Local notes from Acton and district include new light upgrades
Items phoned to 174 or brought to The Free Press Office cover Acton news. Cement work at the sewage disposal plant progresses while Parish Hall bricks rise. A new phone booth appears near the Dominion Y Hotel with four total booths now in town. Local ministers schedule pulpit swaps as Ontario outlines pension forms and provincial notices.
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Main St
Ballentine
Bell Telephone Office
Would-be Camper Cattle Wander Through YMCA Camp
The Terra Cotta YMCA summer camp ran July 2 to 27 with 26 campers, fair to good weather, and self-cooked meals. Cows intruded the site, inspected the activities, and the report notes girls ate equally and rains in weight ranged from 2 to 15 pounds. Food cost was $1 per day per camper.
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Terra Cotta
Everton Pony Rides Highlight Lions Carnival
Roy Hindley and Alfred Talbot led pony rides at the Alliston Lions Club Carnival while Dan Hindley was away in British Columbia. Several visitors and local residents enjoyed gatherings across towns including Thornbury and Mimosa as preparations for the Everton farewell sermon continued.
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Alfred Talbot
Alliston
Nidgara Falls
T. D. McCutcheon
Thornbury
Joy Smith
Tom Fountain
Stanley Staunton
Bolton
George Bruce
Ennoteith
Jim Cross
David Fergus
Lancers
Adam Weatherston
Harveys Jeaton
Mrooavid
Robert Me“Cutcheon
Kitchener
Myre
Dan Hindley
Jeanette
Herts Haveis
Terre le Vancouser
T. Alfred Flemming
Everton
Disciple
Mimosa
Wmn. E. Robertson
Mac McLeod
Chas
Larry
J. P. Benham
Willa
Joe
Niagara Falls
Nancy Henney
David
Guelph
Ethel Parker
Hallburton
Last of 10 children Mrs Roszell dies after yearlong illness
Selina Roszell Niven, born 1868 Everton, died July 21 at 9 Wilde Street Acton after a yearlong illness. She left five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren in the west, with many relatives listed as mourners. Rev RHO Armstrong conducted the funeral in Acton on July 24, interment in Fairview Cemetery.
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Wild St.o
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Roszell
Acton
Everton
Robert Simons
George Russell
Garfield
Regina
Marguerite
Russell Patterson
R. SR
Rockwood
Bella Maye
David
Sash
Katherine Russell
Rho Armstrong
Fairview
George Smith
H. L Ritchie
D. G. McLelan
J A. Robunson
William Benson
Fred ‘Cole
M. Symon
Wilds
E S Cooper
J. H. Pree
JC Dennis
Wh. Reszell
CF. Leatherland
Othe
Elsie Fairbanks
Helen Knowles
Margaret
Ankus Thompson
Violetta
Gwen Ralpho Rae
Ted Hansen
George
Bessie Musselfe
Belly Hansen
Les
Kay Hotchen
Mroo
Mre Win
Rusrell
Wilson
Violet
McDonald
Dorothy
Fred Cote
Robert Patterson
Frances
Janet Wilds
Stan
Oral
Barbara Norton
Anne Thompson
Ada
Kirk Wood
Harvey Dolmer
John Near
Joshua Thompson
Knox Church
Milne Binnie Reid in Acton Guelph Hospital births brief
Milne and Binnie announce the birth of a son Archibald Melvil at Guelph General Hospital on August 2 1951 as a brother for Saundra Lillian May Broad Reid wife of Samuel J Reid of Acton dies August 8 1951 at Guelph General Hospital Funeral service at 2 30 PM at Fairview Cemetery Acton Special thanks note period cards of thanks for anniversaries and expressions of sympathy from families with neighbors and friends
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Kenneth Milne
Ella Mac Cripps
Uute
Guelph General Hospital
Binnie
Peter Binnie
Acton
Archibald “Melvil
Saundra
Difp. Reid
Lillian May Broad
Samuel J. Reid
Richard (Austin
Stratford
Bernice
Guelph
J. H. Wack
Toronto
Victor B. Rumley
Fairview Cemetery
Community event listings for Bannockburn Acton Georgetown
Local notices advertise a series of August events including Bannockburn Women’s Institute lecture on Food Forum at Bannockburn School on August 1 at 8 pm with euchre and refreshments, Acton Junior Farmers Wiener roast at Greenock School on August 5 at 8 30 pm, Oddfellows Rebekahs Garden Party at Georgetown Park August 17 with music by Raymond Lowe and band, and a Court Fest at Acton tennis courts August 22 with open air show dancing and radio ticket promos.
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Bannockburn
Acton
Greenock School
Oddfellows
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Georgetown Park
Vince Mountford
Alf Sutton
Clare Rouse
Raymond Lowe
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Georgetown
Acton Tennis Courts
Debonaires
Eisen’s Clothing
Baxter's Drug Store
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