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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 24, 1899
Page
3
Capital all paid up 1 404 000 dollars Reserve Fund 13 163 000 Total assets 1 000 000 J TURNBULL CASHIER Interest paid at best rates added to principal without Pass Book present Withdrawals by written order Pass Book required Banking facilities offered Correspondence solicited.
Weekly civic notes mention the upcoming incorporation of Preston as a town on September 9, local plans for Fairview Place electric lighting, church renovations, and school term deadlines. Readers note dry weather hopes, a late summer concert, and various municipal updates in Guelph area.
In Cartwright Man visitors saw Alex Waldie Jr win the first prize silver cup valued at 25 dollars for plowing in the annual contest. His brother William took a prize for best team as well, with another Waldie relative earning a valeada prize. The report also covers local camp officers, civic holiday plans, a lacrosse final, travel notices, and obituaries.
A Monday evening council session reviewed the eighteenth Finance Committee report approving payments to T. Moore Brunt McNabb Bingham Fred Pearcy G Havill W C Stratton and W Waves. A Inland Revenue notice required registration of the electric plant as part of the agenda. The meeting adjourned at nine.
A Friday incident near Acton saw a traction engine fire start a grass blaze that spread toward a barn and horse. Moesure, William Brown and William Hemstreet helped containing the flames within half an hour. Minor losses reported as wood and other items burned.
Miss Annie Henderson sails Saturday for Montreal to meet her brother Henry and accompany him to St John New Brunswick for a two week stay. Compustion classes to open at the reopening of the Pablia School with Miss Florence Deacon engaged. Milton to rank with High Schools for the first two years of the course. Hume Bros ship 700 bushels Timothy seed. Batter pays up to 20 cents per pound. Mr and Mrs J W Bews celebrate third wedding anniversary at Acton. Neil McPhail engaged as choirmaster at $50 annually. Mrs Rev Haddow and children visiting from Watford to Milton. John Henderson family to relocate to Milton. Milton Pressed Brick Co reports heavy brick trade shipping eight car loads in one day and annual output around seven million bricks with forty workers. County Council meets with new seating and walls. improvements cost about 100. Grants voted to Milton Model School 200, Milton Public School 100, County Agricultural Society 400, County Plowing Society 25. Acton grey woolen double shawl offered as prize at Paris office show.
A long list of Acton area visitors and residents traveling, hosting, and visiting friends across Ontario and Michigan. Names include Mr. Coyne Toronto Miss Irena Mallon Hamilton Tom Henderson Milton, Edna Tucbinghem Topato and many others with brief travels to Georgetown Campbellville London Trafalgar Oakville and Chicago. Obituaries note Mrs James Innes of Guelph and Mrs Robert Payne of Richland Town.
A cryptic note promotes Carter's with a playful nudge to ask for Carter's in a storefront setting. No clear event, date, or individuals are identified beyond the brand cue.
Young men and older suitors learn the new Marriage Act is simple to use by applying to H. P. Moore, keeper of licensees, at the Case Pant Office. Call days before the ceremony for private confidential explanation.
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