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astray. I thought if I sent my adâ€" dress, it might more 1 around so much, ‘the odd & promotion, there is a great chance of our mail going As a D C matter of interest to in + Grimsby last week, Roy Hurst was posted to my squadron as an inâ€" He started his operations, with l’“‘"””“ some coastal fiying. Afâ€" wxm.m.m-o&‘ ferent job "path fAinders", Roy has done 45 trips which is . of a record in any man‘s MHe wears the pa wing, and holds the rank of ofâ€" Acer. Being on my staff of instructors now. He is helping to turn out mwore engineers, to bafflie Hitler with bombs.â€" How areâ€"you,â€".any« ROY HURST AN INSTRUCTOR Iwm CLARIFICATION OF NEW wITH FLT.â€"LIEUT. ANDERSON| _ RURAL HYDRO RATE SCALE Young Flightâ€" Hello! Old Soidier: For some time now Mrs. Udell mas been sending me the Indepenâ€" dent and some of them have gone way. Remember the lad who came into your office in Montreal, woll, guess 1 have travelled a good many miles since then, but never on such New Ration Book Issued In March Local Ration Board officials anâ€" notince that the new ration book, number four, will be lssued the week of March 22nd, throughout «<anada. ‘Fo date the local officials bave not set the particular day a.* inte “Mfioht'flhb- auad in Grimaby for town and Reeve Secord Of Granth Great Benefit To 1 * 2 anale toy 1610000 n aty ; â€" .. db coomats dp 208 W “’ui“fl“m M" AAMUSCIEREC‘+ Neene en the county fathers for placing a Keminiscen l »artth, ies Armistice About Grimsby‘s Armistice A bounty on Shuake wi.* rejact» PLACE A‘BOUNTY ON SKUNKS PLENTY TO EAT (Continues on page 8) y â€"»tv Game aABd M_fi England, Feb. 1st. r * _ j Grimsby, Ontario, Thursday, Februaary 24, 1944. DEDICATE FLAG OF WOLVES CUB PACK Over 100 Scouts From Winâ€" ona, Beamsville And Grimsâ€" K.M‘t'-ismlnlyom eckendâ€"Bivouac homes for supper with orders.to reâ€" port back at the gym at 7.30 p.m. The evening‘s entertainment started with the troops presenting their colours in the auditorium to their office~.. ..lowing by the singâ€" Ing of O Canada. Chairman for the evening was A. V. Catton and Mrs. V. R. Farrell very kindly supâ€" plied the music at the plano,. One minute‘s sllence was observed in memory of Lord Baden Powell imâ€" mediately after which the scout bugler played Revellic. One of the high lights of the evening was the play "Along the ‘Trails of Scouting" wriiten and munu-urgu Assist« on Tuesday . & ravigator Wm. Wilson, . was missing afâ€" of the agriculture committee, come»« mented: "If we didn‘t have skunks we wouldn‘t be able to grow fruit in this district" Me added that which, if they were not checked. mmm-‘.’mafi on recommendation of the agricu}« ture committee, filed the proposal W. E. Measiip, reeve of Cainaâ€" boro township, was named chairâ€" man of the postwar reconstruction committes, ~Me taken the plaos i/ J. C. Dresaal, lant yoar a who retired from civic Wfe in Decâ€" ember. A large part of the proâ€" posed program is road work, and Reported/ Missing Independent (Continued on Wage 1) w# « Younger son of L. O. and Mrs, Hudson, former Port Nelson resiâ€" just spent several weeks in hogpital in North Africa, has rejoined his unit, the 48th Highlanders in Italy. The â€"young officer is welil known North Grimsby Water Users Fall Off Waggon As cConâ€" sumption Drops Half a Milâ€" *« nine years. to the town account and accounts in the amovst w# $340.008 were ordâ€" including all machinery and the wu“m power tills for January 1944 amcunted to $125.58; Decemâ€" ber 218, $1108.178; January 1948, §$114.54. Pump house records show that in January 1044, 6,145,000 gallons Hasn‘t Happened This Year, YE (From the Hamilton Apectator Alea of Saturday, Vebruary 16th, 1884.) The peawh crop is again destroy» ad, ‘The never , regular an« been effected and duly publishad. A Niagura township wan, however, q_pnqfl\;.u.i::!mi tames, refused to belleve $®Clllar treea Me writes to 198 ‘Ppoprgld mmuylh::::um and feels sure of a ,..:.,uu.' Grant Employees Pay Increase LIEUT. KENNETH MHUDSON The intarior of the pump housn, Back In Action (Continued on page 1) . Lieut. Hudson who has at in rural hydro rates was asked by the council after Reeve Cecil Seâ€" ecord, Grantham, reported that a number of farmers had protested that their bydro bills are larger Where Is Grimsby: been under the impression that the the rate charged. Mayor Edric 8. Johnson was in receipt of a letter from the Britab l:'.-.hnml.Wanhl- maYon or animssBy Ontario, Canada, (Near Niagara or: Hamiiton) little foggy on his t~pography of PREMIKLEA GKO,. DAEW The opening of the Ontario Leg»â€" islature on Tuswday, theâ€"20n1, wan quite in keeping with war tme aonditiona Much goud legisintion is expected during this seasnion, the Tory Leader power they (Continued on page 7) used, the lower Grimsby Objective This campaign will open on Monday, February 28th and will proceed until every citizen in Grimsby and North i wnship has been personally seen anc ~iven the Ceimeby To C p.prlvile:o of subscr . 15 to the 4 ~ ever increasing furds needed & for this most humane organâ€" 4Â¥ ization. and used to su the great noeds to the needy. s lthgg’ud:hu!n;mumq&gnmgl- ALLIED RUINS WILL REPLACE POMPEIil FOR TOURIST TRADE Our objective has been set for $7,500.00 and while Mmtmhmlth“nfllfhwltmw lndniflenmwhnmm}!wbdnundh:llr. We have no doubt of Grimsby and North Grimsby‘s lity to again meet their task 100%. _ _ . ____ _ _ _ â€"; || One of the latest projects of the Red Cross is the proâ€" mawommmn’wmâ€"uodwhhhumnh Eucty, % Â¥From the beginning of this global war, the Canadian Red Croms mwmflmtfllhbwmuMMMlhm sibility of caring for the wounded and needy; bringing comforts and supâ€" plies to the Armed Forces; seeing to it that aried blood serum is availâ€" ter. ie A Not one item of supply turned out by Canadian women volunâ€" teers in Canadian Red Cross workrooms shall go to waste. ERvery mMMpdmuflduflhfla-MpWflo..flLdfl- rmmmmmmmmmc everyâ€" y h The Canadian Red Cross next week will ask dor Ten Million dolâ€" lars. This money will be dispensed with scrupulous care. 1t will be made to go a very long way. ‘When you give . . . give for now . . , and wadhe mt able on 4I! battlefronts In a letter from Italy to The mdthM{ Bruce Awayze, third son of Andreow and Mrsa. Owayze, Robinson streot south, ewclosse a twoâ€"lire note (two cents) ons of the currency denorminations issued by the Allted Command for use of the allied Aghi.ng forees Also a pioture of himast? which shows the young Orimabylite with the American Raâ€" mmhh in excelient and condition. in astronomical quantities. Now, with the most critical phase of war looming up, there is a wlupnmonuuunmmdmmuwm vnique in all history. It is not only for the criais at hand, that vast preparations must be made, but for the aftermath. For Canadian Red Crosas services, contrary to some erroneous beâ€" Nef, will not ease down after the battle is won . . . the Armistice signâ€" ed. In reality the drain upon resources will be expanded many times â€"â€"â€"_â€" This is not like the last Great War, when some of the countries in Europe went unscathed. mummm ped of its possessions as by a awarm of locusta. ‘The peoples of Rurope are home:.» . _ ‘Their possessions are what they can carry in their posâ€" kets . . . 0=a pitiful little bundle. ‘They have nothing! _ _ ol l i *" Yews Asierno, and o ie "all -vmuud#m Junuary, 1946â€"|t» in the future will be coming Mello Bonen‘! to see the Allied ruins. There are ‘I have a lot of matéfal to talk | only a few carse sor clvilian use, about, so let‘s drop the introducâ€"| and no trolleys or buses, everybody tiun and see If I can write and, (Continued on page T) W"m""a:'-:"w"_wfi.i.{f Water Puorification Uait On matikg Christmac Gift «â€" Cmgrap are Worlerith U _ V *G d h Pn Can Or Of th . and turning out clothing and surgical supplies rom 1 Says It Country Oe braly o hh ied think at the same time. ‘‘This is nniunrl-'fln track mind?" lunlum land meaning mud) of sunny ftaly and black ayed Aignorettas We are now at the last of the rainy season and the weather puts me in mind of Hpring back home. ‘The Qaide ara green, the farmere are plowing ~ad the kide are on every utreet (schools are clogad) asking