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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 11, 1941
Page
13
The column records numerous weekend visits and family travel across Toronto Simcoe Stratford and Beamsville. It notes engagements between W.S. Phaber and Lillian Margaret McPhail and James W Robertson with details of a Campbellville church wedding in September.
Four fellow workers of the Wool Combine Corporation of Caneada presented Mr Lloyd Burt with a table lamp before his marriage on Saturday September 6th. An accompanying letter conveyed heartfelt wishes for a long and happy life for the couple and blessings for their future. The bride received numerous gifts from relatives at the event.
A Burlington event crew conducted lakefront soundings on Tuesday ahead of the ILM.CS dedication planned for September 10. The work focused on the lake opposite the lake bank as part of the forthcoming ceremony.
The Board of Health will provide free immunizations for diphtheria scarlet fever whooping cough and smallpox as pupils return to classes and supervised activities. Last fall 53 received diphtheria shots 164 scarlet fever 84 whooping cough 164 smallpox. Hospital medical history cards go out this week and a survey by the M.O.H. will precede permission cards for parents to authorize school immunizations.
The September Wo men's Missionary Society meeting of United Church met at Mrs. G. H. Switzer's home with Mrs. Caldwell presiding. They discussed the work in the New Era and China, heard solos by Mr. W. Coote and closed with Canada Day prayers. Australia is the world’s largest wool producer, accounting for 28 percent of output in 1939 40.
Gordon McGavin and J D Lister with Harold Pickett led a Salada Tea tour to the United States and Western Canada to swap farming ideas. They reported stronger Canadiana American friendship, new irrigation and feeding methods, and the need for more cross border farmer exchanges.
Mrs Wor S Douglas from Toronto visited last week with her children Jack and Mars Elaine. They are currently staying with Mrs Moore and the Misses Claridge at their home, while Mrs D R Smethurst and son Robert from Vancouver BC are also visiting.
About 65 Catholic men from Hamilton Brantford Guelph Kitchener Preston and other diocese centers attended the first retreat at Camp Brebeuf near Rockwood. Rev Fr Hennessy S J led conferences on living a true Christian life with Holy Communion on Monday. Bishop Ryan praised the retreatiting and urged future vocations and parish cooperation. The St John Bosco Young Men's Club was formed with officers from Guelph Hamilton Brantford and Kitchener and will meet monthly.
Neighbors and friends from Os fringe and Erin communities gathered at Erin Town Hall last Thursday evening to toast the newlyweds Mr and Mrs Arnold Sunter. The event followed a farm gathering at Woo Gibson’s farm in Caturavr where a 64 68 barn was purchased from a Shand dam area farm and dismantled earlier in Ull summer Advocate.
About 900 men and 100 women have volunteered to go to Russia with an Australian hospital unit based in Sydney New South Wales. The voluntary group aims to support medical services in the conflict area.
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