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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1945
Page
3
Merle Overholt of Toronto visits cousin Verena Johnston. Numerous residents tour Bracebridge Sundridge Honey Harbour and Port Elgin while relatives gather at Brockville and Dolly Varden. Families from Toronto Guelph Sudbury Port Colborne and Pickering enjoy weekends with local hosts and attend church anniversary events.
Mr and Mrs Fineat Ingles announce the engagement of their youngest daughter Dorothy Edith to Telford James son of Mr and Mrs Edgar McDowell of Acton Ontario. The marriage is planned at Churchill United Church in September. Mr and Mrs William Early announce their second daughter Mabel Eileen to Ernest Cameron McEnery son of Mr and Mrs Cameron McEnery of Bathinafad. The wedding will be in Eden Milla Presbyterian Church in early September.
The week includes visits by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Bennet now of Surrey England hosted by Miss M Sybil Bennett. Sarah Ann McCullough Brampton's oldest resident died at 96 near Main Street. Frank Kentner returns to work at MacCormack's Drug Store. Georgetown celebrates victory and Japan's surrender after WWII.
Sunday morning worship at 11:00 a.m. with no evening service. Scripture quote “They that wait upon the Lord Shall renew their strength.” listed for the service.
Morning service led by Rev Chas Seynworth in absentia for Rev W H Wallace on holidays. Sunday School at 12 15 PM. Evening service discontinued until further notice.
The Church of St Alban the Martyr lists a Holy Communion at 10,000 am on Feast of S Bartholomew and a 4 340 am Holy Communion for the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity A sermon by Rev A Hrooka AMLA Rector of Grimsby followed by Evensong and Dedication of Honor Roll.
Campbellville residents enjoy vacations at Southampton Pike Bay Wasaga Beach and Wasaga Beach trips mark community life. The V J Day celebration featured Rockwood beating Campbellville at the athletic grounds followed by a street dance with Keith Millar's orchestra. Sympathy extended to Mrs Ernest Walton and family.
A wartime diary reflects delays in discharge hopes for a son at Camp Borden. The author laments rigid army red tape hindering a civilian man’s return home while outlining home duties, threshing, and a failed ceiling papering project with help from a niece and neighbor. The piece ends with the line All's Well that ends well.
Len Gilbert suffered bad bruises and shock when entering a buggy at the Glen Denning farm on Third Line Esaques. The horse bolted and dragged him about 200 yards before the runaway was stopped. He resides on Third Line Esaques at the former Mclane farm.
Saskatchewan war veterans will learn in four new fields this fall with courses in electricity barbering homemaking and hairdressing starting in September for eligible students.
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