HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1953-12-30, Page 1.. DEC.. 3.0th, 1953I
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Hospital, Assessment, Well, Were
Subjects Aired Nomination Night
Monday- night was well at
• tended and was one of the most.
’ informative and interesting nieet-
< ings in some time. There was no
“fire works”, tout some straight
■’forward expressions of opinions
on such subjects as the Wingham
Hospital grant., the assessment,
and the new well, plus some en
lightening information on high
school and industrial matters.
Clerk E. H. Agnew was ap
pointed chairman and Reeve S.
E. Robertson was the first speak
er. • «■ /■ ■
Mr. Robertson referred to the
‘ hew assessment now in excess of
$1,000,000 ' as compared w i th
*•$645,000 formerly, and a figure
x of $465,000 for County purposes^
. He said that the h igher a ssess -
ment would mean a l^wer mill
rate, arid would also mean in
creased Government subsidies.
Lucknow’s assessment was up
about 60 percent; and is one, of
the twelve municipalities in
Bruce to' have the equalization^
completed, With the exception of
Ripley which, is also up about 60
percent the other municipalities
completed have their assessments
up 100 percent. . >
:Mr.‘ Robertson reviewed indus
trial activities of the Board and
/told of a visit to Mr. Wm. Renkud,.
owner of the idle furniture fac
tory,.,in which they, sought to’
dispel the idea Mr. Renaud seem
ed to hold that the “Council was
antagonistic. ./He said that there
were limitations to industrial
concessions by Government de
cree. Fixed assessments are only
available to. new companies for j
a 10-year period, and with cer
tain employment guarantees.
Three-quarters of the. Council
must favor any such action before
a by-law can be and must be
submitted iothe ratepayers which
mujst have two-thirds approval to
: scarjry.' In effect«<^aid Mr. Robert-
L.spn, some clear exit proposition
must be made if any industrial
- concessiona ire Wantedr“and be-
fore the Board could take any
action.
(Continued on Page 6)
Lucknow’s nomination meeting TRV1XI^ 'r; _i Monday night was well at- l ijni vimnn »?aJ .
HOLYROOD BLACKSMITH
Mr. Ernest Ackert of Holyrpocl!
is trying to* locate d fornieiMRfh^ j
•.rood blacksmith by the fiam-e of1
Wi 11 jam Irw in,' who -is n6w Hving 1
in the Wes.t. |
I A. year ago this past. summer I
!-Mr.. Irwin, visited iri this district ■
• and- with ' a . friend' or relative .
called at the Ackert home., Ernie;
> was away at the time.'He would
I like to know' who i.t’ was that ■
| accompanied Mr, Irwin- to. his'
home, as no -doubt lie ’will have
! h-is . a-ddress. . ’ /',.■• '■
.‘Would "this party please -get
in touch with Mr. Ackert or leave/.'
the-'address ai'The Sentinel Of-
fide.
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$L()W IN STARTING
NOMINATIONS POURED IN
At-Monday night’s nomiiia-. ■
tiori meeting nominations were,
slow in; starting and' it.' was-.'
after eight .o’clock before ’a /
single ■■can-didate:-was;ham'ed:
. But '
the;
was
- .t i o -n
ted
Agnew: There-were some du-
plications, and in one'instance
Mac MacLennan was noniih-
• at-ed simultaneously 4 times.-
Al,l to.ld. there were, six nom>
. inated for' reeve, eleven for
council and Tour for school
trustees’. ' ■ •
the flood staftyd, and by
time 'the. 8.30. deadline,
reached' thirty^. horning-*
■papers.T ad' -been ~su.bniit-
t.o- swamp Clerk", E, H. •
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Durnin Phillips Retiring After 31 -
Years As West Wawanosh Clerk
Durnin Phillips is - giving up
the blefkiship of West Wawanoslr
Township after: thirty-one years
of faithful and efficient service
to the 'Township. Mr,. Phillips is
secretary-treasurer of: the West;
.Wawanosh Mutual Fire insurance
Company, and the duties of the
twdR,offices have become increas-
_____ His clerkship resignation has
join in extending congratulations / been verbally announced,
and best wishes. ,.________..' i though .the date ’
Mr. and Mrs. Fisher took their
•wedding' trip; .back in 1905, by
i train to Detroit and London,, and
i recall that in the American city
. there wasn’t a ’ flake of snow. In
. fact the weather, was so mild that -| early ip January,
some Detroiters were'going about i'
in th.Air'cFi'i-bi claavac I
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MR. \AND MRS. WM FISHER “
48 YEARS MARRIED / ’
Mr. and Mrs. ,Wiilliam Fisher
(formerly , Maggie Murdoch), ob
served their* 48th’ wedding anni
versary at their home, in Luck
now bn Sunday, December 2,7th.
A, family dinner marked the''oc
casion, and', their many friends
'ingly heavy.f-r ■ ”
I
it becomes “ef-
FORTY YEARS MARRIED
NEU YEAR’S EVE
Mr. • and'Mr si Neil MacCallum __ ____
°1 observe their fortieth j jn their'shift sleeves,
wedding- anniversary ' on. New] Year’s Eve, Former, residents of !
Langside, they have'many friends 1
in the..community .who. join in. ex-.
.tending congratulations.'/..;
, . NeiPTias been' crippled for some
I by "a rheumatic condition,. but i
bC/heerf.uliy makes, the''best'.of it'J ---. ---------»
{ He enjoys visits from his friends ! Light Lodge it was decided
st 1 and Mever' ceases to thrill at the to .yhange. the meeting -night - to
sound of the pipes, which he onee;.'^®.first Thursday of the month,
.played, well'- before1 stiffening fin- j.effective next week, Thursday,
;-Tuesday, -January 5th, at, South ' gars: forced- him .tp lay them aside, i January 7th- " •_
k"- i■ 1 A e v PrtieHA,f n'bion. bliitvok-' I ' ' ' . ' . . 1 mhm ■ riadr-i 11 or i
LUCKNOW WEEK OF
PRAYER ^ERVICES
i Theme—“The journey of AVife”
A '.Monday, January 4th, at ..
Peter’s Anglican Church: Mess- . "
age by Rev.: C. ■ A: Winn. „{
CHANGE MASONIC
MEETING NIGHT
« . .
At the December meeting of
•M^age by Rev. H. L. Jennings. I AGED XADYFRACTURED
Wednesday,^ January 6th, • at wrj$t CHRISTMAS EVE
Lucknow United Church: Mess
age by Rev. G. .S. Baulch. ■
Thursday, .January <
’Lucknow. Presbyterian
Message by Rev. G. A,,Meikle-
john. —'"She' .was 'stooping down t
■Friday, January 8th, place to
be announced. An .excellent' film,
“Fire upon the Earth”:',. A thrill
ing chtir.bh . story in technicolor..
All services will be at 8.00 p,m.
An offering , will be received to
cover .expenses and for the work
of the Lucknow Ministerial As
sociation,
though the date
fective is not definite. The ap
pointment of,. Mr. Phillips’ succes
sor will be among the business to
engage the attention of the 195.4
Council when the Board, meets
P'urnin was appointed clerk
•thirjty-one years ago on the 6'tn'
of February.’ He succeeded Wm.
Thompson who had‘carried on
the clerkship duties temporarily
for six months following the
death of Walter" Wilson,.
-.' His appointment came during
the reeveship of Ben Naylor, one-
of eight reeves under whom Mr,
Phillips has served. The others,
are.. Al'berh Johnston, Wm. Mole,
Wm./ Stewart, Thomas Webster,
BroWn Smyth, Everett Finnigan
and Harold Gaiunit, During, that
time Brown Smyth brought the
honor of the Hurdn County war
denship to West Wawanosh Twp.
Has Longest Service As Cleric ;
Four treasurers, Wm. Thomp
son, Wm. Webster^ W. A. Boyle
nad Clarence Greer have served
the' Township-during Mr. Phil
lips’ clerkship " bf “ thirty-one
years, which gives him the dis
tinction. of having held this of-,
ahce longer than .any other West
Wawanosh clerk. This distinction
.is not confined to the Township
alone, for we understand no
other municipal^ clerk in Huron
County at present can lay claim
to a similar period of service.
’ Recalling some of the highlights
of his clerkship, one* of his first
experiences was the municipal
vote that abolished statute labor.
Mr. Phillips also recalls the re-
count in the reeveship Election
when Wm. Stewart won over
Wm. Mole iby two votes. A re?
count of the ballots left the fig
ures unchanged. West Wawanosh
was one”of "the first townships’
to /.buy a ro,ck crusher and was
the first municipality in Huron
County to raise the local assess
ment to the level of the County
equalized . assessment, which
meant thousands of dollars’ to
West Wawanosh from the De
partment’s annual subsidies, -
During his, 31 years .as clerk,
West Wawanosh has not spent:
a- dollar for law costs, and Mr.-
Phillips: has’only missed three
meetings. .•'*/ , x
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■ Thy regular, meeting night-has
i been the • third " Tuesday of thg
I month for some time. Prior to
I that it had been; the first Thurs-.
Mrs^ WilsonIrwin of' town had day on oje1’ before the full moon.
7th. . a^t The misfortune to fall at her. home ....... , ■...,
Church; on Christmas ,^ve resulting in a origin of that date. In the horse
double-fracture of .her left wrist, and buggy, days members of -Old-
-pick Light- Lbrdge living ,in the rural!
up\’parcel’“in"’the"’living[room area had to .drive,'in some in-/.
' " and i stances, a good many miles toWhen she lost hen<b,alar
fell.
. Mrs. -Irwin was taken to Wing
ham/Hospital that evening to
have the. arm put. in,: a cast and
was discharged on Christmas day
in time for her to go to .Goderich
for Christmas dinner.
I It is interesting to note the<
to
attend lodge, and they Were
Tai-thful in'attendance, \ .
. It was so they would be as
sured of a bright night^or their
long monthly trip that the meet
ing night was set as close as poss
ible to the date of the full moon.
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*:
fA real pleasure for all
associated with «his flrin, to extend
—-.
• <ar Be** Wlsbeo for Luck in ’Sdl-
FILL CIVIC POSTS
BY ACCLAMATION
‘Lucknow’s 1954 reeve, council?
tors and school trustees have
•been elected by acclamation, With
a single change of personnel on
each Board.', ,
The Council, is composed of
Reeve S. E. Robertson and Cbun-
• cillors Archie Smith, V. A. Mow
bray, js. B, Stothers and Alex
(Sandy) MacLeod.
Mr. MacLeod ^succeeds Innes
MacSween who has been on the
Board four years and was chair
man of the Finance Committee
during the past year. The fact
that his work now takes him out
of town a good deal,, decided Mi’/
MacSween not to qualify again.
—-—Mr.-
retiring but signed up early Tues
day evening, when. it appeared
( ' doubtful ■ if “ the • Council scats
would ibe filled. Mi*-., MacLeod .is.
no stranger to .municipal affairs,
having served as road superintend
, dent in iCinloss for several years..
' • The three
, hot filled until Tuesday evening,
.trustee seats . were j
’. when' H.. M. MacLenrian, CharlesL
Webster arid Jack /Fisher quali-1
... fied., Jack Is a new member of |
tKevacancyTT-'-
sulting from Lloyd Ashton’s de-
sire, to retire. ■ ’ . . . .
The other three members of
the Bublic School Board; who!
. have another year to run, are K.
C. Murdie, Gerald Rathwell and
. Dr. Janes Little.
Reeve Robertson returns to of- ,
a year and a half ih ■.'
' '■ We. reeveship;fwhich, he assumed
^n mid-Bummer of 1952, follow- ♦
the death of Reeve J. Mc-
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BUYS HEDLEY'S
MEAT MARKET
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. Mr. Wm. Welsh- of. Seaforth has
bought N. H. '.Hedleys butcher
business. He ,gets immediate pos
session and will shortly re-open
the shop which- has been Closed
for some, time .as Nick has been
in poor health.
Mr: and Mrs. Welsh and two.
children, Patricia. 13- and Sandy
5,. have taken up residence, in
the residence bn Havelock Street,
recently vacated by Mi*, and Mrs.
P. W. Hoag.
' The family'' camc. to. . Can&da
from Scotland in ,1948. Mr. Welsh
is Q1 native Of Glasgow' and. a vet-
erans of World War IL He w-as
associated with his father in the
butcher business in the. Old Land,
before coming to Canada to make
their home oii a farm near Sea-
fofth. A butcher, in. that tbwn was
in need of help, and Mr\ Welsh
got back ’ into his . trade, apil is
how branching otit *' on his own
in the former Hedley Shop.
■ Nick, has spent* much of his
life in the. butcher business and
for /the p^ist seventeen years h^d.
operated the * shop, which Mr?
W^lsh now takes over. • <• /
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