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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1953-02-18, Page 2v.■<r |i k«*.r l>\ If" ry ;’«R i ill ’ hi I. .4 A .1: •r •A'- ►AGE TWO THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, . ONTARIO f ... . | L O OKING B A C KW A RD $ THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES I I Sixty Year* Ago ■ R. K. Miller, clerk of West Wawanosh, reported 48 births, 14 marriages and 24 deaths in the ^Township during 1892. __J^Members_of_Kinloss^^^ ■ . were: Robert; Purvis, reeve; Alex Nicholson, deputy ? reeve; and ; George Moffat, James Johnstone • and Francis Henry, councillors. * Peter Reid was clerk. Peter McKenzie was president y; r1 / y.. Peter McKenzie was president qf the Luckriqw Cheese Factory; (Mice president, Peter Corrigan; r secretary, Finlay Mdiines; dir- ectors, J. Baird, John McDiarmid and; Mr. Chesnut. Mr.. Mclnnes Was cheese-maker at 2 cents a pound if the whey was left, at . the factory. 447,619 pounds jof milk had been ^received during the year and 41,920 pounds of cheese manufactured at an aver­ age jxrice of 10.67 cents a pbund. 7 Wm. Stothers and R. Harrison Were clerk aqd treasurer of Ash­ field Township at salaries of $130 arid $90 a year. James Bryan brought to Luck­ now for the first- time the ward­ enship of Bruce County. There . were four in the field, with Reeve • . Bryan arid Reeve Scott of Kin­ cardine the . chief contenders^ At •the same time Joseph Griffin, was elected warden of Huron by ac- ■““T^IamEition. ■——-^—■■“-^7-77“ — Cameron, Murdoch and Co. was advertising, tHte “celebrated Watch - Spring Corset”. Prices -ranged from 25c to $1.65. : Thirty-Five Years Ago Robert Treleaven qf Dungaii- non died suddenly in his 68th ’ . year. , . ' ■ Mr. and Mrs. John Blake were bereaved by.,, the death of their . severi-weeks’-old daughter. Philip Stewart disposed of his mail route, R. 4,» tq Peter John­ ston and. sold - his property on Havelock St., South, to his bro­ ther Charles. The Village Council served notice “that owners or .occupiers •••-. of property on Campbell St. from ; Havelock to the Ford GaTiaige, and to Finlayson’s corner, shall remove all snow? from the side- : walk river the full width of the walk”. They *had till 12 o’clock noon otdear the walks: after an ri<x)n to cleaf^the™walks~after an ' Henderson was chairman of the Street and Walks Committee. ’ . The death Of Mrs. W. T. Caul­ field* formerly Jessie Lees, oc­ curred iri Detroit. The infant son* of Rev. and . Mrs. J. S. DUncan died at St. Paul’s Manse in Sault Ste. Marie. Alex Nicholson was president of the Agricultural Society. ^DUNGANNON ALTERCATION ^ SETTLED IN COURT’ Gordon Stewart, caretaker- of Dungannon Agricultural Society hall, was convicted of a charge of wilful damage to property On . Jan. 23, when he had an alterca- - tion With the complainant, How­ ard Sproul, ^president of the IJunr garinon Agricultural Society, dur- irig which he splihfefed ’’a““do6r in the hall. Sproul said the accused broke ; the door™ with his foot. He had tried to get in the front: door after he had tried to Convince •him (Stewart) he had the .wrong key. He made. motibns, with his fists and picked Up ,a Ecantling.. ’ Accused said he picked Up the b. * Twenty Year* Ago James T. Lyons w£s president of the Dungannon Agricultural Society and Peter Watson headed the Lucknow Society, Rev. arid Mrs; Hugh MacMillan wereenroutebacktotheOrierit. The death occurred of Will Carnqchan in his 22nd year. 1 Harvey Treleayeri was presi­ dent of the Young Meh’S Class of the United Church. D. ~ A> MacLennan was, adver­ tising fresh cod at 8c a pound. Hugh Angus who had been employed at the-. C.N.R. - was transferred to Cochrane, s Mrs. John Bell,. formerly of Lochalsh and-* Liicknow died at Pine River. W. J. Irwin was president of the Lucknow U.F.O. Club; John Jamieson was secretary-treasurer. 1933 saw the bottom of the deipression reached after the 1929 collabse. Hog prices reached acollapse. Hog! prices reached low of $3.25 a cwt. Ten Years. Ago The deaths occurred of two Kinloss Township residents, Mr. William Thompson and Mrs. John A. McKinnon, ‘ Married men in the 19 to 25s year class were being called for military service. . FliL-Sgt. Alex MacKenzie, DFM, Was on a rest leave after 36 bomb­ ing missions. 4 The 36th was on Stuggart arid they got back to base with the aircraft shot thru with 70 holes. Alex tumed down a chance , to return to Canada as an instructor and decided to re­ main overseas and resume oper- ations.“ Miss Jean Graham-, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Angus Graham, graduated as a, nurse at King Edward VH Hospital in Wind­ sor, England, and planned on tak­ ing a post-graduate course in surgery. The Curling Club was re-dr-, ganized with A, E. McKim, pres.; R6y. j. W. Donaldson, vice pres.. and Gordon Taylor, secretary­ treasurer. . Lucknow Branch of the Red Cross raised over $4000~from all sources during 1942. A storm which blocked roads and railway lines, brought the horse into its own and on Sat- urday, January 23rd the United Church shed was packed with a total qf 104 horses.. The Presby­ terian shed, and Johnstone’s barn Were also filled to the doors. > The deaths occurred of Mrs. Foster Moffat, George A. Bower in his 39th year, and R. V. Mac­ Kenzie. .. " Johri Farrish succeeded Frank Todd as president of "the Agri­ cultural Society. scantling to break it and that ha- had to get into the hall to heat water for an evening function. He was convicted 'arid ordered to pay $6.40 damages to the Soc­ iety, pay. costs and -advised to control his temper. An, attempted ..assault charge against Stewart was withdrawn. • Letter* T© The Editor ?ifear- Sir, May I, on behalf ef the post- piastera of Canada and. the postal staffs generally, express out ap­ preciation of the very great as­ sistance extended' to us by the public in mailing early during the Christmas season which Has just passed. '• According to reports already received\ from mariy of. the of­ fices across Canada, the co-opera­ tion giiven by . the public was greaterthan-everbefore,-andas a result most offices were able to complete their deliveries ■: by Christmas Eve? There’ is, 'great 'satisfaction in being able to record such < a re­ sult. For many years, the volume of Christmas mail has been stead­ ily increasing and' this was again the case ’ this. year, when more than 250,060,000 individual iteins Were handled. Careful planning and greatly augmented staffs are, Of course,? necessary to cope with such q flood of mail. All of our own efforts, however, would have counted for little if the pub­ lic had not co-operated by ob­ serving the suggest^ mailing dates. ;Therpublic?7tHerefdrqrde* serves the credit; for what we have been able to accomplish, to one, and all I wish to say “Thank you”! ■ The ‘ help also, generously ac­ corded, as in*other years, by the newspapers is also deeply appre­ ciated. By publicizing the various mailing dates and. other pertinent information, the newspapers as­ sisted -greatly in.assuring the pub- licsupportwhichwassohelpful •to lisl ' My very best wishes for 1953. Yours. sincerely, ?! ^J^^j^urnbull,— Deputy Postiriastqr General. INAUGURATION AND CORONATION GRACED ft draws near. It is unthinkable that such ah important matter as the consecration of the Sovereign and' the’ crowning, would take place ^without fitting prayers and a. high religious ceremonial tq meet the vows of the ruler, Lords of the upper chamber will* be getting ready with their robes and decorations for the grand event;’4 At a coronation event, not so far back, an Amer­ ican Visitor to England was much amused With a Scottish' earl who had difficulties with his red vel­ vet and ermine, rqbe. He splutr tered: “Haven’t worn It. since King Edward’s coronation.’ It’s beeri in cold storage. Had. it brought out to air-a few .days dgo, My valet later spied on the grass in the garden; and the; devil fly away with me if that cat didn’t take the liberty of hav­ ing ‘kittens upon i^... “Some people are funny”; mus­ ed the man in the smoking: car. “I know a man who hadn’t kissed his wife for 10 years. Then he goes ; and shoots a fellow who ’ did’’, . . ; . • • ■. r:. L. B. REID, Huron Township, was re-elected a director of dhe Holstein-Erjesian Association, of Canada at the annual meeting iri Toronto last week. • WEDNESDAY, FEB, 18th, 1958 : 'accepting THE CHALLENGE! T <V i&ii II :?v ?w ol . aj ■JI er “Is Jim a confirmed bachelor?” “He is now. He .sent his picture to a Lonely Hearts Club and they sent it back With a note saying, ‘We’fe not that lonely’!*’ . < New cook: “Didyria heah ’em_____Didyria heah ’em say anything' "bout mah cookin’?” ’ New maidi “Nuthin’ dkrecly, but ah ndtice dey done prayed afore dey stahted eatin’,” A friendly controversy between Neighborly Newsman Don Fair­ bairn and George A. Dills, edi­ tor of the Acton Free Press and the Milton Canadian Champion, resulted in Mr, Dill’s acceptance of Dori’s challenge to him to take over the CBC’s Neighborly News .someJSrinday,JM&JMlls; and, his ; son Jim are shown! here iri act­ ion, as they broadcast to Neigh- • burly News listeners recently the interesting arid unusual happen­ ings of1 the important centres that lie outside the big cities. ‘ ‘ - -- ' - * ' ■ ‘ . 1 A woman stepped off the penny ' scale. “Well, what’s the verdict?” ask*, ed her husband. “Are you OVer- “No,” replied the t wife. “But ac­ cordingto the heiight table, I should be six inches taller”. th pa 19! foi foi ;-®-.'tifl lai ■..'■add ' <3a5 : six —Ho J ,kui 10 (by A.W.B.) Some of my ministerial breth- ren in a chaplain Capacity are Be­ ing asked to lead in devotions in the inauguration meetings of the city and township councils. It is a seemly' thing to do. It is to be hoped^ that the sort of pe­ tition they Would use in these initiatory prayers would be Close to the language and speech that a weekly paper sent to me which had for its Conspicious greeting. “A Hiappy New Year! That the world may return to a semblance of peace arid sanity; that our country may Continue in the .paths of .harmony and progress: that our country may. enjoy pros­ perity; that our readers at home and abroad may have health, sunny hours and good times is our wish”. In a magazine I read rather '■ a startling description qf the head of one municipality- a western c/ty! Thi *» 1 ’ A '• ^5; « >W:S?K & , 12.1 \ Mri ' Mci . staJ plo; Jaii 4.85 Col c* PORT^,EI^IN^~FAIR““is^tonbe continued. Due to lack of sup­ port .the Board voted to discon­ tinue the 85-year-old exhibition, but a . public meeting was called that reversed the decision. . 0- r To ^forget about renewing your’ Sentinel is mighty easy—so we tI<eepfjogging your memory. . THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL Lucknow, Ontario • Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Established 1873 Published .E^ach ,Wednesday Afternoon '■ ‘ Subscription Rate —- $2.50'A Year in Advance—To US.,A.$3.50 > .. L. C. Thompson, Publisher and Proprietor. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18th, 1953 / / 5 •a mayor in _r _r.„. This chief rriag- istrate surely needed prayer and not only at\ thq initial meeting of the city, council. The descrip­ tion was: “A cocky little squirt; who yells like everything; loved sport jackets and purple bow­ ties,: plus makirig himself a nuis­ ance”. Perhaps the picture was overdone by an unsatisified op­ ponent. ’• The State opens its doors fre­ quently to the church and that is a matter for ’ coihmendatiori father than complaint, though -there—are—some—quite~~against prayers heading the first agenda of business on the Council pro­ ceedings of the United Nations. Old General Wm. Booth, founder, of the Salvation. Army,. oh one occasion, when iSpeaking in a great gathering, requested that no one leave while be was speak­ ing* Orie of the press seemed to pay no. heed and decided to-leave before the old General was . through. .The grey whiskered pro^, Tibet and^aint rebuking] y called his attention to this interruption and the departing listener said apologetically, “You see, sir, riiy Editor and God don’t mix”. We would ' suppose ' that the Archbishop of Canterbury and •.other great churchmen are plan­ ning for a real solemn, service to bless the feign of Elizabeth the . Secorid as , the Coronation event ‘ 1 ' , -■ ' ’ r’ ’ a H tine! p 71' « fc. M /. • ■ ■ .*'. ■'.: ' ■ ■:■.■ .. '■■ •* DRY IN AN HOUR for rehanging pictures . and drapes. z SCRUBS CLEAN? AGAIN ANDAGAIN— ' without harming its lovely, satin finish.. 4M NO MESSY CLEANUP*^*your hands, brush, ' .■ or roller-coater all come clean with water; ---^^^^A&Y^GLJbEON^^^ . on as easily as stroking a wall with a dry brush! ’" •... : • JOHN W. 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