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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 19, 1925
Page
2
The Acton Free Press reprints a verse urging perseverance. It recalls that when difficulties mount and funds run low, persistence can turn near defeats into eventual victory. The piece ends with a plea to stay in the fight even as odds seem greatest.
A treatise on genuine hospitality contrasts lavish displays with warm, simple acts. It argues that the best guests are those who arrive unexpectedly and feel integrated into the home, and that openness to all reflects a true hospitable heart.
A gardening note outlines a year by year tulip bed routine. Mulch with partly rotted manure in winter, add fresh earth and Phlox Drummondi seeds after pruning spent blooms, then inject nitrate of soda and bone meal as shoots appear. The sequence covers fourth year rotation and eventual adaptation by the gardener.
At the New York sportsmen show a portable wireless telegraph apparatus drew crowd interest among guides and hunters. A guide praised it as a great invention noting it could help a hunter lost in the woods by signaling rescuers with a simple click and dash pattern.
Washington Post recounts a wealthy, newly educated dowager whose round the world journey, completed recently, unsettles guests. Some question her choice of places of interest like the Dardanelles and the Himalayas, while she assures visitors she dined in Paris and traveled with them.
In Lot 37 on Otter Brook Maine, Addison and I discover leaden gray ore in a cherry forest after a lightning strike. Miners arrive claiming private land rights under mining law, then push a scheme to swindle the old squire with forged ore samples and a pricey buyout, only to be foiled by peculiar powder weights and keen skepticism.
A lady and her husband shelter on a small island during a rainstorm and meet charcoal burners’ children living in a dilapidated hut. The children, black with soot and wary of strangers, rebuff her attempts to learn about charcoal burning, shouting she knows nothing about it as they bid farewell.
A youthful barrister cross examines a rustic farmer in a box, dismissing him as small fry. The witness admits one marriage and stumbles with questions about the spouse. The legal scene ends with the barrister joking about the village idiot and a slide into awkward misunderstanding.
A minister recalls his first marriage ceremony. The shy bride thanks him awkwardly and hints at a future chance to retaliate. The scene highlights youthful embarrassment and tentative humor at the service.
Sala Pat and Mike discuss global ignorance in a pointed Irish-tinged quip. One jokes that half the world is wrong, the other concedes the other half is equally ignorant.
Public auction sale on a Saturday in March at 2 pm at Lasby's Station Hotel Acton Ontario by auctioneer A J Kerr of a 100 acre Esquesing Township farm near Grand Trunk Railway. The parcel includes Lot 24 fourth concession, farm buildings and a dwelling, with reserve bid. Ten percent down, balance in 30 days. Harry W. Page solicitor for the mortgagee. Dated Toronto February 27 1925.
Harold Smart orders a public auction at Erin Township Lot 9 W Con. 4 on March 24. Horses cattle pigs hens and gear, grain and roots, furniture and farm implements to be sold with terms cash under 10 and credit on larger sums. Roy Hindley auctions assisted by O. Plank.
The sale by public auction at Stop 68 Radial on Thursday March 19 features a chestnut gelding Holstein cows pigs 3 fat hogs 8 hens and dozens of farm implements including a Peter Hamilton binder Deering mowers disc drill cultivator and many hoes plows and wagons. Terms vary with cash and eight months on joint notes for sums over 1600. the farm and reataored Shorthorns property of R S Murray also sale cash terms.
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