Auction disposes of lifelong collection It was all there The exciting tempo of a country auction that beat to the lune of the witty huckster auctioneer Young old simple and elegant farmers villagers and crowded together last Saturday morning to ponder investigate and invest in the nostalgic remains of a wonderful man s year collection of odds ends and keepskaes Motoraofevery vlarlety power driven ancient obsolete operating nonoperating many antiqueworthy and many more not so old had been accumulated by a simple desire to collect mechanical objects and put them Into running condition You young folks so to the movies and enjoy yourself and I be busy around here What I get my biggest kicks out of is getting old pieces of furniture and getting them back into shape A for motors all of his life Harry Edwards late of Rock wood had a mania for engines and he had a compulsion to get everything running Garden tractors cultivators an old hand made snowmobile with a model T engine probably dating back to the early 1920s an aged horse drawn crop sprayer sleigh bells Pennsylvania Dutch wooden bowls and matching spoons were all part of the conglomeration of Items once the belongings of one man but after last weekend outdoor sale scattered to the four winds Usually much of the ex of such sales is generated by the auctioneer with his continual chanting and a running account of the current bid plus a request for a higher one Here it is folks Just what always wanted Who II give me four give me four you give me four four It Is so over here and on It went Candle holders knlck knacks everything was considered by a spectrum of people from various parts of the countryside Toronto buyers Hamilton antique dealers and many local villagers anxious to purchase little from the life of Harry Edwards still others were there out of curiosity There a certain nostalgia about auction sales especially If you know the person who owned the Items to be sold Almost everyone In Rock wood knew Harry Edwards he was revered by the kids loved by his family and will always be remembered by many villagers Born In Nova Scotia William Henry George Edwards was the eldest of a family of 12 children six brothers and five sisters He served In the First World War with the Engineers In France and a loom fixer by trade he moved to Brantford where he repaired looms aL the Sllngsby Spinning and Weaving Company He married In that city and just before the depression hit In Ontario around the mid 1920 he and his family moved to a farm outside Brantford After the war he changed his occupation to that of land grading About 1929 the Edwards family then moved to Rockwood where Harry mother and dad were residing Until 1046 he lived on Carrol Street until the death of his mother at which time he and his family moved in with his dad to the Main Street home where he lived until his death In February of this year COMINS AND GOIN Mrs borne Guild Edna and her daughter and son In law Mr and Mrs Douglas Anne Calder of Toronto and their family spent the June weekend at the Rock wood Conservation Park and it MRS DOLLY EDWARDS Hunter recalls how she and her sister and brothers pooled together some years ago to pay a week to Kelly Music Store in Guelph for the purchase of this old gramophone The Acton Free Press Wednesday Rockwood News during their camping spree took time off to visit old village friends and also Mrs Guild on Mary Street The Dominion Day weekend was visiting time for Gerald Bell of Harris Street when his daughter Jean and her family spent some time with him in Vnltlng with his mother in Guelph recently was Dr Gordon Carter formerly of A past member of the Guelph University faculty Carter with his wife and family left there to spend a few years In Burma On his return however he moved to the States is presently on the staff of the Michigan State University in Lansing Michigan He had been invited to Guelph specialty to assist in examining papers written by a student from Zambia on his specialist subject of pathology at which time he stayed with his mother Mrs Irene Carter Guelph Holding the fort at the St John Church Rockwood and All Saints in Erin are Mr and Mrs Herbert Rev Ken and Sally Cardwell are presently vacationing in the Brace bridge district with Ken and Judy A belated welcome mat Is out to the Dr and Mrs Graham Belle family who moved to the village a few months ago They have lived in Canada for only two years Dr Belle Is on the faculty of the Guelph University in the Biology Department and if you happen to notice a very pretty little cherub being babysat by Barbara McLaren these days It is the SHAWN MURPHY and Nancy Coulson barrel spraying wagon one of the old Belle daughter Andrea six were impressed by the horse drawn replicas of the pre motorized farm years The village constable for years Harry Edwards had originally acted In that capacity voluntarily without remuneration until the Trustees of and the Township recognized his worth and then made his position a permanent one He held the affection and high regard of school children for over years and he was a friend and neighbor many willing to go the extra mile to bring parents and wayward kids together He worked on the Ontario Depart ment of Highways on the maintenance crew for many years as well as occupying his post as constable Known by most residents as Harry Mr Edwards Is vived by ten of his children who had come in from Toronto Guelph Slmcoe Islington Rock wood and Elliott Lake to watch the auctioning of his worldly goods His one son Johnny stationed In the Air Force at Vancouver was not able to be present at the sale but his youngest brother Louis from was there his sister Mrs Adelaide Stumph of Guelph and another sister Mrs Dolly Ed wards Hunter Kitchener who could recall her brothers and sisters going together and collecting a wees to buy the well conditioned old hand crank grama phono from Kelly a music store In Guelph S3 years ago It s all over now Most of the Items were sold some will have to be scrapped because they were too obsolete One of his sons purchased the house so there will be a con tinuance of the Edwards line In the village But Harry himself will never be forgotten He was too much a part of and even though many of his young miscreants have moved away there will always be records and memories of a delightful personage who spent many hours keeping the Village in check not because of lucrative gains or public esteem but more than hat because Harry Edwards was a very Important cog in the wheels of Rockwood past TAX NOTICE MUNICIPALITY OF ACTON SECOND INSTALMENT NOW DUE Is drawn to the payment of 1970 tax payable In tour are payable to the Treasurer at the Town of Acton Municipal Office YMCA BUILDING INSTALMENTS ARE DUE AS FOLLOWS FIRST INSTALMENT SECOND INSTALMENT THIRD INSTALMENT FOURTH INSTALMENT According to the not a MAY JULY SEPTEMBER IS NOVEMBER penalty per cent This penal inpald The attention at Ratept a explained in HURST Collector Earwig invasion now horrible but harmless The Earwigs are back Rockwood been Invaded again by thousands of he gruesome but harmless creatures which are found lit Grey Bruce Huron Perth and Waterloo coon tits si well Wellington Experts say are tivr only at night when they crawl to every direct loo looking for food climb fences tree walls and find their way Into houses By daybreak the loathsome looker have crawled back Into cracks or crevices until another night rolls around No deer hunt in Wellington There will be no open deer on 1 had my cattle so frightened hunting season in Wellington that 1 had to gather them up In County this year three different concessions he County council turned down a said request by the Department of Several counties In the and Forests to an open deer season in Wellington deer hunts either by shot gun Earwigs lay eggs In groups or about in a nest In the top two Inches of soil the mother tends the young for the first two week does not contaminate the garden as much as DDT and of a nuisance However a regular household type bug killer can be quite effective for plant and furniture spraying with the usual precautions taken as shown on the labels products POLLOCK AND CAMPBELL of Telephone Water St No from Nov The department requested the season its first since 1967 because it feels there are too many deer in the animal population and a limited hunting season would help reduce that population J J Armstrong the district biologist of the department appeared at the meeting to defend the deer hunt Clarence Smith the reeve of Clifford said that hinting often more harm than since moat hunters were amateurs who Improper shells that wound the animals but not kill them Lang of Erin Township said hunters often cause too much damage to fanners adds running over their crops and caring their cattle The last time there was a bunt during early and the young and adults become noticeable by late June or July The actual damage incurred by these creatures caused when they feed on seedling carrots beans beets and many flowers They may be found under the husks of tweet corn at picking time or In flowers and it Is at this time that the house invasion takes place The time to attack these pesky Invaders is when they are small early in July as treatment in August after they are In homes is less effective A poison bran bait Is preferred at a way of discouraging earwigs because it ROBERT HAMILTON OPTOMETRIST 1 1 IWountalnvw Road S HEADQUARTERS I Fori due Your Lawn Now HOWS TIME POTTED ROSES SHRUBS ETC SELECTIONI Tools Patio EVERY WEEKEND ACosh Carry Special Op Day Dad Phono WE WIRE ANYWHERE Caroline Flower Garden Shop TODAY DAY EVERYWHERE IMPORTANT NOTICE SUBDIVISION OF LAND All persons considering the sale or purchase of land in Ontario are urged to acquaint themselves with The Planning Amendment Act which became effective June A major feature of the Amendment ex tends subdivision control and part lot control over all lands in Ontario This 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