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soys Esquesing is land of Toll Pines Dear Mr Editor Mr Ben Cases letter of August compels me to reply and try to straighten the matter out Dont make any mistake Ben was and Is a good friend of mine and his only fault is his misfortune not his fault He was not born and brought up In the Township of Theunreason In his letter stems not from him but from his authorities or rather one of them apologize for not answering his letter sooner but I was away at the time it was published and did not see It for a month then had to check some sources of Information of my own to be sure that my memory was still alright The letter from the Secretary of the lieutenant Governor setting out that the names of the three Townships should be and being the Indian names of the principal streams in each Township is quite oil right and was followed exactlybut the lotc Surveyor list of the streams between the Niagara River and the Humbcr is sadly lacking and his Inter pretation of some of them makes one remember that at that time whisky was sold for a Shilling a gallon Leis Play Bridge Prison life UW topic Here is a hand where a defender foils declarers attempts to make an entry to dummy the table South dealt with NorthSouth vulnerable NORTH io a a a WEST void SOUTH jus A LAST A 10 J J The bidding SOUTH 1 N NT NORTH EAST 2D 11 2S PASS PASS PASS PASS Opening laid King ot dlimondi I imagine that South opened one club for convenience since he does hold five spades and only four clubs However the one club opening did allow West to come in with a weak jump of two diamonds North doesnt nave the required ten points for a response at the two level but he didnt want to get long suit shut out so he bid two hearts Into act East has a few high card points and decided to get into the act with a two spade bid South could double for penalty but he felt he was being robbed of a vulnerable game so he bid two no trump When North bids three hearts South should pass Unless East gets off to the spade ace lead three hearts is likely to make However South persisted to three no trump and East doubled Declarer ducked the opening lead and won the second round Declarer then played the heart ace followed by the spade queen East refused the spade queen he wins the trick dummys king becomes an entry Persistence Declarer persisted with the spade jack and East had quite a problem If declarer has another heart then he can score game with one diamond trick two spade tricks and six heart tricks Should he duck or shouldn t he At the table East ducked again He continued with another spade but this time East won the trick East led the club ace and then the club queen Declarer won and pushed another spade which East won East cashed the club Jack for down one and exited with a black card Declarer still had to lose a diamond trick so the end result was down two doubled and vulnerable Last weeks winners at the Acton Bridge were first Tom Manes and Jack Coats second Kate Coats and Bill Coats third Frank Hampshire and Pat Jeff arcs Rehabilitation inside our prisons is not stated Mrs Joyce Porter We need help from the community for our girls when they leave prison and try to integrate back Into society Mrs Porter shared the speakers chair with Captain Ronald Pullar as they spoke on prison life to the University Women s Club of Milton District at the School on November They were introduced by Mrs Margaret Wllloughby Mrs Porter explained the recent changes made in treatment of Inmates using the move from the Mercer Reformatory to the Vanicr Institute as an example The residents of the Vanler have much more freedom than they did in the regimented routine of the Mercer Captain is a member of the Anglican Church Army and has been a chaplain at the Don Jail since 1962 He explained how degrading the routine of this institution is and how no attempt at rehabilitation is made Pollution resolution Mrs June Andrews introduced a resolution on recycling garbage which will be sent to the Canadian Federation of University Women The Federation Is being asked to put pressure on the Federal Government while each local club is encouraged to tackle the municipal government The word for 72is action on both the local and federal level This club is not only working on pollution but is also pressing for action on the Status of Women Report The next meeting will be December Jim Dills will speak on the Near Fast and will show his slides 50 years married Fellowship Room of St Paul United Church Milton was appropriately decorated in Hold and while far the golden wedding celebrations for Mr and Mrs J Lester Miller formerly of Milton Hornby and Two guests originally the first wedding were Miss Lillian Packard of Windsor of bride and of honor for Mrs Miller and Mrs Harold of Hamilton first cousin to Mr Miller young guest at the nuptial- There were relatives rands and neighbors who to wish them nappy years ahead and to offer congratulations on years of married life Many more wrote and phoned to offer congratulations and to say they wished they could be with them Guests were welcomed from Windsor St Catharines Peterborough Hamilton London Crecmorc Acton Georgetown Glen Williams Toronto Rich mondHill Jerseyvillc Ashgrove Port Credit Milton and An added surprise was the arrival of cousins never met before from Manitoba who have recently made their home in Brampton What Is the cure for wood biting My horse bites the wood of bis stall door and makes a funny grunting sound kind of like burping He does It nil the tfme A It sounds as if your horse Is cribbiting The horse places his upper teeth on any projection arches his neck and sucks wind which accounts for the burping sound This is a very bad habit because it wrecks the teeth and plays havoc with the digestion doesnt do much good for the horse either Provide him with a playmate plenty of exercise and freedom Try to remove all projections from the stall and cover the door top with wire netting If he cant get his teeth on anything he cant crib A special anticrib strap may be purchased from most tack dealers This is a throat strap loose enough to allow swallowing but tight enough to prevent the arching of the neck muscles Some straps an Inner portion of metal through which projects blunt nails which punish only when the horse cribs Sounds cruel but isn really when ad justed correctly What fa the best breed of horse to buy for a jumper other than a thoroughbred I had a thoroughbred once and she wai wild A It depends on the kind of jumping you wish to do Most horse be taught to Jump obstacles up to In height For larger more competitive jumps a horse with some size suitable conformation and lots of heart is the best bet no matter what the breed Many quarter horses are now jumping well and a half bred would probably suit this is a horse with thoroughbred and some cold blood such as draft French Coach or Hanoverian etc Thehorseshouldbiiveagood sloping shoulder strong pastern clean withers small head and a My own favorite more was a good Jumper in her day and she Is thoroughbred quarter horse However there are always exceptions another favorite mare a thoroughbred is short fat mutton withered heavy legged and big headed she Jumps like a stag she all heart John Steinbeck on heredity versus environment You can t make a racehorse out of a pig but you can make a very fast pig Please send your questions to Jennifer Barr R Rockwood The Surveyor General listed eight streams including the Niagara and the umber whereas there were and are eleven large streams and several smaller ones in that distance as listed below Niagara River Mile Creek Stoney Creek Spencer Creek Grindstone Creek Mile Creek If Mile Creek Credit River Creek Mlmfco Creek Humbcr River besides a 20 Mile Creek and Sulphur Creek The Surveyor General also says the Indian name of Mile Creek was Esquesing and gives its meaning as Last Out Creek Last out from where As I read the list it is right in the middle having five streams on either side furthermore as I will show later on was named after the 12 Mile Creek Just as the Lieutenant Governor directed The Governor directed that the three Townships be named with the Indian names of the principal streams In each Township and it would hardly be fair to give Nassagaweya the name of Esquesing and call Esquesing because while there is a small tributary of the Sixteen which rises In there is not so much as a drainage ditch In which runs into the Mile Creek We hove water which flows Into both the Credit and Grand Rivers but none into the 12 Mile Creek There was nothing more likely than that the Indians named the streams after the lands through which they flowed and later I will further evidence on that point was the Dividing of the Waters or the water flowed two ways into the Grand end Lake Eric and Into the 12 Mile Creek and Lake Ontario was the land of the Tall Pines from the enormous yellow pines which covered much of the Township And they were enormous I personally never saw one growing but I saw a dead one that hod lain on the ground for possibly half a century and It was feet to Ihc first limb I have a picture of some half dozen or the last that were on the farm and the hardwood bush below looks like underbrush The tops of what we would today call big trees did not tome near the lowest limbs on the pines The the pines were the only stumps which could be used to make a fence and there arc stilt some stump fences remaining in Esquesing I myself remember seeing two fields being stumped Free Press gets around Over the last few months Rev Walter Fosbury has discovered how the Free Pressand his column In it gets around the continent He had letters from two Montreal women agreeing with his column on pollution which he wrote In the series The Clergy Speak out They had been sent the copy of the Free Press by their sister Mrs Bayltss Mrs Bayllss from Florida She had got It from her daughter inlaw the former Sheila And that how the news spreads BE READY FOR WINTER Keep Your Indoors Clean by Using the Latest Door Mat ASTRO TURF MATS MAKE THE JOB EASY THIS YEAR Hang those outdoor Christmas lights with EAVE HANGERS IS light clip on or screw on types DECORATING FOR CHRISTMAS SEE OUR WALLPAPER SAMPLES or choose from OVER 3000 COLORS OF IS your listing correct Please tell us now before we print the new ACTON Directory on December 7th Look up your listing in the current Directory If you wish to have it changed dial and ask for Business Office Bell Canada Built managed end owned by Canadiai One on the West Half of Lot 22 Concession presently owned by the Estate of Dr George screw machine a tripod timbers with steel screw about Tour Inches in diameter turned by a team of horses at the end of long arm and with a swivel heavy chain which was attached to the stump to be pulled The other field was In the East Half of Lot Concession the present Moore Park Subdivision and was stumped by the late Alex Livingstone with a rope and block machine which worked much more quickly than the screw machine My authority for the Township names came principally from three men all of whom were raised In the vicinity and well before the rebellion of George Black a son of Hugh Black who surveyed the Township of James Leslie who was raised on the 5th line West my own grandfather who though born In Scotland come to Eiqucalng in All three told the same story meant the dividing of the waters or between the two streams meant the land of the Tall Pines and meant the flat Plaint or the cloy Plains and that seems a probable explanation of the Indian names for the three rivers that the Indians called the streams after the lands through which passed There Is further ground for this belief Insofar as is concerned in the History of Nassagaweya written by the late Joshua sometime prior to In order to confirm his own belief he wrote to r In Toronto the best authority and I quote Scnddlngs reply settled it In my own mind several years ago from respectable authority that the meaning of the word Nassagaweya was between the two waters or streams I am sorry 1 cannot this moment find my memoranda on the subject Yours truly It seems to me that the case Is reasonably well proved The Lieutenant Governor specifically directed that the Township in the rear of Trafalgar be called after the principal river flowing through the Township which was not and is not 12 Mile Creek which does not touch the Township of Esquesing at any point The translation of Esquesing as last out creek Is patently absurd as neither the 10 Mile Creek nor the Mile Creek Is last from anywhere and with all due respect to Ben I will go on believing that means the Land of the Tall Pines Now In regard to the legend that William I yon MeKeniie hid In after the fiasco at Montgomerys Tavern I never heard that legend but I have a clipping from some newspaper I don know either the date of the clipping or the name of the paper reporting that William Lyon spoke at a Liberal picnic held on Murrays Hats Lot Con A As I say there is no date but it must have been some time after the Amnesty of The real story which I had from the grandson of one of the principal actors was that Allan McPherson who lived on the West Half of Lot Concession and who was one of lieutenants Montgomerys Tavern was pursued by Government troops far as after the battle There they lost htm but In fact he straight on to the house of Joseph Standlsh on the East Half of 13 Concession the some house In which the first Town Meeting was held In 1B21 The Standlsh father and sons who were strong loyalists took him down and hid him In a shack In the sugar bush and for the next two weeks spot their days hunting McPherson and prodding every stack and straw pile with pitchforks and their evening gossiping with him In the sugar camp When the hue and cry had died down one of the boys saddled two horses and rode with to put him on a schooner for Oswego and brought the horses home McPherson after the amnesty returned to his farm In bringing with him some of the Blue Cows which were famous In the Township for many years The nicest part of the story was that when Joseph many years terward was asked why he did It replied McPherson would have done the same for me He was a neighbor I trust Mr Editor that this rather longwlnded explanation may set at rest some of the unfounded speculations regarding the name of Our Township I Sir Your obedient servant C Lindsay Second Clan Number Tin Free Novornix r FIRST LINE TELEVISION WHERE THE SERVICE IS 8531057 ACTON THIS WEEK WE FEATURE THIS 19 inch Color Portable per cm Solid Stale chassis Trucolor picture tube Color Permatunc Wide range speaker Telescoping UHF antenna Rigid swing up carrying at only 45900 and this 26 Inch in Walnut or Standi veneers and sod solids Sol Stale chassis High Vollnge Plug in transistors Inch picture tube Color Lok Permatune One wide range speaker AT PRODUCT WARRANTY Fleetwood warranties covering Color Television and Monochrome Television are the most 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