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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
6
A fragmented diary style passage laments schooling as a distraction from farm labor. The speaker contrasts daily tasks like ploughing, sowing, feeding pigs, and harvesting with Latin lessons, noting dull hours and idle fields. The cadence shifts as animals and weather intrude, ending with a bleak view of school versus farm life.
Twenty years ago Blossom time arrived as Acton citizens band played at a Stanley Park Erin social. The Guelph paper notes the disposal of uplended clothing business of George Wallace to take effect June first. Died Brown in Acton May 20 1923 aged 62. Campbell in Bequestsing May 15 1923 widow Mary Campbell. A wartime tale recounts a supervisor arranging meals for five hundred troops at a Northern England stopover showing care and concert welcome at the Y M C A Center.
A clandestine Brussels paper reports Belgian collaborators, Brussels burgomaster and aldermen, appointed by Germans, receiving threats and seeking life insurance. One official consulted a German firm agent who listened, bowed, and dismissed the inquiry.
London AP report notes Constance Cooke promised to care for relatives of the crew of H M S Burnham after the ship was lost in November 1941. She has served as a guardian to about 800 officers and ratings and their families since then.
A Sunday school lesson for May emphasizes wine as a deceiver that leads to folly and moral ruin. It cites scripture from Proverbs 20 and 23, Matthew 24, and shows wine provoking anger, lack of judgment, and disruption of family peace, urging readers to avoid alcohol entirely.
Canadian farms have unfarmed patches suitable for forestry. Poor soils, stones, and steep slopes can support seedlings from nurseries with shelterbelts funded by the Dominion Agriculture. Planting should occur in early spring, with careful site choice and stock protection for young roots.
Wartime housewives face tighter meat rations in Canada as a two pound weekly limit remains. Kitchen tests show rolled oats mixed with meat can double the meat substitute value without sacrificing nutrition. A tested meat loaf using one pound minced meat and Robin Hood rolled oats feeds a family of five and preserves taste and health with oats and pantry ingredients.
More than 2 000 drifting mines have been disarmed or exploded along Sweden s coasts by Swedish Navy patrols since the war began. Most of the mines were on the west coast and were dealt with by patrol units.
A devotional note urges vigilance for Christ’s return and readiness to join the marriage feast. It cites Luke 22:36, Luke 12:35, 20:34-36, and 1 John 2:28, stressing abiding faith and obedience to God as the path to salvation.
Canada's Wrens convert the Preston Springs Hotel in Ontario into a training residence and galley ship with access to a cafeteria, theatre, and sick bay. Lt. Marion Tempein and Nursing Sister Elizabeth Chapman lead medical staff as Junior Officers oversee staterooms, bunks, and colorfully decorated sick bay. A 300-strong crew prepares in trades including laundries, cooks, stewards, and galley work while daily trips to Galt train in other trades.
Sgt James Chisholm Lawrie of Peebles manned a 25 pounder single handedly during the Battle of Thala in Tunisia February. Surrounded by seven German tanks and with his crew out, he fired the gun himself and silenced a tank, earning the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry and steadfast conduct through the night and the next day.
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