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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 10, 1947
Page
3
Practical picnic foods and quick kitchen hacks for homemakers. Recipes include Salmon Salad, Denver Hamburgs, Sausage Sandwiches, and Kerry Turnovers with citrus and berry ideas. Then tips on instant coffee, pastry flavoring, and puff pastry treats.
Nassagaweya No 7 held its annual picnic with a shady lunch under maples and games. Prizes went to Lorraine Coxe Arthur MacLeod Eileen Frank Donna McMillan Martin Davenport Marshall Paul George Anderson Don McMillan and others plus adults and promotion notes for local students. A benefit dance aided residents Me Phederan and Talbot with money gifts. visits from neighbors and new Busy Bees institute meetings were also noted.
A farmer recalls seeing saucer lights and rescuing a drowning calf while noting luck and near misses. He writes of birds, gardening woes, and a confession about keen observation and honesty, ending with a nod to Edison and the phonograph.
Mrs J J Stewart and Mira Hugh McCutcheon hosted the McCutcheon clan at their Acton home for the tenth annual reunion on June 28. A softball game followed by a sports program named winners in various age groups and events. The gathering elected officers for the coming year and planned the next reunion for the fourth Saturday of June 1932.
Mr and Mrs William MacLaren of Montreal visited his parents en route to a west coast holiday trip. New Dayfoot and Watson subdivisions on John Street and Maple Avenue will begin construction of twenty houses soon. On June 24 Miss Marjorie Kentner hosted a 20 guest misc shower for cousin Mrs Russell Arnold. Dominion Day and veterans reunion ended with an official recognition in the park led by Col John R Barber and the Lorne Scots Band as Mayor Joseph Gibbons presented gifts to local service members.
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