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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 06, 1950
Page
2
Local notices reference Georgetown and surrounding areas with names and places such as Glen Williams Norval Lummanouar Stewartown Ballinavad. The fragment indicates a regional community newspaper section listing towns and locales served.
The column notes a $2500 ballot question for the Georgetown Recreation Commission with support from GRC leaders and local groups. It urges voter participation, praising home shopping and local merchants, and references a May election context alongside historical notes on Georgetown schools and the High School.
Walt Hyde reports a red fox near the White Bridge and a deer crossing a Moore farm field into a driveway. Mr and Mrs Bert McMenemy marry and plan to live at Elgin and Durham Streets in a remodeled house previously owned by Joe Prucyk after Dr W C Stiles built it. Legion aid and Christmas boxes for overseas servicemen are noted. A flour mill explosion causes brief alarm for Walter Dunnville Chronicle staff.
The roll shows 150 pupils with 10 on the staff. Listed are Mr I H Gibbard BA modern languages senior English physics and botany, Mr A E Coombs BA latin reading drawing and commercial work, Miss Hogan mathematics French and Miss Wright junior English history geography and chemistry. The high school board for the year includes J W J Rae as chairman and Messrs John R Barker William McLeod Charles Ryan Charles McKinlay and T J Wheeler secretary.
The Liquor Licence Board of Ontario District 5 comprising Wentworth and Halton Counties will hold a meeting at Knight Hall Hamilton on Friday January 12 1951 at 10:00 AM to consider renewal applications. Residents may file written objections with the deputy registrar at least ten days before the meeting. George C Gage KC deputy registrar 810 Bank of Commerce Bldg Hamilton Ont Lions Club Christmas Draw tickets advertised.
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