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The A Free Wed A la 1975 Editorial Pag Welcome to new principal Welcome to a new high principal Dean Fink He will brlns ways and a new slant on education His name will of ten appear in the pages of the local paper the net few David has left his stamp on the school too and the people who passed through the school during his term will feel the effects of his of education The introduction or the semester system was a prime e ample of change under his Appreciation from students and parents with him as well as best wishes hi- new position That brings us to Week which is April JO to llie theme is learning is a Co Operative Community prise Mutation Minister Tom sas Week will reflect the between the schools and the communities they serve He a school that is truly fulfilling its role is one Into which parents are welcomed and one in which the staff take the time to ex plain to nts the hows and whys of what their children are learn Communications between school parents mid community have been good here and no doubt will continue that way despite the inevitable changes of principals and staff Of this and that The district senior alliens are bang asked to fill out question naires on housing whicli were to go mail to persons over ears of Answers will be of benefit to Ontario Housing Corporation in de unit to be built in Acton Another new mall has opened in Acton people have always tended to go to Guelph to shop ra iher than anv other direction So it was interesting to note that the manager of the new mall said about per cent of retail dollars leave the cit So not only towns have that problem Haton sketches it is sad to learn that Ospnnge Women Institute has closed its books and will meet no longer The Institutes have had a splendid but if the time has come for a good thing to end there need be no regrets Times have dunged and especially in the farming communities is experience tomorrow is hope today is getting from one to the other as best we by John McDonald Speight family left mark in Georgetown and Acton II as when the two Speight brothers Samuel and John armed in Acton They had previously been pari owners of the Speight Wagon Works at which had a fine reputation John Speight eventually operated an undertaker business on Willow Street In Acton while Samuel earned on the wagon works trade and cabinet making Charlie Speight Johns son owned and operated a hardware business in Acton Tor many Thomas John Speight Samuels son was born In Aclon and as a learned telegraphy at the Grand Trunk Station In Acton J Speight later worked as a telegraph operator a I the Georgetown Junction Station The junction was the union of the Hamilton and North West and Grand Trunk Itatlway The station stood just west of Main Street overpass at the or nation of the tracks Thomas met his fiance over the telegraph wires The romance began with routine messages being relayed bul a rendezvous resulted In the marriage Thomas Speight to Ann MiCauly on November After coming to Georgetown from Acton in 1B96 Thomas eventually lefl the telegraph office to go Into his own machine shop business The Speight and Brady Machine Shop was opened in a building on Street immediately east of the present Carpet Barn Store Thomas bought out ihe Brady share of Ihe business and went on to manufacture gasoline engines and water power motors At one time Creetman Knitting Machine Company Main Street Georgetown used one of Speight targe engines which had been made entirely In the shop even to the small castings cast in his own small The T Arnold Glove Manufacturing Company which was situated In the Carpet Barn Building also utilized over of the Speight motors lo drive the sewing machines Thomas was a very in novative man and tended to keep up with Ihe times He topped manufacturing gasoline engines and began building dynamos to provide water power on the farm He later sold and manufactured cabinet radios Thomas also made his own transformers and for a nominal fee of five dollars he would water pipes In the home whether it took three minutes or three hours With the advent of hydro electric power to the homes in the Village of Georgetown this seasonal work soon ceased Speight Power Motors are on display the Hal ton County Museum one has been donated to the Credit Volley Conservation Authority Tor a museum exhibit The Speight home in Georgetown was originally across from the old town hall which stood at the corner of Cross and Back Streets The house site no longer exists because the hill on which It stood was completely ex for Ihe Toronto Suburban Railway right of way Mostof was used as a fill to cover part of the mill pond which stood near the corner of James and Main Street The radial track had to be laid over part of the old Law son Pond The site of the original Speight House can be best described as sitting on a hill overlooking the Canada Trust Building and the municipal parking lot When the land was being bought up for the TSR Thomas decided to build his new home near the machine shop on Street A new shop was required so in 1913 Thomas and his sons to construct a cement block building Cement blocks were made by hand and work had to commence at five am to ensure the blocks would be dry enough to jay in the af Arthur Speight advises blocks were used in the construction when you shovel hand you tend to remember The new Speight home constructed of Terra Colta brick was started in the fall of and was completed In In the same year Thomas opened a car dealership at the building previously used as a machine shop A showroom reputed to be one of the finest in Ontario and sales office ere added in 1920 Thomas J Speight served as a school trustee councillor and reeve of Georgetown and was a member of the Masonic Order and a past Master of the Lodge An accomplished violinist ho lead the or chestra in the Methodist Church Sunday School He Lambs in wool collars What nexti DOUG BERRY checks up on this year spring lamb crop on his father s 10 sideroad The larger than usual batch consisted of a surprising four sets of triplets 12 pans of twins and only two single lambs Visitors are amused to see of the lambs sporting colorful string collars The point out it s the only way to keep the triplets identified as to who belongs with which mama Sugar and Spice by bill smiley died in Georgetown in The yo ingest son Arthur Chrysler and Imperial Oil dealership from to the same location and purchased the home from the family estate The house was demolished in after being razed by fire while alterations were being made for a steak house Raymond Bower took over the Speight dealership In 1945 and operated until a fire destroyed the showroom about Guy Rogers then bought the property and operated a welding shop until just recently The Town of Ha I ton Hills now owns properly After selling the dealership In 1915 Arthur worked in the automobile trade in several locations throughout Ontario He was a service manager at the Art Scott business once at the corner of Queen and Guelph Streets In Art Speight opened a motor tuneup business on Water Street He is now retired and resides on Shelly Street in Arthur not unlike his father served the community In several ways He was a member of Ihe Georgetown during the 1930s president of the Board of Trade in and in con junction with his business was president of the Garage Operators Association of County for two terms was re elected to Georgetown Council In and served as deputy reeve from to Upon his retirement from council art stated he had intended to stop the feuding at council meetings Council night apparently was once known fight night and seats would be filled to capacity to see ihe next episode Arthur was instrumental in establishing new procedures to keep the arguments to a minimum school while a member of advisory committee for the school He has served on the Centennial Manor Board Museum Board Georgetown Hospital Board and acted as liaison between council and the ambulance and fire brigades and was chairman of the water commission This seems be good to clean up some loose ends so if you happen have a loose end join me Me and the Old Buttleaxc spent i couple of days in the city during our inter break holiday And spent is the word It would have been cheaper fly to Mexico and pick up Montezuma curse as call it there or the dire rear as we call it here This remark his no connection with he opening sentence of his column We went out shopping to buy a little something for Pokey the grandson Just a little shirt or a toy or some other trifle Fifty dollars later I staggered out or Ihe department store toting two large toys six shirts four pairs of overalls a full dress suit for the kid and a plastic shell wmdbreakcr with a lining and a hood lo keep him warm when he comes out months he going to be doing a lot of swimming you see Then of course we had to deliver the stuff So we invited ourselves to dinner daughter and told her not to fuss that we bring along an old chunk of meat or something Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth she agreed with My idea or a couple of Items to help out with dinner turned out lo be five dollars worth of the equivalent in pies and stuff and assarted groceries run ninglo another 10 my daughter the potatoes and water for the coffee However it was worth it We each got to hold the baby for about minutes in oneminute snatches between bouts of trying out his and having clothes tried on him by the women After many years I finally realize why I hale trying on new clothes for my wife That despised every minute of the clothes modelling session and bellowed lusly protests as his mother and gran pulled his limbs into all sorts gymnastics trying to stuff him into his new pints and shirts ft probably happens to all mates in and they resent it ever after Next day was even worse financially My wife was determined to buy a rug bed spread and drapes to match some new wallpaper in a room she decorated As iny knows and most husbands too this Is a threemonth not a three- hour quest It usually about as easy as looking for the lost Chord Consequently the old girl went off with leaden step sagging mien and built in frustration She looked so depressed my went out to her and in a moment of madness I offered to accompany her she was in the bathroom with the door closed and the w running and f wis so emotional I was whispering so didn t hear me To my she burst into the hotel room two hours later eyes shining looking like a girl on her first date and joy She had hit the jackpot in her shopping Fverything matched some shade of off yellow Since I had expected togrect a w out woman full of recriminations weary dls pintcd empty handed got earned BERTIE SPEIGHT stands in the doorway of her father s shop in Acton She was secretary treasurer of the Public Utilities commission The Speight family lived on Church St Miss Speight dying at her second home at the corner of Church and John in 1944 This must be your Why don you buy a little something for your self that women store It will give you a lift Well as you know I bought a stitch of anything new since don t know when Maybe I II pick up a new spring blouse or something Not to be an old fogey decided that by George I get a new tic myself Well I guess 1 got a little carried away I walked out of that men shop with two ties and two turtle neck sweaters I am not exactly the turtle neck type but in a devil may care moment I tried one on It was white made in Italy and I swear 1 looked just like Fred just In from Fred s a good looking 72 These sweaters had extra high turtles They conceal your wattles and push your dewlaps out so that you look jolly rather than just hangdog Fifty bucks lighter I lefl the shop a red plastic bag containing my goodies I felt guilty but jaunty I lost both my guilt and my jount when I went to the ladies shop to meet my wife Yes she had picked up a new spring blouse And new spring suit And another suit And a And some more blouses She was snitching things off the rocks like a iwoyearold opening Christ mas presents Ah well what the hell You cm take it with you Fspeclally If there nothing to take Next day back home she modelled all her amy forme It wan then that I learned none of her shoes or purses went with Ihe new clothes The rest Is history Two good things did come out of that holiday however My wife told me she wanted to see me in one of my sweaters I fought it but finally gave in with bud grace When are they re in a red plastic big Where did you put if Its with the rest if the stuff she retorted It wasn It wasn anywhere After going back over the day before we agreed that d taken it into the dining room put it beside my chair and hod without it OF all the stupid Phoned the hotel longdistance No and Pound had no trace of it but learning my name the lady there said she read my column in the paper and we had a nice chat Well there goes fifty bucks plus a D call Went out morosely to put some emp ties In the car trunk There was the little old red devil plastic bag With sweaters and tie The other good thing was gypping the hotel on breakfast We ordered breakfast far one I drank the orange juice she ate the buckwheat cakes I ale Ihe and jam and we shared the coffee fasts for the price of one I II bet they haven caught on yet I saved 80 on breakfast two days In a row A profitable trip taken all round The Free Presc Back Issues I yours ago In April Mr J I In birthday There tun 11 unlay April of I OOF was held on lie A first I If Mfli nay an annual fcilifd between fnittrr ml Wednesday ranging r work I range town pi iff Id n frr of problems Ar I Acton new I men and 1 hi J in t 1 In li irtj t Hill will JivH to the I 1 fill I has i4 ilw ir post Sin duties on May I Mrs Jnrrjue Mr in1 Mm f I jnlnv II Mr and Mm Istnhmin Hisiard mi In attended annual of Society of T ronto MS in Gilt 50 years ago On Saturday even a rather expensive motor accident occurred on the crossroad at Mr was not attended ith serious results to the inmates of either car Mr John Woods who was assisting with the farmworkatMr Brown was turning ihelane after giving the customary signal when a Georgetown man a McLaugh lin car was driving a load from the football match collided ith the Ford car It as quite ident at ihe meeting of the Council on Monday evening that Daylight Saving is not popular m the town The was very wise in deferring action to reid the pulse of the Daylight Saving confuses train time as refuse lo adopt it it is not popular the and therefore our chants do not wish run counter to their preferences and citizens generally prefer standard time Police officers secured a quantity or liquor of the variety known as moonshine in a raid on the premises of an Erin Township farmer Monday after noon Two square jars and one bottle seized While conducting their search of premises Counly Inspector Grant states that he heard a crash and rushing to the pantry door discovered the fifteen yearold daughter of the house smashing bottles con taming whit he alleged was liquor A charge or keeping liquor for sale has been laid as the result of the raid 75 years ago Business is identl profitable with Mr Morton barber Milton for merly of Ik has just purchased Mr Brook residence on East May Street Tenders for the new block corner Mill and Willow Streets will be asked for in a few days the plans are now on the way Postmaster Matthews has earned the thanks of long suffering and ably crowded community by the removal of the partition it the entrance of the post office Other improvements are In con The pastor J A Mclchland MA will prcich special sermons mor and evening The choir have had several new anthems under rc- hcirsal for several weeks and this will add lo the character of the services Mr will preach a sermon appropriate to I astertide on Sunday after noon By special request Miss Clark will sing Forever with I at this At the last meeting of Council Peter Gibbons and Sylvester Van Fleet were each voted as bounty for killing dogs caught Last Sunday several boys guns and were playing Boer and Briton A gun in the hands of a son of Henry Wilson went off The charge broke the jaw of a 14 fearold boy the son of a and carried off part of his cheek The boy recovery is doubtful THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE 853 Business and Editorial Office