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THE, LUCKNOW StNTINEL, LUCKNOW; ONTARL0
The Lucknow Siije1.
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ONTARIO
"The Sepoy Town'
On the Huron -Bruce Boundary
Established 1873 - Published Wednesday
Published by Signal -Star Publising Ltd.
Robert G. Shrier - president and publisher
A Sharon J. Dietz - editor
Anthony N. Johnstone - general manager
Subscription rate, $10 per year in advance
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U.S.A. and Foreign, $14 per year in advance
Business and Editorial .Office Telephone 528-2822.
Mailing Address P. 0. Box 400, Lucknow NOG 2110
Second class mail registration number - 0847
March. of Dimes
Give as you can
Over 30 canvassers for the Ontario
'Marchof Dimes will be calling house to
house in Lucknow during the week of
January 23rd to January 31st to collect
for the physically handicapped who are
helped .through the money raised each
year.
A. new phase of the canvass this year,
• is the rural mail drop which will see 700
letters -mailed to the Lucknow; Holyrood
and Dungannon -mail routes to canvass
these rural . areas.
The rural 'mail drop will make the
rural canvass easier ana more etticient
and the March of Dimes °and. •thelocal
chairman 'hope the rural resi°dents 'will
take. th-"e time and effort to respond
without a canvasser calling at their door.
The Ontario March, of Dimes' assists
the handicapped by providing funds for
braces, wheelchairs, camping holidays,
rehabilitation hospitals, wheelchair lifts
and artificial limbs.
The March,of Dimes is working with
and for disabled adults to allow them to
learn the skills to be independent and to
be active members of their communit-
ies.
A wheelchair lift from the Ontario
March of Dimes allows paraplegic easier
access to and from his, home so that he.
can be a more active member of his
community. A stay at a rehabilitation
hospital teaches a quadraplegic the
skills necessary +to cope with everyday.
life permitting him to be an independent
member of society.
The Ontario `' March of° Dimes is
helping diSabled, adults •to -live useful
active lives permitting them to contri-
bute to their families : and their
communities. The Ontario March of
Dimes' also assists disabled children to
learn the skulls which ,wil l help them lead
an active childhood and the stamina to
accept and cope with.. their disat ility. :
The Ontario: • March of Dimes is
working, to change the present situation
by' advocating at all levels of govern-
ment that disabled people should have
the same rights to live actively within
the community as the non -disabled. °
Give as you can when the canvasser
.calks this week or you open the letter
from the.mail drop; ' help. the Ontario
March of Dimes in its efforts to work
with and for physically disabled adults
and children._ '
Join the majority
Be a nonsmoker
NationalEducation Week on Smoking
Jan. • 2228,197
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 25, 1978
.LOOKING BACKWARDS
THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES
75 YEARS AGO
On Friday evening, January 6th
the Sepoy Club went to Harriston
to play a return game. While the
person who advertised the game
may have bad gooid' intentions
when so doing, still what the
public received for their money in
the Harrison rink that night was
so far from hockey that we are
inclined to think that the adver-
tising manager of the Harriston
Hockey Club should be given,
another,guess. As far as hockey
concerned it was played by only
one team' and that was Lucknow.
What the Harriston team .put up
would cast an unfair reflection on
"shinny"., 'At no stage of . the
game did they try to play good
clean hockey but instead were
always.. contented with severe
body checking, tripping and
slugging of the most .,developed
kind. The Harriston boys said in
Kincardine that their treatment in
Lucknow was the "gilt edged"
kind • and there is no reason
whatever for their. conduct in
Harriston: The score in Harriston
game was no indication whatever
of the play as our boys out played
them at every point and were
prevented from scoring •only by
the ungentlemanly. conduct of the
Harriston" players: The official
score was Harriston 10 - Lucknow
6.
There is a good deal. • of
complaint made against parties
driving in -cutters not giving half
the road to persons on foot. It is
alright when a team is loaded and
no one objects to giving them the
whole road, but pedestrians -are
entitled toa share of the beaten;
track just as well as the cutters.'
The census returns dealing
with the origins of the people of
Canada is an interesting study. In
regard to Bruce, County we
herewith furnish our readers with
" the nationality of the people in
each municipality: There are 592
of French origin, 844 of ' Indian
origin, 123 Dutch, and, 587 of
Italian,, Jewish, Swiss and other
origins too numerous to specify in
detail. Amabel is the banner
municpality for families of Eng-
lish and Irish decent; Bruce takes
the lead with Huron a close
second -for people of • Scottish
ancestry, and Carrick easily ranks
first for having the most 'inhabit-
ants in the county who can claim
German ancestry.
To the Editor Of the Sentinel:
Dear Sir:
The sad query is abroad, "Why
was the Zion . school closed on
Friday, January 16th." The
question has been answered to
the effect • that, "it was closed on
account, of the Orange entertain-,
ment'. This report is untrue, and
not founded on' fact. As teachers
are not altogehter proof ,against
colds, the teacher on this
particular day was suffering from
the effects of a very severe cold,
and did not feel capable of
attending to his duties:
J. H. Joynt. •
SO YEARS AGO
The Ripley Express says that
during the fire Thursday morning
a party who was assisting Neil
MacLennan remove the contents
of his barber shop to save them
front' the fire, helped himself to
the contents of the till, stealing a
nice sum of money; Well, what do
you think of a man who would 'do
that? •
The lifeless body of Ewart
Linklater, a young man of
Turnberry Township, was found
in a barn owned by the family ori
Thursday of lai:t week. Death was
d to a gun shot wound in the
head, and whether the shooting
was accidental or • self-inflicted
will never by known. It is said that
conditions were such as to
suggest that the shooting might
not have been accidental.,
We, last week, mae the
statement that the opening of the
new arena at Ripley had been
postponed from the evening of
the 17th until the 20th. This, we
believe, had been considered but
the idea was abandoned and the
opening was held .on the 17th. It
was a splendid success, about 700
spectators being in to enjoy 'the
ceremony • and the game. The
arena is a fine structure and right
up to the minute in equipment. It
is a credit to the village, :and
suggests what is likely to be one
of the permanent institutions of
all towns and villages in this
northern country.
Changes appear to be the order
of this .winter. At time of writing
we are' enjoying, or.. should we
Say, are being afflicted by the ,
third considerable snow storm of
the season and between we have
periods of thaw and rain -and
slush which were not by any
means agreeable, • Roads have
'been bad' and work and business
aonsequently held up.
25 YEARS AGO 7
Reeve Harold Gaunt of West
Wawanosh was elected for a three
year term as member of the
Huron County highways commit
tee at the Huron County Council's
January meeting. Reeve Elmer.
Graham of Ashfield is' chairman
of the Legislative Committee and
the Reforestation Committee.
Huron warden is Alvin Kerslake.
of Hensall, who, at age 38, is
among the youngest wardens to •
hold office.
Robert W. Andrew, son of Mr:
and Mrs. W. G. Andrew of
Lucknow has entered intp a law
partnership with C. Morton' of
Listowel, Andrew will be in his
office in the Joynt Block twice
weekly.
Mr's,. Ross Gammie and her two .
pre-school age children, escaped
injury when their car left the road
and plunged down a deep bank on
"Quality Hill".' The car skidded
on . the slippery road, went over
the footpatch that skirts the east,
side of the highway and plunged
down the steep bank,, narrowly
missing a hydro pole and a tree,
coming to 'rest on its side:. The °
occupants escaped with a shaking
up and the car received minimum
damage.
Miss Allie Nelson of Ashfield
Township is rapidly learning. to
read Braille, 'disproving the belief
of officials of the Institute for the
Blind ' that she might be too
advanced in years to learn the dot
symbols. Miss Nelson commenc-
ed to study the system last fall
and has already attuned her
flnaprc rn decinher the ' raised.
code,. so that she can now read
comparatively' well. • ,
Fred McQuilliri succeeded An-
drew Gaunt as president of the
Lucknow. Agricultural Society at
the Society's 87th annual meet-
ing.
Mrs. Janet MacDonald,' form-
erly of Kinloss Township, who
makes her ' home with her
daughter and son-in-law, .Mr. and
Mrs. C. E., Smith, Seaforth, '
celebrated her 91st birthday on
January 25th. Although she has
not enjoyed the best of health the
past few months, 'she is able to be
tip everyday. To have' friends call
=affords her much- pleasure. ,