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LSMIIHVILLE Io CELEBRATING Southern Village Going All Out Next Week With A Big Old Boys Reunion â€" The One Of 25 Years Ago Was A Pippin â€" This One Will Be Betterâ€"It‘s Next Week. union, in connection with their Smithville Fair. That reunion folâ€" ‘right on the heels of the _ It would seem that the shades of Orpheus are not dealing too kindly with the West Lincoin Concert Orâ€" Association in the matter recent loases to its personnel. The departure of Mrs, Vincent Jackson, of Grimsby, was keenly felt as the Orchestra Â¥alued her sumyuuutvwmunm-nn VYVOLLXIIâ€"No. 9 Smithville held an Old Boys‘ 'mhmm_m in was the greatest ever. In fact the natives have dated hisâ€" tory from that night. tenths of Grimsby, North Grimsby, Beamsville and Clinton, were in 10 PAGES cent death of David Sloan, of Vineâ€" land Station, .whose.talents as 1st Violinist will be sadly missed comâ€" es the news that Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Tallman have moved to St. Catharines, thus further depletâ€" ing the personnel of the Associaâ€" LL HOME PRINT Mr. Tallman was an Originai member of the Assoctiation and played 1st Clarinet prior to assumâ€" ing the dutiés as Conductor about .m':‘o. Mrs. Tallman, also a member of the Orchestra, played the piano score on many occasions. . ‘Their talented and genial help udmpormonvmlnmhadby all their fellow musicians who wish them every happiness in their new Away back in September, 1921, lam F. Tufford, LT.C.L. (Eng.) will officiate as Conductor comâ€" Week ending at 8 a.m., la-bg. Sept. 2, 1946. » + Ao & Highest temperature .â€"__._.._..__81.2 Mean temperature ... Month of Augustâ€" « . MHighest temperature ..............89.4 Lowest temperature ....._._._._.__A7â€"8 Precipitation .....................2.57 inches Grimsby Weather This g:rokeognph was taken on the bathing beach of old Grimsby ,mnnyyenunso just how many we are unable to-uu.Cmuybodywlu.émuybodymmofthc beauties in the picture? Those were quaint costumes, everyâ€" mumm.m@m&na%mmmnm was dressed for a trip to the North instead of going swimming. Maybe the lassies of those days did not have as curvacious lines to show off as the Peach Queens of today. Bathing Beauties of Yesteryear the comparatively reâ€" =â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"0.34 inches The Grimsby Independent®== 81.2 4718 Sergt. Victor "Red" Mason, well known Grimsby hockey player, after six years service in the army is starting in business in Grimsby this week. He has been granted a license by Town Council for » the operation of a taxicab service and with a brand new Packard will be ready at all times, night or day, to serve the citizens of this district. Shoes F or Dollar |'=m:u":"u'-'-"fl'" are being movâ€" Eggs At 14 Centsl» the mocinn w n fite. 20%, tne & tecs |storey, modern building by Thompâ€" We glean the following interes. ing information from several old eonies of ‘The Hamilton Semiâ€" Weekly Times of 1899. 1 On the Toronto farmer‘s market, wheat was selling at 72% to 73 cents for white and red and 67% | cents for goose; oats at 34 to 35 | cents per bushel and eggs at 14 cents per dozen. The offerings of | choice dairy butter sold at 18 to 15 cents per lb Hay and straw sold at $9.50 to $10.50 for timothy and $7.50 to $8.50 for mixed. Five loads of straw sold for §6 and<$6.50.The dressed> hog .market was . higher, with sale at $6 to $6.50, the latter for single hogs. Stunley Mills & Co. advertisedâ€" "For men we‘sell a: grand: ‘solid leather bellows tongue low shoe, for only $1 a pair: See them. They are by far the best dollar shoes we have ever sold. Then for women, we have also at $1 per pair, a line of highâ€"cut lace shoes, best gloveâ€"| sense soles and heels. We make a specialty of dollar shoes." Starts Business MORE THAN A NEWSPAPERâ€"A COMMUNITY SERVICE When School Belis Rangâ€"Half A Century Ago ® Here is one picture of scholars at school that will not@=â€"â€"=««» benmbflsheduvemnotin&oumdonofthemm‘of P ‘thepupihinthephoto.lnhct exrmwhonnuthe - photoeanumebutlfwofthekl In his recollection | this picture was taken at the old Eim street school about ‘ms-laoo. The three teachers are, left to right, Miss Hepâ€" burn, Miss Simpson and Principal David Sykes. See if you can | find vourself in this group. Safe Crackers Busy Old Landmark Being Removed BLAST OPEN BASKET FACTORY SAFE TO STEAL $1.500 BONDS Building Conserâ€" O“nu%-.u To Be 90 Years Old â€" "Scotty" May Pull Comeback. The Old Order Changeth. An old Mainâ€"Street building is being wrecked to make way for the BYy the end of the week the building that housed the Hong Lee Laundry will be no more. Since have been ripping and tearing and the old frame work is rapidly disâ€" first unit will be 36x70, construcâ€" ted of steel, cement blocks, brick and a plate glass front. This buildâ€" ing in the lower portion will house "Muuthmr.qfilwodvm al modern machinery. In the front milk bar. As time goes on, other wnits will be constructed at the reir where home made ice cream and butter will be made. ‘The old building has served its time and must give way to the mirch of progress. Just how old the building is no one sgeems to deâ€" ‘The poor, old, wouldâ€"be farmers on Paton street are certainly getâ€" ting shoved out of the agricultural picture by this man Art. Gilbey, of E. D. Smith and Sons firm. Last week we told you about the three mammoth tomatoes that he laid on the editâ€"rial desk. The largâ€" ingston says that it was an old (Continued on page 6) served these three "tommies" filled two and oneâ€"half pint jars. On Saturday Art brought to this office another huge tomatoe that weighed an even 25 ounces. ‘ Struck By Car Legs Fractured In collision with an eastbound motor car as he walked across the Queen Elizabeth Way east of Grimsby, Friday night, William Young, 67, of Detroit, sustained fractures of both legs and both arms. Attended at the scene by a Grimsby doctor, he was later reâ€" moved to Hamilton General Hosâ€" pital where his condition this mornâ€" \Iumummhhlr. to provincial conâ€" MAM:.&HWO. Mr. and Mra Woung were en route to the home of a daughter at Grimaby Beach Sand had stopped to ask directions Sat a farm home. While crossing the thighway to return to his car, Mr. Woung came in contact with a maâ€" Y«nhd‘r’odlohnb!m.h Already new iumber and other Getting Bigger ppmmmmnnnteeeeieeeaiieaes e e e e 0 Grimsby, Ontario, T hugsday, Sept. 5th, 1946. Safe Compartments Scattered One office safe was blown open, another smashed open, two other offices were ransacked and tools were stolen from & railway shed in a crime wave at Grimsby and Beamsvilie‘ last ‘Thursday, night which netted the thieves an estiâ€" mated $2,000. At Grimsby, the heavy safe in the office of A. Hewson and Son, basket manufacturers, was blown open, the charge used being sufâ€"| ficiently heavy to tear the oneâ€"‘ quarter inch thick door to bits and leave jagged pieces of steel emâ€" bedded in the walls and floor all over the office. William Hewson estimated the firm‘s loss at about $1,500 in negâ€" otiable bonds and cash, the bonds being some purchased through payroll deductions and being of $50 and $100 denomination. They were secured from the local bank only Thursday, Mr. Hewson said. drawer from the safe, containing 14 cents in change, was found on a nearby lawn by William Rance, (Continued on page 3) A considerable sum in bills, emâ€" ployee money for Victory Bond payments, which lay in a bank book ready for deposit Friday morning, was overlooked in the Binbrook Beamsvilie Plants Were Also Visited By Robbers In Their Orgy Of Daring Thuggery. About Streetsâ€"Beamsville James _ M. Wentworth, well known and popular retired police official of Grimaby, who passed away on Tuesday morning, Fall Fair Dates Answers Call Major (Dr.) Vance R. FRarrell, who has tendered his resignation as President of Grimsby .Lions Club, As Major Farrell is continâ€" uing on in the army he finds that nfluhlmr‘o:hlcforhlnwu- sume the du as the head of the local Lions organization. Club members regret very much that he has had to take this action.as they anticipated a very successful years under his leadership. John Richardson .â€"_â€" Suffers Stroke Former Grims by Resident Now Confined To Hospital In England â€" Would Like Some Grimsby Jam. Tam asking you to put my letter in your paper asking them if they would likeâ€"to do me a favour by getting a few of them together to send me a little treat, that is, two or three jars of jelly or jam to put on my bread and â€" outter, and a three pound jar of honey, as it is awful plain food they dish out here. Only one plece of cake on Sunday and one egg on Sunday morning; and they charge me Two Pounds a week with doctor‘s attendance. Dear Mr. Livingston: "I am writing to you while laid up in Hospital with a stroke down my right side. I don‘t know if I shall ever walk again; in pain most of the time. +3 I often think of the happy times I had in Grimsby where 1 was for 25 years amongst the best friends I ever had all the years 1 have been in Canada and the U.8.A. till the last two years when I lost my dear wife and boy, Billie, It is a nice part here if you are well and can get about, which 1 swhall never be able to do agnain. ‘The friends I came over to live withâ€"the man developed cancer, . .~~{Continued on page 6) Despite the best efforts of Chief Merlé ‘Thompain and the Heamasâ€" vile Fire Department, who were quickly on the job, the George Konkle aawmill, all contents, some lumber plles and some slab piles, were completely deatroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, Fire is preâ€" aumed to have started from a spark from a tractor, Mr. Konkle was working alone and the blaze was beyond his control when notâ€" Iced. Everything is a complete loas. \'l‘o old timers, this is the Robert O. Konkle mill, on the Ridge Road, top of Beamasville mountain. Chief LeaPage of Grimsby Fire Departâ€" ment was given the "alert" by Chief Thompson, but their services were not required. Mill Burns August 19th, 1946. Retired Police Fred Jewson Speaks DISTRIBUTION OF NEW RATION BOOK TAKES PLACE NEXT WEEK James M. WVentworth Served Citizens Of Grimsby Faithâ€" fully For lfl Years â€" Funeral This Afternoon. One of the most popular polle-| officials who ever served the people of Grimsby, passed to his last reâ€" ward early on Tuesday morning, in the person of James Marvin Wentâ€" worth, at the home x his grandâ€" daughter, Mrs. Raiph Locke, Clinâ€" ton township. Deceased gentleman was born in Grimsby,. 73 years, three _ months and nine days ago, the son of the late Amos and Katherine Wentâ€" worth and lived all his life in Grimaby. During that period of time he served the people of Grimsby in ‘many capacities. As ecarly as the Boer war, 1899â€"1901, when he served as a night watchman for the then village, as the people in those days were more . scareable than today. He was a cement and concrete building contractor and many foundations add buildings standing in this town and district are his handicraft. But it was as police officer and truant officer that he really made his mark. He was a man who did (Continued on page 3) Revisits Scene Of His Childhood Relatives gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Book, Grimsby Centre, last Sunday, to greet William Southward, of Puebâ€" lo, Col., and nis daughter, Miss Blanche Southward. An old Grimsby Centre boy, Mr. Southward left the district at the age of seventeen. He was a brother| During the past 10 days The Inâ€" of the late George, Isaac, Joseph dependent has received numerous and Ferdinand Southward. | complaints, not from people living Although in his dm-d:tllvllflanflockortwuoehdm year, Mr. Southward may still be C.N.R. station and yards, but from remembered by a few old friends,. people in all points of the town, a Hale and hbearty, his hearing and long way from the C.N.R. tracks, ondfitm-e.flhullnlm;lbutmw-nlumm the of his years He says Grimsby , shunting of cars at night. Centre and its roads have changed| Sure, there has been a lot of wonderfully. He well remembers whistling in the past two weeks. the old Stone Road between Grimsâ€"| There will be a lot more whistling by and Smithville in‘ the ‘stage in the next five or six weeks. couhdnyl.buuulcmtlbomyL ‘Trains are shunted all night long. changes are for the better, alâ€"\,They are going to gontinue to be though the district does not seem shunted. natural to him any more. | ‘The Editor of this paper lies in Those present included: Mr. and Mrs. Alex Southward, Beamsville; Mr. Jack Southward, Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Southward, and little son, L-z.d'ol Winona; ~Mr. Melvin South St. Catharines; Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Smith, Grimaby, and son Lee; Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Buttle, Hamiltan and Master Jack Pendergast, Grimaby Mountain. There is certainly nobody in Grimsbfi‘wdny who can remember when this building was built. e picture itself was take in 1901â€"45 years n{oâ€"but the building was erectâ€" ed well over 100 years ago. At the right is shown the Grimsâ€" by Post Office, Wm. Forbes, Postmaster. In the centre is the general store of Mr, Forbes and at the left and upstairs was the Forbes family home. This pro?erty is now owned by Mel Johnson and occupied by Johnson‘s hardware, Irvine Olmâ€" stead and upstairs by Frank Hitchman. The front has been econsiderably channj' since 1901. ‘The building itself was o:l‘rlmlly the old Marlatt Tavern and was a stopping place and horse changing spot on the nt«:"o coach lines that om ated between Newark (Niagaraâ€"onâ€"theâ€"Lake) and York ronto), As near as is known this building was erected shortâ€" ly after the war of 1812â€"18. > # Official Passes How The Times Have Changed $2.00 Per Year, $2.50 In U.S.A., 5¢ Per Copy Next week is ration book week. Between the 9th and 16th of the month â€"the new ration book No. 6, will be distributed. Fred. Jewson, Secretary of the Local Ration Board, which comâ€" prises the Town of Grimaby, Townâ€" ship of North Grimsby, Village of Beamsvilie, Township of Clinton, Township of South Grimaby, Townâ€" ship of Caistor, Township of Gainsâ€" boro, announces that in all of these muni¢ipalities, except the Town of L(lfl-wy and the ‘Township of North Grimsby, the ration books will be issued on Monday, Septemâ€" ‘The issuance in Grimsaby Town for the town and township, will be on Saturday, September 14th, at the West Public School on Livingâ€" ston avenue. On Monday, September _ 9th, books will be issued in the Townâ€" ship of Caistor, at the Township Hail, Calistor Centre, between the hours of nine a.m. and five p.m. In Gainsboro township, the books will be issued at the Townâ€" ship Hall, Bismarck, and the Masâ€" onic Hall, Wellandport, between the hours of 10 a m. and five p.m. ‘The Fire Hall at Smithville, will be the issuance point for Smithville onday, flefiu-ber 9th, Is The Date Except In Grimsâ€" by And North Grimsby, When The Issuance Will Be Saturday, September 14th â€"Must Have Green Card From Old Book. Grouches Come _ _Go The Same W ay T ra in | ‘The Editor of this paper lies in his bed away up on Main west, at ; five o‘clock in the .morning, and lm-mmg engine making nolses. He just rolls over and says ‘"Thank God, there go 10â€" more carloads of peaches, plums and pears to feed the hungry people of L w T Let those train whistles blow. Shunting Most Beautiful Peach Growers. (Continued on page 6) (Continued on page 3) Car To