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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 22, 1948
Page
1
Community brief items cover local happenings in nearby towns with reader interest in civic events, school updates, and neighborhood notices. Highlights include meetings, small events, and notable actions affecting residents.
Mr and Mrs Hartyy and family visited Sundridge friends while Mr and Mrs Walter Couling toured Orangeville with Miss Kate Reed. Ted Jestin and Patsy joined Lloyd Hunter's family in Calnsville for a Sunday gathering. Kate Reed attended a sister in law's funeral in Arthur and stayed with relatives. Several couples visited Ospringer and Guelph families including Pattons, Altons, and Browns. Lois Black left hospital after a broken arm with Suter caring for her. Arnold Wilson visited Alf Boles and his parents.
A Dominion Experimental Station study in Summerland shows irrigation water in the Okanagan Valley supplies minerals that act as fertilizers. Phosphorus remains small, but potassium and calcium add value, with estimates of 15 pounds of superphosphate per acre foot for phosphorus equivalent, 10 pounds of potash per acre foot, and about 200 pounds of lime per acre foot, suggesting three feet of annual irrigation could sustain soil calcium levels and aid soil fertility.
A simple diluted nicotine spray protects garden flowers shrubs and porch plants from dogs and cats. Nicotine sulphate mixed at half teaspoon per gallon of water is enough for ordinary use and should be renewed after rain. The spray has a strong odor to animals while remaining faint to people.
Harold Karn attended the Monroe Karn wedding in Montreal last Saturday where he was groom’s best man. A flurry of holiday and visiting notes follows, naming Kay Norton Toronto Rev R Davidson Limehouse Church and sympathy extended to Mrs Jm Campbell on a death in Norval.
Local tidbits report Mr. Austin McCutcheon returning home after three weeks in Toronto Hospital and fading measles in the area. Updates include illness of Mr. Errett Currie, visits by Mrs. Grundy and others, hydro service at John Beamish’s home, funeral attendance for Bert Anderson, and various relatives visiting Grimsby, Erin, Paisley and Everton.
The article argues that Nature aids plant growth through sun and rain, making gardening easier. It notes warmth stimulates growth and rain nourishes thirsty plants, with watering as a fallback if rain is slow. It frames Nature as a helpful ally in growing food and facing life’s difficulties.
Mrs. Ed Mahon hosted the Women’s Missionary Society and Ladies Aid of St. David’s Church at Crawfords Lake. A brief business session opened with a poem, devotions, and a roll call using Service as the text word. Plans for a September tea marking the 76th anniversary were discussed with Flower and Executive committees named. Prizes were awarded for hats and games, a bountiful supper followed, and attendees enjoyed a pleasant picnic afternoon. Several members and guests are noted in activity and travel updates.
A Financial Post article laments rising revenue schemes through speed traps and policing misuse. It criticizes suburban municipalities for exploiting motorists and commuters with extra taxation under questionable traffic enforcement.
John Tardy directs a public sale near Milton on turns with a large mixed lot including cows calves steers sows hogs York breed pigs a Cockshutt milking machine and hay loader. No reserve due to fire loss. Cash terms with Hindley and Elliott as auctioneers.
An auction notice for FE H Walker farm Nelson Township lists a McCormick Deering tractor on steel, McCormick grain binder, hay equipment, a cream separator, farm tools, blacksmith gear, and a large range of household items. The sale is Friday July 1 at 1 pm with cash settlement and no reserve bid as the farm is selling and the proprietor gives up farming. Hindley and Elliott Auctioneers oversee. Herbert Alton, Clerk. contact Erin or Milton.
A labor relations official says union leaders are reasonable in negotiations while communists derail talks once no vital issues remain. The source quotes Fordhere praising listening and adding that a man who listens to reason is wet.
A new pressurized North Star Skylinee of Trans-Canada Air-Lines flew 2,045 miles from Vancouver to Montreal in six hours 52 minutes, averaging 342 mph at about 20,000 feet with 26 aboard. Captain Herbert W. Seagrim, TC A flight operations director, piloted the plane as Reconstruction Minister C D Howe congratulated him. EL Symington stands at the front.
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