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1 tvmfg tf- js vtt j i is r lffle attanjtojwhfi thursday november 2e 1926 votei vote vote lo you want to boo the drunkard reel ins down tho busy btroot do you want to bear tho shufflo o his poor unsteady feet so you want to smell tho fumes of ovll liquor as you passt r bo you want to kri6w tjittt yonder lad la taking his first glast7 if not volej vote voto would you bring back wretchea squalor und u wifes pathetic face in tho homo of tnany a workman who b now icun keep his place in tho busy- hum of business or upon the good old farm would you keep temptation from him help preserve nis eotil from harm you must vote voto vote since the jwys marched on to battle suffered till their work was done loft their lonely comrades sleeping where the 3rcat red war was won i h to slay this slant etalfijng now within your view- dont depend upon another this at tack devolves on you you must vote vote vote b a p k i ga sjy w the oulman m i v i v ffs fmfl november news from acton gleaning from title acton qaxatte and express of acton ena- acton council has decided vto obtain estimates tor a new union jack owing to the expense oc washing tho old privet and quickthorn hedges are to- be planted along tho frontages of the nouses in the jbost acton bstates progress is being made towards realizing the rev bl g pellos sugges tion that a public chapel mortuary should be provided for south acton the case of whiskey offered at tho acton ondchlswlca garden party at chlswlck bouse was won by mr b c ccandrett fosterroad chlswlck the annual meeting of the acton v wesleyan lawn tennis club was held last week mr p m harris j p presiding over a very good attendance a crowded parish hall on monday evening proved that the suggestion for holding an at homo for all saints pariah had been appreciated the treasurer received a cheque for 350 from tho alexandra day jom- mlttee being tho amount allocated to aoton hospital from the proceeds of alexandra boy fredk scitcholl independent- who gave an address at pennardroad shepherds bush was charged at tho acton police court on saturday with being drunk and incapable in churcn floldroad acton vi mr a stone for reasons of health has nad to resign tils position as the superintendent of the all saints boys sunday school hut is retaining his secretaryship ot the young mens communicant guild- j l j a special effort is being made lit st martins west acton to raise 390 before december 31 members of the congregation and church people gener ally are asked to practise definite self- denial as the money da imperatively necdejl thero will be o private meeting of the remodelled acton town council tonight to make arrangements for procedure in tho election of mayor an alderman and committees next tues day an impressive service was held in st marys parish church acton oh monday ovennur when the new lady chapel and altar were dedicated by the bishop of kenslngto more is being olono at the present time than ever feeforo to reach uni versities or to attend trade schools training schools and other institutions of a similar character the- outgoing acton education committee wound up its business at tho cnd of the administrative year on thursday in last week john costeuo a watcthmanv who gave an address at wood green was boundsover at actonr police court on monday on a charge of using insult ing words and behaviour in high- street acton on saturday night thanks to the energy of suiter edith of the good shepherd mission in south acton and the aptness of her pupils a delightful and novel enter tainment was given in all saints parish hall on wednesday week in aid of the universities mdssion to central africa at the imperial evult show at hol land park messrs geo monro ltd won the gold medal for tho best non- returnable package ror fruit thiols a one and ono half bushel box de signed by mr a t barnes of acton tvbo aide pf the highstreet having been well and truly relald with wood blocks and concrete gangs of men aro now treating the other side in a simi lar manner and trafilc is again being diverted it is a county council job and must cost a good deal of money anxiety has been caused to his friends by the mysterious disappear ahco of edwin hall son of mr- and mrs hall chaucerroad acton who suddenly left bis home on october 18 and has not slnco been beard of following tho opening of its new parish hall on saturday the church of st thomas acton vale had an other redletter day on sunday when the mayor and corporation of acton attended tho morning service a nqwwolfaro coamittee has been formed in acton on which the guard ians tho central aid society and sim ilar organisations aro represented for the purpose of helping those children who have passed through the local centres for mental deficients on saturday sir harry brlttoln ac companied the dominion prime min isters on the revenge for the re view of the atlantic fleet he also acted last week as one of the hosts at a small dinner given by the execu tive of the empire parliamentary as- soclatlon to tho premiers the acton strolling- players paid n vlbit on friday to south aoton where they gave a performance in the parish hall of keblo howards merry ploy tht cheerful knave hi aid of the funds of the diocesan stall at tho fothcoming all saints boxaar two great western railway porters george chamberlain of is salisbury- street southall and david dean of 18 groveplace acton were sent to prison at tho marylebone police court by mr h c a blngloy on a charge of pilfering l on thursday night members of tho acton conservative club assembled for what was a houso-warm- itief to celebrate the completion of the extensive alterations and extensions to their clubpreml8es in avenueroad protesting against the appalling waste of money on funerals in south iondon the rev t p stevens form- erly curate of st michael and all angels and now vicar of st mt- thcwshow kentroad estimates that at tho recent funoral of a compara tively poor woman at least 880 was spent in flowers much sympathy is felts by loca townspeople with mr f h mead of graftonparede ilomlarre and a member of the oommtttco of the ac ton chamber of commarco in the death of his wife in sad circum stances yesterday weelt in colchest er hospital yvwio busy electioneers were en- grossed on monday afternoon hv pro moting the varying public interests of the living the bishop of kensington visited acton cemetery far the pur- wsmtt we are growing old together pono of ctftibecratlng- ground set apart aro doing for tho hallowed repoa of iftg dead were growing old together wife ouit- heads aro silvering fast our raco of life will soon be run all careb will soon ho past for tycora weve helped each other wie thro rough and stormy weather but soon tho clouds will disappear for were growing old together for years weve helped each other wife through rough and stormy weather butboon tho clouds will disappear for were jjrowlng old together ah well do 1 remember wife those happy days long flown when wo together crossed thb fields where the hay won freshly mown those summer days flew swiftly by and winter crossed tho heather but our love is just us strong today tho were growing old tosrether it seems but yesterday dear wife it- seems but yesterday in tho village church closo by oar home i claimed you for my bride and solemn were the vows wo made and said wed both endeavor to- cheer each other day by day whllo growing old together your golden hadr was rippllnsdown oer shoulders fair as show but the silver threads aro just as dear as tho tresses ot long ago our love weve ever cherished wife our hearts we will not sever but claim each other dear aa life while woro growing old together oliutime traffic down main street i have written bo much concerning the old days and the early residents on main street that i find it is difficult to get away fromljhtifl motoric old thoroughfare a3 2 stood tho other day watching the present day traffic poiir off the no 7 highway on to our new main street cement pavement i tll you i was amazed there were the touring cars good bad and indifferent from fords to cadi lacs on pleasure bent there were motor trucks loaded with general merchandise live stock form produce gasoline fuel oil and long lists of other commodities there were form teams conveying grain to the mill to be ground for feed there were pleasure carriages and merchants der hvery rigs there were multitudes of them travelling both east and west and i thought of the contrast between this and the traffic fifty or sixty years ago over the same road the second lino and main street i xncam but you younger people must not conclude that we did not have busy times in those early days some of you will remember as i do the great traffic in hemlock bark to the tan neries during ihe months when the sleighing was at its best and in those days fifty or sixty years ago there always seemed to be real good sleighing the winter through and through welltho- teaming of jbarkwas an enterprise of interest teams with loads of bark came to acton from erin and eromosa from qorofraaca and caledon and from esnucslng and nassauaweya in those days i have counted twentyfive or thirty teams in a line following each other with the tannery as their object vr one sat urday i remember counting forty- two loads of bark coming down main street from tho second line after unloading their hemlock bark the drivers went to the hotels for dinner and then went around tho stores of the town shopping in- those early days the tanneries hero depended on this sourco of sup ply for hemlock bark none in fact was brought in by train at that time the farmers who were clearing up their land wero glad to have this source of revenue for a product which otherwise would tfo to tho log heap and would thoro be burned to get rid of it four dollars a cord was con sidered good- pay and with a three- cord load which many of tho farmers brought it whs considered good re- numeration for the long haul they made m whan theso great caravans of hem lock bark where being brought to acton wo had four barrooms and sev eral stores where liquor was freely sold unfortunately itwar often- the fact that a considerable amount re ceived by some of tho men went for intoxicating drink and tho parade back home jn the afternoon was often more boisterous than that of the morning when the loads were coming in there was a great contrast in thhv respect over conditions today f the hundreds of motor cars tracks horse teams and carriages not a driv er stops in acton to purchase liquor the scene has burely changed in this regard and for tho better by a very large percentage then main street saw another large volume of trafflo coming from another direction into aoton in those days the bulk of tho products of the saw mills and shingle factories at st helena at smiths at spoyslde was teamed to actori for shipment to the oubtomers over tho grand trunk railway often forty teamsters were engaged dn this work they were in dustrious men those teamster and vied with each other in tho matter of loads and trips and ordinarily they rarely misled a trip from tho nrrllw to the station but on pay day this was changed many of these men drank to excess then they paraded on foot from tavern to tavern and many a time on such occasions numbers of them would be found lying dead drunk in the gutter and tills was so com mon that it caused no surprise to citizens or visitors we were all ac customed to seeing suoh sights when liquor- was freely obtainable scores of the voters of today never saw thesq orgies wo older chaps saw sol often others forget those former days of easily obtainable whiskey and some jnvve the effrontry to declare there is as much liquor sold and drank in acton today as over before served in the milltto and ho was a volunteer at the penten raid of us where he was rated as a good soldier and an excellent rifleman but he had never hunted deer when he was about to start on hi first hunt up north his friends rallied him touu get buck fever they said every one does til get the first deer i see and i wont miss a shot boated jim after along snowy tramp he found his deer hla bullet struck it his first bullet i the deer struggled feu rolled downhill andlanded with a crash in a clump of brush a hundred yards away jim walked carefully round to th id of the brush he had sbnont reached the cover when ho saw scarcely ten feet away above the low- bushes a huge pair of der horns one plunge and the huge deer coub reach him with hoof and horn he was armed with repeating rln and ho had flred only the one shot that had brought down the deer frantically he began to aim work the lever and pull the bigger but the horns there in front of him did hot waver soon his gun was empty why did the deer neither attack nor die decently while he was fumbling in his pockets for more cartridges he continued to game as if hypnotised at the horns then the truth dawned on him welt i he danged he exclaim ed tbe exclamation was natural tears before some hunter had kilted a huge buck and had set the horns on a stump to save them the bjjhea had grown up and hidden the htmmp but not the horns in the stump just below the horns jim found fifteen fresh bullet holes weh and jim could xeel himself hlusball over as he said it i got the deer the first shot but i guess it was buck fever for the others lucky no one was there his brother however had heard the shots and seeing jims guilty flush demanded an explanatlon jim told the story and after that and for twenty years afterwards he was un able to shake off the ntolmamebuck ive usually been favored with a sample of some one of- the deer brought back to acton in the fall by local sportsmen and weve enjoyed it always mary la a good cook all the time but shes especially good with a roast of venison twoquesjjons aletter has come to tho stur from mr george martin 2645 qupoa street west toronto asking if we will pub lish two questions and answcr them the first question ho submits is this is it your belief and contention that only those citizens who favor tho continuance of the existing prohibi tion act are friends or temporanco that is not bur belief manv friend s of temperance and many total ab- stalncrs who have no personal inter est injiquor for reasons which they- consider good and which in somo cases are political are opposed to the continuation of the existing law at thlstlrae thesecond question is m you contend that those citizens who favor tho propdseduquor regula tions are enemies of te no we do not the answer to the first question applies to the second no doubt there aro men and women with excellent records on the temper ance question and by no means enemies of temperance who support the liquor control proposals of mr ferguson bat we believe those peoplo are mistaken and will havocauso to regret it while tome friends of temp erance ore with mr ferguson all the enemies of temperance are with him the supporters of tho o tx the present fight see in the ranks opposed to them oil the familiar faces of the men and the interests they have coped with for a generation past the ranlcs that confront each other this time aro substantially the same as ever before with of course new faces here and there some good men rubbing should ers with the strangest company they were ever in ht ferguson evidently believes that many supporters are party men first and temperance men afterwards be lieving that he is trying to prove it in the interest not of those who arc the friends of temperance toronto star gems of thought nothing is more agreeable to the order of nature or more fpr tho in terest of mankind than that tljo less shpuld yield to tho greater not in numbers but in wisdom and virtue those who excel in prudence in x- porlenco in industry and courage howover few they may be wlil finally constitute tho majority and every where have tho ascendancy a they that deny themselves will be sure to find their strength increased their affections raised and their in ward ieaco continually augmcuitod matthew arnold itho block of graiiito which was an rtobstacle in the pathway of the weak became a steppingstone in the path way ofjthe strong carlyle the twoperltewhjch beset this and everyj ajbo- learning detached from life and life undisciplined by service i f g- peabody so many hbura must i take my rest so many hours must i contemplate shakespeare whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever namo it may be called john stuart mill courage even sorrows when once they aro vanished quicken tho soul as they rain the valley sails better are blessings that seem to come than pleasures leading to re- pentlngs that surely come later there is an innermost centre in us all where turth abides in fullness browning the way to heaven out of all places js of like place and distance sir thomas more t to him that dwells with righteous ness overy place is safe eplctetus v opinion in good men is but know ledge in the making milton says prohibition has come to stay dr william j mayo of rochester minn who attended tho clinical con gross of the american college of sur goons at montreal recently believes that prohibition has come to stay hi tho united states his opinion as stated in nn interview is that by a alow process of education a new gen oration will grow up abstemious in habit meanwhile tho present genera tion must bear wtih any disadvantages which prohibition entailed dr mayo believed tho greatest op position and disregard of tho prohibi tion law come from the atlantic sea board cities in his own city of rop cheater the law was respected and well enforced and had apparently contrl- buted to tho moral and material well being of the community- ho was emphatic in his declaration that un der prohibition there had been a de crease in the amount of drinking in universities and colleges with a few exceptions how to tell a gentleman an exaniplo of a fine but it seems proper distinction is given in this conversation- reported in harpers magnslno mr smith a man asked bis tail or how is it you have not called on me for my account oti x never ask a gentleman for money indeed how then do you get on jf ho doesnt pay whyy replied the tailor hesitat ing after a certain time i concludo ho is not a gentleman and then i ask him identification judge soaken to man accused of offence against the alberta liquor act you say you were never in this court before defendant no sir i aint never been in no court before judge tve certainly seen your face somewhere defendant ybu sure have your honor im your bootlegger paper from straw in alberta a straw paper and pulp industry is being organized in alberta the com pany wilt bo incorporated under the namo of tho western canada straw pulp paper co limited with its headquarters in- efdmonton james ramsay is heading the venture the plans are to build a plant this fall so that the 1926 crop of straw can bo made into a merchan disable com modity and different grades of paper lind board thhbonnnufactured under the bachcwlgg patents which have already been arranged for hereto fore thousands of tons of straw have been burned by alberta grain growers and countless thousands bf itons have boon wasted because there was no market other than tho light one for baled straw to be used in stables the the farmers in alberta are showing great interest in tho new industry it mu8t have been e x see in ix local newspaper writes a correspondent of tho boston trans cript that a mr vqwell has just died lot us be thankful that it was neither nor l eat it the young brlda had come out second best in her first encounter with the cookbook and gno range she ran to the telephone and called up her mother mother she sobbed i cant un- dor stand it the recipe says clearly bring to boll on brisk fire stirring for two minutes then beat jt for ten minutes and when 1 came back it was burned to a crap vtm br 1 j cadesky y v of toronto eyesight specialist wiu be at jl t browns drdo btorb acton monday dec 6th anyone suffering from eire- train defect vision or hosusacho should not miss u opportunity ot consultlnc this sysslsht specialist appoint ments may be made with mr a t brown druggist consultation fbcb office heurs a mtlll 4 p sa rj advertisement advertisement advertisement advertisement advertisement advertisement upa it fz to the electors of the proving of ontario the issue with regard to temperance in the pending provirt rial election is between two temperance policies in this connection i would like to make char two points first i was a member of the hearst government which pat in force the ontario temperance act in 1916 daring the ten years it has been in operation i have been a member of the govern ment of ontario for nearly six years my position therefore has given me opportunity to study conditions under the ontario tern perance act at close range the act has undoubtedly in some respects done much good unfortunately however it is quite apparent that it no longer commands the support of sufficiently strong public opinion to secure satisfactory enforcement and observance second under the ontario temperance act the govern ment has been operating twelve liquor stores our policy is to abolish the farce of medical prescriptions and substitute an official permit to purchase with proper restrictions and safeguards the- whole question is between these two methods of handling liquor shall we continue to allow it to be uncontrolled or shall we insist upon controlling it urge upon you to put aside the details and consider only the reali8sue we are all desirous of doing the best thing for ontario we must have public opinion behind the law to insure its existence and observance only in this way can advance along true temper i ance lines be achieved g howarti ferguson the deer huntbjbb and buck fever tiip sportsmen who wont north shooting nro returning homo now with their venison nntf u fact rocalls it story of the oirly days for some of qur boys indulged in this pastime- fifty yenra nffo as tho sportsmen ot fo- ftr soycra years jftm crelghton bad m miftsi