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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 14, 1940
Page
12
Births marriages and deaths for Babcock Dennis Bailey appear with details of dates names and locations in Acton Ontario and surrounding areas. The notices include names of spouses and funeral arrangements with church mass times and burial plans in Dublin and Prospect cemeteries.
Odis and Enis introduce new car models in a first showing. Nominations will be held a week from tomorrow. Foundations for two Mason subdivision houses near completion. Bank of Nova Scotia building brickwork underway. Hunters return from the north with deer quotas. Acton voters list published this week. verify your name. Equipment moving from old Baxter plant to new Baxter Laboratories site. Reverend B F Andrews to preach farewell at Boston Church then take charge at Clinton. United Church members send Christmas boxes to overseas service members. Veterans Night at Walker Lodge with war veteran officers. P W Bro H L Ritchie presiding. Acton and District Legion and clergy attend Remembrance Day services in Rockwood, Nasswega, and Acton. Utilities crews repair water leaks, some requiring work under cement and highways. West inside Post Office entrance revised for staff comfort. Remembrance Day window at Johnstone & Rumiley’s, arranged by Acton Legion, draws admiration.
A Datdeutscher Beebachter ad shows the Education Department in Pomam seeking school helpers to teach Polish children, explicitly stating that only Germans need apply, illustrating Nazi control in occupied territories.
A Calgary hospital urgently requested serum by long distance phone. The serum flew from Seattle to Vancouver then to Lethbridge and north to Calgary aboard three planes, with close connections and constant progress updates to the hospital.
A Towa jury ruled in a suit against a railroad company, stating the cow’s death resulted from the train not operating with proper bell or whistle. The verdict implies the train failed to sound warnings as required, leading to the fatal incident.
A housewife filling a bath is observed by two young evacuees. The elder boy whispers fear of being drowned by the woman, prompting a plan to escape. The tense moment centers on mistrust during a domestic task.
Mina Jordan Buchanan widow of Wm. Buchanan of Grand Valley died after a two year illness at 78. Born 1863 in Tecumseh Township she moved to Luther Township with her parents in 1875 and later lived at the C P R station for 45 years. She leaves her husband and son Dr. Allan Buchanan with siblings in Ontario and Manitoba. funeral at Kirk Presbyterian Church with services by three ministers and a soprano solo. Interment in Grand Valley Union Cemetery.
The Comforts Committee of Acton and Vicinity reports letters of thanks for parcels of cigarettes sent to those overseas. Parcels arrived around October 20th, mailed August 29th. Recipients include Pte. PB Purdy Gnr. W Caldwell Capt. Gordon Sutherland Gnr. T Nicol Pte. C A Tyler Pte. E Lands borough Pte. W L Turner.
The Acton district escaped serious damage after Monday night and Tuesday's gale. Power interruptions were brief, two services failed, trees toppled and windows shattered in places, with several roads blocked by fallen trees, though overall impact was lighter than in other areas.
Fishermen along the Ohio River in Louisville report golf balls drifting downriver from an upriver course. One man has collected more than 100 balls in the past year, highlighting ongoing hazards to fishing and navigation.
A man who once used a steel pen to replace a quill made a fortune by turning to toothpicks. His factory produced up to twenty million toothpicks annually, with hotels of the Canadian National Railways System still supplying them.
Former London superintendent and war correspondent for The Canadian Press, relocating to Canada to assume a new role as military correspondent for CP in Ottawa.
The Victoria Mission Band held its regular meeting on Thursday November 7. President Dora Hansen opened with a hymn and brief devotional. Twenty four members answered roll call. Mrs H Man read the missionary story and the meeting closed with prayer and the National Anthem.
In Melbourne Australia a public garden statue is described as the last bronze sculpture cast in Britain before bronze was requisitioned for war needs.
Coronado California reports the gambling barge Monte Carlo has run aground on a shoal and become a death trap. Three swimmers attempted to reach the vessel and all perished in the attempt.
Rio de Janeiro reports the government is testing Leonardo Yarochewsky’s assertion that he can produce large quantities of synthetic gasoline from orange banana and pineapple skins. The claim prompts regulatory scrutiny and potential industry impact.
An insurance agent asks a farmer about accidents and learns he counts only incidents caused on purpose. He recalls a mule kicking his ribs and a rattlesnake bite as intentional injuries, while a circus accident highlights a joke about a broken humerus and a comedic star.
At the Glasgow recruiting depot the M.O. conducted the usual questioning for the twentieth recruit. The applicant answered that he weighed ten and a half stone at heaviest and six and a half pounds at lightest, eliciting the officer’s routine responses.
Shipments of cows from Ontario and Quebec dairies to the eastern United States have built a strong reputation and steady demand across the border. Through September this year about 10 500 head were exported, compared with 2 600 in the same period last year. In all of 1939 the export total reached 13 000 dairy cattle, mainly from Eastern Ontario and Quebec.
The report notes Canada’s wartime sessions and prorogations, a destroyer rescue of 113 survivors from two torpedoed ships, preliminary work on the St Lawrence international rapids, and a 20 year high in the Dominion Bureau of Statistics industrial index. It also cites shipbuilding expansion, munitions contracts totaling 27.8 million dollars, and mobilization training completed by the first class summoned under the Mobilization Act.
Canadians can conserve foreign exchange and cut fuel costs by using wood for domestic heating. The Forest Products Laboratories notes annual imports of coal and crude oil can be reduced by tapping wood, sawmill waste, and sawdust, with 11 cords of hardwood yielding heat equal to one ton of anthracite coal. Advances in stoves and wood burners support broader use.
Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferte, known today as a radio commentator, served as the first air reconnaissance officer in the Great War. He spied German troop movements on August 19, 1914, for Sir John French.
Fire broke out in the drying room of a C aviation tobacco factory in Carton Australia. Cigars and tobacco smoldered after the blaze was brought under control with quantities of tobacco continuing to smolder despite containment.
In Kingsville Ontario naturalist Jack Miner caught banded and released 360 mallard ducks at his sanctuary this fall. He said he previously banded 40 ducks in the prior year and spoke of past experiences with visitors and locals.
Longmont Colorado reports a note that big game hunters are using carrier pigeons to retrieve their kills. The item highlights an unusual practice among sportsmen in the region.
The annual meeting was held at the Agnews home on November 11. Officers named include Honorary President Mrs Hollinger, President Mrs W Chisholm, Vice-President Mrs R Spielvogel, Secretary Mrs R Johnson, Treasurer Mrs F Kentner, with social and program committees listed.
Regular Maple Grove Literary Society meeting held Friday evening November 8 with President James McNabb in charge. Neil McNabb led the program featuring Group 1 chorus, Maurice Hurd reading, instrumental music by Mr and Mrs G L Graham, current events by Myrtle Maude Duett, and readings by Mesdames Shultis and McNabb.
John Jenkins a 22 month old boy traveled 1400 miles by air from Brisbane to Adelaide to visit his grandparents accompanied only by his teddy bear. Airplane crews described him as quiet but friendly.
A Liverpool court fined a woman 2000 for attempting to remove three £500 bank notes from the United Kingdom. Two companions were discharged.
On November 14 1918 David Lloyd George the British Prime Minister warned that Europe could face another war unless a League of Nations was strong enough to compel peace.
Winnipeg reports a forthcoming lighter invasion in Alberta and Saskatchewan but heavier damage expected in Manitoba for next year. Surveys show southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan hit hardest last fall with eggs hatching this spring, while Saskatchewan notes no severe zones though a Swift Current area is moderately infested. Manitoba's egg surveys warn of heavier pest spread in southern districts and eastern inter-lake region. The Dominion Entomological Laboratory at Brandon readies cantification and farmer precautions.
CPI Rev Robert G Graham, who served 12 days in prison for ringing his church bell against defence regulations, successfully appealed against his conviction in Lincoln. He had faced a one month sentence.
A fragment notes a group including two ministers around a parliamentary wireless set awaiting the six o'clock news. One person swithed the set before the hour and a feminine voice bids good night to children, illustrating wartime radio etiquette and family listening habits.
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