Rockwood News and Local Happenings Summary
Roadway improvements widen back streets as soil is delivered by trucks. Rockwood loses a game at Alton. Garden party attendees from Rockwood visit Bill Hatch’s farm. Local residents including Garnet McGee, Douglas Patterson, Rev Dilts and families are noted for visits and holidays. Mrs McMillan’s illness leads to hospital care. New residents T Diamond and family arrive. Editor G A Dills earns three CWNA awards in Toronto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockwood
Alton
Eramosa
Bill Hatch
Rockwood Line
Garnet McGee
Clinton
Stewart S. Royce
McGee
Douglas Patterson
Midland
Dilts
T.C. Winlow
E. A. Groocock
McMillan
A. J. Eliott
Guelph General Hospital
T. Diamond
J. Cole
McKenzie
G. A. Dills
Acton Free Press
C W.N.A
Toronto
Milton
Reminiscences and Local Life Span Across Seventy Years
A local column recalls John Reed of Vancouver visiting after sixty years since leaving the area. Family farmers, neighbors, and town residents are noted along with weddings, holidays, and visitors from Toronto, Brantford, Fergus, Woodstock, Acton, and Niagara Falls. The piece ends with congratulations to the editor and staff for CW NAT AU honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Grundy
Fergus Mass
Mary Robertson
Brantford
HR. Howard
Gabriel Agaston’Jr
Toronto
Norman Smith
Murray McMillan
Murd McCutcheon Martel
F Dutton
Dutton
Woodstock
William Middleton
Acton
Elias Hall
Lorne and
Ray
Hulsburgh
J A. Bulloch
Byron Bruce
David Stewart
Alec
Bud Chester
Wasaga Beach
Midland
Arnold Sunter
Gail
Dhanne
Niagara Falls
G Sunter
E. Baldie
Cwnat AU
Paper Sculpture Shells On Display At Georgetown Arts Meeting
At the August Georgetown Arts and Crafts meeting a sample of paper sculpture was shown detailing a bedroom scene with paper walls furniture drapes and bedspread in blue and white. Mrs Seal of Callinke and Mrs H Jo Newman led the session with donations planned for Georgetown Fair prize money and loom weaving exhibitions discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verotny Atone
Georgetown Arts and Crafts
Seal of
Georgetown
Canadian Society of Creative Leathercraft
Joe Chamberlain
Acton Speakers Highlight Sunday Service and Local News
William Bell of Acton was guest speaker at the Sunday service led by the WMS. Fred Mack bought a house in Orangeville and will move soon. Mr. and Mrs. McKim of Toronto join the community as new homeowners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Bell
Acton
W.M.S
William Bell
Fred Mack
Orangeville
Bert Davidson
Robert McEnery
Wellington County
Annie Cole
Duncan Ferguson
Georgetown
McKim
Toronto
Siblings Reunite After 47 Years in Acton Visit
In Acton last week Mrs. H. Wilson of Crieff Scotland met her brother Pete Comrie who travelled by train after farming in the west. They had last seen each other in Scotland when she was a child and Mrs. Wilson recognized him at once. Comrie stayed about a week visiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marana
John Reed
Vancouver
Reed
West
Joseph Reed
Barry Clarke
John
Norman [ McKenzie
Britt
Ada Currie
Sunter
E. Bald c
Roy Hindley
Everton
Worthy
Nut
D. G Robertson
Brian
Ken Robertson
Lynda
Toronto
Terry Struthers
Preston
James Struthere
Acton
H. Wilson
Crieff
Perthshire
Scotland
Jim Wilson
Pete Comrie
Adoption of uniform score system for Five Pin bowling
Ken Huiford of the Acton Bowling Sash and the Ontario Bowling Association urged a uniform Five Pin scoring method across the province at an August meeting. The Ontario Bowling Proprietors Association backed the move and the official OBA count was adopted for the 1954-55 bowling season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ken Huiford
Acton Bowling Sams
Ontario Bowling Association
Ontario Bowling Proprietors’ Association
Reverend Armstrong Guest Preacher at Limehouse Church
Reverend R. Armstrong spoke at Limehouse Presbyterian on Sunday in place of Rev A Calder who is on holidays. Funeral services for Mr Apple yard were held at Limehouse with interment at Georgetown. Little Robbie Roughley broke a small bone in a bicycle fall and is in a cast hoping for quick recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atm
Limehouse Presbyterian Church
A. Calder
James Findlay
Toronto
S. Wright
Peterborough
Hastings
Thomas Appleyard
Appleyard
Georgetown
Robbie Roughley
Arrest D Stewart AWOL From Army Deserter Held on Bail
Donald Stewart 23 of R A Puslinch arrested by Ontario Provincial Police Guelph detachment charged with desertion from the Canadian Army He posted $2 bail after being charged with providing false information in the George Hardie death case He reportedly went AWOL June 2 from the 1st Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment in London and was struck off strength Beverley Stewart 18 brother charged with motor manslaughter in the same incident released on $6 000 bail with him Preliminary hearing set for September 3 by Magistrate Watt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Stewart
R.A . Puslinch
Ontario
Guelph
George Hardie
Royal Canadian Regiment
London
Beverley Stewart
Donald
Watt
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Trafalgar Township
Halton
Phot
Mans
Manning Electric
U.K
Jodphurs
Turnbull S
Turnbull
S.S
Rev. R. Armstrong
Edes
Birmingham
England
George Condie
William Mitchell
Doris Mitchell
Charles Camroux
Edmonton
Joan“Camroux
Sandra
Wayne Turner
Victoria
Ralph Turner
Ralph Moggy
Manitowaning
Manitoulin Island
Herb Reid
Meredith and Noble
Glynn
Ancaster
John Glynn
H. S. Holden
Optometrist
Douglas St
Brampton
WM. C. Allan
Queen St. West
Tom Nicol
D. Stewart
ORCI
Exhibition
Harold Wiles
Cecil A. Carr
Douglas
Tel
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