The Lucknow Sentinel, 1961-11-08, Page 14
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,S 4„ LUCKNOW ONTARIO WEDNESDAY NOV 8th 1961'
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Farm Of Harold
The spirit of kindnes4 an •
d good
• neighbourliness Which
tional in rural egiriniUnities, parti-
cularly when trouble conies, was
strikinglY demonstrated on Tues-
day Rafterrioen, at the farm of
Harold Percy, east of: Kinlough.
.• Fariners from licrlyrood.to near,
'Blackhorse gathered for a plow-
ingbee, and it was quite a sight
to see the cavalcade of tractors
at wOrk. There were 35 tractors
at the farm during the •afternoon
when a total of 90•acres was
plowed.
Those participating were: Or7
villa Elliott; Lorne' Eadie, Jack
Ackert, Raynard Ackert, Lloyd
Ackert, Eldon and Grant Eckens-
Lloyd Bonnett, Dan Mc-
Innes, Frank Thompson, David
JOSS Jim MacDonald,Ernie Han-
na,'
Don Donaldson, Bert Nichol-
' son;.Alex Percy, Bill Percy, Bruce
;• • Orr,' Jack -.:Barr, Ezra' Stanley,
Jack Hodgins, Don Gillespie, Ivan
McFarlan, Jim Hodgins; Tom
Hodgins, Donald McEwan,,Kenny
MacDonald, Bill Burt, • Morley
Bushell, Frank 'Maulden, Lyman
Sutton, ,Fred 'Guest, Orville Wil-
son, '`Tom Stewart and Phillip
'Brecides. ..` • .
The was completely by five
o'clock when the men .found that
the ladies of .the community had
don their part loci, ,bY "pitching,
- in” to 'help .Harold's sister, Miss
Winnie Percy, provide a ,bounti-
ful meal for the. men. . •
' Reeve Eight ' Tears •
Harold Percy, an esteemed
citi-
zen. of 'Xinloss has served aS'
• reeve of the municipality' for 8
'years and had been a prospec-
tive candidate 'for the .Bruce
• County Wardenship in, 1962.
'Harold has not been enjoying
' • good. health for ,a time and -rnIs-
, Sed the -last week's session of
•'County CoUncilfhaving undergone
• major surgery in Victoria Hospi-
tal,. London. He has been, quite.
ill and word of Tuesday's thought-
• 'ffilness will • give him "a real
.
lift," , ' • ,
. The Percy home has had, more
Percy Who Is 111
than their share of trouble
,recent years. Harold's; wife died
suddenlya' few years 'ago, his
son David; who was .in his 14th
year, was killed. in a tractor •ac-
cident in June of '1950, and, Har -
olds Maher hasbeeir blind for
mapy years largely dependent on
her family for the care and de-
votion they have given her. '
11411.1KIIMON NAMED'
LEGION uNLIG CARrrivift.
Jim Hari:Alton has beenaliPoint
ed caretaker of the' Legion Hall.
Jim's appointment - was Made- at
an Executive meeting following
-the regular Legion meeting on
Tuesday of last week There were
six •applications .for the Position.
Youth Shot In Face
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aII owe en ight
Died ...Playing With
, Frank Scottyear-01d son of
Mr, and Mrs., 2O -Robert
Granddaughter'
Ashfield Township,. has': a shot-
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Stricken with heart attack
at her home on Monday, Mrs.
Alex Havens died within: mom-
ents. The seizure occurred about
mkt -afternoon while Mrs. Havens
was .raking leaveS and having
fun with her little granddaughter,
Mary Ellen Havens.
,7The funeral ,serVice. will be
held on Thursday afternoon at
the MacKenzie' Memorial Chapel
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at 2.00 p,m....with interment in
Greenhill Cemetery:
• Mrs. Havens was• the fOrMer
•MarY Ellen Champion and, was
born. in West Wawanosh Town-
ship years 'ago. •
gun pe etlodged• inhis cheek
as a result of a Hallowe'en night
incident. •• • •
Frank t
'of. the week from .St.'• Joseph's
HOspital; London. The pellet is
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lodged in the cheek bine near
the sinus in Such
defer, at present; attempts to re
move it. He 'is under the doctor's
care, and . danger of infection is
being watched .for.
•Frank was a member of a Hal-
lowe'en party ` who reportedly
'were focusing -their efforts' on an.
outhouse and and . a.' colony -li3OUse at
an • Ashfield Township farm on
the, Bluewater Highway between
n a an ngs r ge, .when
L4knOW(COMpleted
•The. Huron and Kinloss Muni-
cipal telephone crew put ,the new
Dungannon . to Lucknow cable
into use early this week.
The installation was done at a
cost of approximately $40,000.
The. cable services customers
north and north-west of Dungan-
non.. Along. the. cable route new'.
lines are in use with six or less
customers per circuit. With this
•new cable, facilities are installed
ge rura circui s
into .small groups in preparation
for dial conversion. The long dis-
tance circuits will be serviced in
the near future by this cable.
The cable is all on privatepro-
perty and as approximately 9
miles long • with 7 miles under-
ground and two miles of aerial
Dungan-
non• -lines: -Phe cable leaves with 100 circuits', and then
reduces in size to 75, 50, 37 and
25 circuits at. Lucknow. • ,
In orderto make the future
change over .to dial, the system
has temporarily installed a new
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switchboard, in their Dungannon
Office. •which they will. later
_move to Ripley.
The old open wire pole line
will be taken down shortly. '
, the shooting took: place.'
Amputated Fr
vital. on• Wednesday morning RIM ItticKINNoN's FUNERAL
ank -droVe, to, Wirigham hos; _2 :
• , . ••• crue to the nature, of the wound -HERE ON THITRSDAY
he 'wag Sent to .Loridon.
In. Life SavingOlfe
. . . , •, , • - Miss Ruth' MaelCinnon, forinerly.
This Community is heartened.
:by the' news •that: there has been
encouraging improvement in:the
'condition of Mrs. Jessie
who is critically ill in Victoria
Hospital, London.
London,
• Mrs. Aiim had been a patient,
in Wingham General' BosPital
and was planning, to. come home
when' an.. einbOlism:; cleVeloped
Which resulted in her being.
rushed to. London for treatment.
With ,her life hanging . in the
balance 'emergency amputation
surgery Was. • performed Satur-
day evening. Jessie's -leg Was •
amputated at the knee 'to removethe lilOCkage. • ;
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•Commuriity:Seivicet
Of 1?epiernbratice
Services of of RemeMbrance; will
be held this; week -end in Luck -
now • and the nearby. points . of.
'11Olyrood and Si. Helens.
The Lucknow service will be
held 'this' year , in the ' United,
Church,:.corpmencing•at 10 o'clock
and followed by, ceremonies at
the Cenotaph' at 11. 'o'clock:, Le-
gion And Auxiliary members will
assemble at he 'Legion Hall at
9:30 and an ,invitation iS extend-.
, .
. Todd Bought..ed tO all veterans Scouts Guides
_Cubs, Brownies and any intere§t7
; ••-- • • • ed organization to join in the par-
• or
ecor reaking Angus Sale ae:
A new blood line is to be added
to the Todd AberdeenlAriguS herd; • ' • .
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at St Helens, and which has for
many years been widely known,
with Tomcontinuing the herd
• which was established by his
father, the late, Frank G.' Todd.
Tom made the purchase of
Ankonian Ballot, 68, at the pub-
lic auction of bulis at the Ankony
Farm at Rhinebeekm, New liork.
Mr. -and Mrs. Todd •and her -sister,
. Miss Isobel Miller, . motored' to
New York State, to attend the
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The highlight was a new
world's record for .the price of a
bull, with a half -interest in An-
konian Peerless, a noted show
bull and herd sire at the Ankony
• farin, selling, with ; possession,
for $115,000. The new record was
set by the owner of• the Aberan
herd of Edgehill, Shadwell, Va.
The 'contending bidder for An-
knnian Peerless was Patti Ben -
hoof : of l'reastlie Acres Farm,
Iowa.. The new joint owners of
the bull sold a one-third interest,
which represented ,one -Sixth by
each firm, to Mr. Benshoof for
$100,600 ; "
1 of 7 'Ontario Buyers •
The .Ankony sale totalled
$315,.525 with 47 lots averaging
• $6;836,' There were buyers from
13 States, 3 Canadian provinces
and Argentina•. .
.Tor Todd was, one of seven.
Canadian buyers.: from Ontario,
' Saskatchewan and Quebec. The
seven bulls purchased by Cana-
diang averaged. $3,371.
. with ,a
top $6,00(1 by a Quebec -buyer.,
IVIr. Todd expects • delivery of
Ankonian ' Ballot 68 within a
week or tWo, unless he goes to
the Chicago jniernationaI• show,
NO RURAL MAIL SATURDAY,
WICKETS OPEN 2 , HOURS
/On Remembrance Day; Satu"
day, November '11th, :there will
be no rural : mail service,'
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„ Wiketsat.: the Lucknow Post
Office will be open for two hours'
• .Luckriiivi business* places wilt
be closed .until 1:00 p.m on Sa-
turday rn observance of this oc
•
casion of remembrance.'
, At Holyrood the Remembrance
• will • be held in the.
Township Halt commencing , at
1045 a,m. •
At St: Helens the service will
be held in the hall on Sunday
afternoon .commencing .at 2:30
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from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. The,: lob- .41 •
• . . .
by will ,be open frOyri 7,:00
to' .900 p.m.
Mail Will' be received and
des-
patched as Usual.
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Visits Birthplace;:
Left 60 'Years
Ago
Mr. Jack Tiffin and daughter,
Beryl are visiting" with Mr, and,
Mrs wart Taylor and'friends
and relatives near: Lucknow.
-Jack is a native of Lucknow
who moved 'west with, his father,
Reuben Tiffin, 60 years ago last
March Andsettied on the 'first -
irrigated farm just outside Leth-
bridge. , •
He is still onthesame farri*,
and, carrying on: quite an 'extol, -
sive dairy farming 'business' in
assoCiation 'with one Of his -sons:
The Tiffins'used to operate the
Albert' Cook farm, Boundary
West, and Jack attended Para-
mount School before leaving for
'the west When a youth of 14.
• He has been •back to the born-
munRy of his, birth -a ,couple of
times in the intervening years. His
last previous visit Was in 1040.
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atholics Sponsor
Visitation Project
At the present time all homes
in the St. Augustine and 'Luck-
noW Area are being Visited' by
teams froM, St. Augustitle and
St. Marys Catholic Churches . in
connection with With "operation dobr-
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The most 'Rev:. John. C, Cody,
Bishopofof London has ordered.
,that this be done thrOughout his
entire Diocese. It's, purpose is to
locate any Catho lc, who May not
be listed, and also in this' area
to' extenil..an invitation to all,
Protestant, Jewish and those not
affiliated with .any rehgiort4 to
"Open House" Which will be
held this coining Sunday, Novem-
loer 12th in Lticknow at St Marys
Church at 4 .p.m, •and at St.
Augustine at 8 p.m. :11
Father Thornas, the pastbr of
the, two congregations, 'IT be on
hand: to explain tertain features
:of Catholit worship about which
non-Catholics often wonder. and
to AnSWer eftlestitms of a' nOn-
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controversial nature, —
A Cordial invitation is eXtended
to all. . •
4,
of Kinloss , Township,. and a
daughter of . the late Mr. and
Mrs.:. John MacKinnon, died in
St. Joseph's Hospital, 'London, on
unday. She; was 51 and had been
Poorly for a time.
The remains are resting at "the
MacKenzie Memorial Chapel until
Thursday morning when Requiem
High Mass will be held at St..
Mary's Roman 'Catholic ' Church,
Lucknow at 10:00, a.m. Interment
-will be in St. Patrick's .Cemetery,
Holyrood. •
BRUCE' McLENNAN'S BODY
STILL •NOT RECOVERED
Up until' :late Tuesday after-
noon the body .of Bruce MacLen-
nan had not been recovered from
the Luther maish, •
Bruce was one of ,a trio, of
duck hunters who met With:
tra•gedy ten'daYS ,ago,. Two of
the bodies were reccivered. Drag-
ging operations have 'since been
continued without, suCcess, '
etv (ii.p.ers,Added
To Hallowe'en
lialloWen; always brings both •
Its fun and its' f011y;., and last
Week's escapades ran pretty true
toform" with a few: new capers .
added. ' . ; •
The window soaping and wax-
ing along Campbell St was on •
a'par with • other years, but the •
. • .
residentialareas escaped com-
paratively lightly. . •
Old tires were roiling freely on' •
'the ."Main Drag;" and most of
these ended, up in three. fires, , "s•
whichbrotight' out the fire„,truck;
in the early, hours of the morn-
ing, to.. control the • ;blazes.. No,
alarm Was •turned in. ; ; •
A' plate • glass window was
broken in the •Health 1JLt 01,7
fice in the Johnstone Block. A
hard?, green 'bUtternut may . have • .
been the missle• • • .
Stop signs and a -highway dlr.,- • •
ectional sign Were. 'broken off;
and a couple of fire hydrants
oPened. Fortunately 'these were.
discovered beforethe water- loss
could prove serious.,
Cars owned by a foursome of
iocal 'youths redeiVedsome dam-
age. One, was pushed into the ' , • .•
river ,at the ':Anderson Flax Mill . •
The Post'Office -letter drop be-
came the depository for a"PerSian..
cat. The ownership Was eStablith-
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Home This Month
e following letter is self ex-
planatory as to where F.L. Shir-
ley Robinson has been stationed
as a nursing sister with the,
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RCAF, and .her future destination
in Canada, where she has been
posted: . •
Shirley is the daughter of Mrs.
:Howard Robinson of Lucknow
the late' MrRobinson. She was
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home on compassionate leave at
the time her father Was gravely
injured
injUred and :,again at the time of
his death which resulted from
his. injuries. • .
2, (F). W, R•CAP,
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CAPD 5052
, CAFE
. • (grosteriquin France)
Dear /Mr ThotpPsori':' •
After the 10th November, 1961
would , you Please,. forward my
Copy of the -Liteknow Sentinel to
'the'below address as it looks like
that's where I'm headed 'for the
coming year? •; • • .,
I am sOrneitrhat, disappointed
that I'm not being 'sent closer to
home but then we, can't ''always
have, things the way 'we 'would
like them to be,
Station Parent,is a radar sta-
tion in semi -isolation so in sone
ways I suppose it will resemble
GooSe Bay. Evidentlyit is' not a
-very big station. /.
I :expect to leave here: on 21st
November 'on the "Ivernia" and
,
it should' take about ak to
reach Montreal. 1. will be 'home
for tWO weeks or nibre'. SO hope
see some of My friends in
LucknoW,
The best of luek, to you and
your faintly, , • ,
Yours SinCerely; •,"
'S.' M, Rob:Inset
231579W FL S. lVf„" RobinsRCAF Station, ParOnt, Quebec,
I c/I• Officers' Mess.
ing •to Otto Petersen. • .
There was,-the-tgeneriL.- debris'. :
lying about on the main .street,,
including a dead ccori.' „..
Plan ,Maiol- Change„:2:-.
In United'.churck..
Women's .'' Setup
Mrs W. B. Anderson presided
for the second rneeiing of the : 1.
provincial 'committee: of Luck -
now United Church Women held •
in the church house on Thursday
night It is the duty • of this'. • '
committee consisting of 14 them- •
bets. to make' plans for ;the new.
organization to beknown as the
United ;Church' Women, which ./
Will- ,be , effective ' in January,
'
1982, :throughout the." -Vnited
Church of Canada.
' The United Church women, will
combine • the work of the Wom-
en's Missionary Society • and the .
Woinan's Association. At this, 2
meeting approval was given. to,
-the ineMbership ‘.eOmtnittee • of
the letter and questionnaire they
had prepared for Mailing to each
member' of the congregation:
These will be followed, up by
appointed visiters and *ill deter -
'i •
ine' the number and type •of
group s netsary to be forme&
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Tp nornfnatirii comMittee is
seeking effiecr. ancl the budget'
.committee is Prat;iing„ fily-4nce
plani.'• The inatieuril crpnlittee
',will be planning for a very spC'-'
ial•''service t cOmm'21-norater the
,11: chanvT. ,in 4,...0rrien', work-
in the corn&iittee
stresset4 that. the or .of the
'Provisional Committee 'iv
the. chal'enF.Ye. t'‘f.
Wthq Vritnd
Cur h o.fm"M is "g'eater.'ancl
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