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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 27, 1958
Page
4
The Ontario Safety League warns that mixing alcohol with driving creates an instant, irreversible transformation to danger. Excessive confidence from alcohol slows reactions, harms sight and judgment, and fogs habits, worsened by weather or illness but driven by overconfidence.
Rutter Granite Co from Port Hope Ontario offers monuments markers corner posts and inscriptions. Contact box 622 for orders or inquiries.
At a February ceremony CBC Stamp Club president Doug Patrick presented the 37,000th membership to Marie Lecourt of Toronto while Doug Patrick’s son Robert, the first member, looked on. The club’s radio broadcasts air Saturdays on CBC Trans-Canada. A ten cent fee buys a CBC Stamp Club button a packet of 50 stamps and a book How to Start a Stamp Collection by the club president.
The article warns that any amount of alcohol creates danger on the road. Even cautious drivers may harm themselves when intoxicated. Speeding and reduced attention raise crash risk, with excuses like feeling steadier after drinks proving false. The piece stresses impaired driving leads to fatal outcomes and jail.
The annual vestry elected officers including Rector's Warden David R Fowler and People's Warden Ronald Palmer. Sidesmen, auditors, and delegates were chosen, with projects to refurnish the vestry and church office, add a new floor, cup boards, and a rector's desk in memory of the late T A Campbell. A northwest buttress will be torn down and rebuilt. Fiscal year showed gains, but spiritual vitality remains the measure. The canvass promotes 5 percent stewardship gifts and aims for 100 percent attendance.
The Ontario Horticultural Association will sponsor a European Spring Garden Tour led by H S Ransom of the Kemptville Agricultural School. The itinerary includes stops in Rotterdam Amsterdam The Hague Brussels Paris London Windsor Chelsea and Southampton. Interested members should contact their local Agricultural Society or write Mr Ransom at Kemptville Agricultural School now.
A brief notice invites readers to attend any church service of their choice this Sunday. The message emphasizes personal worship flexibility and freedom of religious practice.
Counties Council appointed the Board of Health for the Northumberland and Durham Health Unit at the January session. Members are H. E. Walkey Newtonville chairing, Ray Bothwell Fraserville, D. C. Johnston Grafton, F. M. Rutherford Campbellford, and Ruby Megegs Gore’s Landing as lieutenant governor’s representative. The first year meeting was January 25 in Cobourg, with monthly meetings scheduled.
Classified fragments offer sales jobs and ads for hay, electric separator, and business opportunities across Canada. Includes Montreal address, Millbrook farm listings, and a Health Unit note on monthly actions and sanitation. Renew Your Subscription.
Temporarily unemployed carpenter offers carpentry and general repair services at special rates. Prompt work available now. Phone Lawrence Coulter at 89 W Mill Brook.
The Costume Carnival scheduled for Saturday, March was postponed to March 8 due to mild, waterlogged arena ice. If kept cold, the event would go ahead but current conditions delay ice sports. A playoff hockey match Millbrook versus Lock was also called off. Locals hosted Haveli Friday, losing 3 to 2, with next game awaited.
We thank Wright Dr Magee Dr V chard and Dr Doyle and the St Joseph Hospital staff for their kindness. The Rev Francis Holm friends and neighbors sent visits flowers and gifts from the South Group of the W A and ecards letters that helped shorten our hospital stay. Mr and Mrs Walter Widdi
The Girl Guides will hold St Patrick's Tea in the Waiting Room Millbrook on Saturday March 15 at 3 o clock. Everyone is welcome.
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