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ESQUESING HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER March - April 1992 EXPLORE HISTORIC ACTON MARCH 11 "I remember when this store was put up. Duncan Kennedy built the foundation, and it was a job he was proud of....It was known as the Post Office store. The late Postmaster James Matthews, then in his prime, had fine post office and telegraph quarters in the rear, and a commodious grocery and crockery store in the front. It was on one side of this store that Hynd's jewellery business was established in 1877... Mr. Matthews sold his grocery business when his eldest son, Albert, went to Chicago as an expert telegraph operator, and Mr. George McLaglen, of Nova Scotia, was the new proprietor.... Upstairs was Matthew's Hall. Here the meetings of the Council were held until the Town Hall was built. The Free Press had a share in the history of this somewhat renown building. Here it was founded on Dominion Day, 1875, by the late J.H. Hacking, formerly of the Guelph Advertiser.... It was here political meetings were held in the early days." -Acton's Early Days H.P. Moore 1