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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 28, 1920
Page
5
A garbled column lists births, marriages, and deaths with many misspellings. Entries reference Audrey Altoon, Dorothy Chara, Verey Franklin, Annie McCu, and J. Thciret among others, with dates in October 1920 and memorial lines for J. Thciret killed in World War I.
November opens with armistice day plans and prices news in Brampton. Local items note bread costs easing, trapping licenses, a Guelph winter event, and a proposed technical school with Guelph Collegiate. Attending the Armistice Day ceremony and Soldiers’ Memorial unveiling are listed with nearby civic events and noteworthy letters from readers.
In a neighborhood note from the town center the pastor of the Kinde Church Acton delivered morning and evening sermons to a large congregation. Farmers report heavy potato digging activity with a lifting machine speeding work, while concerns about road conditions and a journey early next week are noted. The piece also mentions local displays of produce and household needs during harvest season.
A garbled local chronicle reports church reopenings and attendance, a clan of incidents including a motor accident in Colborne Street injuring Alexander McDonald, a seaplane sighting on the lake, village auctions and exhibits with cabbage weighing twenty three pounds, thefts from a workshop, a charity motor trip for Halton-Pest House inmates, and a memorial gift to Mrs John Ayer.
Mrs Young, long hospitalized, returns home improved. Fred Warren of Beatrice Nebraska, whose father lived on Cedec Creek Farm for four generations, visits the old homestead with Mrs James Warren of Toronto and sister Joan Kennedy. Warren recalls the farm’s history and talks of his late father, who cherished the spring and Bannockburn School. Beech nuts are abundant this harvest season with many youths collecting them.
A fragmentary London dispatch reports Terence MacSwiney lord mayor of Cork died after a hunger strike lasting more than seventy three days. The note hints at his collapse and death early morning in Ullzstorf while ongoing tributes and subscriptions appear in the issue.
Mr Dugald Todertagn, an unitoomed toaldent of thin lodathty for many years, died on Tuesday after a bout of illness. The funeral to Ivyerton Cemetery on Friday afternoon was largely attended. Mr and Mrs A J Hoenon jott far thafr how hame in Toronto laut Thure After spending a Week at the home of the bridn s parents, Mr and Mrs Thus, Tobart Motz utcheon ee. Quite a number of the tarmorg of thie nection have been tort, to Acton, and Rookwood rap thie your hean except ok.
Georgetown contracts with J A Willoughby for water at Kle out houses at a Mut rate of 100 per 1000 mlone with additional funds and local officials named including Clarence Nonnott from Winniper and T Arnold. Residents and visitors from Toronto and nearby towns attended church choir events at Knox Church. A Winslow police man and locals on Main and Mill streets are noted with social and funeral references and a Stratford visit.
iEwaor 43 corners wedding bella will ying Hern ta ths nour future Mind When Crowson bt ajauvarlnw Inferty followwire an operation for uhe Pendleltix performed taut week In Guelph General Weaphal W.O. Wildmon and family have returned to their home in Toronto Mr and Mrs W A Murray recently moved Ste Acton During their long residence here they made many friends who regret their removal as they have always been good residents and excal lent neighbors They conducted evangelistic services the past two onthe alers Their campaign ednraday evening Misson Hold and McKenzie have chosen many friends during their stay at hors who them Cod and in thile work Mrs Algor Cripps Moffat and Mr and Mrs Fred Crowson Acton spent Sunday at Mr D A Crippal Hound Mrs and Biren Frarry Rower and children and widow Pratt all of Burlington visited at Mr M Crowson's on Sunday
Fragmented local notices describe a new warehouse for a cooperative store replacing an Acton Creamery building on Co-pornilya property. Township tax collectors named for 1920 include Peter McGibbon Henry May and others. Also advertised are counter books and Halloween treats guidance, with a note about a late Lewis Chiswell Rockwood sale and train pickup details.
A local retailer advertises Stanfield's and Turnbull's underwear in multiple sizes at low prices. Penman's Natural Wool ensembles, blankets, flannelette fabrics, English flannelette, pillow cottons, and linoleum are offered with several items priced below or near historical costs.
Jane Wikie Hume wife of Rocard JL Hematrost died Sunday at her Mary Airest home after illness. She was a daughter of the late James Hume of Hsquesing and widow of Mrs. Robert Stewart of Milton. She leaves two brothers James Hume of Mornby and William Hume of California. Funeral was private Thursday at Everareén Cemetery Milton. Cyrus Wiliam Anderson, Oakville elder and former town council member, died Friday at eighty nine. He helped run a private bank with his son and leaves a wife three sons and three daughters. The Anderson family resided in Oakville with branches in Pelmerston and Toronto.
A damaged excerpt recounts Harmilton Kyfo touring Andalusta and visiting an inn near Low Notches. A weary innkeeper laments misfortune with daughters while a wandering writer muses on wealth, merit, and moral order. The piece contrasts honest labor with uneven rewards in a world lacking balance.
In Wellington County a creamery case was heard in Guelph court under the provincial milk and cream regulations. The defendant, a creamery operator, challenged the act and the area’s purchase rules, arguing compliance with provisions on weight and daily record keeping. The court will determine alleged noncompliance with the act’s requirements on measured purchase and maintaining cream purchase records.
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