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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 23, 1959
Page
11
Farmers prepare to cultivate as warm rain is awaited. Students at the town university face exams while many suffer polds and Mu. Snow and ice remain in sheltered areas on Thursday April 23rd 195%.
Girl Guides take orders for their annual coukie day and excavation work begins on a 900000 dollar addition behind Halton Centennial Manor in Milton. Sidewalk supervisors water major alters while Hons at Acton Home Furnishings complete designs. Ul nestfall committee meetings planned before the HL and S sponsored graduation banquet. Daffodils set the scene for a Daughters of Knox tea at Knox District. Smelt fishermen take trips to a lake and there is home baking sale. New shelving and backboard brighten Wiles Confectionery. A large crowd attends an auction at the Coxe home. Don’t forget to move clocks ahead this weekend. Ontario Hockey Association meets Saturday at the Royal York in Toronto. Halton County to boast top heads in Ontario baseball and hockey worlds. Milton musicians noted for festival leadership and OBA/OHA terms.
The Duke of Devonshire chapter of the LODE sponsored a delicatessen on Min Street that sold out its first day. Members rushed to prepare more fare for a second day including chicken pastes and Hungarian bread as they counted cash from items like turkey, ham, beef, pork, cakes, pies, and pickles. A weight guessing contest went to Mrs. Whitham with a near nine and a half pound guess.
Halton County Council urged its building committee to study alternative sites for the planned county building. The committee eyed the northeast corner of a block facing Hugh Street Milton as a possible site, with objections raised about parkland impact and town fit.
A Burlington town council approved a by law prohibiting quarries and gravel pits within the town after two readings in a recent meeting. The second reading passed by a low recorded vote.
A survey reports language skills among Qatana Department of Lands and Forests constabulary officers. Fifteen speak English and French, sixteen fluent in other languages, and twenty percent know Cree or Oldoway dialects.
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