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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 21, 1931
Page
4
Visitors and locals mingle in Acton and nearby towns with numerous weekend trips to Toronto and Hamilton. Engagements, weddings, and funeral notices are reported along with society events and family visits across Ontario communities.
A humorous line explains how Glim the burglar’s plan fails after marriage as his wife refuses him permission to go out at night. The joke hinges on marital constraint and the trouble of freedom after wedlock.
Mary Atkinson died Thursday at her Acton home after several months of heart trouble. Born Mary Cripps in Erin Township on November 7 1863, she married Henry Atkinson in October 1897 and had a son Leonard. She leaves four brothers and three sisters, and funeral services were conducted by Rev Poole with interment at Fairview Cemetery.
The Conversion Act of the Dominion Government offers maturing bondholders a chance to retain the wartime rate and privileges until expiry while extending secure investment for fifteen to twenty years within current yields. No new funds are raised and the national obligations remain unaffected. Investor confidence rises as economic factors improve, suggesting continued strong demand for high grade Canadian bonds beyond the refunding period. Holders are urged to keep Dominion of Canada bonds to preserve value.
An American spectator recalls a 1012 Stockholm Olympic moment with the Crown Prince of Sweden chairing a committee. After a dare, the prince politely corrected a Swedish line in English inviting laughter, as the visitor pondered what he had said.
Minion in Guelph Victoria Booth Demarest granddaughter of General Booth and Catherine Booth will open a three weeks preaching mission at Norfolk Street United Church Guelph on Sunday May 4. The Howitt Blair wedding at Georgetown Miss Violet Blair daughter of Mr and Mrs James Blair of Morris Street Georgetown married at the baptist church Saturday. William Howitt son of the late Mr and Mrs John Hewitt a Georgetown Intermedi ate O. H. A. team performed ceremony. Attendants were Mrs Flosalo Blain sister of the bride and Louis Tracey. Wedding supper at the Hewitt home. couple to honeymoon in Toronto then return to Georgetown. Remaings of Indian artifacts buried 300 to 400 years ago found along Credit River near Mindsdqugi Club while clearing land for a house by Rodney Adamson. Indians appear cremated with large thigh bones and arrow points found. remains older than previous burial ground across the river near Musitainuga Golf Club. Harry Mowat, 27, escaped from Ontario Reformatory on Saturday. He fled in a maroon car with two men, headed toward Guelph. guards failed to stop him. Mowat previously convicted in Toronto. wanted by police in the United States. A fire destroyed a barn at Powrie farm near Warns owned by David Powrie. a cow escaped the blaze tearing through a door and into the open, injuring none but destroying the stack and equipment valued around eight thousand dollars.
A survey finds people average roughly 6 miles daily in work or leisure. Police and postal workers report higher figures, with a man logging 14 miles a day and a letter carrier 29. A golfer covered 8 miles during an 18 hole round, while a housekeeper’s domestic routine equals a cross country trek to Boston and San Francisco, yet shopping trips bring 8 plus miles in the stores.
A Kansas team play described by Charles Facett as teamwork over individual glory. Jim Bausch of the Kansas University football team scored on a 05 yard run after teammates formed an impenetrable wall, illustrating collective effort. The writer praises communal spirit and urges running interference for long-term victories.
Toronto quotations cover butter, creamery and recond milk to retailers, poultry prices for live and dressed birds, ducks and geese, and wholesale meat and wool rates. Grain, vegetables, potatoes, and live stock prices are listed with standard trade ranges. A closing quip notes a tax joke about whiskey.
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