HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1977-04-27, Page 16treasurer, Sene Seller, of Ripley.
Winning the President's trophy
in the ladies' draw was the team
skipped by Lois Pollock and
members Judy van . Kooten, Joan
Helm and Terry MacKenzie. Top
honours for the mixed draw went to
the team of Howard and Marj
Hodge, Jim and Rose Peterson.
The John Bell trophy for the men's
club was won by a team skipped by
Carl Funston of Pine River (6th
concession) with Gord Roulston,
Doug Campbell and Jamie Farrell.
Congratulations goes to this team
for winning the trophy at theDist-
rict 13A bonspiel held in Owen
Sound.
* * * * * *
On Friday morning Morley Mills
of Georgetown was in Ripley
calling on friends and renewing
acquaintances. Morley is a native
of the Clarks area on the 12th
concession west in Huron Town-
ship, Back 50 years ago he
attended the R.C.S. in Ripley and
former students of that era will
remember Morley. ' He later
farmed the home farm before
moving away some 25 years ago. It
is always nice to meet and to talk
with Morley about the past and
present state of affairs.
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Rev. Jim Bushell chaired an
open meeting in Ripley Township
Hall to discuss the fate of the old
Huron Presbyterian Church Cemet-
ery.
The Huron congregation bought
100 acres at lot 14, concession 6, in
1854 for a church and cemetery,
Mrs..Gladys Arnold told the group.
In 1886 the congregation moved to
Ripley, and in 1920 the last burial
took place.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1977 PAGE SIXTEEN THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
This Week
In Ripley
BY AB WYLDS
Mr. and Mrs. John McMurchy of
the Main Street in Lucknow, and
formerly of the sixth concession
west in Huron Township, had an
interesting couple visit with them
on Sunday afternoon. They were
Mr. and Mrs. Harold MacMurchy
of Thornbury in the. Georgian Bay
apple country. Also, they were
cousins whom Johnny and Helen
had not met nor known about prior
to their visit.
Mrs. Harold (Freda) MacMurchy
is writing a family history of the
MacMurchy clan starting in 1770.
They hold an annual family reunion
and picnic which was attended last
year by 120 members and it was
held at Richmond Hill, north of
Toronto. Note once again how the
letter ."a" has been left out or
eroded from -tire Mac". • Th is
seems to be particularly common to
this area and the erosion of the "a"
is a somewhat modern, trend. There
is a joint reunion of the MacMur-
chys and the Camerons as marri-
ages over the years have interwov-
en their history. Both Harold and
Johnny discovered that each oth-
er's mother was a Cameron. The
MacMurchy clan landed in Canada
About 1820 - in King Township in
York County. In Huron Township
1 hey settled along the fourth
concession east.
Happy and friendly as ever,
Charlie Baker of Belmont made his
annual spring visit to the Ripley
area. Charlie visits with Mr. and
Mrs. John C. MacDonald west- of
Ripley and spent last week
renewing old acquaintances. Away
back when he first came out from
England, he landed in Ripley and
worked back in the days of hard
manual labour on several area
farms. Then, for many years after
leaving here he worked on the dairy
farm of Don and Etta Willsie at
Belmont - two more former
Ripleyites.
The presidents of both sections
of the Ripley Curling Club, namely
Mrs. Evelyn (Harry) Coiling and
Jim MacDonald of Clarks on the
12th, reported a successful 1977
winter' of fun at the Ripley Curling
Rink ai the north end of Ripley. The
new slate of officers for 1977-78 is
as follows - for the ladies club,
president, Barbara Paquette of the
4th concession; secretary, Mary
Walden of Pine River; and treasur-
er, Helen McCreath; and for the
men's club, president, Bert Elliott
of concession 10 west; secretary,
Murray Culbert east of Ripley and
Branch, Department of Commerc-
ial and Consumer Relations, out-
lined the possibilities for cleaning
up or removing the cemetery. The
only feasible choice as outlined
in the Cemeteries Act is to erect a
cairn enclosing the broken stones,
and maintaining the area. A new
fence will have to be erected, as the
one put up in 1952 at the time of the
Lewis Reunion has deteriorated
badly.
It 'was .decided to place a plaque
at the entrance to the cemetery on
the 6th concession.
The Cemetery Committee, along
with Norval Stewart, will draft a
letter to be sent to descendants of
those buried there, requesting
financial assistance. There is no
government assistance available
for restoration of cemeteries.
Mrs. Glen Stanley is secretary,
with John Gamble, Mike Snobelen,
Bert Elliott and Mrs. Wallace
Pollock making up the rest of the
committee. Any of these people
would be happy to receive names
and addresses of these descend-
ents.
* * * * * *
Thanks to Mrs. Elaine Pollock for
.the account of the meeting held last
Thursday evening in the Huron.
Township hall in Ripley to discuss
the fate of the cemetery on lot 14,
concession 6 in Huron Township.
This writer does not see how the
erection of a new fencekaround the
cemetery and a cairn or plaque
away out on the 6th road will stop
the graves, with their human
bones, from washing 'down the hill
into the river and the cemetery
itself eventually disappearing alto-
gether. If they will, then these
would be logical steps to be taken
by the Saugeen Valley Conserva-
tion Authority and the town of
Kincardine to prevent the washing
of the Campbell property into the
Penetangore River.
And then where is the entrance
to the cemetery? There is none as
anyone familiar with the local
geographical location of this cemet-
ery must surely know. Only three
acres of the 100 acre farm were
reserved, or severed in modern
language, at the time this farm was
sold, if the writer remembers the
record in the County of Bruce
Registry Office in WalkertOn. And
the three acres, less what is now in
the river or out in Lake Huron, was
"the burying ground". It is also
doubtful if the folks here know that
there is a corresponding Lewis
Scottish Cemetery in Quebec and it
is being cared for - French
Canadians at that.
While down to the playoff hockey
game in Lindsay recently. John D.
MacKay and his wife Joan called to
visit Major Bob MacDonald, broth-
er of Doug MacDonald on conces-
sion 8. John D. brought back the
news that Bob expects to - be
moving back to Moncton, New
Brunswick at the end of June.
Another former Ripleyite now
living in Lindsay is Mrs. John
Lindsay and family - the former Jo-
anne Loveridge - granddaughter,
of Mrs. Bert Picot of Ripley. Her
husband, John Lindsay., operates
the Lindsay Motors in the town of
Lind ay. Back in the 1960's,
JoAn e was a top student in the
Riple 1 District High School.
Last Wednesday Mrs. Isobel
Love flew into Toronto airport. To
improve her health, Mrs. Love
spent the winter at Oliver in the
Okanagan Valley in British Colum-
bia. Bob LoVe motored from Ripley
down to Malton and brought his
wife home from there. Ripley folks
are glad to see Isobel again and
extend best wishes for her health.
Last week Ripley drover Leonard
Courtney received radio mention
for shipping top priced beef cattle
for four different farmers in this
area. Two of these farmers were
Bob Rutledge and Elmer Smeltzer.
Sorry we missed the other two
names - the announcer got ahead of
us.
On a raw and dtill morning last
Saturday, Paul Irwin and John van
Kooten were raking the winter
debris on the green and grassy
shoulders of Gore Park. Doug
Peterbaugh continued after dinner.
* * * * * *
Miss Dawn Burnham, grand-
daughter of Norman and Mabel
Barnard, left on Monday, April 25,
for Europe where she will spend
three weeks in England, France,
Denmark and Sweden, studying
"Management Approaches to
Mental 'Retardation". Dawn, who
is now in her graduate year at
Fanshawe College in London in the
M.R.Co. Course, is one of the first
students to have this opportunity to
take this extended course in
Europe, as it has just been
introduced this year. She will visit
hospitals in London, Cambridge
and Epsom, all in England,
Bukeraal and Copenhagen in
Denmark; Malmo in Sweden, and
at Trosly-Brevil in France to visit
Jean Vanier's L'Arche.
* * * * * *
Dr. and Mrs. Goldie Emerson of
London visited recently with Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Emerson in Ripley.
Ripley folks are glad to see that
Mrs. Hamilton MacKinnon is back
home from Kincardine Hospital.
Al'So that Annie, in her wheel chair,
was able to be up street with the
help of her husband Ham, for an
outing.
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