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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 28, 1942
Page
6
A long list of weekend and holiday visits from relatives and servicemen to Acton and surrounding areas includes Miss Etta Dills Gladys Huffman and many others visiting Toronto London Dresden Comber Kingston Milton Hamilton and Regina. Several servicemen on furlough and RAF RCAP members are mentioned among the visitors with car fellowship and familial gatherings.
Mr Peter Hiltz expresses gratitude for the teaty kindness and cheery messages received during the illness and the passing of his beloved wife. The sympathy and help from friends and neighbors are deeply appreciated and will be remembered.
Over five hundred attended the corner stone laying for the Legion Hall on Sunday. Mrs. Malcolm Smith was elected president of the Home and School Club at its annual meeting Monday. Tom Storey, 17, drowned after his canoe capsized off Reynolds Street Tuesday evening. Oakville Central School choirs won top honors at the Halton Musical Festival in Milton last Thursday.
In Milton the newly organized softball league includes four teams: Doughnuts, Billiard Balla, Rangers and Whippets. The item notes the league’s creation and participating clubs in a local sports brief.
Erin news notes include Audrey McKenzie among the graduating class of nurses at St Michael s Hospital in Toronto last Thursday. Reeve D S Leitch has recovered from an operation at Guelph General Hospital and can return home. A local new softball league for under twenty is proposed with players from Alton Camilla Orangeville and Erin. Engagement announced for Phyllis Estell Smith to William Kenneth Hall with wedding planned June 9. Erin School trustees re engaged Isabel Waterman as continuation school principal and Bertha Andrews as assistant teacher from Aurora.
A letter recounts spring in New Liskeard and Eariton, crop preparations, and forestry work. The writer describes moving from city life to bush farming, surviving a dry, early year, and the challenges of timber industry staffing while valuing simple, honest living and natural surroundings. The piece reflects on observation of wildlife, seasonal cycles, and a preference for quiet, purposeful work.
St George and area residents visited relatives in several towns during the holiday weekend. Families from Toronto Guelph Hamilton Brockville and Campbellville joined hosts in local homes. A Hibje Bowery wine event and Presbyterian Church meetings were noted alongside host Mrs Ray Gordon and guests Mrs Lowrie and Mr Lemmer.
The Women’s Missionary Society met at Mrs. John Scott’s home on Thursday evening. Visiting sisters include Mrs. McKechnie and Misa Helen Swackhammdry from Toledo. A Friday dance at Mrs. Angus McDonald’s featured music by Mr Gibbons and the Marzo brothers. proceeds supported the Red Cross.
In Georgetown and nearby, Mrs. Richard Packer and family join Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Martin and Mrs. Robert Lane in extending sympathy to Harvey McDowell and Mrs. Osborn and Mrs. Angus Twawson on the death of their brother Bert. The notice places the event in Toronto on Sunday.
A home method for keeping beef in warm weather uses a marinade of vinegar or lemon juice with olive or vegetable oil in a one to two or three part oil ratio. Pepper or mustard may be added. The meat is coated in a covered earth enware dish to tenderize and protect it, with oil and acid enhancing flavor.
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