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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
4
Established January 1937 published every Thursday morning at the Times Office Orono Ontario. Advertising rates on request. Subscription price is $1.25.
Mr C J Hughson received a belated birthday gift after a town canvass led by George Mitchell raised over fifty dollars from 180 homes. In a family gathering Miss Elsie Rowe read a presentation address as Hughson accepted the purse with gratitude, and The Times extended birthday wishes.
The Times notes Park Street Sunday School’s recent 1944 anniversary and anticipates a spring trend of church and Sunday School anniversaries. The piece contrasts past horse and buggy travel with today’s autos, suggesting anniversaries draw local congregations and distant visitors alike, and that such reunions foster fellowship.
In early 1944 Canada sent more than 38 million dollars of exports to southern Italy now under Badoglio, with war matériel and civilian relief. Rolling stock and fighting materials led the trade, alongside food, medicines, appliances, and other goods including 50 thousand dollars of envelopes, much to Italy.
War service hazards reach home as Wilfred Froste faces near misses and John Barnes, a wireless operator, perished after a torpedo attack off the Florida coast two years ago. The I O O F honored Barnes with flowers for Clarke Church and Wilbert Crossley, his foster father.
The wartime gardens study shows 209 200 gardens in large communities and many more in villages and on farms producing about 57 500 tons of vegetables. Yields vary by crop with potatoes and tomatoes leading, while peas and sweet corn account for a small share. The report credits the Department of Agriculture and wartime bodies for the movement and notes savings in transport and rubber wear.
Local items salute residents visiting relatives and mourning deaths. Gilbert Greig, overseas, wounded. Alexander Greig dies June 1 in Christ ie Street Hospital with funeral June 3 at McDougal Brown on St Clair Ave. interment in Soldiers Plot Prospect Cemetery. W I meeting June 14 discusses roll call errors and park repairs and institute picnic plans.
Mercer reviewed traffic laws and common driving license questions with applicants. Mrs. Luxon recited a poem on careful driving as part of the program. The session closed with the National Anthem.
Citizens reflect on thanks for peace as war machines stay distant, noting French, Danish, and Polish suffering elsewhere. The speaker welcomes spared streets and fields, valuing earned work over oppression and theft by greed.
The editorial cites Minister Kennedy calling 1944 potentially the toughest year and urges local High School staff and students to volunteer for farm work to support haying and dairying. It praises farm volunteers, warns of grain and milk shortages, and urges organized Farm Commandos to aid farmers for the war effort.
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