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HONORARY PRINCESS, Norma
Jean Crozier gives the new Ripley
District School Queen, Heather Boyle,
her sash at the Ripley District
School's spring prom last Friday
night. Also crowned at the prom was
the school King, Chris McGarvey.
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This Week in Ripley
BY AB WYLDS
The Ripley community was
saddened this past week by the
sudden illness and death of Mrs.
Florence Liddle. Mrs. Liddle was
found in her home on Tuesday
morning, May 9, by Mrs. Bert
Irwin, after Doug was unable to
contact his mother, although he
had talked to her the previous
evening. She was taken to Kincar-
dine and District ° Hospital where
she passed away Tuesday even-
ing. The funeral service was
conducted by Rev. Jim Bushell in
' St. Andrew's United Church last
Saturday afternoon, May 13,
19.78. Mrs. Liddle was an active
community worker and will be
missed here. Sympathy is extend-
ed to her family, sons Robert of
Gimli, Manitoba; Donald (Don-
nie) of Oakville, Douglas of Clarks
and Ripley; Norman of Huron -
South Shore (Kincardine area);
also to her daughter Kathryn
(Mrs. Ted Marion) of Lahr,
Germany, at this time of their sad
bereavement. She was predeceas-
ed by her husband Charles Liddle
Sr., one son Jack, and one
.grandson Reid Liddle.
On Thursday, afternoon of , last'
week the funeral service for Mrs.
Peter Dahmer of the Millarton ar-
ea was conducted in Ripley at the
MacKenzie and McCreath Funer-
al Home. Sympathy is expressed
to her daughter Hazel on the
home farm at Wharton, also her
second daughter and son who live
elsewhere.
On Saturday evening, May, 6th,
a 25th wedding anniversary party
was held in the Ripley Huron
Community Complex Centre for
Ray and Marg Fuller. About 90
people attended the party arrang-
ed by 'Lee and Susan, Ross and
Lynda, Debbie and Brian, and
Kathy. Friends and relatives
attended from Oakville, Toronto,
Norwood, Dundas, Hamilton,
Simcoe, Milton, Kitchener, Hills -
burg, London, Campbellville and
Ripley. Special guests were
relatives from Medicine Hat,
Alberta - Mrs. Price, Ian and
Barb Price,. Kendy and Brooke
Price, Ray, Wilda and boys.
Music was by Sound System.
June Dodds made the cake. On
Sunday many of the out of town
guests called in to visit. Ray and
Wilda and boys flew back to
Calgary on Monday. The rest of
the family from Alberta returned
home last Saturday.
On Sunday Mr. and Mrs.
Ambrose Gamble entertained Len
and Rene Buckler of Milton who
were guests at the anniversary
party
Mrs. Nora Frederiksen . was
able to return home from the
Princess Margaret Hospital in
Toronto. Her husband Neils drove
down and they returned home last
Tuesday. •
Mrs. Lois Irwin was assisting
Mrs. Marion McTavish, assistant
postmaster, at the Ripley office
last week.
Just before five last Thursday.
afternoon the Royal Bank signs
came down from the exterior
north wall of the "old" bank. It
has been the village bank in that
spot starting away back in 1912
up to last fall when the new one
was completed. It will return to
being a store which it was before
the Royal moved there.
On last Saturday noon radio
report from the Ontario Livestock
Yards in Toronto, Bob Courtney
and Elmer Smeltzer were listed
for having the week's top priced
calf and group of Charolais steers
respectively. The shipping drover
was Leonard Courtney.
Wayne and Millie Cadotte of
the Sarnia area and her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Sullivan of
Toledo, Ohio visited last weekend
with the Storey family on.conces-
sion 12 and with Don and Barb
Paquette on concession 4, Huron.
Mr. and Mrs. Cadotte lived just
west. of , St. Andrew's United
Church while he worked at the
Nuclear Plant.
Last Friday noon the Happy
Hearts Senior Citizens had a
Kentucky Colonel dinner. the
dinner was held in St. Andrew's
Church.
KNOX PRESBYTERIAN W.M.S.
The Knox Presbyterian Church
Women's Missionary Society in
Ripley held their May meeting on,
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Effie Sutherland.
Mrs. Amelia Cumming wel-
comed those. present and took the
call to worship and prayer. Mrs.
Donnie MacDonald read the
scripture, meditation and prayer.
Mrs.Violet Martyn read the
minutes of the last two meetings.
Mrs. Nugent reported on the
meeting held in April in Chat-
ham. She also showed slides of
Miss Joy Randall, a missionary
nurse in Taiwan.
Mrs. Adeline Hackett took the
Study Book with assistants Effie
Sutherland, Donalda Gossell and
Gladys Huston.
Mrs. Donnie MacDonald volun-
teered to be the delegate for the
Maitland Presbyterial meeting in
Belmore. The courtesies were
expressed by Marie Lowry. Lunch
was served by the committee
Effie Sutherland, Adeline Hack-
ett, Martha Maclvor, and Martha
Huston, followed by a social time.
. Besides the above events there
was the Spring Prom at the high
school on Friday night, the
wedding on Saturday afternoon,
and the Ripley Girl Guides held a
door to door cookie sale on
Saturday morning.
Mrs. Reg Godfrey accompanied
Rev. George Garratt, Lucknow, to
_ the Anglican Synod meeting in.
London last Monday.
Dr. and Mrs. Homer Hunt of
Palo Alto, California, were Wed-
nesday visitors with Helen Jean's
aunt, Ada Farrell and cousins
Mary (Donnie) MacDonald and
Don and Anne McCosh. Mrs.
Hunt is the daughter of the late
Dr. Dan Martyn and Mrs.
Florence Colwell Martyn, former
residents of this community.
Friends of Betty Scott were
glad to see her able to be home
after spending -three weeks in
- Westminster Hospital, London,
much improved in health.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Webster
brought Reta's mother,. Gladys
Mason, home from Westminister
Hospital, where she had surgery.
Reta and Roy returned to their
London home on Sunday.
Margaret Blue, Violet Mac-
Kenzie, Earl Tout, Reg Godfrey,
Reg Moore and Frank Scott
attended the Zone 9 Senior
Citizen's Zone Rally in Maxwell
on Tuesday.
Kenneth MacLennan spent the
weekend with his mother, Norma
MacLennan.
' Ripley District School
SECONDARY
On May 8 the Dramatic Arts
class travelled to the Stratford
Shakespearian Festival to see the
production, "As You Like It".
Help your
Heart Fund
ELEMENTARY
The Grade 8's would like to
congratulate grade 10 for the
beautiful decorations for the
Prom that was held on Friday,
May 12 and remind everyone
about Variety Night on May 18th
and 19th,