: THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL FOR Quality Meats Fruits & Vegetables Groceries PHONE 1020 (Prompt Delivery) CARLOAD GROCETERIA R. E. Harris, Prop. WOOD FOR SALE HARDWOOD BLOCKS HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD EDGINGS Oakville Wood Specialties LTD. OAKVILLE PHONE 31 | Four Legged Prize Ever want to own a friendly, frisky spaniel puppy? Then be sure to hang on to your ticket stub when you pay your ad- mission at the Optimist fair, because the gate prize will be one of the perkiest 6-weeks- old black and tan spaniels you ever clapped an eye on. Draw for the pup, which was donat- ed to the club by Mrs. E. M. Dunham, of Bronte, will be made by Miss Toronto Satur day night. COUNTY COMMENTARY Junior Furrows John Readhead, of Milton, and John Picket, of Hornby, are Hal- ton's representativ to the jun- ior Intercounty section at the International Plowing matches at Beachville. The pair matched fur- rows with the county's best juniors last week, won high praise from agricultural representative J. B. Whitlock. Dance For Joy Happy Acton residents, their streets back in shape again after 18 'muddy and bumpy months of sewage installation, turned out en masse last Saturday night to cele- brate the completion of the pay- ing of Mill and Main Streets, last MANUFACTURED BY JOHN DICKINSON & CO. "(CANADA) LIMITED OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL PHONE 1298 steps in the program, at a free dance tendered by the town coun- ell. Lonzo And Oscar Grand old opry from the deep south moved into Burlington last week to captivate lovers of folk music_and melodies served up western style. It was all part of the variety program being lined up by the new arena management, and featured radio entertainers Lonzo and Oscar, top favourites on the popular Saturday night ra- dio show emanating from Nash- ville, Tennessee. Variety Plus MUSIC ALBUM feel my Muse beginning to jade, retire to the solitary fireside of my study and there commit By Irven Fell Dr. Tom my effusions to paper; swinging, at intervals, on the hind legs of graduate | my elbow-chair, by way of call- ity and an ling" forth my own critical strict- McCourt, a Unive of Edinburgh the 18th Century [ures as my pen goes on. Seriously, las a very inter this, at home, is almost inva esting article in the Btude mag-|jably my way," azine dealing with the forgotten songs of Robert Burns Dr. McCourt - says that Burns was one of the foremost author ities of his time on songs of his native Scotland. His knowledge Whenever I read Burns, or even sang any of the songs, the words of which he Why take chances on costly repairs later on whe composed, I mnever|of these tunes was extensive and like new! thought of Burns and music, but| detailed. "He was acutely sen- 5 rather Burns and poetry. How-|sitive to the mood, character and IE S GARAGE ever, according to Dr. McCourt, [style of each tune and seldom EDD Burns, when he wrote many of his | fajled to poems, was not actually writing poetry, but songs. capture its essence in his poetry," says the writer. WHITE ROSE SERVICE STATION 69 Colborne St. W. Phone 1106 The writer has supplied sev- was unique among dis- eral short examples of tunes for tinguished writers in creating| which Burns wrote the words "Burns An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of economical fall tune-up now will make your car Tuy words for specific tunes already |Tnjs happened to a few other of in existence," says Dr. McCourt. |the Scotch songs but for the most part they are the original tunes He says jaat tis aspect) oil PLR oR Burns wrote te words. Burns' work has been almost ig- nored by both literary and musi-| py. cal writers. "Burns himself, how- [hag his critics who said that he ever, left no doubt that his first| fel short of the high seriousness concern was for the tune," says|of the great classics, Matthew the eriter) Arnold being one. "However", the dootor, "these critics McCourt says that Burns The article says that in a let-| says ter of 1793, Burns excuses his|gig not realize "that Burns was delay in finding words for the : : oy 5 = akin oems but making melody "Laddie, Lie Near Me" |10t making p on the grounds that he does not |SOn&s, an entirely different mat- know the 'tune; and "until I am | tel complete master of a tune in my own singing (such as it is), I can never compose for it." How does he help conservation? WINNER OF THE WEEK If MRS. K. WARREN, Linbrook The LABRADOR RETRIEVER is one of our best conserva- Tan oh wi eon in at Corus tonsts By fring lot and wounded game birds, la oat ai ne | Remorat@ar she wiibe presented makes sure that his hunter doesn't unintentionally exceed the limit. One of the hunter's most important pieces of equipment is a good gun dog. all his wor with a red seal record. A quote, reputedly made by i Birns and. gives 17 OF aeons As you leam more of conservation, the more you bears this out. It says. "I con- realize its importance to everyone in Canada. It's a job that must be done by all of us, in order to protect our natural resources for tomorrow. sider the poetic sentiment, cor- respondent to my idea of musical expression; then chuse my theme; begin one Stanza; when it is composed, which is generally the most difficult part of the busin- ess, 1 walk out, sit down now and then, look for objects in Na- ture around me that are in uni- sou or Harmony 'with the sogite CHAS F DOTY tions of my fancy and workings a » of my bosom; humming every now and then the air with the verses I have framed; When I YOURS TO PROTECT YOURS TO ENJOY THE CARLING BREWERIES LIMITED AND SON Dundas Street North -- Phone 76 WATERLOO, ONTARIO Acton's rprising fall fair committee has lined up: many un- usual features in the past, and this year is no exception. 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