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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 08, 1948
Page
4
Advertising rates on request and subscription offer $1.50. Try our up-to-date job plant. Prices are sure to please and our work is of the best. Published every Thursday morning at the Times office. R A Forrester, Publisher. Established January 1937.
The article urges local readers to donate to the Star Fresh Air Fund and other welfare agencies, highlighting the need to provide summer camps and respite for underprivileged city children. It stresses acting now, recalling the rewards of giving and the golden rule guiding compassionate aid.
A column debates looming beef prices near a dollar per pound and its effect on家庭 budgets and dieting. The writer jokes about diet shifts toward salads, lighter meals, and steady waistlines while noting uncertainty and humor in the price outlook.
Orono girls’ softball hosts Courtice in final league game at Orono Park while playoffs loom for all teams. Senior Football Club schedules two home games next week against Salina on July 14 and Hempton on July 17. Earlier, Newcastle beat Orono 8 to 4 with Donna West scoring on Anna Staples and Joan Cooper and Lois Dean driving runs. Newtonville edged Orono 15 to 14 after a high scoring affair.
Park St Church choir members and visitors shared a Monday evening gathering with a dessert feast after rehearsal. Mr W J Riddell praised Mrs George Carson and others, and officers were elected with Mrs C Jones as President and Rev A Eustace as Vice President.
In Orono Newtonville and Crono played a high school softball game with multiple scoring innings. Orono added one run in the fourth on M Goode's hit aided by E Tennant. Newtonville blanked in the fourth but rallied for three in the fifth by S Jones Fr Jones and BE Denault. Newtonville then posted five runs in the sixth thanks to M Burley C Caswell L Pernall S Jones and F Jones and two more in the seventh by M Burley and C Caswell. Crono answered with four in the seventh powered by M McKenna IL Deen S Flintoff and A Staples.
William Henry Pope of Kendal dies at Peterborough Civic Hospital on a Friday in July aged 76. Born in Hastings England he emigrated to Canada and bought the Kendal farm in 1912 retiring in 1945. Funeral at Kendal United Church with Rev H A Bunt. interment Orono Cemetery. Survivors: son George and daughter Mrs Wm Geary. Pallbearers and flower bearers named.
Charles Albert Honey of Port Perry for 42 years died at home on July 5 after a brief illness at age 88 or 89. He married Mary Janet Lawson and celebrated a diamond wedding in July. Born Newcastle, he moved to Mitchell as a child, farmed, bought a Port Perry farm in 1906, and was an elder in United Church and a Fidelity Lodge member. Survived by his widow, five sons including dentists Dr. Lee Honey Welland Dr. Morley Honey Toronto and Dr. Ralph Honey Peterborough Lawson Honey Port Perry, and a daughter Mrs. Mary Herdy Port Perry.
Ladies invited to a Salad Plate Exchange at Mrs. V. Robinson’s home on Friday July 16. Bring a salad plate without dressing. Demonstrations on making salad dressing, rolls and tea offered for 10 cents. Cars meet at the town hall at 2 80 p.m.
To Merle and Ross Gilbert of Orono, a daughter was born Wednesday June 30 1948 at Toronto General Hospital Burnside Wing, a sister for Barbara Diane.
George William Henry Pope aged 76 died at Peterborough Civic Hospital on Friday July 2 1948. He rests at Barrow's Funeral Service Main Street Orono until Monday July 5 at 10 a.m. then proceeds to Kendal United Church for a 2 30 p.m. service. Interment at Orono Cemetery.
The Toronto Boy Scouts and staff thank J J Mellor W E Armstrong C Tyrrell and Dr McKenzie for the ice cream treat recorded at the camp on Sunday July Ath.
Local residents attend the Orono Girl Guides picnic planned for Friday July 9 at Orono Community Memorial Park with supper at six. University of Toronto courses draw several members including Miss Jeanne Forrester and Miss Margaret Plintoff. Lawn bowls prepare the park green, and a canning clinic in Orono Town Hall features demonstrations by G T Eyton and others with prizes including a GE Featherweight canner won by Mrs. Geo Carson.
The estate of the late Mrs. Arthur Dewdney to sell at 59 Division St Bowmanville the household effects including antique dining suite piano and china cabinet plus lawn mower and other items. Sale at 1 p.m. Saturday July 10 1948. Auctioneers Wm J Challis and Jack Reid conduct the events. Also standing Timothy and clover hay of Ephriam White Lot 24 Con 6 Clarke Township to be sold Friday July 9 at 7 p.m. 2 miles north of Orono on Highway 35. Hay stored in barn.
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