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Wednesday June IB78 SPECIAL PIONEER DAYS FEt Grain threshing remembered Angus of Acton is no longer doing work but that ha in ended his interest in the older version of the machine he operated for years like many other members of the steam lion Mr was a threb her older brothers Herb and John bought a threshing machine in and doing custom work Mr Mc Eachem his last threshing in started the threshing season with the wheat he says and often didn t finish it until Christmas Believe it or not were often icicles hungingon the steam engine in the winter while it was run Moving the machine from one farm to mother on a frosty winter night with the stirs shining dearly and evtryth ng quiet the wheel of the ichine made creaking sound that Mr terms something you never Vc often left on a morning t return until Saturday night We ite and slept where we worked soon learned where all the good cook were us good and there were 10 to 14 men working at the threshing There would be three men with the outfit two on the and one Neighbor threshing take the other jobs Usuilly there were men carrying grain boxes one m in feed the midline fuc men in the mow feed to the ram on the machine one or two men in the straw mw As as a fire in 19J0 which cost him a separator Mr a near miss in 1946 or He was thresh for Jnck Sprowl on the Third Line south of High way and Jack Cole was working with him Jack saw the start in the straw mow over the grain he jelled me Mr Mcluic hern says thear what he said but Jack Sprowl saw It and tried to rcich over to put it out 1 saw what was going on by thin and I was close enough to to it and pat it out with my leather loves We doused it with water and made sure it wjsreillyout Itfroieovcr the night and Jack brought down the straw the next day to see if he could find what had started it lie I but he kept looking finally he found a match ease a few feet from where the fire started Someone must hive dropped it and it went through the and started to smoulder People blamed barn fires on steam and threshing machines but should not have placed the blame on them he If a was getting hot enough to a fire in the d smell it in plenty of time to stmt the machine down he Trictori irled fir more fires than People knew thedn engine ind were But were supposed to be ife and there f re they them any where and never look it what is happening to the ex Threshing was not the only custom rk the McLicherns They iso sawed wood with a circular law for four to weeks each spring and filled los with the cutting box for iboul three weeks every fill in the to the 50s Mr hers helped at lot of I irn iils including j11 the ones in the Height hint bolder them ind they the work his first up with land kes Mcnnonltesdoit Each section was raised as far as the workmen could lift it then other men used poles with spikes In the end to raise It higher Another group with longer poles would lake over when it was raised as far as the first group could reach The process was until each bent was upright Not only was the work hard it was dangerous for the wary he notes for a man was killed when a beam on which he was sitting slipped and came down with him during a turn raising near Acton in the mid 1920s Mr says he worked in a sawmill helping lumber and timbers for barns prior to the raising on a occasions Sawmills used to be portable so that they could be loaded onto wagon liken to the site of a barn abt to be raised The mater for the would be sawed right on the site and the siwjer would probably have a couple of weeks work in a loc ition neighbours w bring in logs they want sawed while the mill was close by There used to be an upright saw powered by water down on the Sixth Line at what now Waterfalls Playground That saw ran up and down rather thin iround in circles like modern or back and forth like drag saws He Mis pects that the timber for upright saw probably the one on the Sixth line Mr lives on the farm his mother people the McLeans settled in 1BI The rifiml log house was across I rum the present Id and his mother vague recilled moving from it to Il new house when she was a eh Id She 111 1042 at the stone at the wr i f the house is the hearth stone m the log house he understands Everyone had to a trade in the old Mr Mcknchcm says and his fom was no exception One of his great Alex was stone mas worked on the old city hall In Toronto Two of his molher sisters were weavers and the remains Of their foot by 0 foot waving room finished in lath and plfisterarc still beyond the woodshed of the present house loom rmdeof oak and Mr rem embers them being taken piet the years They d be up at a m the fires out there so they could start working 1 e says People brought them wool from all over to make blankets and counterpanes There used to be nine fool by 12 foot room at the head of the stairs where they stored their wool Often it would be crammed light with wool to be woven Balls of twine and rags for weaving into carpets were still stored In the itlic when Mr Mcfrnchern in law Mary first came to the Tie rage the head of the stairs maple sugar Mr Mcfctthern says and be great quantities of il made their own trees and put in milk pins It was only had you know he says There were lery few others in the urea then in J to be self sufficient the wool I to mill in Glen William taker to The Herald by Larry NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD PROFESSIONALS ion Reed Estate Inc MEMBER BROKER Graduate Walter John Langlois son of Mr and Mrs Norman lots of Ont grid im George Brown ol lege with honors is in ir condition technici in John graduited m Georgetown and district high school Committee asked for report Thehgh cost of rtplitugi stone whieh his fallen out of the old town hill has prompted fimnet to ask members of the Town ill committee for progress report on how well their is I rogressmg of WOO to SI were offered for replacing a large stone which has fallen out of the of the old town hall the existing brick work around it Committee members felt that it would be wasteful to spend such a sum on repairing the building if it will only hive lo be demolished later Demolishing the whole building is only going to cost us so why should we spend another on it unless we know we re eoing to keep it chairman Miller Ward Marks indicated that the committee is still extremely active in its efforts lo raise funds to save the old town hall hut he has no idea of the amount success they are making I- nance committee will recommend that council forward a report on the amount of the cost of the repairs and ask the Acton group to make progress report on their fundraising efforts Two hired Two of the four students hired to gather statistics for the proposed women hostel arc area girls Carol of Terra Cotta is a psychology student at the ivcrslly of Ontario and Maria of Nerval Is a psychology student at Wilfrid University The girls have finished gather information in 1 1 lib and arc about move Into the Milton area Miss Bays led Well known n His brings a fresh to and enthusiastic approach to residential town and country ox Estate alter hours 877 NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Thursday June 22 GEORGETOWN HIGH SCHOOL CAFET0RIUM lion Hills Board Invites the of Ms to attend a public mectlna tor the purpose present Library facilities future alter ihe Town of Georgetown urges all citizens who wish express their BOARD MEMBERS 1801 MRS BETTY Charles St Georgetown Ont L7G3Z3 MR Iton 878 5139 Bus MRS WILSON Milton Ont L9T MR MICHAEL R Acton MR Georgetown Onl L7G MRS Rexway Georgetown L7G1R6 MR WALTER Queen SI 87J Consumers birthday but you get the presents tefcw Consumers Distributing is 20 years old And the birth day party goes from June 21st to June 30 A full week of celebration and all the are for you Just look at them 20 great products at such low prices that its almost as if all your wishes had been granted So come on in to Consumers birthday party No one can hold a candle to it Consumers Distributing Lad Resuop SI I jnt So Lar Grotnet Chan in 10K length I 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