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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 14, 1919
Page
6
The column lists reopening hints, crop notes, church sermons and sermons, music and social events, school expenditures, and local visitors. It mentions Rev Wilson in Toronto, church salaries, a box social in the park, and farmers sending produce including Bonny Best tomatoes. It also records road work and a Mintrells party planned for next Tuesday.
Mrs. Fred Williamson plans months with her husband’s father while Mr. Williamson tends the farm. Garden parties and church events draw locals. grain harvests progress in the district. A Methodist Church sale is set at Moffat next Tuesday with Acton’s Sunday School Orchestra on the program.
Friday evening event featured Fred Perrin humorist Margaret Munro Scottish vocalist Miss Hogg corspaniat Mason sisters and Mr W Gowdy and drew large attendance. Acton won the baseball match. A fire at Dolly Var den damaged wood piles. one shed burned two others damaged and a kiln out of service for a week. Mr James Gene traveled to Thedford after his sister Mrs McDonald died.
Mr and Mrs Adam Chisholm of Lockport New York spend holidays at his mother Mrs Malcolm Chisholm's home. Esquesing Methodist services next Sunday include morning worship and 730 sermon by Rev Mr Boles. Automobiles on Main street last Saturday night imply an outlay around twenty thousand dollars.
Sunday afternoon turnout at the local church was the largest since services paused. Teachers and officers praise the strong scholastic participation and hope to maintain the number. Several local families noted visits and holiday gatherings with friends and relatives in nearby towns.
Mow McEvoy and Mlay Mose enjoyed a pleasant motor trip to Toronto with Mrs W A Tirstbrook and her parents Hav Dr and Brp Wugh John aton on Saturday.
Oakville and Trafalgar volunteers attend church service. A fire destroyed the barn and outbuildings of Joseph Tetchardgon at Lake Shore West, with five cows and a wagon burned. Photographic Society of Ontario members visited town for aquatic sports coverage. Engagement announced between Gladys Elmina Taylor and Edgar Vardon Dynes of Oakville. In yacht racing, Aggie of Oakville defeated Commodore Aemillan Javin’s new schooner Haswell in Class M.
Mrs Ray Bennlan of Toronto and neighbors gathered at Wm. McDonald’s home to bid farewell to Pearl McDonald who departs for Guelph to train as a nurse. The event featured songs recitations speeches and a wrist watch gift with a heartfelt address from Churchill friends.
Death of Mrs. Epdraim Moore Sunday leaves a close knit community grieving a friend to all. Also report of a fatal car accident near Rockwood where a Ford rollover injured Mixx Willian Peach and other youths after a wheel came off. vehicle wrecked near Milton.
Parish and village items recount Mrs J P Bush’s sister’s return from Chicago and Detroit visitations by the Pearcy and McLaren couples. An August getaway to Sauble Beach accompanies news of Rev J A Jewitt and two children. A serious accident near the old Boomer farm injures a rider and horse after motorcycles frightened the horse. The community mourns the death of Mrs Harvey Matthews, wife of a local resident.
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