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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 17, 1952
Page
11
A Canada US outreach urges parents to open a Bank of Montreal savings account for children starting with one dollar. The piece stresses early saving builds lifelong money habits and patience, with Gordon Oder and staff offering help at the local branch. It notes a link to rheumatic fever harming hearts in North America.
A writer recalls a rainy Easter in Acton with family gatherings and walks in England’s countryside. She revisits Ryes Lane, primroses, violets, robins, and Dickens sites, contrasting past traditions with present weather and noting historical church features and a long childhood Walk. The piece closes with a puzzling Canadian retail stat from 1941.
Martha Shaw died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Monday April 7 at 7 am. She was the eldest daughter of Mrs Wil and the late William Foster of Acton and Cheltenham. She moved from Bracebridge to Cheltenham with her parents, later to Acton, then to Toronto 28 years ago where she married Ernest Shaw who died 17 years ago. She left a son born five weeks after his father's death. She was the eldest of eight daughters and two sons. Surviving sisters live in Georgetown Toronto Niagara Falls Red Rock and nearby towns. Her father William Foster died 11 years ago and her mother remains in Toronto. Roy predeceased her 14 years ago.
Mr and Mrs John Alton of Everton welcomed many callers at their home on Thursday April 3 to mark their 40th anniversary. Friends from Pencanp uishene Toronto Acton Ospringe Hillsburgh Everton Guelph and Rockwood sent greetings including a note from MP Henry Hosking.
The Knox P Y P S group met in the Sunday School room Tuesday April 8 with Don Davidson presiding. After devotions and a reading of Easter Thoughts a tour of Baxter Laboratories followed led by William Benson the general manager revealing offices sterilizer disaster bottle washer inspection belt and rabbits used in bacteriological tests plus finished products and their uses.
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