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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 —r- x •. > i POTATOES BY THE 12th ■f 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 ■ X MRS. JOHN COX WAS 100 FRIDAY ■b '■' * ' wi!| -- 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 • f < . 1,1 -1 l”T , • 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.