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PICTURE TWO DAYS PRIOR
TO HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY
MRS. ROBERT SIMPSON IS
NOW OUT OF ISOLATION
you
sad
are
fine weather bids fair tae be
gala’day.
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of
for
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for
encouraging improvement
■ BORN
PRITCHARD-—ih Victoria Hospp
tab London; onto Mf, and Mra. Ehno Pritchard,
that will last,for years. .
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WOuldLLlike you to accept these,
gifts.* With them; go. our best1
wishes for your success and hap-'
.pinfess- and riiav they be a con-
'Vtant reminder’ of -your; many
‘ friends at Bblyrood. ■
^Signed: Eldon Eckenswiller”
Lome Eadie, P. A; Murray, Eddie
Thompson, Lloyd JOhnston, Max
Bushell. . • •
set this Thursday. j 1
. ■' Arm O.K. Again / ‘ ■
Robert Gilchrist, 15-y ear-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gil-
60-YEAR-OLD PICTURE OF
OLD LIGHT LODGE OFFICERS
former bus coach will
BE IN WINGHAM PARADE
The coach which served as the
last horse-drawn passenger ..ser
vice vehicle to the C.N.R. depot,
will reappear the end of this
month in the calithumpian parade
in connection with Wingham’s
75th anniversary. ,■ ;
• — ~ The^giass^enclosed,7 leather up-
H holstered coach was brought to
LucknoW by the late A. E. Mill-
son, who for many years “drove
the^ bus” to the local depot, if
later became the property of
. peter McCall when he took over
• the business, and for years now
$ has been stored in disuse
’ 7stuart Robertsori’s barn.
John IMacIntyre and sons
Wingham plan to ^fitx it out
the parade. They loaded it
Walden’s transport last week
f .the trip and no “doubt will now
be undergoing some touching up
.. forthe. jbig ^event. 1_,... . .....
TRAPS FAIL TO HOLD COON
FEASTING ON CHICKENS
Jim . Ketchafaaw of Paramount
has had / his chicken flock seri
ously decreased of late by a coon
that made nightly visits, picking
off a chicken each trip. On one
/■rif; the nocturnal raids it wiped
out a hatching of young duck
lings; •' i.
Pigeons, too, have been on the
coon’s bill of fare, and a flocty
which perched on beafns in a
straw shed’has 'been annihilated,
“except for~ a few that fourid safe’
ty , under the eayes.
Mr. Coon has twice escaped
V ■ from a trap Jirti had set fori him.
_—But, there’s one awaiting him
now, that should do the trick.
It’s a bear, trap that was “laying
around” Murdie’s hardware. Odd
ly enough the wily racoon has
evaded the henhbuse since the
■■ thinks Jim,
he’ll.’be back.
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, JULY 21st, 1954
W. Ch Findlater of Detroit was
a. week-endvisitor in “the‘_'com~
munity and brought with, him a
sixty-year-old picture of officers
of Old Light Lodge. The picture
is being left , here, and will be
hung in the Masonic Hall..
In the picture are Sam Robert
son, tannery operator; Walter
Wilson, West Wawanosh farmer;
Dari Hayes, agent at the Grand
Trunk Railway; Dr. Dan Pater-
son, dentist; Dr. D. Nv Gordon,
medical doctor; John Scott, sec
tion foreman; Harry Day, drug-'
gist; Robert Findlater, bookkeep
er at Lawrence hardware; John
Murdoch, Ashfield farmer. ■---
Mr. Findlater tells us that his
uncle, Robert Findlater, was such
a fine penman that he wrote the
Lord’s Prayer , in a circle that
could be covered by a small five
cent piece, with sufficient room
for his initial. and name in the
centre. ■
TEN PAGES
The picture of Mrs. John Cox
which appeared in last week’s
Sentinel showed her as a sweet
and fresh-faced lady which be
lied the fact she is 100 years! old,
So rfiuch younger, comparativ
ely, did “she appear that wpAhave
been™asked™whenrthe«picture~was-
taken. ,
The fact is, it was taken at
Mrs. Cox’ bedside on Wednesday,
July 7th, 1954, just two days
prior to her one hundredth birth
day. • '
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PICTURE RECALLS
JOCK and barneyI’.'’ J- > ■ ‘ ‘ .
I Pictures of Jock Adams, whose
I name comes up ipost every time
I Lricknowites start reminiscing,
I are likely to be very common.
I Miss Min^ Grriham came across
I- one of them, while holidaying
I here last week.
I The picture shows Jock, and his
I faithful., old1 steed . “Barney”,
I hitched to a light wagon, which
I is loaded with flowers. It was
L._/Probably-takeriat-Fall-Fairtime
I when Jock, as was his custom,
I Would *be enroute to the Agri*
I Cultural Hall with a load of flow*
I ere and potted plants for some
I local exhibitor.'
I .That “Barney” j had a blanket
I: on.under the harness,,would not
I signify the season, of the year,
I for, ’tis said, the horse became
I so poverty. poor that the^;blanke,t.•
I used to cover the nag?s ribs.
I The canaries that flitted about
e—1 oose^in^tiri^Sco^sMnOci^
I est abode was another oft tbld,
■ , Jbck Was “one of those so-eall-.
■ od ehdracters^ 'but was as honest
■ js the day was long, and held iri
I “igh respect. He could eat’ once,
■ ot six times a day* as prbvidence
■ so willed and when he died, a
\ dumber of his, friends contribut-
■ ea to a fund to erect a headstone
■ Jo ma iri&nory in South Mntoss
Vtthetefyi. 1
TAKE OVER HlLTZ
HOLYROOD STORE
Thomas J.'Mansfield of Arthur
has purchased the Holyrood gar
age and store business operated
for the past six yOars by George
Hiltz. : '
Mr.^and Mrs. Mansfield took
over the business last Thursday
and Mr. and Mrs. Hiltz have
pio.ved to Lucknow and are tem
porarily occupying the residerice
of the late Mrs. Neil Gillies. They
have one son, Bryan, who is sail
ing-
Before leaving Holyrood a
community night was held in the
hall when Mr. and Mrs. Hiltz
were presented with a coffee
table and a purse of inoney. P.
A. Murray read the address and
Lome Eadie and Max zBushell
I made the presentation at lunch
time.
Garruther’s orchestra provided
the music for dancing.
Holyrood, Ontario,
July 13 th, 1954
Dear Tenie and George,
We, your friends, have gather-
ed^h^T^thl^^
social time with, you before
leave our midst. This is a
occasion for us because we
jserry to lose citizens <rif your cal
ibre from our community. But
we are glad to know that, for
some time at least, you are’ not
going so far away but that we
will be meeting you and we hope
that you will come Hack to Holy-
rood for all our special occasions.
Tenie, our. associations with
you in the store have been Very
pleasant. We were always greet
ed with a happy smile arid we
all admired your enviable faculty
of being able to see the good
in people, and overlook our less
desirable qualities. All “ the child-)
ten lbved you arid.they will*miss
the many, treats your good heart
ed nature produced for them.
George, we have always admir-
ed the “spic and \ span” “appear*
ante of your service station arid
SurroundihigS. . During ;■ the six
years you have been in Holyrood
you have improved the appear
ance of the .corner so much that.
The skirl .o’ the pipes will rev
erberate - throughout this tradi
tionally Scottish community on
Saturday afternoon when a hun
dred piper s or “more~ will gather
in The Sepoy Town fbf their
first annual Highland Bands
Day.
It is an event that is creating
wide-spread interest and one of
the largest crowds to assemble
in Lucknqw in many a day is
looked for. Ardent Scots antici
pate that this may be the fore-’
runner to a revival of The Games
for which . Lucknow was inter
nationally famous before ' the
turn of the century.
Competitive Program
This Scottish program is ar
ranged by the Bruce, Grey and
Huron Branch of the Pipers Soc
iety of Ontario, and will be large
ly a competitive program, de
signed to promote better bands,
piping arid drumming/' in the dis
trict covered by this Branch.
. It incorporates ten bands from
Meaford, Owen Sound, Lucknow,
Listowel, Palmerston, Kincardine,
Fergus, Brussels, Arthur, Mount
Forest. Most of these bands Will
be present, arid when they march
in mass formation,- one doesn’t
need to be a Scot to be thrilled
by the spectacle. .
In the Band competitiOns: the
top prize is $125.00 for the March
^Strathspey-and-Reel— ———
There will’ be piping contests
for boys and girls under 18 years
of age and/ open classes. The
drumming competitions will, be
open and for both side drum arid
bass drum performers. ’
There will be exhibitions of
Scotch dancing, but this feature
will not be competitive.
, Judges will be top-ranking
Scots froth the 48th Highlanders,
Toronto Scottish, Caber Feidh,
and Lome Scots.
The parade is scheduled, to take
off from the Town Hall for the
Caledonian Park at 1.30. It’s an
afternoon celebration and given
a
The..Lucknow. Eire- Company
has for long held the popular be
lief that fire calls come. in quick
succession multiples-—generally in
three’s. That' was the case a week
ago, when with iri ten days they
had three calls. Two were to hay
field fires and the third last
Thursday afternoon about six
o’clock was to the farm of Bob
Purves, two miles east of Luck-
now. / ’AKiire: in the woodshed of the
home was gaining headwayjwhen
discovered in the nick of time.
Allan Miller, who was passing,
noticed smoke at the house, and
-notified-Bbb-who~ wasdhayingon
the <farm. Efforts to quell the
outbreak were meeting with some
success wheri . the Lucknow Fire
Brigade arrived to finish the job.
To top off the unusual number
of summer calls, iriembers of the
Company spent about three hours
at the municipal dump late Sun
day night, quelling-a fire there
that was spreading southward
along a line fence, dangerously
close to the John W. Henderson
Lumber yards.
abandon idea of
WATER HEATERS CONTROL
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Lucknow Municipal Council-
has, for som^' time been consid
ering various plans of water -
heater shut-off controls, that
would»enable the local Hydro
System to control the peak load
demands and thjus cut down con
siderably on monthly power bill
trigs. ■,
In special Session last week, (
Council went into the matter
thoroughly with a hydro engin
eer, and a representative o£ a
company installing such controls.
, The, conclusion arrived at was
that the plan was* not feasible
locally and that the saving would
scarcely warrant the outlay.
AG REP ADVICE TO
KILL ARMYWORMS
Mrs. Robert Simpson is show
ing
and on Sunday: was removed
frbm the Isolation Ward to Vic
toria Hospital.. .
Jean was taken to London two
weeks &go when symptoms of
polio developed. A weakness in
her right arm has since develop
ed and she is -receiving phsio-
therapy treatments. It is expect
ed that she will soon be able to
return hpme;
SUFFERED BADLY
BROKEN FOOT
. Russell Johnston, 57-year-old
Ashfield Township farmer, of R.
R. -7, Lucknow, suffered a badly
fractured foot last Thursday,,
when in the act of trying to shift
a loaded 600-pound cement ihixer
it toppled, over. Riiss was assist
ing Ab Cpultes on. a cement job.
Mr. , Johnston was • taken to
Wingham ’ Hospital, when it was
Vour efforts will have an effect discovered that several bones in
“1 labi fvi . the foot, were broken. It• is, ex*
token of our esteem we pected that the. fractures will be
•'cffisT^pr'lpbn?“"47’^KiriIbgs, buf-
fere4 Ashptlder injury last<week
when a wheelbarrow he, was
pushing went off the plank. He
was brought to Dr. M. H. Cor-
riris office, and as the Doctor
was in Wingham, Bob went over
tb the hospital where a oouple
of x-rays revealed no broken
bones. Bob carried the arm in a
sling for a brief spell, but it .fe’
nw’ O.K. again. ■' r ’’
(By G. W. Montgomery)
Outbreaks of armyworms have
been reported in Simcoe, Bruce,,
Lariibton and now in Huron Co.
Ar my worms ha ve appeared to
date in the Clinton, Seaforth,
LondesbOro, Blyth,' Fordwich & .
Belmore areas in Huron County; _
Usually the insect is kept un
der control by parasites , and
other natural Control factors. If /
present in large numbers and the
food supply becomes scarce as it
has in the recent dry spell they
migrate from pastures and hav___
fields to nearby fields of oats,
barley, corn and other crops.
When / riiaturei the caterpillars
are - about 1 Vi inches long and
“greenish brown in color with
longitudinal stripes. They feed at
night or in the late evening, Dur
ing the day they usually lie in
a partly curled position under
lumps of earth or other coVer.
They climb /the plants to feed on '
leaves and frequently cut off the
heads of grain. The adult insect
is a brownish gray moth With a
ringle white spot in the centre’
of each front wing. /
CONTROL: Poison bran bait
seems to ibe the most reliable
method of control. Bran 25 lbs,
Paris Green 1 lb, or 50 percent
wett^ble DDT powder 1^ lbs., .
molasses 1-2 quarts, water about
2¥2 gallons. /
_ lThe.-poison-should-be--~mixed —
thoroughly with the bran by
shovelling over on a smooth dry
concrete floor until all is greeri.
Avoid ibreathirig the dust- by- ty->
ing a moist handkerchief or other
cloth over the nose and around
the head. The molasses should be
stirred into the water and this
then mixed with the poisoned ,
bran until/ it resembles damp
sawdust—crumbly but not sticky.
If desired, the poison could, be
dissolved in the water along with *
the molasses. The
above will prepar
to. treat one acre.
NbTE^-Wriere the armyworms.
are in, .spring, grain or wheat, the
bait should be broadcast in the
evening by men, moving across
the field close enough together
so that bait can be spread to give
almost complete coverage of ■
groundsurface.———^7-----
If, the army worms are moving
from one field to another, plough
a furrow with the straight edge
toward the ctop to be protected.
Sprinkle a row of the poisoned
bait on .the floor of the furrow./
As the poisoned bran dries out,
freshly prepared bait may have
to be added. • , 7 .
Sprays or dusts of DDT or aid- .
:rih may 'be applied at the rate of r
2 lbs, of the actual toxicant per___
acre but baits have usually prov- :,
ep more effective and less dam-
a^e! to1 ’ thri crops being .treated,
results.
las MacDonald, was at Saturday’s , WARNING
gathering, bedecked in a kilt fd abriye is very poisonous to
and on Sunday donned his cler- '** 1 * ...........—
ical garb to conduct morning, and
evening services in Teeswater
Presbyterian Church with many
members of The Clan In attend
ance.
Underwent Operation 1
Mrs. Ernie Wilson of Saskatoon
ds„spending^a^ew<days-here.7Shri
came east to be with her sister,
Mrs. Howard Harris, Holy rood,
who underwent a major opera
tion iri St. Joseph’s Hospital, Lori-
don, on Friday. At last reports
Marion was -progressing favor
ably. /
CLANREUNION
jAT TOSWAtER
I Mr. W. G. Findlater of Detroit
called in town, at the week-end
to look over familiar scenes of
his boyhood,, and to call on
friends who grow fewer with
years;
Mr. Findlater was born
Lucknow 72 years ago and
fifty years . /has resided in De
troit. His last visit here was at
the time of the Bruce Reunion.
JJW. -G.’- is-a son-of-the late-Mrr
and Mrs. James’ Fihdlater. His
father was a former blacksmith
and machinist in Lucknow. On
coming from Scotland he settled
in Hamilton, and shortly saw an
advertisement for a plough maker
wap ted' by Lawrence’s hardware.
He’answered the ad, got the job,
and that’s how he came to the
Sepoy Town. His shop was the
former Co-Op building, across
the road from Thos. Hackett and
Sons, and now owned by them;
It: was originally Flood’s Hotel,
a name familiar only to. old-
timers.''
James Findlater, Was a capable
Scotch dancing teacher. and
among his pupils were children
of Dr. MacCrimmon, Chieftain for,
many years of the Caledonian
Society*
Clan/Reunion
„ /„Mr,._^Eindlater~71ater—married-
Eliza MacDonald of Teeswater,
and it Was the reunion of that
Clan which' was held in 'Tees
water , at: the week-end ’ that
brought “W.G.” back to the old
haunts again. . ’ 7
< Saturday’s gathering, attended
by 162 men, women and, children,
was held oh the farm of Kenneth
^MacDonald at Teeswaiet and 4ri
which holdings Hugh MacDonald
received the Crown deed one
Jiun dre dl y ears-agOu-this-summern
W. G; Findlater is a grandsop;
It . Wks on that same farm that
the late Rev. C. H. MacDonald
was born. His son, Rev. R. poug-
liyesiorik, poultry ahd'mrin. Thus,
the /Usual precautions should be
Observed. If . bait left over after
the infested field has been treat
ed, spread it thinly'river, (he al*
Yeady • teifrid* area^