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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 08, 1958
Page
3
A partial OCR fragment lacks a coherent event or names. Readable bits do not form a complete report. no clear action, date, or organization can be identified for a reliable headline and summary.
A garbled line discusses pass and river related terms with unclear meaning. It appears to be an incomplete student or instruction fragment with several letters and words missing, offering no coherent event or context.
A wild week on King Street features a speeding car blasting through a red light and prompting onlookers to compare the scene to satanic imagery. A lurid anecdote describes a hunter firing at starlings with an air rifle, with uncertain accuracy as birds scattered or possibly fell.
A pithy column notes how people clinging to the past live cheaper and mocks forgers who taint cheques. It jokes that the straight path would widen if more followed it and admires those who seek advice. It slyly comments on women and secret desires to write checks.
At the Ladies Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion Branch No. 402 regular meeting in the Legion Hall on Tuesday May 6 two new members Mrs Mary Boughner and Mrs Antoinette Jensen were instituted. Victores transfers from Port Hope Auxiliary. Zone Rally May 26 in Norwood with bus at 5 15 p m meet at Waiting Room. Outstanding reports and payments approved. Delegates to Toronto fall convention chosen. Flower Fund draws awarded. Social Convener resigned and A Scott named. Meeting adjourned. lunch served.
A miscellany notes an aquatic South American coot, Corinthian architecture with fluted carved columns, cork from Mediterranean oak bark, historical counterfeiting punishments by death, people wintering south finding it, and a quip that the best way to avoid work is to do it.
Posters announce a Bethany Victoria Day event on May 19 with a parade from St Pauls Church at 12 30 CST. Activities at the Athletic Grounds include races baseball and girls softball with 35 cents admission for adults and 15 cents for children. Evening dance at Town Hall starts 9 p.m. with Gary DeLorne and his Rock A Billys. admission Gent 75c Ladies 50c.
Rev Floyd Honey, secretary of the Board of Overseas Missions, spoke at St. Andrew's about the Board's recent annual meeting and 11 new overseas missionaries including couples and a single. He described shifting mission work toward native-led teams, global collaboration, and new postings in Trinidad Korea Japan Canada and Africa. The service included choir renditions and hymns.
Over the past two months three tweenies Cythnia Reynolds Deborah Fawcett and Kathy Hard joined the Brownies. Donna Brock Linda Moore enrolled. Several Brownies earned progress on Golden Bar and Golden Hand including seven on skipping four on balance three on laying a table four on tidy room one on knots two on nature six on traffic rules six on ball throwing five on sewing and darning. Mrs Campbell oversaw ten Brownies advancing on Golden Hand and eight on courtesy three on them and four on carrying a message seven on tieing parcels two on skipping two on rhythm one on nature. Mrs Gordon Trick reported one on cooking three on tea and toast. Linda Nelson and Carol Abbott also achieved their Golden Bar or Golden Hand. G.R.
The W M S of St Andrew's Church will meet in the church hall on Wednesday May 14 at 3 pm. Everyone is welcome.
The Rev. W. H. Heustin of Beamsville was a visitor in the village on Wednesday. It notes a remark about how memory can recall long-forgotten things.
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