The Lucknow Sentinel, 1977-05-04, Page 20NOTICE
CHANGE OF OFFICE LOCATION
Kinloss Township Office
IS NOW LOCATED IN THE TOWNSHIP GARAGE
New Telephone Number Is
395-3575
e• OFFICE HOURS
Monday, thru Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE: Office will, be closed Thursdays from
April 28 to June 30 inclusive -
Affairs.
Mrs. Graham Townsend is the
former Eleanor Reed of Dungan-
non.
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Mrs. Anne McCosh of Ripley, a
weekly contributor of items, has
been indisposed at home during
the past week with the flu. Ripley
folks wish her recovery.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnston of
Vanastra moved last Thursday to
take up residence in Ripley.
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Visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Niels
Frederiksen in Ripley over last
weekend were their friends Mr.
and Mrs. Les Ross of Keswick.
Ossie Forrester of Ripley, ac-
companied by his wife Elsie, left
early Saturday morning. Elsie
would meet with their diughter
Mrs. Barber of Oshawa and they
flew from Toronto to Florida for a
few weeks visit with relatives
there. Ossie then motored to
Ripley, arriving back early Sunday
evening.
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PAGE TWENTY THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1977
This Week In Ripley
BY AB WYLDS
In the summer of 1931, on a nice
Sunday afternoon, the writer was
down at Lurgan Beach on the north
side of the mouth of the Pine River.
There, among the sand dunes with
the odd sea gull flying around he
was walking around looking for
something. Not having any luck, a
stick was ,found and sharpened.
After probing here and there in the
sand dunes a hard object was
struck.' The sand was removed by
hand and there it was - the small
white slab tombstone of Joshua
Lindsay who was the, second white
man to die in Huron Township. The
lettering stated that he died in
1852. No, this was not in the
present Lurgan Cemetery, but
across the river and towards the
Jake. Peopie-knew--that--there was-
an Indian Cemetery down there but
not exactly where. You see it had
become extinct or • invisible, the
first, perhaps of these now invisible
ones. Just like the invisible dog
that the TV comedian had a few
years back.
The writer's first passing
thought was to take this stone to a
more noticeable place. But then
came second thoughts. This is
marking the grave of a dead man,
accidentally killed, and it is not
right to remove or steal, especially
from the dead. So the stone was
cleaned off and left in its original
place on the , sand dune. For after
all, the writer had not bought the
stone nor placed it. His grief
stricken wife had seen to that.
Concerning the dead, the Bible
says that they know not anything
EC. 9:5 and also it says - for the
hour is coming, in which all that are
in graves shall hear HiS' voice - St.
John, chapter 5, verse 28.
Getting back to that small white
stone at Lurgan Beach's invisible
"Indian" Cemetery. By 1931 the
lettering was weathered, but here
is the verse reported to be
enscribed on it
"As you now are,
Once I was.
As I am now
Soon you will be".
And so this writer regrets the
phasing out of the cemetery on the,
sixth with the removal of the stones
by persons who had nothing to do
with buying them and placing them
there as a tribute to the dead, or in
buying the grave sites - hallowed
by that last Amen of ministers long
gone, and by the tears shed by
loved ones, also now gone. These
lines are written without malice to
the living who have differing
opinions, but the writer feels that
someone should speak for these
dead. Many of them were the
pioneers in that 1851 group from
Lewis Island, Scotland. And this is
the second cemetery for them. The
French Canadians must be caring
WOOL
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your wool by patronizing your
own Organization.
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Our Registered
WAREHOUSE /AO. 10
CARLETON PLACE, ONTARIO
Obtain sacks and twine
without charge from
Norman McDowell
SHEARER
AUBURN
or by writing to
CANADIAN CO-OPERATIVE
WOOL GROWERS LIMITED
CARLETON PLACE, ONTAI9,0 ,
for the first one in Quebec. It is
surprising that channelling of the
Pine River away from the hill was
not mentioned as a way to save the
cemetery. What is the use of
talking about saving historic sites
and allowing this historic cemetery
site to continue to erode into the
river below?
From the Etobicoke Guardian,
Weston, Ontario.
"Hilltop Middle School has been
awarded the Colonel George Pea-
cock Music Trophy for 1977
presented by the Metro Toronto
Kiwanis Chib for the school's
participation in the club's annual
music festival.
_The aw_ardis presented to, the_
school which accumulates the
greatest number of award points in
the choral and instrumental sec-
tions of the' festival held during
February.
The award was established in,
1973 in honour of Colonel Peacock
the founder of the Metro-wide.
Kiwanis school festival. This is the
first time an Etobicoke School has
won the award".
The Colonel George Peacock
trophy available to all Junior High
Schools entered in the 34th annual
Kiwanis competition will be pres-
ented by the president of the
Toronto Kiwanis Club at Hilltop's
Spring Concert, May 11. Corinne
(Davies) MacDonald, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John C. MacDonald
of Ripley, has been teaching both
vocal and instrumental music at
Hilltop Middle School for the past
three years along with other
teachers on the staff. Corinne
began her teaching .career at
Walkerton District Secondary
School.
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MR. AND MRS.
COUNTRY FIDDLE ("1
The Ripley Auxiliary to Minor
Sports proudly presents to the
Ripley-Huron community two out-
standing Canadian artists in the
persons of Graham and Eleanor
Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. Country
Fiddle. Both are stars of C.B.C.
TV., Radio, Stage and Recording
and will appear in Ripley this
Saturday, May 7.
Graham is four-time undefeated,
retired North American Fiddle
Champion and has recorded and
released a total of 26 L.P. albums.
Eleanor is four-time undefeated,
retired North American Fiddle
champion (ladies) and has recorded
a total of 5 L.P. albums.
Graham and Eleanor have writ-
ten many original fiddle composi-
tions (over 250) and old-time
melodies. Eleanor has won numer-
ous open fiddle contests across
Canada and become a very well
known teacher of the art of old-time
folk fiddling.
Graham Townsend has toured
Germany, France and Italy several
times entertaining Canadian and
American troops. He performed for
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and
Prince Phillip on Parliament Hill,
July 1st, 1967.
Several coast to coast tours of
Canada with Don Messer's Jubilee
have been made and he has
appeared at many, many great folk
festivals such as the internationally
acclaimed Mariposa Folk Festival
last year.
Mr. 'Townsend completed a
Goodwill tour with Judy LaMarsh,
Secretary of State in 1967, of the
North West Territories, and repre-
sented Canadian Folk Fiddle music
at the United States Bi-Centennial
Celebrations in 1976, through the
Canadian Department of External
RIPLEY
HURON
SCHOOL
REPORTERS: Sheila Osborne and
Lori Roberts
GRADE 1 AND 2
After our trip to the sugar bush
we made pictures for a filmstrip.
Mr. Coyne from the Audio-Visual
office came and taped what we had
to say about our pictures. We
showed the filth strip at Open
House.
OPEN HOUSE
Open House was on Wednesday,
April 20. There was .a chance to go
around to the different classrooms
between 7.00 p.m. and 8.00 p.m.
Mr. Ran-C4arke-spoke- in- the- .gyra•-•
from 8.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
From 8.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. you
also had a chance to go around to
the different classrooms.
TRINITY 4:-H
Janice Hackett opened the
seventh meeting leading the girls
in repeating the 4-H pledge. The
roll call, "Give plans for your next
sewing project at home", or
- -11,Name-one-new-sewing-technique—
that I have learned during this
project" was answered by six
members.
The next meeting will be a work
meeting at Janice Hackett's. The
books and garments will be handed
in May 10th. We took up the, home
assignments. Janice Hackett read
the minutes of the last meeting.
Mrs. Campbell gave out the green
sheets with the Achievement Day
program.
The leaders and two of the girls
wrote out the commentation for the
exhibit. The rest of the girls worked
on their garments.
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