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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-09-25, Page 16Page 16 Times-Advocate, September 25/ 1969 BOMBERS TAKE BANTAM TITLE — The Brinsley Bombers won the 1969 championship of the Nairn and district bantam softball league. The winners are shown above. Back, left, coach Doug McNair, Anthony Hemming, Les Drury, Steve Mawson, Bill Amos and Jim Robinson. Front, Bob Northmore, Ron Morley, Larry Fenton, Ron Steeper and Max Shepherd. Kneeling,KarlRobinsonandAndyHernming. Vanneste birds continue to show their superiority Luccon and district news Drive safely •'‘ LUCAN LEOIONI. f _FALL. DANCE The HARVEST BALL .10 Music by KARL AND THE SVVINGIN' FIVE at CLUB 540 SAT. SEPT. 29, 1969 Music — Lunch — Refreshments Admission $3.00 couple Notice Due to circumstances we will no longer be operating The Fine Gas Station in Lucan, Effective Sept. 30. We have enjoyed serving you and thank you for your patronage. FOR WRECKER or TOWING SERVICE PHONE England's Auto Body 227-4373 LUCAN q 'it Off to Another World . . . the World of University . . . KEEP 'THEM' INFORMED OF THE NEWS BACK HOME Buy Him or Her a School Subscription to the EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE It's Like A Letter From Home • • . So Have the Exeter Times-Advocate Mailed Directly On A Student Subscription SPECIAL RATE ONLY $3.00 7 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION OCTOBER 1 TO APRIL 1 mmimmimmimmimaimink ttttt *min ***Wm* dmOmilim At a special Student Rate of $3.00 Send a Subscription of The EXeter Times-Advocate to: Name Address 0 Cheque Enclosed ($4.00 to U.S.A.) Prey. wireramirmii410011 t tt MUloomij Please forgive me for being a week late with these reports but it is so dry here in Lucan, even my pen was out of ink. However, better late than not at all. Last week was the big "Derby" race from Belleville 220 miles. There were people at the Lucan Produce plant on Market St. from all over southwestern Ontario. They came from as far west as Sarnia to band their birds for this race. The birds were liberated in Belleville at 7:30 a.m. into what turned out to be an almost perfect day for a race. There was just a light breeze and it was clear and sunny. Now for the past few weeks every one in our club has taken a run at Willy Vanneste's high flying hit, bdt no one seems to be able to get home just quite Mr. & Mrs. Stewart Park were Sunday visitors with Bill and Carol Park at Petrolia. Mrs. R. B. Worthington and Kathryn attended the weekend C.G.I.T. Conference at Rowntree Church in London. Mr. & Mrs. Jim Davis and family spent Sunday in Brussels as guests of Mrs. Marie Davis and Mrs. Edith Raymond. Mrs. Mervin Handley and two girls, Mrs. Thomas Thompson and son, Tommy, from London, were Tuesday visitors with Mrs. Katherine Fischer. Sunday Mr. & Mrs. Sheridan Revington visited their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lyle Revington, who is a patient in Victoria Hospital. Mrs. Joe Chillingsworth and son Joey of Komoka were Thursday guests with Mrs. Katherine Fischer. Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Abbott have returned home after a four-day visit with their daughter and First meeting for COLT The Lucan-Clandeboye C.G.I.T. held their first meeting of the year 1969-70 September 16 at Lucan United Church. Officers for the year were installed as follows: Leaders, Mrs. R. B. Worthington, Mrs. Clare . Stanley, Mrs. James Freeman, Mrs. Ed. Melanson and Miss Heather Froats; treasurer and pia.pist, Linda Hodgins; president, Brenda Herbert; vice-president, Judy Froats; secretary, Nancy Young. Mrs. Worthington discussed future plans and evaluation of last year's work. Next meeting will be held September 30. Cursive iefters confuse clerks When Mr. and Mrs. Percy Vahey moved to Lucan, they sent change-of-address cards to the Department of Health and Welfare, but the pension cheques on which they depend did not follow them. After many enquiries the mystery was solved, by the delivery of a much-re-directed letter typed to the strange place of "Lueau, Ont." The obvious way to avoid any such errors is to print names and addresses in block capitals. "Cursive characters confuse Clerks, cause curses, curtail communication." quick enough to beat him. Norm Hardy has tried hard the past two weeks to beat him but he just hasn't made it yet. No matter how Willy is doing it he has certainly had a great year of pigeon flying. Needless to say he walked off with first and second in this big race, just like he has done before. Willy clocked his first bird at 1.46.55 and his second one at 1.48.22 see. He had one more at 1.50.00 but he had to settle for 4th with that one as Norm had one at 1.43.44 sec. to pick off 3rd. Norm has been getting closer every week and one of these days he is going to be there in time to look after top spot. Jack Hardy had one at 1.4'7 to be 5th. Then Norm had one more at 1.46.06 to be 6th. Then came Chuck Barrett, Mert Culbert, Dwight Henderson for son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. Allen Kendall of Wiarton. While there the four went on a trip to Sudbury, Sturgeon Falls, North Bay and South River. Dr. & Mrs. Jack Dewey have returned to Florida after a month's visit with Lucan and district relatives. Miss Lilias Powell and three cousins, all of London visited Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Shipley, Sunday. Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fischer, Holly and Mark, Mr. & Mrs. Ray Fischer and Mrs. Luella Snell from London were weekend visitors with Mrs. Katherine Fischer. Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Greenlee of Exeter and Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Abbott of Lucan were Sunday guests of Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Davis of London. Mr. & Mrs. Orville Jones visited their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Walters at Kitchener for two days last week. They were accompanied by Mrs. Olive Cowan who took the opportunity of visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. & Mrs. Mac Abram. Mr, & Mrs. H. A. Mullins of London spent Sunday evening with Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Abbott. Mr, & Mrs. J. W. Lockyer and family attended the Camlachie Home Town Reunion at Canatara Park, Sarnia, Sunday. Mrs. R. B. Worthington and Mrs. Frances Saward attended the two-day training course for 4-H leaders and assistants at the County Building, London, Thursday and Friday last week. By MRS. J. H. PATON Mr, & Mrs. Roy Wilton of Strathroy visited Saturday evening with Mr. & Mrs. Ray Neil. The Clandeboye Hillbillies won first prize in the parade at Exeter Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Vivian Cooper, Kippen, attended the Smith-Reid wedding at Ailsa Craig and the dinner in Bilrisley Anglican Church. She later visited With Mrs. J. H. Paton. Mrs. Ralph Cox and Mrs. Margaret Poole, both of London, visited with Mrs. J. H. Paton Sunday. Claire Paton, Lucan, showed his Guernsey cattle at Forest Fair Saturday, Mr. & Mrs. Wilfred Logan and Myrna visited with Mrs. J. Paton Sunday evening, The Harvest Home service at the St. James Anglican Church, 9th and 10th,- Mert Culbert, T & G loft, Norm Hardy, Jack Hardy for 14th and 15th, then Clarence, and last but no means least came Carol. Carol says her birds would have been home sooner if Frank would just leave the flying to her. He tried to tell her It wasn't right for boy and girl pigeons to be in the same loft. (unmated ones anyway.) Frank claims this is immoral, but Carol maintains it makes for good flying conditions and he can call it what ever he likes, A total of 79 birds went to this race and a lot of the boys were trying to win to keep Jack Hardy from having another win on the Culbert Decorating Trophy. Jack has won it two years in a row and was out to win it for keeps this year. Clarence Hardy is building himself quite a nice new house and from what I can see, what Beulah figures is a garage for her car is actually a new home for all Clarence's feathered friends. He will be the only one in our club that can sit in his car in the garage, and clock his birds. We only have a couple of races left in this year, so any one that hasn't won a race should go forth and be first next week. It is quite an honour to have a member of the Ontario Provincial Police in our club. The only thing that bothers the Sergeant is how pigeon feathers get in the trunk of his cruiser. At least these birds still have all their driving points as they stop at every light between Oshawa and Lucan. They don't get home very fast but at least they don't break the law. Then there was the case of the pigeon egg being found in the back of the Hydro truck. Dwight didn't know the hen was loaded. It is remarkable how there are so many trouble calls to the east of us at training time. Next week we fly from Oshawa in one race and from Brockville in the other one. Everyone will be out to see if we can take the long 300 mile trophy away from Willy. Good luck boys and may the best bird win. ummmmmm ttttttttttt Church news 1111 llllllll 11111111 tttttt ANGLICAN LADIES' GUILD The Ladies' Guild of the Anglican Church, Lucan, held their regular meeting last Wednesday, Mrs. Norman Hardy presiding. Most of the evening was spent in making plans for the annual bazaar which will be held September 26 at 8 p.m. in the basement of Holy Trinity Church, Tea hostesses will be Mrs. Frank Hardy Jr. and Mrs. Peter Shipley; sewing table will'be in the charge of Mrs. Hilson Roberts, M. Harold Hodgins, Mrs. Russell Bowman and Mrs. Earl Atkinson; bake table, Mrs. Mert Culbert, Mrs. Keith raut, Mrs. Don Ankers, and Mrs. Norman Hardy; country store and touch-and-take, Mrs. Gord. Atkinson and Mrs. Rose Atkinson. The Annual Turkey Supper was alto discussed and the lay-out of the basement following the installing of the new furnaces. Clandeboye, will begin at 11 a.m. Mr. & Mrs, Lloyd Gibton, Mr. & Mrs. George Cunningham, Flannery Cunningham and Mrs, Bonnie Morgan returned home Sunday morning froth Manhattan, N.Y. where they had the unpleasant task of identifying their brother, Kenneth Cunningham who was stabbed to death, September 31. Tops members report losses The weeily meeting of the "Streamliner's" Tops was held at the home of Mrs. Gary McKenzie who presided, There were nine members and one new member present. Tops are very pleased with their recorded weight-loss, especially recent new members. Now that the weather is cooler exercises have been renewed and will be continued each week, being led by the member whose turn it is. This member will also read from the Leaders' Guide Book and the question and answer book. She will bring the mystery prize. Harvest festival at Clandeboye Sunday the Harvest Festival will be held in St. James Church, Clandeboye at 11 a.m. The congregation from Holy Trinity will attend this service. At 3 p.m. there will be a special service of Prayer for the people of Northern Ireland, Ulster, etc., at which service the Orangemen of the area will parade at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. R. A. Carson will preach at this service. Lucan United Church was decorated with candelabra and ferns September 5 when Rev. W. C. Tupling . performed the double-ring ceremony uniting in marriage Janyce Gwendolyn Grose and William George Mardlin. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Gwen Grose, RR 1 Lucan and the late Charles D. Grose and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Mardlin, RR 2 Denfield. Given in marriage by her grandfather, Hilson L, Grose the bride had chosen a floor-length gown of nylon over taffeta, featuring a lace bodice with lily-point sleeves and the gown styled to form a floor-length train. Her petalled head-dress held a shoulder-length French illusion veil. She carried a cascade of red and pink sweetheart roses. Miss Karen Grose, sister of the bride, was her maid of honour. She wore a blue peau de charme floor-length dress with a lace bodice, and back panel fastened with a bow at the neck. A matching bow and veil formed her headdress. She carried a basquette of blue cornflowers and white fuji mums. Bob Mardlin of Denfield, brother of the groom, was best man, and Fred Mardlin, Denfield, uncle of the groom, and Larry Hodgins, uncle of the bride, were ushers. For a reception held at the church, the bride's mother wore Bride-elect is honored Miss Mary Shipley, has been honored at several events prior to her marriage Saturday, to John Telford Walls in St. George's Anglican Church, London Township, Miss Shipley is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Shipley, Denfield. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Telford Walls, Denfield. A trousseau tea was given by the bride's mother. Pouring tea were Mrs. Robert Carter, Mrs. Earl Walls, Mrs. George Graves and Mrs. L. M. Wilson. Those displaying the trousseau and gifts were Miss Norma Grieve, Mrs. Ross Holden, Mrs. Bruce Watson, Mrs. Mike Soldan, Mrs. Gordon Taylor, Mrs. Don Campbell, Miss Barbara Stewart. Assisting in the tea room were Mrs. Robert Harvey, Mrs. Don Medd, Mrs. Carl Leitch, Mrs. Elliott Shipley, Mrs, Charles Grieve and Mrs. Harry Shipley. Shower hostesses have been Mrs. Ross Holden, at her home in Lucan; Miss Norma Grieve, Miss Joan Goddard, and Mrs. Bruce Watson in St. George's Parish Hall; and the ladies of St. 4George's Anglican Church, The Shipley family honored the bride and groom at a party at Arva Park. Mrs. Carter also entertained the bride at a dinner party at her home in Ilderton. The groom's parents entertained the bridal party following the rehearsal Friday evening. tf yOu have a piece of heat-Stained furniture, apply a thin paste of salt and salad oil, Let stand for an hour, then remove. Institute plan coffee party The opening meeting of the Lucan Women's Institute for the fall season was held at the home of Mrs. Sheridan Revington last Thursday with Mrs, Frances Seward, president in the chair. The roll call was answered by 12 members and two guests. Mrs. Frank Hardy Sr. agreed to chair a committee, to make the necessary arrangements for the business procedure short course which will be held at the Parish Hall, October 7. Other members of the committee are Mrs. H. M. Corbett, Mrs. R. R. Crozier and Mrs. Wes Atkinson. Tea Will be served and anyone will be welcome. Members of the W. I. will hold a coffee party at the former Revington Meat Market, Friday, October 10 from 10 a.m. Tea, coffee, sandwiches and desserts will be served. A contribution will be sent to the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada. Mrs. Revington gave some comments on the motto "Our Neighbor", and Mrs. Saward reported on the officers' conference. Lunch was served by the hostess, Mrs. Revington assisted by Mrs. J. W. Lockyer. a blue lace ensemble with matching hat and accessories and a large white orchid for a corsage. She was assisted by the groom's mother, wearing a plum-coloured ensemble with white hat and accessories and a corsage of two white orchids. Leaving for a trip to Northern Ontario, the brie wore a bone and grape dress and coat ensemble, matching hat, black patent accessories, and a corsage of pink roses and pink stephanotis. Upon their return they will make their home on the groom's farm at RR 2 Denfield. Lucan Legion Coming Events Sat. Sept. 27 HARVEST BALL Karl & The Swinging Five Mon. Sept. 29 OPEN DARTS Centralia vs Lucan Wed. Oct. 1 GENERAL MEETING Branch 540 Thurs. Oct. 2 BINGO Legion prepares for fall election The Lucan Legion's monthly dances resume again this week with the Harvest Ball lined up for Saturday night at Club 540. Karl and the Swinging Five are making their first appearance and are reported to be a very versatile group. Next Wednesday is the regular monthly meeting of Branch 540. At this session, the matter of meeting nights will be discussed. It has been suggested that a switch to Sunday evening for general meetings would encourage a better attendance. Also on the agenda will be the appointment of a nominating committee to prepare a slate of officers for the December elections, a discussion on resolutions being presented to the District "A" convention, and a preliminary report from the Poppy Fund Committee. President Jack Elson will be accompanied by Comrades Pat Crudge and Sid Daley at the District "A" Convention in Kingsville, October 4 and 5. oltflestiot tttttt ustseunu Lucan personals Farm home planned for newly—weds 114 The Middlesex County Board of Education Adult Education Night School Courses REGISTRATION FOR COURSES - TUESDAY, SEPT. 30 Time — 7:30 - 9:00 P.M. Location — register at school offering course Fees — 10 week course — $10.00 20 week course — $20,00 Material fee extra if applicable SUBJECT Weeks Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Auto Mechanics 10 6 Conversational French 20 3 1,2,4 6 Hobbies Unlimited 10 3 1,5 6 Interior Decorating 10 3 1,2,4,5 6 Millinery 10 4 Oil Painting 10 3 1,2,4 6 Physical Fitness 10 3 1,2,4 6 Practical Carpentry 20 3 1,2 6 Practical Electricity 10 6 Sewing — Beginners' 20 3 6 1,2,4,5 6 Sewing — Intermediate 20 1,3,6 6 Sewing — Advanced 20 3 1,6 Typing — Beginners 20 3 1,2,5 6 Typing — Intermediate 20 1 6 Welding 10 3 1,2 6 Location of course: 1. DORCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL — DORCHESTER 2. GLENCOE HIGH SCHOOL — GLENCOE 3. MEDWAY HIGH SCHOOL — ARVA 4. M.B. McEACH RE N P.S. — LAMBETH 5. NORTH MIDDLESEX HIGH — PARKHILL 6. STRATH ROY D.C.I. — STIR ATHROY Descriptive brochures are available at your nearest Middlesex County Elementary or secondary school. We reserve the right to alter or cancel courses for which there are less than 15 registrations. J. E. DUFFIN J. A. GUMMOW Chairman Director of Education