Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), September 6, 1962, p. 7

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many local steam antique lovers gather for reunion at milton k aluutoyce burford v hmx milton d rogers 9toniy cruk l oliver burford g brigden hornby b johnson buriokb b porter woodstock b bailey brampton smith r1i i ia bnvbtnjuni office grounds parde chairman steam inline chairman transportation chid treasurer of the show in chamo of mium model lommlllce ihalrman in chare ol antiques president ol auocllim busy in trammrs office grounds parade chairman steam engine chairman transportation chief treasurer iw mm jfrn ftss as 24000 glimpse at yesteryear e ghly e ghll yea no i i ac10n ontario thursday september 6lh 1962 5 ri fjc oldest threshehman on the grounds saturday afternoon was frank stapley of stcrl ng an 83 year old member of the assoc at on he s been thresh g lor 70 years and started f t g for i s dads steal er at tic age of 13 he drove a 55 year old bell steam eg e n all the parades and owns our others beautiful roadster a 1931 mold a d ven by watson murdock was one of 60 a i que c s a id trucks tl e week end steam rou o the horseless ci g club of southern ontario under the r p es dcr i f l i tl om so of caledo put on a good show w th tl e ji i jul ca s a d ll cy i oujl i a crowd watches a hammermill in operat on monday afternoon two men kept it loaded and it took two rumely tractors to keep the mach ne runn ng back i ny f e n e or es to tl t 1 r last of its kind is this steam cng no ope ited wurl organ d splayed by the owner jack leo i d of t catt i ar blowing through paper rolls ol u e jke tl c i o and drum go he estimates is value al u j00 h yf 2w m model of a steamer was one of dozens of models ll at drew a crowd to the models sect on at the show henry strub of waterloo shows a v s tor how h s mnalue steam eng ne works he also exh b ted a m n aturc threshing ma chine wl ch look f ve years to bu id three generations of sm th are sho owned by ontar o steam an j an que p p es dent gordo sm t f o ii w th h s son j i a i a lr h y m of tf c many ei d vaned eve s at t e union jim heasup of hagersv lie drove an old mctaggart farm tractor in the many parades connected w th the steam and antique reunion over the weekend there were only four of these manufactured in canada part of saturdays crowd on the nf eld and grandstand parts of canada and no he i u cd s a f otke i o j enoys a parade around he ace t ack as sunny sk es and warm grounds to see 22 old steam e g nes 25 ca y ode t oc o s temperatu e con b ne to make a pleasant weekend weather w se 60 ant que cars and t ucks sawm s bake id s c j the steam reu on began f day mo n g and lasted unt i aaon demons at o scale models admayoea acos phtj day n ght and played host to a tolal attendance of about tog aphcrs had a heydey oo as icy cl up tl ousjnds of 24 000 crowds from all over oitaro and many from othei feet of move colo a d black onefwr te f i songs music and fun were p ov ded fo a b g fr day n ght crowd by b ii long and h s ttoop although the show was late start ng fa r c owd was on the grandstand to i sten n on the opena r enterta nment the same group pe formed saturday n ght at a successful dance n the m iton arena featur ng modern and old t me danc ng more ptc tures of the reun on w ii be found elsewhere m th issue officials of the reunion ode n sa u day s ma n street parade n fred thompson s ant que car shown i om left a c gordon sm th p es dent of the on ar o seam and ant que assoc at on f ed thompson p es dent of the horseless car r age club wh ch suppl ed ant que ca s m 1 on mayor s g ch ids and ontar o ag cultu al m n ster b ii stewart who took part n the open ng ceremon es happtf workers everybody was a vduntee nn tere was a 0b to be done use a sma i saw un ty am o ut up some f rewood for the th rsty steam eng ties the eng nes consumed tons of f rewood end dozens of truckloads of water at the weekend show

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