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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1953-06-17, Page 1$2.50 A Year In Advance—$(.00 Extra To U.S.A.„ LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 th, 1953' 'EIGHT PAGES j • . * <• J Vlill; 1 *1* vJX.XAA LAV* VXXX ' VX X.^ A V i • ___ • . . . ... i . ... .n Monday evening JThe young-people’s choir -render- s^iGu^ on ^^ay night about 15r I SHOWER MONDAY FOR - Ardonna Johnston. iLD BIRTHDAY PARTIES !■ attractively redecorated closing and. salp of this church vices at Dungannon morning Little addressed the Visitor^ with and evening* ,• 1 Rev. Norton of Paisley replying. •J-T- Members and officials of Bruce County Council while in session last week formed a Masonic de gree team to confer the Third < the Kihloss hills and as far north as the Greenock Swamp area. older residents by her maiden, as Maggie Langford. James St. mountain steps in Hamilton. She was found uricon- The degree was conferred on Tuesday evening at Saugeen Hospital,: London, on ■ June 15th.^ Her 'husband prede ceased her by only eighteen June 30th, 1940. < . ... As might well be expected, the THAT John D. MacLeod of Kin loss suffered an infection of the right hand that required the. amputation of the index finger. XVXlXi^X . JL1CI1X UXX uumi- stone Block. . ture lesson. '■ • . Readings * were given by Miss I.. ~___-__L.____ _ ,Dean MacLeod and Mrs. Jack Kil- > -IAI fiCCjpatrick and Mrs. J. W. Joynt. andj “"A I ElNLz l\I PlLv/Jw , ■!— Kr-liS— Mcuivduon oi me enuren wnicni------- -r- ~ u •**. « heirig re-painted and re-carpet- i the anniversary held, on ‘ nnxL id AH * NAVY LEAGUE TAG DAY HERE ON SATURDAY •1 I i I ! COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBERS CONFER-MASONIC"DEGKEE““ J.ii.il. .. r > P.M. IN BRUCE, HURON NEXT WEEK , ■ / '■ f ...................... X . Date of the Federal election was set last Friday, and as had been forecast, it/wilrt . August 10th/ All political parties are whipping election machinery into shape ;for a whirlwind sum- " oner campaign, that will be high lighted in this district next week by a visit from the Prime Mini ster, the Honourable Louis St. Laurent., Mr. Huron to fill > Exeter On Prime x __„ nominating convention at South ampton, called to select tihe Lib eral candidate for the riding ofl Bruce. Donald B. Blue, who has represented the riding during the last Parliament, will no doubt fop the choice to again carry the ! .' banner. ' ' , . Andy Robinson was named sev eral months ago as Progressive^. At the Southampton rally an- * other speaker of . considerable prominence will be Hon. Walter Harris, minister of citizenship and - - -immigration; In informing^ The Sentinel of the Prime Minister’s visit to Bruce, Mr. Blue pointed Out that he is running on a close, exact- ingschedule,andit "Twill-hoT^e possible to have him stop over or pass through Lucknow ^enroute to Southampton. St. Laurent will be in Connty next Wednesday speaking engagements at and. Wingham. . Thursday afternoon the Minister will speak at’ a • . t ........ ■ • ( The annual tag day -of the NaVy League of Canada will be held in Lucknow. on —Saturdayy^Juhe: 20th.. will be convened by Mr. W.’ Joyfit and a number ?of boys will do the tagging and. make a canvass of the tvillage. ; The Navy League uses^ these funds for its services to Canadian seamen and its youth training program throughout Canada. To seamen serving in Korea go the popular Nayy League ditty bags. TENT CATERPILLAR PLAGUE Tent caterpillars are currently plaguing the district. Their webb like nests are to be seen most everywhere and the evidence of their leaf-stripping appetite is equally apparent. j They scan be cleared from folj- | age by the use of commercial • DDT, in a solution of two; table spoons to a gallon of water. WON SURGICAL nursingaward Graduation exercises for eleyeh 'members “ of " the, Owen Saund General and Marine Hospital iSchool of Nursing,- 1953, were. h61d oh Friday afternoon, June 12th at Division 'Street ’, United; Church. - . 4 Among the graduates were Miss Shirley, Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Robinr .son of, Lucknow and Miss Viola Cook, daughter of Mr. Albert Cook, |R; 3, Lucknow, and the late Mrs, Cook? Both, girls will complete their training course later in the summer. • . Miss Cook received the George D. Fbrbes ; memorial scholarship for post graduate study in sur gical nursing or operating, room technique. ’ / Viola’s sisters, Edna and Eliza I Cook are also graduates of the Owen Sound Hospital. NO CRANGEJl^HOURS; , TT~~7 .. ... ■ ' ' An “open air” meeting of the Luckndw Business Men’s Associa tion was held at the Town Hall STILL-HAVING DAILY----“ OW. AT ARCTIC BAY N ■ : ■ ' • ‘ ■ Snowflu?iies daily is the “wea ther report” from Arctic ^ay on! Baffin Land,—according —to—Bob-| Thompson via short wave, ..court, • esy'. of Fred Bissett, “ham” radio operator of Goderich. The highest temperature of the year’has—been—37— degrees^—and Bob says the harbour is still solid with ice. * ' They are anxiously waiting for BRIDE ELECT OF THIS WEEK signs of a break-up, as days are.| - c... __ _____ . i ; A Miscellaneous shower was MRS. JOHN MacMILLAN DIES '.eynmeirt ice-breaker D Iberville, I ,held on Mond eveni in honor V ; starts her two-month round tap (of Migs shirle Johnston a bride. rm_ _ • _i___._«» > .. ■» « • tn f anQHO.c mnof nnr'thnrhr r\iir • .* * 7. Millan occurred Th St. Joseph’s P°sts- This ship is currently in; — ... - - Monday I Spithead review off the Br.it- • 1 ish coast. . ’ • . , J Tentative dates, are for her to months. Mrs. MacMillan was for-1 teach Arctic Bay on September merly May Morrison and was 61i -2th, and to dock at Queb.ec late years of age. | in the month,' possibly on the The remains rested at the John- •27th- i Mrs/ Grant MacDiarmid led in Stone Funeral Home until Wed--’ ■ 1»!*a sirig-song. Shirley received nesday morning, when ; requiem C R E iV E C H U RC H U PI many lovely gifts and was assist mass was held at Sacred Heart r/\n CAI E'CfiOKI • ed *n °Pen^n'g ithem by her sisterChurth, Teeswater, with inter-7 * VK uALC aWIX . {Betty and bv Jane Johnstone and ment in Teeswater Ronrian Cath- olio Cemetery. I FALL FATAL TO YOUNG WOMAN 7"Friends,in this community were grieved to. .learn of the tragic death Of . Miss. Grace MacPher- soh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. MacPhersori, former resi,- i dents of Concession 10, Kinloss, which0 occurred in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hamilton, on Sunday. Grace, who was in her 35th year, was bora on the 10th of Kinloss and attended school at j S.S. No, 3. She resided in Luck now for a time making her home I . . - .( PIPE BAND COMPLETES , .1 PLANS FOR BIG TATTOO Lucknow Pipe Band has plans -complete—and—pasters- out~~fora~ big tattoo in the ’Caledonian Park on . Friday night of next week. There’!! be six bands, Scotch dancing and numbers 'by Canada’s champion old-time fid dler, Mel Lavigne and his Blue water Boys, who will' also play for a clance to follow in the Town Hall. Included in the .group is Ward Allen, champion fiddler of Western Ontario. Scotch dancing will be by five i outstanding Owen Sound girls, with Mrs. Wm. MacKerizie now tutored by former iprofessiOnaL of Torhoto. During her stay here champion, Amy Johnston. These ' “ dancers are tops and are among the competitors at the big con tests in Embro, Fergus and-Tor onto. ’ »' j Grace was active lri Young Peo- | pie’s work in the Presbyterian Chujch. She was a lovely, like able girl with. a charming man- her that won her many ,friends... For some years Milverton has . ; been, the family’s home town, but for the past few years Grace has been in Hamilton where she was a Bell Telephone. Comipanv„suD- ^ ■ eiivisbr. She lived at the Y.W.C.A. Police attribute Miss MacPher- WilfrW'Drennan dea^h to a fall down the PRESENTED WITH 8-tEAR S.S. ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATES The Sunday School, anniversary was~ held“Tat~~the” United Church oh Sunday morning with Messrs. ' yer assisting Rev. G, A. Meikle- john in conducting the service. |-time-was lost' in deciding to leave retail business hours/ unchanged. The proposal hadf been advanc ed to remain open Wednesday evenings and close all day Thurs- -day-during^the^uriimer^mbrit’hsr ed an a-nthem.: Ushers .were Bill' feet from, the base of the steps, Ritchie, George Webster, Kent with head injuries and cuts. Four Hedley and George Richards. blbod transfusions and an opera- During the service Rev. Meikle-j ^on failed to help her and she _john-presented“three-Robt~Raikes"7^assed”away on“Sunday^ certificates for eight years of reg- ! Police conducted an inyestiga- ular , Sunday School attendance tion, and believe she may have and service. These went to Eliz- j either fainlted or slipped. It Was abeth and Nancy Web^t.er:_ and- the first death from a- mountain, Jimmy Wilson. . - ‘ steps fall in recent years. At the evening service Willard I A service was held in McNab Thompson gave an interesting' Presbyterian Church,. Hamilton, description of Five Oakes train-! cn Monday, and the body takenThe death of Mrs. John Mac- to s . nortberly out- eiect of Saturday. Some sixty- ! ioig centre at Paris, and Rev. j to Milverton for service on Tues-; e 0 five friends gathered for a pleas-;Meiklejohn dealt similarly with! day afternoon at Burns Presby-. aht social evening held ip the i Miramichi Camp at Port Elgin, teriah Church with interment at formervI.O.O.F; Hall an the John-'} Mr. ErnCst Bldke tead the scrip- Milverton. Grace is -survived by her par ents, a sister Ina and Three bro thers, William, Gordon arid Jim. ’ Her mother, a former Lucknow OIL LAND LEASES . } resident, is familiarly known to. A number of birthday parties have been staged lately by some of Lucknow’S “little ladies’’. Among those celebrating birth days were Karen Wasney, age 5, on June 9th; Louise Jones, 7, on June 9th; Barbara Cameron, 5, oil June 10th Kathleen Smith, 3, on June, 12th; Jane Joyrit, 5, on June 13th and Eleanor Whitby, 2, on Jyne 13th. REDEblCATION AT SOUTH KINLOSS On Sunday afternoon, June 21st, at 2.30 pji)., a special seV- Mice of Divine /worship will be held at South Kinlossf Presby- tonan—Church^tb~mark^he~7re=' dedication of the church which Crewe United Church and fur nishings, and the adjacent church -shed'^iH”be~offered^for^l<F15y" public auction at the church grounds, Seventh Concession of i Ashfield on Monday afternoon, June 29th’. The frame church is 30 By 45; feet and there is a frame L-shap- ed she’d. The church contents in- culde seats, pulpit, table, organ^ andfColeman lamps.. Terms of the sale stipulate that the buildings must, be removed by November 1st; •? . " known as Crewe Metho dist church it was. built sixty-., three years ago >ori a corner quarter acre on the burnin farm now owned by Jim Boak. Build ing of the church commenced in the summer of 1890 and was con-- tinued during the fall and winter with the formal opening and ded ication held in February 1891. —An -extensive-program-of-reno^-' vation and redecorating preceded Leasing of. farm lands in the Township of Kinloss by two prominent oil companies, raises hopes that the “black gold” may yet .be struck in this vicinity,.—Lj This activity also substantiates the claims of W. Innes Paterson, that Kinloss Township had def inite possibilities aS an oil pro ducing area. Mr. Paterson’s claims were made following a private Degree on Gordon Stanley of exploration and survey through Ripley, warden of Bruce County. Mr. Paterson pinpointed the Lodge, Walkerton.' I Two members of Old Light i Lodge, Lucknow, took part in the I ceremony. Reeve Stuart E. Rob- . I ertson of Lucknow acted as tyler, and T. Ji, .Alton of Walkerton, Bruce County treasurer, was or ganist. e<L - ■ _. l The interior of the church has been i ______ with pastel shades of Cfeam, ... rose and gold, with a sten cil trim in zgold. Seats and stair ways have been bfightened with varnish and red carpeting in the ^sles, pulpit and choif loft iWill C0JlP|e’!o the,,transformation. . - redecorptiori work has done by Phiiip. Stewart. His ” ?°n Allan is doing the art work for a ‘'Burning Bush”, which wil^ Placed -at itlhte jrear of the wurch in .the gallery, The dedication service on Suh-- ay will be followed by ahniver-, * * Q3ryj Services the next week, r:„.™Way^.June -28th, With^seryices 11LOO . ahh, and 7.30 p;m/The guest minister will be Rev. Wm.- ^• Henderson of Knox ftesby- ^nan Church;^Walkerton. 7* has becin a controversial subject. The congregation becomes offici ally a part of the Dungannon charge^ and we understand, the proceeds of the sale .of the church ’property goes to the Dungannon corigfegalioh* aS a property solely for the. maintenance or im provement of fhe church or par* sonage. ' '. A goodly number of the Crewe hwigrfegation favored, ’the . present move which - incorporates Dun- ganno.n, Nile and -Port Albert into a stronger three - point -SdSa 'of' the Crewe members and adherents may attend ser vice at Bldke Church on the Ash field Circuit which is somewhat closei\ . > •, ■ —-o— THAT Miss Donna Hamilton, stu dent nurse, Woodstock General Hospital, daughter of Mr. and j—Mrs72"Franlt^Hamiiton, has re- .ceived" the intermediate Pro ficiency Shield for the year. —-o—. THAT Norma! Sherwood, a Grade 13 student at-Lucknow District High School, underwent an ap- pendectomy - in Wingham Hos pital on Friday. Norma had riot been feeling well, but wrote an .examination on Friday .morn ing before seeing the doctor. ■ ——b-T~ ■ . THAT Rev/C. A. Winn Was un able to take the services’ on Sunday dUe to a severe attack of bronchitis. Rev* Robert Mac- conneir preached ,oh Sunday morning and at Dungannon in the'afternoon. The evening ser vice was withdraw. Baptismal services at both charges were ....postponed-until June 28th.-Ser»- vices this Sunday are with drawn, with. anniversary ser- richest deposit, in his opinion, on* the Joe Conley farm on the 8th Concession. That’s Joe’s pasture farm on the south side of the road across from the home farm owned iby his son Jim. Two years ago the Sun Gil Company leased lands on the SixJth Concession and along [the . “oil run” to the 'West of "the Conley farm, on the 8th. This, spring Imperial Oil has been busy leasing land on the Second ahd -the^Fourth-and~has extended its survey to the east .of the Conley farm. As yet Joe hasn’t “signed up” with anyone; . He was in touch, with Mr. Pat- | erson on Sunday^ who still favors [the Conley location as a potential 1 producer and also leans to -the I Kennedy, property at Dickie’s Hill as an,other likely producer.. That, section' Was leased a year ago. . STRAW PILE FIRE THREATENS HOME PAST OFFICIAL VISIT Oliver Stephenson of South ampton, grand superintendent of District 6 Royal Arch Masons, paid his official visit to Luck now Chapter last week. Leonard ’MacDonald presided for the re ception in the * bahquet hall, W. A; Porteous prOpdsbd the’ toast tp Grand Lodge which was replied <to by Mr. Stephenson. Dr. James • Fife in a straw stack threaten- ed a farm home on the 10th Con cession of Kiploss 1 on Monday afternoon and kept members of the • Lucknow Fire department on Sthe job for about four hours, be fore the . pile zwas. pulled apart arid thoroughly soaked. There was a good water supply nearby but tb reach it for draughting the Brigade had to’lay all- the hose they carried. ■^^The^Hbme is occupied by Mr and Mrs. Levi Carter and a spark from the chimney is believed'to have_ started the fire in the pile that lay close by the house. ’ -The farm Js oiVned by Charlie ■ Hodgins of Wingham'* The Hod gin’s homestead is across the road and is. farmed by Weir Ecken* ' .......• - "'‘•The/fire call was turned in about mid-afternoon arid it was around seven o’clock b^ore the " . fire truck and its six man crew were to town. ■