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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 07, 1925
Page
6
In loving memory of Mrs Mathias Lambert who died after a long illness. Her husband and children mourn her loss and recall her as a loving wife and mother. She rests in the hope of a reunion beyond this life.
Local brief from Acton and surrounding areas reports Mothers Day approach on Sunday May 10 and notes May weather, temperature deviations, and spring blooms. Church services, postmaster resignation, daylight saving debate, and community projects at Acton Tanning and Oakville council actions are summarized with regional weather and fishing conditions.
At the annual meeting of the Methodist Sunday School Orchestra, officers were chosen for the current year. President John Halender. Superintendent T Brown. Secretary Rudolph Vogel. Treasurer J Matthews. Lorna Komnody Olga Moore and Miss Olga Moore named assistants. membership in the orchestra invited.
Limehouse Women’s Institute will hold its annual meeting in the Community Hall today Thursday. Election of officers will take place.
Row and Mrs McDonald of London visit Mr and Mrs John Smith. Mr McDonald back to pastoral duties Saturday while Mrs McDonald stays another week. Carrie Ryder of Erkel visits with Mr L and Mrs Arthur Swackhanter. Dust of the Earth, four act play praised in Acton, will be presented in Town Hall Brookville Friday under Wassagaweya Young Women's Institute. Cast remains same with Mrs Ostrander as director. Acton Methodist Sunday School Orchestra provides music. Mr W T Reid chairs.
The April report lists Jr IV Swackhamer McEachern Waller, Sr 101 Harrop Murray Harrop Swackhamer, Jr 1 Corinne MacDonald Thelma Graff Crowson Denny, Marry Murray Ruby Murray, Sr Vi Johnston Wallace Swackhamer, Class I Etts Swackhamer Graff Guthrie Anderson, Teacher. The Lellawiie honors Fall for Dublin School past month. Mayors daylight saving from May 3 to Sep 2 adopted. Shoe factory promoters in town seeking a building. Mayor Robinson bought J D Davis residence. Oakville tied Goodyear 1-1. Obey by-law on parking near churches Sundays. Oakville Baseball praised for two Minstrel Shows. First Annual Boy Scout Birthday Party held at Masonic Temple with over 65 families and about 215 guests.
The Acton Chamber of Commerce held a well attended meeting last Thursday. A prospective tenant for the Ryder Mowat building is being sought with a committee appointed to interview leading candidates. Toronto Suburban Railway fare equalization was discussed and Mogarg Beardmore Co proposed a ten year fixed assessment. The chamber backed the plant plan and offered aid if beneficial to Acton. Membership wall cards were ordered for business placards.
The Spring Term report lists Acton High School students by merit with Form I and II groups. Honorees include Watson Coxe Cromman Kerr Young Grindell Dumn Chalmers Gamble Huffman Gibbons Allison Stewart Day Stewart Scarrow Mille Henderson Lambert Lassby and others.
J McDougal was fined one cent and costs after pleading guilty to being intoxicated in public on April 25. James Mills of Weston was fined 200 dollars with three months’ vehicle impoundment for speeding. Reginald Brown faced a 100 dollar fine for causing a disturbance. A Sherwood was fined after admitting intoxication from home made parsnip wine.
Guelph lodge members visit Washington Lodge Buffalo by motor report a good time. Rockwood Presbyterian Church held first services at Friend's Church with Rev. McGregor of Toronto preaching morning and evening and at Eden Mills in afternoon.
Mrs Sarah McLeod widow of William McLeod longtime Georgetown resident and former Halton County warden died at her Georgetown home on April 27. She was daughter of the late James Barber and long active in the Presbyterian Church and local society serving over 25 years as treasurer of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society. Survived by daughters Mrs Herbert B Henderson of Georgetown Mrs Herbert M Wetherald of Toronto and Miss Agnes F McLeod of Georgetown. and sons James B and Norman L of Toronto.
Poetic fragment describes Acton's sunrise and a school bell that should ring at seven thirty but remains silent. The old bell’s failure to sound marks a dawn change and prompts readers to recall past routines and duties with nostalgia.
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