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The Lucknow Sentinel, Luck -now, Ontario
WEDDING BELLS
1VIAGIJIRE—SWAN
IN MERCHANT ' a At St. Clair Avenue -United
1 , a Church, Toronto, on Friday, De-
cember 3rd, Rev. J. E. Todd of-
. t ficiated at the marriage of Able
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IN Through a Searnan Maurice. Pattison Ma -
Christmas Guetings. The L___ Ri. guire, RCNVR.,. eldest son of
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..2 daughter of' Mrs. Lucy Swan,
IF 'lean Harriett- Swan, . youngest
ri Hugh. g.Magture Clinton and'
Sentinel- To Your Friends and
Customers.
i. 117 9 3 Clinton, and the late Joseph W.
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THURS., DECEMBER 16th, 1943
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• The bride wore winter white
wool with small black velvet halo
and black accesspries, Her coil-,
sage was of red roses. She was
attended 'by. Miss. Elaine, Peck,
Toronto who ehose a two -niece
mustard .wool, With brown,a-Ccei-
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sories and a -corsageof pink
reses. The groom was attended
by Able.Searnam Frank IL Bur -
cher, RCNVR of Toronto.
The wedding dinner was served
at the Old Mill. After a' short
• hone_ymoon the_groom will rejoin..
his ship at Halifax and Mrs. Ma-
guire will reside in Toronto.
• . Private: •May I have next Wed-
nesday off?
Sergeant: Why?
Private: It's my silver wedding.
'anniversary, my Mite's in • tovyr
• and we want te celebrate;
Sergeant: Geez, are we going to,
• have to put up with this every
25 yearg?
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• ' RENDEEY4US WITH RHYTHM
Three little "debs", all brownettes and pretty, have made it
• - their patriotic habit to climb into ;their car 'after the day's Work's
done and go off to the military camps to offer something tuneful
for the boys.
They Visit the training centres in and about Halifax, they go
into thecanteens, and the hospitals, to give the men their favor-
•- •. ite seings in the debs' own special manner. And for the boys.out of
- • reach Of their concert car; the Three Debs sing every week over •
the CBC National Network in the Halifax broadcast •of -"Rendez-
vous with Rhythm". They will' next be heard on Thursday, De.•
• ep' • cember 23 ,at 7.00 p.m. EDT, 8.00 p.m. ADT.
• • •Maritimers all, the Three Debs run from left to tight as, Grace
• slVWurray, who is married to a navy man, Janet MacPherson, ,
Who keeps a .daytime typewriter humming with victory business,
• and Doris Marsh; Who is 'up to her musical ears in secretarial
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11:work. • , • .
Col, Stoopnagle defines "itches"
as "soinethirig that when a re-
cruit is standing at attention his
• nose always". ••
• Send in :the narpes of yozzr
itors. We welcome these items.
When a man gets too old to set
a bad exaMple, he starts giving
• good advice. •••••
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A theorist is a • feller • 'that
doesn't WOrk, but Wile has a' lot
of idees that he thinks
• Displayed in the window of a
New York grocery store: "Boy
wanted. Over 50-". •• .
Defination. of . intoxicated: ,TO
feel sophisticated and not be:able
to. pronounce it. '
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Kinloss Reeve Was Warden Of
Bruce During "Starvation Year"
By I,. W. MacLeod •
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The Countyo Bruce has just Bruce, Kincardine and:. Huron
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now paid Its last debenture, free- townships,..with the iurgest pop,-
ing it of debt In .the 86 years ulations, received the major
in which debentures were issued share of the 'grants, $5,400 for
the first two municipalities and
$4,400 .for Huron. .Ophets were
Arran $2;500,, Brant $2,006,,,Car-
rick $2,000, Culross $2,700, Green-
ock 42,700, Eiderslie $3,600 Kin-
loss $2,790 and Kincardine Vil-
lage $600. '
some were for will-o'-the-wisp
projects, .but•thia can not be said
of the first issue in 1859, which
went to relieve distress through-
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out the then infant • county; :cams. -
ed by a crop' failure 'the previous
Year. The issue, for 8,500 pounds.
was dis,tributed to the munieipal-.
• ities • of , eitunty, and all 1,7e-
Ceived it eagerly; except for Sau-
geen, Township and Southampton
•Village which It -lamed their_ own_
-grain-and :-after--:-all- -had been--
• The money was _used to buy
seed grain and flour. 'The county
legislators ruled that each rate-
payer be given five .bushels of' °
relief. ,••
The settled portions' of the
County had been .Opened to col-
onization only -a-few years -earl-
ier, so that with few exceptions
the farmers, who comprised :the
-greater part of the population
had •no reserves to fall back on.
• Their ,meagre funds had gone:
into necessities for pioneering in
• the wilds of. Bruce and they were
dependent on returns from crops
to carry them from year to year.
"The summer of 1858 was a
freak season; marked by exces-
sive droughts.. It is recorded that
rom Ji 23tp'Augast-17 ,
the height of the growing season,
not a. single drop Of moisture fell
to relieve .parched crops, so that
when' harvest .time came around
the majority of farnitets did not
even attempt to repp the -results.
• of their spring sowing..
Times. Were hard Then, but 'as
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served the rest would be distrib-
uted proportionately. The grain
was sold at 1.-3 above the cost,
whichisnot known, and.•deduct-
ed from what Was • owed each
laborer for his work on the roads.
At the same tizne, grain was giv-
en those who had not performed
work and an allowance ef 15.1bs-.
of -bread-stuffS for each person .
was made at ' once. •' ••
• The -plight- of the, people- of --
Bruce became,. knOwn through- .
out: • Upper Canada 'and even
reached the ears of their 'people .
in Scotland, who *ere prompt
o rev
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Railway reduced freight • rates'
50 per cent to help bring pro-
visions. Every time the steamer
• "Islander" left Goderich • for
Southampton it was loaded with
:provisions. •ko aiixious'•• - --
many . 'settlers to procure them ,
that they waited on the; docks
days shortened and the Winter at ' Kincardine and other ports
weather setin they became acute. •till the precious provisions were
• There was no grain to make flour unloaded.
and no flour to make bread. Live -Not every one was so respon-
stock
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stock suffered from hunger and sive to the dire. need of the set-
there Was little brightness in tiers. By way of example; flour
°what ,had seemed a land of prices soared to $10 per barrel
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promise. Some talked of leaving and other ConiModities accom
Bruce, but'. most of the settlers pa'nied it on the 'upward flight. •
determined to wait for another •
•••• Saugeen ' , end • .SoittliaMpton
year •and see. •
Distress was county - wide used funds in the treasury .to re- ,
in.
lieve distress' and : issued their
• Bruce when •• January• " 1,.,1859 ‘.r.n • debentures as well.
•ushered in' a new year.The - •
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county council, meeting on Feb-
Typical of the manner in which
the municipalities dealt with the
ruary 4 and 5, .had at the top
of -its agenda the problem of re- probleth is noted in Bruce
councils
lieving distress. John Purvis, of minutes of that year.
It was ,.fourid-, •that many who
Kink:1gs Township, who was war -
coin_ •
den, appointdd a special were toiling on the road work
were suffering , from .hunger. The
mittee headed by. William Gunn
superintendent of -colonization •
to study the problem and. bring
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in .a solution, "for providing roads at Goderich was asked to
open a credit for these men:that • .,•
means to relieve the destitution,
existing and increasing in the they might procure food. For the
County of -Bruce and to aupply, township, arrangements were
•made • to store relief provisions
a sufficiency of. seed grain and
with Mr. Macfarlane, storekeep-
PrOvisiens • for the • inhabitants
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11 - $2:00 'A Year / .$2 50 To United States
$l.50 ToThose In • The 'S'erviee, Anywhere. • .
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prior to the coming harvest".
Unanimous assent was. given
to the plan 'to issue the deben-
tures, proceeds of which were
earmarked for road improve-
ment, , with the workmen being
paid in seed grain and ,provis-
ions. To implement the legisla-
tion, -a special act of parliament
was. required and this was as-
sented to on March 26, In addi-
tion the Government cashed the
:dehentures at par .so there would
be no interest due On the relief,
measures. • •
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er' at Port Bruce, to, ,be- issued •
on road work certificates, or, -in • '
extreme cases, on,inotes payable
in work or money at a. latter •
date, with preference being giv-
en families. . . .
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The council made it clear that
young men, able to work, need
not expect relief, but Must shift
for themselves. • •
The. summer of 1859 saw a
good crop.and soon distress van"-
ished, but it Was many years
after, • before the pioneers ceaged
to recall- t.'starvation year". '
HURON FRUIT GROWERS
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A meeting of the executive of
the Huron Fruit Growers' As-
sociation was held in the agricul-
turAl office, Clinton., It was de-
cided to order spray supplies co -
'operatively for 1944; distributiOn
to be made from a Clinton ware-
houiet' in April, •.
• Plans were made for the annual
meeting to be held 'in Clinton in
March, When the guest speakers
Will be Prof: J. E. Howitt, On-
tario • Agricultural College,
Guelph; Prof. R. W. Thompson,
of -the s-atne i ution; Gof-dan
Burlin n and J. J. John.
stn- London.
1• The following • Members , were
'present: , J. W. Joynt,' Lucknowl
President, in the chair; James R.
Sterling, Fred Middleton, Stewart
Middleton, D. J Lassailne, Een-
son Sowerby, Clayton Laith-•
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waite, T. .I.'Salkeld; D. A. Smith •
and J. C. Shearer. •
•' It was decided to affiliate with
the Ontario Fruit Growers' Asso-
ciation and the Huron Federatan
of Agricttltpre, lnd the president
was named ,delegate, to each of
these organizations.
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