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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1954-03-10, Page 70 PAGE SEVEN i Co*op Seed ... 4 . EDNLSDAY, MARCH 10, 1954 TIIE LUCKNOW SENTINEL; LUCKNOW, .ONTARIO i j Serve You botany bay I 6th I A dozen or so volunteers have < . ______ink rvf has been' extended, and BUSINESS YOU CAN SOW IT WITH I wish to announce that we will <> FRANK MacLENNAN izi i i the dis- and Wed., Thurs., March 17; 18 CLARK GABLE, AV A GARDNER ' — in — ' ■ ^ffeGLouMd’eas'-about’-t-he-ehurch^ ■In -the sight of God, His church 1 ---- ------" l__ “ • is one—a- unit,'. a body 0f those ♦ Renovations At Oliyet mogambo in technicolor ■ •»'. V < ■In <the sight of God His church ; ---- ------" . is one-~a. unit.' .a body Of those i People., who. fly into aragoai- who. love the- Lord”. -■ • wavs make a bad landing.- ■ .. fr-B ..MB 0 Lyceum Theatre WINGHAM Shows Each" Night^^ FIRST SHOW at 7.15 Wed, Thurs., March 10,v 11 DEAN MARTIN, ■ • JERRY LEWIS —in — THE CADBY . , , • ' '> Friday, Saturday, March 12, 13 RORY CALHOUNi . CORINNE CALVERT — in, -^r- POWDER RIVER in technicolor Matinee Saturday Afternoon - - ... - - - - - - • Monday, Tuesday, Mar. 15, 16 ALAN LADD, JAMES MASON •. — in .—- •■'■• WEDDINGS GILLESPIE—NICHOLSON < An early "spring wedding was I solemnized at Lucknow Presby- - terian Church on Saturday, Mar. ” 6th at 1.00 o’clock when Shirley "Marion, youngesCdaughter bfMrT" and Mrs. Dan Nicholson zwas united in marriage to Donald , Lloyd Gillespie, son of.Mr. Chas, i Gillespie, Kitchener, and the late I Mrs. Gillespie, Rev. Chas. Winn I performed the ceremopy and the wedding music was played by Mr. Elmer Umbaehv The soloist, • Mrs, Harold Haldenby, sang' ‘•Bless, This House”- and “Through the Years”, •. Given in marriage by her father •the bride wore a gown of white slipper satin fashioned with fit­ ted bodice, with lapels and yoke trimmed .with beads and. sequins, ;and long sleeves tapering to a point over the hand.' The flared skirt extended into a short 'train; and her fingertip veil-was held in place by a seed pearl and satin headdress. She carried a bouquet of red roses and fern, with streamers .arid rosebuds. • . Her attendants were her sister Donalda as maid of honor, who wore; a nile green ankle length dress fashioned with lace bodice with net yoke, and net over taf­ feta skirt with matching head­ dress. She carried a colonial bou-r [ qUet of yellow mums and fern. -M-i-s.—Don-Busliell.^sister _of_the_ groom, was bridesmaid, wearing a-similar style dress in yellow, with matching headdress arid iflowers... Little Wanda Mae Hun- ter, niece of the bride, as flower girl, wore a dress of mauve nylon over- taffetai with hoope^ skirt, •with headdress to match and car­ ried a niK-egay of yellow baby mums. ; . Mr. Jirn Hodgins, cousin of the groom, was best man and the. ushers were Ken Nicholson, bro­ ther of the bride and Don Bush- .ell, brother-in-law of the groom. Following the ceremony the guests were served a wedding dinner in the church parlors. The bride’s mother wore a navy dress with , powder blue accessories ani corsage of red roses. The groom’s grandmother chose a biege, dress j with brown, and oink accessorises•__• . ' - A ODQ CO IS cig tn jjix.i ly... v « a i 151 viy 1 * p r . Later the young couple left for a trip, to Southern Ontario points. The bride travelled in a grey gabardine, suit with black; velvet accessories, mauve top­ coat and. corsage of yellow mums. On their return the bride and groom will reside on the 10th of Kinloss. * . * • WORLD DAY OF PRAYER J ' HELD AT ST; PETER’S OHURCH ,. •. - The universal World’s Day of Prayer was held on Friday? March 5th in the Anglican; Church and Rev. H. L. Jennings welcomed the ladies to. the meeting. '. A note of sadness was attached to the service this year, when it was learned that t>r. Sarah Chakko of India, who had pre­ pared the program some time ago, had recently passed away. She \ was a highly educated Indian womah,\princiipal of Isa- now, India, and considered one pf/the fpramost educationalists of the world. She had not yet reach­ ed her 50th year; Those assigned to the ^various parts of the program were MrsJ Jennings, Miss MacLeod, Mrs. R. Robertson and Miss Dorothy Cook. Taking part in the differ-, ent prayers were Mrs. Clair John­ ston, Mrs. A. Marshall, Mrs. W.; L MacKenzie, Mrs. W. Anderson, > /V UUZIVU Ml. aw Mrs1.- M. ’Henderson and ?Mrs.; been doing an excellent job of Winn.1 A brief address on ‘ the | renovating and remodeUing at theme for the day, “That They 1 ©bvet United Church. The work May Have Life”, was aibly taken 1 includes a new plywood wains- ’ J... ■ •>■ ’ . - • ... » 1 . .■.»«. . 1. . . n'Uzi Jennihgs contributed a solo. We will conclude with these1 platform words of the late Dr. • Sarah i a ’ Chakko, “We made a mistake combination when we let ideas of nationalism choir room by Mrs, Jack Pollock, while Mrs. coting around the church.. The JpnniKcrb ? ’ windows have been, refitted. The ..i has b.eyh” extended, and w:eH made for the organ.- A room of kitchen, and beginners class I i■'i i i i ■ T~r: i I ____ ___ I be calling on my customers as usuaL xz ■ I i i Announcement I I wish to announce that we will be. re­ turning .shortly to the genefai stOYerbusiness ~ = at Lochalsh, but will continue to represent = , R. A< Finn; and Company of London and will • i ■'■''' ... '.... ,. " ' <■_''' ’" *' | = rageous‘the .way o,ur village has’ I been ‘•treated by* the Post’ Office ’ authorities? -forr the pastT two-’ weeks. We do not blame the rail­ way company for not .being able to keep tire track clear; but: there is no excuse under heaven , for the postal officials for shutting bur , village. out for twelvev days w-Uho.ui^jnaiL^hll^ •Be! little hamlet of a couple of houses ’ » . ■ . ’ « 1. • • 1 MARCH STORMS (Continued from Page 1) 75 shovellers who snatched a lew hours’ sleep whe^ they could and were’fed in tluTwork train7kit- chen,. ■ / ~ The wreck was”removedyby ”7T15; ’ on Saturday night, and by noon, bn Sunday the rail line had been rebuilt and the plow and shov-’ elling crew finished the job of opening the road , to Kincardine, Temporary: passenger and mail service had been run to Lucknow on Friday and Saturday,^ and the week-long tie-up came.to-an end on Monday when regular service was restored. Highways Blocked Solid Highways were blocked ’solid and concession roads and side­ roads hopelessly plugged, so that Old Sol and the approach •■« of Spring seemed the only hope of •getting .some of them opened. Blocked, from Sunday until Fri­ day, the Luckncny-Wingham road was the first to be re-openeejr It was Monday before the Luck­ now-Amiber ley stretch was open­ ed tb link with the Bluewater which was then passable. Rill Berry had “punched through” from kintail to Port Albert in t.\|vo days.' By Monday a “cat” had broken through at Glenn’s Hill, while slow progress was being made to the north from Lucknow to. Kinloss, where1 gangs of shovel- lers were essential tb^what^sTow" progress the plows were making. In fact shovellers were working in co-operation with every plowr to" kee pHhem’-f r om-getting-hope-- lessly wedged in the big banks. Only about a mild was opened all day Monday between the and the 4th- Concessions. Fifty Years Ago “Old-timers” often talk of winter of 1904, when this trict was paralyzed by snow storms for days on end. While the Weatherman did not’ make headlines in The Sentinel at that time there were repeated refer­ ences from week to week of ten feet deep for a quarter of storm conditions and we reprint a mile and a little further on some extracts from The Sentinels was a. mile-long 12-foot tunnel, of, fifty, years ago. as follows: ( Nothing like it has ever been January 28th, 19Q4-—“Since De- witnessed before”, cember 14th the weather -has March 24th—“Snow fell on the been almost one continuous storm *—- and the railways~and—roads-have A become badly blocked. For- four., days no' mail was received at4be» Post Office. It has been the worst ‘ 1 winter ever experienced here and i unless a great change soon takes | • place many of our citizens will' • be completely out of both coal! and wood”. ! February 4—“One of the worst ; blockades that has even occurred^ , since the days of railways ih. this section took place last week . J and for five days no trains of! mail reached Lucknow. On Sat-* t urday (January 30th) a snow i plow "and three engines Cleared! the track to Kincardine and two i mail trains came up during 'the < night.” : .. • > • ■ . I . March • .10th—“For 12 days no : trains or mails reached the Luck I now station, and finally after two days of terrible- experience ’ and a crew of 85 .men succeeded. in opening the track from .Wing-' ham to Lucknow- Prospects are ■ . it will be some'days yet .before ; a train will' be brought here as., it will take fully another week to clear the road to‘’.Kincardine., A sleigh "load of .mail bags con­ taining the London mails and papers 'was brought from Clin­ ton”. : “ ’ ' / * - ■■March 10th—‘It is simply out- The PLAYHOUSE lst show 7.30: 2nde-9.15-^Adults 50c. students 35c, children 25c WednesdAv. Thursdav. Ma 1 Oth, 11th _ ?. Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Barbara Lawrence, in Street With No Name r Friday, Saturday, March 12th, 13th June Haver, William Luiidigan, Gloria De Haven, in FlI Gat By f u* technicolor Matinee Saturday at 2.30 ~ Children 10c, Students 20c I ■ ** ’ ■ Wednesday, Thursday, March 17 th, 18th DAN DAILEY <aiid JO AN DRUE, in THE PRIDE op ST. LOUIS” THE STORY QF DIZZIE DEAN BROWN BROS ’Phone 181 Kincardine PAYING HIGHEST PRICES FOR LIVE POULTRY Poultry Culling A* Specialty Waccordahc¥witlfgovernment’regulationsourpoultry coops are thoroughly washed and disinfected ' . for your protection. and a blacksmith shop received a, daily mail service via Goderich”. March 17th —'■ “For nearly a week three, engines, a snow plow and over 200 shovellers were try­ ing•"to clear the track between Lucknow and Ripley. The snow was tremendously deep and after the Last thaw it froze solid and almost as hard as ice and had all to be shovelled out’ At Nich- • olson’s cut there was a tunnel 18thofNovemberandhasstayed with the job right to-date. This is the 24th of March so we have had a solid four months and one one week of sleighing”. March 31st — The G.T.R. an­ nounces “that it hais lost $1,300,000•■> by the snow blockades of the"- season and a policy of retrench­ ment to (be adopted will lead to I a discharge of a percentage of | the staff’’.. ' ' April 7th—-“The opening of the railways again has caused freight to “come in- at a lively rate and nierchants have been busy this week unpacking and arranging 1 spring ’goods”. ■«« * ■ ' For . . . Higher Crop Yields it’s >■;■■■ CONFIDENCE Order Early Lucknow District Co-op Phone 7lr Lucknow w'w w w