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_ TOWNSHIP COUNCIL TO FIGHT TO REDUCE PRICE OF WATER (Editor‘s Noteâ€"This week we ||uu¢glr with the forest, the wlld, begin a complete story of the | beasts, and poverty, there was in old Grimsby Camp Meeting some places little time or thought grounds, which afterwards beâ€" | devoted to religious subjects, Isoâ€" came Grimsby Park and then |lated, and engaged continual‘y in still later the present Grimsby |this fight, it is not surprising that Beach,. This story, which will |they sometimes forgot their early run about 12 chapters, was writ« |training and grew cold and indifâ€" ten and published in book form |ferent toward religious matters. in 1900 by Harriet Phelps You» audnn were born, and sometimes mant.) f grown, in some localities, be« mommzecw.=.=a bore they they had ever heard a The campâ€"meeting seems to have sermon or seen & church. It was been a prominent feature of the|then that the Methodist Church early religious life of Canada. u:{ sent forth miswionaries to carry before there were towns or vilâ€"| the comforts of the Gospel to those lages, the scattered settlers were solitary families, Many of these wont to gather occasionally in| men were as poor as their parishâ€" those primitive meetings. joners, and as hardy and brave When the little log houses were | Travelling on horaeback, in all miles apart, and men and women kinds of weather, over the length wore # ed in a hud-u)-hun“md breadth of the immense cirâ€" Lincoln County, A recordâ€"breaking #1.6% of the total vote was recordâ€" ed. Mr. Ross is a former Wellandâ€" pn_mm.umm- ville High School. ... GRIMSBY CAMP MEETINGS: Council, calling for the combined carry the annual salary of $1400. A salary jump of five hundred dolâ€" lars. the résponsible office will be filled by Metcalfe, his acceptance of the pay boost following imâ€" mediately on the passing of the Council spent little titme selecâ€" ting the chairmen of the various committees. Bartiett will again PE Miei h mt e on office of clerk and treasurer to m carry the annual salary of $1400. mm- To (Editor‘s Noteâ€"This week we begin a complete story of the old Grimsby Camp Meeting grounds, which afterwards beâ€" came Grimsby Park and then still later the present Grimsby Beach,. This story, which will run about 12 chapters, was writ« ten and published in book form in 1900 by Harriet Phelips You» PORT‘S NEW MAYOR (Continued on page 6) â€"No. 28â€"10 PAGES. i o am 0O s ar ‘o aS* { + . More Than A Newspaperâ€"A Community Service Exâ€"Reeve Nufldfl.flw» seasment Commissioner for Wentâ€" worth County and other municipâ€" .m-nm:moumo.mu confined to Joseph‘s hospital, Hamilton. where he was operated upon on Tuesday. His condition is reported as favourable. Guests Last Week Of, Winona Men‘s Club And St. Catharâ€" * ines ~Clubâ€"12 New Memâ€" Over sixty members of the Grimsby Lions Club were the guests of the Winona Men‘s Club at a dinner meeting held in the Pines Hotel, Stoney Creek, last Tuesday night. was well filled with entertainment, including the showing of movie‘ reels on the Bell Telephone Hour. + Lion Herm Terry of the Lions| entertained with two vocal selecâ€"| tions, mecompanied by Lion Dick Mitchell Lions Mitchell and Matâ€"| chett, two of the Lions‘ better; knovn“-mt"muuthcapmeod-' ed to steal the show with their inâ€"| terpretation of Raiph Edwards‘| Nhrlou"l‘ruthorOonuquucu"; show. Also taking part in the proâ€" | ceedings was Albert Papazian. of the Winona Club. Harold Jarvis,| the bouncing tenor of the Lions kept things novln.wmlqm-l song that at times threatened to | mmmmmuml Pines. The following night the enthusâ€"| lastic Grimsby Club journeyed to the Hotel Henley in St. Catharines, where Lions from this entire zone gathered to honour Melvin Jones, founder and still hardâ€"working member of Lions International The Lions ‘were welcomed by Men‘s Club President Doug Watson and following a fine meal! at this noted establishment, the evening A very fine evening was enjoyed by the assembled L4ons, and Grimsâ€" by outshone all the other clubs as far as attendance was concerned. When the time came for the preâ€" sentation of pins to new members, the local Club again shone, having present twelve new members who (Continued on page 10) CGriughy Tadepends As the smoke from municipal elections in Lincoln County died away last week, county politicians set their sights on the 1949 wardâ€" en‘s race. ‘The 1949 council will have six new faces, including an extra repréasentative from the Town of Port Dalhousie, and will be increased1 from 20 to 22 counâ€" cillors. ard J. Hoarre of Merritton, and Reeve Leslie. R. Lymburner of Caiâ€" stor Townshlip. Mr. Lymburner got off to a fiyling start with an acâ€" clamation ass reeve and Mr. Hoare emerged vriictorious from a battle with G. Cliayton Wilson for the reeveship of Merritton. Two men ‘have definitely thrown their hats linto the ring for the wardenship tthis year, Reeve Leonâ€" Both Men Have Had Wide dates for the 1940 wardenship are Was razed and many newcon as folidws; Hioare, deputy reeve of behind this building and we w Merritton 1945;; reeve 1946â€"49; us what you know about it. viceâ€"chairman . of COUNtY CRAMIEY | g,w,._ace â€"nâ€"â€"meâ€"ncoscncencemcem» :: ‘:Ifam tommittee 1945; mm-! speecial road committee, i vhorel sovminntretics ane ,,M'ormsr CLUB HOLD organ committee 1946, chairâ€" n o on on corcncons,| OROANILATION MEET 1947; chaifrman of finance 1948.| mucsstsons * Merritton‘s last warden was Wi!â€" Gordon Metcalle Is First liam A. Riéchardson in 1924. Lml President Of Grimsby‘s burner, reewe of Caistor Township| Newest Service Club â€" 1941â€"49; chaairman county n-uo-' by â€" Hamilton ment 1641â€"442â€"43; viceâ€"chairman fiâ€"| mm«l nance 1943; chairman education; *A * viceâ€"chairman _ assessment 1944;| of the chairman _ agriculture, viceâ€"chair. _ An organization meeting rConttnaed on Page 19) """ | Grimsby Optimist Club, sponsored (SUNNY CALIFORNIA IS NOT QUITE SO SUNNY Harold _ Woolverton Reports Orange Crovp Is Killedâ€" Four To Six Inches Of Snow At Memtone. We here in the Garden of Canâ€" ada, where according to our geoâ€" graphic pomition, we are supposed to have snow and cold in the winâ€" tet months, still crab about the whole thing. Let us thiink about the people in California where anow, sleet and cold are swpposed to be an unâ€" known quantity, This winter Sunâ€" ny California is getting Canadian winter weather, so much so that a great percentage of the orange crop has been killed by frost. Word received in Grimsby on Monday night from Harold Woolâ€" verton in Mentone, Cal., was to the effect that two nights last week the temperature dropped down to 20 degrees. ‘The leaves have pracâ€" Aically all dropped off the trees and the oranges can be seen hangâ€" ing on the limbs quite plainly, _ At eight o‘clock on Monday night there was from four to six inches of snow cowring the highways and the farm lands around Mentone and cars and trucks were having a tough timein getting about and it was stillanowing and blowing. cuits, the story of their halships wonderful scenes were witnemsed and adventures reads like româ€"|at those meetings ‘There were ]unco, Their forms stand «& disâ€"| times when saints and sinners were \tinctively in the history ofhose|alike overcome by the mysterious | early times. They were men of x> | spiritual influence which awept alc type, and many of them wou‘ over the immense congregation like have been prominent in any count=. whirlwind and prostrated | the ry or age. Their successora WPr"Wla like fields of grain borne largely of the same cast, and some | dowby mighty winds. Those were of them can be remembered by | verito© Pentecostal days, the persons now living. history which is too well authenâ€" As the country became more | ticated to Hisputed, and is well thickly settled, and the people more | worth study. comfortable _ in _ circumatances,| Grimaby PAFK one of the few churches and circuitas incremsed,| survivals, if not only one, of and the campâ€"meeting seems to):z« oldâ€"fashloned mp meeting s have become more and more a sort | remaining in Canana, th, num» of yem‘ly Feast of Tabernacles,| mer visitors who throg;, pretty where the people loved to, gather| resort would never sup that |for social religious intercourse. \forty years ago m , different \Forty or Afty years ago they were | acene Wad DreBANLES those who I guess we‘ll stay in the Grent Grigisby FPach Belt. As the country became more: thickly settled, and the people more comfortable _ in _ circumatances, churches and circuita increased, and the campâ€"meeting seems to have become more and more a sort of yem‘ly Feast of ‘Tabernacies, where the people loved to, gather Municipal _ Experience â€" Name Of Reeve A. C. Price Of Grimsby Is Also Sugâ€" m“h Some Quartersâ€" ‘ Convenes .N e x t for social religious . intercourse, Forty or Afty years ago they were in their palmy days, and many GRIMSBY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13th, 1949. OPTIMIST CLUB HOL __.LINCOLN COUNTY FARMS FINEST _ ORGANIZATION MEET | anps5CAPED ONES IN ONTARIO I An organization meeting of the loun-by Optimist Club, sponsored |! by the Hamilton Optimist Club, The meeting was very well atâ€" tended and held under the chairâ€" | manship of Mr. J. 0. Laird, Extenâ€" wion Counsellor of Optimist Interâ€" national and was represented by: Town Council Breaks All Previous Records There are many old timers in the district who will be able to recognize this photo but thmma%htybtofpeopkwhowillnotbenblo to do so. It is some years now since it was razed many newcomers to the district never did see it. There is a long history behind this building and we will tell you all about it next week. In the meantime you tell was held in the Village Inn. at Grimsby, Thursday, Jan. 6. nunmgu:mm disturb your peace mind. To talk health, happiness and To make w# your friends feel that there is something in them. To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimâ€" ism come true. To think only of the best, to work only for the best and expect Mr. Fred Haskin, President, Haâ€" milton Optimist Club. Mr. Waiter Wison, Viceâ€"Presiâ€" dent, Hamilton Optimist Club. Mr. Fred Davey, Joe McKie and Elmer Linton, also of Hamilton, and Mr. Wim. Selby, Chairman of the Boys‘ Work Committee of 8t. Catharines Optimist Club. prosperity to every person ‘The following officers were elec ted: Président : Gordon Metcalfe, 1st Viceâ€"Prea.: Frank M. Davies 2nd Viceâ€"Pres.: T. Stuart Aman 8rd Viceâ€"Pres.: J. Erie Selby. Becretary: Nick Saunders. Chaplain: Rev. J. P. MeLeod. Sgt.â€"atâ€"Arms: Jack 8. Clifford Zrnmndy TarK one of the fow wurvivals, if not only one, of k« _ oldâ€"fashloned mpâ€"meetings remaining in CananA: the surm. mer viaitors who throp}y pretty resort would never Suey that forty years ago a , different acene was presenles those who came to the apoA £98y different THE OPTIMIST CREED (Continued on page 10) THIS BUILDING WAS A PIONEER LANDMARK Hadier. msed reasons. Indeed, as early as 1840, nnlw. are told, thirteen years before vere | the first campâ€"meeting, â€" a mamâ€" lous | moth temperance meeting was held nptlmn. At that time the bank ©x«| like ‘ tended out much farthgr than it the| does now. Great trees stood over| irne | where the waters now ripple, but | were | the waven gradually nmkrmlm-d1 the | the bank, and earth and treea dinâ€" henâ€"| appeared, the shore receding y-nr1 well| by yerr until a great chang§ has taken place in the appearance of feow | the water front s . of| ‘This temperance meeting, which Ings| they called a "nolrge" was held an um>| the high bank in front of the home elty | of Samuel Ruas, FWaq., which stood that | néar the present Lake View House rent | There were long tablea bounteoun» who|ly spread, at which the great as. rent | sembly feasted together _ "m.._. | _ With the largest attendance ever | registered for the annual Boys® and ‘Girls‘ Night, a gay crowd of childâ€" \ ren accompanied by Lion fathers or | adopted fathers for the evening, | trooped into the Oak Room of The | Village Inn on Tuesday night. il':veryom- had a very gay time, enâ€" \ Joying first the fine food of Miss lO'Ndl. followed by entertainment from Billy McGhie, noted magician and the guest appearance of two noted hockey stars. YOUNGER GENERATION HAVE A BIG NIGHT Lions Club Entertains The Kidsâ€"Maple Leaf Hockey To start proceedings, groups of boys and girls entertained with impromptu songs, while proud parâ€" ents sat back and noted with pride how their offepring were chips off the old block when it comes to ainging. Harold Jarvis, genial leadâ€" er of Lion song fests, was at his tenor best in leading the entire asâ€" sembly in renditions that must have let people on the third floor know that it most definitely was Lions Boys‘ and Girls‘ Night. Two prominent members of the Stanley Cup winning ‘Toronto Maple Leafs were introduced by Lion Harry Dowie. The fAirst to adâ€" dress the attentive audience was Bill Barilko, who gave a complete summary of his own career in minor hockey right up to the big time NMHLL Wild Bill, as he is aptly named by the acribes of the daily press, proved to be as comâ€" petent a speaker as he is a deâ€" fenseman, and his mixed audience (Continued on Page 10) Stars Present â€" Large Attendance, together There | _ The advisability of upsetting lhe| eycle of nature by the use of chemâ€" | Iluln and manâ€"operated weed kilâ€" ‘lers was queationed in Grimsby on | | Saturday afternoon by Prof. John | <«Weil, of the department of hortiâ€" ‘nmun. Ontario Agriculture (‘oll |lege, when hbe addressed the annual !umung of . the Lincoln (‘nnnty‘ Federation of Agriculture at The | Viltage Inn | | "‘The land on which we live is |very bountiful, so much so that \many of us are inclined to (nnfl“ | the source of our bounty," Mr. Weil \ dectared. "We are very dependent |on nature for our living and we must realize that most of the evils of erosion, flooding and soil depreâ€" clation are brought on by ourselves through our own ignorance, careâ€" \ leasness and waste. "We must preâ€" serve and conserve to ensure the continuance of this natural eycle of the land. We must understand and work with nature. Nature will |replenish soil values by a natural rotation of wild growth, i. e. weeds." He termed erosion "one of the greatest curses of the country," caused to a great extent through ; V eptromme o " the removal of trees, bushes "Weapread root growth by overâ€" zealous farmers in their attempt to get heavy cash crop growth from each foot of property. He advocaâ€" ted more widespread planting of bushes and spreading root trees moeCoong. TeRe Cn along the hundreds of miles farm creeks and streams as one (Continued on Page 10) wore over two present to enjoy band music and eloquent men w form, Two of th famous Rversan Greatest Curses Of The County. Grimaby Cam| Into existence th umn of 1888 a , the Hamilton $y the farm of My, ¢ Ville. The Rey. Chairman of the charge of the m altended by on $2.50 Per Year, $3.00 In U.S.A. of â€" miles of of | _ All time records for a Grimsby Town Council meetâ€" ing were broken on Monday night when the inaugural meeting of the 1949 council was held. With newliv"“elected Mayor Clarence W. in the chair, council went into session sharp at eight o‘clock. At 8.55 council adjourned unâ€" til regular meeting night on |l~‘ridn,\' night of this week, in the meantime Rev. E. A. Brooks of St. Andrew‘s Angliâ€" can church had given council lhin blessing ; Mayor Lewis had made his inaugural speech; standing committee chairmen and committees had been struck; three bylaws and 17 motions had been passed. Not since the days of exâ€"Mayor |Edric S. Johnson has business |been handled so expeditiously ‘as on Monday night, which beâ€" I:mkn well for Grimsby in | . After Rev. E. A. Brooks had given his blessing to council and wished for a good year for the members of counâ€" cil and for the citizens generâ€" ally, Mavor Lewis made his inaqugural speech. He spoke as follows: Inaugural Session The Electors of the Town of Grimsby have spoken, by a free and democratic ballot, which we in this part of the world still eniloy. By your system, everybody can not win. We the elected Counâ€" cil of Grimsby, will miss ®x> Maygr Buil and Councilior Bonâ€" ham from around this table. As your newly elected Mayor. 1 acâ€" cept the responsibilitics of the Office and will endeavour to adâ€" minister the affairs of the Town, to the best of my ability . 1 welcome our three new memâ€" berse of the Council and hope they will do tonour to themseives, in the discharge of their respective duties. 1 would ask the older members to render whatever assistance they can in tamiliarizing our newcomers to this table with any alvroulties, if any, they may have, 1 also wish to congratulate our Reeve and Deputy Reeve on their elevation. We as a Councit wilt no d have many problems during the next lwfinm.~““ has a bad case of growing pains | Trodbeinmuacdbadt .. thinking. whole Niagara P cluded in the Hay ) ) _ _ CCC en ever mindful that go on, to the o-nm:“"‘",_ ity of our people to finance sam The projects started and petiâ€" tioned for, not completed tmat (COdutinued on Page 31 At the Next Con Nton DMHstrict was Ningmura Distrlgt Rev. Samue) Ros tioned at Thorold Barly in the C committee was f ground and mak, PAPAUON | fap &A the new district was composed of ‘I Rose, "h"\"l ‘w.."n.h', and J | following layme (augh, David 1 |i Beamer. This 60 | house of Mr. To |‘-ifll\‘ dWinonects wis Warns That It Will Be A Heavy Year. Was Transacted â€" Loâ€" thian Chairman Of Fiâ€" nance; Brown, Board Of Worksâ€"Mayor Leâ€" Legislature Just Lasted 55 Minutes Yet A Great , .. s _ _""CTence the Ham. trict was dividest and the Distrlgt ftormed, with the muel Rose, who was stas t Thorold, as Its Chairman. i the Conference year a e* was formed to select a and Make the needtiul preâ€" \ for a campâ€"meeting | fap Â¥ Watrict. This committap aposed of the Reva Ramue) Mictuae} Fawoett, j oh n eld, and John Shaw, and the K laymen, John Bowaâ€" MautA ay discummion the lhm\l‘uzg We m with an Of Business Contérence the Was dividest a men, John 1 Bow»â€" MHounser angq Jacob committee mot at the Bowalaugh, and afterp ahau O JE , 5c Per Cop$ eninsula, the BOleot or age 3) District n in