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vacbtxh the acion free press acton ontario thursday hay mlh ims eight teams form softball league halton rural softball league schedule for 1953 is as follows may 26 tttnalcy vn kilbride palermo vs omagh hornby vs milton heights haltonville vs lowville may 29 kilbride vn palermo omagh vs tansley lowville vs hornby milton heights vs halton ville june 2 hornby vs kilbride tansley vs milton heights paler mo vs lowvilhj haltonville vs omagh june 8 kilbride vs hnltonvi e lowville vs tansley milton heights vs palermo omigh vs hornby june 9 tansley vs palermo hornby vs haltonville omagh vs kilbride milton heights vs low ville june 12 haltonville vs tansley palermo vs hornby kilbride vs milton heights lowville vs qmagh june 16 tansley vs hornb haltonville vs palermo lowville vs kilbride omagh vs milton heights june 19 kilbride vs tansley omagh vs palermo milton heights vs hornby lowville vs halton ville june 23 palermo vs klfcride tansley vs omagh hornby vs lowville haltonville vs muton heights june 26 kilbride vs homby milton heights vs tnnsley i ow ville vs palermo omagh vs hal tonville junt 30 haltonville vs kilbride tansley vs lowville palermo vs milton heights hornby vs omagh july 3 palermo vs tansley haltonville vs hornby kilbride vs omagh lowville vs milton heights july 7 tansley vs haltonville hornby vs pilcrmo milton heights vs kilbride omagh vs lowville july 10 hornby vs tansley palermo vs haltonville kilbride vs lowville milton heights vs omagh chronicles of ginger farm written specialty for the acton free prest by gwendoline p clarke federal government spending this year will be only 9 per cent less than in the peak war year of 194344 for home refreshment buy coke by the carton generations of canadians have enjoyed the quick refa and rnimai flavor of keoold cocacola for ikmfly and friends its the popular choice ever the orangeville bottling works omnoeviue ont phone 137w new way to rake hay tbs frrgtuon stdedtiuxry rake la dnugned specifically fcr tractor operation it greatly reduon leafshattering safeguards the quality and valim of your hay tha rake truly unique new mx bar oet reel naadlss hay gnafy no pftchlaif ticking and toanng even ethl speed inatead your hay liftm gently up and over into light fluffy windrows with the preooue leaves turned inward true sideward raking action reduces the dvtanos from swath tojeindrow by 50 par cent there far kss roffinc and chununf no sudden jamng tractormounted power takeoff driven finger tiki co and it a surpnsuigly low in pnee lorne garner motors ferguson tractors and implements phone 4s3 acton earl j mcconachtrt your farm equipment rap mfr i suppose the minds of most people these days are like our own just a jumble of thoughts world tension the coronation the tornado that struck sarnia and london dis tricts and the damage done by last week s storms in whatever locality wi happen to live we certainly hope the weather bureau has good things in store for the big event on june 2nd sunshine or rain we know the coronation will go on as scheduled but it will be so much nicer if a sunny sky does its part towards making this diy one to re member children in ytirs to come will tell of the gnat festivities when eliza beth ii was crowned queen just as we who are older remember other coronations of iht two georges ind in some cases or edward vii according to our age and our ability to rtmtmbtr or our willingness ti admit how many sovereigns hivt conn to iht throne during our life turn it would wim onts age might ilso bt rmisured by corona tions but then w ho cares nd mitting or hiding ones age doesn 1 mike one either joungcr or older 1 wonder what happened in your district hist week at the tirne of the lomado although the twister con lined itself to the sarnia and lon don area there were other unrelated storms in ontario that did a con siderable amount of damage we had terrific winds and heavy ram our immediate locality no dam age that i have heard of not even power failure but five miles away it was a different story at and around the village of lowville then ere golf ball hailstones that smashed windows wholesale lopped branches off trees and shrubs and levelled tulip beds as neatly as a scythe i have never seen hail stones as large as the ones reported until i heard about them from several sources i thought the stories must be exaggerated i was wrong one man put a few in his freeicr to present as evidence at another plan tin farmers wife measured oni of iht ijij ones in circum ference it was seven inches one and eight inches the other just about tilt ii7 of a big di uble olk ed iij hin there was rnrdlj m hail but tht run was terrific ivui the downspout from the eiist rough couldn t carry it away fast enough that some of it rin down into tht cellir until pirtntr invcstigited fom d a fi v it m s in tin connecting pipt wi re slopping tht flow of water next dnv i wis along tht road and then i saw fields lately sown with spring crop the low ly ing spots nothing but a swunp corn round some of itsown some readi to vow w ere sad looking fields but the pasture and hay fields are wonderful so as usual what we lose on the swings we make jn the roundabouts now 1 wonder if that expression is familiar in canada we have been in canida 34 years and yet 1 still find rm self unconsciously using expressions that are unintelligible to natne born canadians a few r g simpkin pictured above will represent the acton free press and other member papers of the ontario division of he canadian weekly newspapers association m great britain during the coron ation me will airmail first hand reports of particular interest i readers of the weeklies back dur ing his tour sailing from mont real on may 18 he will take deln ery of a car on irrival in england it will be his second trip oversees having seried in war i mr simpkm ins bten a reporter for one of ontihos lirgtst w cities fur 25 years and is partirularli well virsid to spc ik on tht rural see ne the first of his nrtitles ippurs this vtfttks ago i happened to mention art on the hoardings my com pnnlon had no idea what i meant and at the time i could think of no better way to express my mtimng i suppose the common term is bill boards advertising signboards or something similar i had never given it a thought because to me all such signs are hoardings and peaking of signs or should i say omens we know robins al ways sing their best when rain is in the offing but now i am wondering about other song birds last week before the storm partner and i were working in the garden and i don t think i ever heard birds sing so much the weather was warm windy and somewhat sultry usually the birds sine very little in the after noon but that afternoon then must have been a complete bird orches ira orioles sonj sparrows canar ics bobolinks meadow lirks the v were all then singing wftrt jovous ilmndnn did tfuv stnst the ap pioiich of the storm wi re the v sinking to i xe rcisc their v ic il chords knowing thi v must soi n tnke in the protective covering of tht trees and shrubs stranii tv i rum mi the robins were silent could it be thry wtre jeitnuslv sulk j thi little liummini birds ti hi ri inin fverv eienini one wee bird tomes fluttering inninri our jiponici bush while the bumble b mike busv it the lilac i itits of the valle nre out bv the hun dreds but i haven t seen anv winged en ilures in their sweet scented v iciniu pirtner his been hi iptng me eradicate an overgrowth of snow btrry one time i brought a root home from a neighbors sht warn ed me its bad stuff to spread mind where you put it that was ten years ago and for the last five vnrs i have been ymking out suck er roots titrywhere some people hiie to learn the hard wa i seem to be one of them delegate reports on sudbury meet on wednesday evening may 20 several car loads of members of tht knox evening auxiliary visit ed the home of mrs wllmer wat kins for their meeting the president mrs a k mann presided and led tht worship ser vire 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