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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 15, 1947
Page
5
Miss Dorothy and Mr. Bill Clayton of Toronto were home for the weekend. Numerous locals and guests visited friends and relatives across Acton, Centre Inn, and area churches, with several attending Mother's Day and church events.
Mrs W Everdell announces the engagement of Georgina Anderson to John Hugh Stewart of Acton. The couple will wed at United Church Acton at 3 PM on Saturday in June. Mr and Mrs John Blacklock announce the engagement of their elder daughter Jean Elizabeth to George Bruce Small of Campbellville with a May 17 wedding at St Johns Anglican Nassagawey.
The United Church Ladies meeting at Mrs Ivan Harris home approved sending care boxes to needy British families. Mrs Agar presided, devotional by Mrs Thetford. They requested names from Mrs Aikens in Toronto and planned a shower and packing for immediate shipment.
A compact motto urging citizens to perform their duties as the foundation of public service and national life. The quotation underscores individual responsibility in shaping communal welfare and governance.
Halton School pupils visit as guests of the County Council. The council approves a pay raise for the county buildings caretaker from 350 to 400 dollars retroactive to January 1947. Department expenses are listed, and equipment rental of 917.53 will cut roads expenditures. next meeting set for June 10.
Halton County Council faces a dispute over centrality of Georgetown versus Speyside for a proposed northern Halton region. A map analysis using lines from Wellington to Peel and cross roads argues Speyside lies near the true geographic center despite Georgetown’s midpoint claim.
The Campbellville Women's Institute May meeting named Mrs Frank Quinlan as first vice president after Mrs J K Mahon declined. Finance committee members were drawn from Mrs Thomas Whaley Parsons and Mrs Roy Parker. The three youngest grandmothers of the WI plan the next meeting. Donations for British flood victims urged to local churches or Crawford Company office.
United Kingdom sap pers completed the Bailey Bridge across the Corinth Canal, officially opened by King Paul. The 170 foot high, 100 yard long structure will restore traffic and allow dredgers to pass beneath to clear canal debris since the liberation.
At Eramosa Township Council in Rockwood by law No 9 Cecil E Harris awarded a one year garbage collection contract for 775. Officers planned 7000 yards of gravel for township roads and set interim audits for May October and December. The meeting also discussed high school area proposals Erin Bramoan townships and the British Flood Relief Campaign with donation drives at Rockwood Town Hall May 14.
The average occupied farm land value in Canada for 1946 is $32 per acre, up seven percent from 1944 and 28 percent above the 1935–39 level. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics cites price movements in farm products and inputs as part of the trend, with farm product price indices up 83.5 percent since 1935–29 and input costs up 45.4 percent since 1930–39. Variations across provinces occurred except for Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick where slight declines appeared.
A Victorian Australia mouse trap using a beer bottle filled with water under a cheese lure is catching mice in large numbers. The contraption relies on a greasy bottle neck and a board leading mice to the trap where they fall into water and drown. One farmer reportedly caught 2,400 mice in 12 hours.
The world’s first moving-span bridge built from aluminum alloys is planned over the River Wear in North England. It will weigh 40 percent of a comparable steel bridge while maintaining strength, reducing corrosion, and lowering power use. The span will be 90 feet and carry standard gauge railroad tracks and road traffic. Separately, seven Canadian purebred Southdown rams were shipped to New Zealand and auctioned at about 510 each.
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