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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 13, 1944
Page
12
Local residents return for Easter from Toronto Galt Guelph St. John’s Kingston and Kingston Ottaw a and nearby towns. Servicemen on leave from Prince Rupert Toronto and the east coast visit family. Easter weekends bring many hospitality gatherings at homes in Arthur and surrounding areas.
A damaged OCR piece lists a Sunday April 16 schedule with morning and evening worship, a sermon titled A Message for an Ade, health and salvation themes, and a home meeting at Lake Avenue hosted by Sales Rf Bennett.
On Manse-Willow Street the Sunday schedule lists Morning Worship at 11.00 am with 700 p.m. Worship to follow led by the Junior Choir. The 3.00 pm Sunday School and Wednesday 8 pm Adult Bible study on Colossians are also announced.
Sunday April events list Rev Harris Wallaee speaks on Our Hidden Life at 11 00 am Sunday School at 12 18 pm and Evening Worship at 1 00 pm Also notes Sin nora Hiding Pet Tuesday April 14 8 pm B Y P U in the church Lantern and India theme Executive in charge April 25 Annual Business Meeting Everyone Welcome
Gospel meetings are held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Cripps Acton each evening except Monday and Saturday at 8 o clock All welcome No collections Milues Fowler and Moore Emma Robinson Acton ill in Guelph General Hospital Mr Peter Kirkness taken ill in hospital at Guelph progress favorable Mrs L M Blacklock Guelph Miss Mr Masson Toronto Mr C B Mc Glaughtin Toronto visitors Easter weekend AC Garnet Mackenzie Mountain View other visitors Mrs McInnes and Doris Mimico AC Jack Temple Mountain View Easter weekend Mr and Mrs Gordon Huffman Brenda Yiamilton Milas Gladya Huffman Toronto Mr Bill Huffman Georgetown visited mother Mrs E Huffman.
Leslie Cayley a 13 year old Boy Scout from Nottingham has lived in a spinal frame for four years yet made and sold articles for the Ald to China Fund. For his courage Chief Scout Lord Sommers bestows the Cornwall Decoration for fortitude.
Knox Church choir led by E A Hansen highlighted Easter services with two morning anthems and a Living Why Seek Ye the Living. Soloists and ensembles including the Young Ladies Double Trio and Male Chorus performed pieces from Stainer's Crucifixion, with Rev Forbes Thomson delivering a brief sermon on Pilate and faith beyond the sign above Jesus.
Eva Jane Richardson married Corporal Clarence John Henderson of RCAF in a March 25 ceremony at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Kitchener. Rev Frank Yaweon officiated as the couple left for an eastward honeymoon after a reception at the Grand River Tea Rooms.
Soldier J A Henderson thanks Acton residents for cigarettes and boxes sent overseas. He notes mud, gun pits, and hope to meet more Acton locals while thanking the community for their welcome paper and support. Best wishes to all.
Wroot in Yorkshire Lincolnshire border protests neglect as Doncaster Women's Institute complains to the Ministry of Health. The hamlet of 375 has only one weekly bus to Doncaster, the nearest doctor miles away, and a railway station 6 to 3 miles distant.
Reports detail a March carrier strike that devastated Palau and nearby bases with 28 ships sunk or damaged and 160 planes destroyed. British and Canadian air forces bombarded Ghent and other targets while Allied leaders discuss Europe invasion timing. In the Balkans and Crimea, Soviet offensives push toward secure advances and Romania, Transylvania. In Asia, Japan's drive toward India continues as Burma operations expand. King Victor Emmanuel declares he will abdicate upon Rome’s entry to Allied forces.
In North Africa and later Italy a mobile bureau under the War Office will assist soldiers and sailors families. Mrs Hannah, first civilian to work frontline, will handle matrimonial problems and respond to issues of harsh landladies or ill wives.
An early report notes a Trans-African air route with a reconnaissance craft from West Africa. The mission involves a gun armed unit and a focus on yellow fever control as it reaches the Sceypt fparn region, with ird readable details on foreign parts.
A Halifax district report describes a strange shortage crisis prompting a London paper to offer a $2 reward for locating a missing woman. The editor quips that if the matter were poetry the reward could be far larger.
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