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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, "ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11th, 1953
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LOO KI N G B AC K W ARD S
THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES,
• Sixty Ywr* Ago ,
" Jas. Wilson sold his sawmill
' on Con. 12, Ashfield, to Mr., Bow
er of Lucknow. : - .
■^“TC^khwr^iyioters^fevored^^.
^poor house” at Walkerton by a
' ; Vote of W to> 61. . ;
‘ > ; Thos. Stothers of West Waiwa-
nosh sold his. farna to John
Bowles for $25Q0;
A cherry bedroom suite man
ufactured locally by Cliff & For.- .
ster and on display at G. W.
Berry’s furniture store was the
^centre of attraction.
. Isaac Morrison was k Noble
Grand of the I.O.O.F.
, The high price of pork was
getting publicity. It/ was $8.25 a
cwt. in carload lots, and likely
to go higher due to. a scarcity
Wan. Valens cf Kinloss was in
Strethroy auditing the Grand
Lodge books^of the Paitrons of
Industry.
William Solomon of Huron
< centre of attarction. <
Township became lost in a bliz
zard and was found frozen to
death some 60? rods from1 his
• -J>bime,~^-r - — '
Years_AgQ
Ten inches of show that had
previously fallen, winds of hear
hurricane: intensity” and a 12-be-
, > low temperature combined to
give th^distH^^hat_(many-res^
idents regarded as. the worsit
storm ever. The .storm raged on
Saturday and Sunday piling up
‘-higlK/hard drifts. Trains were
blocked. A ridge of snow up to
10 feet accumulated along the
/ south side of the street and mer-
r, chants ‘‘were busy a good. part
of Monday clearing the walks”.
While: shovelling a path oh
Sunday morning, Hagan MacDoh-
ald’ diedf of a heart • attack 'a;
their farm east of Iiuckhow* He
was in his 28th year and was
considCredinrobusthealth.
Wilfred Nivins, son of Mr. and
spendin^fethe winter in London.
Twenty Yeare Ago
s Bob Mowbray, Free
. Press carrier . boy, pictured licit;
astride his saddle horse which he Can;
made : good use of this winter in
delivering his papers. The pic
ture, taken in front of Bob’s
I REVIEWS HISTORY
OF ASHFIELD KIRK
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(By Robert J. Spence
I In The London Free Press)
I The district of Ashfield Town-’
ess who taught for about forty I ship was first settled by people
years in Lucknow Public School, I fropi. Scotland, and in 1838 Ken-
collected a purse of $100, which neth MacGregor and Donald Mac-,
was sent, to her as a New Year’s Rae made they Way through: the,
gift. She and her: sister were I wilderness to Kerry Creek, which
’ T — J—i. empties into
~^^p^st~of^Kintail^For-20__years_or
I more the Scots continued to set-
.............. / tie into the district/ bringing with
; Mr and Mrs, George . Gillies [ them a spiritual stability and a
celebrated their 66th Wedding an- faith in the new land, Their
uiversary, A ‘ J names were MacDonalds, Mac-
. J. C/ McNab assumed *the man-1 Kays, MacKenzies;, MacLenparis
agerial duties of the Sil verwood I and Stewarts, apd tl1®^. Gaelic
Lucknow and Cargill plants at was from the Isle of Skye. ~
the age of 22. I Bush A Challenge
John Hayworth was engaged Carrying their old country
as bandmaster. ' chests, these people met a real
Stay Graham entered Guelph challenge in the .bush; Many of
General Hospital as a student their kin did not survive the long
ntirse. [ ocean Voyage and the wagon trip
•’< t a |fr°m to Goderich, andiK- Who did reach their destin-
wed leg m a fall on the ice on eventuaUy spied out
tne miupona., ------lands in the township, were isplat-„:
R. J> Sco-tt, president of the from the -Presbyterian missidn-
U.F.O., addressed a mass meet- |ar|es And, perhaps it was. this
ihig here in support of the Gov-1 jsoiafiow which has preserved
ernment proceeding with ai pro- |many qf their Scottish traditioiis
posed cattle barter in. exchange I even. |q this day in the > town-
for^crude oil from Russia. ships of Huron. , .
I Just 10 years after the first
; Ten Years Ago ’ I settler arrived, however, the con-
, , Igregation of the Ashfield Pres-
%The^fuel-picture w^ gr^,.Coal.^church was ojrganized.-
was not available, nor did any [This coincided, with/the recogni-
apDear-in sight. The fire at the [ tfo^Qf Ashfield as a mission by
Sawmill cut off that , source 'of [^g Lq^Qjj pj.gS})yte]^w yjt^Was^
supply. An increase in the ceil- 288 years after the first general
ing price of wood was authorized assembly in Scotland, 276 years
by the W.P.TJB. in hopes of; eri- after the first Presbytery in Eng-
qouraging. farmers to jeut more land, and 84 years after the Rev.
wood. | James Lyon, *the first/^esbyter-
William Kifiahan of Con. 4, ian minister to Canada, airrived
West Wawanosh, died in Goder-1 in Nova Scotia in 1764.
ich Hospital from terrible, .injur-1 Become More Regular ’
les received when trampled by al /j^eligion was carried on for a
horse in. its stall. - iong (While on the personal and
J. W. Joynt succeeded N. E. [ family basis, and there were oc-
Bjushell as reeve as Nels conclud- [ casional meetings in log hornets,
ed nine years on the C.ounciL 'But the meetings became more
Also retiring were Dan Ferguson [ regular with the arrival of Ken-
and K. H. McQuillin. . * ] neth Campbell, who:arrived from
A storm reminiscent of the 19181 Argyleshire in 1853.
blow blocked highways and dis- The church records are profuse
rupted rail service. Reeves Rich-, in their accounts of these days
ard Elliott and J, W. Joynt took and of the times which were to
vTxxxzvy *i*v**io, oma* w* «*«* the Tuesday afternoon train in come. There is even a complete
Mrs. John Nivins, was reported an effort to get (to Walkerton to | list of the heads of all the famil-
wounded in France.; . -^ attend the January session of I ies in the district through.several
Former pupils of Miss Burg- County Council. - generations, and few congrega-
l .... ■■ ■ -■ • — fions in "Western Ontario can con-
: [template their own histories with| as /much confidence and docu-
j mentary evidence «at the Presby-
-terian-Church in - Ashfield._
1857 Decision
Itinerant clergymen carried on
the mission in forest groves and
cabins until a meeting was held | in Lochalsh in 1857 arid a.; de
cision made to erect a church on
the 13th concession of Ashfield.
The dimensions of the building
were 50 by 36 feet, and the con
ditions under which it was built
I were given partially in the fob
i lowing extract from the records:
“We have much pleasure to say
that Donald McKay has granted
one acre of land gratuitously for
the Free Presbyterian Church on,
the former appointed place, on
Lojt 9, Concession 13 in the Wes,-
tern Division Of Ashfield, bn the
side line. between lots 9; and 10
on said concession. The agree
ment of the above mentioned
Lacre^of^land-for said site for
church, etc., is to continue good
so long as. the principles rind
I doctrines of the aforesaid church
is adhered to in the said church,
and should the said congregation
horiie, won him widespread pub- or a any'
;y as it was carried by the.jS ^eir ^as‘
ridian/Press almost cdasbtp- p'?r’a^resaid agreement
coast. Bob is the son of Mr, and should become null and void and
Mrs. Ken. Mowbray, J, landideated and returuOd to
{ > the lawful heirs of Donald Mc-
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, z . • . <:• i—- Those condiHons~~were~ never~
THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL I Violated. , . " ' •
» / A .? • When the site was secured, aLucknow, Ontario . I $1.50 plan purchased,, work began
Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office* Department, OttMr. of
receive $1 a day for his efforts.
i... Curiously enough, although the
accounts of all the work in build-
l inig the church were kept , in thd
‘ | greatest detail, there was no "re-.*
T cord made of ivhen the church
— | was completed or if there was u remained in "that^office for 38
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’ FIRST NUMBER TO BE DRAWN ON
February 18, at 9.30 a.m.
Announced daily over Station CKNX, 12.24 noon
Published Weekly in your Local Paper.
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rules
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one or more cards at $1.00 for $1.00 and secure, back
each entitled to play. —numbers by calling 160
2. One number drawn each ' ~
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Cards obtainable from these Wingham Kinsmcn Merchants:
Burke Electric Thomson Appliances
Loughlean Barber Shop Callan Shoes
Walker’s Home Furnishings Smith Groceries
Crawford Motors Bateson Dairy
Templeman Dry Cleaners Shaw Groceteria
Crossett Motors Xta. k < Currie’s Furniture r
Nelson Cunningham Edighoffers Store
Beaver Lumber Co.
CARRIER BOY WIDELY PUBLICIZED
(Keep this advertisement for -reference)
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years. At this time also the,
church was freed entirely of debt. .
Other Clerics
After Mr. Hardie’s ministry of
15 years in Ashfield, the Rev\
George S. Ritchie became minis
ter, and after/building the manse
was succeeded by the; Rev. Peter
M. Colquhourij. who stayed from
1929 to.'1932. John K, MacGilli-
,vray served for the next .six’
years. And then in 1938 the Rev.
J* Reynolds Esler was called by
both Ashfield Church and Knox
Church at Ripley./ All these
names, of course, are remember
ed by the congregation, but it
may seem to them that time has
passed, quickly since the pulpit
changes Were made". . /.... . /
The Rev. William Rhoad was
minister in 1948 when the church
celebrated its centenary. It was .
recognized at that time that the >/ •
congregation had sent a number
of young men out ipto the mmis-
try of their .forefathers, aniong ■ / ,.
them being the Rev. Donald Mac-
Kenzie, the Rev. W. R. Macin
tosh, the Rev. S. E. Beckett, and '
the Rev. Prof, F. Scott MacKen-
zie, D.D. ; ■ '■'.■/
formal dedication ceremony; But
the fine white bricku church now
standing.in Ashfield (it replaced
the original in 1906) is evidence
to the success of the first build
ing venture.
.11 Ministers
Eleyeri ministers have served
the church in Ashfield,. but the
first one did not take office until
several., years after the church
was built. ° .
The Rev.® Alexander' Grant
came from Owen. Sound in 1865
(which was' an. important. year to
another religious* group—the Sal
vation Army—which came into
being at that time jn England)
and.remained until old age forced
his-retirement^The iEiev. Kenneth
MacDonald succeeded him. r He
had ohce been a Roman Catholic.
Under his incumbency the second
manse was built and the Women’s
Missionary Society was founded..
In 1892 the Rev. John Rose was
inducted, and upon his transfer
the church decreed that all fut
ure candidates for the pastorate
should be able to preach in Gaelic
as many of the congregation still
spoke only ip that tongue. Alex-
• “andeiHMilinr-brbUght^with-hinHOr
the • ministrjHriore than a use of
Gaelic. He was a, musician, an
author and. theologian of sc>me
note, and the present church was
built under his direction. A year
later' he was. succeeded by. the
Rev. John S. Hardie, a strong
preacher and leader* During his
term a vote was taken for an
organ in the church, and Donald
MacLean became choir leader and
Established 1873 Published Each Wednesday Afternoon
Subscription Rate — $2.50 A. Year in Advance—To U.S.A. $3.50
c. T^ompson. Publisher and Proprietor. ^
Present; minister is the Rev. J<
R. MacDonald, who. continues in
the, joint charges of Ripley.and
Ashfield. :
Ashfield is Sjtill Scottish, and
the traditional asmosphere of/the *
community is more apt to change
the visitor than he is apt to ;
change it. So it is that the' in-
cumbents Of Ashfield Presbyter
ian Church still have sUc.h names
as “MacDonald’’. . f
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