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the georgetown herald wedneday june 1 4th 1 944 navy league tea and garden party next saturday anniversary services limehouse presbyterian church sunday june 1 8 services at 230 pm and 730 pm dst rev john riddell mitton guert speaker gueat soloists miss thelma capps of brampton and miss joy ruddell of ashgrove military parade garden party dance friday evening june 23rd glen williams athletic grounds galaxy of stars including comedian tap dancer impersonator and stunt artist three bands in attendance doris hulls dance orchestra free parking boom load spmunf system proceeds for boy oversea faroes adm3sston- silver collection special theatre night sponsored by the boy scoots as a war effort to collect waste paper admission 20 lbs or more of paper special prizes for those bringing the m p first 500 second 300 third 100 bring your paper to the salvage depot at the rear of mcmillans between 130 and 6 00 pm any evening or on saturday afternoon from 1 00 to 6 00 pjn or give them to any boy scout or the school children and get your theatre ticket one show only at 715 p m gregory theatre georgetown thursday june 22 cbry t h e a t re friday june 16 hi buddy robert paige harriet huliard hands across the border hoy rogers st trigger fox news saturday june 17 matinee at 3 pm princess orourke olivia deharluand robert camming carribean romance technicolor musical cartoon champions of justice chapter 2 daredevils of the west tuesday and wednesday june 20 and 21 a lady takes a chance hilarious with jean arthur john wayne march of time youth cnsu band hit parade of gay 90v traveltalk visiting st louis james mcnab founder of norval or col jas m baliaoune x ham read witti great interest and sjpprodatian ookmel nublafe sketch of taw history of norval since tfut character of james mcnab is sugbtty oat of facta sad lacking in ajoctumte deau and since i am in a position to supply the detail and ac curately osflne the interesting life of ttds pioneer x snail do so in a spirit f hlatorial ancuracar and not in one of eg atticism or contravene i am sure my old friend colonel no ble mil appreciate una detail as well any correction as to dates and relative r as a little girl and in also her teens my mother had sat at the feet of jamea mcnab her gradfatttier and listened to his stories of his service on the niagara frontier in eighteen twelve and fourteen and with general brook at queensbm heights she was also familiar with the old mill and its construction and also with the bro thers of her grandfather and her two uncles the sons of james mcnab she as well as she did her father who was the eldest son of the founder and his namesake she knew all about his service with the york volunteers to whom brock gave ms last order at queenston she had a hotographlc memory and told me these stories many times and they would nu a large volume he hod been commended and given a citation while serving in fort georgtr for climbing to the top of the powder mags tine and throwing off a red hot shot that the americans had sent over as a souvenir hut jamea mcnab did not come from vermont in eighteen twenty nor were bis sons john and alexander wtien he came to norval in eighteen twenty his eldest son and namesake two years old and two other sons were born in mcnab ville and were named alexander and archie uncle aleck as mother called him was a sur veyor and died as the result of a rattle snake bite though where he was at the time x do not know uncle ar chie i presume stayed in the district the eldest son james mcnab nr grandfather and namesake married elizabeth thompson the daughter of thomas thompson of the royal scots and a veteran of the peninsular war and waterloo and incidentally he is also burled to norval james mcnab the son who was a millwright moved to owen sound where his family were bom return ing in the eighties to our home on queen sjeet in georgetown where he died in eighty four aged to return to james mcnab the elder he built the mill la eighteen twentyeight and two years later leased it to john bamhart and for the next decade or so the mill shuttled back and forward from one lessee or owner to another the reason of these changes was the distressing injury to james mcnab whose leg was crushed by a falling millstone necessitating an amputation and from this acci- dent henever full recovered thou pathfoester brought complaint against jamea mcnab for assault and hattery but aa both in that and the following year the defendant was found to be exercising his pugnacious instincts in a useful and patriotic fashion on the niagara frontier the case against him was ilsanlawirl- how x would like to have a blow by blow description of that fight which is probably the first recorded bout in the county there la no question as to thtt winner the loser is always the complainant nor have x ever met a mon whose pride in his physical fit ness and flsuc ability does not overrule his sense of law and order but he was young then in his early twenties and he passed the meridian of hf e when he was injured and younger men took bis place while he settled hack to watch the procession of pioneers as they tracked- west and north to settle the pine lands of hal- ton and wellington though these names were not adopted till the sixties in conclusion i have endeavoured to supplement the excellent article by colonel noble by turning the spot ught on the founder of the village there are a hundred incidents which i learned from my mother and also from my grandfather but time and ee forbids and so to james mc nab and an his sturdy contemporaries our sincere respects and admiration jas m baiajatttine seers and suckers by joseph dunnxngek the famous mind wizard who has amaited radio audiences by telling their jnnennost thoughts exposes the fake spirit mediums who are preying on the families of our countrys war dead begin reading seers and suck ers in the american weekly with this sundays june 18 issue of the detroit sunday times he lived a long life and died in norval in the late sixties when one considers that amputa tions in those days were without anaesthetics and there were no hos pital facilities it is not difficult to appreciate the effect on a man well over forty at the time he was in and around peel now so called at that time like halton in cluded in the term york during the trouble with the american invasion as the following extract from emily weavers book attests i quote from this book which is called the coun ties of ontario quotation in those days good roads were of even more vital im portance than they are now and some pioneers seemed to have found road work so peculiarly distasteful that ra ther than do it they put the luckless pathtnaster in bodily fear with threats and blows in elgheen lwelve philip cody then phone 161 inicr main ac guelph street scotts garage autaa international sales and service shell products social and personal the georgetown herald soldiers comforts fund i preston mt j p cheat of toronto is visit ing mr and mrs h b batktn at wlktwood the rebekah war services club met on monday evening at the borne of mrs harry bailey mrs joseph hartley of milton visited her parents mr and mrs herbert dear test week end mrs k mogulgsn has returned home after spending a week in gelt with her daughter mrs william morley miss fiona feller has returned after spending a fe days with mrs jack young niagara falls mrs h hayward toronto spent a few days last week with mr and mrs william bonathao mr and mrs thomas hill of lucan were weekend visitors with the hills on king street mr and mrs freeman wilson of rjockwood were saturday visitors with mr and mrs calvin clark mr and mrs f schneider and fa mily of guelph visited mr and mrs t f grieve on sunday mr and mrs jack buck and daugh ter of owen sound were visitors over the week end with mrs j m buck mrs j clarke and daughter and mrs earl smith and children of new toronto were sunday visitors with mr and mrs george brands ord 1 w02 horace hurley and mrs hurley and baby daughter georgina from sydney n s are visiting mr and mrs h hurley rev j l self of norval and union presbyterian churches win preach an niversary services at woodbridge on sunday next i mrs mcleod of toronto has been spending the past week with her nieces mrs len harding and mrs h forwarded to soid1h comforts committee t 97364 cash on hand acknowledged 12338 proceeds from marlon hepburns recital 20 00 public school junior red cross 10 00 total june 14th 112693 mr and mrs frank kentner and daughter gdlllanrie toronto were week end visitors with mr and mrs vance kentner a large number from this district attended the halton and peel hoi- stein breeders picnic held on the cam pus at the oa c guelph on saturday afternoon roy lacey son of mr and mrs xacey of aurora former wellknown manager of the dominion store here grad from pj8 university of toronto last thursday dr and mrs oilffond redd have rented a summer house in terra ootta for the warm weather and hope to spend most of their spare time in that pretty spot qpl daisy mercer and ibopl jean tennant owao of rosedale bar racks toronto spent the weekend a the home of mr and mrs 8 c ten nant we are pleased to see chief of polios w g marshall back on main street after bis recent operation in toronto general hospital the chiefs looking fine and expects to be back on the job before long the secretary of the bsqueslng agricultural society mr o i mo- guvray attended the meeting of the county council yesterday to ask for the usual grant from the county hi the interests of the local fair miss martha e isley daughter of mr and mrs h isley 8th line erin was among the nurses who graduated last wednesday at st josephs hos pital guelph martha is a graduate of the georgetown high school guests of miss isley at the graduation held m memorial hall were present from georgetown toronto camp borden balhnafad kitchener listowel mil- den bask and guelph- ont engagement notice mr and mrs john wood shelburne ont announce the engagement of their daughter audrey gertrude to lopl bruce norman gummer son of mr and mrs walter gummer georgetown wedding to take place on saturday june 24th 1b44 at grace united church brampton card of thanks i wish to take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation to my many friends for their kind inquiries and thoughtful remembrances during my recent illness w g mafishaiil nothing but a buak dart block of tons steel and concrete ilruless unserviceable it is hydra that put life into skyscrapers warehouses and factories or any other build ing for electricity transforms darkness into light irovm luvators swiftly and slluntly performs the hundred tasks thai bestow upon a building the throbbing pulse of life hidden in the walls of tall buildings are hundred of miles of wiring a veritable nut- work travelling from a master switchboard to in ontario in business and home in in dustry arxfon the farm hydro llghtensthe way it powurs the machines that produce thu goods we need it brings a entertainment it makes our workday easier our life more comfortable plan for better living and more isbure after victory by taking full advantage of the benefits that can be yours through the me of electricity mm f it mi i i iii the hydroelectric power commission of ok