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ht tt sixtysecond year no 20 acton ontario thursday january lhh 1037 eight homeprint pages five cents the eramosa council holds first session 1936 officials are all reappointed bylaws are passed at inaugural session the cornellelect fr the township of eramosa mot in tho town hall rock wood at ii oclock on monday january 11th 1937 according to statute the clerk reported that the reeve and councillors tor 1936 were reelected by acclamation of 1037 reeve ii storey councillors albert lush hindley gray and wm pink ney were all present signed the dcclar tkm of office and took their seats on the council for 1037 bylaw no was passed on motion of messrs oray and pinkney reap polntlng all officials for 103c to their respective offices for 1937 on motion of messrs hindley and pinkney bylaw no was passed pro viding for an expenditure of 1280000 township roads including the police villages of rockwood and eden mills bylaw no authorising the rcevo and treasurer to borrow up to 2000000 from the royal bank of canada as re quired was passed on motion of messrs hindley and pinkney mr john fox presented the audit ors report covering all township and police village transactions for the year 1038 and showing debenture statement and complete statement of ta arrears as at december 31st 1030 it was moved by messrs gray and pinkney and curried that the auditors report for 1938 as presented hy pox bo accepted and the auditors bo instructed to audit the treasurers books every four montlis as in previous year and send lay verification notices to 100 of those in arrears for taxed on motion of messrs grayand hind ley tho clerk was instructed to write francecate relative to 1935 and balance of 1930 taxes tlio iteeve and clerk wore instructed to apply for hid statutory grant on road expenditure for 1031 on motion of messrs gray and lush on motion of messrs pinkney and hindley accounts amounting to 401133 were passed for payment und council adjourned to february 8th at 130 1937 county council hal ton county council will hold its first meeting in 1037 at milton next tuesday when uie following member will take their places acton reave fred mccutchcan georgetown rwve davis burlington reeve arthur allen ami deputyreeve jolm blair milton reeve irving oakville reeve jos hewson and de putyreeve john byers nelson reeve jolui mcnlven and de putyreeve leslie kerns trafalgar rcevo victor hall and de putyreeve gilbert esouesing reeve george currle and deputy reeve robinson nassaguweya reee george gordon one of the first duties will be selec tion of warden for the year recvii irving of milton and reeve hewson or oakvillc are in the race for the position mens service last sunday evening the men of the church had charge of tho united church service mens choir led in tho singing and dr nelson presided at the organ assisting uie pastor in the ser vice were mr beswlck and mr geo cowie tho address was given by mr george emery and his subject build ing bridges was thoughtful and well delivered address and appreciated by the splendid congregation present for this acrlvce rov dr morrow and mr mann contributed vocal duett dur ing the service which was much appre ciated announcement was made rev mr irwin of milton and the of the milton united church would charge of the service next sunday rev dr morrow and the acton choir will visit in milton intermediates won two games are now leading the group defeated loth georgetown and cuelph in the weeks games tilt in georgetown was watery affair dick carrolls boys failed to show the new tricks on the ice surface covered with inches of water guelph ilayed wideopen fast game on monday that theorj jj lcrfd to kr it paid well lost week the ads in tut face pres hud some splendid values offered but mistake hi barrs grocery ad made an extra ut tractive feature valencia raisins at pounds for 33c were good value but wo printers made an error and slip pod an extra pound and gave pounds for 23c the error wus discovered early friday morning but mr barr filled orders utr the advertised price ha made good the advertised price and housewives who make liahlt of careful study of advertisements were well repaid tor their study of values it paid well to read the ads it pays every week if you would make your dollar go further district orange officers elected the annual meeting of hornby district was held hi georgetown with onu of tho largest attendances in years which shows the interest tuken in the order the district officers were elect ed and installed as follows wor bro peacock milton bro george buck glen wil liams bro brownridge hornby chaplain bro scarrow acton recording and financial secretary bro browne acton treasurer bro jenkinson stcwarttown marshal bro chalmers acton first lecturer bro norton glen williams second lecturer bro mcdonald the election was conducted by bro woods county master and instal lations were made by post county bro beatty addresses were given by the retiring officers and very pleasant evening was had esquesing fair held annual meeting officers elected at tlie annual nieetlnj of esqueslng agricultural society last week uere president brownrldge vice presidents frank petch herbert cleave secretary wilson trea surer percy cleave directors cecil chusholm james fisher george davis wj alexander john bird frank tycr walter gray chris moffat frank fcndley george currle wilson uuuln jack lawson leule anthony martin near bewley auditors bingham and joint di godfrey the date of the 1037 fair lias not yet been chosen fcut the directors believe uiat an earlier fair would be better one for tlie past few years the show had been held about the beginning of october but weather conditions have often been unsettled so tills fan the show may be held about the tliird week of september orangeville fair selecfs fair dates the financial statement of the duffer in agricultural society presented at its annual meeting showed that in the year ended total receipts mounted to 37851 this is slight drop from similar total of 30001 year ago but offtclal stated it was favorable in view of the poor ueather experienced this year en tries shoued decided lncrcascand the total prize money placed at 100075 is far ahead of the 156450 expended last jear tho increase was particularly noted in livestock cooney secre tary pointed out that horse and cattle entries were ahead 110 ond 80 respec tively and ih the main hall the increase was placed at 150 because or this ad ditions will be made on the livestock buildings before the 1037 fair which ulll be held september uth and 15th the society will enter the forthcoming fair with balance of 22067 off just 410 from similar total of 22557 one ear ago young people meet the regular weekly meeting of the knox ps uaj held tho class room of the church on tuesday tlie scrip ture was read by henderson after which margaret brow in led in prayer the program for tlie evening was lr the hands of the educutlonal commit tee with mlii steuurt us convener musical selection was given by mrs hall there wus hiirprbe for tin evening bcgau with community singing after which the real surprise un oldfakhloiied spelling mutch which was won by mus bruce tlie pro gruiii ehhmd with the young people hymn uiul tlie mitt uili benediction greenock literary society reorganizes at meeting held in greenock no erin school on monday evening december 28th the greenock literary society reorganlzed electing the follow ing officers leader mr chas mckeown presidcjit mr elwood johnston lstvieepresldent mr will johnston 2nd vice president mr calvin alt ken secretary miss jean altken treasurer miss laura johnston pianist mus jean barbour assistant planet miss marlon leslie asslitlng committee miss jean mann mls elva pearen reporter arthur mciceow tile first regular meeting of the society was ield in the school on thurs day evening january 7th with the pre sident mr elwood johnston in the amir after comlderable buhlnc disputed of real enjojuble program was given nt ting of peedl bv mr fcj ivaren paper on current events acton obofioetowk if you like your hockey all wet surely icorgetownacton tilt on friday you plenty wo dont pre know why the ganie was played and its one of the things perhaps no body will understand but of all the waterlogged exhibitions wo have seen lb was tops with inches of water all over tlie ice it couldnt bo good hockey game it only proved about one thing that acton can take the georgetown out flt on any kind of joe there was pretty fair crowd everything considered to bee acton claim the 21 victory play started off with both sides shoot ing the long ones and then going in on uie play georgetown pressed tile play but was ineffective plenty of shinny and lots of whistle tooting were the developments undsay and marzo com bined buo missed scoring by inches tcrry lost uio puck on nice threoman rush with only one defence man to beat an thony made nice check georgetown were right in but acton held tlie puck out gibbons was right in but malonc saved the score nicely hall drew penalty and acton applied the pressure just as tlie period closed lindsay bulged uie twine for the first score wlien walters gave him pass out from behind uie goal there wasnt any good lioekey and nice combination game was out of uie qucsuon an attempt was made to ucrape off the ice at the cloie of the period but there was no place for the water to how sponges would have been the right lm plement malonc woke up with start as the iaind period got under way when puck inpped down in front or him and just about slid over uie line jack kentner drew penalty and hall got hit over the eye and retired far repairs georgetown were close on couple or plays but woods beat them long range shooting was uie order and georgetowns favorite play seemed to be putting it over the wire at the end of the arena and getting faceoff near the acton coal illo marzo drew penalty and after 17 minutes of play when acton was man short lindsay put the count at vhen kcntner gave him pass tost drew penalty and everybody was in the swim when acton rushed the georgetown goal kcntner was close but failed to get it over score 20 scraping was uncffcctlve for the ice and two of uie midget teams all decked out in their new unlforms came on uie ice they ropped up lot more water than the scrapers and put on good show those new outfits were baptised in utter wltliout doubt georgetown made nice twoman rush in the third period but failed to click on the goal jack kcntner drew iienalty and georretown turned on the pressure richardson followed to the penalty box and gibbons missed scoring by pigs eyelash ezlo marzo went for rest and geornctown seemed most effective on the scrambles near actons net richardson was rijjht in but woods beat him and saved uie score then there was real scramble in the acton net and woods had about three players to contend wiui post pushed uie puck past him for georgetown only goal woods protested uiat there was interference but wortley allowed uie goal it came niter llfteen minuter or the period had been plajcd georgetown tried hard to tie up the score tost got hit in uie face but was able to continue in the game ezard had only malonc to beat but the goal keeper won the deci sion and the game ended 21 acton everton top in the rural hockey league joe henley received serious hip injury and taken to the hospital there was very good crowd on hand on thursday night wlicn tlie rural league supplied the excitement for uie evening the wcauier was mild al though uie ice was in pretty fair con dition tlu first ult between uie jones boys and lome rifles saw the jones boys really get going and uley blanked uie army 50 the game was never in doubt from uie start and only good goal keep ing hy scarrow in the army nets pre vented worse trouncing tho second game brought together la winters finalists dublin and york road and uiey proved to be two evenly matched teams tlie score nnlslicd at 11 dublin got uie first counter on penalty shot uien the silver foxes tied it up in the last period referee terry got mixed up in hut rules and awarded uie green shirts another penalty shot with which they again scored how ever after uie game he found out uie propertullng and uie goal was disallow ed making uie score tic it was real tussle all the way the final gome was between balllnafad and storey glove and uie glove makers blanked the pad 30 the ice was in none too good condluon by this time and was not productive of good hockey the glovera rung up 20 lead then the pad threw caution to uie winds re moving their goalie and used nix for wards they couldnt get one in on stoeys and lonp shot from centre ice made the final score 30 for the glove makers itefcree was flint terry scores were jones boys lome rifles dublin york road storey glove balllnafad acton hockey fans had anouier good nights entertainment last night when the rural league dished up three more hockey games rockwood claimed win from uie lornc farmers when they blanked the loners 70 tlie rockwood boys had things pretty much their own way al though sensational goalkeeping by brown in uie farmers net kept from being far bigger score little harvey thatcher uie youngest player on the ice proved to be tlie star or the game the game was fairly clean wiui only two penalties the game between balllnafad and eden mills saw the pad also score shutout beating eden 30 varry col lctcd two of the puds counters and chaplin not uie third it was very ood game the penalties were evenly divided with each tlie eden boyb hive all they had but just couldnt flash tho red light in the final came everton stayed in the win column and rang up 41 score on the lome rifles the everton luds were little too good for the army and beared one goal in the first one in uie second and two in the uiird the army score came in uie jlrst icrlod tlie army had clean sheet as far as penal ties were concerned and the everton boys drew three very unfortunue accident liappenud when joe henley fell and injured lili hip he had to be re hospltul und have an axfrkd sloan jr president of general motors cor poration now threatened with tie up us tho result of strikes in its own and affiliated plants mr sloan practically issued on ulumatum to the united automobile workers of america who seek to enroll nil gen eral motors employees in uieir ranks when he declared the cor poration would not recognize any one organization bs the sole bar iiainlnti agency for its workerst culr prezj catldun lofili charge dismissed john mcmillan cheltenham juui cliarge of criminal negligence dismissed on tuesday when lie appeared before magistrate hull in peel county police court as the sequel to an accident on uie no highway cast of bramp ton on the night of november 16th in which william ohara elderly clun guueousy township farmer was killed mcmillans defense included the fact that lantern carried on the farm wagon driven by ohara was not equip ped with the red glass demanded by department of highways regulations and that he had been unable to dtitin gulsh the white light of the lantern from uio lights of brampton which lay in the same direction as that travelled by ollaras wagon and his own truck the dublin literary society the regular meeting of dublin liter ary society was held at the school on riday evening tjic president walter llnham was in the chair the meeung opened by singing tlie maple leaf for ever tho minutes of the last meeung were then read and adopted tlie roll call was answered by facts pertaining to uie history of tho school after the ether business was dispensed wiui lawrence webster wan called upon to act as chairman for the program chorus was riven by uie girls followed with recitation by donald ross cornet solo was rendered by douglas frank molly cutts gave an interesting talk on her trip to england followed with musical number by the girls quartette the school children put on humorous dialogue entitled the schoolmaster abroad another chorus was given by the girls and uie meeting was brought to close by singing uie national an tlipm lunch was served and the re mainder of the evening spent in danc nc juniors lost two games of the week itoth games away from home are lost by the locals lost thursday night acton journeyed to oratigevtlle and took uio short end of 42 core from the northern entry reports on uio game are mostly criucal of the handling of uie affair not uiat acton did nut receive good break but it seems that uio attlcluls knowledge of uie rules was very meagre and the boyj on both teams could tell him lot ttio game was clean and on the play orange ville deserved the win but it is to be hoped uiat return visit uiere will have some one in cluurgo wiui better under standing of uie game us it should be played georgetown ucau voting taiincnt to by cookie afur acton leading georgetown to the credit valley boys came from behind to win 32 it was tough game to lose and great struggle for uie victors near riot was prevented in the third period when referee morzo lianded out major penalties to gibbons and goldham after two periods of fast clean hockey the boys tempers began to flare and it cume to head when gold hnm jumped on gibbons after being handed clean body check however marzo sprang into action and stopped the fight and sent the fighters to the cooler for five minute rrst period municipal appointments in nassagaweya at the first meeting of council made by bylaw applications are to be received at reduced salaries quite number of interested ratepay ers attended tlie first meeung of nassa igaw council held in the township hajtsat brookvllle on monday accopnts passed were as follows itclicf 1889 municipal election 3000 clerk of milton division court fees acrow pbiek pbksk printing municipal world supplies clerk registering births niarri uges and deaths collector postage clerk of fcramosa relief roads and bridges llbso tlie clerk was instructed to advertise for applications to fill uie position of clerk assessor and collector reducing the salaries considerably statement was prepared for uio de partment of highways showing uiat uio amount spent on roads and bridges dur ing 103c amounted to tjdo0 and re questing the statutory grant on uie same bylaw to appoint certain municipal ofllccrs was given jlrst reading bylaw estimating the expenditure on roadi lor 1037 at 1x000 was pasced bylaw was passed giving the trca 060 14011 1140 1375 515 14 so play started off ragged in uie first curer authorlty ay whoa period each team trying test out their necessary from tlvo bank of nova scotia opponents fccton carried the play in tiw townrfl wajt divided into four this stanza with the forwards back equal ports for road inspection purposcr an invitation checking well all georgetown attacks mr drcdkc uking the liarth on actons goal were turned aside by mr smnwm uie mr uie woods and the hardhlltlng acton de fi0utl ond stokes uio tost fence the first goal came when wee council adjourned to meet on february jimmy sprout carried the puck to uie lsi at qnc qo corner and centred to marshall who made no mistake where it was going penalty was handed to wyllc and acton started to press but to no avail flvu man acton rush was stopped when aib you arc invited to one of uils seasons bann overrated the play to make an mc events tonight in uie legion halt oitsldcat georgetowns blue line after bridge and dance sponsored ly duke an unsucccsful rush by acton rlddell devonshirtychaptcr ticket broke wiui only woods to beat but drara banket lunch admission failed when woods came out and batted 2sc ant yourself the puck to one side throwing rlddell into the net actons passes were work ww ing great in this period but seemed to if jvpff is for moved to the xray taken tlie lineup was actonwoods goal kcntner and walters defence terry centre marzo and lindsay wings aibbons marzo mooncy joe woods alter nates aeopgetow malone goal anthony ond hall defence tost centre aol brullh and richardson wings ward past ritchie dew hurst and it richardson alternates referee ernie wortley toronto scores rockw ood lome ballinafud eden mills louie rifles referee ezlo marzo league standing farmer everton acton guelph judging by the crowd on hand on monday rlgljl fans gueued that acton wasnt going to be extended to chalk up bit everton uallluafud york road dublin jane boys eilen mills storey glove rockwood urne rifle lojii farmers in over the royal city entry thoit who like wd open tkulri gnme the evhipltl on mmidv liyht gave them full value for their lv hi and thru some gueiph aren lnf becking team and it gave an pirrnlty for acton to how their jp mr cdlvln altken guitar duu by nimnatlrai we uked tin law mm mccutrheon and gordon mc kfown recitation by mus jrin mann following thew numbers few games weie plajed und with all taking purl the proved to be real cnjuymeiu executive holds social hid he gueph buy iiuu with it little mjfi the next hetti tie wen good iji re eondltlon wli more interest wax never in doubt and at h2 continued wi isigd five the executive committee of mhe women institute held very enjoyable euchre and luncheon at the home of mrs lama nn wednejjlay when jijiui fortyfive lidu attended prize wire uon as follows mr noble und mm hlhohn lucky chair mrs miller travelling prbuf mr cliitldge mrt melntoih oilier pru mm bauer and mrs vaiinoiinan guelph acton gains from the new legislation saving of 77500 annually as rcriult of new provincial change as result of the proposed clionge in the provincial legislation whereby uie province assumes the municipalities share or the old age pensions and the mothers allowances acton will have an annual saving of 775 based on lost ears levy the province also plans to retain all income tuxes collected but since acton had never collected uils tax the municipality will lose no revenue but gain uie entire amount of its siiarc of these levies last year the county ot halton paid 19000 00 as its share of the cost ol mouiers allowances and old age pen elurk this amount required levy of approximately sixtenths of mill on the equalized assessment actons as fcssmrul is 1202780 00 and therefore contributed 775 00 toward these levies if acton had received poruon or th provincial income tax the amount would have of course been lost but acton hail never made any income levy and there for received nothing from urbrtftsc it apeirr that the change will wor to the benefit of eviry municipality in hilton county with the exception of trafalgar tiivijihlp uy the change it is sulil that trifalcar will lae ubout 12 200 eih eir translated into term or the uniounl of the saving on the acton tax rate uie rliung mean about fevenelglili of mill on the rate lack that scoring punch the period ended 1th bayllu receiving penalty for boarding the second period opened wiui bayllss ltlll serving time georgetowns 3man rushes were turned aside again and again by the stellar netmlndlng of woods alter acton were at full strength again jones received penalty for trip and georgetown really started to press acton relieved the pressure by shooting the puck down the ice when georgetown were preslng and had the play in uie acton zone loose puck rolled out to centre ice and was picked up by jones who picked the corner to beat burrows for actons second goal from scramble in the tanners terri tory uie puck was shot into the crowd knocking out spectator but very for tunately the spectator was not cut by the flying rubber galbralth received penalty for dumping rlddell at centre ice when ho attempted to check him with georgetown pressing stockford received penalty for carrying the puck inside the acton blue line after twice being warned by marzo he still insisted on catching the puck georgetown were much the better at this end of the period but they were outshone by woodj who turned aside any scoring uucats they had to offer play ended 1th acton leading to and the game look ed all actonc tjie third pertod opened wiui george town bunging the acton team only to bo turned aside each time by woods and fine clearing by the acton forward how ever georgetown jot their break which wus the deciding factor in the game when right after gibbons and goldham were chased for fighting bayllss received penalty for elbowing sandenoin acton were plavlng men to georgetowns und were holding their own until rlddell plrked up loose puck to drill it passed woods whos view was blocked at tlw time putting htm at disadvantage this goal put the credit valley rooters chairman of utilities comm first meeting held on tuesday water consumption increased over last year tlie first meeting of the year of acton public utilities commission was held on tuesday evening commissioners hansen kerr and reeve mc cutcheon were present and mr hansen presided tlie declaration of office was taken by uie members of uie board upon motion mr kerr was chosen chairman of the commission for 1037 mr kerr expressed appreclauon of the honor conferred and would fill uie office to tlie best of his ability mr hansen vacated the chair in favor of mr kerr who took charge of uie meeting the secretarytreasurer was by motion instructed to pay the following accounts hydro department express 37 lowe martin co supplies 14 go tylers transport 35 simon hardware supplies jo canadian westlnahoilto co re pairs 320 highway garage chains 1020 cunadlan laco lump co supplies 1413 macdonald electric ltd supplies 1g9 matthews postage 1000 bank of montreal revenue stampd 300 metre inspection depl fee 1815 wuterworkii departnlckit hydro department power and heating at spring 4703 notice of the annual meeung of um in an uproar and uie fans were rewarded ontario municipal tlctrlc association for their cheering when kemshead scor uas rc tlie jelter was tiled another jeljer urged attendance of couimls loners at meeting ut long branch of zone the list of arrears was lie eked by the commission and instructions issued for their disposal the superiiitenileiit retorted uuit at prejeiit metres were being taken out for inspection and when better weather ed on pass from rlddell after both teams were at full strength again woods uas knocked out in scramble and looker had for acton woods came back again however to keep on turning back georgetowns shots on goal scatty patterson received nasty bump on his head when tylers htlck lilt him when indersou knocked it out of tylcri hand georgetown secured the winning goal cump lt uuh 1iouh1 umt iauk lmi when rlddell wur left uncovered to wore mlng would be done from close in with mlmiteii of play tm superintendent reported that dur left actons chances to tie it up were thi u73g000 gallons of water knocked for loop when jones received wt pu which was ovr million penulti for tripping georgetown gallons moe than the prvious year the defence man the game ended to highest yeurs pumping was in lo31 for georgetown ufur hardfought whf noai 000 gallons were pumped stiiggle with the exception of the third commission decided to ma fort perlod play wuj ast und clean acton nightly and the next meeting to be held concluded on page eight on january 26th