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sportlite by j stamp two softball games were played laai week in the georgetown fork huttor tllle met smith stone and alliance opposing tfce busin tbe game between huttonville and smith stone waa played on wed nesday july 4th at 730 it was a reel fast exciting tournament and the old pill was really slugged around the whole seven innings the score at the end of the first bau ox the fifth inning was buttonvule 6 smith stone 3 but take a peek at the core at the end of the game and youll wonder horn any one team could lose a fair lead so quietly i the score at une end of the game was smith te stone 16 huttonvllle 91 the batteries for huttonvllle mc- murchy and niton for the george town team lusty and ghapun lusty bad the huttonvllle team seemingly tied down from the start of the third inning his slaw twister ttfld the huttonvllle sluggers really baffled most of the time although several of them managed to connect mcmur- chy hit a home run stamp a triple and there were a few other fair clouts lustys delivery is entirely different to holden s gsmltti stone s regular hurler where lusty is slow in his pitching holden is real fast quite a smart move by the smith stone coach to crossup the hutton vllle team with a different piboheri chaplin smith stone was the big boy oi the game amassing 4 bits one homer two triples and a double out of 5 times to the plate on hu fifth trip to the plate his perfect j night was qponeu when the hutton- tflle second baseman made an error on a bounding ball it being chalked j up as an error not a hltl too bad ctoappde andy ritchie came through equally as well getting his four hits for five trips to the plate these two boys are the regular sluggers for their team py amassed 8 hits between them of the hits the whole team made i huttonvllle muck getting 3 for and stamp 3 for 4 final scam smith stonel6 runs 16 hits 6 errors huttonvllle 0 runs 8 hits and 4 errors the game between the alliance and the businessmen was a disappointment awing to the fact that the business men dldnt show up that is the men that should have been there but rather than cause a default a team was picked up among the spectators and named as the businessmen the game was slow and decidedly mono tonous for quite a few minutes until the businessmen started to threaten in the third inning errors were jplentiful most of them going to the businessmen batteries for alliance wheeler and mcnally for businessmen louth replaced by cummings in the third inning aud catcher korzaok this is an appeal you might say to the businessmen s team whoever the coach is your next game with alliance is the 11th july get your team out there and give the alliance some real apposition pinal score alliance 19 runs 10 hits 2 errors businessmen 2 runs 2 hits andilo errors league standtof p w l t p smith stone 2 10 13 alliance 110 0 2 huttomille 3 0 111 businessmen 10 10 0 leading batten the big seven ab hits pc the georgetown herald wednesday july ii 1945 twenty years to go bv eleanor walsh m clr syndicate wmi raturi jrchy and stamp hit best for js chaplin j 9 7 777 mcmurchy 8 6 625 a ritchie 0 6 555 cross 4 2 500 scott 4 2 500 spires 4 2 500 james 4 2 500 temporary player wen that about winds it up for this week will have some lacrosse news next week til then cheerio in our mail bag ede holland june 22nd 1046 the georgetown herald pear sir the last two or three days i have been receiving a copy of your news paper i appreciate this paper very much as it includes the news of my hometown glen williams suburb of georgetown i am very curious to know who makes these copies possible as no card or letter has been enclosed i want to iiffi my thanks and appreciation and z do hope they continue to roll in thanking you once again and clos ing for now i am respectfully yours pte a stamp 3131483 pte stamp a bf coy can boot begt oanadlm army oversea cobples of the herald go to ad ob boys overseas through the kindness of the beaumont parcel fund and we are glad that pte stamp enjoys reading them we think the glen has done a great job of providing comforts for their numerous soldiers and this is only one of the many ways they keep in touch with their friends overseas ed mad marriage mxxup8 when the divorce moon comes ovar the mountain a touch of drives husbands to keep skunks steal their wives false teeth and contribute other oddities to a long list of mari tal mixups throughout the country you may read about them in the am erican weekly with this sundays july is issue of tb detroit sunday georgetown youth for christ special rally enthusiastic duets entertaining evangelistic every saturday right at 745 pan loof hall wesleyan street full gospel message evangelist tom johnstone come i i all welcome i fi art n wilson looked through her desk drawers that morning for uie last tine to make sure thev were empty she glanced brick ly about the private office whicl she rated as executive secretary to mr swift and bw that no relic o the many years she had spent ther remained only on the desk itsc was there anything of hers a gla paper weight and this she put ir her handbag then she walked infr mr swifts office she felt shakv after all these years as if she hi come to ask for a job not to giv one up mr swift grinned well mi- wilson so oure still set on it pi dont know that i blame you vu be a wonderful feeling to wake i in the morning and think i do i rave a thing to do today ii a a f ing i ve never had h- laugi i tt comfortably oh but ill have plenty to do she insisted plenty i m going a do the things ive been putting i all these years i m going to r i and travel and oh ever th r i dont think for a minute that i ii b bored why ive a whole lifetime tr catch up with and im going tu d it while i still can he looked at her curious youve never told us your age r course all i know is you ve bor here twentyfive years made a fii place for yourself and now you r retiring and you dont look ovti forty id expected you to sticl- around another twenty years sfie made no reference to he age i want to prove to myself tht life can be something more excitm than coming to the office at nm every day getting off letters diet tion interviewing phoning and ra ing at five you ii find travel possibihtip limited right now he reminded hor theres a war on you may ha heard what have you done about replac ing me mr swiff i have someone coming in th day after tomorrow if she needs instructions dorr t hesitate to call me youre sun you can count on her pretty sure of course it s woman s privilege to change hi i mind ttfot in business it isn t man r put out her hand goodby s said it s been a wonderful twent five years she walked quick through the outer office wh rt tl stenographers sat and looked ni i ther to the right nor to the lef until she was in the city street in less than an hour she opem the door of the comfortable apin ment where she had lived alone ex cept for a maid for eight years henrietta she called and henri etta came trotting from the kitcher were unemployed marion to her gaily we have the whole worl before us yes m henrietta said dubiou- ly what you gonna do with youi elf why im going to clean my desv and answer some letters that hav m lying around for months and- h 1 may take a trip i hav dancing muttonville park every wednesday and saturday i marie by modem airea johnny boyd tf jack macks orcwn an decided but im free marion looked at her rathei blankly then she hung up her coat and proceeded to the spinet desk anc got to work when ah had sorter and discarded she was startled tr find that the entire job had taken only twenty minutes that wa strange surely she had been dread ing the task for ages she started to look over some of the letters sh must answer they were all more than a month old and out of date now there wasnt one person to whom aha could find anything to say write her old friends she was re tiring maybe theyd think tha was only her wsyof putting u th hed really been forced out by ad vanclng years she smiled a little many of them were grandmothi r now no she wouldnt brag about her leisure until she was used to it well there were a couple of nov els lying around that shed meint to read she picked one up and read the first page three times before it began to make sense she put it aside for some reason she could n t concentrate henrietta she said is lunch nearly ready yeam about ten minutes she walked about the apartment straightening a few things nothing needed doing because henrietta wns so meticulous finally lunch was ready marion sta in peace it was totally unlike tha crowded drugstore at the noon hour she told herself that this was no end of an improvement that she didnt miss the bustle at all that she was delighted to be away from it when she finished she glanced t tha clock it was on mr swift would just be getting beck to office suddenly with a gasp al sort of terror she rushed to the ram and dialed his number this marion wilson she said and than didnt know how to go on he cams to her rescue think youll fed like coming back tomor row ar ittj 0hymlahaaante4 but the aw gjrtt h chncmad taaf the new girt attbeufn i vasnt totpaeung you tlataw sflar ta thought you feg aasfl a shame jjzmmm asw wtsa aw hops another twenty yaarev he had said were going on vacation 4- this year in order that the herald staff can have a breather after a heavy years work we are closing down completely for a weeks holidays the herald office will be closed iron saturday august 4th to saturday august 11th both dates inclusive there will be no edition of the georgetown heralx on wednesday august 8th we ask your cooperation in handing in news hems and ad vance advertising for our issue of august 1st so that as little inconvenience as possible will be caused by the missing issue our commercial printing customers are also urged to place necessary printing orders well in advance of august 4th in order to have their stock supplies on hand we have made arrangements with phoenix gift shop to accept news items printing orders etc during the vacation period please phone 310 if you have any news items or stop in at phoenix gift shop and leave them with mr thompson the georgetown herald j jl