Where Do We Go From Here
A town article argues against buying the old post office for municipal use and promotes amalgamation into a single Halton area. It urges county-wide governance, consolidating assessors, police, and administration, expanding libraries, YMCA, band facilities, and police space, plus using YMCA and schools to widen community services as Acton plans a five-year utopian blueprint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halton
Halla
YMCA
Acton
OPP
The Good Old Days From the Free Press 1912
A recap of small town happenings including mischief at a shop, a quiet warning to boys, potato crop complaints, a successful fall fair with 8000 attendees, and new coal and bark trestle plans for Acton works. Also notes on Thanksgiving, a Women’s Missionary Society convention, a Kiating missionary, a new physical training system discussion, and Halton school marms visit with 80 attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lssue
Free Prees
Peter Savers
Park Avenue
TL PL Mac J.P
Acton Wis
Acton Tanning Co
Elgin St
Women's Missionary Society of Guelph
Uberta F. Steele
Kiating
China
Chiae ES
Stewart
Department of Education
Counies
Wartime Page from Free Press 1942 Acton Notes
A 1942 Free Press extract recounts an Orchids event with Miss Bennett and performers led by Ena Jennings and pianist Ethel Franklin. Community notices urge saving military magazines for troops, wartime store-hour changes pass council, a bridal shower, Halloween salvage calls, and War Service League acknowledgments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Bennett
Marilyn Ragnvaldson
Ena Jennings
Friida Harris
Vieena Johnson
Jeanne Veldhuis
Enna Wilderspin
Eleanor Beatty
Mabel Harris
Benly Mae Fusbu Mes
Doris Kentner
Helen Waterhouse
Ethel Franklin
Duke of Devonshire
Acton
Camp Wibrarie
Canada
Town
R. H. Elliott
At Grindell
Margaret Grindell
Ralph Webb
Toronto
Hallowe'en
Lewsles
Acton and Vicinity War Service League
Ted Clifford
H. W. Godfrey
R. M. Storey
Floria Tournour
Frank Holmes
Wilfrid Waldie
Jack van Gooren
Gordon Gibbons
C. W. Douglas
Helwig
Stan Norton
John Cameron
I Batched It: Father Learns Hard Lessons at Home
A husband reflects on two weeks of bachelor freedom with two young children, recalling chaos, messy dishes, and stray socks. He concedes his wife was right about the kids and vows to reform, promising to help with chores, supervise meals, and accept a return to domestic life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T Hac
Jet Ine
Ashley
Sewage Plant Suggestion in Streetsville and Regional Annex Plans
News briefs from District Streetville Brampton Oakville Burlington Georgetown Milton summarize Deputy Reeve Parker proposing a new sewage disposal plant on the Credit River upstream of Streetsville and the township seeking to annex 200 acres from Chinguacousy for a 100-acre industrial basin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Streetsville
George Parker
Credit River
Toronto
Brampton
United Appeal
Oakville
Burlington
Georgetown
Thomas Slater
Milton
Universit Ot
Busman's Holiday Inspires Teachers' Conference Trip
The Halton Inspecturaie No 1 plans a busman's holiday Friday guiding a group to Kitchener for the annual teachers' convention. Ruth Wrigglesworth and G O McDowell chair arrangements as students enjoy a holiday. Visitors will tour 17 Kitchener schools, attend a noon banquet, hear Dr Finlay Stewart speak, then take a guided Chamber of Commerce tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aboun i Pudong Sewer Iioers
Esquesing
Georgetown
Nassagaweva Shouls — Halton Inspecturaie No. 1
Moran
Kitchener
Ruth Wrigglesworth
Park School, Georgetown
Teachers’ Institute
GO. G. McDowell
Finlay Stewart
Presbyterian Church General Assembly of Canada
Chamber of Commerce
Knox Communion at Knox Presbyterian on October 14
Eight hundred seventy seven Presbyterians participated in the Knox Church service with 287 persons receiving Communion an event notable for its size. It stands as the second largest in recent years, surpassed at Easter 1960 when 296 communed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knox Presbyterian Church
Churchill Tidy Teens 4-H Club second meeting and church notices
The 4 H Tidy Te club met at Linda Linham home with officers named Carol Swackhamer president Lynn Waldie vice president Marilyn Kirkwood treasurer Linda Linham press Linda Swackhamer Gail Stewart Susan Mellor Sandra Fletcher Gayle Spear Trudy Spear Lois Kirkwood. U C W rally at Av Tan United Church praised by Mrs F McArthur and Mrs A Damm. Communion service noted and clocks to be turned back. Acton Fair Board traveled to Collingwood for district 5 Ontario Agriculture Society meeting. Churchill United Church worship remains 10 am through December. Young People banquet November 17 at Churchill. U C W Bazaar November W at Acton United Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tidy
Linda Linham
Carol Swackhamer
Vic Dent
Lynn Waldie
Su ‘Ge
Marilyn Kirkwood
Linda Swackhamer
Gail Stewart
Susan Mellor
Sandra Fletcher
Gayle Spear
Trudy Spear
Lois Kirkwood
M. Norton
Fair Board
Acton Fair Board
Collingwood
Ontario Agriculture Society
United Church
Churchill United
Everton Weekend Visitors List With Local Guests
Weekend visitors include Mr and Mrs Percy Peavey and Mr and Mrs Gordon Cox and Bill Conn. Lis tower, Elizabeth Alexander Enn and Archie Bagg of Guelph host Harry Hanes Jestin and Mac McLeod clan from Thornbury. Harold Roseell of Sarnia visits with Lloyd Cutting family. Mrs McGregor of Chesley stays with William MacNeill. MacNeill visits Mrs Thornhill in Southampton last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy Peavey
Gordon Cox
Bill Conn
Cecil Holmes
Listower
Elizabeth Alexander Enn
Archie Bagg
Guelph
Hanes Jestin
Mac McLeod
Thornbury
Harold Roseell
Sarnia
Lloyd Cutting
Famiy
Evangel Crusade Draws 300 at Evangel Baptist
Many heard the guest speaker the Rev. De Loss.M. Scott during the week long crusade at Evangel Baptist church. The pastor the Rev. James Wilson estimated a total attendance of 300.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evangel Crusade
de Loss.m. Scott
Evangel Baptist Church
James Wilson
Acton Ontario Medical and Legal Directory and Schedules
Listings for physicians Dr. O D A Garrett Dr T B Moore Dr H Leib and Dr A J Buchanan with practice addresses Willow River Acton Main Street Mill Street Centre notes C F Leatherland QC Barrister Notary Public office hours 10 am to 12 pm 1 pm to 5 pm Saturdays by appointment Coaching and rail schedules show Acton departures Eastbound and Westbound times plus Canadian National Railways routes to Toronto and Stratford with Georgetown connections.
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A. J. Buchanan
Mill Street
C. F. Leatherland
Solittor Notary
Acton
A. Braida
Paisley St. Guelph
Ontario
Guelph
Toronto
Sat
Sun
Daly
Bowrd
Georgetown
Stratford
David W. Gohn
D.C
Willow St
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Bahi
Esther Taylor
Fices
Robert Little
Halton School
Smith
M. Z. Bennett
Taste of the Free Press
The
Acton Free Press
Dills Printing and Publishing Co
Lita
Audit Bureau of Circulations
C.wn.a
Ontario Quebec
C.W.N.A
England
Commonwealth
United States
Police Department
Ottawa
G. A Dills
Editon
David R Dill
Sugar and Spee
Pye
Walter
Heac
Knox Communion
Churchill
U.C.W
Acton United Church
Everton
Professional Directory and
Travellers’ Guide
W. G. C. Kenney
Symon
Mill St. E
Church St. E
D. A. Garrett
Willow and River Sts
Entrance River St. Acton, Ont
Robert D. Buckner
Wellington St
Ont
T. B. Moore
Main Street
North Corner
Main and
Acton, Ontario
DR. H. Leib
Corner Mill
Frederick Streets
Bruce E. Shoemaker
Mgr
E. L. Buchner
John St. S. Acton
Waterloo
Gray Coach Lines
Canadian National Railways
Ee Ge Ag
Wright
Withur St
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