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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
17
The piece urges continued fall fairs across the province as communities rally during wartime. It notes school returns, postwar planning, changes to shop hours and owner operated stores, and explores potential small business openings such as local photography and finishing services in towns of 2000-plus.
The editorial notes reflect holiday observances with quiet celebration or town departures. It urges households to stock fuel now and highlights Canada’s resource wealth as a safeguard for investments. A rural route tax forms distribution is noted, and the improved No 25 Highway surface, praised for faster repairs and a top road this summer.
In Kandy Ceylon a mahout wisely stops at a roadblock caused by a sick elephant. The elephant prepares an attack as a driver offers aid. The mahout’s wife arrives an hour later, leads him away by the ear, while vehicles back up.
The Prince Edward Island Command of the Canadian Legion held its annual convention in Charlottetown and passed a resolution urging the establishment of divorce courts inland. A B Clark of Charlottetown was elected president.
Lynn River Tensen Olive, a purebred Holstein from Em erson Ford Homby, has raised her lifetime milk total to 123 465 Ibs with 4 012 Ibs butterfat after a new FR.0. P. feat. Milking occurred twice daily across eight lactations. Her latest record at thirteen years shows 426 Ibs butterfat from 14 190 Ibs milk in 365 days. Olive is rated Excellent In Selective Neglatration.
The city’s vital statistics bureau reports July saw more babies born than any month in Fredericton's history with 12 more births than June.
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