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The Ripley Huron and
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Play School for the young
folks in the area made a
good start last week ,on
Mon. July 7, :The----01
Both are sons of , Ralph
and Helen Grubb of
Ripley,
Miss Jean MacDonald
of the Pinecrest Manor
Nursing Home—staft—in
Lucknow home for ' a
few, days at the start of
this week.
Laying asphalt
Cottrill Fuels of Kin-
cardine has been doing:
some fine jobs of laying
asphalt pavement in
Ripley during the past ,
week: The work crew
with Robbie Cottrill in
charge, paved Ripley
Street in, the southeast
part of Ripley and also an ,
eastwest street towards
Huronvilla.. Last Friday ,
they paved 'the gangways •
leading to the unloading
chutes at the Ripley
Grain Elevator. Working
with them is Chester'
Emmerton of the 2nd
concession west in Huron
township..
that the loaded cars will
likely leave today
(Wednesday): ,This will
be the first hay train for
Manitoba and farmers
from as farnorth as the-
'ninth of Kincardine to the
10th of Ashfield in the
south have brought in
baled hay to fill the cars.
History book
Mori ey Mills of
Georgetown visited last
Tuesday with Ab Wylds.
Morley, a 'native of
Clarks on . the 12th -con
cession in Huron, at-
tended the Ripley Con
tinuation School at the
same time back in the
early twenties. Morley
left a very interesting
book. It is called "The
Story of Albion" and after
reading it one gets a Clear
picture of the 1837
Rebellion and in, such a.
manner as never
presented before. It also
has:chapters on many
things in , the early set-
tlement of the township of
Albion. While here
Morley and his wife are
staying with Mr, and
Mrs: John Bushell in
Kincardine township. .
Visiting here
Kathy Forster of
goes to village' foreman made arrangements for a Ottawa was home this
Donnie Peterbaugh and train load of hay to be . past weekend visiting
assistant Brent Hodge for shipped to southern with her parents Mr. and
their painting of the Manitoba suffering mrs. Waltor Forster at
swings and teeter-totter drought conditions- this their home in Ripley.
planks, mowing the grass ,summer, By night seven Kathy also visited with
and painting the picnic of the ten cars here were family members in the
tables. Last Friday was filled to the root by:hard area. Kathy 'enlisted in
kite making day for the working farmers in the the Canadian Armed
boys and girls. area. Forces two years ago and
Ripley-folks are glad to In .Lucknow Paul is with the Air Force
see Mrs. Helen Hen- Finlay was in charge of Division.
(Jerson home from Vic.- getting"the met' to unload
toria Hospital in London over twenty-eight hun- In hospital
and Hamilton MacKinnon dred bales of—:hay On Wednesday, July 2,
home from - Kine-ar-dine----belonging—to Jim--- Scott - --Joe---and Mary--Fludder
Watching the gore
In charge of the Ross
Martyn office on main
street west in Ripley this
past week since last
Wednesday is Donald
Courtney of Wingham.
His sister Mrs. Mary
MacDonald who runs the
office and her husband
John C. MacDonald 'are
on a few weeks motor
vacation trip to Western
Canada. It is reported
that they intend to visit in
Alberta. 'Up till last
Wednesday the assistant
Mrs. Carol Fludder ran
the buSinesg, Then bn
Wednesday Donnie and
Carol Fludder, Tammy
and Jason , went on a
vacation to'Toronto
expecting to return to
Ripley early. this week.
New sales sign
Last week a bright
attractive'new sale sign
went up on. Malcolm
Street. It was the first
time this writer had seen
this sign so on taking a'
closer look it was the
Miller MacKenzie sign
and was in front of the
home of Mrs. Elsie
Forrester. It seems that
Elsie plans to sell her
home and return to
0Shawa.
Train Was in
At a quarter to twelve
last Saturday noon, the
sound of a train whistle
in cliarge are Barbara-
Grubb of Ripley, Shannon
Courtney. of the 2nd
concession west inEuron,
and Sandra Dawson of
Olivet. There are 54 girls
and boys registered to
date. The weather has
been warm and sunny.
during the past week so
good use was made of the
facilities in Gore Park.
Last Wednesday'
morning the leaders and
young, folk engaged in
further improving the
• appearance of the park
by •having a day of
painting. So, now the sets
of play tires are no longer
their natural black colour,
but are shiny bright blue
and yellow and the short
climbing or stepping,
posts are red. Everybody
takes their moon lunch
box to the park. Then
before .leaving 'around
three in the afternoon,
Barb, Shannon, and
Sandra have a supervised
cleanup which all enjoy
and co-operate in doing.
Also credit for the fine
appearance of Goi.e-Park
was heard)for the first
time in several weeks. A
long train pulled:by -two
locomotives stopped just
west of the Ripley
oPiAng71‘,Iilt—crOssing,
Ten empty.box cars were
shunted on to the rail
siding beside 'the :Ripley
Grain Elevator. The train
then continued on
towards Kincardine to:
the rail ,siding at the
Blueviater Agromart
Limited Fertilizer Plant
on the 12th concession
west in Huron . township,
Here the seven remaining
box cars were shunted on
to the ; Before
coming to Ripley four
. similar cars- had been left
on the siding at Lucknow.
Shortly after noon Jim
Scott . of concession 12;
Huron and Harold
Courtney of Pine River
were at the weigh scales:
The first loads. of baled
hay arrived and the
loading of the cars
started. Truck and wagon
loads. continued to come
into Ripley during the
afternoon.
Among the first loads,
were those of Vernon.
Hodgins, and McLellands
of Beryie ...and 'Murray
Ferguson of Reids
Corners: Jim Scott had
and District Hospital. himself. -
At the Agro-Mart
Fertilizer siding on the
12th concession, manager
Don Morrison was in
charge of the operations.
It'was just amazing the
way the , farmers here
responded to this call for
baled hay. One has to go
back to those Depression
years in the Thirties
when the same kind of
response was made to the
Prairies, suffering
drought and dust storm
conditions. In the.. fall of
1934 even Potatoes and
vegetables were'sent on
the trains from Western
Ontario here,
In the latest news from
Jim Scott of con. 12 in
charge of the .hay ship-
ping operation, additional
empty box cars will be
placed in Kincardine and
Wingham in addition to
those at the Agro-Mart
(con. 12 Huron), Ripley
and Lucknow. Jim says
and Fran Wylds went to
London. Mary 'entered St.
Joseph's Hospital where
she underwent surgery on
Friday, July 4. -Last
Thursday Joe and. Fran
returned home to Ripley.
Mary remains in St. Joe's
where she is receiving—
further treatment..
Early last week Glen
Stanley of Clarks, con-
..cession 12, Huron
township was admitted to
Victoria Hospital in
London for treatment..
Summer jobs'
Glenn Grubb, home to
Ripley from Sir Wilfrid
Laurier University in
Waterloo for the summer
vacation, is now working
with the Huron and
KinIoss 1VInnicipal
Telephone. S.ystem.
Marvin -Grubb is working.
with owner-operator
"Nick" Klaus Heinish at
the Shell Garage on main
street south. in Ripley.
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