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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 02, 1948
Page
5
Community brief items cover local activities across nearby districts. Readers learn about meetings, events, and notices affecting residents, with emphasis on civic involvement and neighborhood updates.
Mr and Mrs Ted Jestin and Patay with Mr George Jestin Eva and Bobby visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs Jim Porter Corbotton. Dan Hindley and Roy Hindley visited in the States with Mr and Mrs Dampier. Harvey Jestin and Betty Ann visited Toronto with the Spences. Walter Couling of Orangeville visited with Mrs Harvey Jestin. Miss Muriel Benham of Guelph visited with her parents. Friends report Mrs W Cross in Guelph Hospital and wish her speedy recovery from an operation, as is Mrs Cliff Duffield in Toronto hospital.
A Limehouse Memorial Hall gathering Friday featured winners Mrs. F T C Brown and Mr. E Miller with consolation prizes to Mrs A Patterson and Ed O'Brien. Bardens Orchestra provided dancing music after lunch. a Tuesday WI bazaar offered knitted articles baking plants and more. A euchre game crowned prizes for Mrs R L Davidson and Joe Scott while visitors and local residents shared news and good wishes.
Friends report Mr Cliff Rice moved to a Guelph hospital for further treatment. Mr Frank Clayton injured in a fall from a ladder at a barn and is hospitalized in Guelph with dislocated shoulder and leg injuries. A school euchre party under the Women’s Institute drew a smaller crowd due to a power outage with prizes to Mrs Alvin Fisher and Mr Jack Sloan. Sun in school reported twenty-one attendees and Christmas concert practice begins. Malcolm Leitch of GOVT wins second prize for previous work. Ken Robertson receives Secondary School Certificate. Jack Sloan injured when kicked by a horse. ankle badly bruised. Farm Forum at the Evans home had 19 present. euchre prizes to Doris Fines and Thomas Fines.
Last Friday in Town Hall acclamations named D. D. Gray to a tenth term as reeve with council allies and Ernest Bonham Joseph Rutherford Thos Hutchinson and Fred Cox reelected. School trustees Gordon Swanson and Thomas Saunders also chosen. Police Village trustees CIMI Meadows Walter Hunt and Leslie Ayles reelected. A second meeting Thursday addressed a skating rink plan and cleanup at the old Bowling Green followed by a church tea and bazaar raising funds for the United Church Joan Nightingale baptism at St John’s. Mrs Alice Crispin operated last week and returned home from Guelph General Hospital. Mr Don Crispin moved to Chatham for work. Visitors Jack Laverty of Toronto and Garnet Petty reported new signs at his service station.
Mrs Samuel Cairns hosted the Women's Missionary Society November meeting with vice president Mrs Lawrence Sharpe in chair. Mrs E J Mephail was named president for 1919 and a long list of officers was announced. The evening included reports on work in British Guiana and India, a prayer from Glad Tidings, and a focus on faith during roll calls.
Mr and Mrs McPhail received a kitchen table and four chrome chairs as thanks. Boys were given leather wallets. Local folk thanked for hosting and delivering refreshments. Campbellville mourns Thomas Allan at 82 after a stroke. Funeral in St David's Church followed by burial. Residents share news of purchases, visits, and illness notices.
Dividends payable in December as declared by November 19 total 63 412 290 dollars versus 63 326 143 last year. Dividends paid and declared to date for 12 months of 1918 are up from last year.
A leading editorial argues Canada must welcome more immigrants to develop the country and fill open spaces. It notes Britain and Western Europe have many of the best potential settlers eager to come, suggesting opening immigration benefits both newcomers and Canada.
In Halton County Ontario Judge Archibald Cochrane hears Robert A. Reid for Joseph Adams of Burlington appealing a $500 fine for charging above the fixed rent set by the Prices Board. Adams contends Dominion rental controls were exhausted after World War II and lacks authority to enforce rents. Evidence includes tenant Douglas Cooper noting rent reductions from $60 to $37 after board investigations. Proceedings adjourned to January, with Adams and wife denying overcharges and receipts later questioned. India’s constitution is patterned after Fire’s.
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