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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1962
Page
3
Fruit class entries show numerous labels for apples plums and grapes with author M H McCormick repeatedly cited. Exhibits include Macintosh Cool pairs Northern Spy and Wealthy varieties plus Bartlett Flemish Beauty and various cooking and dessert apples. plums show Reine Claude German Prune and Bradshaw. grapes list Worden and Niagara.
Peter Krussell of Ridgeville led the Fall Fair Poultry Exhibition with 73 firsts 49 seconds and 13 thirds. The list of exhibitors includes G H Ridler Milton Guelph and Acton among others with numerous firsts seconds and thirds across classes such as pigeons bantams and game birds.
Sunday schedule lists Church School at 9 45 am and Teen age Bible Class at 10 00 am followed by Divine Service at 14 00 with sermon The Company of the Committed Junior Congregation during sermon Youth Fellowship at 7 00 pm Christian Citizenship program for ages 14 20 all welcome Everyone Must Welcome.
Judges faced a wide variety of domestic goods as they sampled entries. Winners included white bread by Mrs Young and Mrs Frank Smith, Chelsea buns, plain cookies, assorted tarts, apple and pumpkin pies, lemon pie, banana loaf cake, chocolate layer cake, coconut macaroons, and iced angel cake with many participants named.
Hundreds of items entered in Acton Pair home crafts show include embroidery applique quilts and sewn pieces from Lakeside and Ballinafad chapters. Exhibits feature quilt designs, tea towels pillows linens and accessories by Mrs A Cole Mrs W Dennis Mrs J Fyfe and others with many mothers and clubs presenting color crochet and knitted pieces.
A bustling audience watched boys and girls parade ponies in colorful costumes. Judges praised handlers as results listed include pony brood mares, showmanship for foal, and various novelties with participants from Lakeside, Guelph, Paris, Winterbourne, and more, led by Lew Gunby and H Brown in a wide range of pony categories.
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