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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 17, 1878
Page
3
A dense OCR fragment lists names, ads, auctions, and notices from a small town newspaper. It references stock sales, hardware, clothing, church events, a cemetery, a funeral sermon, weather bits, and local personalities including merchants like McGercia and F. Brewed & Co, with scattered dates and prices from 1878.
Village council met Monday evening with all members present. By law No. 1 to fund the public school of Acton School Division was read a first time and carried. By law No. 2 to levy a rate on assessable property for the current year was read a second time and carried. committee reports itemized expenses total 48.29 dollars and were adopted. Meeting adjourned to next Monday, 21st inst.
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