Local Social Notes and Wartime Shipbuilding Shift
A sequence of short local mentions shows residents visiting and hosting across Kendal Toronto Oshawa Wort Hope Peterboro and Bowmanville plus a note that before the war India had no shipbuilding and now builds ships for anti submarine patrols minesweepers rotor launches and other craft for wartime duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aylward Little
Toronto
N. Little
Clarence Bell
Oshawa
Hame
Tattersall
Henry Hoy
J. Glover
Miss Beebe
Darlington
Agnes White
Friend
Wort Hope
Betty Watters
Peterboro
Luxon
India
Mother's Day Service and Anniversary Plans at Kirby
Sunday service on May 14 at 3 00 p.m. features a program titled Homes make the Nation. Parents may notify the minister for child baptisms. Sunday School Anniversary is set for June 18 at 3 00 p.m. and 7 30 p.m.
Soil erosion topic highlighted by U S Agriculture official
Dr H H Bennett chief of the soil conservation service spoke at the Ontario Crop Improvement Association annual meeting on soil conservation in war and peace. He illustrated the massive wastage of soil due to wind and water erosion threatening many farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Bennett
Soil Conservation Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington
Ontario Crop Improvement Association
Contour farming urged to curb soil erosion on rolling land
The article explains contour cultivation as a practical method to reduce sheet and gully erosion on sloped fields, noting wind erosion and drifting sand threaten soils in the Prairie Provinces and parts of Canada, with Moray Scotland cited for dune movement and reclamation efforts by plantings and forestry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie
Middle West
Quebec
Ontario
Moray
Scotland
Moray Firth
Culbin Sands
Culbin
Increased Grants to Township School Areas in Canada
Inspectors detail revised General Legislative Grants for township school areas with 1 mill added to equalized assessments. Tables show new grants for Cavan Clarke Hamilton Hope North and South Monaghan and others plus proposed area groupings. May 13 National Institute for the Blind tag day urged with appeal to support through donations and Victory Bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Township Board of School Trustees
Township School Area Board
Northumberland and
Durham
Cavan
Clarke Township
Hamilton Township
Hope
N. Hope Township
S. Hope Township
S. Hope
S. Monaghan
Hamilton Area
Clarke— Lockhart
Brown’s
Hamilton
N. Hope
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kendal
Kirby
B. Leslie Emslie
Christian Science Monitor
The
Monitor
Christian Science Publishing Society
Norway Street
Boston
Massachusetts
Department OF
National War Services
Canada
Nation
Yours Sincerely
L. A- LaFléche
ATS
Ags
Department OF National War Services
Forestry Commission
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
Orono
Mark
Coutt
Adrienne
Gardenia
Yardley
Cashmere
Jackman Flowers
Charles Tyrrell Orono
Sycet
Erie
Lipton
Arono Sc
Bowmanville, Ont
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