The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-03-21, Page 20Pap 20-AseWow Sentinel, Wednesday, March 21:1979
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BY AB WYLDS
On Sunday Feb. 11,
Norman and Mabel.
Barnard flew into Cuba
for a two. week vacation.
On Mon. Feb. 12, they
mailed a post card ' to
their neighbours saying
that they had arrived.
Well, they beat the card
back home to Ripley.
They. came back on Sun.
Feb. 25th and their card
arrived in the mail at
Ripley last Wednesday
Mar. 13, 31 days in transit.
Still that is better than
two summers ago when
the writer mailed a notice
card of an
Agricultural So4iety to
Robert O,s.borne on a
Thursday: The meeting.
was held on Monday
evening and his wife
Muriel got it in their mail
box at RR 5 Lucknow.
Bob and Muriel live on
the 4th concession, two
blocks south of Ripley
presumably it went down
to Kitchener or wherever
the mail truck turns
around. and it must have
.rested there • before
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Recently home from
the hospital are Murray
McDonald and Mrs. Nora
Frederiksen both from
Kincardine. 'Also Mrs.
Gladys. Nicholson from
London.
Last Wednesday Sim
Huber of Lurgan un-
derwent . • surgery in
University Hospital in
London. Ripley area folks
send best wishes.
Clarence Wylds of
Ripley who has been in
St. Joseph's Hospital in
London is back in Kin-
cardine Hospital for
further treatment.
Tena and Vincent
Wardell of Tiverton spent
the weekend 'with their
grand parents; Les and
Dorothy Wardell on the
4th concession of Huron
Township.
Last Friday morning
CKNX Farnn Reporter
Cliff Robb interviewed
Eugene Schnurr . of.
Mildmay about " the
history of his feed mill
and seed cleaning plant
there. Originally away
back years ago it was
first used. to build buggies
and democrats.. Eugene
Schnurr is known to a
number in the Ripley
area as he used to clean
grain for the c.N.E. grain,
show. Gordon Patterson,
Jim Needham and John
C. MacDonald were some
of the farmers using his
• plant. The writer
remembers Eugene took
great pride in the
cleaning and he has even
attended the Ripley Fall
fair to compare his work
with. others. Prior to his
buying the mill he worked'
for a' building contractor
doing cement work and
they did somein' the
•Ripley area.
Miss Laurie
MacLennan, daughter of.
Jeannie Marie and
George MacLennan of
Agincourt, spent last
weekend with Miss
Florence MacDonald in
Ripley. Laurie . is
presently employed in
special health care work
in Woodstock.
Last Wednesday the
gas pumps • at Frank's
Garage were back in
operation pumping
gasoline for customers.
On Mon: Mar. 5 Frank=
Zysfel' found it necessary
to close down gas pum-
ping as after more than 30
;years the underground
metal storage tanks had
developed leaks. Dinnie
. MacDonald, Ripley's gas
and oil trucker,' loaned
Frank the use of his
pumps at his depot about.
`'a half mile south of
Ripley. And .Frank's
daughter, Miss Debbie
Zipfel went out there and
pumped gals '1 for
customers for about ten
•days. Working Wayne
Lowry's ' machinery
diggingup the old tanks
and putting in the new
ones were Lynn Reid and
Dennis Courtney and the
installation work was
done by George Dowdell
of Owen Sound. With
everything back in full
swing it is once again
possible to get gas for
your car in Ripley. Frank
is grateful to .Dinnie
MacDonald for the loan of
his pumps, to his
customers, for going out,
and to his daughter
Debbie who operated.
Dinnie's pumps.. All this
happened when Brian
Pollock, at the' Sunoco
Garage was in Florida on
a family vacation.
Mary and Sam
Lazarivick (the former
Mary Forster) of
Brantford visited and
stayed with their freinds
Gayle and Ken MacLeod
on the 8th concession
west .over the weekend.
During that time they
visited with Mary's
brothers. and sisters.
They are Jamie on the
home farm, Barbara,
Annetta, Ruthe, Dorinda,
Bob and Donald.
Kevin Morrison of
Melbourne is spending
the winter break week at
the home of Donnie and
Carol Fludder; Tammy
and Jason and also with
his cousin Cathy and
other family members.
Bill and Helen
McCreath returned home
last week from Florida
while the two MacTavish
families,. Don and : Anna,
Jim and Marj, are
reported to have gone to
California. Planning to go
to Florida are Mrs. Elsie
Forrester, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Brennan, and, to the
Barbados_ Bobby
Robertson.
One ' afternoon last
week, Leslie and Dorothy.
Wardell and Mrs..
Margaret Harkness
visited the Pine :Crest.
Manor Nursing Home in
Lucknow, Dorothy and
Margaret entertained the
residents with musical
numbers.
Plominent Hanover
and Fort Elgin
businessman Carmon
Osborne of Hanover, a
former native of the
Clarksarea, concession
12, in Huron township,
was the guest speaker at
a gathering in Lucknow
last Thursday afternoon.
Miss Jean MacDonald
of the Pine Crest Manor
Nursing Home staff. in
Lucknow was home last
Tuesday to Thursday, to
Ripley for a break.
Visitors with John and
Helen MMcMurchy over
the weekend were Cecil
and Reta Robb of Lucan,
also Glen and Doreen
Ferguson of Windsor and
Glen's • mother Mrs:
Margaret Ferguson of
Lucknow.
Mrs. Katherine Coiling
reports seeing many
different kinds of birds
including robins on their
spring migration passing
by her home in Ripley.
Canada Packers of
Toronto had their quilt
collection on display at
the convention in the
Royal York Hotel. Among
these quilts was one
made by Mrs. Marion
McCharles of Lochalsh.
In the coloured slide
competition Ripley got
one prize.
Mrs. Dorothy Wardell
was recently looking
back through a number of
store 'bills saved by her
mother, the late Mrs. W.
J. Robb. These bilis were
for the year 1913 and were
from stores in
Dungannon two general
merchants - J. W.
Walkom and B.J.
Crawford, hardware
merchant R.A.
MacKenzie, and footwear
merchant Charles Elliott.
Also there was a bill from
the store of H.D. Woods in
St. Helens dated 1912.
Some of the:prices are,"
very interesting in
times of inflation. He[s
are, some examples -
cheese 14 cents a pound,
soap 5 cents a bar, cotton
cloth 11 Gents a yard,
matches' 5 cents a box,
castor oil 10 cents a bottle,
overshoes $1.25 a pair,
coal oil 25 cents a . gallon
bread 10 cents a lamp.
glass 5 cents and a lan-
tern glass 10 cents, 7
pounds : ofnails for 25
cents, 71/2 lbs of meat for.,
92 .cents, and 'a spool of
thread for 5 cents:.i:Twp,
larger` items "`Nwiere a
complete waterpump for
$12.50 and a hayfork outfit
to be installed in the barn
'complete, with fork, car,
track, pulleys, 2 chains
and ropes for $16: lap -
proximately. Her mother
sold home churned butter
back to the store at 19
cents a pound.' Oh, for
those days to' come back
again.
Mrs. Donald . Anderson
of Waterford Ontario
spent the weekend with
her mother Mrs. W.J.
Mackay at Huron Villa
and called Ton . other
MacKay relatives in the
vicinity.
A guest on Cliff
.Robb's Radio .Interview
the past Monday was Dr.
;Ron Finlay.
Ripley delegat
es report
The Ripley
Agricultural society held
its March meeting on
Monday evening Mar. 12
with president Dan . A.
MacDonald in charge.
Secretary Don
MacTavish read the
minutes of the previous
meeting and' treasurer
Mrs. Gloria Rutledge
gave the financial report.
Ten' deleghates attended
the Ontario Convention in
Toronto in mid February.
Full reports were given
by Mrs. orate Peet, Mrs.
Janert Farrell, and Mrs.
Sheila MacDonald Also
reporting on various
parts were Jack Farrell,
Don MacTavish, and Dan
A. MacDOnald. Morley -
Scott '"'' reported . that
everything was ready for
the St. Patrick's dance
• held last Saturday
evening Mar. 17 in the •
complex. There were
discussions on the
judgingschool in Chat-
sworth in April and
renovation of ,, Knox Shed
as well as other matters.
Present for the meeting
were Dan A. and Sheila
MacDonald, Wes Smith\,
Ab Wylds, Robert
Osborne, Jack and Janet
Farrell Grace Peet, Bob
Forster, Bob and Gloria
Rutledge, John and
Barbara Gamble, More!
and Deanna Scott,, -.Wes
Smith, Don MacTavish,
and Ted Rouse.