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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1986-11-05, Page 22itage neelisseknew Sentinel Wednesday, Noventer 5„ Ii985 Ripley WI to `tte day after tomorrow Friday. Nov, 72 ow at 1;36 p.m. the Ripley Women's Zn- stitute will hold their monthly meeting in the Knox Presbyterian Church Sunday room. Tjeveaker will be MrS. Bernadette (Jim) Scott of the 4th concession west at Sideroad 20 in Huron township, Her topic will be "Sheep and Lamb Farming", Jim and Bernadette live on the BM Hooey tarot, Book in the Twenties tt was a mixed farming operation of 556 acres when men and horses supplied the power, The livestock on the farm were beef cattle, milk - Mg cows. and horses and the crops were hay and mixed grain -nocorn. Everything was planned in Bill Hooey's mind - a real farm manager. While there were no sheep on the farm, perhaps if he saw the efficient way Bernadette's sheep keep the weeds trimmed down on the old Ripley fall fair grounds he would approve but it would likely take some convincing. Mrs. Margaret Gemmel' says that everyone is welcome to attend this meeting on Friday afternoon. Agricultural society meeting Secretary Don MacTavish would like to remind the directors and assistants of the Ripley Agricultural Society that the mon- thly meeting will be held at 8 p.m, next Mon- day, Nov. 10th, in the Ripley Huron Central School at the west end of Ripley. Note the change from 9 p.m. to 8 p.m. - due to the re- cent switch back to standard time. Everyone is invited to come. Treasurer Mrs. Sheila MacDonald has mailed the che- GRAIN MOISTURE METER 4Ialross In- strtunents Corperated). good condition, Phone 5284500.-33tfnx OLIVER GRAVITY (Seed) Separator, good condition. Phone 528-3500.-33tinx C. Wanted WANTED TO BUY barbecue, pigs, rup- tures, rhinitis, poor doers, any size; also sows and boars fit to butcher. Call 3354151.-6U TWO REGISTERED/ LISTED HEIFERS doe Janttary. M-4 due te Solicitor, Warden due to, Gabriel. Gray Ress Holsteins 357-2878.-45 E. Form, Services, BERG STABLE EQUIPMENT. Barn cleaners; manure pumps, vertical, herizental; 8' to 15 P.V.C. or S.B.T. ductile. Cow and calf tie stalls. Loose housing. Mak feeders., ventilati9n equipment, hog confinement, Ritchie heated, water bowls. Farrowing crates. Weaker decks. Plastic slates and also farm. gates. Contact Lloyd Johnston, RR 3, Holyrood, Ontario. Phone 395-5390.-2tfar LYNN LOWERY FARM SYSTEMS LTD,„ R.R. No. i Kincardine, Ontario, For all your manure, feed, arid grain handling re. quireinents cal/ 395-5286 or see us in Ambekley. We handle everything almost.2tfar GILCHRIST FARM SUPPLY - Patz and Starline belt feeders, conveyors, silo. wiloaders. Flex auger and stable equip - mot. Custom belt lacing, Repaks. RR$, lt,ticknow. 39548$1-42tfar WILL HAMA CO N axxVother farm pro duets. Two, 40?' trailers. Call Mike at 528-3M-4346 • PAv4v*****Ovvt*F4* hold meeting in Presbyterian church ques for the priees awarded at the Ripley uron fall fass. New clerk at the store Mrs. Karen Allen of William Street, Ripley was the new clerk last Wednesday afternoon at Lynn Nicholson's Superior Market on Mainstreet, Karen and her hus- band Winston Allen operated the store and post office at Holyrood before moving into Ripley last summer. Winston is now the postmaster at Lucknow and Allan R. Miller is now at Holyrood. Volunteers needed for tree planting Last Wednesday Ab. Wylds received a let- ter from Mr. Ian MacEachern, secretary of "The Men of the Trees, Townshipof Huron Branch', Huron township council has authorized the planting of trees along its roads. So Mr. MacEachern will establish a tree nursery at the Lake Shore Road south of the 8th conces- sion next spring. To do this he needs volunteer help. Some he already has been promised, Dave Moore, retired Huron Twp. road superintendent, is donating the use of the land for a tree nursery site. Ralph Pollock has agreed to plow the field. Chris Anger will collect used hockey sticks for planting stakes. Wairing for planting time are Dick Huff, Bob Ledingham and Don Finlayson. He needs 10 or more volunteers from this area to spend a Saturday next May planting trees in this new nursery site. So if you can help or would like to know more about this International Society - The Men of the Trees - now with members in 47 countries, please write to Ian MacEachern, giving address, phone number, and the part of the township where you live. His address is 20 Blythdale Rd., Toronto, Ont, M4N 3M4. For many reasons we need to, plant trees - conservation of topsoil, protection from winter storms and many more. Former resident wins prizes Mrs. Velma MacArthur of Walkerton was the lucky winner last Wednesday noon, Oct. 29 when she answered the telephone ring with "meat pies" instead of the usual hello. So Velma receives a five dollar grocery voucher and. a free lottery ticket which could be, if she were lucky, a half million. Dune and Velma were former residents in Ripley when Dune owned and operated the hardware store here. John D and Gail at- tended the Ripley Public School and the Ripley District High School. John D went to Western to become an engineer and Gail. a graduate nurse. ' She assists the veterinary Last Wednesday evening Maggie King called Ab Wylds to tell him that he had erred when he called her the assistant secretary at the Ripley Huron Vet Clinic east of .Ripley. We are sorry about it. She is the assistant to the veterinary doctor there. Maggie who lives at Silver Lake says that they were pleased with the account. otherwise. Incidentally the Ripley Clinic handled about 350 animals at the Huron township hall here e the 166 mentioned in the headline was at ArIXIQWk The total for the three clinics handled by the Ripley Huron staff was 816 counting the 300 at Holyrood hall. Fifty called in for treats. Hopes for pleasant weather for Halloween last Friday evening were answered. It was dry, calm, and maybe a bit cool. Everything considered, it was a pleasant night for the young trick or treaters travelling the Ripley streets, As always it is nice to have them call for treats. Fifty called here and we listed their names - First were neighbours Richard and Julie Wyld of Malcolm St. and Mary -Ann and Randy Lanting of Huron St. beside the, Curl- ing Rink. Then it was a second group of four - Brian, Stephen and Kathleen Stewart and Brent Weber. They were' accompanied by their mothers Lait Weber of Malcolm ,St. and Phyllis- Stewart of Finlay St. The next two were Star and J.J. Dadson and -their mother SnSan Dodson and Ella Yule frora Ripley and Railroad Streets. Another four were Larissa Brooks. of Lucknow, Angela Taylor, Patricia and Lisa Neabei of Wm. Street. Then it was. Christine Collins, Dawn, • Fludder, Amy Rotteatt„ Stacy Coulheck, Christine Fry, and Karen Graham and Bruce Beach.. Following that large group were three groups of three, girls in succession. First it was Mandy Farrell (con 101 west), Shelly Hewitt and Janine Hodgins from 8th just east of Ripley. The second group, were Shea van den Bogen, Jennifer Johnston of Ripley Street hi Ripley, and Suzanne, Paquette. The third of these trios were Joanne Pollock. 11 Debbie Taylor of Wm. Street, and Angela Collins a Con. l2 east. Next it was back to four - Reeky Phelan of Cake St., Kerry Stanley of Wm. Street and Vanessa Abela of Queen St, and Jodi Iresser of Pine tiver. Her mother, Pat, is a nurse in Kincardine Hospital. Next was a pair of girls from the 8th con- cession west halfway to Pine Rtver - Linda Shantz, daughter of Elaine at the Ripley Dress Shop and. Vanessa Life - whose mother is a school bus driver and lives on the former Angie Dave Martyn farm. Next were three boys - Mark MacLeod and Gregg McCallum - our present paperboy and Trevor Henderson of 8th (Pine River). Next were Roger and Melissa Landry who are living in the former Carl and Pat Bren- nan house on William Street where their mother teaches ceramics. Then four members of the Stanley family who live on the 10th concession road east at its intersec- tion with sideroad 9 were next. They were Mary Ann, Chris, Melissa, and Crystal Stanley. On lot 6 concession 9 the brick house - once the home of "Big Frank" Stanley it is pictured in the Gwen Harrison 1985 Reunion History book on page 241. The last couple to own the place were Jake Mid- delkamp, his wife Margo (Nicholson) Mid- delkamp and family. We know the place from going there for bee swarms a few years age before Jake and Margo sold it and moved away. Next to arrive here were Michael Beishuizen, son of Ben and Linda at sideroad 10 on con. 8 and Michael Hodgins, son of Dr. Don and Pat Hodgins at the Ripley Huron Vet Clinic place just east of Ripley on the 8th. They were just in the door when the Lynn and Freda Courtney van ar- rived and in came Sean and Reagan Courtney. Ab has long known that he did not know how .to pronounce the name Beishuizen so with the four of them here we thought this is the time to learn how the kids at school say the name simple when you know how - divide it into three parts Bei-shuize-n and say Bye -size -n. Say each part - bye - size - n. There you have it. About 9:30 the last couple arrived from the family car. 'They were Raymond and Nancy Mitchell - son and daughter of Leonard Mitchell of lot 53,, Concession A - Huron township. Raymond told me he at- tends the Walkerton District Secondary School - likes it there especially the wood- working classes, With ten o'clock approaching and no more calls at the front door Ab Wylds sits in the front room where he can see the main streets. A group of boys and girls in their costumes collect on the sidewalks at the front of George MeLean's store. Then the group, in orderly fashion starts to walk east towards WilliamStreet and home. We feel pride in our young people and at the same time a feeling of nostalgia. We are fortunate to have , them and they are likewise fortunate to have caring adults. So ends the Halloween 1986 version for this area and for Western Ontario. EDWARD RUTTY Last Sunday, November 2 we received a call from Mrs. Isabel Wylds, con. 5 west in Huron township re the passing of her brother-in-law. Then Isabel's brother Lloyd Mitchell of Underwood made a couple of calls about an hour later with information as follows: Edward Rutty was born on .Friday, June 4, 1909 in Sussex, England. He came to Huron township in 1920 to the home of Tom Cornish and sister Dolly(Margaret) Cornish at lot 30 con 5, on the Sixth road west - perhaps better known as the Pollard farm. Coming at the same time to another farm was Reg Godfrey, From the honw of TOM and Dolly, Eddy attended SS No. 5 school - teachers Nellie Scott, Margaret Cameron, and G.C. (Clifton) Huston, school teachers in successive years. He made a harvest excursion trip, to Goodlands (Deloraine area) in Southwest Manitoba where he worked with members of the Morrison family who, moved them from the Sixth of Huron township around 1900'. In the early thirties Eddy„ along with Walter Lingham from the Gossell farm, Lorne and Lloyd Mitchell were in Toronto taking an Auto, Mechanics course. On Saturday, October 6, 1934„ he married Jean Mitchell of the Sixth ncession west, oldest daughter of Frank, and IViaggie Mit- chell After their marriage they returned to Toronto where they were employed', This was the time of the- Great Depression so hay- ing a job was a feat. For more than tilrty years he was in the Novcoll plant there. He has been in W health for the past five years, when he had 'Ts first amputation. Then last winter he went into East York General Hospital for the second leg amputation. He passed away in hospital there on Sunday, Sept. 21, 1986. Surviving are his wife Jean, their two sons Warren and Thomas, their daughter Janet , six grandchildren and two great grand- children in Toronto. A member of the Masonic Lodge, a memorial service was held by St. Adrian's Lodge No. 567 and followed by the funeral and committal ser- vice in the Trull Funeral Home on Danforth Avenue in Toronto on Tuesday evening Sept. 23. In attendance were family members from the Ripley -Kincardine area. Burial was in Kincardine Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. on Wed., Sept. 24. At the grave side were his son and daughter Tom and Janet who drove up from Toronto and Lloyd Mitchell of Underwood, Isobel(Mitchell) Wylds and her daughter Mrs. Muriel Lamont of the sixth west, and Marlene (Mrs. Bill Pace) of Kincardine. There are a number of former students at S.S. No. 5 who will remember Eddy Rutty as a fellow scholar there. On behalf of us all sympathy is extended to Jean his wife and student there and to all her family and relatives. Great storm of November 1913 Next Sunday is November 9, 1986. So it was Sunday, Nov. 9 - seventy-three years ago in 1913. A day to be remembered as the one when Lake Huron was churned with huge waves estimated at heights from 50 to 100 feet and up.. Some described it as "boil- ing" from end to end. But it was an icy cold "boil!' What was its cause? A mass of warm air filled with water vapour from the Gulf of Mexico moved north along the Mississippi valley. At the same time another large mass of cold Arctic air swept in from the west. They met right over Lake Huron, The battle causing, the tur- moil was on as the two masses moved into each other. It started about noon and lasted the rest of the day. There was no warning that such a terrible storm was to happen. My reason for this statement is that folks on the farms used their horses and buggies to go to morning church services and for visiting friends. The first snowfall, occurred with the winds and visibility was reduced to zero. Taken to Loudon. hospital Suffering painful injuries in a tumble on the lawn of his home last Tuesday,. October 28, John C.. MacDonald was taken by am- bulance to Kincardine and District Hospital, and then to St. Joseph's Hospital in London. There it was found that ne had broken tne femur, knee to hip bone in his right leg also a broken shoulder bone. There they inserted a metal rod in the femur and are letting , nature have a turn at healing the shoulder. His wife Mary MacDonald returned home to Ripley on. Sunday evening. Jack is presently in room 110 on the 4th Mon, Son, Courtney MacDonald, and Paul Har- ris are both lab technicians in St. Joe's. Miss Florence MacDonald, Ripley hairdresser, is in the Grey Bruce Regional Health Centre Foundation (the Hospital) where she, is undergoing treatment for a diabetic pro- blem. Wishes are extended for a return to, health for bothi Jack and Florence. Dressed up for Halloween Last Friday the ladies on staff at the, Ripley Superior Market and at Ripley Royal Bank dressed in, Halloween costumes to add the fin spirit to their work. At the bank as we watched Mrs. Shirley Dewar and Mrs, Julie McGuire cross the street into the bank about three in the after- noon thoughts of the Halloween, robbers came to mind. Back home from hospital Ripley folks are glad to hear that Stewart and Janet Needham are back in their home in Ripley after a few weeks stay in Kincar- dine and. District Hospital. Bruce County dairy princess Mary Henhoeffer of Teeswater is the new Bruce County Dairy Princess. Runners-up were: Sandra Benninger, from MiIdinay and Sheila Osborne of the Fourth Conces- Mont Huron. Township.