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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 25, 1950
Page
3
A personal diary recounts watching three robin nestlings mature over ten days. Mrs Robin feeds and house-cleans, while the family gathers to fly the nest, and the writer notes the lonely hall after their departure. The entry ends with attempts to repaint the hall in leather brown, experimenting with gray caramel mix to achieve a fumed oak look.
Fresh asparagus ideas include cream soup, castries and salads, and hot vegetables with toppings. Recipes cover bacon bits, hollandaise, parsley sauce, onion mushrooms, buttered crumbs, French dressing, and egg toppings. Also includes caramel custard and baked lake trout recipes with step by step instructions.
Erin The WMS of Erin United Church met at Miss Dorothy Baird's home on Monday evening. Minnoss United Church Young People presented a Sacred drama at Town Mall under BY United Church Sunday School supervision. The Orangeville Presbyterial Synod meeting was held at Knox Church vestry on May 10. Donald McAlister, a well known township farmer, died suddenly May 1 while operating a weed drill on his farm.
Georgetown Public School welcomes two new teachers for the next term. Harold Henry is hired as distant principal and will teach one senior grade. Veteran educators Minads Hazel Harrison and May Langan plan retirement.
The Financial Post notes that oil consumption rose 78 percent since 1966, with one in six homes using oil last year. Coal interests push automated furnaces with 75 to 80 percent efficiency. Natural gas may reach a quarter of Canada’s population in two to five years via new pipelines, offering competitive costs. Tomato products also surged with nearly double the annual canning volume in a decade.
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