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the georgetown herald wedno march 21 1945 teafetf during the first fin yarns of war canada produce enough ml owwo mmrbm to art hn nwft tat anrf ktktf potto jat worti 0 5d afcf of wham dw sha ft jftnv cm ft omoa or mostnr ovary aviawf it rods hou wrapt cou cou pupils from schools f county win again be guests of cooncu at april meeting dtscoslon on making pro vincial government from county cooncu wardens halton county council met in mil ton on tuesday all the members were present and the warden in the chair in the afternoon mr murray was chairman in com mittee of the whole when the report of the standing committees were con sidered and amended and later passed in open council at the morning session in the ab sence of the warden the exwarden j m mcdonald occupied th chair officers of the lone scots address ed council with regard to the work of the regiment and asked for con tinued financial assistance activities of the regiment were outlined by col bertram and major mcclure iollowed by a financial statement by oapt smith the following motion was passed by council moved and seconded by messrs mcdon ild and hillmer that the lome scots regiment of halton peel and dufferin be granted the sum of t00 and the regimental bond a grant of 400 committee reports dealt only with payment of accounts which were rov- ered by the fo lowing motion moved by messrs mcdonald and craig that the following accounts be paid finance 1 714 printing 4fi 72 county buildings 384 80 county road 7 880 43 1123951 subscribe for the herald now the county buildings committee tecommended that the registry office building be redecorated new lighting bytem be installed and any necessary repair be attended council agreed and furrier added that not only the registry oince lighting be improv ed but tile whole lighting system in tie county buildings be revamped and a recommendation as to their findings along this line be brought in by the commliue at the next meeting an appeal from the red cross re suited in a motion by messrs neat and smiui fiat uie live hal ton conn 11 branctie of the red cross be grants ed the sum of 1500 to be equally dl ided amongst them carried the warden asked the opinion of the council on the desirability or otherwise of entertaining fie public school pjpils again this year all members were in favor it being the concensus erf opinion that such a meeting was decidedly of educational value the county engineer mr roy smith agreed to take charge of all preliminary arrangements but asked that the municipalities encourage the selection and sending of pupils to the meeting mr smith stated that halton county baa received considerable pub licity in other counties through this educational feature pull reports as published in the acton pree press and canadian champion in the two pre vious rears haw found their way as far afield as norm scotia primes win be given for the best letters the same as last year betty ruddejj hottom to junior farmers the monthly meeting of the nerval i junior institute and junior farmers was hed at the home of miss betty auddell on march 13th i the tjheme of the junior institute meeting was ireland and the roll call was answered by an irish joke mrs hector bird was the guest speaker and chose as her topic in search of ire land in a most interesting and amusing manner she described the characteristics of the irish she tdld how many irish songs describe their intense love of country a solo by viola brigden was much enjoyed an interesting contest was led by frances evans at the meeting of the junior far mers douglas ourrle gave a talk on the conference which was held in ouelph feb 22 23 24 ward brown ridge spoke on husking com the guest speaker at thejolnt meet ing was miss ismey kean she dis cussed the composition of the 92 ele ments of chemistry and by several ex periments showed the action of sul phates john mcnabb on behalf of the juniors moved a vote of thanks to mr and mrs ruddell and betty for their kindness in opening their home for the evening delicious refresh ments were then served by the lunch- committee the next meeting will be held in april at the home of marjan isobel and douglas currle georgetown your shopping centre good friday holiday georgetown stores will be open all afternoon and in the evening until 10 pm on the day before the good friday holiday f thursday march 29th georgetown board of trade retail division mr ferris addressed council with regard to the booklet on halton county to be compiled and mat over sea with a view to bringing halton n s norton fs 0 i price stewiri qtbelt siccessfbl sea cadet candidates aiucoinm r cahmeu itmimut chalhue wl hughes s i wu i ldura it um maurm iiwu tareuec r r won nsssj hnn rtn anti w ymmmm tl ktivmi n re roc fred j haddexl former georgetown merchant was buried herf a former well known georgetown merchant pred j haddell passed away a his home in toronto after a itngthy illness on thursday march 1 the late mr haddell was born in eng land in 1878 during his stay in georgetown he operated two bake ihops one in the store on john st across from the arena and one in the store in the mcglbbon block the family left georgetown about six ytar ago and had since been living in to ronto surviving are his wife and two daughters and a son in detroit michl gan funeral services were held from wards funeral home on march 5th with burial in greenwood ceraeterj georgetown rev r c todd was the minister at the grave side service to the attention of industrialists in great britain who may be wishing to expand after the war completion of the booklet is expected by the next meeting after which printing tenders will be called and the number of copies to be ordered decided upon mr hillmer very much in earnest created a new topic for discussion by statin that he would like to see hal- county council go on record as being in favor of the provincial gov ernment being done away with and in its place a government be formed ith a- personnelmadeup ent o the wardens of the vmrlous counties of the province headed by a member of the federal government with meet ings taking place two or three times a year mr craig while admitting mr hillmer s suggestion had a certain amount of merit reminded the mem bers that tn some quarters the opinion was that the county council should be dispensed wtth the warden drew attention to the fact that the wardens office has al ways been regarded as a part time special dance floor show and prizes thursday march 29th the rose room of the georgetown arena modern aires orchestra dancing 9 to i 2 30 modern and old time music admission 50c regular dance every saturday night to the tops in dance bands the modern aires job and in some cases 1 might not possible for the warden to take on additional responsibilities mr robertson favored mr hill mer s suggestion agreeing with him that the country as a whol was o governed more discussion will pro bably take place at the next meeting as although a motion was prepared it was too late to be considered and was left over for the next meeting mr j u mcdonald drew attention to the fact that at times there was considerable overlapping in prepara tory legislation mentioning partlcul larly communication received from the federation of agriculture with regard to the formation of a county health service far this reason it was moved by messrs mcdonald and robertson that a letter be drafted to paul fisher freatden of the fed eration of agriculture informing hta of the fact that a bylaw had beam passed instituting a school health nursingserrtee and theaaan w the process of formation and that it wa the intention of this council to constitute a county haaltfc tjnlt af soon as the department of healtti could supply the necessary nfflrt which would be late m 1946 and jao that dr strutters of the department of health was to outbne th latter layout at our mar or april meeting council adjourned to meet on aprjt 17 at 1090 a-m- at which meeting ft is expected that selected pupils from the 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