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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 31, 1947
Page
5
Limehouse hosted a Christmas program at Limehouse Presbyterian Church with songs dialogues and a Santa gift distribution. The Girls Star Pipe Band held a Christmas dinner, and holiday visitors from Toronto Georgetown and Detroit joined residents. The Christmas party for Sunday School children featured games crokinole and a large lunch. Municipal Hall remodeling moved Esquesing Council meetings to Limehouse Memorial Hall.
Oakville High School Glee Club made its first public appearance at a carol service drawing hundreds. The event highlighted strong local interest in choral music and suggested the group fills a community need. A separate letter to Hughes Cleaver MP hints at possible doorstep home delivery service in Oakville.
Specially equipped pithead baths will be built at 120 mines in Britain next year as part of the National Coal Board plan to provide all collieries with these up to date amenities. The program will cost 52 million dollars and aims to open baths at 500 pits within four years, with a medical treatment centre and canteen attached to each.
Cocoa beans that sold for five cents a pound in 1941 now fetch about 48 cents per pound. The rise reflects ongoing inflation and market demand affecting everyday cooking products.
Christmas visitors gathered across Ontario towns with multiple households hosting relatives and friends. Notable stops included Kitchener Guelph Barrie Rockwood Acton Petrgitww Petrgitww appears as a misspelling, while names such as Harvey Jestin McCutcheon Boles Horton Hamilton and Simons appear among those sharing greetings and holiday meals.
Sudbury's Mr George L Robertson rustring wW with-his-parents. Mrs R Fisher’s friends report she is confined by a heart condition. Elgin Brown finished Christmas exams at OAC and holidays at home. Miss Helen Jackson and Douglas Robertson of Guelph visited Mr and Mrs D G Robertson. Henry Jackson and family of Masboro visited. Alvin Struthers married Beth Harding Saturday. Malcolm Leitch Donald McDougall and Ken Robertson, bus students to Guelph Collegiate, attended a turkey dinner at Mune Maude’s banquet hall. Ruth Papple spending holidays in Burford. Annual school concert Thursday with Malcolm Leitch chairing. Food program by Mrs Papple. 36 scholars aided by last year’s students. Santa distributed gifts and treats. Season’s greetings to the Fuller staff and Free Press readers.
At St. Sauveur 52 miles north of Montreal on the Canadian National Railways the famed Hill 70 remains a perpetual test for skiing devotees and a local landmark for winter recreation.
Members of Sacred Heart Church and the Church at Castle met at Pawn Hall for a holiday party and youth benefit. Santa Claus delighted attendees as Wilfred Hauser hosted. Family reunions and home celebrations followed in Rock Wood amid fine holiday weather.
Ottawa imposes a 25 excise on tooth brushes while dentifrices retain a 25 tax. Abbott announced toothbrush tax repeal but left toothpaste and powders taxed. Trade magazine argues removing toothbrush tax without dentifrice tax makes little sense for oral health and living costs.
A Wisconsin clerk dropping a package of bills at a bank scattered by wind led to citizen help in recovery. Final count showed three dollars more than was lost, suggesting a small overage found during the search.
The Printed Ward notes that fall sessions failed in Laurier-era practice and argues for a January start with immediate committee work. It cites travel time for Ontario Quebec and Western Maritime members and warns of looming June legislative pressure.
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