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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 19, 1926
Page
4
Clear-eyed and prim with birch light falls on a small countryside church. Children in the pews, parents planning, bees hum, horses stamp, and clover nods as a girl named Jeannie Pongleton Ewing reflects on faith and long prayers.
The Acton Gazette from Middlesex reports on a mix of homeland notes including a Leyton councillor and Acton Ontario connection during a Chamber of Commerce visit, street campaigns by the Acton Conservative Association, a long retirement for school caretakers, fund-raising for miners' families, a refused gramophone request at Acton Education Committee, and various local incidents, weddings, and public events with UK and New Zealand ties.
A speaker extols fore mothers over forefathers, praising their hearth keeping, devotion, and faith. He recalls Acton settlers Adams and their kin, noting descendants visiting from Grand Rapids while listing local foremothers by family name and recalling schoolboy John Nicolson.
In reminiscences spanning sixty years, John Laster and Nellie Nicolson built a sturdy Marlette farm home with sons John and Nicolson, and later Malvina Black joined the family. The Nicolsons remain active, Mrs Nicolson driving horses and cars, as old Ontario ties endure through visits and shared memories.
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