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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1916
Page
3
A terse notice advertises a travel plan by J A Willoughby of Toronto leading a visit to Georgetown to present farm products and prize suggestions. It emphasizes practical farming improvements and promised profits as a main draw for farmers attending the trip.
A rundown of varied local items includes Halloween notices for next Tuesday, a one dollar rate for Yunn Pawsuende, and early 3,000 dollar funding for Vivitels Red Coosa. Other notes cover a town poetry night, hotel closure, wheat forecasts, a car sale, and weather impacts. Also mentioned are charitable appeals, a Know Church railing update, tanning camp injuries, and local police court matters.
A chaotic wartime column lists military notes from Hert UW and Acton, mentions battles, casualties, and orders. It records names like J. Reidaw and Julia Gavah, actions in France and England, hospital transfers, and a general call for furloughs, plus an aggressive 19th century patent medicine advert promising a $100 reward for a cure.
The Reliance Bias Company plans a new factory in Acton on Church and Wellows avenues near the Grand Teankailway station, with ship-friendly location and views preserved. Managing Director Ate VE. Mivete visited town Saturday to arrange the project and bought a corner property at Church and Fredailok for a two story residence.
The issue reports Agent H A Coxe securing an agency for Word card promotions and a rising subscription offer. Also notes Dr John A MacMurchy’s Canadian Medical Council exam success and licensing, plus a boy’s fall near a garden task and local prize results at various checker club events with prize leaders named.
Wallace Eldisa Martin son of Mrs O M Martin, a car cleaner in Toronto, was struck by a passing truck while hitching a ride near the Mesoy Hartia Company buildings in Toronto last Thursday. He died minutes after, despite swift transport to Grens Hospital. The body lay at City Mures with an inquest planned by Conssar Ceara W. Durham. Funeral services were held in Acton on Saturday, with floral tributes from Toronto, Anton, and local firms.
A local charity drive in Limehouse collected about 800.00 as the British Wad Cross Buclaty event drew attendees including Alan M. Bhaw at the Hulton Teachers Convention in Miltos. Friends of Mya 0. P. Ivens visited Brantford and several local boys were home for the weekend.
Funeral arrangements for Tiekias MacMurphy of Duncss MacUurchy were announced with details of his early life in Caledonian parish, and plural survivors including Noraun, John of Kearney, and Lily in Calgary. The service followed a long illness, with burial at Kuirview Cemetery beside a large funeral gathering and Grange members in attendance.
Orangeville October reports a marching battalion of Canada’s Mounted Rifles traveling via Shelburne Grand Valley and Orangeville to Acton. Welcoming events, dinners, and church services accompany the journey with local communities and bands offering cakes and songs. Funds for Muskoka hospital appeal collected amid travel disruptions and weather.
Weary attacks by Austrian troops repulsed by Italians. Theodore Wiley of Array decorated by Frome Government. Canada promises farm aid and municipal growth. A Lake Ontario shipwreck sighting near Port Hope. Ontario and Quebec home mission debates and war news dominate daily items across Toronto.
A sanitized summary notes Laurier declining Prowator Norden's invitation to join a parliamentary committee on recruiting. It mentions the Kitchener Public School Board declaring Trustee A. L. Nuteor's vacancy due to absence from three consecutive meetings without permission. It highlights political tensions and regional concern over national action on defense and recruitment.
In Cathatuines on October 33 officials convened a municipal inquiry into a broad rise in bread prices to sixteen cents a loaf. Bakers claim costs are rising and demand a review, while observers warn of supply pressures. The public hearing aims to determine if the increase is justified and safeguards for consumers.
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