordon Brooks and Harvey
Mole made a trip last week,to
Smoojth Rock Falls. with a transr
port load of 1.4 hbrses. The round
trip'was over1200
firdsl ihade several’ trips to‘ New
Liskeard during the Fall but this
extra. 200-mile Jaunt \ was the
farthest^ point ■ north they . have
gbiie. Th&y left Friday and re
turned to Toronto Sunday, where
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BILL HABKIRK IS
TOP RACE DRIVER
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Bill Habkirk has won recog-
pitibh as the leading driver in
Canada in 1952 in sulky racing,
and on Monday night bf last week
was interviewed and recorded on-
Foster Hewitt’s station, CKFH,
Toronto. Unfortunately this sta
tion/ comes in very ^poorly here
and the“ broadcast couldn’t"' be
picked up to be heard
Bill Won«a chesterfield
last summer at Thorncliffe
for the top driver on that
: He ^suffered Jan injury
track pile-up earlier in the
but was no soofter out . of the
hospital than he was back in the
sid^.bg)airi..';5 '
SOLD PROPERTY IN FAMILY
OVER HUNDRED YEARS, 7
This past fall George. Jardine
sold the last of his land holdings
south of Point Clark to& Charles
Laidlaw of Atwood. The property
had-"been”in~ the-Jardine famity7
for 102 years.
In the spring of 1851, George’s
grandparents, Mr. and Mr§. Rob
ert Jardine, and their four child
ren^ • settled near Point v Clark.
That fall he and his son James
(George’s father) and a neigh
bor walked to Port Elgin to. reg
ister the deed on the land. They
spent the- night in the log shack
of deeds, and the
de •..the long trek
of the issuer t/
next day made
home, weak from lack of food.
At Kincardine’s only store, sole
provisions they could buy that
day was a pound. of. butter.
The early settlers apparently,
thought nothing of such long
walks. George, hifnself,sayshe
thought nothing of walking to
*Ripley or Kincardine,
His longest, jaunt in ,March
•ver bad roads—was to Goderich
in search* of work on an hotel
that was being built early in the,
century. Failing to secure . work,
George made the return hike
that same day. - 7
SAILOR BACK FROM
KOREAN WAR AREA
Douglas Emberlin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred‘Emberlin of town,
arrived, home last week dfl fur
lough after returning from see
ing service iii the Kdfean"theatfe.
of operations as a crew member
of H-M.CjS. Nootka. \ ;,
“It wiirbe two years in Febru
ary since Doug joined the navy
and it didn’t take him long to
see the world. The Nootka’s op
erational cruise was short '■ just
fourteen days of a full, ye ar and
’in that time Doug was abound
the world aboard her. Enroute to
her japan 'base for Kotean_oper-
ations the Nootka’s course from
Halifax was” by way of’ the Pan-,
ama and, across the Pacific via
Honolulu;
. .The return'voyage was by way
of the ‘.Indian Ocean, Suez,, Med-,
./terranean / 'Sea'^aricfaci^ss'7- the
Atlantic'to Halifax. Where they
docked on December 17th. ,
■ Without a furlough in 1952 and
With1 extra time off .for Korean
duty,. Doug is bn a 48 day leave.
He reports at Halifax on Febru-,
ary 8th, ahd his .1953 leave pf 30
days' will be coming up.
He has ^applied for posting Jo.,
a ship bound for the British,Isles
area 'andrekpepts to—be there , at
cd’mnatibn timgv-
GIFT MARKS LONG
W.M.S. SERVICE
^The presentation of a' gift to /
Mrs. Thomas H. Burns, in rec
ognition of Jong and yaiuedL.ser„- .;
vices as treasurer of the Society,
and the presentation of a; life “ :
membership 7 to Miss Catherine
MacGregor,, were features of the
January meeting of the United
Chureh Afternoon Auxiliary, of 7
the W;MjS. * held1 in the Sunday.
school room, • . '
Mrs. Burns has Retired as treas
urer after 27 years of continuous
service. Her W.M.S. interest and
activities; however date back 7 :
much longer than that to former
days in th^ Preshtyerian church.
An address prepared by Mrs./
W. L. MacKenzie, was read by*;
Mrs. R. H. Thompson and a lovely
rhinestone_broachwas-presente(i —
Mrs. Burns by Mrs. W, G. And
rew. ' ■
. The address was as ’follows:
Dear Mrs? Burns, 7 .
It is my ^yery j pleasant priviL .
ege today to act on behalf of the
W.M.S, to address you in a spec- ?'•'
ial manner in presenting you with
a little taken which you-.well de?
■serve;■ ■.'•; .•
It is a. great many years since 4
I have had toe privilege of work
ing with you in the W.M.S. I
know I have been a member for
44 years, and you belonged before
that; During this long space of
time you' were arfaithfuLservafit,’’
always willing Jo do your share.
You were very efficient in your
Work, regular in your attendance
-and-always-agreeablei^The-atoiosTr
phere in our meetings was always
enriched by your presence.
So today, we, the members of
our W.MJS;, take much pleasure
in presenting to^ou/. this little
gift with toe wish that you will
be spared to spend many more
meetings in our W.M.S. '
The meeting Was presided over-
by the president, Mrs. R. Rob
ertson. After the opening hymn’
and prayer the new officers for
1953 were installed by Rev. G.
A. Meiklejohn. _ :
The minutes of the last meet
ing were read by Mrs. Rae.
Papers on Christian Stewardship
and temperance were read by
Mrs.EwartTaylorandMrs.Har
old Treleayen. Mrs. Burns report?
ed the year’s givings had amount
ed to $477.45. Mrs. MacKenzief
read the scripture lesson from
the 12th chapter of Romans. Short
prayers were offered by Mrs?
Breckles, Mrs, Kilpatrick, Mrs.'
McDiarmid and Mrs. W. B. An
derson, A chapter in the study
book was read; by Mrs. Roach.
Miss Catherine MacGregor was
made a life menjber arid .“the
meetihg closed. With a hymn and
prayer. Lunch was served by the
committee iri \ charge,-
W. G. WEBSTER SUFFERED
SEVERE HEART ATTACK
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—?Wr-Gir-Webster-of“the; staff
the downtown Silverwood t)air
ies suffered a severe heart at
tack about ,3.00° a m. Friday.' He
was. kept perfectly quiet at hi?
home until Tuesday when he was t
taken by ambulance to Wing-ham '
Hospital where he will require . •
a lengthy rest' cure. ■ . .
Bill had been dn holidays and
returned’ top work only that day . ;,
■Friday evening he wasn’t feeling ’
Well . and in ; the ' middle' of thb ,
night, was stricken with fin acute ■
Shortness of breath' but -excepi
Joj^tka^d-istress^id-^imt-^ trffer
any severe pain. • , 7 ... , •’
MURDOCK MacLEOli PAW’S/'”■ ’
> .The. death-,of Murdock Mac- / ...
Leod, age 79 years, occurred sud
denly: at Kintail bn Saturday •
imqrning; The funeral service;<a:j ■ '■
held in. Ashfield Presbyterian
Church on’ Monday with inter-
ment in- Kiritail Cemetery* -