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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 04, 1941
Page
5
A long list of residents from Acton and surrounding areas spent weekends visiting friends and family in Toronto, Trenton, Windsor, Hamilton, Brampton, and other Ontario communities. Notables include Miss Frances E. Dills starting a teaching post in Nelson Village and Pte Ivan Chalmers preparing for Wolseley Barracks. Milas Etta Dills enjoyed a weekend in Toronto as did many others visiting relatives and attending local events.
Mr and Mrs A J Kay of Guelph announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter Margaret to Edward K R Pasmore son of Mr and Mrs W F O Passmore of Rockwood. The ceremony will take place at Koos Presbyterian Church Guelph on Saturday September.
Acton September 16 17 Brampton August 22 September 6 Fergus September 11 12 Georgetown September 22 13 Orangeville September 9 10 Bracebridge September 19 20 Calton September 18 20 Galt September 19 20 Grand Valley September 26 27 Milton September 17 Paris September 26 27 Markham October 24 Bolton October 3 4 Cooksville September 30 October 1 Aberfoyle October 7 8 Erin Thanksgiving Day event dates listed for various towns across the region.
Gregory Theatre features Army camp comedy with Abbot and Costello in Loves Intrigue. Travel talk Alluring Alaska entertains audiences. Popeye cartoon Problem Pappy airs. Chapter 5 King Of The Royal Mounted shown.
A film notes list shows the comedy “Las Vegas Nights” with Bert Wheeler and Phil Morgan and the Aldrich family feature “Life With Henry” starring Jackie Cooper. Fox News.
A Monday program features Submarine Zone with Constance Bennett and Pat O'Brien followed by comedy Bundle of Bliss plus Snapshots and Take It Or Leave It cartoon entertainment.
The notice lists three course meal options priced at tenpence per person. Menus include Lentil Soup, Steak Pie, Cabbage Potatoes, Rhubarb Tart and Custard. Also offered are Ox Tail Soup, Brown Stew, Carrots, Potatoes, Date Pudding and Custard.
Onion Sauce cabbage potatoes and jam sponge with custard are offered in West Yorkshire pit head canteens serving 3300 to 4000 hot meals daily. The project, costed at 64 for soup and two vegetables and 2 for pudding, aims to pay for itself as it expands to the Bolsover group led by Manslket colliery. Lord Woolton has appointed an expert to organize industrial canteens, signaling a permanent wartime measure likely to become standard in mining communities.
An informal letter from ROW Johnson discusses forestry work across the region, weather impacts on farming, crop conditions, and local prices. He notes rain, frosts, harvests, and labor concerns, plus social tidbits about the Limehouse Women’s Institute, a Hill family visit, and bear sightings near camps.
The piece notes Mrs He Lame and baby son Iron Acton visiting Mr Wilmer Hamilton in Trafalgar for weeks, Erwin Lavery of Oklahoma visiting Milton relatives, Robert Lyle son of Mrs Lyle enlisting in ROA, John St. whomas joining the ROA and leaving for a military camp in Quebec. It mentions Ren and Joe Galloway soldiers and a CBS Soldiers Overseas Program from London. A Red Cross street fair brings Milton residents out for a gay nineties vibe and chess champing.
A wartime speech condemns occupation in the Netherlands, detailing starvation wages, factory decline, farm confiscations, and mass arrests. It cites inflation, rationing, and Nazi control of industry, press, and political life, with thousands imprisoned and freedom suppressed.
Beekeepers in Asheville report thieves attempting to steal Jonat Mel ton's hive about 200 yards from his home. The bees reportedly fought back, driving the intruders away as Melton reclaims the hive amid buzzing activity. In Manchester England a bus driver and conductress were fined ten shillings each for leaning through a moving bus window during service.
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