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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 04, 1877
Page
3
The issue urges patrons to settle accounts for Free Press and notes many still owe from last year. It covers an insolvent Acton Plow Company, street disturbances, sermons on liquor traffic, a cancelled council meeting, and local temperance society officer elections with names and roles.
Crowson's Corners hosted a free temperance society entertainment to a crowded crowd. Chairman Robert Laing guided a program including Miss Watson Acton with music and a popular Dutch imitation by Steven Soper. Several acts by Misses Lawson Worden and others drew strong applause while some staging mishaps received light criticism. The evening closed with a communal song as the audience departed satisfied.
Foggy morning gloom gave way to brisk crowds as the Guelph Central Exhibition drew thousands. About 6 000 entries, the best since 1871, with strong shows from Wellington livestock and Acton vendors, including James Ryder wagons and Acton Plow Company plows.
The notice lists race dates and locations: Halton at Milton October 11, 12 Feet at Brampton October 8 9 10 Esquesing at Georgetown October 10 Framosa at Rockwood October 9 Erin at Erin Village October 18. The item appears as a public schedule for upcoming events across Ontario communities.
James Matthews will render this quarterly accounts the first week in October. All parties interested should be prepared to pay when presented. Get posters circulars billheads and letter heads at the Free Press Office offering cheap prices and quality.
A Stratford area farmer fell victim to a London manufacturer's agent in a scheme linked to a reaping machine purchase. He paid £80 upfront and was to pay £80 more plus two years’ interest, but the note accrued interest from the signing date, forcing him to pay £176.60. The farmer contends the agent read the note aloud and that it only bore one year of interest.
A Brantford paper recounts a local romance con concerning one of the area's wealthiest farmers. John Hartley left Yorkshire for America 35 years ago to seek a wife but his England marriage ended with a second wife. He sent remittances to his first wife, who never left. News reached England of the second wife’s death and last week she reappeared in Canada. The two now plan to share their life again.
A Kingston firm shipped 115000 bushels of grain in the past month. Nearly five hundred Mormon immigrants from Britain Denmark Norway and Sweden arrived in New York on Saturday. Advertisements note fashion bargains at McLeod Anderson Co Georgetown with hats bonnets mantles shawls and a tripled sale of dress goods at discounted prices alongside a fatal accident near Aurora involving Richard Marsh and Mr Alfred Dennis.
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