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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Mar 20, 1952

Page

6

Increased Entry at Halton Seed Fair and Bacon Show

Seventy two Halton exhibitors filed 322 entries at the Walton Seed Fair and Bacon Show held in Milton Town Hall. Highlights included five Junior Farmer Clubs with top awards for Milton Acton Norval Striking Palermo and Brookville displays. Open Show champion was M T McNabb & Sons for Red Clover Seed while Norval Club produced the most entries. County measures promote farm pond subsidies and reforestation with Ontario support and local buyouts of county land for future conservation.

Halton Annal Walton Milton Town Hall Milton Acton Club Norval Club Palermo Brookville Donald Johnson Frank Wilson Norwa M. T. McNabb & Sons Esquesing Township Canada Packers Limited Canada Department of Agculture Esquesing Messia Clayton Dick Gordon Fisher Clifford McDonald Thos H. McGee T. Eaton W. B. Bradly Trafalgar Clayton Nick Esqueming

Red Cross Trains Women in Home Nursing and Runs Loan Cupboard

Thousands of women are being trained in Home Nursing by the Red Cross to care for families during illness. The Volunteer Nursing Service operates a Loan Cupboard lending sick room equipment on doctor recommendation, as Ontario campaigns for a $2,192,000 fund starting March 1.

Red Cross Ontario

History of assessment and municipal taxation in Ontario

The article surveys the evolution of assessment and tax systems in Ontario from primitive tribute and chieftain duties through medieval labor levies to early municipal governance under the Baldwin Act 1849. It notes appeals processes, service demands for roads, libraries, and policing, and criticizes past inequities in property valuation and exemptions. It previews next week’s installment on the appointment of the Mennemen Camimbaten and the first assessment.

Ontario Tribea Upper Canada Robert E. Baldwin Baldwin-LaFontaine

Auction sale of farm tractors and equipment set for March 22

An auction will be held at lot 12, concession 4 Nassagaweya two miles north of Campbellville on Saturday March 22 starting at 2 00 pm. Items include a Farmall tractor with attachments two furrow plow grain binders hay equipment poultry gear milking machine cream separator and various farm wagons and tools. Cash payment due to the clerk the same day as the proprietor sold his farm and has no further use for these implements.

J. A Con Nassagaweya Campbellville Marcie Storeiamond Haron Alpers de Laval Sterling Hindley and Elliott Rockwood Milton L. McMillan

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