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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1918
Page
3
Town notices include Township Council meeting on Monday the 6th, harvest updates, sugar relief on packages, public serving of handwiches at noon, and merchant ads promoting Christmas lines. Also mentions new culvert project at Enquesing and Acton Horticultural Society annual meeting on the 18th at the town hall.
Local notes cover the Methodiat church anniversary service, a new town clerk appointment, a Tolura India medical mission talk, inquest into a Brampton train death, a December concert, tax collection changes, and bridges and public works in Hamilton and Acton.
Pte Robert Stewart, eighteen, of the 14th Battalion who went to France in April last, returned home on Monday evening. He served in the Cambrai and Amiens battles and was reported to have been in several hot engagements. His mother and friends are rejoicing at his safe return, though details of his period of service and the circumstances of his travel were not fully disclosed.
Social notices from Acton report residents visiting relatives in Brampton and Toronto, returning from trips to Toronto, Vancouver, and Maple Creek. Several local people, including Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons and Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, hosted and hosted guests, with schooling and employment updates and a note on Mrs. Bilurray’s recovery. Local transport and a return to work after illness are mentioned along with a move to Church Street and a course in milling in Minneapolis.
Pte James Cooney writes from somewhere in France dated November 4 1918 to Acton friends noting tear gas exposure but says it does not kill. He praises Canadian girls and the wife’s parcel joy, recalls raspberries and hunting rabbits, and reports beating the Germans at the “bush.” He closes sending regards from J J Cooney.
Courtesy of Acros editor a Canadian wounded at Graylingwell England sends Christmas and New Year wishes across the sea. A daughter of the kite is among the signers from Mayland Quebec promising sincere friendship and future prosperity in wartime correspondence dated November 10 1924.
Obituary notes the passing of Mrs. William Johnstone Sr at 84 at Freeston after a brief illness. She was born in Glasgow and married William Johnstone sixty two years ago. survived by daughters Mrs. James McPherson Toronto Mrs. William Small Wibride and Mrs William Je Puerson and Mr William Johnstones Acton. Funeral at Strabane Presbyterian Church followed by burial beside her husband.
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