the cjorjetown herald seventy fourth year of publication wednesday evening july 30th 1941 5c a copy 2 00 a year three georgetown girls brides of last week mary doig margaret vulie and edna marie for grave principals in end of jclt weddings clarke wylle st georges church of england was the scene of the wedding last friday afternoon july 25th of margaret wyhe daughter of mr and mrs wil 11am wylle of georgetown and albert barry clarke son of mr and mrs a b clarke of terra cotta rev w o o thompson officiated at the cere mony the bride wore an afternoon gown of heavenly blue triple sheer with blue tiat and blue accessories and a cor sage of roses she was attended by her sister miss elizabeth wylle wear lug navy sheer with white accessor las with a corsage of roses mr elmer burt was groomsman a reception was held for the im mediate families at hunters inn af ter the ceremony the couple left on a motor trip to eastern ontario and on their return win make their home in terra cotta mann dolg saturday afternoon july 26th mary doig daughter of mrs janet dolg and the late robert doig and john m mann son of george t mann and the late mrs mann were married quiet ly at knox presbyterian manse ac ton ret h l bennie performed the ceremony the bride chose a blue bolero triple sheer dress with lace trim her acces sorles were white and her corsage pink rosebuds she was attended by her sister miss helen dotg who wore dusty rose sheer crepe with rose hat white accessories and a corsage of roses john dolg of acton brother of the bride was best man following the wedding a reception was held at the home of the bride for the mmedlate families after a motor trip to eastern ontario and quebec mr and mrs mann will take up residence in acton tansley forgrae on saturday afternoon at george town united church parsonage the w eddlng was solemnized of edna marie forgraie daughter of mr and mrs william porgrave and ea on tansley of hamilton son of mr j tansley and the late mrs tanslej of carlisle and nephew of mr and mrs henrj wll son of georgetown rev j o totten of hornby officiated the bride wore a duskj rose crepe dress with lace insertions wltii a cor sage of pink roses her attendant was her sister norene porgrave who wore a similar gown of french blue with white accessories and a corsage of roses the groomsman was ross tansley of carlisle brother of th groom a reception was held at the home of the bride for the immediate families mr and mrs tansley will live in hamilton the legions womens auxiliary picnic the picnic of the women s auxiliary to the canadian legion was held on thursday july 24th about 50 child ren and 20 mothers journeyed to miles park the weather looked threatening when they left oeorgetown but fortunately nice weather was en joyed all day miles park was new as a picnic place but proved well worth the jour ney there is so much to see the children enjoyed the swings and slides even the sand piles for the little ones did good service all the time but the animal were the greatest attraction deer and peacocks and rabbits of all colours living in and roaming about the same wood and some of the pea cocks very obligingly saread their beautiful tails for the visitors the little gray donkeys gave the children a wonderful time riding them all over the place a big lumbering elephant gave the children quite a thrill when they were lifted up onto its broad back six at a time for rides around the park the monkeys too were very interesting so were two uttle daok bears also the bird houses a kicking mule mustnt be forgotten either he was the object of interest for all the little boys and quite a few big boys too as the weather was too hot to run races all the children were treated to extra pop and ice cream which was more acceptable on a hot day anyhow at 9 15 two truck loads of tired but happy youngsters arrived back in town after enjoying one of the nicest pic nics in years the committee in charge of ar rangements for the picnic was mrs h harlow mrs a roney and mrs a carter mrs f oumer had many helpers with the refreshments usually the earlier the spring grain is sown the better the crop hut this season it seems to be the- other way about and the- later grain looks the best around here anyway the earlier grain is very short in the straw and the grain itself is not fill ed out properly the harvest is early enough though we should think to suit everybody of course we could have a wet harvest like we had last year and thus make it late enough after all however we are not likely to get two wet harvest seasons in a row we understand that this modern fad of smoking by the fair sex is going out of date and somehow ne aren t eien peeved about that we never could understand how nice look lng girls with nice fingers and teeth ever fell for smoking come to think of it though we are unable to recall ever seeing a girl smoking that ap peared to be enjoying it did you no it always seemed to be done in a sort of bravado way of course the girls never smoked during those important events in their lives and perhaps never really thought much of the habit if the girls are quitting the habit what about the bos we often wonder if ihej ever realize just what they look like with a cigarette in their mouths and would suggest that they have their pictures taken that wa some time most of us are familiar with the ad ertisements in the magazines that feature cures for bo of course we all krow that b o stands for body ood ir agnin there k bad breath which is entirely different irom bod odour both o these are very objec tionable as we all know we often wonder if the heav smoker ever real zes the strong tobacco odour that seems to hae permeated to his verj soul it too is objectionable and worse still there is no known deodorant that will overcome it among the properties that the smoktf er seems to attain is selfishness av one time the smoker neer thougl i of smoking in the presence of ladies es peciaily in a strange house but today the habitual smoker walks into your home withme pipe belching forth at its maximum and never thinks ol eas lng up on the habit they leave be hind a trail of ashes and of burnt matches and that strong odour that is so hard to get rid of we can think of several ways that we would like to be remembered other than by the strong tobacco odour how about you the big v for victory seems to have made a hit even the globe and mall had a big pink v on its front page last thursday morning under neath the inked type and no doubt they will keep this habit up just think how lucky the car owner driver is that is driving a v8 right now we are glad that the big nlckle doesn t sport a v on its face though it seems to have attained importance enough as it is there was a time when a v usually meant a five dollar bill but that title seems to have gone out of date if the use of the big v really becomes popular we may all be come much more victory minded than we have been up to date compared with the last war we canadians dont seem to have realized that we really are at war even yet there doesn t seem to be the leadership along lhat line that we had in the first great war the weather the heat wave that a couple of weeks ago compelled a dignified judge in an edmonton court to doff ms coat rolled slowly across the con tinea compelling less dignified duffers to doff everything the law would allow and would not poor old grandmothers have held up their hands in horror to see their granddaughters decked out in shorts and a coat of tan but then see how much more comfortably they sur vived the heat wave than their grand mothers would have done and f the dear girls can get away with t why shouldn t we mere men be allowed to revert to the three cornered pants of our infancy last week was really hot with an average temperature of 763 or 12 3 degrees higher than the week before toronto reports that it broke two one hundred year records for hottest days in july with a maximum of 85 degrees following are the local records for the week date tues july 22 wed july 23 thurs july 24 fri july 25 sat july 26 sun july 27 mon july 28 h and l temp rain fall the georgetown herald britih war victims fund forwarded to toronto evening telegram 116613 cash on hand acknow ledged 22012 don and bern brill proceeds of pal er col lectloi 67 mrs k preston sale of name squares on quilt to be sent to enghnd 36 80 1423 72 v for victory catches on in georgetown l signs everywhere as h c mcclure has idea to help war victims fund joining in the v for victory slo gan which la sweeping across america after a successful launching on the continent georgetown is becoming v conscious too on tuesday july 22nd harold mc clure came to the herald office with an idea to help boost the herald war victims fund tying in with the new slogan he suggested that v signs be prlntea and sold for 25c with all pro ceeds golngito the fund this office agreed to furnish the signs as its con tribution and proceeded to print some 80 of them on gummed paper they measure about six inches high with v for victory in red lettering on the left hand side of the v and proceeds for georgetown herald war victims fund on the other side frankly we were skeptical of the idea we thought that perhaps har old would sell ten or fifteen to mer chants for their store windows and joseph armstrong that would be all there was to it it was a great suprlse then albeit a pleasant one w hen he came in on wednesday and announced that the eighty vs were all gone and could we print some more in a hurry we did so and there is still a brisk de mand ernie alcotl e r magloughlen whose o donation was the initial one in our war victims fund and w h long have assisted in selling the vs tnd they are also for bale at the her aid office to oate some 30 00 has been realiz d rom their sale there is no ex x e of anj kind connected with the inn so that every 25c invested in a v mfins 2x that goes to british war vie im thank yol proclam ifion issued by major joseph clbbons which aphan on pvge 4 i the herald draws atum on to the fict that monday aug ist 4th is civic i holiday in georgetown the bojs of the old br gsde which eludes great war i veterans from both sid s or the border as well as from all over the empire marching in sh to take thi opportunity of say it was mv pleasastt pr vilege to take he dominion census in the east half of our town during m calling from home to home i met many old friends a d came to know many more for their kindly recept on their willing nes to answer all questions and their p easing cooperation in every case the warriors day parade at flhe can adlan national exhibition will be joined this year by many mechanized units from canada s modern fighting forces to each and george dobson sub dist no mrs vincent massey writes thanks for war victims parcels mrs cyril ford died in toronto hospital friends in georgetown were sadden ed last week by the sudden death in toronto general hospital on friday july 25th of mrs cyril ford mrs ford whorwas 44 years of age was the former alice lansiey born in england she came to canada as a youngster and spent most of her life in this district she was a member of knox presby terian church and a member of the woman s association of the church besides her husband she leaves two sons albert and james and three sis ters in england the funeral service on sunday wa held from the residence on caroline street rev j a simpson of or angeville conducted the service there were many beautiful floral tributes testifying to the esteem in which mrs ford was held pallbearers were fred armstrong cyril brandford allan norton edward logan and lloyd walters interment was in h crest cemetery nerval larman sutcliffe married in england word as recently received by his mother in toronto or the marriage of carman sutcliffe former organist and choir leader of oeorgetown united church and blanche makins a native of cheltenham who has been living n england born at aon ontario mr sut clime is the son of mr sutcliffe and uh late rev j f sutcliffe he att ended jarvis collegiate and the to ronto conservatory or music becom inn interested in aviation he took iulructlon at malton airport he left for england in june 1939 and joined the r af and has since err ed in egypt malta and the gold coast as well as on bombing flights over germanj and italy what is a corvette the answer w ill be found at the canadian national exhibition this year it is expected that two corvettes will be anchored off the waterfront and a replica of a hull will be set up ashore both parts of the huge royal canadian navy dls play first canadian fort isebuilt t kind of a house guest abe tout judith t chase quiz expert writ ine in the american weekly with the august 3 issue of the detroit sunday timet offers readers a novel ques tionnaire which if answered honestly tftq any one to rate his or her tlrtoes or view as a weekend guest be ore to get the detrorc sunday times th week and every week the new arrangement in regard to the curtailed sale of gasoline seems to be working out satis factorlly we understand public opln ion seems to be effective and it may not be long until the highways win look deserved on sundays if it should happen that motoring does go out of date entirely the cars will have left quite a solid momument to thelr memory in those long lines of high ways throughout the province the tough break though would be that those hard surfaced highways are not suitable for horse traffic of course there are other ways of propelling cars than by the use of the internal com bustlon gasoline engines some years ago we used to see a few electric cars on the road they were very quiet running cars and were never as modern in design as were the ordinary motor cars of their time the chassis was built moreatter thesty4e of the old fashioned carriage then there were the steamer cars no doubt man or our readers will recall the brooks steamer that was made in stratford ontario and that produced a scandal of a kind later oh it was modern in design and we did like the sound it made as it pulled away from the curb just a slight hissing sound that seemed to become less as it gained speed it used coal oil if we remember correctly and its weak point was in me piping that trans mitted the steam to the engine this had a habit of breaking when the owner was several miles from a gar age they never became popular and we haven t heard of a steam car be ing in use for a long time nova scotia went back more than 300 years for the plans which were used in reconstruct lng the port royal habitation which housed the first europeans to settle in america north of the gulf of mexico and which was recently opened to the public by the hon t a crerar minister of mines and resources that famous fort where champlaln instituted the order of the good time stands today as it did when hardy french explorers made it their headquarters in 1606 the rambling log buildings as loach like the original as human ingenuity could make them are the product of nova scotia craftsmen handnbewn beams aad floor boards art pegged into position wroaghtttron hinges hold the doors andv solid shutters in place and other hand worked iron is used for bars on the win dows and decorative work if it is possible for one place to be more historic than an other this one can be described only in superlatives demonts and champlaln arrived in anna- polls basin in 1604 and named it port royal the fort built in the following year was the scene of battle after battle between the french and english and had ac tually changed hands eight times by 1t10 when it was finally cap tured by a strong expedition of new england troops from bos ton the name was changed to annapolis royal in honor of queen anne who then occupied the english throne the reconstruction of the an dent habitation at annapolis royal to give u its modern name has attracted wide at tention in canada and the united states many individuals and or ganisations have donated old records furnishings and other articles to lend to the authenti city of this famous site 20 miles from dlgby by dominion atlan tic railway dlgby is the west ern waterway entrance to nova scotia connection with saint john n b being maintained by the ss prlnceavhelene other famous muttary structures still standing at annapolis royal in clude the ramparts of fort anne the park 2s in extent in cludes a later french fort com pleted tn 1t0t and captured in 1t10 and the officers quarters erected by the british a few y later layout shows the port boyl habttauoo the well noose and a rlew showing the care with which the handhewn beams were pat in place mrs e loud of georgetown has received an acknowledgment for an other parcel received by mrs vincent massey for distribution to the air raid victims of britain mrs loud and her daughters mrs dorothy swan of brampton and mrs hatherine preston or georgetown have been extremely active in this work some 300 articles have been shipped about 25 of them being do nated by interested citizens and mer coants mrs loud who is 74 years is an indefatigable sewer and spends much of her time at the work in addition to the letter reprinted below a number of thank ybu notes to citizens who had made donations including mr john mcbean who do nated cloth to be made into garments were sent by mrs massey dear mrs loud again i have to thank you and your friends for your help and do please thank your daughters for the charm ing work they are doing in these difficult days people are all so grateful for what you are doing and sending and do know how proud i am to say that they come from friends who are thinking of them in canada it was touching to me to hear of mrs delia fields gift before she died from all you say she must have been a very fine person it is most charming the way all these people have given things and when i can i let the recipients know of what care and thought has been put into the work you send with renewed thanks to you and all lor everything yours verj sincerely alice vincent massey ps the enclosed i know will in terest you they are typical of the gratitude expressed for all the work you are doing a vm excerpts from letters received from people who have been sent gifts from canada the following letters are from little girls or 9 and 10 years old from the east end of london thank you very much for the dainty little pink and blue bonnets given to my little sisters pauline and patricia who are twins aged just three and they have maae a lot of fuss of their bonnets i think they look pretty in them will lou please thank the canadian ladles who sent us such nice clothes yours gratefully jean i am very graterul to you for the pretty frock it is so nice that i am keeping it for sundays i do feel grand when i am wearing it i have only just come out of the hospital where i have been lying in bed for four months my leg was broken when my home in london was bombed dur ing an air raid last september i am wearing an iron now but tile doctor says it shant be for long i shall be glad to get rid of it i am ten years old and people say i am tall tor my age please will you thank your canadian friends for the nice gar ments they send us the children all love them and they hope when the war is over they will visit us in lon don yours gratefully maureen toe writer of this letter is only a boy dear mrs massey i am writing to thank you for the pullover i was for tunate to receive today i and my friends who also received gifts think tt l wonderful of your friends in can ada to knit the woollen comforts for i am a partyleader attached to a stretcher party depot in london and have seen quite a lot of excite ment since i joined the service to september 1939 we never have much work to do during the daytime so the london county council have arranged for the personnel of the depots to at tend classes where we receive instruc tions in swimming radio and wood work then when nighttime comesf we have to stand by to be ready to receive the nazis when they come over in their ersatz planes i hope you will answer my letter and tell me something about canada where you have bright lights at night and no blackouts the following is from the head mistress of a school in an east london parish that has suffered terribly she is in charge of 180 children whose par ents are all very poor they are large ly dockers and she was in despair for clothes how can i thank you for the splendid parcel which we re ceived today it was a joy to go through it we sorted out the heavy woollen garments for future use and the lighter things were disposed of at once please convey our sincere thanks to all our kind friends in can ada who are helping us so generously their gifts are a godsend thank you ever so much fox the lovely parcel of canadian clothes sent me last week we are indeed grateful as our poor east end people have suf fered terribly th deserve- all the help that can be given them as they have proved themselves most bran and courageous thank you once again most gratefully indeed indeed we are grate ful these things iuus come m the very nick of time when the needs of the very small are greatest we deal out our little stock with the greatest care and only to those who are really in need is there any way of teutnv your friends in canada bow much their pracual sympathyis valued beret our gratitude is from the bottom of our hearts to them and to you