Eight Teams Form Softball League
Halton Rural Softball League schedules 1953 list May to July games among eight teams including Haltonville, Kilbride, Lowville, Omagh, Palermo, Tansley, Milton Heights and Hornby with matchups set across dates. The article notes wartime spending is planned to be one percent below peak 1943-44 levels.
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Halton Rural
Tansley
Kilbride
Palermo
Omagh
Hornby
Milton Heights
Haltonville
Lowville
Tanssey
Patermo
Lowvile
Horn
Coronation reflections and Ontario storm report
A reader muses on Coronation days and weather for June 2, noting memories of past monarchs. She recalls recent tornadoes in Sarnia London and severe storms in Ontario with hail as large as seven inches in circumferenc e and extensive rain damaging fields while hay and pasture recover.
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Sarnia
London
Weather Bureau
Elizabeth II
Edward VII
Ontario
Lowville
Simpkin to Represent Ontario Weeklies in Britain
R G Simpkin will represent the Acton Free Press and other Ontario papers in the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association during the Coronation tour of Great Britain. He will send first hand reports to readers back home by air mail and depart Montreal May 18 to deliver a car on arrival. Simpkin was a War I veteran and has 25 years as a reporter for a major Ontario weekly, focusing on rural life. The first article appears this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Simpkin
Acton Free Press
Ontario
Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association
Great Britain
Montreal
England
Simpkin
Weathering a Storm and Birds Singing in the Garden
The writer describes a warm windy afternoon before a coming storm with a chorus of orioles sparrows canaries bobolinks meadow larks and hummingbirds singing boldly. Robins were quiet and the text notes a garden struggle with invasive snowberry and the ongoing removal of sucker roots plants spread by a neighbor's warning.
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Partner
Ming
Delegate Reports On Sudbury Meet
Knox Evening Auxiliary members visited Mrs. Wilmer Watkins home for their meeting on Wednesday evening May 20. Mrs. A. K. Mann presided with Mrs. Ingles and Bella Mae Russell assisting in worship. Emma Cole and Mrs. Davidson presented the education story on mission work in Africa. Mrs. Davidson sang, with Mrs. McKnight accompanying. Mrs. H. Main gave a tally of the Synodical meeting, Miss Anne Watkins played piano, and business items included the June sale. Lunch was served by Mrs. Ingles committee. Mrs. Anderson thanked hostess and speakers. Police reported 11,8 of 12413 missing in 1951 were found by year’s end.
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Knox Evening Auxiliary
Wilmer Watkins
A. K. Mann
James Ingles
Bella Mae Ruszell
Africa
Emma Cole
John Davidson
McKnight
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Seeley
Orangeville
Ont
Geter
Bette
Ferguson
Lorne Garner Motors Ferguson
Earl J. McConachie
Acton Free Preas
Gwendoline FP
Canada
Sudbury
U.S
North Pole
Aluminum Company of Canada, Ltd
Alcan
John Calder Plumbing & Heating
Eves Troughing
Milton
Canadian National
Continental Limited
Thompson
Fraser
Ottawa
Toronto
Minaki
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Edmonton
Jasper
Vancouver
Prue Nasional
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