Acton Postwar Notes on Local Service Men and School Plans
Servicemen returning from overseas include L/Cpl Bill Fields Lieut R M Storey L/Cpl W J Gibbons and Sgt W H Hall With more arrivals expected this week Pte J Moore Symn E G Elliott Tpr Graham Edsm Norman Gibson Pte Herb Cook and Pte N G McNabb Also Acton Public Utilities Commission names C M Hansen chairman with J R MacArthur and Reeve C M Kirkness present The Acton School Board outlines financing for new school buildings a 10 room public school and five room high school with auditorium gym and workshop The Acton Tanners suffer defeats at Orangeville then a 5-5 tie at Fergus Norman Morton injured in a fight Bus Morton and Dude Lindsay return to the lineup Police caution against selling tobacco to anyone under 16 years old.
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Homefront notes and local changes from Acton area
Fifty years ago in the Free Press dated January 20 1916 local life is sketched with a power outage from a broken line between Acton and Guelph. News includes Miss Anna Oram at Salonika Greece praising unit cohesion, a death in Limehouse, a lantern lecture by Archdeacon Davidson, a skate on zeppeins near Esquesing, newly recruited soldiers Matthew Cooney Jack Eason Melvin Soper Ernest Barr and Sgt Coles enlisting twenty men, residents abroad in Florida Atlantic City Goderich and more as front line letters reveal wartime hardship and local humor
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Sergt. Coles
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J. S. Deacon
Florida
Robert Hynds
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