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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
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• - The LUCKNOW SENTINEL
Luotiow, ONTARIO
n'floolopay' Town" On ,flw Huron-BrUco• Boundary
Second Clam• Mail Registration Number 0017
• Established 1873 — Published Each Wednesday Afternoon
Mombor of the C.W.N,A, and 0.W.N.A.
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• Donald e 'Thompson, Publisher
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1972
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LOOKING -BACKWARDS
THROUGH: THE SENTINEL FILES
, • , WITH MARGARET THOMPSON
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20 YEARS AGOI
JUNE 1953
• As guests of The George West-
on co. Ltd. ,some 25 grocery
retailers and clerks -from Lucknow
and vicinity toured - the Weston
bread and cake plant at Kitchen-
er. The group travelled by spec-
'ial bus, .and included Mr. and •
Mrs. Roy Finlayson, Mr. :and
Mrs.: Oliver Glenn, Mr.. and Mrs.
• Archie Smith, Miss Marie Dun-
can, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Baker;
Mr. and Mrs. ,Redvers Johnston.
• Willard Thompson, all of Luck -
now; Mr. and Mrs. Archie. Nich-
• olson of iielfast, Mr. and Mrs.
• Hobbs of Holyrood, Mr. and Mrs.
Needham of Kinlough; •
• Archie Courtney ofAmberley,
Reg Moore of Ripley, W. R.
Chapman of' Whitechurch.and •
D. A. MacLennan of Lochalsh. .
•An outbreak of hog cholera was,
discovered on the farrn-of,Cliff
• Hackett in Ashfield Township.,
.Officials,moved quickly in
tarrying out 'Government regula-
tions aimed at controlling the. •
'outbreak. All forty-eight head
of swine were de.strOyed. -
40 YfA:R.S. Aoo;
JUNE 1933
Pioneer days were relived and
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visualized at the Memorial Ser-
Vice on Saturday, June 17th '
when the Cairn, erected in hon-
our Of. the Webster pioneer's, was,
unveiled by. Lieut. Colonel Harry
IvleGee of Toronto. Fitting tri-.
bute was paid by.the speakers,
to the memory of Daniel and
Susan Webster and their family,
• who blazed a trail through the •
bush some 'eighty.years previous -
The Occasion of the Unveiling
was. the 10th annual Webster re-
union and picnic' .The
•'built by John Webster, a
stone mason of Seaforth, stood at
the north entranee.to Greenhill,
• Cemetery, an attractive stone
monument bearing ,the inscription:
Erected in honour, of the origina•l
members of The. Webster Family,
who left• their -native , '
Ireland in the early years of the
nineteenth, to hew out for them-
ielves and their families, homes.
in the, Canadian forest near this
spot.• • . .
WEDNESIMY, JUNE;
• Reeve George Joynt,- assisted by Andy Whitb,
present clock to Paul Henderson
On behalf of Village' of Lucknow
60 YEARS AGO
•JUNE 1913
At the annual meeting of the
Lucknow Women's Institute the '
following officers were elected
..to: Op...0:.181eysi Lucknow
Community
ComtOynity As Pool Staff Look On
Freildent Wm. ,Mc' Donato;
1st Vice, Mrs:I I% ThornpsOn;
•2nd Vice, Mrs. M., -Mitchell;
•Sec: Treas. , Mrs. R. Phillips;
District Director, Mrs. A. 'Mc- •
• Carroll; Directors, Mrs, A. Mc-
Carroll, Mrs. p. McMorran,
Mrs. W. Wraith; Mrs. Jesse ,
Button, Miss Tena M. Robertson.'
• Frank Tate disposed of his
grocery business in Lucknow to
D. C. McMorran.
• While planting potatoes with a
plow Isaac Morrison, Marshall
Graham and T. Newton unearthed
a human skull and several ribs,
doubtless believed to be that of
an bidian whoroamed these parts
many years previously. '
DEATH NOR
FIXTER, on June 18th, 197
Myrtle (Mernie).Fixter of
• West 26th Ave. , Vancouyai
C. , age 75 years; survived,
one sister Caroline Mac
• Ripley , Ontario and nieces
nephews; Funeral service w
conducted in the chapel,
Simnionsl'and McBride Fun
• .Directors Broadway at.Mi
Streets, VancdOer on Tu
-June 26 at 1 p.m. , Rev; G,
Struthert, D.D. officiating
•interment Burnaby Masonic•'
eta -5r; in lieu of flowers, d
tions may be 'made to the 9,
.Heart Foundation, 1881 if
Broadway ; Vancouver 9;
PROCLAMATION
• • AT THE REQUEST OF THE
LUCKNOW. BUSINESS MEN'S
' ASSOCIATION
WE WISH TO PROCLAIM
Monday, July 2
A PUBLIC HOUDAY FOR TIE
VILLAGE OF LUCKNOW
• REEVE AND sCOUN(
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