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v thursday august 1u 19b8 the acton free press actorf ontario pageftvz acton welding and repair expert welding des orourke rr 4 acton protest council giving grant to federation of agriculture a deputation headed by robert hamilton waited on eramosa coun cil at their meeting on august and presented a petition protesting giving a grant to the federation of agriculture the petition was plac ed on record to be presented at the january meeting of the council the 1856 grant to the federation was passed and the clerk was instruct ed to notify the federation of ag- beautify the entrance of your home with one of our many designs of ornamental iron porch or stair railings porch columns metal lawn chains canopies wrought iron fenol posts ornamental won chains or steel charms weil be pleased to estimate youk installation without obligation economical maintenance 156 mill st supply acton phone 385j riculture that in the future if they wished money from the municipal ity some other method than a grant must be found the clerk reported having receiv ed the unconditional grant of 437820 from theontario depart ment of agriculture the treasurer of the eden mills tommeuiity club was to be paid 1290 the provincial grant receiv ed as requested by the eden hills trustee board five additional street lights are to be ordered for eden hills the trustees of the police village re quested the lights and the village will bear the cost rae freure on behalf of the wel lington county fair board asked council for a grant of 100 toward the building program the request was o filed for the next meeting the restricted area bylaw was discussed with members of the planning board and passed the bylaw prohibiting dogs from run ning at large was repealed in the township accounts passed for payment amounted to 6564 the first memorial service ever to be held at ballinafad ceme tery was attended by many there on sunday afternoon alan nee- ion the minister of ballinafad united church gave the address the staff ptwaa hill orchestra played the music for the service and ballinafad choir sang fine weather prevailed for the outdoor ceremonies ospringe rev charles jolliffe has 80th birthday hie farm home of mr and mrs e b jolliffe at rockwood was the setting for a happy family gathering marking the 80th birthday of mr jolliffes father rev charles jol liffe mr and mrs jolliffe were happy to have then- five children with them e b jolliffe qc richard of the toronto collegiate teaching staff paul superintendent of guelph childrens aid frances with the wellington county health unit and mrs jack somerville to ronto eight grandchildren were present dr r o jolliffe older brother of rev charles jolliffe mrs jolliffe and members of their family were present as well as the sons and fam ilies of his sister mrs l r guild jenny dr r o jolliffe served in the same mission field as his brother from 1905 to 1944 among the guests were many cousins resident in and near rock- wood and friends who had served with mr jolliffe in china the birthday party offered an op portunity to bid miss mary jolliffe bon voyage before she leases for scotland miss jolliffe director of publicity for the stratford festival and torn patterson director of planning are flying to edinburgh aug 14 m order to finalize arrange ments before the arrival of the com pany of players august 23 miss jolliffe is the youngest daughter of dr and mrs r o jolliffe rev charles jolliffe is a graduate of victoria and emmanuel colleges toronto he served on the metho dist and later the united church mission field in szchuan west china from 1906 to 1936 and on pas toral charges in ontario ladies plan church painting institute trip to toronto choice business location in the heart of the business section of acton close to banks and post office is cooperatively listed this commercial property is on a 100 per cent traffic route for further particulars consult f l wright realtor phone 95 appraisor insuror acton three events planned at business meeting the august meeting of ospringe ladies aid was held at the home of mrs g sunter with 14 ladies in attendance the vicepresident mrs ward bruce was in charge the meeting opened with the dev otional taken by mrs sunter the theme being gods day a light stressing the point of keeping sun day a da of worship rest and gladness this being principally a business meeting several plans were made including a galloping tea basket donations and the september tea with invitations to be sent to several organizations the motto gratitude is a debt to pay was given by mrs w bruce the scripture questionnaire on the eighth chapter of mark was taken bv mrs struthers the meeting closed vv ith prayer by mrs sun ter after which refreshments wca served bv the hostess assisted bv mrs w bruce and mrs grundj miss ada currie was hostess to the christian womens fellowship of everton church for the august meeting miss jennie tovell was program leader giving an interest ing biography of the lives of several missionaries of the churches of christ disciples mrs harry hor- top conducted the worship period and also the bible study on the first chapter of romans during the business session plans were made for the painting of the three back rooms of the church and the final plans for the september tea the hostess assisted by mri h hortop served dainty refresh ments and a social time was enjoy ed mr and mrs michael reim and colleen of hawaii have been visit ing with mrs reims parents mr and mrs william wragg prior to moving to norfolk virginia where mr reim will be stationed with the american air force friends of mrs frank lejtch are pleased to learn she is out around again following an accident when she fell off a load of hav onto the barn floor xrays were taken which showed no bones broken but mrs leitch received a bad shaking up mr and mrs mac leitch and two children of sheffield spent a couple of weeks holidays with the form er s parents mr and mrs f leitch mr elgin sinclair of hamilton visited for a few days with his mother mrs a sinclair and family mr and mrs john tcrpstra of saugus mass visited recently with miss fines local girls who were a part of the 500 4h club members who en joyed a recent train trip to to ronto and toured the parliament buildings and canada packers were joan aitken shirley awrey aud rey grundy kay johnston and their leader miss doris fines john stubbington has been holi daying with his cousin larry jack son at guelph mr gordon aitken joan john and sherlock in company with mr and mrs gordon robertson and children of guelph are holidaying at hope bay in the bruce peninsu la mr and mrs alex campbell of fort william ont visited recentl with mr and mrs thomas fines mr and mrs ross ferguson mr on saturday much improved in health rev and mrs moorehouse and daughter of petrolia spent a few days last week with the tatters par ents rev and mrs foreman at the home of mr and mrs gordon ait ken the local womens institute chartered a bus on thursday for a trip to toronto where they visited the parliament buildings casa loma cente island and malton air port all report an interesting and educational day rev mute of orangeville was in charge of the service at the local presbyterian church on sunday when the ordinance of infant bap tism was observed for laurie eliza beth daughter of mr and mrs fred archibald and william norman son of mr and mrs norman mc- kenzie miss karen carter of stratford has been visiting for the past ten davs with her uncle and aunt mr and mrs d g robertson mr and mrs stan fuller and family spent a recent week at pid- geon lake near peterborough mr and mrs j a bulloch and family returned home monday night following a two week holiday at their cottage at kearney mr and mrs len buck enjoyed a few days holiday up north last week during their absence mr and mrs buck sr i of guelph stay ed with their grandchildren miss madeline griffin spent last week with relatives at hamilton tonv griffin is holidaying at birch falls mr and mrs bert grieve of guelph township mr and mrs william glassford hilsburgh were sunday visitors with mr and mrs norman mckenzie and children mrs barry clarke and two sons have returned from a vacation at little lakes midland stan harris directs national conference the national council of the young peoples union of the united church of canada is holding its bi annual meeting at alma college st thomas this week the entire coun cil is under the direction of stan harris of rockwood president of the hamilton conference attend ing are 180 delegates from all across canada the council is discussing such topics as young peoples program bible study and a campaign for spiritual advancement a precouncil meeting was held at mr harriss home last sunday everton bride of saturday honored at shower congratulations to mr and mrs llarvcy stewart neo grace foun tain who were married on satur day they are residing in guelph misses shirley lillic and ruth huntle entertained for mrs stewart at a miscellaneous shower last wednesday evening games were played following the open ing of the gifts a social half hour wii enjoyed by all present mr and mrs harold flear and furoilv homings mills visited on sundav with mr and mrs archie flear mrs george jest in accompanied mrs lloyd cutting and raymond of acton and visited on sunda ith mr and mrs james porter shelbourne mr and mrs ted jestin and family accompanied mr and mrs alf winter oustic and are holi daying this week at bala mr and mrs jack murrcll and zixm eden mills plan centenary choir forming members of eden mills united church are starting to make plans for their special anniversary ser vice to be held on sunday sept ember 9 marking their 100th year as a congregation a choir is being formed under the leadership of kathleen stanley church organist mrs ralph thom pson is president of the choir group delmnr watson is assistant organist the choir will be known as the eden mills united church choir and an invitation is extended to anyone who can sing to come and join their group they meet every tuesday evening it eight o clock sharp in the church on ckirpcl st eden mills umehouse family guelph visited on sundaybiy rev t g m bryan is guest minister services it limchouse presbyter ian church were conducted by rev t g m bryan of st columbia presbyterian church hamilton oh august 12 on the following two sundays august 19 and 20 ser vices will be withdrawn for holi- i di s the foster family reunion was held at the home of mr and mrs newton ruddcll on august 6 we welcome mr and mrs duo- cett and family and mr and mrs culp and family who have recently taken apartments in the village those on holidays recently mr and mrs earl scott and trudy at kirkland lake and north and mrs russell smith wore guests at the rees norman wedding at kincardine on saturdav recent guests with mr and mrs d g robertson were mr and mrs reg carter lavene and karen stratford mr and mrs c william son mrs doug robertson sharon and murrav of guelph mr and mrs t d mccutcheon everton in place of the regular august meeting members of the local wo mens institute visited the museum at elora and the gorge park where they enjoed a picnic supper mr and mrs fred archibald spent a couple of davs in buffalo mrs don matthews inee ida archibald and baby son returned to their home at acton during the weekend following a visit with her parents mr and mrs e archibald mrs f johnstone who has spent the past few months with her daughter and soninlaw mr and mrs chester allan third line re turned to her home in the milage bannockburn wi guests at meeting acton womens institute held their meeting on the lawn at the home of mrs george fryer opened by the president mrs fryer with the ode followed with the mary stewart collect the minutes and the correspondence were read mrs frver welcomed the visiting in- 1 stitute from bannockburn who put on a skit it was decided to extend the booth at the park before the foil fair mrs earl lambert gav a re- 1 port on home economics and mrs brown gave a report on historical research the roll call w as how to 1 mrs ballentine gave a contest postpone old age which was won by miss m hall and mrs johnson mrs b voung won a prize on the luckv chair- mrs weslev wolfe gave an inter esting demonstration on making fancv sandwiches mrs fryer thanked the visitors from ban- nockburn for their entertainment and mrs wes wolfe the meeting closed by singing count your i blessings a lovel lunch was served bv mrs r l davidson and mrs mac- aulev mrs r l davidson thank ed the president mrs frver for her home bannockburn w i and mrs wolfe for coming with mr and mrs j p benham and willa mr and mrs percy peavoy re turned home on monday from a trip out to vancouver island mr and mrs fred baptie os pringe visited on sunday with the latters mother mrs iwm smith mr and mrs jim cross and dav id fergus were sunday visitors with mr and mrs adam wcather- ston and jack mr wm stewart accompanied mr and mrs wm mckeon for a visit when they returned to their home in quebec list week after visiting with mr and mrs j a stewart mrs edge hamilton is visiting with her sister mrs dan parker stmdaj visitors with mr and mrs john alton and miss jennie tovell were mr and mrs bev hepburn and family milton and mr and mrs robert patten and farnilv guelph i obituary i parents please enrol your child early for the fall term at miltons sunshine school for retarded children applications should be sent to mrs allen howard 53 robert st milton tr s6064 rockwood interment for oac employee an employee of the field hus bandry department at the ontario agricultural college for 15 years malcolm townsend smith of guelph died in the guelph general hospital on monday born in dunstable england mr smith came to canada with his par ents when a boy he returned to fngland to enlist in the first world war and on his discharge returned to canada he farmed at wood- bridge for several years prior to operating a farm on the hamilton hghway which he gave up 13 years ago when he moved into guelph besides his widow the former dorothv e colwill he is survived b joy patterson at bobcaygeon for a week mr and mrs bcnno spitzcr and rosalec in massachusetts mr herb spitzcr at shanty bay diana shelbourne with her grandmother mr john scott in georgetown mr and mrs don sanderson in algonquin park mr and mrs ralph turner and paul at sauble beach mrs smethurst has just returned from a month at kincardine mr and mrs t l campbell of hamilton with the a w nortons david grevgoose of ballinaifad with tin c clarke s last week mrs ted morrow of toronto with her mother mrs lane last week and maine morrow with her this week mrs n robinson of orangeville and liir sistir of detroit with mrs smethurst on sunday mr and mrs w i newton and margaret of barrie with miss ivens and mrs niwtun on sunday mr james hood of niagara falls ny with the cam sinclair s on sunday and miss jean mccarthy of oshaua this week donald mchugh of oakville with the james family for two weeks mr and mrs cook of detroit with the collyer s 7th line obituary rev james gordon interred locally the funeral of the late james w gordon brcther of william s gor don and the late george gordon rockwood was held in the wetland avenue united church st cathar ines with interment in the rock wood rcmetr mr gofdon jiasaed away suddenly july 28 at his home one stepdaughter mrs russell n st catharines at the age of 81 black lock 1 dorothy of guelph a sster mrs florenceeast of willow- dale and one brother harold smith of eramosa township funeral service was held in guelph todav 1 thursday inter ment was in rockwood cemetery if you hove 0 problem something well worth tli is our dossmed settlo thaodtarksoi left tn mourn his loss u his widow the ormer anne m ingle eden mills- whom he married 1 in 1908 and who is also 81 years of age his son douglas of dunnville i daughters allison imrs s mccal- i lum of st catharines and anne mrs d shales 1 of weston mr gordon received his educat ion in nassagaweya public srhoil guelph high school knox college and the lnivtrsitv of toronto he served 46 vears in presbyterian and lnitrd church charges at maple peterborough mitchell brantford st catharines london and port hope and after reaihing the retir ing age he served in a mission at weston his large charge before re- i tring to st- catharines mr gordon was one of a num- j er of young men in rockwood who answered the call to the minr istrjr in the early nineteen hundreds and who served abroad and at home among them were rev george higgins rev will grahanv- rev fred dredge rev c jolliffa land dr r o jolliffe