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A The Acton Free Press Wednesday September New doctor for village Heavy registration Centennial School Mrs Leslie a chipper Diminutive and chipper could describe the delightful 90-year- old lady who celebrated her The heavy September registrations In the Junior grades of the Centennial school have necessitated a revamping of the entire school program according to Grant McRae the school principal An average of S3 children per class shows the overall enrolment of pup Us Including kindergarten classes which Is an increase of over last year New teachers Four new teachers were on hand to greet the September school children this year and although It Is disconcerting to see staff changes assurances are that they have been replaced with top notch educators Mrs Jean Verhngcn has replaced Rockwoods past Grade one teacher Mrs VI who is now handling Grade nine Girls Vocational program at Collego Heights in Mrs M Tubman has up from the Eden Mills School will replace Ixts Fells In Grades and 3 Mrs Kathllno Mayes has taken over tho grade teaching of Mrs Evelyn Fair and Miss Nancy Foster with her A Arts degree will be teaching oral French replacing Miss Holla Tho of the staff remains constant The Rockwood Centennial School absorbs students from all areas In the township south of Highway all kindergarten children The special remedial students from the township alto attend the Rockwood school including an overflow from Erin 13 and In century of living la surprised that people should want to hear about the happenings of her past Mrs Jane Root was bom In a Bruce County farmhouse in Amabel Township near Wlarton Ontario In 1B80 as the eldest of three children with two younger brothers She remembers clearly the days when her older brother now left home at to be a homesteader In Western Canada He and her year old baby brother are both living and faring well Mrs Leslie lived in Oxford County until her father died when she was and then with her years following mother and brothers moved to A remarkable lady with another farm In Oxford County It amazing background of longevity was while visiting her grand- and good health one who father Root farm In Erin enjoys good humour she now young people of today ana tnose of a century ago Every one should have the right to do what they want to do she said and chuckled at her recollections of her own torn boy days when she liked to sneak out and ride bareback much to her own parents chagrin Moved to Rockwood After her husbands death in she and her two children moved to Toronto to live there until after the graduation of her eldest son from Pharmaceutical College after which she and Bob moved to until he Joined the RCAF Mrs Leslie then stayed with her brother and his wife in London for a short time but later moved to Rockwood which became her permanent home address for many of the HENRY STAFFORD LESLIE who with her two Township that she met Henry spends much of her time dividing sons and family celebrated her birthday last Stafford Leslie whom she later her visits between her two sons September married In and together they and their families and also many When Dr Jane M Hosdel MD hung out her shingle last Tuesday morning September it was a welcomed announcement that Rockwood village had a new doctor Presently located In the Holman Construction building on Main Street beside the town hall Dr Hosdel and her husband Beh- have also taken up residence in the village and although her evening hours have not as yet been established she will be available via daytime phone call appointments from am to noon and pjn to For evening calls said the young doctor I can be reached by simply dialing the office phone number Came from Holland Born in Haarlem Holland Dr Howdy folks Hyar I am loafin around as these days wot Ontario She attended the elementary and high schools there and then completed her medical education at the University of Toronto After her she interned at the Bast General Hospital Interested In all phases of medicine Dr looks for- ward to her future in the village She Is delighted with its scenic beauty and after considering for some time where they would like with thboys me rested to live she and her husband chose up the Mohawk radn pro- and are pleased with in October Its close proximity and easy Git t run off now an then an access to the Guelph Hospitals sometimes when a gal Is and also Its central location around she shore gits tknow a lot comparatively near Toronto things about but a few viflage has been methln Likes day Instance After listcnin fall them guys at thtown hall bellyackin about the cost sewers which theys the Ontario Water Co- it got me when I watched them guys dig up thfootins fer the new Ore hall on Inkerman Street Gawly there they wui dlggin and tryin tgit thet dadburned shovel through the rock and they almost bent the dum thing an fray they the school staff and the meeting three feet down when place for the first toy stuff semester will be the Rockwood Makra I Presbyterian Church hall at human bein to pay out all All age groups are invited and holy beck when I from the preschoolers up to and canter around I have a Including the grade 8 children try them with an avid staff of teachers millionaires wot the Under the guidance of the Water guys must combined clergy of Reverends lhmk ta l village Peter Tucker Don Sinclair and some grim reemarks Ken Cardwell the staff will In- spouted from sum guys on dude Miss June Thomson Mrs too about how theyd Ellen Thomson Mrs Sltska w thdang if n they Mrs Lois Tosh Mrs Shuffle thar foundations Betty Lou dark Mrs Betty proceedins Stands Easson and Mr Grant McRae reason such things could Miss Nancy Ingle will head up the PP with all talk assisted by rock strata an such Me fl Nancy Im gonna pray dick lets Meredith me hang out at Jim Thatchers met with happy approval Concern over accidents May pressure for lights over the number of Wellington County to ascertain determining whether proper serious ddents occur the number of trucks utilizing the paving was being used to match pertodkany on the Fifth Line of road as an evaluation method of the amount of traffic Rockwood and Highway recently prompted the Township Council to consider a mechanical counter device which when Installed will give an estimated count of traffic and road usage Although the Wellington County Traffic Division has not as yet procured the device It will sometime within the next few weeks be placed somewhere above Highway 24 on the Fifth Line The concluding information will be used hopefully as a pressure on the Department of Highways proving the necessity of a signal light on the fatal Track const A recent truck count was also made on the fifth line below high way by the Department of Highways In cooperation with moved to a farm near Eden Mills of her living contemporary relatives A staunch Baptist by It is with pride that she refers J Mrs Leslie Is now a United her cousin John Root who church member who recalls the days before minus the services of a consistent village practitioner ever since the death of Dr Kenneth Waller approximately four years ago came to Canada with her and Dr arrival is a family to live in Newmarket pleasing one to many residents I Comins and I Its a nappy birthday from all her Rockwood friends to Mrs Leslie on the occasion of her birthday last Sunday All his friends and school chums will be happy to know that Steven Jones who suffered a bicycle accident a week ago is now at home and recuperating He should be back at school some time within the next ten days Great response Is anticipated tor the combined church Sunday school this year and its opening date has already been set for Saturday morning September The decision to utilize the various form and also her cousin Alvln Root of Christie Street in Rock wood She Is proud of her two sons George Henry Leslie who Is today pharmacist in North Carolina with his wife and family and her younger son Bob Leslie a popular Rockwood resident and his wife Joan and their four children Mrs Leslie couldnt specify the correlating factor between the underway A go ahead from the Township Council Is resulting In great digging operations at the comer of Inkerman and Alma Street which is the future site of scrubbed an shiny but they get3 the proposed Eramosa Fire Hall mean a day or two The tender of 15800 was the tho an the cute edge rub off lowest of seven others and was a little Course to me an every submitted by John of Rock- other gal I guess their own wood and the authorization to little colts alius stays erect the shell of the new fire hall has already been approved by the folks got a date with Ontario Municipal Board Maverick Duncan In a short while At a recent meeting of the so I gotta Next week Township council It was moved presently resides on her grand- J before the church special family dinner out for the cousin John Root and his wife he father Roots Erin Township division was instituted The old very dear and grand Mrs Leslie oid that she could take great recently closed down Eden Mills political dignitaries Including public school building Messrs Family dinner Alfred Hales and in a special celebration was a kttw bifX rami place so I wont lose my when they loose all thet gun powder or whutcver fuse Was down near the old school grounds when the classes in last week and holy heck sure Is a load new guys nil tbe prime ministers these days AInt cuter than a whole gong little critters fust a tar tin school Thar they I should have sum reel excitin things ttawk about meantime keep laughin at yoreself It keeps a feller thinkun straight Yore Pretty Fair that a bylaw authorizing Its construe dos be given third reading passed and numbered OUR BUSINESS is FITTING FEET when you buy at DISCOUNT SHOE STORE Main St Georgetown TIRES SEE DICK AT RICHS SERVICE CENTRE NO ACTON Three attend conference Toe Hilton Juniors sent three delegate to the Junior Farmer Leadership Training Camp at the Conference Centre at Geneva Park on Lake Coucbichlng Lois Hunter George Henderson and Swackhamer were at the camp from Sept to Sept along with some 87 other delegates and staff members New active cases of tuber culosis have declined dramatically in the last decade since the introduction of anti tuberculosis drugs Flower Mart SMILES WESTOF ACTON NORTH SIDE Phone 8564771 We grow a big variety of POTTED MUMS HOUSE PLANTS CUT FLOWERS See our Selection of NURSERY STOCK FERTILIZERS PEAT MOSS LOAM FLOWERS FOR EVERY OCCASION WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Flower Marl LOVELL BROS MEAT MARKET MAPLE LEAF SIDE BACON Small Link SAUSAGE 69f RED BRAND BEEF Choice WING ROAST Sirloin Tip Roast LEAN Blade or Short Rib Roast 79 GROUND CHUCK 75 BROS MODERN MEAT MARKET DIUVERY farmhouse In which she lived after her marriage still stands although part the property was purchased and is the site of the and her eldest son Harry flew up In being a member of on to be also with his mother for the pioneering occasion Well wishes and cards 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