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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 28, 1942
Page
9
Notices recount marriages and deaths in Acton Ontario during May 1942. Entries mention Sinclair twins Beverley Jean and William Stewart, births at Wellvale Northport, a Watson residence notice in Acton, a Powers death in Toronto, and Nellis obituary with funeral details and Fairview Cemetery interment.
The piece notes June as a month of weddings and rain with ongoing school terms and a coming vacation. It mentions last Friday’s rain raising creek levels and water activity at a park bathing spot. Red Cross appeal seeks funds and subscription reminders appear alongside Brampton’s weekly Art Donation list.
British experts hail Canada as ideal for future motion pictures in the 49th Parallel project with stars Laurence Olivier Leslie Toward Raymond Massey and Anton Walbrook. Details note Fred Young chief cameraman and Oimund Barradade support as wartime shifts affect staff.
The Reyne Citizen records the death of Herbert E K Somerville at his home May 4 at age sixty two and the funeral May 7. John R Watson dies at his home on Guelph Street Acton aged seventy eight with service at United Church and interment in Fairview Cemetery. Pallbearers and many floral tributes from local residents and organizations are listed.
George Thomas Lappin of Acton died at his Main Street home on May 16. A Lincoln native, he lived in Acton over forty years and worked at Beardmare Company for decades. He married Miseria Dobbiens. leaves son James and daughter Rabect Johnston. Funeral service was held at home with Rev. Forbes Thomson, and burial in Fairview Cemetery. Pallbearers included Andrew others.
Drialy claims 1.5 billion fewer pins, with an order to limit tests, in the United States. The report notes no change in waves of steel and brass, equating the savings to 16 million pounds of steel and to 16000 machine guns, calibred.
Week by week observers note Soviet forces holding Kharkov and Kerch Peninsula while German counter-attacks press in the south. British air power grows as Chinese and Japanese actions unfold in Chehling and Kin kwa areas amid broader campaign moves across Africa and the Middle East.
A confusing social note describes a birthday gathering for Mrs Myra W McFadden with family from Acton, Brantford, and nearby towns. Generations attended, flowers and a birthday cake featured, and guests shared a lunch and dances.
The Neain BC coast town of Sawa, Staveston, endures vacancy and evacuation after a Japanese force denies access and the hospital and homes are left boarded up. White families remain as old timers wonder about Staveston history’s next phase.
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