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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 08, 1962
Page
3
A humorous item notes two rabbits shipped from San Francisco to New York by air. Despite the long distance the rabbits remained two in number, with a playful pun implying speed of the jet plane.
Personal notes recount visits by Mr. C. C. Biliott, Mrs. Robertson of Kitchener, and others to Guelph and London towns. Mentions trips to Toronto, hospital recoveries, a major operation for Fred Gardiner, and multiple weekend visitors from Allen Park and Toronto. Community events include lodge gatherings, a Sunshine School opening near Hormby, and a deer collision near Morriston plow camp.
A Halloween event at the Memorial Hall drew over 80 visitors who damaged a shed and tore signs. Peggy McDonald returns home after a long hospital stay in Georgetown. The WI group met at Mrs A W Benton’s home with Miss Charlotte Turner visiting. Mrs Asburn hospitalized after eye operation. Mr and Mrs Falardean and Marie moved from sixth line district to the village after pneumonia. Limehouse Shimberettes held their third meeting at Mrs Ted Brown’s with nine members. Eleanor Karn read minutes. Mrs Ted Brown demonstrated stay stitching. Joy Patterson reported as press secretary.
Ballinafad notes a Hallowe'en event hosted in the church basement by St Pauls United group with games prizes and treats for children. Also reports a Lions club dance at the Legion with 60 attendees then supper at Watsons. A fatal car accident on No 8 sideroad at the 8th line claims Mrs Dauphagne of Limehouse killed. husband hospitalized and child unharmed.
An advertisement touts the very best in Esso petroleum products with emphasis on purity, performance, and satisfaction for motorists seeking top tier fuel and related services.
George Garner of Ryerson Press led a library meeting last week with chief librarian Mrs Perry Watson assistant librarian Miss Madge Chapman and board members Charles Kirkness and Reverend Donald West to approve new winter reading selections.
The Marion Rudd Mission Circle met in the church basement due to Mrs Murtha illness. Scrip ture from Mark 4 was read, and talks covered Bolivian medical work and Miss D Franklin's Villa Victoria efforts, with plans for World Day of Prayer in December and the December 6 Christmas meeting.
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