JOURNAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1951
Northwestern Ontario • • • •
Schreiber Clerk-treasurer for Past 20 Years, Bill Spicer Has Watched Town Grow
William "Bill" Spicer is one of the best known men in Schreiber having been since 1930, the clerk-treasurer of the Municipality. Bill, who came to Schreiber in 1912 from England, worked for some years in the car barns of the C.P.R, until failing health forced him to seek indoor employment. He has become the equivalent of a "Philadelphia lawyer" on matters municipal and has -often pulled something out of the hat, to the undisguised relief of puzzled new councillors.

During his term of office he has seen the bitter side of a depression and rejoiced with his fellow citizens in the installation of water, lights, telephones and street paving. As he closes his office window these days in protection against the dust clouds of the new paving project, Bill mutters bitterly about the "good old days." He has seen the population climb from 1,100 to 1,848 and the assessment from $490,285 in 1931 to $968,909 in 1951.

His caustic comments during council sessions are a continual delight, veiled as they are, and the biography on which he is working and when published will be undoubtedly a book of the month in Schreiber.

Miss Irene Spicer, as secretary-treasurer of the Hydro Commission shares thθ town office with her father.
Clerk-treasurer for the Muncipality of Schreiber since 1930, Bill Spicer is shown above with his daughter Miss Irene Spicer who is secretary-treasurer for the Schrebier Hydro-Electric Commission.