Local Residents Reunite and Recovering Friends Featured
Bluffton and Toronto visitors gather over the weekend. Wred Plank and families reunite with kin in Acres and surrounding districts while Harry Campbell and siblings from Toronto visit. Friends extend well wishes to Stanley Sinclair at St Josephs Hospital and to Hotchen in Toronto General Hospital Private Patients Pavilion. Dr H F Mowat tours with John Mowat as he heads to Cleveland for a degree from the American College of Surgeons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H F Mowat
International Nickel Co
John Mowat
Cleveland
American College of Surgeons
Engagement of Mariel Jean Moore to John Philip Prekia
Mr and Mrs Gordon Moore announce the engagement of their eldest daughter Mariel Jean to John Philip Prekia son of Mr and Mrs George Prekia of Wyllow Street Acton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Moore
Mariel Jean
John Philip Preiia
George Prekia
Wyllow Stree& Acton
Christmas party fire risks and Halley comet tale
A warning about Christmas party fire hazards stresses inspecting electric lights and decorations for wear, avoiding naked flames, and ensuring safe wiring. The article also recounts Halley’s 1758 prediction and the 1622 comet returning on Christmas Day, noting Halley’s background and telescope work.
Rev Dr McDonald to Lead Nox Church Acton
Interim minister Rev Dr McDonald of Toronto will lead services at Nox Church Acton with sermons at 11 00 am and 11 00 pm on Sundays and a Sunday School and Junior Bible class in the afternoon He quotes They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength and the notice indicates he will serve until further notice
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDonald
Toronto
Christmas Services at Church Schedule 1948
Sunday schedule lists Holy Communion at 1100 am Martins and sermon He ginners class at 1200 pm Church School Evensong and sermon at 1010 pm Daily Christmas services include Choral Eucharist on December 24 at 31230 pm and Holy Eucharist on December 2th at 10.00 am.
Grammar Lesson From a Prompt Boy
An English teacher quotes a line about a horse and sow in the pasture. A clever boy corrects the sentence noting subject verb agreement and misplaced modifier, saying the lady should have come first.
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Priam
Halton Cream Producers Set up County Organization
At an enthusiastic meeting at the Court House last Friday night cream producers from all parts of the county approved forming Halton Cream Producers organization akin to the Halton Milk Producers Association. A four-member township committee elected a director Frank Wilson and voting delegates Ken Watson and Lindsay Ferguson to attend a Toronto convention on October 24.
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Court House
Halton
Halton Milk Producers Association
Frank Wilson
Georgetown
Ken Watson
Milton
Linday Ferguson
Rockwood
Toronto
Peu Fisher
Burlington
W. Wood
John Marshall
Toronto Whole Milk Producers
Cream Producers’ Association
Nassagaweya
Art Daimond
C. Willaon
W. Kennedy
Lindsay Ferguson
Trafalgar
Art Peacock
Allan Clements
George Brownridge
Esquesing
Jack Carton
Mackenzie Alexander
Norval
Robert Miller
Frank Watson
Nelson
George Colling
Campbellville
Amos Newell
Joe Rogera
Freeman
Robert Sault
Christmas shoppers face price ceilings on many items
A guide shows which Christmas goods remain under price controls. Staples like turkeys, fruits, vegetables, and textiles stay regulated, while toys and some gift items are no longer restricted. Some luxury foods and certain clothing items are also freed from ceilings, though essential apparel remains controlled.
Incentive Paybacks Slow Chelmsford Building Drive
A Chelmsford contractor says four bricklayers built 60 houses this year after he paid an incentive bonus from his own funds and made one worker a director. Last month the Master Builders Federation objected to the payments and output fell, illustrating the danger of excessive incentives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chelmsford
Master Builders’ Federation
Teachers Attend Guelph Convention and Road Incidents Reported
Erin Mre Myrtle Steen and Mre Clare Bell, village school teachers, attended the Teacher's Convention in Guelph last week. A Jeep collided with a barn basement on a farm south of Orangeville Saturday. Two cars left the road on No 34 Highway in dense fog Friday evening. A Brantford car and a Hamilton car encountered difficulty near Ospringe, no injuries. Wm Hall of Hillsburg failed to stop at No 24 Highway intersection Tuesday at 8 10 am, injuring no one but causing damage to a heavy feed truck and Guelph Co-Operative Hall property, which was moved to hospital.
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Myrtle Steen
Clare Bell
Guelph
John Beer
Alton
Orangeville
No. 34
Brantford
Ospringe
Hamilton
Wm. Hall
Hilla&burgh
No. 24
Milton Speech Frames Labour Theme At Club Talk
Mrs John Davidson, lecturer and radio commentator, delivered an address on Milton and the months of labour government in Great Britain at the Women's Canadian Club on Friday December 6. A four year old girl, Lorraine Jillson, sustained a cut to the forehead when a car driven by her father Jim Tilson collided with a truck at a Peru intersection near the brick row. A Milton girl, 16, was fined 50 dollars and seven cents for being drunk on Malin Street with 30 days jail in default. Chief Canning reported a grid scream on November 29. Charles Gervassa, tied to a prior charge, received 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to supplying liquor to a minor and admitting to obtaining the liquor from the same source.
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Labor
Great Britain
John Davidson
Lorraine Jillson
Jim Tilson
1St Lane
Peru
Malin St
Milton
Canning
Charles Gervassa
Christmas duties fill Campbellville church meeting list
Mra KC Menzies hosted the St David’s Church Ladies Aid on Wednesday with devotions by Mra A C McPrhal and Mrs A T Moore. Donations funded Christmas cheer for Shut-ins, Sunday School, and the Tuberculosis Fund. Officers for 1947 were proposed, and a WMS membership certificate awarded to Mra EF Mahon. The Grace Mission Band met at Lois Inglis’s home with Christmas themes and officer elections. The session featured readings, poems, a lunch, and prayer. A Farm Forum review at the school house drew sixty attendees with educational films, speeches, and singing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra KC. Menzies
St. David's Church
Mra
A.C. Mc Prhail
A. T. Moore
J. Gilmour
Grace Mission Band
Lois Inglis
Norma Brown
Joan Menzies
Ruth Roberts
J. K. Mahon
TMT
Mrs. Menzies
Marina Hood
Joan King
Ann Parker
Martyn Moore
Virginia Mitchell
Ann Hurren
Ings
Farm Forum
Friends of Limestone Forum
R. Heatherington
Forum
Lila Cairns
Morris Readhead
Doctor Seeks Cure to Husband's Slurred Speech Request
Mrs. Jones asks the doctor to stop her husband's talking in his sleep and to make him speak clearly rather than quiet him. The doctor offers treatment to suppress the sleep talking but the wife insists on clear speech. The exchange highlights a desire for communication over suppression.
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Mr. Wred Plank
Bluffton
Alte
Acres
Harry Campbell
EF. Collier
Stanley Sinclair
Ballinafsd
St Joseph's Hospital
His Burns
Harold and
Hasther
Har
Harley L. Brignall
Douglas and
Robert
Jas H. Reade
Barbara Soper
Cecil Soper
Preston
R. W Elliott
Stuart Lantz
Miss Huth Miller
George Mitchell
Mr. Hotchen
Toronto General Hospital
Tarff
Christman
Edmund Halley
Halley
London
London School of St. Paul's
Queen's College
Oxford University
Guasda
Walter Fosbury
Iindetor Parsonage
Bower Avenue
Peace Earth
Christ the New-Born King
Ghurrhtz
Canada
NOX Church
Acton
Geary
Alban the
Pala Beauty Salon
PUONE
Jack Haley
Helen Walker
March of Time
the New France
Zachary Scott
Janis Paige
Ellen Drew
Robert Stanton
Tfax News
Technicotord van Johnson
Esther Willams
Old
Kentucky
Halton Cream Producers
Erin
Fred J. McCutcheon
Robt. R. . Hamilton
Adeste
Fidelis
Solent
Latte Town of
Bethlehem
the Herald Angels
Manning’ Electric
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