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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-06-21, Page 12Page 12--Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, June ;tit, 1978 DY AB WYLDS Rev. Dr. Douglas Brydon will have his farewell service in the United Church in Southampton this . coming Sunday, June 25. Mr. and Mrs,rydon have been in Southampton for a number of years. Back in the fifties they were in Ripley when Doug served as the_.minister in St. Andrews's United Church and took an active role in the 1952 Lewis Centennial Reunion in Ripley. Best wishes of the folks in this area go to Dr. and Mrs. Brydon and their family - John, Linda, Robert and Ruth at this time of his retirement. Last Saturday morning, Mrs. Mae Rutledge, 83 years of age, of Virden, Manitoba accompanied by her son, Douglas, and his wife Edna of Brandon, Manitoba, and by her daughter, Mrs. Merle Mooney of Winnipeg, called at the house here and got This. Week inRipley back into some history of Ripley and Huron. The former Mae Pollock, she said that her father was the late Alfred Pollock, who was the eldest son of the late Ed Pollock of concession 12 west in Huron Township. Alfred's brothers were the late Sam, Tom, Jack and Charlie, all in the Ripley Huron area. Also that her mother was a sister of the late Dick Martin, concession 4 east. Douglas Rutledge and the family party had motored down from Manitoba arriving on Monday, ' June 12 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Graham in Lucknow and planned to start back this Monday, June 19th. Mrs. Graham is a first cousin. On Saturday they were going to see another first cousin in Ripley, namely Ivan Pollock, before going on to Kincar- dine. They had also visited with Austin Martin, another first cousin on the 4th concession east. Other cous- ins Ripley were Elwyn and Harvey Pollock. Mrs. Rut- ledge said that back over 60 years she had learned the dressmaking trade in Ripley under the late Etta ("Colin") MacDonald, sister of Norm- an C. MacDonald. Away out in Manitoba she keeps up with 'the news of this area by reading the Lucknow and Kincardine newspapers. It . was sure nice to hear this and best wishes go with this family on their return home this week. Visiting with Bill and Nina Wyld and family on the sixth concession west in Huron Township for the past couple of weeks were Iter father, Dr.. Sven Isberg of Vasteras, Sweden. Also here for the reunion visit with her father and sister was Nina's sister, Mrs. Bitte Baxter from Vancouver, British Columbia and her two children. Their father is a medical doctor in Sweden. On Tuesday morning of last week Don McLeod of Kincardine and his assistant, Ron Freer, were over to Ripley and made the connec- tion to the main water pipe running down Malcolm Street. This was to connect on the cooper tubing leading the water to the new Huron Kinloss Telephone building now under construction. Morris MacDonald of Ripley filled in for village foreman Donnie Peterbaugh who was in London ofi business early in the day. Doing the digging was Bill Kempton with his backhoe while his son, Tom- my Kempton, filled in the ditch after the tube was laid, using his bulldozer. Drain- age connectionwas made to the drain leading to the catch basin south of the Ripley Chopping and Feed Mill. Then this main drain known as the Huron drain goes north along the 15th. Work on the new telephone build- ing is going ahead with the roof completed and a part of the siding at the weekend. In charge of the construction is Ken McNee of Dungannon with Jack Alton, Brian Whi- tely, Eric McNee, Harvey Sproul, John Hogan and Carl Errington, all busy on the job. Yesterday (Tuedsy, June 20) Mrs. Niels Frederiksen entered Victoria Hospital in London. It is expected that Nora will undergo surgery there. Best wishes of Ripley folks go to her at this time. Murray and Shirley Web- er, Mike and Tim, have moved from their new home on Malcolm Street to a farm recently purchased in the Chesley area. Murray, or "Bing" as he was commonly known, and Shirley, will be missed by the folks on • Malcolm Street in Ripley where they were good neigh- bours, always willing to help. Last Sunday, Noreen .and Jean MacDonald of Malcolm Street flew from Toronto to Edmonton where •they will visit relatives awl, friends. Taking Noreen and Jean to the Toronto airport were Jack and Betty Scott of Ripley. Only a couple of weeks ago, Charlie McLay of Edmonton, 90 years, the oldest living native of Malcolm Street, visited the street of his boyhood years, being raised at the end of the street just a stone's throw from the MacDonald sister's home and later right across the road. 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