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The Lucknow Sentinel
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LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
• "The Sepoy Town
On the Huron -Bruce Boundary
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Established 1873 Published Wednesday
Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd.
Robt. G. Shrier - president and publisher
Sharon J. Dietz - editor
Anthony N. Johnstone - general manager
Subscription rate, $10 per year in advance
Senior Citizens rate, $8.00 per year in advance
U.S.A. and Foreign, $14 per year in advance
-Business and Editorial OfficeTelephone 528-2822
Mailing Address P.O. Box 400, Lucknow NOG 2H0
Second class mail registration number - 0847
A two county paper
The Lucknow Sentinel has the unique
advantage of sitting on the borderline of
two. countieswhich allows it to carry
news and articles from both counties.
We have readers in both Huron and
Bruce and we serve the readers and
advertisers of both counties.
We cover both Boards of Education,
County Councils, Federations of Agri-
culture, Boards of Health and • the
township councils of two in Huron and
two in Bruce.
BETTER COVERAGE
Our coverage in Huron however, far
exceeds our coverage in Bruce sand the
reason is not favouritism on the part of
the editorial staff at the Sentinel.
The Huron County. Board of Educa-
tion and Huron County Council meet-
ings are covered by Jeff Seddon and
Shirley Keller of the Goderich. Signal -
Star and their stories .are sent to all
newspapers in the county-. These two
people cover the meetings as repres-
entatii/es.of theBuron County press and
supply Huron . County papers with
excellent coverage of these meetings.
Huron -Perth Separate School Board
meetings are attended by Wilm'a Oke of
Seaforth who writes for the London Free
Press and also sends her stories to all
Huron newspaper. We are especially
interested . in her coverage of these
•meetings this year because, William
Kinahan, R. R. 2 Lucknow, is
vice -Chairman- of this board.
Our coverage of the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture .hassalso been
complete because the federation has an
active public relations', committee and
two area residents, Merle and Sheila
Gunby, are keeping the Sentinel
informed about Ihe federation's activit-
• INCREASE BRUCE COVERAGE
Our Bruce County coverage however,
is less than adequate and the editorial
staff of the Sentinel would like to
increase the coverage of Bruce County.
At the present time, the Bruce County
Board of Education and •the , Bruce
County Council both meet on Tuesdays
and as most newspapers in the county
publish on a Wednesday or a Thursday
it is virtually impossible to free someone
to attend these meetings because our
staffs are so busy writing stories,
developing pictures and laying out their
papers on Tuesdays that we cannot get
away from our offices.
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To the Editor:
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The Sentinel is receiving some
coverage of the Bruce County Board of
Education from the Kincardine News
who can free a reporter to cover part of
the meeting but the County Council
reports are taken from stories which
appear in either the Walkerton or the
Port Elgin papers.
We do not have the system in Bruce
County, that we have.in Huron County
for supplying all the papers in the
county with the news of these two
county, bodies. There is no reporter in
Bruce who,. attends these meetings and
sends his/her stories to all the county
•newspapers to provide adequate cover- .
age of these meetings.
In the future the county newspapers
are hoping to organize, and_ present a
petition' to the Board of Education and
the County Council, asking that the day
of theirnrieetings be changed so that the
•press can attend. It is only through the
Bruce County press that the average
citizen knows what hi& representatives
at the County- level are doing on his
behalf and how they are spending his
tax money.
We. also. lack, in Bruce. Couhty,
interested contacts who will inform the
editor of.the- Sentinel when an event is
taking place, orwill invite the editor to
cover a meeting or an activity.
- NOSE FOR NEWS
An editor does not know what is
happening in a county situation by some
journalistic sixth sense or a note for
news. Good coverage is always a two
way communication between the organ-
ization and the newspaper:
We want to increase our coverage of
Bruce County and make it as adequate
for our Bruce readership as our Huron,
coyerage is for the Huron readers.
We will be endeavouring in the future
to work with the other Bruce newspap-
er& to have someone attend the
meetings of ° the County Boards of
Education and the County Council.
We will be renewing our efforts /to
make - contact with Bruce County
organizations but we also ask that, if you
as a reader of the Sentinel, are active in
such an organiZation that you contact
the Sentinel about your activities and
together we will provide our Bruce
readers with excellent coverage of the
county.
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We are a two county paper and we
wanfto.make the best of our situation on
the borderline between two counties.
Detroit, Michigan. hotne town paper. We are Lochalsh.
experiencing Detroit's worst Jan-
uary for years; snow and more
stiOW, We have almost as much
This is our 51st renewal of the snow as they used to •get at
Sinperely,
Rod MacLennan.
LOOKING BACKWARDS.
THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES
75 YEARSGO
Fred A. Lewis, piano tuner of
Berlin, expects to be in Lucknow
about the first of March.
A large wild cat was caught in a
trap on Mr. Pierce's farm in
Kinloss one night last week. It
was a very fine Specimen.
A box social will be held in the
Forester's Hall, Langside, on
February 17th. An address and a
good program of vocal and
instrumental music, dialogues,
etc., will be given.
Petitions from all parts of the
province will be presented to the
° legislature asking for the prohibi-
tion of the manufacture, sale and
importation of 'cigarettes. The
great majority of smokers will join
heartily with the non-smokers in
supporting this movement. The
man who enjoys a pipe or a cigar
usually has a thorough contempt
for the cigarette, and most of the
dealers would prefer to be rid of it
for business reasons as it lessons
the demand for better and more
expensive qualities of tobacco.
The cigarette is chiefly dangerous
as the vice of the small boy. The
habit is terribly prevalent amon
the' youth of the country nfd
appears to, be growing in sp e of
the restrictions thrown arou d the
sale of cigarettes in many
municipalities.
Robert Laurie, ho has been
station agent here for the past
three years has been transferred
to a similar post in Wiarton.
At a Village Council meeting
last week all the old officials of
the village were re -appointed:
Hugh Morrison, Clerk; S. Barber,
Engineer; R. Moore, Constable.
Hockey tonight,
Drayton vs" Lucknow.
In the Lucknow rink,
Fastest game of the season.
Don't fail to see the match.
The Lucknow team,, defeated
Kincardine in the rink here
• Thursday night by a score of 10 to
f"and iii Mount Forest on
Monday night they also defeated
the club of that town by a score of
10 to 7. Both:games were fast and
clean. -
The Lucknow Curling Club will
compete with the Goderich Curl-
ing Club for the District Medal
given by the Royal Caledonian
Curling' Club on February 17th.
50 YEARS AGO
J. M. Spence, recently appoint-
ed to the Senate of Canada,
having been born and " reared in
Bruce County, has selected North
Bruce as the territor he will
represent in the Upper House. As
Senator J. J. Donnelly of Cargill
represents South Bruce, in the
$nate, Bruce County is excep-
tionally well represented.
A meeting was held in the
Council Chamber on Tuesday
night for the purpose of getting
the Brass Band re -organized. The
fire Company has long endeav-
oured to keep a town band in
existence because they have quite
a number of good instruments
which have cost a great deal of
money. A Committee was appoint-
ed and have in mind . a plan to
organize a considerable body of
citizens who will help finance a
band and the Village Council has
promised to take a hand in the -
matter to the extent of seeing that
a leader will be paid.
Many Lucknow citizens feel
that the erection of a suitable
soldiers' memorial has been too
)(Mg delayed. The reason has
been an inability to decide the
form such a memorial should
take. Village Council decided at
their regular meeting to hold a
semi-public iteeting to decide
about getting estimates of the
cost of a memorial arch andalso
of other forms which a memorial
might take.
The hockey game to be played
tomorrow night in the local rink
should be without doubt the
keenest and best of the season in
the Brute ,Junior Series. The
home boys are keyed right up to
the pitch and are going right after
victory. To be sure, they have the
handicap of a score of two that
they must climb over in -the home
and hotne series with Wingham,
but they are in hopes of doing
even that. Here's hoping for.good
ice and a good umpire.
The Whitechurch Boy Scouts
are well organized under the
leadership of Scout Master,
Elliott Fells. They intend putting
on an entertainment for their
parents in the near future.
As Donald Murray and his son,
Ross, were driving home from
church on Sunday last, a dog
frightened their horse, causing it
to run away. Both were thrown
from the cutter. Don had his
shoulder painfully crushed, and it
is thought some bones broken.
Ross was not much hurt. The
horse soon freed itself from the
cutter and continued up the road
until it came up with some horses
loose on the road where it stopped
and was caught.
E. H. Twamley, formerly of
Ashfield, now of Chatham!, has
just returned from Toronto where
he attended the division confer-
ence of the Sun Life and was
presented with a beautiful tea set,
the much coveted prize for
vvriting' ,the largest number of
applications during the year 1927.
25 YEARS AGO
I SEE BY THE SENTINEL
THAT signs of an early spring are
pussy willows in full bloom, which
were picked a week ago by Mr.
and Mrs. Chris Shelton.
THAT David Thompson accom-
panied his dad and mother to
Goderich on Sunday to talk short
wave with "Uncle Bob"" at Arctic
Bay. Bob had some laughing but
bashful Eskimo children around
his mike that afternoon and
persuaded one of them to say
"hello" to David.
John MacLennan McIntosh,
who died in a barn fire on his'
pasture farm a half mile from the
home farm at Paramount, was
buried this week. The MacLen-
nan -MacKenzie Memorial Chapel
was filled and the' adjoining
furniture shops were also filled to
standing room only. "Jack Mac"
was known to everyone and his
genial friendly manner won him
friends everywhere. ' Many a
young couple have been given a
send-off by Jack as he frequently
acted as master of .ceiemonies at
wedding receptions. His down to,
earth common sense and humour
made him idealy suited for the
job. Jack was the originator and
promoter of the weekly commun-
ity sale in Lucknow which has
grown to an important weekly
event.
Dale Congram, 7, who was
injured last week when he' ran
into. the path _ of a truck,
_nnderwent major surgery in Sick
Children's Hospital, London. to
correct a pelvis injury. His
injuries were less serious than
feared at first and his surgeon is
certain that he will walk again.
, The Bruce County Tuberculosis
Association plans a tounty-wide
x-ray clinic in May with a mobile
x-ray unit setting up in each
municipality.
George Greer, 87, 'died at his
hotne this week.
Lucknow Public School held af
skating and costume carnival at
the Arena Thursday afternoon
with costume judging and speed
events.
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