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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Jan 31, 1929

Page

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Knox Church Acton Program Highlights A Busy Week

Knox Church Acton announces a full week of events led by Pastor A C Stewart. Sunday services include The Minister sermon Waiting Upon God at 11 am and Family Reconciliation at 7 09 pm. Sunday School at 2 20 pm. The Maple Leaf Group hosts Young People's League Monday. Thursday features Praise and Prayer Service at 7 90 pm. A sermon Lord Teach Us to Pray is planned for 11 pm with more lectures on Bible figures later.

Lennon Joseph Young Prople'League Maple Leaf Group Unday Lorron Young People's Guild Progryansine Knox Young People's Young People’s Guild of Knox Church Laura Atal Milas Katharine Blewert Bina Verma Iwuret Mra A. 0. Blewart Mics L. Ory Mlcs Josale Anderson RL Moore Acton Public Bchoala Chas. W. Mazon United Church

For Sale and Notices in Acton Advertisements

Pure White Leghorn hens for laying now. Grey Percheron mare eight years old, cheap. WANTED wood cutters, apply Gordon Bros. Phone 98rd RR. Acton. Dressmaking and fancy stitchers wanted. Auction sale notices. Card of thanks and cards of thanks for hospital friends. Notice of O O F meeting in Acton. Local notices and classifieds mix.

Gordon Bros Acton Aeton Beswick

Think of Next Winter and Save Half on a Coat

An advertisement promotes half price on a wide range of fur trimmed and exclusive coats for women and misses. Sale items include coats priced from around 5 to 199 dollars with many midrange discounts noted. Strong emphasis on future winter wear and high grade furs.

Fashion bargain trip to Guelph offers clearence pricing

A promotional notice invites shoppers to a trip to Guelph for fashion bargains. Exclusive French room frocks priced between $3.98 and $24.75 with many items cut in half. Winter hats cleared at $1.00 and new spring styles including pelts and felts with straw priced to clear at $1.98.

Women Institute meeting in Hinox Avenue home

The regular Women's Institute meets February 7 at 3 pm at Mrs Tell's Hinox Avenue home. Mrs Slaven of Georgetown will address the gathering. all welcome.

Women's Kistitule Women's Institute Mra. Tell Hinox Avenue

Community's Social Life Highlights Acton Area Visits

The column lists Acton residents visiting Toronto and returning home over weekends, hospital stays in Guelph and Toronto, and attendees at funerals in Georgetown and Hitchener. Notables include Mr WaUgene McPherzon, Mina Qintys Wuffman, Miss Werte Smith, and Mrs T Morris.

Mina Qintys Wuffman Wan Toronto Werte Smith Mina Nora Kenney Guelph General Hospital Freeve Manon County Counci Auilton T. Morris J.P . Scarrow

Annual Guelph Presbyterial W M B Meeting Held in Knox Church

The fifteenth annual meeting of the Guelph Presbyterial W M B of the Presbyterian Church in Canada convened at Knox Church Guelph with seventy five delegates. Officers for 1929 were listed including Miss A Macckae as President and Mrs W Gamble as Treasurer. A play by the Ladies Ald Society of the Baltiuafad United Church titled The Path Across the HH is planned for February 22 with further details to follow.

Guelph A. J. MacOulivray Quelph Presbytery Galt Campballville Nassagaweya Jesala Reed Cole Biles Mary Grant Caselaw Matthewn Gamble Thomson Mission Band McDonald Pergua Bessie Machurchy Toronto Ladies’ Ald Society The Baltuafad United Church Miten Fall Orizea Halton County Agricultural Society Milton J. B. Martin E. Worrop L. W. Chisholm Naasagoweya A. L. Chambers Capt. Morden Oakville MarNabb Milton Reformer lWfarong Church of Rogland Wenetcon Butertala Actan Hewatron Ghost Company Mason Orchestra

The Evening Meal Digester noir ransom note case

A black man named Nand Jotter demanded 25000 dollars to spare a wealthy man’s wife kidnapping. A threatening note was then sent to a poor laborer by Charles Hame who claimed no money but showed interest in the propagition.

Otiurwine Crtar i Mbalye Cha Sume Hame

Obituary list reflects Acton area deaths in January

Death notices from Acton area recount the passing of Margaret Stewart at 73 in Bramona Township, and other local residents Samuel Worden, John Lash, John Lasby, with funeral details, family survivors, and church affiliations. We note burials at Everton Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery and references to local churches and lodges.

Milo Peter Bramona Township Margaret Stewart Peter Stewart Archibald and Mary _ Thomson Erin Stewart Jin Township Han Hamoe Qohylat Beniden Archibald Ironwood Balph Ronwood Mich I Joseph Erin ‘Township Robert O Eramoasa Thomeon John Tramoan Annie Aira Troy Alan Eramoca Township Eramoss Everton Cemetery John Lashy Lowell Acton Mr. Lashy Fred’ Denny Oliver Lasby Pilkington Wellington County John Lasby Acton Public School Nobt. Little Hall Matthews Cummings Davidson Worden Cameron Moor Lasby Mr. Lasby Iabt Plangyan J. Hanson Bowmanville Mary Elizabeth Qldits Ontario Nichols Tilagotown Ella Marry Ghuter William Marsh Allen, Lasby MaeCord Joseph Oliver Alexander Charles Mary Catherine Margaret Harriet Loulky Susan Chapriotn Powera Loulna Ywonson Susan Vlanagan Charlotte Nicklit Michigan Medine Wallace Lauby IaMard Lasby Samuel &S. Lasby John Lambert Toronto Westmoreland Avenue Lambert John Perkins Yeovil Somerset England Afra Wi- Speight BM Lambert Wedsmoreland Avenue United Church Prospect

Third Session of Parliament Opens in Ontario

The Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Ontario begins its third session with Premier Fermeille presenting the Throne speech. Crowds fill the Queen's Park galleries as officials, guards, and spectators mark the ceremonial opening and subsequent proceedings. Adjournment is set for this afternoon for speeches and motions to follow. In separate news, Trafalgar Township youth Ted Isard is acquitted of criminal negligence in the Christmas Eve Lake Shore Road death of Robert Stuart. A coroner's jury had deemed the death accidental.

Recens Ontario Seglavitara Fermion Queen's Park Guard of Honor Tirone Pergue Fon Mescra Morrian Moffat Ton William D. Diack Mann Royal Canadian Dragoons R. St. J. Worthy Royal Canadian Regiment Guard of Honor McCaffery Thint Brigade RC A Parliament Buildings Ted Isard Trafalgar Township Ind Robert Stuart Oakville Lake Shore Warls Rte W Melveen Leard

Notable Guelph marble man Hamilton dies suddenly

Albert Claude Hamilton of Hamilton and Gans marble works Guelph died from heart disease aged 47. He was active in Guelph amateur hockey and is survived by brother S Hamilton. The notice notes his local prominence and death on Monday.

Hamilton Guelph Albert Claude Hamilton Hamilton and Gans Marble Works S. Hamilton

Local notices and community reports from Acton era

A mixed item sheet lists meetings at Mrs Arnold's Main Street for a Prohibition meeting, Wellington County finances with a 1928 surplus, Knox Men's Club program, a farm accident near Township, a Montreal bank booklet for public use, a church orchestra at a United Church service, a grocery store chain change to Buparise, a jail arrest over defamatory remarks, county council committees, Halton County Agricultural Society banquet plans, deaths and local society notes, an Acton employee party, and Georgetown radio broadcasts with local speakers and musicians.

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