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wt kttinafad hall assured its auction boost fund the ftftmi of new community tud vrjpalhfiafad was assured tat week wben council reprel motttivei from erin and etfque- ittf towmups awured payment of township grants totalling 5 00d whomhey met with the build tag committee the hall program received another shot in the arm saturday when j400 was raised during a community auction the building program had been temporarily halted after the foundation had been poured when a question mark hovered over whemcfsutflcient money bad been raised during a public appeal township councillors as- ntred payment of grants on the basis of funds raised to date this week the contractor william hall of gudph resumed work j simm from canvass government and erin and ewpjeshtg township grants as well 11000 donation from balllna- i wj assure 11000 of the re quired 21000 to build the new hall donations have been pouring in as canvassers make door-to- door calls for the remaining 10 000 a last minute stand is being taken by the canvass committee to enable those who have not already donated to play a part in the erection of the new building top price saturday afternoon events turn ed brighter than ever for the building committee when a large crowd gathered at the site of the new hall and bid on varied art iclcs ranging from dishes clothing and pets to farm animals and equipment auctloner frank petch kept the crowd amused with his triplet calves is rare birth triplet calves in beef cattk happen only once m every 107000 births and a hereford mammy on the norval dis trict farm of pat patterson must have been the 107mtth at9ajn wednesday of last witty methods of selling as facj w one of mr patterson hung out for top price on each article harry lauder on bale patrons at the auction were able to enjoy a steaming cup of tea or coffee and a light snack sold by the balllnafad wi as they wandered around selecting their articles an old phonograph caught ihe attention or many pa rents as well as youngsters as favorite old harry lauder records were played a puppy dog attracted the inlc rest of most of thorchildren and a rooster jnd pig were oyed by me rural farmers clothing was sold at random prior and dur ing the sale- and vegetables house hold goods and furniture brought fancy prices before the sale end ed staff photo thtrotd song put another nickel in didnt apply saturday afternoon during the ballmafad community auction sale an old phonograph donated to the auction amused patrons as they bid on articles up for auction pictured above are mrs fred archibald and her daughter laurie with mrs pete fisher as they admire the old relic proceeds from the auction went toward the building fund for the balhnafad community hall f cows did what some contld er impossible birth to three healthy- young hereford the reports momma am three babies alt gtrii are just fine ri farmer halton sheriff politician bih hampshire holds fond memories wives letters wont out to curlers this week announcing the plans of the curling club for its first full season an informal party has been arranged al the community centre for moniiuy evening octo ber 29 to accept memberships and meet new members membership closing date is november 1 frank van wyck is membership chairman he ex plains that if n is necessary to limit ihe membership last years members will have first pref crcncc and for the new members it wll be first come first scrv ed members trom nearby towns will be accepted if curling time permits bauinafad fall thankoffering has korean speaker the united church women of ballmafid held their autumn thankoffering service on sun day evening wilh the president mrs f j shurhll presiding mrs t gibson conducted the devo tional members of the cgit recuud the offering and gave the dedicatory prayer rev sung rook shin was the guest speaker he is taking fur ther studies at ihe same college as mi fleming he told of mis sion work being done in korea pictures were shown of many places in that country which were very insluictional ontario like prairie the sevenlh line from balhna fad up seven lols is a dreadful sight since bulldozers laid low the stalely elms and maples and smaller trees large rocks and stones are upturned ontario will soon be tike the prairies with stiong winds carrying off the top soil ht rtn jfrtt tt5s vol 103 no 23 acton ontario thursday october 18th 1962 second section living to a ripe old ageqias many advantages and one of them is a wculth of fond mem orics of the days gone by w j l hampshire rr 3 milton celebrated his 90th birth day and for him the days ahead will be happy ones his remarkably sharp memory has stored up many glittering hems from out of the past memories to be drawn out on rainy day or when an old iriend drops in to chat bui hampshire is a deseen danl of settlers who e ime to uur land in 1803 a former town ship councillor a mm who cleared virgin white pine with teams of horses a forme hulton sheriff iclive church worker sehuol trustee fcdeial election candid he amateur boxer noted public speaker un i n proud scot memories of i lifetime uf public service ihe good limes mil the bad wili live m him forevt holds no recipe i hive no recipe for hung to be 90 he said unless it doing i good bird dav work he admits he his smoked since the age of 16 and he still eno a pipe mr hampshire iniured one knee in his yjunger diys and us giving him a bit or double now forcing him to use i one but he still walks about i mile each day for exercise john mcnauljit m his jrand fulher on his mollers side of the family citugralcd from s o i kind tu new york state in 1803 then in 1815 moved to c inatla and settled on ihe presenl m j car ion firm on the town line mr menaughton wis the first es qucsiiil reeve a ncmbcr if hal ton s first counlv council its see ond wuden ami ilso w lrdcn thrce other years he seconded the resolution to erect the first county building deep roots prior to serving on halton county council mr menaughton served on the gore district conn eil which met at dundas until 1849 when the county districts twerc formed i guess i ve got deep roots in ihis part of the country said the nonagenarian mr hampshire was born at fergus and at the age of seven months his family moved lo spcy side where his father had pur- l based a 200acrc farm ten acres of the farm had been cleared and the other 190 acres was covered with virgin while pine clearing ihe farm was the first task they tackled and many years luter mother 170 acres had been clear ed sent to england there were 1 000 pine stumps in the first 10 acres but fortunate ly ihe rest of the farm averaged w to 75 stumps an acre it took u number of years to clear it leealled mr hampshire but broke it all with a horsedrawn plow in those days all the good pine was shipped to englund for shipbu tiding the stumps were used lo build the fences many of which still dot the picturesque countryside today his fathers tarm is today own cd bv dr john brown during lie 1890s mr hampshire carried moriar and stone for a new house across the road on high way 25 just below 10 side road for builder tom mejannctt at si i day in 919 he purchased this fine home mr hampshire and his sister lived there until ihree vcais ago when his sister was killed in in accident highway and he moved duwn the ro id lo live with the brown thriving community he h is a sh irp memory fur the d rys gone by and retails the days when speysicle was a thnv mg luial eommunitv al one time there were two lxncr d stores i stind iv school hill vilhge meet ing pi kc blacksmith shop slave laclorv ind two saw mills he recalls seeing his first steam engine i round the ilc of 10 il th mpson s mill at stewart town pn ir to that live u ims of horses were used for slump ing and threshings fdueatcd at dufferm school al spcvsidc he 1 iter served 30 years as a trustee of the school is well as a period as school care taker on councils he spenl seven years on ihe county council iwo of them as deputy rceie and two as reeve giving jrinfoarmurs as a county councillor jf he first went to boston pres byterian church 88 yeurs ago and is ihe oldest living member he held church membership since 1888 laughl an udult bible class fur 26 years was sunday school superintendent 25 years uid served as church manager for some years he s been an elder since the 1930s and only bob dredge has held this office long er lhan mr hampshire in 1935 he became sheriff sur rogaic court registiar and local registrar ot deeds for the coun tv of halton a post he held until 1946 i have never had to riant anybody although during mv term there were two people charged with mtirdei he said one got ofr with a m insluughter harge and the other was a wo man ruled insane ran for parliament a long time supporter of the j liberal party mr hampshire was a e induuite lor the 1926 fed er il election but w is be men j20o430o voles bv dr r k psnderson f ihe t jnserihi partv polities his alwtvs been t big ihmc in his f nnilv he point ed out and ins grindfatlier was one of the c in idi ms who had to leae tor the united st lies for supporting mickcnie king in 1837 i 90 imperial scientists and technicians pose for their pictures in the ultramodern wing of imperials research laboratories at sarnia not shown another 115 members of the sarnia research staff and another 130 who work in imperial laboratories at calgary 90 of all oil company product research in canada is done by imperial at sarnia ontario and calgary alberta impenal operates the largest petroleum re search laboratories in canada at sarnia the companys saentsts and technicians are worwngtofmprovepresent products and to develop new ones their research covers iaif old many fields from gasolines to househola detergents at calgary impenal research personnel are explonng means to find anil produce more canadian crude oil and natural gas impenal does more research than all other oil companies in canada combined always look to imperial for the bestuesso to canadas no 1 chain saw pioneer archie kerr j acton aaunitus man unman sas deal days special eqod for period sept 150ct 31 this coupon is worth 10 00 on the purchase of any new pioneer chain saw trodems are accepted on this offer which expires oct 31 1962 i ret ill when i i n publii school we used to lihl with th er kids over politics he con tinued and i ve seen some pret ty wild fights al the county nom ination meetings headed group for years he was president of the county sunday school as sociation and got a lot of experi ence in meeting the public by speaking al several churches in ihe county he also served as president of the canadian club in milton a men s fellowship club one year he wenl to a united farmers organization meeting and was nominated as the partys candidate for a federal election contest mr hampshire refused and told ihe party he didnt feel the farmers should be running the country well they won the election and drury headed a ufo government which lasted three years but mr hampshire lost a lot of friends for his speech gainst them that night and he feels ihis may have hurt him when he ran in the 1926 election dad reached 92 lasi uf a family of nine mr hampshire reports only one other member of the family lived to he older lhan 90 and that was his father who died at 92 others reached their 70s and his sister was killed ihrcc years ago at 83 the browns held a family sup per in his honor and he received many e irds of congratulations in in ft lends in the district wjl hampshire of r r 3 milton a former halton county sheriff celebrated his voth b rthday when a dinner in his honor was held at the home of mr and mrs stanley brown he has lived in the speys de district since boyhood and has many fond memories of halton s early days bowl bowl for ploasura make it a saturday night date bowl foe hmnm go bowling actoti bowling lmes phone 8530170 member oxpa 10 mall your donors can help make time profitable for blind men women and children across canada touchtype equipment training 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