Weekend visitation and travel notes across Acton and area
Local residents and visitors from Toronto Niagara Falls and Hamilton are listed in a weekend travel and calling column. Names include Miss Etta Dilla Miss Aimee Speight Miss Verne Smith Miss Margaret Moynahan and many others visiting relatives friends and institutions in Acton Trenton Windsor Peterborough and Huntsville. A Duke of Kent guard honor is noted and Alva Kentner marks her 79th birthday with family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
In - Verne Smith
Margaret _ Moynahan
Toronto
FE. Hawthorne
Kay Family Announces Margaret Paamoere Wedding
Mr and Mrs A J Kay of Guelph announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter Margaret to Edward HR Paamoere son of Mr and Mrs Mryo W FO Pasmore of Rockwood. The ceremony will be held at Koos Presbyterian Church in Guelph on Saturday September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mro
A J Kay
Guelph
Margaret
Edward HR Paamoere
FO Pasmore
Rockwood
Koos Presreterian Church
Elph
Tern
Uve
Grimsby
Niagara
Limehouse Women’s Institute
Institute
Anya
Tmen
Women's Institute
Hill
Hills
Evelyn
Matchewan
Svie
Bear
McMillan
Mwas
Ace
Johnson
Fair Dates Set for 1941 Season Across Ontario
Ontario towns announce fair dates for September and October 1941. Listed are Auton August 22 to September 6 Brampton September 9-10 Fergus September 11-12 Georgetown September 22-13 Orangeville September 9-10 Bracebridge September 19-20 Galt September 18-20 Grand Valley September 26-27 Milton September 17 Markham September 26-27 Holton October 24 Cooksville September 30-October 1 Aberfoyle October 7-8 Erin October 14 Thanksgiving Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AUTON
Aberfoyle
Erin
Gregory Theatre Presents Comedy and Travel Programs
Army camp comedy with Abbott and Costello titled Loves Intrigue joins travel talk Aluring Alaska. Popeye features Problem Pappy. Chapter 5 King Of The Royal Mounted appears alongside Mad untomerry with Bert Wheeler and Phil Morgan. Life With Henry stars the Aldrich family with Jackie Cooper. Fox News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbott & Costello
Alaska
King of the Royal Mounted
Bert Wheeler
Phil Morgan
Henry
Submarine Zone Thrills with Bennett and O'Brien
On Monday September 8 the bill features Submarine Zone with Constance Bennett and Pat O'Brien, followed by Bundle of Bliss, Snapshots, and Take It Or Serve It a cartoon feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constance Bennett
Pat O'Brien
Three Course Menus Bid For Tenpence
The notice lists three typical menus offered for tenpence. Menus include Lentil Soup Steak Pie Cabbage Potatoes Rhubarb Tart and Custard and Tail Soup Brown Stew Carrots Potatoes Date Pudding and Custard.
Diners Plan Wartime Meal Scheme For Yorkshire Collieries
The Miners Welfare scheme provides onion sauce, cabbage and potatoes with jam sponge and custard. Soup costs 2 pence. two vegetables six pence and pudding two pence. Pit head canteens feed 3,300 to 4,000 meals daily across three West Yorkshire pits as Lord Woolton orders expert help to expand a wartime measure into a permanent English colliery benefit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ares
Bolsover
Miner's Welfare
Pithead
West Yorkshire
Lord Woolton
Forestry notes on river works and farming in Ont
A letter from R. W. Johnson from Belle Island on the Montreal River discusses forestry work, river dam planning, and summer maintenance. He notes heavy rainfall and frosts, crop impacts, and changing farm prices, plus community events, family visits, and reflections on wartime conservation and labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Island
Montreal
New Liskeard
Halleybury
Hal
Shirley Wright
Limehouse
Thes
England
Milton and Milton District News Roundup
Irwin Lavery of Oklahoma visits Milton relatives after 40 years abroad. Robert Lyle, son of Mrs Lyle, joined RCA and leaves Hamilton for a military camp. Cadets from Calloway family honored at a Soldiers Overseas program on CBS. Red Cross street fair in Milton draws hundreds as townsfolk support the Canadian Legion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EP Lane
Acton
Wilner Hamlton
16Th Line
Trafalgae
Erwin Lavery
Oklahoma
Milton
United States
Robert Lyle
ACV
Vlesk
Ren
Joe Calloway
Sana
DeWitt Galloway
O. Milton
CBS
Iran
London
England
Multon and District
Red Cross
Canadian Legion
Holland Under The Yoke
Professor Geebrandy describes Netherlands under Nazi occupation fifteen months in, detailing food shortages, rationed goods, halted industry, and mass arrests. He cites destroyed ports, blackmailed labor, and widespread political and cultural repression including censorship and suppression of parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geebrandy
Netherlands Council of Ministers
Netherlands
England
Third Reich
Offleinia
Moreilesa
Gestipo Tuck
Cérninan
Beehive theft foiled by counterattacking bees
In Asheville North Carolina Joan Melton reported thieves stole his beehive but the bees defended it. The hive lay about 200 yards from his home and the bees were inside buzzing without honey. A separate item from Manchester England notes a bus driver and conductors fined for talking through a moving bus window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
N.C
Joan Melton
Melton
Manchester
England
Ocr
Manchester Corporation
Fie
Also Mentioned on This Page
Aimee Speight
Moorecroft
Tom Watson
Sidney N.S
Miss la Verne Smith
Trenton
Mrs. F. Bowes
W. Y. Lane
Orton
N. F. Moore
Harry Barth
Glen Williams
Alva Kentner
R. J. McPherson
Dorothy McPherson
Hazel Wilson
Western Hospital
Frances E.dins
Nelson Village
Mrs. E. Huffman
Hamilton
Nora Kenney
R. N
John McAusland
Mern
Niagara Falls, Nly
F. C Ruffel
Leonard
Elmira
United Church Parsonage
Marie Clayton
Waterdown
Notre Dame Academy
C. H. Harrison
Haliburton
Dr.) Wellwood
Prez Evans
Grandview
Misa Patsy Evans
George Switzer
Windsor
King Edward School
Austin Reid
Stratford
Jack Reid
Elizabeth Barrett
S. H. Reid
Ivan G. Chalmers
Riclg.s
A. W. Fosbury
Wolseley Barracks
Robert Currie
Robert Hamilton
Milton Heights
Peterborough
Sit’ Parsons
Howard McDonnald
Robert Do Mcdonald
Wilma
Clare
Brigden
Meo
Alex Macdonald
Church Street
Smio
FL Wale Brampton
Ated
Llosa Robertson
Guelpho
Mer
Jom Jennings
Noliday
Huntsville
Kawartha Lakes
John Eabbors
Dhe
Arg Te and
Sutherland Magichanders
Hampton
Duke of Kent
Henrys Hilts
Bowssevin
George Wallace
Clothes Shop
Yonge St
W. T. Patterson
Maher Shoe
B. D. Rachlin
Soundcleat
Kelly & Aiken
Orangeville
Ontario
Las Vegas
Mauisfield
Nottinghampstire
C/o Forestry Branch
Atachwan, Ont
Farx Pures
Holland
Germany
Nazla
National Socialist Party
Ona
Bank of Montreal
Hay War
W. H
Clayton
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