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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 19, 1939
Page
7
Notices list births and obituaries with dates in October 1939. Morgan and McEachern births noted. deaths include Speight Gemmell Kerr Robson, with funeral and residence details. Family members remember Tom Robson in memoriam note.
The Mus of community life appears in notices about bazaars and teas at Acton Y from 4 to 6 pm on Friday, improvements to Church Street traffic, and store upgrades at Acton Exclusive Footwear. Mentions include golf prize for Miss Mary Chalmers of Acton, public speaking contest selections, and road work from CNR to Erin.
Hand knitted regulation sock pattern from the Red Cross booklet. Cast on 60 stitches with 4 ply fingering yarn, rib 4 inches, knit plain sections, and shape heel with 28 stitches, then gusset and toe in Kitchener style. Includes exact decreases for both rounded and alternate toe methods and finishing steps. The sleeve less sweater directions follow next week.
The Y is running a season opening Ping Pong Ladder among juniors with Lloyd Roblinson edging CHA Young for first place. Seniors sign up, promising close matches, as the season extends over weeks with planned demonstrations by Ontario players and upcoming inter association games.
Mortgage sale conducted by auction on October 24 1939 at Rockwood Ontario offering a farm parcel described as North East Half of Lot 26 Fifth Concession Nassagawega Halton with 100 acres more or less. Chattels include multiple livestock and farm implements. Land terms 25 percent down with balance via mortgage at four percent interest. Chattels terms via commissioner of agricultural loans Toronto.
Radio audiences in Canada and the United States followed a salmon fishing expedition from the Miramichi district in New Brunswick. The program aired over Canadian National Telegraphs from Half Moon to Moneton, NB, and joined the CBC network with a portable canoe microphone.
In a brisk exchange a speaker named Pat insists he can prove a point. The other party questions the method and where such a proof could come from, debating old minds versus new.
A man in a cafe orders beefsteak and chips. The waiter notices the diner touching the knife edge with his thumb and jokes about tender steak. The man replies that last visit he cut himself there, implying cautious superstition.
General Hugo Viktor Oostermann, head of Finland's armed forces, pledges to resist any Soviet attempt to threaten Finland's independence. He faces a demanding task amid Russia's military power and the republic's resolve to defend its sovereignty.
Robert Donat stars as Mr Chips in Good-Bye Mr Chips at Gregory Theatre Acton with matinee and evening shows. The film follows Chips from teacher to head of a great English school, through war and personal loss, ending as the spirit of popular education.
Public auction at Lot 9 and 10 Concession 3 Guelph Township on October 23 1939 at 1 pm features a dairy cattle lineup TB tested including Holsteins and Jerseys plus 8 Suffolk sheep 100 Leghorn and 150 New Hampshire pullets and assorted farm implements and household effects. 200 acre farm offered with reserve bid on premises two miles east of Guelph on No 7 Highway with stone dwelling Wells and stream and fences.
Toronto announces the Shrine Charity Circus will run October 23 to 28 at Maple Leaf Gardens with Col. Bob Morton producing and Clyde Beatty headlining. The event will feature the Canadian Red Cross donation, war-time guests for military personnel, and a lineup including Beatty, his wife, the Flying Harolds, Shorty Fremm, and a three-ring show led by 15 clowns. The Shrine aims to boost welfare for crippled children despite global tensions.
Lou Gehrig is seen at his first civilian job since leaving university in 1923. The former New York Yankee first baseman spent intervening years in baseball. After the World Series he was named a member of the Municipal Parole Commission of New York and is studying criminology and penology.
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