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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Oct 06, 1955

Page

7

Musical Numbers At Service At Haltom Centennial Manor

A Sunday afternoon service at the Haltom Centennial Manor chapel featured Mr. Neale of Toronto leading a program with Miss M Zimmerman on piano and Mr. and Mrs. Ford of Weston. The Ford duo sang a duet, Mr. Ford played electric Spanish guitar and also performed a solo. Mrs. Ford joined on vocals for the duet with Mr. Ford. The residents enjoyed the music and a sermon by Mr. Neale on Abounding Grace based on St. John 1:1.

Mr. Neale Toronto Miss Zimmerman Mrs. Ford Mr. Ford

Adamson Pendergast Wedding in Toronto Gore

Edna Margaret Pendergast and Kenneth McLain Adamson wed Sep 10 at St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church Toronto Gore in a ceremony led by Rev Father Paul Pendergast. The event featured relatives from Pendergast and Adamson families, a nuptial Mass, and a reception in the parish auditorium before the couple's Acton residence.

St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church Toornto Gore Edna Margaret Pendergast Edward Pendergast Toronto Gore Kenneth McLain Adamson James B. Adamson Acton Paul Ethel Pendergast Gwen Boughen Dolores Mabel Pendergast Melbourne Blow Frank Pendergast Kitchener Fred Crewson West Flamboro Immaculate Heart of Mary Separate School Mary. Pendergast Teresa Frawley St Louis Shirley Benger Lake Port Mother Ava Maria Paris Angelicus Camilla Sisters of Loretta J. P. Sullivan Marion Pendergast Stella Adamson C.W.L Detroit Michigan State Kenneth Adamson

Icelandic Settlers Help Build Markerville History

Edmonton CP reports Roy W. Devore compiled a history of Markerville one of Alberta's oldest communities. The mixed farming and dairying centre was settled in 1887 by Icelandic immigrants from North Dakota and now rests in the Alberta archives.

Edmonton Markerville Roy W. Devore Alberta North Dakota

Presentation for Teacher and Wife At Ligny School

A ceremony at Ligny school honored teacher and his bride Mr James Watson and Mrs Watson with a coffee table and vase. The community also notes Mrs J J Kennedy hosting a Mountain Union W I meeting September 21 with TB rehabilitation film shown by Mr MacNab and W I members from Scotch Block attending. The report extends sympathy to George Bennett on his wife’s death and to Cecil and Eva Chisholm after their uncle John Easterbrook died in Toronto. Congratulations to Finlay Currie and wife on their new son and to Campbellville Women’s Institute for the Milton Fair display award. Mrs Edgar Howden and Wayne recover from mumps.

Scotch Block W. T Mountain Union W. I J. J. Kennedy Main St Milton MacNab George Bennett Cecil Eva Chisholm John Easterbrook Toronto

Engagement Hoax Sparks Family Feud in Salterton

In Salterton, Sally Bridgetower and Pearl Vambrace discover an engagement notice in The Evening Bellman’s column that lists November 31, a date that does not exist. The joke inflames tensions between their feuding families while Robertson Davies, the author living in Peterborough, writes the mystery turned comedy for Saturday Night.

Sally Bridgetower Pearl Vambrace Pearl Salterton Bearded Robertson Davies Peterborough Saturday Night

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