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thursbay reramry m 1 w acton kit press acton ontario chrwklt ginger form writfea specially for the acton free prew by gwtndollne p cluke somclimcswhcn i think of it i make a lew notes during the week about things i might like to men tion in this column just now i looked over lait week s notes and i laughed they made sense to me but i wondered what anyone else would make out o them here they are home and country frances shelley wees tractoi radio hydro wind well let us take them one by one and see if they make sense home and country i lotted that down after attending our last women b institute meeting at which i received my copy of the current issue of home and country and why wouldn t i mention it h s wonderful for wi members to have such a nice little magazine for their very own with ethel chapman as editor it has improved tremendously and such improvement was long over due but i am not saying that in a critical sense the old h and c was as good as it could be under the circumstances time and ex perience arc necessary for the pub lication of even a small magazine and until last year i have an idea that home and country wn anybody s baby but now it has an itor all 1u- own- actually there is no reason why ihlsr-tnagnefthould-iov-ci- tcrcsting and informative certainly there can be no lack of material from which to fill its pages w 1 branches arc now found in almost every district in ontario and from each one of them stories of worth while achievement are bound to emerge from time to time it is an incentive to every branch to know what other branches arc do lng and home and country we are given that information to say nothing of district rallies and conventions funny how things work out i am suite sure many readers or the farmers magazine were quite upset when miss chapman resigned from the staff of that publication and then came news of her ap polntment to home and country wonderful we haven t lost her after all i heard that said so often in fact as w 1 members we now feel that miss chapman definitely belongs to us a better choice could not have been made born and raised on a farm miss chapman has an awareness of and an interest in the problems of optometrist 58 st georges square gueiph formerrjr occupied by mr e p head complete eyesight service country folk and of course she hu always been keenly interested in the work of the wx so i am sure we are all very lld to have her as editor of home and country frances shelley wees a re markable woman have you read any of her books or serials she is a mosiprollflc writer i was privileged lo hear her speak at a meeting of the canadian authors last week she lives on a farm is a mother and grandmother dois most of her own work entertains and baby sits and yet finds time t turn out thousands of words each year although she says three oi four weeks during the year is ail the time she spends in actual writ ing the rest of the time is think ing and planning what her next book shall be one time she started writing book on tuesday and finished it the following friday oh for i gift like thatl her record for single days work is 18 000 words and thats a lot of writing but aid mrs wees when i write 1 do nothing else but write how she manages to do this she did not explain tractor radio the next not on my list i jotted down that note while listening to the radio an advertisement stated that farmers can now have radios installed on their tractors good reception and powerful enough to be heard above the hum of the tractor said the announcer order one now and insure delivery before spring ploughing begins well how crazy can people gel it was hard enough in jthc past to attract th- attention of a tractor driver and if one hid a message to deliver to make oneself heard now if one has to compete with a radio ts well words fail me wind hydro well if you shared the wind that came our wiv lastweek youwul imderstandwhl i made i note of that bui it didn 1 ltwlng any atqy in actthe ground around here has beeoovefdinwf once this wmter and then the snow wis gone tgain in two days saturday morning just as w c vltc getting up a blue hash lit up the sky thirty seconds later the power was off it stayed off until 8 am by that time most of the cows had been hand milked one more sample of the inconvenience of conveniences but oh the joy when lights flash on again milking machine begins to hum and the radio to play it almost equals the thrill of having hydro newly in stalled perhaps without these in term pt ions we would fail to realize how lucky we are end of notes and of space twothird donations for local causes iode chapter report unions decide six out of every 10 members of organized labor in canada believe thai labor unions should not back any specific political party in an election the canadian gallup poll has dioovered the average man whether member of a labor union or not dislikes being told how he should vote comments the financial post that sort of thing he believes is i his own pri business and thais the way irshduld he under the democracy we are sup posed to send to ottawa and the provincial legislative members who jkillrepresent ail of us not just some narrow class group or djlicjue the badger lives on small mam mals and is prized for its fur but horses hooves are often trapped in their burrows causing injury to both horse and rider too long under a bushel the following is the annual re port of the lakeside chapter im penal order daughters of the empire for the year 1952 the members of the lakeside chapter imperial order daughters of the empire may well be proud of the many successful endeavors which they hive undertaken during the pist year wc wish to express our ap prtciation for the leadership of our retiring rektnt mrs vernn bean ind for ihe co operation of each member donitions from chipter funds during the year included the fol lowing commonwcilth and em pire fund whilhelmina gordon scholarship british and european relief fund seamen s amenities fund national shaping fund provincial workroom maintenance fund provincial representative fund provincial british food par eel fund film fund second war memorial fund canadian national institute for the blind canadian legion poppy fund welfare fund acton branch canadian legion centennial manor milton ont educational grants included the lucy morrison memorial fun i bursary acton contmuition school never late never absent awarcl rings acton continuation school musical ilbums for kindergarten class libriry board hilton coun ty musical festival boy scouts fund two thirds of the money raised during the year was donated to local tducation and welfare causei the chapter htld ten regular meetings during the year with i membership of 83 tht roll enll jvcrage was 45 ten new mim bers win welcomed into the chip ur and ont membt r movtd from acton in april the members enjoyed i thialrt party at the miy met ing miss clara gnndev pre cnti 1 colored pictures of her trip to britain which were very beiutifut ind thoroughly tnjoyed by tht numbers in june the numbers tnjoytd their annual picnic in thi pirk at tht september meeting i court whist party was held at our october meeting rev e a currey showed coloted pictures of the arctic taken by clayton fryer of the rcmp in novembe members attended the rem ni brinee day service they look pirt in the parade and the liying or wreiths on the cenotaph ser wees vttre also held at the gnvts of veunns and flags were placed on tich drive mi mbcrs of the chapter i in vas t d homes regarding the t b omit htld m ackjn in decmber dm mil the yeir the skk re celved flowers fruit and cards or a personal visit cards and flow era were ent to the bereaved sll ver spoons were given to each new ly bom baby of chapter mothers cthe successful money making projects during the year included h may day tea and baking sale a bazaar and sale of christmas cards in the fall and hrummage salt proceeds shhc may tea were used for the purchase of a film projector for the new auditorium of the acton public school as anothir year closes we look bnik with sitisfaction in the know udge th it we have achieved muth ind we look to i future bright with opportunity gie cf ordi r tnce to serve thti faith fully and to labor loyally for th vilfirt f our country doris a wilson sicruad uumiotsl piano sales service of hamilton new and used pianos pianos tuned repaired end rebuilt for service and estimates phone 118 acton school attendance totals 848070 pupils enrolment in ontario sele mtntar ind secondary schools for th currt nt season totals 848 070 thi on ano deportment of educa tion rip iris this figure is an in ereisi of j3 559 over the enroliiunt os of september 1961 ti tnl number of iltmenliiy pu pils l 707 211 compared with co 430 i w ir ago sic indary pupils 140855 lompind with 133081 totil leithmg stilf for 1 29 184 1111 men if 1 111 harold mike com plumbing heating warm air furnaces pease ourney beach radiant baseboard hot water heating i a c time payment plan phone 25 acton hcrr a man ho dors great deal to beneht hit fello cititera yet for a kn time he been h d ug hu light under a buihrl anyone looking up main strrrt for itutame might never gueu that he had a hand n ntamtshing at me uf is fin new torn hotel office or apartment building but he hai nor woulal many pro pip train that they may haw him to tl ank in part for their isowiei or for th pure water that bom iwtbe faucets or th electricity thinffevr them to many wava at the ftirk of a twitch every week workeri take home pay from induatnea that thu man hrtped to develop but they re unaware of to hart il s at your service a trs bh atvlrnrw n the ufe insurance companies in canada mflgkt li irljy kvt kai in the fifty two years since the first canadi in aluminum pi mt opined at sluwinim tills anidas aluminum m dtiitr has irowii to im tin second liriist in tin world and c in id i now i ports more aluminum th in in other comitrv still tlu ntixl throws iwtli it horn mil ihroitl for this iiiht strong modim metal of nmi lists nd muniinum coinpun of c anada is putting man powtr and monr and entruuinno hraius and imagination into tin job of lit ping up w ith that demand aluminum is packaged power the electric it needed pf l i aluminum j to produce oniton of ilumtnum would liiht the itngc home for m irl i intrition b nuking use of c tn ula s ilimid ml low- cost power tlns in idun i nt rpnst li is t r ittd t mploxmi nt and ineomc for tins of thonwnds for tlu iiun wlio butld and opt rati thi dams ind powt rlioiht s tht dinks mil smelters and power inns it needs ind for the rrion th tn one thonsind tidt jxndent inithan ompaiuis who turn aluminum into countless forms import int to industrv md our own dailv living company of canada ltd prodwctfj and procaors of ofuminvm for canadian and world markets ptanh o showmtgan foils arvtda i tie maligna shipjhow panbonka port alfred beauharnon wakefield kingifon etobkok