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the georgetown herald wednesday april 12 1944 iamous for flavour since 1892 the salada name assures you of a uniform blend of quality teas salada payment of 1944 taxes the first instalment of taxes is due and payable at the municipal office georgetown on or before april 15th 1944 k m langdon tax collector order now government approved chicks at reasonable prices several hundred w l pullets and b r x w l pullets for sale during april we can fill orders for barred rocks white leghorns and b r x w l hy brids for may and june also pure bred light sussex for june thompsons poultry farm and hatchery phone 48 r 5 georgetown ont post war problems discussed at ld3cba1 annual meeting post war problems were disc based at the annual meeting of the halton liberal association last thursday even ing by hughes cleaver member for halton and in tils remarks mr cleaver told ol some of the of the government to meet this period jjid bring canada through in the same way that has made our war effort an example among the nations the meeting was a supper gathering at the new merton school on the queen elizabeth highway and the merton home and school club of which mrs geo atkins woodlands is president arranged and served a de lightful meal the club uses- the funds raised bo send boxes to the boys from the school serving overseas officers elected were leroy dale georgetown president alex cooke milton secretary and victor hall treasurer to vice presidents will be elected later warm praise was given mr t o bamshaw the retiring secre tary for his work and loyalty of ser vice over many years tribute was also paid the late archie galbraith who was treasurer for so many years and whose death a few months ago was mourned by a wide circle of friends the meeting also took the form of a discussion group and many of the problems of all parts of the riding were discussed with mr cleaver and suggestions made to assist in adminls ration in this difficult war period check ration books those who have obtained ration book no 4 are urged to carefully check the number of sheets in the new book the book should contain 11 sheets con slating of one sheet of green teacol fee coupons one sheet pink sugar coupons one sheet orange preserves coupons two sheets purple butter coupons four sheets brown meat cou pons and one each of h and k coupons i f the book does not con tain this number it should be returned immediately to the local ration board author who publicized georgetown now in russia the author who gave wide publicity to georgetown and its war effort through a profusely illustrated article in maclean s magaslne three years ago entlled community war is now in russia getting some firsthand inform atlon for his free lancing writing many will remember raymond davies by the aforementioned article as well as another excellent article in the canadian countryman in which he told all about hunter inn on the outskirts of georgetown raymond davies sent a telegram to rita maw daughter of the proprietor of hunters inn from moscow rus sia dated march 20th which she re ceived a few days later the exact wording of the message is interesting and shows the person transmitting it was not too familiar with english spelling here it is 25 cable via mackay radio moscow march 20 rita maw georgetown ont greetings mother how eye miss your steaks et your company stop having interesgtinest time of my life wish you were here to see country and people and wonderful fight signed raymond davies shocking story of juveniles on a wartime binge juveniles on the loose that des cribes thousands of teenage girls roaming the country on the streete m dance halls out for money and excite ment read juveniles on the loose by genevieve paryhurst famous so ciologist starting in the american weekly with this sundays april 16 issue of the detroit sunday times victory loon campaign opens on april 24th be prepared to subscribe r w johnson died in northern ontario many friends in this district will re gret to lcara of the death on saturday april 1st of r w johnson at the klruand lake hospital mr johnson had been in ill health for some years and seriously 111 for the past few weeks for fourteen years he was post master at limehouse prior to remov ing to thomloe where he has resided for the past eight years after going to northern ontario tie wrote many in teresting letters for this paper telling of northern life and conditions which were greatly enjoyed by our readers they were always bright and cheery and gave little hint of the poor health in which he has lived for some time surviving are his wife formerly miss mabel ball three sons harold of wla watin palls wilfred and donnle at home five daughters evelyn mrs bums of klrkland lake dorothy mrs harold ankram of north bay and lillian alice and shirley at home to all of these sympathy of many friends here goes in this time of be reavement and to his mother who re sides at klrkland lake and the sisters eva and orpha at maybrooks m1u1- cent at montreal and lillian of mlchl gan state the funeral was held on wednesday with service at the home ot thomloe awards in seed competition howard laid law was high man and stneetsvihe first in crab honours bruce s beer agricultural repre sentative for peel has announced the following awards in the seed judging competition which was held on satur day march 25tfe howard laidlaw with a score of 718 was high man and streetsville with eleven members present was high club tullamore six members was se cond and ebenezer three members third in the senior competition howmne laidlaw and walton jefferson ued for first in the oats barley and wheat sec tion garnet laidlaw was third and alan davidson fourth small seeds john held bill brander keith chris tie joseph jettcr potatoes frank dolson wm wilkinson lawrence fines ollle currie was awarded first for judging oats barley and wheat in the junior competition glenn grlce sec ond donald laidlaw third and bill reeve fourth small seeds geo gard- house stan steen lloyd laidlaw and bill laidlaw tie potatoes clarke lyons bruce clarke mcclure cheyne and r j stewart tie temporary reductions in the butter ration will lead to a savins of about 5 000000 pounds golden harvest chick scratch jngredients knifecut kilndried yellow corn 1 finest quality knife- cut western wheat pinhead oat groats k j brown georgetown telephone 82 3 40pgesses on the aloie in spite of all war hazards v a renewal or unemployment insurance books r- to all employers all uriiii loyment insurance kt ks to rhc year endini m trch 31st 1944 musr be ex changed lot nrv books kindly count mtcate immediately with he nearest empl yment and selective service office if yoi have not already exchanged yum ernpjoyees books there are tevere penalties for 1 failing to make unemployment insurance contribution for your insured employees and for failure to renew the insur ance aook mm required j 9 to all employees if you are in insured person protect your benefit rights by seeing rhat your insurance book has been exchanged unemployment insurance commission louis j ikuit1e a j ta n allan m mitchell reached your men pverseas do you remember the chinge of address form which you filled out when you moved yourcivilnn home after thit was filed at your local post office every letter sent to jour old address h id to be redirected to the new one ind th it went on until your correspondents were fimilur with jour new location probably you didn t moe ery often but eich time jou did the post office gave rctlirectory scrwtt and if jou will think lbout that for a moment you will bclin to see whit i stupendous task confronts the canidnn post il corps in han dling the military mails when thousands of men nrc being jnoved almost daily yet in spite of the need of tncmt men from reinforcement units to their locations on fighting fronts in spite of the need of tracing them through hospitalization or white on leave when their unit is moved in spite of delays in air mail service caused by adverse flying conditions of delays in surface transportation caused bv enemy action last year in spue of every war hazard you can think of your post office ind the canadian postal corps delivered 31500 000 letters to men overseas in 1943 it is incut ibc that in tracing men who have been moved or wounded some delays occur it is ineitable that enemy iction holds up delivery in some cases but everything that human ingenuity and effort can do to give you a service that means sftiedur detnery of the letters your men vre waiting for is hem u ell and thoroughly done and will be done new methods 6f speeding mail deliveries are being put into effect new possibilities are being studied think of your own friends who have been posted to new locations overseas and realize the task of tracing them when their mail arrives at tberr former address you can help your post office and the canadian postal corps to give even better service if you wtifktake a moment to make sure that your mail is correctly prepared do these simple things ibe to the herald always be sure cnih letter o fully and correctl addressed properly packed a 2 use light weight paper for regular air m torces air letter forms airern h letters because they must be processed in canada ail or use the armed take a little longer 3 to men in hospital mark our to this cflcct icrtcr in hospital if you are 4 ncs un he cr put imo par els penshn damaged h exinmcs f t 41c food mpcratur r ao substance thar 1 canada post office lcf by im avlktr f hon w p mulock xc j postmastii oiniial