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Eyeing Plazas Cotton Brothers Closing Downtown Brampton Store Established In the area for of a century Cotton downtown store in Brampton is ng Jack Cotton described the moving as a tragedy After building and working Tor it hurts me to have to go elhis Mr Cotton also operates a store in downtown Georgetown There is no future in down town Brampton for Cotton Brothers That t mean there is no future in Brampton for us This is where we built and this is where our customers ore The business has a permit to sell all its stock over the next days While Mr Cotton is seriously considering movng to a plaza he has not decided which he will move to I have talked to all of them plaza developers but I have not made any commitments yet The move was prompted by a Jock Cotton Described Moving Tragedy lack of business Mr Cotton said that there are not enough people coming downtown to shop The store measures 10 square feet and is on two sales levels ONE FLOOR USED At present only the main floor is used The upper floor was closed during the summer Mr Cotton said that the business has tried for sometime to improve its downtown trade Two years ago Today there are em at the store We have tried everything to get the business going again said Mr Cotton We have always sold name brand chandise We tried discount items but it is not our type of business we couldnt operate like that HOTEL LOBBY Mr Cotton began business years ago in a one man operation HERALD THURSDAY SEPT Itm Page Foot Stomped Grope Juice On Menu for Scouters Over a record registered tor the annual Gllwell Reunion at the Blue Springs Scout Reserve R R 1 Acton September and 12 Scouten were there from many of th Canadian provinces States and others came from overseas from countries like Ghana and Holland A Georgetown district delegation was headed by DC Gordon Douglas and Included Scouter Murray Harrison from the Acton troop and District Cubmaiter Terry Colter Georgetown CULINARY DELIGHT Local scouters report the fun filled weekend highlight for them was the giveaway Foods which various dutricta ladled out to all comers over the three days which started Friday afternoon and wound up with closing ceremonies Sunday afternoon Imagine a Japanese tea garden where you actually remove hoes and socks soak your feet in cold water and enjoy delicacies like steamed rice All courtesy of the Niagara district Or how about some hominy grits or fresh grape Juice stomped out by the Bare feet of a from the Burlington district Appetizing Yeslr say the especially the vegetable soup Wellington district ladled from a huge cast Iron or the salami on rye served by Toronto scouts from Centennial district Georgetown district concentrated on Extra Sensory Perception sessions to bam susceptible visitors to the reserve and report some success Camp chief was John Haskell of Hamilton and the speaker was Jim Harvey retired Air Vice Marshal and outgoing Deputy Chief Scout He Is now an In ternatlonal Counsellor for the Boy Scouts of Canada His pet theme Communications Family Dinner For 95th Birthday Party Mrs Elizabeth Scott celebrated her birthday on September at the country home of her daughter Mrs Hazel at Terra Cotta Attending a family dinner were Mr and Mrs Art Scott Georgetown Mr and Mrs Harold Scott Mrs Birdie Shelboume Mrs Lena Tozle and Mr and Mrs Fred Jackson Glen Williams Mrs Scott who formerly lived on Emery Street in town Is now a resident of Kelly Nursing Home Acton Many of her Georgetown neighbours remembered her with cards on her birthday She is enjoying good health and appreciates visits from any of her old friends The Roundheads were members of the Parliament party in the English civil war of the 17th century CHUDLEIGHS PICK YOUR OWN APPLES SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER eeparki i todrkweek days Mcintosh delicious spy delicious dwarf trees no ladders to climb FREE CONTAINERS OTHER PRODUCE AVAILABLE PEARS POTATOES HONEY EGGS APPLE CIDER besides Apples and Tomatoes a CORN ROAST You pick we bar b que butter and salt YOU EAT BRING A PICNIC alter wo or after school during weekdays or a corn roast and apple pick The store measured ap proximately 13 by feet It was the lobby of the old Brampton Hotel now the site of the Bank of Nova Scotia He later moved to the southern portion of his present store which had been a harness shop From there he expanded into the areas behind beside and above him with the hopes of providing a larger store 1 wanted to be the Eaton of Brampton he said smiling CHEAPER I can remember when you t walk on the sidewalks at on a Saturday afternoon took at It now he said as he gestured towards Main Street There is still seven years left on the lease on the present store Mr Cotton bald It will be cheaper to pay the rent on the empty facility than to try to keep the store operation Would Build on Spec Criticizes Council Want Industry No FollowUp A Georgetown contractor expressed his indignation at council refusal to sell him a building lot in the town In in a letter read at a council committee meeting last William McNallys offer to purchase land at ft 000 an acre was turned down an the grounds that he planned to build a factory on speculation rather than for a specif industry In his letter he said that councillors always talk about getting more industry at election time but don t always follow through One firm which planned to locate in a 30 square foot plant went elsewhere when he could not get prompt action Mr said WILLING Cr Joan Smith said Mr Mc is a member of the In Commission but would no i give other commissioners any idea of the type of for which he wanted to build Later he came back and said he wanted to build on speculation she said and she favour selling land so cheaply for this line comes with on we re willing to bargain she said She said there Is need for more information readily available to prospective industries and the tnduslrial commission Is trying to acquire this to make It as easy as possible to deal with enquiries LITTLE REVENUE Cr Phil said he disputed Mr statement In his letter that here have been nil results from in promotion The Gage firm is here because I was contacted and referred them to Mr McNally he said He said council is cautious about selling land for speculative building because under new assessment laws It would be possible for the town to derive little tax revenue from a building Until it is occupied I would go along with Speculation was Cr Em Hyde It wm put up a N0RVAL 1Hiul SHELL SERVICE LICENSED MECHANICS GENERAL REPAIRS HOUR EMERGENCY TOWING Radio Dispatched PHONE 8J7M11 Day or Night KEITH D ELLA Open every HI Even if industry locates there is no guarantee it will be there a year from now he said HIGH PRAISE Deputy Reeve Speight gave high praise to Mr McNally He has a proven record of performance he said done more for getting Industry to Georgetown this last years than any other person Cr Joan Smith reiterated Cr statement that an empty building could mean little tax revenue At an acre the land Is a 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