Open Installation Of Orono Lodge IOOF Officers
Open installation for Orono Lodge No. 436 IOOF on October 16 drew 224 attendees including 17 officers and 33 past grand members. Guests from Cobourg Port Hope Bowmanville Oshawa Brooklin Port Perry Pontypool and Vancouver joined a program with music speeches and a Beaker luncheon after the ceremony.
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Orono Lodge
1.O.C.F
Orono
S. Littlewood
Park St. United Church
A. A. Drummond
England
Miss Adams
Bro
Russell Adams
Bro. Adams
Vancouver
B. C
Ontario
Messrs. C. Tamblyn
D. Hamm
R. Morton
H. Best
J. J. Melior
W. J. Riddell
Grand Lodge of Canada
Rebekah Assembly
Soldiers jailed on burglary charges
Donald Tucker and William Boyd, former Court Street Gang members now in the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, were jailed in Oshawa Police Court after pleading guilty to three break-ins and thefts. Boyd got three years for Whitby jeweller theft and Bowmanville shop theft. Tucker received mixed sentences totalling years in prison and reformatories. All sentences run concurrently.
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Oshawa
F. S. Ebbs
Donald Tucker
William Boyd
Court Street
Hastings and Prince Edward
Camp Borden
Whitby
Bowmanville
John Hicks
Boyd
Kingston
James Marr
Royal Hotel
Tucker
Guelph Reformatory
Park St United Church Sunday School Time Change
The Official Board and Sunday School Executive announce a new meeting time for the Sunday School starting Sunday November 8 at 2 30 p m The church urges full support and endorsement from all members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park St. United Church
Ontario Apples To Get Backing By Government
Ontario apple growers will receive government backing to match federal support for British Columbia and Nova Scotia. Ottawa will guarantee to take 50 000 barrels if unsold by March end, paying 80 percent of the three year average. Despite a weaker crop and lower quality, higher prices may offset losses as demand rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Orono Red Cross Bazaar Conveners Named
Conveners listed for the Orono Red Cross Bazaar to be held Saturday December 7. Booths include Fancy Work Mrs John Armstrong Home Cooking and Candy Mrs J R Cooper Farm Produce Mrs M J Tamblyn Fish Pond Mrs J C Gamey and Mrs Chas Knox Apron Booth Miss Laura Allin Public School Students work Miss K Foster.
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Red Cross
Orono
John Armstrong
J. R. Cooper
M. J. Tamblyn
J. C. Gamey
Chas. Knox
Laura Allin
K. Foster
Post Overseas Mail Early for Christmas
The weekly bulletin advises posting letters abroad ASAP due to uncertain sailing times for Christmas mail. Delays in transmission may occur because of the international situation.
60 Percent Swine Rise in Durham County Reported
Ontario agriculture department monthly crop report shows a 60 percent increase in swine in Durham County, with total swine at end of September 36 574 versus 22 755 a year earlier. Cattle numbers unchanged at 38 408, cows for milk and calves down, yearlings up. corn borer heavy and late potato crop projected at 50 to 60 percent normal.
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Ontario Department of Agriculture
Durham County
Canada War Effort Weekly Review October 10 17
Canada’s Home Front develops with new tank program between 1200 kept and 1800 sent to Britain, Pacific Defence command formed under Major General Alexander, Col Vanier named to defence board, and ships and industry expanding. Ontario power gains from US diversions while naval guns rise in Canadian plants and air training doubles output. Gates reopen November 25 as muster continues and a $5.5 million Ontario plant boosts alloy steel. Total orders near $550 million.
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Canada
R. O. Alexander
D.S.C
Pacific Defence Command
George P. Vanier
France
Canada- United States Permanent Defence Board
Col. Vanier
St. George Hilton
Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
E. W. Sansom
J. L. Ralston
National Defence
Ralston
E. de B. Panet
Montreal
King
United States
Long Lac
Ogaki
Ontario
C. W. G. Gibsom
National Revenue
Empire
Gib
Dominion
C. G. Power
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Earl of Athlone
Princess Alice
Hyde Park
N.Y
Roosevelt
Washington
C. D. Howe
Canadian War Industries Development Program
One Hundred Teachers Attend Cobourg District Convention
About one hundred teachers gathered in Cobourg’s George Street Public School for the Teachers Institute No. 2 convention in Cobourg on October 10 and 11. Sessions featured English teaching, school library work, primary reading, oral composition, grade mathematics, health in schools, and school beautification with choir and solo performances.
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Cobours
Teachers’ Institute of Inspectorate No. 2
Northumberland
Durham
George Street
Cobourg
H. E. Elborn
M.A
Toronto Normal School
J. E. Skidmore
Co- Cobourg
Helen Hoskin
W. Meldrum
Port Hope
Ian MacLeod
Northumberland County
W. P. Woodger
Trinity United Church
P. Hamilton
Millbrook
L. Wannan
Kirby
T. Rodger
Newcastle
R. N. Mackenzie
Cobourg Collegiate Institute
Astrologer Foresees War End and Xmas Homecoming
A Windsor based wartime astrologer predicts Germany defeated by year end and peace by November 11 with most Canadian overseas troops home by Christmas. The piece notes the professor has studied the heavenly bodies for 14 years and outlines several other bold forecasts including US war with Japan and Mussolini’s downfall.
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Great Britain
Hugh Blackwood Price
Vancouver
B.C
Cosmo
Windsor
Ont
United States
Japan
Mussolini
Carol
Romania
Cobourg Court Opens With Manslaughter Charge
A Cobourg Supreme Court session opens with a manslaughter case against James Wallace of Trenton, alleged driver of a vehicle that collided with a parked truck near Cobourg on June 30. Two nurses from Ontario Hospital Cobourg died from injuries.
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Supreme Court
Cobourg
James Wallace
R.C.A.F
Trenton
Elizabeth Shepherd
Edith Boyle
Ontario Hospital
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Orono Red Cross Bazaar
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Roy D. Dodge
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Viola McMurdo
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Tommy Hender
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Miss Christina Clark
Reginald Sutton
Lawrence Lavery
Etta Hogg
Muriel Whittington
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T. A. Rodger
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J. A. D. Little
Rose Hayes
William Kenefick
William Hayes
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