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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 09, 1919
Page
11
The note mentions Turnip shipping paying 30 cents per bushel of 69 pounds. A Ford Car drawing will be held at 3 pm Thanksgiving Day in the park, October 12, with all welcome. The other items note labor unemployment concerns, church service changes, a subscription payment, and a local historian nicknamed the Old Man in the Clock Tower.
The Acton Village Council enacts a by law to borrow 40000 dollars by debentures at 5.5 percent interest for thirty years to fund a waterworks system including reservoirs and pumps. Annual payments of 2753.20 dollars rise from a 2762.20 dollar special rate on rateable property, with debentures issued within two years and sealed by the Reeve, Treasurer, and corporate seal.
Notices appoint deputy return officers and polling divisions for a by law vote at Acton Town Hall on October 17 1912. A Reed of the Village of Acton will preside to appoint two voters to attend the vote count and two more to monitor the by law promotion and the opposing side. The clerk will recount votes at 6 p m October 31 1919. Corporations or tenants must file the required declaration by the 10th day before voting.
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