The Lucknow Sentinel, 1951-12-06, Page 2PAGE TWO
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• ' E' LUCKNGW :SENTINEL, 'LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
THURS., DECEMBER ,(MI, 1951
GORDON MU LiJN ..
REC, DIRECTOR
Gordon 'A. Mullin,. 23. year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs: Cecil Mut-
lin, of Listowel and, .formerly of
Lucknow,, has . heen named as, *Re-
creation Director for the town of
Listowel•and will- assume -his -new
duties on. January 3rd, •
• Gordon; is at present a member
of the Arthur Public School staff,
and the physical and health edu
ration of the school has been un-
der •his direction. •
• -Gordon. •has.. had considerable.
• experience in .the. field of recrea-
tion, ,and at Listowel. has served:
under the • retiring ; director,' Cliff
Griesbach,, as • well .,.as •'his pre-
decessor, Lloyd Ackert • •.,
Gordon ' was ' born S'at Lucknow.
and ;went to Listowel .with ' his
:iparents in 1941.. Upon graduating
from Listowel High School he at-
,• tended Stratford Normal School
and .later the University of, Wes
tern .Ontario :Sunznner ' School.'
While "at. Listowel, he ',was named
:the ah around student in•his last
year at high school. .
His' personal sports skill .in -
elude hockey, ,baseball,track and
.field and : football. He • has per-
formed, with the .Milverton, Ar-'
th`ur and .. Listowel Intermediate
puck :squads • and is .practising
with this year's .Intermediate..
• team., from Listowel: , He won the.
boars' senior championship in. 1947
at Listowel. H 8..
Gordon': isa grandson 'of
Mrs.'
Henry ,Mullin' of. towii.
• Each time that .i :pass 'a church
• I stop to; spay a visit;
' So that; • when ,I'm; carried in,
The 'Lord won't`. say "Who' is
it?
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THE,'VOIGE; or TEMPERANCE:
T is tirn it's , h The • 'Globe. and/
Mail that has .associated the Can-
ada Temperance Act With ram
pant bootlegging. This is just the
wetro a an a. smear a _.in
old g(a p g pgan .
We who live in Canada' Tem-
perance territory 'know' better..
We are in a. position to ''know
that., bootlegging is not excessive
in our . Huron communities: We
also know that the law is catch-
ing • up with the bootlegger in
one .. place after ' another. If boot
legging.' is •the, problem ' it •will
certainly. not :be solved by wrap-
ping,.the Canada Temperance Act
in ;favor of . the •,Ontario 'Liquor,
Control Act:' That' would mean
More.outlets `and therefore • more
drinking 'and- consequently more.
bbotlegging., : Would ' the Globe.
and. Mail careto comment on
Bootlegging in .Toronto' or any
other Liquor 'Control Act, urea?
—Advt.
Mother ;(horrified): "Good hea-
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'yens! .Kissing. a man.. You never
saw 'me • do .a thing like that!."
Daughter:' "No, but I'll bet
grandma did!"..::: .
ENGAGEMENTS • '
Mr. and ' Mrs. Lloyd McWhin
ney,. Port Albert, , announce the.
engagement ' of 'their. • daughter,
Alice 'Irene, ' to Howard Gordon
Sproul, son of Mr. and Mrs.• How-
ard :Sproul, Auburn 'The mar-
riage to take place 'in December.
Teacher:. Johnny, :Why 'were
you `:late', today.?
.Johnny: t• saw. a sign.
• What •has a. 'sign to. sdo "with
your being late'
,heaIt .d'said:. ' `Slow'; down; school
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LOOKING 6A` .KWAR•DS
•TI IROL4GH • THE.. SENTINEL.: , FILES •
Sixty Years Ago
Application was, made for the
formation of a- joint .stack -com-
pany: for the manufacture of but-
ter' and cheese on Lot 7; Con. 7,
t .
E.D., Ashfield; 'Officers..:of the
proposed" ComparikJ)were : ,pres.,
Thomas, Edward Finlay; direct-..
ors, Wm.' H. Reid;Thomas Hus
-'
sey, John Kilpatrick and. Joseph
Kilpatrick:
Peter MacKenzie, sof • Kinloss
was having 'a new brick • and
stone house built. ' .
Elliott Traver sold his • Ia!vt
practice to' P. A. •Malcohnson: and
moved to . Strathroy.. .
Alex S. Campbell 'gav'e up:. the
tailoring 'business.
David McMillan,son of Mrs.'
Archibald -McMillan and the late.
Mr. McMillan died in Dakota .at.
the age of • 32.
Presentations were made to
John McBain prior to, his return:
to hist homeland in 'Scotland.
• Harr"y. Hudaan taught at 'Para -
Mount. ;Successful entrance- stu
dentsfrom hisschool were, Eda
'Reid, John McKenzie, ' Kate Mur-
chison' and. Lizzie McGill. •
The death occurred at Lanes
of f Mrs. William Hazbourn Reed,
formerly Amelia Smeltzer. They.
;had lived in .Ashfield :since 1859.'
JamesLees, son of Robert Lees,
of .'-the; Lucknow Woollen •Mills;
died . at, Siqux ,City, Iowa, from
typhoid fever.. He .was ia his 24th
. year.,
,Thomas .• McLean and . James
.Young hadshipped over 200' head
in
of :' cattle a • month, . most of
them going 'overseas:
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• Miss Lizzie Lawson and' Miss
Lilla ' Bower' 'were. in charge of
the millinery. departments at
Wm. Connells, and W:J. Brurnp-
ton's,' respectively. ••
.• Thirty -Five Years Ago
In ,the 'early summer of 1916,
• Private 'Alex Macdiarmid, son of
Mr. ,and '.Mrs. John, Macdiarmid,
Con.. 4; Kinloss,' was reported
"missing :in action". ' Finlay, Mc-
Innes' was 'reported missing early
in. June, but •ev'entually was re-
ported •as 'a prisoner'. 'of war. •
A turkey gobbler on the • farm -s'
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Will Be The Order Of The Day
Treats will be handed out at.
The Playhouse between 3 and 4 lint
.
Sponsored. by Business' Men''.s . Association i'
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of Herb Ensign developed moth-
erly ''gnstinictsand took to a, nest.
of hen's eggs to hatch out 'five
chicks.'
Failure to obtain a .buyer.: for
the ' ¥Garry House• resulted ' in
the hostelry .being ' ,boarded " up.
and the stra(blg.:yard fenced Oft -
'The Epworth League Of the
M°etli bdist Chtirtii 'held -their -pit
nit at Point Clark; with• "several
bevies of young people" .prefering
the ' horse-drawn carryall 'to the
Motor ' car ' which had )become the
rnore-favor.edLmeans_: of . travel at
the'.,picnic: Mr. D..C. Tayler.:was
presented with' a gold head cane.
, in recognition of having 'served
for. 22 years as president of• the.
League: ' . '
Richard Martin''s Ford turned.'
turtle on. a hill, in West Wawa -
nosh, • and :when one of the oil.
lamps' br, oke it: set.`,fire to 'escap-
ing gasoline, and'the consumable'
parts of the vehicle.. 'vvent up in
smoke. , . ' . ..
Two 'Lucknow' students were
second. 'and 'third • in the Bruce.
Inspectorate at the entrance: ev-
aminations. Carrick Douglas had
544 out of 650 Marks, nine mark`s
' behind the winner frail.' Port, El-
gin, Vera ,Hedley was third With
538 .marks. • '
Diavir Cathcart died at Kintail
in ,his 33rd, year.
• Robert Gra11arn, . 35;year-old
son of •Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gra-,
hail , died suddenly in Vancou-
ver:
ancou
ve , •
Alexander. "Sandy" Smith, long
associatedas the operator of 'the
oarrieal. Mill on Con. 5, Kinloss;
died in , Lucknow •' at the age :of
70. '
Building construction in Luck -
now, included 'a new brick resi-
dence on-Haevlock St, being built
by W. E. Treleaven; a residence,
garage and stable on Ross St by
W. P« Reed Who was Moving in
from. Lanes; a busirmess ,block on
Main Street by Messrs,. 'Ackert
and Solomon, and improvements
by W, L. MacKenzie to the resi-
dence bought from T. Corrigan. ,
Twenty Years Ago
Bih Cur -lin was found .dead, 'at
his home north of the Village.
The installing - .of ' Lucknow
Water System was completed in
September at a cost considerably
.below' the $65;000 estimate.
Rev; ' John S.Hardie, minister
of , Ashfield, Presbyterian' Church
for many years, died 'in London
in hie 80th year. "
, George Webster, Murray . Tay-
lor and Freda Rintoul won .:the
highest' points' at the West Wa--
wanosh Township .School Fair
held at St' Helens.' '
John Joynt harvested 55 at.
of ,„potatoes,. having . 'purchased
planting, spraying. ;and ° digging.
machines to handle the jdb., •
Audrey Beth • Twamley, 3 -year-
old daugh'te'r of Mr. and Ws: 'El-
don Twamley of Chatham :died
of •injuries received when, struck
by a car. , .' .
A sprinkler fire protection sys-
tem ,was installedby the Luck -
now Table Co. • •
Thomas Henry died . at his Ash-
field .nonie
shfield..home near .Belfast.
• Stanley Rivers resigned "as
principal of •Owen , Sound Colleg-:
iate•. to accept a position on Norith
Bay .normal 'school ;staff. ` •
.Kenneth "Cameron harvested a.
large crop of choice apples. His
favorite: spy. tree produced' more
than ,24 barrels. •
Mrs. ' James McCoy, died- in(/her
79th year. ;
Ross ' .MacDonald` suffered „ a.•
,broken arm. and 'a f racttired skull
when, he fell from ;a :chesnut tree
on his Way home ;froth •school 'in..
Peterborough: '•
Wirinifred Douglas •completed:
her nu'rse's ° training course at
Victoria Hospital. .,
Ten Years Ago
A shortage of tar 'forced'la stop='
page of, the .work of hard topping
the Lueknow•.to. Kinloss Road.
War•,time: restrictions curtail=
'ed, the hours' of: gasoline ' sales.
from 9.a.in. to 7 p.m..
• Rev. G. ", G. ': Howse. • of New
foundland . was Inducted as pas-
tor : of Ashfield Circuit:
Bert Graham of'Huron, Town
Library Exchange Schedule
The dates. in this, immediate
vicinity of the.. Huron, • County
Library exchange schedule• are:
•Tuesday, December 1lth, Luck.:
now 9.90 a.m.; Whitechurch 10;301
a.m. Tuesday, December 18th,, $t.
Helens 2.00 p.m. Dungannon 3,00,
.P.m—. ,
Form Pipers Association ;
The Grey, Bruce. and Huron"
Pipers. Association was .formed at. , .
a meeting .in:Hanover, . With Jack
Haris • of thattown as, president,
Roy MacKenzie of Ripley and,
Pipe Major of the ,Lucknow Band
was named treasurer.
ship was killed in. a motor' acci-
dent near Seafarth Where he was.
attending. the 12th of July, 'cele-
bration. •
Rev.. Reynolds. Este, of ••Ashes ,
field Presbyterian Chufeh:accept- •
ed a call to Brantford;: •
For the construction of a 10- ,
by. 10 'sectional frame pumphouse
at the second well the tender of
Henderson and Fisher of $23.7:70
was accepted. • •
In 'a light ,•vote. of 94 ; to, 78
ratepayers" `'. !authorized the :Our- •
chasing of :the. ' "Geddes Build- '
Wilfred Mintz,'. i 9,, died •in • Sea-
• forth Hospital 'from head injur-
ies.. received , in a car accident;
,'W.. J. Douglas succeeded John
'Leith : as,constable'•when the late
.ter.rrioved. to Ram.'ilton. •
A'barn on the Joynt farsouth.
• of Andrew Craunt's'"m was destroyed
.by fire:,
Mr: and Mrs. Fraser Patterson
moved to Q.oderich; •
Mrs.., Andrew Nelson died in
Ashfield in ;her 91gt year.
' A ibequett of '$:500.00 :was will-
ed to Kinloss .'Township :by . Miss..'
S. Purves.. • • •
Rev: AA. Maloney,• rector.; of
St. Peter's''Church, was assigned
as chaplain 'at the R'.C.A.F.. sta-
tion '.at ,Edunonton. • `
Dr. D.., D:• Carpeneto, Who, had:
assisted Dr. W. V. Johnston, took
over:.Dr. D. R. Finlayson'S .pr.act-
ise at . Ripley, •
irwo)C9:Ve&
TRADE MARK REG
makes good food
taste better
f.
ittle buys a j, ot=
of telephone ':serrzee
IT'S one of today's,
best buys grow-
.
COMPARE TNESE'PINCE Litt LASES DYAINC-TME PASTTEN TEARS
fONOs UP f11
•cesi.or'
LIVING*
UP 65%
ing in value all the
TELEPHONE
5(RVICE"
UP 35%
•044..ftlet.rwolg b.iva . »'4.rop l.'."P' gobbri,emMi«'
time.'
For onething its � telephone servke.is one of;today's best buys.•
cost hasn't gone up as
much as most other things you buy. Your: telephone is one .item that
,
takes .less of your •budget than it used t• o. • 4
. Again ' it's bigger, value than ever because now you can' talk:'to
I..
• • twice as many people as you could ten years ago -.and' more families':•
are .getting telephones every day • '
In .addition —+We've been able to keep on steadily improving the
`quality of this tradionally friendly and helpful service.
Tf yoi5 haven't Yet ,. got'. service, -"-we want .you 'to know we re
ytg y
.working at it. You can be s� rery�ur place on t'he list is being protec`
• ted and your telephone will be installed just as tlureltly ag pOssiblei
,�� NON(
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