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We Thought That Grimsby and District Was Free From the ‘Knocking Pest" But Apparently We Were VOTE for the â€" Go out and Wrong. THE ANVIL CHORUS y citizen Twentyâ€"eighth Year. tory No. i, factory and vegetables A view THE INDEPENDENT of the large GRIM 2BY. . over rye plant and bulldings of Dominion Canners . FACâ€" Y. mu-ndlm\nonml« year at this ..m“umnmmm-mmmm VOTE FOR THE BYâ€"LAW AND A GREATER GRIMSBY "HE INDEPENDENT has received i emation from the _ Pele® Island 1. + Company to the â€" effect . that plans and epecifications for GRLASBY Wine Factory are nc ing prepared and the tenders f work will be called for at an date. â€""'i‘};e contracts will be let and every thing ready to start work just . as the spring. 120 work on the big buiidings and the moving of the machinery . will t pressed forward as rapidly as posâ€" sible all summer, in order that . the Company will be in a _ position . to comimence pressing grapes in Septem ber, 1914. It might be explained that had the Village been in a position to hand the Pelee Island Wine Company . a dced of the new aite when they signâ€" sd the agreement eix weeks ago, â€"the Company would _ have ccmmenced opcrations at once, but on account of the faet that the Byâ€"Law had to be advortised four weeks and then two weeks elapse before it could receive u third reading, and the . money be paid over for the land, the season had so far advanced that it was not possiâ€" + conynence work this fall. the ground will permit, . in at an _ carly GRIMSBY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1913 the be the open the @hutters and ho BHE!. :':'q{oo-. on the breast of MI snow, Gave a lustre of midâ€"day to objects i When what to my wondering eyes 4 appear, Tut a miniature sleigh and oight thy reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively asil quick, I know in a moment it must be St. » More rapid than eagles his coursersitiey came, N Anc he whistled and shouted _ and ed|them by nameâ€" "Now Dasher! Now Dancer! now P‘ ! now Vixen! Ou Conet! on Cupld! . on Dunder & t ‘To thu top of the porch! to the top 6( the wall! Now dash away, dash away, das» aÂ¥ay all!" As dry leaves that bofore the wild ! rlaLu, fiy, When they meet with an obstacie to the sky, So up o the housetops the coursers flew; With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too And then in a ¢winkling I heard or roof ‘The prancing and pawing of each !iW» hoof. ~ As I drew in my head and was tur:ibs around, Down the chimmey St. Nicbolas camd with a bound. He was dressed all in fur from his «o his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished aghes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on h4 back, And ‘he looked :Jke a poddler just his pack. His eyes how they twinkled, is dlmt. so merry, His cheoks like the roses, his nose like a cherry, His droll Hitle mouth drawn.. up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as wiite as the snow; H# bad a broad face, and a little round Melly ‘That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jolly. He was chubby ond plump, a Ttight jolly old elf, An« I laughed when I saw him, in srite of myself. A wink of his eyeand â€"aâ€"Awistâ€"ofâ€"hisâ€"bead ~~~~~ Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; He epoke not a word, but went straight to his work wAnd filled all the stockings, then turned with a jork And. laying his fnger aside of his nose ‘And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down on a thistle; But 1 heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "Happy Christmas to all, «1d to all a goodâ€"night! * [ERRY * _ ' : S RISTMZ y years â€"you will get cheaper light, cheaper fuel. You wiil do away with all Aper and easier. GRIMSBY needs the gas for manufacturing purposes. L GAS BYâ€"LAW The class of !7 is now forming a el Beamsville, Winona class of 1907â€"08 of t HISTORICAL SKETCH _ OF THE GRIMSBY | BAPTIST CHURCH _\\,____â€"â€" & ar â€"â€"{The, Grimsby Church Was i___ .. "CICNROPRNED| â€" Th , Avicercolldt â€" * * EYE e e nic | t ent: MEembersâ€" Mr. Adam Rutherford hbas Opened up his Beautiful Property on Main St. : A* Monday night‘s sessio1 of . the council, Mr. Adam Rutherford _ préâ€" wouted a most elaborate set of plans for a new subâ€"division on h‘s properâ€" ty in the wost end of GRKIMSBY, Yte new subâ€"division _ wi‘l . be known as Lakeview Survey. 1t has, at present, frontage on Main St., Murray St., St. Andiews Ave. and Livingston Ave., but when opened up, will _ have a new street running throcgh the middie of it _ from Main st. to Livingston Ave. This street will be called Ne!les Ave., being nam ‘ed after Mr. Rutherford‘s wife. ‘The property is a» i@eal one _ for sibâ€"Jividing and no _ dpubt, many beautiful homes will be erected _ on the large and well located lots According to the plans there ate, all told, fiftyâ€"nine lots. Nine «* the lcts face on Livingston Ave. and are TA x 140. Five lots front on Murray 2t. and are 57 x 135. On the . east side of Nelles Ave. there aro eiht In:~ L0 x 130, while the west slde _ of â€"Neliesâ€"Av~â€"hasâ€"fourteen "lots 50 x 132. ‘There are fifteen lots fronting ‘The portion that fronts on Main St. contains eight lots, three of . which are 50 x 110, three 30 x 175, and two a> x 125. Mr. Rutherford retains his . own beautiful nome and grounds and his property will then be 142 x 210. St. Andrews Ave. which are 50 x t 1907â€"08 of the Ham{lton College of Mus a ¢lass in GRIMSBY and will take puplis ona and Stoney Cro¢k. During the Past Decade the Church Has Prospere¢ Wouderfully, and on Dec. 14th Dedicated a Finc New Sunday School. ‘Through the courtesy of Dr. Brown lee, we print the following bistoricai skeih of the first _ decadso . of this church. Jt was written in the year 1%8;, by Mr. Linus Woolvecton and was printed in the minutes of | the ’xhan Baptist Assaciation bookiet (By L. Woolverton) (n the 4th of January, 1877, the Baptist church at Grimsby was forâ€" wally recognized by _ a councii of which the Rev, Wm. Stewart, D. D.. of Hamilton, was Moderator, and the Rev. E. Hooper of Beamsville, Clerk The deacons then clected were C. E. Woolverton and L King the church clerk L. Woolvertca, and the number of constituen. members _ cighteen. ‘The rise of the church in Grimaby is due entirely to years of faithful Sun day school work. Ever since _ the Een en d d year 1847, Mr. C. E. Woolverton has taken the decpest interest in the spivitual welfare of the children of Grimsby, who were unconnected with any other church, and about the year 1974 he built the _ soâ€"caliod â€" Bibl« Music, ‘This Collegs mwils from GRIMSBY $1.00 Per Year BUILT IN 1880 (Continued on page 3)