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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 28, 1926
Page
6
A notice lists new charges for births marriages and deaths sections with different rates applying to memorial cards poems and related items. The text specifies fees per item and notes changes to pricing for these notices.
Notices record marriages and obituaries from Acton and nearby towns with names such as Mary Friegear and John Reo Watkins wed in Acton, William Tovell and Margaret McDougal dying, plus memorial verses for a mother. Names include Dyer, Sproat, Young, Barber, Pearson, Redditt, Smith, and MacLauglin with dates in October 1926.
Hallowe'en fun urged with safe pranks and a social planned at Stewarttown Hall. Gasoline prices fell two cents per gallon on Tuesday as Acton promotes frost precautions and subscription renewals. Burglary reported in Mitton. two men charged with trespass withdrawn after evidence.
Acton and District notes report revival of quilting bees among Chicago clubwomen with two clubs formed and afternoon meetings at South Park recreation centers. Also covered are a chicken theft trial in Ontario, Anglican clergy group life insurance to start January 1 2027, leaf burning cautions, Centennial reflections, bicycle safety concerns, and the death of Evelyn Eardley at Guelph.
The Women's Institute met last Wednesday at Mrs. Wilson Wiley's home despite bad weather. Miss Edda Rungell chaired. They planned a November shower at Mrs. W McCullough's house to prepare a charity box for Milton Children's Shelter housing eleven children from six months to eight years old.
The Nassagaweya branch holds its annual meeting on Monday November 1 at 8 PM in Ebenezer United Church with Rev J S Harrington of Toronto delivering an illustrated lecture on the work in China. An officers election will follow. Potatoes and roots harvest struggles noted due to poor weather. Campbellville branch to meet November 2 at St David's Church with Harrington to present China lecture.
Public impromptu speaking contest set for Friday evening at Ashgrove United Church marks likely the province’s first such series. A silver cup valued at 165 dollars, donated by Esquealng Council, awaits the highest proficiency, with a mantle clock donated by the Improvement League for county contenders. A high class concert follows with Miss Stephen, Bethel U C, Mrs. W F B Irvin Toronto, Miss Dorothy Parsons Toronto, Miss Phyllis Leith Toronto, Mgr. John Bird Georgetown Milton U C Quartette Milton, under Ashgrove Improvement League auspices.
Mr William Auld visits Acton and The Hill while Mr Harry Gibbons sells his farm to John Eakin of Streetsville who will move in this week. John Lytle recovers from appendicitis after an operation at Guelph Hospital. United Church improvements finish as no service last Sunday. Services set for November 14 with Rev T Albert Moore and Rev George Knighton. A supper and entertainment follow the next Monday event.
Attendance dipped due to mild weather but rose for evening services. Rockwood Everton Bible Society held executive meetings with Rev. John Little presiding and Geo H Pearen as secretary. Plowing Match occurred on Misses Gerow’s farm with Leonard Gardiner and Thos G Hutchinson winning big prizes. United Church intonation addressed by Mrs Wilcox of China. Charles G Mitchell of Toronto visited his mother Mrs D G Mitchell. Johnston Hewitt of Simcoe visited. Steam shovel arrival for new highway work west of Alma Street will be idle this fall as crews refrain. some equipment moved for winter. A. Johns in Goderich Hospital with typhoid fever is improving. Mr and Mrs Charles Caston moved to Golt. R R Richardson visiting Vindinnd ont.
Large gathering of delegates at Guelph for the first Hamilton Conference of Young People of the United Church of Canada. Sessions featured devotional exercises, addresses on fellowship and citizenship, a public speaking contest, and notable visits by Dr Scholfield.
The Progressives of Halton hold a convention at the Prinotly Theatre Milton this Thursday evening to nominate a candidate for the county in the provincial election. In 1916 J F Ford of Trafalgar won by 1 063 votes over Dr Nixon and 1 221 against E H Cleaver in a three cornered race. The party vows to oppose government sale of Maynoor and backs the Ontario Temperance Act.
Rev Kenneth MacLean of Georgetown was honored Thursday at Boston Church for serving as interim moderator of three district churches. He received an address and purse of gold amid a social evening attended by Hornby Omagh congregations with leaders James Peacock W H Henry J H Turner and W J Hampshire making remarks. A supper followed.
Fragmentary lines describe a figure whose ideas were almost correct, with near misses and occasional honors. The text suggests a retrospective view of a person whose later life saw near successes and lingering questions about a possible reason or explanation.
A narrator recalls a scene where two mother ducks cooperatively shaded their ducklings from extreme heat. The older brood’s mother gathered her brood and joined the other mother to submerge the group underwater, protecting all the youngsters as temperatures rose.
The piece traces the curfew’s origins from French terms to legends about William the Conqueror. It notes Oxford’s Alfred era bell at Carfax as an earlier form and argues the curfew was likely a fire-prevention measure rather than tyranny. It emphasizes the context of low literacy and outdoor recreation shaping its acceptance.
Babson argues education based on Jesus is essential for national prosperity. He says religion directs motives and purposes, supporting church future, and stresses church members must attend regularly to sustain worship and community influence. The piece notes a full church inspires preachers and attendance boosts service value even in hot weather.
E R Waite of Shawnee Oklahoma shares a 1926 reflection on duty to God family and community. He urges selfless effort to help town and country, urging readers to line up with devoted neighbors and contribute talent time energy and money for the common good.
A Progressive candidate’s executive recalls a worker who guided voters to the polls yet forgot to vote himself. At six o’clock the poll closed and the man discovered his oversight, prompting Mr. Burnett to laugh at the amusing lapse in late October.
In a quiet general store on a sunny day, the postmaster sorts mail while a trapped-in-time scene unfolds. A black wagon driver bursts in to ask about yesterday’s news, learning of a war between France and Morocco with no apparent impact on the town.
Earn six to seven dollars daily with open positions in motor mechanics bricklaying harboring and beauty culture for ladies. Short time to qualify and a free booklet offered by Hemphill Schools Toronto by writing or calling.
J L Clark to hold a credit auction sale of horses cattle sheep and pigs at lot 16 6 line West Chinguacousy one half mile north of Norval station on a good gravel road on Thursday November 4 at 2 pm In case of bad weather sale moved to under cover James Farrell town One Erin and Eramosa near Mimosa will hold an extensive clearing sale of farm stock implements hay and grain on Wednesday November 3 at 12 00 then 12 30 o clock Auctioneers Kerr Heffernan
Complete list of farm goods including fodder processes and De Laval separator. Promises high quality items such as plows, fencing, litter carrier and water systems with thirty day trial and reasonable prices. Written by J. W. Barberee.
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