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6 ty has four registered egg grading stations and in 1944 they graded and packed 6,376 cases of eggs. Brevities "TTZ PNCECG 0,070 cases of eggsa. According to the government reâ€" port there are 109,914 laying hens in the county as of June 1st, 1944. Township Council Saturday afâ€" @lvh;vglm.h“ T hHearre ROXY SAT. ONLY â€" AUVUG. 11 Wild Bill Elliott Marshal 'gf Reno Town Went Wild MATINEE SATURDAY, 2 p.m. Winged Victory ALEXANDER HARDWARE The Keys Of The Kingdom EVENTS and TOPICS of the WEEK in _ CommEroAL igt. Edmund O‘Brien _ AUG. 13 â€" 14 â€" 15 TELEPHONE 88 FRI â€" AUG. 9â€"10 You can now get that good Blue Sunco gasoline at Grad‘s Garage, Main street west. 9/. % * Weich Grape Juice Co., St. Cathâ€" arines are now contracting for from Niagara Packers. All next week the Quality Meat Market is going to be closed. Roy St. John and his two little Angora Lambs, Oliver Doolittle Shaw and a well earned holiday. ‘The raspberry crop is reported to be below average in the Kingâ€" bushes which had lots of blossoms did not produce a great volume of berries. Several growers who atâ€" tended the city market Saturday morning were almost swamped by Building permits in St. Catharâ€" ines showed a alight decline for July, only twenty being recorded. Of the total eight were for lings at a value of $38,200. The total value of all permits for the month was $51,595 and for the six months period of $602,508. Value of permits issued during the first six months of 1944 was $407,498. as great as the same month a year ago. ‘This was unusual in view of the fact that some federal taxes have been reduced since Vâ€"E Day. Collections in July, 1945, totalled $202,448.42, in July, 1944, $205,â€" $81.48; and June, 1945, $260,374.73. e e ® ‘The stork beat Dan Cupid by a large majority in the vital statisâ€" tics race during the month of July in the County town. ‘The St. Cathâ€" were 101 births, of which 58 were resident and 43 were non resident. Marriages totalled only 32. Deaths in St. Catharines were much fewâ€" er, and resuited in one of the lowâ€" ast death rates in some time, Reâ€" sident deaths numbered 16 while nonâ€"resident deaths totalled 11, making a total of 27 deaths in this area for the month of July. A mule which died on the Italian front in an explosion has been givâ€" epitaph. Here it is: "In memory of Peggy who in her lifetime kicked one brigadier, two colonels, four majors, ten captains, twentyâ€"four lidutenants, fortyâ€"two sergeants, sixty corporals, 436 othâ€" er ranks, and one bomb." Such stories, now being related by returning Tommies, prove to us that our fighting forces, in spite of all hardships, can still reveal their truly British sense of bumor. Customs returns for the port of Peggy Passes ” CAMMYS" MAIL BAG “‘ Once again I have the pleasure of writing to thank you for anoth» reached me this morning. Please convey my sincerest thanks to all those who made this more than welcome gift possible, I assure you it is deeply appreciatâ€" TA just like to express my thanks on receiving this carton of cignrettes and the many in the past which has been sent through know I received the 300 Buckingâ€" ham cigarettes you sent, they cerâ€" tainly are welcome. I have received about nine hunâ€" dred cigarettes from you since I came overseas, that was two years ago. I hope to be home soon to thank you in person. . smokes from you this past week and while there is a little delay in thanking you I am none the less sincere. ‘There was a very strong rumour that the folks were not we are moving around too much to | receive them. Don‘t you believe it for it is as yet definitely not true. Cigarettes here in Holland are at a premium. ‘The people will alâ€" most sell their soul for cigarettes. It is an actual fact that to the peoâ€" pie they are more of a legalâ€"tendâ€" er than money. ‘They are willing to pay a guilden for a smoke and that amounts to about forty odd cents each. If we wish to buy any thing it has to be cigarettes and not money. ‘This I hope is the last that I reâ€" ceive from you for in the very near future I think perhaps I may be on my way back. I have strong hopes and there is every ‘reason that they will be fulfilled. ‘This past few weeks we have those who are high in points Regards to all in Grimsby, and been on a tour of Holland and I have visited all of the main cities of the country also a lot of the lesser ones. Never haye I seen so many canals and bridges as there are in the city of Amsterdam. I was in the city often enough to beâ€" ENGLISH PRINTER INVENTOR OF PRESENT RAILWAY TIMET ABLE George Bradshaw, English print« er, invented the railway timetable more than a century ago as a preâ€" mium scheme to get rid of a buge surplus of maps. He was born at Windsor Bridge, Pendieton, Lanâ€" cashire, in July, 1801, several years before the first practical railroad was built. His name was known wwnwu first w”umpflfltrd Bradshaw‘s Map of and rivers of his country. 1 In 1839, however, he published a sixpence Bradshaw‘s ‘Timetable. The price was changed to one shill« ummy-r.umu was reduced to its original price, and from then on George Bradâ€" shaw was sure that the best methâ€" ud of making money was to devote all his energles to the production of reliable and upâ€"toâ€"date timeâ€" mnmwhflhmmm‘ mmmw-muuâ€".nmnâ€"annw\ Manchester, England, 1839, railâ€"| den to amoke or to givtips. They mmflmm-mwmwbw M\ be popular among the wealthy. The | and amokeâ€"protecting m\ flmmfiuwwmmmhuumw was going out of fashion, ‘ond | jon 10 minutes before the depa | M m-uwdumaamnmmm\ maps of England and Wales in mlwocln.lldu-m\ his shop and no prospect of selling â€"inside and outside. Outsiss sat them. At the Manchester railroad on the roofs of the cores and station one day he realized that it| pald twoâ€"thirds the price an an in« was impossible to get printed inâ€" | side seat. formation about train times. Passâ€" Between Liverpoo!l and Manâ€" upnb.dndunmuullldqy chester the following charges were long to find out when trains were made: fourâ€"wheeled carriages, one leaving and arriving. ‘Then Brad.| pound; twoâ€"wheeled, two shillings; shaw got his idea. "I‘ll print the | one horse, 14 shillings; two horses, times of the arrival and departure| 23 shillings; three horses, 24 ahillâ€" and sell them, and T‘ll give away ings. Children over three and undâ€" a map with each copy," he said. er 10, balf fare. Sixty pounds of o every day he went to the|luggage allowed to each passengâ€" Manchester station to get the time er; above that, a rate of « of the trains and each day they | abillings a bundredâ€"weight \ Wws AiMfarant ‘The wealthier peo.| charged. " and sell them, and T‘ll give away a map with each copy," he said. So every day he went to the Manchester station to get the time of the trains and each day they were different. The wealthier peoâ€" Yours sincerely, J. B. Sutheriand. Gratefully yours, June 12, 1945. June 17, 1945. THE GRIMSBY NDEPENDENT June 18, 1945. Naviâ€" come quite familiar but I always had to ask my way if I got into the West end. It is a maze of canals and each are exactly the same as it neighbour. Some fun. Well, Carm, I must close for that soon I can taik to you in perâ€" son. ‘This business of writing is Just a few lines to let you know that I have received your cigarâ€" ettes O.K. and I want to thank you very much for them, fror they sure come in mighty handy over here. ‘The war is over, but itt looks as if we are going to be heere for some time yet. Well I wil say cheerio for this time. Just a few lines to let you knoow that I received your 300 cigaretites today. I would like to thank you and all your helpers, for the kind work your people are doing. I have received them in many countries, ‘England, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and ‘-'hm..lll. We‘re hopâ€" Ing to see you soon. Just a few lines to thank the C. of C. and you for the cigarettes that I received today and sure was glad to get them for I was on my last package when I got them. I was thinking that I would have to smoke English cigarettes and they are too hard on a fellow, as any of the boys that were over here will tell you the same thing about them. ‘The weather over here has not been too bad and again it could be a lot better for it rains everyday for about an hour. ‘ I ran into a couple of the boys over here that I had not seen for some time and one of them was Jan Murdoch and the other Bill Ferris and they both look good and l-m.gnhdqdhndnb- gether. I believe it was on Vâ€"E .’“x“m-“" smokes for I sure do wish to thank one and all for what they have done for us over here and hope to be home before long, so Cheerio for now. _ Many thanks for the ciigarettes received this weekend andd for othâ€" ies A W P oo ne C IF Just want you to know » that your efforts have been greatly . appreâ€" Bradshaw _ timetable appeared, costing sixpence. It ws vestâ€"pockâ€" et size, with amart gilt iging, and there were not only 24 pages of iw-mnmumfi clers regarding clothingfood and which I might have : been too Yours simcerely, June 112, 1945. June 13, 1945. Junae 7, line the following were the chargâ€" es: children under seven, for firstâ€" class carriages, secondâ€"class price; for secondâ€"class carriages, thirdâ€" class price. Infants in u-l_nt from Lime Street station, Liverâ€" pd.bvy@p-mdu-_bg being a coach, for a distance not exceeding 1,700 yards, one shilling sixpence; for each 700 yards, or any intermediate distance, an adâ€" ditional sixpence. Car fares oneâ€" ‘The first issue of Bradshaw‘s Continental Guide was published in June, 1847, but of course it was a We are glad to see that we have 25 cent pipes back with us again. On the Manchesterâ€"Littieborough ‘/’l””””””"’”””’l””\' i y & ‘CASOLINE N b”,llllll”fl”””””””l) A GRADS| { GARAGE | Are Back Again £*% 2. BLUE SUNOCO Phone 542 107 Main St. West Blue Sunoceo Oils and Greases OUR SUNOCO PUMP IS NOW IN OPERAâ€" TION AND WE CAN SUPPLY YOUR WANTS WITH THE HIGH GRADE The Gas you have always wanted to use The Perfect Thirst Quencher We thought they had disappearâ€" ed, but Monday when we were Cau~ ght off our home base without a pipe we were able to go into a tobâ€" acco store and buy a quarter pipe. We paid a dollar for it. CEPD$ TEA had burned off it. ‘The man who is a gold brick is m-muâ€"-mbmm brickbats along the way. e & ® m'm-bhnnblllll era when a merchant kept his best lines hidden under the counter. _ ‘The manner in which some men shake hands is enough to give you August 9th, 1945. Grimsby \