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rt- fr fc wdjt faqb joght the acton free press notke of birth mmrrle mnd delh tn iniertcd in thl column without charge la icmtwi9rnoticeafao and we per lie additional for poetry died simpson at tottenham an tuesday september 40i 1934 sarah ann kuv- chlng beloved jsiftror james simpson in her 6hrt year mclsaao at the guelph general hosr- pita on mdaytauust 31st 1934 james mclsaac husband of the late gaizabeth bell in his 72nd year in memobiam dtuis in loving memory of our dear mother mrs george dills who pass ed away september 4th 1923 to live in the hearts of those we love is not to diej ever remembered by the family mtidflud k tilukbpay september 6th 1934 letters to the editor the free press welcomes letters to this column on matters of general interest to its readers but does not necessarily endorse the opinion expressed ah letters must be signed but may be published over s pen name if so desired avnd spjecl- jied in the letter communications should not be over 500 words in length and must be received not later than tuesday at noon to ensure publication in that weeks issue n 11 1 i if this is the last wee of the exhibi tion oh yes acton is on mixed time from now until september 29th holiday traffic on no 7 highway on monday vtas exceptionally heavy the tax rate for nelson township for this year has been set at 18 mills the freedom of the dog lor the town is granted on and alter september 15th acton fair is the next big attrac tion of this district its less than two weeks away halton boys calf club secured first place in group three of holsteln judging at the c n e a double feature bill will be the at traction at acton fair on tuesday even ing september 18th mr c k browne won first prize for the best decorated car at oakville on monday the prize has been on view in the fbee phess window 218 228 and a classified trot or pace will feature the second day of acton fair on wednesday september 19th mlltori baseball team won quite easly over the guelph team and are now playing waterloo in another round on the- ladder to baseball honors mr james houston of milton has been appointed returning officer for halton county for the next federal elec tion which will be held in 1935 paul drake dublin school won the first prize and reserve championship for two year old nubian goat at the c n e the winners name is princess clara fourteen beer licenses have been cancelled in the windsor area for vari ous reasons by commissioner oddette the axe can fall witn good effect in this branch bus morton pitcher and tnirfl base man of the acton ball team was the winner of the suit of clothes given by b d rachlin co for the best hit ting and helding average on the glub this year when a truck rammed into the rear end of a car standing on the highway eastof acton on monday night the car and occupants were sent to the ditch no serious damage or injury however resulted from the mishap mr harry waterhouse who has been suffering from a foot injury for the past two years underwent an operation recently and returned home last week it is hoped that some improvement will be shown following the operation in the acton fall fair prize list a typographical error occurred in section 11 of class 27 the childrens work this section is for a relief map of halton county made of salt and flour there is no entry fee of any kind for the chil drens work class rev w c rlddlford former high school trustee has been appointed a justice of the peace for burlington under the new order of things mr rld dlford will issue summonses set ball and do other court work formerly done by the police magistrates exploring in the park of the can adian national exhibition is one of the new thrills people who have been ac customed to visiting only certain build ings and exhibits in which they are most interested find new sensations and de lights in most unexpected quarters it takes two to three days to do the exhibition properly dear free pbess the recent visit to and experiences in this great commercial metropolis of your chief and his excellent helpmeet will have created an interest in doings being carried on now delegates from the lands of britain irance and united states have arrived to take part in the jacques cartler quartocentenary cele brations they went through theexerv cises down in the marltimes then at quebec and three rivers and arrived here in the early hours yesterday friday morning lodged at your mount royal hotel for rest they in the afternoon were escorted up through scenes which your experience will suggest they would appreciates mount royal it self and elsewhere two dinners in the afternoon by the countefrancais and by the ste jean baptiste societe were on and at night an immense demon stration outm the east side at lan- fontaine park a lovely resort with waterfalls artificial lakes and extensive lawns addresses arid fireworks were to be tendered after nine and this writer feeling that when the next hundred years arrive would not be able to attend made one of the most immense gather ings of the kind ever in but inasmuch as the platform was so far off and pro ceedings seemed to be delayed it was decided that the threequarter hour trolley ride home would be in more comfort if an earlier retirement were made the city is in flutter with the combined flags of the two nations whose descendants are here in so large num bers the prccedings are to be continued today by a reception by mayor houde whose abilities in that line you are aware of at noon at the city hall and in the afternoon an unveiling- of a bust of cartier at he jacques cartler bridge return was made yesterday from the vermont waterside by mississqrualbay a large part of the peculiar formation of lake champlain recorded in the early history of the regions coming up through the fine level prairie country of quebec it was seen that harvesting was pretty well concluded and much thresh ing done there are evidence of fine heavy crops through there as noted on a couple of previous trips by the heavy stooking in the fields however the targe herds o mack and white cattle show that dairying is much carried on good crop conditions etc were noted employed are looking on oyer the rail ings a local paper published in the district says that even if it would cost more to remove the earth by hand labor the ultimate good accruing should have been so evident thatt- the government should have had a compulsory clause in the original contract jtor- such labor respectfully j s coleman 4057 wilson avenue montreal september 1st 1934 poor fellow the artistic young lady was entertain- tainlng and as she showed her visitor around the studio she said pointing to some particularly obscure paintings and all these are the work ofmy brother ohl said her unenlightened visitor and how old is the little fellow westerners success well defined canadian pu1p and papeb mindreading machine the old story about the walls of jerry- built house being so thin that you could hear your neighbor changing his mind seems likely to come very near the truth a machine invented by dr alexander cannon records any mental reaction and consists of flexible tubes which are at tached to a human subject the re actions of the brain arc recorded on graph paper simple emotions like sur prise love hate are recorded and the machine also registers mental fatigue the capacity of the mind reaction to tension or concentration suicidal ten- dencles and whether the subject b tell ing the truth or lying among other things it shows that waltz music is aoothing and that it relieves asthma by inducing regular breathing it is also claimed ttbatlt prdves telepathy to be a physical fact frequently along that highway espec ially where a curve would come ahead the perspective would indicate approach to a village or town but on nearer approach it is only closely adjoining farm outfits which make the illusion in many cases sets of farm building are only a few hundred yards apart this i understand is due to the early custom of settling as near as possible in the troublous early days and letting the farm holdings stretch far back and later to the splitting up of properties so that the rising generations would be close to the parental home it is in marked contrast to the widely separated homes of our western canadian prairies we happened to get across victoria bridge and by the c p r shipping sheds a few minutes before the depar ture of the immense steamer duchess of richmond for liverpool the usual farewclling to which reference i think has been made in your columns were carried on right up to the removal of the gangway handkerchiefs waving voices calling and other goodbye fea tures and considering as probably many did that there were the last of the kind it was touching indeed the usual throwing of spools of colored paper rib bon back and forth was not carried out the immense siren sounded the tug tightened the cables and the vast bulk slowly moved out in its about 25 feet of water with only a few feet further to the bottom owing to the unusually low canal this year the holds of these vessels are not so heavily loaded with mer chandise a5wr when these lines are in print if they ever get there the merry troops will have been back and forth jjp and down your education lane just now tho stores here are anticipating next tuesday by a vast display in windows and on counters of school requisites books scrib blers pencils rubbers grips of various kinds aricl of course school garments for all necessities among the thousand- of those who will have to face their desks many are bewailing the return to school a new post ofhce being erected at the corner of our street and a main east and west thoroughfare has occasioned nuichlylissatlsfactlon as the matter of emplorfnent it is claimed that as in these bays of heavy governmental ex penditure such an undertaking might have been deferred only for the oppor tunity of allowing men needing resourc es to work for them rather than getting handouts however the excavating has been done by a subcontractor who put an immense scoopmachine ori the ground with a few of his own men in attendance while large throngs of un- the value of production of the can adian pulp and paper industry in 1933 totalled 123415492 a decrease of 9 pr cent from the figure for 1932 as com pared to a decrease of 22 per cent fronr 1931 to 1932 the peak was reached in 1929 and since that time there have been annual reductions increasing in propor tion up to 1932 the decrease in 1933 was noticeably less than that of 1932 in the manufacture of pulp 70 mills were engaged and produced 2979502 tons valued at 64114074 as compared with -sesrmflrinstn- valued at 64412453 representing an increase of 119 per cent in quantity arid a decrease of less than hi half of one per cent in value of the total for 1933 the com bined pulp and paper mills produced 2- 225540 tons valued at 37729011 for their own use in making paper an in crease of 6 per cent in quantity but a decrease of 12 per cent in total value a total of 124239 tons valued at 4235- 902 was made for sale in canada showing an increase of 15 per cent in quantity and also an increase in value of 6 per cent for export 629783 tons valued at 27149161 were manufactured an in crease of 37 per cent in quantity and 26 per cent in value the 67 mills making paper in 1933 produced 2416810 tons of paper and other products valued at 97030429 as compared with 2290767 tons and 114- 115570 in 1932 an increase of 5 per cent in quantity and a decrease of 19 per cent in value newsprint paper made up 84 per cent of the total reported tonnage of paper manufactured in canada during 1933 the newsprint amounted to 2021965 tons valued at 66959501 as compared with 1919205 tons in 1932 valued at 85539852 the canadian production of standard newsprint was double that of the united states during 1933 for the first six months of 1934 the canadi an output was estimated at 1263281 tons an increase of 41 per cent over 1932 and two and a half times that of the united states and you dont know what a court is asked the lawyer of the negro wit ness ah suah duz a couht am a place where dey dispense with justice w t patterson r 0 tait optical co leading optometrists of guelph 110 wyndjbam st phone 218 quality accuracy service mohinery repairs breakdowns come at most awk ward times under such circum stances our quitting time only comes when your repair is made the best la none too good a beard son eden mills phones shop rockwood 30r21 house rockwood 58w every man should plan out his life fifty years in advance ins fire gar accident sickness etc eharrop rjilfrjisiillsrrattve gore district mutual norwich union canadian fire insurance 5 company the- alliance assurance co the casualty of canada assurance company the merchants casualty co the portagclapralrle mutual one nite only jack evans and his band late of c n r steamships at edgewood park saturday sept 8 no advance in prices would you give 350 to get rid of your stomach trouble f ask your doctor if it is possible to get permanent relief in less than thirty days that it isdangeeous to neglect your stomach t are you going to realize that you tfannot relieve a bad stomach in a few days your doctor will tell you- that the ordinary cheap neutrahzer does more injury to your stomach than it does good you have tried the rest now try the best ip it fails it costs you nothing no dieting necessary sold under a money back guarantee look we are selling a oneweek trial treatment for one dollar 100 but we cannot guarantee this as you will really just start to get relief test it out for a week i pj sold at all tnmblyjnj and ida drug stores if your druggist cannot supply you phone or send direct to lctofl treatment ki 2228 acton laboratories lid open evening we deliver 18 college si a t brown acton ontario victor talt hot from ranks to com mand of egyptian military air service th story of how a winnlpcgborn boy on adventure bent rose from the bumble rank of sapper in the canadian engineers through the royal alfrorce to become director of military aviation for the government of egypt reads like o chapter from action writes c v combe in the winnipeg tribune kolmnkam tait bey colonel of avia tion talt of cairo is a son of jvfr and mrs samuel talt of 184 waterloo street winnipeg he was born in winnipeg in 1893 and attended the port rouge public school the old central collegiate and manitoba university from which he was graduated in 1914 in electrical engineer ing then came the war the blood of youth and adventure surged in his veins no thought of holding back to get a commis sion the war he feared would be over if he waited so he enlisted as a sapper in the first divisional engineers for a year he stayed with his canadian unit in france then transferred to the royal air force his knowledge of radio and his skill in things electrical stood him in good stead he was transferred from the combatant areas in france given the rank of squadron leader in the royal air force and placed in charge of all wireless stations in the south of england an onerous and responsible position in times when a black saturday might enierae at any time calling for the utmost of coordi nation between radio stations aeroplanes and air defence organizations over the whole southern area of the kingdom in 1931 the imperial government wish ing to improve the air defences of egypt loaned squadron leader talt to the egyp tian government as specialist in charge of air forces the winnipeg man was given the rank of lieutenantcolonel and has since devoted his organizing genius to building up that service his first care was to gather round him a competent force of aviators observers mechanics and wire less experts not neglecting airports and other appurtenances of successful military aviation this done col tait was ready to mod ernize the egyptian military ajr service rules seventy millions the aga khan is modest unassuming and fabulously wealthy a harried american hostess in paris wrote to the british embassy asking a last- minute ruling on the ranking of aga khan where she should seat him at her table the proper form of addressing him etc and she received this reply dear madam the aga khan is con sidered by his followers as a god on earth but of course an english duke takes pre cedence as a matter of fact the aga khan spir itual ruler of about 70000000 people connoisseur of art possessor of a kings ransom in precious stones owner ofone of the most successful racing stables in europe is one of the most unassuming of royal personages he seems quite content to permit english dukes to take prece dence when it comes to dinnertable ranking he reserves his formality for the three or four months of each year at his palaces in poona bombay calcutta or karachi although he possesses an enviable col lection of gems the aga khan is most modest in his personal display of jewelry- he wears notritrrgexeep the conventional cufflinks and a tiepin the owner of the golden dawn one of the largest dia monds in the world once said jewels are for women only and look much nicer on them than on men new fingerprint system english professors make life more diffi cult for criminals the finger print problem has finally been solved by two professors of univer- slrycalkge- nottingham they have dis covered a inerhtjcttywhlch recognizable fingerprints can be brought out on a multi colored or highlypatterned background formerly if a murderer or burglar left his fingerprints on an article of ordinary color it wasguitc easy to photograph them after the article had been dusted with powder but if the fingerprints were left on a highly colored article the culprit was quite safe for these could not be satisfac torily photographed the two professors have discovered that if a fine powder of anthracene or zinc sulphide is sprinkled on the ridge of an imprint on a highcolored article and then exposed to dark ultraviolet rays the pow der retails the ultraviolet light it thus becomes phosphorescent and when a pho tograph of the article is taken the finer- print ridge characteristics are clearly reproduced oil from waste gas experiments which have been made for some time designed to recover additional naphtha from the millions of feet of nat ural gas going to waste in the turner val- ley oil field about 40 miles southwest of calgary and the most productive oil field in canada have proven successful one of the largest operators in the field has installed an absorption plant and is now recovering naphtha from the waste gas at a rate which will mean more than 1 24000 barrels annually added to tire regular naphtha production of the field the daily additional recovery made possible by this plant is expected to average 342 barrels tbc total annual value of the additional naphtha thus recovered in gross revenue is estimated ut oyer 374000 descendant of pcpys cat brutus who had perhaps the longest and most distinguished descent of any of londons official cats and was also unique in possessing a ticket to the national gallery ot art died recently mourned by many friends he was a majestic black and white feline more often than not to be seen on the terrace of the national gallery his principal claim to fame was that he traced his descent or rather had it traced for him back to the cat that belonged ito pepys the diarist new york times magazine new brunswick leads world smelts small but very delicious fish are taken in all canadas sea coast prov inces but new brunswick is much the biggest producer and indeed is the worlds blgflest producer- i lit- if you are going to be a reformer you must toe qoemn bertrand russeell c v the canadian car when you buy a ford v8 you-buy- more than a new car you buy a new thrill inrnotorfng no other lowpriced car can possibly give you the same smooth satisfying perforrrfancer because no other car under 400000 has a v8 engine over and over again as you travel along you will say i am glad i bought a ford v8 at todays prices it is the greatest value ever offered in an automobile and the most economical ford car ever built norton motors phone 69 acton ontario watch the fords go by meat specials at pattersons jbeefcuts choice rib roasts j per lb i ioc itc round shoulder per lb thick rib roast per lb thick shoulder roast per lb rib boil per lb 14c 13c 13c 10c stewing 1 a 10 beep per lb luc to lzc smoked meats side bacon by the plece per lb smoked cottage roll per lb pickled cottage roil per lb 33c 27c 24c extra special- 2 2 la homemade sausage lbs for lard s for 25c 26c 20c 23c butter r 45c heinz ketchup large bottle for i tb for pattersons meat shop phone 178 we deliver promptly barr s saveyoumoney shop this week for these speciadtrices on st lawrence starch products fresh durham corn starch package q- fresh beehive corn syrup os tin ty- fresh beehive corn syrup i cs tin 07 fresh beehive corn syrup iqs tin c7- 50 pound sacks cooking onions bag gjj special prices on libbys favorite products fresh pork and beans medium size tin 7- fresh pork and beans large size tin lop fresh pack tomato juice 14j4 oz tin 0 fresh pack tomato catchup bottle 1 sugar crisp corn flakes 2 pkgs j5 special prices on high quality salmon salmon prices are advancing iso 1 quality choice pink tall tins 1 1p no 1 quality red cohoe i tall tins 99 azic no 1 quality red cohoe 12 size tins jo o 1 quality red sockeye till tins jij- y size tins tom no i quality red sockeye choice glover honey in comb 212 5 size tin westons christies bodlevs jftlesh cakes peaches plums grapes canteloupes -r- bananas 3 vegeta bread butter eggs cheese veget vvavibwf mi tmrayjwiil