Orono Hockey Club Hosts Record Dance Night
The Orono Hockey Club held a Friday dance drawing about 700 paid admissions. A 15 piece band led by Shirley Edwards played despite a 25 cycle PA system, as cars crowded main streets and police helped keep routes open. The club plans six dances biweekly, next featuring Dave Grant and his All Star Colored Orchestra from Toronto Me. Dane Found aims to secure fresh orchestras to boost rink improvements for the sport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirey Edwards
Ning
Superbof Chas
B. Tyrrell
Orono
Dane
Evening honors Melville Jones and wife at Sun day School hall
Newtonville correspondent reports a large gathering at the Sunday School hall on the 25th to honor Mr and Mrs Melville Jones. Wm Laing led the program with guitar selections by Edna Denault and Dorothy Brown, solos by Mrs Morley Robinson, a humorous reading by Mrs W D Jones, and words from Rev H A Bunt. An address by Sidney Lancaster accompanied gifts of furniture and thanks from the couple. A light lunch and social hour followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melville Jones
Wm. Laing
Edna Denault
Dorothy Brown
Morley Robinson
W. D. Jones
H. A. Bunt
Melville
Mary
Sidney Lancaster
Mrs. Jones
Rowe
Toronto
Herbert Mercer
Alvin Lowes
Audrey Patton
Ross Patterson
Wm. Patterson
Aylward. Little
N. Little
Wm. Mercer
Saskatoon
McKay
Lowes
Marjory Patton
Norman Patton
Wilfred Roughley
David and
Donnie
Oshawa
James Swainbrick
Wm. Boyd
Mrs. Gray
Garden Till
Kendal
Newcastle
Orono
Orange Hall
W. I
Wm.Mercer
C. W. Stewart
James Hoy
McLean’s
Sixth Line
Col
Wm. McLean
W. E. Smith
Sir Thomas Stanton
Stewart
W. A
C. Tebble
Reg. Elliot
Joyce Lowe
Margaret Jackson
Wm. Jackson
Loraine McCullough
Cecil Burley
Willis Jones
Newcastle Group
Geo. McCullough
Health and Social Welfare Group
Sportsmen Picnic At Orono Park Held By Durham Federation
Durham Federation of Sportsmen members will hold a picnic at Orono Community Park on Saturday afternoon September 7 starting at 3 00 p m. All Fish and Hunt Clubs in Durham County are invited with wives and families. Attendees should bring basket lunches while coffee is provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham Federation of Sportsmen
Orono
Durham County
Woman's Missionary Society Meets in Park Street Church
The W M S held a meeting on Tuesday September 3 at Park Street United Church with Mrs M H Staples presiding. News included a temperance letter urging the Premier of Ontario to act and thanks for welcoming British War Brides. The year’s study book on India was announced and plans for October’s Thank Offering meeting discussed. A donation to the Fred Vietor Mission was noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s Missionary Society
Park St. United Church
M. H. Staples
Walsh
Edith Slemon
Temperance and Citizenship
Ontario
Meller
Ialso
Staples
India
Fred Vietor
Kendal Notes Highlight Social Events And Local News
Kendal community notes celebrate visits by Toronto families and local members. The W I and W A groups hold meetings and social evenings with programs on local history and school improvements. Pte W L Buckler returns from four years overseas with the 48th Highlanders posting to Patton home in Kendal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kendal Boy
Kendal
Pte
W. L. Buckler
48Th Highlanders
Leonard
Halifax
John Patton
Africa
Italy
France
Holland
Germany
Newtonville Social Roundup Covers Many Narratives
Newtonville residents share long weekend travels from Crystal Beach to Toronto and Camborne while revisiting friends in Oshawa Port Hope and Peterboro. The report notes Sunday School turnout and a sermon series ahead of World Communion Sunday. Local visits include Belgium ties via Antwerp and a Studebaker dealer, with college and athletic events, a new baby, and a soldier’s wartime recollections.
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Earl Walkey
Alfred Redknap
Crystal Beach
Walter Whittaker
Laurna Pearce
Toronto
Wm. Chester
Oshawa
Wm. Whittaker
Robb
Montreal
Carel Brooks
Neil
H. A. Bunt
Rice Lake
Lila Payne
Port Robinson
Geo. Stapleton
Victor Rowe
Camborne
Alcorn
Margaret Lindsay
Reuben Payne
Thorold
Arthur
Payne
Alan Martyn
Brighton
Arnold Brown
iMr
Frank Gilmer
Jim
Fred Rowe
Niagara Falls
Mabel Leushner
Hart Walkey
Alfred Redk
Roy Burley
Doug
Ogden
Jas. Stone
Willard Lockhart
Bruce
Florence
John Lancaster
Myr
Marl Maynard
Marion Nicholls
Danny Shutka
O. Straub
North Bergen
New Jersey
Pete Kesler
Frank McMullen
Port Hope High School
Newtonville
Newcastle
Willis Farrew
Clarence i Burley
O.A.C
Guelph
Frank Anderson Sr
Neil and
Ross
Port Hope
Cecil Walkey
St. Catharines
Geo. Holdaway
Queenston
Blue Bird Class entertains at Women's Institute meeting
The Newtonville Women's Institute met at Mrs. Wm. Milligan's home with thirty attendees. The Blue Bird Class presented a program including piano, dress demonstrations, readings, and songs. A health contest, lunch planning for Whitney sale, and transportation expenses were noted. Newcastle group won the contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Institute
Wm. Milligan
Whitney Sale
Blue Bird
Sid. Lancaster
Joyce Martin
Edna Denault
Upper Canada Bible Society Holds Annual Meeting and Wedding
Rev Arthur Organ officiated a marriage at Trinity United Church Toronto uniting Wilda Hivelyn Cook and William Cameron Hey. The bride wore a white silk gown with a fingertip veil, attended by Kathleen Whitney. Out of town guests from Paris Orono Oshawa New Toronto and Bowmanville attended. After a reception the couple honeymooned eastward and will reside in Bowmanville. The Upper Canada Bible Society met in Kirby United Church with Rev Egerton Young presenting a film on God's word in Foreign Lands and praising the society's historical role since 1804 and 72 language translations by 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Organ
Trinity United Church
Toronto
Kathleen Whitney
Markdale
EB. G. Hay
Bowmanville
Max Covert
Lorraine
Paris
Art. White
Marjorie
Doreen
Orono
Elwood Cook
June
Oshawa
C. Cook
New Toronto
John Trott
J. Morsten
T. Rickard
Newcastle
E. G
Upper Canada Bible Society
Kirby District
Kirby United Church
Egerton Young
British and Foreign Bible Society
Crono and
Kirby
Death of Edward Patrick Anderson in Canada
The death of Edward Patrick Anderson aged 45 occurred at his home in Brandon district after a residence in North Vancouver. He served in Ireland's Inniskilling Dragoons and Canadian forces in World War II. He is survived by his widow Laverna Elliott and a daughter Colleen Bawn, with numerous siblings in Ireland, Australia, and relatives in Canada. One poliomyelitis case reported in Haldimand Township with no paralysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenth Street
Edward Patrick
Robert Anderson
Ballymena
Ireland
Anderson
Canada
Brandon
North Vancouver
Laverna Elliott
Inniskilling Dragoons
HIMAS
Haldimand
Northumberland-Durham Health Unit
Orono Hockey Club Dance Sees Dave Grant with All-Star Orchestra
The Orono Hockey Club hires Dave Grant and his All-Star Colored Orchestra of Toronto for a Friday dance on September 13. The club aims to elevate community entertainment and promises a Harlem show with Grant as featured soloist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orono Hockey Club
Dave Grant
All-Star Colored Orchestra
Toronto
Local Social Notes From Starkville and Nearby Towns
Community gossip lists residents visiting Toronto Oshawa and Orono with names like Danny Shutka Norma Halliwell Beulah Hallowell and Helen Debhert. Several weddings births and holiday visits are announced including the birth of a son to Hugh Stapleton and a marriage for Howard Ormiston and Kathryn Minte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danny Shutka
Toronto
Charlie Smith
Orono
Josie
Trim
Oshawa
Beulah Hallowell
A Blanchard
Thos
Bails
L. Conley
Norma Halliwell
Helen Debhert
Goshaws Hospital
Orme Falls
Thos. Walls
Stan Falls
Howard Ormiston
Kathryn Minte
Mape Grove
Clarence F Paeden
Perki Flint
Michigan
Ida Paeden
Newtonville
Mr and Mrs Robert Payne 50th Anniversary Celebration
On Monday evening September 1946 Mr and Mrs Robert Payne marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their farm home east of Pontypool. Family and friends enjoyed songs and community singing led by Mrs Payne with guests including daughter Mrs Goddart of Bowmanville. Speeches by local figures and gifts and flowers accompanied a luncheon as neighbors offered best wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Payne
Pontypool
Goddart
Bowmanville
W. J. Boggs
Messrs
Arthur Thompson
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