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B2 The Acton Free Press Wed October Why Halloween is spooky Children are looking forward to en with great delight But it t used to be that way Our distant ancestors the Anglo Saxons of the Bronze Age called it the Feast of the Dead It was a solemn occasion indeed and the lords and ladies arranged special feast tables in their cavernous great halls for the spirits who might be out roaming that night The finest dishes were used with the best of food and drink Amid the autumn winds some were certain they heard the moaning calls of the dead The forces of evil were believed to be abroad in the fall the time that saw the end of growing harvest and growth Later the Christian Church found it get rid of these old entrenched belfefs And so adapted and the feast of the dead became All Saints Eve followed on Nov 1 by All Saints Day And now it s a time for frolic fun food and Willi still a little of that ancient flavor of mystery and fear Outdated news no good Question Is it really impossible to keep the Chamber of Commerce community bulletin board up to date Couldn t one of the walkathon participants have walked and taken down the lettering advertising their walk as soon as possible It s depressing to see the same old outdated event pronounced on Mill St day after day Centennial weekend was recorded for weeks afterward to be replaced by the junior band concert which was listed also for weeks after the event And now the walkathon Surely a Chamber of Commerce member could be responsible for keeping the new sign relevant Better to put up Merry Christ mas and forget the whole thing From Ballinafad to Acton Why the correspondent t in the Free Press last week is a matter for some It was mailed Friday morning at in time for the pick up there Free Press mail was picked up at Acton post office at 30 am Wednesday morning and it wasn there then By noon it had arrived and was picked up in the Free Press box If we had had house to house delivery we would have received it a day later days from to Acton a distance you can walk in an hour No wonder Mrs Shortill usually sends her news in to town with a relative No wonder weve made arrangements to have a Free Press staff member pick it up every week from now on From Ballinafad the mail goes to Kitchener From there it would go to Toronto normally although the time it arrived last week makes postmaster expect the usual route didn prevail that day This is the new distribution system which sends much mail destined for Acton to Georgetown first holding it up a day Mr admits to bugs and says meetings have been held to talk over problems They got problems all right Of this and that Many people have expressed strong opinions lately about regional government in particular But also about once a week gar collection postal delays recreation and what have you How about sharing these concerns Willi others and letting everyone know what the predominant feelings on such subjects are The way we suggest is through a letter to the editor Short plain ant signed OUR READERS WRITE Who shot family pet victui If in of our lulrl just have isily lsl in or Di ir Sir On Oil lid iti I lit iftcrnoon irl i vcriuig i it of fitir m I wild i gun of w injured and as vet has in an lonurned about tins ml points if are loimrmd about in aniinilashini les is i In lis hold tit We lit inn rued i bout the kind i f that Midi hi sut wt hunt in nd in mi rt int fill ire Win nsidt r pi Hi I nuns to be i mi If this incidinl was i In i ilht r In i r on purnosi we hope hi parents will him to the dinars ind that steps will be such from occurring if this incident is Hit remit of in older pt rson In tint to put iwi or irc it for irfet and in a plan wi h pi our pit docs not die is i result if this imiKnt Bn Is Acton to lose its identity Think editions 1 Hank street Out muchforstiidincini the two paper In Ihi iintmmal number winch I have thoroughlv of wen tiki during time is i resident of and they revived mim long forgotten but pleasant memories of places faces I kniw so well is i and teen iicr 1rom it I learned somi history of the tow before 1903 whin ill moved to way think the town lot to Mr AT But tell nit is identity ina new town to In tailed Hilton Hills- hope not In addition to a of history behind It Ihemmc so concise ind distinctive the present of the town accept a in name without a plebiscite it least in s medals might well turn tin information brink ran fourth in the 100 dash ind second in dash that sear iiwhi bolh won Hobby not Bobb Kerr git off the mark top speed Skinny recover some of the earlv loss of vintage his better showing at the longer distance yd I idded the note about the winner who in Hamilton believe for the education of alt your I would also like correct a Ivpognphical irror my late sister Erie married which is singular Butcher not Butchers Again thanking you for thought fulness sending me the complimentary copies of your publication I am ours very truly Wm i While AUTUMN S DELIGHT the crunch and crackle of a heap of sweet smelling leaves These youngsters built their leaf mountain in a safe corner at the park They are Cindy Bobby BrouiUard Allen Bennett and Doug Bennett Sugar and Spice by bill smiley II i fine nay a beautiful October day and I have fine nay a beautiful feeling inside me I spent a weekend with my The experience was enough to mike mi feel that the doily grind which to get and might be worthwhile after all Jews hove a siying in of their books that killing a man is a terrible thing because you are not only killing him the sons tie might have and Ihc sons they might and so on and on I think this is a fine thought not sold on Women s Lib If I been killed in the war there w is a good I would be that grand would not exist and the whole world would be poorer I m not kidding up in perfeitly formed nine month old restores my faith which at time becomes a little tattered around edges Mm alone with all his gifts could never the shine in that child eyes the mischievous twotooth grin Hie sinuosity of the incredible endurance The urchin is living proof to me that have a soul a will a spirit Techno logy can put together a computer but it on or even the that is baby 1 can imagine min devising a machine which reproduce the sonorous lines of Milton the fantastic fancy of Shakespeare I then would always be something mis lomputirs are clean things The don I Have to go the bathroom They don have under problems No corns or I Irving to foist upon you Idea that my is perfect or a genius hi is I nuriK Irving to re mind you if you have grandchildren of what joy they an if you now have illcnkids you hive precious ixptr in store for your years My grandhjb is not the most child in Ihc world Hi in or third in an intern Beautiful llaby lontist And hi not smartest 1 discovered this last summer the beach Ik sit then stark pick up handful of sand it or right It was lot of trouble getting that sand out of his tar And he liked to sand wis delighted if he got a handful with in it for But lies got his grandfathers genes which him charming and pretty well ill round perfect as I point out to mv he his bis mothers is well VWiith make him bad tempered when mike him knock anything it s our Hut also give him like two hugi dark grapes i of humor and a like i whin Evils caused by liquor Sir I turn just read in a grand old a which I wish could not Ik paper says in large litters The Brewing Co may more than 1G4 million dollars on ThU mtans they arc likely to out iniverv direction to every hole and corner whir liquor sales are not at present allowed is one of those corners Sinn I Option was voted for by our some ago liquor has not been do you know why voted liquor our Because of the evil it had lausid People felt sorry for the wife and family of a man who commuted to drink Consider your fur coat Imvily until his home was gone lost to liquor Was there punishment Oh no liquor arc immune family whose lovely children win ilso my pupils suffered from ilninkinncss too Alter much patience from the father was finally fired There was no thin and the wire all small Oh how want more examples them strulv for causing unnecessary suf to the animals whose pelt he or she is wearing In Canada millions of animals die in agony because of the demand for fur Fur bearing animals in other countries suffer a similar fate For example in a small country such as Thailand the otter has now almost appeared because of trappers activities It takes the skins of no less than otters to make one fur coat These superb at tractive animals have been sacrificed in the tens of thousands simply to meet the demand of people in countries such as Canada for fur coats I hope everyone who feels the need to weir fur will before purchasing a coat first demand proof that the fur of the coat is either synthetic or at the very worst the fur is obtained from ranch animals T I Hughes ecu live VicePresident Ontario Humane Society More fetters to the Editor on page B3 I coping with he i visit Ml I do is mike sure had twelvi hours sleep for three nights before he arrives do extensive and some ogling for thru days before he arrives Thin riadv fir Super in His mother is satisfied with a hug i kiss His falhir is s with i full tor hi opens nil his stomaih one minute hands Thev I kid on my lap about Then he lurch hi sdown crawl at about miles in hour straight in to fireplaei I I prepared an ill locked thi broom which he usis to n his ind bang his fare- head rv thing ible renhable or is locked in the vestihuli I toss sit or floor Terrific picks up a rook to coffee t waxed polished and proceeds to scrawl in its shining surface wilt looks on in rror What in take it withMu I offer I do i lot of other w rone things I lake of his wet di r and let him around on the in rug bare bum I sing to him bar rack room that mid curdle the blood I let him chew I let him pull the cats tail And finally three hours of straight action pull him up on my knee hum an original lullaby w goes goes to sleep the utter innocent Garden of Soft and warm No hypocrisy no lying no violence no evil it beautiful though I m so stiff I con get out of three hours later when his parents get home from the movies The Free Press Back Issues 20 years ago An Ac Ion of Commerce came into official being Wednesday evening when local mm npnsonllng commercial industrial and interests gathered a dinner meeting to a constitution and Or vdiran of wide experience in municipal IkxIIcs as the first president ikes mayor of the town and chairman of the was unanimous choice of initial mi whin hi was fin the office Thcron Jones elected to withdraw his name in favor of he was nominated from the floor alii inci at Monday night public mil ting in tin school auditorium did not deter of the aims of the galhi ring Inform lommittee and clarify district don it ins Hurricane Belief A Dills Ken Knox secret re isurer won named officials to make mints fr funds collected hen to go ird the provincial fund I nil iy memln of in I ire supervised fin drills in I hi Id inspections of schools In the rurd Acton fire In own Thi firemen wtinng their uniforms went in giweyi mil I anil thi high I public school 50 years ago from the Issue of the 1121 sixth turn electors of the province of On in emphatically by votes No mort legalized sale of intoxic within our borders The Salt was not popular of wen too thinly disguised not to be undent by he humblest voter who sin d to si fir i sober province the tliminnlion if temptation for Airy On Sum Mr J Murray of lovird lie had occasion to visit his farm on the first line where he discovered tinj with hounds a motor ir hunting in the swamp there He impdirily irdired them off his premises and they decamped in ugly mood list week two if the three thieves who an to the Georgetown on the night of fair and of butter were sentenced to ish The inform ltion lias 1 by one of Iheir number who turned King s was let off on trio thoir truck did come to About eleven clock hat y went riamerv He door with the purpose of loiding up from Mr stnek 75 years ago While threshing the farm of Mr Malcolm lot con list Thursday afternoon son of David the will known Ihreshir met with an which narrowly escaped being fatal indeed the mm is still in a precarious beaters slipped off and young ran to nphee the belt with the ni in motion In some way the shirt of he right arm was caught in pulley and hi was thrown with great force drive wheel His head came in contact with the wheel His head and his skull was fractured and the flesh badly lacerated requiring a number of stitches The arm was fractured in two pints and the so much injured that a dozen stitches were necessary It first was thought thai recovery was possible but Hit man has a splendid mi his voulhful vigor is much in his favor listlridav Mr John McLean farmer if tnn raised successfully the new bank barn hid just framed for Mr Smith ton without a hitch and the onlookers wire delighted with this safe and ingenious method of Only three mm wire required in addition to the to of the barn which is feet THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Business ind Editorial Office