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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 14, 1950
Page
3
Personal notes report Wayne Curne returning from Sick Children's Hospital and Mam Mamie Mainprize convalescing at home. Authors list hospital stays and family visits in Toronto Guelph Winnipeg and Regina with several residents attending Harultun Normal School and St Josephs Hospital.
This week the Free Press Editorial Staff welcomes a new member, Miss Kus Brown, from Toronto. She joins the team to help prepare each week’s copy and will bring details from her recent European tour. Jam Dalts and Kav Trawn will continue their courses at Avernon Institute of Technology.
Mrs Norman Hill dies at Fergus last Friday after a sudden illness. Charles Burge mourns his sister, formerly of Marten, with two daughters in Toronto and Vermilion Alberta. Funeral at Johnstone Cemetery after service at Lome Pat tason Funeral Home. Also notes George Day elected to Canadian Postmasters Association Ontario Branch executive in London. Hydro station alterations underway for increased power. Congratulations to Mrs Mack of the Snack Bar on her birthday with cake from Saunders Bakery. Church services and harvest festival events at St John’s and Campbellville, Rally and anniversary services at Presbyterian Church. Missed connections with former St John’s rectors at the Canadian National Exhibition.
Esquesing Township council met on August 16 with Reeve Thomas presiding. The meeting endorsed County Equalization and ordered a copy sent to county officials. The report notes the era of balers from IBM patents to automatic pick-up balers first produced in 1940 at New Holland, Pennsylvania.
Lakeside Chapter 10.D.E. meets in Legion rooms September 12 with Regent Mrs Hazel Orr presiding. Members seek support for Queen Marys carpet exhibition and fund donations. Reports adopted. Provincial Chapter meet in London in October. a delegate may be sent.
Fragmentary text appears to describe an auction market with references to lanes and stalls. Names and places are garbled. The readable parts hint at a market scene with multiple vendors and a single event but lack clear facts, dates, or participants.
The sale includes registered Guernsey cattle, Holsteins, grade cattle, and young stock from Medarn Farms in Erin Township. Equipment offered covers Ferguson tractors, plows, disc harrows, mowers, wagons, binders, rakes, silos, hay and grain, plus milking machinery, with cash terms and no reserve as the farm is sold.
The article details rate cutoffs for complainants, noted commercial use with separate metering, sewer work on Bower Avenue exposing misaligned service and main taps, and repairs by Spar tan Construction. It mentions tank coating ideas, meetings with Horton Steel Co and officials, and lists several vendors and department figures.
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