Acton United Church Service Notices
Minister Rev R E Zimmerman preaches at 11 00 a m on The Second Beat and 7 00 p m on The Church and Her Resources Sabbath School meets at 2 30 p m Week of Prayer begins next week with a Monday evening service Rev Mr Boyd to preach
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Church
United Church
Mr. Boyd
Acton
J. W. Boyd
The
Presbyterian Church
H.G. L
Baugh
B.D
St. Alban'’s Church
A.C. Stewart
Baptist Church
R. Eb, Zimmerman
The Call to Service and The Church and Her Resources
At 11 00 a m a communion service and at 3 00 p m Sabbath School and Bible Classes are held with topics The Call to Service and The Church and Her Resources. Strangers leaving address with the ushera will be called upon by the Pastor.
New Year Church Schedule Features Pastor Message and Activities
At 11:00 a.m. The Pastor presents a New Year's helpful message and first communion service. 3:00 p.m. Sunday School for all ages. 7:00 p.m. The Pastor speaks on Reaching Forth Unto Those Things While Before. 8:00 p.m. Young People's Meeting. Thursday 7:30 p.m. Prayer and Praise Meeting all are welcome.
The Great Circus The Fighting Ranger Keeper of the Bees
Comedy drama notes list Con stance Tilmadge in The Great Circus. A serial The Fighting Ranger is teased with Coming The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Sisatta Porter.
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Constance Tilmadge
J-Remedy
Watch For the
The
Fighting Ranger
Keeper of the Bees
Gene Sisatta
Porter
Esquesing Council Approves Treasurer Refunds and Bills
At the last council meeting Gowdy and Leslie pass refunds to D Mc Gibbon Wm Sharp and others for errors in rate and taxes totaling several dollars. The treasurer is instructed to pay various division allowances wire fence bonuses and service costs including court cases, insurance and postage. A by law for 1926 municipal elections is approved and the Reeve is thanked for his fair chairing of meetings.
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Esquesing Council
Gowdy
Leslie
D. McGibbon
Wm. Sharp
Glenwilliams
Wm. Davidson
Frank Fendley
Norval
F. Rogers & Co
Wm. Logan
Mary Bailey
Council Chamber
Carton-Leslie
J. A. McClure
Leslie-Carton
John Barnes
M. Guy Wilson
Bell ‘Telephone
Roy F. Smith
A. B. Tracy
E. C. Thompson
John H. Smith
Wood
Gowdy* Carton
U. S. No. 20
M. J. Brown
R.R
J. E. Edwards
Streetsville
Henry.May
R. R
Edgar W. May
Hornby
Howard May
Jon.n C. Switzer
Geo. Woods
Robt. Whaley
Streetaville
Leslie Carton
Elmer. Thompson
Georgetown
Insurance Municipal
Stewarttown
Gowidy-Carton
J. L. Clark
Gov. Faulkner
Ed. Greensward
L. Leslie
Mia. J. Watking
A. Morris
Sidney Morris
Row
Huggins
J. G. Henderson
Acton
M. Prant
Milton
Jas. Sprowl
Wm. Scott
Ross Hepburn
R. Li. Johnston
Jas. Gibbons
Jan. Therman
A. Blackburn
Frank Thompson
A. R. No
Fred C
Thompson
H. Garvin
W. ‘W. Brownridge
George Leslie
Thos, McKerr
Robt
Joyce
John, L. Moore
Norman Devereaux
M. Campbell
Ball- Ingrad
Lesie-Carton
Board ‘of Health
J. H. ‘Smith
Dr. Marcellus
D. J. Matthews
G. O. Brown
Weston Sanitorium
Gillingham
Barraclough
Moody
Guelph General Hospital
Mra. Kennedy
Lealie-Carton
Board of Health
E. Y. Barraclough
W. G. Anplebe
T. N. Marcellus
W. G. Apnibe
T. L. Leste
W. Gowdy
New Year Reflections From D E Macdonald & Bros Store
A 1926 corporate message from D E Macdonald & Bros Limited urges customers to take stock of the past year and outlines planned store improvements. The notice promises changes on the first floor and ongoing efforts to enhance service as the new year unfolds.
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D. E. Macdonald & Bros
Knox S S Entertainment A Christmas Treat For Knox Sunday School
The Knox Sunday School Christmas program at Town Hall drew a full audience of scholars and elders. It featured choruses, recitations, duets, dances, and games, plus a sumptuous tea and a display of Christmas cheer. The article also notes an upcoming showing of The Iron Horse at Wonderland Theatre on New Year’s Day.
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Knox Sunday School
Otd
Wilmer Davidson
Haxtell -Waldie
Betty
Dorothy Clayridge
Merne Ranaan
Cooper
St. Nicholas
Mr. Stewart
Stewart
Local notices and events across Duke chapter meeting and community services
Regular meeting of the Duke of Devonehire Chapter I C D E to be held at Mrs N Korbes home on Tuesday January 6 at 8 pm A Watch Night Service at United Church tonight led by Rev R E Zimmerman begins 11 15 pm Also Halton Trustee and Ratepayers Association meets in Milton January 6 at 1 30 pm to discuss Township School Boards and elect officers 1926 Heavy traffic on the Toronto Guelph line reports extra service to handle holiday crowds at Keele Street Saint Clair Avenue terminal The Walker Lodge A F and AM installation of officers occurred with Dr J A McNiven presiding and a social gathering following The United Church choir visited shut in members and sang The Iron Horse film heads to Wonderland Theatre New Years Day with a matinee at 3 pm and nightly showings plus contextual praise of western railway history and Christmas spirit across the community
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Duke of Devonehire
The
I.C.D.E
United Church
RE Zimmerman
Halton Trustee and Ratepayers Association
Milton
Toronto
Canadian National Electric
Keele Street
Saint Clair Avenue
One
Guelph
Reeve-elect Manon
United Church Choir
Moorecroft
Tsaolos
Nancy Somerville
Wiliam Willams
Sfing
Charles Mason
Kitchener
Fern Brown
Rh. L. Gregory and Son
Regent ‘Theatre
Wonderland Theatre
Iron Horse
Panama Canal
Main Street
Merle Ellene
Mary Hill
George Ww. HM
Post Office
W. A. Galbraith
HE. D. Galbraith
Drumbo
G. Clifford Hl
Irange
Annie Galbraith
C. Hill
N. ‘Argyle Hurlbut
St. Paul's Church
Amos Mason
Bertie Smith
Jean. Kennedy
Mrs. Gardiner
Nellie Reesor
Misa Hazel Mason
McComb
Bert Mason
Basso
Kingston
Zimmerman
Marriage in Scotch Block Ties Gillies to Annie May Scott
Annie May Scott wed John Gould Gillies at the Scott home in Esquesing with Rev. W G Rose officiating. The couple will live at Fern Dale Farm. Also noted is that several Canadian National Railway winter cuts will affect branch lines and a through-line westbound train at 29 p.m. may stop at Acton.
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Ernest H. Scott
Esquesing
Annie May
John Gould Gillies
Nell
Canadian National Railway
Acton
1926 license plates go on sale in town
Automobile plates for 1926 are available earlier this year with black numbers on a gray background for better enforcement. A sample plate is on display in the Free Press show window.
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Free Press
Pretty Christmas Wedding in St Lambert
Evelyn Alice Snyder and Ernest Clifford Marr wed at 632 Victoria Ave St Lambert Quebec with Rev George Dewey officiating. Attendants include Doulay M L Snyder and flower girls Mary and Winnifred Thornton. Out of town guests travel from Kintersley Sask North Bay and Winnipeg. Honeymoon to the Laurentians then Toronto residence.
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Victoria Ave
St. Lambert
Que
Evelyn Alice
L. P. Snyder
Ernest Clifford Marr
Toronto
David M. Marr
Shedden
Westmount
W. A. Hamilton
United Church of Canada
Doulay M. L. Snyder
Mary
Winnifred . Thornton
Kintersley, Sask
Joseph McCulley
St. Thomas, Ont
Dorothy Cross
jLeongueull
Dorothy
Mount
Montreal
Lola Hallman
Kitchener
W. P. Thornton
Kindersley, Sask
Mian E. Alberta Snyder
Carol Snyder
Horace H. Snyder
North Bay
Helen Scott
Fredericton
N.eb
Ernest , A. Moore
Winnipeg
Mart
Gaurentians
Acton
Fox Industry Strong in Canada Says Minister Report
The annual report of Hon. W. R. Motherwell shows wartime year success for Canada's fox industry with Prince Edward Island exporting 6000 foxes mainly to the United States. Prices for skinned pelts rose and demand for fox fur increases as wild supplies shrink. Silver fox pelts remain the highest priced and breeding stock inquiries flow from the United States and Europe.
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Canada
W. R. Motherwell
Price Edward Island
United States
Dominion
Europe
Municipal Elections 1926 Nomination Results
Nominations in Halton and adjacent townships were held on Monday with acclamations in Esra Nassagaweya Eramosa Milton and Oakville. Elections listed include Reeve Deputy Reeve and Councillors for multiple townships and Guelph mayoral hopefuls plus local officials for Campbville.
Farewell Party for Miss Deliene Gibbons Before Nursing Course
Miss Deliene Gibbons leaves Acton to begin training at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. A farewell gathering at Mr and Mrs Thomas Gibbons home featured St Joseph’s choir, Rev Father McReavy, and Irene Mullholland presenting a nurse’s watch with a written address thanking Deliene for choir and social work. A dainty lunch followed. Death notice: Halton man John Ezard, longtime Milton resident, dies in Toronto aged about 60. funeral at Evergreen Cemetery, Milton.
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Thomas Gibbons
Main Street
Deliene
St. Michael’s Hospital
Toronto
St. Joseph's Choir
Gibbony
Father McReavy
Irene Mulholland
Madeliene Gibbons
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the Baptist Church
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Box
Rockwood
August Young
R.J._ KERR
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Amy Leslie
Acton Horticultural Society
Omcers
Frank Scrivan
E. T. Thetford
Sec
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Ontario
Hemphill Trade’ School
King St. W
N. Y
George O'Brien
Bellamy
Felix
the Signal Tower
Virginia
Valii
Wallace Beery
Eivery
L. Gregory & Son
MacDonald
Bvavay
D. E. Macdonald _& Bros., Ltd
Rovway
Harry Harrison
Electors of Esquesing
Council
Waonderland Theatre
Walker Lodge
J. A. McNiven
Credit Lodge
W. Bro. McNiven
Wonderland
Merry
Gil Thas
Georgetown Board of Education
J. Backenzie
Muskoka Lake
White River
Children's Aid Society
County of
Halton
Thele
Spéctor
W. H. Stewart
Pring
Gordon Home
Knox Presbyterian Young
People's Guild
D.E
United Church C.G.1
Christmas Comforts Distributed
Lions Club
Wellcome
Oakville
Indy
Knox Church
Erin
Erin and Ospringe
Burns’ Church
John Davey
Creemore
Davey
John Lindsay
Whitby
James’ Reldie
Hillsburg
James MacDonald
B.C. L
Acton High School
Macdonell
France
Switzerland
Belgium
Holland
England
Scotland
Cunard
Ascania
Mra. Macdonald
Esra Township
Appeleche
Denuty
T. Leslie
M. J. Carton
T. Bird
W., Lawson
G. Currie
R. Cleaver
Nassagaweya Township
E. Agnew
Donald Campbell
W. T. Near
W. W. Dredge
Frank McNiven
Nelson Township
H. T. Foster
G. H
McArthur
H. M., Pettit
E. M. Readhead
G. L. Peer
J. F. Gunby
Trafalgar Township
W. H. Morden
Deeve
A. A. Galbraith
J. Waldbrook
A. Buck
Wv. Hon
E. Henderson
Ww. Ford
J. Elliott
Utiility
Eramosa Township
Arch. McNab
W. Swanson
H.F. Alton
Rutherford
Frank Day
John Irving
Reeve
J. W. Blain
J. Maxted
E. Syer
M. E.nixon
T. Cox
Th. B
Wilson N. Robinson
Chas. H. Cross
William Nicol
D. H. Meikle
Wilson Nelson Robinson
Charles Henry Cross
Wiliam Anderson
Herbert A. Ashbury
Thomas Bain
Philip W. Chambers
George Head
James_Hewsor
Allan Kemp
James B. “Mont
Walter L. Smith
Guelph In
Campballville
Eri Township
David Sinclair
George Bryan
Jamesa McKinnon
Wm. Barber
James FR
Cree
Deliane Gibbons
Nuraing
Dellene
St. Joseph's Church
Rature
St. Joseph's Chair
Irene Mullholland Madeliend Gibbons
Thia
John Ezard
Pape Ave
Cookaville
Woodstock
Royal Te Lars of Temperance
Simpe Avenue
Winnipes
Evergreen Cemetery
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