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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 07, 1946
Page
5
Numerous residents travel to Toronto and Ottawa for weekends and official events. Miss Etta Dilis and Frances Dills appear among visitors. families from London Acton and Heatly join gatherings and a Hydro Convention delegation is noted.
Erin Witham Burchill and Charles Burchill are noted in a town report as Erin’s son and daughter of WA Burchill. Erin received the Doctor of Medicine degree on Friday February 22 1946 at the University of Toronto as local community notices record.
At a special Milton Council session, all members were present as estimates were set to raise funds with a 39 mill rate and a provincial subsidy leaving 38 mills to taxpayers. The Canadian Club plans a town hall meeting on March 2 inviting district veterans. Cpl Woomewom of the Kaya Canadian Army Service Corps returned from overseas after six years away, aboard the Queen Elizabeth. Cpl Rog Roberts Chariton came home after five and a half years overseas service.
British Columbian Tree Fruits trials a Friday Pack system to nest apples in corrugated cartons similar to egg cartons. Inventor Paul Frofay of Portland leads the effort using moisture and oil treated trays to prevent bruising, speed packing, and aid cooling, with U.S. made containers and potential Canadian manufacture. shipments reach across Canada.
The Twenty third Passm 300 pm The Sunday School and Junior Wible Class plan work. Series a Nagism and Evil They that wait upon the Lond shall renew their strength.
In the parish calendar for March the Martyr Gherch of Alban holds Communion at 9 00 AM on Sunday March 16 1446 with church school and senior classes then Evensong and sermon. On Wednesday March 13 1946 at 10 20 AM Holy Communion and 8 00 PM Litany and address are listed.
A wedding took place Monday February 11 at St. Nicholas Lakeview with Marjorie Anne Webber and Donald Charles Roberts marrying. Rev P N Knight officiated, music by Mrs Caven and Mrs Beasie HM, guests in wine velvet gowns, bouquets of roses and carnations, reception at McKay's Drive-In Mimico, couple departed for New York by plane. The bride is daughter of Mr and Mrs N J Webber, Mimico. groom son of the late Mrs Samuel Roberts, Mimico.
Otis Jones runs one of western Canada’s largest pig pens in North Battleford. He keeps about 750 Yorkshire hogs year round with 60 pens inside a 240 foot long central building and several sheds. Pigs are born and raised monthly with two litters per sow annually, fed a forage and grain diet, and cared for to ensure vigor and disease resistance for profitable marketing to packers.
Mr and Mrs W H Clayton hosted Bank of Montreal staff for a dinner honoring bride to be Miss Mary Young a former staff member. A Rousseau tea was held February 2 with tea pours by Mrs W J Clayton Mrs F J Salt and others providing social time.
An auctioneer announces a public auction at the Acton home on Wallace Ave on Saturday starting at 1 00 oclock. Items include small tables wash stand cot and mattress sofa chairs dining room furniture kitchen and pantry items and household goods. Cash on delivery. Auctioneer Hindley.
Auctioneers Jock Bron and partners advertise a Tuesday sale on March 16 1946 at a Milton farm. Lot includes cows heifers calves hay grain tractors and implements with no reserve. Real estate with 10 acres plus 20 more and a stone house bank barn and stables offered subject to reserve. Terms cash with clerk.
About 80 youths from several counties attend a five week program at the agricultural college in La Pocatière Quebec. The course is conducted under the aid to youth initiative in collaboration with the Romanian department of labor.
The Acton Junior Farmers Club and the Y's Men's Club clashed on the topic He solved that organized labor is more detrimental to the country than organized capital. Judges Mansel Nelles Weg Wolfe and Garnet McKenzie sided with the Junior Farmers Club, which upheld the affirmative.
Joe Annan, a Gold Coast delegate to the second World Conference of Trade Unions, traveled from Dieppe to Paris and spoke warmly of the city’s boulevards statues gardens and clean streets. He praised the French for courtesy and noted language ease using a French dictionary.
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