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The Acton Free Press Wednesday July 1971 Approvals good news We were certainly pleased to hear that the town has been granted approval to proceed with two of the major works planned for this year storm sewers on Bower Avenue and renovations at the corner of Mill and Park Ave We have been accused of being too hasty in a recent editorial criticizing council over the lack of any construction activity on these projects subsequently we learned council meeting that much of the hold up was in the engineer s office and the mayor and council are as distressed as wt were over the lack of activity However according to information at iht nut ting both projects are on schedule ind will be completed this ycir STUCK WITH SEVEN puppies and no takers Jimmy homes for three of the pups but they still have three more In Bannon left recruited two friends Glen Hilts centre and are interested Jimmy s phone number is Reggie Coomde right and canvassed from door to door in the Photo by Ray Saitz hope he could find them a home So far the boys have found Sugar and Spice by bill smiley mil is I s lid while the icts in the book Itrtstinc its littk i ihe curiosity doing a little mathematics come to the conclusion that I must be rehtcd to half the population of Canada just received a small booklet compiled fa uncle Thomson of Ottawa It sets forth the of my maternal ancestors Canada Some people find their a bort Others are afraid of skeletons in the closet find ancestors istinatint as 1 to picture them think of the they led and wonder whit I and m received from them uncle booklet is no hi colored romance It deals in facts births deaths names property titles But the is the occasional Laconic which makes me wish 1 could leap back into the lath century explore further Mv maternal prat were not of the anstocr Hi is i ship carpenter and one re he M 1- irrell his bride set out from Ire land John New whin there was a shipbuilding industrv w is JO she It was 1834 Within a few years lren moved to Upper Canada bee titer id hi of work to be obtained in the of slides on the Upper Ottaw These slides ere built for the lumbering business was skimming the cream from the of wonderful pine in the ire i purpose of the slides w is to illow the cribs ind r of square timber to by pass The timber wis floated down tore Quebec Some of it r were ilf a mile lone In ereat er indf ither Thomson was Slide Mister of Grand mil in the River He held the position lor more th in ye irs to be sue ccedcdbv ither who is to until the ist r ift of ire inn down die river in the itkcjound mothers ittinled oneroom school iiher i My uncle I in had t job lie wrnt to the school tarty infill indwintir ind lit the fire r Mv in SI a d i for his position is Milt Mister the ition st ison ended so hi to firm is mil Then im in tin f from whit I In i ippv lift on the ind 1 s iw old id tin iw ind sil Pepper by hartley coles 1 ha requt nth in this column scoffed it the notion is ctntr ilion observing it his been mv spent nit that people old or vounc or urn in between but they And that we be But 1 m afraid I to have to rt tract some of observations after a piffling incident happened our house Mond It all started a shower which distaff side wife daughter were for i married niece The were the midst of selecting suitable games for the ladies young ma rrieds and hoping thtv 11 gals who would attend whin across one about naming the tirl in i instance the games leader would say Who name fits this son I to Alabama with tht banjo on my knee Everyone hollers back Susanna Things were going along pretty good with daughter naming those gala as she had been born in the century Songs by George M Cohan Stephen Foster and a few old made famous tht tin tttunt irU f ills the dt rt is of it she said with of someone who is bavin pulled followed suit Mv mouth fill widt know enormous ip lift her rtlut ilisMcs is Otis Blood it Ik its Jot oekir His lup and smooth tones of bird erooninj the ids sht was putting us on Comt on admit it wtrt just giving old mi and and tht he of Annie as well never ever heard of Guv Lumbago and Spoiled or Freddie rcaarden and his sax or the Grenadier Band out Around the Marble good laN editorial Nevertht Icnb think our was valid rt wan a up of foot certainly I 1h on the town Our point was that council should prod the professional mort or move Councillor Greer said tin thing it last regular mi of council We certainly do not have all the information available to councillors who attend where these subjects are discussed But like the general public we must our comments on what is done or done not on the amount of million pi rated found mayor and nil numbers of council helpful we asked fpr Information about munlelpal projects per cent effort put into the Ir positions However w tht a Is a communication Kip which could be bridged if mon inform was on subjicU We can understand the reluctance to hav everything debated fully at regular especially the mundane thit fall to council lot there are some fellows out here who are re illy interested In how the business is along it is ours too Editorial age Editorial notes Hit orifinil fimilv of Willi v is rhe them exactly more Today mitht produce If mimed limes hid four children She used Johnm Now there story in Who w is Ionium Why did she r use him it bet of him John Mountain was a timber enlist r ind real bruiser in the lumber j lek el of the times had terrible ttmpir wis known up down the is i stripper He died it i ript iji for i who sired 15 iluldnn in two images irned Kemp who is vcr fond of liquor No other comment their with tlu thus is drowned it muni son liter id hid tin son I inns hid ikvtn I must hive re i is lliomsons too fir two who in multiph in sti win I so in rditmns lilt two to ill in two Hi ivin knows how the 11 produced I ilv 101011 mil I ilk to of the old timtrs lhi virile in mort wivslhmoni Hut no liiiLhtirOni idnivtrta ird of 1 luru I is to if sin r lniri of tht who wrott it I immortal ird John St oil So irlrunils in ht music il in our ind inUnd it with f It to pissing our it of it inivouhur mihtv humming Ion il irmwl it tin f musit il l I Ml- in old idb it turniM oil mill tonstrvittve or vou but ilon t for Hit iovirn i in to low tht drinking it to 111 it illusion mi ins iwo nadirs in our hoasi innowltfiliv ill and irs desire I fur ralhir filchint thtm from nult ihop or thin opsin in soim roomorbr don most are miture to tlrink al lfl 1 know I ind dtspitt ill Ihi propiLjnd lo contrary I don tbtlievt most of lotlav strop ire either nitre for most of them to hindlt without ones Vote it but irs as far is I m an unqu NO we with the who says the town should in sure its own weeds are cut before unit jfjjtj others Id cut theirs but much 1 1 i lie weed pi could be overcome stop at their own pi opt 1 lines If we all cut weeds in mint iround our own properties it tumid lake much of the burden off the work force and certainly the town vwuild be i tidier place in which to live i money set for weed mild to other useful of weeds hive you noticed of the school creek where iimts Library is ipidK being choked with weeds and nit mil of the streim has taken new i near the school tit itinj i loop that threatens the stream bed The appearance in the one of Acton s beauty spots t helped by the bedraggled of the stream nor of the flotsam ind the small pool near the in itltt seems to collect from you also noticed where will inaugurate a door todoor lent re irrier service on September must be the for such a service since Hit iwo towns are ilmost equal in si7e it is something the Chamber of e could push although we line he residents in places where the service exists wish they could go lo picking up mail at the post miss meeting friends ind there Snow s included a question on regional While 1200 said they in of regional government I too were not in favor and 8oo were undecided The majority 1 is opposed lo voted for a ikon only preference against a Peel II ilton union He irdmore and Co decision to lake fire calls on the weekend from the pi nil boiler room is a good example of lowiuompanycooperition The move will firefighters normally on call to ike weekends off the company is i st iff on there hour a day so tan handle it The wis handled through the graces of Mayor and Ik president ind general in ier Norm We high school the p irks board for their to put ducks geese and swans I Iikt Now we hope tht fowl are the proper respect and left ilotit to pursue their own devices It will up lo residents to keep their eye on the fowl to see arc protected Happy holidays if you ire On taken ire contemplating a vacation during ind August years ago Taken from the of tht Free Thursday July 19S1 building boom to the lied than Ihreequirters of million doll is as public ind Hi ire to completion llus indudts the public school i road improvement tontrid 42oOOO system a w iter ind insUl ition of Mill SI lighting facilities Hi individuals ad boasts in of the town indiriMs ire being tret led Work nun start this wttk on tht improvements No High it is in ri surf it est of ton I iki look but s ire of with tht mm who Ihi J I indirs on ihi lIorious Twilfih wen lownptur Hit hslntl is ind plivtd i in tht direction will be held in of lown in now our mtmbtrs in tht lit i lub to pi lnssin houses tht have ind In constant use these lavs Hie w is off twin this week How Horn with Judy best Hi si of Iht Ytar iw ird 50 years ago Takmlromthf Issue the trrePrtM Thursday July 1931 llu lass of Z of Ihc public school have it this vt sustained rtpuLiUon of who wtoIc thi for entrance to Of thi passed secured honors Hit threi in standing wm Precious CI in Savage Miss pupils are Clarence Blair tolis Olive Cooper Marguerite Hay Ralph Henderson Willie Joe Hurst Roy Johnston Telford Kinney ljimbcrt Helen Hector Florence Mills Ivy Precious Harvey Willrost Clan Sivatc and Jennie ins outside pupils who pissed in the School Section were John Wallace Im Nissagawcya Ruth Cornochan Christian Frank Wallace Jean Margaret Wilson William Kelly SS hollowing is a list of tht sucotssful nil id lies studtnts of high school whopissed the lntrinte to No Schools mil Ida IiirdDinev Hurst onid Jt in Kennedy Jord in Hose Mil Mint Mow it Martha Viol i eountil icct pled the tender of Fred Blow for for itinj shot f iitorv Miss I Wilis was seized with ippenditilis ind was pi r itis on THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business and Editorial Office Millon t ime up Saturday and the first m itch of season wis flu visitors won out with a score of lo was slow Mtssrs J and opened their new h irdw ire tinware and plumbine in the premises formerly Bros lie of Iht I iKUt w is served lo ibout The very ibk for the past six years Miss M ispresenltd with bound of Iht book 75 years ago from the Issui of the r Press Thursday July IB 1S98 tltbr of the glorious Twelfth In At ton on Mont old of tht hi Id here and forty ago when w is idquirters for OrnntLsm for ilirge distntt deilhand removal of prominent membtrsin those ijh lot interest orange and purple ls illowed to lapse and for more than thirty ears Acton has seen no beyond the annual walk of the lot lodkt to the depot route to some outside point This met the most sanguine of King Willie ten clock the visiting lodges to A special train brought lotlgts from Milton and other points w ith the Milton Brass Band and a fife drum band Acton Hand met at the station and thronged In from ist and west w very decorated with four spanning Mill and M and a fifth the entrance to the park Hags and bunting were displayed In profusion the parade there were speeches in the park from a pavilion built for iht occasion The speaking was eloquent Col Kerns said he did not think Orangeism had outlived its usefulness To their credit be it sold the members of Orange order who congregated were as sober and orderly a gathering as was ever seen The oldest Orangeman was Robert Mills of Acton who in his year and was initiated Ireland BO years ago Roman Catholic citizens were as active in the erection of arches as the Orangemen working harmoniously side by side as in their everyday work as shopmates