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COMMUNITIES WEDNESDAY OCTOBERS Glen Williams proud past COURT CAPERSHerb Richie to listen to the court cam held In tide the Acton Town Hall During the prohibition period the trials could Ret little healed he remember One Judge mid to a drunkard I won t throw the book at you I going to throw the whole library at you Herald Me photo Herb Richie remembers Prohibition town jail EDITORS NOTE The artl Is reprinted from a March 11 M edition of The Herald Acton Herb Richie was a young pup who learned to play hockey the tough way Learning shinny on a pond near his present home on Cres cent St Mr Richie said i you t take It the roughness you stayed away from It Bom in 1900 In Acton Mr Richie has led a fulfilling life in the town he grew up and worked In until his retirement a number of years ago He has worked for companies that have been recognized as giving Ac ton its identity as Leather own Re fought In World War One lived through Prohibition in town and remembers court cases and irusical shows at the old Acton town hall Although he live on a farm growing up In town Mr Richie said his family and others raised cows and other livestock In their backyards He remembers coming to school with muddy feet and having to wash them off with the cold pump water Back In those days spelling an option he said laughing APPLE TREES He figures in the 1920s the town population was about 1 and all the young boys knew where all the good apple trees were At the bake shop youngsters would gather around a homemade icecream maker Boys were preoccupied with fishing or playing baseball or hockey using spring skates where the blades had to be attached to the boot Richie was promoted to Major In the First World War where he spent lour years overseas He returned o town and began working for Storey Glove formerly known as Acton Glove Works The building was torn down around 1922 and some of the bricks were used for the building Mr Richie began working then for Tor ranee The were kind people who would often By J MARKROWL Herald Special Recorded history of Glen Williams begins 162 ago when the Crown gave acres to John Butler Muirhead of Niagara no doubt a loyalist Death claimed him however before he saw his land In township tils heirs sold the 200 acres of lot Concession to another loyalist Williams in November 1825 So year old his third wife Elizabeth and some of his children arrived to begin the task of clearing the forest and tilling the soil It long before sons realized the potential of the Credt River They all helped with the building and running of a flour and saw m where apple Products the bill park are today But it ended in the possession of the second son Charles The third son Jacob began woollen mills where the are located nearly opposite the Anglican Church The eldest son Joel kept up the farming also being a blacksmith In 183a he bought lot Concession 11 Outsiders started to move into the valley in the lKJOs the first sale of land going to Peter Fox 11833 and George In the next decade more lots were sold to people like Thomas Hugh straighten out a poor worker rather than fire him if he had a family he One of Mr Richie jobs was to water trees on Poplar and Crescent Streets which ironically now Is causing problems with sewers from the gigantic roots He lives In a house built by around 1905 one of a number they constructed near the factory for their employees HAULING Mr Richie did a lot of outside work for Beardmore hauling from the train station bark came off the trains from and Hunts where it was used for coloring and stability in leather making ho said Nowadays chemicals are used in st cad of bark Mr Richie worked for for then he left to work again for Storey Goo who sent their leather gloves across Canada until they closed down In He finished his working career with Micro Plastic and with the town recreation department The old Acton own hall was a place to watch concerts plays minstrel shows and even the amateur night which was a tot of Tun considering he amount of he said L JAIL The town hall was also a room with a small Jail As a young boy Mr Richie used to sneak down and listen in on some or the cases He remembers as a young adult the bottles In the early 1920s when li was banned from town Men were fined for bootlegging whiskey plus a possible Jail sentence He remembers one judge say to his friends about a bootlegger I wont throw the book at him III throw Ihe whole library at him I Mr Richie has three children and grandsons His mothers family came to Acton from the Scotch Block while his father family came to Ac ton from Grey County History 15 years ago Don Kyle is the manager of v Bank of Montreal The bank just at the Georgetown Market jPlaeeat Guelpn Street I Progressive Conservative MP for Rial ton East Jim Snow was swept pack into Queen Park He turned kls narrow margin of victory of votes to an 11000 vole victory in Liberal Bob Blake was the nearest challenger 1 Progressive Conservative George Kerr of Ha Ion West was part of one of the largest victories on record In a provincial election Mr Kerr took 1 jper cent of the vote in his riding He on over of the riding polls The new Canadian Tire opened its lours Oct IS at its Mountain view toad and Street store Murray bought the from Lloyd Marks In February 1970 when the store was at the corner if and Water Street 10 years ago This is the best In recent lycars said Georgetown anil High School principal J Furlong Of the students who graduated 100 students from grades 12 and were on he honor roll Doug Gray was the valedictorian Among the awards given graduates of Acton High School twf were to commemorate John and Kevin who died with five others in a headon crush March Andy Thomson was the valedictorian or iho 122 who graduated 5 years ago Ronnie Hawkins a legend in nil spare time performed wo shows at the John Elliott Theatre He his own brand of music a lend of rock country and hanky Susan Budge of Terra Coital won the United States championships last weekend She won the title In Buffalo Her mother Ann Budge won the Ladies and over title and her father finished third in the Mens and over category Duff 1848 Marley Wilkinson Peter Ackcrt 1842 Ar Smith Thomas McMaster William McClure James Jr and William Alexander The set tlemcnt was known as Williamsburg As the village grew so did he business transacted at the place Hotels general stores blacksmiths tailor tanner woollen flour and mills were all part of life in the Glen A post office was soon needed but there already existed a Will post office so the me was changed to Glen Williams Modern day Glen Williams developed in several stages The Glen Williams is comprised the Williams land now known as Main Street Street Moun tun Street Forester and Twcedle Street A village plan surveyed and drawn up probably in ihe early lfl50s Jacob Williams owned all he water front lots the east side of Main St north of he dam and all up Mountain Street Charles Williams owned all the inland lots north of the dam bridge and all the lots south of the bridge including the flour and saw mills Charles built himself Main Street Beaumont residence to live in while Jacob Williams built himself IS Mountain Street Goodie low residence to live In Glen Williams grew after this In several stages The first was David Rectors Survey followed by the Joseph Tweddle survey No other growth took place until the late 1950s Wedding bells The gnucslng Historical Invites to enjoy our wedding photos collection on Nov Knox Georgetown The Society will share iodic of heir photo collection and in vlt everyone to bring in their own family photo to share This weeks photo features Mr and Mrs William Glass outside St Georges Anglican Church after their wed ding The bride was Joan daughter of Mr and Mrs Sam Penrice of Georgetown The photo appeared In he June iz 1M3 issue of the Herald Photo courtesy Gordon Campbell A bronze sculpture over 8 tall located on Hill Ottawa Canadas Leading Sculpture Foundry 1 Armstrong Ave Georgetown Onl 4R9 9501