HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1954-07-14, Page 112.50-A Year In Advance—$1.00 Extra To U.S.A. 'LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, JULY 14th, .1954 TEN PAGES
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POTATOES BY THE 12th
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STUDENT MINISTER AT
ST. PETERS FOR 3 WEEKS
HIGHLAND DAY $ET
FOR WEEK FROM SATURDAY
Commencing on Sunday, July .
25th and for three successive
Sundays,: services at St. Peter’s
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MRS. JOHN COX WAS 100 FRIDAY
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-- Mr. and Mrs? William Cox and
Rev. G. B. Cox entertained .over
one hundred guests on Friday in
honor* of Mrs. John Cox’s one
hundredth birthday;’ Although
-the^ear , ladjf is bedfast she en
joyed seeing everyone and a most
pleasant time was spent, arid
anahy friendships renewed, ‘ :
Congratulatory messages and
telegrams were received from Rt..
t Hon. Louis St. Laurent, Hon. Les
lie Frost, Mr. John Hanna,. MLA,
Mr. Andy Robinson, M.P., Rt.
Rev. ;G. N. Luxtoh, Mr. George
Drew, the Boyle families of Moose
Jaw, Sask.; Mr; and Mrs. Dune
McKenzie, Stalcam, Sask.; Elroy
Sieloff, serving in the U.S. navy
and stationed at Guam;~KinLoss.
Township Council and Kincardine
Town Council; ail the organiza
tions of the: Church of the As
cension, Kihlough, of which she
has been a lifelong member; St.
Mather’s Church, Kingarf.
Flowers, gifts and many cards
all expressed kindest birthday
wishes.
On Sunday at noon a buffet?
lpncheon was enjoyed with over
40 relations attending and during
the luncheon the three-storey
birthday cake, made by, Mrs. John
Scott and Mrs. Maurice Hodgins,
was passed by Mrs. Cox’s daugh*
ter (Ada) Mrs, Alfred Hodgins. Hanover..
(By May Boyle)
jng tbe 1 uncheon a short”
service of *‘familiar ..hymns were
sung and prayer offered by the
Rev. Benson Cox who also wel
comed all of the quests whd had
come to participate in such a
unique, occasion. Short speeches
were given by Rev. Charles Cox,
Mr. Frank Rowe, Mrs. Laura
Henry. Solos were sung by Mrs.
Ivan. Lloyd, Mrs. Gordon Maines,
Mrs. Charles Cox.
Afterhoori tea was served and
guests returned to. .their homes;
happy to share in. such a happy
occasion. ,
Relatives who attended were:
.Rev. and Mrs; Charles Cox, Bel
grave; ‘ Mrs. Laura- Henry; Cal-
-garyr’MTs;“A^da~HudgmsrDetroit7'
Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Sieloff and
Calvin, Det/oit; Mrs. Gordon
Maines, Dorchester; Mir. and Mrs.
Ivan Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Lloyd and Doris; Mr. and Mrs.
Karl Boyle, Marilyn and Carol,
Of London; Mr. and Mrs: Maur
ice Simpson and John, Mr. arid
Mxs. Andy Carter, Mrs. Ehiily
Tomes and Tommy, of Clande-
boye; Mr. and Mrs. John Scott,
Billy -and Bobby; Mr. arid Mrs.
Maurice Hodgins and . Ell Wood;
Edna and May Boyle; Miss Eliz-
\abeth ;Han, Mrs. George Mitch
ell, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Row, of
CHOOSES FATHER’S CHURCH
FOR BAPTISM OF HER SON
A baptism of special interest
was performed in Zion Church
on Sunday morning by Rev. J.
R. Dickinson, who baptized Rob
ert Andrew Ward, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Ward of St,
Catharines. Mrs. Ward ...was... for
merly Betty Andrew,: daughter of
the late John F. Andrew, a nat
ive of the Zion community.
Mrs. John F. Andrew of Ed
monton was formerly Edith Tre-
l'eaven of Ashfield.
CHILDREN CROWD THE
TEESWATER LIONS POOL’
A load of some fifty-five child
ren squeezed into Allan Reed’s
bus for the trip to Teeswater
pool on Monday morning. There
was also a load of children- from
Wingham and the dual^cqntin.g£.
ent taxed the facilities of ’the
pool, and the ability of the in
structors to handle the various
groups.’- ’ ■ '
There were 36 made the trip
last Thursday; with almost 20
more on hand for Monday’s jaunt.
COUSINS BORN SAME DAY,
WITH SISTER ARRIVING
ON BROTHER’S BIRTHDAY
There isf more than one coin
cidence in two Sunday births at
the Wingham Hospital. First two
jittle cousins, Marilyn Elizabeth
Hamilton and Graham Alexander
"Hamilton will have th°e same
natal day—July 11th. /
The infants are the children
of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hamilton
- -and- Mr .^and-^Mrsj -Ddnald”Ham^
ilton of Paramount., The fathers
are brothers.
Secondly, little Marilyn Eliz-1
abeth will have the same birth
day- as her threeryear old bro
ther, Larry, who was born bri
July 11th, 1951:
BUYS ANDERSON FARM
I Dr. T. B. Cleland, local veter
inary surgeon, has purchased the
farm property of Mrs. Torrance
Anderson, a mile east of town.
Dr. and Mrs. Cleland and child
ren plan to move to their new
I location about the first of Sep
tember/ from where Brock will
continue to carry on his/practise..
MARRIED
MacDONALD-FORD—-In Bruns
wick United Church, Halifax, on
Wednesday, July 7th, 1954, by
Rev, H. E. Campbell, Helen Ford^
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Ford, Glace Bay, N.S., to
Leading Seaman Thomas A Mac
Donald, R.C.N., son of Mrs.
Thomas A. MacDonald of Luck
now, and the late Mr. * Thomas’
A. MacDonald.
LAD IN HOSPITAL
WITH eYETNJURY
Wayne Hackett, 10-year-^oid
son». of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hack-
i®, Ashfieldj is in Sick
Children’s Hospital; London, with
a severe eye injury that occur?
at his home on Tuesday of
last week. . '
, A pellet from an'air gun shat-
ered a lense of Wayne’s glasses
and a piece of the shattered
ewss penetrated the eye. ..
Corrini had the lad
J’Mion was performed to remove
eyes are still swath-
■ s bandages and it will be
days yet before ihere vvill
definite pronouncement,
getting along* fine, his
after a, visit to the
He is at least
a ,^9 baye partial , vision
11 the injured optic;
SIREN’S NEW WAIL IS
MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE
. A fire alarm early Friday_aL_
ternoon was for. a minor rural
■outbreak, but Jt did prove the
effectiveness ’ of the siren’s new
wail. As one..person commented
“you’d think the town was burn- f
ing down”,.. •':[
'Since the siren .was moved to
the tire hall property, there had
beemdifficulty iri-hearing i^figh
pitch tone in. .most sections ofyt-he
town. An up-and-down ck.ut-out
' was recentiy; »|?xycle
of Chines 'that now does ’a
“thtriuughrjokr of -arotijjingUtne^PiU. ■
'bge- ■ • ’ '■ ' . 7’
Friday's.call, was to Al Irwin j
farm Paramount, where an old .
stack fire' spread through .wheat
stubble and threatened a field «
baled hay bn the Dave
Anderson, Who lives on the ad-,
joining farm, turned m the alarm
.when he couldn’t beat it out. .
KINTAIL MOTHER
POLIOSUSPECT
Mrs. Robert Simpson of Kintail
(nee; jean Bushell) has been a
patient at Victoria Hospital for’
:the^past„week,^since_developing
syrhptoms of -poliomyelitis, which
were evident when she received
medicalattention last Wednes
day. ' '. ■ ' ‘ .
I Dr. M. H. Corrin had Mrs.*
I Simpson taken to Wingham Hos?
pital for a lumbar puncture and
a consultation.. That evening Jean
was taken by ambulance to Vic
toria Hospital^ London, whe^e she
is receiving treatment and being
kept , tinder cldse observation. - "
The-Sim-psonxS-ha-ve--thr-ee--g-Hrls-r-
ali under five, and a close eye is'
..being^-ke;pt.70pi-them/-r^:--
-Jean is in Ward Three. Isola/
tion Hospital, Victoria Hospital,
qnd no doubt many friends will
want-to rememiber her, and wjsh
her a speedy recovery.
There are only two patients in,
the polio ward at the hospital
Jean and a little year-and-a-half-
old baby. ‘
STAFF of fifteen at
BAKER PRIVATE HOSPITAL
- Mrs, Jim England recently took
charge of the cooking'duties at
the Baker Private Hospital. Other
liewcqmers to the staff, which
now numbers fifteen, are. Mrs.
HarvOy Irwin, Ada Rans and Bes-
-sie-Reavier-The-latter-’is-employ^
ed for the summer holidays.
A modern laundry room has
been equipped in the basement,
* wjth laundry shoots from the top.
floor, The former laundry room
has been remodelled, providing
accomodation for two more per
sons, which raises the total hum
mer of patients to thirty-four.
Mrs. George BoWer has return
ed to the Baker Home and Mrs.
Fred Anderson has been brought
here from Wingham Hospital.
ESCAPES INJURY ' '
TN RACIWSPILL
Bill Habkirk. among the top
drivers at. Montreal’s Blue Boii-
nets race track, escaped serious
injury in a Spill late in June. He
was badly (shaken up,, however,
and was rushed by ambulance to
the hospital. An examination re
vealed no internal injuries__but
Bill was kept under observation
for a few days in spite of the
fact~that he wanted”to get back
to the track within an hour of
his admission to the hospital.
Reporting the accident a Mon
treal paper commented, “Habkirk
isoneof thepopulafandmOst
dependable drivers at the track
aiid news of the extent of his
irijury was anxiously awaited”.
Bill _was -grjvirig the notorious-
■ ly bad-acting Jester Boy, which
was running second when it
I broke stride arid veered into the
i.path of Lee Tone following close
behihd. In the collision Bill was
hurled heavily to the track. '
, Habkirk rates as one of the
best harness drivers, on Canadian
j tracks. He is trainer and driver I for the Lasby stable, owned by
George- Lasby, . G'uOlph sports
man.
When the Lasby stable moved
from Toronto to Montreal in the
spring it was their last farewell
to the ,0Thorncliffe oval, where a
hew housing project is springing
up on this old racing site.
Lasby and Habkirk rested, their
_six~horses-4-his—past—winter^nd-
had them in fine fettle fOr the
summer circuits. Mr. Lasby gave
‘ all the credit to Bill’’ for hav
ing his steeds in such fine shape,
and the layoff is expected to pay
off this summer,. And it appears
to.be doing-so fOr Bill has been
bringing home numerous win
ners. One of the big days was a
month or so ago, when before
12,000 fans he was the hero of
the afternoon iby driving four
winners, b ’■ • ' . .
Mrs., Habkirk and family re
cently joined BilE They will
spend the summer at Montreal
and Toronto, and there is a poss
ibility they may locate at. Guelph
where the Lasby horses are like
ly to be wintered.
—Early-potatoes^
July 'is, the ambition of many a
gardener, and has been ‘attained
this year by one village resident
at least. He’s Ri J. MacKenzie,
who first thing Monday morning
reported potatoes ready for use
—many of them as big or bigger
than eggs. •
day—will see. the Pipe Bands of
the^B^
Association converge on Luck
now fdr an afternoon of band
competitions, piping and drum-
ining.con tests and highland danc
ing. ’ z • ' • •
There are ten bands in the As
sociation and with few except
ions they are expected to be in
The Sepoy Town on that day7
OCTOGENARIAN
CANSTILLJDRUJ
James McQuillin of St„ Helens
will be 85 in-December, but he
can still step around and beat a
drum with vim and vigor. He '
proved that on Monday —< The
Glorious Twelfth—when he was
in town bright and early ready
for ‘‘The Walk” at Kincardine/
But first, he and his nephew.
Charles McQuillin^ made the
street ring with the fife and
drum. Jim, as he is familarly
known, was “spelled off” by Well
Henderson and Roy Culbert, ■ (but
the octogenarian Was reluctant to
unhook the big drum from its
harness. • /
A group of Orangemen, includ-
ing_Mr. McQuillin^ called at Bert
Ward’s horrie* to serenade Mrs. ...
John Little, who Was 93 years of
agethisspring^andforthef irst
time was unable tb 4ion the re- i
galia of the L.O.B.A., which she
has .proudly worn since she was
a girl. She was thrilled, none the
less, by the visit and the Sound
of the fife and drum, and re-'
called highlights of other years.
District Lodges celebrated the
12th at Kincardine, where the
Dungannon boys won the award
for the best dressed men’s lodge.
COW, HYDRO POLE FIGURE
IN SUNDAY CAR CRASHES
A cow and a hydro pole fig-
ured in car collisions-JnJ-this_dis=i__
trict on Sunday morning.
/' Shortly after midnight on Sat
urday, Bob Purves struck a cow .
near Blackhorse, and damaged
his car to the extent of about
$300. The cow, vyhich was later
slaughtered, belonged to Frank
Baechler.
Early Sunday morning Howard
Husk of Innerkip smashed off a -
hydro pole at the Second Conces
sion on the Holyrood .Road, and
in so doing wrecked his car pract
ically beyond repair.
' In both cases the drivers
escaped without injury.
other three charges in the parish
will be conducted by a student of
Huron College. . He is Kenneth
Somerton of Sarnia, who will
supply while Rev. Jennings is on
vacation.
Mr. Somerton will make his
headquarters at Ripley and dur
ing the week will perform spec
ial0 work under the Rev. John
Prest, rector of Bervie.
PLANE SPOTTERS
ON WATCH HERE
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Members Of the local Ground
Observers Corps,; which was re
cently organized here, did their
, first observing at the week-end,
when they “stood Watch” from*
daylight to dusk: on Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday.
This'plariespbttirigjbb^was in
conjunction with “Operation
Checkpoint”, carried out on ja
nation-wide basis by the Can
adian and United States Air
Fdrces, to test the nations ‘ air
defence system. •
. -A half dozen planes were de
tected* over LuckpoW during the
three-day exercises and informa
tion concerning their movements,
height,’type of plane and so forth,
was relayed a^ orice by phone to__
h:jYVcsterri Ontario filteK'cehtfeT^*^
The purpose Of the filtre centre
^F7jo^flectr:±and‘^aSKires ...
tiori'passed in by the various/ob
servation posts within its area,
tyhich permits plotting and track- /
ing of these aircraft.
Observation posts ar*e manned
completely by civilian. volun
teers: The local GOC is headed
by, Harold Grreer, who .organized:
the rweek-ond watch, here.