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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 18, 1949
Page
13
Local notices list numerous visits and holidays across Acton and surrounding towns. Names include Mr Tom Bailey, Mrs Joe Lasby, Miss Margaret Garvin, Mr Donald McDougall, Rev James Bailey, Miss Nora Kearnes, and many families visiting cottages at Pigeon Lake and Wasaga Beach. Several trips to Toronto, London, Woodstock, Windsor, and the Canadian West are noted along with health unit staff and a Mothercraft trainee.
The article notes Rev. Robert I. Armatrong MA will serve as minister at the Knox Church of the Presbyterian congregation in Canada, with leadership changes affecting the church in the community.
Sunday School at 10:00 AM on August 21 with Mr Sid Johnson followed by a church meeting on August 27 at Grand View Farm.
A fragmented notice indicates a Trinity church event with Holy Communion at 4 pm and prayers. The fragment mentions a welcome for attendees and an associated wing prayer unit.
Public auction at MI Street Acton offers a broad selection of furniture and household items. The sale begins at 1 PM with living room pieces dining room suite kitchen appliances bedroom furniture and more. Cash terms no removal until settled and owner relinquishes housekeeping rights.
The waste paper market has been revived and citizens will again be able to dispose of waste paper and magazines through the local Scouts. Plans are under way for an early collection. Mr and Mrs George Murray and Mrs Wallace have spent the past week with Mr and Mrs Wallace Gurney at their cottage at Kinbane. Mrs Tom Brownridge Marte Barbour Dorothy Warne and Hennie Carlisle spent last week at Orr Lake visiting Midland and Wasaga Beach. Rev John Ko Waldie, Mr Waldie and daughter of London have been visiting the farmer's parents Mr and Mrs Donald Waldie on Second Line. Mr and Mrs Arthur Rottod Wheeling West Virginia visited Mr and Mrs Edwin Landsborough en route to New Brunswick returning home by New England.
The council discusses street responsibility at intersections and blinker rights, thanks neighboring Nassagawega for support, and notes the Ontario Department report on fire brigade payments. They approve $28 to Erin Agriculture Society, inspect curling rink roofing, and plan to start in house garbage collection with extra staff starting September 1 under the town foreman.
A pretty wedding united Miss Margaret Somerville daughter of Mr and Mrs George Somerville with Mr Henry Frederick Klassen at Hart House Chapel Toronto. The groom, a third year mechanical engineering student at University of Toronto, and the bride’s family hosted a reception at Acton with floral decorations and a three tier cake.
Erin Township Council met August 8 with Reeve Goldwin Hart presiding. By laws read to strike rates for County Township General School Police Villages Hillaburgh Library and School Areas. grants approved for Hilabough Flatd Acton Agricultural Society 3000 and 2800 for Frain Agricultural Society 15000 and other accounts paid including General 2278 Sheep 200 Refet 14200 Howd 1201 50.
In ten years 1939 to 1948 eastern Canada saw combines rise more than sixteenfold to a total around 6 hundred. Ontario leads with 187, Quebec 190, and the Maritimes trailing. overall province figures show major gaps and ongoing issues with threshers per combine and crop handling. The piece notes improved damp grain control, forage seed problems, and recovery efforts for straw, with weed seed removal from combines as an urgent ongoing challenge.
The Financial Post reports a rising influx of American tourists into Canada this season. Travelers at entry points are more selective with purchases, signaling a shift in consequences toward merchants rather than resort operators. Vehicle permits show a 13.4 percent increase in the first half of the year.
Fred McMillan of Hillisburgh recalled playing with Acton Band in Guelph forty eight years ago as 350 bandsmen joined for the event. The Oakville Pipe Band led a colorfully staged procession with flares and fireworks while two hundred musicians performed under conductor Denver Me Text. The draw for the winning car awarded Mire Mow of Acton the body prize. Organizers Coles and locals coordinated military escort and national anthems.
The Scene argues that unions pushing shorter hours and higher wages for all undermine efficiency. It claims reduced hours lower per worker output, increasing unemployment as exchange falls. The piece cites Canadian workers and farmers amid a broader thesis on productive balance and market exchange.
Dorothy Jean Dixon and Elmer Lasby wed at St. Athan's Church Acton with Rev W G Luxton officiating. Attendants wore organza, piano white gardenias, and pink and blue gowns. After a reception in the Parish Hall the couple planned a Toronto marriage trip and return to reside there.
Joseph Lister Rutledge notes the Glace Ray Gazette will cease daily publication and become a semiweekly to cut costs. He argues organized labor needs an open forum, warns on cost pressures, and frames the change as a blow to workers voices and public discourse.
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