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the georgetown herald ntysecond year of publication wednedsay evening january 18th 1939 i 1 i m 1 50 per annum in advance 2 00 to uj3a rgelown town council held a busy session from township and towjnv officials appointed december relief cost 17449 jfjoiincil met on tuesday evening mayor joseph gibbons in the reeve george davis and i joseph hall a e crlpps h brown james cosugan thos and the new member r i of ward three present mc was welcomed to the board by mayor gibbons a e r magloughlen and mcdonald asked council for a 1 of their pool rpom licenses at percent reduction meved by hall seconded by crlpps the pool room licenses or e r i and frank mcdonald be at a fee of 15 00 per table and tpn tjnslt behalf of the lome scots band council for a grant to assist in g the board i by lyons seconded by davis the lome scots band be given grant of 25000 carried ybeeve n robinson deputyreeve i a wuson and representative rate- of bvquestng addressed coun- xegardlng the condition of the hill the- 8th line at the south end of street and asked that the hill s safe for the increasing traf- jmowl by hall seconded by clipper tr the following accounts be paid j mcdonald ate s gm board for the years 1939 1940 and 1941 carried moiled toy brown seconded by lyons that we request the hydro commission to instal a new light on king st and move one light on emery st carried moved by brown seconded by lyons that the treasurer pay the relief commission the sum of 174 49 to pay december accounts carried moved by costigan seconded by cripps that we do now adjourn carried st georges annual vestry on monday evening the annual vestry meeting of st georges church was held in the basement the rector after the signing of the declaration the meeting was declared open the apostles creed was recited and the opening prayers offered the chairman asked miss yvonne adams to act as vestry clerk in the absence through illness of mr wal lace thompson after brief remarks by the chair man giving his statistics for the year including the naming of those who had passed to their rest since last vestry meeting during which recital the vestry stood the report of the churchwardens was presented by the peoples warden mr f d mcnally showing a somewhat improved finan cial condition reports were then p by the various church organizations and milton doctor dies suddenly dr w e robertson stricken at wheel of car a heart attack while he was driving to an emergency call caused the death on sunday of dr w edgar robert- 61 ore of milton s most promln- hl5 car went out or control on main st struck a parked car owned- by dr g d denton and careened across the street to smash into h cavells garage the impact broke the garage windows and demolished the door dr robertson is a first cousin of dr d e robertson of the hospital for sick children in toronto who was trapped in the moose river mine some time ayo croner o e syer said dr ro bertson lived only a few moments al ter the car crashed into the garage an inquest will be unnecessary he said as death was due to heart failure graduate of the university of toronto dr robertson went to china in 1906 and founded the pres byterian church mission hospital at hencrow during his 20year so joum as medical missionary in china he sent a number of chinese youths to u s universities at his own ex pense returning here in 1933 he purchas ed the home in which he was born and where his father dr david ro- dertson practised medicine since then he has been associated with dr c k stevenson of milton dr ro bertson was a director of the milton brick co which his father founded he was an elder in knox presby terian church president of milton bible society and a former town councillor surviving are his wife one son dr strewn robertson of the hospital for s jt children toronto and a daugh ter betty- toronto i lions are active in community service work the regular meeting of the george town lions club was held monday evening 6th inst at the mcglbbon hotel as ibis meeting followed closely an important adjourned meet ing in connection with the dental clinic a guest speaker was not en gaged and the time was well spent in bringing the business up to date the meeting was well attended and ftithuiiasm was manifest throughout at i r partaking of an excellent sup- indry correspondence was dealt with followed by reports from the various committees safey patrol is now fully equipped and in epilation at the publln school and the aluabu assistance of prin clpal wriggelsworth and the teachers in educating the children in safe ly movement is appreciated and promises well for the success of the belnt put rorth to protect our children the dental clinic has made an ex cellent beginning the initial survey made recently discloses an appreci able number of needy cases requiring attention and these are being proceed ed with the loyalty and support of our local dentists in undertaking this important work so willingly is just an other indication of what is being done to serve the community the lions club propose to hold an ice carnival if arrangements can be made and weather permitting about the middle of february full an- wlll be made of this when definite arrangements are made three day celebration is under consideration for around the early part of august commencing on sat urday before civic holiday it is rather early to predict just what the program will be but it is suggested a major band tatoo sports memorial service garden party and other fea ture be undertaken a strong committee has been formed and it i wi be an g midway overshadows better fair phases i a carroll ontario direc tor of fairs told peel agricultural society educational features and not car nivals or midways should receive first consideration at district fairs j a carroll ontario director of fairs told peel counly agricultural society on saturday last at their annual meeting held in brampton it does seem unfortunate at so many fairs when people go through the gate there is that big midway which makes it difficult for them to reach more important features said mr carroll he suggested that best locations instead of being given to amuesments should be used for judg ing rings or stock exhibits mr carroll told of a recent obser vation tour of communities in the northern part of the united states where fairs are held in new york state more substan tial grants are given than in ontario but there are just as many lairs in flpanha difficulty he told the agri culturists there new york state is ahead of ontario in the promotion of juvenile agricultural education mr carroll said a dolson a director of the so ciety for some years received the first agricultural service dlpouna awarded m peel county by the o tarto association of fairs he has missed only one annual meeting of parliament now in session will be busy active lively increase in canadas defences and trade will be important part of discussions ralso unemp the p s in 35 ye william bovalrd succeeds alex m kinney jr as president watson wiggins and charles fendley are vice- presidents and fred mcbride of mal um continues as secretary directors appointed are toronto township douglas dunton haddon fegg fred mcbride elmer piercey chingua cousy h a dolson alex mckinney w bovalrd m ackroyd j m fraser clarenoe hutton brampton c r- fendley charles strangways a h mllner f baxter l j c bull to ronto gore wubert nix charles lon don albion leonard vemer cale- w wiggins by spectator ottawa jan 17th the new session has commenced its labors at the cap ital parliament has a4teavy agenda before it if we are to judge from the speech from the throne delivered by the governor oeneral lord tweeds- muir at the opening on thursday parliamentarians will be very busy if they hope to close the session before the arrival of their majesties on may 15th it promises to be an active liv ely session with an election hover ing somewhere on the outskirts of the session members when they rise to speak will be addressing their consti tuents as well as the speaker of the house as the time is drawing nigh when the tenure of their seat in the house will depend on the goodwill of the electors and it is most important that that goodwill be kept fully re paired and in perfect working order political issues willbe defined clearly and forcefully although some heavy artillery will doubtless be held in re serve until the election campaign op- the new national conservative lea der dr manlon has been cordially welcomed to jhe house by the prima minister and other members the speech from the throne a feature of especial interest al though fully expected was the promise in the speech from the throne of an increase in canada s defences the uncertainties of the future and the condition of modem warfare make it imperative tha o t materially strengthened the speech mentioned that two years ago the ap- propr f d were tocr c thompson court services 4jm ward court services 400 electric 69016 sinclair town truck 360 oils town truck 8jb0 h cnem son ww l36 b mackenzie son coal 2660 vl langdon legal fees 1500 c mccmre ambulance 1000 o mandril postage etc 1900 by mcdonald seconded by that we hereby request the council to enter into an i with this council to con- bard surface road an the links it being understood the province of ontario pay 60 i of he cost and the county percent of a twenty foot strip communication was read from fire dept re appotnt- of officers stored by costigan on the pire dept that the following of- be appointed henry shepherd chief at a salary of 6750 per donald latimer deputy fire at a salary of 3150 per an- stanley lyon truck driver at salary of 45 00 per annum carri- by cripps seconded by davis tbe canadian legion be granted tue of the park on july 1st and street privileges on june 30th lined by hall seconded by lyons the uons club be allowed the of the park for a celebration on 6th 6th and 7th carried by lyons seconded by hall law no to appoint a weed for the town of george- far the year 1030 be now read flrt tune carried limed by costigan seconded by that bylaw no to appoint a inspector for the town i for the year 1030 be now a second and third times and passed and the seal of the be attached thereto and blank be filled with the name of o marshall carried by mcdonald seconded by that bylaw no to appoint i sanitary inspector and one man of the local board of health be raid a first tone carried i by crlpps seconded by davis bylaw no to appoint a sanl- xnspector and one member of load board of health be now a second and third time and passed and the seal of the cor- be attached thereto and the be filled with the names of q marshall as sanitary inspec- ooldham as member of board-of- health carried fredvy lyons seconded by hall bylaw no to appoint a milk for the town of georgetown now read a first time carried by oosugan seconded by that bylaw no to- appoint jgllk inspector for the town of for the year 1939 be now a second and third times and passed and the blank be filled the name of dr r learmonth a salary of 30000 per annum paid adopted by t vestry ah organtav uons were functioning satisfactorily and their funds were shown to be in a wholesome condition the rector then reappointed mr elmer c thompson as his church warden mr thos bason was elect ed peoples warden by acclamation the sidesmen were reelected mr and mrs wallace thompson were elected auditors the rector was designated as the proper person to represent the church property on the voters list votes of thanks were tendered the rector and his wife the churchwar dens mr and mrs w f bradley choirmaster and organist and the or ganizations of the church for the faithful performance of their duties the meeting then adjourned a congregational meeting was im mediately convened for the purpose of electing a lay delegate to synod mr elmer c thompsons term hav ing expired mr e j goodler was elected for the period of three years the meeting then adjourned and the benediction was pronounced the woman s auxiliary served freshments after the meeting which they received the vestry thanks correspondence mb morley petttt writes from the south albany ga jan 12 1939 h c ross joins wampoles the following from january deal ers helps issued by wampoles re fers to a native of g who li well known in town and vicinity mr h c ross who has joined the wampole sales staff as our represen tative for new brunswick and prince is of sdtoch deocenl and it is of interest to note that his great grandparents came to canada about one hundred and twentytflve years ago and settled m the district which is now the site of georgetown ontario where the subject of this sketch was born and where he receiv ed his primary and high school edu georgetown herald georgetown ont dear editor thought you would be interested to know that we had a very pleasant trip down here and are settled to the southern life again weleft home the week of the blizzard before new years and had bad icy conditions until leaving detroit lafter that there was no more ley pavement and the snow had not reached the ken tucky mountains so driving condl uons were splendid the mild weather you are having brings us summer weather and if you were here i fear you would be com pelled to take em off even though they may be back on again any day as january and february usually bring the kind of weather in georgia that we have at home in november some of the home friends have said they enjoyed the stories about colored people so here goes yesterday a colored man called looking for work he said he had been with a contrac tor on instruction work but that job give aout sounds like amos n andy the new wage hour law setting a minimum of 25c per hour is working hardship with the cheaper colored labor who are glad to get ten and fifteen cents per hour and are worth no more as there were al i ready plenty of twentyfive cent men thji tnfu nrw ot tn rhm i jmhi in event an interesting item on the program was the presentation of the presidents button to lion chief moclure and which was abry handled by past president grant the button is set in diamonds and is a real work of art the presentation is in recognition of excellent work done by the chief and pledge of the loyal support of the members tail twister gray as usual added to the merriment of the meeting with one of his bumorus stunts and this was a huge success the meeting adjourned with the singing of the maple leaf as usual don kenneth r mcdonald counicllor for ward three at the nomination meeting held in the public library on monday even ing to elect a member of council for ward three to fill the vacancy caus ed by the reurement of w f smith kenneth r mcdonald was elected by acclamation r mcdonald was proposed by mayor joseph gibbons and seconded by councillor thos lyons there was only the one nominauon and clerk p b harrison declared mr mcdonald elected by acclamation j by hall seconded by cosu- that william wnnww be sp- jetad night constable for the town georgetown by the month at a of 0000 per month carried by costigan seconded by that w o anthony and e mc- be appointed members of the board for the years 1830 and 1941 carried by mrtdnnavl s by that miss o young be nembar or the public ub- for the jma vm 1940 4 that dr a a meawmt of the high school mr ross decided to enter the pro fession of pharmacy and after serv ing his apprenuceahlp he graduated in pharmacy in 1937 we welcome mr ross to the wam- poe organisation and take pleasure in presenting him to our many friends and customers in the mariumes whom we feel confident he will serve both faithfully and efficiently milton couple wed s3 years residents of milton for 55 years mr and mrs john r mills of mill street celebrated their 53rd wedding anniver sary at the borne of their daughter mrs babcock milton mr mills who is 75 years old was born at speyalde in halton county while mrs mills who is 71 was born at palermo they were married in the old p church on martin street milton which is now the arm ouries both mr and mrs mills belong to knox presbyterian church mrs mills being an active worker in the ladles akl of which she is a life m mr mills is a member of the loyal or ange lodge milton they still enjoy excellent health and are keenly interested in baseball and hockey enthusiastically following the progress of the home teams the couple have six children three daughters 1 three sons also nine gra and two greatgrand children a candidate for parliament de claimed the people of this coun try must grow more wheat how about hayt- relied a heckler tin tabdng about food for man- ktod retorted the oandtrtato but rn get around to year arm nil the jobs now go to them or remain undone our old black cook and wash lady who was toothless last year has her new teeth and they are grand with the two most prominent front ones made of gold just as her natural ones were i had known that these people would have perfectly sound teeth gold crowned as a beauty aid but did not know before that the custom extend ed to utn teeth in this case 1 seems to be entecttve for when i call ed for the washing just now she had an old black man sitting by the fire and she was dressed up and her face well powdered and radiant like her gold teeth she is a widow but it looks like not for long that is all this time morley pettlt lorne scots band annual meeting the annual meeting of the lome scots band of georgetown was held on monday night at 8t georges club rooms officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows hon president b stone hon vicepresidentl e fleck hon 2nd vicepresidents mayor joseph gibbons col james ballan tine col cousens h c mcclure j b mackenzie l president arthur herbert vicepresident john scrytngeour secretary treasurer ian emslle committee a mcnabb b wilcox e forgrave mr a h perrott has been retain ed as bandmaster w mend ham assistant bandmaster protective body elect officers for us annual meeting of the halton pro- tecuve association which was farmed 37 years ago for the leuo ol goods stolen and apprehension ant conviction of thieves pertaining chief ly to the farm was held in muton last week president w e uccreadystated that no losses were reported during the year and no losses have been re ported since 1936 when some sheep were stolen during the summer se cretarytreasurer robert bosh jr reported a bank balance of 1236 officers for 1939 are w e mc- cready president will nhiihnimn vicepresident robert bush jr se cretarytreasurer the fooowmc dl- reetora wreelected nelson township h a oartwrlghty unley agnew william shields roy ftiu naa- sagaweya township a a anderson k buenton trafalgar township h wnson frank oartwrigbt st r anderson r h oajbralth muton john i bandy dr o ha ear belonging to tfaoa a blakeloek mpp was stolen fi in front of the united ctrnrah on evening last week sons of st georck annual meeting on thursday evening last the an nual meeting of the sons of st george was held at the rectory the president thos herbert m the chalr the meeting was opened with prayer by the rector reports were presented showing a good years work and the comma elation of the meeting was accorded to those who had carried on the rector was then requested to take the chair for the elections which were- as follows hon president and chaplain rev woo thompson hon president and assistant chap lain f d mcnally president e holmes vicepresident c sargent secretarytreasurer e e young librarian e e young auditors t herbert 8 dewhurst entertainment oommttteec sar gent convenor e s young e tuesday of last week marked the 56th wedding anniversary celebration of mr and mrs david campbell cale- don the day was marked by a fami ly gathering both wellknown citi zens of the village mr campbell 81 and his wife 74 both enjoy good health and take a keen interest in current events mr campbell recalled that an their wedding day over half a century ago snow drifts had so blocked the centre road at that time a mud trao that guests were forced to abandon cut ters and sleighs and continue to the wedding which took place at claude on horseback recalling the time when huge lum- ber wagons made their periodical trips to brampton with farm pro duce and returned laden with grocer ies and implements mr campbell o that it was not an unusual occurrence to become stuck in the mud in the swamps just south of the caledon mountains for hours at a time the couple have been residents of caledon district all their married lives mr campbell followed the trade of a stone mason and in his capacity worked on many of the farms in northern peel he is a mem ber of warnock lox the family of five is made up of three sons and two daughters john terra cotta andrew caledon mel ville alton mrs john sneers cale don and mrs ben graham brampton ther are twentyeight grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren r gazette the program of defence will now be further expanded particular em phasis will be laid on air defence parcbastng beard for defence another very interesting feature at the governments programme of legis lation in relauon to defence is the es tablishment of a defence purchasing board this board will purchase e- qulpment for the defence service and will have power to ensure that in the case of private manufacture profits will be reasonable and the public in terest protected this measure is the result of the bren gun inquiry it is an effort to institute the roost effi cient method nosstble of carrying out this increasingly important and heavy public service trade will plaj a very important part in parliamentary dlscussiana- thls was made clear in the speech from the throne which said the gov ernment would ask parliamentary ap proval to the new pact with the uni ted states which came into operation at the beginning of the year this pact has involved a thorough going revision of the canadian tariff struc ture and a reduction of taxes on trade much greater than that made by any previous ptt or by any other country m recent years this treaty and the agreement between the uni ted states and the united kingdom which were signed simultaneously were a constructive contribution to wards a betterment of world condit ions negotiations are likely to be opened shortly for a new agreement between canada and the west indies the pact which has been in force since 1935 will terminate on the last day of 1939 the tariff board is going to study sugar duues and other tariffs and it is hoped a new treaty mutually beneqclal will be negotia ted the new pnesldent was then re quested to take the chair mr holmes thanked the club for the honour done ttdicltnd asked all to assist in taflt the year a good one the rector then pronounced the benediction and the meeting dosed the reavof the evening was spent in games a social evening for me and union church had prosperous year the annual meeting of union presbyterian church was held monday january 9th and was large ly attended reports from the various atlons of the church were very couraglng and the fi statement showed a substantial surplus after all accounts had been paid mr f l thompson was chairman of the meeting the following offi cers were elected for the year 1939 board of managers ben young albert dolson prank fetch la verne thompson jos hoare clarence an derson wesley ruuedge jos harris james mckane jr treasurer j a mckane missionary treasurer andrew mc donald auditors t f mcdonald clarence mcdonald and an- oauecton owens howard dolson assistant collectors clarence detson and wesley rnuedge record agentj a mcdonald organists violet da eleanor mc donald ida mckane mrs f fetch choir committee ida mckane margaret mndnnstd jos harris u f thompson the federal government notwith standing constitutional impedimenta to effecuve action will join with the provinces in a further determined ef fort to meet the immediate situation the governments programme of pub lic undertakings will be expanded with provincial cooperation m programmes of civic improvements will be aided by the federal govern ment to help single unemployed men forest conservation measures will be extended to other work of national importance the youth training movement which has shown good results will be ex panded the speech re to the division of responsibility for unemployment under the bjj a act and the increas ing assumption of resppnalbufty by the federal government measures taken by the government to stimulate private employment were reviewed the housing and municipal improve ment acta aids by subventions and otherwise to the mining industry the public works programme aids by the federal government to the provinces in highway construction land settle ment farm employment and forest conservation there have also been the grantsinaid to the prov the crop in the west sad the businessreceaslbn in other parts of the world have intensified the un employment problem and this bajr set put more clearly the obsfclhs which the division of constitutional authority places hi the way of a so lution the report of the commission on dommonprovmclal frrtatfrrw artn be received by parliament during the session a national conference wul be called to dtocuas the report and among the questions to be jlwiossed wfn be unemployment and social ser vices the gu stm beuevea a national unemptafment lnaurane plan 1a essential to any general po cbonunued on pag b