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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 14, 1935
Page
4
A compact survey exposes notable happenings in nearby communities, highlighting events, people, and local concerns of interest to readers across centers. It gathers brief items from adjacent towns and neighborhoods, offering quick updates and intriguing developments.
Residents gathered Monday at Mr and Mrs J Thomas for a hard time party with costumes and prizes. A church group formed and will meet Sundays in Churchill with monthly social nights. Various services and a Ladies Aid event followed by a communion at Presbyterian and St Johns churches. The United Church hosted a Mothers and Daughters banquet with toasts and speeches and a concert in town.
The Bannockburn School October exam results list several students with percentages: Sr. TWUloyd James 66.26, Inna Watson 65.1. Jr. IV Edith Denny. Jr. Un Norman McDonald. Sr. IL Marold Roagel 72, Wera Gordon 64.9, Clarence Denny 60. Jr. Uh Jackie Gordon 68.39, Lois Watson 67.87. Sr. Y Eben Gordon 68.95, Allen Gordon 61.9. Jr. Primer Mag Sprowl 78.4. Laurence Anthony. K. M. Beckett, Teacher.
A large group from the village attended the Presbytery meeting in Guelph on Tuesday. Visitors included Mrs. Omer Vansickle of Toronto and Messrs David and Crawford Mahon of Randwich and Kitchener who spent the weekend at home. Several residents and visitors were noted at various local gatherings and home visits over the weekend and Sunday.
Local notes list visits of J W Cushnie and Barbara Soper relatives from Toronto and Prostan to Ballyinafad residents, with Hamilton and Acton guests. Wm Warding hosted by Wood family, and Mr Cameron MacEnery buys Richard Short farm at Acton, planning to move. A plowing bee on Mr C G Miekmery’s recently purchased farm drew many helpers and friends.
A Limehouse United Church gathering featured Harmony Club hosting Glen Williams Young People with a song service led by Limehouse Society. Gladys and John Packer performed, plus a delegate from Summer School at Ryerson Beach shared experiences. Sunday preaching plans and a Girl Lookout pumpkin social were noted amid community updates.
Memorial services were held on Remembrance Day at the Presbyterian Church and at the monument. Ebenezer United Church Sunday School named teachers as delegates to the Provincial Sunday School Convention at Hitchener on Thursday, 14th inst. Mr Ernest Wilson of Moffat visited relatives in Knatchbull. Recent rains raised water in local springs and wells. Eisley and DB Prazer of Moffat were deer hunting up north.
Eden Mills residents Mr and Mrs John Marshall visited Burlington on Sunday while Mrs Campbell and Miss Melrose Wilson were in Montreal. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was observed at the Presbyterian Church with Rev Peter Matheson officiating and Rev H L Bennie assisting. Several locals were mentioned visiting Glen Morris Purinch and Guelph, with illness noted for the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Wilfred Thomas in hospital Guelph.
The Everton Young People's Society met after the church service with Albert Alton in the chair. Plans were announced for a lecture by Mr. Card of Guelph and a talk on the foreign mission society. Members spoke on mission work while others shared personal visits and Remembrance Day attendance.
Mr Kenneth McQuarrie of the Royal Bank Toronto enjoys a three week vacation. Minas Rose Nurse of Detroit visits with brother Bam Nurse and sister Mrs W R Bingham. A J Horton D S Leitch Georgy Sanders and Harry Sanders travel to Baysville Ontario for a two week hunt. Mrs Pred Foy of Grand Forks Dakota and her father James Sanders of Emerson Manitoba return home after a month with relatives. Erin Agricultural Society meeting leases building to Oscar Hurren for 1935 36 season.
OSPRINGE Miss Isabel Scanlon presided as hostess for the Women’s Institute November meeting. About thirty Indies attended as Mira. George Cook, p Prealdai and Mrs. E. N. Sunter read minutes. A new Ulternary Society plan was approved with first meeting set for January.
Mr and Mrs John Oswald Stover hosted friends from Edmonton Alberta as guests over the week end. Mrs W A Fross of Los Angeles California visits six weeks with sister Mrs W E Rasberry and relatives. Wallowe en mischief in the south ward caused property damage. Yinston County Full Affice opened with Mr Justice Hendeson presiding. Elizabeth Nash Cripps of Burlington was granted a divorce from Charles William Cripps with no defence.
Neatly dated items cover Main Street building plans by J Y W Mackenzie and Son and a stone and brick house project. An Ashgrove ewe owned by Henry Wilson has raised ten lambs in three years, four this year. David Crichton wins cross country placing third at High Park Toronto. A car fire on John Street extinguished quickly by the Wire Brigade. Edith Davie hosts a party for bride to be Miss Reta Yost. gift a black and silver table lamp. Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Robt Metzler of Philadelphia visit with Mrs W C Anthony. Engagement announced for Reto May Toast to Ernest Worgrave. wedding planned November 16 at the bride’s parents’ home.
Dundas Wiga residents toured the Vineland Prety Estate on Sunday to view chrysanthemum displays. Trafalgar township council took no action on fire protection at Monday’s meeting. Clarkson United church marked its diamond jubilee with a Thursday fowl supper drawing nearly six hundred attendees. Appleby school teacher E W Whittington survived a bicycle crash Monday night with minor cuts and bruises.
Johnny answers the teacher with a playful riff. The joke centers on amid thoughts in the playing field as the three most important races of mankind are misanswered as the hundred yard dash the quarter mile and the tie.
A Burford dairy factory near Edmonton swept all first prizes in cheese classes at the Vancouver Exhibition defeating long established rival dairies from Fraser Valley British Columbia. Dairymen along the coast commented on the upset by this pioneer settlement's output.
Auction sale in Esquel ing Township by public auction on Tuesday November 26 at 1 PM. Items include horses cows sheep hens implements hay and grain household furnishings and farm equipment from the Executors of the estate of F Robertson. John Kerr auctioneer. Local notice lists livestock gear lumber posts and assorted farm commodities with terms cash.
No man should sleep better or have sounder dreams than one who owns his own farm and has his geote all paid.
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