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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 04, 1919
Page
12
The district reports green pastures and fall seeding season ready. Teachers return for fall term while school bells ring and pupils resume studies. Local events include bowling club challenges, tax discussions, and church services. car accident fatality near Kitchener prompts notices. Acton Fall Fair preparations begin. Monteal and Brantford clergy attend.
A large Friday gathering in Eramosa Township Rockwood marked the unveiling of a soldiers monument funded by ratepayers. The event featured a parade of returning soldiers, speeches by clergy and officials, a sports program at Agricultural Park, luncheon, and an evening band concert.
A man stole a spare tire from a car and, after the owner reported the theft, the thief entered a second-hand store where a waiting officer arrested him. Witnesses noted the capture as a clever act by the officers and quoted lessons about thieves selling themselves to crime.
Allie Evans is to sell at public auction on his Esquesing farm on Wednesday September 7. The sale includes cattle pigs and fowl with many cows calves and due dates, yearling heifers and ewes, plus a Yorkshire sow and geese. The entire stock sells without reserve with six percent discount for two.
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