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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 23, 1948
Page
10
A Citizens Committee canvass finds Acton lacks $4000 of a $8000 objective for a municipal pool. If every wage earner gave $10 the total would reach $10,000, but delays and excuses left the campaign short. Organizers urge action now to fund next summer’s pool.
A Sunday drive to Niagara Falls includes a drunken driving incident near Burlington Beach. A woman driver weaves through traffic as a bridge lowers and raises, then barges back toward Toronto. The writer cites the exhibit This Could Happen To You and questions police action versus enforcement. The piece ends with a note on spelling and writing education in schools.
Barrie Examiner argues pupils graduate with illegible writing and poor spelling. It urges continuing penmanship and spelling in matriculation courses, noting employers require readable writing and correct spelling and that three to four weekly hours would aid all students.
The Georgetown Herald criticizes the North Halton High School District Board for lack of transparency over plans for a central school. The letter questions why the Acton Milton editor was kept in the dark and urges a formal board ruling to clarify the situation.
Seer recollections from Acton and local updates. Laird’s tenement on Young Street nears completion. Miley Morton adds a two storey extension on Bower Avenue. Dr J P Coughlan’s transformed dental parlours near Brown’s Drug Store attract visitors. Orr returns from New York with a wage at a major drugstore. Town discusses an Acton rink with interest and rumors of a forming syndicate. River Street site eyed where a planing mill burned. Somervilles and Fosters visit with relatives. Moessner Robertson Bros frame for a new double tenement on Main Street rises, promising civic improvement.
Thieves raided Mr. A. B. McLean’s barber shop taking cigarettes and tobacco. Mr and Mrs Graham Lawson celebrated their wedding at their daughter’s home in Guelph. Mr and Mrs Harris Cook from Grand Rapids visited Acton and noted changes since his last return twenty years earlier. Myrtle Alma Carton wed Albert Hunter in Esquesing Township. Girls' Softball Club held their annual tournament won by Canada Cycles with a tug of war between Baardmore and Boake Lumber. Old Boys and Girls attended Fall Fair. Isabella Henderson Russell died at Guelph General Hospital aged 80.
The Manitoba Government plans permanent license plates with insert tags to designate gears, likened to Britain and some U S states. The writer condemns Canada’s current system as costly and troublesome, argues for durability, and questions annual reissuance and tax sign parallels.
The piece notes the clash of fall events with baseball and the potential C N E extension into next year. It discusses Ontario Quebec power sharing, lingering summer, and the irony if George Drew leads the Dominion Conservatives and faces provincial cooperation limits.
The readable items indicate a schedule style notice with times like 1.17 am and 6.10 pm. Mentions of Davy and Guelph appear, but details are incomplete. This reads as a partial timetable or alert lacking clear events or authorities.
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