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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
THE. LLJCKNQW SENTINEL
micKNow, ONTAR,O.
• Established 1873
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•• Published Ei.c..h Thursday Morning
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To United States $2.50 Single Copies 5c'
Membei*, of The C. W. NA.-„
L. C. Thompson, Publisher and Proprietor
THURSDAY,',istoYEMB.ER
4th, 1943:,
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• POPPY DIY'S TWO -FOLD PURPOSE '
• This year, as in ether years, the Canadian
. Legion, through its 1694 Branches and Aux-
iliaries in Canada, is 'calling to the people
Of the Dominion that they should observe more
than ever in solemn remembrance the mesymbol-
. SAVING LIVES BY :BUYING •
It may seem strange that We havejo keep,
reminding ourselves to buy Victory onds., but
• that's the way we are built. .
• .. We --not some of us, but all of 'us--muSt
•• keep buying Victory Bonds and we must'do
if
now. We cant put off until tomorrow what we •
should do today. There certainly 'will be, no
tornorrow.Ifer us—no tomorrow in swhich we '
" could live--ruriless we win this war and v:fin-it•
deeisiVely. And the only, way ,in which we can
tnreggi-i„ Victory
v.arokor. •
Bonds, into guns, ,piarresr 'I'd A
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and • food and equipinent for the men in our
• fighting threes.— . • •
It is doubtful that there is a family or a
single citizen of this country without a relative.,
a close friend of a former near neighbour in
the Arrny, the Navy, or the Air Force. These
which hasbeceme an-egral_ part nr and women, too, are giving everything.
.4sin ; int
Many of them face great hardships,. not tomor
membrane Day_ebservanees,• and asks' that
lc every man, Woman and child wear -a 'POPPY'
• from Saturday, November 6th, tq Thursday;
November llth, in memory of those •who
Iaid
down their lives in the Great War and of those
-men and. women who have made the supreme
sacrifice in the present conflict.
• This appeal is not made on behalf of the
• Legion Or of its Members, but on behalf of
ah ex -Service men who are in need. The col-
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• lection and administration of the Poppy Fund
has•been entrusted to the Canadian Legion.
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'This, however, does not mean that the Poppy
• ttuid is part of the tin
e
as a part of the relief fund: It is' rather con-
sidered as a , Trust Fund, which the Legion
administers for the benefit of " all ex -Service
--imaen.--in,graritiMaelet-niembers
of the Legion
ds 'of the,Legion. It i
• • *pt entirely separate and' is not even treated
receive no preference. but -all ex-Serv*. men
h
iFrow, but. now, this very minute. Some have
peen killed, wounded or captured., More .will
• • be killed, wounded or captured. The faster we
buy Victory Bonds, the sooner we shall achieve ,
victory and halt the horrible Wastage of war.
„.• We can't •afford to send out these fighting
• forces and 'then: abandon them. If they lose,
we are lost.
, The kids may think that soaping the win-
dows 'on Hallowe'en was juSt. good clean fun.
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 28, 1943
Local and General
Miss Bessie MaCKen2ie a.Nor-
fol*, Virginnias, is: spending a forth, is visiting with her• sons, .
menth's ' vacatien with relatives John and Garfield. MacDonald • •
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in the corinniiinityi' Mr. Tom Donnelley of Ripley
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Week -end visitors with Mr: and spent Sunday at the home Of his
.MrS. Jas. E. Culbert were •Mrs. niece, Mrs. Garfield MacDonald. ,
Gordon Will and. Jerry Culbert,- -.. • •
R.C.A.P., both of liaihilten and • .. Alfred and linssell Armstrong
Jarge-of.....Canboro.•••
Mr. rai.idiztr:TM r:.. A. S, ,,Teeft4eis- a;d,
.' '.'"'" " -1,'"ik.„,..,•:',„„„,•-r.„....'" ' .`".7'.''''".7.-'•r-w;m5,95,-,444.11,..an W 'G. Armstrong .,
, . -, . . end at the home of their parents,
::f .1-1f7bers:7747:t 7::week:.0„.
• Mrs. Janet MacDonald of Sea-
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formerly Effie 'Wilson, daughter • 11/1.r. an ,
of the :`late. Joseph ac- spent,: the . week -end
companied by Mrs. Wilson' of with Mr and Mrs". Sam Diirnin:
Clinton, "called on friends here They report file housing situation •
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on Saturday, , - inthattown to be very bad.
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WEDDING BELLS ZION
IKIRKPATRICK—MatINNES
A quiet wedding, was solemn-
ized at the Lucknow Presbyter-
ian church manse, recently, when
Florence Maire, daughter of Mrs.
John C. Maclnnes, of LucknoW,
became the bride • of .Ervine
games Kirkpatrick of • Ripley.
'Following the ceremony,' a wed-
ding dinner •was• served at the
home of the bride's parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Kirkpatrick 'will reside
in Ripley. •• •.
Mr. and. Mrs. • Gordon?, Stobo,
Mr. and Mrs. McKague of - Tees -
water Visited .on Sunday with:•
and Mrs: Gordon Kirkland.
Mrs. George Hunter visited for
a few days lait week with her
daughter, Mrs. Keir Laidlaw. and
Mr° Laidlaw of 'Fingal: •
•Mrs. Robt. Andrew and Mr.- • •
,Wesley.Ritchie held Very success-
ful stock sales during the week.
Mrs. Richar,d, Gardner spent a'
day last week with friends in
Kitchener.. • •
• Mrs. David Reece • and little
daughter Margaret Anne return-
ed to Goderich On Saturday 'after..
That_dough,...iia the old sock is needed to
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'Speed the Victory punch. • . • •
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When the 5th Victory Loan .closes let it
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not be said in Lucknow, in Kinloss, Ashfield,
n West ' Wawanosh, or Bruce or Huron, ••"too
• • little and. too late".
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Under the r rev
,regulations, .passengers
• • • stand', on an . footing. Any man who a • ,
.. may. no. vv be ca ied truck. 'While it. •is
served•and in•need, has,a claim.on this
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transporting goods. Trucks •May nsed, 'to
fund The Poppies and Wreaths which you buy
carry persons to or from refaces Of worship or .
Are' made 133Y• an Organization of ,..disabled . ex-. •• • .
• • . • • . them to., or. frOm, !`a. place of.reereatien,or„
to atterid,religious ceremonies, but net to take
' Service
These men. are..abseiutely ineap- .
able of earning a living in any other way, and
social gathering
entertainment, a sporting event, a picnic or
but forthis industry' would be a.charge on the
public funds: if Poppy Day 'did nothing but• * • * •*
• • t.0 keep these men Self--suPpOrting and self- , ,
You Alight -have a difficult job cenVixicing
respecting citizens, it would still be worth- members of the Valiant British 8th Army, that
villile. ' . ' ' theirs khasn't been aosecenel, frwrirl 'With • their '
Over • a million citizens of Ontario wore- backs ' against the wall at Suez a ' year ago,
a Poppy in Remembrance last NOverriber: 5,000 • , they launched. an assault atEl Alamein on
• wreaths were placed in churches and, at Mem- October 24th, 1942: After a year of bitter. battles
'orials, in .honour of the dead.' The Canadian
L,egion is grateful for the hearty support they
have •alwaysreceived froin the gerieral• public ,
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.to make the lot of the distressed ex-SerVicemeri - .. 2,500 mileS in pursuit of Africa Korps.
easier. As November litli.draWs'near, they Will, '. ....Will remain uriforgetablY marked by the .crosses
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again ask you to buy a. Poppy of Remembrance: .I1_
of those brave .lads who gave their lives along
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in scorching desert heat and over the roughest
of mountain terrain, they are today ready to
• strike at Rome. But that long, long,• trail of
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• the
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One, and we believe' about the only war-%
war -time. When the story of this war comps time activity that has not been undertaken in
to be told pages of brilliant. achievement will Lucknow, is the packing.of Navy League ditty
be devoted. to the Medical profesSion of Can- bags. • In Teeswater, a .branch of. the .League,
ada. For the doctors and the laboratory tech-- was organized last spring, and 32 bags were
completed last week, With a value of approx-
• SCIENCE AND BLOOD SFAIIM .
• Science never stands still, partieularly in
•• nicians have performed miracles. To the 1 y -
man (me of the Most familiar of -these develop-.
ments has-,beeti that of dried human 'blood
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seru• m, prepared from the blood Of countless
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]mately $4.00 each. .The Ontario Division of
League has a quota or 70;500 'bags to
the sailors who touch our port are each. to
Canadians who _regularly attend the three -score • receive •one at Christmas time; which many of
clinics operated by the Society across the them will. spend. on 'storm -tossed and sub -in-
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. country. To year's age a mere handful of ' • fested waters. *
. • patri• ots donated their blood while today these - * . • *. *
• patriots
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number over 11,000 every week. But more are • Nothing succeeds -like suecesS is, truly ap-
needed, at least,, 4,000 more Weekly, before the plicable.to Teeswater Fair, but back of it lies
Red Cross can, sound ,planning, energetic enthusiasm and -wise:
reach the objective requested by
the government. • . and benevolent handling, of the surplus funds
While• the Red. Cross has been busily en- that accrue each year? Last year the Board
gaged , in recruiting. donors, the i technicians . turned over the' entire proceeds of 'the .show
have been 'developing improved methods•for • to 1).rar_..charities, This Y:49* J100 has been voted
processing the bkiod into serum, And 'now the - 0 -the Red Shield Fund; all expenses of a Red
processing is less cunibersome and quicker. CrosS, concert and the cost of sending a box
'New -machinery has ' -been built, developed by overseas to e-
very boy from •Cuiross and Tees-
the-ingenuitY of Canadian engineers, toreduce'
•the time and manpower required inthe manu-• •
facture. • 1
Recenty a new step' was instituted to
im-
proie the availability of the' serum on the
battlefield. A box has en .invented to ,carrst
seven'„bottleS 'of serif , seven bottles, of , dis•
wateti 'and four adm istr iori sets. Thou- ,
• sands of thee boxes are'\b9nJg packed and
shipped' overseas. • • .
re.•Through the' resoureefulness of the doctors ,
and technicians it is now possible to give blood
transfusions• at the front line, which means the• .
saving ofiiintohl lives among Canadian wound-
• ed. To assist in keeping a constant flow of
• blood plasma to the battlefields, residents •of
this comMunity tan again •. play, a part, on
Thursday, ,November 18th, When the shah
blood donor. clinie-is-tp-Pc-helit-..•
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• The sale .of small denomination:bonds can .
put your, municipality over the top. Don'tthink
• your $50,00 isn't intiortant. It ist •
OBITUARY
MRS. ALEX °G. MacKAY
The passing of _Mrs. Alex G.
MacKay, a highly esteemed
cit-
izen .of Huron township,.. occur=
-red at the family -residence on
concession 6, Huron,. on Monday,
October 18th, 1943. Mrs. MacKay
was of a• kindly ,•disposition and
made many friends who learned
of her death after•a month's ill-
ne,ss, •with deep' regret.
Mary Alice Courtney was- born
sixty-two years ago at Pine River
'skater will be borne by the Society and, $5000,
will be invested in the 5th ,Victory Loah. Truly.
an asset to the Culross Village is the Teeswater
Agricultural Society.
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A SHARE IN VICTORY.
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What will'you have in victory?
What part on the earth's great stage"
•• Will you play? Or will you sit idly by
• . , While thrg-fight for the right is waged?
For todas4,,, our nation has called us
To share in defeating the foe ,
By backing the'boys who are over there
And the lads that are still to go; h
• Come then, let us on the home front 13
•Go active, each man, child,and wife,
• 'Tis little indeed that is asked of us
• When many have given ,their life.
When at last the foe is vanquished,
-•'WfterrevWstxbmits-ttrtha7 right,
• You can count your share .in the victory
• By the dollars you put in'the fight,
' F. H. Johnadh.
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spending ten days with Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil Gardner, • •••
• Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gardner,
Mrs' Richard Gardner visited: on
Sunday aftePrioen' with Mr. and
MrS,. Robt. Hamilton, Winghamt
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•and Mrs., eloseph Freema
and Joe Jr„ spent Monday with
Zion friends. •
Mr. and •Mrs. John Blake of'. ,
Dungannon called on.°friends , in
the' burg on Monday.
Mr. arid Mrs'. James Craig were
.guests on Tuesday with Mr. and
a\daughter et the late Mr.' Pat- MIS. Will' Gardner.
rick Courtney and Mrs. Courtney .
Of Kincardine. Thirty-five years: MAKES APPEAL TO WOMEN
agshe.,,married Alex G•. Mac-
Kay wile predeceased her by six
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years.
• To. -mourn the loss of • a dear
mother, she leaves six sons, Grant,
• AlliSter .:and 'Wilmer, at home:
Hector of London; 'Pte. Calvin f
Ipperwash and Stoker Elmer, R.
C. N. V. R. of Sydney, Nova Sco-
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TO JOIN THE FORCES
In town on Tuesday . on his
weekly call, Lieut. Roy Clinger
•of the Mobile Recruiting, Unit,
had this to say in connection
With manpower survey 'made:
"`In the survey of map and •
woman power taken here recent-
tia. Besides her aged mother she ly, we are very surprised at the
also leaves five sisters,. Miss Nal predominance •of women and •
Courtney. of Kincardine, Mrs. _J.
• Nelson of London, Mrs, Harry
McEwan of Regina, Mrs. William
Sallows of Goderich and Mrs. J.
A. MacKay. of Kincardine and 3,
brothers, Archie and Jas. Court-
ney of Pine, River and Elmer of
Regina.,
The funeral services were con
ducted on Wednesday, Cictober
20thT at -the horrie with the Itsev;
William Matheson of Chesley.of-
fiCiating;The closing prayer was
offered by the Rev. J. C. Nichol-
son of Pine River. The remains
were borne to the family plot in
Ripley cemetery by her five sons
and a nephew, Leonard Courtney.
JOSEPH WILSON
Joseph Wilson, last surviving
child 'of the late Joseph Wilson
and' Isabelle Shearer, West Wa-
wanosh, passed away very sud-
denly at his home On Albert St.,
Clinton, on Tuesday afternoon,
October `26th. -
He was born on April 3, 1860
in West. Wawanosh where he liv-
ed to manhood. In. March 1888 he
married Margaret Robinson (de-
ceased) West Wawanosh 'where
• he lived for some. time. To this
union were born two denghters,
Mabelle„ Mrs. George May' (de-
ceased) and Effie, Mrs. L. H. Al-
len of. GuelPh. In December 1917
he married Mrs. Charles Burn -
hard (deceased) of St. Louis,
Mo. •'
On 'June 20th, 1928..he married
Bertha Kresge, of Concorda, Mis-
souri, who 'survives 'MM. Dur.
ing those years Mr. Wilsoh tra-
• velled extensivelyliinhe United
States, England, Scotland and
came, back to Canada in 1933,
•Settling in Clinton, Ontario, Mr.
Wilson was an ardent Pfesbtter
ian in religion, had .a very genial'
clispositiort4 and. will be greatly
missed by. his neighbors and
naany friends. •
girls, who are eligible for service .
in one of the forces. We wonder
if the women' realize their. im-
• portance in this war. • They are
needed, badly and now. If we
wish to wind, up this war and
keep our boys victorious we must ,
all get in behind them and help”.
• The funeral service was held
Thursday, October 28th, -at two
o'clock in Clinton Presbyterian
church, •wai conducted by Rev.
D. J: •Lane. The' pallbearers were
six .nephews of the deceased, Jas.
Wilson, i John Wilson,• Wallace
Wilson, David McAllister, Mason
McAllister and Archie Robinson.
Interment was in Dungannon
•cemetery. .• .
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THOMAS E. HODGINS
Funeral service s were held on
Monday t� Mount Pleasant Cem-
etery, Toronto, for Thomas •E.
Hodgina, prominent Kincardine
resident who died in Toronto on
Saturday after a prolonged ill -
'floss. ,He was 78. •. .
Bern in Lucan, Mr. Hodgins
came as a child to Bervie district•
where he was a successful farm-
er. Thirty, years iago he • moved
to Kincardine and operated a
flour mill and feed business, lat-
er branching out as an' apiarist,
which' business he carried on un-
til a year ago. He was widely
known across the Dominion thru
his •activities as a beekeeper. He
also had extensive real estate
holdings in Kincardine, and at
one time operated the Bruce Inn.
Surviving are his widow, the
• former' Jane Reilly; a 'son, Ed-
ward H., Toronto; two daughters, •
Mrs. Gordon Gemmell, Toronto,
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and Mrs: 11, J. Down, Xincardine,
and two brothers, Fred Hodgins,
IShtlough, -and -Charles-, -Toronto:— -
He was a member of the First '
Church 'of Christ, Scientist, Tor -
•onto.
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