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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 23, 1948
Page
2
A citizens committee canvass shows Acton residents lacked $4000 of the initial pool funding goal. If wage earners each gave $10 the total would reach $10,000, but delays and excuses reduced the collection, threatening no pool next summer unless funds are raised promptly.
A Sunday drive to Niagara Falls features a woman driver speeding erratically on a busy highway. The vehicle weaved, bumped other cars, and finally headed for Toronto, prompting questions about drunken driving and enforcement. An exhibit titled This Could Happen To You is recalled alongside calls for better road safety and traffic law enforcement.
Barrie Examiner argues for continued penmanship and spelling classes in matriculation and public schools. The author says legible writing and correct spelling are essential in daily life and for employment, advocating three to four hours weekly for penmanship over other subjects.
The Georgetown Herald laments lack of board transparency on Central School plans in North Halton High School District. It urges a formal board statement on Speyside and questions rushed inferences about abandoning a central school.
Recollections of Acton from the Free Press dated September 22, 1Bea recounts S Laird’s near finished tenement on Young Street and a two storey addition by Mian Morton on Bower Avenue. Dr J P Coughlan’s dental parlours at Brown's Drug Store are refreshed, and Mr Lewis D Orr has secured a position in a New York drug store. The town eyes a possible rink with talks of a syndicate, the Storey lot on River Street favored. Roberton Bros frame for a new double tenement on Main Street rising, promising improved amenities.
Highlights include a barber shop burglary at Mr A B McLeans on Wednesday last with cigarettes and small articles taken. Golden wedding of Mr and Mrs Graham Lawson at the home of Mrs D L McKinnon in Guelph. Mr and Mrs Harris A Cook of Grand Rapids visiting Acton and noting changes since his last return. Myrtle Alma Carton wed Albert Hunter at Esquesing Township. Girls Softball Club annual ball tournament won by Canada Cycles Weston with a tug of war against Baardmore Co and Boake Lumber Co. Obituary for Isabella Henderson Russell at Guelph General Hospital in her 81st year.
Manitoba government plans permanent license plates with insert tags to show gears, matching British and some U S states. The writer questions slow adoption, criticizes changing numbers and colors yearly, and urges durable plates without annual tax indications.
The piece notes a clash between the short fair season and baseball, anticipates a longer Canadian National Exhibition next year, and discusses Ontario Quebec electricity tensions. It muses on lingering summer and Indian Summer, then ponders Chesley Enterprise irony if George Drew leads the Dominion Conservatives and faces provincial cooperation challenges.
Schedule snippet shows westbound service with Monday 1.17 am and 1209 am exceptions, daily except Sunday 447 am and 650 pm 744 pm, Saturday 136 pm, Sunday 44 am flagstop and Guelph flyer service except weekend 6.10 pm.
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