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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 19, 1948
Page
11
Readers learn brining and vinegar methods to preserve vegetables with practical tips. Key steps include using clear vinegar not boiled long, choosing pure spices, avoiding copper or galvanized kettles, and precise salt measurements. Recipes cover corn relish watermelon pickles ripe cucumber relish and mustard pickles with measurements and canning instructions.
Farmer Ned laments hay yields noting it as the shortest seen. A neighbor counters that his own hay was shorter, claiming he had to lather it to mow. The dialogue highlights unusually poor farm harvest conditions.
Georgetown council postpones a decision on hiring a town foreman after receiving twelve applications. LeRoy Dale of Dale and Bennett acted as an official delegate for Halton County to a Liberal Convention. The Georgetown Laundry opened in the Georgetown Dairy Building with operators Gordon Knight and Sid Leveir choosing Georgetown after surveying Ontario towns.
Oakville business will restart operations once arrangements are made after a fire destroyed the plant last week. Also in Bronte, Elvina Skelton Gan, widow of William Gillam and longtime Bronte resident, died at her home on Sunday. Oakvillefield team dominated Georgetown 15 to 4 in the O B A Intermediate play down at Victoria Park, drawing a large crowd.
One and a half million tons of surplus U S potatoes are turned into 200 thousand tons of potato flour for relief feeding in Germany and Japan. The conversion frees coarse grain that would have gone to bread flour for use as livestock feed.
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