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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 14, 1941
Page
7
Poem-like reflection on lawn bowling season ending. The author notes fear, sadness, and friendship tied to the green. Faces friends and novices, recalls twilight plays, and the pang when scores are final and the game ends.
A Bree newspaper column recalls events from twenty years past in Acton. Exterior church work at Koox Church completes, interior being worked on. gasoline prices reduced by two cents. motor owners voice objections to changes. J M Moyer plans exchanges with Rev Barker for two weeks. Rev and Mrs Barker and Miss Muriel assume parsonage duties. A car collision on Main Street injures a horse and driver, with subsequent investigations and tax rate adjustments noted.
London leaders explain a National Trust plan to preserve historic country houses by owners becoming tenants of the Trust. Chief figures say many large homes are sold due to heavy income tax and death duties, and that the Trust would not pay these imposts.
Saskatoon CCP Chief Little Crow visited from Dandurn for the 60th exhibition fair and reported crop conditions in the Moose Woods reserve. He said the wheat crop is nearly gone and oats are poor, but promised residents will have vegetables for winter.
A Royal Air Force pilot officer reports the National Air Raid Distress Fund received no cheque for 1000 pounds in gratitude for the miraculous escape of a bomber crew after a Hamburg raid. The Lord Mayor of London and CPO RAF highlighted the gesture.
The lesson explains Peter’s Epistle written before Nero's persecutions to strengthen Jewish Christians amid suffering. It emphasizes enduring hardships for Christ's sake, warns against suffering for personal folly, and urges humility, faith, and reliance on God’s timing for exaltation.
Canada eyes expanded bacon shipments to Britain while Denmark remains a key source. Reports note Danish bacon superiority in flavor and texture and warn that establishing uniform curing across Canada will be harder than enforcing a nationwide standard. Research suggests milder cures and better handling could lift Canadian Wiltshire bacon to compete.
The Camlet Theta seven orphaned children, after a fatal auto accident that killed their parents Mr. and Mrs. Camlet Taeta and the 1H year old Albert, are staying together on 660 acres. Relatives offered help but the siblings chose to stay united and run the farm with AW acres corn and significant livestock.
A. K. Doult, acting Canadian trade commissioner in Panama City, said trade with Canada in 1940 reached 2 777 000 colones with 15 000 Canadian dollars, up from the prior year. Coffee and cacao dominate exports to Costa Rica, while other details appear mixed in the damaged text.
In Owenstown Kentucky a four year old mule named Jonny, once raised for riding, now herds a flock with little human guidance. The mule leads the sheep to the fork each day and, in the late afternoon, guides them home and into the stockade.
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