Acton Fran PRESERVING FOOD for leaner times Is usually thought of as a prerogative of the human race but we could learn like Robert Bruce something from the common Harvest Spider Jim Jennings In this sequence of photos caught the spider In action when he or she spied a grasshopper In Its webb He wrapped the hopper up tight In a silken web for a dinner when the pickings were poorer In No he takes a well deserved bow with the grasshopper completely en veloped In the silky prison Signs poor advertising for town First impressions are often the most Important Thats why we question the value of the signs which advertise Acton on two highway entrances to town Condition of the signs is not only a poor reflection on the town but the unpalnted Illegible lettering and appearance create an eyesore Time and weather have joined hands to create the general deterioration It has not been vandalism The six empty squares which sit waiting for the various emblems of service clubs suggest the signs have never been finished Keep it in the open Councillors of the Town of Brampton recently started closing some of their meetings to the news media Then there was an incident at Queens Park where a cabinet minister reportedly was respon- sible for excluding the press from a meeting of the Standing Committee on Health with officials OHSIP These are straws in a poten tially foul wind Weak men like to hide It is fundamental to our system of government that public business Is done In public This has been one of the hardest principles for the system to carry over the long I ife of British parliamentary democracy Because of human weakness there has always been a natural Inclination on the part of elected officials to try and get behind closed doors But it has also been so fun damental that they dont meet in secret that an alert press and public together with more knowledgeable legislators have been able to protect us against serious infringement However today we probably are approaching the most serious threats there have ever been to this vitally important principle The strongest plea of those few who have espoused secrecy in government always has been that It Is more efficient But the public Interest cannot be jeopardized for such a reason Closed meetings of public bodies undermine the roots of our political principles and traditions The Leamington Post In their present condition the signs would disenchant a passer by and do little to enhance the towns Image If nothing is going to be done to repaint and retetter them they would be better down and out of sight Surely the time and effort which originally went Into having the signs made and placed at strategic locations at entrances into town was worthwhile They point out features of which people driving through would not normally see No doubt they have also been in strumentat in getting people to stop and sample the towns hospitality and friendliness as well as to take advantage of facilities Acton Is a pleasant friendly town in which to live critics to the contrary and we wouldnt want anyone to judge the community by the condition of the signs which stand at the entrances to town Unfortunately some likely will Good fence make good neighbor Thats poet Robert Frost told us In The Mendiig Wall Prom our experience summer I agree with all my heart though perhaps not In the way thai Frost Intended It Wo had two of the wont fence In town One at the back leaning at a angle over our neighbors vegetable garden and killing It ru wily year after year They understandably annoyed suggested a new fence I was loath after pricing fencing But we agreed to split cost of a mutual fence And heres l he kicker Hca a builder couldnt noil two boards together without mutilating myself So I Jumped at It It was arranged that would help him You know Hold the boards fetch nails vide encouragement As It turned out he lit the whole thing lalwayn seemed to be busy when he had time to work on It Didnt fetch a single nail I felt rather sheepish but not unduly no Ive been getting away with this for year Some time when he wants me to write a nasty letter to his creditors Ill be glad lo do it for him and well be even Then them big ttmtKmoa the color of the stain wed Hit on wives did rml of Urn Jim Mid and I agreed I a If you paint It purple Tainting began My wife paint one panel of our sine were away for a few day When wo returned whole was finished Ills wife said I hop you don l mind thai we went ahead and palmed your side I assured her we were My wife hid In fur two days Now hes going use his power saw lo cut up all my old dry edar feme and well have enough kindling or the for two years and tin fence In town Hows thai for neighbors least on one side of the fence The second feme along side Is an ihe lime of War of It leans lurches and looks like a gap toolhed It ours and the hint who owns it has no other Inlerest In his property than collecting the rem from the series of unfortunates who move Into his house a new family about every six months I toyed Idea of arson but there arc those numerous small children to consider 20 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday August 1950 The rail strike is over There la of course a big accumulation of mail express and freight to clear after the nineday tieup The government acted with unprecedented speed to bring an end to the strike The 1950 edition of Hor ticultural Societys annual exhibition was acclaimed a big success with entries being Judged and displayed in the Com Hall In With the highest membership in years the Society presented a colorful array of flower and vegetable exhibit Honors for the oldest exhibitor went to Mrs Nick ell while Arthur Brown claimed title to being the youngest Mr John Chapman who has recovered from a recent Illness Is resuming his work with the Metropolitan Insurance Co and will move to Fergus shortly He has been with IhccompanyforlByeara Many friends here wilt regret the removal of Mr and Mrs Chapman from Acton The Lome Scots band from Georgetown has won top honors In their class at the CNE Several district men have enlisted with the Canadian Special Force for service with the United Nations In Korea Recent downpours have had a settling effect on local streets A bulldozer was stuck on Wilbur St Tuesday an excavation under the front end of a parked car settled a lady fell into a sidewalk and the streets were generally in sinking condition Don Wiggins accountant at the Bank of Montreal Is in hospital He is being replaced here by O Hunt from Walkerton 50 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday September 1920 The Duke of Devonshire chapter of the Daughters of the Empire held a farewell tea for Mrs Warren and Mrs D Russell at he home of Mrs C C Henderson The presentation of the scholarship to little Mis Orr was an interesting feature Today Acton loses a family which ha been most useful in the uplifting activities of the community for many years Mrs James Warren Miss Helen and Fred leave today for their new home in Toronto Sincere regret is felt at the removal of this esteemed family Miss Florence Murray has opened millinery rooms In the Havtll building Her showrooms arc upatnlra but she has the privileges of the front window Labor Day on Monday proved an Ideal autumn day and was generally observed as a public holiday Hundreds of our citizens took In Toronto fair many driving down by motor A number spent the afternoon at Georgetown Community pic nic Labor ceased In the factories and the day was spent The Institute ladles held their first meeting of the season at the home of Mrs Ed Gamble The kind offer of the veterans to meet in one of their rooms was kindly ac cepted A rather precipitate marriage took place last week when a young man working In town secured a license and was married by a local clergyman to a maid only in her 16th year The amorous groom failed to secure the consent of parents and added two or three years her age on the affidavit The magistrate Informed by the brides mother gave the young fellow wholeriomc advice It is now reported the marriage ceremony was performed a second time with the consent of the parents and everything is now on a satisfactory basis 75 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday August 22 1B9S Last Sabbath the congregations of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches were united for two preaching services Rev Mr Howell preached in the Presbyterian church in the morning and in his own pulpit In the evening The utmost Christian fellowship prevailed Last week the general store of J N in Rockwood was broken into by burglars and goods to the amount of kit not only good fence that make ant thing This wart on third side what mads of ftiHr iffilvrly works for the ffflftw at a Institution On a fin day drought two for a In thalr yard would you Ilka a down putianti in yard for a utrJt Id go hid- In the hi war mil ttmn humoring thm simply sympathetic and It main to limaa devil lha torn of not In a In year till ihy were run the a well a lh lawn Kit tit not a word all af itrnwm lul when It was he hook hand with hi host Thaak yog It was a great achievement according to who knew him Another a examined all rooms in house verbally re arranged all furniture dabbled himself with any perfume or lotion available and drew a portrait of the including a heart above her head and a In a basket wonders 1 he saw her a a benevolent dictator ll all kind of neighbors but think we re pretty lucky luckier than our neigh are perhap They have only stolen The burglars were traced as tar as Georgetown but not captured The material Is being laid down for the new buildings of Messrs and Co at the nation A contract has been let for pressed bricks A barber named Kelly who came here from Toronto a couple of weeks ago was hired to run Mortons barber shop while proprietor went away on a short vacation Wednesday night Kelly left for taking with him a number of raiora clip pers He was arrested there and brought back to town The tools were restored and the case was settled The special flower services held at St Albans church on Sunday were moat sue The floral decorations were profuse The offertory was large and will meet a considerable portion of the coat of the proposed memorial the Thifting The Christian Science Monitor In an editorial on Canada refers to Arctic oil spilth We trust that the typesetting machine did not lisp The word Is too neat too expressive too pat a coinage to have been accidental Considering the filth that has already been deposited on beaches by oil spills along both coasts of Canada and the United States and ecological horrors that have been in il font A memorial service relating to the Mrs John will be held in the Methodist church She died age 38 after many months of suffering Hers was the first interment In the new survey of cemetery THE acton FREE PRESS PHONE and Ediondl Office Mart Hi U CM Don A Copyright projected in connection with an Arctic oil pipeline or a route through the ice pack for huge tankers the new word seems likely to achieve wide currency We do not know whether the Monitor was the first to use It We predict however that the birth of spilth may prove to be as felicitous as the earlier creation of smog Leamington Post 9 ft PICTURED AT GUELPH on June 25 1936 were long service employees of Beardmore and Co who had served the company 30 years or more the heads of departments and salesmen a Recognize anyone in this picture loaned by Miss AAadellne Gibbons