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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
6
An Erin farmer sold new potatoes in town on Tuesday for $1.75 per dag. The rest of the town notes include memorial foundations, local council actions, parish sermons, and school picnic coverage with various local officers and residents named.
Henry J. Prankum died early Monday at his John Street home Harriston after months of illness. Born in Ireland about 60 years ago he came to Canada as a youth, worked as a leather dresser in Picton and in Acton and Southampton's tanneries. He moved with his family from Halon three years ago. Survived by wife and children Wallace of Windsor Harry a grocer at Marrlaten and Lily at home. A Methodist, Conservative and member of the House of England Montreal Orange Lodge Acton.
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