Government war orders reach 34 thousand with 325 million value
War orders placed by the government with Canadian firms total 34 000 units and aggregate value over 325 million dollars. Orders went to 4 400 firms across the country.
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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 03, 1940
Page
5
Local Social Notes Highlight Community Visitors and Events
Local residents hosted or visited family and friends across Toronto Newcastle Orono and Perth with confirmations of arrivals and departures. Highlights include Red Cross fund canvass progress eight hundred dollar goal, Orange Lodge card party, and plans for Park Street W M S Autumn Thank Offering with Dr. Margaret Addison as guest speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park St. W. M. S
Margaret Addison
Toronto
Red Cross
Oshawa Presbytery Coaching Conference Draws 100
The Oshawa Presbytery coaching conference gathered about one hundred teachers superintendents ministers and other church members at Maple Grove United Church on September 30. The gathering featured group leadership sessions a dramatization inspired by the conference theme Christ centred teaching in a church centred school and a discussion led by Roy Belford with images of rural Ontario Sunday Schools. Rev W C Smith closed with prayer. Hitler will have a slide this winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Church
Conference of Oshawa Presbytery
Maple Grove United Church
Maple Grove
Littlewood
Presbytery
Norman White
Alice Arnold
Murray Kirby
John McLachlan
J. V. McNeely
Harry Freeman
Crono
Chas. Wood
Porter
Myrtle Smith
Stella Best
Marlow Hancock
Alvin Blewett
Ronald Patterson
Roy Belford
Christian Education Department
Church
Ontario
Keswick
W. C. Smith
Maple Grove Church
Card of Thanks from the Awde Family
Mr and Mrs Charles F Awde express deep gratitude for the community s expressions of concern flowers and cards of cheer during Mr Awde s illness. they value the kindness shown and thank all who offered support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Awde
Mr. Awde
Ceer
Deaths MacDonald in Orono at 72
Herbert Greer MacDonald aged 72 died suddenly in Orono on Wednesday October 2 1940. Funeral from his late residence Friday October 4 service at 2 o'clock with cortege leaving at 2 30 for Orono Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacDonald
Orono
Herbert Greer MacDonald
Eliza Jane Rainey Dies in Toronto at 82
Eliza Jane Rainey wife of the late Thomas Rainey formerly of Box Grove Ontario died at 648 Euclid Avenue Toronto on September 29 1940 in her 83rd year Funeral service October 2 at 2 pm Morley S Bedford Funeral Chapel 159 Eglington West Lascelles Boulevard Interment Elmwood Cemetery Markham
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euclid Avenue
Toronto
Eliza Jane Rainey
Thomas Rainey
Box Grove
Ont
Rainey
Lyall Lowery
Morley S. Bedford
Eglington West
Lascelles Boulevard
Elmwood Cemtery
Markham
Fishermen Froste and Forrester Reel Five Bass and Pike
Messrs. C. H. Froste and R. A. Forrester spent the weekend at 12 o'clock Point Bay of Quinte and returned with five fine bass and one pike weighing 8 pounds and measuring 34 inches in length.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
C. H. Froste
R. A. Forrester
Point
Bay of Quinte
Two Fingers Smashed in Corn Bin Accident
Mr Roy Berry suffered an injury while cleaning corn for Mr Milton Staples when corn wedged in a bin caused his fingers to be caught in a wheel. His right index finger was split in two places and his middle finger opened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leeland Keat
Janetville
Seugog
Buckhorn
West Lake
Roy Berry
Milton Staples
Firearms Registration Ends After September Thirty
Attorney General Conant says after September 30 a close check will review individuals who failed to register firearms under current rules. Forms for 866 350 firearms have been distributed to over 1 000 registrars, as revolvers and pistols must be registered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conant
Population Surges by One Million in Ten Years
Canada now has a population of 11 390 000 according to Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates. This marks an increase of 1 000 000 over ten years ago. Official confirmation and more census details are expected as the decennial census progresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
George Cooper Sells House to Mr Brown in New Castle
George Cooper sold his house currently occupied by Ted Woodyard to Mr Brown of New Castle. Ted Woodyard remains as occupant under the new buyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Woodyard
Martin Linton
George Cooper
Mr. Brown
Newcastle
Also Mentioned on This Page
F. Morris & Son
Bowmanville
Durham
Morris & Son
Park Street
Robert Foster
Orono Tinshop
R. E. Logan
Centre St
Canada Packers Ltd
Orono Flour Mills
RED & White
J. J. Cornish
W. D. Hay
Amelia Bradley
Pontypool
Eileen Jones
Clarence Allin
Thos. J. Carscadden
Kendal
Thomas Patterson
Reeve Carveth
Orme Gamsbsy
Campbellford Fair
O. W. Scott
Arthur Brix
St. Catharines
E. E. Patterson
Jim
Mrs. Morton
Hileen Jones
Orange Lodge
J. H. Leslie
Dr.) Manning
McDonald
Douglas
Joan
Orange Hall
Harold Awde
C. F. Awde
Jane Carruthers
Perth
Harry Millson
Women’s Institute
Town Hall
D.D.G.N. Bro. Wilson
Pontypool Lodge
Peterboro
G. Carsecadden
Corp. G. L. Carscadden
England
2Nd Canadian Pioneer Battalion
Royal Canadian Engineers
Park St
W.M.S
McKilloch
Dominion Board
A. A. Drummond
Hazel Reid
Newtonville
Alfred Frezno DeGroot
Harry Tresize
Rochester
N.Y
Lena Bell Waterman
Medford
N. J
Cecil Powers
Neil Porter
Colin Taylor
Rowland Smith
Richard Logan
Ballyduff
R. H. Brown
Oshawa Presbytery Coaching Conference
Hitler
Park ST. United Church
Rev. S. Littlewood
Baster
Morgan Rowland
Fraserville
Armstrong
Porter House
Redpath
Amber
Ivory
Parowax
Hamburg
Huron
Heinz Ketchup
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