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Ll./cKNOWe ONTARIO;;-
'"TherSeppy Town"
• On the 114r0P-Ernee Boundary
Established 1873 Published Wednesday
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Published:by Signal -Star Publising Ltd.*
Robed G. Shrier - president andpublisher
Sharon J. Dietz - editor
, • . Anthony N. .1onstone generaloianager
Business and Editorial office Telephone 528-2822
Mailing Address P. 0. Box 400, Lucknow NOG 2H0
Second class mail registration number - 0847 ,
SubsWption rate,.$10 peryear in advance. •
%Senior Citizens rate, $8.00 per year in advance Sk:
U.S.A. and Foreign,. $14 per year in advance
ee by the en tne
:THAT • not verymany people ,in
Lucknow phoned the -Sentinel t� tell Cis
where thev soent their Christrbas
holiday or who visited them for
, Christrrias.
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The rural' correspondents have leng-
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•thy columns telling about the holiday in
their areas but Very few who Ii.ve in town
phoned the.Sentinel so that we 'could
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• exchange ot news by phoning' ; the
• 's•Sentinei. with your personals and bits of
• news.
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Many of our rural Correspondents
wished theirreaders a Happy, New Year
and then went on, to spy that the columb
wbuld .be more lively and interesting in
the' coming- yearl if the readers would
pick up the phone •and • give the
columnist a call with their news., 4-
residents in the Local Briefs or, I See by • .
the 'Sentinel THAI! columns. -
This would have been one opportunity
for these columns to take uo a whole
•1/4.•page • in the 'paper betause-- the
Christmas„season is so bLisy with people.
coming .and going over the "holiday.
Our editor has been criticized for
• dastically editing these column's but
" their brevity is not due to editing, but
rather to lack -Of information. •
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• in a recent editorial we rernindecrcur
readers that the, hewspaper belongs to
• you, the readers, and that we would
appreciate any information which might
lead to a story or an item of local- interest
to be written in either, LocarBriefs or I
See by the Sentinel THAT.
Because the village has so many more
families within a small area it is
• impossible to ask a Lucknow'correspon-
.,. derit to phone every home to ask where
• they spent .the holiday or whether they
had visitors as the columnists in the
areas do.
Therefore, it is up tO you, the 'readers,
to make our Local Briefs column a lively
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• WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1974
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Friday, Sept. 23, 1777, whose grandparents former
neighbours of • Mine on the
Ashfield :farm.
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..Keith Johnston.
•To the ,Editer,
The Lucknow Sentinel.
• In renewing my subscriPtiOn
-for another year. I would like top •
89 Haddington'Ave. Toronto.
make a request.
Deceinher 29, 1977. .
First, Victoria's Beacon. Hill •
Park is‘a very beautiful place with
trees "and shrubs from many
lands, There axe many, varieties.of
maple tree's, but I can only, find
two •ugar maples in all the park
and. they are getting old.
My request is this. Would some
of you people gather some maple
Seeds'ancl mail-thed to me and I
• will 'make a donation to your
favourite charity or contact- sone
c, service club and -I will make a
° donation to 'them, as 1 wantAto
grow some- sugar Maples..
,Thanicing you in__ advance,: I
remain
Sincerely,
Stewartpurnan,
• 104-1050 }lark Blvd.,
Victoria, B.C.
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•December 26, 1977.
Weat the' Sentineliwouid like to wish To the • Editot:: •
the residents of Lueknow a Happy New.
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Year and we urge' you ,to phone the We would _like to express Our
Sentinel Withyour news items because thanks to the members of the.Leo
the paper is your ,newspaper and will be• Club and Rod. McDonagh, their
more , interesting because you have • leader, for the delicious'hot meal
called. .. • • deliveredtous the night of the
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• M.any •of you may be sitting back • Due to *illness, we were unable
thinking• 4•that how .you spent •yOur6 to attend so they • suggested
•phristmas •holidfiy would be of - .little: bringing our mea.l...19 us.
interest. to anyone else. •: • ,
• . This to us,- was showing the
°• real meaning of Christmas.
• But, at the Sentinel, we receive letters • ' •Best of hick to all in the ftittire.
• - from readers OUtside •the immediate . • I.- •
area who say that the Sentinel is Like a • ,Frank and Sara Ritchie.
letter from home ecause it carries the •, . •
columns written by . thse:ruralcorreS;::-.
pond en ts...and they enjoy reading .aboul,,,AioltiMM'!...Pie`21-
the people who are living in the home
community. Itis a major reason why,the
.Sentinel enjoys such a large readership '.
and who.sb many of you thought to give
a year's - subscription as a Christmas
present to family and friends who live
away.
May 1978 be a healthy, prosperous
- and happy New Year for all our readers
, and may it seethe local columns take on
•• a new and lively interest. contributor • Joanne Walters
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' Enclosed payment for my
`year's subscription t� the Sentin-;
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Also byway of coincidence the
name of your editor was familiar
,since my daughter, Moira, has
been praying—baseball with her -
sister,' Sheila for the •Waterloo°
osts,
My daughter hlso went to
school in Goderich with our
• to the. Editor, ',••••1
The Sentinel.
It has been *cresting to see
• •some changes creeping. into the
Sentinel since you have taken
over. So far, they have not ,been
too revolutionary. One I like is
• the, `by-line' for the &rat corres-
• pondents. It is -nice to know who:is
• sending in the home news each
• week-. And 1 think I have seen
• some little write-up about some of
them too.
__But_whati_am vaiting_about is _
the report of the Federation of
Agriculture conVention abont us-
ing
Canadian food if at, all
possible. The paragraph about ,
the label 'canada NO. 1"%. not
• necessarily -Meaning produced •in •
• Canada should be stressed again
and again. If .we do not read The
label carefully weo think we are
;getting Canadian produce when it
• is really imported food which
comes up to No. 1 standards. So -4., •• •
buyer, Beware! ',I remember a
• year or so ago hearing -or reading
about a .surplus •of carrots ..in
storage up, at Holland Marsh and
there was not a Canadian carrot to
be seen in -the supermarket ,
nearest .me. hy should we be
forced to buy tiny, dainty,
• spindly, imported carrots when
we have plenty of...good husky
Canadian carrots. • 'I am sure ours
have Just as much`vitamtn content •
whew, „they. are - fufly grown
carrots, ..not babies. . . •
A week or so ago, I was looking
forbacon. The're were 3 pries -
.$1.78, $1.58 and $1.19. The cheap
'one came from United States.
Why should we be tempted to buy
• America n •bacon when we have•
plenty of our • own, 'and why
should it be so much cheaper? I
• was just stubborn enough to buy
one of the•others. And rm sure it
_. tasted just as good: But not as
good as the home-cured.bacon we ,
used to produce ourselves!
Yours sincerely,
.(Mrs. E. Margaret A. Pritchard..
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75 YEARS AGO
rATfflhiflamgawas worked
on eight well known farmers in
Huron Township says -the Ripley
Express. The Indiana Cattle Co.
only a natne,, and the tWo-yoting
. men who are going- through the
• ' country fleecing innocent victims,
are a pair 'of bold' 'sharks. The
larmer sells his taftle at his own• .
price, receives $2.00: 'on the
bargain, and signs' what he
supposes to he an agreement, •
which turns out to be- a pate felt
the amount of money he- Was to:
have received for his cattle,
Rev. • L O. . Stringer gave a• ,
lecture on his life and experience
among • tb_e_lhdiansii --
• maux 'at :Herschel Island, at the
• • far noith.; Arctk'Oceand ,
The Lucknow hockey team has
entered a league which Is
recognized as a league of- smite
• itnportance and the outcome of
each game is eagerly loatced for.in
'. . the daily papers; The games must
start at ; a Set tinic so that the
spectators are not kept ah haul, in •
aciKWBTOSTiiiit -es
the cold waiting-forthe start:. NOS
will be fine- for thOse residing
otig_the_c ear - •waysf • ut
to the.man living a few:miles:back
on a crossroad; fie 'is: likely to
have a: good. Snow •road •for his
sleigh or cutter.
they •get -yen?. ,
Twenty-three thousand persons •
Will be killed and 700,000 injured
in automobile ;accidents in the '
U.S. in 1928 Unless tire. accident
record • shows an unexpected
improvenient, the Travellers' In-
Surance Company predicts.
kecord,s of 1926 ..atid 1925 shdwed
'that .someone is 'either killecror
injured in
every .14 seconds:—
posts so that no dispute will arise
when a' goal is scored, which has
alwayS been a drawbackito hockey
in these parts. There can be no •
disputes between players and
referee as 'the referee has full
control and must not allow rough
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Dr. Anna Nicholson left last
• week for Northampton, Massa-
chiissetts, where she has an
appointment to the staff of Smith
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The Department of Highways is
keeping the main • roads •fairly
clear of snow, so that. they are
open to automobile traffic, in the
southern part of the province and
extending as far north as the
Godetich-Clinton toad, Ttlie wli
Mk incur so great an expense as
would first appear, as 'the, snow
does not actumulate to any
considerable' depth where the
roads havebeen built ttrir. This
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• WellingtOn• Nixon. of town "has'
" made. a svi prising recovery from.
a stroke Suffered two years ago. It
was taken for granted he would •
• never walk again„, htit
fooled everYone, and 'from an
unsteady shuffle he. .now steps
along fairly lfriskly. Fle.wa able,
. to spade his 'whole garden last
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__IDouglas-Emberlia, son. of_Mr.---7---'e
tion_as_the
anada
• and Mrs. Fred Embedin of town,
arrived Itotne last week on.
furlough after returning from
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seeing service in the' Korean
theatre of operations as a crew
member of H.M.C.S, Nootka.
Bill Hatikirk has won recogni-
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and was interviewed last Monday:
on Foster Hewitt's station,
CKFH, Toronto. He suffered an
injury in a track pile-up earlier in
theyear, but was no sooner out of
the hospitalthan he was back in
the sulky attain. • ,
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