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the georgetown herald wednesday evening april 23rd 1941 it as we see by j a stnm hi it looks as though spring were real ly here the game of softball seen to be taking the lead at the moment tt being played on several corner lota around town one advantage that to game has is that it enables boys and girls to play together with girls en the lineup the boys will act move gentlemanly than they might otherwise do and again the girls im- itate the boys actions tvneta playing the game and thus become more pro- ccsit than they might il they were playing with an all girl team it works out to advantage all around the gravel roads have been worse tan usual this spring in many parts of the province locally though they seem to be over their worst and arebeoomlng more firm and settled here are several theories regarding cause of this boiling up of gravel roads in the spring time and pecu liarly enough this breakup usually ooours at the top of a hill the re medy is underdralnlng we recall a piece of road that used to break up this way every spring just north of toe village of elora the road was un derdrained by running tile at an an gle across the rood the drains being put in every tiwenty feet after this was done that piece of road never gave any more trouble as far as we know yeast is our bread ingredient for tit week the yeast plant is known as a microorganism that is it can only be seen individually under a mic roscope the plant is similar in shape to that of a potato and it increases by a process which is known as bud ding the bud commences to grow on the side of the parent plant and when it has attained about hall its full rig- it detaches itself from the parent plant continues to expand and in a very short ume it too commences to bud it would be possible to isolate one yeast cell place it in proper food and with correct temperature which by the way is around 80 degrees this urplan would increase- to millions in a very short time all the ume that the yeast plant is budding it is giving off alcohol and carbon diox ide it is this gas that causes those cells to fill out and thus the dough is raised the commercial yeast has been greatly improved this last few years we can recall when we made our own yeast using hops then dry yeast was introduced which was quite a step forward its main advantage was that it would keep for quite a time under certain condtions then compressed yeast was put on the mar ket it is very uniform in quality and works much faster than does any other form of yeast it has to be kept under proper conditions though and is delivered to the baker as often as twice a week it is put up tn one pound prints gl size and shape to that of a pound of butter com pressed yeast can be kept for a much longer period if it is frozen but it has to be thawed out very gradually as a sudden change in temperature would kill it you might be interes ted in the real name of the yeast plant here it is saccharomytes cer- levcrsial this idea of compelling the west ern fthat growers to cut down on their acreage and of pajing them four dollars per acre for douig so is creating pltnn of discussion you will recal that it as suggested that the acreage ix not cut down but that the usualamount of wheat be sown and then let the whole world know that the british empire had enor mous stores of wheat that would be available to those european coun tries that are at war or have been conquered anl that the empire was waiting to send them all the heit that they wanted just as soon as the war was over we liked that idea most of us have been taught from our youth up to bt thrifty that is to spend less ulan we earn and thus provide a stake for old age rainy days or call it what you like and this idea isn t unlike that of maintaining a surplus of wheat for emcnreiicles or again think how lucky those thrif ty folk are that have some 1939 oats on hand to use for seed this spring last years oats were not harvested under ideal conditions and are not in it for quality compared with the 1939 oats another angle to the wheat situation would be that nature may not side in with this idea of reducing the acreage planted with wheat this spring and could easily cause a reduc tion of yield lo the reduced sown ac reage the result might easily mean a shortage of wheat somehow we cant see this idea of cutting down on wheat when there are so manj under fed in this world todaj and all through no fault or their own the skating season is over for this spring but here is one that you may not have noticed the lad had at last earned enough money to purchase boots and skates and now all that was left for htm to do was to learn to skate he wasn t any better at it than the rest of us were when we first started and he took the count time after time but always was up and at it again a friend suggested to him at he take a rest and watch the others skate for a while his reply to this was ii didnt come here to watch the others i came here to we wont need to worry ab out that lad making his way no mat ter what he may attempt hawk in the wind by helen topping miller sweet icaporal ijrgbiryflag tom was glad of his heartening part of morgans work the fifth and tie seventh year saw the pay ments on rus land defaulted the title was almost inextricably tan- hied in a snarl of holding compa nies stock companies second and third mortgages judgments and suits foreclose david morgan told tom just before david lay down at night to wake in the morning with a crooked drooling mouth a help less arm and tg and a fogged brain that would never clear again but tom lost in the frantic trou ble of helping virgie to keep the mill running while david lay help less in the white house on the moun tain had no time to think of himself or his problems stocks had crashed orders were few men were frightened restive alert for bad news from any quar ter tom held his peace and kept pulp wood coming into the mill at night he rode the rusty old truck up the mountain road to morgans house where he shaved helpless da vid cut his toe nails trimmed the white dry locks of hair rubbed his weary wasting back in the meantime toms land on little fork jmd hazel eorlt became one of a hundred tracts lost in a fog of indefinite involvement owned and not owned tom waited worried dubious and unhappy then david morgan died and after that there was no chance of selling morgan pulp stock enough to finance a suit to foreclose and clear title even if tom had known how to begin it tom locked the old safe on his beautiful yellow papers with the gilt seals upon tpem pulled his belt tighter hunched his shoulders and set to work to help virgie morgan ave the mill it was still partly his and the slacks were still scrawling their bleared autograph of hopefulness upon the carolina sky afterwards virgie morgan looked back on those three years trying to separate phases distinguish definite epochs of despair as a person who has emerged alive from an inun dation or a frightful wreck tries lo recall incidents of that catastrophe decide what came first and what ifter but only one thing stood out lear tom pruitts unvarying loy ilty his quiet and unfailing support- there was ice on every branch ind dead leaf every blade of grass irjd join tod weed when turn came ihniugh the gate of tin mill in that avs november dawn i he wind was nil frigid with little promise of a haw smoke was snatched from lit slack torn to pieces strung along the ground m rags the steel pndlock with which for twent vears the plank door of the other building had been locked was like something dipped in mellcd glass tom beat it againsl the door frame twisted the key pushed the door in ward on a musty cuddy smelling of mildewed paper and raw chemi cals the stove was still faintly warm and tom raked out ihe ashes into a bucket and kindled a new fire fan ning it encouragingly wilh his hat then with two buckets he plodded toward the engine room head down big hat flapping he had rarefully drained both trucks at sunset lasi night hot water would mnke them tart quicker he took care of all ihe equipment he liked to do it no alcohol tn radiators that made the cars heat on the mountain tirades and today things had to he entirely right because virgie morgan was going up to look over v ei reforestation project tom s old watch hitched to s drained strip of snakeskin showed nci o clock when he went back to he oflice he boilerroom cocks two oilers vere getting their equipment out of ht tool shed in thirty minutes the thistle would bellow in twentyfive minutes virgie s old coupe should enter the mill gate tom took an ild rag and dabbed dust from vir gies desk there was a votive air about what he did but this devotion was not for virgie morgan the woman to tom virgie was part of david part of the mill she was the mill then the telephone rang tom shouted into it hellol hello tom it was vtrgies voice i wont be going up to the hill with the boys today send them out as boon u they are ready hiyt tnrn whooped his jwzm- im not worried tom virgies voice came evenly not about any thing down there ice wouldnt scare me the troubles up here at the house something s come up i t an t leave right away tom hung up grunting went out to drain the radiator of the second truck chapter i when virtfi morgan wld aw and owner or the murkan paper mill in ihe carolina mountain district turns down i a rnarrlase proposal from wallace wither he leave her house in a rago virile turn htm down becuusr hf h1leve he la more interested in poasesinn of her mill han in obtaining a wife aft r he h rone bran ford wilis a young strnnrcr who has been lost on the mountain aide tot three days nnda hli way lo the morgan home taken in he la led and warmed and allowed p i remain overnlkht ciiap1r ii meanwhile in her kitchen virgie morgan held a hot water bottle oei the sink filled it gingerly ducking her head as the kettle steamed lossie spooned coffee into a per colator her brassy waves were cushioned tit a heavy net j think its pneumonia she asked taking the kettle from hei mistress hand a chill doesnt have to be pneu monia virgie said but his voue sounds funny and i heard him coughing lot in the night thai bed was damp probably nobnd has slept up there in a time ht should have had a fire worn out the way he wa if tins houe just had a furnace in it now don t go ufitping on that lossk wilson virgie snapped c irr up somt coal before the doctor iimes lossie picked up the coal bucket stepped into the baek hall to rt moe her ruurnt i and dab somi ra ish la endt r powrit r on ht r ii jc the mihiik mar imghing in ihe bed upsl nrs had r mantle dark yes and a month nt uidi f i iux liter but all these- dt on 1 o iins a ere lifted after all br u i i rd ik ns ash i p red hoi m ii s of t 1 i umed in his 1 t ks his h nr w isi rdered and dr lokmg hi- h it ds iwitch 1 ihtut ing nut jj in hlut sleeveb f i r f david han s old p jam is lie s sun enoiigl 1 got sim11i hir lossit di i ided is sin la d oat softly on th fin virgie came up presently lucked he hot waiit bottle under the yminj grangers feet looked at him with troubled ejes he s sit k all right she said aid i feci n sponsible putting him n ihi5 eold tutnb of a mom after wo nights oul on thai mountain well you look him in lossit- oniforted her in a whisper a l if people vnuld have t i ihe dog oi ikt him know a if him ar npy looking i tan let his p an tak good virgie said riethiiig appe iling abou oung heid on ihe pillo anted ihret sons f her all r i ho nu and ht nlj marl in h iiki pi ppei hi v ik sin irfneri hn rimk ind i- tilt hit ments always dubious of the effi ciency the uistrumeni hey this ice aint going to last itu be gon by nine oclock id put chains on yo neednt worry c uhi hi i hts lips with a corner rr the sheet i guess i am sk k he muttered lying back again virgie shifted ihe counterpane straightened the shades poked the ire went downstairs ng im in the breakfast room marian was sugar ng her fruit her hair wis brushed flat the sleeves of her orange pa inmas dapped she looked reproach ful lossie says that hobo is sick she said have we got him on our hands virgie sat down poured her cof fee fingered the toast raised her voice lossie i cant eat this cold stuff make some hot yes he s sick it looks like pneumonia and steam was hissing frorn ne s no hobo ive telephoned for the doctor and you 11 have to stay here till he comes i ve got to get down to the mill but i dont know a thing about pneumonia 1 you arent expected to know thats what we have the doctor for you see that lossie keeps the fire up iu send ada clark out if i can get hold of her oh my heavens mother she snuffles and her nose is always red and she thinks that shes going to be kidnaped or something erery time she sticks her silly head outside well you dont have to look at her she can take care of this boy till hea well enough to be moved somewhere home if he has any home wo c 1-hlra- eyvbe over twentyave if hea a minuter weu rm over fifty and that en titles me to call most any man a boyl equalization once morel bothers county council stewabttown obobc3town i boad may be harp lowest tender accepted fob road liability insurance at the fourth meeting of halton county council which was held in milton on tuesday april 16th de bate on the muchdiscussed county equalization problem once more came to the fore most of the members see med to be in favour of letting the mat ter ride until after the war warden ijeshe kearns of nelson pointed out that any municipality has the right to ask for a revised county equalization and unless some decision could be arrived at a commission would have to be set up to go through the whole county which would cost a lot of money y mr finney who represents nassa- gaweya on the council said that this body had- felt for years that some thing should be done to relieve them of what they felt was an excessive share of the county rate he asked if any municipality who felt it was un derassessed would consider giving a 100 000 reduction to nassagatweya to straighten things out and save the county the expense of a commission was decided that each reeve and deputyreeve should discuss this mat ter with his own council and bring a report to the next meeting tenders were opened for road lia bility insurance and representatives of interested insurance agencies add ressed the ttoundl the following tenders were offered ae wilson representing lloyds of london 479 69 t g ramshaw lloyd t of england 47984 c h poole angloscottish insurance co 389 52 c r clapp co toronto s430 75 all these tenders gave protection for 10000 20000 and 1 000 as has always been the custom a resolution was moved and seconded that mr wilsons tender for 479 69 be accep ted but tlub was promptly followed by an amendment that the lower lender of 38952 by the anglo scottish insur ance co be accepted the amend ment carried there were a number of recommen dations for road work including a suggestion for hardsurfacing the mileandahalf stretch between stew- arttown and georgetown other road recornmendations in cluded resurfacing dundas st oak- ville from the cnr subway to ool- borne st extending the pavement on the 8th line from lynbrook road to the queen elizabeth way and the taking over as a county rood of the road running from the base line milton to nassagaweya and nelson the following accounts were passed for payment finance 54852 hospitals 421 60 agriculture 18070 printing 1275 county buildings 254 14 education 2360 67 total 3 77 838 nifty letterheads and other sta tionery printed at the herald omce iff pih the poor crow from ottawa to toronto is only 223 miles as the crow flies but tlie crow according to experts in natural hibtory flies only 30miles an hour even the swift carrier pigeon makes only 40 milean hour the telephone covers the distance well you might say instantaneous ly the sound of your voice changed lo electric waves trattjjs with the speed of light and its the same between any two cities of the continent whether 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