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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 25, 1877
Page
3
Train schedules list several express and mixed trains with times to pass through Acton. Mentioned are the Quigat Express Lam Bees and Western center services with arrivals around morning and evening slots. A church notice at Methodist Church describes sabbath activities led by Rev. R.K. Houks with various services monthly.
The Acton council debates school and village budgets with seven and forty four mill rates, discusses a potential tannery tenant and a new cemetery site, and notes a pending trial in Cobourg involving David Smith linked to a murder case.
Village men form a company to build a large skating and hurly rink opposite M Speight’s Slacksmith shop. Council met, adopted June minutes, and heard reports from the Street and Sidewalk committee on payments for labor and materials totaling $92.28. Finance chair presented current year receipts and expenditures estimates including salaries, rents, taxes, and licenses. By-laws for school support and tax levy were introduced. various accounts including juror selection costs were approved for payment.
Letter from Mrs. Ino S Esquesing dated October 10 1877 praises J E McGarvis Acton Ontario for superior dye stuffs for madder red scarlet yellow and black. She requests two five pound parcels of madder and enough madder compound for two neighbors.
Mrs Fitzsimmons praises the millinery showroom of Mc Leod Anderson Co Georgetown with a full display of the latest London Paris and New York fashions. They offer Wincers and Winceys extra value, a large varied assortment, and a new line of Soc Tea at 45 cents per pound in neat caddies Christie Henderson Co.
Call at C W Hill's Photo Gallery in Acton to see his new photographs and place orders for artistic pictures. First prizes for best collection of photographs were won by C S Hill of Acton at Halton County Exhibition and Esquesing Township Exhibition last week.
An advertisement proclaims all wool check Flannel priced at 25 cents per yard as the market's cheapest. It urges customers to see the value and mentions Christie Henderson & Co. Also notes best photographs in Hulton County by C. W. Hill of Acton.
The fragment presents a stylized royal title line declaring Victoria Queen and Defender of the Faith with honorifics and ceremonial wording from a period-typical monarchial inscription. It reads like a formal declaration of the sovereign’s offices and titles in the British realm.
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