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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 07, 1950
Page
13
A UK firm received an urgent cable on Tuesday for special rugby jerseys to be used in a Montreal game that Saturday. Jerseys were completed by 3 pm and shipped by air to London, then trans shipped to Montreal by BOAC to arrive in time for the match.
The Orono Township Hall hosts the Annual Dance and Draw on Friday December 15 1950 with Ruth Wilsen's Old Tyme Band. Sixteen prizes include a Miss Betty doll ten $1 bills in a go cart five turkeys geese and chickens. Admission 50c. Proceeds support community service work.
Mrs Thompson Chageys Locks visits Miss Viola Gilfillan. Mrs LeDrvew returns to her sister’s home. Cobourg visitors Mr and Mrs P Mallory tour Harlow. Mrs Wm Stewart of Port Stanley guests of the Carmans. Leroy Brown Lindsay welcomed a baby girl. Miss A Morrison returns from Hamilton visit. Mr C S McLaren spends weeks with the Clarkes of Prescott. Mrs Gladys Gamsby returns from Oshawa Hospital improved. Mrs George McKenna moves to Mrs Lunn’s apartment. Fred Trull and party visit Toronto. Helen Carter Winnipeg joins Miss Sadie Brown’s guests in Stonehouse. Mr and Mrs Wm Found of Toronto visit Dane Found’s parents. Warren Coryell and Leskard spend winter with daughter Mrs Menzie Gibson in Weston. Gen Hancock and children visit Egerton Hancock’s family in Warkworth. A busload of W I members go to Tyrone Institute to hear Mrs Goodfellow speak on her Europe tour as a delegate to the ACWW Copenhagen conference.
The Maple cattle breeders crown Orchard Vale Laura Texas as world champion cow with 865 days producing 22 005 pounds milk and 778 pounds fat at 3.54 percent. BC Holstein Annet Ormsby Inka Lass falls from the title with 21 800 pounds milk and 695 pounds fat in 1946. Tranquille Canary Vale Flota of the University of Saskatchewan leads fat with 829 pounds from 20 823 pounds milk. Cecils Atkinson and son Glenn run Orchard Vale Farm at Schomberg.
On Monday night at the Tee Palace the Junior Hockey Club explained two passing plays and stressed hard precise passes. Plans for a series of exhibition games begin next week with possible action in cold weather at the arena.
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