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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 14, 1941
Page
4
Orono this month faces a scarlet fever scare with warnings to report cases and penalties for violations while authorities vow strict enforcement. Canada appeals to housewives to donate worn aluminum items for war needs, with drives September 5 and 6 to stock aircraft production.
July custom returns reached 124826 dollars with June at 96869.31 in Cobourg district. Other items note Mrs. William Allison’s 102nd birthday in Prince Edward County, a fatal train collision near Colborne, and local civic notices including a Bowmanville wedding and Oshawa flower trophy award.
Letters to the Editor discuss a light scarlet fever outbreak in Clarke Township. The writer explains transmission via nasal spread and coughs, notes heart and kidney complications, and calls for timely bed rest and reporting. Public health measures include quarantine and penalties for noncompliance to protect the community.
Notice to creditors for the estate of Elizabeth Edwards of Pontypool Ontario. Claims must be sent with security details by September 30, 1941, to C. T. Rodman KC, solicitor in Biggar Sask. Executors are James R. Fewster and C. T. Rodman KC.
Seven room frame house with bathroom, cellar, kitchen water, garage, stable, henhouse and garden. Apply to Mrs Thos Patterson Orono phone 79r10.
Farm near North Part Lot 22 Con 5 Clarke Township Durham County totaling about 72 acres features a good frame house and a large barn on stone foundation with a stable. North Half Lot 12 Con 9 Clarke Township 100 acres more or less with mixed timber. Apply to James Wannan, Trustee, Orono Ontario or R R Waddell, Orono Ontario.
Robert Moment of Plainfield New Jersey visits Orono his father's hometown to see the village Caesarea and Lake Scugog his first trip plan to return and stay longer before heading to Detroit to meet his sister and take an architecture position.
Patty Conklin, a leading Canadian showman, observes a shift toward fast air plane like carnival attractions. He notes many such rides will be featured at Frolexland during the Canadian National Exhibition.
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