HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-07-30, Page 44[BY OUR LOCAL REPORTER]
Dungannon, I want to say, is alright,
The dear old. place is my' delight.
And it isn't sliding down the hill:
Though grumblers say it Sorely will.
rivalled-spose and think,
And make demands on pkinter's ink,
Concocting simple easy, ryhmes
Descriptive of the olden times,
Many, many years have slipped away
Since the first villager 'came to stay
Then the village it gradually grew
As the stage went daily through,
Discharging passengers and freight
Flourishing stores kept open late;
Two big hotels, aglow with light,
Were vocal far into the night,
With song and glee and rustic dance
Toned with a "Scrap or two perchance,
A jolly frollic place you bet,
For then the village, it was "wet".
The boozers: rallied round the can
At night to the hotels they ran;
Spending all their hard earned cash
And always doing something rash.
Yes, Dungannon in days of yore
Heat'd Many .a drunkard's roar •
But for all that the village boomed
While whiskey was being consumed.
Oh, Dungannon ber sons were grand;
Her daughters best -in all the land!
For you know Dungannon's lovely girls
Wete then, as now, admired like pearls.
Time rolled on,-,years flew fait,
The busy ones worked with all their might,
While the boozer. boozed both day and night.
Dungannon was a wild place then .
And contained some Very wild men,
f,
Those days',,are gone. Those-scenes have fled;
No Dungannonite is seep, with his'noseall red.
The beer keg has gone faded away;
Quite a contrast to the early day.
The beer wagon now avoids the place,
Seldom the drunkard Shows his face.
They all now give it the "go-by";
For Dimgannon, once so 'wet" is "drY".
But Local Option didn't make things slow;
Business is brisk and all's well you know:
A place of placid sweet rePose,
What a treat 'twOuld be for those
Unnerved by the hustling City din,
Or wrecked on bestial .seas of sin!
The worried, fretted, restless man,
Dwindling existence to a span, •
All whirling, furious and fast
Uke..lems_in a „Novemberialast—
Come one, come all; and live with us;
Away from all the din and fuss
And rest, and sleep, and happy be
In a place where you cannot spree!
For be it clearly understood
Dungannon at last is good.
►fie:Village of Dungannon
n Your 125th Birthday
Terry .& Anne Ruston
A UBURN
TO SALES
524-9878
The stage coach still rattled past
While villagers waited, alas! in vain,
For Dungannon to see a railway train.
To banish the old Ludnow• stage--
Which had grown shabby with age
Far a railroad then was required
BUrthey wairdd"="11feri-gfEinifed;-
'CONPRATKATIONS
DUNGANNON
•ON YOUR •
1 251! h. , from
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Having served Dungannon
and District for
OVER 'YEARS
We couldn't pass up
this opportunity to offer our good
friends and valued customers
our • ,
very, very ,
Best Wishes
Here's to the Next 1251
EDWARD FUELS
ANGLE ST., GODERICH/524-8386
Shell helps
HAPPY, HOME COMING AND
ONGRATULLATIONS
TO OUR GOOD FRIENDS AND
NEIGHBOURS
IN
DUNGANNON
We're Wishing you
all the best
during your
th
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