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sflfcir r rifl x 3p fiftyseventh yearnof 50 r acton ontario wednesday june 8 1932 ten homeprint pages five cents aeton wins again still eead league v had a close battle with oakville oh saturdaywul play milton he oh saturday the acton baseball nine won their third straight game when they beat oakville in that town on saturday by the score of 109 the fixture was play ed in a light drizzly tain and good baseball could not be played it was a- seesaw game an toe way with the win ner being in doubt until the last man r put out heavy tutting won the game lor acton as they played a pretty loose game in the field and oakville got lot of unearned runs the local boys are hitting well this year having 31 hits in three games while the opposition has had but 14 roy leader the regular catcher was unable to play and his place was filled by prank gibbons frank is a very good backstop and a fair bitter out his arm was weak oakville having twelve stolen bases beracht was also an absentee on the team but his place was capably filled hy huffman who came through with flying colors he fielded a nice game and helped considerably in the scoring with a home run while fred trader was on second base and the nextitime up he knocked a twobagger ruffle sure had a real day on- saturday fred leader almost had two home runs to ins credit fletcher- robbed him of the first one when he picked the ball off the fence- for ta lovely catrh and the second one hit the fence and only went for a twobase hit in the opening i fra things looked bad for the sou eners when terry and waterhouse col lected hits and both scored to put acton in the lead 30 but it looked worse for the mccombltes when j wilson the first oakville man up got a hit and it was good for two bases l wilson struck out but the next two men up news of acton and the district a severe storm the thunderstorm in acton last satur- minor damage in several places at the home of mr wm landsbotough the radio set was struck and burned out and a small hole burned in the cold air intake to the furnace in the floor in other places about town slight effects of the vivid lightning were reported softball league a new softball league has been formed of the inter pafish county softball league made up of the church of our lady ouclph sacred heart chinch friday and saturday eacn got a nwpass fletchergot to base on a fields choice then keus the next man up got a hefty clouty and it also was good for two bases and three runs the game then was pretty even acton scored one in the third one in the seventh and two in the eighth but were two runs behind going into the ninth ng terry holloway carmichael and huffman came through with nice hits and jpred leader gottorflrat on a fielders choice everybody had a turn at oat but white and chalmers and four runs were scored huffmans double rowe and williams werit in to replace total bulheneverpltched a ball after warming up with the catcher he cangh hu napping off second base for the third acton out oakville came in for the last inning two runs behind d wilson got to first on an error and scored after stealing two bases to leave his team one behind l wilson and johnson both got but but brown walked and stole second fletch er came to bat next with the tying run on base but the best he could do was fly out to i frankgmbbns7andflhish a very exciting game guelph st marys elora mount carmel church freelton and st josephs church acton st josephs team play ed the sacred heart church team in acton last week and won by the score of 12 to 11 after the ball game a social tune was spent in the basement of the church boys destroy flowers at park on sunday evening during the band concert some young lads disgraced themselves by destroying the flower beds at the park- two of the miscreants were apprehended by chief mcpherson after they had destroyed fifty buds from the peony plant that was presented to the community by the prince of wales some years ago and they will likely be brought to court the plant was beau tiful and this year gave promise of a business men of acton have planned itheir first community event fortyfive places of business will offer values extraordinary in a twoday community event band concerts both evenings cash prizes for liicky coupon holders merchandise and free souvenirs by the business men baseball saturday afternoon the biggest merchandising event ever put on in acton county councillors raise their salaries wealth of bloom a good strapping lor youngsters who have not a better sense of behavior wouldbe in order the following is tne box scoret acton terry rf holloway lb 5 waterbouse cf 5 carmichael 2b 4 leader h 5 gibbons c 4 huffman 3b 5 white ss 4 chalmers p ab r h po a 5 3 2 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 2 0 4 10 7 2 2 0 9 2 2 3 2 tj f y po meets the actondale tj f y p o held their regular ytng in mia truih ynir on friday evening the speakers of the evening were kir kirstine the agricul tural representative miss wallace and miss eadie they outlined a three months course which the acton district has the opportunity of having next win ter musical numbers were given by miss margaret brown archie kerr harold and leslie swackhamer mr wm mac- donald also- sang a soio meeting lunch was served and a social hour spent in games and dancing county u f o exec meeting at a meeting of all executives of the tj f o clubs in halton county there was a discussion of the plans of the farmers delegation to ottawa prior to the imperial conference also arrange ments were made for meetings to be held at acton and milton and addressed by miss agnes mophall m kvon the sub ject of the imperial- conference these meetings will 4e open to the general public at the round table conference plans were suggested whlcnare expected to accomplish something of benefit to the farmers and gene public in this community and all over the province st josephs hospital graduation several hundred- citizens and visitors from outside points attended the annual graduation exercises of st josephs hos pital training school for nurses which took place thursday in the collegiate- vocational institute auditorium at guelph dr h o howltt and dr w v harcourt presented the diploma and totals 41 oakville 10 10 27 7 5 ab r h po a b d wilson cf 5 3 1 0 0 0 l wilson if 2 1 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 1 1 s 2 1 1 0 0 fletcher rf 2 0 3 0 0 sells 2b a 0 1 2 2 2 horuh lb 4 0 0 9 1 0 p 0 1 10 1 i 0 0 0 3 0 williams- p 0 0 0 0 tj totals 9 6 27 8 4 summary jbtene run huffman twobase hits hoffman f leader fa wilson kells lyon stolen bases lyon d wilson 2 l wilson 2 brown 4 fletcher 3 terry leader chalmers struck out by rowe 10 by chalmers 8 walked by rowe 3 fay chalmers 4 left on base oak- vine 5 acton 5 hit by pitcher chal mers and holloway by rowe sacrifice hit fletcher xtrnplre nicholson toronto the score r h b acton 201 000 12410 10 5 oakvsle 300 001 231 9 6 4 batteries acton chalmers and qib- bou oakville rowe williams and lyon milton beat georgetown in muton 9 to 5 i the standing played won lost pc acton 3 3- 0 1000 mfiton 3 2 1 866 georgetown 3 1 2 333 oakville -s- 3 p 3 000 games for saturday milton at acton oakville at georgetown massen at st josephs church acton dnrhic june july and august will be on standard time not daylight saving pins to the members of the graduating class while the principal address at the exercises was delivered by dr s w jtoutley of toronto fourteen nurses who graduated this year are miss anna m francis hanover miss kathleen a kelly acton miss mary s cleary black river misseyeayh c kuntz mildmay miss edwina e weiss formosa mis3 marie v mcgrath arthur miss alice f broham arlss and miss frances m dudgeon miss rose a harding miss margaret c duggan miss dorothy a taylor miss cornelia m wilson miss ports e milton miss margaret e wilson all of guelph convention of womens institute about 165 delegates representing the 16 branches of the womens institute in the county gathered at hornby for the 32nd annual convention- the reports from the branches indicated progress and two new- branches were organized during the year nelson and trafalgar inter esting addresses were given by a j kirstine agricultural representative for the county and mrs r b colloton of lome park provincial board represen tative mrs colloton also presided over the election which resulted as follows honorary- president mrs r cartwrlght mount union president mrs g camp bell georgetown 1st vicepresident mrs w gowdylimehbuse 2nd vicepresid ent mrs george r agnew acton secretarytreasurer mrs t w merry hornby county representatives miss e appelby georgetown and mrs merry hornby press secretary mrs a w mullgan burlington conveners of the standing committees edubatlon mrs e wilson georgetown immigration mrs g c atkins palermo public health mrs j hunter brooklme re solutions mrs a w mllligan burllng- wfftcnliarenb bheltiermrsrpr f fordr omagh relief mrs t hlscott burling ton historical research miss e appelj by georgetown canadian industries mrs c hayes georgetown never in past history have the mer chants of acton been so enthused and encouraged as they are today in being able to join together in a great effort to make acton the ideal shopping centre of this district we honestly believe this to be the most important business proposition acton merchants have ever beetuftbie to offer to the buying public of this vicinity fortyfive business places are co operating to make these two days the greatest in volume the greatest in bar gains the greatest in satisfaction you have yet experienced in short to prove to all that acton is the best place to shop hundreds and hundreds of real honest to goodness- bargains will go on the slaughter block only eg small portion can be mentioned in the limited space provldedh for tlus spectelshoppingf festival no one need be disappointed it is not necessary to have a full purse of money dimes nickels and even cop pers will have merchandising value at this sale of sales come early come often stay long and enjoy to your hearts- pmntent the extraispeclalfeatureseach merchant has to offer you of course just a wprd these super- values are for cash or trade only it would simply be possible to put such bargains on the books at these ridicu lous prices we believe you will agree with that statement then for more treats aside from the extra super values offered at ehistlmer therelsto a band concert both evenings from seven fe eight oclock in front of sunderland house and to be sure its free so saturday evening and present the dup licate of the one drawn you can have your cash prize in your pocket that evening if you are not there the list of winning numbers will be published the following week iri the fbee press and you can secure your cash by pre senting the duplicate at the free press office every 50c amount entitles you to a lucky number in addition many of the merchants are offering special mer chandise prizes and articles free acton is on standard time there is no confusion for the farming trade when they come to shop lh acton all times noted for the concert r and drawing of prizes are for standard tone acton stores are open both friday arid satur day evenings all the stores participating ta this shopping festival display yellow and reoi pennants and yellow and red- band in their community endeavors on saturday afternoon the championship milton ball team will meet acton in a league game acton- has beaten them this year it wljl be a real battle be tween the league leaders ten cash priies ibshe- given away to those hol3uhftne lucky number tickets saturday evening with every 50c purchaseyou make on these special days at each and every store displaying the shopping day pen- ants you will be given a numbered i ticket tire duplicate of tl kept by the merchant and at the stroke of eleven oclock on saturday night these duplicates will be placed in a barrel and stirred up and a disinterested party will make a draw for the first ten lucky tickets reeve thetford will be the honorary judge in this event ten prizes in all will be glvenout and they are cash as follows first 600 second 500 third 400 fourth 300 flfth200sxth seventh eighth ninth and tenth prizes 100 each the drawing for this event will take place at sunderland house on mill street if you hold a lucky ticket on price tickets point out the bargains here is the list of the business plaices who are sponsoring ths first community shopping festival in acton their me- sages to jou will be found in the inside pages this week a h bishop sons gregory theatre e j hassard foster roney james symon h w hinton king mceaciiern w nesbitt geo edwards nelson co watsons bakery a mcisaags garage mclean co d h lindsay j w barberee w j patterson carrolls grocery a t brown j k gardiner j nicol son harold wiles ritchie agar roszell ralph mrs ada near acton creamery j r leishman gds edwards service bank of nova sctia cegarage b d co c br swackhamer wardlaw mccaig acton public utilities tylers transport service m edwards bakery geo w benton norton motors w m cooper w f mooney jvvd talbot will now receive 600 per day for meetings and mileage one way increase more than decrease of a year ago by- kpeclal htipresentullve the halton county council met in the court hodse muton on tuesday at the morning session mrf thetford of acton who was elected reeve by acclamation in place of the late george barber was present the warden on jehalf of the council expressed sincere regret at the loss they had sustained jn the death of mr barber but sinceit was necessary for someone to take his place they had much pleasure in wel coming mr thetford to the council mr thetford expressed his desire to do everything in his- power to serve the county in his position as reeve for acton mr robinson reeve for oakville took the chair when council went into committee of the whole to consider the reports of the standing committees the question of proceeding with the a selection of news items crokinole party a a crokinole party wil be jield in the parish wall next friday jutae id at 815 sharp tinder the auspices of the tj f w o ladies provide luncn gents 15c sixteenth birthday tea the duke of devonshire chapter i o d e are holding their sixteenth birthday tea pn thursday june 16 at the home of mrs a mason at three oclock collection 16 cents each member come and bring a friend presentation to father mcbride tax rate bylaw passed by couircil no appeals allowed for court of revisionsdaylight saving for two monthsrreeve thetford presided meeting opened with the instituteode followed by prayer the minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted a report was given by mrs george r agnew of the musical festival meeting held in milton splendid reports were conference held- in milton on may 28 mrs earl lambert- misses laura hall ethel woods dorothy babcock dorothy babcock read a paper on better think ing it was decided to hold the meet ings on the first 0riday of each month at 230 after singing tor hes a jolly johnstone jujmley miss jessie russell j b mackenzie son barbs grocery eramosa court of revision three assessments were reduced and the roll confirmed accounts were ordered pah meet again on july 11 the council for the township of era- mosa met as a court of revision and for general business on monday jun 6 those present were acting reeve d h storey councillors albert lush j a stewart the assessment of r c w mcolad- dery was- reduced 40000 and those of the guelph trust co and of tjdney richardson 20000 each several changes were made on account of the transfer of property the remainder of the assessment roll was confirmed on adjournment as a court of re- 1 vision and meeting for general business the council instructed the acting reeve and the treasurer to bond the corpora tion in the sum of 3349 for the pur pose of obtaining a duplicate cheque for that amount due to the township from the provincial treasurer as railway tax for 1924 t the assessor salary in full 12950 was ordered paid also accounts for sheep worried by dogs to the amount of 2050 and relief accounts amounting to 2123 road voucher no 7 for 16128 was pre sented by the road superintendent jas w oakes and passed for payment on motion of messrs stewart and lush council adjourned to meet on july- il at jujh vj several very interesting news items that were inadvertently crowded out of this issue will appear next week the l o o r decoration t and annual church parade on sunday was led by acton citizens band attended service in united church subway at oakville was again brought up arid was a matter for considerable discussion a letter was read from the canadian national railway and from the railway board asking if the county were prepared to assume their share of the cost whlch would be ten per cent for the county- and- ten per cent for oakville and trafalgar combined it was finally agreed that the clerk be in- structed to notify the railway board that the county are prepared to go on with the subway according to the ori ginal agreement mr myers addressed the council on behalf of the institute for the blind they had tried to do their best forthe blind in- halton county and jthelr hain object was to help the blind to- help themselves their success was obvious by the confidence that i was placed in them by the government an municipalities the institute consisted of voluntary service agencies most cases of blindness occurred after twenty years of age running as high as seventy per cent there were twelve cases in halton upon which they had spent 670 i j j- tlietf ord is during the last fiscal year mr myers drew attention to the num ber of men and women whom they had rescued from the depths of despair and by their assistance had helped them to become self respe citi he urged members of the council to visit any three of their tdronto places and they would find their activities an in spiration zt it was moved by mr harris and sec onded by the warden that a grant of 100 be made to the institute and it was suggested that owing to a discrep ancy in mr myers report that it he revised and a list of halton blind be sent to the olerk accounts passed and recommended for payment were as follows printin 3949 on monday evening in st josephs hall the congregation gathered to bid their pastor rev father mcbride god speed on his trip to the eucharismc con gress in dublin ireland mr nell gibbons read an address of appreciation of his work in the parish and a purse was presented to him on behalf of the con gregations by miss dorothy phillips father mcbride- replied thanking them most heartily and toift be had affection- for everyone m his parish and that he would not forget them while away and hoped to return and stay with them a few more years at the regular meeting of the acton council on monday evening councillors- cowie jones nicol and mcarthur were present and reeve e t thetford occu pied the chair and presided reeve thetford at the opening ex pressed his pleasure at being hack at the council again and asked the cooperation of the members lnthe work of the muni cipality 3e f ewthat ail problems could be best dealt with when the chairmen of the various committees brought their lirrihlems for all to solve and assist he requested that sessions be kept business like and not prolonged unnecessarily the hew reeve also asked the assist ance of all officials in expedlously and womens institute meeting the regular monthly meeting of the womens institute was held at the home of mrs babcock on june 1 the pre- sldent m g presided the efficiently carrying oh the municipal ac tivities and felt that without such as- jsistance no council or body cojuld carry on successfully messrs a mason and c h harrison were present at the council reeve thetford welcomed the exreeve and excouncilman and both gentlemen con gratulated him on his election to the office and wished him success in ful filling- the reeveship duties forj which he was eminently qualified they dis cussed with the council matters relative to indigent residents and relief work and the mastf economical disposal of specific cases the council promised consideration and agreed to assist if possibiet the twelfth report of the finance gebuaittee recommended payment of the following accounts j j merlihaa tubing piano at town hall girl by those who attended the girls i torontoguelph express cartage 600 745 toronto asphalt roofing mfg co supplies 4527 r a johnson work at baseball diamond 3000 geo hjjantz gravel etc 1000 j b mackenzie supplies for streets and walks 214 good fellow the meeting closed lunch j pub utilities commission ser was served and a social time was spent the following ladles attended the thirty second district annual of the womens institute held in hornby on june 2 mrs j e gamble miss haw thorne mrs george agnew mrs r l aviasori mrs a bell mrs j j stewart and jack mrs h mccutcheon mrs g w masales mrs j dobble mrs w d mcarthur vices for lighting and power 17575 a white labor at park 1500 finance hospital accounts zr old age pensions county buildings 81181 71675 6780 8105 sunday was the annual decoration day service of acton i oj o f no 204 headed by acton citizens- band the local order with visiting brethren hiarchedf to fairview cemetery where the graves of the deceased brethren were decorated and honor paid to their memory the service was in charge of e fken nedy d d g m and he was assisted by messrs e coles and s crlpps an eloquent address setting forth the ideals of oddfellowship was given by dr frank williams of tpronto i o o f grand conductor the band played several sacred numbers during the course of the service 1 in the evening the order with the band leading paraded from the hall on willow street to the united church tjvhere the annual church service was held rev mr poole took jor his subject on this occasion the cardinal prin ciples of three links his subject was based on the following three texts prov 17 17 w friend lovffth at all times and a brother is born for adversity romans 13 10 love isthe fulfilling of the law psalm 119 30 i have chosen the way of truth from thesc texts mr i poole gave an eloquent address to the order which isibased on the t pr clples of friendship love and truth and impressed upon his audience the j importance of being steadfast in the principles which they had adopted 271690 following an adjournment of twenty minutes for the purpose of considering the equalization of the various munici palities it was moved that the assess- ment belef t the same as last year and a bylaw be passed to that effect carried bylaw no 640 authorizing the equal ization of assessment was read ajbrst and secohdtimesandpassedr bylaw 641 was- also passed author ing that each member of the county council shall receive thesum of 600 per day for attendance and mileage at the rate of ten cents perjmile one way to both council and committee meetings council adjourned at 630 p m to meet at the call of the warden reeye by acclamation had served for eleven years on the council w r norton fills school board vacancy acton driver in auto acicdent the aftermath of an accident which occurred on the eramosa road late friday night patrick brohman appeared in police court at quelph the following morning ch withreckless driving and having liquor in a place other than his private residence- the case was ad journed for a week ball being fixed at 100 r s clark apeared for brohman the accident occurred at the intersection of queen street and eramosa road when brohmans car figured in a collision with a machine driven by henry cripps of acton according to j police brohmans car was knocked completely oyer by the impact cripps car was also badly dam aged neither of the two men was in jured the consumption of gasoline hv creased py six rhllllon gallons in may over april another sign of the awlul depression we are suffering and gaso line has increased in price also there was manifest lnteres in the nominations last friday evening and quite a number of ratepayers attended the meeting held for the purpose of nom inating a reeve to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late george barber and the position of school trus tee made vacant by the removal of mr james hudson only two-names-were-put-ln-nomina- hon for these two offices e t thetford for reevenomhy ated by dr j a mcniveh seconded by a mason w r norton for school trustee nominated by a e ritchie second ed by f l wright both of these men qualified for the respective offices and the vacancies have been filled without the expense of an election mr thetford has had eleven years experience in council work and is well qualified for the office of head of a thriving municipality like acton in accepting the office at the close of the nominations reeveelect thetfdrd paid eloquent tribute to his friend and predecessor the late reeve barber and ably extolled his integrity and worth to acton he would do his best in the duties of the office to deserve the con fidence of the citizens and expressed his appreciation of the honor bestowed but hoped it was for merit and not merely on account of years of service in municipal life he signed his declaration of quall- flcatlonthat evening and thus assumed office immediately exwarden a mason was present and congratulated reeve thetford on his ection wisnedrtum evbry-buccess- ln the office he pointed out that hien in public office were deserving and need ful of the assistance of all and should not be unduly criticized in the carrying on of their duties he urged all to work in the interests and for the advance ment of the community councillors jones and cowle were also present and expressed their congratula tions and gratification that the office had been so successfully filled without the turmoil of a midyear election mr norton who later qualified as school trustee was a membbr of the board last ho is weirversedtrt the requirements and the ratepayers are fortunate that he has agreed to fill the office again for this term 29161 the report was adopted and the ao counts as therein recommended ordered to be paid ln cases wherej persons were owingt the municipality the amounts were de ducted from the amounts payable council met as a court of revision on the assessment roll one complaint of assessment was registered by david mcenery that his properties on main street were assessed too highly mr mcenery was however not present re- garding the complaint the council de cided that the assessmentwas proper and did not tallow the complaint moved by g cowle seconded by w d mcarthur that the assessment roll for 1932 as prepared by the assessor be hereby confirmed no personal objection being registered carried the bylaw providing for the rate of taxation for the year 1932 was given the required number of readings and passed by the council i the tax rate of 49 mills as decided upon at a previous meeting is made up as follows 8 mills for interest and sink ing fund of- corporation debentures 1150 mills for school purposes 12 mills for county rate 2 mills for street lighting half mill for free library 8 mills for waterworks purposes debentures and coupons 3 mills for salaries and al lowances 3 mills for miscellaneous ex penditure making a total of 49 mills the dates of payment for taxes were set as september 16 and november 16 this year taf petition from a numbertot citizens requesting that the council consider adopting daylight saving was received reeve thetford placed the matter as he considered it and felt that the indus tries should bo considered in arriving at a decision other municipalities had adopted it and acton was out of line in not having daylight saving time this contentious question evoked quite a dis cussion and councillors freely gave their opinion which was fairly evenly divided the bylaw adopting daylight saving effective from saturday june 25 until sunday september 4 was finally intro duced and given the required number of readings and passed by the council with councillors nicol and mcarthur not voting the clerk was instructed to have the us number of copies of the voters lists printed and informed trie council that it was now ready for delivery to the printers i mr mcpherson was instructed to en gage a couple of helpers for making the repairs to the joints in the pavements i the evening meal i digester t imotherwhioh apple do you want junior junior the biggest one motherwfiy junwr you snoularbe polite and say the little one junior well mother should i lie juftt i to be polite i 1 a fi r m ltx