HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-07-24, Page 48r
Page 28 The Kincardine News 'Ripley Reunion '85'
May we takethis time to wish
everyone a h4arty
Welcome
to
Ripley -Huron
and its
"Come Alive In '8S Celebrations"
From your friendly neighbourhood grocery
Bain's Groceteria
LUCKNOW 528-3420'
Best Wishes To All
during
Ripley -Huron's-
"Come Alive In '85"
Celebrations
LUCKNOW DISTRICT
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HURON RD./NO. 1 LUCKNOW 529-7953
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RIPL.E.Y-HURON. REUNION
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Fall of the Ripley jail house
Ben Ruttle, a former Huron Township
resident who now lives/in Kincardine, tells
an amusing story about the 'fall' of the
Ripley jailhouse.
One winter evening about suppertime,
Ben was heading to Sam. Hamilton's with a
load of wood when Jim McLeod stopped him
Flouride
in RipIey's
waterfound
Ripley made the headlines of the major
Toronto dailies in 1944 when it was.
discovered ,that . tooth decay was less
prevelant in this small town than anywhere
else in North America. Experiments in-
dicated . that it was the water from the
town's artesian well, rich in phosphorus and
flourine, which held the secret' to disease-
free teeth:
In April the year before, Dr. J.A. Mac-
Donald had conducted dentil tests of Ripley
school children. He was so amazed with the
results of the examinations that he con-
tacted the Ontario Department of Health
and the Faculty of Dentistry, University of
Toronto to investigate the cause of the high
percentage of perfect sets of teeth, in the
children.
The experts were amazed as welt and con-
ducted further studies to find that the com-
bination of phosphorus and flourine in the
water was responsible. Dental records
showed that 9 out of 10 Ripley residents had
perfect teeth.
in Ripley and asked if he could borrow Ben's
team. Philip McIvres was in the Ripley jail '
for some minor offence and Jim McLeod in-
tended to free him.
They proceeded to hook a chain to the
jailhousedoor and with the team, intended
to pull the door off. They were caught quite
by surprize when the horses began to pull,;
More thanthe door came tumbling down.
The whole front of the building fell. out.
They had pulled the front right off the jail:
McIvres made off and caught the early
train the next morning in Lucknow. He
never returned to Ripley,
When Ben was in Ripley, the following day.
the story was going around about how
somebody had attacked the jail with ham- /
mers and crowbars the night before.
Ben never said a word. •
Tidbits
Ben Ruttle maintains that, "The boys that
do the best thesedays are those that lived
with their fathers during the Depression.
They know the value of a dollar.
:From an old copy of The Ripley Express.
There are comparatively fewnames for
abstract numbers beside the dozenand the
score. Two things make a brace, a couple, a
couple, a duo or duet; three things make a
trio or a trinity; eight according to St. Paul;
are a few; thirteen make a baker's dozen. •
Brit taking • concrete numbers we find plenty •
of such names... Fourteen pounds make a
stone, twenty-eight pounds a quarter; a
clove of wool is seVen pounds; a tod is
twenty-eight pounds; a wey is six and one-
half tod; a sack is two weys and a last is six
sacks. -
Ashes from the timber burned in clearing.
the land were taken to Kincardine in row
boats and sold for potash to make soap.
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