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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 14, 1957
Page
1
Fragmented listing notes alfalfa hay and chicks from a hatchery. Mentions names like Oohuizen and Peterboro with unclear addresses and dates. Indicates a rural supplier context but readable items are limited and uncertain.
Helen Ingham of Millbrook, daughter of Mr and Mrs B E Ingham, placed first in a nine-competitor class of Shakespearean Drama for girls sixteen and under at the Peterborough festival. She performed Lady Macbeth in Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7. Esme Crampton praised her voice and stage presence, noting room to build vengeance. The Mirror-Reporter joins friends in congratulating her on a fine showing.
Card thanks friends and customers for visits cards letters food flowers inquiries and offers of help during illness signed by Mrs. Cecil C. Peebles.
Citizens are invited to a Liberal nomination meeting in Orono on Wednesday April 10 with Hon. Lester B. Pearson as guest speaker.
The regular monthly Millbrook Village Council meeting on March 4, 1957 had full attendance. After reading February 4 minutes, motions approved receipts and filed communications from Municipal Affairs on grants and health unit water tests for 1956, plus bylaw borrowing up to 12000 from TD Bank. Council authorized culvert and patch purchases, and joined with Cavan Township to seek Association of Assessing Officers of Ontario membership.
A robin returns seen on King Street as signs of spring appear. D R Fowler crosses the road to reach the other side while Gerry E Todd’s truck carries new farm machinery through town.
Two sparrows with a straw in their bill appear ready to pick their teeth, perhaps signaling spring and a nest. Two small girls, not yet of school age, sport candy cigarettes and imitate adult behavior as an old saying shifts from cock crows to hen clucks for the young chicks learning.
Two visiting young women in Toronto mistook a bus driver for a familiar name, shouting Wally. The driver denied it, sparking laughter as they learned Wally rode another TTC bus. Earlier, they tested a terrazzo station floor by crawling around a stairwell, drawing amused stares from other riders.
The auxiliary of the W M S requests all usable clothing for base Korea to be left with or sent to Mrs Arthur Fallis before month end. Supply committee acts through Mrs J Rowland.
The writer thanks the Civic Hospital staff in Peterborough for kindness during their stay and expresses gratitude to friends who sent cheerful messages magazines books flowers and gifts.
Fire Chief Douglas Sheppard reported fire practice with seven firemen responding to a call and noted equipment was in good order. Council adjourned to meet April 1 1957. T W Belch, Clerk.
Cobourg's Hon. Major John W. Foote V C visited Millbrook on Friday to tour the nearing completion Reformatory set to open soon. The Millbrook Lodge IOOF third degree team conferred on a class at Havelock on March 1. Social visits accompany a weekend slate including Mrs Stanford Sloan with Port Hope kin and several local families stopping by Mrs Hetherington.
Progressive euchre will be held on Thursday March 21 at 8 30 pm under the Ladies Auxiliary to Canadian Legion Branch No 402 Millbrook. A draw for a basket of groceries donated by Marshalls Grocery with prizes of lunch. Admission 35 cents. Everyone welcome.
Reform Institution Manager John W Foote announces a new minimum security unit at the Ontario Reformatory Burwash named Camp Bison. The facility will house up to 200 prisoners with private rooms and amenities including radios and private sanitation. Inmates may have unlocked doors under normal conditions and access is limited to those with good behaviour.
Grace Church Woman's Missionary Society will meet at the home of Mrs. Tom Skipp Jr on Wednesday March 20 at 2 00 p m. The gathering will discuss upcoming activities and plan outreach efforts.
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