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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1957
Page
1
The highest point on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental line is at Yellowhead in British Columbia in the Canadian Rockies. It reaches an altitude of 3,717 feet above sea level.
The Rev H C Quinn rector of Cavan Parish fell on stairs at the Rectory on Tuesday July 30 and badly injured his right elbow. The bone was displaced, his arm is in a cast and sling, expected to stay until end of September. The accident interrupted his planned holidays.
The Mirror-Reporter extends hearty congratulations to Mrs Jane Robinson our oldest subscriber who will celebrate her 94th birthday on Tuesday August 13. She recently renewed her subscription in our office and shares a long association with the paper.
A humorous exchange unfolds with a boy asking if someone is his aunt. The response clarifies “on your father's side” and ends with a cheeky remark about being on the wrong side, capturing a light moment from a comic anecdote.
Recent visitors included Mr. and Mrs. T Moore of Welcome and Mr. and Mrs. Pindar and family from Ohio calling on Mrs. Rose Gibbs at Lake Simcoe with her Arkwright relatives in Oshawa. Bar rringer and Sider households hosted in Fen ton Falls with other Toronto guests and locals lingering through August. Several locals attended the rural clergy school in Guelph and trips to the Ottawa Valley while Guides camp participants returned from Pigeon Lake. Toronto guests Fred Moss and Mrs. Crowley joined local hosts for weekend visits.
Herb Cardwell of Wallace Point reported a strange reddish beam lighting the sky near a field. He traced it to a lightning struck hollow old tree that caught fire, creating a natural chimney and flickering sparks like green branches flaring, suggesting repeated lightning strikes in the same spot.
Raymond H. Barringer son of Mr and Mrs J H Barringer Millbrook Ontario is divisional officer at the naval cookery school HMCS Hochelaga Naval Supply Centre in Montreal In his 15th year of naval service he has served on the frigate Jolette cruiser Ontario and Arctic patrol ship Labrador National Defence Photo
Peter Crowley scooted in a small car he recently bought and won’t be deterred. Girl Guides spent ten days at camp on Pigeon Lake and came back sunburned beyond washing pots and pans. Farm equipment of all kinds moved about seeking work and hoping to find it.
Ontario introduces a compact automatic telephone answering and recording device to handle messages in the absence of the caller. Bell Telephone Co. has installed one at Aurora in a chartered accountant’s office, with more units planned for service.
A printed assertion states that white individuals have more scalp hair, averaging about 50,000 hairs, compared with other races. The remark frames a racial comparison in biometric terms.
In Ontario a new automatic attendant answers calls with a pre recorded message of up to 28 seconds inviting messages. Callers can record up to 30 seconds per call, with a total 10 minutes of message time available across calls. Beeps indicate recording windows, messages stored on a revolving drum and erasable after playback. Various users like doctors and agents benefit from this system in homes or on boards.
Cavan Township schedules a joint meeting on Thursday August 8 at 7 30 p m with council members from the township and neighboring bodies to discuss regional issues and upcoming matters.
Mrs Bev Reid suffered a calf laceration when a broken dish fragment struck her while washing dishes in Millbrook. She required medical attention and stitches. The incident follows a previous freak accident reported last week involving Weldon Coulter hit on the ankle by a stone from a power lawn mower. The piece warns against washing dishes and mowing grass.
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