The Lucknow Sentinel, 1953-10-28, Page 1$2.50 A Year In Advanpe-^LOO Extra To U.S.A.LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, QCT 28th. 1953
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DEER SEASON FOUR
DAYS NEXT WEEK
masquerade DANCE
ATFORDYCEFRIDAY
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PICK speakers
FOR CO. CONTEST
At Kinloss Township public
speaking contest held, at Holyr
rood on’Monday night, first place
wennt to Mary Fisher, daughter
ofa Mr. and Mrs. George Fisher
; of Whitechurch.. ; '..
In second place: at Holyrood
was John Hodgiris of S.S. No/2;
/ Other speakers were Barbara
- . Murray of S/S. ..N0, 3 and Delbert
Stanley and Doreen; Gajryin of
SJS. No. 1.
As there was no contest in
Kincardine Township, three pup-
ils from that municipality were
judged at the Kinloss . meeting.
Shirley .MlcLelland and Gerald
Schuler were tied. Ronnie Dan
iels was the other speaker, .
Judges were Mrs. Archie Mac-.
Intyre,# Mrs? Gordon Wall and
Mrs. Frank Maulden,
The chairman was Reeve David
Carruthers and during the even
ingthe following prograin inter-
Spersed the speaking: chorus by
SIS. No, 2, piano solo by Cora?-
belle Thompson and two Indirin
songs by S.S. No, 3, and a piano
solo by Mary Fisher of S.S. No.
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the winner was Shirley McClure,
niece of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gil
christ. Shirley had a slight edge
over Sarah Jane Bannister, the
- <Oy cither contestant. Judges
Were Rey. Jennings, Rev. Meikle
john and Miss Webb.
The. winners are eligible to take
part in the County contest at
Paisley this Thursday evening.
lucknowites met in
NEW YORK CHURCH
By an odd coincidence Luck
nowites who were visiting recent
ly-in New York met, toy chance
in the “Marble Church” in that
city. In the * line-up of church,/
goers^we^
Stewart and members of their
family, whospied.bonald,. Hen
derson. He joined their; party.
4?he auditorium. and/ehappl of
‘the Marble Church were cj’byzd-
ed; and the Lucknow group heard
and saw the service toy television
in the church hall. They had left
for church a half hour early, but
in spite of that, found the church
filled to overflowing well before
service time. .
FOUND GAELIC PSALMS
BOOK OVER 100 YEARS OLD
A . well-preserved book of
Gaelic Psalms was ’discover
ed recently by Mrs. Lloyd
Hunter in the attic of their
farm home, formerly ownjed
_-Jby—the„latePeter-Watsori.—_
• Penned on the fly Jg^f of .
^th^356^ag^ibop'k^-^^4he-^^
name, “Mrs. Mary Watson,
ZKippoch, 27th December, »
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PASSED AWAY IN MONTREAL
SCHOOL OFFICIAL
OPENING_FRIDAY
JUVENILE CHAMPS
HCiNpRED_FRIDAY
Lucknow Juveniles, W.O.A.A, "
“C” champions, grand champions
of the W.O.A.A. land semi-finaL
ists in the Ontario Amateur Soft- •
ball-Association—werehonored^at™^2*
ta trophy and jacket presentation,
banquet in the Recreational Cen
tre on Friday night, toefore an -
audience of. about two hnndrqd
people. " ,■/. . * ■.,
. It was the first year that th'ese
boys have played, organized ball
and the compliments were many
that were extended to them, as
well as their manager, Garriet
j Henderson, and the assistant
The Huron - Perth Shorthorn manager and coach, Al Irwin,
Club will hold their second an- The Belgrave Co-op trophy,
BIBLES PRESENTED
TO GRADE FIVE PUPILS
More than two dozen Gideon
Bibles were presented last* week
to students of Grade .. V of the
Public School. The presentation
Was made, toy Mr, Elmer Umbach,
assistedbythe-teacher-Miss-Ruby.
Webb and toy Rev. C. A. Winn,
who Spoke
prayer. The .gilt of the Bibles, was.
j acknowledged ,£n behalf of the
j students by Marguerite MacKenr
SHORTHORN SALE
HERESATURDAY
Prize winners at the masquer
ade dance at Fordyce school on
Friday night were: fancy dressed
ElWood Barbour and
.Mrs. Tfhfold Griunt; comic couple,
jiin Robinson and Donald Dow;
<^ldsffancy JeanMar-
; Min^Mhrlene Martin; childs’“ comic
cbStume, Louise Irwin, Lynn
p’Maiiey.
TOe judges were Gordon Mac
pherson, William Webster, Mrs.
Charles McDonald, Mrs. Mike
’ •• Bruce, Huron and Grey Counties
is just around the corner. The
four-day hunt opens on Wednes-
day-mext, November 4th and runs
to Saturday, the 7th, inclusive.
Rifles are permitted in. Bruce and
Grey, but riot in Huron-County.
POSTED TO SASKATOON
Lloyd Barkwell, son of Mrs.
Evelyn Barkwell of town, has
been posted to Saskatoon. Lloyd
joined the R;C.A.F. in July and
has been stationed at St. Johns,
Quebec. His posting didn’t per-
' riiiit him time to get home as
he had expected. Lloyd is taking
a cooking course in. the service.
RED CROSS QUILTS
The Women’s Work Committee
of the : Lucknow arid Vicinity
Branch of the Red Cross Society
have shipped, to National ^Head
quarters their (quota of qUilts.
Thanks are due to the following
. groups for finishing ,their quilts
so promptly: Anglican Guild, 2;
Catholic Altar Society, 2; Pres-
. byterian W.M.S., 2; United church
2; Kintail W. I., 3; St. Helen’s
Wk I., 2; Holyrood W. L, 2; .Aux
iliary to Legion, 2; Kinloss Uri;-
ited Church, 2; Blokes’ W.M.S.,
1; Zion WJMLS., 2; South . Kinloss
W.M.S, 1. ' ...
Alfter all .material had been
given out several groups asked
for quilts rind were disappointed.
Another quota will be. ready fdr
quilting early in the New YeaiV
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An important milestone, in sec
ondary education in the Lucknow
district will be specially Observ
ed on Friday night of this week;
with the official opening of. the
new Lucknow District High
School.
The program, which starts at
8.00 p.m., will be held in the
sdhool auditorium,, and will toe
followed toy an inspection of the
school and the serving of refresh
ments.
~ Specia1 speakers will' include
Mr. C. W. Booth, superintendent
of secondary education and Dr.
C. E. Stothers, inspector of aux
iliary education. ..
— EveryoneiswelcometOattend
this event.
Series of special dances
SLATED FOR NEXT MONTH
Friday night’s masquerade
dance in the Town Hall will start
off a series of special events that
will continue for a month Or sb..
Friday’s dance, to music by Tif-.
fin’s orchestra, is sponsored by.
the Ladies Auxiliary who are of
fering costume prizes for ladies
and gents, and will also raffle off
a built -
Fall Festival At Kingsbridge
On Friday, November 6th, a
dancey-programand—prizedraw-
Will mark the fall festival at St.
Joseph’s ’ Church, Kingsbridge.
Music will be by Carruther’s or
chestra and there will toe a draw
for eight prizes, including a $50
Garvey, Q.C.; set of deck taps
and spray, by Art Gilmore; auto
matic coffee percolator, toy, Basil
Hogari; electric tea kettle toy
McDonald’s Store, Kiritail; table
lamp by McKenzie’s Store, Kings
bridge; $10, by j; L, O’Loughlin;
all . wool blanket, by Tom Garvey
and a 32-piece breakfast set by
the Catholic 'Women’s ^League.
Dance, Bingo, Draw
On Remembrance Night, Wed
nesday, November 11th, the Leg
ion Will hold their annual dance,
bingo and prize draw in the Re
creational Centre. Bingo, for
chickens, will start at 8.15. Danc
ing w>ll be to Mel Lavigne’s or
chestra7, and at midnight there
will be a draw for a chrome kit
chen set, a platform rocker, a
ton of coal or equivalent in, oil,
a mantle radio and , an electric
kettle. ...
Ladies’ Night
On Friday, November 20th,
Ladies’ Night sponsored by Old
Light Lodge./will be held in the
auditorium of the new Lucknow
‘District High School.- This will,
feature a program by a versatile
concert troupe, followed by lunch
and dancing. : .
St Andrew’s Ball
An $hen, the following Friday,
^^mbbr---27-th,...KairsheaJ.....Wo.-
nten”s Instityte...,rWill hold theii
St Andrew’s‘ Ball, featuring
Scotch daheinig and piping.* Music
will be by Wilbees. \ .
The Kairshea Ball, is a week
later than, was originally plan
ned. When the Masonic at home
was set for the same date as St.
Andrew’s, the Kairshea ladies
were ‘successful iri arranging to,
postpone their 'event. , , <
— ThedeatbofMrs. F, Scott Mac- i
Kenzie occurred at her home .in *
Montreal on Friday.. She was !
formerly Lexie MacLean, a n>at-1 ive of Ashfield Township, The!___
funeral service was held at the hual consignment sale of Scotch emblematic of the W.GA.A.“C”
McLennan - MacKenzie Memorial Shorthorns in the Lucknow arena championship was presented toy
Chapel on Tuesday afternoon j on Friday afternoon of ' C. ’ ™ T .........
conducted toy ReJ. R. MacDon-1 week, commencing at 1.00 p.m.
aid of Ashfield Presbyterian’
Church. Interment was in Green-1 hili Cemetery.
LOCAL BUTTER MAKERS
WIN CONTEST AWARDS
The Saugeen - Buttermakers’
Club held their annual banquet
at the Fofmosa Community Cen
tre on Wednesday night of last
week. Highlight of the evening;
which brought together; over 200
district creamery ernployees and
their wives 1 or. .friends, was the
presentation of coritest awards, in
which two local buttermakers
figured^ "
__The-contest—requiresthe-judg-
ing of 16 samples of butter and
16 samples of cream, at two dif-.
ferent period^ during the year.
Redvers (Meff) Johnston of
Silveriwood Dairies placed second
in the creaih judging and- received
a beautiful Kenwood blanket. He
Was 6th in butter judging and, re-,
ceived a> linen sheet and pillow'
cases. Meff capped his perform-,
ance ’by winning the trophy for
the highest aggregate score in
both cream and butter judging.
Mac MacLerinan was on holi
days when the second contest!
was held. He. placed first in cream'
judging at the first contest, and!
on the toasia of the single com-
jpetition received a billfrildr
The prizes were donated by
dairy supply houses.
of this
VLZ11JUAI CIV A.w £S«AAA,' j
The local arena provides ex
cellent accomodation for such
sales and this is a “return, en
gagement” for the Huron-Perth
Shorthorn auction.
Andrew Gaunt of West Wawa-
nosh; is sales manager and the
auctioneers will be Wm. S.
O’Neil, Robert Amos and Lin
coln White.
The offering numbers 34 head,
consisting of 8 bulls and 26 fe
males. Consignors include Roy F. |
Pepper, Seaforth; James Smithy!
Brussels; H. F. Miller, Glen-
nanon; W. A. Culbert and Sons,
Dungannon; W. Turnbull, Brus
sels; Morley Johnston, West Wa-
-wanosh;-Maurice_fiean,-Auburn;
W. M. Stapleton, Seaforth; Elliott
Layton, BHlcefield; Wm. H. Arm
strong, Seaforth; George L. Reid,
Varn^.
THAT the former Cameron’ resi
dence on. Main St which was
purchased, recently toy Albert
Gamrnie, is being converted in
to three ' heated . apartments
with modern conveniences. ;
THAT Mrs. Clare Johriston and
Philip MacMillan were the
prize winners at the Auxiliary
Shoot party oh Friday night.
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THAT Sunday School is now* be
ing held following the morning
servicb in both the United and
Presbyterian churches.,
THAT a hockey, special bus'is
\ being run to Toronto a week
from Saturday when Detroit
Red Wings visit the Maple.
Leaf Gradens. Transportation
charges will include ticket to
.the game< :
THAT Catharine KetehaBaw,; dau-.
ghter of. Mr. and Mrs. Jim' Ket-
chabaw of. Paramount, Was one
of ten Undergraduate nurses to:
receive her . diploma at a
candJelighi service at the Wirig-.
ham Hospital nurses’ residence.
Miss Ruth Kean of Dungannon
received her cap after a five
" months’ probationary period. r
rWith the deer season •• in the;
offing The Sentinel has a pros
pective customer for ”no ’tresr
. passing” signs. He suggests, 'that
we send out this query, to de
termine who else might want!
•such signs, so that the one print
ing operation would take care of
;the lot; rind lessen the individual
cost. •
Anyone interested must place
their order by Friday. /
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SEEK DONATIONS FOR
CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY
The annual campaign for cash
and) .foodstuff donations to the
Brujce County Children’s Aid
Society is now underway. .
Reeve , S. E- “Robertson is a
member of the C.A.S. Committee
and he pqints out that the pur
pose of this campaign is primal
iJy to provide fuQ^s and provis
ions that aid the Society in help
ing keep families together. A
The Society’s * main sources of
revenue are not available for such
purposes, and Mr; Robertson
[stresses the importance of this
’ other pharie of the work in keep
ing families together whenever
: possible and feasible, rather thari
making them wards of the Soc
iety.
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HAS ARM IN CAST
-—CharHe^Chin—has~hris-arm—in—a-
Crist, as a result .of aggravating
an old elbow dislocation injury
which . he suffered .'here while
playing, hockey. Charlie is how
attending Jarvis.. Collegiate in
Toronto an do in a rugby scrim
mage injured the elbow 'again
with the result he -will be carry
ing. the arm in a cfast for a
month or so. . . ,
Charlie and Jack chanced it up
by transport truck ori Friday for
Irwin (hitch-hiked 'from Black-
well^ near Sarnia, to,be present
arid - Don Thompson used the |
thumb to make it from Toronto.
’THAT Mr. and. Mi's, Dave And
erson have rented the apart-
" ment. above The Playhouse 're
cently vacated by Mr. and Mrs,
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M. L; (Tory) Gregg and was re-/'.-'
ceived toy the team captain, Don
Thompson, who responded fit- -4 x
tingly on behalf of his team
mates.
Tory said that they hoped to
obtain a grand championship tro- *
phy which would also be Luck
now’s. He pointed oiit that there
is no category status in the
O.A S.A. and that'in making a
great drive for Ontario honors, ■
they met one of the top juvenile
clubs of .the province. He com-
i plimented the tooys on their fine *
i-sportsmanship, - and—thcU- honor ?
they had, brought to themselves
and .to Lucknow.
Steve Stothers was chairman and kept things going at a brisk • / ■. '
pace, with some in-ibetween side-.
splitting yarns. Among those call- _,
ed on were Reeve S. E. Robertson,
W. T. Cruickshank, J. W. Joynt,.
Rev. G. S. Baulch, John Hanna,
-MTptPvAndy-Rbbinso^MPTrReys—
!G. A. Meiklejohn, Tom. Rafferty,
CKNX sports announcer, Al Ir-
‘win and Garnet Henderson. ;
Colorful jackets were presented
by'1 Murray CoUse to Paul Hen
derson, bat iboy; Garnet Hender
son, Al Inwin arid Ray Stanley
of -the “front office” staff and
players Art Baker, Al Baker,
Hughie MacMillan, Jack Chin,
Charlie Chin, Paul Couse, Allan
Miller, Kenneth McNay, Doriald
Thompson, Jim Hackett, Bill,
-Baulch,—Kent—Hedley,Geo.-And-——-
erson; Roy Stanley.
A tasty turkey dinner which
preceded the speech making was
largely due to the culinary and
kitchen duties of mothers of the
-boys—supervised—by—a—eoupleof
experienced caterers^arid with a
numiber of school igirls acting
most efficiently as waitresses.
A dance followed the banquet,
arid all told the proceeds of the
night, plus a little nest egg the
boys had from the iseason’s oper
ations, will come within a .few,,
dollars of financing the’ jackets.,
BIG CHURCH SHED
IS TORN_DOWN
South Kinloss Church shed is .
no rimre, having joined the fest
disappearing number of such
sheds which once dotted the
! countryside at every place of
worship. /, . ;.
The South Kinloss shed was ;
purchased by Ailari Graham, and
Was torn down arid/Temoved to
more secular purposes. .
The original shed was; more
than, 60 years old. It was built
on the south-westerley corner
across from the “Big Church”, on / .
a plot of land 8 rods by 2 rods,
purchased from James and Jes
sie Saunders for the sum of $40.
The transaction was entered‘into '
by Thomas McIver and William*
Valens, church trustees, and was .
‘‘Witnessed toy'.Elliott Traver, a
The deed Was dated August 29th, '
1887. • . :
, Removal of the shed will make
it a safer corner for motor travel,
and which ironically * enough
spelled the shad’s doom. The land
Avill still be ' retained /by the
South Kinloss congregation to bn
used as a parking area for motor
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