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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 14, 1947
Page
3
A column offers dessert ideas using cantaloupe and raspberries with gelatin and whipped cream, plus recipes for raspberry juice and a fluffy pudding. It includes tips to keep fruit from floating in gelatin, as well as a brief kitchen tip on chilling pie crust to ensure flakiness.
A quirky diary fragment recounts Bob’s nap beneath a car after a long night driving in northern bush country. The writer muses on Canada’s diverse regions, weather woes, and a tongue in cheek push for oil stoves amid summer heat and farm life.
Oakville Citizens' Band won first prize for best band at the Ontario Volunteer Firemen Association convention in Petrolla Western Ontario over the weekend. Oakville Yacht Squadron captured the British American Oil Cup by winning the final race from Port Credit Squadron, a one point margin. Oakville Lawn Bowling Club received a magnificent silver trophy presented by Mrs. R. O. W. Archibald in memory of her late husband at the club house before the tournament.
The Georgetown Girls' Pipe Band played at Port Elgin beach then featured at the Rotary carnival in Orillia. The Ontario Municipal Board approved up to 30000 for artificial ice at Georgetown Memorial Arena with plans to have the ice plant operating after an accident on Saturday morning involving a milk truck and a Georgetown Dairy wagon. A wedding took place Saturday August 2 from Norval with Jean Mabel Laidlaw and John Rowland Hill Dunlop, officiated by the groom's father.
Following a Jr. Lions Club ball practice Constable and Mrs Hall hosted a social evening for the boys with friends from Toronto Hamilton Carlisle and the town. At the Hicklin home on Water Street locals gathered to honor the Bolden wedding. The Burlington Yacht Club hosted its second annual swimming meet on Civic Holiday drawing hundreds of spectators. The fire department answered two alarms including a tractor blaze at Harry Gray’s blacksmith shop on Freeman. Appleby’s Victor Jessop tractor fire, government grant boosts Horticultural Society membership to 470 and, in its largest grant yet, $200, aiding beautification efforts.
In London wholesale collections dinner gowns attract buyers for export and home markets. UK brides often view dinner dresses first, given their modest necks and elaborated skirts. Materials remain broad from white satin to crepe chiffon and taffeta for versatile wedding needs.
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