02 Jun 1921
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 02, 1921
Page
1
Notice shows multiple items: a Sunday School service at 10 with Moralia Harview, a trepass notice forbidding hunting near lot 24 Esquealng, and a sale listing by Scott Brothers offering houses for 950 and 1800, plus four stores on MU Street. Includes agents and contact notes.
Hundreds of brand new rugs from makers are available in a monster-sale with room sizes, hall runners, and hearth mats well represented. Each rug is perfectly made and warranted to ensure top service.
Council met in regular session Monday evening with the Reeve and Councillors present. The finance committee reported accounts, salaries, and a municipal officer proposal. The court of division adjourned after hearing appeals, including a Toronto Suburban Hallway case, with decisions deferred to the next meeting. About 3,000 attended Vicrnia Day sports. community notices followed, including church renovations, missionary reports, and forthcoming garden party and annual meetings.
Acton marks the thirteenth anniversary of Caleb Moorehead’s business with four stores in Acton Brampton Georgetown and Milton. The Acton shop was repainted for the event. A Beverley House social last Thursday hosted the Fonts Club and friends. Community notes report local improvements waterworks and church grounds, a teachers’ event, bylaw fines, and upcoming church league baseball among Acton residents.
Norman Garfield, condemned to hang for the Woodstock storekeeper murder, was recaptured near Stewarttown after escaping Woodstock jail. He fought off his captors then was subdued by Tracy, Applebe, and Lawson, and taken to Georgetown, where authorities planned to return him to Woodstock for execution. The dramatic capture triggered crowds and a $1,000 reward for identifying and aiding Garfield’s recapture.
Social and personal mentions include Mra Mine Myrtle Dilly in Toronto for the weekend, Wred Maddock visiting from Mr Matthews, and Charley Lauby and Frank Browning of Toronto visiting Acton friends. Several entries note travel to Winnipeg, London, and Ottawa, with engagements, attendances at assemblies, and a wedding in Hamilton. Notable names include Henne Henderson, Eva, Lindsay, Laura Gray, and Harold Lyons, among others.
A Canadian Press conven tion party of editors and wives from Nova Scotia to Ontario will travel to Vancouver for the Canadian-Wely Newspaper Association annual convention. The group, 200 Western Province members plus others, will travel via Pullman cars on CN One and CN Pacific routes with stops including Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Lake Louise. Entertainment and official receptions are planned in Vancouver and Victoria, with return to Toronto by June 20.
The dairy industry faces a price drop as butter milk and creamery products fall sharply from April highs. Foreign demand weakens and storage costs rise, pushing domestic markets toward lower prices while producers adjust to an unsettled outlook and possible further declines.
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