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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1933
Page
9
Entries report Bertha Clements of Milton aged sixty and Maria Hannah Darby aged seventy three passing, with funeral arrangements noted at McIntyre's Funeral Parlors and Ebenere Cemetery. Also listed are Arthur Ashes and Colonel William Hall Ptolemy tied to local families.
Local notes report roses blooming, daylight saving adjustments, and gardens in Acton. Stores repaint facades including Brown's Fruit Store and the Kennedy Block. The Acton Bowling Club fills rinks and forty bowlers join weekly mixed games. Aylmer homes and Main St eateries undergo renovations as public interest remains high.
Halton Lawn Bowling League starts with first game in Acton on Wednesday June 14 at 6 30 p m under OLBA rules. Late arrivals incur one point per end. three ten end games planned with a May draw list of players and alternates. If weather cancels the date moves to June 21.
Two men with the same name belong to a club. A threatening letter arrives for one. The wrong man opens it, returns it, and the intended recipient later finds and destroys the note by tearing it up, muttering about a woman.
Speakers urged cleaner administration and adherence to higher principles during a visit to Acton. They contrasted the Sermon on the Mount with self serving inheritance motives and questioned party corruption while noting votes for no appeals against assessments. The crowd applauded and closed with the National Anthem.
Albert Payson Terhume quotes Marshall Wilder who, despite being a humpback and dwarf, turned a harsh handicap into success as a humorous lecturer. Wilder’s reply about lemonade shows his strategy of transforming misfortune into wit and public appeal.
A compact set of aphorisms notes that ignorance blinds judgment and that seeking knowledge requires courage. It warns against boastfulness and presumption, and suggests that forgetting is sometimes useful in the pursuit of learning.
The Department of Agriculture at Ottawa urges cultivation and weed control along hedges for at least two feet on both sides. They advise occasional topdressing with well rotted manure and caution against broad upper forms that trap snow. The strongest base is essential to hedge integrity.
If you feel you have few friends, analyze yourself to find the reason. Selfish people and vanity create unpopularity, as the overcritical, quarrelsome, gloomy, boastful tend to lack friends. Discover why you are unpopular and you will learn the way to have friends.
The sixth Chisholm reunion at Cline Park Farm Milton drew over two hundred guests from Buffalo Toronto Detroit and other cities on June 3. Burlington abandons Tegervoll water plan due to financing trouble and council plans tenders after engineering work.
The Nassagaweya Township Sunday School Convention met at Nassagaweya Presbyterian Church on May 31 with Miss Nellie M Lewis of the Ontario Religious Educational Council addressing both sessions. Rev C Graham Jones spoke on Sunday school teaching elements and officers for the coming year were installed including J J Henderson as president and Arthur Diamond as vice president. The group urged supporting Prohibition education and youth abstinence from cigarettes.
Capt E Philpott addressed the meeting. Street and Main Street obstructions were referred to the Municipal Officer for removal. Willow Street filing to level the boulevard was requested. Streets and Walks Committee to decide. M Burak sought permission to tender for road gravel drawing but council deemed patching insufficient for tenders. Clerk to write Leathers Transport Co. about sidewalk damage.
The Toronto market reports wholesale dairy, poultry, and egg quotations for shippers and retailers. It lists creamery butter prices, churning cream, egg prices, and various grades, plus wholesale beef, veal, hog, lamb, and mutton prices. Grain and straw prices, fruit, and potatoes are also shown for trade use.
A motivational piece urges students and workers to always give their best, noting that even if a supervisor or teacher does not recognize high effort, the individual is the main loser when effort slips. It emphasizes duty to others and to self.
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