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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 26, 1949
Page
4
Varied local items cover community events, club activities, and public notices of interest to readers. Highlights include school and church gatherings, village meetings, and neighborhood improvements across several towns.
About 2000 people attended Campbellville’s third gela fireworks display on Monday, organized by local businessmen. Attendees traveled from within twenty miles to enjoy the event. The town welcomed Archie Fowler, a Scotch resident staying one year with Mr. and Mrs. Fowler of Edinburgh, Scotland, and his sister Mrs Wallace met him at Malton airport.
Nassagaweya news reports Mrs Greenstade and Mrs Stephen Coase visiting Toronto to tour a museum and watch the Happy Gang show. Miss Agnes Coxe and Miss Ruth Core hosted by Mr and Mrs Elmer Coxe over the weekend. Victoria Day school activities noted and Nasagaweya Centennial invitation efforts show community cooperation. Sympathy expressed for Mr Stephen Csomochan of Nelson Village. Weather outlook mentions poor picnic day on the 24th.
Last Wednesday in Rockwood the Community Club hosted a minstrel show in Town Hall with the Guelph Male Choir assisting. The event featured Mr Mo Wilson and Mr Fred Horton with Maa Bach at piano and Mr Kelly Davies, entertaining a large audience with songs and jokes. Saturday afternoon club members cleaned Hartdp's dam river bed to ensure safe bathing, marking a young swimmers area with logs. A local wedding at Acton united couples Mr KRenneth RO Milne and Ella Mae Crippat Cripps was celebrated with a reception and trip to Niagara Falls. Fire damaged Mr Harry Harman's workshop on Upper Main Street destroying the building and part of his equipment while Guelph Fire Dept aided after local truck repairs delayed response.
Mrs Arthur Nightingale and Norman Webber hosts welcomed visitors over the holiday at Mrs A Nightingale’s home near Cooksville. Guests included the Nightingale and Arnnold families from Orangeville and Acton, plus relatives from Rockwood Campbellville Mimico Winnipeg and Lakeview. A Manitoban son plans a June Forester's Convention trip to London Ontario and a week with relatives.
Friday May 3 marked a Windsor related graduation at the OAC Guelph for Isobel Wilson of the 049 class attended by Mr and Mrs ROT Wilson and family along with Cameron and Mira Wil son Robert Anderson Sr and George Anderson also present Fire destroyed a year old frame house on the McMillan road Nelson Township in an undetermined origin blaze yesterday morning The new Hydro Distribution Station opens in Milton with guest speaker Robert P H Saunders Ontario Commission and Mayor Heslop presiding Canadian Champion.
Residents of Guelph Rockwood and Toronto spent Sunday with relatives including Mr and Mrs John Alton and Mr and Mrs Ted Jeatin. Several pairs attended a wedding reception in Acton for the bride's brother, with other visits noted to Italy New York and local homes.
The British Ministry of Food will buy large quantities of potatoes from farmers to dehydrate them for animal feed. The crops are raw quality with 8 to 9 percent protein. Nine sugar beet factories process 12 thousand long tons weekly for dehydration.
Entomologists warn that moths breed where lint accumulates in hot air furnace ducts and plumbing pipes. They suggest removing lint with a vacuum or broom, then spraying the pipes with household solutions such as DDT or naphthalene crystals to deter infestation.
Ottawa reports more than 3,700,000 Royal Mint decorations will be produced to honor Canadians who served in World War II. About 1,000,000 War Medals and 900,000 Volunteers Service Medals are on order, plus stars and clasps totaling hundreds of thousands for various campaigns.
A Montana farmer’s tractor operated stone-picking machine is praised as a real breakthrough. The note recalls how early Ontario farms faced back breaking stone gathering for fence building, where workers labored bare handed and endured rough, raw stone edges. The writer hopes for success of the invention.
Readers note that many people dislike portraits because they expect their reflection which reverses hair parts and other asymmetric features. The mirror image misleads about how a sitter truly looks and can spark discomfort or disappointment.
An analysis of how rising production raises worker earnings and overall living standards in Canada. It argues wage gains come from higher output per worker, not price inflation, and questions why labor focuses on wage increases while ignoring productive growth. The piece compares 1849 and 1945 productivity and pay, highlighting the link between output and living standards.
In March 1949 all livestock categories except horses increased in the United Kingdom from a year earlier. Hares declined from 529.00 to 466,000. pigs rose by 672,000 head. sheep up 615,000. total cattle population up 391,000. Signs of recovery from 1946 47 winter losses appear.
Report states that additional restrictions require hunters in New Brunswick to hire a licensed Ucensad guide, ensuring compliance with regional hunting laws and safety standards.
Reminder about poison ivy warning readers to recognize the plant before picnics. Describes its vine or patch growth, three leaflets per leaf, greenish yellow fruit turning white, and the sticky oil that causes rashes. Oil can cling to gloves tools shoes and items for months. Animals and even a burning plant can spread the substance.
Britain plans a network of air corridors ten miles wide forming a coordinated traffic control system. Aircraft will fly between 5 000 and 11 000 feet under guidance from ground radio stations for safer operations. Both civil and military flights must conform to the new scheme.
A brief report notes giraffes reaching great height amid a dispute over the erection of small plywood factories in a tussle within a 1NHO area.
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