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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 29, 1934
Page
8
Notices of Births Marriages and Deaths appear with details of names relations and dates. The column lists memorials for Mary Ann Evans Scarrows Norman Scarrows Ellis Jean Wilderspin and others with family tributes and dates from 1931 to 1934.
This week notes the approach of Christmas in three weeks and hints at mild weather. Acton plans an election with possible term limits and a local police court dealing with infractions. Royal Winter Fair highlights include Mr Wallace Swackhamer winning third in Sheaf of Oats and Hackney horse breeders sweeping classes. a handkerchief shower for Miss Jessie Young. and the Boston bulldog Jerry injured and euthanized.
Miss Bessie Dilworth dies after six months with the Marshalls in Trafalgar. Plumber Stanley Fay leases the store near H L Sherman and moves his stock this week. Hunting parties report fine sport. H M Pettit shoots a deer and a timber wolf. Fire destroys a barn on Archie Speers farm near Bronte at 1 30 am. brigade saves adjacent building and silo. Milton L O L 2385 elects Will Boyes master and Lawrence King deputy master. officers to be completed in December. Clarence Wilson ships Suffolk rams to Dickson California for exhibition and eventual auction to California ranchers. second trip for Wilson with sheep.
A county council considers the Old Age Pensions Act changes with a questionnaire from Durham and Northumberland opposing the shift. The committee delays action pending welfare administration impact. Motions authorize $1500 to Trafalgar roadwork, issue $6000 debentures, pay various accounts, and adjourn to December 14.
Deaths reported for Jutu Kest H. W. Husband aged about seventy in Oakville with five children surviving. Also notices for Emma Harper Bennett born Mount Forest and Emma Evans of Acton with funeral details and pallbearers, plus burial at Fairview Cemetery Acton. Includes causes and life summaries.
A lively nomination meeting featured School Board candidates recounting budget cuts from 1931 to 1934 and praising school results. Trustees H I G Fraser F E McCleary L G King and R J Kerr defended action on the Murray Memorial building as the meeting closed after a brief discussion and the National Anthem.
Three St Albans Troop Acton scouts Frank Holmes Murray Bauer and Willis Hall attended the Patrol Leaders Conference in Kitchener on Saturday with Rev HE Brillinger. Two busloads of fourth year poultry students from Ontario Agricultural College Guelph visited J B Watkins poultry farm Monday and praised flock health.
Plastering on the gym walls at the YMCA is finished and much of the second storey has a first coat. The heating system for the new YMCA building is being connected temporarily until plasterers finish their work.
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