Ligntle Family Thank You Note for Care and Flowers
The family of the late Mr A E Ligntle acknowledge friends and neighbors for kindness and floral tributes during their recent bereavement.
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 05, 1945
Page
8
The family of the late Mr A E Ligntle acknowledge friends and neighbors for kindness and floral tributes during their recent bereavement.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at Johnstone and Rumsey funeral home Acton for Orlando Cardinell RR 3 Rockwood who died at St Josephs Hospital Guelph after a short illness. Interment Limehouse Cemetery. Alfred Edward Lightle died suddenly March 28 at his home in Erin Township aged 28 or 29. He leaves two daughters and a son, plus siblings and relatives. funeral from his home to Fairview Cemetery Acton.
A Halifax MPP hosts five Royal Navy sailors during a Toronto session. After lunch they toured Parliament Buildings with Lt Roche's crew represented by Petty Officers So Leuchake Wright Milfour Welch and Hiver. Premier Krews welcomed them as the first naval visitors introduced on the Assembly floor. Mitchell’s husband Flight Lt Mitch ien is missing after offensive ops.
Monday marks the reopening of schools for the last term. April showers bring steady trout fishing optimism with the season opening near April 28. Pte Gerard Earley serves overseas and Pte Jamie Lamb sends Easter flowers to Mrs Orrie Lamb from Germany. Red Cross sewing groups seek volunteers in Acton while Frankie Speilvogel fractures his arm at the YMCA gym. An electrical storm caused a hydro substation outage Sunday 2 to 5 pm for temporary repairs. Mrs Wm MacArthur receives orchids from grandson David Norton for her birthday delivered from Villavicencio Colombia in four days.
Sir Cleveland Fite, long-time NFU secretary, says Brit ish farmers should work with Dominions and foreign growers to expand world food consumption. He urges building marketing systems, using research, and cooperating with guest industries to cut production and distribution costs and align policy for global agricultural stability.
Erin Workmen began clearing the Globe Hotel site on Wednesday after a January fire. The Horton family near completion of plans for a new Totel building on the site, with work to start soon. Fire also damaged the McLaren Castle in Caleton Township, discovered by redecorators, fighting flames saved the landmark but roof and interior damage were reported.
The piece records a warm March with good farming progress despite limited help, handfuls of Easter visitors, and local residents returning from Toronto and England. It mentions the Workmen's Compensation Office, hospital ship Letitia, and a village Easter service hosted by Mrs Alison with Rev Poole speaking.
In Montreal a cave-in on Cote St. Catherine Road buried two workers for nearly two hours. Paul Emile Dupuiss and Gerard Demers, miners by trade, suffered serious injuries while performing an excavation. The incident halted work as responders freed them from the 1-foot ditch.
A public auction of farm horses cows poultry and sheep assets including grain equipment and furniture is scheduled near Hornby Ayre on Saturday April 15 at 100 o'clock. Items listed cover Vercheren Colt Mare Durham cows with calf veal calves York sow oxen ewes and a long list of implements yard equipment and household furnishings. The sale is cash settlement with clerk on day and no reserve.
Public auction at Maughlin Farm on Thursday April 11 1945 offers Holsteins including 40 head of cattle, cows, two year olds, and calves plus horses a team of draft mares and three year olds, a tractor and equipment list, hay wagons gear and farm furniture. Terms cash with no reserve. Rockland W. will run a lunch booth.
Weekly war commentary notes Western Allies breach German lines near the Rhine and advance toward Vienna while Soviet forces push toward Austria. In the Pacific, U S troops consolidate landings on Okinawa and gain ground on southern Luzon as Allied naval actions sink ships and patrols tighten around the Japanese.
Two US soldiers left Canadian keepsakes behind after border agents ordered their large bull moose crate items returned to Fort St John. The items were deemed too big to accompany the soldiers home.
A Canadian National Railway conductor discovered eleven people in a reserved drawing room intended for a couple. The group included a woman, a man, and their nine children, leaving the coach crowded beyond capacity.
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