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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 06, 1950
Page
5
Description outlines a 44 by 28 foot house with a 13 by 21 foot garage and 4 foot projection. It notes a kitchen range access, a utility room with coat closet, bath room closets, vestibule coat room, and a large closet for bulky items. Exterior may be concrete block or brick veneer with an asphalt shingle roof. Floor area is 1387 square feet plus 17,797 cable feet.
Local residents listed visiting relatives in Drayton Wimire and area over the weekend and week. Health updates include Fred Lawson in hospital at Guelph and D G McLellan taking treatment in Malton Hospital with hopeful improvement.
Mr and Mrs Frederick L Black announce the engagement of their daughter Joan Marion to James H Dennis son of Mr and Mrs H Dennis Acton. The marriage is planned for Saturday April 22.
Ontario Boys Clubs completed their first tractor maintenance and driving season at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. Donald Steckle of Fasex county won the provincial championship among 32 counties. contestants faced timed tests and a tractor defect identification exam. Fifty-nine clubs and 600 contestants participated with expansion planned in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Good Friday and Easter week services listed for April 6 and 7 1940. Include Divine Worship Sunrise Service Sunday School and Communion times plus a Guelph Association BYPU Spring event. Welcomes all to attend with emphasis on Christ risen.
A church outlines Easter Day services with Holy Communion at 8 30 am and 11 00 am. A 2 30 pm service for Sunday School members and a 7 00 pm special service of Easter seasons and music. All are invited to attend.
Classified notice listing used W-4 tractor in al shape Ally-Charmers Tractor with three manure spreaders three fertilizer drills plus new drills and spreaders. Includes Waterloo garden tractors cultivators harrows and other farm implements for sale.
A report shows Y activities reaching a record 1340 participants in March, up from 1013 in February. New offerings include a High School girls class on Wednesdays, more members in all groups, and house league basketball results with Red in first place and Blues second. An April Fool’s party for Junior and Teen Towners featured a One Way Street setup and court trials, with 45 attendees. All regular Y programs were cancelled on Good Friday. Asparagus shoots grow quickly and should be harvested and packed promptly to prevent wilting.
The Ontario Government plans two new Toronto buildings costing about 5.8 million dollars. A five story Workmen's Compensation building with wings estimates at 3.86 million, and a ten story Treasury block near Grosvenor Street at 2.3 million with an underground passage to connect to other government structures. A future south Queen Street project near York opposite Osgoode Hall will house public trustees and other departments. China's Great Wall is 1500 miles long.
The council discussed taxi by law amendments and licensing. It refused hospital charges for an indigent. Finances up to March showed arena deficits and no painting bids for the water tank. Applications for assessor and clerk positions were opened and future advertising planned. Garbage days set for Mondays and Thursdays. Council adjourned at 1:15 am.
Conditions for maple sap harvest in Quebec look favorable with snow melt and tree moisture. The harvest depends on weather over three to five weeks, with sunny days and frosty nights ideal for sap flow. Quebec accounts for eighty percent of Canada’s maple products with exports mainly to the United States.
A survey of 50 churches shows average annual giving for church work ranges from 20 to 80 dollars, with an overall average of 34 dollars per member per year. The piece argues for viewing church support as civic obligation rather than mere charity and highlights human ministers as vital to faith.
A ton of well rotted manure contains about ten pounds of nitrogen five pounds of phosphatic acid and ten pounds of potash.
A comic exchange unfolds as a rich uncle offers a birthday gift choice while a nephew mishears the terms. The uncle clarifies whether the recipient prefers large or small checks leading to a humorous misunderstanding about neckties.
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