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the georgetown herald wed nesday evening july i oth 1940 reminiscences of georgetown we continue from our last issue tbi reminiscences of georgetown by c v young a native son the churches t cannot say that i remember very much about the t churches except the anglican which my- parents attended cmdrchgoing was much more of a duty for children than it is now the old st georges was a frame struc ture on the site of the present church with straight box pews very uncom- lartable in the centre was a square enclosure where the chair was in stalled with a small melodeon or cabinet organ the choir roster i fancy if it was unearthed would be found to have been mostly a family affair of youngs and phiutpses the t first incumbent i remember was rev mr marsh who lived in norval and whose parish included georgetown norval and- stewarttown as i recalt him he was a kindly genial genue- man whose every word was a benedic tion on a- trip to england he was served by a careless ship steward with a poison of some kind in the place of mineral water and died from the effects on board ship rev j g d mackenzie came after mr marsh and following him rev dr omeara who had been for many years a missionary to the indians on manltoulin island and the north shore of ike superior he retained many of the mannerisms of the indians among whom he passed so many years of his long and active life dr omeara has three sons all of whom became clergymen a olierical oddity a genuine oddity was a subsequent incumbent of st georges rev henry oowperwalte webb and it was not unusual to see him march up the aisle to the vestry to take the service in a brown holland suit with a red vest a monocle and a bulldog which was his constant companion yet he was a good preacher a conscientious visit- ox and liked in spite of his many ec centricities he was a public spirited citizen of the village and one of his activities which is an enduring monument to his memory was the raising of a considerable amount of money by means of penny readings which was expended in planting trees on the streets which are no doubt now of large size and have furnished shade to several generations con trary to the usual rule mr webb gave a party once at the rectory and presented every one with an orange this fruit being a great luxury in early times mr sims a school teacher at glen williams was fired with missionary seal by dr omeara and studied for the ministry with that gentleman he used to take the duty occasionally c after his ordination was sent to ad the gospel among the abor- when the hbtanans developed into a fullfledged opera company there were only two daughters sallle and julia the other had died as a child sallle had a fine soprano voice and was a finished actress julia was a con tralto and an admirable soubrette with a considerable spice of the derh in her a jolly little dumpy piece of feminity who always had a crowd of admirers one of the favorite operas was the grand duchess offenbachs masterpiece and those who had uetn all the queens or opera bouffe aimee tostee and the rest of the french crowd who were so popular used to say that none could hold a candle to our sallle george holman always took the heavy parts a finer fra diavolo never trod any stage and allle a boy in his teens was a sweet tenor he died quite recently in lon don the last of the immediate family uncle al was treasurer of the com pany w h crane since become a famous actor was having his train- ingin the stock and buskin and was a versatile fellow if ever there was one equally at home in opera tragedy and light comedjr and doing a good vaudeville turn when requited charlie brew light tenor afterwards achieved considerable prominence william davidge scion of a theatrical family was an allround comedian chatter- ton was the first tenor and after wards as slgnor peruglni made his mark in italian opera and had the notoriety in later years of being one of the numerous husbands of lillian russell an aboriginal ohkettery along in the middle sixties george town was in an excited state over the discovery in the vicinity of an indian graveyard which was soon overrun by curlo3ity seekers most of whom had no sentiment about rifling the old aboriginal cemetery of its articles of war and household use and carry ing them off as souvenirs even the bones were not sacred and skulls thigh and arm bones were kicking about the village in every direction some of the skulls had a complete row of double teeth continued next week faintly as tolls the evening chimes there drifts through the recesses of ones brain the face and form of rev j el croly who if my memory serves me had been a school teacher but was studying for the church with rev dr omeara in georgetown he was a tall man with heavy brown beard but as i remember him not tn the best of health he had a very cul tivated mind and was a valued con tributor as a reader to amateur en tertainments i always feel under a debt of gratitude to him for intro ducing me to the stately and smooth- flowing hexameters as exemplified in tennysons enoch arden and the princess and tn longfellows evange line and the courtship of miles stan- dish from which he very frequently quoted a few hundred yards from the centre of the village on the way to stewarttown lived rev joseph uns- worth perpetual pastor of the con gregational church and farming a little all the land between him and the village was thickly covered with secondgrowth pine which had al ready attained a considerable size the reman catholic church stood on main street near the street which runs down to the old woollen mill with the presbyterian on the corner it was a square wooden structure without any adornment and as i remember it unpalnted the con gregation was never a large one dur ing my recollection entertainments the town hall over the school house was the scene of many entertainments by professionals and occasionally amateurs and very welcome visitors were the berger family bell ringers who gave a kind of variety perform ance the star of tbe company was little annie berger who charmed the hearts of all the boys and left them disconsolate she afterwards married mr belchamber of the belchamber house samia and was for years the popular chatelaine of that wellknown hostelry the holman opera company not so many can now remember the holman opera company which in the early days gave a somewhat similar performance to the bergers without the bells and afterwards de veloped into a very meritorious or- ganlartion which played all the standard operas throughout canada and for a number of years was per manently established in the royal lyceum at that time the leading theatre in the queen city when they were very little folks the holmans made their first visit to georgetown and borrowed the only piano in the tillage belonging to our family on this the three little holman girls sttule julia and jemima played a trio which was highly appreciated all the holmans i think are now dead the father george holman had been a noted opera singer in his younger days and had a powerful baritone voice mrs holman had won derful mueical talent the repertoire of the company was an unusually large one and besides most of the standard operas included many that have long since been forgotten even in the royal lyceum mrs holman at the piano constituted the entire or chestra and was conductor as well without a note of music before her can i stay neutral by holger c petersen in christian science monitor i am beginning to understand how the czechoslovaklans poles and finns living in the united states must have felt when their native countries were invaded of course i had been horrified whenever either the nazis or russians had invaded some small country but denmark my native land had received from the german government a written guarantee that its neutrality would not be violated it had been accepted by the danes in good faith prom ah occasional danish newspaper i could clearly see that denmark was trying hard not to offend us southern neighbor i had foolishly believed that my relatives in denmark were safe from any ruthless aggressors i came to america in 1912 when i was sixteen years of age i had ship ped from copenhagen as a cabin boy on a danish tramp steamer in new york i lert it before a year i had applied for my first papers and eventually became fully naturalized i consider myself an american certainly i never thought of myself as a danishameri can a trip to europe in 1036 made me fully rvallse bow deeply attached i was to my adopted land then nazis invade denmark i was so shocked at the thought of for eign soldiers in my homeland that years of allegiance to another coun try were forgotten for the moment i was again a dane humiliated and angry what would happen to my aged mother how scornful she had been of the germans for permitting their freedom to slip out of their hands and becoming what she- called serfs her own father had been decorated by his king for bravery when fighting the german invasion of 1864 would my brothers and sis ters be able to control their odium for nazi ideology what obuid this possibly mean for them all when i was a boy about nine years of age walking with my mother in a strange section of copenhagen i saw what to me was a peculiarly dressed old man his fae was cover ed with a long beard and on his head was a little black skull cap to my question as to what type of- man that was my mother told me how den mark was a sanctuary for oppressed people there were many refugees in our city it seemed only yesterday that my mother hod told me that denmark was a free country happy to help the unfortunates of other land3 travelling about denmark in 1938 talking with business men and political leaders i noticed that they frequently reminded me whenever we discussed the problems of the jew ish people that denmark would al ways remain open to them until they could find another home todays newspaper informs me that the danes are no longer free to offer asylum for europes unhappy people how forceful are those impressions made upon us during the early years of our lives during the twentyeight years i have lived in america i have always lived among americans there were many years when i did not hear or speak my native tongue i married an american girl whose people have been americans for more than a cen tury letters to and from denmark were the only reminders that i was not born here however reading in uie newspaper of denmarks plight i was emotionally hurled back to the love of my boyhood i wanted to fight for a moment how i hated every thing pertaining to nazi germany fortunately i have been an ameri can too long to encourage hatred then i recalled that on numerous occasions when speaking in public i had made the statement that the united states must remain neutral regardless of what happened in eur ope wars are an old story in europe and for america to stay out of this war i though trand i still think so is wisdom so as i continued to read how german soldiers had pour ed without warning into copenhagen i counseled myself not to forget that i was not only an american but also a firm believer in democracy and the true spirit of democracy is toler ance and understanding and not hatred of any other people or nation native americans whose ancestors fought the british do not seem ts retain any spark of hatred against the enemies of their forefathers i do believe herein lies one of the signi ficant factr of american democracy most european children are not taught to love their neighbors espec ially if they speak another tongue many europeans seem to bring this hatred with them to the new world and apparently find some satisfaction regarding enlisted men in order to enable this paper to prepare a complete and accurate list of the men from georgetown and district who have enlisted with the casf the publisher requests the relatives of members of the cana dian fighting forces in england and those in training in canada to all in bhe following form and return it to this office name in full rank unit place and date of enlistment birthplace and age names and address of paresku or next to kin other particulars rprtnt surname first monday july isth tbe theatre owners of canada invite you to a special performance in- aid of tbesale of canadas war savings stamps and certificate at tour favorite theatre sponsored by the canadian motion picture pioneers enjoy a fine evenings entertainment and aid canadas war effort no charge for admission yon get a free ticket with a minimum purchase of two 25c canadian war saving stamps these stamps remain your property an investment in canada and its future all expenses in connection with these performances are being borne by tbe motion picture industry sponsored by the gregory theatre in georgetown in instilling it in their children denmark as i saw it in 1938 was living refutation of nazism in con trad lstinot ion to hllters teaching of selfsufficiency the danes have built by sheer initiative and charac ter a small prosperous democracy to their own satisfaction at least they have proved that the majority rules better than the individual i am wondering these days what will hap pen to denmarks structure of social legislation will my mother be able to get her old ace pension for which she and my lather have paid over a per iod of fifty years while other na tions were spending their income for armaments denmark was using its money for internal improvement den mark was a virtual laboratory for so cial improvement the paper i am reading tells how germany has destroyed its trained labor by sending it to perform other work such as in the munitions fac tories what is going to happen to danish tabor and its factories which will soon be idle because no raw ma terials will be available will then- markets which they have laboriously bult up lr spite of tariff walls lost forever education not force has taught the danes to live cooperatively edu cation which teaches students how to make use of whs nature endowed them with and not to covet thelr nelghbors goods i am glad i saw denmark again before this invasion i may never again see the happy denmark of my childhood as an american i am shocked at germanys disregard for other peo ples rights but as a dane i am aroused and indignant can i remain neutral under the circumstances tennis news on thursday evening july 4th the acton tennis club were guests of st georges church tennis club the result of games were as follows ladies doubles h mooney m smith acton feller h walker georgetown score 61 georgetown j coles i smith acton f feller m kean georgetown score 62 georgetown k chaplin m young acton n thompson b grant georgetown score 62 acton f kelly d blair acton f eason h hinton g williams acton j crichton j hall georgetown sees 86 georgetown n marlow m reid acton h king y adams georgetown 65 acton mens douhuhb n marchment georgetown scon 62 acton or oullen j ross acton i m6- kenzie and r mckenzie georgetown score 61 georgetown j hurst b arnold acton d stone h king georgetown score 8 s georgetown mixed doubles h hinton h mooney acton crichton h walker georgetown score fl 5 georgetown g williams m smith acton fi feller j hall georgetown soars 62 georgetown n marlow j coles acton m- fel ler h king goergetown score 61 georgetown m reld m young acton i mc kenzie m kean georgetown scan 64 georgetown b arnold k chaplin acton bv grant r m georgetown score 64 acton at the conclusion of the tournament refreshments were served followed by a singsong everyone having a very good time sold by reliable dealers everywhere the roof its important flrcfoteance weatherwear and beauty these ace three important points to consider when you are burlng a new roof brantford roofs ensure enduring protection driving tain snow and sleet extreme changes in pcrmture will not make them curl or warp brantford roofs will add distinctive beauty and charm to tout home brantford roof are made in a wide 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