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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30,.19
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JUNE 1956
375 baby chicks fell prey to a rat
or rats it an Ashfield farm within a
• few days. The culprit was spotted
• and destroyed. The question was,
could one rat do that much
destruction in ten days or was there
a pick of them. .
Mansfield Store at Holyrood was
re-opened for business following a
, fire that gutted the building back in
/ early December.
Ripley Public School • Board
presented an occasional chair' 'to
Ross Martyn in recognition of',
thirty-one years service as board
secretary. Mr. Martyn had
tendered his resignation and was
succeeded by Mrs. John C.
MacDonald.
JUNE 1936
Silver Lake at Blacldiorse was
restocked with millions of pickerel
and about 25,000 bass from the fish
hatchery at' Collingwood.
Silverwood's "instant frozen"
ice-cream was expanding in the
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The LUCKNOW SENTINE1.
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
"The S•PDY Town" — On the 'Huron-Br.uca Boundary •
Second Class Mail Regi.stration, Number 0647
Established 18`73- Published Wednesday
Member of tho C.C.N.A. and O.W.N.A.
20 Years Ago
Subscription Rate, $8.00 a' year in advahce
$2 extra to U.S.A. and Foreign
Grath 8 Glogdootion. At Brookside.
Includes PFeSentOtion. Of Merit Awards
ber lst, 1858; ceremony attended
by firing of twenty-one "guiis"
(gunpowder fired from holes made
in trees) in celebration of the
occasion.
First storekeeper to open busi-
ness, Malcolm Campbell - • 1859.
Post office established - 1860.
First religious services held in
the vicinity (by a Presbyterian elder
named Campbell) in the early
1860s.
First
Public School building
erected - 1862 (J. T. Middleton,
schoolmaster). •
Wesleyan Methodist congrega-
tion organized. - 1862, Rev. David
Ryan, minister.
Lucknow incorporated as a police
village - 1863.
First serious fire in village .-
1864.
• Lees and Douglas' carding ' mill
opened - 1866.
Goderich gravel road opened to
Lucknow '7( 1866.
Great Western Railway opens
station - 1866.
Fire engine purchased in early
1870s.
New Connexion Methodist con-
gregation organized - 1865, its first
minister 11ev. John Walker.
Presbyterian Church (Free
Church section) opened--services
about 1869.
Presbyterian Church (Auld Kirk)
built stone church on Havelock
Street in 1873, or 1874, Rev. J.
Mcl`slabb, minister. •
First issue of the Lucknow
Sentinel published in first week of
January 1874. Messrs. Bowers and
Hunt, editors and proprietors.'
Union of Wesleyan and New
Connexion branches of Methodism
consummated - 1874.
Baptists open up a cause in the
disused Presbyterian -stone church
on Havelock Street - 1886.
Union of two sectionsa , of the
Presbyterian Church (the "wee/
Frees" and the "Auld Kirk")
September 1886.
Church :.of England opened a
church ' (St. Peter's) - 1878.
Caledonian Society organized -
winter of 1874 - Dr. McCrimmon its
first chief.
Caledonian Society opens its
famous- series of athletic contests -
1875. '
Pioneer medical practitioners,
Drs. McCrimmon, Gamier, Ten-
nant.
First debentures sold by village
(to provide money for erection of
the new Public School) - 1878.
Waterworks built and put in
operation - 1890.
60 YEARS AGI?
JUNE 1916
R. • Reaburn, in charge of the
finishing room of Lucknow Table
Co., for a number of years, left to
work in Woodstock.'
The Lothian News, reported that
Tom Saldy had quit making tile for
the year, having made and sold
40,000 with demand for more.' Tom
switched to digging ditches with
his machine.
R. McQuillin on R. R. 7 Lucknow
and P. Stewart on R. R. 4 Lucknow,
rural mail carriers, cast aside
horses and started using an auto
for mail delivery.
Angus Martyn was clerk of
Huron Township and Reeve Wilk-
inson Was the top municipal
official.
ne •
Brookside Public School Grade
Eight graduatjon was held on June
24, Over 200 graduates, parents,
teachers and guests enjoyed
banquet., Entertainment for the
evening included accordian selec-
tions by Lori Hackett, a,,' play by
Room 12 boys and numbers by the
girls' choir. •
Lori Anne Jamieson thanked the
ladies of Trinity United Church for
the meal and Mrs. Jim Hinter
replied.
Graduation diplomas were pres-
ented, to 62 graduates.by the• grade
,eight teachers Madeline Anderson
and Don Cameron and principal
Gary Jewitt.
Following introductions of teach-
ers by Mr. Jewitt, the guest
speaker, William 'Black, was intro-
duced by Laurie Gibson.
Mr. Black outlined some goals
the graduates should attempt.• to
attain. Mr. Black was thanked by
Arlene Travis:
Mr. Jewitt was chairman for the
presentation of the' following
'awards:
Memorial Paul Caesar Award to
a , girl and boy, most improved
students in English, Sharon Alton,
Ian Hackett, presented by Mrs.
Joyce Caesar. ,
Proficiency Awards - 1 student
from each room, Lori Anne
'Jamieson, Room 11, Brian Simp-
son, Room 12, presented on behalf
of the Dungannon's Women's
Institute by Mrs. Elmer Black.
Science Awards - Ashfield -
Brian Simpson, presented on
behalf of the Ashfield Federation of
Agriculture and Fariners' Union by
Ralph Foster; West Wawanosh -
Lori Anne Jamieson, presented on
behalf, of the West Wawanosh
Federation' of Agriculture by Cecil
Cranston. . •
Mathematics Awards - 1 student
from each. room, Lynn Miller,
Marks 85th
Birthday Saturday
A birthday tea was held, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Struthers; R. ,R. 1 Lucknow, on
Saturday, June 26, About forty
friends, relatives and old neigh-
bours called to thdend best wishes
to Mrs. 'George Swan on her 85th
birthday.
Serving the birthday cake, ice
cream and punch were Mrs.
Swan's two great granddaughters,
Cindy and Sharon ' Struthers,
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Struthers of fmcknow.
Mrs. SWan is making her home
with her son, David of Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Leenders
(Lois Struthers) of Granton, Doug
Struthers of Kincardine and Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Struthers of Lucknow
were at their parents' home for
their grandmother's birthday.
Room 11, and Shelley, Rivett, Room
12, presented on, behalf of, the Si
Helen's Women's Institute by Mil
Peter. chandler.
Music „Award - Shelley Riven
plaque donated and presented b
Mrs.. Thomas , Pritchard; cup b
Polly Pollett, president, snider'
council.
Public Speaking Award' - Lot
Anne. Jamieson, presented o
behalf of Dungannon •L.O.L. 32
by Ross Errington. • •
Citizenship Awards - 1 stude
each, room, Arlene Travis, Room 1
and Stephen Simpson, Room 1
donated and presented by Mr
Anderson and Mr. Cameron.
, Sports Awards` - senior girl
Michele Cooke; senior boys, Steve
Davidson and Barry Elphick.
Following presentation
awards, the valedictory addre
was given by Michele Cook.
M.7 -1927/14.
GIBSON - David and Valet
(Gillies) Gibson, 420' Morningt
Avenue, London, are happy
announce the birth of 'the
daughter Julie Frances, June 17, i
St. Joseph's Hospital, London,
sister for Dan.
HOGAN - in Victoria Hospita
London ,on Tuesday, June 22ni
1976 to Donna and Paul Hogan
R. R. 6 Goderich, a' son, Coll
Scott, a brother for Dawn.
ACKERT - at St. Joseph's Hosp'
al, London on Wednesday, Ju
16th, 1976, to Ernest and Bonn
Ackert of Holyrood, a daughte
Mary Elizabeth, 8 lbs. 1 oz.,
sister for Jeff and Becky.
SNOWDEN - at. Wingham a
District Hospital on Friday,' Ju
25th; 1976 to Mr. and Mrs. Willia
Snowden of Lueknow, a so
William James.
JARDINE - at Wingham a
District Hospital on VVednesda
June 23rd, 1976 to Mr. and. Mr
Richard Jardine of Lucknow,
daughter, Angela Michelle.
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MAAS at Wingham • and Distri
Hospital on Wednesday, Ju
23rd, 1976 to Mr. and Mrs. the
• Maas of R. R. 4 Wingham,
daughter, Julie Melissa Joy.
ALTON - at Wingham and Distric
Hospital on Tuesday, June 22nd
1976 to Mr. and Mrs. Brian Alto
of R. R, 2 Wroxeter, a son, Eugen•
Charles.
LOOKING BACKWARDS
THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES
WITH MARGARET THOMPSON
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Wiarton area and the Peninsula
and a 600 gallon st rage depot was
established at iarton to be
supplied from the now plant.
Officers elected at the annual
meeting of Holyrood Women's
Institute 'included president, Mrs.
Almer Ackert; 1st vice, Mrs. James
Hodgins; 2nd vice, Mrs. Charles
Congram; secretary-treasurer,
Miss Hazel Percy; assistant-treas-
urer, Mrs. Howard Harris; pianist,
Miss Winnifred Ackert. •
The following item was found in
a 1936 issue of the Sentinel and
although it is not updated with
more recent "firsts," in the
community, it is however • rather
interesting.
First pioneer settler, Joel Eli
Stauffer - 1850; a close second,
James Somerville - 1851. Daniel
Webster and James Henderson
take up land, part of which in time
became part of the village area
1854.,
First sa*mill set going - 1856-7.
Survey of the village by James
Somerville. - 1858.
First tavern, Ralph Miller's
log-built "Balaclava House"
1858. Auction sale of 'village lots
1858.
Village given its name Septem-
.Amminomor`