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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 13, 1944
Page
5
A long list of residents and visitors mark the Easter period with many returning from Toronto Guelph Kingston Ottawa and Trenton to spend holidays with family and friends. Military personnel including AC2 Bill Kanis Lieut Jack Graham and Sgt Harvey Hassard appear among those home for Easter as locals note recoveries and extended visits.
Sunday April 16 1980 church activities listed with morning and evening worship, a sermon about a message for a nation and health, and a home visit at Lake Avenue. Contains garbled names and times. readable items show worship services and a church gathering.
Morning Worship at 11.00 am with the Junior Choir feeding the service. Sunday School at 3.00 pm. Evening Worship at 7.00 pm. Wednesday 8.00 pm Bible study titled Studies in Colossians led by the adult class. The welcome extends to all.
Sunday April 11 includes 11.00 am Our Hidden Life by Rev Harris Wallace 12.18 pm Sunday School 1.00 pm Evening Worship Sin nora Hiding Pet Tuesday April 14 8 pm B Y P U in the church Lantern alldes on India Executive in charge April 25 Annual Business Meeting Everyone Welcome
Guard meetings are held at the Cripps home in Acton each evening at 8 except Monday and Saturday. Emma Robinson, formerly of Acton, is in Guelph General Hospital following surgery. Peter Kirkness is ill and in hospital in Guelph but improving. A list of visitors includes AC Garnet Mackenzie, Mrs. L M Blacklock, Miss Masson, C B McGlaughtin, and Doris. Family visits over Easter weekend feature many from Toronto, Mimico, Mountain View, and Hamilton areas.
Leslie Cayley a 13 year old Boy Scout from Nottingham England has sat motionless in a spinal frame for four years yet still made and sold items for the Ald to Chins Fund. Chief Scout Lord Sommers awarded Cayley the Cornwall Decoration for fortitude in recognition of his example and work.
Knox Church Easter services featured a prominent choir under E A Hansen. Morning anthems included Awake Jerusalem and Sing with William Burton soloing and Why Seek Ye the Living with the Young Ladies Double Trio. Evening music featured violin and choral works from Stainer's Crucifixion, with solos by Dora Hansen and others, and a sermon by Rev Forbes Thomson on Pilate and the Easter story.
A quiet ceremony at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Kitchener united Eva Jane Richardson and Corporal Clarence John Henderson of the RCAF on Saturday afternoon March 25. Rev Frank Yaweon officiated. Bridesmaid Lavena Richardson wore dusty pink crepe, and Karl Richardson served as groomsman. The couple departed for a brief honeymoon to points east after a reception at the Grand River Tea Rooms.
Soldier J A Henderson writes from overseas thanking Acton residents for cigarettes and boxed items sent to the front. He notes the mud and hardship, laments not meeting many Acton boys, and expresses gratitude for the home front kindness. Best wishes are sent to all back home.
Wroot a hamlet of 375 on the Yorkshire Lincolnshire border laments service gaps. Doncaster's Women's Institute petitions the Ministry of Health over scarce transport a weekly bus service miles to travel for a doctor and railway access distant by miles.
Reports say a large fleet struck Palau and other Pacific bases, sinking 28 ships and destroying 160 planes, with minimal U.S. losses. Allied actions push into the Balkans and Crimea as Romanians and Russians advance, while Italy seethes as Victor Emmanuel III plans to abdicate to his son as Rome approaches.
In London a wartime civilian bureau led by Mrs Hannah will address matrimonial problems of military personnel. Operated under the War Office, the Soldiers Sailors and Airmen Families Association aims to support families facing separation and stress. The service will begin in North Africa and later move to a mobile bureau serving Italy.
A wartime dispatch describes a Trans-African air hop from West Africa aboard a freighter. The aircraft carries a dull but essential yellow fever vaccine and armed guards. The passage notes heightened vigilance against disease while highlighting the perilous ride across foreign territories.
A London newspaper reports a reward of $2 offered to help find an unspecified person or object in the Halex district. The editor quips that if the matter were possible, they could raise far more than two dollars.
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