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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 30, 1939
Page
7
A poem by F. H. McMahon wanders through cedars and a spring landscape. The speaker longs to escape city life to wander a woodland stream where trout, glow from maples, and meadow birds create a vernal choir. The verse frames April as a blessed passage found in nature away from street, desk, and book.
Knox Church weather success anniversary service featured Rev. Mr. Wilson and Capt. (Rev.) R. F. Campbell offering sermons. A tea and Monday entertainment drew praise. Memorial Committee backed Soldiers Memorial park entrance gates proposal. Neighbors Thompson and Winton hosted, gifts presented. Fire at Mackart farm. Annie Mack wed John Lambert. Lambert family to move to Acton. Overseas arrivals include Pte Kipling Puffer and Pte Swackh amer Marsh Dunber Cook. New baby for Graham family in Walton Ontario. Chap Chapman wed Doris Webster in England. deaths include John Allen and Jessie MacDonald of Acton.
The Department of Mines and Resources reports Canada's mining sector increased wealth by 1.85 billion dollars and boosted direct employment from 43,500 workers in 1934 to about 118,000 by 1938. Gold production rose from 24,000 to 55,000 tons annually, crude oil output surged fivefold, and new mining fields emerged from Quebec to British Columbia. Indirect demand for supplies and services also lifted related industries.
Continue excerpt recalls Acton sugaring traditions with farmer John and Willard serving maple treats. It then reflects on couples who wed and attended the old Methodist Church on their first Sunday night, naming Jim Flannigan, Susan Lasby, William Moore, Lily Leslie, Lizzie, Joel Leslie, Anthony Stephenson, Annie Milne, and James Moore among others, and notes fates and later life.
United States government allocated 85.2 percent of the cattle quota to Canada for cattle weighing 700 pounds or more admitted between April 1 and December 3, 1939. The allocation, based on 1936 and 1937 imports, sets a maximum export of 142,230 head for the last three quarters at 11 cents per pound, with 51,720 head as the minimum importable amount per calendar quarter.
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