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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 03, 1953
Page
5
The Wisconsin annual bazaar and Euchre raised over 80 for funds on Friday. Mrs. H Norton won a fruit cake donated by Mr. Ellerby in the afternoon. First prizes at cards went to Mrs. N Snyder and Mrs. R McEnery, seconds to Mrs. Thos Haines and Mrs. C Jones. In the evening Mrs. Meredith and J Crichton were highest, with Mrs. J Crichton and C Jones second.
At the Public Utilities Commission meeting on Thursday November 19 council discussed a second hand Toronto fire hose leaking under hydrant pressure and the need for about 600 feet of new hose. Superintendent Lambert reported two full sludge beds and uns flushed sewers. Cedarvale tree trimming was discussed with a $960 estimate.
Last Wednesday evening the United church hosted a dramatic Christmas cantata in the Sunday School room with a piano duet by Miss Joan Pickering and Mrs. Dave Armstrong. The program featured Fay Marsden numbers, CGIT items, and choral works, led by Mrs. Armstrong and include Janet Day and Wayne Hosking as readers and Mary Pickering as accompanist. A bazaar at St John’s Parish Hall raised funds for the W A and a fireless church service followed due to faulty furnace pipes.
Nomination meetings were held in the town hall Friday afternoon with several candidates listed. Hospital news notes illness of Mr Harvey Laverty at Guelph General Hospital and operations for Mrs George Eliot in Toronto and Mrs Fone in Guelph. Social items list visitors and locals including Miss Elizabeth McPhedean of Orangeville and families. Canada produced 104 322 096 clothes pins in 1951 as the latest figure.
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