Impressive Last Tribute Paid at Funeral of Leo Laj Oie 3 Expected
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4 <»' Fast Time — That’s when • Thought for Spring — The jour evening newspaper best time to spade the garden is right after your wife tells Teaches yon an hour slower. The Glengarry New you to. ONE OF CANADA’S A WARD-WINNING WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS VOL. LXVI *— No. 17 * * * ALEXANDRIA, ONTARIO,?THURSDAY, APRII7 25th, 1957 * * * SINGLE COPY 7e Impressive Last Tribute Paid Puppetry Festival Outstanding Prog. Cons. To 3 Expected To Have Names Convene Mày 7th Set For May 4th Record In The election’picture in this riding At Funeral Of Leo Laj oie John,Keogh of Toronto, whose will be more sharply in focus after < Before Liberal Convention Marionettes have appeared on CBO- Seed Growing May 7th when Progressive Conser- Death Saturday of Widely Known TV from Toronto, will give a per- vatives hold a nomination meeting The names of W. J. Major, ex-M.P., North Lancaster ; Rene When the Glengarry Crop Im- formance at the Puppetry Festival at Vankleek Hill. This will follow Bertrand and .Horace Dubois of Hawkesbury, are,-expected to And Respected Green Valley Man provement Association nominated to be held Saturday, May' 4th, in next Monday’s Liberal meeting in be put before next Monday night’s Liberal nomination meeting John M. Arkinstall, Dunvegan, for Came As Shock To Family and Friends the Glengarry District High School the parish hall at the HiU, when at Yankleek Hill.. the Ottawa Farm Journal Trophy, Sit. Mary’s Church, Creen Valley — the ehureh which for here. a second Liberal candidate is ex- Mr. Major needs no further introduction in his native Glen- This will be the third annual it could point up some 25 years of pected to be named. garry. But Messrs. Bertrand and Dubois are less Well known nearly two decades had he en operated as Creen Valley Pavilion festival sponsored by the Eastern his association with seed growing and many outstanding achieve- Enumerators are out this week and they have supplied us with the following thumbnail hy Leo Lajoie — was crowded to capacity by sympathising Ontario Guild of Puppetry, and ments. As the Association’s nomin- preparing the register of votes and sketches: • . ■ relatives and friends at his funeral held Tuesday'morning. puppet enthusiasts are expected ation recalled: •( Returning Officer Lorenzo Monpetit The very large attendance at the* funeral and the large from all over the Ottawa Valley. HORACE DUBOIS RENE BERTRAND Mr. Arkinstall has been interested of Hawkesbury, reports organization .numbers who had called at the Marcoux & Morris Funeral The “little people” are an after- Reeve of Hawkesbury since 1953, District agent for the McColl- in the production of seed of various is well advanced. Home here, to pay their last respects, evidenced the widespread hours past-time with most of them; o and principal of St. Joseph's School Frontenac Oil Co. at Hawkesbury, kinds since 1932 !• when he first pro- regret in the unexpected passing of Mr. Lajoie, found dead one of the puppeteers has been able in Hawkesbury, Horace Dubois was Mr. Bertrand, aged 32» was bom at duced crops of: Certified timothy to interest the patients at the men- Liberal candidate in Prescott in the L’Orignal. Educated in the local ^Saturday in his summer cottage “ under a. program administered at tal hospital in Brockville in making Many Movings 1955 provincial election when he •school, he then, attended Bourget •at Cameron’s Point. ■ •that time by the Plant Products Advance That Clock! the puppets and putting on shows. received 5,371 votes. College, Rigaud, where he took a The late Mr. ILajoie had become Division of the ôahada Department Ther'e are even children who will Aged 41, he was raised on a farm Commercial course. ■widely known through the years he Church services Sunday will be on of Agriculture. He first produced For May 1st be demonstrating the craft at the before preparing himself for the In early 1942 he joined the Cana- had operated the Pavilion. His Daylight Saving Time, as most of Registered seed - in 1939, in which Festival here. May 1st will be a busy day in teaching profession. Since 1934 he dian Navy and saw service on •quiet, friendly personality had won the country swings into summer year 18 acres of third generation town, as several families are moving him many friends and this fact was fast time that this year will be re- The public is invited to attend in has taught in primary schools at minesweepers and in convoy duty on formal performances to be given at Vanguard oats Were grown on his into new homes and having" their Ottawa, Montreal, Hawkesbury, corvettes in the North. Atlantic. At ■evident in the many expressions of tained for an extra month, until farm. In 1940 the acreage of Reg- 10 in the morning, two in the after- old places taken by newcomers. Vankleek Hill, and Dalkeith. A Christmas, 1942, Seaman Bertrand, •sorrow and sympathy. that followed late October. istered seed was> increased to 22% announcement of his death. Readers are reminded to advance noon and eight in the evening of the H. B. Nyman has purchased J. D. graduate. In Special Education, he the youngest member of East Coast acres of Vanguard and 9 acres of Graham’s house on the eastern ex- Command, was made Captain of his Born at Green Valley, SI years clocks and watches one hour when 4th. is active in education circles—presi- -O.A.C. No. 21 barley. tension of St. George street, and dent of the Teachers’ Association of ship, HMCS Vegreville,. for a day, ■ago, he was a son of the late Mr. retiring Saturday night. Registered seed of the cereal vari- will occupy- it shortly. MT. Graham Hawkesbury, vice-president of Dis- in did Navy tradition. He later saw and Mrs. Armand Lajoie. He had eties was produced in each year 1 Accidentally Shot is moving his family into the former- trict 27 Association; a past presi- service in the Mediterranean on ■conducted a store there until 1938, until 1947 when! Registered Climax home of Mrs. Dave Lalonde, which HMDS Ontario, and in 1944 with the when he built his Green Valley dent of the Ontario Association of D.S.T. Timetable At Target Practice timothy was add£d to the program. he has purchased. Mrs. Lalonde Education for Hawkesbury district British Indian Fleet in the Far East. Pavilion, which through the years In this year the first field of Climax Tpr. Charles McDonald, 18-year- will make her home in Cornwall. and a former chairman of the Edu- He saw shore duty in Hong Kong was to become the popular rendez- sown in Canada outside of the Ex- before returning to Canada in De- old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hugh Mr. Nyman’s apartment in the cation committee of the Eastern vous for dances, wedding receptions Changes Effective perimental Farm was established .cember, 1945. McDonald of Bonnte Hill, was acci- Graham Apartments is being taken Ontario Development Association. and other social activities. Just a Train times at Alexandria under here. Since this time seed of the Back in civilian life following his year ago came the announcement dentally shot in the left leg with a over by Mr. and Mrs. George Sang- He Was the first president of the the new Daylight Saving Time cereal varieties was gradually del- discharge in March, 1946, Mr. Ber- that he had sold the Pavilion and .22 rifle, as he-and a friend practised ster, who have decided to take up schedule .are almost exactly the eted from the program and Mr. Parent - Teachers Association of trand became district representative his "adjoining home to the Episcopal target shooting while the young man I permanent residence in town. They same as they were when last time Arkinstall is now concentrating on Hawkesbury. at Hawkesbuiry for the McOoll Fron- Corporation of Alexandria diocese was home on leave. ' have been spending the winter was in effect last summer. The the production of Registered and tenac oil company, and now has a •and that it was to be transformed months in Miss M. B. Macdonell's Mr. Dubois is a member of change is effective at midnight this The accident occurred shortly Certified Climax' timothy and La- fleet of three trucks. into a .new parish church, St. house on Derby street. Hawkesbury Chamber of Commerce Saturday, April 27th. after noon on Friday at young Mc- salle Red Clover. Active in his community, he Mary’s. Another new home owner is R. H. and active in several social organi- The time table is shown below, Donald’s home. He and Frank Mr. Arkinstall was one of the first served two terms as a councillor in Since that time he had apparently Vacherasse, who is stationed with seed growers to recognize the Gammon, who with Mrs. Gammon, zations. Hawkesbury reporter for and the hours shown are Daylight will occupy the former residence of L’Orignal, was president of the heen enjoying a life of. semi-retire- Saving Time: him at the RCAO School at Camp merits of Climax timothy and he Le Droit, he is also an editorial Canadian Legion Branch at Haw- inent, devoting much time to fish- Borden, had arrived at the former’s has done a great deal to promote Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Cardinal on Eastboimd Bishop street. Gaétan Verdon will writer for Hawkesbury’s weekly kesbury for four years and was ing, which was his chief form of home the day before on Easter the production of this improved awarded the Certificate of Merit in •relaxation, and to the .