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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-12-22, Page 4I ' • Page 4 — Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, December 22, 1993 411 ,i -::2 % ,:.I NSaM ..1 •.O.•Ab`:4.h .ex,, J.&ir'.YAO .?i+. i:: I Published weekly by Signal Star Publishing Ltd at 619 Campbell Street Lucknow, Ont PO Box 400, Lucknow, Ontario NOG 2H0 528.2822: Fax (519) 528-3529 Established 1873 Thomas Thompson - Advertising Manager Pat Livingston - General Manager/Editor Phyllis Matthews Helm - Front Office Subscription rates advance: Local Regular $2000 within 40 mi radius G S.T incl. Local Senior sl 700 within 40 mi radius G.S.T. incl. Out -Of -Area (40 miles) - Regular $32.24 - Senior $29.24 G.S.T. incl. Foreign + U S A §9669 Publications mail registration no. 0847 held at Lucknow, Ont. Changes of address, orders for subscriptions, and undeliverable copies (return postage guaranteed) are to be sent to Lucknow Sentinel at the above address Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error, the portion of the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid at the applicable rates It's the best day of the year To get in the Christmas 'spirit my Dad, my brothers and I go to our bush and cut down a tree. The tree is set up in our livingroom and decorated with many decorations collected over the years. After we have decorated the tree, my Mom and I make Christmas cake and shortbread cookies. On Christmas Eve we are . allowed to open one gift. Christmas morning I wake up early, sometimes too early and my Mom tells me to go back to bed. Finally about 7:00 or 7:30 we can come downstairs and begin to open our presents. We play with them for awhile and then we get together with my aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents. This year we will miss grandpa. He passed away last March. We have a big dinner with turkey, salads, stuffing, potatoes, vegetables and homemade buns. For dessert we have Christmas pudding with butterscotch sauce or mincemeat pie. mmmmmmm! After dinner we exchange gifts and have fun playing with them. Christmas is the best part of the year because I spend it with my family. Michael Mali Gr. 5/6, LCPS. Christmas at my house is like... Eating . and laughing" with relatives. Smiling to and fro. Singing songs of joy Opening all the presents. Waving bye to your friends, Saying "hi" to Niagara Falls. • Going to Wheels Inn in Chatham. Soaring down a small water slide. Swimming in'a pool. Smiling, home at last. Mark Kranenburg . Gr. 5/6, LCPS. Christmas At My House Christmas begins at my house with my cousin Michelle and her husband Jim and their son, Dylan. We put up the tree and fill it with decorations. Christmas day we take all the presents from the front and work our way back. This year my Dad is coming up. Boxing Day. As the day passes, we keep on playing with our presents. I can't wait until Christmas! Merry Christmas to everyone! Steven Hare Gr. 5/6, LCPS. Our Florence Nightingale of the rock by Marsha Boulton DANIEL'S HARBOR, NEW- FOUNDLAND, 1926 -- What member of the Order of Canada delivered more than 5,000 babies and extracted at least 3,000 teeth? For more than 50 years, New- foundland nurse Myra Bennett was the only medical aid along almost 400 km. of rugged coastline on the Northern Peninsula. She set broken limbs, performed kitchen table operations by lamp light and sutured and dressed wounds of every description. Throughout the province she was known as the "Florence Nightingale of the North." The war -trained English nurse was 29 when she volunteered for a Newfoundland posting from the British Overseas Nursing As- sociation. She had hoped to be sent to Saskatchewan, a faraway place she read about in a two -penny weekly nursing publication. Both Lady Grey, wife of Gover- nor-General Earl Grey and Lady Harris, wife of Newfoundland Governor Sir Alexander Harris, convinced her that there was a great need for nurses in Newfoundland. The Sentinel Memoirs High school t•,l I+'1�o, j'f '•, ):110).�� 1.1,4,11/ In preparation for her new job, the young nurse took a course in mid- wifery and she acquired some limited tools of her trade, including a device for extracting teeth, a "universal forceps" which was to prove invaluable. She arrived at Daniel's Harbor in the spring of 1921 and immediately began ministering to everything from difficult childbirths to tuber- culosis. Her salary was $75 a month, and she worked long hours. travelling up and down the coast in all kinds of weather. In 1923, "Nurse" married New- foundland sailor and carpenter Angus Bennett. He built a large home, which also served as a surgery, education centre and hospital for half a century. Bennett was three months preg- nant with their first child when she received one of her most dramatic calls to duty in the middle of a snowy February night in 1926. 141 Hee brother-in-law, Alex, was working at a lumber camp about 8 km from Daniel's Harbor and his foot had been almost completely severed by a saw at the mil. A thin strip of flesh was all that held the foot to the rest of the leg above the exposed ankle joint. Using snow as an anaesthetic, Bennett cleaned the foot of splinters and bone and stitched the severed foot back onto the leg as best she could. The following morning, Myra and Angus set out on a 100 km journey to Bonne Bay Hospital with the patient on horse and sled. The Journey took three days, during which the couple walked beside the sled to make it lighter for the horse as they battled the drifted snow, howling winds and exhaustion. When they reached the hospital, the doctor was amazed at Nurse Bennett's handiwork. There was no need to amputate. .After a lengthy recovery, Alex was able to walk again. Before she retired at 68, Bennett trained three midwives, raised her own family of three children and fostered four others. She received •turn to page 5 students pack Town Hall 70 years ago quite an army of witnesses and much of the evidence Dec. 20 1923 was contradictory so that the jury must have had con- siderable difficulty in sifting the lies from the truth. It took an hour to select a jury,so many being challenged that the supply of jurors was nearly exhausted. It is said that this never before happened in the county. • 50 years ago Dec. 23, 1943 School concert - The High School High students were greeted by a packed house when they gave their annual concert in the Town Hall, Friday evening of last week. The best of spirits prevailed and there was a fine program. Wilfred Murdoch, president of the Literary Society, gave the address of welcome. There was an orchestra composed of students, and there were choruses, instrumentals, drills and readings. Part II consisted of a play "My Lord in Livery." Students taking part in this humorous presentation were: Stuart Mackenzie; Douglas Osterhout, Lovell Murdoch, Andrew Thompson, Mary Anderson, Vera Todd and Margaret Geddes. Business growing - Silverwoods butter, made in Lucknow, is rapidly gaining a favorable place on the market, and the demand is steadily growing. The factory is now shipping from two to three thousand pounds weekly to Hamilton and St. Catherines, and the other day quite a large order was received from a firm in the Eastern States. heft trial The man recently charged with the theft of 19 head of cattle from Malcolm Bros, near Kinlough, is again a free man. The trial jury at Walkerton decided that he was not .guilty of theft. The trial last week occupied the Court from Tues- day afternoon until late Friday evening. There was' he "Good Old Days" - as submitted by an "Old Timer". I long for the old pioneer days when there were no ceiling prices on our eats and drinks, not even a board ceiling in some of the cabins. Then you could buy a pound of porterhouse steak for 10 cents with a chunk of suet thrown in to help to fry it or three pounds of round steak for a quarter with a couple of pounds of liver thrown in for dog and cat fodder. You could buy a beef head for 10 cents, shank for 15 cents, pork chop for 8 cents per pound or genuine pork sausage 10 cents per pound. A pig's head', cut well back to the shoulder, sold for 25 cents, 4 pig's hocks for 12 cents, and lard 6 cents per pound. Then there was the country dance. All you had to do to go to one of these old country hoedowns was to help pay the fiddler, by dropping into the hat called the fiddler's change. If you went to one of these dances without a girl partner you generally dropped 5 cents into the hat, with a partner you dropped in 10 cents. If you were "rushing" a girl and engaged to her you generally showed off before the other girls by dropping 25 cents into the fiddler's hat. The Presbyterian Guild, Monday evening, May 31, 1915. Back row, Ralph Bueglass, W.L. MacKenzie, Horace Aitcheson,.Ernie'Aitcheson, Alex McCarroll, Bob Fisher, Fourth row: D.C. Towers, Cliff Aitcheson, Marion McDiarmid, Jean Spindler, A. Campbell, M. Little, Florence MacGregor, Helen MacKenzie, Norma Thompson, A.D. MacKenzie, Rev. IS. Duncan, E.L. Racine, Dolly Henderson, Mrs. Imrie, Irene Sherriff, Margaret McCharles MacKenzie, Mrs. McCarroll, Annie Boyd, Rena Gordon, Jean Douglas, Mrs. Con Decker, Mrs. Bill Fisher. Third Row: A. Beaton, Freda. Aitcheson, Ida Reid, M. Eckensweiler, M. Muliiti,'Mrs. D. Thompson, Liz Henderson, Lila Little, Viola Sturdy, Pearl Henderson, L. Johnston, Nina Woods, M. Campbell, Mary Little, Deane Geddes, Mae McMorran, Carrie Geddes, Rose Smith, ? Mdntosh, Lea Smith. Second row: Annie Maclnnes, Alice Huston, W. Woods. E. Hastie, Jean Johnston, Mary Aitcheson, Pearl Fraser, Pheme Irwin, Jean Aitcheson, Margaret MacKenzie, W. Durnin, Mabel McClure, Mary McQuaig, P. Finlayson, Adelia Spindler, Helen G. Sherriff, Vera Sherriff, Jean McCLure, Fern Reid. Front row: C. Connel, Alex Lockart, R. McKay, Steele MacKenzie, Alvin Cameron, Clyde Reid, Lloyd Agnew, Hugh MacMillan, Hagan MacDonald, Atex Butler, Clarence MacDonald, Stan Burns, E. Snell, W. Habbick, L. MacDonald, Harold Burns, Andy Orr. (courtesy Wm. Henderson, Lucknow.)