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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
1
The piece urges continuing fall fairs as community hubs during wartime and notes education, postwar shop hours, and small business opportunities. It cites Ontario politics, the milk cow analogy, and a renewed interest in locally run stores while suggesting a camera business opening for mid-sized communities.
Editorial notes praise Canada’s resources and advise households to stock fuel for the holiday. A rural route tax form distribution is noted, with a farmer advantage highlighted. No. 25 Highway is praised for its surface quality due to ongoing repairs, claimed the best road this summer in the writer’s memory.
A Mahout near Kandy in Ceylon attempted to manage a roadblock using an elephant. The elephant charged as a frightened driver fled. The mahout recovered with the help of his wife who arrived and led him away by the ear as the queue stretched into the distance.
The Prince Edward Island Command of the Canadian Legion held its annual convention in Charlottetown and adopted a resolution calling for the establishment of divorce courts on the Island. A. B. Clark of Charlottetown was elected president.
Lynn River Tensen Olive, a Purebred Holstein from Em erson Ford Homby, increased lifetime production to 123 485 pounds of milk and 4 012 pounds of butterfat after a recent FR 0 P feat. Milked twice daily across eight lactations, she earned Red Seal credentials and excels in 30 percent day performance. Olive’s records include 639 pounds butterfat from 18 215 pounds milk in 20 ½ days and 426 pounds butterfat from 14 190 pounds milk in 365 days at age thirteen.
The vital statistics bureau reports July had more births in Fredericton than any other month, with 12 more births than June. This marks a record surge in the city's birth statistics reported last month.
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