18 Jun 1959
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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1959
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows vague notices about permissions, cancellations, and property rules in Proctor Ontario. The readable text references the word ermission and pend at by cancelled, with scattered mentions of law exceptions and a person or people connected to property rulings in Ontario.
Advertisement for outside paint and related supplies from brands including Sherwin-Williams. Mentions one gallon cans and a black liquid product with a price around 99 cents per gallon. Mentions money order and COD payments, and encourages purchase to save money.
A Strawberry Coffee Party will be held in the basement of Christ Church Bailieboro on Wednesday June 24. Supper starts at 7:30 p.m. A short programme is planned with admission 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children.
Donald McKnight son of Mr and Mrs J H McKnight Fallis line was named principal of King Edward School Peterborough by the Board of Education to take effect September 1 1959. He previously served as vice principal of Prince of Wales School and now receives a notable promotion. The McKnight family resides at 565 Steel Ave Peterborough.
Winners for best pen of three bacon hogs listed with names Gordon Fallis Howard Malcolm Tom McCamus Leonard McNeill Robert Moffatt Lloyd Stinson and Robert Moffatt. Champion Carcass awarded to Gordon Fallis with reserve to Howard Malcolm. Canada Packers funded two bacon hog prize to Tom McCamus.
A note of gratitude expresses sincere thanks to the North Group of St Andrew's W A the Cavan Quilting Club neighbours and friends for fruit flowers cards letters and get well wishes while in Toronto and Peterborough Hospital and for help at home during absence.
About 40 friends and school mates held a surprise farewell party for Gail Lawson on Friday June 12 1959 at the Armouries. The hall featured pink and blue decor and guests enjoyed dancing and a lunch before Gail moves with her family to Whitby.
The 110th Annual Livestock Show of the Millbrook Agricultural Society opened with a noon parade led by the Millbrook Bugle Band and Bethany Community Band. Attendance was satisfactory despite heat and the missing merry-go-round and Ferris Wheel. School exhibits impressed and the livestock show ranked above average, with a strong display of farm implements and wares. The Ladies Aid of Grace Presbyterian Church provided a well-run supper.
A synopsis from The Reporter by E. S. Glarry was aired on Neighbourly News by Selkirk. The Durham Club will visit Millbrook on Saturday June 20. Selkirk is an old Millbrook boy.
The Good Samaritan 1-Odd Fellows and Rebekahs in Ontario operate more than seven hundred hospital beds and over eight hundred wheelchairs along with bed tables crutches and other sick room items. Items are loaned free of charge to needy cases through Cancer Pelio and Tuberculosis committees, with waiting lists in most towns.
Millbrook mourns the death of Herbert A Kerr at his home from a heart attack. A longtime bank executive and community leader, he served in Freemasonry, Lions Club, Red Cross and Grace Presbyterian Church, with a funeral in Grace Church and burial in Elmvale. He is survived by wife Kathryn Patterson and son Donald H Kerr, with another son William lost in World War II.
Mr T R Wideman of Bowmanville visited Millbrook on Monday. Mr and Mrs John Blair and Mr and Mrs H Bremner drove to Buffalo to attend their cousin Miss Darlene Huttons wedding. Mr Frank McIndoo of Bowmanville visited the village on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Jack Blakely and Mrs Allan Gill visited Mrs R H Blakely and attended the Millbrook fair last week. Mrs W Gray of Toronto with Mrs E Handle and her son in law Mr Harold Sider and children of Fenelon Falls visited Mr and Mrs J H Barringer Sunday afternoon. Mrs J H McKnight returned home from hospital Monday after her recent operation.
Mrs. Walter Widdis sent her husband to The Reporter with two extra large eggs laid by their hens. Measurements show one egg at TY inches by 9 inches and the other at 614 inches by 7% inches, with a double yolk and a single yolk egg. After refrigeration, the eggs were cooked and shared as a meal for friends.
Workmen dig and lay water pipes on King Street starting Monday as part of the Mil brook Commission water improvement. The project is costly and the public will bear the expense, including the implied payments to the contractors.
A reminder to attend a Sunday worship service at a church of the attendee’s choosing. The notice emphasizes personal freedom in selecting a place of worship and encouraging regular attendance.
A 1903 Canadian King Edward 10¢ coin limited to 500000 pieces is valued between 250 dollars and 10 dollars depending on condition. The received example grades very good and is priced at 2 dollars 50 cents, offered for sale.
In Pontypool a Liberal candidate secured a majority for the first time, yielding a slim majority of two votes. The result stands as a historic milestone, though the margin remains small and signals a shift in local political dynamics.
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