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li now a corporai pte r henry of esqueslnc u report ed to be a prisoner of war pte j appleford and pte job fry alio of zequeilnff have teen invalided home from the front the no 3 pulp mill af barbers paper uuli at georgetown waa completely destroyed by fire on tuesday nomine many people had their first view of an aeroplane at rest on sunday when pllffht xjeut mokenna of the royal plying corps alighted in the field of mr fred cleave third line for refuellne the beventyeeoond anniversary of methodist church lot sunday was the oooa ston of unusual interest rev h w avlson of weliand was back to conduct the services another feature waa the introduction of the new methodist hymn book made by e j moore the attend anoe waa laroe at both aervlcea and splendid service was rendered by the choir died scott at the homestead lot 33 fourth line aaqueeintf on tuesday october loth 1017 andrew scott in hi 85th year slats diary olitver n warren sunday the preecher of arc church has aorta funnle way this p m he wanted to see the ft boll teem praotla the road to yesterday they seek the road to yesterday whove wandered far away ttdpintftoflndrthe enmahted paths they rod in childhood day seeking the oldtime faithful friends with whom they used to roam the country church the vluafle achool the harbor lights of home how oft in fancy they have lived those youthful day again revulted the old home folk recalled the sununera when the achool house closed task laid aside each day in pleasure bent exploring wood and field arid stream with simple joys content and now theyve come to meet asaln the friends of early- days affain to capture old deutjhts mid memorys musty hose though ardently they seek the way and plain the pathway seems the distant road to yesterday they find alone in dreams well the house which was next door neighbor to the mclam horde was also the sphnf thaws sud ejttlto puddle here but ile sjduelly disappear a few of you old folks will remember the mephesa- who- lived for twetrtyfive or thirty ysars on the pr across the street from this wfflbw swamp mr and mrs mephev were elderly people and rather frail as far back aa i can remember i think they had a eon who was a teacher and taught in the old achool but he never was my teacher and t find the matter slips my memory a to facts x do recall a daughter how ever who was 111 or imagined she was 01 and remained in bed ah invalid for eighteen years the doctors could not find any ailment but she persisted that she was 111 and unable to get out of bed the law of suggestion came forcibly to her one day however and she got up and dressed and in a jew days round she was as well a any of the other maidens of the village of her age the family left acton shortly after this im not quite sure whether-john- w mcphee of toronto who married valentine dynes daughter ed dynes sister was a son or not i really believe he was its many a day since the mcphees left and for years this house was the resid ence of mr and mrs donald mcdonald trot rarfi whether he brought his bride from trafalgar right to thla house or not if not at once it was very short ly afterward donald was born on the homestead on the fourth lino on the farm next to the one which was the birth place of his neighbor sir donald mann and across the road from cedar creek farm the home of the warrens for sixty years and for four generations of that esteemed family when donald was a little chap a lame foot developed in consequence he was pcrmlted to attend achool more than the other brothers and sisters and the outcome was that donald became a school teacher his pious lowland scottish father would have liked donald to have become a meenlstcr but school tflchfngeemed 00 be his fated calling aftertcaching for a number of years in erin township he came to acton- mr mcdonald was industrious and thrifty at the time of his death he owned several houses about acton besides the mcphee home his widow and daughter mrs orlndell still reside there in comfort and happiness the next property is now all vacam land and paa of it included in falrvlew cemetery but until about seven years ago the cook residence faced on pair- view avenue or ransom street where fttirvtew avenue runs from main street to the cemetery entrance ransom street was one of the last streets named by the original founders when they sue de so he cum down to the ground st sed swallowed up some years ago by the we ottent to play on the sabbeth smith lawn and garden come to think monday the achool teacher got fooled of it i believe the beordmore when they this a m a uttel bit of a new kid oum to school st he was red hedded st etc st seamed mighty brlte as the teecher begin a asken him how mutch he new he node his pas st mas his strets name ekey doke but when she ost did he no his a b ca he replide st sed heck no i aint been here but about 10 rolnnlts tuesday pa sed are denteat was a tellng him about are banker dotter st her bad tooth st when he told her he would axmlnlster a lofcel aneathetteok she sed she could of ord a imported 1 pa st unit el hen loft about it but i coulddent see no thing funney about vlsetlng a denteat ford the 1st time out in the country late this p m st jane sed the uttel looken flats up over her aint set right and all she eon lee m it ore the rood shea all- reddy past even jane has her duro thursday blisters mom aed to him he will ruin his oturamlck by eating so metmey dlffrunt things st sd mutch of them but he aed it dont matter as he all ways wore does st no boddse con sec it he ts about l as dum as jake or seams to me to toe friday ant emmy have been prac using singing st unkel hen sed to pa her raise seams to be unprovetng dont you think pa replide st sed meboy but tt still lax a ool lot of getting itself in tire ty cured saturday this was 1 of the most dlp- presmlne gloomey days of my intlre carear the wether hod to rone st be cold so i cuddent get to the rt ball grid- irn st all i could do was cleen the dirt st etc out o the basement so cole could be put in to ssan tuff aed i owned the property moved it down tt the old stuftcr farm lone on the second line and obliterated all signs of it a being an old resldentcr when i come to figure up things i guess that old house was built before the mclam house i cant remember who built that house but i know it was there about eightyfive years ago i think that was where william hcmstreet took agnes moore his bride when they were mar ried over eighty years ago william was working in mooloshens tannery then he had served his time and was a jour neyman tanner he lived there a while an then went forming on one of the divided their farm holdings and ransom adams or of the characters of acton sixty to seventy years ago was honored by having the snort narrow street nam ed for him when falrvlew cemetery waa opened however ransom had passed off theeeene and the street leading to the entrance of the cemetery was re named by w h storey who waa reeve at the time falrvlew avenue about seventyfive years ago rev r b cook a baptist minister removed from cape rich a little hamlet on the pen insula between meaford and owen sound to acton with his wife and three of four children they finally made their home where the oldest son edward with his wife and family resided until the father and rnother passed away rev mr cook was an earnest christian worker he superintended the remov al from bollinafad of the building which still stands on- elgin street and which was used for forty years as the acton baptist church for many years he was the minister there but finally retired je was the eager desire of his life to see a new and more commodious baptist church ejected in acton and this fervent wish was granted him he was at the opening services of the new church on mill street in 1800 and was heard to reverently exclaim when the beautiful new edifice was anally dedicat ed at the interesting opening services with simoon the devout man of israel in the temple nineteen tufflawctteatr before lord now lettest thou thy ser vant depart in peace according bcr thy salvation which thou has prepared be fore the face of the people the dear old man did not live long after but he died in great peace well say i uusi cut it short this time my rheunmtlz is growling awfully ym may be thankful to get a column of this stun this week even that much has cost me a good many pangs ill try and tell you more abouttticcoolc family next time ooodbye ouchj application rejected application for office boys jobai may say im pretty smart ive won several crossword and wordpicture com petitions lately employer yes but i want some one who can be smart during office hours applicant this was during office hours 1 hecancer crustide fighting the great teasrfe wiih knowledgea cepelgn to wipe oat ifnetcbee fear and nagtaet by j w s mecullough md dph treatment of cancer no 3 the wisosurgcon does not depend on his art alone in the treatment of cancer in the appropriate cases he employs the auxiliary measures of xray and radium in an everincreasing number of cancers tho treatment is a combination of all three methods in all aes early treat ment is essential to success neglected cancer is invariably and inevitably fatal fortytwo years ago a german pro fessor in the university of wurrburg bavaria discovered a new kind of ray of light while engaged in his experiments this ray knownas the k or roentgen ray has the power of- penetrating most subsfances of leaving the shadow of a dense object on a photographic plate of bringing about chemical reactions and of producing changes in living matter the xrays arc generated by passing a current of high potential electricity through a vacuum tube ooolldge tube uiatw arturjoofepectnl churacter from which the air has been removed these rays arc utcd in the taking of photo graphs of various parts of the body such an pictures of bones of foreign bodies such as bullets or cabull by means of xrays the functions of such organs as the heart lungs stomach intestines etc may be examined they arc used in treating conditions such as lupus ccecma cancer and many others the xrays are very powerful they wnl pass through cardboard cloth and wood with ease they will penetrate a tjilrk plank or a book of 2000 pages but metals such as iron copper lead silver and gold arc less penetrable the densest of them being fairly opaque white flesh is very transparent to the rajs bones ore rather opaque and one may sec the bones of ones hand if the latter is interposed between the source of the rays and a screen cancers accessible to the effects of xrays are destroyed by them the effect being similar to that produced by the rays of radium the dose can be ac curately measured in some cases a large dose is used in others the total dose is divided over a period of weeks rractloned it is called needless to say skill and experience are quite as neces sary in the handling of xrays as in surgery the xrays ore dangerous in unskilled hands they are quite safe when used by the experienced radiologist scotts w- book amir nf bahkimm ikduk iii tm 6 6tauu mcas1w mmht byhtscott r imu any vw pftfi younfem fiwgers xvim moderatoy wjkt wnya s wedrnidsy jirxm pilot her drive the biinvi lurma uie jweph arthurs farm sallys sallies which la now owned by the plynn bros well raybsa friend bill scott of the ixth line bought thli place about sixty years ago or more bill had always been a hardworking fanner and i guess one fall when he was flush of harvest money he thought hed buy this place in town and then in a few years hed retire from the arduous work of the farm well he bought the place built a barn on it spent a kh of money in repairs pot a small rent for it far the many years until the beardmores bought it the lot adjoining the scott property was for eighty years or more a willow swamp but beardmore co have grad ually reclaimed it they have filled in j thousands of loads of debris there and j today there is a drive way and entrance along one aide of the old swamp in taken literally you cjult grl belter cried the wife aj her husbund pulled at one of the cigars she hnd given him for a blrthdny- present im afraid 1 never shall he groan ed fely scwitki womw v aipu mvttr cojuitfwo5k fpujmboorfo noon 9uwyut4 majlhamr ttwiiu mfveumtt oufflam afam orncl hmy stamp appuald im inc land i in 1806w issutf svtnpbmitp abmv cm qk apnmtkt almv opmeim- r them rttnt hayt barm htimiapuf n c inppihf cotvkht in tmc hatuwl ivnmatt l hockey players apply trtfteinslateinent r nearly a score of hookey players who have played in professional ranks have applied for reinstatement as amateurs most of those wishing reinstatement are veterans but same are youngsters who have either retired for personal reasons or could not moke thp grade the most outstanding of those wanting their amateur cards back are the bourocjr brothers jranlxmls left and conrad right his younger brother who both played for montreal cohadlens two other wellknown players who want to return lb slipon pure ranis are harold star left circle of ottawa and bui qui right circle of moncton star congratulated by premier on portrayal f queen picobac pi pl- tobacco for a mild cool smoke far thai iansaejt haatsjr whieh bunu hard fual try hjufoo oak easy is nsnilat loses all niaht piolts up aulofclv in lh morn ing isssa lobar with ham0o too i lights to handu and taulllmaailnrit d with thla duatlaaa ok- uaa manaraaetng cok foi ptosnpt oantooi osasa from your local kamoo doalar ha j your fual hiia solo by j a mackenzie son ritchie ft agar anna neagle beautiful star or victoria the oraat receives the congratulations of rt hon mackenzie king prime minister of pa on her great performance in the picture which bad 1u north american premiere in ottawa txfore a select audience which included the oovernoroeneral lord tweedamulr herbert wilcox producer is seen beside miss neagle courtesy canadian pacific railways moggstard skbllbk by wally bishop v