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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 27, 1960
Page
8
The text mentions a juvenile hockey team in Milton arena practicing, with a second practice yesterday. It also notes rain last weekend exceeding September totals and sand and salt piles ready for ice storms.
Four 4-H contestants from Acton area joined 22 Ontario teams at the Ontario Agriculture College on October 21 for a provincial work judging contest. Mixx Shervill Murray, Donald Swackhamer, John Kranendonk, and Russell Murray represented Halton Grain and Forage Clubs and Dairy Cats Clubs. About 700 4-H members statewide took part in competitions across dairy, beef, swine, poultry, grain, forage, silage corn, potato, tractor and forestry disciplines.
Dublin Women’s Institute meets at Mrs. Wilmer Watkins home with Mrs. Horace Blyth presiding. Reports include ragemaking training in Milton November 22 23 and donations to Retarded Children and the Canadian Institute for the Blind. A euchre party is planned tonight.
Firemen found the blaze extinguished on arrival at the home of H. L. Hockema in Erin township on Saturday afternoon. Overheated stove pipes caused the alarm with no damage reported.
Henry William Hinton 83? died in St Josephs Hospital Guelph on Sunday October 23 after a lengthy illness. Born in England December 23 1873 he moved to Canada in 1911 later settling Acton Ontario where he ran a jewellery business. Survived by widow Lillian Mary Todd and four children Henry Norman Derbert and Badah Burns plus a Toronto son. Interment at Oakview cemetery.
Two Acton girls Katherine Keaney and Judith Halliday received Secondary School diplomas at the 104th fall graduation of Lowena High School in Guelph. The ceremony at the Church of Our Lady drew a large group of friends and relatives from Acton and area for the spring tradition after years of fall graduations.
Anomalous report notes pay phone booths lost phones last weekend. Wires were cut and one device removed from a booth near Marti Restaurant. another phone recovered later at a hotel booth with damage. No suspects located to date.
St John Ambulance Brigade ends the week tidying vacant town quarters after council grant. Members scrub walls and floors, repair windows, restore cupboards, and fit new floor covering as they ready nesting room for occupancy.
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