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Plans for creative playground discussed at Home and School by Barb Rock wood and Home and School Association executive held a meeting recently and plans for the years activities are being mapped out A general meeting will be held on June at p at School Main dis cussion will be centred on the creative playground which will be getting underway immediately Grade eight banquet plans have been finalized Parents can expect a notice from Banquet Chairman Linda Duncan in the next week The executive has been set up as follows president Jim Goring 1st vice president Betty Hones program convenor Maureen McLcod recording Secretary corresponding secretary McKay treasurer Mark publicity Linda Duncan Chris Be nelson entertain- At the general meeting the number of a post office box for the Home and School will be announced This will be a central location where questions and problems can be directed New faces for September packs by Barbara The Guides Brownies Cubs and Scouts held a joint Parent Daughters and Sons Banquet at Rockmosa Community Centre on May IB This was the first year that the organ ization had a combined dinner and the evening was most enjoyable There will be changes In THESE LEADERS have diligently worked in the Rockwood Guiding movement and are now resigning from their posts They are left to right Kathy Holman Tawny Owl First Brownie Pack Janet Cun Brown Owl Second Rockwood Brownie Pack Ena Petty Captain First Rockwood Guide Company and June Lieutenant First Guide Company Leo Club is planned for youth of village Wentworth idea sparks opponents Premier William Davis both opposition party member and local MPPs are Invited by Barb A Leo Club is underway in Is the Youth Branch of Club open to males and females 13 to 13 years of age The purpose of this service organization Is to raise money to be spent on community betterment especially facilities for the teenage group the The Rockwood Club 11th Leo Group to be formed I Campbell MDA Activity Chairman introduced the members to the history of Leo Clubs at a recent meeting at Centennial School The club executive are president Laura Milbourre vice President Butch Given secretary Sandy Kingsbury treasurer Judy inlay The group hopes to expand to include a larger number of the local youth Interested teenagers call Sand Kingsbury at The group is just organizing their program Provincial Treasurer asked for responses by the end of the month to proposals which would create a City of Went worth out of Hamilton and five area municipalities The treasurer will get reaction long before the deadline and politicians are banding together to oppose the bid to form a onetier government that is proposed by the Hamilton Review Commission town council Is holding a public meeting to discuss the issue Thursday Murderer faces gallows Brownies and Guide leader ship next September Ena Petty and June Jensen have resigned their posts as Capt and Lieutenant Three years ago the Guide Company had a membership of three girls There are over In the group now Ellen Thompson Is the new captain She will be assisted by Shirley and Sue Meadows Ellen Thompson will resign as Brown Owl and as Tawny Owl from the First pack Ellen has a special Interest in the ten Brownies who will fly up to Guides next week She Initiated their Brownie pro gram three years ago and will follow through with them into guiding Sandra Wiseman will be the new Brown Owl Janet Cunningham Brown Owl with the Second Rock wood Pack Is also resigning She started this group two years ago when there were too many girls for just one Pack and it is on solid ground Marjoric Griffenham and Kathy Jcstin will be the new leaders SARAH HAYWARD in the photo s foreground is Eden Mill secondever Canada Cord Guide Standing behind her are Betty Deputy District Commissioner Karen Billings Division Commissioner and Ann Chesworth First Eden Mills Company Captain Rockwood District The Acton Freo Press Wednesday 11 Rural Wellingtons women study topic Account of early hanging in Miltons county jail Rural Women of Welling ton County An Historical Perspective will bo the sub ject of a slidetape present to be produced this summer under the sponsor ship of GOPIRG Ontario Public Interest Research Group Three University of Guelph students Donna Eves Vanessa and Katie Hay hurst have been hired to carry out the reject which is being funded the Department of Immigration and Employ ment under a Young Cinada Works Program Donna is a second year student in Sociology Human Geography who comes from a dairy form on an island in County near Kingston Miss Eves was District Junior Director for the National tanners Union Vanessa is a second year student in Agricultural Economics and Rural Development She lived in rural ureas of northern Saskatchewan southern Ontario and south western Quebec and studied Human This is i good time of year to plant a vegetable garden Firstly it just happens the growing season and secondly the price of store rapidly streaks out of sight right I don think it has anything to do with supply and demand or the earl mess of the southern seasons compared to ours It a plot designed to get every one out of the house into the mud A plot to sell seeds and fertilizer and rotor tillers weedkiller A plot to keep us bent double and out of trouble Don I show lettuce Every year in May I meet people who comment of the quality of their new peas and potatoes showing three inches above the ground Or horror of horrors people who are actually eating their first lettuce All m growing is a super crop of twitch grass I know from fifteen years of vast experience puddling around in Mother that anything I plant no matter what time won show its head until mid June If it docs it gets frostbitten skied across or washed down he dnln Last year we had a gorgeous hot early April that fooled everybody The remainder of April was while May dawned hot and dry Terribly proud of myself I had most of the garden in by mid May only to stand watering it every night until July when nature took over The little beggars still dldn t came up till lite June even though I said prayers threw rose petals invoked the spirits at midnight and generally startled my neighbours to the armpits Mack is a farmer used to plowing twenty icres at a stretch He can t think in terms of kitchen so I always have a stretch of several hectares to deal with when planning my planting The manure for my rose garden used to be delivered by the ton via his back hoc and front end loader all I needed was two bushel baskets full To compensate I plant everything two feet ipart In rows that would accommodate a coffin widthways in between This leaves an awful lot to hoc This year I plan to shove all the seeds in a spot the size of a rug fold black plastic between and toss corn seed in the remainder of the plot There always some animal around here who loves corn With any luck they 11 break the fence in September and harvest It themselves Gallopplng round he garden Why not get a tiller you ask We had a rotor tiller in fact I think It still here somewhere probably in pieces in Mack s shop The rolotillcr was on old one with two speeds stall and gallop Once I gat behind that thing with my hands glued in electric shock to the vibrating handles I was good to plow the forty Mack would put it in gear and off I d race careening around the lawn trying to look as if I was in control Hiked the hoc better at least it would stop when I wanted it to Actually now that ve had my little grouse 1 quite looklngforwardtogeltinglnthegardcn Right now I dnctxla boat but when it ever stops raining and we can go dancing round the earth strewing seeds we really feel as though summer Is here Ah the feel of the warm earth between your toes The warmth of the sun of your back Repetition of one of man kind s earliest occupations sowing seed Pure Joy Sheer ecstasy If I keep this up I may actually psyche myself into some enthusiasm about his business of gardening Affairs at Concordia University in prior to her studies at Katie is under taking studios in Resources Management at 0 A and is interested in the politics of agriculture Shewns born and raised on a farm near Brant ford and now lives with her husband on a farm in West Garafraxa near Arthur Mrs worker to procure a in Toronto prior to returning to studies and served four year is an alderman on Toronto Borough of North York Council The early part of the fifteen week project will be spent researching the history of rural women of Wellington County Including searching through written material at the Wellington County Museum the county public libraries from the and Welling ton County Historical Societies and interviewing local citizens to collect oral histories and old photos This The recent announcement that the centuryold county jail in Milton it to be closed this year brings back memories of the nolle which took place there in the 1800s It was a practice but officials of the day felt it to conduct public hangings as a deterrent to 1858tells in detail of the execution of a Nelson man who was hung in the Milton jail for the crime of murder He shall be known only as Mr to spire any embarrassment to his descen Here is the story written years ago very means has been used ing his daughter He was there procure a reprieve for the for five years but then he unhappy man Mr of threw himself headlong into a Nelson now in gaol here fresh career of dissipation tions have been disregarded until on November he and soon the man body will committed the murder of be and his soul gone to which he is convicted for a horrible crime He is said to hove married Mr HistoryHe was yes married no less than one or the first settlers here seven women and to have hiving lived in the country for lived with five or six others upwards of thirty years He Some of these were decent was at the taking of Detroit In women and he has children the American war was also at who are it is said an honor to the battles of the community But the Heights and Lane Re greater part of the females was also out in the rebellion of were of the worst character on the side or law and One of the two women he wis living with at the time of He Is now years of age the crime called herself his and his few remaining hairs wire and the other was his gray He Is a man of good niece In a drunken quarrel he I am sorry that I have such lamworthofabctter I have been a loyal subject of the British crown and have fought many a hard battle I have no more to say gentlemen ladies so you only beware of bad company 1 was led Into grievous error by a man who was with me I have no more to say now though 1 might speak an hour The Final Scene The sheriff now said Twelve good men and true of county have found this man guilty of murder it Is my duty to see the sentence is carried into execution And may this solemn spectacle have the desired effect of deterring others from crime The executioner now put the noose around the culprit s neck The Rev Mr Coleman and the Rev Mr Tremaine then aloud The pris oner asked if all was done and being told yes he said Christ receive my spirit The bolt was then drown and the fall of six feet or more the mans neck he died without a struggle The executioner slunk away and the crowd began to disperse They conducted themselves in a most orderly way from the commencement the actual tragedy The man relatives chimed his body There have only been three recorded hangings take place at the old jail yard The last was in 1882 when a man was hung for murdering an old man from Burlington and his yearold daughter Some said the wrong man was hung According to The Ctnm Sheriff Clements had great difficulty in securing a hangman and was compelled to pay to the individual who officiated The exe cutioner said he came from Buffalo and stated he had never assisted at any previous execution but the skill with which he pinioned the prisoner and adjusted the noose clearly showed he was no novice at the business Threequarter inch rope was used and the drop was about eight feet The man who hanged for he double murder above was probably the first to hang in Milton jail yard The second hanging was Just four years later when a man suffered the last penalty of the law said The Cham for the murder of his mother committed while the youth was on a drunken spree This man was just a boy and he was tried during the term of the first sheriff Levi Wilson The sheriff did not think the boy had been given a square deal and his terrible fate so preyed on his mind that the sheriff resigned material compiled into a slidelope education can read and write killed them both fln he f to years County Museum he has lived on whiskey to be mode avail able to rural women groups wn brother Rich th Richie was sent to the Institute The students intend penitentiary and died there but before his death this man Thomas also became an in mate of that prison for shoot that the slide show present an historical per on the problems which rural women presently confront They will be at tempting to analyze how changes in agricultural production and the impact of downtown section of Milton urbanization have caused are scheduled for this sum changes in the role of women mer as local merchants and how rural women feel attempt to attract more bus about their present day roles ncss In he town s core Minstrels Strolling minstrels in the THE ALL Round Cord was recently presented to these four hardworking Eden Mils Guides They are front to back Paula Hayward Michelle Heard Margarita Bell and Delia Chesworth MILTON 10 am November 18S8 Everyone in the county who could come seems to be here Before daybreak this morning sleighs and wagons were com into town The women appear to outnumber the men Yet there seems very little seriousness In the crowd they laugh and Jest and talk so merrily as if they were come wedding a hang The character of the county for crime Is I am afraid rather bad but surely it cannot be the familiarity of all these people with crime that makes them so callous One could almost wish that executions if they must take place were conducted inside the limits of the goal ure with the county officials and government officers alone as spectators The poor man who Is to be the principal actor In the play is as unconcerned as ever He ate yesterday as heartily as possible he slept lost night as soundly as could be At about l m the clergy and magistrates of the county went to the goal and soon the prisoner dressed In his shroud and followed by the Negro executioner in a mask went out of the enclosure The man as he passed the clerk of the crown said You never saw me In this garb before and appeared quite unconcerned The sheriff then asked him II he had anything to say In a bold unfaltering voice he then said Ladles and Gentelmen 1 I consider myself a murdered man I am a man that has seen a great deal in my time I have been led Into errors It Is true I never what you may call a habitual drinker I have drunk it is true I have often been out of my mind through it and If I had the misfortune to do that I can teU but little of It Busting SPRING HAS arrived with a vengeance at Barr farm north of Acton Chloe little lamb of four days greets her very new sister Carol in the picture above Three week old pigeons look quite adult right but two weeks before they were ugly creatures below right Their growth is so phenomenal they are totally mature at five weeks The baby Silkie chick a Japanese show breed resembles an Easter card chick below left and ring necked doves peer down from their nest centre