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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1954-01-27, Page 1$2.50 A Year lit Advance—$1.00 Extra Tp U.S;A. / LUCKNOW, ONTARIO- WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27th, 1954 TEN PAGES -,y • . ■ , Co-op_B(wd Announces ion The annual meeting and ban f quet of the Lucknow District Co operative was held last Thursday "evening in the Recreational Cen- tre wth about 175 people sitting down to a delicious turkey din ner served by the ladies of St. Peter’s Church. , Mrs. Duncan Simpson .presid ed at the piano and secretary Alex MacNay led in a sing-song prior to the business meeting. President Bob . Bark well intro duced those at the head table, including Mr. and Mrs. Alex MacNay, Mr. and Mrs. Geo: Mon crief, Mr. J. R. McLeod, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver McCharlefc, Mr. and: Mrs. Frank McQuillin, Mr. and ■ Mr#. Wm. Purdon, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. McGuire, Mr. and Mrs. El wood Drennan, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd MacDougall, Mr. and Mrs. Jack McArthur, Mr. Don Slinger, Mr, H. Tyler, Mrs. Robert Bark well and ‘‘her husband”. Mr. Barkwell said that the Co- ' op* business is continuing to grow and in the past fiscal year gross ed $203,830 as ’compared with a $165,1-11- the previous year. He thought that figure "cbuld be doubled, but; he added, the Board of Directors - can’t do it^that’s a job for thg 600 members. Mr. Henry • Tyler, representing G. H. Ward and Company, char- tered accountants, explained in , detail the auditors report, stress- ; ing the- importance of accounts receivable being reduced to cut interest charges on bank loans. To Redeem Dividends Mr- Tyler announced that the Board had /decilied to redeem patronage dividends for the year 1947 and prior to that. That will be paid by cheque this year. The Board has also approved paying a 2.5 percent patronage dividend^ on - member business during the past yearv This divi dend is credited to members for future, redemption. Jack McArthur, Co-op mana ger, referred to the increased vol ume of business this year, and mentioned that they had added a few lines that would be bene ficial to Co-op customers. Fer- tilizer is the <rback bone” .of the business he said, and urged plac ing orders early ? which would assist greatly in helping them gauge their material require ments. . • The resignation of Robt. Bark- Well was received, and is referred 1 .to elsewhere. From a list of six nominees^ W. S. McGuire, Rplph Cameron and Jack MacKenzie were elect ed to the Board of Directors for . a three-year terrti. The latter two succe.ed Elwood Drennan and George Moncrief who desired to retire. Norval Stewart was elect ed for two years to. complete Bob Bark well’s uriexp-ired term* Guest speaker was Don Slinger, a Co-op feed specialist arid, re; search authority. He dealt with balanced ration feedin g of dairy and beef cattle, hogs and poult- ry^ arid- he^str^ssed^the- import-; ance of taking advantage of the benefits of research. “If you want to be your own nutritionist, know what you’re doing”, he said. .You can’t draw accurate conclusions . by comparison with you^ neigh bors1 resqits, for/there are so /many factors enter into the pic ture. and he cited specific cases to prove his points. ‘ ' Mr. Slinger recornrhended that J the producer, moreso than ever, ttndcr^pre^ehV c,bndi,nbns7’'bewcW*’ cerned about' efficiency«in pro- auction rather . than worrying 'About what he’s going to sell it ; for; ... In regard, to feeds he recom- [hended., that the producer be ‘result conscious, rather than price”. A 20^ million dollar Co^op Ontario in pre-mixes ‘’“Taiid cbncentrites had been buifF °ri the strength of their feeds, an rather than salesmanship; meeting. CONTRIBUTIONS TO TB CHRISTMAS SEALS DOWN 7—Lueknow—and^DistrictcontriX buttons to the Christmas Seal campaign, -conducted by the Bruce County Tuberculosis As sociation; are away down this year.- \ /. The total stands at $691.70 at present and it is hoped that this sum will be considerably increas ed before the. books are closed. Donations—ma^y. be left at the Bank of Montreal, Lucknow. It is pointed out 6y the County Secretary, Mrs. MacKay of Rip ley, that funds raised by Luck-; now and district residents can be used locally. up. to. that amount, for x-rays, and special "services. HARDWARE STORE TO CHANGE HANDS ,Efifective at the end of the week, Rae and • Porteous hard ware business will change hands, the new proprietors being Chas. Webster and Donald McKinnon, who will operate the business un der the partnership name of "Webster and "McKinnon? Neither of these young... men need any introduction to Luck- noiW and district residents hav- ing been born and raised in the community. For some time Char lie has been employed in this hardware store and Donald , has been, employed with Silverwood Dairies, a position-he has resign ed to enter the retail- business/ For Robert Rae, and his neph ew, William A. Porteous, the dis posal of the business terminates a long association with the busi ness life of the Community. They bought this business 33 years ago —in the .spring of 1921—fro^n Mc Leod and Joynt. Mr. and Mrs. Rae and Margaret are at present holidaying in Flor ida, and iMr. and Mrs. • Porteous plan to go South in a few vveeks. ./ ■■ '• ■ CARNIVAL AND 'FIGURE SKATING FRIDAY NIGHT —^lans^arc—complete—for—the- Clansmen’s figure skating * arid costume , carnival to be held in the Arena on Friday evening. Miss Carthy, professional skat ing instructor and members of the Goderich Skating Club, will stage a figure skating exhibition, ..promptly at 8.00 o’clock. ...Be on hand on time or you will miss •this. event. .This' will be followed by the costtime judging arid race events for pre-school, public school arid high school student^, adults, as well as a half dozen special •events. . • ' Those are all listed on posters and in an advertisement in. this issue. Prize money exceeds; $75. Dig. up. a costume and join in the fun on Friday.., ..... .^... ..... MRSr DUNCAN-GRAHAM—— PASSED AWAY SATURDAY Mrs. Duncan Graham suffered a heavy stroke the latter part of the week and* passed aiyay. in Wingham Hospital on Saturday evening. She was 89 years of age. The funeral ‘ service was held on. * Tuesday afternoon at the Johnston^ Funeral Home with interment in South Kinloss Cem etery. . • : . *................ . Bread “WAR” is on Bread prices in Lucknow dropped as lbw as 15c on” Tuesday to bring the price “war’r into full swing: For a time bread has been available at certain outlets fbr 16c, but. this week it’s an all-out. af-_ fair with another cent lopped ~ off. Milk is also being offer- ■orl art-ed at cut-rate prices? —-V'-------- ---------- --- -------- HIS NINETIETH YEARIN HI Lucknow, Kinloss To Get Share Of County’s $25,000 Hospital Grant HYPNOTIST WAS TALK OF, THE DISTRICT LAST WEEK Dr. Edwin Heath concluded his week-long series of hypnotic per formances here last week, with another full house for his Sat urday night show. His feats were the. talk of the town and country side, and engagements- rolled in from Southampton, Bly th and Port. Albert, with the latter en gagement to be staged at God erich. ; The venture netted the Legion a neat Sum which was very • wel come in wiping off the fastball, deficit from last season. . Dr. Heath received a telegram shortly after his- Friday night performance,, announcing the ar rival1 of a little daughter in Tor onto that day—which so happen ed to be his birthday. He is a native of England and Mrs. Heath is Scotch. The baby’s name —their first child — was to. be keather Heath. r "" At 'their Friday afternoon s-es- sion members of Bruce County Council voted 30 to 4 in favor of granting $25,000 Co .four south-~ erly’ municipalities, that have “pledged assistance \ to the pro posed new chronic patients’ wing at Wingham General /Hospital. The four municipalities which will be reimbursed pro rata ac cording to their hospital levy, are. Lucknow, . $13,000; Kinloss, $12,r .000 and Culross ahd Teeswater $10,000 each. They will share the $25,000 grant in that proportion. Owen Sound General and Mar ine Hospital asked Bruce*County for a $7Q,000 grant towards the cost, of a new million dollar hos pital in/that. city. Council ap pointed a committee to study, the question of a capital grant. However they did vote a “sum hnot to exceed $3000 annually, to take care .of the surcharge now being paid by Bruce Peninsula residents receiving hospital; treat ment at Owen Sound. Councils > action in iboth the north and south, resulted in a motion to .pay the Surcharge of patients from Carrick and Miid- may going to Kitchener and Lon don' hospitals. This motion: was defeated 29 to • Huron Bars Surcharge . In session last week at God erich, Huron 'County Council vot ed a further $15,000 for construc tion. of the Wingham Hospital wing, only if the hospital agrees not to levy a- surcharge pn county patients. The vote was 16( to 14. A few; municipalities in thelWing- ham zone demurred in making capital grants to Wingham hos pital, which resulted in the Board adopting the surcharge- ruling. Reeve R. E. McKinney of Wing ham ■ spearheaded the surcharge letzy, pointing out that Ashfield and Grey were among the Town ships in the area served by the hospital, that had not contributed to the drive for funds. The Huron grant will be phid when construction is started. A $20,000 grant was made last year on the same basis./ ; REVIEW YEAR AT ANNUAL_MEETING A successful annual meeting of the Lucknow Presbyterian church TeongregatiQn—took—placeTast Thursday evening, January 21st, 1 at 8.00 p.(m. Rev. iG. A. Winn pp- I en&d the meeting with prayer and scripture reading andMa hymn was Sung. ” v Mr. Cameron MacDonald was chosen as chairman of the meet- • ing. Rev. C. A. Winn presented the Session Report after the min utes of the last congregational meeting were read and passed. Mrs. G. MacQuaig gave the 1953 financial secretary’s report. Miss Wilda Reid then read the report of the Yoiirig People’s Guild for 1953. ' Mrs. C. A. Wihn read the Vic- I toria Mission Band report, pre- ! pared by Mrs. Robt. .MacKenzie. Mrs. Winn also gave the Cradle Roll report showing 29 on the roll at the end of December 1953. ■■■/’• • 'was prepared by Mrs. Gordon Fisher and presented by Mrs. 1FlVlUKEb A WEEK James E. Little. / ' * \ u tt; / ~ j x. Commencing next week TheMr. Donald Henderson read tire Playhduse Theatre will run two Sunday School report,, the . enrol ment for 1953 being 77. Mr. Hen derson also read the financial' re port of the Sunday School, pre- I pared by Mrs; J. W. Henderson. vx uxe x.uen.xvw I wlM "^ the reg- fdr much of her long lifetime, ob- P showing an acth REV. ROBT. A. MACCONNELL will .be 90 years old in May, but despite his years is alert and act ive and can still preach an in spiring—seirnon~Hemore~than proved that recently when he conducted morning and evening • services in the Lucknow Presby-J terian Church, and between times, made the trip to Dungannon to occupy Erskine Presbyterian Church pulpit in the- afternoon. SPLIT SHOP WORK COURSE INTO THREE CLASSES : i - -. •-....... Night Classes in shop; work at the Lucknow District H^h School have been split irito t ee groups, with classes being held on Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday to accomodate the unbooked for eh- I rolment The Thursday class is the small est and a fewore “students” could be added to that class. There are a few who had en- jqimj2d_ahmiLJ^^ not enrolled, and if they yet wished -to. do so, should act once. ■ at I pictures a week, for two nights each. This week—Wednesday, Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, the Jane Frornan story, “With a song . W. A.- ular four-nights, with the twite Porteous, showing an active mem- a week schedule starting the fol- bership of twenty-seven, with 20 lowing week, with “Follow The Home Helpers. , , ... -Sun” being run on Wednesday , New members of the Managing and Thursday. There will be a Board elected were Messrs. Ste-. change of picture for Friday and wart Jamieson, Leonard MacDon- J Saturday, including the matinee, aid, Ross Garnmie and Robt. Mac-[The new schedule will not alter Kenzie. Retiring members of the the playing nights, and -there will Board were Messrs. A..C. Agnew, continue to be no show on Mon George 1 Kennedy, Innes Mac-i ciay or-Tuesday nights. . Sweeh, and .. V. A- Mowbray. [ •' / ■, ' Mr. Gordon Fisher gave a very ? . . __ interesting resume of the past WAS WEEK-END WATER- year’s work of the Managing SCARCITY ALONG MAIN ST. Boprd and spoke ^of what had . . _ , , been accomplished . and what ! Flooding of the basement of monies wCre • spent. .> Mr. o V. A. i Cowan’s Restaurant the latter f Mowbray also spoke’ of what the part of the week was the first Managing Board hoped to do in indication of more main trouble the future. .......... I on Campbell Street, arid residents The question of the place of and business' daces along the’ the next Sunday. School and' “Main Drag”, had a pretty dry Congregational picnic was • dec id- week-end of it. The Water was. •ed by motion, as being Kin car--, turned bn periodically to repfen-. after this were elected. , , tubs and whatever • containers ■ In jnerriofy of the late, and be loved- Janies Pickering the: con-, gregation- was- asked-, to' stand in the silence ?of_ remembrance. The ineetirig was closrid iby the , benediction by Rev. C, A.. Winn, lun, ....... after which a light lunch was Garfield of Lucknow,. Lome of served by the lad,ies. In all, a NINETY-TWOON BURNS BIRTHDAY Mrs. Thomas MacDonald, a resr! .ident of the Lucknow district! p- served her 92nd birthday on Monday, January 25th, To mark the event, a family dinner Was held on Sunday at the horrie of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Smith of Seaforth, with whom Mrs. Mac Donald makes her home. , A descendant of Highland Scot tish ,forebearers, and a lover of the pipers and Scottish traditions, it seems appropriate that Mrs. MacDonald’s birthday should fall on the birthday anniversary of Scotland’s bard, Robert Burns. 6 ' Mrs. MacDonald was formerly Janet Beaton. She was born at Crieff,, Ontario, in 1862, .and came to Kinloss Township with her parents at the age of 7 years. In 1882 she iriarried/Thomas Mac Donald ‘ of. Kinloss, who prede ceased in 1932—the year of their golden wedding anniversary. Apart from some twelve years and Mrs. MacDonald were con tinuous and popular .residents' of. this community, For the past several years Mrs. MacDonald has resided , in Seaforth at. the home1 of her daughter, Kate, Of the family of eight child-, ren, five. are living, Jack, -and •ed by motion. as being Kin car--, turned on periodically to repfen-. Hinp nnrl IHa nrimmifIaaV ?c'k> « . The Pr^idenf? .expressed ’ his. thanks to all who had assisted in making the "banquet, a success, and added aJ word of -thanks to the faithful and loyal support of the ’Co-op/employees: Mrs, Ste wart ’Lavis replied .on behalf of A- dance fallowed to fnndv . Seaforth, ind Mrs.. A; Hy all organizations of the eon- interesting and worthw-nne t ffreBatihn;. < '.. ...o J. Lockeridge (Myra) of Wing- gregation? - • * Were on hand, ' . ’ J.' ,C. Johnston and Howard Ro.binson teamed to , dig three holes before-locating tile trouble Monday, evening. It was a rusted out connection on the galvanized piping where, ^tapped the-, main in front of Morrison’s Harness JShripwJtepai rs—we^e—made- and - water service restored by Tues day afternoon. •