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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 16, 1899
Page
2
Mr F R Latchford elected as new Ontario Commissioner of Public Works in South Renfrew by a strong majority. Wheat deliveries in the Northwest total 7,350,000 bushels this harvest period, up from 2,590,000 last year.
The Catholic Record reports Bishop Dowling's visit to Onatic to administer Confirmation to twenty-one youths and bless a recently donated church bell by Richard Synott. Also noted is Vicar General Keough's blessing of the R C Cemetery at Casti, with a ceremony at St. Peter's Church.
Revival services have been in progress at the Methodist Church for several weeks. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church held their Thank-offering meeting with Mrs Fowlie of Erin addressing the gathering on the topic She hath done what she could. Robbie Shortill is slowly improving after a pig bite requiring nine stitches. Maggie Thompson has been visiting friends in Toronto. Policeman Joe Shortil of London was home for a few days last week.
Reports from London detail transports arriving at Cape Town and dispatches toward Ladysmith, with Boer bombardment ongoing on Ladysmith Kimberley and Mafeking. Conditions seen as uncertain but garrisons confident while Canadian contingent advances toward Africa and Nicholson Nek surrender discussed with mixed accounts.
The Free Press reports the Wednesday wedding of Miss Jesia Hope MacLeod to Mr. Herbert Bryden Henderson at the Georgetown Presbyterian Church. Rev. Laula Perrin officiated, with about sixty guests and family present. The bride wore duchesse satin with lace and carried bride roses. bridesmaid Eleanor S. MacLeod wore white organdie and blue silk. A reception at Idlewylde preceded a two week honeymoon to New York and the East. Gifts included a piano and precious sterling silver.
A New England man recounts years of back pain and misdiagnosis, saying four doctors offered no relief until Williams Pink Pills for Pale People restored his health. He reports three years pain free and urges use of genuine pills with the stated trademark. He also promotes Catarrhozone for catarrh with claims of airborne delivery and home purchase options.
A Mercury item reports Robin Wilson of Eden Mills says burgled family of six men and five women were taken by Burgess & Son last week. The group weighed 1810 pounds for men and 070 for women total 2290 pounds. The note ends with a cryptic question about a chase in Nussagawaya.
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