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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 01, 1960
Page
5
Local notes list Acton residents and guests visiting relatives, travel to Mackinac Strait, Seaforth, Ottawa, Nova Scotia, Lake Rosseau, and Muskoka. Mentions patients in Weston and St Josephs hospital, visitors to Scarborough, Toronto, and Guelph. Several teaching appointments announced and short trips noted for multiple families and individuals.
Mr and Mrs James Sylvester Sargent announce the engagement of their daughter Judith Ann to Robert Wayne Pries son of Mrs Egmont Pries and the late Mr Prices of Georgetown. The marriage will be held Saturday September 17 at 2 pm at St Josephs rectory Acton.
Willie Bulloch celebrated his sixth birthday with friends Bradley Buck David Stewart Randy Stewart and Jeffrey Isley. Families and neighbors shared vacations including Algonquin Park camping and cottage stays at Kearney and Niagara Falls. Visitors came from Hillsburgh Belwood North Liberty Indiana Rexdale Fergus and Acton as everyone notes birthdays illnesses travel and local get togethers.
Mary Lou Taylor 18 of Burlington wins Halton prize and advances to semifinals in the Ontario Dairy Princess contest. The winner earns a British Isles trip and a prize calf as part of the Dairy Princess of Ontario 1960 event staged at the Coliseum with semifinals on September 6 and final on September 7.
George J. Ridley died on his 93rd birthday at his daughter in law’s home near St Marys on Sunday morning August 21. He had lived in Acton for over 30 years. Funeral arrangements were to be announced with services at St Marys Cemetery.
Farmers report steady annual income from managing woodlots with reliable timber revenue and ongoing woodland stewardship, highlighting practical earnings and sustainable harvest practices.
The Church of Christ in Everton hosted a Sunday Sunday School picnic on the grounds with a children’s afternoon program and thirty sit down supper. Dr BE Hansell spoke at an anniversary gathering, with guests from nearby villages and families visiting from Saskatoon, Burlington, Acton, Kitchener, and Winnipeg.
Ruth Wilson of Rockwood was the guest of honor at multiple showers ahead of her August 12 wedding. Hosts included Mrs. Stanley Norfish and Minice Norrish at RR 1 Moffat on August 3, Miss Carol Hansen assisted by Mrs. Glen Jackson at Acton RR 3 on August 4, and Mrs. Philip McCristal at Acton McDonald Bivd on August 9. Neighbors near Nassagaweya presented a coffee table and end table to the couple.
Sunday guests visited many families including Mrs. John Alton and Miss Jennie Tovell hosting Mr. and Mrs. Bev Hepburn with children in Milton and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Patten, Albert Altman, Wred Alton in Rockwood, and Rose Tovell in Tarania. Additional gatherings included J.P. Benham’s visitors with Chars Byams family in Burlington and Gordon Aicie with Duck Morrell and boys in Guelph.
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