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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 31, 1902
Page
3
A fragmented public notice describes a bank or financial issuer, Hagland Limited, advertising that its notes can be cashed without charge or trouble at any part of the wake ant. The text mentions names like Intarret and Circula Notes and references section details of provincial circulation.
Consists of scattered notices on coal supply fears and price rises, a canceled match due to rain, a park concert and ball game, a sermonist death, a violent downpour damage, and Knox Church Sabbath School excursion plans to Hespeler and Idylwild Park with praise for supervision.
Fragmented items report church work on Park Avenue and Main Street pavings and property notices. The piece notes a parish at the Parsonage and a Levi Lambert property in Church Kinety with local names, while mentioning a Denver convention report and a late river party.
Council addressed petitions for new sidewalks on Dower Avenue Willow Hill North Street and Church Street. Authorities considered a four foot walk on Weel Tower and Willow, and a cement concrete underpass on Dower extending to Wilbur Street. A special meeting will decide final footing and a Church Street walk petition awaits presentation. A petition for permanent pavement on Willow from Dower to Power House was signed. The Presbyterian Church supported the proposals. The municipal solicitor set to pursue noncompliant parties. Also noted is the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway Planeer Limited dining car, 82 feet long, with enhanced seating and service.
Ottawa reports that Canadian soldiers brought home about 150 000 in gold from overseas under tight timing. Col Evan organized rapid entrainment on June 2 and delivered the regimental pay by check after arrival, with no bank needing to take gold.
July specials cut fares to Pavoni Wall Port On Victoria Vancouver with return validity to September 30. further July September discounts via various routes to Colorado Utah Montana and more. Also details of a derailment at Guelph line injuring several passengers and fatalities among a few, with local names and affected streets noted.
The record lists numerous residents visiting friends and relatives in Toronto Guelph Port Dover Owen Sound Mount Forest and Montreal plus hotels and railway talk. People like Mira Arch McNabh and John Rivwell left for maritime provinces while others spent weeks with kin in Toronto York County and Muskoka. It notes attendees at a funeral in Toronto and various household visits and letters.
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