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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 28, 1953
Page
20
Bank of Montreal advisor outlines using family allowance cheques to set up a savings account for each child. If deposited consistently, over 1,300 dollars plus interest could accumulate by age 16, creating a nest egg for education or emergencies. Parents are urged to bank part if full amount is not possible.
In 1898 Acton housed a steam fire engine that served until the Beardmore fire of 1924. The engine’s water-streams rivaled the town’s early water works, and it remained in use after being bought in the 1890s until wartime scrap. It offered efficient service but suffered from water-delivery delays.
Former Acton resident Helen Mae Skippen died May 17 in Kitchener waterloo hospital after earlier life in Gore Bay Stratford and Espanola She taught school and was active in church work and W A at St Andrews Stratford Her funeral was held in Acton May 20 with interment at Fairview cemetery Attending were mourners from Toronto Huntsville Stratford Kitchener Georgetown and other Ontario towns.
A rustic poem describes a farmer's wife awaiting her husband in the evening light. The speaker recalls daily devotion and field life as the sun sinks, the porch beckons, and their love grows warm in twilight. The verse shifts to a joke about a man ruined by untold wealth and an income tax quip.
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