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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 11, 1913
Page
2
The notice lists open season dates for various game and birds. Partridges and pheasants run from October 1 to November 30, wild turkeys and quail from November 1 to December 31, swans and geese from September 15 to April 15, snipe rail and plover from September 7 to December 16, and hares and cotton-tail rabbits from October 1 to December 15.
The Gaasian Evening Council met Monday with members Heeve Hynds Councillors McDonald Cooper Smith and Brown. They authorized payment of accumulated accounts totaling 817.35 and noted few items listed as the sole business. A 1911 Osigary Alberta note and a medical testimonial about Fig Pills conclude the readable fragment.
Proceedings led by Hav. Yeckson of Elore district with addresses by Rev. Draper Actos Taylor Cole and Clarke. Music by Rev T K Clarke Plumner Miss Cole and others. The piece lists past pastors and leading members, noting the union strengthened the congregation and thanking retiring workers.
Citizens in Hamilton gather at the Armories and market place for a carnival of displays and feats. Traders showcase Whingys, diving acts, and street amusements as Patriotic fever grips crowds, with crowds urged to resume commerce and celebrate a future wartime era.
A colonial frontier account recalls Nanaimo coal mining origins. In 1649 a Nisga’a style frontier chief talked to a Vancouver Island blacksmith and years later, 1830, a Nanaimo river flood era chief visited Victoria with a coal laden canoe, leading to a prospecting party that located the Nanaimo coal field where the city now stands.
At the Canadian Forestry Convention in Wimalpeg notable timber exhibits from Manitoba were shown alongside finished provincial products. Displayed were red pine 18 inches diameter white pine 32 teak white anew 35 cameras 10 inches balsam fir 21 inches oak 30 anch4en? small poplar 20 ashl? black ash 15 inches maple two inches paper birch 12 inches willow 18 inches white 30 inches and other items. A gold area mile square was reported north of the river border with uncertain details.
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