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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 08, 1925
Page
9
Hon E C Drury, former Legislature member for the Progressive Party, has received a unanimous nomination from the Progressives of North Simcoe for the House of Commons. Thomas E Ross, former riding member, retired in favor of Drury.
Both governments approve rules to suppress smuggling across the border aimed at stopping small motor boat clearances and other crafts carrying liquor to Cuba and Mexico. The agreements facilitate information exchange on narcotics traffickers and curb a bootlegging enterprise that has plagued border communities for months.
In a downpour last Sunday, about fifteen thousand men joined Toronto’s Holy Name Society in a public display of abhorrence for profane language. They urged reverence for the Name of their Saviour and pledged to curb coarse speech as a common oath.
The London Spectator analyzes the Canadian general election urging a counter move to the Bordney Tariff with higher duties. It notes Maritime provinces turning against the Government amid emigration to the United States and a Conservative popularity decline.
A London Times reporter Mr F G R Peterson on a British press tour writes from Canada praising the nation’s resources and labor life. He notes crossing the Dominion twice and traveling nearly 10000 miles and says the visit will help reflect Canada’s true news value and opportunities back to Britain.
Reports from Vancouver grain circles indicate Canada’s export trade is growing rapidly with orders for about eight million bushels of Canadian wheat from Orient firms. The same interests are said to seek large flour quantities, with over 100000 barrels of flour leaving Vancouver for the Orient in the last thirty days.
Three weeks from today a large number of public questions will pass unheard for four years. The flood of grain from the Westland grows. September rail loads to lake ports average 630 cars daily. Bankers see improving business due to good crops across Canada. Critics target the Canadian National Railways amid campaign talk. Judge Coatsworth condemns drug sellers. Kingston prison and a $1,000 fine impose harsher penalties. Domestic letter rates are urged back to prewar two cents. Western Canada optimism persists. Britain’s cash grants for settlers continue, while American magazines invade Canada. Workmen’s Compensation payouts total over $4.1 million in nine months. accidents number 43,982. Gold output for half 1925 hits a record. Ontario dominates production. Road associations plan coordinated North American highway study. Campaign rhetoric remains heated and calls for fair debate. India considers gradual prohibition of liquor with medical exemptions. An American exodus to Canada notes 30 farmers from the United States buying 33 Saskatchewan farms and seeking to move families north.
Local items mention Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Agnew holidaying with relatives in Alliston and Mr. C. E Wood judging sheep at Georgetown Fair. Arthur Brame and Afr. Jack Jones returned from the West, while Everett Shapland headed to Florida. Miss Loraine Tuck visited Buffalo friends. Miss Elmabeth McArthur neared St. Thomas to assume a head dietitian post. A new combined pumper hose truck arrived from Bickle Fire Company. 218 students attend the local high school, noted as the county’s largest enrollment. A farewell to Ex-Chief Jack Elliott and wife featured a clock gift from the Brigade. Fire damaged the Atlantic store in Freeman conducted by H. Law.
A compilation of local social updates from Burlington and surrounding Halton area. Visits include Mr. and Mrs. John McJannett to parental home, Mrs. Simons and Mra. Herschman from Chicago, and Mr. Hugh Campbell as host. Nursing course for August Martin in Toronto. Injuries from straw cutter comment briefly. Miltonians at Toronto University listed. Chicago family guests of J J Peacock. North Bay visitor Mrs. Archie Freeman. Funeral attendance by Mrs. Gray of Marlette. Dr. Walter Johnstone of Erle pa visiting. Johnstone’s prior service noted. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham celebrate sixtieth anniversary. Cunningham aged eighty five. Miss Jean R Panton leaves for chemistry duties at the Lillian Maswey building. Percy Woots named Bailiff of the Fifth Division Court of Halton.
Toronto visitors and local residents spent the weekend with friends here. A mink destroyed poultry, a trap later recovering the pest. Erin U. F.C. reports a groundhog campaign with 700 killed in four months and a school fair held in Hillaburg with ideal weather and strong livestock exhibits.
In a Civil War era vignette a New Hampshire Quaker with oak timber near Vermont faces U S pressure to sell land for navy ships. The Green Mountain Fox follower refuses, arguing timber should align with peace. The oak timber is linked to the Confederate Alabama conflict.
Georgetown residents hosted numerous visitors from Toronto Hamilton Caledon and Dundalk over the weekend. A hospital update reports Mrs H Lawson recovering well after surgery at Wellesley Hospital Toronto. The Young People of the United Church heard Dr F R Watson discuss Bermuda’s history climate and people. A Georgetown Fire Brigade presented a Union Jack to the town at the Fall Fair.
A humorous meditation on guests arriving too early or too late for a dinner. It contrasts hosts racing to complete preparations with guests who arrive promptly, warning that early arrivals burden the host and noting the social strain of striving for perfection.
A humorous Lincoln anecdote from a Western circuit case where a rival speaker’s verbose rhetoric fails to address the core issue. Lincoln compares the eloquence to a steamboat with a five foot boiler and seven foot whistle, the engine stopping as it whistles, provoking laughter and securing an easy victory.
An English officer in the Peninsula campaign outwits a French pursuer. On a fast horse he shouts insults about its breed and origin, then escapes as the pursuer fires and fails. The old colonel narrates with pride at the bravado and luck of the Englishman.
A local advertisement touts Rheuma as fast acting relief for rheumatic pain and uric acid build up. It claims kidney liver and blood effects with a money back guarantee if not satisfied, offered by E J Hassard and others at a small price.
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