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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 16, 1899
Page
3
Capital all paid up equals 1,494,000 dollars while reserve fund stands at 1,000,000 dollars. Total assets are listed as 13,163,000 dollars. J. Turnbull serves as cashier.
Savings Department offers one dollar or more with interest added to principal. Withdrawals by written order with Pass Book. Government returns show depositors have over five million dollars in surplus security. Notes of farmers discounted with loans to cattle feeders. Prompt collection of sale notes and advances at low rates. Various banking facilities and correspondence invited.
Moonlight nights and light snowfall mark the week. Various local items note public meetings, weather quirks, market prices, and community notices including lectures, church events, and improvements around Guelph. The piece highlights small town happenings and snippets from Milton to Essex and Kent counties.
The seller, J. H. Martinswa, announces turning over his business to Mr. Cameron of Boston and offers harnesses robes blankets and whips at first cost for twenty one days to reduce stock before December first. The note emphasizes a rare chance to buy at cost.
J W Rao of Toronto Janction will lecture on Doors at Knox Church Friday night drawing large crowd, admission 15 and 10 cents. Anniversary at Knox Church features Rev A J Mann preaching Go Forward. Acton extends westward with W P Campbell expanding housing, new lots along Brook Streets and Victoria Avenue. Nature Studies meetings open at Baptist Church with papers on Aphides Spiders Wasps Nest Building and Ant architecture.
A fragment from a 19th century notice reports a claim that a method cures gold in a day, mentioning Aruggiete and R. W. Grove. The text is incomplete but suggests a financial or scientific assertion prompting public scrutiny.
A citizen letter to the editor condemns late night misbehavior by young men and insults toward women, urging stricter peace enforcement and a curfew. The writer cites personal incidents at the post office and urges parental vigilance and church guidance. Nov. 18 1890. Municipal council notes follow with payments, oil plant plans, and local civic items.
Judge Hamilton rules Con stable Harley receives the $25 Peel Council reward for arresting Mike Tracey Jr. for horse theft. The paper notes religious services by Rev D A Moir and singing by Miss E L Powell. A bake sale by St George’s Church Auxiliary raises funds. A paper mill safe explosion yields $40. Appleyard sues Georgetown Corporation over water shortage. verdict includes $50 and costs.
To those about to marry, the pew Marriage Act is simplified by applying to H. P. Moore, taster of marriage licenses, at the Fare Press Office. Call a few days before the ceremony for private confidential service in the private office evenings.
The column lists visitors and residents returning from trips, including Bert Mason of Meadowvale, OG E. McQuene of the Toronto Works, Jennie and Mabel Edmiston in Guelph, Jameéa Coleman in Winnipeg, Frank McMillan and Jeasie Nicklin in Erin, and many others. It also notes local social happenings, weddings, travel plans, and recoveries such as Dr. F A Mercer and Miss S Sotram.
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