County Grants Debated For Fall Fairs In Halton
Halton County Council debates grants to Fall Fairs in Milton Acton and Georgetown. They reconsider a prior refusal and discuss aid levels and the need to support agricultural fairs while balancing budget constraints. A resignation from Good Roads committee member Mr George Cleave is accepted. The meeting also hears on institute for the Blind funding, with a proposed grant of 100 dollars under review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton
Milton
Georgetown
Good Roads Committee
George Cleave
Glenwilliags
Halfon Ty
Court House
Esquesing
Good Roads” Committee
Gleave
Cleave
Arthur Pickering
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
Agricultural Department
Institute “For the
Halton
Institute
Pickering
Falls Fair
A. L. MacNeb
MacNab
Currie
Georgetown Fair Board
Egsquesing
My. F. L.wright
Harrin
Burlington
Thetford
Peer
Mar. Reaghead
Women and Bus Timetable Changes Highlight Acton News
The May 4 Woman's Institute meeting at Mrs. George Lantz’s home includes officer elections. Arrow bus times through Acton shift starting April 30 with westbound and eastbound departures listed. Government Building repainting proceeds under R. E. Blanche and W. F. Mooney with weather delays. Royal Canadian Mounted Police modernization note. Club meeting reports euchre and dance plans and a Tuesday training night at the Park. Acton Welfare Board closes subscription lists totaling 660.45 dollars. funds to be open for scrutiny via Treasurer R. M. McDonald and thanks given for community support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton Welfare Board
R. M. McDonald
Acton
Death notices and funerals in Acton district
Long obituary column records the sudden death of Gordon Luening of Young Street Acton wife widow mourners and church member with funeral at Baden Ontario. Also notices the death of Mrs Blanche Marion Kenney in Guelph and Morris K Sayers in Acton with services by Rev H L Bennie. Includes family details, interments, and condolences from community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris K. Sayers
Church Street
Acton
Wellington County
Agnes McLeod
Henry Sayers
Mary Jones
Peter
Henry
William
James
Alex
Jas. McIntosh
Jas. Mills
S. Hasbane
Wm. R. Kenney
Jack Burl McLeod
Fort William
Storey Glove, Co
Spray
Harwood
George Harwood
Leo
Hamilton
Fred Maud
Anderson McLeod
Galt
Kenneth McLeod
W. Walker
Guelph
Frank Sayers
Roy Ellis
Cooksville
Ernest Patterson
Toronto
Jas. Brown
Wm. Sayers
Milton
Jas. McPherson
Jean
Neil McLeod
Robert
Fred Moore
Rockwood
Wm. McLeod
World leaders outline plan to raise prices and curb world crisis
Premier Ramsay MacDonald and President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a joint statement urging action to raise global commodity prices, ease tariffs, expand credit, and boost recovery. They stress coordinated economic and monetary measures ahead of the World Economic Conference, with the full text to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ramsay ‘MacDonald
Franklin D. Roosevelt
MacDonald
Washington
Acton Notes Honorary Degree Recipient and Local Trial
Avison of Toronto, former Acton resident and ex Methodist pastor here, received an honorary Doctor of Divinity at Emmanuel College Toronto alongside Rev. G A Little. An Orangeville court ruled Royal Trust Co. owed $500 plus costs on a mortgage guarantor suit. A Friday fire near N H Howard’s gravel pit destroyed a garage residence and six trucks, with $38,000 in damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Wilson
Avison
Toronto
Emmanual College
G. A. Little
Acton, S
Methodist Church
Ontario Memorial Company, Limited
Orangeville
Robb
Royal Trust Co
Acton
N. H. Howard
A. Loblaw
Burlington
Acton Council Lowers Municipality's Borrowing Interest
The Acton council, presided by Reeve Thetford, approved a half percent rate cut on current borrowings effective May 1. They also ordered six drums of asphalt, a sharpened lawn mower, and security updates for police cells. The nightwatchman contract with E Harrop was renewed at 30 dollars monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton
W. A. Lasby
JE. Jones
J. E. McMillan
S. M. Lasby
Reeve Thetford
R. M. McDonald
C. Wilson
Fire Brigade
H. G. Fraser
Bank of Montreal
W. M. Cooper
I. B. Weadge
Welfare Board
Acton Public Utilities Commission
Bell Telephone Co
H. N. Farmer
Ccctemaciaviststiere Bogs Caensage-Cetancpene
H. L. McDonald
D. A. Henderson
Dr. Coxe
Harrop
J. McMillan
Toronto Hospital
U. F. Y. P. O. Meeting And Local News Flash
The U F Y P O will hold its regular meeting in the Parish Hall on Friday May 5 at 8 30 p m A large frame barn owned by Mrs Gilbert Houston at West Caledon was destroyed by fire Monday evening with farm implements and five sheep lost some cattle saved insurance partly covering the loss Acton Baseball Club plans a euchre and dance next Tuesday in Town Hall with prizes good orchestra and 25 cent admission The Halton Wentworth Intermediate League may split into two sections Acton Georgetown Milton Oakville likely to compete with Bur lington in the other group Georgetown wedding report Olive Isabel Emmerson and Albert Edward Tost wed April 22 in Georgetown Rev Frith officiating reception at Emmerson home couple to reside on George Street Rockwood and area church groups hold Easter offerings pageant Ethia Candlesticks a three act comedy by Knox Guild at Rockwood Town Hall shows entertaining cast and sizable audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Houston
Fifth” Line
West Caledon
Acton Baseball Club
Halton
Georgetown
The
Baptist Parsonage
Olive Isabel Emmerson
Jack Emmerson
Albert Edward Tost
Frith
George Chaplin
Arthur Errington
Toronto
William Emmerson
George Street
Ethia
Knox Young People's Guild
Rockwood Presbyterian Church
Cynthia
Cynthia Tillinghast
E. Featherstode
Ben Tillinghast
Walter Swanton
Flora’ Tillinghast
Mabel Pindlay
Martha Todd
Jean McLean
Joel Basset
Harold
Gibb
Ambrose
Taft
Francis Catt
Stephen Popewell
A.J
Crosbie Will Funds Benefit Wellington County Home
Wellington County receives about $3,000 from the Crosbie estate to aid the House of Industry and Refuge. Crosbie died eleven years ago leaving $8,800 with interest to support one inmate and the principal to revert to the home. The inmate died in January and executors notify county council they will deliver the principal to the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington County
House of Industry and Refuge
Harriston
Crosbie
Magistrate Probes Black Eye Tale as Wife Defends Husband
A magistrate questions a claim about a bruising incident. The wife defends her husband by insisting the black eye came from him and smiles confidently as she speaks.
Also Mentioned on This Page
County Council
Women’s Institute
George Lantz
Arrow
R. E. Blanche
W. F. Mooney
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Canada
Parkview Athletic Club
Gordon Luening
Gordon’ Luening
Young- Street
Luening
Lldyd Kenney
Guelph General Hospital
Kenney
Montreal
Blanche Marion Douglas
Catharine Annabella
Thomas Douglas
Winnipeg
Calgary
Lawrene Douglas
H. L. Bennie
Fairview Cemetery
Morris Kennedy Sayers
Robert Waite
Sudbury
Erin Township
E. Graham
Armstrong
G. Scott
Hillsdale
Mich
William H. Graham
Detroit
Mitch
Miss Graham
Waite
Presbyterian Church
Britain
United States
Ontario Memorial Co
Aldershot
J. K. Cardiner
Carroll's
Elliott Bros
Barr's Grocery
Nelson & Co
Lindsay’s Mill
Pallant’s
Patterson’s
C. B. Swackhamer
W. D. Talbot
U. FY. P.O. Meeting
United Church
Rookwood Society
Women's Missionary Society of the United Church
Rockwood Society
Barberree
Symon
R. L. Johnston
Speight
Bert Mowat
Nicol
Wellington County Institution
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!