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CONTINGENT AT ANNUAL will host Ihc Things Were Very Very Different Former Gazette Publisher 96 Years Young One of Brand old men received yd another for publisher of The Hurling on In inhulc his and life service lo the Mr Harris has named Ontario Consumer of the Year the Assoc Ontario ranch Mrs President I Ihc tissue ration said thai Mr I larns provides J umaue glimpse mtii the past to the days before the society when pollution were no problem The association feels there is lesson to be learned from the post that can us a society today llnns were very very fcrcnl litre in 18W when I Tin i7Ulc said Mr Harris bought the paper for SI when I just it It in a bad wjy then warned mi not lo over its debt Mr Dims retails that early I Jlways willing pay In return for newspaper they would give him credit at their slorcs free food and even travel I can remember travelling all over by train for free he Die railway never Said cash for advertising so wc ad to ravel to use up credit with them Values have changed in the past years In 1J02 Mr Harris married the former Una Mor timer Jnd rented his first house for a month In he built his own home at Locust Si for Si goo business good that year Village taxes were just mills be recalls You could buy a pair of chicucns on Brant St for a quarter were just a dozen His start In the business came in early when he was apprenticed to a printing job shop Caledonia His wages recalls with some pride that he could set more than inches of type by hand each day with no more than five mistakes Today typesetting has reduced the ask Elgin Harris had become a major figure Burlington public life He played a major role in bringing electricity into Burlington homes in 1902 But construction of the Cataract Power Company s lines on Elgin St forced him to abandon the newspaper office and move to the south west Brant St site where the paper was published for more than W years Mr Harris served for many years on the public school board and was chairman when were completed In to erect Central High School the first secondary education facility in the town In 1922 he also served as reeve of the tow n and warden of Hal ton County The following two years he was of the town He Is an honorary life number of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association and or Misonie Lodge A A M In 1949 a town wide banquet celebrated his golden an mvcrsary In Burlington And In 19fi7 Mr Harris was one of a few people to receive a Canadian rum from March l to The confederation medal for long thcweekis recyclcand service to his community renew Horns celebrated his birthday quietly Monday with his Shucks says tlgin Harris daughter and a few We didn have any pollution in family friends Talk turned to his day And we t latest honor as Consumer of the anything away because Year and Consumer Week which afford lo Back in Business Charles Beatty is New Emergency Measures Man County Emergency Measures Organization is hack business The council administration committee has hired Charles lo assume the post left last sum former deputy MO for County will lake on his duties next Wednesday after county council officially approves his appointment He will attend the council meeting to discuss MO with the councillors Beattie was chosen from applicants for the post by members of council and personnel officer John Wilson It Was 20th Time for Eight Blood Donors Eight donors received donation pins and were presented with a 10th donation pin at the blood donor clinic held March by the Georgetown and District Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Socletv for donations were Oscar Daniel Price Jones Mrs Bruno Don trench Norman Haves and Ronald Beckett Ten lime donors were Mrs Dean Mrs Logan Mrs Hubert Sieve niter Madgett Richard Macknell Jim Melton Thompson and Mrs Julia Robinson Hubert be awarded a donation scroll at a future dite while SherkwiUreceiu a scroll The generosm of blood donors and people who make donation during the Red Cross Campugn for Funds in Mjrch m ike it 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