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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 28, 1925
Page
6
Mrs McKay and Mr W S McKay welcome a daughter named Margaret Eleanor born Saturday May 16 1025 at Spruce Street Ontville.
Local notes report spring blooms and apple blossom week, garden talk, and community events. June Women’s Institute meeting, sunroom enlargement, On tario Agricultural College excursion, and motor traffic uptick on the Toronto Sarnia Highway. Council approves paved road and hospital heating project. town signs and by law checks noted.
Acton hosts a large holiday crowd as residents and Toronto visitors resume city friendships. Names include Miss Olive Mowat, Mr. Ernest Barr, Miss Marlo Mowat, Miss Vera Hurats, Miss Jessie Mowat, and many others visiting relatives and friends in Acton, Guelph, Toronto, Hamilton, Brantford, and surrounding towns. The text notes dental and university ties, engagements, and a dental convention event in Toronto plus a June wedding announcement for Olga Han and Norman Burns.
In Milton on Monday and an “Allowed Out” bail set at $2,000, a case grows from the late night liquor sale at Nassagawega Township Hall on April 22. Two young men fined for intoxication, another jailed for drunken driving, and Mrs. James Forbes fined $600 and costs after pleading guilty to selling liquor by the glass. A charge against Jim Forbes for selling liquor by the bottle led to a warrant and his later arrest by Chief Chapman. Forbes offered bail. Police Magistrate Moore set $2,000 and remanded the case to Saturday 10 p.m. at Milton Court House. Mrs. Thomas Coxe posted bail for Forbes’s lumber mill workman at the second line.
Charles Connel of Milton faced Mooro Magistrates on Thursday for intoxication in that town on May 10. He pled guilty and paid a $10 fine and costs after testifying he had been drinking while visiting his brother in Burlington.
Acton seniors lost to Georgetown after a seventh inning rally, with Rowe and Albons pitching well for Acton. Next league game pits Acton against Afton and Hillsburg, while Rockwood beat Hillsburg in another matchup. Hillsburg won the tournament, Acton finishing second as Ailsberg topped Rockwood. Firecracker caused multiple city fires, prompting fireworks restrictions. Halton Plowmen elect officers and Esquesing Sunday School plans hold meetings in Georgetown today.
A large Town and Country gathering celebrated the marriage of Mr Harold Alking and his bride on Saturday. Friends presented a pair of parlor chairs. Dan McLean delivered a humorous address while Archie Sinclair and Clayton Cook presented the chairs. The couple will reside in Hamilton.
Sunday School teachers and officers of all denominations gather for the annual Trafa gar Township convention at Bethel Methodist Church Drumquin Friday afternoon. The event opens 1 30 pm with men of Bethel church in charge.
Roy Smith named town engineer for the rest of the year at a $400 salary. Oakville residents plan a garden party with Toronto Hamilton Lions on June 6. The Court of Revision opened its first sitting after hearing about twenty five appeals against assessments. Nineteen years of service at Knox Church Sunday School recognized for Thos Nisbet at a gathering in Lusk. Town Council moves to require citizens to remove encroachments from town streets and by law amendments are prepared to enforce the measure.
Fifty eight taxi and trail ranger youths from Bloor Street Presbyterian and Timothy Eaton Memorial Church in Toronto arrived at Limehouse by a Canadian National Electric car for a weekend program directed by Douglas Gowdy with University trained staff. Activities included visits to Provincial Paper Mills and Glen Woollen Mills, patriotic services, outdoor games, and a notable trail the thieves event toward Jones Walls. William Bhaw of Toronto attended as a guest. Over ten dollars was raised for Dr. Robert B. McLure’s boys school in Henan China. Gowdy returned from exams in his fourth year and enjoyed a visit to Kingaville, home of Uncle Jack Minot.
In Rockwood over the weekend visitors included Wyle Wilders from Lindsay and Miss Helen Barry from London with other guests from Simcoe Toronto and Stratford. Services conducted by Mr Bear and Rev J Uro Stewart drew congregations while the Rockwood Baseball Club opened its Victoria Day tournament with Hillsburg winning both games. The Cobourg concert at Guelph featured a strong program of violin and vocal numbers, and the unveiling of the Cross of Sacrifice at the CN station occurred with wreaths laid by local groups and veterans.
Wilfred Hill surrendered to police and admitted involvement in an assault and robbery linked to Cheater McBain and Ernest Perryman near Acton. Stanley Hodgson Harold Goetz Victor Gotha and Castmer Carrere face charges with Goetz plus Hill awaiting trial after preliminary hearings. About $20 of nearly $400 recovered.
Halton Seed Producers will hold a meeting in the Farmers Club Room Milton on Saturday May 30 at 8 p m Everyone interested in field inspection plant cleaning and seed improvement should attend Special speakers from the Seed Branch will be present Oakville big highway bridge No action was taken by the County Council on By law 623 granting 18000 to Oakville for the bridge on the Toronto Hamilton highway Oakville council opposes paying until the bridge is in good condition The bridge is badly damaged with inward earth filling buckled centre and cement cracks raising concerns about longevity
NASSAGAWEYA Col Mahon of Campbellville attended the military funeral of Major Chisholm at Oakville last week. Rev A Pinnes Marah of Port Rowan has been stationed on Nassagaweya Circuit with the parsonage to be at Eden Mills. Charles H Bundy of Milton died on the 16th inst at the home of his brother in Campbellville after a long illness. He was 67, a blacksmith, and had worked in Milton for many years.
Ballinafad born Reverend P. Watson Currie of Aghtaburu Ohio preached at Knox Church Georgetown on Sunday and at the Methodist Parsonage on Saturday May 9th. Rubina Lindsay of Erin wed Rea Shortlil eldest son of J B Shortil Esquesing after the ceremony they left for a short honeymoon and will reside on the groom’s Esquesing farm.
To celebrate our Twentieth Anniversary we are giving the above present to the first twenty enrolling in Mechanical Dentistry Bricklaying Garage Work Battery and Welding. Write Hemp Hills Ltd 163 King St W Toronto.
John I. Dryden, son in law of the late Hiram Swackhamer, died at Guelph General Hospital Saturday. He was a respected Christian man with Acton friends who attended his funeral on Monday.
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