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paox two thi acton fhft pmss acton ontario do it now in cooperation with acton hopi and bolt nau ptk vv are able to preenl to our readers a special shopping tune designed of course k give prechrtstmas reading nd a presentation of why you can shop best in acton incidentally its the btggest paper we have ever produced and we think you will find all its pages most helplul in doing your christmas shopping at home recently we had the rather unhappy exper ience of trying to get into toronto between 4 30 and 5 00 o clock getting in wai bad enough but those lines of traffic coming out must be a night mare shopping in your home town can avoid all this fuss and be usl as well done we suggest you look over the christmas gift offerings that are made by local merchants in this issue then go down town and browse around window shop or go in and inquire from the merchants you know and there isn t a doubt your gift prob terns will be solved if you are the kind who change your mind about gifts you will find it also a lot more con venient to have done your buying at home but early shopping is best while stocks are complete and early shopping is right now with christmas only 23 days away we hope this prechnstmas edition of the free press will be helpful in making your shop ping more enoyable and profitable we know you will find it such in doing it with your friendly local merchants still an agricultural county in spite of the fad that industrial expansion in halton county has been extensive in the past few yeans it is still quite evident that halton is very much an agricultural county and one of the tops at that this fact was brought to the atten tion of everyone by the honors which came here at the royal winter fair halton has the wheat king of the world in its w e breckon and following close on this was the winning of the queens guineas by a halton girl kathenne merry with her steer entry louie it is interesting to note that halton 4h club had four other entries in this group which came well up in the showing a perusal of the farm column news which appears each week in this paper will show that halton county has made a good showing in exhibits at the royal winter fair in many classes a trip through the exhibits found entries from halton in farm pro ducts in most every field not all of them were prize winners but halton does have consistent exhibitors who prove that this fine county is still very much agricultural much of the credit for maintaining interest on heltons farms among the young and the old is without doubt due to the untiring enthusiasm and good guidance given by agricultural repre sentative j e whitelock appreciation of his work and encouragement is shared not only by residents of halton but we found when recently meeting with the minister of agriculture and of ficiftls of that department the high regard in which he is held throughout the province halton has winners and some fine coaching as well in keeping its place in agriculture and expanding industrially private corporation at least half of those pro fits and quite posubly nearly all would have gone into the public treasury at ottawa and the general taxpayer in hamilton halifax poet credit and pom moody wouki not have had to dig down quite so deep the toronto subway is an excellent and needed improvement toronto and toronloniam deserve credit for creating it but let s not forget the general taxpayer of canada his contribu tion helped too whether he realized it or not flouting the public the attitude of many of the provincial board in ontario would indicate that little attempt is being made to the desires of the people of this province in sptte of the fact that 76 6 per cent of the residents of aldcrwood made an expressed plea that a liquor dispensing license be denied a proposed hotel their wishes are ignored the hotel is under construction and its license assured since 1946 there have been 4622 outlets established in ontario there are now 564 in toronto and 208 in hamilton the ontario tern perance federation is quite ustified in ifs de mand for the resignation of the liquor board chairman judge w t robb another ridiculous situation created by judge robb will make it illegal for a child to eat in a railway dining car under the ontario law minors are not allowed to eal on licensed premises a few months ago the railways succeeded in get ring the ageing udge to grant them permission to sell liquor on transcontinental trains in making this decision the wise udge reasoned that since the public is drinking on trains now he should license the trains to make the boozing legal in short this erstwhile watchdog of public morality has rewarded the violators of the law by making it legal for them to drink many of us have heard france held as a grand example of the uninhibited drinking policy with a further urge that we follow their lead it la believable that france will no longer be quofed oi the shining example of the benefit of creating more outlets to curtail alcoholism premier pierre mendes france has announced a crack down on booze consumption in france for the physical social and moral health of the nation we wonder how long before judge robb and the ontario government will do something for the physical social and moral health of this pro vince instead of showing chief interest with the brewers and distillers and getting as many outlets as possible uifttr bru i would recommend your wife loam to male lighter biscuits n w the good old days may have seemed better back in 1934 tfcas by no i af iho pro rmar b it i back in 1904 takoa from the taaw f ibm prooa tnnroaar doeab 1 itm trying far setllenaent erin merchants man in oakville ford of canada and in erin 20 members of the local the united automobile workers busincs mens asociauon met at municipal nomination in acton last friday evening created quite a lively interest it wu rn l the inrgeit lists of nominal ion fi forth in years and found every hce wllh am tie provision not ineen four names were put tn for the reevethtp 14 nanvi for the tour position of councillors nine names tat the three vacopcui on the whool brd and three namea for ihe one place on the public u illtira commission those who qualified and whose name will appear on ihe ballot are for ret ve c m hansen thelford for council george cow 1e am on maaon f mccutrheon f mcmillan dr e j mr puc b g arnold r j kerr for schools trustee the following were elected by acclamntion it f fvaser w k graham f e mr the annual meeting of acton clt liens band waa held on monday night officer were elected as fol j lows honorary president amos i htably and enjoyably mason president kirby williams evening the lack nee president r spielvogel sec table building etary treasurer n gibson llbrar oracle in c byrne properly custodian 1 mks bell i stephenson returned gorge simpson i from si loun last week having at the november meeting of enjoyed a delightful trip her de- halton county council members of captions of the great fair are hijtn- havc stopped hurling insults and ultimatums at each other and are trying to work out a settlement the recordstar reports last weak of the 45day old strike which has paralyzed canada s second largest automobile manufacturer a series of meetings is continuing estimate for bronte sewera in bronte an estimate of 300000 for a sewage system not including a disposal plant was placed before council by the villages engineers a disposal plant isnt incuded be cause of a recommendation from queen s park that village sewage be processed at the coronation park disposal plant to be built by trafalgar safety group hans in burlington a ntwly formed organization the burlington safe ty council met last week to out line plans for a christmas safitv campaign a large part of ihi groups with schools safety patrol ystem 1 ill also include co opcralioi with local police in reducing the hazard of over thelimit car ers new house breakers in georgetown last week some body had a lot of danng and more christmas cards have already be- gall thieves broke into the new gun arriving at the post office house so new us still under con- soon there will be thousands of other canadians helped ottawa was quite right in refusing federal grants for proposed extensions to the toronto subway thinks the financial post whether they ride or not every canadian has contributed substantially to the cost of the pre sent subway and undoubtedly will continue to contribute to the cost of any extension it works this way the toronto transportation commission which operates the toronto subway is a publicly owned organization and therefore escapes corporation income tax during the war wlien pr vately own ed companies were paying at least 50 per cent of their prof ts io ottawa the t t c was salting its profits avsa li was those wan me profits wheh formed the kitty that got canada s first subway sarted had tl e t t c been an ord nary other papers say most inventions turn out to be failures but points out the picton ont times any person who cares to compare his present mode ot life with that of say 50 years ago will soon discover i how easily the benefits of the successful two per i cent of inventions can outweigh the 98 per cent of failures a if every child could know the fellowship that i comes through an intimate knowledge of nature as taught by scouting or other similar organize tions there would be no need for abolishing comic books from our news stands by law they would disappear of their own free will because there would be none to buy them stanstead que journal a tax strike like that of a group of saskatche vart farmers thinks the windsor star is not even a good way to highlight a disturbing situa tion because it also is an abuse these tax inkers and any tax strikers are misdirecting the force of their conviction they have no chance of prevailing against the taxing authority by a re fusal to pay part of their rates their only e feet ve attack can be made at the leo slative level the 1 1 should nominate one or more of ihe r number to stand for office and attack r smg taxes from the ms de it would be a benef c al example to set for a thousand and one other commut t es w th s m lar gr evances across the countr dinner meeting recently to con tinue with plans for a big christ mas parade collection of money for christmas treats arm arrangements for decorations on the main street for the holiday season town snrptoa for milton in milton last week council learned with all due satisfaction that an anticipated surplus of 2 87711 shows on the books for the years municipal operations the auditors said there had been wide variations from the original budget but the overall result had been satisfactory p school site in milton at a special meeting of the public school board members approved a resolution to purchase a site in the north section of town tor a future school a letter was to be directed to milton council ask tng tor 10500 to cover the pu 1 eeff5 expect two billion l cards to be sent there evidence that the groat rt in store tj aclon and vicui- y nrxl monday night i apprec iated and the victoria coll ago glee club will no doubt be favored in full houae the company will arrive by their special car on monday afternoon and may riait the manufacturing entabu amenta of the town as a body if they do their college jrrlh will let every body know they are in town this is a 50c concert but the jinag mini hive t xed the popui rain in acton al 26c ind 36c tickets at brown druk store madnrno ievlnski the psychic palmist li at the camptxtl houe t you arc in trouble riuxonlrnted nhippy htv nr domcmli trouble iti will be told how to nvfrrnme lhm all here one week only nearly i score of citizen met in the free library on mm day to rwfder the feasibility of open- g a room where young men pro- spend greatest halton women s institute inter- ewed council in regard to ob taining a room preferably in the county buildings for the purpose of starting a county museum i heard lust today said mrs wll liam gowdy district presuleni of direct descendant of laura sec- ord living in the county who would i believe be glad to con tribute valuable documents to a luseum if we had one there is to be a report at the next meeting breeders of hackney horses from acton and district swept the class at the royal winter rir lovely mild weather y entertaining mrs d d mann and a couple of friends were the guests of hugh mann esq last friday they came up from toronto in their automo bile mr f j mutrie who occupied the cage at the merchants bank for the past year and a half has been transferred to elora oakvllle people are complaining of very high taxes mrs luther lusby has died at one hundred years of age early settlers at ballinnfad will remem ber her sets example london ont cp alderman ray dennis started a fire prevention program here by having fire inspec tors chtck his own home first they found naked joists in the basement md sajd it was a fine start for to keep pornsettias whin a pomsettia plant ceases to bloom place it in a dry dark place away from frost let the soil dry next may cut stems back two thirds repot in new soil and handle ny potted plant soft wood good blaze alderman dennis had cutting roottd will bloom by next them covered with asbestos christmas professional directory and travellers guide oon there them but can you believe it the custom of sending christmas cards is less than 100 years old the first publich accepted card was sent out in 1862 by charles goodal sons london publishers and to how how rapidly the cus torn has grown this year the post offices of the land will be flooded by two billion or more greetings the first known card of its kind wis designed m 1842 in london by william maw egley a sixteenyear old engraving apprentice ulustra tions on this card were scenes of a formal banquet a party dance and skaters- underneath the illus trations appe the legend a merry christmas and a happy new year to you still the most popular yuletide greeting of all in 1874 in boston louis prang printed his first cards from his lithograph shop famous for their beauty and fine craftsmanship they were sold all over the united sta tes since that time the custom of sending christmas cards has be come a fundamental popular holi day tradition on this continent if you doubt it just as anyone on the post office staff in town strucuon of mayor jack arm strong and lifted a number of tools and a sanding machine belonging u contractor wm mcnally the partially completed house is on parkview blvd minister sqadches ranmor in oakville some assurance was offered cit ns who recently have been disturbed over rumors attrib uted to a high government official that the new federal building will be buitt in trafalgar minister of public works robert h winters publicly stated the rumors are groundless and no site outside town is being considered for the propos ed building escape cal gas fvmes in bronte last week a woman and three small children escaped coal gas fumes but not before two asters seven and hve years old became ill alarmed about the con ditions fire brigade memers fol lowing the accident decided tc check draughts on all other hous es in the area and found several defective hockey ta georgetown in georgetown plenty of hockey is reported in store for younger and older participants and all spec tators this year beside intermed- l iate and junior c oh a series the the potential poer available industrial league is back in action from the falls and rapids on the sunda afternoons and the legion- numerous rivers large and small sponored little nhl will plaj which ar distributed across can saturdav in the first game the ida constitutes one of the coun local raiders thumped milton 11 tr s great natural resources medical dp w g c kenney physician and surgeon office in symon block 43a mill st e acton office phone 78 residence 115 church st e phone 1 dr d a garrett physician and surgeon corner of willow and river sta entrance rivor street acton ontario dental dr a j buchanan dental surgeon office leishman block mill st office hours b a m to 6 pm xray telephone 148 dr h leib dental surgeon office corner mill and fredlnck streets office hours 9 am to 0 pjn telephone 10 acton rc at the miscellaneous rumley funeral home funeral hone liealed anabulaaa phone 699 night 0 day sertn the community fox 46 ytari legal c f leatherland barrister a solicitor notary push office hours 10 00 am 12 00 io 1 00 p m 3 00 phl saturdays by appointment only office 22 phone res 151 acton lever hoskin chartered accountants successors to jenkins and hakdt 1305 metropolitan bldg 44 victoria st toronto em 49131 gerald a candler chartered accountant monday to friday 79 pm saturday from 9am 27 acton blvd phone 561 acton veterinary f g oakes bv sc veterinarian office and residence 24 knox avo acton phone 130 presbyterian church in canada knoriurcn acton r rorfrt h armstrong m bn mlnbter baptist church acton travellers guide b d 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