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wednmday evening december 3rd 1947 vent mccumber new councillor i mcgihrray biehn school trustees only three nominations were re ceived on monday night to fill three vacancies left at the nomination m a week ago all candidates qualified and were declared elected by acclamation newesnneillor in ward 1 ia vera mcoomber while new public school trustees are garfield hcguvrayin ward 1 and walter biehn nward 3 mr mc- cumbers nomination was made by joseph gibbons and arthur her bert mr mcgilvraya by arthur herbert and w p thompson and mr biehnb by ffhos l lyons ahd joseph gibbons mrs thomas whilamith was campbeuville native in failing health for some months mrs thomas whilamith passed away at her home on college street on sunday november 23rd at the age of 74 years formerly susan con don mrs whilsmith was born near campbeuville on the farm now ow ned by alfred turner following her marriage 43 years go she lived in toronto moving with her husband to georgetown twentj seven years ago she wds a member of the church of england predeceased by her husband in 1933 she leaves an only daughter elsie one of a family of thirteen children she also is survived by a sister mrs sarah stewart of west toronto and two brothers saul condon of grand vie v alberta and william condon of gilbert plains manitoba archdeacon w g o thompson conducted the funeral service from her home on wednesday with in terment being made in greenwood cemetery pallbearers were james branton sr james brunton jr herb distance ed logan philip roffey and james mudie terra cotta mr and mrs mccrea and fami ly have moved into mr leslie jcams house on church street mr till we understand has sold his property formerly known as the sanderson homestead on the town line to mr bell mr c smithson of toronto has an uptodate stone crusher install ed in his quarrie here and has se cured a large contract for crushed stone in toronto we all join in wishing him continued success in his new industry here wood cuttfhg seem- to 1l the general order of the day at present we see b last weeks herald that your correspondent has been a one- man member of the terra cotta board of trade some job eh turning back the pages we no tice that the halton brick plants barn and outbuildings were burned down 40 ears ago how the time fifes 1 district deputy governor visits lions club what council did on monday december laf voted 60 bonuses to the town foreman the three town men and the clerk treasurer moved by goodlet and hale decided to place illuminated war ning signs with a 20mile speed li mit on the highway in front of nor mandy boulevard until a cinder path is completed moved by goodlet and armstrong reappointed dr a mcallister to the high school board for 1948 49 50 moved by lyons and thompson authorized the town foreman to instal water service to houses be ing erected by mcnally wood pro ducts on the dayfoot property on john street moved by herbert and lyons received an audited statement of the now defunct war service reco- ognition committee from rev c c cochrane funds turned over to tne town by it will be used to pay t part of the new memorial tablet on the cenotaph cr hale said that he had been in touch with several firms and if the present plate cannot be removed it maj be possible to add u new plate over the bottom of this w ith the name of world war 2 ljbualtiea asked the hydro to place a street light at the murdock and queen street corner moved by armstrong and hale authorized the finance commit tee to pay any accounts coming in before the year end moved by lyons and hale passed accounts including 2411 50 legal fees for town soli citor k m langdon deputyreeve armstrong said he thought the time had come to have the town solicitor get a retaining fee but maor gib bona said that this would still not let away from legal expense borne members of council v ere surprised at a charge of 200 for drafting the proposed building bylaw and 500 plus 75 travelling expenses for gathering information to sup port the towns claim that nc cnr is responsible for widening tie john street subwaj although it was jointed out that this sscivi e had been rendered over a threeyear period rathei than all in the cur rent year approximately 1 fn was for legal fee- in toniuttion with sewerage installation and these had been prowded for in the estimates c i w m p 1 hompson expressed his pleasure at bein ossoci ited with i ouncit in 194 and wished the in lining council members good luck in 1948 stewarttown deputy district governor muz zy lunau of oakville paid his of ficial visit to the lions club at the monday night dinner at the mcgib- bon house bringing with him a number of oakville members whose quartette walufeugmcnted by several local club members notably lion tom elson for musical interludes lion 1 unau b talk on lionism stressed three factors friendship cooperation and service which each club should embody and said that a iblor project was needed to keep a club on its toes he wa introdu ced b i ion raj whitmee and hanked b ion art scott l lucky draw books for the christ mas tree were distributed for sale by 1 ion dick licatn and a lucky daw for a box of handkerchiefs for the convention fund wis won h oakville s new maor lion alf whittaker umehouse mr r wngbt was home from toronto last week end mrs jamieson of toronto bpent a few days with the meveys rec ently a group of lhnehouse young people under the capabhsdirection of miss jean roddell assisted by mrs ellerbj presented their three feaot comedy aunt susie shoots the works in lunehouse memorial hall before a capacity mdicnce on friday evening miss joan lavoie and little misses hiltz were guest atngera between acta mrs bough- ky presided at the piano for the evening tjie township anowplowpaid iu fir call this season when it plowed the fifth bne on tuesday morning last week congratulations and best wishes are extended this week to mr and mi cecil smith who cclcbiated their silver wedding anniveiarv last thursday november 13th mrs greenwood h ia returned from mount dennis where she has been visiting wilh mr and mrs r inners for two weeks w a nutting last week was a riiftyig at mi h nly a home ts this week i he teacher and school childrer i v try buj hesi r j ractising ui their hmtrrt i- onccrt whieh in be held in la ev cnine dec ember 12th in the school hurch ervicc will be nt y 30 m and sur lay faihool 1uj0 am ixt sundav morning iitors with mr and mrs r h dgovsunday afternoon were mrs 1 harris mrs h lusty and i iughter tn nd barbara ill of orgetown 1 lie w a meeting was held last ek at mrs cecil smiths home attend diamond wedding at waterdown mong 200 guests attending the dnmond wedding anniversary at ntcrdown last week of mr and mrs john robinson were seventy three grandchildren and great grandchildren mrs alex mckfn- non hillsburgh and mrs laurence burt georgetown are sisters and mr d f sovereign of burlington a brother of mrs robinson the sovereign farm atbnrlington now owned by gordon sovereign has been in the family for 130 vote yes and keep our band by the editor an important aspect of election day next monday is the question which will submitted to all vot ers are you in favour of an annual grant for 1200 to the- geor getown band we intend to vote yes to this question which has been endorsed by every member of the 1947 town council and it is to be hoped that the great majority of those who go to the polls will sup port inn organization vhich has hel ped to jrive georgetown its reputa tion as a town of music lovers it ia no particular secret that the band is faced at the present time with the most serious financing pro blems in its history for many years through its own efforts and earn ings financial obligations have been met aided by a small grant from the lome scots regiment for which until last yeai it was regimental band a change in status which boosted the lome scots pipe band to ths officialtositjon and relega ted the bras as a band within the i egiment w as the straw which brake the camel s back for the band is now in the position of re- eeiving nb suppoit financial or otherwise from the government and the municipal ct forbids any grant from town funds without a vote of the people since iti organization about fifty yeara ago by mi william h will- now of clarkaon the band has hid a ailed history a militaiy i band it served in the louie rifles later the halton rifles then for a time operated as the georgetown citizens band later rejoining the i orne scots regiment with which it has been affiliated up to the pre au an original strength of nine teen members is today forty for mer bandmaster include mr crowj professor haulbei uun a b cas lell mr meir walt mendham j williams a dobncy while three years ago one of the finest music ians in canada alfred perrott re turned to georgetown to lead this notable musical group during the war twenty eight of the members served with the cana dian armed forces at home and abroad a record of which the baud a justifiably proud i his in turn ed to the band becoming a compo ile of members from georgetown acton milton and 1iamjton for in otded to keep the bund up to stiength members had to be recrui ted from the 1 centre none of wl ah had bands of their own to iim thi depleted tanks i hit situation exists at present and will continue for somi time tor n 1 itions ire most tonlial between tow n numbeied in the ranks but it is loubtful if this situation will alwavs exist acton parlirularly has in utne boys md gnls band tnd voters ire being linked this year for linancial mi p port foi this it i not unlikely that lsiampton and milu n will at tome future date do likewi c md the trend here l for the hand i i eturn lo it 1 dot local st iius as it wa- on that proud da m 1939 when 45 members al from george town took part in a ceremony at the loionto i enotaph during the visit of the king and queen that it is a first eiass musical or- c mization one needs only the proof demonstrated time and aai i hv local conceits to hack this up is a record of fifteen first tirizis including im wm n the wat i loo music revival five it the co radian njti nal r hibit on this ar it finihhc 1 a close sceond to i trlia in 1 foui t the stmtfoi 1 muvit i e tival it much in de n ml for tngigtmmts thr lulioiil his and neighbouring counties ant his mirt itquists thin hi iksiiii lie filled arh year oi out flnii i 1 1 f rminci s wl pointed out earl er the nd fininccs itself n it- e mm g irac jciily earnings ire s1 i0 nnl of this ijoo has liu cich v ar for the bandmistei s saliry ith the bal ince used for travelling expends and general iktip of m uumiits and mu tiu library ab out half of the instrurm nts ai wncd outright by the band the re m nnded belonging to private mem furs bniforms as long as the band is m the army are provided and maint uned by the government at i recent instrument prices valbe of nstrumentb uspdby the band would be conservatively estimated at sl 0 a grant of 1200 by the town would ensure the band of the con tinued services of n permanent bandmaster and relieve the band executive of the eonsidevable res ponsibility each- year of seeing that money is available at the proper times to pay the bandmaster his salary it is we believe a small enough thing to ask an amount of less than one mill which is amply repaid in town advertising elections monday for ward 3 council and vote on three questions the weather mr editor fc well november has gone the dally average of both if ax and min were a bit lower than november of last year but they were both with in half a degree of the months nor mal which is max 42 5 and min 28 5 ern batkin jamesp maher resident and general manage of maher shoe stores whose store no ol opened yesteraay in george town the firm has bought out the business established here m bep tember by jack doran who will continue here as georgetown mana ger ihe store opening was feat ured on the maher radio program double or nothing broudcost monday night at 8 30 over station cfr1j a feature of the openin ia 100 00 in cash which will be gi ven away to three lucky customers a week from baturday max i1n snow nov 24 j4 l 64 nov 26 38 2 1 nov 26 32 23 nov 27 32 14 1 nov 28 32 18 nov 29 30 15 nov 30 24 10 average 3171 18 85 7ii joins dominion staff mondays elections are unique in that three questions are being asked of all electors although voting for candidates ia restricted to ward 9 where james goodlet thos t ly ons and ray whitmee will mwnteet the two council seats throughout the town votera will go to the polls to answer yes or ho to whether they are- in favour of a 1200 annuo band grant of electing councillors by general vote rather than wards and of having m board of education rather than one appointed and one elected board polling booths are located at the old town hall for ward 1 cyrfr fords house for ward 2 and the public library for ward 3 and polls are open from 9 am until 7 pm church news grazley al allen joined the staff of the local dominion store last week al is a native of orange ville his wife is employed in town r auo at smith and stone ltd social and personal masonic past grand master dies at elora past irand master of the grand i odci of canada in ontario ai- am right worshir fu brother ii niothy wnrdley died at his honu n llora last w eek he was elected cputy grand mastei of ontario in u 1 1 and became grand master in ii4 1 right worshipful biother i v m iccorniack i d g m and v wor bro hugh dickie atunded tne fuiu ral si ivici on sundav social night for terra cotta ufo 1 1 e annual socul night of the lura cotta lro and u b w iu held lost friday when mr and li clarence i yons weie hots to thr club progressive uchre was i layed mrs 1 cter dick and vcrn ih mpsoii holding high sioies with mrs i- rank petch and howard dol on w inning the travelling prizes f ii iwing euchre a bountiful lunch vui served premier drews immigration scheme brings nfew residents here i migrating from the old coun ti under premier drew b air immi- lritun scheme mr and mrs doug ildwcll are new resident in the hstiut i hey are making their jh me on campbell sinclairs farm n the orval road where mr ildwell is employed while his wife bus taken an office position with be b f murfin sheet metal works on john mrect mr uldwcll who is a native of helensburgh near glasgow scot land crossed by plane while his wife who comes from london eng- lan t w as fortunate in being able to arrange passage by boat and ar rived in canada on the chinesi 1 iince a few week after her hus band whitmee trophy won by sam gisby mr and mrs lome peters spent last week in buffalo new york miss kay wilson of toronto i cnt the weekend in town with her brotherinlaw and sifter mr md mrs wilfrid ford mr william a deveitaux of hal ifax ns has been visiting for a few days with his parents mr and mrs harry devereaux before re turning home he attended the an nual meeting of the american soc iety of mechanical engineers at at lantie city nj and the chemical i xposition in new york on monday evening a few friend gathered at the home of mis t r cave to surprise mps norman snyder on the occasion of her birthday euchre was played a delicious lunch served and an en- jovable evening spent mr ind mrs chestei stevens- and laughter card ann 1 avt recently moved to no 1 normandv boule- ird into the house vncated by mrs clayton bradley who has gone to acton to live with her parents then mr stevens came here from 1 oronto earlier this v ear to work fo smith and stone ltd and the familv m ide their home with miss i lennor stockford for a evv mis stevtns is an lng- ar bride a native of brighton rfigland wli met her nusband while in was benin with tht army ver cut mr and mrs john coi daro and mm i uni pi i ston hov c mov ed 1 r im loronti to the house formerly cupud hv the deans fnmilv on flirlf stntt which thev halve i im h isi d from bob i unc i iving wnli thtm at picsent aie mrs cor- lan son inlaw and daughter mr ind mrs mike smith an 1 chil- ln n richard tohnn and caroline winter fair winners ompeting for a cup presented hy w hi tn n t im sam gisby is w i in r f a dart- t uiniimnt just inpltted it ihe itgion gordtn i in was i unncr up in thi t in engagement mr and mrs orce hlick of i kn williams wish lo aim unce tht engagement of their daughter k ithleen mary to lome board murrav son of mr and mrs luck murrav of stewarttown the mar i i ige o take place the thnteeiith of december l in the boys and girls club show george wilson georgetown waa ith in his beaver oats and geo burkholdtr of freeman was 9th in the same class in the national barley t ontebt bruce brigden of georgetown wns third in region 6 in th section for sheave halton wns articular v well represented with entries from barrv archer mrs murrav ting leu t j rrown- ridge mr 0 hiownndge w o brow nndu all of georgetown r h hunter n rval nrd rao scott of t n the united ohaveh rev r c todd ba minister miss lynda stewart atcm l r s m music director 10 00 am sunday school and adult bfr ble class 11 am public worship f p m evening wor ship infant baptism sunday december 14 by appoint ment with the minister sunday school christmas trea december 19th st georges church archdeacon w g o thompson rector second sunday in advent sunday school 10 am holy com munion 1 1 mf evensong 7 pm st albw church glen wiluas blcond sunday in advent sunday school i 2 00 p m evensong and litany 3 00 pjn knox pre byte nan church georgetown rev chas c cochrane ba bd minister 10 a m sunday school and min- lsterb bible class 11 am public worship the sacrament of baptism 7pm public worship limehoiue prebsyterian chair ck 2pm sunday school and mi nisters bible class j p m public worship ihe sacrament of baptism firtt bptit church rev chas r cower minister sunday december 7th 10 am- the lords supper 11am sunday school 7 pm monday bypb 8 pm monday b y ptj s pan wednesday prayw meeting and bible study bllmfwd 10 am sunday school 11 am public worship churchill 1 so p m public worship 2 30 p m sunday school melville 2pm sunday school 3pm public worship in the civic pride which a class a band engenders in the cultural in fluence which good music exerts ind in the hobby which membership in the band provides for manv of mir citizens as a return for this tnsing ouinancial worry the band members intend to provide a series of concerts during the year as well ls free participation in such public functions as the remembrance day parade and other civic functions it is our belief that every citlsen is proud of the georgetown band can we count on this pride to ex press itself tangibly in an overwhel ming yes vote to the request for a 1200 annual grant the an swer ia up to you as a voter holy cfom r c chnrcat rev fr v j morgan mass at 9 am 2nd and 4th s days 11 am 1st 3rd and sundays nerval united church rev f j dnnlop nrval 10 am sunday school 11 ajaa public worship mount pleasant 2 so p m sunday school ai public worship glen williams 2 pm sunday school 7 pa pobu worship all are welcome provincial paper bowling league heard in latin songs songstress alys robi who rec ently returned to her native canada from singing engage ments in europe and now adds her vofce to the latin ameri can serenade program broad cast over the cjbc and the cbc dominion network and on mbs stations la the united state marchment mcmenemy arnold gunning 18 pta 17 pta is pta 14 pta high single sheldon lawr 800 please cooperate next week the herald will ha ft record 14page edition in order to issue it wednesday evening wa njfc advertisers and those sobtttttinc new items to bring them m to atttj ai possible