02 Dec 1931
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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 02, 1931
Page
1
Poem reflects on life as present oriented amid duties and future hopes. It discusses youth, pleasure, home, duty, and the transient nature of time, noting that the present can reveal happiness and growth rather than only loss. Referred to in Dr. Howard's sermon and previously published in The Westminster.
Thad Polaski, a brave Polish immigrant student, recovers and inspires his town as the Onion Brigade led by Professor Van Fleet harvests an onion crop to fund bringing his mother and sister to America. Local youths, teachers, and the school board rally in a heartwarming effort culminating in a hospital visit.
Article discusses how introductions of modern luxuries and white man’s diseases threaten Eskimo health in Aklavik Northwest Territories. Government medical teams try to curb sickness, while locals face hardship and reliance on fur trading and canned goods amid changing traditional life.
Mrs Ewan Mac Donald of Prince Edward Sand shared tales linking writer L M Montgomery to Prince Edward Island. She described Montgomery’s Atlantic province passion and a whisky aided voyage, recounting ancestral shipboard exchanges and a stubborn stand on arriving shores.
Inspector R W Anglin notes duties division among teachers satisfactory and English literature adequate. Middle School should split into two with distinct language programs. third and fourth year pupils cannot be taught together. Fire drill training urged. attendance rising. Form II expansion reveals weakness from mixed groups in science and languages. four year courses in French and Latin advised. commercial course added but creates strain. Principal and staff recognized for skilled organization and cooperation.
Ontario activates the new Cemetery Act to supervise and clean up neglected burial grounds. A three member county commission or a district trio will oversee cemeteries with funding from the municipality and council notices for maintenance. Dr. McCullough’s survey spurred legislation pushed by Hon. Dr. Robb amid prior opposition.
A report by T. E. White notes a feeble movement of grain for four weeks since October 16 and marketing and loading, with shipments nearly tripling the figures from the same period in 1930. The data show 18,526,000 bushels in the identified span.
An essayistic poem contemplates life’s rest points and the pull toward better thoughts. It contrasts dark skies with a blue future and suggests true riches lie in love, gratitude, and doing God’s will with a ready heart.
Publishers from Wentworth Halton and Peel gathered in Oakville with Mayor and police escort. After a turkey dinner funded by the Town Council they heard speeches from notable editors and toured Oakville estates while plans discussed local developments and a large estate project.
A dusty paragraph notes farmers crushed by taxation as public payrolls in the dominions rise toward five hundred million dollars annually. It questions how a farmer can meet obligations with farm products at current prices while paying over fifty dollars per person yearly for public costs and facing a wave of social regulation and paternalism affecting rural households.
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