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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 12, 1918
Page
3
The piece reflects holiday cheer with Christmas imagery and civic notes. It mentions Santa Clara, wardens, and meetings, alongside local notices about taxes, routes, and community events. The tone is period-appropriate, with seasonal wishes and municipal references embedded in a collage of notices.
Readers from towns like Toronto Chatham St Marys and Acton send in renewals for 1912 year subscriptions. They express appreciation and compare value of The Hixters Weekly to other farm papers while praising market forecasts and pages. A few send money, noting the paper’s usefulness and personal ties to local areas.
Numerous Acton area residents returned from Toronto and nearby towns over the weekend. Notices include influenza impact in Alberta, military news with discharged soldiers and wounded, and community updates on visits, travel, and a local funeral at Guelph.
Obituary notice for John Melagac of Invernesshire Scotland who died last Thursday at Why Blot year. He lived in Acton for four years with his wife and family. Funeral attendance lists many relatives and local residents, with tributes from Pastor Winona and community members.
All electric debt and power bills may be paid at the Clerk's office from eight oclock in the morning to eight oclock in the evening. To obtain a 106 percent refund or account credit, the bills must be paid before the ninth of each month.
The editorial calls for continued Red Cross service after war ends, emphasizing relief for wounded veterans and refugees. It warns peace will not heal all wounds or restore normal life, urging ongoing support for medical, hospital, and refugee relief efforts and collaboration with Allied relief societies.
A fragmented misspelled piece satirizes social vanity and luck, noting feeble thefts of a DewuTy Tangy wine and misdirected wallets. It comments on cheerful homes, gentle praise, and civic optimism while urging readers to cultivate a habit of feeling rich and content amid everyday mild absurdities.
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