Acton Area Social News Highlights Various Visits and Engagements
Local residents from Toronto Copper Cliff Stratford and surrounding towns are noted visiting friends and relatives in Acton and nearby communities over the weekend and week. Engagements are announced for Gladys May Gardhouse to James Duncan Roxas and Grace Darling Skilling to William Ross Smith with marriage plans set for June and July in Toronto and Beeton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam J. Gardhouse
Thistletown
Gladys May
James Duncan Roxas
David Ross
Toronto
Mr. Ross
Acton
Grace Darling Skilling
R. M. Browne
Drr R. Skilling
William Ross Smith
George B. Smith
Beeton
Glenmount United Church
AUL Teachers Accept Re engagement and Grants Inquiry
An inquiry from the Department of Education on a grant for music delayed action until more information on grants was secured. The secretary was instructed to ensure towels are securely supplied with weekly apportioning by the janitor to curb waste. A boiler inspection was ordered with a report due at the next board meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Education
The Theatre Manager Interviews An Applicant
A theatre manager asks a job applicant about fire safety. The applicant jokes he would exit quickly, showing a humorous misunderstanding of the question.
North American Sheep Herds Rise on Farms in 1937
Canada reports 3,399,800 sheep on farms as of December 1 1937, up 48,300 from 1936. United States farms hold about 83,900,000 sheep, an increase of 800,000 versus the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Clearing Auction Sale at Crewsons Corners
Public auction on Saturday at Crewsons Corners by instruction of Miss E Cripps. Items include parlor suite, beds, furniture, sewing machine, kitchenware, tools, blacksmith and machinist gear, roofing, belting, and farm implements. Auctioneer Roy Hindley at Acton RR3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss E Cripps
Crewsons Corners
Alshape
Roy Hindley
R. R. No
Acton
Northern Ontario mining tour highlights from Timmins to Kirkland Lake
A corporate and press tour covers Hollinger Lake Shore and Wright Hargreaves operations, Timmins new municipal building opening, and Kirkland Lake growth. The group tours mills, timber plants, and mines, with speeches by Paul Ledtur and others, tours of Lake Shore Mine, and a banquet at the Empire Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurum
Vipond
Pamour
Buffalo Ankerite
Knox
Hollinger
Timmins
Bartleman
Airs
Milton
A. L Whem
Acton
Timming
Board of Trade
Empire Hotel
Bartlemann
R. E Dye
Dome Mines
Paul Leduc
G. A. Macdonald
The
Advance
H. E. Rice
Dobble
Ontario-Quebec
C.W.N.A
George James
Dominion C.W. Nla
Mia
George Lake
Easton
Kirkland Lake
Carter
Teck Township
Charlie Tressider
Ontario
Newa- Paper
Rice
Debbie
James
Bartlem
Wright-Hargreaves
Lake Shore
O. Baker
T. & N. O. Railway
Prank Baker
O'Neill
T. N
Toronto
North
Japanese ambassador rebuked by Canada's premier in Commons
Premier Mackenzie King rebuked Baron Shu Tomii newly appointed Japanese ambassador to Canada in the House of Commons over remarks given in a Niagara Falls newspaper interview. Tomii had predicted an early Chinese defeat in its war with Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron Shu Tomii
Canada
Mackenzie King
House of Commons
Niagara Parls
China
Baron Tomii
Japan
Magna Carta Puzzle For Next Week
A reader puzzle by W. Coles invites solving a Magna Carta themed word riddle. It hints that West week will be Magna Carta Week and asks how the charter secured liberty from King John on June 18 1216. The clue sections reference letters from various words and objects. The coupon solution name is requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Coles
John
Charter
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Sire
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Stra
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Mary Lou
John Greer
Weak
Minnie Gibbons
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Prank Humber
Muriel ‘Odbert
Stratford
Adam Ripple
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P. Sayers
Ray Gordon
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Mrs. G. H. Santa
EH. Vincent
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Barbara
W. J. Guild
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Helen Lamb
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Errs. P. Browning
Etta Dills
Hare
Howard Dignan
Niagara-on-the-Lake
John Mowat
E.R. Macpherson
Washington,d.c
Alice Macpherson
G. A. Dills
Minnie Bauer
Prank Bauer
John Lorman
Cleveland
Ohio
Harold Burns
Creemore
Prank Wickens
Wm. Anderson
Betty
Donald of
Galt
Wm. Landsborough
Asea
Laura Reid
Margai Pranklin
Mesara
Hugh Reid
Jack Graham
Napanee
AUL
George Wallace
Clothes
Yonge St
Ryrie Birks
Geo C. Brown
Norval Acton
T. Seynuck
Mr. Seynuck
Qirl
Park Avenue Girl
Pay Wray
Richard Arlen
Big G@quirt
Fox News
Paradise
Phil Regan
Penny A Singleton
Bluebeard
Gary Cooper
Claudette Colbert
Blacksmitius
Phoneliré
Erin
Newton D. Baker
Harry Oakes
Todd
North Bay
Pallant
Sisman
Pallant’'s
Pallant's Store
TAK
H. Wiles
Moffat
General Electric
Westinghouse
Acton Public
Reid’s Electric Mill Street
New York
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Marjorie Greg
Shirley Swinn
Ripley
Harold Shaw
Chilbirth
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