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THE HERALD Joall g Downown Georgeown parking wide selection 0 friendly ovico Serving you in so many ways Remembering pioneer times If moat youngsters about pioneer times they mumble about covered wagons Indians and an assortment of similar topics gleaned from television They often add something about grandparents having grown up during pioneer times if you press them Jim Mann also mentions his when he talks of pioneer times only in his case connection Mr Mann turned ha last Brampton since he sold the farm in 1951 but hi has plenty of of his early days in Township To start with there was school on the corner of the Fourth I int and Howard was Ihe teacher he remembers best and Mr I be flaltered the reison for the memories His nickname was cow leeth and the older favorite sport was trying to lure him into a football to who could kick him in the shins Mr Mann recalls Mr Minn guesses at the of his memories being around There were in the one room red brick school house was by box when Mr Minn first attended it During his vears at school the trustees out a hole big inough to become a basement l sorts and installed a fur On Mr joins the reason for the It was part of the daily routine or ever on his out for recess to go and gt I a block of it down to he furnace room or storage before to Mr always went to one to do s share left our block in the basement and came Mr Mann recoils with a chuckle and just beside the Mann a on the all m There as la er boards on the He r milking the or cooking Sunday a meals could be allowed The family walked to Knox Presbyterian Church in Acton for morning service then walked home then walked back in for evening service The children had to be at Sunday School at two clock as well as attending the regular services with their What with all those services and all that walking it isn much wonder if Ihey didn t have time for much in the wij of Sunday visiting although he presumes town residents may have don more oF that th in farm families did Mr Mann also remembers when became a provincial highway It was graded in 19M although it was not paved at that time The surveyors wanted four eel graded off the hill west of our gate and four feet taken off the hill at Morrison near the tilth he says 11 was to be put down in the hollow at the bridge to raise it Tht contractor only took two feet each hill but said anything and he got paid for whole Mr Mann also remembers how residents along the high got mail delivery at their families went in to their mail Then a rural route was started that came out along the highway up the I- and back down the Third I me into town People on the Fourth Line began squaw king because the had to go either to the comer at the or the corner on the town line lo get their mail So we lost our deliverv for a and ever went to a The it the happened after an election although he cant remember the candidate Mr tlamdgealwass voted or Conservative but he i as invited to a political party supper Acton to meet the candidate Mr Mann says I th he was from Burlington when introduced to htm he told date bed vote could the d of shed He he would do thif Hi federal election happened about j I- mall back to mother the Unique Handmade Items For You Of I Your Friends the weavers house CLEARING ALL ITEMS SAVE Spinning Demonstration by Maria farmings STORE Mil STUDIO PARK AVE I lo out Tin wheels of the wagon win about six feet high and a big drum was hung between act us Hopes hung down from drum of longs longs would be fastened into the stone It often rif to turn the drum ind haul tht stone up into it Then the wagon was driven to wherever the stoma wire being piled the stone is rolk out the drum into the Often tin had lo In blasted 1 fori thev could be moved with the stone wagon Minn hart one or first Hilton did work IJOOs M inns also had drag which cut logs Into plm It for nil It i the came latir Mr Mann says His father bought one in ttmo Mr Mann rememtHrs lotding it to it ihnujh the snowdrifts to I irn thresh at tin mdsn farm in of squared timbers and miasurcd feel long had no wheels and had to be loaded to go from farm inform to do custom work It wis still in good working order when Mr Mann sold It but it was destroyed in a barn in In Mr Mann also ret ills tales how his ilher had lo walk ir bush lo to wheat ground firs Hall on I was j mik walk one Mr Mann under lauds hi w of on his shoulder and in morning and I ick with his I of Co Ihi lull it hours hid ilipsed tiir nourishment he a pouch of oil If In hungry llnris hi iki off Ins shoe put of wutir in it from a sin add a handful of meal and drink Most people took their hors to a blacksmith to be Mr Mann had lie himself Dennis a mature draught from a farmer north of enruelnwn After he got him home someone warned him thai he was a mean lo put shoes on Dune Ferguson hud ihe blacksmith shop in illina id that lime and Mi Mann took Dennis then Although things begin well enough it was soon obvious lhal Dennis take well getting new shoes Mr Mann took him and asked the black smiihtotomt Idler in the week mi Iry job again on his farm While he was debating how in Intidle Ins problem horse he asked the local veterjiuin in ut a homo cure he bad seen a Thi irinirs Advocate article lint a horse two odium bromide minutes before you went to shoe him would him so lhal would be wrestling matches and fly mg feci The druggsl from whom he tin powder is It miht kill horse but Or Frank of Acton Mr Mann It Fi rguson arrived bit than we had sel up and I was giving tin stuff to Dennis when he came 111I0 barn Mr Minn recalls We wailed the minutes and he was as quiet as a lamb Fete is bee of how wild he had been in the shop and he told mt hi I want to shoe ever I did my own wilh him after it I give him the sodium bromide and I never had any trouble with him I found nut he had been abused Ihe first lime he was shod jnd why he was always afraid of Department Store LIGHT BULBS McGregor SOCKS Boys 97 COFFEE MUGS 3 HALTER TOPS GARBAGE BAGS with 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