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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 27, 1960
Page
16
Reports show Scouta plan apple day in early November with Juvenity hockey practice at Milton arena. A second practice occurred yesterday as preparations continue.
Acton area 4-H teams Mixx Sherrill Murray with Donald Swackhamer for Halton Grain and Forage Clubs and John Kranendonk with Russell Murray for Dairy Cats Clubs took part in 22 team interclub competitions at Ontario Agricultural College on October 21. About 700 4-H members from across Ontario participated in events covering dairy beef twine poultry grain forage silage corn potato tractor and forestry. Awards were given at a banquet hosted by the Ontario Department of Agriculture with Agriculture Minister W A Goodfellow as main speaker. local contestants did not win prize money but valued the experience highly.
Speyside Women Institute held its October meeting at Mrs. Wilmer Watkins home with 2 dozen members. Horace Blyth presided. roll call answered by members about activities including rag-making training to be held in Milton November 22 and 23. Donations of 10 were sent to Retarded Children and the Canadian Institute for the Blind.
Firemen arrived to a home of H. L. Hockema in Erin township Saturday afternoon to find the fire already out. Overheated stove pipes caused the alarm but no damage occurred.
Obituary for Henry William Hinton 53 born England December 23 1873 died October 24 in St Josephs Hospital Guelph. Survived by widow Lilian and children Ed Burns Arthur Robert Hubert Walter plus three daughters. Funeral at St Alban the Martyr Church Acton and burial in View Cemetery.
Two Acton girls Kather Kenney and Judith Thistleday received secondary school diplomas at the 104th Guelph High School graduation exercises held Sunday in the Church of Our Lady. Rev Walter Hawking presented honors as a large audience watched.
Local pay booths reported multiple phone thefts over the weekend. Action OPP Detachment and Bell Telephone crews investigate as wires are cut and devices removed. Mrs Ford’s survivor notified police. officers probe at the Duarinten Hotel scene and surrounding booths.
The St Joh Ambulance Brigade readies its new town hall quarters with council approval. Members scrub walls, replace windows, and renovate floors, aiming to complete the space and move in soon as cleaning ends and paint work finishes.
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