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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1954-05-05, Page 1f as- an i dence~on”Havelock~St7rwhich”she-sur^aces’~^^~was-also--rePort€d-thaV I Ber- ADDITIONAL DONATIONS ng pucMiico©/? head miller JL. SPRING is MOVING TIME IN THE VILLAGE Mr. and Mrs. Redvers Johnson and Joy attended the christening of Pamela Joan, daughter Of Mr,; !and Mrs, Guest Mitchell in St, I John’s Anglican Church, Preston, r——-------------------;---------| ANNIVERSARY PREACHER 5 NEPHEWOFFORMERPASTvR /Spring generally brings “epidemic” of residential changes mid this year is ho exception in FORMER RECTOR CHRISTENS [ATTEND MEMORIAL SERVICE LITTLE GRANDDAUGHTER FOR GRACE MacPHERSON $2.50 A Year In Advance—$1.00 Extra To U.S.A, -LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, MAY 5th, 1954 TEN PAGES Council Turns Over $850. Grant To For Improvements Reeve S. E. Robertson had his ^efforts well rewaxded, when a cheque for $850 was received the - latter- part of the week from the Provincial government, represent­ ing 25 percent of approved ex­ penditures on .the Caledonian Park over the past five year per- lod. This sum has been transferred < to the Park Committee for fur­ ther improvement to the grounds. , The Park Committee is made lip of representatives of the Council, Legion and Agricultural Society, including K. Cameron, C. Greer, F, McQuillin, S. B; Stothers, R. McIntosh, S. E. Robertson, Alex MacLeod. The $850 grant was . received through F. A. Lashley, director of Agriculture and Horticulture Soc­ ieties of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. It stems, accord­ ing to Reeve Robertson; in delv­ ing back to the time, the arena was built during the Hepburn ad­ ministration, and when the late Charles Robertsbn was member ' for this riding. At that time a grant of $2,000 was received towards the Com­ munity Hall—*or arena—-in view of the fact that it was tOj be used by the Agricultural Society and 1 other stipulations governing a community room end public rest rooms. —-— Reeve Robettson’s recollection of the project was that the Prov­ ince woidd also pay an annual grant of $50.00 towards rest room maintenance. Since taking over the reeveship, Mr. Robertson and nClerk E. • t Agnew Scanned the of the annual maintenance grant having been paid. v... Reeve Robertson called at the Parliament Buildings last Fall and Tecords. there revealed that the $2,000 grant was made by Order-in-Ck>uncil and there was no record of any other stipula­ tions. However, on learning of the park expenditures duripg the past few years, Mr. Lashley informed Mr. Robertson that on these ap­ proved and certified, expendi­ tures, a grant of 25 percent was —in-order;—■— ----- As a result of an audited state­ ment of expenditures on the park during -the past /few years of lights, fencing* fill, etc., totalled $3,400 and resulted in the cheque of $850 received last Week. Last year a grant of $465 was deceived by the Recreational Centre Committee on the same grant, basis on approved expen­ ditures. Since announcing last week's total to the Sid' Gardner benefit hind an additional sum of $43.00 y was received arid Mr, and Mrs. t Gardner are Very grateful to all those who have so generously as­ sisted them. fLAN rehabilitation of cape croRer mission ^Mr. E. E. Patterson of the Cape Croker Indian Missjoh spoke in the United Church on Sunday >.• on. behalf of a Bruce Presbytery project to rehabilitate me Indian Mission there. . ‘ . Repairs arid redecorating have X^readyJbeenJa^^ r «rul stone church arid new livirig _Jherters for the_missionary .are r essential. The Indians have al-. ready begun the project but their means are very limited and all congregations in the Presbytery asked to help.. \ * Mr. Patterson gave a very' in­ teresting address in which he traced back the history of the mdiahs in this section of Western - Ontario. Dr; R. G. MacKay of Thames- ford, who will be the anniversary speaker “at the Lucknow Presby­ terian Church on Sunday, is a nephew of a fonner minister, Rev. - Angus MacKay, and during whose ministry the present church was built.. Rev, MacKay was the first minister when the two Lucknow Presbyterian congregations of Knox and St. Andrews united in 1886. At this consummation, Rev. McNabb and Rev. Cameron, re­ signed their respective charges, and were succeeded by Rev, Mac­ Kay who was inducted oh May 3rd, 1887 and remained here un­ til 1904, when he visited Scotland and accepted, a call to the Free Church at Kingussie, and event­ ually became moderator of the Scottish General Assembly. His nephew, who will preach here Sunday, is retired from the active ministry. Rev, MacKay preached at Tiverton at one time. - ' ' ■ ' ■ '■ '..M. 4' POPULAR MILLER DIED SUDDENLY Simon Plewes, lifelong'miller and millwright, Arid a descendant ofanOldCountryfamilyoLmill- ers, and shipbuilders, died at his home in Lucknow on Friday morning from a coronaiy attack. An ardent fisherman, Mr. Plewes was anticipating the op­ ening of the trout season the next day. \ He was a mild-mannered and unassuming gentleman who made many friends in the dozen years that he has resided in Lucknow. -Mr. Plewes came to Lucknow in- 1943 to temporarily take over milling duties at the Treleaven Milling Company and had since remained here. In? 1946 he mar­ ried Mildred Treleaven, who sur­ vives. A son and daughter by a previous marriage dlso; survive, Howard of Victoria, B.C;, who flew east tb attend the funeral and Hazel of Yorkshire, England. There are also two brothers and “four^isters:----;— Predeceasing him Were Louise Cox of Collingwood to whom he yiras first married, a six-year-Old son who was drowned in his fath­ er’s mill pond and an infant dau­ ghter. A private funeral service was held ait his late residence on Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. G. A. Meiklejohn of .Luck­ now United Church. Interment was in Greenhill Cemetery with W. B. Anderson, A. E. MeKim, W. L. MacKenzie, Jadk Bannister, H. D. Thompson and . J, E. Tr.e- leaven acting as pallbearers, Mr. Plewes Was born at Red- ickville, Ontario. As a lad he started in the milling business and at nineteen was i—3 in charge of a mill. He later held responsible and managerial posi­ tions in some of Canada’s larg­ est mills. Not only was he an experienced nil Iler, but also ari expert' millwright, and his se^ 1 yjces were in demand in both Canada arid United States in building new mills and rebuild­ ing old ones. He owned and op­ erated mills in Eastern and Wes­ tern Canada and the United States.. He was a descendant of a fam­ ily of pioneer millers in Canada, JHis_aricest°rs y^e^miners and, sh ipbuilders in Hull, ^drkshire and in Wales, They built their own ships, hiilled thrown "car­ gos’ of flour and sailed/ them to the East and West Indies where they traded their flour for the products bf The .Indies? that were iri demand in the 0)4 Country., So jt Was that .Shridri Plewes was well grbiihdhd iri the cbreer he so capably« fellewed far many years. . I I_______„___________ on Sunday* April 25th. Her grandfather, Rev. A. S. Mitchell of Hamilton, and formerly of Lucknow, performed the' christ­ ening ceremony, ‘ FATAL STROKE FOLLOWED FALL The death of John Wellington Nixon occurred in Wingham General Hospital early Monday morning. He had suffered a heayy stroke shortly before eight o’clock Sunday evening, brought on:by shock from a fall which, he had suffered less than half an hour before at the United Church. __Mr. and Mrs. Nixon had atten­ ded the Sunday evening service and after the opening devotions the congregation moved down­ stairs to the Sunday School Room for a film showing. Mr. Nixon, who was handicapped from a previous stroke, missed the step into the Sunday School Room and felj to the flopr, suffering a cut above the eye from the rim of , his glasses, Which, however, were not broken. / ■< He was taken to his home, but insisted on walking to and from the car, and minimized the tumble. He was not home long Mrs. W. J. MacPherson of, Mil? verfOn and son Gordon pf 3tra> fprd were in Hamilton last Wed- n’esday and Thursday and attend- ed the ’Grace E.^ MacPherson Memorial Service” of the Hamil-. ton •'? Presbytery Presbyterian Young People’s Society, • ... • » The Service yiras held in McNab Presbyterian Church on Wednes­ day evening when Miss Brenda Collins of Hamilton 'was present­ ed the Memorial Award. Grace, who was born in Kin­ loss Township, was devoted to Young People’s work and her untimely death was mourned by a wide circle *of friends and — sociates. MRS. H. CAIRD PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY MONDA(Y The death of Mrs. Hally Caird occurred suddenly at her home in Milwaukee on Monday morn­ ing. Mr. and Mrs. Caird were former residents of Ashfield, and many friends here were saddened to learn of her death.' Mr. and. Mrs. Russ Johnstone left on Tuesday for Milwaukee where the funeral service will be held on Thursday afternoon. J SIREN NEEDS WAIL TO BE EFFECTIVE Fire Chief, George Whitby and Floyd Milne attended Monday night’s meeting of the Village Council, and asked jf anything ' could be done to improve the ef­ fectiveness of the fire siren. It was believed that a cut-out could be installed that, would give the alarm the wail effect. » The siren was moved some time ago from “Standpipe Hill” to a stand at the rear^qf the Fire Hall and an automatic alarm system adopted, by which the siren sounded until shut off .by the first firemen to reach the Fire Hall. However, upon reaching its highest pitch, the effectiveness of the sound is. lost, arid members of the Fire Company, even those living close by, are having diffi­ culty 'hearing the• "alarmT The up- and-down “moan” is much more effective and a cut-out installa­ tion is to be looked into.. The Chief proposed that the Fire Company take over the per­ iodic job of flushing the hydrants, which would familiarize members of the Brigade with the location^ of the hydrants. .Council authorized^ transfer of an $850 provincial grant to the Caledonian Parks Committee for park improvements. This Ontario Government grant was received on work done at the park over the past five years or so. when he suffered the. stroke and lapsed into a coma. Later in the evening he was taken by am­ bulance to Wingham Hospital where he passed away shortly after 1.00 a.m. ? Some two years agri Mr. Nixon suffered a stroke sq severe that, doctors said he would never walk again, but by plain grit’and de­ termination he eventually was able to get about with a cane, and last year helped, to put in his garden. “ - . He was in his 75th year. The funeral service was held on Wed­ nesday afternoon with interment in Greenhill Cemetery, OUR FIGURES DIDN’T _■ GIVE TRUE PICTURE EITHER ’ A couple of weeks .ago we sought to . point out to Clayt "Schaus that he had overlooked' Lucknow, .in his ■ Bruce County comparison-of High School.Dis­ trict rates, and that ithe local school rate was well below some of the others he had quoted. We quoted the rate as 5.3 mills, which is Lucknow’s rate and in­ cludes an additional 1^ mills as­ sumed by the corporation of Lucknow on construction costs The 1953 rate struck? for the Area was 4.26 mills, made up of 2,9 mills for maintenance and 1.36 to cover the construction deben­ ture- ' '• *. This will. vary tin . individual municipalities according to their local assessment. ;i With an additional teacher and increased costs at the new school it can be expected, however, that the 1954 maintenance rate will be up. The debenture rate, of course, this regard^ Moves that have been, or are being made, are numerous. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Attridge and family have moved from the for­ mer Tom AitchisOn home, to the farmer Allin residence on Have­ lock St. Mr. and Mrs., Ken Ches­ ter and children are moving from the former W. E. Henderson resi­ dence on Havelock St. to their farm in the Langside, district., Fred Webb has moved , to the Havelock St residence which he bought from Mrs. N. J. MacKen- zie and she in turn has moved to her new home which was the residence of the late Mrs/. E. N. Hodgins. Dr. and Mrs. M. H. Cor- firi and children have moved to the former Dr. Johnston resi­ dence. Mrs. Charlotte Weather­ head and Donald, are moving to the former Ernie Crawford resi- purchased from R. B. Quance, who in turn purchased Mrs. Don­ ald MacDonald’s property on. the “Gravel Road” just south of the Second Concession. Miss Annie MacLeod is moving to an apart-, ment in the Joynt . Block, from the farm of her late brother, John D. MacLeod^ which has been pur­ chased by James Glahn of vie. s . BRAIN TUMOR FATAL TO LAD is fixed, 4 LOCAL FOLK MARK GOLDENWEDDING An enjoyable family reunion was held recently when M^ and ’Mrs. Charles Congram Were hon­ ored -on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary; ' The ’bride of fifty years was the former Edna Raynard of Ethel, Ontario^ The7 couple i’^re married in/1904 at Ethel by the Iat(\Rev. C. P. Wells. ' After their marriage they re­ sided'at Holyrood until coming to Lucknow in 1945. , , 7 Mr. and Mrs. COrigram have, three of a family, Pearl, Mrs. Charles Shiell of Wingham; Har- old lof Holyrood; Cliff of town; also ten grandchildren and one great grandchild. k * The death of little Patrick Wi L liarn Hogan, age 5 years,, occurr­ ed iri Sick Children’s Hospital* London, on Saturday, May 1st, from a brain tumor. , , Pat was a normal robust young­ ster, but commenced ailing dur- Thg^fienwahTelTTAs^his puzzling' condition grew worse the lad was taken to the hospital almost 8 weeks prior to his death, and was in a coma for most of the time with little encouragement given his parents,' William P and' Antoinette Hogan, who have the sympathy , of the community. Patrick was born’op January 19th, 1949. Besides his.pq^entS he ■is survived by a sister Donna,' age 7 and a brother, John Joe, age „The funeral service was con- “ducted“atStrJoseph’sRoman Catholic Church, Kingsbridge* on Monday morning when Mass of the Angels was sung by Father .Van Vynck. Interment was in Kingsbridge Cemetery with a touching scene as Basil Hogan, Lewis Hogan, John Austin and. Bob Famish bore the little casket to the grave. Mel Stanley’s tender of $30 Was accepted for the purchase of the furnace at the Municipal Office, which has riot been in use for ■ some time.—’ Mrs. Harold Treleaven was ap­ pointed a member of the Library Board, on which she will act as secretary, succeeding Mrs. W. V. Johnston. < Council planned to bring in a bulldozer to level Off the fill in the Caledonian Park and along the open ditch emptying into the Nine Mile River. The Municipal dump also requires another* of its frequent bulldpzings. Council dis* cussed how best to prevent peo­ ple dumping refuse over the bank into the gravel pit at this point. It was reported that County equipment would be available on loan for repairing of hard top work would proceed shortly to improve the intersection at the. Municipal Office, Which is a joint project including the Province, County, Village, Bell Telephone Co. and SilverWoods. The June meeting1 will be held on Tuesday, June. 1st, as Coun­ cillor S. B. Stothers will be in Brandon the following week bn the regular meeting date. Discuss Peak Load Saving z For some time Council has been , considering various plans for the control of hot water heaters, to^ prevent the peaking of the hydro load, on which - the , monthly charge is based, A system is now favored, which, would run to upwards of $10,000. One quarter of the cost is all that has to be paid outright and the balance in monthly instal- ments in the amount of the monthly saving by avoiding peak loads. A? .■ .... The Hydro Electnc Power Com? mission is to be contacted in re­ gard to this proprised' plan by the local commission. . . -. ■ Dr, T, B. Cleland waited on the Council and was successful in obtaining a thirteen foot strip of Village property at the rear of the Community J$hed. Dr. Cle- ^nd-^oquires-additional^and^fbr^ the proposed construction of a veterinary^hospital-and^officer Council retains the right-of-way to the rear .entrarice of the Com­ munity Shed. Wellington Henderson and Roy Collyer waited on Council regard­ ing surface wateY which courses over their properties. Council de­ cided to Misit the location to look over the situation.