The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-07-26, Page 4Page 4-,Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, July 26, 1978
TheJ.ucknow Sentinel
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
‘‘The Sepoy Town"
On the Huron -Bruce Boundary
Established 1873 - Published Wednesday
A
Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd.
Robert G. Sprier - president and publishes
Sharon J. Dietz - editor
Anthony N. Johnstone - .advertising and
general manager
Subscription rate, $10 per year in advance
Senior Citizens rate, $8.00 per year in advance
U.S.A. and Foreign, $14 per year in advance
Business and Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822
Mailing Address P.O. Box 400, Lucknow NOG 2H0
Second class mail registration number - 0847
A success
About -5,000 people were in . Lucknow on
the weekend.. It isn't often, that something is
happening in our town; that will attract that
many people. But the Molson's. Point Series
Class A Tractor .Pull, sponsored by the
Lucknow Tractor_I.illers' Association, was a
b ig attraction `and a bfig success47.:
The Lucknow Tractor. Pullers' `Association
is to be congratulated for their progessive
attitude in thinking that Lucknow would
make a good -=s t-elor i u l r After submitting --
our
-•
our town as a location and having the pull
sanctioned, they went ahead and chose a
super location, away from the built up area of
town where the noise would bother people,
and where 3,000 people could gather on a
hillside to watch the event without crowding,
traffic jams and with the space to provide the
necessary facilities for the spectators and the
competitors. There was a campsite nearby for
those who travelled and wanted to stay the
weekend. Some people were in town as early
as the Tuesday before the pull looking for a
campsite where they could stay until
Saturday. They had come for the pull.
After building the regulation track ata cost
of $3,500, the Lucknow Tractor Pullers'
Assocation organized the event to run
smoothly in a professional manner. If you
didn't know the people working trackside
were local home-towners, you would have
thought they were track officials from the
Canadian Tractor Pullers' Association.
For those who are not interested in the
sport, it is perhaps difficult to believe 5,000
people would come to Lucknow to see a
tractor pull. But, to the fans of the fastest
growing motor sport in Canada, all the big
names were here on the weekend and they
came to see the best in their sport in
competition.
A further commendation goes to the people
who, assisted the Lucknow Association in
making the event the success it was: Becker
Farm Equipment, Reavie Farm Equipment,
Hackett.., .Farm Equipment, G & E Farm
Equipment, the Lucknow District Lions Club
and the Lions Ladies, the West Huron Junior
Farmers and the Lucknow Leo Club.
It will probably be a while before we have a
weekend where we host so many people to
enjoy an event in our town, where they pay $5
for admission but get their money's worth for
the day's entertainment. Probably not until
next year's pull. C.T.P.A. has asked the
Lucknow Tractor Pullers' if they want to hold
another pull next year and since the answer
was a wholehearted ``yes", C.T.P.A. has
marked the same weekend in July for the
Lucknow Tractor Pull. 1979.
Gta beef?
Write a letter
to the editor
N'.
en
ing the throttle
LOOKING BACKWARDS
THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES
75 YEARS AGO
At the big Orange demonstration in
Blyth, Monday last, the splendid brass
band of the Lucknow Musical Society
was awarded the first prize of $25 as the
best brass band on the grounds. The
band boys played in their handsome
new suits with coats of gray blue cloth
nicely ornamented with black braid and
black pants and blue black automobile
caps.
Dr. Spence of Lucknow was last week
presented with a beautiful gold headed
cane, suitably engraved, by the
brethern -3f Fordwich Lodge of Royal
Black Knights of Ireland.
The question of extending the
Canadian Pacific Railway from ` Guelph
to Goderich is again looming up. This
was advocated as a live scheme 20 years
ago and has briefly appeared on the
horizon at intervals since then, but for
some reason nothing further than talk
was ever done. If the road doescome to
Goderich it will not stop there and we
hope our village council --will- see to it
that Lucknow is not given the go-by.
The C.P.R. is anxious to tap the big ap-
ple belt through this section and we are
convinced that if the road is ever started
it will come to Lucknow.
" k--
Dear Sharon,
50 YEARS AGO'
David Campbell of concession 3,
Huron Township, was seriously injured
on Friday while at work hauling hay. He
was building a load when in some way
he was thrown to the ground. The fall so
affected the spinal column that he
became paralyzed to such an extent that
recovery seems unlikely.
It was away back about 1908 that
Orangemen last celebrated in Lucknow.
That's 20 years ago, but Orangemen did
not forget the way to the Sepoy Town.
30 Lodges marched in a procession to
Caledonian Park, to the music of the fife
and drum, with banners flying. A
speakers' platform had been erected at
the foot of the hill in the park and the
crowd gathered there:---..... •
A gentleman who was in Lucknow on
July 12 writes to us as follows: "A
person passing through Lucknow on
July 12th and seeing such a crowd
would think that the old Caledonian
games had started up again. But when
he stopped to listen he heard drums in
every corner, but could not catch °the
sound of the pipes, which, no doubt,
would be a treat to hear at most
celebrations.''
25 YEARS AGO
Flying officer J. H. Barger is
spending three weeks' embarkation
leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs'.
Howard Barger of Ashfield. He will sail
for Germany soon after his vacation
ends. He had been stationed at the
R.C.A.F. station at Bagotville, Quebec,
until three weeks prior to his leave,
when he . took a special instruments
course at North Bay.
Mrs. Grace Lockhart of Lucknow was
present on Saturday, July 11 at an
impressive event in Burlington, when
her son, John, laid the corner stone for
the new John A. Lockhart public school.
Mayor Smith, a member of Principal
Lockhart's first class at Central School,
33 years ago, presided. '
A young doe, caught in a fence on
Reid Bros. farm, concession 6 Ashfield,
got the best of veterinary treatment but
died despite the efforts to save it. Jack
Henderson, deputy game warden, took
the animal to O.A.C., Guelph after
having it examined here. It was injured.
internally and paralyzed, as well as
having suffered severe superficial
injuries to the legs.
Letters tot e editor
July 13, 1978.
I would like to bring your
readers up to date on the
Energy Conservation Cen-
tres serving Huron/Bruce
County. Its been four months
Since the Energy Conserva-
tion Centres opened in
Goderich and Lucknow. We
have run workshops on Solar
Energy, Wood Heating, and
Insulation, We've collected a
good library of books on
Energy Conservation and
alternate energy sources.
We've done presentations on
energy topics to a variety of
groups and schools. We've
done mall displays and a
variety 'of other programs.
We've tried to help with
individual questions and
we've distributed literature
on a number of energy
conservation topics.
Our upcoming programs
include a wind energy sem-
inar, in Goderich and Luck -
now; a play called . "The
Wiser of Off"; displays at
` fairs and festivals; film
nights, and a tour of alterna-
tive energy homes and
projects in Huron County.
The Conservation Centre
program will be coming to an
end in the first week of
September and we are trying
to determine which work-
shops and activities to repeat
or new ones to undertake
before this ending.
To date, we figure, we
have had contact with around
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5