'Best Year' Glengarry Highland Games Drew More Than 1
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On a day like this, one can About the only people not understand girls spending making Maxville their mecca hours in Lake Ontario or the Saturday were the Mohamme- channel. The Glengarry dans. ONE OP CANADA’S AWARD-WI NNING WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS Toi. LXIV—No. 31 ALEXANDRIA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4th, 1955 SINGLE COPY 7c See Hundred Million Dollar Crop Disaster In Ontario And Quebec Provinces Worst Feature Of Relentless Heat In G-lengarry Is Destruction Of Life-Saving Award Pastures—Many Farmers Already Feeding Presented Alexandria Federal agricultural officials see a $100,000,000 crop dis- Member Of R.C.M.P. aster for Ontario and Quebec this sufumer as the relentless heat Constable L. A. P. (Buddy) St. continues to destroy hay and pasturage, cut yields of oats and John of the RJOMJP., son of Mr. generally play havoc with crops of every kind. and Mrs. Leo St. John, Alexandria, There is no indication of heavy. rain which might yet received the award of a life-saving save some pastures and none is foreseen in the immediate fu- certificate of the Order Of St. John ture by forecasters. No relief is in sight from the daily highs of Jerusalem recently at a colorful of 87 to the 90’s. ceremony on the grounds of the A heavy share of the damage R.C.M.P.’s “J” Division Headquarters at Fredericton, N.B. The award was is concentrated through the Ot- Glen Firemen Save in recognition of Buddy’s prompt tawa Valley and Eastern On- action in applying artificial respira- tario where the aJbnofmally Threatened Home tion to a Palhousie N.B., man who high temperatures have lasted Glen Robertson’s brigade worked had plunged with his car into the for weeks now. July of 1955 effectively in controlling a blaze ; water on April 15th, 1954. was the hottest, driest on re- which broke out in the home of Pat -Has family has not received full sî l cord. (Ellis) McDonald about 6 o’clock last details of the rescue more than a W ‘i JV:î vmm Friday afternoon. The flames had year ago, but we understand Buddy The damage to pastures is the most /‘.vv; «'. ■./'‘-rt ; was also instrumental in removing ; v serious aspect of the situation in caught in a wall by the time the ■ ' • the man from the water. -Glengarry .according to J. Y. Hum- firefighters reached the scene but : * •/' phries, local ag. rep., who reports they managed to control them with- The young Mountie, now stationed the milk yield has been cut almost out too much damage. at Newcastle, N.B., received the a- in half and already some 30 percent The loss from smoke, water and ward from the hands of Lieutenant- of our farmers are feeding. It would flames will be considerable however Q°yernor D- '^0?aref' 13 THE CABER RIDES HIGH—The law of gravity of 37 feét 91,4 inches to earn him another victory in this take a lot of rain to revive grass, as the house had only recently been pictured in the Fredericton Daily is by-passed ior the moment as the camera clicks on the event, one of the most colorful of the annual Glengarry ire thinks ,and already it may be repaired and renovated. Gleaner at the investiture. caber suspended in piid-air. It has just left the hands Highland Games. too late in a lot of cases. Worst (Mr. and Mrs. McDonald were in of Alexandria ’s Lloyd Kennedy and will ride a distance (Picture courtesy of the Daily Standard-Freeholder) feature of this drought is that it Cornwall where he had gone to have Gets 50-Year Pin comes at a time wben Glengarry an injured leg attended to when dairymen should be bringing in their the fire was noticed by Mrs. Auger, From Brotherhood chief cash income from milk. Now a neighbor. She turned in the a- Laurie St. John John D. MdDonell, Highland Chief they find that Income cut In half larm and the volunteer crew was 'Best Year’ Glengarry Highland Games Farm, was honoured by the Bro- and in addition face higher costs in soon on the scene to hold damage to therhood of Locomotive Engineers Dies At 69 feeding. a minimum. recently when he was presented Friends in Glengarry learned with There was a good hay crop, Mr. o Drew More Than 15,000 To Maxville with a jewelled pin, emblematic of regret of the passing of Laurie St. Humphries reports, but if feeding 50 years’ membership in the bro- John, who died Tuesday, August iias to be continued right through Searing Sun Failed To Mar Enjoyment ;r ‘ Injured In Crash therhood. 2nd, in St. Mary’s Hospital, Kitchen- the fall there will be a shortage. Most Successful Mr. McDonell, who celebrated his er, where he had been a patient Or Disrupt Competitions—Montreal ^ ' Water is also a problem as creeks Going To Games 83rd birthday at his home here for the past few months. Mr. St. President Feels RCAF Band Best Of Nine and springs dry up under the piti- Monday, was visited by Charlie Pat. John survived his wife, who died less sun. It means pumping for Seven people—five in one car, two terson of Montreal last week, and at Maxville in January, toy only six They haven’t yet had time to Possibly tlie biggest crowd to mass in Glengarry since all needs and some wel s are a rea y . ^ —.Wgre hurt in a two-car J earlier by Messrs. P. Faughan and months. He passed his 69th birth- assess the complete returns from 1948 when 2^000 jammed Maxville for the first revival of the the 1955 Games up Maxville drying up, particularly m e ron jh6aci-o:n collision, half a mile west Alex Huard, also of Montreal, who day July 9th. Highland Games, more than 15,000 braved 93-degree heat to of the county where the hig wa er | pjugh g Saturday mom- made the presentation on behalf way, but Games President John of 10p4 A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. enjoy on Saturday what may be said to have been the best -table calls for only shallow wells. ’,mg. of the B.E.L. Jamieson says it’s safe to say Glengarry farms are already com. Alfred St. John, hfe was born in ‘this was the most successful gathering yet. , pleting the harvest, two weeks or The five In one car were from Alexandria and received his educa- one yet’. Several of the key This eighth annual Games saw nine fine pipe bands oa more earlier than usual. The quail- Peterborough and were going to tion here. Later he went into the officers scooted off on well-de- parade. And playiiig as a massed band they made music that Maxwlle to take art m the Hl h toarbering business (with his fath- iy of the grain is very good though P S - Mrs. MacDonald served holidays immediately the .cyied the crowd. More than 100 dancers competed through- er. In 19116, he wëfltQivérseàS'Wfitli the yield will probably be down some land Games- event was over and final figures ■“out the afternoon and well into :25 percent. Com prospects were All were taken to Winchester Dis. Died Tuesday the 154th Battalion and served his as to attendance and net re- trict Memorial Hospital where they country for two years. He was the evening before all champ- good two weeks ago, but the con- ceipts will not be known until They Were Here ionships had been decided; en- tinuing heat has about wrecked were treated by Dr. Howard Jus- The death occurred at her home wounded and gassed at the Battle of after their return. chances of a crop. tus of Chèsterville. Three were in the 3rd Kenyon of Catherine Lens. Returning home, he resum- But Mr. Jamieson estimates tries in the piping classes were Janet O’Brien, widow of John Mal- ed his trade in Ottawa' and then Seeding of emergency pastures is admitted and the remainder were attendance at around 15,000, From All Over larger than ever and in the released. colm MacDonald, on Tuesday, Aug- moved to Maxville where he was a possibly second only to the first track and field events compe- being suggested by OAC officials You could call the roll of the ust 2nd, following a lengthy illness. popular resident for some 26 years. Games in 1948. tition was definitely keen. Es- should the next few weeks ^taring In the Peterborough car were the United Nations and find practically Mrs. MacDonald was 62. He married the former Catherine “The people of Maxville and rain. They warn that overgrazing driver John Murrie, 19; Wayne Jar- all of them represented at the Gam. pecially was this true in the A life-long resident of this area, Cafferty of St. Cecile, Que., and district are well pleased”, he of pasture and hay fields will re- vis, 16; Grant Earl, 20; Robert es. This year for the first time a men’s high jump when the win- Druce, 17; all of Peterborough, and she was born in the Third on March they had one son, Ray St. John, declares, “they found all the sult in lower pasture and hay yields visitor’s book was ready at the Sec- ner had to be decided by a toss 12th, 1893, the daughter of the late who survives. Upon the death of effort well worthwhile.” “Every- in 1966 and suggest several types of, Bob Reynolds, of Havelock.