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Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Oct 11, 1877

Page

4

Baseball score card from Rockwood game with players listed

Score details show Rockwood players Blythy Murray Hood and Hemstreet among others. Umpire George Matthews. Scorers Charles Matthews Acton Rodgers Rockwood. Game lasted 1 hour and 45 minutes.

J. Agnew P. Kelly W. Smith H. Ryder W. Nicklin W. McMackin J. McConnell W. Speight J. Lesier Rockworps Morrow Blythy Murray Stewart Rf Coulson Hood Hemstreet Blurk George Matthews Sogrers Charles Matthews Acton Rodgers, Rockwood

Special services and local entertainments announced

Special services will be held in the Methodist Church each evening next week at 7:30 PM. A New Orleans Minatrele troupe is billed for an entertainment in the Drill Shed. Volunteers of No 6 Company were praised for drill efficiency and musters are called to receive pay this Saturday.

Dominion SOE Bocce RS Son Rev Honea, Tor McGarrin's New Orleans No. 6 Company Murray Shaw Auruus Davies McGar- Wd's Orange Judd Co Broadway New York Fumhall Seach Ark Free Press Office Daniel F. Beatty Washington N. J Sve Bia Main’ Street Dominion Hotel John Kennedy Acton Eney Orenta New Jersey United States Granada Daniel F. Beatyy Belping Toon Pan Beatty, Washington, New Torney

Cold Snap at Mcleod Anderson Co Brightens Town

A reader recalls seeing grey and scarlet flannels white flannels home made checks and warm blankets at Mcleod Anderson Co Georgetown. Leaves turn brighter as fruit laden branches bend while a boy watches from the fence then pockets up and jumps over.

Mcleod, Anderson &Co Georgetown

Stanley's African Expedition Report Opens Vast Trade Area

The Herald prints Stanley's first written communication on African explorations. He reports opening to commerce a region over 600000 square miles with about 3000 miles of uninterrupted waterway linked to the Upper Congo and its great affluents. He calls for missionaries in Fisi and traders in West and Central Africa.

Stanley the Herald Upper Congo Fisi Central Africa

Post Office Clerk Sentenced to Five Years

James B. Anderson, assistant in the Riversdale post office, was tried at Walkerton before Judge Kinsmill on a charge of stealing money from registered letters passing over the Kincardine and Walkerton mail route. He pleaded guilty and received a five year sentence in the reformatory prison.

James B. Anderson Riversdale Walkerton Kinsmill Kincardine Reformatory

Ontario Horse Breeder’s Association talk and Ottawa trip report

The report covers motions in county and council meetings including proposing a Duan kin Act referendum in Wellington and a fishing for annexation critique in Hamilton. It notes police court indictments for sheep theft, a potato bug sighting, a ship collision on the St Lawrence, a woman’s suicide attempt near Ottawa, and a bull goring in Ingersoll harming a mother with infant.

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