21 Aug 1958
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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 21, 1958
Page
1
Voice from Millbrook Dear Edition argues Millbrook High School posts strong promotion rates. Grade 9: 18 promoted of 20, 90 percent. Grade 10: 13 of 15 promoted, 86 percent. Grades 11 and 12 combined: 21 of 26 promoted, 81 percent. Grade 13: 15 percent successful in Departmental results. asserts figures compare favorably with other schools and invites comparison.
Fragmentary line hints at listing or notice urging readers to note high price goods and to compare prices. No clear names, places, or dates available.
Orono girls defeated Millbrook 11 to 6 in the first game of their best of five final series at Orono last Wednesday night. Hutchinson homered for Millbrook, while Crono and McDowell led Orono with strong hitting as Millbrook struggled with nine errors. The second game is set for Friday at 7 p.m. at the Fair Grounds.
Mr and Mrs Harold Hub Beard announce the engagement of their daughter Wilma to Aubrey Smith son of Mr and Mrs Wm Smith Bathurst NB. The wedding is planned for Saturday September 20 1958 at 2 o clock in the Pentecostal Church Peterborough.
A bus will depart at 8 30 A.M. on Thursday August 28 from the Mull brook Waiting Room for the Toronto Exhibition. Prospective travelers should notify Miss Mina Gibson at earliest convenience. Return fare is two dollars sixty five cents.
Millbrook firemen were called to Bailieboro on Tuesday to tackle a field blaze. Fire crews arrived to extinguish flames threatening crops and nearby brush, with no injuries reported. Authorities urged residents to exercise caution during dry spells.
The column recalls locals Eddie Nattress and John Tinney pushing a car to Reid's Garage then driving off after a gasoline drink. It notes Mr Scott and Mr Kell in the Waiting Room roof, Nathan Haw and Jack Coulter altering Woods Restaurant entrance, and Toronto Dominion Bank staff counting money with smiles.
Fire Monday evening at Jas Widdis farm on Pontypool road two miles west of Millbrook destroyed house barn and sheds. Premises dilapidated and unoccupied for years, water scarce, local brigade unable to stop the blaze but prevented spread to nearby grass and a swamp. Large crowd gathered to view the spectacle.
Lloyd Peel expresses gratitude to Dr. M. E. Hobbs Sisters of St Josephs Hospital Mrs Law M Fallis and the Ladies Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion for cards and letters during hospital confinement.
Robert Armstrong a former Cavan Council member won first for best bale at first cut day and first in winter wheat at the Peterborough Fair this month His prize tally also includes a win by Leonard McNeill another Cavan farmer in the hog division of the livestock section at the same event Congratulations Bobbie
A fragmented poem speaks of whipped cream and apple sauce, woven through food imagery. The speaker ruminates on loneliness and self-harm, hinting at eating to death as a disturbing undercurrent. The lines mix meals with melancholy, suggesting a troubled mood.
A local opinion questions the tar coating on King Street. Critics say the job is noisy, creates more racket from stopping cars, and will wear away soon while the money spent remains.
The Town Group of the Women's Association of St Andrew's United Church will hold a hostess tea in the church hall on August 27 at 4 p.m.
A baking sale will be held in the Waiting Room Mill Brook on Saturday August 23 at 3 pm under the auspices of Grace Presbyterian Church Ladies Aid.
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