The Lucknow Sentinel, 1976-12-01, Page 2PAO"! TWO TH1 LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1976
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The LUCKNOW SENTINEL.
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO . a
"The•Sepoy Town" -- the .11uromBrune Boundary
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Second Class mail Registration Number 0847
Established 1873 :--'Publisheil Wednesday
Member of the C.C.N.A. and 0.W:N.A.
Subscription Rate, $8.00 year in advance
$2 extra to U.S.A. and Foreign • • •
Donald C. Thompson, Publisher * •
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LOOKING BACKWARDS
THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES
WITH MARGARET THOMPSON
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90th Birthday
A large number of friends and
relatives gathered at the Legion
.Hall in Lucknow on' Friday Nonni-,
ber 19 to help' John MacMurchy
celebrate . his
.90th birthday.
'Palicing to Doyd's Orchestra with .
novelty.dances was enjoyed by, all.
After two delightful • solos by.
Bertha Scott,. Cecil Humphrey,
MX. 'called John and his, wife
Helen to the platform..
Two of his grandchildren,
Marsha Humphrey of London and
Roy Ferguson of Ottawa, carried
the birthday cake to the platform as
everyone sang "Happy Birthday".
The Lucknow Branch of the
Canadian• Bible Society has corn-
pleted its, annual canvass.for 1970,
A total ,of $558.55' was collected in:
•Lucknow and • surrounOing' area.
With the help of,eVeryone in this
area, many 'mope Bibles will , be
printed'in various languageg arid
distributed to:lhe Bibl,eleSs h6mes
in different parts of the world.
Johnny in his, usual jovial
manner made a fitting reply, after
which lunch 'Was served with '
flowers and, candles decorating the
table. More dancing brought an
enjoyable evening to a close.
The Bible Society appreciate the
work of the following canvassers:
°Mrs.% C. Roulston, •Miss ,N, Weath.
erhead, Mrs[T. Klopstra, Mrs. E.
Brown,. Mrs.' R..'Dainsfila, Mrs: A, Garritnie,,Mrs. V. Hunter, D., .
-Caineron, Mrs.' 'L. Van, Staalduin,
Mrs"..4. Krentzweiser, Mrs. E,
Henderson, Mrs. J. Sutherland, „
Mrs. P. Cook, Mrs. B. McDonagh,
Mrs. J. Mathers, Mrs, A. LOree,
Mrs: R. Cumming, Mrs. A.
.Morton, Miss C. .Milne, Mrs. R.
Shiells, Miss A. Webster, Mrs.. R.
Havens, Miss M. Figher, Mrs,
deJong,' Young People of the
Christian Reformed Church. •
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20 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 1956
The Lucknow Sawmill reopened
after being closed for two years.
The new proprietor was Win.
,Stevenson of Brussels, with , the
operation of the mill requiring
about ten men. ,
Ripley Junior Farmers organized
a Wage-War-On-Rats campaign
which was effective in this area for
the Months, of November and
December. The purpose of the
campaign was to eradicate rats and
mice from all farms in this area and
to awaken 'the farm population as'
well • as others to the costly
destruction caused by these anim-
als. Hugh • Mason of Huron
Township was general chairmah of
the' campaign. Other committee
members from Ripley were Tom
Farrell, Dougald Campbell, Bob
Osborne,. Jim Needham, Gordon.
Patterson and Duncan Campbell,
president of the group.
40 YEARS,AGP
NOVEMBER 1936
An interesting story appeared in
The Sentinel as to the naming of e'a
picturesque village on the Nine
Mile River in the County of Huron,
Dungannon". .
For some time after the Town-
ship of Ashfield was first .settled it
was lacking in mail facilities,. so .
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Bruce Raynard
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that ' 1852 a post office was
established, south of the present
site of Dungannon and was known
as Wawanosh. To many the • site
was not favourable however and
two years later 1854 a store was
started to the north by Robert
Clendenning. •
The original community lacked
an aggressive leader and so
nothing was done by way of
establishing a village until William
Mallough came in 1855. This
pioneer came from .County Tyrone
in Ireland and after laying out the
site of the proposed village" he
called it Dungannon, in honour of
the town in Ireland from where he
came. The authorities' authorized
the removal of the post office from
Wawanosh and so it' came to the
new site on the town' line between
the .Township of Ashfield and,
Wawanosh and assumed the name • of Dungannon.
There was influx of Irish settlers
and by 1880 the village had a
population 'of 200. The village in
the 80's had three general stores,
two shoe shops, two hotels, a large
carriage shop, a steam gristmill
and sawmill, a telegraph office and
a conveyancer's office. There were
three churches, Canadian Method-
ist, Presbyterian and Episcopal. It.
was the seat of the Sixth Division
Court of the County, with John
Cook and Robert Hagan 'as clerk
and bailiff.
60 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 1916 •
A' wind and snow storm swept
over the area and was followed by
news of disaster on the Great Lakes
in which many sailors lost their
lives. .The loss which affected this
part most keenly .was that of the
freighter "Merida", which was
swamped off Windsor. A .number
of the crew were from the
Township of Ash field and Goder-
ich.
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