HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1954-07-07, Page 1$2.50 A Year In Advance—$1.00 Extra To U.S.A.LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, JULY 7th, 1954 I ' '"'"TEN PAGES
Village Council Strikes Tax
Rate At Forty-Three Mills
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At the (July meeting on* Mon
day night, Lucknow Municipal
Council struck the 1954 tax rate
at 43 miils> Special interest cen-.
ires on this year’s. rate, as the
new county equalized assessment
is used for the first* time as the
basis of taxation;’ z
Council had anticipated a rate
of around 40 mills, but indigent
patient costs ‘for the past six
^months Or so, have already ex
ceeded the entire indigent costs
/of a year ago. This came as a
“bombshell”,, just at rate strik
ing time and resulted in a couple
of mills being added to take care,
of these institutional charges, and
with the road budget running on
the short side an extra mill was
■added to ’-provide for contingen
cies and ah expected surplus on
rhe year’s operations.
Highest Indigent Costs
Monday- night’s indigent pat
ients’ bill was $1,700 for a period
of approximately six months.
Last year’s total was about $1500.
It was stated that Lucknow, has,
and has had for /a time, the high
est per capita indigent costs of
any municipality in Bruce. Cp* .. .
On the new equalized assess
ment of $1,024,235, the 43 mills
rate will raise a total of $44,042.
On last year’s assessment of
$643,310, the 1953 rate of 54.6
raisedatotalof$35,1247However,
that rate resulted in a 1953
deficit.. . •
Other factors entering-into the
higher total levy this year, in
clude £ $1,000 gravel account
from 1953 which was paid this
year, higher indigent costs, high
er county and school rates, high-
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50c FOR TWO CONES!
They tell one about an_Am^-—
encan visitor who paid a half ,
dollar for a couple of ice
cream cones, while spending
the week-end . in- the com- ’
muhity. Nd doubt aibbut it) a
nice big cooling cone of ice
crearn has its appeal these
hbf days .blit at 2 for • 50'c
they come a bit high. ..
The visitor hadn’t given
any thought to the exchange
on the American money,, and
all Ihg had was a $10 bill,
which' was discounted at 4. ..
percent plus a dime for the
cones..
INJURED WHEN
TRUCK HIT CAR
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J.. Le-
tang of London were severely in-r
jured recently (when a fifteen
ton tractor, trailer truck struck
their car broadside, at the out-
-sk-irts-'of^London; In view of the
damage .to the car it is miracul
ous that they escaped death. .
Mrs. Letang was formerly Mary
MacKinnon, sister of Dan T. and
John MacKinnon of Kinloss Twp.,'
who visited Mr. and Mrs. Letang
in the hospital last week.
Mrs. Letang’s injuries included
a broken arm. She was permitted
to leave the hospital on Friday.
Mr, Letang suffered a broken
collaribone and lacerations, and
it Was expected he would be able
to return a few days after his
'wife. \
| HELD. FAMILY GATHERING
ON 40th ANNIVERSARY
Mr, and Mrs.’ Wm, J. Douglas
of town observed the 40th anni
versary of their marriage \’on
Wednesday, June 30th, and On
July' 1st, immediate member^ of
the family gathered to spend'the
day and mark the occasion..
” Those present included Mr. arid
Mrs. ff Horace Ait^hison’ and Mr.
and !Mrs. Doug Aitchison,. Larry
and Linda of Wingham; Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Garniss, * Douglas and
Billy of Brussels; Mr. and Mrs.
N. S. Calvert and Joyce of Paris
and Mrs. Temple Clark.
A telegram of congratulations
was received from Aylmer and
Islay Aitchison of Kingston who
were unable to be here.
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BACK FROM VISIT
TO GERMANY
MARKED 81st BIRTHDAY
Mrs. Cox Reaches Century Mark,
Came As A Babe To Kinloss Twp.
er protectibh'cOsts, etc.;
19541953
Bruce County ........... 8.5 6.
Public School ......... 11.8 7.6
High School ......... 5.3 4.2
Village ....... 29.25.2
54.6 43.
While the overall levy raises
considerably more money the in
dividual taxpayer’s ibilT may be
either up or\ down, according to,
their assessment under the new
. system.
Discuss Many Subjects_____
Matters; before Council which
received attention, were a var?
iety of subjects including ditches;
catch basins, drains, river
straightening, , sidewalk repairs,
and Town Hall repairs.
Concensus of opinion seemed to
.he, however, that with the “mill
rate staring us in the face, we
can’t afford any major appropri
ations’’. z;
Mrs. Burton Roach and* Mrs.
Russell Robertson were a dele
gation from the Women’s Insti-
'■ tute, proposing that in view of
the free use of the Town Hall,
they would consider installing a
tap and wash basin , on the main
floor. CounciLhas procured plans
for remodelling trie half; With
wash room facilities on both the
main floor and auditorium.
It was suggested that the In-
--Jtitute-miightuse-theRecreation-
al Hall for t’ieir meetings, sub
ject to trie approval of the Re
creational Committee.
Bar Driver .
Reference was made to fast
'. driving within the municipality
with special reference to one par-
ticularly wild display, Constable
Havens reported that in1 this case
the driver had been barred from
d!?v’nS a' car Wjtlrirr the corpor
ation, subject to ri charge of reck-
(By May Boyle)
On Friday, July 9th, Mrs. John
Cox will celebrate her 100th
birthday at her home in Kinloss
Township to" where she: came, as
ar habe\in arms a century ago,
arid,has ever since resided.
Mrs. Cox is the former Mary
Boyle, daughter of the late Dor-
ehtine Boyle and Elizabeth Simp-
^pn^nd^as-bornHnrMcGiilvray"
Township in Middlesex County.
At. the age of 3 months her par
ents brought her to this part of
the country known as “The
Queen’s Bush”, which was then a
dense forest. From Dungannon,
the jourzney was made on foot
with a blazed trail for their guid
ance. • .
They settled on the. 10th Con
cession of Kinloss oh the farm
now owned by Mr. Gerald Rhody.
Here her six brothers were born
and brought up. At the age of
two years she and her brother
John were again carried to Dun-’
gannon where- they1 were bap
tized.;
She married John Cox in'1872
and went to -live next door to
her old home. There they raised
their three children—a daughter,
Ada (Mrs. Alfred Hodgins) of De-
lTOit~ahd'“two sons,-‘Rev. G B.
Cox,- a retired clergyman of the
Diocese of Long Island and Wm.
with whom she. lives.
iMr. and Mrs. Cox celebrated
their golden.wedding in 1922. Her
husband passed away 28 years
ago. •'
Mrs. Cox is now bedfast but
will celebrate, her birthday with
relatives at’ a. family gathering
on Sunday, July 11th.
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VISITS SITE OF OLD
HOME AT ST* HELENS
last
Edward Thom observed his 81st
birthday on Sunday, July 4th.
Members of the family .were to
gether for a “birthday • party” on
Saturday at the home of Mr, and
Mrs. L. C. Thompson, where Mrs.
Thom is convalescing from pneu
monia. / . .
Ed was*a lifelong, resident of
the St. Helens community until
I moving to Lucknow a year ago.
They :haye„four daughters,- Mrs,
Margaret' Thompson, Mrs. Helen
Rothwell of Norwood, Mrs. Jean
Martin of Detroit and Mrs. Kath
leen Collyer.
Callers in the community
: week~ were Mf; “andr:M"fs;“Wr7R“
Somerville of Hamilton, accom
panied by his aunt, Mrs. A. M.
Halliday, who looked. over the
site of the old homestead near
. St. Helens mid-called_on—Brown-
and” Helen Harper, whose home
is across the road from Mrs. Hal
liday’s .birthplace, although the
buildings have now all disap
peared. ; (
Mrs. Halliday was formerly
Agnes Somerville, daughter of
#the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Bennett Somerville. He was a
pioneer farmer and miller in that
vicinity and remnants of the old I
dam, which once backed up water |
to power Somerville’s mill, are. during the months of July and
still to: be seen on the farm. August, leaving the Recreational
MrsttSalliday . was
family of ten children, of-whom
only four are now living. The
others are Robert of Kamloops,.
Mrs. Nellie Anderson of London^
and Mrs. Jean Spindler of-Dul
uth? .
W. R. Somerville is a grandson
of Thomas Somerville, His father
was John Somerville.
TWICE WEEKLY AT
TEESWATER POOL
A bus load of public school
children from Lucknow and
vicinity will be transported twice
weekly to Teeswater for swim
ming instruction at the Teeswater
Lions pool.
The trip will be made each
Monday arid Thursday morning
one of a! Centre at 9.00 a.m.
FORMER ASHFIELD CIRCUIT
PASTOR’S MOTHER DIE&
Mrs. Melvin O. Woolley died
suddenly at her home at Browns
ville on Tuesday of last week at
the age . of 89. Rev. C. B. Wool-
ley. of Dobbinton and formerly
of the Ashfield Circuit charge,
is a. sori. ’
Rev. and Mrs. Woolley attend
ed the funeral which was held
at Brownsville on Friday.
Mrs. Woolley had been in her
usual health the day previous to
her death when she was visited
by her grandson, Eric Woolley
Chesiey.
There is a pool fee Of 10c per
child, which will be assumed by
the child, but all other expenses
will be taken care* of by the
local Branch of the Red Cross
Society, under the Red Cross
Water safety program.
Allan Reed, made the first trip
bn^onda-y-w4th~a-passenger~list~
of 19. The attendance was not
large due to the fact that B&>wn-
j ies and Scouts arze at present .at
camp, and that definite advance
details of the Teeswater trip
were not available for publica
tion last . week. There is trans
portation accomodation for 43:
Supervision and training': at the
pool is again this year. in . charge
of George King and David Don
ahue.
^sr“drivmg . being .laid, if be
ignored the order. ;
IN OXjL'
v # . Wm. Murdie buffered a
jtattured left wrist in, a fall oh(
.^ 2e at her home last
■t . break was set at Wih^“
; P^-Pital aMdi'Mr$‘.7,'Murdie
able. to fetiitii home by the
MEET FIRST TIME
IN FORTY YEARS
Members of .'the ToWle, family
are looking forward to a week
end reunion that Will bring tor
gether the five brothers and three
Sisters, for the first’ time- in forty
years. Some are flying to, get............ _ .
here.-. •• ’ Wawanosh Township farmer, is
" Their narents, the late. Mr. and a patient in Wingham Hospital
Mrs. Albert Towle, have passed i.with a fractured pelvis, suffered
on some years ago, and the old in a haying accident on Wedries-
INJURED AS LOAD
OF HAY UPSET
of
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Thomas Inglis, 79-year-pld West
home kt Paramount, where the
children were born, has long
since passed , into other hands.
Mrs. Fred Crump of W.ingham'
is, the one member of the family
Jiving nearby the bld home,
munity and there the family will
■1W; of July celebration in .Km-
: .,.cardine,A.w fr• The family’ includes Gbrdon .ot
Vancouver, Lcrby and Emerson
of Winnipeg, .Calvin of Calg_ary,
William of’ Milan, Mich., Mrs.
Lillian MuWie of Toronto, Mrs.
Anette Muir of Montreal and Mrs.
Jean' Crump’ of Wingham. ... .
'The ninth member of the fam-
ily. Sidney Towle, was killed: m
’World- War X
day of, last week* ; ' ‘ ,
They were , “drawing in” at the
time arid Mr. /Inglis,. Who is
’'smart as a, cricket” for his age
vyas. driving the horses for, his
son, Tom Inglis and Mike, the
hired ’ ihari. . The load Upset, and
Mr.. In g 1 isJ umped ~frorh^the^high.
side, suffering trie fracture. Had
T.e slid down with .the..load he
might have escaped injury.
He was taken to the house in
their 'truck , which was back in
the field, and after receiving
medical attention, was taken- to
Wingham Hospital where the
fracture was set. Early this, week
he > was reported as^ resting com-
fortably" and progressing ’ satis*
factorily, •
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Mr, and Mrs. Wm. A. Schmid
and ( Douglas, and his? brother,
Carl Schmid of Sarnia, returned
last Tuesday .after/spending the
month of June in Germany which
was Bill’s and Carl’s homeland
which they left a quarter' of a
century ago to come to. Canada.
Bill has been in this country
twenty-six years, to be exact, and
it . was his first trip back.
There were ten Children in the
Schmid family, all of whom fol
lowed the jewellery trade. There
are five of the brothers in Can
ada, and all. jewellers, and two
brothers and. two sisters in Ger^
many. One brother is dead, but
his widow . carpi.es on the jewel
lery business he established.,
The Schmid* hometown was
Riedenburg7~ahd Jailf the family
still in the Fatherland are with
in twenty miles of Reidenburg,
and all were present at Munich,
airport, to meet the Canadian vis-'
itors When they arrived.
While in Germany the Schmids
visited Switzerland, Italy and
Austria and had a day in Lon
don, England, both going and
corning. They were in contact by
phone with Alex MacIntyre while
in England, but plans -did* riot
Work out for a personal meeting.
The Schmids flew from Mon
treal to London.; in a B.O.A.C.
stratocruiser with stops at Gan-
:dejL^addBi^aw4ek,-Scotlahdr-aiF--
ports. The flight from London to_
Munich, with stops at Frankfurt
and Stuttgart, was made by Pan
American Airways.
—Except for the first half hour
at the start of their flight fromr
Montreal, when the passage was
bdmpy due to a storm, they en
joyed the air voyage very much.
The flight was generally at a
height of frorri 10,000 to 21,000
feet with the sun shining and the
clouds below them looking
a snow-covered road. ,
In Germany there are
many of the>scars of war,
rebuilding has been bn an amaz
ing scale, arid generally speaking
the people are enjoying prosper
ous times, so far, at least, as West
Germany is concerned. ;
like
still
but
HOW OLD IS IT?
While digging recently in the
garden, Rev. H. L. Jennings un
earthed an old-fashioried square-'
sided and blunt end spike; It is
six inches long and is as sound
as the day it was manufactured.
Nails of similiar style are not
uncommon in teal old buildings,
but we imagine the spike is more
of a rarity* Maybe some of the
old-timers can tell us about how
long ago it was that these nails
were >in common rise.
10-Bahd P ipers * Associatio n Plans
Highland Day Here This Month
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The Bruce, Grey and liurori
Branch of the Pipers Society of
Ontario, is planning a Highland
Bands Day to beLheld, jn_the-Cal^
edonian Park, Lucknow, on Sat
urday afternopri, July . 24th.
' Ernie Fisher of Kincardine,
president of the Association, is
spearheading---arrangements““He
was at Embro on July 1st, when
the big day in Lucknow was ah-'
nounced; and judges engaged for
the band contests, and individuai
piping and drumming classes that
Will feature the .Highland gather-
irig* hdre/ where “The Games” l
three-counties Association,
includes ten pipe bands in
that
. . . - this
district. They are Mount Forest,
Meat ordr0wen“Sound,~Lucknow,
Listowel, Palmerston, Kincardine,
Fergus, Brussels and Arthur?
/ It is expected that most of
thesh bands wiiLfbe here for-the
big”day. Lucknow was chosen for
the first meet, ' because of the
Scottish tradition associated witli
the Sepoy Town and district, and .
because considerable effort has
been '> put forth this year to re- .
vive The Games. '''
I ,,While_the’annual Bruce, Grey^_
among the towns represented, the .
-forthcoming-event1 here-may weir-
be the forerunner of a return of
The Caledonian Games for .Which,
Lucknow' was once international-*’*
ly famous,/’ . *
Officers of the 10-band associ
ation are Ernie Fi^h^r? president;
Roy MacKerizie, Ripley, chairman
of the. Pipe Majors Council and
John< MacRae, Chesloy,‘treasured
nourished befQre^thLe_turn^-of--the—Hurpn---Day-H^-pypPrtpd tn rnfafe
century;,
Th C th ree i udges^are ^ArCh i
Dewar, pipe major of. the 48th
Highland.ers of Canada; A, 'Sandy*
’ T h ompsori, pip^ sergeari f of the.
Toronto Scottish and John, Coch
rane; leading pipe 'drummer of
the Caber Feidn. ’’ :
This first Snhual . 'Highland
Bands Day is designed to encour-
age arid promote piping arid
drumming' competition iri the