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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-09-14, Page 16....,A,AA7AMM.ILA...41A.,,Km.A1A,AARA.-4,..F.pi,piArAAAAAAA:mk,..e,....Atpar.A.AAAAAAh•tigy••••,A a etei t '4"*. .. '.,•,A LUCAN WINNERS RECEIVE TROPHY—Harry Wraith and Bill Chown, centre, voni the Lucan Golf Club championships in a tournament at Grand Bend September 6. ; The presentations were made by President Art Bell, right, and Secretary Jack .. Steacy, left. Wraith won the low gross award and Chown posted low net score, rrIfftll4151triLr'l',17%Yr.'7r, '7!,.r.nritrtTre'e",.;;;;;•4 • Pae 16 ,SeptemI3er 14., 1961 • . and district news Church,contract to local builder 1 Contract Ir the c011straCtioa , of the Anglican Church of the Transfiguration in Or chard Park, Leetion, has been award- ed to Frank Van Bussel and Sons Ltd- Of Lucan oa a bid Thebuilder hasalready be- giumnrcehxpa \vvahtlicohn fiosr ttohisbleungispumal. pleted in February,. Phone BA 7.4255 Correspondent Miss Lina Abbott Designed by Philip Carter . , • .. ........................................................................................ ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Johnstoncreateshl tofp London eel dlenthet church height by series of eiht-Inch Two share Girls •de$cribe sides and a completely glassed square windows on the two golf honors camp program Liican United Church Wort - 7 Barry Wraith and Dill Chown shared championship honors in 1 the Ltican. G ntf Club tourna- ;tient held at Oakwood Seeteee, her 6. Meath posted a, 79 to win low gross and Bill Chown cap- tured the net award with a 73 after •his handicap of 13 was deducted from his 86 gross, The winners share the La-: halt championship trophy, pre-: sented by President Art Bell, I Other winners in the tourria-! men( were: hidden hole, Don Hodgins; most honest golfer, Jack :McIntosh; oldest golfer, Doc George; youngest, Vic Neal. About 25 members competed in the event. *.e." • • • ........ • .1 Church Activities Anglican Flovvers in the church were in memory of the late Mr. Thomas A. Hodgins, who serv• ed on several occasions as church warden, This week the confirmation class will be held at 7:30 pen. Thursday evening instead of Wednesday night. Next Sunday, September 17, the Irving Masonic Lodge mem- bers will attend in a body, Penticostal Holiness Church The new pastor, Rev. Everett Gagnon, brother-in-law of a former pastor, the Rev. Fred Thomson, was in charge of both services at Pentecostal church. At the evening service, Vicky Eizenga and Paul Gra- ham sang a duet, LINDA GOES TO CAMP—Linda Bridger, 15, who underwent back surgery this 1 _spring, recently enjoyed a special holiday at Woodeden Camp, London. Lucan , Lions provided the transportation. Above, Zone Chairman Les Woodward, President Lionel Kendrick and Past President Clarence Haskett load Linda into the ambul- ance. Gary McFalls, chairman of the club's health and welfare committee, also I assisted. Crippled girl enjoys camp toe..au „ee_4-Linda • Bridger, 15 -year-old eleaughter of &Ir. and Mrs. Ted *e--eBridger, who after having a st put on March 11 and who urgery April 13, e'rbrafght home April 29. eeee Since then she has been lying •n a hospital bed loaned her y C. Haskett and Son. eeeeeeeRecently she received a most 'Wonderful break when the Lu- can Lions Club, decided to take her to Woodeden Camp for a ; thr k vac Hot; ay at Woodeden Since her return from Wood - .Legion Auxiliary bingo Mrs. E. Glenn of Ailsa Craig -Was the most lucky player at "'The Legion Auxiliary bingo last Thursday night in the Legion Hall. She shared the $5 consolation jack pot with Mrs. William , Mathers (who won the 7th bingo) and also won the sec- , -rend part of the consecutive Tsind shared the full card prize; eith Mrs. Harry Bond of Lu - an. Miss Muriel. Carling Lu -1 ' ?lean exon the first part. tee. Miss Mary Young won one of the line "Share the Wealth" e -prizes. The, other line prize -,Was split between Mrs. Thos. .e.1/ieller of Lucan and Mr. Roy '7.Pepper of Exeter. Mrs. Ira .4Carling won the full card prize, Mrs. John Smibert of Lucan won the first two bingos. Other solo winners included Mrs. N. , Johnson of Toronto, Mrs. R. Schroeder of Centralia, Mrs, Grant Brooke, Mrs. Pat Crudge, 2,1r. Ted Bridger and Mr. Ben- ny Kelly, -all of Lucan. lions plan fall events The opening fall meeting of the Lucan Lions was held in the Anglican church basement Sept, 5 with the new president, -rtionel Kendrick,* in the chair, ' During the business session it was decided to again hold monthly dances, beginning Sept. 29. At the Sept. 18 meeting t d t'nger Lunn will be the guest speaker when he will speak on "Wills and Estates."1 This address will be open to "'the public at 7.;',10 ,Ettner Mosurinjohn; firs 1 ---vice-president, as chairman of the civil defence organization committee reported he had se. cured Fred Ileyilr'r41. r don, district cor-ordinator for e Middlesex, as guest speaker for Oct, 2, The Lim Club is very anxious • to secure at least 20 interested! residents to volunteer to take I ; a six weeke course on Civil Defenee, seheduled to he held' in Unit The Lions Club is anxious ; ter another •rummage Seine time Oetaher and again! ask the co.operation of all ; housewives to help in Making It •a suteesa, Past president flare Stanley resented Jim Young with his is.r6,ytar eden, Clarence Haskett has loaned Linda a stretcher and now after months of indoor confinement she is being car- ried • out to the lawn for a most welcome change. Though making satisfactory recovery, Linda may have to wear her long cast for several months yet. Here is Linda's story of her vacation: By LINDA BRIDGER The Lions provided transpor- tation for rne to go by ambu- lance to Woodeden. I got there abut 12:30. All of us had lunch in the "rec," hall. Then we campers went back to the cabin and introduced ourselves, After a while we went on a hike. I was taken on a stretcher. Later we en- joyed arts and crafts. There were nine cabins and I was in the third cabin, with seven ether campers. At night I was taken to the camp fire and we sang songs. After we had breakfast I was taken outside in front of the flag for opening exercises. At 11:30 was patrol. We played records and jived. We had a swimming pool in Wood- __ Colleen bowlers choose officers At a meeting of the Colleen Bowling team at the bowling alley last Wednesday evening officers were elected. President is Miss Muriel Carling; secretary, Miss Lor- etta Blake; treasurer, Miss Di- anne flOwman. At present the Colleen have four full teams but have room for two more, six players each. The Colleens played their first game Wednesday, Sept, 13 Lawn luncheon for Anglican WA Anglican Woman's • Auxiliary met at the Corbett farm with President Mrs. T. C. McFar- lane in the chair. The ladies enjoyed a pt hick smorgasbord luncheon on the lawn. The day was perfect for an out -door meeting. Rev. S. 0. Lancaster led in the Litany, Bible reading and Special prayers for all who had recently lost loved rime, ' Mrs. Herold Corbett, Social service, eonverier, reported an the long list of calls she made since the last meeting and of the welcome she received at each home. Three fernier Lucan residents hOW hi London, • were nreeent - Mrs. C. A. Calder, Mrs. Xentieth McCain end Miss Nellie Yoremati, Mrs. Calder, A8 Diocesan president shake briefly On her Work. She was later presented with the lucky 'mite by Mts. ;Cor- bett. llev. Lancaster moved 4 vtge of 1.1141110 to Mr. earl ;Nit& CO. beat for their hospitality, eden and it was .nice and cool although I couldn't go in. The last night we had a dance and the cabin party. The nurses moved those on stretch- ers in time to the music, Eve- rybody was nice 'to me espe- cially the counsellors. We a]1 cried when we had to come home, School news School reopened on Tuesday with an enrolment of 204, com- pared to 214 last year. The number of families who moved to Acton with the Keates Organ Factory more than accounted for the difference. There are a number of child- ren out with whooping cough and flu, Children will have the op- portunity of attending the West- ern Fair on Friday while teachers' convention is being held. Young People's news At a business meeting of the Young People's organization, held last Friday night, officers were elected. President is Paul Graham: vice - president, Mrs. Howard C u r r i e; secretary -treasurer, Teresa Leadbetter; board, Mrs. Clayton Abbott and Miss Lor- raine Graham. The first fall meeting will be held Friday evening, Septem- ber 15. United Church Rev. G. W. Sach was in charge of the 11 o'clock service at which Miss Ilene Donaldson sang a solo. Mr, Sach spoke on the obligation of discipleship, taking as his text "And who- soever doth not bear his cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple." Rally Sunday and promotion exercises are planned for Sep- tember 24. The Bible Society is holding a special dinner meeting Fri- day, September 15 at First Baptist Church London, at which Rev. Dr. Platt, world secretary from Great Britain, will be the guest speaker. Junior choir practice will' be at 7 p.m. and senior choir at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Mr. George F. Bales, pastor of Fullerton, will be the guest *speaker September 17, while I Mr. Sach will be guest speaker at the Carlingford anniversary. T h e centenary committee met after the 11 o'clock service an's Association ;met \N Ones - day evening WW1 PUSiderit, Mrs. H. B. Langford in the chair and Mrs. Charles Sove. reign's group in .charge of pro- gram. Mrs. Langford read an ar-. tide entitled "The President Speaks". liles. ..Sovereign con. ducted the worship service, Las- sisted .by Mrs. J. R. Ready. An illustrated pro:gram on camping at iceelnoo..kee .catup was presented by Mrs, Murray Hodgins. She was assisted by the famine campers -Nancy Park, who told of morning .ac-• tidies; Bobby Cochrane, who told of afternoon activities and Marilyn Hearn of ,evening ac, &hies. Garby Fritz told a story and joined with Louise and Marie Cochrane and Nor-. ma Davis in a song. Mrs. Sheridan Revington re- ported on the presbytery exe- cutive meeting, which she had attended that afternoon in First St, Andrew's Church, London, Legion Auxiliary meeting At the meeting of the Legion Auxiliary held in the Legion Hall last Tuesday evening it was voted to purchase a new refrigerator for the Legion hall kitchen. This, since Tuesday, has been purchased. Plans were finalized for ca- tering to an October wedding. President, Mrs. A. E, Relily was in the chair. Mrs. Ronald Sprague won the myst e r y prize. Recreation News By BARNEY WELCH The local Teen Town had the regular dance on Friday night and again they had a fine gathering. It looks as if they are in for a fine fall sea- son. Roller skating will. continue till the end of September on the usual night -Monday and Thursday evenings from 8 to 10 p.m. and on Saturday after- noons for children from 1 to 3 p.m. all through September. For the benefit of those peo- ple who are ipterested, the'ice will go in the arena on the first week of October We have news of another big show corning to the arena on September 22 but I will have more about this next week. The regular Saturday night dance will start the regular fall season on. Saturday eve- ning, September 23. Please keep this date in, mind. The aluminium etching class will start at the arena on Wed- nesday evening, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. More Lucan News Page 17 If You're TIRED Now and then everybody gets a "tired -out" feeling and may be bothered by backaches. Perhaps nothing seriously wrong, lust a tempor- ary condition caused by urinary Irritation or bladder discnmfort. That's the time to take Dodd's Kidney Pills. Dodd's help stimulate the kidneys to relieve this condition which may often cause backache and tired feeling. Then you feel hotter, rest better, work better. 81 Report first water tally Lucan community consumed over two million gallons of water during the month 0 Ali., gust, council learned at its remit Meeting. Alec Young, works foreman, reported that the new water meter at the pump recorded consumption from Aug. 3 to ,Sept. 4 at a total 0 2,047,000 gallons. This averages out to 66,000 gallons per day over the 31 - day period. It was the first accounting council has had on consump- tion, Previously, the output from the ground well had not been recorded, Council has been considering for some time the metering of water for commercial and farm use. Plan bazaar At the Evening Auxiliary meeting of Holy Trinity Ang- lican Church, held at the home of Mrs, Charles Corbett, it was decided to hold an executive meeting to make plans for the annual fall bazaar. The president, Mrs. Roscoe Hodgins, was assisted in the devotions by leles, Clarence Haskell, Assisting the hostess on the lunch committee were Mrs. Haskett, Mrs. Jack Steacy and Mrs. Hodgins. front *.rhe Choir will be in the west transept, instead of the sanctuary and the east transept will contain the vestry and ens trance to the pariell hall, The outside walls will be .limestone. blocks, quarried at Wiart...,„ Juniors plan to aid child Meetings of the Jr, Farmers and Jr. institute were held at the home of Fred Culbert, Tuesday, Sept, 5, As one of their projects, the latter decided to adopt an over- seas child and to raise the necessary funds by holding a street dance (in Iklerton, if possible), At the joint meeting, which followed, the Jr. Farmers de- cided to assist the Institute in their project, Plans for a chivaree party for Keith McComb, a Jr. Farm- er member, were finalized and at midnight Thursday 20 Jr. Farmers and Jr. institute members arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mc- Comb (the f o r rn e r Erina Thompson) to chivaree them. They were invited inside where progressive euchre was enjoyed for an hour after which refreshments were served and the newly-weds presented with a card table by Clare Paton and Don O'Neil. Ex -trustee, clerk dies One Of I.ucan's oromineaZ Biddulph farmers, Thomas A, flodgins, sa, died after a lengthy illness in Westminster liosPital, Wednesday, Sept. 6, The body rested in the MUrtlY Funeral Home Until 2.50 p.m. 11 wriDs t a 1..1 kii e'Cle LrtlaeYa to teh Sae SPItieotri rector,y c8oT11rdi t'ntl; iiceet tyna e iv al r% Eclil neral service. Interment was in St. James cemetery, Clande- boye. Pallbearers included Messrs. Harold Corbett, U. F. Stanley, Joe Leslie, Cecil Hodgins, Peter Wallace and AUstin Hod - included Messrs, Fred Dobbs, gBianrsr,y Wenger and Robert Wenger. Honorary pallbearers Mr, Hodgins is survived by his wife, the former Margue- rite Martin, two daughters, Patricia (Mrs, Colin Nugent) of London and Norah Lee (Mrs. Jack Elson) of Lucan; one brother, Edward Hodgins p r141§1rhls. A, Highlands, nds, Indiana, he' nne sis- ter,e of Vancouver and five grandchil- dren. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ensley Mr, Hodgins was born and raised on the same farm, Concession 5, Bid- dulph, just north of Lucan, He was a veteran of World War I where a neck injury at Cam- bria left him lame. He was an active member of Holy Trinity Church, serviin ! as warden several times, He was a clerk of Biddul township and road superintend- ent for 10 or 12 years, :He served 'on the school board for over 30 years in Lucan and Medway. At the latter he was a charter member, He was a member of Irving Masonic Lodge and the Lucan Legion. 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