Acton Daily Personal Notes on Visiting and Holidays
A long list of Acton residents and guests visiting relatives and friends across Ontario and beyond. Entries include Bert Jordan hosting in Rebute, Andersons in Huntsville, Patlint family holidays at Dorset and Inden, and numerous visits to Woodstock Honey Harbor Guelph and Toronto. Holiday trips feature Dalty Mainprize, Chalmers and Norton families, and others visiting England Scotland and Michigan.
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Scotland
Mary Chalmers
Toronto
Stan Norton
Mr. Norton
Engagement notices from Acton area and beyond in 1960
Local announcement lists Phyllis Lorraine Tyler of Phoenix and Richard Gail Trittson of Beloit Kansas as engaged, to be married September 2, 1960 at Saint Pauls Episcopal Church Phoenix. The column also covers visitors from Edmonton, Dunedin, Toronto, Edinburgh, Minneapolis, and London, plus local reunion scenes, festival attendance, and community updates on residents and activities around Acton and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthew Alexander Tyler
Phoenix
Arizona
Acton
Phyllis Lorraine
Richard Gail Trittson
Martin Trutman
Beloit
Kansas
Saint Paul's Episcopal Church
Chain Reaction Crash Damages Three Cars on Highway 7
A Tuesday collision on Highway 7 involved Marray Daniel Porter driving a Summerhill Out. spa vehicle that sideswiped a parked Willian Albert Ingles car, causing Ingles to strike Charles Harvey Tallin’s Eden Mills vehicle. Porter’s car faced $400 damage, Ingles $100, Tallin minor damage about $5.
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Tallin
Obituary for Bentley Wilson Former Acton Resident Dies
Former Acton resident Bentley Wilson dies at 82 in Halton Centen nis Manor Milton. Survived by wife Elizabeth Swick and two daughters Mrs Russell Gordign and Mrs Robert AKO, plus two sons and three grandchildren. Born in Nuissagauelle Lenawee, he farmed in Fria Township then Acton. Funeral held at Melanaghin and Wall Pune Home with interment at Woodlawn Cemeteries, Guelph.
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Barbara McEachern
Anne Symon
United Church
Bolton
Wilf McEachern
Bromh
Victor Mor David
Michael
Elizabeth
Enghkind
Malton
Jani Bentley Walser Wito
Halton Centennis Manor
Milton
Thomas Wilson
Pandour Brothers
Lormer
Elizabeth Bihar Swickhanmer
Mes Russell Gordign ¢Mehmad
Robert Ako
Eni, Bork
Guelph
Prandehil
Pecarpr Ade Chileren
Nuissagauelle
Lenawee
Ma. Wilken
Fria Township
Ter Acton
Janeater
Knox Presbyterian
Melanaghin and
Wall Pune
Werthesdiay
Fin Woodlawn Cometers
Bride-to-be Shower Held for Shirley Jean Awrey
Relatives and close family attended a shower for Shirley Jean Awrey, niece of Mr and Mrs John Awrey of Orton, with her fiancé John Freemin present. A Drikkel shower was held earlier on July 16 in Guelph for Lois Barker as well. The couple were married soon after.
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Aus
John Awrey
Orton
Shirley Jean Awrey
John Freemin
Lois Barker
Guelph
Bride of Tomorrow Is Honored at Shower
Ruth Wilson of Radwood was honored at a misceleneous shower on Thursday evening August 4 at Main Street to celebrate Miss Hansen the bride to be. Cohostesses Miss Hansen and Mrs Glenn Jackson assisted. Gifts were opened and light refreshments served. Miss Wilson will marry Don Archibald tomorrow August 5.
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Ruth Wilsnn
Radwood
Miss
Hansen
Main St
Miss Hansen
Glenn Jackson
Lighttil Pitts
Miss Wilson
Punch
Hillsburgh Baptist Church Wedding of Awrey Freeman
Shirley Jean Awrey and John Edward Freeman united in marriage at Hillsburgh Baptist Church at seven on Friday. Rev M A McBride officiated as guests in mauve and white attire attended a reception with relatives from Hillsburgh, Acton, Fergus, and Toronto. The couple will reside in Acton after touring Ontario and the northern States.
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Romany
Esther Taylor
Shirley Jean Awrey
Ted Freeman
Hillsburgh Baptist Church
Imo
Hillsburgh
John Edward Freeman
Selena
M. A. McBride
Pies BA
K. Hillmer
Huxley
Marjorie Spicer
Fergus
Ruth Awrey
Ortan
Orton
Ad Georgetown
Toronto
Barry
Belwood
Schener
Guelph
Broun
Ontario
RR. 2
Acton
Saloon Scene Sparks Wild Western Gaffe
A bystander recounts a comic Western moment as a young cowhand vaults from the sidewalk and lands butt-first in the gutter seat. The old man asks if he is hung. the reply is no, but the exchange ends with a baffling quip about a hearse and sounds.
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