sa the georgetown herald wednesday evening july 16th 1941 right hon majlcolm macdonald pc british high co to canada is pictured above as he spoke to some eight hundred persons who attended the testimon lal dinner to c o knowles editor of the toronto evening telegram which was held at the royal york hotel toronto on monday july 7th proposed toast to honored guest ll col the rer sydney e lambert o b pronounced the race and proposed the toast to the honored mest c o knowles at the testimonial dinner in toronto bylaw no 416 town of georgetown a by law authorizing the taking of the assessment in the town of george town between the 1st day of april and the 30th day of september in the year preceding the year in which the taxes are fixed and levied upon such i by section 59 1 of the assessment act toeing rbo 1937 chapter 273 the council of any town may pass a by law authorizing the taking of the assessment in the said town between the 1st day of april and the 30th day of september in the lyear preceding the year in which the rtaxes are fixed and levied ojl such assessment and whereas by section 59 3 of the said act the council instead of making a second assessment in the transition year may adopt the assess xnent roll previously made and revised in such transition year therefore the municipal corporatton of the town of georgetown by its council enacts as follows 1 subject to the provisions ot clause 4 the assessor for the town of georgetown shall hereafter between the 1st day of april and the 30th day of september in each year take the assessment upon fthich the taxes in the next following year tor the town of georgetown shall be fixed and levifib to the intent that after the 31st day of december 1941 the taxes flxed and levied in every year in the town of georgetown shall be fixed and levied on an assessment taken between the 1st day of april and the soth day of september in the year next preceding the year in which the taxes are fixed and levied 2 the assessor for the town of georgetown shall hereafter on or be fore the 1st day of october in each year deliver in the form and with the forms required by statute to the cleric of the town of georgetown the completed assessment roll upon which the taxes for the next following year in the town of georgetown shall be fixed and levied 3 the date for closing the court of revision in each year in the town of georgetown shall hereafter be the 15th day of november next follow ing the return of the assessment roll and the date for the final return by the judge of the county court in each year shall hereafter be the 15th day of december next following the re turn of the assessment roll 4 the assessment roll previously made and revised in the year 1941 is hereby adopted as the assessment roll upon which shall be fixed and levied the taxes for the year 1942 and the time for closing the court of revision in connection with the appeals from such assessment roll shall be the 15th day of november 1941 and the final return of the judge of the county co rt in connection therewith shall be the 15th day of december 1941 5 all by laws or parts of by laws not in accordance herewith are here by repealed passed this 7th day of july 1941 joseph gibbons mayor p b harrison 3t clerk dancing huttonville park every wednesday and saturday leading prchestras regular admission hawk in th wind by helen topping miller at a little store on the edge of the county seat marian stopped and bought a bag of little cakes a pack age of raisins always on their trips in the old truck tom had car ried raisins loose ui the pocket of his denim coat she had seen him many times luring a mountain jay or a squirrel near by scattering rai sins on the moss at the foot of a tree the deputy jailer was a man she did not know but he let them in when he heard her name the jail er s wife looked m her purse ran her flat hands over marian s body automatically looked in the paper bag i don t reckon you fetched pruitt any hack saws the deputy showed broken teeth in a grin but them s the rules tom was pitifully glad to see her and he shook hands with wills with a grave and pathetic dignity mother has gone to see about getting you out tom marian said you must come home mother needs you tom considered this looking straight ahead sitting on a bench holding marian s hand tightly then he shook his head i reckon i 1 stay nere 1 shot that feller he was fixing to steal my timber ida shot them all if my gun hadn t jammed never knowed it to do that a way be fore but you must tome tom he didn t die he u n t d c and the mill will go to ruin tl out y u it s your mill tom arl yours you can t let the mill down she s h red you a n t she tom looked levelly at w its i fifcurld she got put out at me ut en 1 stid over there so i ng i was waiting for them fellers to come back and it looked like they ni ir was com in then lon told me m s morgan had hired this feller so i figure i 11 just stay here a spell lon treats me all right they argued m va n wills strove to be convincing and caught a grate ful look in marian s eyes but tom was immovable he tore the top from the box of raisins and poured some out into marian s hand why did you do t tom mar lan pleaded you could have scared them off you didn t need to shoot they was after my timber i had a right to that p ece of poplar your ma said so i reckon i better stay on here a spell he did not she saw look ahead he was old and growing childish he was not thinking of what might lie ahead remorselessly for him he had an idea thai by remaining here patiently behind bars he was somehow paying his debt to an over zealous system of jurisprudence the payment demanded for a private act of reasonable reprisal he was resigned to legal inter ference with his personal liberties but it was obvious that he had no idea of having done a capital crime there was a grim patience ui his attitude that went back to codes old er than america went back as the mountain people s odd speech and ancient ballads went back to an an glosaxon tradition an older stern er civilization of harquebus land entailed and inviolate and freemen responsible only to a preoccupied king or a silent heaven mariar choked on the thought of what lay ahead for tom and flung her arms around him suddenly oh tom why did you do it ev ery thing is so wrong we can t get along without you tom gulped reddened scrubbed his hand over his unshaven chin what you worrying about mis morgan 11 git along she s enough for a whole pack of em nobody am t never got the best of her yet they left him soon after that left him calmly super nle ding the jail er s children who were cracking walnuts n the corr d r wills see ng the m sting of tears on marian s eyel ds n i quietly would you like m to dr ve no i ii drirt in all r ght bui he w i th i b tterly as tl c ft j tl e curv i g moun tu n r w i oi nl r ght noth iitk wn n 1 i ii i oked side long tit m r swtll si i d si nc 1 ie i tn nkc rr ah ri r line of i i st fllv s lorn e e t they dr vc b k i yo ng angry trutr yearning for etel c f tie t f her i ps kison her i nk al r ill d fierce irms hoj th nk i b f i e tried it lsohuon that 1 or k re and luly n ght ahead f m it o ri crt turts it ir id irrect chapter ix in the tarh afternoon virgie re turned t the mill spent and dis pirited a id rasped raw with irrita tion shi had h red the best lawyer to be fo nd she had arranged for bail for t m only to have him sit back stui rnly refuse to leave the jail or to io operate with the lawyer i done it i shot him he said over and yei there was apparently nothing to be done a present leave urn att a while advised lon hicks he s kind of numb right now layin up there on that ridge in the cold he 11 come to himself before long a d git to thinking and hen you can talk sense to him so there was noth ng to do but abandon her fut ie efforts and go back to the mill and once there she let t er weariness and exaspera lion have their way with her you d think she snapped at lucy f elds that those men out there loading that car were building the pyramids and had six thousand vears to finish the job when did ve start running this plant in slow motion they re short handed mrs mor gan and with tom gone lucy faltered explanations where s wills did he come to day he s working with jerry on the leedirs he went away with mar tan but they came back before noon it was so cold in the yard and he sn t really well yet so he went off with marian i suppose she wanted something for thai little theater and if the whole n i j happtn to go to pot why that s no consequence i think they went to the jail hobe a d answer that wi 1 you and if anybody else wants to talk about that business on hazel fork tell em 1 ve been stricken stonedeaf telll mildred when she gets all the town gossip off the wire she can put n a 1 to baltimore for me i rt something funny about this uu us ntss something that a id up r y mrs morgan and when i time mr daniels would k see you he said it was u i nt i jj oc he iti in 11 er of his 1 he s alv s tnh n some tl l act lup th it ives a il d d liars or n pi 1 iction d rnly c ts f fl en or i venty il d to insi ii i l ins cr l n ht r mind d t orened tie d or of st nley h laborat ry ii what s on y ur mind she ri cd it tls looked up fr m his work i i i is hands quickly oi mrs morgan sorry i had ask you to come over but there w i a r sk that this stuff would solid- f f 1 left it and i thought you 1 id know about these tests th ng is going wrong w th the i nts i can t say just whai till i h running these in the num yri hrce vat the fiber seems to be s weal ened and destroyed thai the ii run will be worthless would u 1 ke to look at this he wiped t ibe swiftly held it to the light k it v rg e crossed the room studied tht bron mixture what s wrong w th f she asked watch daniels tilted the tube let the solution spin out ignorant pr c sses as she was virgie saw er gr to know that something was ta ly wrong this was not wood nulp tn solution but a sickening imy brew that spun out on the her paper daniels spread beneath i i have to believe you v rgie ad i don t know enough to k ow hat s wrong but someth ng s ev c tly but how could it have hap pened there could dan els so d i ave been some chemical accice t unl kely though if you bought tl e tuff at the same place changes co ur accidents in shipment mo urt too much heat but not ften b jt this seems to me tot ser ous tr le explained in that way s m i u g wrong has been added rr tests will show what t is wh they re finished of course that i ha e been accidental too wrong la bel someth ng like that then s always the human element ou know workmen make mistake- and h dp them and then of course we have to consider the possibility that t was deliberate v rgie sa down abruptly on a kail ei covered stool her legs were weak all the vague m sgiv nps she h iri ft i assumed a difn te shipe of y i i eun somebody could have n i it whole digester nt ilp it itrdtcly put n sun eth to t i n il p flher 1 w i uld ihat have hap per ed you ktcp the kt s you test everyth ng i did not unfortunately lest u e solvents on ii s run dan els adm i ted i haven t been domg it ihu ly they come aled and the ve always been perf ct before we de pended on the rep tation of the man ufacturer oi course hereafter i ii test everything u urourhtv but tin doesn t help us w and in the m nt mi we lost a batch of pulp an 1 nt all the trou ble of cleaning l c dic er out im afrn d th loi useltss i m runn if c ri f tcsl to be certain but in the leantime it looks pretty dubious virgie let her breath out slowly all sprts of odd a id ideas seethed in her mind so ne had ruined yoli mean somebody could have ruined that whole digester of pulp deliberately an expensive run ui pulp someone had it in for her but why vague rumors she had heard of communists at work dustrial re gions of sabotage labor trou bles fomented she a ounted her men had worked in the morgan mill all their lives some of them had helped david morgan to build the plant some of them sons of men who had laid the first bricks repeatedly she had called them into conferences during the black years of the depiesson laying the facts before them speaking their language bhe had made sacrifices to keep the milt in operation when there was no profit for her no pos sible wjay to show profit if the mill closed there wa no other em ployment for then a nd yet here was susp c t n sab lage and ugly doubt that tested till she had proof and ceitam knowledge upon every man in the m ii virgu i aied tht ih ucht with the rightei cd halt t the n ately kind and cai rl u r si i ated look tng at j r h r d the spain boys w h i a n her eyes she loathed the feeling that hnsti e looks m ghl be following her every man in tl e mill o ved someth nl t her and yet people wore funny she v ml home at night lost in o heavy rum native gloom she changed her clothes and wetii down 1o her big cha r that faced david morgan s picture and sttll had the print of david morgan s head tn the leather of the back david looked tired too she thought da vid wa out of it all he was lucky mariin sat moodily in front of the fire staring into the blaze you sighed virgie sinking into the cushions with a groan are a cheerful sight for tired eyes if a merry laugh or a song ever sound ed in this room i suppose i d drop dead from shock what were you doing over at the jail i went over to bring tom back he wouldn t come being locked up on a criminal charge that is kind of odd you were going te arrange bail for him lon hicks said so but tom wouldn t come i suppose you had to take young wilis along in case you needed somebody to carry tom s baggage his other bandana did wills men tion that he s working for me7 not that it matters but now and then we do run off a batch of pulp when we can get a little cooperation from the gentlemen i employ mother don t be so prickly i i took mr wills over there because lossie said the people in town were saymg you had fired tom and given wills tom s job i thought perhaps tom n ight have heard it i hope you don t think i took him because i enjoyed his company virgie looked at her daughter lev elly her heart gave a little jerk like every other mother she had postponed stubbornly admitting to herself her child s maturity she had put off the inevitable hour of change when some man should desire her child for his own for days she had been seeing through branford wills clearly and she had not been displeased she liked his straight forwardness the trace of iron in htm the strong and gentle way he had with women but there was no seeing through marian virgie ad mitted to herself that her child was a darkeyed enigma to her mother and in her present state of mmd nerve taut and weary puzzles were irritating do you mean to tell me that you don t know that that chap is in love with you she demanded have i ra sed up a daughter with no moie fern nine intuition than a ground turtle why lossie knows it ore than that i or am 1 supposed to be ust a nice stupid old mother blind as a bat marian s eyes darkened and her face changed queerly there was a little convuls on of her lips that was a tremor of pain but virgie was too spent and too exasperated to see so that marian s voice crack led like ice is the cute little plot he s in love v th me so you give him a job in the mill it s a rollo book the nice joung man works his way up from sleeping the store and the mill owner daughter is sup posed tt be all of a tw tter because ihe get bkndl ok unfortunaiely mother 1ear y u e been rtaling dorothv d x or k 10 mam m ies mr bt anf rd us happen n to be in love h me as any chester laird marries janet barrie thompson the marriage of miss- janet jessie barrie thompson daughter of mr jas thompson and the late mrs thomp son of harriston and mr william chester laird son of the late mr and mrs j laird of georgetown was quietly solemnized at knox church manse st catharines ont on wed nesday july 2nd at 4 p m with rev m coulter officiating the bride was smartly attired in a ausky rose redlngote ensemble with serenade blue costume hat and white accessories immediately following the ceremony mr and mrs laird left for niagara falls and later went on to muskoka the bride travelled or powder blue sheer with leghorn iflt and yellow accessories they will make their home in palmerston ian- escaped backache many people think that backache is a trouble that cornea naturally with advancing years but this woman of 71 proves that it la not i buffered for a long tune from backache ahe writes but put it down to my age 71 reading your announcement i thought i would try kruschen salts i have been taking itfor some time and have founa great relief i thought you would like to know it has done me a world of good mrs e r 0 vhen puma in vtba back are caused by inactivekiieya and failure of the digestive system to throw off r ixonoua impurities kruschen sal in will give real help in setting the matter right because kruschen 1ms a diuretic action which helps to flush your kidneys and hvtr ater that your bio 1 1 throws off all impurities ou ct happy relief from pain terra cotta among some of the friends from a dishnce who attended the funeral of the late r w puckering last- week were mrs townsend grand val ey mrs j mcnabb colltngmood fern stringer toronto r and mrs j l cralne have moved to toronto we are sorry to lose such kind and esteemed citizens from our mid t mr craine has se cured a lucrative situation witn the john inglis company we all join in wishing mr and mrs craine continu mr frank mezurack is erecting an up to date building for hay storage there was a very large turnout at william hunters barn dance on fri day june 27th doris hulls orchestra furnished the music for the occasion while mr charlie campbell of camp bell s cross very ably fulfilled his duties as floor manager mr hunter has an upto date barn built in the latest modern style the ladles of the union wi did a thriving business at the refresment booth with proceeds from this going to the red cross a number of the young ppop e ga thered at the home of mr and mrs fred lyons last tuesday evening to honor their retiring teacher miss ber- nice lyons of 8 s no 3 with a pres entatlon mr a mcdonald very ably filled the duties of chairman and ask ed miss lyons to come forward when she was presented with a knely crystal set and tray the address was read by mr clarence anderson to miss lyons who has been a very capable teacher for the past three years she then thanked the friends for bhe love ly gift a very pleasing program fol lowed given by miss nora lyons mss dorothy thompson robert lesl 3 joe lyons and ray anderson at the close a luncheon was served by tie ladies the fall wheat harvest will be in full swing this week wedding bells are ringing loudly in our hamlet again we are sorry to learn that mr robert mccauley is on the sljc st at present we hope soon to hear of his complete recovery it is our sad duty this week to chronicle the death of one of our high ly respected citizens mr robert wil liam puckering who passed peacefully away on monday july 7th after a lingering illness he was 68 years of age mr puckering who was born la yorkshire england came to canada when a boy of 10 he lived in oaledon township for 20 years before coming to terra cotta he was a member of the united church and the funeral service which took place last wednesday was tn carge of rev j hurst of inglewood united church pallbearers were ro- ber clark wesley rutledge norman icam james norton harry hayward and j mcnally interment was in olen williams cemetery mr puckering is survived by his widow the former elizabeth stuart fo ir sons roy john harvey and george of toronto and a daughter annie at home his mother mrs annie puckering lives in alton and he also leave three sisters and a bro ther mrs harry scythes annie of inglewood mrs james ross pnuline of alton mrs alfred roberts uennie of credit forks and george of ingle wood we all join in extending our deepest wmpathy to the widow and family in thulr loss of a kind husband and lov ing father observer can see with half an eye ehiier half and i happen not to be in lme with him that virgie mumbled aloud when marian had gone is what you could sail a dramatic exit very sat isfvlng to the actor chapter ten next week