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the acton htee presl acton ontario thubsday march 27th 1b52 unshared joy a perusal of the budger- address of hon lot- lie m fro presented isit thursday in the on tario legislature givet nothing for the small muni cipalities to cheer about toronto with its many government rfd hydro buildings will definitely receive a ocnefit in taxation and might well have caute for some jubilation but what other cities and towns in theprovince of ontario will receive any assistance in their tax load as a result of the budget j there will be no lessening of the taxation lod for most ontario municipalities and premier frost points out that a surplus is expected and that this will be the tenth surplus ho has boon able to announce that should be splendid news to most ontario folk but when municipalities throughout the province are wallowing in high taxation and having difficulty in meeting obligations for ex penditures which were very necessary the sur plus of the ontario government is looked upon v ith considerable envy looking on the budget speech of the ontario government from the small municipalitys view point there is no consolation no help is offered tc meet high educational costs increased costs of police protection help on road maintenance and the multitude of things which are definitely tied in with provincial urisdiction over the rpunici- palities and on which the province really sets the rules but fails to adequately pay a share it willbe a happy day when municipalities can announce a surplus and no new taxes but un less the ontario government changes its methods that joy will be confined to the ontario legisla ture and mr frost quarter century as editor back in late march 1927 the present editor of the free press with some misgivings assumed the editorship and ownership of the business the past week we completed the quarter century as your editor there has been quite a story written in that 25 years concerning acton it has been a great privilege to have presented it in the 1300 issues which have appeared weekly it has been great to have lived it as part of a fine progressive community we have endeavored as publishers to keep pace with the town that has grown more than a third in population in that period we would like to review it but space does not permit one of the greatest joys has been the associations with staff in the office and with the many friends ip the town and everwidening district this is not a valedictory because we hope to be enjoying these associations for many more years on this milestone may we first pause a mo ment and in our editorial message express our appreciation of help and fri we have en joyed and publiclyacknowledge such loyalties in any success which may have been achieved and are shown by such examples on our staff as- our foreman bob aaacarthur who has been with us the whole quarter century and in the staff dinner and presentation which was tendered mrs dills and myself on saturday evening the anniversary has been a bright silver one indeed dont be sorry in these days when business is again being sought by the door to door salesmen a word of warning might well be heeded by all house holders it is reported that in a western ontario town a selfstyled radio licence inspector collected license fees of 250 each from a number of resi dents who are still waiting for the licenses to be mailed to them of course the place to get your radio license is at your local post office and the time to get it is before the end of this month however the first question to ask of any door to door salesman is for his credentials from the principals he repre sents bui thesafost way is to have no dealings with the doortodoor salesman and give him no money deal with those with whom you are ac quainted m your own town and you will save yourself a lot of money there is usually very little that he peddlers have to offer which cannot be secured and backed up by established and re putable dealers the peddlers are multiplying these days and theyll be calling t your door more regularly a firm no to strangers is your best safeguard spring planning now that most of the rowho gonn and ho un thinott on both id of the fanctf plant can- lv mado for thd annual spring cloaninp back yard and streets present a rather unsightly ap pearance and while the household ash piles aront a problem any more theres always some refuse jhat requires disposal with streets once more back to normal the painting ihat was deferred during iho upheaval process can now bo undertaken and along the business section of town this will have a decided brightening effect town services now provide much help in spring clean up garbage disposal ol unwanted articles makes heavy collections dur ing the springtime but there are always those items which are of no use in your plans but might well bo helpful to someone else and here we might put in a plug for the want ad services of the home town paper and failing disposal there the contribution to such salvage efforts as the vete rans and salvation army who conduct so worthy drives we dont advocate an upheaval of the home but an orderly disposal of surplus usually found in spring cleaning would be advantageous per haps that orderly disposal is asking too much but we thinkjts a worthwhile suggestion yes along with seed catalogues garden planning and even looking up the fishing tackle can come the con sideration of spring cleanup it takes all the citi zens to present a tidy town weve had unavoid able untidiness here for the past two or three years this year its time to clean up thoso features about the homes and business places that have needed doing but were found impossible yes its time to paint up too wilbur hoard that the directors are going to split the company stock more liquor pressure there is every indication that the ontario government will review the restrictions now im posed in this province on the publishing of itquor advertising the big magazines are arguing of the hardship imposed by the restrictions and threatening to move plants to other provinces someof them are now mailing their periodicals from quebec to get around the restriction the mean by calling m north e ast west s outh monls from orton to hornby rc- quiring- 260 testaments this year testaments are given to each child in grade five in the whole area served from guelph 1000 testa ments were given out last year theatre and monologue those who heayd ford theatre on the radio last friday nirht will have heard hnltonite jean cainc in one of tin parts the county the coops could emulate thnt i actics who lives in oakville also the oh a might just as w t honors at the central annual event optimists could say that milton eliminating oakville in the inter mediate hockey playoffs has tno appearance of an annual event anyway it happened again this year phrtosophies the canadian champion hockey columnlst what ihc lakies lack in speed ability and depth they more than make up for in aggressiveness and spirit if spirit well send the trophy to now milton us now tangling thorold editor rebuked the manner of treating those not- etadults must be cauious in a newspaper the grand valley star and vidette had reported that little danny spence had the mumps and las week there appeared en the front page an irate leltei to the editor saying what do you milton i ontario drama festival and she the wife of one of the town coun- thctllors howard cntne- the little mumps an danny i was 1jkw the whimce electric store was gutted recently in georgetown ac cording to the town paper must of the contents were destroyed 1 the herald also tells of the sud den death of douglas lawrence m uncle of harry paul and peer lawson of acton born in stew- arttown he had lived there all his life and ithe last three lines of the georgetown editorials muse we hear rumors there is a possibility of a genrgctownacton combine team seeking i baseball honors thus year testament territory heres news in the erin advocre that siinus to affect our own dis trict additional territory in he mivieed by the guelph camp of the gideons international now ex tendi the placing of school lemi- squeeze is on by the liquor interests to sell more s wtn cf their products and line up public sentiment in b b their favour whether the ontario government neics trio will yield to the pressure remains to be seen advertisings objective is to sell more goods and render better public service if one will ana lyze the crime news of any day the conclusion can only be reached that more intoxicating beverages should not be sold in ontario newspapers and i chicago en route home to george- periodicals can exist and have existed for years uwn from ari20ia hc wiis lhc without the patronage of the brewing and distil ling interests and in the best interests of the pro vince as a whole the ban on liquor advertising should be maintained and strengthened and its sale curtailed rather than widened advertising should be truthful and any liquor advertising we have seen certainly does not por tray the results in a true light the ruined homes the murders the institutions and their inmates in which liquor was the cause are never portrayed as the products of the liquor business it will take some imagination to present an advertisement of the good it is doing to humansanywhere ll doesnt matter whether the ban is lifted or not we wiltrefuse to accept either brand name or institutional advertising of intoxicating beverages weve lived without it throughout a rather lengthy newspaper career and we dont intendro be bought over by a bottle in these later vears we could stand the cash advertising revenue from any source but we have always considered that cur obligations in editorship of a newspaper in cluded things other than the accumulation of money there are many other weekly papers in on- tariowhich take the same firm attitude it will- be interesting to learn how many in the ontario legislature will be guided by the big pressure qtoups or let their conscience also have a fair hearing before making their decision this is the last week of march and with april the ddys will surely continue to become more springlike it may not mean a thing and you may not even be interested to know that the tax rate in cuelph is 7 mills and in waterloo it s 68 mills this bit of news came from the oakville recordstar the weekly with the jokes sample teaeher what us a monologue pupil a conversation between two people mich as a husband and his ife portraits of czars h guelplutes who visited the kauli- kovsky home near campbellville after the recent auction sale jhere reported that the big living room and walls of the stairway formed a veritable art gallery with many pictures by famous russian nrtfsls i colonel kauhkovskys wife is the daughter of car alexander iii of russia you may remember and the assassinated car nicholas was her brother these por raits included paintings and photographs of czars and other f am oils people these paintings are to be moved and perhaps are by now to the kaulikovskys new fruit farm at strcetsville bat jumps rope bats haw a marvellous ability to avoid obstacles in flight leonard dubkiri author of a book on the subject says that a pet bat flew directly into the blades of an elec tric fan revolving at 100 r p m and came out the other side not once but several times as easily as a child jumping rope when the fans tpeed was stepped up to 1 200 rpm the bat did not attempt to go through but zoomed over the fan nr at me united church of canada rtnn ontario a friendly crjurch itcv t a currry ffca ii i minister parsonage 29 bower avenue phone 60 miu o m ljunpaxd atcm organist and choir leaner 1052 th sunday march 30th 10 00 m sunday school is something for everyone 1 1 00 am morning wuiship sub ject walking in the spuit 7 00 p m evening worship sub ject a film strip on the urn of the united nations charter also hnm- illutliated on the ei e il ijp artnn ifrr prras i ti- only puper ever puhliilird in acton founded in 1875 and published cviiy thursday at 58 mill si k actun onl member of the audit burtuu o circula tion llu c w na und the ontarioquebec division of the t w n a advertising rates on request subscriptions pay- able in advance 250 in canada 3 50 in the united states m month 1 50 sincle copies be authorized as second class mall post office department ottawa business and editorial a dills illitor and publisher office telephone 1 7 4 thpuulir or llic fik til frilll of llu- spun i live peue luntuffellll kll v kkhuvs flllh tlleeklus miirriuiy ijiinvt mich then- ii gil 5 l- 21 presbyterian church in canada knox flllimtl acton lkv lioiikitl ii altmstitom ma dd minister sunday march 30th 1052 10 00 a m sunday school 1100 am divine worship 1 15 pm ilible class 7 00 p ni kveniiie worhp they that lidif upon rie old shall reneie ihelr slrenyth a warm welcome awjii you baptist church actton ikll- i shiiter pimnr i o do st albans church aiikluwn supply minister archdeaci mackintosh of hamilum sunday mahch 30lh 111 5th sunday in lent 0 00 am holy communion 10 00 a in sunday sjhool 1100 a in mormon irjer riecmnera cla 7 00 p m evening prayer lenten sevice every wednesday at 730 pm a welcome awaits you sunday makcii 30u li 10 311 a in siindi sihuol 1130 a m what jemi- ha- i with our kaith 7 00 pm what really hill i 15 pm u ypu thursday church ninlif p half hour praver u 30 pin bible suuly 9 10 p in lliru- ion group kriday 4 pm mlsmuii band and kor urocci le- canadians snt thiee limes i much in 1051 ai n 1941 jlooh million compared to 507 million independent merch- anl did 020 per cent of the total business chain operators the re mainder the good old days may have seemed better back in 1902 takm rom th u of th v vrg of tjiuraddv march 31th 1002 thr annual mretlnu of acton 11 ranch of the iird day alllbnce wo held in the methwllttj church mr wtlllnm drown nrenulnt oc- cnplihl the thnlr th fnriouajnu nltlcerh wfrc fhfmifh nriilnt john ciinienjn virc prcmrlcnt jni moore nerreuiry trnauirrr j m wnrren kxteutive jhf lncjil mln- llitinu the retiring prenftlent nnd i lnely and i ucntliinin from eiefi of the chiirrhei nt follows hnptfit w i worden nnd mki grnhain churth of england j n wnllnrr- nnd mjwt lnlrd disiclple fred plank and muw bella ju11 metho dist a e nicklln nnd mrs ornin presbyterian john n kytnody nnl mrs a campbell a committee was appointed to wait upon father fecney to receive ills nomination a fine new karn chnpel organ was installed in the dnptifit church last week nnd wna used for the irst tiie at the anniversary ser vices it was the fortyfourth an niversary since the erection of the first baptist church in acton and the second of the new church an enthusiastic meeting nf thnsn interested in baseball was held in the council chamber on tuesdny excouncillor francis one of the old war horses of the game pres ided the officers for 1902 are as follows hon president a o benrdniorc president w a storey first vicepresident j b wallarp second vicepresident tno dunn secretary w j could treasurer roy mcintosh manager neil mr- nabb managing committee a j gentles n patterson and w j could back in 1932 fvorrt tit isiti of th free prir of tfiurwdnv march 24th 1932 look fi if wtlauhtm would b sm necewjory part of the kajitcr p- pnrd thin year llnrvey mnuinrd nnd ted lurtjuri of arton took part in thp recital held hv the mimi t arhf ri at lh y m c a in fulph fn saturday night the frln and gikiph rntil miri didnt gft thrrjtjgh o kvtin in tue on i fount of th ryrm iij monrhii- nigh i ii fri wmi itrtrn fif tlw alnut the transient gufj4 who find nights lodging t th- tn hair each nlglrl ffo not frn to dirninih if is notiei able thi th- oldffiih loned irimp in trmgly ihn i n f j it a ila of voting mn i habitatc thi- refuge enrh flight u u shelter from the weithf r a well attended splendid st paiick t dnv itipp r nnd ent-r- tainment was held m the unifl church on thursday evening on sunday night and monday morning march 2 1st just when spi ing was suppof d to mak ili advent the worst hliznrd and snowstorm of the present wintrr descended on ontario rockwood lltih school wu trim med the bos from the ac on high school by 21 score list night at the acton arena grant at his residence in georgetown on march 21 1 032 major laehjan grant in his bflth year atkinson at the home lot s concession wrin townshi orr friday march 18th 1932 edwin atkinson beloved husband nf mary ann clnrridge inhls bjsth professional directory and travellers guide mkimcal dr w g c kenney physician and surgeon office insymon block mill st acton orflcr ilionr 78 residence church st rhone 150 dr d a garrett physician and surfeon corner of willow nnd river sli entrance river street acton ontario phone 238 dental dr a j buchanan dental surgeon office lcishman block mill st office hours 9 a m to g p m xray telephone ho real estate and insurance wright real estate and insurance f l wright n b wright 20 wilbur st 09 macdonncll si- acton ont guelph ont phone 95 phone 4015w valuators realtors insure member appraisal institute of canada members guelph and dirstict real estate board members guelph ond district insuracc agents assoclati9 dr george a 5irrs dental surgeon mill st corner frederick acton office hours 9 00 am tu i 30 pm telephone 19 veterinary b d young bvsc c l young dv m veterinary surgeons office urniikvillc oiiliiin phone milton hlit4 f g oakes vs bv sc veterinary surgeon oirice md ltcmilih- knox ave aeton plume ii wc urgently require listings at farm property from 50 to 300 acres also small holdings from 1 t 25 acres contact c h dyment realtor 123 wenlworth st s hamilton phone 78005 or andy frank salesmin al campbellville phone milton 325r2 wm r bracken real estate general insurance plume 21i aeton illitoiitactor d j armstrong llorliir of chiropractic li klduek si n aeton phone iso legal c f leatherland ilarrlsler 4 solicitor notary public oilier 22 phone ites 151 acton lever hoskin hartrred arrountants siiceesurs tu jenkins and hardy 1305 mitnipulilaii llliln i vutnrii si t elg 1131 rit i a j crandell cliartrred arcounlaiit till plum ci i 04 misckllaneors the victor b rumley funeral home funrral home heated ambulanre phone 30 night or day serving the eimiiumit fur 45 years eye are by appointment wm c miliigan r o optumrtrut 1st ond 3rd wednesday of the month 2 p m to 9 pm at mill st residence of a t brown travellers guide gray coach lines standard time 1ociies leave acton kuxthound ill i in 11 511 i in 11 23 aoti 2 011 pin r pin 1133 inn bb p in bill 111 pm wrstbouml in it i m i2 p m 2 m pm 27 pin 7 27 pin 1112 pin 1132 pin i 12 il sun in kitchener i ii ills imjil siijhti mil boli- dns h siiiiiliv sumliv and holl- canadian national railways srumlurd time eastbound dul 11411 am dally except sun day il 4i a in 7 10 p m sunday iniv h hi p m dally except sun day flyer at georgetown 002 am daily fler at georgetown 1011 v iu vfithound daily except sunday and mon day 204 am sunday and monday only 12 38 am dally txcopt sun- duy a 48 am 1850 pm tu stop 744 pm daily axcept sat and sun 810 pm saturday only 23b pm sunday only 03 im hluustop sunday only flyer a guelph 70 pm