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what bw officers of verdun rehrksh lodge were instated at a ceremony la st johns church hall recently mrs gordon spenee and her uutallatlon alaff posed for a photograph mrs spenee u dutrirt deputy president uus year and those in the picture come from toronto ullton and georgetown she wore a dusty rose evening own while her deputy marshal and assistant urs alleen bradley and urs jack presswood wore hlly green the rest of the staff wore while other georgetowners in the picture are urs bert tuck mrs all collins and sirs jack addy who ia assistant pianist ladies in the picture are seated left to right pddp flo kaiser jean plewes cicely fawcett pddp ola allen alleen bradley ddp kdna spenee doris ivesswood kleanor kennedy susie sheflm uiddle row norsh tuck clara hunt ruby cuddy anne collins mln jones thelms llobson ruby clarke uurlrl grey honor shafer pddp helen grey ruth callen haul bundy ullton use rusk ullton kmmi hamilton fanny evans ullton uartha addy irene christian kay armstrong back row lu richardson shirley doughty dons parker alma allen norma browalee gwen easton charlotte bradley sfmafergwcfmkttt in sdol aiiteriiwi pupils la principal william kin- radev grfcu7 and 8 data at win glesworth school pteceaud a concert in the auditorium uonday evening a varied program of music slots and playlets was gives after tony cimnaason welcomed the audience ktfenetb b harrison arct music learner at ua sexeol was in charge of the musical part of the- pro gram which featured tongs by a mil ed choir and triple tho carol sing ing y the audience and a piano duet played by mr harrison and barbara jcinrade carole greensward and jacoaeline tost sang white christ mas the kings christmas pudding wss the main play of the evening feat ured in the east were uanlyn and mart sorenson ulchsel htewsrdson peter weststeyn tony cinnamon stewart bottomley palsy uousklll gallluraisby uennia kmmrrvio krnl riddjall and bill uanderson sthdrnta were put in charge of oth er skits and these included cradle of betkiehrm helen kennard what itk a tie lois niven the carol lers usnlyn sunnucks s monologue cohen on the telephone brisn lrw is a recitation little black uous o tache lynda korsack old woman old woman loia niven and stewart lloltnmlry and the iut puppy judy spenee george uudie snd dennu kmmrr- son arranged a skit and another skit was presented by stewsrt bottomley frrol slapleton bill usnderson and murray ross- the weather ur editor- just a normal winter summary shown on this weeks report w ern batkin date max mm snow dee 25 4 dec t 23 flurries dec 32 is dec 37 28 r 05 s2 dee 10 s2 23 dec ii dec 12 average alhojtovi georgetown member hostess to wms the december meeting of the wus was held on tuesday afternoon the seventh st the beautiful new borne of mrs thomss giffen in georgetown president mrs frank wilson presided and the meeting opened with quiet christmas music snd hymn 54 roll call was answered with a chrtstmss 11 1 reports by the secretar ies of the different departments were given prayer for chosen missionsr- ie was given by mrs arthur ruddell worsflp service was tsken by mrs john m bird which included a can dle ceremony and she was assisted by r hector bird who represented canada and mrs leslie giffen indis telling that the people who wslk in dsrkness have seen a great light sha ron sweexy sang angels from the palms of glory after which short ones written by our missionsrics in india on christmas music snd hymns by mrs t blackrtt dr gaikwad among the bhil people by mrs john ilellboddy and a christian mela by mrs john bird mrs george nurse gsve a reportof the nominating com- mittee and the officers for 1055 are past president mr frsnk wilson president mrs leslie giffen 1st vice president mrs t blsckctt 2nd vice president urs j ii hunter secre tary mrs vern picket assistant mrs john ruddell treasurer mrs c b dick supply secretsry mrs frank ruddell literature secretary mrs george nurse associate helpers mrs ward brownridgc ciliicnship and temperance mrs thomas giffen community friendship mrs clsyton wilson stewardship mrs wilfrid bird missionary monthly and world friends mrs bruce brigden mission band mrs fred nurse assistant mrs murray brigden baby band mrs john mcnsbb suditors mrs fred wrigglesworth and mrs r j grsh- am pianist mrs tom brownridge hymn 63 was sung and mrs j ii hunter closed with prsycr stiwarttown new maroon carpet beajjtifies church the tut junior w a meeting for 10m was held last wcrk suun smith chose jesus lovcs me for the open ing hymn and assisted with the wor ship lervicc inrk k or la 2 presen ted the wednesday hedge the elec tion for 105 secretary judy wal ker assistant susan caahami treas urer gall smith assistant lock a kocslag dorcas secretary susan smith with dunns armstrong as hel per service books maralyn murray and carol dcvercaux study books dinah kwins happy christmas to y9u was sung by all the juniors will meet the first monday that school is open after christmas hqidays st johns womens guild has pres ented to the church a beautiful mar oon carpel the utrip reaches from thr front door to the chancel and an other fclrip in front of the altar the carpet makes a threat addition to the beauty of the church and is much appreciated by the member gilbert cimninghmn join mmccoraucks drag su0 gilbert cunning ham who last week joined the maccormack drugs staff 11 a georgetowner by heredity fur his father robert j cunningham who died l 1042 wax born at norval and grew up in this district mr and mrs cuniuigham came east from sal mo b c recently to live with freeman kersey mr kersey wifr who died lam month was mr cunninghams aunt william c cun ningham of town is an uncle the cunninghams have three chil dren ileverley 14 who is attending high school gail 4 and karen 3 lime housg wl donates treats por english parcel wl members donated treat for a christmas parcel for a needy family in england last week heather clarke celebrated her 8th birthday with a party for- ten little girls at home one day last week the hall board sponsored a euchre saturday evening with firsts going to urs w harding and neilion stark and seconds to mrs f t g brown and sam guby with mrs mcldrim 1 stark getting the door prize the charles sinclalra of welland visited his mother and the a c pat tersons on sunday we welcome mr and mrs n george formerly of brampton to the village they moved into mr browns cottage on saturday tb j a smethursts of islington it smethursts of barrie and c a grants of stewarttown all visited airs smetburst on sunday prior to her going to barrie for christmas mr w l newton of bsrrie visited his mother sad miss ivens on sunday mis couinson visited st bock- wood oa saturday ur sad urs ingham and daughters of stewarttowa visited ur and urs tt sauth oa sunday silverwood capital for farmers discussed by forum how can the young parmer find capital the subject of monday ev mines farm forum broadcast wu discussed by 15 members of stone school forum at a meeting held at mrs annie stulls it was agreed that with the tremendous- growth in live stock and machinery investments to day the use and facility of farm cre dits are becoming increasingly im portant in getting started this prov inces junior farmer establishment ixan corporation started in 1952 is a step in the right direction in place of the usual simple forum lunch the hostess served a veritable banquet and a hearty vote of thanks was niven mrs stull for a very enjoyable evening visitors for the weekend at the home of mrs george henderson were mrs john henderson of ncwtonbrook and mr and mrs william telfer and family of wexford rotary formation plans underway plans are proceeding for formation of a rotary club in georgetown for several weeks a number of sen interested in establishing such a ub have been having meetings and on monday at a dinner in the mcgib bon house the president of guclph club accompanied by a number of members of that group explained the objectives of rotary and gave details about the operation of a club one of the main works of interna tional rotary is with crippled chil dren most people in georgetown arc already familiar with the easter seal campaign carriedon each year across the country up to the present a club in milton has solicited donations here for this fund it is expected that the inaugural meeting will be held early in janu ary at which time officers will be elected for use first year of operation two mofttf donations for poppy fund two more doaaueni were received this week- for the local poppy day fund donors wre the oddfellows lodge sad local 474 alliance union bracebridje man dies two months after brother a bracebridge man followed his brother in death by only a few months when charles spenee b2 died thrre last week he wai a brother of wilfred s pence of town whose drain occurred on october 15th his par ents mr and mrs william spenee were georgetown riidcnu for sev eral years mr spnce who was born in guil ford was a canadian national rail ways employee who was a section foreman when he retired me had lived in rraccbridge for itcvcral years he was an anglican and a member of orion oddfellows ixxlc george town for fifty years mis wife mary ann lindsay who is a native of hornby survives and two sisters in rochester ny mrs klua- abeth dazno and mrs fred wilson he had no children several members of his family pre deceased him brother jim of thor- old lew of regina jack of victoria hc thomas robert and a sister mrs hannah ningham rev norman green of grace ang lican church milton officiated at the funeral service there on friday in terment wait made in st stephens cemetery hornby six members of the local oddfellows lodgc were pall bearers harold cleave fred arm strong fred mcnally joe hall sr alex ritchie and andrew mino mrs spenee plans to return to this district and will be living in milton with her sister mrs clifford ucatty heart attack fatal for jewellery store founder samuel j simmon 46 who died in toronto northwestern hospital yes terday following a sudden heart at tack was wellknown locally as for mer owner of a georgetown jewellery store mr simmons who owned a store on dundus street established a branch here in 1046 with cecil mcnamara as manager the business which is loc- atcd beside the- herald office was purchased last year by mr mcnam- ara who now operates it under his own name the two men were asso ciated in business for twenty years he is survived by his wife helda two children howard and joanne his mother urs joseph simmons a brother and three sisters jerry mrs h foster mrs ii appelby and mrs j caplan the funeral service was held this afternoon at the betbtsedee mecaul st synagogue interment wu in dawes road cemetery 33 21 flurries s3 20 si 31 j7 ribs j7 ritkv s a hurreiirobertsofi wedding in acton mr and mrs kenneth roy hurren who will be making their home in acton where he tt employed as a truck driver with jack ridley were roamed december 3rd in the presby terian church manse rev robert ft armstrong officiated the groom is the son of mr and mrs david hurren quech st geor getown and the bride glenice marie robertson u a daughter of mr and mrs norman robertson jim golden was his brother- in laws attendant the bride who wore navy blue and a white hat was attended by her sister mrv phyllis patrick who wore pk blue with black accessories doth wore corsages of roses trie m mediate families attended a reception afterwards at the home of the groomi parents her mother wore navy blue and mrs hurren wore a black and white ensemble and black accessories they also wore rose cor- saces firemen poatpone fund canvass until january it r port i in daily newspapers that volunteer fire departments in ontario are campaikning for funds for muscu lar dystrophy research may have led readers to wonder what is being done locatlv fire chief william hyde tells us that firemen feel the month of dec ember is too busy both for them and for people who will be canvassed and they have postponed any local action until january at that time they plan to make a puhhc appeal ttrrifyirrf experience on atlantic gosstns a georg etownjanner en route fur a visit in kngland had a terrifying ex perience which will be an unhappy remembrance of his trip in years to come tom itrorkbank who if employed with norman drvereaui at his neck ijne larta was a passenger on the s h kranconia which ran into an ho rn dr gale in the strait w lie lie ule and backtracked ten miles to aid an american ship in distress the ship was sinking when we got there said mr hrockbank in a letter to thr ievereaui and had a 75 de gree lut we picked up 18 sailor from the boat all dead 1 cant eipliin bow terrifying it was and i never was so scared mr rrockbanltsald that in the same gale two other ships went down off the irish coast with all hands lost the kranconia took eight days to cross the atlantic with rough seas all the way in cumberland where he ia visiting with his sister until the spring mr hrockbank says that fields are flood ed and much of the grain is under water new sleigh lor sante in saturdays parade when santa pays his annual visit to town thia saturday afternoon be will be riding in a new ajeigh which will b really something to see it would spoil the ele of sur- t prise lo give details but w7an give the fact that the firemen and the grade 8 public school pupils are in on the secret the lions club has also asked children to dress up and march in the parade aild it really pro mises to be bigger and better than evef in ease newer residents in the dis trict do not know this is a commun ity visit and all children are invited to wieot santa and to get a bag of goodiaa from him kxpenses of the visit are met by selling lucky draw tickets with prise of several chick ens and turkeys as well as a doll dreav sed in ten 100 bills santa arrives at the bank corner at 3 oclock rmemberl jdnly eight more shopping daya till christmas kid hockey games now start at 745 kid hockey at the arena on satur days will start at 743 from now on so as to give every team and player a chance to play coaches managers referees and players are asked to be on lime final teams arc being selected to play together for the rest of the sea son if players are not out this sat urday it will bo difficult to place you on a team so set the alarm clock and get your boys out dacvmbar isht schedule f pittsburgh vs providence buffalo vs hershey kitchener vs gait marlboro vs guelph hawks vs canadians leafs vs rangers last saturday scores were pittsburgh 3 hershey 3 v buffalo a providence 1 guelph 1 gait 0 marlboro 6 kitchener 0 rangers 9 canadjen 0 leaf s 1 hawks 1 cltrotinas party for english students a christmas party was held at the georgetown high school tuesday evening for the students of the basic fnglish classes among the nation alities represented were danish ger man dutch and swiss the entertainment consisted of dutch christmas aongs sung by mrs n roman mrs van liere and mrs hofman aji or eight german students gave a demonstration of german folk dances and j l iambert the princi pal of the georgetown high school played the violin the teachers of the claues miss florence luke and mrs sid hardie of norval were presented with lamps by the students refresh menu were served and the evening ended everyone having had a good timr brampton elects first woman mayor rramplon voters cast the most bal lots in the town history monday to elect mrs nance horwood mayor succeeding harper hull who did not contest the election she defeated bill robinson by a substantial majority carman core returning to council after a years absence is the new reeve he defeated jack calvert fred kilne was elected deputy over rert dyball the ais members of the 103 coun cil are bruce mcclure russel prouse rill glenney bill ohearn kenwick job and miss lillaa trout defeated candidates were william mccartney and thomas hoole the town voted a grant to the town band and voted heavily in favour of granting a franchise to consumers gas which will bring the town its first natural gas construction underway at cedarvale school footings are being poured this week by hawes and nelson contrac tors for the new cedarvale school ad dition final details of the school construc tion were discussed by the board which administers the school with ar chitect h witmer of the toronto firm of panbtt tamhting and wit mer at a meeting monday at the school oirman immigrants married it kitchener a couple who came recently to canada from germany and who will be living in georgetown were mar ried sunday in st marks lutheran church kitchener the bride is astnd saschenbrecker whose parents mr and mrs ger- hardt saschenbrecker live on the denney charles farm where her fath er is employed the groom gunter dctjc arrived only a few weeks ago from europe mr and mrs percy saxe at whose home the bride has been employed were hosts at wedding dinner after the ceremony guests present besides the brides parents included mr and mrs denney charles mr and mrs lyklc ievries miss kathy ankersmit dr and mrs alistair macintosh mr knk su liner mr and mrs i shamai mrs dorothy caplan and mr wally cohen win doll raffle two dolls on which members of the legion indies auxiliary have been selling tickets were won by residents of town and toronto mrs p markham made the draw on saturday at the regular legion bingo mrs bob caldwell with ticket 785 won first prize and second prise went to mrs a haughic 126 ranleigh av enue toronto whose ticket was 004 mrs armitsteads father buried in norval cemetery william james 82 was buried in hillcrcst cemetery norval on friday following a funeral service at the trull funeral home toronto a toronto resident for many years mr james was born in england and lived in edmonton for several years before coming cast he had been in failing health for a month he is survived by his wife eliza beth davison two children mrs tho mas armitstrad frances mary hut- tonvihe and thomas richard james new york city six grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren social and personal mrs robert gollop of norvsl attcn lcd the funeral of her sister mrs oscsr baker st welland on mondsy mrs m a uino spent a few days isst week in llsnovcr with her sister snd brother in law mr snd mrs j murdick mrs clsrencc llsyrs was in toron to lsst week attending the annual staff conference of the ontario worn- ens institute mrs william whyte who injured her leg in a fall on sunday at her home on maple ave is a patient in tecl memorial hospital brampton miss pamela tombs of england who has been stayinc with mr and mrs dennis brown of parkview blvd returned home op the queen eliza- both mr and mrs lorne peters avc re turned from a motor trip south they spent most of their holiday in flori da at redinston beach near st pet- eraburgh mr and mrs mftricc hillock and dianne with mr anamrs lsrrv mat thews port colbornvattcnded the brickley morriasey wscdlng in new market on saturday two local dairymen em thompson and irwin noble attended the conven tion of the milk distributors assoc iation one day last week at the royal york hotel toronto mrs john u smith of whitby ac companied- her husband to town and visited with several of the st johns church congregation on monday ur smith who ii a membetvof the ced arvale school buildmf committee wu hereto a board meetlnc philip young son of mr and mrs ern hyde will be home in a day or two from toronto sick childrens iios- pitsl where ho wss taken for treat ment of swollen glands colonel and mrs g l cassldy of llailcybury were house guests of lt col and mrs john r barber last weekend colonel cassidy was a member of the inspecting party at the annual general inspection of the lome scots regiment in brampton sunday when colonel barber retired after six years as commanding officer of the regiment while spenee mckinnon was tak ing a twoday course in toronto last week he decided it would be an op portunc time for a georgetown visit ills wife and baby son bobby came with him from cornwall and visited with her brother bill milllcre and his wife for a few daya formerly on the dank of commerce staff here and later in dresden mr mckinnon is now accountant at cornwall elspethlnd donald macintosh the children of dr and mrs alistair mac intosh gave a christmas party at 11 church street the guests were ud- ianne and cathy beer judith and donala calder christine and pamela earl michael ferries christopher and tony frost warren and fraaer gurin johnnie hewson jeanann and barbara infill franeea linton jane and murdock mcfarlane eupeui raf fan stuart and robert saxe and bren- da shankland mrs ernest ball and mrs hamlin rattan aulstetr with games and the serving of the refresh ment i ikiu aiiu wajkwll4ja jtaimimii