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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 15, 1937
Page
2
The Acton Bree Press states most subscribers will not have service interrupted if remittance is late. Subscriptions will not be carried in arrears unless notice is given to cancel, in which case the period ends with the current term.
The 1935 Acton figures show a population gain of about 100 from 1934. Acton remains the largest village in Group C with 394 acres and 2,000 or fewer residents per 1 acre. The per capita debt is 77.35, with Halton County split roughly equally between towns and townships. township assessment is double that of towns.
Editorial notes praise Premier Hepburn for enforcing law and order and resisting negotiations with U S influenced agitators. Critics fault Ottawa immigration laxity and call for Canada to handle labor disputes its own way. Background on local civic issues and upcoming events follow.
A past trial banned parking on Mill Street at certain hours, but current practice allows both sides to park. Vehicles often block one way traffic with double parking causing danger. By law bans double parking, yet signs or notices to motorists may be needed. A new speed limit next month will affect enforcement and parking hours.
The text advocates planting two acorns from England at the Public School grounds to honor Coronation Day and suggests adding maples along Acton Park’s west edge. It notes acorns may take many generations to become oaks and praises the foresight of earlier tree plantings, imagining future appreciation in 2037 and beyond.
A Sunday School lesson cites the destruction of Sodom as divine punishment for sensuality and drunkenness. It branding alcohol as a deadly narcotic, detailing six evils from indulgence and urging the faithful to avoid wine and spirits as a moral failing.
The piece warns against looking at wine and tasting it as the first step toward drunkenness and ruin. It cites Eve and biblical warnings, urging readers to avoid any contact with alcohol to prevent end results described as death and hell.
The white trillium, botanical Trillium Grandiflorum, becomes Ontario's official provincial emblem by act of the Ontario Parliament on March 22, 1937 following decades of urging by the Ontario Horticultural Association. The article places Ontario among Canadian provinces and other nations with ceremonial emblems and notes the maple leaf as Canada's de facto national symbol.
Reported joke ends in tragedy as Mec Tavish dies after a steam roller is used on his pants. Police investigate the incident as an accidental death with questions about prank intent.
About twenty five Englishmen captured by Spanish insurgents in a rebel camp near Madrid are shown receiving edgarett packages. Survivors of a London regiment wiped out in its dissolution were unemployed when recruited for road work in Spain. Upon arrival in Spain, their belongings were confiscated and they were forced to labor under harsh conditions.
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