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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 12, 1956
Page
16
High school students start plans to publish a yearbook this week while local clubs report activity. A new teller joins the Bank of Nova Scotia in Guelph and the Eden Mills council discusses street signs.
The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Guelph Presbyterial Women’s Missionary Society met at St Andrew’s in Guelph on January 10. Mrs. Black of Fergus presided as officers were installed for 1956, with reports showing an oversubscribed $12 205 objective.
Mrs Mary Ann Pickett died December 27 after two months illness in Guelph General Hospital. Born May 13 1872 Arkell she married Lafayette Pickett in 1899 he died in 1935. Survived by daughters Willa Aus ten Audrey Webb son Nelson Pickett seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services were held at McIntyre Wilkie Funeral Home Guelph. Interment at Farnham Cemetery Arkell.
The Women’s Mission Circle met at Mrs. T. G. Bulmer’s Young Street home with Mrs. Holwly presiding. Devotional by Mrs. Garner focused on the 23rd Psalm and the Good Shepherd guiding the year ahead.
The Canadian Girls in Training group completed their first report to the Provincial Girls Work Secretary during a Sunday school room meeting at the Knox church. Norm Sinclair led as acting secretary, Alvena Hill presided in the president’s absence, and Mrs. Roy Kirkness organized handi crafts.
Notices report births in Acton and Toronto, including Nicolak and Wilson families welcoming daughters and a son at nursing homes, with dates January 10 1956 and January 10 1980. Also several memorials honor Duncan MacColl and Anes Hodge, and thanks extend from Dow, Kinghott, and Butt ham families for flowers and support after illness and hospitalization.
Multiple events listed for January in Acton and surrounding towns include euchre dances at Luxton Memorial Hall and Stewarttown Hall with varying admission fees, a penny sale and euchre at Luxton Hall, a Homes and School Association meeting with Dr Buckner, and a checkers tournament at the Dominion Hotel. Also noted are parish and church events with music by Smith’s orchestra and Joyce’s orchestra, plus prizes and lunches.
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