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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1954-12-29, Page 1• n.v K EIGHT PAGESr—r SUFFERED HEAD INJURY WHEN LUCKNOW. ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29th, 195412,50 A Year In Advance—$1.00 Extra To U.S.A. Village Election Monday, Nine Candidates In Field Lucknow ratepayers will go to the polls next Monday io elect- ■ a reeve and four councillors from a slate of nine candidates; It will be the first election since J1949, and then it was for councillors only. Prior to that there had ndt been an election since 1941. ; Monday’s ballot will list fojtowing candidates: For Reeve A. W. Hamilton Stuart E. Robertson For .Council 7 ■ - ..._.X-faurLio._hfiL elected) . W. C; Attridge Janies Clare Johnstone George Wk Joy nt V. A. Mowbray Alex MacLeod Archie B., Smith William G. Webster The candidates had untjl Tues­ day eyenifcg at nine o’clock to qualify. There was little stir un­ til late afternoon when a reeve­ ship battle loomed between Reeve S. E. Robertson ’ and ex-reeve Alex W. Hamilton. Councillor qualifications then started to roll in and by the dead- linesevenhadqualified for-the- four Council seats. Councillor s. B. Stothers re­ tired, but ihe other three -mem- .hers, V. A. .Mowbray, . Alex Mac­ Leod arid Archie Smith signed up as well as four new aspirants, W. C. Attridge, Clare “Hookie” Johnstone,.; George Joynt and William G. Webster. Balloting * be held next Monday, January 3rd, from 9.00 a.m. to :5.|00 p.m. at three poll­ ing centres, at the Legion Hall, the Municipal. Town. Hall. Trustees By The Public were elected by acclamation with Mrs. Jessie , Allih qualifying to succeed Dr. James Little -who ex­ pressed the wish to retire. Trus­ tees Gerald Rathwell and K. C. Murdie went back for another "term tb"“cbmplete the six-man board. The three other inembers whose term has, ariother year to1 run are H. M. MacLerinan, Chas. Webster and -Jack Fisher. FIRE RAZES HOME OF ex-resident the » •„ * Office and. the Acclamation School trustees Rev. J. M. Myrchisori, amative of the Paramount district and a brother of the late Sam’ Murchi­ son, has passed his- 85th birthday. He resides near Foxwarren, Man.., where he ministered for several years. . ' . - - . Rev. .Murchison ’ still enj’oys. good-health and is a regular read­ er pf vT.h'e Sentinel which keeps him in tPuch_ with relatives',, friends and schoolmates of the happy past and to whom he wishes to be remembered. . Rev. Murchison had a disast­ rous experience in the late fall when the barn on his old farm, 2»/2 miles from Fpxwarren, was gutted/ by fire: The farm is now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe MacPherspn. She is his eldest .daughter and Mr. Murchison^li’ves with- them. Th? fire was first discovered by a neighbor who aroused the MacPHerson household 'and sum- _moned“ the--Foxwarren fire—de­ partment, which . succeeded in saving the other buildings. The loss, which was not insur­ ed, included a barn.ygran^ryrhen- house, 2500 bushels of grain, 42 pigs and 500 chickens. Sandra Walker of Toronto is visiting this, week "with Ruth Johnston. * CHRISTMAS PARTY AT BAKER HOME SISTER PASSES Mrs. Johin A. MacDonald re­ ceived word Ai Christmas of the death of her only full sister, Mrs. Angus McLeod of Shallow Lake. Mrs. McLeod was 68, and al­ though she had not been in good, health, word Of her death was unexpected. The funeral was held 6n Tues­ day and was attended by her niece and nephews, Elizabeth, Jack arid Tom MacDonald. Mrs. MacDonald was not able to make the trip? ------------—— INFANT BAPTIZED At the morning, service in the United Church on Sunday, Rev. G. A. Meiklejohn baptized Shai*-1 on Louise, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert MacNay. A men’s choir sang two carols, and a quartette of Cecil Attridge, Eldon Henderson,’ Ken MacNay and Elriie.cHnLMck^arig “O Holy Night’’. " , ■ - i i . ■£. ..............■ i—— • ■ • r, 0 a. « ' • • • . 0 ft ft WAS MAILBAG WINNER ON MOTHER PARKER SHOW Mrs, Redvers “Meff” Johnston of town was the winner of. a new Canadian Westinghouse steam iron on the Mother0 Parker musical mystery radio contest on ■Saturday, December 18th. Each week .a number of letters are pulled from a mailbag in ad­ dition to their regular phone calls and if the person whose name is drawn '-phones the program be­ fore it is over, • and correctly identifies a tune playecrfor '.them, they are a winner,. The winning tune in this case was. “Oh You Beau.tiful Doll”. . The Johnstons have been send­ ing in entrys for’some time, but this is* the. first time'they have been lucky. .. FIRE RAZED HURON TOWNSHIP BARN Fire of unknown origin razed the barn on the farm of Harold Johnston,’ Com 4, Huron Town­ ship, early Tuesday morning. . Included in the loss were .nine milking cows and at quantity of hay and grain. Mr.' Johnston suc­ ceeded in removing 29 head of cattle from- the doomed building. The fire was discovered about 1.45 Tuesday morning, when tie­ reflection in the bedroom awak­ ened the owner, , > . The Jdhnston family have re­ sided on this farm for the past -nine—years.-;-It—was—the—former: Cecil Robb farm. The loss is only partially cov7 ered by insurance. . Possibly there was no where in town- that Santa’s visit was enjoyed more than by the elder­ ly folk at Baker’s Private Hospi­ tal at a Christmas party on Christmas eve. The reception room was ap- propriately decorated~~aTrd~round -the Christmas tree Were stacks Of parcels -for everyone. Young Bruce Baker did .a good job of pinch-hitting . for Santa Claus, and paid, a visit to each of the bed patients who were unable to join in the happy family group around the Christmas tree. , A few’ of the .. “youngster's ’ • at the party. were Rod MacDougall who observed his. 80t.h birtdhay the day before and Roderick Ross and Wm. Bower who are well into their eighties. x The oldest resident o the home is. Miss Fletcher who 98; and would have been ’ downstairs it they had let her/ She Can still’ sing Gaelic sprigs. Anbther couple gentlemen iS almost rnnci-j. n jbull of Port Elgin "’.ho ,'s ®2’, claims his father-lived to well over the century mark. . . Each of the residents of the home received -a Christnras card and gift of money iron Mi. and Mi's. Baiker,.. .and fron. all residents came words; of aPP^; elation and praise.-for- tj»-< goo ness of this coup e and to. .all - thn-“te embers. jyL IM. , . — stacks WEEK OF PRAYER SERVICES STRUCK BY SLEDGE Peter Cook of the Zion com­ munity has been feeling the af­ fects of a glapcing blow on the head with a pledge hammer. X’r Wingham returned week been FOUR HOMES VIE FOR HONORS I rays wer£ taken at Hospital and Pete home. At the first of the x-ray report,had received. . Pete was assisting the not Gil-Pete was assisting Art more punch a hole through a cement wall, when, the sledge glanced off and hit Pete a- graz­ ing, blow, . Of NEW INSPECTOR TO LOCATE HERE Dr. D. Reg. Allen, Medical ficer of Health and Director of the Bruce County Health ’. Unit -has announced-that • a -sanitary-ih— spector will be permanently sta­ tioned at'the Health Unit Office in Lucknow,' ■ ; • The new Inspector, Mr. Alan Cooper, is a graduate of the 1954 class of the Ontario Sanitary In­ spectors’ Training Course at Ry­ erson Institute of Technology. He- is a single man. Mr. Cooper is no stranger ’ to Bruce County, 'having been raised in the Owen Sound district. Mr. Cooper will assume his new duties, here next week arid will reside in the Vill­ age. CAErfc-EXTENDED-TO^------ SOUTH KINLOSS PASTOR Week of Prayer Services will be held each evening at 8.00 p.m, in Lucknow. < Tues., Jan. 4th, United Church, Rev. W. McClean. Wed., Jan. 5th, Church of Eng­ land, Rev. G, Meiklejohn. a • Thuij-o Jan. 6th, Lucknow Pres­ byterian Church, Rev. H. L. Jen­ nings; Friday, Jan. 7th, a: film, “The Bible on the Table” In the Un­ ited Church. On Tuesday,. Wednesday and -Thui<sday'~tbe-^OffeiTngs—will—be_. for the Canadian Council of Churches -and on Friday for ex­ penses and local purposes of the Ministerial Association. ’ ■ ’ Everyone is cordially invited. Rev. G. S. Baulch of South -Kinioss-and-Kinlough Presbyter­ ian Churches has received a call from the congregations of ’Camp- bellville and Nassagaweya in. the Guelph-Milton area. The call will come before the Huron-Maitland Presbytery next week.; . . On'Tuesday of this week Pres­ bytery dealt with a call from. Weston Presbyterian Church to Rev. R. J. Boggs of Moleswor.th and Gorrie. Rev. Boggs ’accepted the call- and will leave his pres-, ent charge about January 12th. . I TWO LOCAL BOYS ENJOY NAVY LIFE of elderly -are-J-ohm-GollapL_who is’almost ninety, and Mr, Turrit SHOT BIG WOLF IN KINLOSSJRIDAY >Earf Harris bagged.a. big wolf in Kinloss 'Township last Friday. The animal was-.as. big as a.’police dog and'was running with>a.pack. of’three- that' Were i;a.ised by Earl's brother Howard. Earl, got a good shot at the big fellow and dropped -him’ in his tracks-. He s worth, a neat $55.00-in provincial, ebu4Vy^and^-teLwrfehip; bountte Reports arc to the effect that wolves .are numerous m Township. Mr arid Mrs. D/H.’Carruthers, Mr. •’Irwin’ Carruthers, Mrs^Ron- ald Forster and Mrs. Geo. Fisher motored to' Owen Sound on Tues­ day to attend the funeral of a cousin, the late Robert Moffat of Bognor. • • , . . . r-•♦•*•*♦*•••"••••*♦***** ’’* .... J - - ■ - ■ . —0: . 7r;'r;w, o % 0 ?f*»i*****i ft o 0 • < M-o1 7?c 0 ■ 6 r‘ c.e ’*i v r|*t! ‘t '3 There were four homes in the Village that were made partic­ ularly striking with Christmas decorations, and yied for honors in The Clansmenrsponsored dec­ orated homes contest. First prize of $15.00 went to June Collyer and, second prize of $ 1-0.00; to Mr. and Mrs., Ewart Taylor. The judges were torn be­ tween the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Mowbray and Mr.’ and Mrs. Wellington Henderson and a de­ cision .was solved by .The Clans­ men awarding, a $5.00.prize to each- ■ • ’each. ■ . The judges.were Mrs. Allister Hughes,’ Mrs. Harvey. Houston and Mrs, Ross MacMillan. The Club presented each lady with a box ’of chocolates for their ser­ vices. . . . ' ■ ’ —,J.n.L a:, let’er..from. Mrs.. Horace Aitchison ’of Wingham, she ex­ pressed the’ sentiriients of . .many in this, community in this, way: “I think all the people who de­ corated . their homes over there should get great praise. They were all beautiful”. Mrs. Aitchi- son added that she was thankful she did not 'have to judge them. HAD ARM OPERATED ON June Collyer was taken by ambulance to Victoria Hospital, London, last Sunday and on Tuesday underwent an operation, to remove bone splinters from a badly fractured . elbow, prior to a-permanent- cast being—applieck WED IN ASHFIELD ^liFTY YEARS AGO ster. are home over the Christmas season on leave from the Can­ adian Navy at Cornwallis where they have spent their 6 months’ basic training period. Bill, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Mathers and George the son of . Mr. and Mrs. Harvey' Webster, both of town. George, having completed his basic training period, will return to’ Halifax where he will com­ mence training in the engineers division aboard H.M.C.S. Cape 'Breton. His training .will be-for a- 3Vi*' .year period. Among other cruises,' George • expects to sail to the west coast, . ■ ■ . Bill .'is in the.. “Navy Stores” division, and has been drafted from1' Cornwallis .to Esquimalt T7C“'Tiis ^dr af t'^con ven-i ently-TelL over Christmas, and be, was able to visit at home. There is-a poss-. ibility that as part of his Work he may be slated for a cruise to Australia aboard . H.M.C.S. On­ tario. ■■ ■ > ' • . \ Both young men are quite sat-- isfied' and’ -impressed with navy life. Bill is in for 5 years and George for' a 7 year 'stint. o O. ' y 4 1 f: ' 0 p 0 o • 0 • ■ © 7* ’•{•J t> 9 6 0* t> AR AHMH r 0 r $ ■»• ■ a S o ft 0 V 0 n Congratulations of their many .. friends were received by Mr. and Mrs. William J? Lane,. Belmont, Sunday, on the occasion of their . golden wedding anniversary. The. e vent was celebrated with a fam­ ily dinnei* at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr.,and Mrs. Donald Willsie,. Belmont. Both natives.Apf Ashfield Town­ ship—and members of two well- ' ; known pioneer families — the couple were friends from child­ hood. Mrs. Lane is the daughter of the .late Mr. and Mrs. James Hackett, and the marriage cere­ mony was solemnized at the Hac- .’ kett home, ’ now owned by her nephew, Wilfred Hackett. The couple farmed for eighth ~ een years in the Lanesville dis- | trict in. Ashfield and then moved to Ripley, where-Mr .Lane was for 23 years manager of a local telephone office. Since retiring, they have lived. in Belmont. Mr., and Mrs. Lane have one daughter, Mrs. Donald Willsie (Etta), of Belmont.’and' one sori, •Walter of Toronto. There are, ” two grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Greatest -blessings • of- her life have been “a haopy home and being-spared to live with A gocd husband, for all these years”, • • Mrs.'Lane Says gratefully. The couple, received many mes­ sage's of congratulations and gifts, including a wedding cake made by’ a' friend of’..the family. They I anticipate'many hours of pleasure’ from the television set presented by the family, and highlighted in the festive • decorations at the Willsie home was A- bouquet of chrysanthemurns' presented, by the Belmont United Church.. The bride of 50 years ago received a diamond ring as a gift husband. ■ from her l 0 J : 0 0 7 m X /