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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 22, 1941
Page
16
Births marriages and deaths notices from a 1941 Canadian column list names and dates. Entries include Patterson Cooper Reade Perry McDougall Davies Holloway Leslie with locations Guelph Capreol Toronto Acton and Wayland, plus service details and family tributes.
Odds and Enis K Bradshaw visit Mrs G in the Lord's Day Alance. Early gardens show progress with potatoes expected before July 1. Work begins on a Young Street residence for Miss Isabel and Nelie Anderson. Excavations start for Mr R Crawford on Arthur Street. Francis Palmer Niagara Falls wins 121 from Wrigley Treasure program six weeks ago. St W Lowrie named judge for Stratford Horse Show on June 3 4 and 5. Victoria Day weekend sales push two day event. Acton Bowlers plan season opening May th. The Millan Champion marks 82nd year and joins the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Congrats to Blight and White publishers on both. Former Dublin School pups attend reunion banquet May 24. Exclusive three part series on Canadian Wool Production starts next week in Nex Fares Paces with local Wool Gambing Corp and Canadian Wool Co warehouse. War Expenditures Committees limit Mr Hughes Cleaver Ottawa letters. Ottawa review to be provided weekly through Canadian Press.
James Mellon a long time Ontario native who lived in Stratford and California before settling in Oxbow in 1952 died at home on a Friday after years of heart trouble and a recent period of bedfast illness. Survived by brother John Mellon and sister Mrs. P J Gibbens, funeral held at St Josephs Church Estevan with Rev Fr Beulenau officiating.
April accounts totaling 635 dollars were presented at the Welfare Board meeting. E H Cleaver KC’s automobile vanished from his office last Wednesday night and was recovered by Constable Anderson four hours later on Locust street. A Norwegian pilot from Toronto Island made a forced landing in a rhubarb patch on Joseph Green’s fruit farm on Lakeshore highway due to engine trouble. Mrs Harry Darrell of Port Nelson has knitted 48 sweaters and a pair of wristlets in the past year for the Burlington Red Cross. Nelson township hired James Jarvis to aid assessor W E A Peer in reassessing property in Roseland Lake Shore and Indian Point. Old survey assessments rose by over 91000 with only two appeals, none from the areas mentioned.
Two foreigners and six Swien have been tried and sent enced to two to five years hard labor for spying.
Notice to creditors of Thomas Bartlett Mullin deceased of Acton Ontario. Claims must be mailed or delivered to Lorne L Mullin and Frankie Florence Cornell executors by June 14, 1941. After that date assets will be distributed to those with valid claims only. Georgetown Ontario May 13 1941. Dale and Bennett solicitors for the executors.
Weekly war briefing notes Gen. Archibald Ware reorganized forces after Greece withdrawal and vows to fight for Egypt Tobruk and Crete. Wavell commands near 500000 as convoy supplies arrive. Crete under Maj Gen Broyborg with Wilson's forces in Greece now driving toward Palestine and Trans-Jordan. Royal Navy concentrates on Libya while air raids target Damascus Palmyra Rayak. Churchill reports German paratroop assault on Crete May 20 21 with heavy losses but partial objectives achieved.
Canadian National Railways traffic officials announce guardians of the Dionne Quintuplets set visiting hours at Dafoe Hospital effective May 21. Visiting times are morning 9 am to 11:30 am and afternoon 4 pm to 4:30 pm standard time. The children may be seen daily.
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