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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 19, 1953
Page
7
A cartoonish exchange recalls a wife’s letter claiming a man grew another foot. The strip plays on wartime home front humor as a friend notes trouble at home. The second sentence notes Canada’s eight million clothes pins produced in 1850 as a historical fact referenced in the same piece.
The Halton dairy community heard Dr. S L Patterson discuss dairy economics with focus on 58 herds for the year to April 30. Returns hovered around 7 cents per hour labor, with two low performers in minus figures. Maple Cattle Breeders Association expansion was reported with 5188 members and 45 405 cows bred in 1952, plus new semen supply from Aberdeen Angus and Shorthorn sites. Frozen semen techniques allow indefinite storage. A bus tour to Valleyanna Jersey herd and factory visit in Toronto followed by a debate on farm organizations concluded the week’s activities.
A parson discovers tacks scattered on the floor after the sexton lays new carpet on the pulpit platform. The clergyman jokes about stepping on a tack mid sermon and the sexton replies the sermon would lose its point.
An auction with horses and harnesses, cows and calves, pigs, grain and feed, a McCormick Deering tractor and thresher, implements, and household goods will be held March 24, 1953 at the farm on 17 Sideroad Erin Township two miles north of 24 Highway, four miles south of Hillsburgh.live stock, grain, tractor, thresher, implements, and house goods offered by A Gibson as auctioneer. cash sale with no reserve. terms listed.
Archdeacon Thompson officiated at the March 1 wedding of Marjorie Herrington and Jack Mellor of Acton in St Georges Church Eng town. Attendants included Matron of honor Mrs Robinson and bridesmaids from Acton and Stewartown. The couple plan to live in Acton after a honeymoon trip through the States to Maryland.
Fifty firemen from Halton's eight brigades met in Oakville on March 8 to hear Inspector George Alexander lecture on hydraulics and pumping technique. The eight brigades will join for a June 8 demonstration in Milton, with Humbercrest Firemen's Association also convening, hosting 22 brigades in total.
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