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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 22, 1951
Page
3
The article describes the latest spring hats with soft violet tones and modest veils. It notes floral trims, flowing shapes, and a shift toward conservatively modern designs for Easter bonnets this season.
Ontario reports all time high employment as 1920s style growth continues. Bureau of Statistics notes 34.5 billion dollars in checks cashed, electricity use up over 8 percent, pulpwood and lumber production rising, housing up 10 percent. Retail trade improves 12 percent with strong demand for durable goods. Despite defense outlays and Korea, optimism remains.
Gentle Easter homemaking guide outlines decor ideas and a full dinner plan. Recipes include roast ham with brown sugar glaze, corn and celery au gratin, spring salad, rhubarb pineapple pie, and mint meringue dessert. Also answers on braising ham, picnic ham, and sour cream gravy.
Announced sale at farm near Eden Mills on Friday March at o clock features horses hogs cattle and a wide range of farm implements and produce. Auctioneers Hindley and Elliott list items including tractors combines plows hay equipment vehicles and assorted household goods with cash on day of sale and clerk’s day.
Forage crop seeds sold must be tested for purity by law. Sampling must represent the seed, using mechanical mixers for clovers and timothy, while grasses are weighed by hand due to awns and attachments. Screening separates components, with export samples measuring pure seed, other crop seeds, weed seeds, and inert matter.
The author muses on weather, milk price freezes, and bread costs while pondering Irish charm, the U N forces, and prairie blizzards. He recalls Canadian pioneers, New Canadians, and a thrift lesson from cutting garments to fit cloth as a path to future prosperity and simpler living. The piece ends with a quilt project for the Institute.
Canadian poultry officials highlight artificial incubation and the ROP program as central to national breeding. They note the program underpins foundation stock, multiplication, and hatchery approval, with chicks valued up to 24 million dollars and industry growth cited since 1919.
Public auction at a large farm near Marden Mary Hill County Road on Monday April 12 at 1 o clock. Sale includes Reg Holstein cows and heifers of various ages bred in different months, 24 stockers and feeders, hogs and poultry, grain, implements led by a John Deere tractor, and farm equipment. Cash settlement with clerk day of sale. Lunch on grounds. Hindley and Elliott Auctionists.
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