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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1945
Page
9
A batch of birth and death notices including a March 15 1945 son birth to Rotz family names McKerhif St. Josephs Guelph March 1 1945 deaths of Mrs Brooks Dryden and Annie McNeill and Dearing Thomas with memories and family tributes. The items mention locations Guelph and Ontario and reference relatives Jean Annie Mary Hil and George.
Daylight saving returns with longer evenings and robin songs. St Patrick events brighten sidewalks as Maple Syrup returns and local fuse issues delay water. Scout Mothers plan quill and euchre sale and Overseas Brides lunch committee. Guelph police court records show Louis John of Acton pleading guilty for being found in a raided home. Bondi convicts for drunkenness. Jocho fined.
Miss Sybil Bennett attended the Dominion convention in Ottawa with Pro gressive Conservative ties. Georgetown votes 35 mills tax rate and hires salaries for municipal officials with the mayor at 228 dollars and the reeve at 100 dollars, as Dr G Y Williams presents an annual report urging sewerage and a sanitary engineer survey.
Reuben George Giles, a well known cul vere oot Bde Mills figure, died on Wednesday February Mth. He leaves daughter Min HT and a long local history with the Anglican Church and the testate autiatry. Funeral services were held at the Anglican Church and Almonte Cemetery with local officials in attendance.
The writer asks Arlot for data on the Intermegggate championship series including scores and line-ups for the Round Robin. He plans to settle arguments with Owen Sound and Woodstock and thanks Acton folks for their support. He mentions personal ties to Canada and hopes to meet relatives, noting postal steps in a light tone.
An auction notice lists horses including gray gelding and mares, a team, and multiple Waverly and Pine Row stock with births and bred dates. Farm machinery, a gas engine, a trailer, harness, and hay are to be sold March 31 at one oclock in Tras Talgar Township, near Multon, with Elliott as auctioneer and McBride as clerk.
An auction listing details items from a farm including horses ponies cattle pigs and farming machinery. The sale emphasizes no reserve and notes a settlement with the clerk day at sale and the auctioneer in charge.
The auctioneer announces a public auction at Trafalgar township near Omagh on Wednesday March 28 offering horses cattle poultry implements grain and farm machinery plus a 100 acre farm. Items include Percheron horses various Durham cows calves poultry equipment hay oats mixed grain soybeans and a range of tools. Real estate consisting of a brick house with outbuildings and 37 cultivated acres is offered with reserve. terms: cash for chattles and real estate details revealed sale day.
Auction notice for Eramosa Township listing cattle and horse stock to be sold on a Saturday in March. Includes descriptions like cows, calves, steers, and feed details with terms of sale and payment expectations. Contact details and bid conditions appear in a fragmentary format.
County officials discussed funding for the Red Cross and debated procedures for forming a county health unit. They considered drafting a letter to federation president and outlined steps to communicate the proposed health department unit at upcoming meetings.
About 17 percent turnout is noted as selected pupils from the entrance class at Egeh Public School in the county are expected to attend the morning session at 10 30.
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