The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-12-26, Page 5February
The commercial printing
business in Lucknow which
has been in the Thompson
family name for over SQ years
has been sold to Tony
Johnstone of Lucknow.
The printing business
which was one of the first in
the village was established.
with
with the Lucknow Sentinel
newspaper in 1873.
In 1928 the late Campbell
Thompson became associat-
ed •with the newspaper and
•the printing •business which
he later purchased. His son,
Don, joined his father in the
business on a full time basis
in 1953 followig a stint at
Ryerson Polytechnical. School,
in Toronto.
In 1959, Don formed a
partnership with his Dad and
following his fathers sudden
death in 1964, he purchased
his mother's. interests.
During most of the past 40
• Hold 100th
annual
meeting
Kenneth B. MacLean,
Bruce Township,. and Donald
McKenzie, Goderich Were
elected directors to the West
Wawanosh Mutual Fire In-
surance Company at their
100th annual meeting on
February 16, 1979, in Dun-
gannon.
•Retiring directors were
Charles Anderson, who retir-
ed in September due to
illness, and George C. Feag-.
an who was not eligible for
• re-election.
Mr. Feagaii has served as
a member of the company for
26. years.
The meeting introduced to
the membership a new sec-
• retary-treaSurer, Stephen
Whitney andassistant sec:-
• retary-treasurer, , Joanne
Whitney, Who replace Frank
and Cora. Thompson, who
• served in. the positions re-
spectively since 1962.
Machinery
•dealership.
moves
A Lucknow business,
which has been in the same
family for over 40 years, will
• move to a new location on
Huron County Road l', south
of the village on Fibrimry 20.
Hackett Farm Equipment
was started in 1938 by Sandy
Hackett at his farm on 'con-
• cession 10 of Ashfield Towii-
• ship. His son, Tom, assisted
with the business at the.time.
In 1943-44 the business
• was moved to Wingham
where it continued operation
until 1950, when it was
moved to its present location
on Ross Street, just south of
• Campbell Street, next to the
Lucknow arena. Tom took
over the business when it
moved back to Lucknow.
• In 1970 Tom's sons, Allan
and Barry, tick over opera-
tion of the business. In 1977,
Allan and his son, Steven,
purchased Barry's share.
Tom is still actively involvr
ed in the business, with his
•son and grandson,
An Allis Chalmers dealer-
ship for the community, they
sell new equipment, parts
• and provide sales and serv-
ice.
years, with increasing_ am-
ounts of time in later years,
Don's mother, Mrs. Marga -
et Thompson, Thompson,. has worked in
the business. With the death
of Campbell Thompson,
Don's wife, Bev, relinquish-
ed her teaching career to
work in the fainily business.
The business was formerly
located where the Bruce
County Health Unit Office is
now. When the business
moved to its location ,on the
south side of Campbell Street
next to the Mayfair Restaur-
ant, Thompson introduced a
retail stationery business in a
modest way which gradually
expanded over the years.
In August, 1977, the news-
paper was sold to Signal -Star
Publishing of Goderich and it
relocated on the north side o
the main street next to
Johnstone Furniture.
The Thompsons continued
the commercial printing and
the retail stationery business
in conjunction with a Loto
Canada distributorship' un-
der the name Sepoy Station-
ery and Printing, at the.
former Sentinel office.
The commercial printing
and stationery business has
been sold to Tony Johnstone,
a former employee of the
Thompsons for 13 years.
Clarence Adams,, White-
church,. died Saturday in
hospital in London, as a
result of injuries suffered in a
two car collision on highway
86, west of Wingham on
Friday night. The Adams
vehicle Was in collision with a
car driven by Douglas John -
ton, Lucknow, around 8
a
p.m,
three miles w
ham.
W• h 86,
of Wing-
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business
When the newspaper was
sold, Tony left thc Thompson
business to be advertising
manager for the newspaper
with the new owners.
Don will now concentrate
on his lottery distribution
business where he is Lottery
Distributor for Lots? Canada
and Cash for Life Lotteries in
the counties of Brant, Ox-
ford, Perth and Huron.
Johnston is still a patient
in Wingham and District
Hospital with an injured foot,
cuts and bruises.
Passengers in the John-
ston vehicle, Anthony How-
ald, Lucknow, was treated
for injuries to his arm and
discharged and Richard Con-
ley, Lucknow, Was treated for
injury to his knee and dis-
charged. •
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