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Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), August 2, 1923, p. 3

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opan the door of the oven he down back of the bun7omewhar ho replied suuidar over har ohguor ae she bant u turn u pie yu toiler down till you ee a smoke und like enough you it hod caleb there or ntar there but i dont believe you u net the whoolbar row ehe added mildly wondering uio dcucon bent hie steps toward the smoke tjnr enougs behind the born i he found caleb whose ajready bandy lags were till more bent under u burdened wheelbarrow a load thought lbs deacon fit for a twelve h und ud hossl it was indeed a load thcra woro barrelt with la von missing chain wth only three legs a broken clothos horse u split yoke beam and othm odds and ends all of which caleb overturned upon the lira thut was burning with pale briskness in the right glare of the sun what you tryln io do caleb tho deacon nknd lookp atf you wo tryln to git rid of your houaln stuff fasterq you could if you bad an auc tion caleb paued to lower the wheel barrow and to- mop his facfvlgortniaiy with- his denim sleeve im doln somethlv be replied succinctly that any man wlthjehfet of buildings ought to do at least twice a year spring and fall iza burning up a lot of stuff that ivo saved for twenty years with the idea that mebbft sometime td ond use for each namabjo thing and i w never found such a time nor such a use not one single time i aint i my wifes five me many a talkln to about it he continued and shes took pains to plift out to me that of 41 the broken chairs anu such ive stowed away not one thing has ever ootne into nee again every -now- and again shed bring it up and eaoh time ive had to admit that up to than she had the best of the argument but id try to make her see that the time might came the very next day when shed be glad and thankful id been so prudent and savin in the course of the years things have gathered tp such a degree that ite been bothered to and a place to stow em all the attlo full andlsp tfie old bam iult i 1 iiikvn thin grown groan mturllngs ipurrowb n iits float dbhiovolied eaves unwieldy doors crocked rusty pump und oaken floors and idly pencilled names and jests upon the posts within the smel of apples stored in hay and homely cutllo cake is there use and disuse have coma to turms the walls are hollowed out by worms uut mens feet keep the mid floor bare and free from worse tlocuy all merry nulsu of lions astir or spurrows suusbblftig on the roof comil to the barn s broud open door you hear upon the stable floor old hungry dapple sfriko his hoof and tho blue fantails whir the barn is old and very old but not u placa of spectral four cobwebs and dust and speckling sun coma to old buildings every one lung slnco they made their dwelling hero and hore you may behold i m n aoton m 11 mimgl cmujitatiok lat objrt littll the beloved bthn msicr acton ibgh to 1872 o thing but simple wane and change your tread will wake no ghost your voice will fall on silence undeterred no phantom wat ling- will be heard only the farms blithe cheerful noise the barn is old- not strong edmund blunder one shed chamber and ive tteen harduhi pn to qnd room for a lot of em in lu the wagon ahed and barn and a born or wagon ahed no matter how big will hold only about so much ao i got to leavln some ot my heavy farmln toots outside harrow and ploughs and such like but yesfday when i wont to use my sulky plough and found it rusted to the pint where i couldnt turn the nxonldboard over i come to a reejuin sense that mebba td better house some of the thing paid money for and hod to use evaj7 day o to say and git rid or some of the things id never found a oee for and probbly nevetr would use i was col latin to keep it kind of private from my wife but id hardly got the fust lot out of the wagon abed and teched a match to it when she saw the smoke and started out to see- what the matter was seen a laugh as that woman took the license to have now says she beln you vo got started to burn those things youve been pllin up and treasuring for years s want you should mako u clean job of it tmke all that old stuff out of the attic and in the room over the klfchen and ahed she says theres stall in there thats been there for thirty yearm and ive ciimbed over it and moved it ever uaae ive cleaned house and now a the time to clear it oat so rve been doln it- aald caleb taking up the handles of hie wheel barrow again and i should guess by workln snu id jest about git cleverly finished withj the job come early supper time i tri workln to that end anyway but sold the deacon pointing to m second pile of broken furniture tlmt was heaped as high as m rmuiheud and was still untouched by the tf what your ides of havln two ftrest why not burn it all in the ano heapf caleb glanced half in apprehension and half in amusaraent toward the house and when ho spoke it was in cautiously lowered tone that second pile he said felnt thing ive saveti at all theyre things my wife i putt by but shed never town up to it if i jest told her of it so 1m savin em to show her i aln t the only one that s cluttered up iht plao hhe ii have to blleve it when she sees em i ho vised the handles of his wheelbarrow resolutely but j hint lottlu on eh in em to her till after i va madu hura shes got supper ready i he uddjed tftalqhtforward thinking crew sons corners mkwoltxios down tire line under the bridge on the nasssaaweya side wssthe form of mr henry camper and farther down that of mr john sinb after that began the ravine through which the creek ran reference to in the last article on the southern rise from this ravine began a rather different type of country and i a community whoso trend was in other directions mr damper would in any commun ity rank as a quiet civil neighbor his farm was nice and level but oon talned a considerable outcrop of lime stone which made it somewhat labor ous to till in ports mr lamb e was somewhat of the same but gradually sloped off and began to aharo in the tsownward fall of the countryside mr lamb like some half doaen or so of other corners community men was a stone mason and saw to- it that he had a- stone hbuae himself being an exception to the old saying that the blacksmiths horse and shoemakers wife goee jongeat unshod two if not of his sons and a son in law followed the mum vocation as well as threat grandsons one of bis sons robert long ago migrated to mani toba and did well george and waller remained here george being deceased about three years- ago he llvod many years in acton his wife was harriet roper from up the line in erin walter pow a resident of acton for a number of years farmed the eagle place on the kjsjnosa townllne west j ot the corner hi wlfe was a fine young woman from htllsburg some of the lamb family died in childhood of one of the contagious infantile diseases and in connection wth their decease wo the atranga family ox- perlence of watching for the departure of one or two of them at a gwen hour of which thoy olalmed to have received notloe and communicated to their grants mr xmp of u auiot mystical turn of mind was deeply convinced of tho reality of the nun mom he had however a strong- tnustcal bent und wo a passionate lover of and skilled with the violin hi grandsons the lelahman bays probably inherited the faculty behind the lamb farm wo that of william ldlahmati whose wife wo mr lamb daughter mr lalahman and eon were mason the boysdeval aping into skilled bricklayer the family come into aoton many years ago and mr leishman entered the service of beardmore a co he bad vhe great misfortune of losing a hand by getting it caught in one of their machines he died not very long ago at a good advanced age what were hi two nioa little whitehaired boy in the little sunday school at the corner in the middle eighties are two of the skilled bricklayer in aoton where john was cboen for a year or two by his fellowtownsmen to help to run the towns municipal affair we are now getting so far over into nassagaweya that we may be excused for asking how ever did auch a noma be given to he municipality or what does it meant by the construction ot it and the rattle or it it probably corns from indian lore ot the early days for it i township that in the nature of thing may ba supposed to have housed a lot of tjte red men that genial out- spoken irishman rev dr john potts proached in aoton on a sunday night baik about 0v and referring to his btiljig- brought over by rov j w robinson from bbenexer where lie hud boon in the morning said that ot all the outbmdlh und unpronouncable i nunie ho had heard nasaogaweya ws our and he thought an act of pari la ment to change it would be a wise was gattlng ui uml he witutod to k1v them the best h oulil ho iticutid to try toronto unl mnvink to park dale be sncuri d work ti tttruat rn pulrs these being much in voguo in connection with he oodur block nyttnm several of his family soon bocume employ ml in tin rubln r works und from that on tlmv lgan to pmxpnr tie ultimately biicumo fommun of nn extenvtviy bent and retired nt lust with u pension hi diud soni uivou years or so ago mr hherlpck hml predeceasod mm uoniu ycuni boforo the family have all sottld down and doing wall most of them uro in toronto one youngar daughter t tied on a farm out near calgary onn the elder daughters margnrrt j many yearn ago gave herself to truln- ing for methodist mission work unl for years was angagod on tin lu imi coast in japanusa work kim him since settled in edmonton as the wife of a properou jeweller but has so in t erected herself in tho women mis slonary soelefy work thut who hns been president of the alberta con- fefwno branch one of the daughters robmrn with her husband llvod in the pnmutal home after mrs sherlock s duiith and cared for the father who at the last suffered for a time from partial par aysla other members of tho family living fn the city were diligent in their care and assistance in waiting on the beloved father in his declining days not because they have for gotten honiatlinau young people fancy that tho who i ximluo authority over them vj un 11 tu tia imm guardian and the ukti huve forgotten what it mean imi young am a matter of fqt jhat is domathlng nobmly ever forget and tho vf ry reamln probably why these guardians of yours are not willing to l you havn your way always 1 that yfcy ranminw so well what it means i ln young knr to be young la to imj lixixpurlanntml to le young is to i mj swuyad by vtmpulsn rather than rauiidn to lu young is lo need guld ai i putin r doeii not insist that you shall go nn lhr iikii high school becauso i hss rorgotton his own youth no huh i it hi rrtnumbom only too well hiiv h f iiitblnrtod his opportunities und hu knowm what that neglect has t him hu jooun- thai you shell not f tliu price ho bus paid and mother i lwhlnnliclnauui that you ahallforml habit uf ordnrllnesa and neatness and jiolf control 1m remembering her glrl- i tuck and trying to save you it thn cunnnquancea of similar lack iy a tune the people whom you ucusi of fonrottlng what it mean to bo young r member all too well the ideal place iupu- and do you think for one that that clerk of mine in it ikialtion to proposa to you daughter why certainly papa ho was on his knees i am always favotubly imprasaod an employer said recently with a applicant for a position who is ubl to make a direct answer to u direct iu-i- ilon the friend in whom the business man wdm confiding showed his sur priso but surely ha exulalniad anybody can do that apparently nut the otimr answer ed i have some to est ions which i use to test that very ouulliy young people tell me their ironies and thouil age with satisfactory directness but when i put oertalu other questions they begin to give me this sort of reply 1 don t know us 1 over thought about what or weli that dspauds on what yau mean by initiative and even when i have given them all the explanation they usk for they still seamto find ll impossible to go straight to the point and answer yw or no i what uuvour explanation of tlmt i peculiarity t asked th friend the gnawer was emphatic look of i straightforward thinking people who1 ore lwy twisting and turning co avoid an un conclusion lose h ability to think legion ic those wfeo aye not wiping to face fact will u po ef ttnflnd ibirnjhtv ui actons jullileej celedration late gunner w j moore gunner w j goyld actons south african veterans some hoqi what 1 riamod tu imj the lurgest pig uv- the world wo oxhlhltod in australia recently tho unlmul weigh l1 pounds or more thuti half a ton and measure v feet 3 inches in length its height is i feet inches it ha a waist measurement of 6 feet 6 inches while it 1 only twvtitynvo month old this utant looks mors like a hippopotamus than a pig end when it ho finished growing it is probable that it will resemble an els phant more uuui a product uf th farmyard v agjhma can be cured it burtoir- ng is a needless us it is tarrlblu to endure after its many year of rulluf of the most stubborn cusu no surrurui can doubt the perfect cffocttvuihum of dr d j icellogg s asthma huoicdy comfort of body and peace of mlml return with its use and night of sound sleep come back for good ask your druggist bn can supply you too much poor man i ho s none tliu viocu wa too much for him oldn t know he had u shock ym one pf tho patrons of the trolley line he wu prasldatit uf wrotu to him praising the si rvloo llrook lyn ufe fine faculties two mtudoulm on u train were telling about iholr abilities to see v h the ona says do you see that barn over there on tho horlsonf ve cun you see thut rty walking around on the roof of thai barnt no but 1 can hear th abtngie rack when ho steps on ibcm millers worm powder ore a prompt rullef from the attacks of worm rt children they are powerful in their uotlon and while leaving nothing to tta desired a worm expellant have un liivlgoiutlng dtfoct upon the youth ful synttim rnmedylng fever bilious ticos loss of uppottt aleepleosnooe and othur ulhnents that follow disorder caused by worm in tho stomach and buwalm the obedient boy a udy l t uufhjy car displayed the witub rjplrlt reovntly 0b slarff m m rat sid urchin acros tl il with unspeakable disgust than she atd uuvo you u pocket handkareblai uyt the ragged urultlir snuffod then he uiinwcrst with u grii yes in but i aln t allord to lend bj to ao- itev itnht boyli iven u moru irlsli irishman once at a roukwood tea- msatlng in meeting with itev dr 11 lair told one of those old marrluge stories of bulng paid with m barrel of upplr for marrying couple from nassaguwayu in he old day down in hamilton well down the nasaogaweya side road below thelelehmaii plude and over the creek was a rough truct tie voted to pmsturuga by an eruniqsa jacrdar on this property wus a little ehalosw and tilled spot nailed itt 1imui parlance yjooee island i think the toim enrloung fence may still be trucert apiong the arop of wnects this woo thetiamotir w and mr richard shorloak and their nlghr or ten children mr hherloak wu on ocj the squire campbell family referred to in uu earlier chapter richard for many year followed he buslnes tnr general lielnr jtrp fa roirsa round whlnii ocoupatlun of course did not always pruvd ho vaalest jobs how- ovei being a christian man und striving to bring up his family as sulji ho lived in fajrly happy tiroutn stajngak howowr oo summer day 3njburgs3tihids pmrimn fotie7i tree be began wondering wtort tnta cblngs would ever ohang hjg amity aoton 8 julluk chlikbjftatfon ag clarridqe a pt r resident ofeaquoeing fair lets go jubilee celemoo to commemorate the 50th anniversary of actons incorporation three days will be fittingly observed at acton august 4 5 and 6 i 1 boys 2 boys 3 boys 4 boys 5 boys 8 boys 7 girls 8 girls 0 girls 10 girls saturday august 4th 130 p m- foot races ladies race ladies race oyer 40 years mens race mens sack race mens race ovr 5a tub rate on fairy lake boys swimming race under 16 men s tub race ladies tub race mens swimming race race under 7 1st and 2nd prizes ii rsce under 10 1st and 2ivd prizes 12 race under 13 1st and 2nd prizes 13 raco utader 15 1st and2nd prizes h sack race under 10 t 1st and 2nd prizes 15 sack race under 15 1st and 2nd prizes 16 race under 7 1st and 2nd prizes 17 race under 10 1 st and 2nd prizes 18 race under 13 lit and 2nd prizes 19 race under 15 1st and 2nd prizes 20 lat nd2nd prizes hi isrand 2nd prizes q lstand2nd erlzcs lat and 2nd prizes 1st and 2nd prizes 1st and2nd prizes fi 1st and 2nd prize m 1st and 2nd prizes 1st and 2nd prizes lat and 2nd prizes baseball 3 p m milton vs acton football 430 p m creditvale vs acton rangers b jitney dance9 to 1130 p m in the town hall sunday august 5th 730 p m open air church service followed by sacred band concert in the park collection in aid of childrens shelter milton in case of unfavorable weather regular services will be held in the churches 1 1 monday august 6th 900 a mcalithumpian parade best decorated car or float best comic charactei best decorated bicycle best cjown best hobo best national costume v i any 5 00 3jb 200 100 200 100 200 i 00 200 i 00 200 i 00 bsnegro costume best orgjnal costume under 12 best spark plug and bamey google best decorated vehicle not motor driven most ridiculous outfit ah entries in costumes will be admitted to park in morning free 200 1 00 200 100 300 200 300 200 200 100 ny person wishing suggestions or desiring to rent costumes can obtain full information from james r anderson a makeup will be at drill shed 7 30 a m monday morning and willmaka up anyonein costume free ol charge w d anderson mrahll rw baseball 1000 m campbeuviue jrs vs acton jra champions halton junior league t022 230 p m bockwood vs georgetown leaders halton county league for silver cup t girls soft ball tournament for silver cup and medals 1130 a m- palenno vs rockwood 1j0 p m- broofcrule vs acton im p nv winner play off football 400 p m canadian kodalu vs acton hangen v t tattoo75 musicians 749 p m massed band parade to park hpo p ni fluton georgetown and acton tends wijl render a musical drugranww special contests best decorated residence 1st 5 00 2nd 300 baby show on monday afternoon htst baby one your oi under will be uwuidud lslj00 2nd 200 redjuced railway rates on to canadhil ntn 1ilwpy vncs tt followiilt ratei ave berj icpmrei trrifoky prom polntk whre the lowej one hy lirsl tlaij are to aoloil doci o uiiviipd v w iartuluwcat one vty krst uaua fare and one half mlnlpium 28 uenla or adultu orcbildrtil going dates and limits good going by p m trains on august 3 and all trains august 8 and i valid to return ntir august 7 adults 25 cents admission children 15 cents mdmoiuytitfii wtip s p s nl 0 hh mo morning monday afternoon iia v

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