The Lucknow Sentinel, 1986-08-27, Page 14Page 14 ue ow. Seutiuei, Wcduesolay9 August 279 1986
Daughter, children from Alliston visits parents
BY AB WELDS
Mrs. Mildred Ashton of Alliston, her son
Michael Jr, arid daughter Carrie visited on
Friday August 15 with her parents Leslie
and Dorothy Wardell and her brother Henry
Wardell at their home on the Fourth Conces-
sion West in Huron township. Mildred
brought along Timothy and Melina Howe
th-hildrren of her sister Judy and Tom
Howe of Kitchener. Christopher Ashton who
had spent two weeks with Ms grandparents
Les and Dorothy returned home to Alliston
with them,
Ripley W,T. coffee meeting
Ripley Women's Institute will meet at the
home of Mrs. Margaret Gemmel' on Tain
Street in Ripley on. Friday, Sept. 5 at 10 a,m.
for morning ,coffee. Mary Millar, a •colour
analyst, will be the special guest. Note the
change of time, 10 a.m. Everyone attending
please bring a coloured sect rf. •
Dr. and Mrs. Tindall's anniversary
Dr. and Mrs. J.B. Tindall celebrated their
45th wedding anniversary at a special din-
ner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harris
in London. Both couples were .former
residents of . Ripley. Present for the event
were Mr. and Mrs. Francis Gemmell and
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lock of Ripley and Mr.
and. Mrs. Paul Harris, Greg, Jamie & Laurie
of London. A pleasant evening was enjoyed
reminiscing. Pictures were taken by Paul.
Just appointed principal
Francis and Margaret Gemmell visited
their son Frank and wife Lynne in Bramp-
ton last week. Frank was just appointed
principal of Lancaster Senior Public School
in Mississauga in the Malton District of Peel
County. There is a staff of twenty teachers
in the school.
Visited from Kincardine
Down from Kincardine to Ripley last
Thursday evening were Elmer and Gladys
Wylde of Broadway to visit Ab Wylds. •
Visited in Ripley
Last Friday Jean MacDonald of the
Pinecrest Manor Nursing Horne Staff in
Lucknow visited with her sister Noreen
MacDonald at their home on Malcolm street
in Ripley.
Visited from Guelph
Morris and Donna Halley and their three-
month -old daughter Jessica from Guelph.
visited with Donna's parents Jerryand Ann
Huber at their home on the Sixth Concession
west in Huron township. They arrived here
last Wednesday August 20 - ,a week ago to-
SCHOOL'S OPEN
DRIVE CAREFULLY
As the, school season begins, we must
• remember that children's safety is everybody's
business. Youngsters may not watch out for traf-
fia,. so make it your responsibility to drive ex.
tra carefully, especially near school and
playgrounds.
Be` extra alert for our school -bound is ds.get
an "A" in safetyfor ,'AWcireness" : sso there'I'l be'
plenty of `A's" for "Attendance!"
day. On Saturday they went to Bayfield for
the day and back for Sunday.
About five last Friday afternoon Ab Wylds.
just back from a visit out "home" on the 6th
concession with the Huber family and some
work around our bee hives out there, puts
the car in the garage here. He takes a couple
of things into the house and is right back out.
There is a stranger standing at the open
garage door. He says "Are you Ab?" I say
yes so then he tells me his name Gerard
Collins from Toronto. He says that he and
his wife are looking for the Dave Stewart
place, So I say that is easy, He is at the north
end of Ripley now.
You understand that I am thinking about
Dave Stewart, his wife Phyllis and children
Bryan, Stephen and JCathleenwho moved in-
to Mrs. Marion McTavish house at the first
of the month. And since he came from the
area between Kincardine and Ripley which
he mentioned I was sure that I was right on.
WRONG! He said that the Dave Stewart
he was looking for was deceasedsome years
now and it was just -his place that they were
wanting to find.. To further enlighten me he
said that Dave had a cousin Ben Watt. I said
that there were no Watts around here. On
thinking about this one, again I was not right
-the cheesemaker at the corner of the 15th &
6th where Ralph and Jenny Numan now
have .their home, was Frank Watt and
before he came here the Nimmo brothers
Tom & Ernie made cheese there after 1885
when it was no longer needed as the "Ripley
School".
Bet you readers did not know' that all the
schoolchildren from Ripley walked out
there and back before 1879, In 1879 the
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Ripley children and some others. wentto the
Ripley town hall over in the north east cor-
ner ofthe village (Blake Street), In 1885 the
new SS leo, IO Sel doI".was Wilt' at th west!
end of .Jessie. Street,:and all from the: area
went thereThe buildings out there were, us-
ed 'as . the Cheese factory and the caring;
room. So much for that. ; .
'Back to Gerard Coiiins'fromr-Toronto`al'ic1
his search for the location of • the Dave`
Stewart place. Getting nowhere fast he calls
his Wife over from their car parked on the
boulevard. He runs it by me again . tells the : -
faets, once more. I had told him that there
wereseveral Stewarts still in the area which
he had indicated, His wife Earlaine notes
that Hen Watt was really two men, not one,
and they were Farrels. Now we are getting
someplace,. Watt Farrell and Ben. Farrell
and Ab Wylds is now thinking of the 12th
concession of Huron township and not the
South Line in Kincardine township as he was
before. •
Allat once like a flash of lightning Ab
Wylds recalled In his mind an incident
which happened in May 1929 in the, upstairs
room, north west corner of the old Kincar-
dine High School. This was' the home room
'for the 5th . Form (now Grade 13 ), the
teachers rotated, the students stayed put. It
,is just 3 p.m. - last recess is over. and one
hour .more it will be 4 p.m. and school will be
• out. The desks are the wooden chair type
heavy well built, a sliding drawer below the.
seat for books, a two way adjustable writing.
top both horizontal and for height. And you
had to sit in from the left hand side as we
remember,
Ab had the first or front desk in the second
row. In the second desk right behind me was
a fairly tall red headed girl and she general-
ly had her feet up on the back of my chair.
Into the room comes the teacher Mr. Frog
Watson for the one spare period we had in
the week, He is just in the act of sitting on
his chair at the teacher's desk when red
headed Edith Stewart straightens out her
legs and it shoots Ab right up beside Frog.
He is picking up a book and aiming the narr
row hard edge at my head. To avoid the
blow we lean away and upset the chair and
have to scramble to get away from the
teacher's desk which we did and also
retrieve our desk and its drawer filled with
our books.
Strange as it seems now there was no out-
burst of laughter. We were a mature group
of students. To this day Ab does not know
what caused Edithto straighten, her legs
suddenly - . perhaps a muscle cramp or
charley horse. It only happened that one
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