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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 22, 1948
Page
5
District notices cover local club meetings, school events, and town updates. Reports include community gatherings, church activities, and public notices from area organizations. Residents are advised to check upcoming dates and locations.
Mr and Mrs Hartyy and family visited friends at Sundridge. Walter Couling of Orangeville visited Kate Reed. Ted Jestin and Patsy visited with Llesvd Hunter in Calnsville. Kate Reed attended a funeral in Arthur and stayed with relatives. Alf Boles and Lorne Boles families hosted visitors. Olivia Parker and Omar Parke relatives hosted Glenna Parker. Lois Blick returned from hospital after a broken arm. Mrs Suter cares for her. Arnold Wilson visited battery parents Alf Boles.
In Ontario and British Columbia irrigation water may fertilize soils by delivering nutrients. Tests show calcium levels high enough to supply about 600 pounds of lime per acre annually with three feet of water, potassium around 10 pounds per acre foot, and phosphorus minimal, suggesting irrigation could sustain soil calcium and potassium while modest phosphorus.
An inexpensive nicotine sulphate spray can protect front garden flowers and porch plants from dogs and cats. The odor deters animals. spray area to be renewed after rain and every two weeks in good weather. Mix half a teaspoon in one gallon of water for typical use.
Harold Karn attended the Monroe Karn wedding in Montreal as best man. Judy Johnson holidays with Aunt McKinley at Lake Simcoe. Ruth McBride earned honours in grade IT piano from the Royal Conservatory in Toronto. Rev R Davidson led Limehouse services and plans July 25. Church visits and sympathy extended for local families.
Community updates reveal several illness recoveries and family visits. Austin McCutcheon returns home improved after three weeks in hospital while measles fade. Currie remains bed bound with heart condition. Humter visits Erin relatives. Beamish family vacationed north. Various visitors to Kitchener, Guelph and Paisley area. hydro turned on for John Beamish. funeral for Bert Anderson at Acton. sympathy extended to Grundy and Robertson households. Hitler decree references posthumous marriages of slain soldiers.
The piece portrays Nature aiding garden growth through sun and rain. It notes warmth stimulates growth, rain waters thirsty plants, and humans may water if rain is slow. Overall Nature is framed as helpful and friendly, supporting life's ability to meet difficulties.
Mrs. E. D. Mahon hosted the Women’s Missionary Society and Ladies Aid of St. David’s Church at Crawfords Lake. The event featured a short business session, flower committers for the month, plans for a September Tea to mark the 70th anniversary, games, a hat contest, and a bountiful supper for about forty attendees.
A Financial Post editorial rails at speed traps and police pressure seen as extra taxation on drivers. It condemns suburban municipalities for using traps to profit commuters and argues for fairer traffic enforcement over punitive methods.
Hindley and Elliott Auctioneers list Mille cows heifers and steers with a York sow and a Reg. Berk hog plus a Cockshutt milking machine and hay loader. Cash terms, no reserve due to proprietor’s fire loss and lack of storage. Auction set for July 27 at 7 40 p m at the Gorm Totid Con near Milton West.
Public auction of farm implements tools and household effects from FE H Walker at Lot nine Concession 3 S DS Walker's Line Nelson Township. Items include McCormick Deering tractors, plows, binders, drills, mowers, wagons, pulpers, crushers, cream separator, steel roller, fencing, tools, household furniture and scrapped items. No reserve bid. farm sold. cash with clerk day of sale. Hindley and Elliott Auctioneers.
A labor relations official says union leaders are generally reasonable in negotiations while communists become obstructive after reaching core agreements. The piece notes Bernard Shaw and “Masters for Revolutionists” as contexts, with a quoted line about a man who listens to reason.
The pressurized North Star Skylinee of Trans-Canada Airlines cut the Vancouver to Montreal run to six hours and 52 minutes, averaging 342 mph at 20 000 feet with 20 passengers and six crew. Captain Herbert W. Seagrim led the flight, as Reconstruction Minister C. D. Howe congratulated the crew.
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