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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 23, 1952
Page
15
A series of weekend visits and travels across Ontario and nearby states is recorded. Residents from Toronto Malton Sarnia Ridge Town and Erin visit Acton Hanover and other towns while others travel to Port Credit Wingham and Denver. Illness recovery news includes Andy Wilson improving after hospital care.
Testimony in a Burlington Nelson township hearing centers on assessment methods for 1952 rolls. Witnesses argue against blanket obsolescence rules and call for location based depreciation, noting higher sales prices and uneven assessments between Burlington and Nelson properties. Evidence includes adding machine tapes and cross examination of assessors Purcell Johnston and Dunham. The hearing resumes next week after adjournment.
Dr B T Dale Wellington County Medical Officer of Health spoke to the Women’s Institute at Mrs Arthur McKinney’s home on public health issues. Seventeen members and three visitors attended. A charity program included a gift to Emma Rice, a bride, and talks on home economics and health.
Mr and Mrs Douglas Lewis and family from Salisbury South Rhodesia visited in the area staying with Mrs Gordon Blacklock and her husband. The community reported several hospital cases including Mrs James Gilbertson at St Joseph's hospital Guelph and Mr Frank Smith with pneumonia. Local visitors included Mr and Mrs Ted Lawrence and Barbara of Oakville with Mr and Mrs J Turner and Roy Curtis of Guelph with the Wilk Wilsons. A social at the Hall honored Don and Donna McLean on their marriage with prizes, gifts, lunch, and dancing to Alex Near's orchestra. The community mourned Rev R W Pickersgill and Mrs Pickersgill. sympathy extended to Mrs Ted Barden on her mother Teeswater's death. Wedding bells were ringing for another local bachelor this weekend.
Special Services in local churches reported including St Johns Church Children s Day and Youth Sunday led by Rev Ralph Price. Anniversary and heavy frosts noted with snow, and community sympathies extended to families of Albert Dunk and Mrs Richardson.
Take notice that the Court of Revision for appeals against the 1953 assessment of Nassagaweya will be held in the Brookville Council Chambers at 10.00 am on Wednesday November 5, 1952. L. W. McMillan, clerk.
Lorraine Hall daughter of Mr and Mrs George Hall of Wingham married Archie Steurnol son of Mr and Mrs Nelson Steurnol of Wroxeter at St Pauls Anglican Church Wingham. Rev H L Parker officiated and the couple planned a North Bay wedding trip before settling on the groom's farm at Wroxeter with guests from Milton Acton Guelph Listowel Thedford Goderich Clinton and Wroxeter.
Enrollment at the Acton YMCA reaches 184 with 103 boys and 81 girls. Judy Holliday and Brian McCristall were the first to register. The program adds dramatics musical varieties and activities from unarmed combat to six man rugby. Bob Redfern named secretary. Under-inflation is blamed for tire wear with 5 psi low cutting tire life by about 32 percent.
In a move to align with evolving community needs the Free Press undertakes modernized paving and pathing methods to maintain its status as a leading weekly newspaper in Canada.
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