Acton Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and engagements
The community’s social page records visits to Acton from Toronto Guelph Nassagawega Nobleton Maywood and England. It notes engagements including Agnes May Walker to Telford V Kenney and a Shorthorn Breeders picnic at Colonel Deacon’s Glenburn Farms Unionville. Mrs. Fredk Daniels visits from Bodian England after twenty years.
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Mary Walker
Hamilton
Daug
Agnes’ May
Telford V. Kenney
John Kenney
Acton
Ontario
Fredk Daniels
Bodian
Sussex
England
A H. Bishop
British Columbia
Two Local Women Die. Rites Held in Acton and Esquesing
Obituaries note the passes of Lydia Amy Leslie of Erin Township and Mrs J Allan McIsaac of Esquesing. Leslie died at Guelph General Hospital at 63 and leaves a sister and five brothers with services at Acton United Church. McIsaac, born Etta Creamer, died suddenly in her fortieth year. funeral from Esquesing home, interment Fairview Cemetery Acton, with six pallbearers and many floral tributes from relatives and friends.
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Erin Township
Amy Leslie
Leslie
General Hospital
Guelph
Lydia Amy Leslie
George and
Amanda ‘Leslie
Erin
Lesiie
Acton
Eden Mills
Harvey
Aylmer
Ira
Joel
L. Poole
H. Caldwell
Messrs
Gordon Leslie
George Leslie
Earl Jessop
Edward Jessop
Frank’ Jessop
W. Gibson
J. Allan McIsaac
McIisaac
Etta Creamer
Gilbert Creamer
Esquesing Township
James
Lanny
Gladys
Jeanetta
Frank
Esquesing
C. T. Hilliard
Port Arthur
Robert Ridler
LaSalle
John Bain
Harold
Fairview Cemetery
L. L. Mullin
David Joe
Patrick Kelly
Harold Billings
Len. Billings
Wilfred Kennedy
Mgr
Chas— Billings
L. Peer
W. A. Billings
Alex. McIsaac
James McIisaac
William Smith of Acton Dies Suddenly at 56
Community mourns Wiliam Smith of West Bower AvenueActon after a heart seizure ended his illness. Ex councillor and former Fire Brigade member, he was active in St Albans Church and the Orange Lodge. Funeral at St Albans drew vast attendance with many organizations represented, burial at Fairview Cemetery. He leaves a widow Margaret Lynd and four children Lynd Gordon Jean Blanche, all of Acton. Memorial services planned at St Albans.
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Wiliam Smith
West Bower Avenue
William Smith
Acton
St. Alban’s
Billy” Smith
St. Alban’s Church
Orange Order
Halton County
Margaret Lynd
Lynd
Gordon
Jean
Blanche
St. Alban's Church
P. A. Sa
G. F. Scovil
St. George's Church
Guelph
D. A. Flook
Arthur
J. A. ‘Nell
Halton County Judging Competition Highlights 1933
The Halton County Council hosted the 1933 Judging Competition in Milton Town Hall with Miss Betty Wallace in charge assisted by Miss Eadie of Toronto and Miss Helen Robertson of Milton. Events covered Nutrition Clothing and Live Stock with awards by A G Kirstine and others, followed by an evening banquet featuring speaker Louis Blake Duff of Welland and remarks by W N Robinson.
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Gils
Milton
Betty ‘Wallace
Eadie
Toronto
Helen Robertson
Farmers’ Club Room
Ontario Department of Agriculture
A. G. Kirstine
E. L. McLoughry
Galt
Harry Pettit
Clare ‘Wilson
Willmott
Jos. Watt
Dominion Live Stock
A. H. Martin
Crops and Markets
Harvey Alton
Bruce Teasdale
Claude Shannon
Jos. Willmotts
View Farm
Kathleen
G. ‘Mayer
Clydesdale
Biggar Bros
Percy Merry
Isailion
George Currie
Halton County Council
W. H. Morden
Victor Hall
Leslie Peer
W. N. Robinson
Gilbey and
Hilson
Milton Jang
Alice Gunby
Tansley
Wallace
Mss
Gowdy
Limehouse
Grout
Bank of Toronto
Oakville
Duncan Campbell
W.N. Robinson
Thos. A. Blakelock
Chicago
Eva’ Chisholm
The
Nelson
Tolene Macklin
Appleby
Ella Harris
Nemo
Annette Huffman
Freeman
Jolene Macklin
Marle Heslop
Grace Heslop
Kathleen Macklin
Evan Chisholm
Gladys
Gibbey
Laura Reid
Dorothy Lamb
Miton
Verna Kingston
Palermo
Millie Pelletterio
Ash
Ella Peacock
Marion Vansickle
Gladys Gilbey
Mt. Némo
Isobel Tovell
Betty Rivaz
Eleanor Coulson
Lowville
Mary Jarvis
Fred Shortill
Georgetown
Junior Plowing Matches Held in Trafalgar and Nassagaweya
Two Junior Plowing Matches were held in Trafalgar and Nassagaweya Townships with eight and four competitors respectively. Judges Maurice McLeod of Galt oversaw demonstrations that produced promising prospects for home plowing and inter county teams. Winners included Claude Pickett Gordon Sinclair Arnold Pickett and Roy Metcaife among others from Hornby Freeman Oakville Campbellville and Campbellville.
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Trafalgar
Nassagaweya
Fred Dent
Claude
Pickett
Hornby
Bruce McKerr
Milton
Orval
Salvage Work and Divers Behind Sunken Ships
The article describes salvage crews on salvage ships with engineers divers and photographers and their heavy equipment. It notes pumping plants capable of five thousand tons per hour and the complex task of placing nine inch steel wires under wrecks to tow them to shallower water. It cites the Howe incident off Ferrol and the Eurydice recovery off the Isle of Wight as examples of difficult operations.
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Howe
Perelrop
Ferrol
Spain
Hamilla- Mitchell
Shanghai
Ridyard
H. M. &. Eurydice
Isle of Wight
Admiralty
County council debates road strip and budget vote
In Halton County council discussions center on a ten foot cement strip and highway work with a unanimous vote in favor. Budget items list county buildings at seventeen thousand seventy dollars and an equalized assessment for 1933 retained from last year. Harris and Thetfoiti were re elected to the Mothers Allowance Board as the council adjourned to meet in August.
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W. G. Appelbe
L. L. Mullin
G. W. Murray
N. A. Robin
Gédte Currie
J. Sanford
B. Swackhamer
T. EL Price
Acton Public Utilities Commission
Crescent Street
Smonghs
Bell Telephone
Canada
W. A. Wilson
Aenee
Walter Nelson
A. R. Sérvice
McLaughlin
W. G
Toronto-Hamilton
Currie
Fesquesing
Georgetown
Applebe
Halton
Harris
Thetfoiti
Death Choice of Bride Triggers Albanian Custom Deaths
A bride in a Jugoslavian Petch district chose suicide over an arranged marriage to her fiance's brother after her lover's murder. Engaged to the son of an elderly landowner, Shkurta's parents received 250 dollars. She fled after two months of marriage, then returned to be compelled to wed. She killed herself by poison in obedience to an ancient rite.
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Petch
Jugoslavia
Shkurta
Huband
Iceland Poppy Grown From Seed Rears Long Summer Bloom
The Iceland poppy, a hardy perennial, can be easily grown from seed in large numbers. It blooms throughout a long stretch of early summer, providing extended color and ornamental appeal.
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Iceland
Practice Makes Perfect at the Albert Hall
A travelling showman and his fiddler son arrive outside the Albert Hall where Kreisler is performing. The father asks about cheap seats, learns the house is sold out, and angrily scolds the boy for not practicing.
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Fiddler
Albert Hall
Kreisler
Sonny
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