Tho Acton rrea Press Wednesday July Auditorial Page ESTIMATED AGE OF THIS horse drawn hearse Line The story is told that the carriage once graced the and like many of its patrons the dignified old carriage Is streets Acton before It was retired At least one gradually succumbing to the effects of wind and museum has looked It over as a possible restoration weather off the beaten path at the Breezes on the First project of early Photo by BUI Stuckey Tony Duncan or the Leamington Post has a puckish sense of humor which leads Into extraordinary research sometimes mini had him curious about he extent to which people would go to use the word which is currently In vogue and then he came up with a few ideas himself He called the column a Maximum of Mini terms There no doubt about it We are playing mini to the maximum For Instance he program at a concert the other night listed this MOOVDOG Minisym No 1 Pseudointellectuals have been referred to as mini brains this with the hyphen for accent Some people have declared the House of Commons guilty of wasting time on too many mini matters All this started with short starts miniskirts which as they became shortened more or is it less became known as Or for short If allowed to proliferate this could lead to describing someone who expert about these skirts as having As the skirts shortened the list of words lengthened Printers began referring to this small type used Tor instance in printing baseball box scores not with the old term of agate type but as Pocketsued sewing gear Is advertised ge And those old fashioned penny candy bars now two cents as And compact as minibuses Wei the upshot of this is that we want to get into the game- along with headline writers advertising copywriters and clothing designers We want to offer to the world samples from our own mini dictionary although if It Is unabridged it would naturally be a maxim in I dictionary The result of recent inflation mini money A Texas league single A quick gasp minimutter A condensed novel From all this we could greatly simplify our language For instance the book Brief Encounter could be named Mlnlmect And rather than try to explain about distant relatives wc could refer merely to minikin A person could have many minikin and If Ihey were vey rich they could be moncymlnikln When you really get Into this of mini meanings you begin to feel the potential power of minimixes To wit this selected Maxi Dec and March A mini a short short story Max mum total censorship a quick decision Well if this parlor game were to sweep from city to city across this nation could refer to it as an y in i an a Well there you go About the only thing he missed out on was Minnie Mouse He probably remembered she would not go any place without her Mickey 20 years ago Over persons gathered in Prospect Park on Sunday to dedicate the town of Acton in a fitting outdoor service A parade of local organizations and council led by Acton Boys and Girls Band and the Lome Scots paraded from the town hall to the park A choir comprised of members of the churches of Acton under the direction of Ted Hansen and accompanied by Miss Lampard contributed several anthems Rev A Brooks of Grimsby and former rector of St was the guest speaker Collection from the event was far the Manitoba Flood Relief and totalled fill Over citizens attended the service Souvenir programs were distributed by the Boy Scouts In front of the pulpit was the official crest of I he new Town and the old Village a crest that was presented to the village by Sir Harry Bnitain on behalf of Acton England The motto on that crest Is May Acton Prosper Teachers of Queen Victoria School Toronto had a happy gathering to honor Miss Robena Ruby dark upon the com of her teaching caret- She was presented with a beautiful Royal table lamp Betty Masters was entertained by friends tt miscellaneous shower at the home of Lorraine Hargrave Results from Toronto Normal School include Muriel Bums June and Joan Coles as graduates with Shirley Elliott receiving her Primary Specialists 50 years ago Taken from the Issue of the Free Press Thursday Julys Tbe board of trustees has engaged Miss kt Knapp of Gait as assistant teacher for the Continuation School at a salary of per annum Mr J M the principal has been reen gag odd at a salary of Si 900 All the teachers of the public school have been reengaged and received liberal in creases in salary May Barnes an Acton girl and Benjamin Strudwick a returned soldier were married on the stage of the Allen Theatre Toronto last Wednesday night free license free minuter and free bridal set of dishes which went with the ceremony as they were picked out as the most handsome pair of some there was splendid weather on the first of July and the national holiday was greatly There were numerous private pic rues in shady forest nooks and down the THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE A ana Ed Ota Don yr mountain side Georgetown and Ebenezci celebrations took large numbers An extra at the Wonderland attracted large crowd Threads among the Gold a picture play replete with laughter and tears Sir Robert Borden has resigned the of Canada after nine years in Blue Spring park is popular for The accommodations have been greatly improved 75 years ago The annual convention of the Woman Miss Society of division was held In Mr and Mrs H Moore Acton was elected secretary Mrs A Christie read a paper showing the deadly work of the opium habit and traffic and the necessity of coping with this great evil Giving papers were Mrs S Harris Rock wood Mrs J W Oram Aden and Mrs G of Rock wood Thewidow Lady Randolph Churchill Is in in Pons disporting herself daily on wheel in a smart cycling mourning costume A caravan of lazy men dirty women and children and foul smelling bears and monkeys passed through town Saturday The third annual park social and promenade concert given by Acton Tern Union will take place in the park tomorrow evening Acton is In no immediate danger of starving with three bakeries now The Public School examinations yesterday were attended by a number of parents and friends The pupils manifested careful teaching and acquitted themselves creditably A class of 12 or students will go to Georgetown tomorrow to write at the entrance examination The first shipment of cheese from Rock wood Cheese factory was made this week when Mr Halle of Gudpb received May cheese having paid 11 16 cents a pound for it About worth of livestock was shipped from Rockwood station this TO Excellent display Acton stuck their collective nark a out And organized a firework a display In town the In many many years and we hope It will be he first of many more annual pyrotechnic displays to celebrate Canada ft birthday In spite of the huge numbers who watched the Ire brigade had to dip Into their own kitty to make up the difference between the cost the fireworks end the amount collected at the gate and In a hat passed around the banks Lake and adacent streets Describing the quality fireworks Is like trying to describe different reactions to views a kaleidoscope It is different things to each person Gorgeous ex plod I no confections lit the sky reflecting In he mill pond of fairy Lake drawing and alihhs from the audience Dominion Day or Canada Day call it what you will used to be a lime for local celebrations and pageants for small towns but In the last few years the trend has been away community celebrations Most people into cars and drive miles to he cottage or park which often has no more attractive qunlltloa than their own local facilities Jog to health agod lost your vim and vigor It you are a male why not try fogging Studies by an doctor In U S have shown that male patients put on a logging regime by their doctors show a significant Improvement In heart work output and pulse ratel The doctor studied volunteers with a mean age of who jogged not more than 10 minutes a day for two months He wanted to find out what this relatively mild exercise would do to the conditioning of the average middle aged male who In North America tends to be over worked overstresacd overfed and Each volunteer selected altera medical examination was asked to map out a one mile track somewhere near his home Thirty five were originally chosen for the two month project Ten threw In the towel within the first few weeks No attempt was made to control volunteer eating drinking or smoking habits The only change In his ordinary living was the dally one mile job There were significant changes in the volunteers decrease in body Should we complain To complain or not com plain Is a dilemma In which customers and consumers all too frequently find themselves What is the correct course of action when one is the victim of a disservice In store office garage repair shop or place of en What should one do when short changed or over charged when quality price service delivery or payment arrangements are not as advertised when obvious Suga It hard for the average chap to get away from the dally bind wife kids job mowing the lawn fortonate if he can sneak a game of golf or get out fishing without experiencing a deep guilt feeling This week 1 did it have no guilt feeling and spent one of the most enjoyable days had in years A colleague who is an ardent crafty and persistent angler and is leaving the area decided to treat me to a day fishing at one of the secret places he has reconnoitred over he years and would rather sell his wife and children into slavery than reveal its location He doesn have to worry It took us three hours to get on the lake and I couldn t find my way back there with the help of a bloodhound handcuffed to a Mountle We began on highways that dwindled to gravel concession roads that shrunk lo mountain goat paths that ended In solid bush We crossed a couple of bridges that looked as though a well fed family of but t walk across them without going through And we were In a van with a boat in the back On each occasion I felt something in my mouth and knew it wasn my foot but my heart But finally there was the lake lovely and utterly solitary Just us and the bugs And we were outnumbered about eight million to one Mosquitoes the size of starlings Those beasts lapped up fly dope like kids licking ice cream You could have had a bath in tbe stuff and they d still have come in like another wave of Zulu warriors Later I was put ashore for a abort por and got an inkling of what the suffered Any man who tells me that the bugs don bother me la a bar When you re swallowing about six with each labored breath and your nose and ears are full of them It not hard to believe that a man could go insane in a very short time alone In the bush While ashore in thkk bush I could put my band to the back of my bead and remove it with a solid handful of blood and mashed mosquitoes In five minutes my head was a phrenologist a delight a solid mass of bumps and blood discourtesy inefficiency careless ness delay discrimination or neglect Is encountered Here we face the very real psychological fact that when we do kick we feel like heels perhaps most of all when complaint is met with sincere apology and Does not a firm policy of complaining when gypped brand us as chronic grouches or kickers among all who know us r and Spice by bill smiley But once on the lake we got a modicum of relief And the fishing was very pleasant It was one of those toorare summer days that arc ideal for fishing cloudy odd flash of sun threat of rain ondjust enough breeze to ripple the surface We trolled and chatted and ate sand wlches and had a slug of run It must have been the last item that did it After more than an hour without even a snag I was caught on bottom right after we d had a snort tosavethelure and suddenly the bottom began to move I knew it wasn t a real fish A speckled rainbow or bass will fight jump and try to snag you under the boat This was an old rubber boot Besides there were no rain bow speckled or bass in this lake the holiday fell In the of week this year although It was marked on both Monday and Friday as well many people stayed home The evenings entertainment was well worth while Perhaps It some of the town clubs helped the firefighters another year the combined could produce a whopping birthday celebration Certainly this year celebration was a most successful event and the are to be congratulated tor adding a new dimension to the usually quiet holiday fat girth reduced by a mean of Skinfold thickness showed a reduction ot per cent The physical efficiency index showed an Impressive per cent and work output showed a mean Improvement of per cent There were other medical improvements Intelligible only to medical men but surprisingly there was little weight change Track time showed a reduction of minutes and seconds or a 26 per cent improvement Feel and listless Try jogging after a medical On the other hand are we really wise to adopt consistently the roles of a Casper Milquetoast or Walter By making ourselves doormats we are simply asking to be continually walked upon By submitting without com plaint disservice we are en couraging its being rendered to others conniving at making inefficiency dishonesty and discourtesy the common conditions under which business and Industry are operated After five minutes of praying that my rotten line unused for two years break I caught a glimpse of him and my were confirmed Just a dirty big sucker I probably hooked by the tail Oh well I had to get my lure So I dragged him up my partner netted him and with considerable chagrin I discovered caught a pound lake trout Sneaky devils go for the bottom instead of coming up and fighting Another hour without a touch and we decided to move into the other secret lake where the big speckled are After a vicious 60foot portage of sorts which left me gasping like a trout out of water we were on it Again a completely londy little lake wooded to the water with not a cottage or water skier in sight My partner took a 10 pound lake trout as the sun went down and total peace reigned He t like to but he was forced to smile as he laid it down beside my big A nice day Two strikes two lakes two fish Any my wife nearly died of shock when I walked in holding them rem the REMEMBER WHEN your bread and milk came by many years ago was It This picture was taken before ttw war ywri when Mac Dona Ids bread with the convenient phone number of was delivered door to door Recognize the drlverHes a welt known man In these parts The roof of the old United Church Horse Sheds can be Men In the background