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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-08-18, Page 19• rlpley nows sigimmismiar Lae'mow Sentinel, Wednesday, Aa gust 18, 1982 --Page 19 Local agricultural society holds annual meeting On -Monday evening of last week, August 9 at. 9 p.m. the Ripley Agricultural Society held its monthly meeting. At- tending were Grace Peet, Don and Anna MacTavish, John and Barbara Gamble, Keith van, der, Hoek, Bob Forster, Wilma Sutton, Ker- mit Goodhue, Gordon Pat- terson, atterson, Doug Martyn, Janet Farrell, and Ab Wylds for a total of 13. The meeting was held in the Huron Township Hall, an annual occurrence due to the: school vacation. President John Gamble called the meeting to order and secretary Don Mac- Tavish read the minutes of the. July meeting. Don also reported that Murray Car- diff, member for ..the. Huron Bruce, g at Ottawa had consented to be in Ripley on Saturday, September 25 to open the fall fair. Doug Mar- tyn, master of ceremonies at the friendly fair and annual homecoming, discussed the afternoon program. Treasurer Wayne Fitzgerald reported'on the finances and also that the collections were finished. After due delibera- tion the liability insurance was increased and like everything else the rates have increased over last year. Barbara Gamble reported on thelans for Debbie Lowry of�Lurgan to attend the. Canadian, National 'Ex- hibition as the first "Miss Ripley Fall Fair." Judy Hawrylyshyn and Barbara Gamble deserve great credit for bringing this to happen. In previous years the society had always declined the in- vitation to hold the competi- tion for a queen for the Ripley fall . fair. Vice- president Keith van der Hoek will be needing help to get the float redecorated for Kincardine and Lucknow fairs. The next meeting of the society will be at nine on. Monday evening September 13 in the high school cafeteria. The fair is at the end of the next week so this LS a "must attend' occasion. Recent visitors with Reg and Harriet Moore in Hanover were Gertie Kidney, Mary Pollock, Utha Culbert, and Reta Irwin. On Monday evening of last week Dr. and Mrs. Donald M. Finlayson and son Donald on their way back home to Toronto called here for a short visit with Fran and Ab Wylds. A specialist in medicine Donald has his of- fice fRee In .the Medical Arts Building at the corner of Bloor and St. George Streets in mid Toronto. He entered the University of Toronto in the fall of 1941 after suc- cessfully passing the Ontario Departmental examinations in the Ripley Continuation School here. - the forerunner of the Ripley District High School • In that 1941 class at R.C.S. were Marion White, Margaret (Peg) Bowers, Blanche MacDougall; Janet MacDonald, Bill Crawford, Stewart MacDonald, and Donald Finlayson - the first ones to take . Upper School Zoology and Botany in Ripley. From here they went to qualify in the professions - a nurse, two medical doc- tors, and four school. teachers. Secretary Don MacTavish received the results of two field crop competitions spon- sored by the Ripley Agricultural Society in co- operation with the Ontario Department of Agriculture and judged by James Richardson of Walkerton. There were 15 fields in the fall wheat competition and 19 fields in the second cut hay competition. They are scored out of 100 points. Ex- hibitors should check. the 1982 Ripley fall fair prize list for the additional ints allowed for exhibits at the fair on Friday and Saturday, Sept.24 and 25.° The. Ripley fall wheat fields were scored as follows Bill Scott 95, BobRutledge 94, John Gamble 93, Francis Boyle 92, Wes Smith 91, Grant McDonald 90, . Bob Scott 89, Sandy Pollock 88,. Gary Courtney 87, Jack Campbell 86, Carl Hooey 85, Allan. Farrell 84, Donald Forster 83, Jim Scott 82, and Jack Farrell 81. The second cut hay fields were placed as follows. - Jim. Scott (Con. 4) 77, John Gam- ble 76', Rick Smith 75, Den- nis Bridge 74%, Bob Blackwell 74, Keith van der Hoek 73, John C. MacDonald 72, . Carman Bridge 71, Jim Needham 70, Bob Osborne 69, Gordon' Patterson 68, Blake Lotton 67, Carl Hooey 66, Dan MacDonald 65, Ker- mit Goodhue 64, Bob Rutledge. 63, Jack Farrell 62, Hugh Mason 61, and Murray Wilken 60. The next step is to get those exhibits ready for he fair and delivered to the Ripley Complex. Noel and Diane MacLeod f Toronto, along with Brian nd Norma Mahoney stayed :t the MacLeod home on the 'mirth Concession east in he. Huron Township while tette MacLeod was in Ed- monton. Bette attended the lames McConnell family reunion. . Eighty • of his descendants were present. Of his eight children, seven are still living and were pre- sent at the reunion. Bette had met all but one of these seven first cousins before but it was a first time meeting for many of the younger members of the elan. Did you watch C.K.N.X. television last Wednesday. evening August llth? If so, believe it or not there was Ripley playing . baseball against the Montreal Expos. Ripley was the pitcher, Allen Ripley, of the Chicago Cubs and he did a good job for the first two thirds of the game. Last Friday evening, Mrs. Marion McCharles of Kin- cardine phoned to alert Ab Wylds that, in the Saturday Toronto Star, section F, page 14 on August 7 there was an article on Aeneas Mc - Charles. Friends knowing her interest brought Marion a copy of the paper and. knowing my interest she had phoned. Checking ' our copy we see there is a picture of the tomb stone in Mount Pleasant Cemetery a few .blocks northeast of the cor- ner of St. Clair Avenue on Yonge Street in Toronto. The name McCharles on the stone is clear and it is a fine article in the weekly series on Historical Toronto. ° Aeneas McCharles • was born in 1844 near Middle River in Cape Breton. In the ' 1850s his family carne to tree covered Huron Township and he and his young brother helped clear the trees on the fifty acre farm in the first block east of Olivet on the find Concession Huron Township. school teacher. This is where we get interested. He wasthe first teacher in the early sixties in the Lewis or Lame Sandy School on the forty•acres just east of the farm Where Ab Wylds was born and raised. This school was on the front of the Lame Sandy MacDonald farm where the presf.rit owner Jerry Huber built his new livestock barn across the road from the Huron Township waste disposal site. Here Aeneas McCharles taught day .school and in winter a couple of nights a week he taught the young people to change , from the Gaelic to the English �Thenghis book Bemocked of Destiny is well known to local historians here. The W.J. Crawford copy is still safely shelved in the Ripley library. However, we fear that some official will come along and decide that it is taking up needed space. This book should be reprinted:. Our copy was lost in the 1948 Ripley Continuation School fire. +++• This month is drawing to a close and so is the summer season. Shortly it will be September. Even the yellow jacket hornets or wasps know that and so they are busy .enlarging those gray paper ball nests which they build. Come to think about it they love these fall fairs coming in September especially when .the. weather is nice. Then they can ,be thereto help drinkup all that sweet pop. Then wasps like: all those juicy tender pears so they gather around, with a little help from birds such as starlings and blackbirds to pick holes they are in business. People often mistake the yellow jackets for bees. Last week a fair sized paper nest of them .was demolished at Norman and Mabel Bar- nard's garage and a piece of paper comb containing. brood was brought upstreet where we had a ` lot .of mileage. -with it showing , the queens and workers chewing their way from the capped cells. Even a former classmate of ours Roy Jackson of Detroit who is at his home in Ripley was. tell- ing about a these hornets building the wren bird house on his verandah into their nest. You know they like living with people - all that food - pears, discarded pop cans and bottles, and . assorted sweets. Generally :if people do not disturb them they lve peacefully until. October frosts kill all but the young queens which hibernate for next year. Since a few dozen queens are raised in each nest the population should be on the increase. Just asin the case of bees ifa person is allergic to the venom, one sting could be fatal. Repairs to the flat roof on the' George and Joy McLean Store - the former Commer- cial Hotel have made"t necessary to close the handy alleyway beside the store. r r r Howard D. McGee passed away in the Markdale Hospital fallowing a lengthy illness on Monday, August 2. in his eighty-fourth year. He is survived by his wife, the former Ethel Thompson, a member of the Thompson family who lived on Conces- sion eight in Huron Township He is also surviv- ed by Jean, Mrs. Marilyn Oleson of Markdale. David of London, Harvey of Barrie, and . Thomas of Flesherton. Also fourteen grandchildren survive.. ' The funeral conducted by Rev. Grundy was held on Thursday, August 5th at the Fawcett Funeral Home in Flesherton. Interment was in the family plot in the Markdale Cemetery. Howard had many friends and acquaintances in this area and frequently visited here. Our thanks to W. Elmer Thompson of Kincardine, brother-in-law for sending us this obituary and sympathy goes to. the family on their bereavement. Shortly before supper time last Sunday afternoon the Ripley fire whistle sounded. Soon the two red.. trucks were on their way to Point Clark in response to a reported car fire. Folksare glad to learn that Mrs: Pearl (Allister) MacKay of :the Sixth Conces- sion east in Huron Township was able to return home last Thursday. She was a patient in St. Joseph's Hospital. Mrs. Francis Gemmell,: a former.. Provincial Board Director, attended the 85th Anniversary of the founding of the Women's Institute at the Constellation . Hotel in Toronto last Thursday, August 12. Over 1800 W.I. members from all. over On- • tario attended the luncheon in the . Galaxy Room. The guest speaker was the presi- dent of the Associated Coun- try Women of the World, Mrs. Ziny Westebring - Muller ,froze Holland. The theme sof the event was "From a flicker to a flame". Mrs. Violet `MacKenzie of Ripley attended the 25th An- niversary ' of Donald and Joyce MacKenzie. • The 'din- ner and dance, attended by many friends and relatives, was held in the Curling Club in Peterborough. 'Also Lorne and Marian MacKenzie, Rob, Susan, and Heather of Unionville have been vacationing for two weeks now at Point Clark and visiting with his mother Mrs. Violet MacKenzie in Ripley. ' Last . Friday, August 13, 1982, Ted MacDonald died suddenly ' in Western Hospital in Toronto. The funeral service was held on Monday morning at the Turner and Porter. "Peel" Chapel in Mississauga. Sur- viving are his wife Dee, son David; parents Doug and Reta MacDonald and sister Sharyn. To these and to all the many relatives in this area sympathy is extended at this time of sad bereave- ment. Horne from the capital city of Riyadh (say Re -add) yin far away and oil rich Saudi Arabia for the month of. August vacation is . Ripley's own "Doc Donald John". Of- ficially he is Dr. Donald,John McDonald M.D. F.R.C.S. (C) and he is the Acting Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research . Centre . in Riyadh, built in 1975 and one of the most modern in the world. Doc . is one of Canada's contributions to the Saudis. On Sunday evening some. thirty relatives attended a . family dinner at the home of his aunt Mrs. Elizabeth Fair and his mother Mrs. Mary (John A.) McDonald on the Main Street (Huron) in Ripley in honour of him, his wife Pat, and sons Scott, Steve, and Duff and daughter Julie. During the last year Scott attended the St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Aurora where he finished the year second highest in his class. At the end of the school . year Mrs. Pat McDonald, Steve, Duff and Julie returned to Canada and along with Scott they have been at the family cottage on the Severn. Last Saturday, August 14. was the Ripley and District Lions Club Fun Fest and Beef Barbecue day in the ball park and complex. The weather made it very en- joyable -, warm, dry, and fresh - perfect for those tak- ing part or attending. In the evening several strolled upstreet. Nick and Grace Peet of Ripley travelled to Simcoe to witness the baptizing of their grandson Nicholas John, in- fant son of John and Helene Charman (Peet). Other ests from this area were and Gerry Stam and sonSarnuel. Last Thursday afternoon Dr. John D. Munn of Toronto and the . Lakeshore ` Road (Blairs Grove area) ' in Huron . Township was in Ripley and on meeting with him upstreet he recalled the time we both Were .team- mates on the Western University Soccer team in London. ,;:f [LI i., 4•• (444. • •.. 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