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h- t- v sy a v cjbifetujaiih 3 1 j ii a- v pack bjx the acton freevbess thursday august 18 1d32 the eternal law z think ther windflowers are to bloom down in wdefl ravine and violet shyly fchtolvthelr beads beneath their clustered green while in the overhanging trees birdlovers woo and sing the place is filled and thrilled with lite awakened by the spring it does not seem so long ago that in that same ravine there were no flowers or singing birds ust the golden sheen phrouptasr gifting autumn leaves the mystic sadness of the spell that dying summer weaves a summer that i knew and loved has passed and in its stead my heart ls by autumns chill and flllebr with winters dread yet since i know that deep ravine is keeping tryst with spring invsure that qods eternal law works out in everything eugene carne menu hints beelpes or new and morel dishes houseliojd meaa-ani- bnffestlons by betty barclay these dishes are unusual when dompany comes serve unusual dishes the kind that produce exclama tions of surprised delight an excellent foreign chefs and season even soups and meat dishes with a dash of sugar not to sweeten but enough to bring out the flavors of the other ingredients and blend them into a delicious whole try these recipes as examples of exotic cookery chicken madrid cut a frying size chicken in quarters and fry in olive oil with cup finely chopped tonion and taw irish potatoes cut in dice cook until the meat 6f the chicken is white add teaspoon sugar teaspoon chopped parsley 1 table spoon chopped green pepper andji cup hot water season with salt and pepper to taste and osok very gently until the chicken and potatoes are thoroughly done holland beet soup 1 pint strong beef stock 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon grated onion f 2 tablespoons vinegar 3 beets salt and pepper add sugar vinegar salt and pepper and grated onion to the stock boll to gether about ten minutes boil the beets in salt water peel and put through a coarse strainer about five minutes be- fore serving add beets to stock heat and hkethe sport of catching some next time i go back home yours truly now who can answer the other rues- ttan about the old maids house that was asked in that same issue an other ohap inquired if any one could give the information of who wason the acton pastime ball team when guelph won by the score of so odd runs i could place some- of the boys on that team of 1872 but well see how many can give the lineup of the ball team of sixty years ago the oldtime country store growing serve too long cooking will spoil the bright red color tii chilled desserts ven the great institution of pie some- h has to fight to keep its popularity ja wot weather for heavy rich desserts during the summer do not appeal as rnucb as they did when there were so few alternatives nowadaysrwe have many other delicious desserts to take the place of pie and cake when need be desserts that are easily and inexpen sively prepared here are recipes for two using coffee as a flavoring coffee water ice 4 cups water 2 cups sugar nlp cold coffee teaspoon vanilla boll the coffee water and sugar for a few minutes cool add vanilla and freeze creole custard 3 cups hot milk yi cup sugar 2 eggs vt cip cold coffee pinch of salt scald milk in double boiler beat egg and add sugar and salt pour hot milk egg mixture- stirring well put the mixture into a double boiler and cook stirring until it thickens like cream strain the custard into a dish to cool then add coffee and chill does there live a little urchin up about a farm who can scorn the honest pleasure or resist the breezy charm of a jolting drive with father while the horses pick their way over aprils chirping runlets or the autumns binding clay for the drive is to the ccrners the team draws up before that above of life add color wljlch its patrons call the store in its depths are plow and harrow while their pictures on the wall boldly done in green and scarlet speak in eulogies cf all on the shelves sire rainbow ginghams woven stout for little boys clumsy boots for sunday service and to swell the schoolrooms noise shining tin and loops of harness could a city shop hold more in its prim and ordered quarters than this bulging country store men and persian balm the peerless aid to loveliness delightfully fragrant dainty to use leaves no stickiness a little ggntle rubbing and it is swiftly absorbed by the tissues tonic in effect soothes end dispels roughness and chafing keeps skins coft and velvettextured unrival led for charm distinction and refine ment used by lovely women everywheie to preserve and enhance their natural beauty then the clients that it gathers of wisdom most profound captain abels most a hundred has sailed the map around jolly selfprofessed old loafer drawling out a travellers tale while the despot of the postbag shuffles calmlythroughthemall politics and social matters local news and weatherlore occupy this humble senate grouped about the country store then perhaps the boy grows weary while the graybeards wag away and his coppertoed tormentors feel amiss this workingday wistfully he eyes the roadside where the waiting horses stamp till the gift of fathers penny rubs again aladdin s lamp for within cne ancient slum cose bristle bright as precious ore yellow stick and crimson lozenge quite the treasures of the store another letter i had handed to me some tune ago expressed the apprecla- tion of one reader of this column of the items of fifty years ago that i occasion ally bring into these columns so fust by way of a change ill give some more glimpses of the life about acton and the times of a half century ago the sntrance examinations were then held at oakville and that year there were nine successful candidates it is just fifty years ago that the town hall was in course of construction and the council was having difficulties in those days in making the contractor live up to the specifications in the founda tion and brick work the architect made the contractor tear down and re build 11 the stone work and a portion of the brick work had to be rebuilt to bring it up to the standard in 1822 crlbket was a popular game and j e mcgarvins team won from j b pearsons choice and then issued a challenge to a team from berlin to play on civic holiday which was that year held on friday august 18 the public schools opened on monday august 14 in 1882 and here follow some other news items as they appeared 5d years ago 1a gang of carpenters from toronto under the superintendence of mr wm firstbrook are busily engaged on the building associations houses on bower avenue the excursion of the season took place last week from toronto to milton grove over the c v r the train was composed of 26 crowded cars having 2500 people on board 500 was distributed as prizes for sports etc the bandgave a very acceptable open- air concert on thursday evening our citizens appreciated it and a number of strangers who were in town that even ing speak in- very high terms of the efficiency of acton brass band mr a w qreen sold his carriage borse what is this the years have hastened and a man grown stout and gray steps across the rounded threshold after many a homesick day tailored cloth in place of gingham care ful clip for mothers art change the outward mans appearance but they cannot change his heart to a hopeful beat it quickens as he pauses in the door scarcely has a feature altered in the wellremembered store now he knows another reason as he gazes up and down why they say god made the country while his children made the town quiet life has brought these neighbors tn an age of p and a seaman scarcely younger drones along in abels place in this old home week thd townsman back to haunts he used to know wonders how he could have left them if you want to be miserable cynicism is popular nowadays dur ing the summer a book came out written by an outstanding american woman from beginning to end it overflowed with cynical comments on life o loyalty the ambition to help were dis cussed contemptuously and every page contained at least one sinner directed against things which people in general admire to one reader at least the strongest impression left by the perusal of the book was pity for the writer it is true that she is wealthy and famous that she would be welcomed by the best citizens of any community in america yet one who writes as she dues about life and bout her fellow men is either posing or ai miserably unhappy some of you young people are trying to appearcynlcal without really feeling w too anew hflcauae you think ft jpnrt although it is hard to lm- ihowyou ever got the twea any- neer being a cynic is the i obeartn if you want to be mjotmelf of cynicism even cynicism is enough to i or life since they grip his heartstrings so and among the kindly- races and the quaint lied stock of yore he is sblll a wee farmurchin come with father to the store jeanne pendleton ewtng ichi the answer to part otlha questions asked in my last article have been given by an old acton boy in winnipeg here is his letter just as i received it from the editor winnipeg august 8 1932 the old man j misapouard kept a pr sch in acton about the year 1879 in heniy smiths old furniture store that s the building on the second lot on main street east of west bower avenue and almost opposite knox church i think mr smith ran a furniture store for a time in the building and was succeeded by a mr heuback who auctioned off his stock as soon as he found there was not room enough for two furniture es tablishments in the village the school followed the furniture the building was afterwards used by the salvation army the only pupil i can remember was arthur smith third son of the late sydney smith the school soon died of starvation good hick to your baseball team and i am glad to read about the old park being fixed up the old kink in the race track iwas used as a nuisance ground forty year agofsand should have been rounded off long ere this donot drain all the flab from fairy lake i would to a gentleman in toronto last week for 300 cash the new school house for school section no 12 situated a few yards outside of our corporation limits is about completed the school will be open ed some time in september firedestroyedrtrre shoe store oi slex grant in august fifty years ago the building was unoccupfedtit the tune the milton school board has engaged the services of mr orey of dresden as head master of the public and model schools at a salary of 600 a dear l r i nelson and john mcrae purchased the glasgow house from messrs christie henderson co sugar was 13 lbs for a dollar and 5 lbs of the best tea was 2 25 good felt hats were 75c and christy stiffs 1 50 toronto industrial exhibition opened on september 5 now lets take some of the market quotations of 1882 white wheat 1 10 to 1 15- oats 40c to 45c barley 55c to 70c eggs per dozen 15c to 16c dairy butter 16c to 17c now potatoes per bag 55c to 1 65 dressed hogs 7 50 to 8 00 wool 20c to 32c complaint is made that a number of boys go in bathing at nicklins dam on the public highway boys this is against the law seek a more secluded bathing place mrjoclleslie of erin a few jniles- above henf has just threshed the pro ducts of a field of fall wheat the result of which is something extraordinary from the field of seven and onethirtieth acres 355 bushels of clean wheat were threshed beiffg over 50 bushels to the acre messrs r h allan and h jennersr of this village have commenced the manufacture or gloves and mitts on their jwn account they have ehrlstenedfan king charles heal continued from page thzae the way you did david copperfleld when i read it last year for book report that will be lots of fun do you know i dont think i ever enjoyed any story so much as david copperfleld and its a sort or sad story too i suppose its because we talked it over so much chap- ter by chapter while we were reading it you know i had a better mark on it than on any other book review i ever wrote i told miss treadwell part of it ought to hanre gone to you i didnt write any of if not a word walter protested no but you had made me see things in it that i never would have seen by myself about that vic prose if you would like it ill give you the whole list of books and essays ive just dipped into them a little tljey dont look to me so very interesting id like the list he said tmay i have it please so they talked on through the door way across the hall he could see mr fenton in his den playing with his radio now and then the sound of it came to them once mrs fenton came in to ask betty if she had put in her suede slippers and she stopped a moment to chat with walter it was a delight ful evening like dozens that he had spent there and then the clock struck ten and he sprang up he had meant to say goodby quite casually they might perhaps shake hands then he would go but it was not to be that way oh look at the moon betty ex claimed and fluttered out on the ver anda he followed and they stood to gether in the moonlight whose alchemy has changed the forged steel of so many friendships into the gold of something more precious i i want to write to you if i may he said well i should hope so she answer ed youve got the address he drew a quick breath for there was a tone in her voice was it possible that she too had been thinking of this evening that she expected something he was not giving that he was disappoint ing her that she doubted him they were standing close together her hands on the verandah rail he might have put his arm about her but for the code i have the address he said and then under the bombardment of those dreadful questions even the code gave grou a little when should honey be removed from bees in these days of keen competition it behooves the producer of specialty pro ducts to take the utmost care in the production and preparation of his pro duct for the market in order that ltvmay successfully compete with that of rival producers and this fact applies more particularly to the producer or a rood product during the past lew years a great advance has been made in the pieapration and packing or food and the consuming public is becoming more and more discriminating in its choice or what it is willing to buy honey is a rood but it is one that wufdeteriorate very quickly if not pppcily ripened properly packed arid properly stored- honey is the nectar of flowers gathered and modi fied by honey bees within their hives an analysis of newlygathered nectar at the central experimental farm ottawa shows that nectar contains a high per centage of moisture while an analysis of wellripened honey shjws that it con tains only from 18 to 20 per cent moisture the elimination of the excess moisture in nectar is a part or the ripening process and is performed by the bees themselves as the nectar is gathered it is stored drop by drop in the cells of the honey comb and as it jsbelng stored the process or ripening is continually going on ultimately the cells of the honey comb are filled and when the ripening process has advanced far enough the bees seal the honey with cappings of wax tit eastern canada it is not safe tip remove the honey from the bees until at least twothirds of it has been sealed over but it is much better to leave it with the bees until all or it is sealed in western canada where the atmosphere is usually muph dryer than it is in eastern canada honey may be removed rrom the bees quite safely when only fifty per cent of it is capped over but even there leaving it with the bees until it is all capped will improve its quality honey that is removed from the bees before it is properly ripened contains too much moisture and js liable to ferment very soon after it is extracted the troof business directory medical dr j a mcniven physician and surgeon office and residence corner bowar avenue and elgin street legal phsaano 22 p o boat 3ji harold nash farmer m at banister solicitor notary public conveyance etc perryman block acton on money lent on mortgages hours 930 a m to 5 00 p m saturdays 12 00 oclock wife i ve just been reading an article on electricity and it seems that before long we shall be able to get nearly everything e want by just tojchiiig a button husband yfoull nevei be able tojget anything that way wife why not husband because nothing on earth would make you touch a button look at my shirt id counted or course on writing he spoke slowly weighing each word i hoped youd want me to and i thought you would weve been such good iriends so long i want to write you good letters and tell you everything just as ive done these last two years theresonly one thing you remember mr dick in david copperfleld she nodded but did not answer well you know how he wrote and wrote filled page after page full of writing tout- he never could keep out king charles and his head the standard of value for 25 yeara kelloggs corn flakes have been the leader simply because they have always been the best corn flakes possible to make today yon get a delicious flavor and crispness in kelloggs that no other corn flakes can equal and you always get ovenfresh corn flakes assured by the sealed inside waxtite bag which is a patented kellogg feature insist on genuine kelloggs when you buy corn flakes substitutesare seldom offered in a true spiritox se kelloggs are personally guaranteed by w k kellogg if you dont think them the finest corn flakes you ever- ate return the empty redandgreen package and we will return your money made by kellogg in london ont kenneth al langdon barrister solicitor notary pnblie offices acton georgetown over t seynucks cafe main street fl for appointments phone a6ton 65 ar georgetown 88 office hours acton tuesday and thursday 1 15 p m to 5 30 p m even ings on request dental a j buchanan d d s dental surgeon office jn lelahman block hours 9 a m until 6 p m bvenlngi by appointment gas for extractions closed all day wednesday phone 148 p w pearen d d s l d s dental surreon successor to late dr j m beq phone 29 mill street acton miscellaneous francis nunan bookbinder account books of all kinds made to order periodicals of every description carefttoy bound ruling neatly and promptly done wyndbam street guelph ont over williams store their manufactory the excelsior glove works mr a w green grocer has pur- chased from mr john mcc bramp ton the driving park at the head of mill street for a reasonable figure mr green we understand intends preserv ing the property for a public ground and will probably fence it and rent it to the cricket baseball and turf clubs there jiow i have given you an insight into the activities of a half century ago 1 remember she realized that walter was telling her something that he felt was important but she did not exactly understand him well he went on even more slowly im going to trymy best but -there-is- something that im afraid i may not be able to keep out of my letters her eyes lifted dropped instantly and then after a moment and without look ing hip she spoke softly but you re member what happened afterwards it was walters turn to nod afterwards you know they fixed it up so that mr dick could write about king charles on one sheet and about something else on another you could do that too some day i might i think i should want to tead what you cant write now forjustniomenfchedld not see her the moonlight had grown to dazzling then she was standing there again wltn her hand outstretched goodby she said goodby he answered the next moment he saw her vanish up the stairway and turning he walked slowly down the steps l he was right about the evening noth ing had happened nothing to tell about he is an old man rnrwfli tfiink- about that night protect the child from the ravages of worms by using mother graves worm exterminator it is a standard remedy and years of use have enhanced its repu tation i i millers worm powders afe a prompt relief from the attacks cf worms in children they are powerful in then- action and while leaving nothing to be desired as a warm expellant have an invigorating effect upon the youthful lystem remedying fever biliousness loss of appetite sleeplessness and other ail ments that follow disorders caused by worms in the stomach and bowels i suoes ordered by wireless was only ornamental r with the tomato so widely used and enjoyed such universal popularity as it does today it seems hard to realize that for nearly two centuries it was used only as an ornamental garden plant like the tobacco plant the tomato s a native or the western hemisphere its original habitat probably having been peru the natives of mexico called it xltetnatoe and its- first appearance in north ameri ca records about 1871 it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that the tomato one of the most nutritious of fruits came into popular favor on tills continent some of the most exclusive shoe shops have their interiors unsullied by the vulgar evidence tor their trade severely or lavishly decorated according to the taste of the proprietor they advertise to perfection the interior decorators skill the shops may be old spanish or early american but certainly they must follow some period to be really chic in one modern store on regent street london a new and unusual system has been adopted which saves the salesman many steps it is no longer necessary for him to desert his customer while he disappears through a door at the side or the rear of the room to obtain shoes for her inspection size sbt number 5143 or something to this effect says the salesman into the microphone in this regent street shop the request is amplified and received through a loud speaker in the stock room presto i the shoe is sent do the show room on an endless chain watchmaker jeweller j h jordan f georgetown expert repairs prompt sarrim we have for years been doing repalra for other jewellers across canada are quite capable of doing yours tait 0pticaitc0 110 wyndham street guelph collections do we get results a toronto client writes i must say that i am very pleased with your work in hand ling my collections i had con sidered these almost hopeless july 29 1932 kelly aiken the collectors orangeville ontario est 1890 tel no 90 insurance fire car casualty etc e harrop toprfemjntuw gore district mutual norwich union canadian fire insurance companies successor to the late mr j r kennedy l l j still celebrating our 25th anniversary we find it advisable in con sideration taf many patrons who called at our office during our26th anniversary celebration and were not waited on to continue the anniversary discount on into august we are delighted that this event has proven so- successful and par- tloularly that so many of our older patrons were dole to take advant age of this unusual offer one third off august uring