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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 26, 1967
Page
2
Reports from communities across Canada show Nassagaweya leading large centennial events that heal old rifts. In Acton district enthusiasm remains low as plans compress into the fall fair four day window.
Town leaders urge total involvement from unions, service clubs, churches, and officials to boost this year’s Acton fair. Chamber of Commerce and local sportsmen plan a show with the fair, Lions Club to roast a steer on Friday, plus Sunday church service and a band concert. Invitations go to former residents to attend the celebrations.
An International Marketing Congress survey reported by Marketing shows local newspapers led for six of 10 items, 58 percent. Television followed with 32 percent, radio one percent. Frank Orenstein of the Bureau of Advertising notes print ads provide detailed information and can be read at the consumer's convenience.
Reports from travelers praise the Rapido between Montreal and Toronto for under five hour trips and excellent service especially in parlor cars. English visitors enjoyed French Canadian waiters singing in the dining car and noted the friendly, democratic atmosphere as they posed for a photo to share with friends back home.
An irritable but affectionate columnist laments the messy judge process for a humor contest offering 50 fish. He praises the high quality of entries, details his chaotic method for selecting finalists, and invites readers to claim their manuscripts with printed proof in local papers.
Editorial notes urge readers to study a trend as the Financial Post forecasts skirts returning to a modest length of one to two inches above the knee this fall. The piece contrasts the away-from-kooky styles with a move toward a classic silhouette.
A group of Acton Scouts including John Mowat Leo Marchment and Carl Deforest traveled to Peacehaven camp at Drumbo last Saturday. Others listed are Fred Euringer Donnie Davidson Jackie Davidson Donnie Anderson Doug Davidson assistant scoutmaster Monty Ranney Crawford Douglas Gordon Lawson James Dills and Mike Korchowle. Kathleen Avis Campbell married Edward Anderson Hansen at Trinity College chapel with a reception at The Old Mit. A Bible School event was held at Churchill United Church with 28 pupils. Funeral services were held for Hazel Elizabeth Stewart wife of Dean Leslie of Milton and interment followed at Greenwood Cemetery Georgetown. A clearance sale at M Pallant Mill Street offers ladies dresses 298 and children's dresses 98c.
A 1092 back-issues note reports Acton taxation fixed at 15 mills. A cattle drove on the road. William Hemstreet, auctioneer, drives a pair of matched steel grey roadsters. Sunday's heat marked one of the season’s hottest days with brief church services. Thistle crops are lush. acrid leaves advised by law. Aldermen struggled behind a frightened colt on Mill Street near a railway crossing. no damage. Miss Julia Cleveland and Adalbert R. Balcom announce their marriage. Cleveland had traveled west seeking health. Telephone crews to install higher poles, new wires, and a improved metallic circuit. Central office to receive new instruments. J V Kenna-Win is local manager. Gladstone to become England’s premier next month. Brewery stocks decline. Bouchard the smuggler finally captured.
Fifty years ago in the Free Press a Red Cross secretary in France thanks Acton supporters for socks and a top shirt. Epistles from J F Riley and J Victor Coleman are printed. Obituaries note Thomas Alger and William Waterhouse deaths in Toronto and England respectively. An English family of ten loses a breadwinner. Rev C H E Smith conducts a funeral. Also reported: Canadian border tourists free to enter. a transport officer’s illness. potatoes grown by Fred Helm. Georgetown merchants begin Thursday half-holiday.
100 years ago in Milton July 25 1867 Wallace reduces stage fare to Georgetown to 25 cents making trips to Milton Bronte and Lakeshore possible for 75 cents The Wallace stallion Touchstone winner of the Queen's Plate stays near Bronte Station for the year Library fund raising at $2 per share with books welcomed as well as money Conrad provides Milton time every Monday with Osbourne jeweller Great Western and town bell timing an effort to procure a...
The United Church of Canada announces Rev Gordon B. Turner BA BD as minister and Mr George Elliott MA PhD as organist at Hree Press. This staffing note confirms clerical leadership and music leadership for ongoing services.
Presbyterian Church in Canada Knox Church Acton presents combined summer services on Sunday July 30 1967 at Trinity United Church. Rev Andrew H McKenzie BA BD preaches 10 00 a m during morning worship and 11 15 a m at Churchill United Church Churchill Road for another morning worship service. Organist and choir master E A Hansen.
Local churches list services and Sunday School times for Christian Reform Church Evangel Pentecostal Tabernacle Acton Baptist Church and STV Alban the Martyr with prayer meetings and summer adjustments. Also notes August communion and no evening service in July and August.
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