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4 The Acton Free Wed October An echo from Erin Last weeks editorial on poor delivery of newspapers was echoed on the same day in the Erin Ad vocate only editor Bill put his editorial right on his front page Heres what our neighboring newspaperman has to say If you are one of those readers whose Advocate has been arriving two or three days late dont blame the newspaper or the Enn post office or your rural courier The foulup was sired in Ottawa by professionals postal deli very scientists highly skilled in the finer arts of mail distribution They created a re routing Frankenstein and the information they fed into the computers memory bank is hard to regurgitate In other words while at tempting to streamline and speed up Canadas mall delivery the post office brain trust failed to take into account a lot of local situations The new postalcode system is at the root of the Snafu hopefully eventually all will be well Meanwhile though lets examine just a couple of local complaints Mrs Robert Pnestman R Orton used to get her Advocate every Thursday morning regular as clock work Now she is lucky if it arrives Friday The annoying part of the late Advocate for Mrs is the fact that the delivery contractors truck goes past tier place to Belwood and Kitchener after leaving Erin and Hillsburgh From Kitchener the paper goes to Owen Sound and from there Finally by Grace of Pierre Trudeau and the post office it finds its way to her Then there Mrs Don Green of 2 Acton whose paper has been arriving and Saturdays ever since the big redistribution changeover At The Advocates suggestion Mrs Green wrote a letter of protest to Mr H Murray the District Director of Postal Services at London Ont Mr Murray is not to blame per for the late mail fiasco and he admits that flak from sub should help flag the at of the Inner Sanctum J Whatever the reason last weeks paper armed on time Hafton sketches by John McDonald Thunda morning in Mrs Greens mail box The Advocate is not the only publication suffering bad side effects from The Great Post Office Caper but it is getting more than its fair share because of its goo graphic location just a stones throw from such major depots as Orangeville Guelph Brampton and Georgetown Fortunately readers in our heaviest cirulation area are un affected by the big change but we ve been taking no chances with the Belfountain mail bag until the bugs are ironed out of Operation Redistribution Its going direct from The Advocate to the Bel fountain Post Office If we mail the bag locally it has to go to Kit first or is it Shanghai or Fairbanks Alaska The majority of our readers buy their paper at their local stores on press day Wednesday but there s nothing we can do for Toronto readers who rarely get their paper until Monday It would seem easier for a man to wend his way through the eye of a needle than for a weekly news paper to negotiate its way through the Toronto postal maze How about that Dr Youre our official spokesman in the House of Commons Terry 0 Connor was starting to get action during his term of office Editorial notes A householder watched the hydro crew cut down a few low hanging branches in front of his house last week without any complaint Ankledeep in leaves he explained Im not so fond of trees this time of year He who has money to burn soon meets his match Its Fire Prevention Month now rather than Fire Prevention Week More inflation Thanksgiving Day he day to quietly list all the things weve got instead of complaining John A founded dynasty in lolid J hi sold jl Hi i fur hi Iteming I it can be lhal a j this time but the tram was main mode of transports I ion and Georgetown the juration of the Grand Trunk and Hamilton North Western The liver stable reported to be one the finest in Ontario was located on Mill Street and it known today as the Canadian Legion Building This magnificent stone building as erected in The clean and stables which could hold up to SO horses were fitted with iron fittings The liver business would of course be on a 21hour basis and so a bedroom was maintained upstairs for the night man An early description of the liver stable indicates that a paint root where Mr John by keep I W firstly painted V li intht j terns were not confined to the In en establishment any instrumental in promoting the establishment of the Georgetown oatcd Paper Mills which came into existence in and Is now owned Domlar J A was the first President of the In Mr entered the municipal council and served a reeve of Georgetown from to lflos While sen as a member of the board of education and board donated a parcel of land for the site of a new library but In the meantime the Congregational church was tonal land remains the home of Georgetown library null land ursuiiluiii ii J A Will UKhb tun tin rial imiij In amid during In original i flu on II I 1 In was Will who was it iiiiill nil tin right of tlu Suburban uu or lini ween Gcorgiioun and J A Willoughby ap illy built his I usmess on anl This irjilitun ha been handed down to John A son iter trim Willoughby who hi ads Hi state which is now based in Toronto Due to the firm a early emphasis on farm Irons Bertram studied Held husbandry at the Ontario Agricultural College to be better able to relate with farmers and talk Iheir own language Two real estate firms Gibson Brothers and J A merged in and were bought out by Bertram in The former residence Is located on a 155 farm Just outside the corporation During the 1920 John A created a nine- hole golf links on the property A group of local businessmen bought the estate and developed it into what is now called the North Golf and Country Club Bertram is still a shareholder of the club GAPING MOUTHS of storm sewers tell a big story of continuing progress and growth In Acton These big mouth pipes were interviewed by photographer Peter MeCusker on Mill St this week The storm sewers are also going in on Arthur and Peel St where workmen are laying 3000 feet of pipe and constructing 5000 feet of ditching Sugar and Spice bin This week I going make two predictions for too long 1 hiding my light under a bushel when comes to ind it a time to come out from under Hit bushel and re out that I am of i seer when it comes he future Years ago I came out against capital punishment It wis done with I said should lit Chun into the It was done 1 slid the trout were disappearing from our because of pollution Tiny did Suggested I would never be rich I m not Hut nobody paid any attention Only within the family did anyone Hint id tin gift of prophet j I told my son If you stop goofing around you going to flunk out of Ik did I told my wife If you don stop worrying so much everything going lie a nervous Sin is I told my daughter If you pick il up ivirj Hint he iwhlmpir lit II be spoilt dully Ik my own family dldn put i I m always wliil llki Iht lady from Troy who was given the gift of foreseeing the future and the same time the curse that nobody would believe her It time go public If I m right I hive politicians and poets actors and authors beating a path to my door Will I win Will I be famous Will I wow them Will I write ihc great Canadian novel 1 decided lo lake on an assistant though it only to keep his mother from starving in a cockroach ridden apartment He will be Nlkov Chen mv lies half fey Irish and half romantic German and halt blunt Canadian That makes him per cent A natural If he ihortles 111 lell my whining clients If his face wrinkles and he starts to whimper as he does 111 give mv customers a No We should make a million With the new child labour laws III probably to give him ten per Well here s first prediction This is being writtm ifttr the first half of the Russia series They are all lied up With hat eroup tottery old nun who Union Bus at Georgetown station kit Livery Stables now occupied by the Legion have given great account of themselves and those unknown miking up the WHL team it takes lot courage to come out with a blunt forecist of the final result But here it is I predict if I m not right on the nose III drink bottle of vodka on the town hall steps tint of Canadnns going to llussn for there will be drunk per tent of the time and hung over per As for the series itself whit does il mailer who wins It sonlv a game though i entrancing of ballet ind Besides ire biggest sports erv babies in thi world If we lose were robbed If win it fret enterprise over lulhunlirianisni Tins is nation of morning backs lite night referees We re a of in all for gemnlions ill that the wirld wis good at was inducing m rve indhockiv plivtrs I ve heard womin win know shift from a nylon slip the or sorts ins heard mature nun who on jnkks whin this win kids shoutinLtiUsctniliesatuir cause They not tmugh ftrgawsake vt let niters of when some an idian ipe rimmed his ink into a Russian s teeth that first rediition The second is that 1m Wn tax free This is on am of null tu net just i wild hunch lok In past two irs my toe my nose worths and the taw In not saying lhat is picking on Just don think he been keeping an on sparrow whin he falls Its time for a diffirenl kind if and the law of averages sujisH occult side of mi thai it going to the Big Million Editorial notes Quite a few people from force of habit put out their garbage for collection last Thursday morning But twice a week garbage collection is a thing of the past until next summer With regional government came equality That means Acton gets once a week garbage collection now instead of our usual two making us the same as Georgetown Untidiness on the streets has brought complaints from some residents Garbage littered on the main streets and around the post office have been mentioned Is this worse than it was or are we imagining things The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago Taken from ihe Free Press October IBM Judging by the avalanche of donated goods which followed the appeal here early this week for food clothing and furniture for destitute hurricane victims In the Toronto area Acton and district residents should respond unflinchingly to the need of the Ontario Hurricane Relief I- An irate Ac ion resident who with his wife and three children moved here less than two months ago appeared before council Monday night to demand town assumption of legal responsibility involved in damages lo property and dwelling when flooding waters over Main Street last night filled his basement and caused eljimcdttsoo who bought the Main Street house formerly occupied by Geo Kovacs early this September contended town was responsible for the damages because the house a natural drain of the town installed the drain or not Mr Roberts insisted a permit for ecrvuu lot of house should never have by tine the first place to exist un t aftermath of ILm in was damaged bridges washouts flooded farmlands during the regular was on of Hal ton County Council Milton Tuesday at 50 years ago from the lue of October Hit Through the successful efforts of Chief who is for the enforcement Ontario Tern operations of Phillip Forbes who has for a couple of years jmedCuht rath reputation of being the King Bootleggers for this county were brought up short last week has been a crafty cunning manufacturer and dispenser of moonshine liquor for some The annual field day of Acton high school in the Park last Saturday afternoon was in some respects the best ever held by ihesehool had each a good Quota of contestants and various competitions were spirited and manifested and showed that all contestants had been subject to healthful practice prior lo en leriiig iht field day contests The opening meeting of Knox Young Peoples Guild will be held next Monday evening at eight clock A good musical progrimme has been prepared which will be followed by a social hour In list of prize- winners of Acton rail published last week name of Mrs J Hall wis Inadvertently omitted as the winner of the first prize for Petunia single in bloom Mrs Mary Carruthers len inan who her birthday on September was one several hundred who appeared personally before tbe revising officer at the court house 75 years ago Taken from the issue of in Free Press October i The following message was received by the Free Press To The Editor of the ree Press Sir us through v our columns on be ha If of all in and the west to congratulate the Club on their success in winning the strict ihiekenthitves are again at work in this part of the country Last week Mr about or fiftv of his best hens were tele it It ixa trick and the sneak trutf if taught to be punished to lull the As this is not the that has been robbed during few months a stricter watch will be the future ami the party In the bus reseive a hot reception ih nail In just a bud to give a boy unelir age tigarettes as it istostll to hint Barman a farm hand who work near Creek ihit mornuijt and the formation him He was fined that amount by Magistrate Us he having been of package of coffin spikes at store in Stones Creek and to John a Magistrate said that was the lowest fine he could im post to law THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business Echtonil Office