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seventyfourth year of publication wra- large number of articles were left over from the previous sale on octo ber 24th which continued into the wee sma hours ol the morning and with some new donations which have come in since there will be a good array of articles to tempt the eyes of the bidders the sale will begin at 8 p m a par ttal list of articles to be auctioned oft includes a collection of valuable antique dishes mrs a w nixon maroon baby pram mrs r h eason folding deck chair scales roberts per peter gorman radio lamp mrs english i gal red paint reids hardware 4 lb monarch dog cubes hedley shaw 3 handmade baskets thomas ellen- v ladys evening bag m mallna pair half soles and heels put on h j sienlco coffee percolator toaster mrti deerlng altering discs set of kitchen scales w c anthony 2 gal antifreeze a r speight dishes mrs a reeve table lamp rev w g o thompson ash tray and stand mrs w schenk table lamp mrs d p crichton waffle iron george muc itart table lamp tom young babys aweater mans knitted sox mrs r c kixon horse clippers wilfrid gill uqueur set miss prairie maguire elec trie coffee percolator misses k and a ryan silver casserole t eaton co ltd quilt i ladles from charles st ii qt veedol motor oil a b crlpps 3 doz pair pure wool sox joseph beaumont hosiery medical lamp misses l and c boomer quilt miss brown davenport mrs mary vint 5yr subscription the georgetown herald permanent vogue halrdress ing pair of skates charles laws apron mrs dewhurst bag of pota toes harding price washstand bed springs falling leaf table fred c thompson 2 cords wood verne thompson many other articles will be mclud od in the sale which it is expected will draw a good crowd to the town hall to help boost the total which the tjptoyou committee is raising for the british war victims fund the soldiers comforts fund and the red second uptoyou sale will be held in town mall this friday committee hopes to put total sale proceeds over 500 mark the concluding upto vou sale sponsored by a committee headed by e r mafeloughlen will be held this active service friday tewng november 6th in i georgetown town hall with frank 1 list- tch once more presiding as auction- r a complete list of man on ac live service will be published ih next weeks herald will rela uvas and friends please get in touch immediately with the her aid office and supply correct re gimental numbers and addresses we have had many requests recently for addresses aa- so cleties and individuals are mak lng up christmas boxes for the men and we want to make sure that all these arrive safely and that no one is forgotten the weather by h l hutt now that october days are past we can sum up the dally records and note wherein the month has differed from the average of many octobers we and the mean daily maximum temper atures has been exactly the normal 56 7 while the mean dally minimum has been 40 7 or 3 5 degrees above normal in other words we have had unusually mild nights with but very little frost there has been consider ably more rain than usual nearly 4 inches wiich is nearly 15 inches over the normal rainfall for the month this was needed to help make up for the shortage all summer the first week of november has started with a rainfall of oor an inch 1 06 so we may yet get our normal rainfall for the year to fill up dry well and re plenlsh water supply y although frosts are holding off well there was another drop of 5 degrees in the average temperature last week below that of the week before following are the local records for the week inesday evening november 5th 1941 5c a copy 2 00 a year lions club help war weapons drive will complete certificate for every pupil in district schoohvplan an noal christmas tree tor december 20th the georgetown felons club held their regular meeting on monday evening when they entertained their wives at dinner at the united church the club members afterwards ad journed to the office of the oeorge town lumber company where the meeting was held the chief item of business was a plan to assist in the war weapons drive by helping public school pupils in this district to complete their books of stamps necessary to buy certificates it was decided to place the final stamp in the book completed by each pupil in the district only one stamp however being allowed per pupil fois this purpose a grant of 100 00 made the money to be taken from ihe salvage for victory fund which was started a few months ago a donation of 10 00 was made the poppy fund and a 2 00 donation to the red cross for the purchase of a blanket in their current drive for these 5 00 was given to the hal lowe en committee which sponsored the community haljowe en party in the town hall last week plans were prepared tor the annual lions christmas tree which will be held this year on saturday afternoon december 20th the lome scots band have been invited to be present ttjlons t elson and c burnside are in charge of ticket sales on the lucky draw and tickets will be placed on sale the latter part of this week date tubs oct 28 wed oct 29 thurs oct 30 frl oct 31 sat nov 1 sun nov 2 mon nov 3 h and l rain strong support continues for two herald funds like topsy the b w v and soldiers comforts funds sponsored by the herald continue to grow and grow the war victims fund inaugurated last february received a donation of 3715 last week from a lucky draw operated by the tennant family on a lome scots cushion donated by towo sons ptea b j and w e tennant now overseas with the lome scots joan latimer holding ticket number 482 won the draw which was made by june hill of newmarket the recentlyopened soldiers com forts fund grew to 151 53 when a donation of 8j07 was received from the sunday school pupils at st oeorge s church of england from their children s day collection lucky draw tickets are now being sold on an electric broiler which brihs dept store has donated with proceeds to go to the b w v fund the broiler will be on display in thel herald window this week and tickets may tie obtained at the office the draw will be made on nov 29th the georgetown herald british war victims fund popwarded to toronto bvening telegram s1w cash on hand acknow ledged 3 proceeds of lucky draw on lome scots cushion donated by ptes b j and w e tennant cnadian army over in our mail bag november 5th 1941 the editor the georgetown herald dear sir through the medium of your paper the members of the lome scots band would like to express their thanks to all those whose assistance made the hallowe en frolic such a success although the idea originated in the band it would have been impossible to carry it out without the help of the legion the lions chib the fire men and all those citizens who gave so freely of their time to put it across we hope that this will be the be ginning of an annual halloween fro lie in georgetown and that the fu ture ones will be bigger and better than ever yours sincerely the members of the lome scots band accidental shooting bereaves local visitor tragic word of the shooting by a playmate of her 12 year old son don aid was received here saturday by mrs garnet clltheroe of grafton mrs olitheroe with her daughter marilyn had just arrived on friday to spend a few days with her sister mrs s p chapman according to the story told to provincial constable d adair of cobourg young clltheroe had just got off his wheel where a group of his chums were standing one or them who had been out shoot ing levelled his 33 rifle at him and playfully called stick em up to his horror the rifle cracked and the clltheroe boy slumped to the ground with a bullet wound through his heart with robert olitheroe 11 brother of donald the youth ran for help but whn dr g w peacock arrived at the scene donald was dead an inquest will be held this week the funeral on tuesday was at tended by hundreds of friends from the district who shared with the grief stricken family their sorrow in the loss of their son unitedthurch anniversary services church filled at both sunday ser vices church supper on monday rev dr wallace speaks on britain today every seat in georgetown united church was filled at both servioes last sunday when anniversary services were celebrated by the congregation rtv r c todd pastor of the church presided at both services choosing as his subjects the fountain or free dom and room for jesus special m iric by the choir under the dlrec tlon of miss elma king feature solo parts by mrs h c wrlgglesworth mrs francis thompson miss made line erwln miss betty speight and mr reginald broomhead during the servfee mr todd com pllmentcd the mery of the congrega lion who had spent many hours of work beautifying the church by wash ing the walls on monday evening following the ladies of the church served a delicious anniversary supper in the basement of the church well over 200 persons were served with members of the george town lions club sitting in a body at a reserved table prior to the pro gramme in the auditorium of the cl tirchv miss e2ma king church or gamst and mrs norman burns pre siding at the piano gave an enjoyable organ and piano recital rev r c todd then welcomed the large audience and introduced the guest speaker rev dr archer wal lace secretary of the department of education united church of canada who gave ah interesting illustrated lecture on britain today dr wal lace ls not only an outstanding lee t rtr but his fine sense of humour which seemed to have no bounds en deared him to jie gathering he first howrea beautiful coloured slides ol some of the most picturesque and his toric spots in england scenes that wtre taken when he visited england in 1938 then he moved on to scot land with scenes from edinburgh loch lomond the birth places of b rns and scott climaxing a lovely trip in pictures through england and scotland dr wallace took his audi e ice back to england with 25 colour ed slides of the bombed out areas especially the city of london with its westminster abbey and st pauls cathedral one or the most remark able statements made by the speaker was that during the blitz in england 20 000 children were separated from their parents who would never again find their kin it is statements like this that make canadians stop and realize that there is a war on in eng land mrs francis thompson rendered a very pleasing solo after which the programme was ended with the sing lng of god save the king council discusses costofliving salary increases night constables request for raie leads to general dis cussion public meeting to hear years report will be held on november 21st reading the herald did some sweet voice speak to you on the telephone about the military demonstration in the park saturday afternoon total november 5th 2208 78 the georgetown herald soldiers comforts fund cash on hand acknow ledged ohudrens day cobec uon at st georges church of england 14346 total iioiss after the military demonstration in the park saturday the universal carriers wlh be on exhibition on bfain- 4e ion street 1914 918 lest we forget a rack of machine gun cartridges is drawn from the tores at the jarvl f and ounnerv fwwiol where students of the ooq air training fclan an taught how to draw a- bead on han aircraft and ground targets photo fbuc znfornuuoo qcfje honour fit lt c barber sgt james malr pte j campbell pte j cowan pie h francis pte 8 godfrey sri w c grainger pte l green pte h hlcfcey pte p king pte w king pte j e kennedy unit e leslie pte w loud pte d mokenzle pte o mason e cpl a s mlno sgt j moore sgts h neue pte w phillips pte g h bleighthofcne fit tt c pte g h spire pte s stawloky i tev bruce ilarley and jack wat son and lance cpl jim gamell enjoy thr news from home ac cording to this snap which pte watson sent home a few weeks aco its a copy of the july 9th issue of the herald which they are reading and checking back we find that pte wauon s eyes are focused on that corner where the domln ion store ad appears before en listing with the lome scots he was the popular manafer of the georgetown store we imagine that lance cpl gambell was really thrilled when he received a copy of the septem ber 3rd issue and saw the birth notice of bis daughter jean viola pte ilarley the third member of the trio spent some time at camp borden with the 48th highlanders until he rejoined his local regi njent when they left for overseas hls brother gordon went over seas with the same outfit a request by acting night con stable r marchment for a salary in crease brought on a discussion aboift salary increases in general for muni cipal employees at last evenings regu lar meeting of georgetown council mr marchment appeared before the ouncll to ask consideration for a raise from his present salary of 65 00 a month councillor s c macken zie expressed himself in favour of granting a general increase to all municipal employees based on the cost of lving bonus which the government is introducing this month evm though municipalities are ex empt from this said councillor mac kenzie i think we should fall in una with businesses which are affected by 1 and give the town employees the same benefits mayor gibbons said that he was not in favour of granting any salary in crease this year the matter was left in abeyance till the december meeting by which time the council will have had the oppor tunity of reviewing the new legisla tion and coming to some decision on the matter auditing technicality a letter was read from the firm of jenkins hardy who have been ap pointed to conduct theaudft for 141 this explain that new regulations issued by the department of munici pal affairs made lt obligatory for an individual rather than a firm to be appointed as a municipal auditor at their suggestion mr h a lever a member of the firm was appointed au ditor and an amendment to town by law no 378 was passed to correct the situation court of revision due to the change in assessment dates the court of revision will be held this year at an earlier date the court which consists of councillors k r macdonald n h brown james costlgan c bradley and a e crlpps will meet in the council chambers on monday evening november 24th at s pm to hear appeals against the 1942 abfaesssment grants a grant of 25 00 was made to the canadian legion poppy fund and a grant of 12 65 to the committee which planned the community hallowe en party this represented the balance of expenses not taken care of by the donations by the lions club cana dian legion and private individuals public meeting as georgetown voted in favour of continued on page 4 remembrance day services next sunday at the ce a remembrance day service hon on ring those men who gave their lives tn the great war will be held at the cenotaph next sunday november 9th at 12 30 pjn djs t mayor joseph gibbons will open the service and the assembled gathering will sing the hymn fight the oood fight m vocation ard scripture lesson will be given by rev c c cochrane of knox presbyterian church and after this will come the placing of wreaths and the hymn o god our help in ages past rev r c todd of georgetown united church will lead in prayer and rev j e ostrom of georgetown baptist church will deliver a short h harlow secretary of branch 120 canadian legion will read the hono roll containing the names of twenty- four men who died on active service in the war and following this will be the last post a reverent two minutes etlenoe and reveille concluding with the benediction pronounced by rot woo thompson rector of st george a church of england and chaplain of branch 120 war veterans will parade from the legion rooms on mill street report ing to that place at 12 00 noon lt- ool g b 5 oousens is marshal of the parade the tanks are coming from camp borden for saturday afternoon a real event for georgetown dls trict is promised for next saturday af ternoon nov 8th at 230 the only admission will be the price of one war savings stamp which will be yours to apply on another war savings certificate two universal carriers manned by o girls very handsome oanucks will be put through amazing military tests and will provide a wonderful show and demonstration for this community do not miss this it will be most interesting and instructive you will be astonished at the speed and mano euvrability of these iron demons and proud of the boys who handle them oeongetown district has undertaken to make its war savings certificates total the value of one universal carried each month increased subscriptions and new subscribers to these unexcelled investments will easi ly accomplish this if we stop some of our needless spending our individual duty ls clear come to the park saturday after noon and see for yourself the kind of military equipment our war certifi cates are buying one every greet them and learn what one branch of the fighting forces ls doing to stand between tis and slavery you dont even lose your admission but take home full value and enjoy a dollar show for nothing georgetown war ba committee school puplu in a body aocorapanl- od by touchers may enter the park without the formality of purchasing a war savings stamp at the gate let everybody attend when tfae bays are coming the way from rkny borden to visit us surely we wffl the toxoid diphtheria clinic the clinic will be held for the second mocula tion at the public school on friday november 7 at 1 30 p m those children who were unable to attend the first clinic will be given thenrfiwt this time c v williams moh