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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 07, 1948
Page
16
Births marriages and deaths notices appear in columns with no charges. Notices describe new arrivals celebrations and farewells along with small pastry and card thanks lines per line as published.
Birth announcement for Beverly Lynne to eRuce-pron and Blanche Hruce dnee Metiner at Guelph General Hospital on September 23 1968. Obituary notices for Storey Biarde Jones Bilton Jones Webster and Webster family memorials with dates and locations in Detroit Kitchener Windsor and Guelph.
Mrs. John A. Chisholm thanks friends and neighbors for inquiries and kindness during her hospital stay. The Intero Fisher family expresses gratitude to Dr. Waller and to friends and relatives for sympathy after bereavement, especially noting Rev. Anderson for comforting words.
Ufis eetd that Thanksgiving day on Monday. Save hydro wherever possible. Every night adds up the consumption. Halton Progressive Conservatives will meet in Milton on October 12. If housewives transfer their morning ironing to Saturdays it would help the hydro shortage. The Free Press will operate 7 am to 5 pm starting next week. Office hours remain 6 pm. Clare Pickett and wife have bought Mrs J H Boulton’s home on Wilbur Street. A hay stack fire near Victoria Ave called Acton Brigade. hose lines from the pumper quickly extinguished it.
John Hillam Ruddick, age 68, died at his Botton home on Saturday September 2. Born in Acton, he married Stella Stewart in 1915 and farmed, later serving as secretary treasurer of Dublin School. Survived by wife Stella, two sons Stewart and Elmer, daughter Doncen, brother Harold, and five grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday at Fairview Cemetery Acton. service by Rev. J. J. Robins and pallbearers listed.
The Acteen group at ILS plans a nine o clock party with Pengiun Club activities and a formal nomination window for mayoral candidates. Nominations will be seconded and posted by midnight with withdrawals or campaign notes.
Auctioneers Wundley and Elliott sell by public auction at 1 30 pm Friday October 5 at the Trafalgar farm in NDS Town ship Lot 3 Concession 8. Readied cattle include registered Princess Rag Apple Burke Comet Nell Burke Latty Bonnie Burke Joyce Rag Apple Ormsby Tidy Tilly Ormsby Burke and more with Grade 1 Holstein cows heifers and calves. Horses include a 1400 lb Percheron team plus hay grain and farm items with cash terms and no reserve. Proceeds support Maple Cattle Breeders Association registered dairy herd dispersal.
A jumble of farm supplies household goods and vehicles listed for sale. Items include clothing coats outfits pups a Quebec heater and cooker furniture insulation brick bungalow farms tractors engines and farm equipment with contact names and phone numbers for Acton Georgetown Milton and nearby towns.
Mackenzie news notes two Warm Morning Heaters in stock from the Anthracite Institute in the United States. The stoves burn any coal type and feed fuel once daily with large fuel capacity. George O'Donahue, the Ac ton instructor, was met, and the article hints at a local return to full activity at Cutten Fields.
The Village of Acton invites appeals to its Court of Revision on October 20, 1948 at 7 30 PM in the Council Chamber Acton Ontario. Persons contesting the Assessment Roll for the year must file notices by October 16, 1918 with Clerk J McGeachie as dated and published October 7.
Public auction to be held at the residence in Hornby village Tuesday at 2 o clock. Household items include a settee, chairs, rocker, organ, couch, sideboard, beds, dresser, sewing items, quilts, stove, carriage, baby items, tools, garden gear and more. Real estate offers a 7 room frame house with hydro, telephone, garage and garden with four apple trees. No reserve on real estate. cash for chattels. moving sale to Toronto.
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