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n wwiji r- 1 v two tjh acton free press tuottsdav september 29 1932 the home of jstyrartim jtm jrwa member canadian weekly newspaper association member ontario quebec division c w n a the acton free press is published every thursday evening at the free press building mill street acton ontario the subscription price is joo peryeat in advance postage charged additional to offices l in the united states the date to which subscriptions- are paid is indicated on the address label advertising rates for small unclassi fied advertisements and in other columns the rates will be found at head of column dis play advertising rates on application j g arlof dills editor telephones editorial and business office residence 174 13 j where the money goes the question of where the levy for county purposes goes on the tax rate was answered in the county council proceedings as published last week the sum of 213014s it is estimated will be re quired to meetcounty expenditure in addition the sum of 2455610 is needed for the county good roads system twoitems which- loom large in the amounts required are of very recent addition to county requirements the countys share of the old age pensions and mothers allowance amount to well over 15000 each year the high schools and debentures are the two largest items at 6708032 and 8529563 respectively in looking over the amounts it will appear to all that the cpuncil has very limited control over the amounts required the direct taxation for provincial highways in the county amounts to 482469 for maintenance the county council will tie commended or a slight decrease in the rate especially when ttheir control is so limited that halton county is in good standing financially is t pr offer for it b at this- same meeting another milestone the acton fair of 1932 is now a matter of history success attended the efforts of those in charge in evejy way and an increased attendance can be record ed over last year the possibility of retaining the lower admission fee at twentyfive cents will remain to be seen when a final summary of the gross receipts and the expenditures can be given the rural fairs that have been favored withany sort of suitable weather have held up well this year in point of at tendance in view of the fact that thec n show ed a decreased attendance it was generally believed that ither fairs would suffer in- similar proportion such has not been the case and it seems that the country fair is still very close to the lives and hearts of many and when a decision must be made the home fair gets the patronage financial success is not the sole object of any of these events else they would have gone long ago the social side the friendly competition the closer contacts than provided by the big fairs the pleasure of a day in a rural community and the wholesome entertainment and genuine fun of the smaller fairs will always make them an at traction to all acton fair is keeping well to the fore in all departments and the 1932 event was an other milestone along the road chronicles of ginger farm written specially far the free pies by gwendoline p ctiftbkk a suggestion we pass on during a conversation with a former actonian at the fair last week he made the suggestion that an association of acton old boys and girls be formed in toronto each year possibly a gathering of the residents would be held at acton fair and all would i t k fi h v f r- i k i -i- i r improving according to the recent business summary issued by the bank ofmontreal the tone ef business sen timent has improved during recent weeks under the stimulus of a good harvest higher commodity prices and the agreement reached at the imperial economic conference among the adverse factors in the situa tion perhaps the most persistent is the low price of wheat which has this irfonth touched the lowest figure of the year on the other hand the crop of which the greater portion has already been threshed should prove large being estimated at 163000000 bushels in excess of that of last year of good quality and sown and reaped to date under favorable conditions both as to weather and cost the preference about to be given empire wheat in great britain should ensure a large market there for canadian wheat export of which is proceeding on a considerable scale with charters up to the close of inland navigation much in excess of last season shipments from the port of montreal are already 10000000 bushels more than last year and irrespective of market price the more abundant crop will advantage transportation in terests by land and water rf f a r v ty w- t just words the canadian government information bureau estimates the wordage telegraphed out of ottawa for publication during the imperial economic conference at 3130000 the bureau has issued the following some famous events have been told in a few words but the imperial economic conference recently held in ottawa cannot be classed among them this event which was attended by delegates from the prin cipal countries within the british empire attracted 250 representatives of the press of several countries who telegraphed and cabled during the month the conference was in session 3130000 words it is es timated that the number of words written by repre sentatives of weekly newspapers periodicals and other publications and sent by mail was at least 250000 so that the total wordage written during the sessions of the conference was nearly 3500000 or equal to about seventy 50000word volume this means that if the articles written during the confei- ence were bound into books of the same size as the average modern novel a tenfoot shelf would be required to hold them how many words were writ- ten in the few months preceding the conference and since it closed can only be vaguely approximated but they wouidttggregate many thousands then be assured of meeting their former friends on that day we have often wondered why such an association wasnot formed in toronto we also have a dim recollection of meeting with a half dozen actonians in toronto when residing in the city and planning for a gathering in the city if memory serves us right the project at that time went as far as securing a hall for the holding of the event but the outbreak of the world war caused the cancellation of further arrangements apparently the forming of an association of acton folks residing in the city has been occupying the thoughts of others maybe many more would favor the plan the free press has a great many readers in the city so we pass on the sug gestion that came to us on fair day if it appeals we suppose the best way would be to have an expres sion from our readers and from there on the plans of organization might be worked out we will gladly do our part if it seems advisable to start from acton and pass on the views of actonians on the project through our columnsor whatever may develop in the furthering of the organization it could establish a membership of several hundred r- editorial notes it is seldom indeed that the foliage is as green in the last days ofseptember as it is in 1932 a toronto paper credits acton with having held its 90th fall fair its really only the nineteenth 19th annual event and we only desire the credit that is due us with transient traders laws and transient resid ence cards the best policy wouldcseem to be not to seek far away fields when one cannot do business or live in the home town mayor stewart oi toronto issued a warning for transients to keep out of the city if they didnt belong there it might be a good idea for other municipali ties to issue a like warning canada has floated a 60000000 loan in the unit ed states que would almost think that recent ex periences in exchange charges on other loans in the united states would have carried a buyathome lesson we hasten to explain that the guessing contest in whichthe editor won a prize at the toronto ex hibition carried no award of a thousand dollars or a new car but was a strip of bread tickets of a kind we cant use in acton ghandi has won his round by the fasting method what great statesmen failed to accomplish by other methods the little man frontlndfa has done by this unique method we doubt if others less notable would however have been successful with the same method initial shipments of canadian apples to the british isles this season have sold very quickly for prices well in advance of those secured in 1931 in view of the quick disposal and higher prices secured from the first shipments confidence isfelt among exporters that shipments of more than 45000 barrels now en route to the british market will bring en couraging returns there is a total of 5872 grain elevators with a cabacityoj4i466q260i bushels in the western and eastern divisions of canada of this total 5734 are country elevators with a rapacity of 192328000 bushels manitoba has 739 elevators with a capacity of 23751500 bushels saskatchewan has 3237 ele vators with a capacity of 103855400 bushels alberta has 1748 elevators with a capacity lof 75344200 i bushels brpv 5fe my thoughts are all mixed up with rats roger casement john ellis and ginger farm so i guess i had better elucidate if i want to get all these things into their proper plgeop holes shis mental confusion all came about through seeing a small piece in the dally paper this week about john hulls the british exhangmaheafe4ng his own life in remorse memory went back years and years when i was a little girl at home we had a very wicked rat and this rat seemed to have a charmed exis tence we set traps put down poison kept a fullgrown cat but still the rodent lived one time we did catch part of him but the rest got awsty i mean to say he left his tall behind him in the trap at last my mother was persuaded to engage the services of a professional ratcatcher he came with a dog two ferrets and a gun but even at that there was no surrender on the part of the rat at last the ratcatcher who could not catch rate decided to flood the creature out calls and pails of water were throwndown one hole and at the long last mr bat came swimming out from the other hole the dog was ready waiting and that was the end of the rat now at the time that we were being beseiged by this prince of rats the posi tion of public executioner fell vacant so far as i can remember there were six applicants and among the number was our friend the professional rat catcher i was just a wee thing at the time but i remember so well this man telling my brother how he had put in for the job and that he hoped that he would get it but he lost it and it was john kills who got it years went by and at the school where i was living during the war there was a vacancy on the staff for a junior teacbrnb a degree essential the position was advertised and among the applicants was a certain gentleman from ireland now during the war men teach ers were particularly hard to get and it was a good time for u10s2 who were medically unfit but well qualified for teaching to get headmasterships for that reqson the board decided that there must be a nigger in the woodpile some where for a well qualified man from ireland to apply for a position in a com paratively small school near the east coast of england the man who was not engaged was roger casement after wards convicted of high treason ana hanged by john ellis the teaching stunt was evidently a blind but no doubt it would have suited roger casement very well to have been so conveniently near to the east coast where he might have carried on his es p w fo som t tag detected the east coast was natur ally chosen as being the centre of activity- on account of troops continually going backwards and forwards what a kaleidoscope affair is life with odds and ends conn other people flashing across oujr path like bits of colored glass all helping to make a complete pattrn slats diary by ross parquhab friday ant emmy is wirryed about her nephew witch lives over in wash- lngt c be- cuz his wife rote to ant emmy and sed horace had a cut in his weekly sti pend ant emmy sed she diddent no just what a stipend was but his famly all wajys did half to have a lot of operashuns saterday efty tate is considerably unbarlssed now and 8vry buddy smiles when hey see her her ingagement was announced the uther day and the paper up to the city ast her for her pitcher and she got xclted and in her xcttement she sent the noose paper a x ray pitcher witch sh had tuk of her left lung they did not print ft tho sunday pa is afrade to go to wirk at the noode paper office jsritch he wirks at tomorrow becuz he just notised that he let aalrer get in th paper about the fire acrost the crick last thlrsday the peace sed the are is thought to of been caused by a xposed wife in the attlck munday well we had a stake supper out in the back yd tonlte and pa was saying to ant emmy and i that he had red a lots about how endustrous a ant is but he sed he notised they ail ways find time to go to a pickniok ermy ways- teusday ernie hale was a rested to day becuzz he went threw a red light and the judge ast him why did he do it and ernie sed he new he shud of waited but he was prest for time so the udge sed well ve will fix that so he give him ten days i jjess thats plenty of time wensdaj ma went to the ladys ade society today and she sed it was a offle duu afiare jbecauz they tawked about the very same people they tawked about last month at the ladys ade society meeting thirsdaj blisters mother and father enformed him that he has got a little sister down to the hossplttle blisters sed he druther had a bruther even i he had of had to wait a few weaks longer for it speak up minnie min- speaking of color brings me back again to the subject of pickles which i never thought tab mention for a year at least last week when i wrote i had quite finished pickling and canning for this season and on wednesday i was still at that blissful stage but then i started all over again how could i do otherwise there were tomatoes just yeamingto be made into chili sauce there were peaches almost being given away in the stores and there were a few empty sealers in the cellar now eveny sealer i possess every jam jar every wide neck bottle has got something in stored away for the winter and yet what i have done is nothing to what some people do one woman told me she and her girls had put down fourteen elevenquart baskets of peaches alone one night this week partner was away to an u f o meeting i had been canning all day perhaps that is why he went and i was still at it when he came home but now i can safely say i am through absolutely and entirely the only thing we have to do now is eat em partner also has something accom plished something done the fall wheat is in at last and for the last few days he has also been able to work nell the grey mare who had an infected foot the horses are quite a worry every night partner turns them out to pasture the fences are all in fair shape and yet it is quite a matter for conjecture where the horses will be in the morning fences mean nothing to perch if he decides- to go anywhere he climbs them jumps them down as the mood stakes him and where he goes nell follows but poor old prince being lessnimble of foot is left behind to whlnney perch and nell now having broken bounds three times this week are now confined to the stable in dlsgraoe teacher johnnyuse the word iature in a sentence johnny is minnie a chewer of gum heres a real bargain your old lamp or lantern any kind is worth 150 on the purchase of a new coleman for a limited time se thea uptodate lamps and lanterns that give from 200 to 300 candlepowsr of purs white brilliance the fi nest light for a penny a night i theyre modern to the minute i this special tradein offer and new low prices make it possible for you to have a high quality genuine coleman lamp or lantern t lowest cost for as little ma 750 j see your local dealer or write us the coleaaan lamp and stove company ltd toronto s ontario ltaax this 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