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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
15
A reflective piece muses on friendship as life’s true splendor. The speaker recalls dreary days brightened by caring friends and the joy found in shared experiences, suggesting life’s value rests in human connection.
Twenty years ago news items note wheat prices at $150 and a Salvation Army concert in Acton. School Board hires Edna Mew as principal at $2000 salary replacing James MacDonald. UK royals Duke of York and Prince of Wales to visit Alberts ranch this fall. Local figures include J H Boyd arriving from Australia and visits by Walton Purcell and Maggie Ramsay family links. Haley obituary for Elaley aged 59.
Government urges conserving food with victory gardens and composting. Save all organic garden matter including beet tops greens clippings vines leaves and vegetable waste. Build a four by four foot pile in a back corner dig a foot deep layer materials properly, add compost starter and garden soil if available, hose occasionally, two months to rot in summer.
The article notes Canada’s farming sector grew into a major business. Cash income from farm product sales rose from 765.8 million in 1940 to 1,396.6 million in 1943, with total income increasing 82 percent over four years due to higher output. Farm wages with board climbed from 26.02 to 31.38 per month between 1940 and 1946.
A Sunday School lesson on Eli the priest in Shiloh contrasts his failings with God’s call for faithful service. It warns against indulgent parenting and priestly corruption, showing how refusal to discipline leads to divine judgment and the rise of a faithful successor.
The Ottawa week notes unanimous support in the House and Senate for a postwar farm aid plan. A $200,000,000 fund would back a three member board to set floor prices and buy surplus farm goods during the transition era. Critics questioned sufficiency and future protection.
Visitors at the Royal Ontario Museum see the diminutive footwear of the 19th century. White kid boots and silk slippers reveal the era’s fashion, where foot size signified beauty and crinoline era elegance.
The Germans will receive English money for the wartime song Lili Marlene. Tom Mies brought it back from the desert and the money paid for performing rights in Britain will be set aside and split after the war between the publishers and the German composers.
Bernard Roy Butler of Hull received the Amy Johnson gold cup for courage for 1943. He volunteered to rescue a girl who had fallen through thin ice on a pond and succeeded despite the ice breaking as he crossed.
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