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The Acton Free Press Wed Jan Your favorite nonhumans When a neighboring newspaper staff decided to take pictures of a girl of the week Cone Fisher decided the Free Press should have something different the pet of the week It has been an outstanding success with a regular series of tips on where to go next for a picture of somebodys favorite animal The other paper has stopped photographing girls after it was pointed out there isnt much reason to take pictures of a person whos i only claim to fame Is her looks which come by good fortune rather than her own efforts But the pet of the week goes on have been dogs and cats rabbits ponies horses a pig guinea pig and even a snake We haven t heard of a fish lover in the five months or so the series has boon Arent fish lovable Maybe not Wed like to hear from more people and their favorite non The last of the perogies Another chapter to the country story Night Beat weatherman Dave started his segment of the show last Friday b reading about himself in the Acton Free Press His reference was to a story in the paper about the show but he added humorouslj that the paper didnt help him any with the weekend weather report It was another amusing part to the Case of the Mystery a bit of mid winter silliness that re suited from Dave Devalls first off hand mention of Acton as country Guess its all over now except for an enlarged cooking vocabulary and eating experience for Acton- How about a vote A couple of people ha e suggest a ballot in the Free Press asking people s opinion of regional government The surprisingly high return of questionnaires to the commission gives the impres yon there might be a good return on such a question from Acton people On the other hand we hear People are sick and tired of hear nig about regional government What would be good to have in the Free Press would be some let to the editor on the subject Thc be long they neednt be smart they neednt be signed It s an important subject and Hie more opinions heard the better And if you re fed up with it all please let us know too The shadow walks People who enjoy being super can be watching on Sunday the day the groundhog is supposed to come out of his hole And alert weather watchers are supposed to figure out if his shadow is visible or not No shadow Spring will be along soon A cold crisp shadow Get back in the burrow fella And join the rest of us in the long long wait for the robins Flakes and splashes Winter is one time of year when you notice the need for sidewalks in the subdivisions The winter carnivals held by the high school make a nice break in the season Too much work was the feeling last year Will there be a provincial this year The Canadian Club of Burlington thinks so and has in leaders of the three Ontario provincial parties to speak between now and the middle of May Bill Davis was the first last weekend The article in last week Free Press on the Niagara Escarpment Commission won cause any fore boding for Acton and district people probably Acton is in the control area but the commission sees many land uses as accep table agriculture quarrying and residential development among them These are all important to tins district The plan will not freeze develop ment such as the huge housing complex proposed for the east end of Acton SNOW slush ice and fog followed each other last weekend Wet snow weighs down the branches of these trees near Free Press photographer Peter took the moody midwinter picture Bill Smiley occasional out Rods In surf ice is usually slapped down someone wife or good shot of It lies over mi side Hut ricenll questions have been boiling up like bubbles in a Ihundermug fell I should share with my long suffering reidcrs among six of us wc might lie able come up with some By tin if you don know Did would be too explain They are not exactly questions but the do ere lie a ill smoulder from time to time do so men addicted In hairy ippcndiges to heir iniums these days I understand am chap growing a beard hide i we ik chin I cm understand It part growing up But why nil these aches liny add nothing face that hah no they detract from one hit docs 1 glad I not i girl It must be revolting to kiss voung and wind up with i mouthful hair When I got back to Fnghnd from prison camp I had i handlebar job which had me nine months of con slant upsweeping to achieve It came off after I d looked up first old girl fnend Shi it was like kissing a cow ear Blunt but honest she was And why do nil those olderguyr skin bald lor the first two thirds of skulls Insist on growing those long greasy forlorn it the backs of their fulling down over collars They fool nobody make Hum look more virile mi rely makes look scruffy mil silly They remind mi of the guys who used to an a completely naked pale eight strands of long from Ihcir sideburns Why not it chaps If you hive a big billy sink it out ind pat 11 If you re a you re noddy and you wash your hair with a fiet II seem to bother the ladies has hem i sex symbol for years And thit Telly or his is thit me in looking guy on TV llojik seems to be on very second bald as an egg and ibout I remember in eldi lady w hose chief delight wis pulling a needle into people She was bald as a billiard ball on fop bul by a clever of buns and piling up cover it Or so she while hid my head bent over a book in my usual scholarly fashion she scratched my crown ind chortled My you Rotting little on lop It dldnt bolder me I was If it had I could said something cruel like K let down your hair and we climb up have look it what you ve btcn hiding ill these years I Hut I didn like the old bal ind it was time someone blunted her needle So I stood up around her twice my eyes glued lo her bum which looked like ho cast end of a going west smiled and said gently Yes my dear but perhaps it s better to be getting a little Inn on top then thick on the bottom scuttled to tin urn eyts it witter to if anyoni bad In mil shut lur for Hire whole I think it wis hi word g fling rills out is a turning out to a ib Sorry I nothing I m not one of those back brush cut people if someone m ill m limit J their hair I ivi to kirn their ill ovtr it akin thru mi In the dogs In fact I r i njoy Ik mod rn novels slate hit Shi inch through his long silkinhair just as much as I enjoyed the old which stited it Ho ran his binds through her Men si lb If can find hair which is a lot starter thin you think grab unto it and run your hands through It One group I do feel sorry for during this fid is old fashioned I here no such thing is i young lurber flu young ones are all hur stylists oldlimtrs business is pretty Some of Hum are cutting so little hair these days tin odd lock here another it they don ivcn need a to swu j Hit floor They just use a I m sorry This out is column of about the mess politicians who i per cent raise in pay and other such and it wound up is nothing but another of my hairy columns No wonder my life is a miss 1 in keep to the trill I i finely trained who goes off hare when ho should be pursuing Oldtime barn raising was long painstaking work ALL THE MEN of the neighbourhood would come for a barnraising bee The barn receive from to for his summers this paid his assistants But the many volunteers werent paid Huge dinners followed the hard days work This picture is of an old Esquesing barn and Mrs R Shortill of Balhnafad wonders if some farmer will it Harry Shortill and Joseph Allen are among the men in the old picture in Mrs It There is vcrv interesting story lurking behind the barns wlnth dot the side reaching high the trees still proclaiming that this was arming district though is changing the picture us go back lo efforts which went into the building of these huge structures the framing the raising and the com presenting him with the size and specifics necessarv Then said went to the bush and cut out timbers II hem up to the farmyard he set to broad axe adz squares planes saws and other equipment to frame the structure ground This was ill done on the ground every cut to fit where it belonged Pins ad to be cut to fit holes made by the boring machine for these old barn frames were not put together with nails but with wooden pins While all tnis was being done the stone mason had been building the wall not with ready made products but with good old field stone and mortar Good thick walls they were a foot and more thick made sturdily to support Ihc barn which would rest on it and rise high up from it with spaces left for the required doors and windows this time the warmer weather had eome posstbl about June and erection of huge began The carpenter or framer as he was designated had a number of right hand men who were able to take directions and who could stand heights Then came the barn framing bee when ill the neighbors around came to help raise frame This was a breath taking task all and sometimes then wen hammer fell man slipped A derrick was used with i huge r ind a Faithful horse hitched ropes milled up the huge mil plates all of hand hewn and wed timbers There were no electric saws planes or equipment of any kind as there was no hydro In those days I- miners fee A frimer of who I tie law Harry wis one received to for r using ind sheeting shingling siding Out of this he must pay his regular men it ten of the summer course the volunteer help of the neigh was free as it is quite in occasion Women helped the housewife as the huge dinner had to be prepared of cured ham potatoes vegetables and pies pickles all hand prepared Mustn it all have been fun I listened with is mv late father in law used to tell it ind husband Richard as boy n we dung to help some ground Job The barn on form was one of these although did not nun it at that time High It is regrettable see miny of of repair but what can farmer do It even hard to get men to roof these high barns ind repair costs are almost prohibitive The picture Is of one of the barns in m not sure miybe some farmer will recognize it Harry is in and Joseph Mien and I think a Mr Kcnlncr I might add here that the Swindle hurst brothers were stone who bull many of the barn foundations and many of the stone houses around as well as Store as all the carpenters worked painstakingly with and very little pay The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago from thi the I- Press A mm suffered injuries and his mil dim Sunday meriting when the venule lit wis driving went out of ind irished smith of Seven ist hi re Hugh Ionian McDonald was di ivlng tun III about il in Sunday lint of into i il three plant erne kid wo then hurdled it galley and eriidiiil davsuftii liKe isslnlcn from in In I his Sire it lump inline lifi i lint the vih It ibinilintd in lirnnto The mi si il mil reel the mouse for ilriuin of Halloo III ho il lit in nigra him ling il tin hi ml in night Mr I I Mill- wai i Id ml lor I iiu sing Mr le- d dt II f I in In tin Sin 1 I I rii rb I xii fig Mai Ml V Iklr I I lilt l V nilfi Until I III I in Itlodi 50 years ago it i I I s ill I nd tin of old rl 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