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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 13, 1919
Page
3
Rates are listed for births marriages and deaths with memorial card pricing and poems. Notices include Dayfoot Bauer Ryder Church members and several in memoriam verses for Vida Isora Irtéraon Bert Masales and family memorials from Father Mother and Wesley.
Brief local notes from Acton on Victory Bond drives and clean-up week. mentions Guy Fawkes day, vaccination advice, horticultural bulb deliveries, and a Barnsley style of town news including sales, classes, and church offerings. Also reports on turkey turnip shipping and local real estate transfers.
The Victory Loan drive in Halton shows strong totals with Acton Burlington Georgetown Milton and Oakville reporting combined subscriptions. The county total reaches 1,177,450 up to yesterday with Beardmore Co contributing 50,000 and individual district figures listed by area.
A fragmentary list of sale notices for farm stock and implements and related items. Readable items reference buyers and dates in November with names such as John Wedderburn D McIvor John Coker and others, plus places like Nassagawey and Acton.
Local notes report Mr Milton taken to St Joseph’s Hospital Guelph and Mrs Foster selling her Main street residence. Sun day School kept by Mr Charles Lambert despite Attendance. Mr Calvin Campball’s horses killed after road incident near Moffat. Nassagaweya Women’s Institute held oyster supper and concert at Township Hall Brookville. Mrs Thos Wilson seeks cataract treatment in Guelph. First snow Friday night. Arn Foster sells house to C Grhinn. Joe Dyer visiting North Erin. John McEachern buys Gorelik share at Dilman & Gorelik. Lloyd Thompson recovering after appendicitis. J M Dods Knitting Co considering a branch in Alton. Mr and Mrs G F E Sutton visiting friends in Regina.
The group states the club will be organized only if at least twenty applications are received. It urges all interested young men and women to attend Thursday evening.
Oldest resident Alfred Watson traces back to May 1849 arrival in George town. Notables and travels include Mr. and Mrs. Gollop, Aunt and Uncle in Stratford and Montreal visits. Epworth League tours Axh grove. motor cut-outs banned. Chautauqua planned. local deer hunting party lists names. Baptismal and bazaar events loom as winter approaches.
Coats are dyed and remodeled under a prompt attention policy. The notice appeals to patrons, urging confidence in service and inviting patronage respectfully.
Public auction at Robertson Bros farm near Acton on November 25 features horses cattle calves hogs and farm Implements including mowers harrows plows wagons and harness. Terms specify cash under 1000 and 12 month credit on joint notes with six percent discount for cash. auctioneer R. J. Kerr and I. Shorey as clerk.
Auction notices stock horses cattle and implements to be sold by A J Kerr acting as auctioneer on November 28 at lot 39 Esquoaing. Horses include driving horse and colts. cattle include cows calves and a Durham bull. Implements include buggy waggon harness and harrows. Domestic fowl geese and farm equipment listed with terms cash under 10 dollars or 12 months credit on approved notes. No reserve as proprietor in leaving.
Wm Grice buys the Thomas Clifton farm at Munns Corners and will take possession soon. The School Board advertises tenders for part of a two room school in ward three. Oakville owes 15434.65 toward the Boronte Hamilton Highway. Clerk Gathan named Secretary of the School Board. Mrs Erastus Dorland, mother of Dr B Dorland, dies at her son’s home in New Liskeard aged 94. Auditor Young submits the 1918 statement for town clerk inspection. Chief Kerr seizes two abandoned autos on the middle road and Nelson town line. Dr Wilkinson moving to town to occupy Dr Lusk’s house on Station Road. Bhortham cattle sale yields top price of 500 dollars. 18 head sold, W Ward Price handling sale on Dundas Street.
The undersigned advertises a public auction at Main Street Hockwood on Monday at one o'clock. Items include a cabinet brand Innis Plano set and chairs tables stove carpet curtains and many furnishings. Real estate consists of a plastered house with garden and barn on seventy acres. terms ten percent day of sale balance due March 1 with possession or May on payment of 1000 balance on mortgage. Auctioneer R J Kerr Acton phone 86.
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