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raised at Ashfield nomination
meeting on November 27th, when
ratepayers will have an oppor
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NIGHT CLASSES REQUIRE
MORE APPLICATIONS
PIPE BAND WANTS
TWO POINT DEER HEADS
|2.50 A? Year In Advance—-$1.00 Extra To U.S.A
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HUGE CROWD AT
SCHOOL OPENING
“A dream come, true”, summed
up the sentiments of the huge
.crowd that, attended , the official
—■^ppehingr-of—the—Luck now~District
High School on Friday-night.
i 7? Well .before eight o’clock^the
spacious auditorium was filled.
. and the * crowd overflowed into,
the corridors to tax even stand-;
Ing room.. Some 800 persons at
tended the opening and remained
after the program to inspect the
building and to enjoy a cup “of
tea and cookies.
The pleasingly surprised crowd,
. most of whom had not been in
the building since its. completion,
scanned every room in the; build-
, ing and were enthusiastic about
what they saw, with the commer-
• cial, domestic science and shop
work rooms, captivating the in-
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Mr. Robert Rae, - chairman of
\ the District Board, briefly re
viewed the effort that had gone
into the achieving of the build
ing, which was not accomplished
without opposition.
He pointed out that this school
can now provide ^all . courses in
secondary education,, and added
that no tuition fees would be paid
any other school for7. students
from this district. This is a hard
and fast rule because “we* have
had our toes tramped on”.
Mr. Rae stated the overall cost
of the school was $270,000, and
- he- compared it With -a school at
Kingsville that with only more
room, and' no bettef, had cost
$500,000. •/'•./’
r Mh Rae paid tribute to the late
J. C. McNab for the part he
played in the ground work that
led to the new" school. His pic
ture hangs in the foyer of the
building, as well as that of Alex
was decorated
for service in World War II.
The building was solemnly de
dicated to its high and holy pur
pose for the dissemination of
knowledge and virtue, by Rev.
G. S. Baulch of South Kinloss
Presbyterian Church. In the ded-
icatory praver by Rev, C. A. Winn
"of the Lucknow Presbyterian
Church, he beseeched God’s rich
est blessing.
Mr* Rae introduced the archi-'
tect, . Mr. Philip Carter Johnson -of^i^ndonT-^whbse-design-of-thisi
school varied sharply from other
orthodox school buildings. Mr.
Johnson expressed the hope that
the hew school would provide
. the environment that would en
courage the pursuit of knowledge
for years to come. ’
. Mr. W. A. Myers, vice-president
of the Thomas Construction Com:
pany, which had ^Kg^ontract for
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GASOLINE TAKES FIRE,
THREATENED BARN f
Fire on the fgrm; of W. R..
Hamilton last ^Friday evening,,
gave them an anxious time, before
it was. extinguished to eliminate
/the threaFtoThe barp..
In battling the: outbreak Mr.
Hamilton • ■ suffered‘a. severely
burned hand.' . •
The fire; broke out ip a. small
metal-roofed shed . while . Mr.
Hamilton was drawing off gag
from a drum into a five-gallon
A gas lantern is believed to
have, ignited fhe fumes.
A fire.call was turned, in for
the Lucknow Fire Company
j which assisted in bringing the
blaze under control. ’
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LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4th, 1953
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ASHFIELD NATIVE PASSES »ALEX HAVENS RECEIVES
. CORONATION MEDAL ‘
Mr. Alex Havens , is in receipt
of a Coronation medal' which
came from Ottawa. On “Bucking-
" EIGHT PAGES
MRS; ’ OSTRANDER PASSES
The death of Mrs. Garfield Os
trander occuFred at PictOn last
week’ following a long illness.
The funeral was on Saturday
conducted by Rev. J. W. Stewart
BUYS NEW HOME .
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hall have
purchased the new home on
Rose St., East; built by the John
W. Henderson Lumber Company.
“Hap” and Helen plan to move
in next week,
HELD SALE AFTER
FIRE RAZES BARN
GETS SIX MONTHS
FOR FATAL CRASH
Peter Penak, 25-year-old Barrie
resident, was sentenced,, to six
With the Royal Goat of ArmiS,
was.,-the following rnessagei ,k“By
command' of Her: Majesty The
Qyeeh the accompanying rhedal
i§ forwared to Ai ’Hayfens, Es-
quire, to be worn in commem
oration of Her Majesty’s corona
tion Jurie 2nd, 1953”/
'after a York1 county court jury ,
found him ? guilty ' of dangerous
driving, .. ,' ’ ■"7/ r
■‘Three persons were, burned to /
death because of your, .dangerous
driving. Only ; the recommenda-
tion of leniency by the jury , pre
vents me from giving a more sev-.
ere sentence”, said.. Judge For-.
F. OF A. SHOWING
j STEADY GROWTH
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I . Two hundred persons packed
the Recreational Centre banquet I hall last ■ Thursday , night for the
I banquet and annual meeting of i
I the . West Wawanosh Federation ;
/MRS. ;F;; SCOTT MacKENZIE , of Agriculture', presided over by ,
who passed away at Montreal re-< president Gordon MacTavish who
•cently, is mourned by a wide was returned to office for an-
circle of friends in her native other term. •
Township of Ashfield? She was
■‘brought home” for burial in
Greenhill Cemetery,
Sy th.
Penak was driver of a ear that ’
smashed into the rear of another
car on highway 11 last March
20th. The driver of ! the second
car, Mrs. Alice H., Robinson of
Newmarket, and her son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Hawkes Robinson, Newmarket,
died, in the car, which was en
veloped in flames when the gas
tank exploded.
Mrs. ^Robinson was formerly,
Anna Graham, daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Angus Graham of Luck
now. .■ " ■
Dr. Ward- Srpith testified a test
Speakers referred to the Fed-•
eration as the mouthpiece of ag
riculture, and told of its success !
and growth , since its inception / Vr* v^rq tesiiiiea a lest
just 15-years ago. They cautioned, Ihowever, not to expect too much! a^cident showed 1.8 parts per 1000
of the movement Which i£ as ^yetPfenak s blood. A man
in its infancy as compared witli|wpu^ consu™e
■ | ounces of whiskey or 8 to 10 pints
I of beer to attain that percentage,
'he said..
. That amount of alWhol would
cause a man to be intoxicated as
far as driving a car is concerned,
added“Dr.Smith.— ——~~
' Penak said he had twb glasses
of beer at a tavern in Bradford
around 6... p.m. and a bottle of
beer later before starting for Tor-
onto.
A large barn and shed on the.
farm of Elliott Carruthers, Con.
6, Huron Township, a half mile
east of the Bluewater Highway,
was destroyed by fire last Thurs
day. Mr. and Mrs. Carruthers
were in London at the time and
returned home about 9.00 o’clock
that evening to find their barn
a smoldering mass. .
The barn was crammed to the
roof with hay.; The loss also in
cluded 10.0Q bushels of grain, 100
hens and most of his implements.
Without feed or shelter for his
dairy herd, Elliott called a dis
posal sale on Tuesday of this
week, and we understand plans
to give up farming. Two tractors,
a manure spreader and a wagon
which were chief among the im
plements not destroyed, were
also sold.
The fire was discovered about
6.00 o’clock by Ralph Hunter, a
neighbor, and is believed to have
started from defective wiring as
"the blaze appeared to originate'
in the vicinity of the panel box.
Ripley fire department was call
ed but the conflagration was be
yond control.
Insurance didn’t represent a-
quarter of the replacement cost"
of the buildings and equipment.
Barn, Shed Burn Tuesday
Oh Tuesday night about ten
o’clock the barn? and shed of
Harvey Needham were destroyed
by fire. The farm is located at
the tip of KinioSs'in the Kingarf
district and the Lucknow Fire
Brigade which • responded to the
call,- were delayed from leaving
ihe hall while getting instruct
ions as . to where the farm Was
located. •’ »
A lantern exploded and set the
straw mow afire. Flames had
licked up the mow and were
quickly enveloping; the barn by
the.time Mr. Needham'made good
/ of Trafalgar. Harvey Webster at- his escape,
tended the funeral. from Luck-’ ~
; now.
GOODNEfGHBOR
ACT AT BELFAST
Glenwood Camipbell of Belfast,
who has ibeen laid up with an .at
tack of jaundice, khb\ys how to
appreciate good neighbors, who
” turned out With- tractors for g
plowing bee on the Cafnpbell
farm On Tuesday of last week
Before the day was over they
had plowed some thirty acres^
..'In'" th e 4 ‘g; arig ’ *.w er e-Geo rg o - Al -.
, loh, Blake Alton, Jack Alton,.Jei;
ry Cranston,y Jack,Irwin, Russel.
Phillips, Harvey Kilpatrick, Reg
Broome, Bob Hehn?
• Glen is! supposed to .take it
easy for a spell. While convalese-
” ihg from the, jaundice which
wept through the entire family,
with the exception of Mrs. Camp-
/ ’bell,' T’heir' '-claugbtei'FM'arie-,; who
teachesv"at, 'Bort < Brucgr ‘was Ip*
eluded on the - Sick list* but has.
since returned tp' her duties;
Sounds rgther strange, but the
Pipe Band members would like j group organizations.
to/get about a dozen two-point A delicious and bountiful sup
deer heads, and if local nimrods | per was served by the Anglican *
,-----» ladies, on whose behalf Mrs. Ste
wart Lavis expressed pleasure in
having had the opportunity to
serve them. Mrs. Allan Miller I presided at the piano while the I
banqueters were gathering and
later accompanied . Bob Carbert
who led in a rsmgzspng.; ~ ; i
William Kinahan, vice presi
dent, introduced the head table I
guests and Harold Gaunt, reeve •
of West. Wawanosh, spoke briefly
and called for support of. the.
Federation. , ■ 7"
“Jerry” Montgomery of the Ag
ricultural , office at Clinton, re
ferred to the fine-junior clubs I
at Lucknow and Dungannon this |
year. He pointed out that our i
farm, products are tops but . that j
the farmer has a selling job to*
do, to make this fact known-more j
Widely. 7
S. B./“Steve” Stothefs, who
launched- the Federation move
ment in Wellington County while
in the agricultural office service,
The~question~'wilFno’“doubFbe’entertainedthe—erowd—in’—his—in—
have any luck knocking off some
young bucks this week, the
Band’s requirements may be met.
A rfleer horn is used to make
“Skean Dh.u”, which is worn in
the bandsman’s right stocking.
The horns can’t be sawn off but
“lrave~to~"be: ~cut~well~back "inter
the skull in being removed. Thus
it is that the Pipers are asking
for deer heads, so that they can
properly salvage the horns.
TAKE W ACTION ON
WINGHAM HOSPITAL GRANT
Meeting on ‘Monday evening
for the > final session before nom
ination, Ashfield Council took no
action in assuming an $8000 share
towards- the cost of the chronic
patients wing-at rWingham Hos
pital. ’ .••
A delegation from the Hospital
Publicity Committee attended
the meeting, and the discussion
was a prolonged one..
INFANT PASSED AWAY
The death of Susan Lorraine
StCwaft; infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Melvin Stewart, occur
red in Wingham Hospital, Tues
day, October 27th. A private ser
vice was held at the McLennan-
MacKenzie Memorial Chapel on
Thursday, conducted by Rev. J.
W. Stewart of Trafalgar. Inter
ment was in Dungannon Ccm-
| etery.’
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THREE-WAY CHANGE
IN REAL ESTATE DEALS
Some poultry; and hogs were
.destroyed■<as^well, at the. season s
crop ,of hay and grain. • • . ’.
„ With a stiff gale blowing the.
Fire Company; stayed on the job
until .about L00 a.m., till danger
'to the hotise was past. •
r 'Brock Cleland;who was' sworn
into 'the Fire Company the prev
ious evening, w.ais initiated.'to the
fob v^herUhe was one of the boys .
to make' W trip on Tuesday .
night. * • • / ' ■
Call Wednesday Morning
'■ ^n outbreak of fire' in' the,
basement.of Warren Wylds’ home'
'1 he corner, of Highway 86 apd
■"file ""gidcl■bdd,l'l,wa's 'the' c^usO ‘
a "lire WL cm Wednesday
jnot*,ning to which the Lucknow
Brigade. Lespondied. . ■■ /
Warren’had the' fire out.whe,n
they got the^re. ’ •’ ■ .7 . ■'.
■The Wylds property is'm the
Ripler fire zone, but. due to a
breakdown of then’ truck-at the
CarruthW.fire. the call was sent
to Lucknow and ’Had to have the ■
O.K. ’ from, the Huron authorities
before going? , *
Night classes in basic English
for New Canadians, will defin
itely be held at . the Lucknow
District High School. The course
which will. laSt for approximately
15 weeks will be. commenced
shortly. ' .
Whether commercial and shop
work’classes will also be held'
depends on the response. Twenty-
five pefsons are required for each
of these courses, and to date the',
applicants are considerable short
the required number. The. dead
line for applying is November
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NOTED AUTHOR TO
SPEAK ttERE FRIDAY
. Mrs, Marie • Macphredan will
speak at a ’public gathering,, in
the District High School auditor
ium On Friday of this Week. No
vember 6th at 2.30. Everyone is
welcome. ' ■'
She comes here Under auspices
of the Library Board. Miss Mac-
miri’e.dan • is-mo-^tr&ftger-here..She
it author of. “The Golden North”
and “Cargoes .on the Great Lakes”
which won her the Governor.
General’s award fbr non-fiction
writing in 1052* • . ■
Mrs: Macphredan’s return visit
here is associated . with Young
Canada HoOk Week; which the
Library Board Will further,cele
brate-by- having-the mew Fall
books on display at the’Library
on Saiur'day,,
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imitable way. •' 7
At this point Gordon Smyth
won $5.00 when his lucky ticket
was drawn by L. C. Thompson..
Wilfred Shortreed, vice presi
dent of the Huron Federation,
outlined county activities and
Gordon Gregg, fieldman, urged
the organization pf farm forums
in West Wawanosh, where there
hasn’t been an active unit Of late.
The forums,.he said, provide a.
record of farm opinions and they,
would be found
while”.
Mr.. MacTavish
of regret from
M.P.P., who had accepted a prior
invitation to the warden’s ban
quet at Ripley.
Lloyd Jasper of Mildmay, sec-
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“worth-well /
read*
John Hanna,
a letter
HALLOWI7ENESCAPADES
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Mr. and Mrs. Ewart MacPher-
son of Whitechurch have pur
chased the farm of the late John
MacMillan on Highway 86, just
west of Langside Road, They are
now in possession.
The MacPherson farm, a/short
distance east of Whitechurch, has
been bought , by R. B; Quance
of town who obtains immediate
possession.
The Quance. property, north/of
the C.N.R. depot, has been pur~
chased by Harry Gill of Toronto,
a friend of Mr. and Mrs. S. Chis-
lett who reside in1 that .vicinity.
Mr. Gill gets possession bn De*
(ember 1st ,
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SHUT FOR SERVICE
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Business places in Lucknow
Day service . here .next Wednes
day, 'November . llth.7 Closing , .
hours are from, 9.45 until after.
the Cenotaph service concludes,
'according .to a‘Municipal procla-/-
matibn. ■ ■
The community sale is being
held that day and in view of
o th e r , /Circumstances, Village .
• jyilfui. damage was kept to a
minimum locally On Hallowe’en
flight. Heading the list Was the
smashing of a rubber tired wagon
owned ’by P. M., Johnston. The
Wagon was, removed from his ,pre
mises early in the evening, but
police are led to believe that the i
finishing touches were, executed. Council decided against proclaim-
on Sunday. Another, wagon was ' ‘“
taken from the Community Sales
lba^n^ah.d---was—diiched ^a.nd». d am,-,
aged west of to\vn.. . ' . ,
;A fence .was pushed oyer at
Adam Bowman’s residence. ‘ ( , . . .....
- . Apart from this Hallowe’en; in the Presbyterian Church corny,
night passed off with little more'mencing at 10,00 a.m. This will’
than the flitting about of scores be - followed 'by the customary
of “shell Out? kiddies; window -memorial ceremonies at the Cen- '
soaping, and the’moving, of-most j otaph, ' F .
anything Tobse; and\ moveable\; In Kinloss'1 the annual Rem'em-
Some bf^the.J‘old&?/ croWd, .enwq brance Day„AeXyiceu^nsqpd.. by
orted about till the early'morning'1 the Women’s ' Institute, .will^ bo
hours. .
ing the-day a full/civic holiday.'.
The Service of Rem'emibrance,.
to1 which Legion.’ ■ and Auxiliary
members, Spouts, ■ Guides, Cubs
and Brown/es will parade headed •
' ■j.by the School Band, will be held