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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1973-09-12, Page 196.4inv idmrs Aof# 0) erMen WA; NO !/I.f1/Nf / Freeman Olson Gravel Pit 1 1/4 Wles West Of Dungannon. CHOICE CEMENT GRAVEL CRUSHED ROAD GRAVEL SAND, 3/4 STONE, TOP FILL FINE, MEDIUM OR COARSE. PIT RUN GRAVEL . ALL LOADS WEIGHED FOR YOUR ACCURATE MEASURE 10 METRIC TONS — 22046 LBS. YOU DECIDE ON YOUR MEMORIAL REQUIREMENTS ODEMCH • Don Denomme, - 524.8761 • . PRYDE It SON LTD. ESDAY, SEPTEMBER It 1973• THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW„ ONTARIO PAO, NINETISH •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••4••••4•••••••••ii • LOOKING BACKWARDS • THROUGH THE SENTINEL 'FILES allesident TOceS•'•Growth Of •Co-op. mSmall farmers' Club On. • • - oni Of Kinloss•With. Membership 16 By W. F. McDONA LD e is no doubt today there pie, especially young s, who do business with al Co-op Who no doubt sometimes how or why the Co•oP got started.. Y back in the 1930's , times very-bad for everybody, es- * the farmers. The botto ost coMpletely fallen farm prices., hogs were sel- per hundred , steers 5¢ nd, eggs 100 per dozen and 15¢ per pound . Farmers oing broke and others were raging on. gs got so bad that a num- farmers and other interest- io met in Toronto to try something to help the An organization was and a large warehouse was and stocked with merch- that the farmers could use. a seemed to be that the men were getting all the and if the middleman• be edged out, it would farmers. With this;in ey encouraged the farmers farm clubs and through ubs order the goods they and they would be back to the clubs at as price as"possible. Soon starting making their ince and the first one in inky of Lucknow Was by the late W. J. Irwin writer on the second con of KinlosS and had about Milberg. This club 'did for several years but eV- y outgrew itself and a larg- was formed at the Grey Ox fourth concession of Kin- Iliad about forty members entitled to send a dele- the convention in Toronto at. This club met in 'a house owned by. Allister and did a good business al years. in small seeds', in, sugar , salt , etc . meantime ,Mr, Hughes ailed a maple syrup ev- in part of this house houselater burned down and of course as the clu rs had no meeting place , disappeared. t time after this a meet- men was held in Luck- the possiblity of starting n Lucknow was discussed result that a farm cluh nixed and formed in se, a club without ouldn't do much so a tee was appointed for the of going out to the farmer and asking thein to lend money to the organization for the purpose of financing the new club. One of the members of this' committee was, the lateJohn Jamieson, grandfather of Stuart Jamieson, present manager of the lOcal Co-op. Mr. Jamieson put' a. lot of time and energy into this job, going up and down the con- cessions for many mOnths on his bike asking the farmers for loanS. This wasn't very easy thdse times. as money was scarce and people were not too interested in investing in anything going to be run by farmers,. Another ,man who could be mentioned in connection with this club was the late Ervin Zinn. Ile w.as a great conversationalist and could put in a powerful argument and had a good business head which was no doubt needed at that . time. Eventually they got some money together and' with a small bank loan, the club opened a • store near where the present local Coop is now .situated. In order. for the club to get a loan from the bank as it had no assets, the club members had to sign notes 'guaranteeing the pay- ment of the loan, but none of the notes ever had to be collected. This first club started with about twenty-five,members , very few of whom are around today. The club met with quite a lot of opposition from the merchants of the town who could not see any'need for it and even the' farmers were slow in joining. There may be other men but these two men had a lot to do with keeping ,the club going in the early days when its going was not too easy. In spite of mistakes and inexpert ience, the club prospered (it is called a' Co-op now)" from a modest turnover of a few thous- and dollars each year, until to- day its .turnover is counted in the tens of thousands of dollars each year. This is a remarkable achieve • - ment for a business that was started and run by farmers who were never supposed, to be too noted for their business , abilities. Treatipitiries At Hospital • Paul Aitcheson, Wingharn ,•age 15 was admitted to hospital with head initiries after being knocked off his bicycle: Sandra Hopf, Lucknow , was skipping at school and tore the • ligaments in her left ankle. Re- leased with walking cast. Michael Walker, age 9, Bel- grave , was, admitted to hospital with abdominal injuries after being struck by another child at the BelgravePark. David Dolgas, age 18, Wing- ham, was involved in a. single car accident on Highway #4, 3 miles North 'of Wingham. The. car left the road; went throtigh a fence and rolled several times. Mr. Dolgas was admitted to hospital , with facial lacerations, lacera- tions to left arniand right wrist and fractured collar bone. Invest• igated by Wingham O.P.P'. ,Rick- er. Andrew Poels, age 5, R. R. 1 Wingham, fell off his bicycle and lacerated his chin. • Roy Dawion, R. R. 3 Wingham, was treated for a laceration to his left leg. Mrs. Marie 'Button Blyth, was admitted tohospital with baCk injuries resulting from a fall at home . Condition 'satisfactory .. 1973 Urban Rural Exchange Ends YEARSAG O OCTOBER 1962 A crowd, the like of which was never before seen in HUron- Bruce politiCal activity, swarmed to the Andrew Gaunt farm in' West Wawanosh for the "meet the candidate" turkey barbecue. Between 5000-6000 people attend- ed the event arranged' by Liberal Party organizers on behalf of .their candidate Murray Gaunt. Orland Irwin purchased .the Elmer Johnston garage on Ross Street. After sixteen years as light- keeper at the Point Clark light- house, Jack C. Campbell offie-' ;Lally retired at, the end of the navigation season and he took up residence at Kincardine. The' Point Clark lighthouse, , after 105 years of service to Lake Huron mariners with 'a keeper, be came automatically operated on September 13th. Lighthouse keepers had been Brothers Try Out With Hockey Teams LOCHALSH NEWS The Farrish brotliers, Kenneth. and David , are off to school in Guelph and Sudbury., Kenneth is trying out with the Guelph JUOior Hodkey Club and David -with Sudbury. John Bradley is in. Toronto, where le is attending University and is in the• medical course. Mr. and. Mrs. Walter Dexter .reeently returned from a trip to Alaska which they enjoyed and of what they learned about through the United .Church obser- Ver. On that trip they had a `visit with •Mrs. Emily Marks Of One Hundred Mile House, who is a 'sister of Ray Connell of Clinton and a cousin of the late Mrs. D. R. MacKenzie of Lochalsh. Mrs. Mark's son is Mayor of that city. Recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Oliver McCharles were Mr. and Mrs. •Fred Tushingham of Los Angeles , California. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Farrish were recent visitors in Sudbury. 'Mr. and Mrs. •Don Ainslie of Toronto spent the week end with • Mr. and Mrs. Frank MacLennan. Robbie Brooks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Brooks, is off to '- school at Kindergarten in Ripley. Mr. and Mrs. Robt.' McIntosh and family were recent visitors to Marineland at r Niagara Falls. 50 YEARS AGO OCTOBER 1922 Notice was given that the partnership between Frank Holly- man and,Edgar Hollyman, Bakers and Grocery. Merchants in Luck-• now, had been• dissolved. The business was taken over,by Edgar Hollyman. • A school report of S. S. No. 9 " Kinloss named the following pupils: Margaret Maclntyre, Jean MacLean, Robbie Purves, Fraser Purves, Wm. Dawson, Jessie Purves, Mary Maclntyre, An- netta, Fisher, Alex MacKenzie Jean MacKenzie, John Wraith, .,Dorothy Wraith, Charlie Tiffin, Daisie Kennedy, Alfred Patterson, Huntly Dawson, Donalda Mc- *MacCallum , Harold Purves. •Hughie MacKenzie, Johnny Pat- •terson, Goldie Purves, Stuart .Dawson, Catherine Patterson, ,Billy MacKenzie. • E. I. Shelton, Teacher. OVE'S LAST GIFT 'REMEMBRANCE Whether It's a MONUMENT • MARKER ,• INSCRIPTION • You are 'rentereberIng • loved orte7 WANTADS, Pack Power As of August 29th, the Urban- Rural Exchange, 1973 was over, Hopefully , however, the bene- fits of the program -- the know- ledge learned, the friendships made -- will continue on into the future. The Urban-Ruraj Exchange, is a program for 12 to 15, year old students , allowing city youngsters to, spend a week OW a farm , folloWJ ed by a week in the city for the farm host or hostess. The idea is to reduce urban-rural misund- ' erstanding by offering the .oppor- ,tunity to learn about the other' way of life by being actively in- volved in it. • ' Sixty-three city youngsters from Kitchener , Waterloo i • Guelph, ' Stratford , LondOn and Toronto made farm visits in Huron and Perth counties, inVolving a total of 51 farm families and 13 Strat- ford families. , A big •change in this year's pro- gram was the increased number of farm youngsters making the re- iturn visit to the'city. About 75% 'of the Perth-Huron farm particip- ants did make this visit —7 compar• 'ling favourably with the provincial average of about. 50% retu'rns. A more complete appreciation of. the similarities and differences between farm and city life is possible with these tWo -way ex- changes. WITH MARGARET -THOMPSON •••••••••••*•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• John Young, Thomas Kilty, Wm. Riggan, John Rae, Murdock Mac- Donald, George Rae, John 'Italie, John Campbell of Amberley and Jack C. Campbell. • 30 Years Ago OCTOBER 1942 A new poultry picking machine was installed at the local plant of Silverwood Dairies, which helped to overcome the labor shortage and allowed the existing staff to handle the dressed poultry business which reached a big volume during the latter part of October. The new machine, would "slap". the feathers off about 100 birds an hour with only some hand pin- ning work necessary to complete the job: . " Mrs. A. G. Elliott, wife of the late Dr. A. G. Elliott of Luck-. , now , sold her Lucknow home to Mr., and Mrs. W. A. Porteous and moved to Strathroy.