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the georgetovm herald wednesday evening december 11 1940 the georgetown herald news of georgetown nofrnil chen ivumua undmm btewarttowv ballteafaa and ttm oatte subeanipnon rates canada 8180 year united states 8300 ft rear single oopies 9c adverttotot reteantl tm mm oa apnttoailott walter c bjzsqf oabmbu l uooxlvray leslie clark reginald broomhead phone no 1 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the qntaiioquebeo rmtiatan of the cwna the editors corner guest column this week we have decided to turn our column over to a certain well known gentleman from up alaska way who has a message for all the georgetown children and a special post scrip for the dads and mothers too so we advise you all t6 read this letter from santa claus hey kids remember me remember the fun we had last year well rt won t be long now because the georgetown lions club has given me a very special invitation to drop in and say hello on saturday afternoon at 3 p m just four days before christmas i m going to drive into town with bells tinkling pulled by my sturdy steed nero and you can t imagine all ke good things i have tucked away in my pack for you euien candy and nuts and oranges and that s only avlgrnning no kiddie will be missed all you have to do is come and ask old santa for tl your present 1 11 have plenty to go around y and what s more maybe if you tell me what t is ou want for christmas i 11 think it over and ee if it can be arranged and say kids don t forget to tell your mum and dad to buy ijf some tickets on the fowl raffle the drawing will be made in front of the tree after the presents ajce distributed and a lot of lucky people are going to have a free christmas dinner tell them the more tickets the lions club sells the better equipped it will be to help some of you kids next year maybe you need a pair of glasses and dad just can t manage to scrape the money to gether that s only one way that the lions club uses the money it takes in from these raffles don t forget saturday december 2 1 st at 3 p m 1 ve got a date with all the kids m town s claus p s tell your mother and dad too to do their christmas shopping in georgetown 1 ve been mighty busy this past month in my toy shop up north but i managed to sup into georgetown and make a tour of your stores and 1 was really amazed at all the nice things you can buy there if they don t believe me just tell them to take an hour off like i did and go and see for themselves let us the prime minister of canada we hall completely err if for a moment we fail to recognize how appalling 1b h danger which threatens not only mat britain but ctvulmtion and be snpted thereby to relax any and every ffart to put forth the utmost of our mength above all else let us remember how tary strength there has never been anything hitherto comparable to it let us remember too that her great armies are undefeated that they are equipped with all the machines of modem warfare that excepting swit zerland all of europe west of the vlft tula and extending from sweden to portugal and spain lies under her con onl ker own resources of factory and mine of men and materials have been reinforced by the material power which she has conquered to her mil lions of soldiers and workmen has been added the manpower of fee lands she occupies however reluctant the men of horwmy of holland of belgium nd of ftonce may be to turn their spears against the breast of freedom upon the forces of britain has been placed the greatest task in the history of the world she has to watch and fight she has to fight in he brluah isles and in the seas that surround thorn she has to fight in the medit erranean in the middle bast in africa bhe nas to watch be far bast tn rtpgfcng in smgapore she has to keep india constantly m mtod any where at any time she may find it meet a new threat to her lines of com- mstttsatton sad supply or to face fresh honors to some distant part of the ftxte situation is bound to become neiwmksjb swrioas as warfare spreads ovmmm and as mutual destrab- on tuiwliiih as tt most certainly 0 wtttf ewsnoreoelng fury it is hjob not that we shall witness anon m j0wwb well as of war ere i to bit it that hard the deathgrapple with totalltar lanism has told its tale no one can say that the world even now may not be heading for armaged don the one thing that under the providence of god may save the world this supreme tragedy is the might of britain strengthened supported and sustained by the power of the british dominions and india the help of the united states and such power as may yet be wltttln the power of other of commons dec 2 1940 in our mail bag toronto ont y november 23 1040 the georgetown herald georgetown ont dear sir i am writing to you to uiank you for sending me the georgetown her aid which is very good i seldom gel home and in uie her aid i get all the news here we have lots to do here with keeping thf mot orcycles clean and lots of drilling ev ery day i wi up at camp borden for the summer and it was good to get your paper up there youn sincerely trooper t e dickenson 2nd canadian motorcycle regt gov ernor generals hone guards c squadron toronto barracks mr editor i received your most welcome herald today nov 7 i was glad to see the paper once again as it has been a long ume since i saw the last paper from georgetown all news from home is just like getting a gold mine given to you and i appreciate all letters and papers from home the rovelty of air raid alarms has worn off now as we get on the average of three alarms a day as jerry files over here on his way to london which is being bombed regularly as you prob ably know bo far we have been for tunte enough not to have been the object of any bombing although there have been a few dropped perilously flose to here which have caused the windows to rattle with concussion the eneush people are very fine people and contrary to some reports we have had from canada the morale of the english people has definitely not been broken they kno without a doubt this war can only end one way and that is victory for us that england will remain undisturbed and continue to be the by word of freedom for the ftorld i also wish to send my congxatula lions to bobby goldham he is a swell kid and i wish him all the luck in the world and sincerely hope he continues the good work as it looks as though he s headed to go places in the sport world good luck bobby i also wish to thank mrs roger guyot and her committee for the very fine gifts they sent me of canadian c ig irettes closing with my best regards to my family art numerous mends in geor getown ne garden spot or america until we meet again pu- george rtddalx a 27169 the arnual meeting of the halton plowmen j association is we under suit d from secretary j e whltelock to be he d on saturday december 14 in the farmers building muton ipeclal feature of the programme will be mottor pictures by canadian m dustriej limited the alms we under stand will be of educational interest o all farmers and the local offioeni of the mouldboard association are an uclpatlng a record attendance boys girls run your own play store have your frien pay you with pop- eye coins popeyes playstork a dandy ne game with cutouts and pasteups fun galore with old boxes and botlesf watch for this g evervj week on the popeye page tn the comic weekly with the detroit sunday times willie what is the difference be ween capital and labor dad dad well son the money you lend represents capital and getting back represents labor dorothy oolawhewn ta fiee heard ever the cbc ne prti ting talk of partlealar interest wom her next talk is tmrkey tfpe and wflt be en thursday december 19 at pjn ed5t the toft will fhe vice to bb on haying cooking cbrlktmas dinner e 916 am 6 48 pm 1148 pm 913 pjn 0 333 pa westbound to london 9s am 600 pjn xu08 pjn vjm pan m6 pjn 0x1036 pm ayt06 pm exll35 pjn 11 i buswrss and prortotohal cards f r watson djr mjks georgetown office hours 9 to thunday afternoons dr j burns milne 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