19 Mar 1919
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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 19, 1919
Page
1
Rev. Wm Burt and the Rector conduct Sunday and weekday services with matinee at 11 am and evening service at 7 pm. Sunday School at 9 45 am. Holy Communion held on the Sundays of each month at 11 am.
The United States marked December 6 7 and 8 with spontaneous celebrations honoring Great Britain's role in the war. Prominent Americans and societies such as the Sulgrave Institution and the National Security League organized events. The piece notes improved Anglo American ties, the purge of anti British schoolbooks, and Canada as a bridge between nations, praising shared loyalties and cooperation.
Parliamentary figures show total British casualties across Egypt France Italy Dardanelles and Saloniki at about 2 etc. The report lists killed wounded and missing by theatre with officers and men separated and notes India and Dominions included.
Sir John Lavery will paint a finished study of the surrender conference aboard the Queen Elizabeth with fifteen figures including Admiral Beatty, Browning, Tyrwhitt, and five German delegates. If finished in time it may be shown at the Royal Academy next year.
Miss Faintleigh and a sergeant discuss dreadful front line scenes. A lieutenant recalls a shell bursting among twenty Germans. The sergeant adds a worse sight from an Ohio trench as a hundred enemy move and get blown by nine inch shells. The room reacts with horror and resolve.
An ambulance unloads at a dressing station as wounded soldiers lie on the ground. One man, awaiting treatment, notices a familiar Tommy trudging by and shouts a cryptic greeting, revealing a shared hometown and regiment.
The Esquesing council met by adjournment with members present. They reviewed minutes, passed by laws for highways, approved expenses and salaries, and ordered payments to Moree Campbell Neilson and others. A resolution urged amending tax exemptions for lands owned by educational institutions not used for core purposes, to end municipal tax exemption. The meeting adjourned to April 14 at 10 am.
The Judging Class and Seed Fair in Milton, organized by the Farmers' Clubs of Halton County and the Department of Agriculture with the Halton Agricultural Society, drew a large crowd on Monday March 10. Thirty nine boys from across the county competed with prizes including a Shorthorn calf and various sheep and calf awards. Seed fair exhibits showed good samples and notable seed sales. Evening talks by regional and national speakers concluded a well attended program despite bad weather.
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