i | | | | YES, SIR! LOOKS AS IF SPRING FINALLY MADE IT ENJOYMENT AND ENVY OF VISITORS b) Flowers at the Niagara Parks Commission greenhouse are the vy of visitors these balmy days. Very soon now, gardeners will be ting out the plants that make a summer visit to the' big catar- such an enjoyable experience for flower lovers. Town green- ses are busy places these days, too. REAMS OF TREASURE STILL PERSIST ere may be buried treasure g forgotten in the ground in near Oakville--a big oak filled with English gold wns and silver pieces. So, at 5t, the story goes. But just ere all that gold and silver is ied is now a mystery. le one man who had an idea bre the hiding-place might be Bead. He was Joel Mackinder, bm many of Oakville's older cious contents would almost cer- tainly be seized as a prize of war. And so the British soldiers head- ed their boat to shore and up a creek. Somewhere on the banks they buried the money and went on to Burlington by land Joel Mackinder first heard the legend of the buried treasure away back in the sixities, when he was still a boy, and he and some other youngsters stanted pens will remember, and he's|out to find it. They dug with all dead now for about ten|the energy of youths whose im- irs aginations have been fired by few years before old Joel|tales of buried treasure. They kinder died--he lived to be|used to dig by night, and in re- over ninety he imparted |lays, Mr. Mackinder relatdd, But legend of the treasure to afthey never managed to disinter newspaper. The record of [the old oak chest with its golden interview was preserved by|crowns and silver crowns late Mrs. Alfred Hillmer in| florins collection of newspaper clip- According to the tale Joel Mac- fs on Oakville kinder related, a mill was built cording to the story told by|on the spot where the treasure Mackinder, a company of sol-| was buried,' but operated only 5 was voyaging to Burlington | for a while. And then the land boat in 1812--from where it|jwas rented by an Irish {tmi- not say, but probably it was|grant. At first he had a hard York, now Toronto, and at| time paying his rent. And then, time the capital of Upper mysteriously, he had so much They had aboard the|money he was lending it to his t of money--pay for the| neighbors at 20 percent interest jps, the stor goes. As they| Joel believed the impoverished led what is now Oakville they | Irishman might haye stumbled a ship in the offing. Think-|upon the buried treasure, but he fit to be an American gun-| wasnt quite about it. Per- they became alarmed for haps the gold and silver is still gold and silver. Canada and | lying in the ground beneath some United States were at war. | well-kept lawn or garden, to re- e enemy craft had overhaul-( main hidden forever from human em the chest with its pre-| eyes. and da. sure We're Customers B.eryone knows that Dominion Textile Company Limited sells fine cotton products. SAP IS RUNNING, SYRUP KETTLES BOILING Everywhere the white maple grows, sap is running and syrup is being made. This lass uses a yoke to help tote the heavy buckets in the Quebec bush, where they still have some snow. But right here in Oakville--where we haven't, thank gosh--tellows like' Doug Armour are busy tapping trees. Bronte Baby Season's First Drowning Victim The tiny body of David Kaiser, ter, who ran home to look for 23-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs, [him when she missed him on the beach. The child's body was dis overed a few minutes later by | Nancy Anne German, 11, who ario Sunday afternoon, some 40 lives nearby. David was the feet from the family's Hast! tive children. Street, Bronte, home. Bronte and Oakville firemen who rushed to the scene were unable to itate the infant, Paul Kaiser, was found floating in two feet of water in Lake Ont- youngest of Firemen responded promptly to resus. | ® call, as did Dr, F. N. Sparling, of Oakville, but all efforts at | resusitation failed. Oukvile fire- According to Sgt. Al Jackson, men employed an Inhalator for of the Oakville OPP detachment, more than an hour. Coroner Dr little David had been playing on W. M. Wilkinson announced there the shore with hia 5-year-old sis- will be no Inquest The Oakville- Trafalgar Journal Thursday, April 20, 1950 SECOND Page 9 SECTION Air Force Organization Jet Pro + County Commentary Estimates Pruning Although Ches Fergus and Georgetown found it nece to up mili| rates this year, Acton is the only | town reported to have slashed its | rate in half, editor G. Orloff Dills notes in his Acton FREE PRESS. | Where the Acton rate was a mountainous 68 mills in 1949, | this year the rate is a mere 34 | mills. | neville, have Shoot For Title | Georgetown Raiders got an | early jump on Bucko McDonald's | defending champion Sundridge | a v claimed a 123-7 win | in the first game of the best-of. | five OFLA. Intermediate B final The Raiders had turned Lakefield in the semi-final serie8 to earn their bid to bring ton its first provincial title in many a back r. s Who Isn't facing an extensive building 1d road repair program this year, the CANAD- IAN CHAMPION notes editorials 1Iy. Many roads have been neg- lected for some time, due to sower inatalations, but resurfac- Ing can now proceed. Main street is expected to receive firat sideration from council. Smolts Pry Stalwart sailors of the Hurl- ington Yacht Club, who thought they had tried just about every thing during the course of a var led "nautical ored a now taste a recent Satur soualon. Sallor Cocll Snead, as slated by confrores Gord Molr, Jack Rattenbury and Bill Smith, busily plied his dip net In the waters adjacent to the clubhouse and came up with enough smelts to satisfy the ravenous appetites of all present. So fresh were the Auceulent smolts that one happy | Milton is road con existence, discov: sonsation during night soclal pelled Unit alrmen of Oakville and dis- rict enjoyed a social get-togeths or Wednesday evening last week, when the local RCAF. fation met at Riverside Lodge. Bert Cornwall presided at the plano community singing, and Ed. Slater entertained with sel ections on the guitar. Mr. Slater also presented two color movies, one on the of aluminum, the other the production of Formica. The evening was cone cluded with the serving of re. freshments. The next meeting, which, will take the form of a dinner, will be held Wednesday evening, May 10, at 6.30, at Rive ralde Lodge origin on specimen was still wiggling as he swallowed it. Thiz commentator vouehes for the truth of thia lats ter statement. He was the happy nibbles. Pantless Pat Georgetown hockey fans are beginning to wonder if referee Pat Patterson {a getting too big for hig britches, or if Pat just needs a better tailor. The referee was officiating at a recent game When, for the second time this season, came a bid d-p and a parting of the seams Raider treasurer Jim Alcorn made a brief substitute whistle tooting appearance on the Ice while Pat was borrowing a new pale of alacks, Reautitul Lions are spons home beautification drive as a part of thelr communs ity betterment program. Cash prizes will go to both home owns ora and tenants who are adjudgs od tops In the Yard Beautiful contest, It la the Lions, who aren't eligible for prizes, will tidy up thelr own yards anyway-just as an ins aplration to the perspiring, rake wellding contestants Yard Georgetown soring a assumed that HANDS IN TRAINING :..] s Practice OR ONTARIO But we buy things too. We're customers of other Canadians right across the country. As a company we purchase lumber, paper, corn and Potato starches, chemicals, transportation services and a hundred and one other items from different parts of Canada. And the 12,500 employees in our plants, drawing among the highest textile wages in the world, spend many millions of dollars a year on flour from prairie wheat, meat from Alberta cattle, fish from both Atlantic and Pacific coasts, homes made with the use of B.C. lumber and outfitted with furnishings and appliances from all provinces and other goods and services provided by fellow-Canadians. DOMINION TEXTILE COMPANY LIMITED neice or TL ads mon Learning Busine one of us. Our lathes, dynamos, drill presses, farm combines, tractors, usiness machines, ete. are producing goods and services which earn dollars. These dollars avin food, clothing, medical care and other aecessitics which contribute to our security and high standard of living, Every single one of us, therefore, has a very personal interest in the flow of « steady supply of trained workers to industrial plants. These workers will operate machines which are important ww our way of life, We should appreciate, then, the co-operative efforts of government, industry and ea in the field of cinplayes training, In schools and in ies our we , young and old, are given the oppostuaity to develop aew and specific skills in every field of business and industrial setivity. For instance, every effort on the part of office workers to become pro- ficient in typing, filing, shorthand and secrstarial work, will mean greater business clficicncy--will help to make Ontario & finer place in which to live and work. THE BREWI! J Ontario the wheels of industry turn for the benefit of every single b G INDUSTRY (ONTARIO) Our Way of Lile Rowards Tralned Hands Ontarls workers know they can earn mars, have mseutive responsibility snd enjoy 8 higher standsed of living in digect ratio to the skills they se. quire snd the way they make use of them, That's slways true ino free soonomy -- that's why our com. petitive system will continue to make Canads grest and & greet place in which 10 live, ETP PNP.