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going for some time before the | alarm was turned in at 2 o‘clock | in the morning. Mm‘fl"i u.u.nu.u.mm--m' hfimulfl'flmml ment. Unaware that no alarm had | been sounded, he proceeded to the | fire and, on arrival, found the barn | a mass of flames and ~.10ke pourâ€"| m‘hq-mm.‘utnom"! evidence around the place. | 4wwc.mndd-on; the Pldge road and bs/. seen the \Continued on page 8) | MEDAL CEREMONYâ€"Grimsby Lions Club‘s annual award for outstanding citizenship was on last Tuesday night presented to Rev. J. A. Ballard, rector of St. Andrew‘s Anglican Church for the last 38 years,. In the picture Mayor Edric Johnson, of Grimsby (right). is seen pinning the award on Mr. Ballard‘s coat, as Rev. Dr. Neil M. Leckie looks on. The presentation took place at a dinner meeting of the club in the Village Inn. FIRE MARSHALL INVESTIGATES x MYSTERIOUS TOWNSHIP FIRE Road, west of the Woolverton mountain, in North Grimsby. Cme blaze totally destroyed the farm barn, valued at $2,500, one Dodge truck, valued at $1,000 and a large quantity of farm impleâ€" | the ald hook will not become id ~~They Were put in when the | +9k was issued last September to : used in case of emergency, but | il not be required. ‘The same is | ue of the other spare coupons,| hick were not brought into use, { VOL. LVIIIâ€"No, 37 it butter coupon, No. 9, expired , aurch 14, the old ‘ration book will | ;n-;vllmlfl.thouddm .-..umhwuf -‘-l;aetbcm'nfpuad_ Apparently the fires had been At the request of Fire Chief Al. »iPage, J. H. Richards of the Onâ€" our Old Coupons Are V alueioss House Were Closed â€" No One Around Place When Motorist Discoveres Conflaâ€" es, coffas and sugar coupons in old Ratiun Book No. 1, bave no 1e in the hands of consumers r March 81, according to the an administration of Wartime OLD ALWAY FARM "@" eoupons No. 10 to 26 There was no stock in the was no one home at the house but no damage was The Grimsby Independent /COUNTY COUNCIL GRANTS ‘| _ $10,000 TO THE RED CROSS | recommending. improvemsats ai ‘the county court house, was read | and was referred to the general adâ€" tmlnbnuon aub â€" committee for cans‘deration. â€" Council discussed |\ installing a stoker in the county ‘registry office and gave authoriâ€" ‘ly(otbom*mnluuloun. | _ The wiole souncil was appointed to a coramittes with J. C. Dressel, Grantham, as chairman, to study pos: war reconstruction. A compmitiee was appointed to 'lnurmw the depariment of s3 amiâ€" l (Continued from page 7) The r=*pe for an idea;, wife as prescs.ved by Sir William H. Bevâ€" eridge, author of Britain‘s proposâ€" ad abeial asgcurity plan: "She should be inteligent with» out being intellectual, keen with« out being earnest, allent without being stupid." ____ _ . Bir Wiliam is 8# and last Decemâ€" ber married his former secretary, Mro. Jeany Mair. Me gay bis definition in an anâ€" awer on a broadcast oult program had asked for $25,000. A deputati.a from the Beamsâ€" ville and District War Services Committee waited on council askâ€" Ing for a grant, but this was left over until the April sitting of council. ‘The deputation consisted herd. F. L. Laundry, 1 £. Claus and Richard Morley, flw Lincoin County Council granted $10,000 to the Red Cross Society, to be distributed to the branches throughout the county on the same equalized assessment basis as last year‘s Red Cross grant was apporâ€" tioned. A grant of $100 was made to the Lincoln County Music Fesâ€" tival, and a grant of $1,000 was made to the St. Catharines Genâ€" eral hospitaj for their building and Receive Report on Wartime Housing â€" Want Milking Machices Manufactured in Larger Quantities. Will Raise $19,000 For Patrio« tic Purposes This Year â€" Recipe For The Ideal Wite MANY GRANTS MADE . ‘The hospital oun ty Grimsby, Ontario, Thursday, March 25th, 1943. $2.00 Per Year, $2.50 In U.S.A., 5¢ Per Copy Butter ccoupons in .. «n book No. 2 are ;nod for purchases on the followinng lates: March 27th, April 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th. May 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 20th, P=niry dates on none of the na~e coupons have as yet been announced. the PMavy League; the Lions Club. The Color Party will be in charge of Major Bromâ€" ley. ‘The Public Library Board will receive ‘he colc a Due Dates For Butter Coupons Another contribution from the town of Grimaby, has bean made towards Victory in this war by the afforts of the staff of the United Distiliers LAimited, who have genâ€" erously offered their blood to the Red Cross Blood LDonoers Clinic, and the following young jwdies visited Hamiliton in this connection on Wadnesday, March 17th: Geralâ€" dine Patenaude and "tose Marshail, and at some future date the follow» ing girls will attend the clinie, Wiizabeth Laba, Rita Lessard, Lily Laba, Lillian Hildreth, Doris Wal« ters and Mrs, V. Clark, be represented by Mrs. Sinclair. The following public bodies are invited to be present: ‘The Town and Township Counâ€" cils; the West Lincoln Branch of Canadian Legiar; che High School Cadets, in command of Cadet ~*> ficer Smith; the Boy Scouts, un/« the leadership of Scoutmaster Bakâ€" er; the Giry Guides, under the leadâ€" ership of Guide Officer, Cullingâ€" ford; the 1.0.D.K.; the Reg Cross; Flag" donated to the Lions Club by place in the Public Library, on March 31st, 1943, at 4 p.m. Will Deposit Blitz _Flag In Library copmory B ons mt l!l_-n:d-. by Col. G. A. Sinâ€" U.D.L. V ...â€" Girls The official ceremony of the deâ€" Making Application For Hospital Charter AL the present time there ase a half a dozen leather key folders containing Weys in the office safe awalting claimants, most of them having been twere for months. UNNAMED RESIDENT DONATES GENEROUSLY TO RED CROSS "Brothers" and have always a kind smile and a helping nand in any such trivial matters which will crop up from day to day. Like most young children church neevr appealed very much to me, but since joining the Army nearly 8% years ago I‘ve come to regard the church as part of my life. We have a very nice padre from (Continued on page 8) MHow often in the course of a r«»«ar do you lose your bunch of keys? Maybe not at all, but there are plenty of people who do. Local post office officials state that there is not a week goes by that there are not turned ia at the wicket from one to half a dozen bunshes of keys. Most of them are claimed almost immedinately while others are not claimed for days and in the odd cuse never cla‘aed. When keys are left hanging in the mall box it is easy to know who the owner As, but .often AAman the keys are picked up off the ANuor and in that case the identity of the owner is a minus, unleas there is a name pluts on the rbg, which in these latter days is not ofien the Is Appreciative Of Padre‘s Work Dear Sir: It is with deep appreciation that [ sit down toâ€"night to acknowledge the lovely Christmas card which you have sent me, It is with honesty when I say I always believed you to be a most reserved person far away from a person such as me, of course I was much younger than I am toâ€"day. In three years overseas I‘ve met and talked to a great many padres and I have completely changed my mind as I‘m sure you must be the same as these men. They are all Ald:ben From One to Six neches Turred in at Wicâ€" ket Every Week â€"â€" Some Are Never Claimed, At the Lion‘s Club dinner last week when the Good Citizenship gilcan church, the Reverend genâ€" tieman in his remarks of thanks spoke briefly about a young Grimsâ€" hy lad overseas, who at one time * ‘At the completion of his remarks Mr. Ballard read the following le*â€" ter which he had received from that boy, 1t is an excellent epistle and bears repeating in these colâ€" Allan Ballard ofâ€" St. Andrew‘s Anâ€" Post Office Haven For Lost Keys Overseas, Has Changed His Views as Regards Gentleâ€" men of The Cioth. That in the Town of Grimsby 3SIXTYâ€"FOUR PER CENT of all the Householders OWN their own homes, This is a very high percentage and rates with any other municipality in the Dominion. That with our new 29 mill tax rate this perâ€" centage will be greatly incres> 4 during the coming year. . Already several new how .. are under construcâ€" tion and many more are beirg ; «mmned. Alu-egun on there will be still many more planned and built. DID YOU KNOW? Come To Grimsby To Live Sunday, Dec. 20, 1942. Hamilton Clinic Makes New Record The above figures do not include the Town and Township‘s portion of the County grant, which, thanks to the local representatives on the County Council, it is understood will be the same as in the 1942 drive, namely $1600.00 approxiâ€" Grimsby Day Boosted Blood Doenations by 125 â€" EKighâ€" teen Being Ladies â€" Next Clinic Possibly Held in Hamilton Clinic reports that last week was the biggest week in the history or the clinic, insefar as hblood donations are conserued, and no little credit is due the people or Grimaby â€" and district for this record being bung up. Included in last week‘s donore at the clinic was Grimsby Day, when no less than 125 Grimabyites, inâ€" eluding 18 ladies made the trip to the Ambitious City and donated On Saturday night the total cash subscribed came within a few dolâ€" lars of $6,000.00 and at time of goâ€" ing to press is we‘l over the $6,000 mark and this sum is likoly to be increased by the few yet to he heard from. ‘The compaign, by authority of H.Q., wili be open to accept further subscriptions for anâ€" other week, Late subscribers may contact the Campaign ‘Treasurer, Miss Ann Crane, at the Village blood. Chairman William Hewson was very much pleased with the response the local commiltee reâ€" seived and is particularly pleames with the manner in which the ladies came through the ordenl, It is expected that when the next donation is made, the early part of June, the clinie will be conducted In Grimsaby and thus save travel ling to the olity. ‘Transportation needs are gotting tougher al the time and it is not expected that transportation will be procurable at all by the time June rolls around,â€" heneeâ€"theâ€"effort â€"to have the elinic held here, On Wednesday transportion faci« litles wore good and 10 tables wore kept going steadily ot the clinte from 3.30 unti the fAnish 11 the Hands Over Cheque For $1,â€" Town And Township Contriâ€" butions Well Over $6,000 â€"â€" Total Does Not Include County Grant of About evening ‘Thanks to the generous response of the public and hard work on the part of canvassers and others who assisted in the Red ~Cross Camâ€"« paign, Grimsby and North «rimsâ€" by Township have again met the ever increasing demand on the Nor do these Agures include a (Continued on page 8) Grimsby. Public Responded Splendidâ€" MANY THANKS _ This meat might be all the adâ€" , vertisement claimed for it but ‘ prices were not much lower t‘.an good beef or pork. Pot Romat 2%6: Porter:onas © Staak ~©35¢¢" Wiroin Steak 35¢; Round Steak 3%0; llmubnmruclngmul awd imany uther meat Mh-utm“,fllh horse meat diet yet, and it is to be {hoped we never d0, f Business And Medical Men of Beamsvilie, Smithville And Grimsby Decide to go Ahead With Project Immeâ€" diately â€"â€" 15 Beds To Start. MANY DONATIONS Company Wil be a Nonâ€"Proâ€" fit Organization â€" Memberâ€" ship Can be Acquired at Small Cost â€" Will Install New Heating Plant. ductors would not be decreased, better service and attention could be given, and the proposa) was enâ€" dorsed by Dra. Elmore and Latham of Boamsville, Dr, Leeds, Smithâ€" ville and Drs. Rogers, Mclntyre and McMillan of Grimaby, Following a meeting of represenâ€" tative citizens from Beamsvilie, Smithville and Grimsby, in the Vi!â€" lage Inn on Saturday last, a decisâ€" lion was reached to proceed with the application for a company charter for a hospital for this disâ€" triet. Mr. A. R. Globe reported that the period of investigation had been completed up to a point of furnishing all required information as to what could be done and called or canvass offered donations now reaching into a sizable amount. It was further reported that many citizens from the area, as a tribute to, and to show their appreâ€" clation of the services of our mediâ€" cal men, have without solicitation Nteaks Thirty â€" Five Cents a Pound â€"â€" Horsemuger 22 Conts â€"â€" Gevernment lIonâ€" on the medical men to outline the ‘The building and property to be used for hospital purposes is the large stone club house on the Deer Park Golf Club property, owned by C. J. Kames of Hamilton and Grimsby and being donated by him free of all costs and incumbrances. The charter referred to will proâ€" vide for a nonâ€"profit corporation, owned by the people. Memberships Wray Botts, Grimaby Meat Marâ€" ket, had on display in his atore ladt woeent an advertisement clipped from a Cleveland newspaper that was of interest to all who read it. ‘l\oopllluluh-w that while for the work for the According io the advertisemont the meat shortage in the Ohlo city had been solved by the securing of a large aupp‘u of "Government 1sâ€" apeoted Horae M.«t for the Public‘s Consumption. Pry This Hearthy, Tasty, Tender, Wholesoms Meat " will be acquired on payment of a (Continued on page 8) Want Some Tasty Juizy Horse Meat saumption. CHARLES J. EAMES