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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 04, 1948
Page
3
Community items of interest cover local gatherings and events in nearby neighborhoods. Reports highlight activities, schedules, and participation of residents and organizations in everyday civic life.
Ballinafad Farm Forum met Monday night at Mrs Robt McEnery s home with 26 attendees. Garnet Sinclair new convenor led the meeting on Boy Meets Girl with Mrs Wilfred Burt as secretary. Rev Flindall preached at Goldstone on Sunday and Rev Cragg led the Anniversary Service here. Some WMS ladies attended the Bethel Sectional Rally last Tuesday.
Mrs W Head spent a few days in Guelph with daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Fred Murray. Ted Jestin Patsy visited with sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs Lloyd Hunter and family in Dainsville. John Tolley spent the weekend in Toronto visiting friends. Alf Couling visited Sunday with Irvin Hamilton. Robert Patten of Guelph visited John Alton family. Wilfred Stinson and three children of Toronto spent Sunday with Miss Kate Reed. Barbara Benham of Guelph spent weekend with Mr and Mrs J P Benham.
Mrs Norman Barlow attended the funeral of her grandson Baby Billie Pidkin in Weston on Tuesday. District residents attended the Old Tyme Dance at Eden Mills last Monday evening and many helped at a Brookville X-ray clinic where 240 were examined.
The Acton Ministerial Association held devotional services at Station CJOY in Guelph each weekday morning last week at 9 05. Rev Capt John M Anderson MC and Bar of Knox Presbyterian led Monday and Friday, Rev Mr Luxton of the Anglican Church on Tuesday, Rev C Gower of the Baptist Church on Wednesday, and Rev Louis Pickering of the United Church on Thursday. The sermons were well received by Acton and district residents, marking the first time Acton ministers were heard on this new station.
E Edwin Gamble of Puslinch township is the first recipient of the Wellington County Scholarship at the Ontario Agricultural College. The award, inaugurated this year and valued at 9 for 100, was presented to County Council by Deputy Reeve Ernest H. Benham Eramosa township. Gamble, grandson of Mr and Mrs W G Gamble Park Avenue, was noted as the sole candidate with a first class scholastic record.
A Rockwood Community Club Halloween party at the Town Hall raised funds for local youth with pranks and waxed storefronts noted. Rev John Oliver presented lantern slides on Canadian Indian missions. Mrs Wm Torrance, former Rockwood resident, died at 83 at Simcoe. funeral in Acton with Rockwood Cemetery interment. Sympathy sent to family including George of Prescott and Mrs Ban Barrie of Toronto. Weekend visitors listed.
Quilting Bee at Mrs George Grundys home and social events mark a busy period. Weddings honored at Hillsburgh Town Hall with Wilfred Awrey address and a purse presented. Halloween social euchre at local school awards prizes to Richard Chester Dan Winter and Mrs Gordon Aitken Art McKinney. Community visits include Hillsburgh Ospringe to Owen Sound and Niagara Falls families visiting. Canadian Girls In Training collect clothing for Europe.
Acton Arena hosted Steele's Calvacade of Stars as the Acton Legion showcased a western style rodeo. Aznabache the South American fighting horse leaped over a car and danced the rhumba while trained dogs performed feats. Clowns and trained males entertained and children rode burros, but crowds were smaller than hoped. Ottawa holds the bag for a 10 million bushel flaxseed crop amid U.S. surplus and Canadian price pressure.
The Halton and Peel Home and School Association held its regional conference at First United Church Port Credit on October 27. Mrs J J Grant presided, Rev Forest opened with devotion, and talks covered Publications and the Courtice Memorial Library.
Executors of the late Mrs Calvin Fleming offer a wide household sale at her Milton King Street residence on Wednesday November 10 at 1 PM. Items include Chesterfield suite, chairs, dining set, piano clock lamps tools rugs dishes silverware bedding stoves and more with no reserve. cash day of sale.
A sale by public auction featuring large well preserved frame buildings with thatched siding known in the Hallon Agricultural Society Yat Grounds Milton. The sale occurs Saturday November 6 at 10 o'clock. Purchasers have until April 1949 to remove the buildings. Terms are cash. Ernest Readhead, Secretary. Hindley and Elliott, Auctioneers.
The Acteen Topics report a lively rugby debut with Acton edging De La Salle 23 to 15 and a crowd of about 200. They praise George O Donahue for introducing the game, selling tickets, organizing cheerleaders and a chicken supper, and coordinating rugby equipment for twelve players. The Penguin Club hints at skits by the mayor and a Sadie Hawkins Dance set for November 12 with a call for donations to support equipment and the sport.
The Department of Education has sent out application forms for four Music Scholarships and four Art Scholarships funded by the Junior Leagues of Hamilton and Toronto. Each secondary school may nominate two pupils for each scholarship. Music is available to grades nine and ten for instrumentalists only. Art is open to all secondary grades.
United Kingdom apple imports for the first half of 1918 totaled 2.21 million bushels versus 3.33 million in 1917. In 1948 main suppliers were Australia and New Zealand, while Canada and the United States, strong exporters in early 1947, dropped out in 1948. A St Louis police auction saw a boy win a bicycle for a few cents.
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