Orono Street Plan Aims At Compact Residential Growth
Mr E Dent outlines a comprehensive village development plan for Orono. He proposes a new feeder street parallel to Main Street, extended side streets, standardized frontages, and drainage solutions to create building lots and a smoke free, neat residential town with Orono as a good place to live.
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Main St
Cob Hill
Hanning
Orono
Cain
Wm. Robinson
Mill St
Mill Streets
J. Tamblyns
Duchess
Pictures Again Shown For United Church Building Fund
Pictures were shown Monday evening at the United Church Sunday School to aid the building fund. The Royal Tour by the Globe and Mail was featured along with musical numbers by local talent. Thanks are given to sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tyrrell and to Mr. Hoar and Mr. Geo. Carson for finances, and to Rev. Kitchen and Paul Rutherford for leadership and help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Church Sunday School
Building Fund
Globe and Mail
Charles Tyrrell
United Church Building Committee
Hoar
Geo. Carson
Mr. Kitchen
Paul Rutherford
Pictures Of Interest At WI May Meeting
The Women's Institute May meeting on May 16 in the Council Chamber featured officer installations by Mrs. C. W. Rolph and a Russia current event by Miss Helene Waddell. Mrs. Wm. Armstrong screened moving pictures taken around Orono including a Florida Cypress Gardens segment.
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Women’s Institute
Florida
Armstrong
R. BE. Logan
C. V. Cooper
Orono Radio Contest Offers $100 Prize Week May 26 30
Orono residents can win $100 by sending the name of Orono Weekly Times to CFRB 9 10 each weekday May 26 to 30. Enclosures from Crown Brand Corn Syrup Karo Benson's Corn Starch Canada Corn Starch Mazda Oil and other sponsor products qualify. submission requires a label plus writing material and a stamp.
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C.F.R.B
Orono
Crown Brand
Benson’s
Canada
Mazda
Cobbledick Rites Mark Life Of Orono Farmer
William S Cobbledick 75 died May 7 1952 at Oshawa General Hospital after a brief illness. Born July 1 1877 on the Cobble dick homestead east of Orono he farmed there before retiring to Orono. He served on the Sixth Line School Board and married Lina Maud Powers in 1908. Funeral May 10 at United Church Orono with Rev J Kitchen officiating. Burial at Orono Cemetery. Survived by wife Gladys daughter and son Hubert 8, four grandchildren. Sisters Florence and Bertie predeceased him. Floral tributes came from Kirby United Church Orono United Church and many local groups.
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Oshawa General Hospital
William Stanley Cobbledick
Edmund Cobbledick
Mary Jane Walsh
Cobbledick
Orono
Sixth Line
Antioch
Lina Maud Powers
Kirby
Kirby United Church
United Church
J Kitchen
C. W. Rolph
Wm. Riddell
Fred Trull
Percy Cooper
George Morton
Lyall Lowery
Gladys
Lorne Thompson
Hubert
Leamington
Florence
Bertie
Rev. C. Adams
Orono United Church
Baptist Church Choir
Baptist Church
Kinsmen Club
St. Glee Clubs
S. Tatham
London
R. C. Rosborough
Marilyn
Niagara Falls
G. Adams
N. Adams
Toronto
Cecil Walsh
O. Beatty
Port Hope
C. Beatty
W. H. Beatty
Elizabethville
Lawrence Beal
J. McKeever
Miss Pearl Cobbledick
Oshawa
W C T U Holds 53rd Annual Convention in Oshawa
The W C T U held its 53rd annual convention April 30 at Albert Street United Church Oshawa with remarks by Rev S C H Atkinson and Mrs C Lee. Speeches covered Christian citizenship temperance essays and memorials for departed members.
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Albert Street United Church
Oshawa
GC. Eagle
R. Duff
W.C.T.U
N. C. H. Atkinson
F. W. Ambree
Ontaro
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Ontario
Manitoba
Frank Philps
Helen Hancock
Orono
H. Walsh
Mary Georgina Cobbledick Rushed Quietly to Rest in Orono
Mary Georgina Hill Cobbledick died May 10 1952 after five years of declining health. She was born in Devon England and moved to Orono as a child. She married Walter Cobbledick in 1915 and lived on local farms. She was active in church work and a life member of the Women’s Missionary Society. Funeral was May 13 at Barlow Funeral Home with interment in Orono Cemetery.
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Mary Georgina Cobbledick
Wm. Lantz
Mrs. Cobbledick
Devonport
Devon
England
Richard Hill
Alfred
Charles
Herbert
Orono
Mary Georgina Hill
Walter Cobbledick
Clarke Union
Gordon Power
Antioch
James Hunter
United Church
Toronto
Myrtle
Oshawa
Port Hope
Barlow Funeral Home
John Kitchen
Newton Cobbledick
Harry Rowe
Anson Gilroy
John Berry
Wm. Armstrong
Pere. Lunn
Wolf Cub News Orono Pack Holds May Meeting
The Orono Wolf Cub Pack met at United Church basement on Monday May 19. Akela selected Douglas Sherwin and Eric Carleton as captains of two ball teams for the event and an investiture for new chums was planned for May 26 at 7 00 p.m. Mothers of new chums are invited.
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United Church
Akela
Douglas Sherwin
Eric Carleton
Local Holsteins Sold At National Auction
United States buyers bought eight top Holstein animals at the National Holstein Sale in Oakville Ontario on May 19. The eight months old bull calf Glenafton Booster sold for 6500 dollars to J J E McCague of Alliston Ontario. The sale total was 54337 dollars for 60 animals, averaging 905 dollars.
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United States
Saskatchewan
Oakville
Ontario
Canada
Theodore Devine
Devine
Mount Hope Farm
Taunton
Mass
J. J. E.mccague
Alliston
Improvements At Local Exhibition Grounds
Gillian Lynch eight of Courtice won a television set in a lucky draw two weeks earlier. On Friday night she was knocked from her bicycle by a car on No 2 Highway and taken to Oshawa General Hospital with a broken leg and head injuries. Patricia Austin nine, her schoolmate, witnessed the accident. Driver was A E Barker of Carrying Place. The ditch lay opposite her home and the wrecked bicycle was under the car after it struck a tree. Two other children have been hit by cars near the same spot recently.
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Gillian Lynch
Courtice
Gillian
Oshawa General Hospital
No. 2
A. E. Barker
Carrying Place
Patricia Austin
Patricia
Student Assistant Appointed To Agricultural Office
The appointment of J. W. Brown l as Student Assistants Agricultural Representative in Durham County for the summer months has been announced by Col. the Hon. T. L. Kennedy Ontario Minister of Agriculture. Mr Brown comes from a farm at Tiverton in Bruce County and was active in Junior Club and Junior Farmer work. He has completed three years of his course at Ontario Agricultural College and has been active in student activities.
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J. W. Brown l
Durham County
T. L. Kennedy
Ontario
Mr. Brown
Tiverton
Bruce County
Ontario Agricultural College
Lois Dean Is Honoured At Surprise Shower
Miss Lois Dean, bride to be, was surprised at a miscellaneous shower hosted by Mrs. Gladys Gamsby with about twenty five guests in attendance. She received a corsage and the gathering featured white and pink decorations and a pastel floral setting.
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Lois Dean
Gladys Gamsby
Lois
Miss Dean
District High School Board Guests of Teaching Staff
Dur ham County District High School Board and their wives were entertained by teachers from Bowmanville Millbrook Newcastle Orono and Port Hope. The evening featured a banquet presided by Miss Hilda Rice and a talk by A E O Neill on education values and the Three R's.
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Durham County
Hilda Rice
Bowmanville
A. E. O’neill
Oshawa
Port Hope
Miss Hammond
Switzerland
France
Mr. Hill
Italy
Strafford-on-Avon
Europe
Ryan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr. E. Dent
Main Street
R. Moffat
William S. Cobbledick
Wolf Cub News
Mr. Witherspoon
O’neill
Mr. Ross
Newcastle
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