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195 200 in OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Page § New Colony Of Beavers '| FOUSEAU ED, Ean Excites Many Sightseers Street, entertained at a ftrouss- 8 th of a Milton man, Gordon The beaver, symbol of indus: hurriedly, by any means. Like and on Mondays $80. Altogether PARKING METERS [there are 132 meters in town, mostly on Colborne Street, with (Continued from Page 1) a few on Thomas, George and The meters have stopped! that [Dunn Streets. By far the heaviest days for us:| Chief Derry and Constable ing the meters are Friday and|Evershed wish the public would Goturday, both Constable Ever-|be careful about two points when Shed and Chief of Police Derry| using: Oakville's parking meters. e Haw 2! K- z orn wes, aged 21, of Oai eau tea Monday afterncon in hon- or of her daughter, Marian Eliza- beth, who is being married in St John's Church this Saturday to aged 35. Titus died in a and Canada's national em-| experienced engineers of the [Ronald -Willlam Bawden. Re- last Thursday as retammed "to. Halton| two-legged variety, the beaver--| ceiving with Mrs. i (tater, AL = Tougn estimate, be:| For one thing, they should 've: oe in the bush country| there are only four of them, made) Mrs. AW. Bawden, Te (bean 500) and Y,0i0} persons perk frain from banging the meter ; ot Nossaweya township, half a= careful survey of the districtiand Mrs tn, Se oe me these busy | when they put a coin in, as they th of Milton, are|for some time before starting) Hamilton, mother et weekdays| sometimes do to muke the col a least four members of the spe| their project, selecting the most mother respectively of the the number might be perhaps) go down. This Injures the mech: 9, and Douglas| gies which may prove the fore-| suitable site they could find. groom. Mrs. Clifford Lawrence of| "0 hundred. Its Constable Ev-|lanism and may make it hecess 22, were charged with runners of a thriving colony of| The presence fan abundance| Toronto, aunt of the bride-to-be erslied's. duty to check the met-|ary to send the meter to tS fof Y 2% dlsturbance. Hawes| the busy and teresting little|of young poplar trees helped in ied at tenfable," | decorated |e Sec? them in repair, and col| ory for repairs. They should in police court in| animals. OE DPI aver in their| with pink and | tect, thelfcnins. He makes his col-|so be careful to confine their J | tomorrow to answer the| These beaver didn't get there|choice, according to Sir. Hitch-|crystal candelabra, with a beau: lections twice a week, 1 car to one parking space. The onto | ETS tient § Th hors own fsteaty sol to|lcox. Poplars, it seems, are essen ful centrepiece of pink and mornings LON right way to' park is | withthe 0 Bh tight 1s sald to have occur speak. They were placed there tial to the happiness, and indeed | white carnations and snapdrag: in coppers and right front hubcap opposite the 4 when ihe four Oakville men| last September by Dudley Hiteh-|the very existence of the beaver) on, about $30.00] meter. the cate where Titus eo, | kent game dan. Pro.| Species. The bark of these trees| Assisting in the tearoom: WC°o eee -- - | vide y the Ontario Department | is their chief article of diet. With| Miss Irene Watson, Miss Alice La py i of i fight Titus| of Game and Fisheries, the beav-|its sharp teeth a beaver will) Foster, Miss Norma Fish ---- nh Ly to| or were brought fo Halton from|gnaw through the trunk of a| Mrs. Howard Litchfield. 5 Eee x) Seorgnlitie | Mount est colony, which | poplar, bring it down, and then|Joan Thornton and Miss Just Arrived VTi | a was| hada surplus of them. True tol proceed to eat the bark from it.| Joyce Robbins, were in charge ed, pronounced him dead. An| their natural instincts, the trans-| In the neighborbood of the dam of the trousseau rooms. ) fitopsy pol = Hamilton| planted beaver have been hard|are several felled poplars. Misses Joan Thornton, Joyce BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT ~ I hora - a oi] at work, and have a big dam to| The pond formed as a result of Robbins and Barbara McRoberts Bo ih be hel £8. An for their efforts. Already] the dam covers an area of per-| who will act as bridesmal en- | Bre had ont i: the news of their achievement|haps two or three acres, and In| tertained at a party at which NEW FALL SKIRTS > ad only a few days pre-|has got around, and one Sunday|it are a number of trees. Some of the brideto-be was presented a TE 0Oak-| rogently no less than three hun-|these may die, but this will not with a set of handsome silver | ee Memorial Hospit- | dred people from near and far) matter much, the game warden | flatware. Miscellaneous showers ) [hii siter undergoing treatment for| paia a visit to the dam. And one| believes. ~The beneficul effects held by Mrs, Howard Li BURROS SPECIALTY SHOPPE | NH hecess. He was a war veter-| day last week a member of the|will outweigh the destruction. were held by Mrs. Howard Litch one ater» wite and Tour| yorrnal staft wes privileged to| "The dam is a great drawing field, Mrs. Clifford Lawrence and|| 436 Colborne St. E. Phone 423 3 card for duck, woodcock, rail,| Miss Dora Calhoun. view the structure in company with Game Warden Hitchcox. The Halton beaver have their home in a stretch of wild, lonely bushland, not far from the | jeumatic drills biting into _con-| Source of the Sixteen-Mile Creek. | erete reverberated throughout Leaving the road, one walks Oakville's business district this| through & rugged, rock-studded cei. but the noise does not ler-| [eld enters the bush and comes ald the start of a subway job. at last to a tiny stream, the head- Bh oe ic under way in Oalc|vaters of the Sixteen. And here I illos suburb Toronto. It fe. a|ls where the busy beaver have RE to the resuricing of built thelr dam. One not wise in Dore Strest, from Dundas to|fhe ways of these ingenious Bfookrield Rowi, on the west creatures would say it was cer- le. coote and other waterfowl," Mr. Hitchcox pointed out. "This spring we put in 5,000 small trout." The beaver built their living-quarters some distance above the dam. .Their house is Lalies sn mE NO SUBWAY he ear-splitting clamor of big pile of brush out in the water. Inside it they rest secure from possible enemies. They have built, another dam some- where, too. The ponds will pro- vide natural sanctuaries for wild life, and in the natural course of events the beaver will multiply. "The people around here were saying they wanted water," ob- served Mr. Hitchcox. "Now they've got it." It's been a good many years, ~ probably sixty or more, since beaver became e tinct in the county, he believe: Halton is the only county in this particular section of the province to have acquired beaver from th Game and Fisheries department. It's an experiment that will be interesting to watch, especially for the naturalist. : tainly the work of human hands. But no human had anything to do With the building of the massive structure. of wood that stretches for a length of some sixty feet, with 4 height of about four feet. 4] | s n The busy little beaver built it > | Hospital for Sick Children, Tor themselves. this dam are u 'onto. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon. Service in St. John's Church was conducted by Rev. @. K. Nicoll of Knox Church who has been in charge of the united Services of St. Johns and Knox churches during the vacation of minister of sl "Prominent Churchman Y I | (Continued from Page 1) | Watts, a nursein-training at the of /wpod--old sticks that the little creatures have dragged from the bed of the creck and the neighboring banks and wedged together, with the aid of a few rocks, into a com- pact mass that holds back the main flow of water. The inner St. John's. a wall of the structure is reinforc- lod by Rev. Charles Hackett. Mr.|ed with mud. "ho drove from Mon-| The building of the dam would have been qui a spectacle to BY EAREN PECE watch, Collecting all those bits| An excellent crowd attended of wood and chunks of rock and| Teen Town Friday night after putting them in place must have| the Baseball game in Wallace \ 8 tribute | to the 'late Mr, The church was filled to 4 Pallbearers were as follows: | taken lots of effort, patience| Park. The size of the crowd In 'Honorary--Sam Beare, Gordon|and skill The beaver did not} fact was one of the best ever to = iy Irving Hl Jorn gnaw down any trees for use in|attend Teen Town and it made WE CARRY A LARGE STOCK OF LUMBER AND BUILDERS' SUP- Thompson, Arthur Tuck, Dr. .| the dam, according to Mr. Hiteh-| the Mayor and Council very | ) m-- McLeod, Joseph Caulder Sr, Ry:|cox. They just used old sticks| thrilled indéed to sed so many PLIES + EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR MAKING IMPROVEMENTS OR ALTERATIONS TO YOUR HOME , . . AND IF YOU NEED MILL- 0% fallen limbs and odd scraps kids enjoying themselves. The ot wood. But the dam wasn't buflt| Wednesday night dances are still | igomeg. with gusto too, One thing that did make our Mayor Ruddy feel rather blue, was the fact that no one journey- ed to the Saturday dance at the Paris Teen Town. A bus was al- ready ordered and had to be cancelled on account of people not making reservations. 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