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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 26, 1929
Page
12
Acton news highlights seasonal changes and civic notes with obituaries for Mirabeth McCurdy and David Wilton. Community updates include school, fair, and church events, band leadership shifts, Scout troop news, and local business changes.
Mr Stanley Matthews of Guelph reports a minor traffic mishap while driving near Acton Pai Padre with neighbors offering sympathy to the McIntyre family on Mrs McIntyre’s death. Local visits, church events, school class party, and numerous social calls fill the week as families, students, and pastors move through the village.
Edward Meles and Mr. June Cilberiwonds are recovering from typhoid fever as gym and institute activities continue. Reports from Guelph General Hospital indicate others discharged home, with community events, shipturnips, and building improvements noted along with local funerals and a golden wedding celebration.
Thomas Edmund Appleyard of Esquestal Township Halton County Ontario will apply to the Parliament of Canada in the next session for an annulment of marriage to Margaret Mary Appleyard formerly Mary Margaret Donald of the same place a housewife on the ground of non consummation Dated September 25 1920 HOON PARMER Acton Ontario Solicitor for the applicant.
The Election Board of the County appoints three Revising Officers to prepare the voter lists. Key dates: October 7 last day for making appeals in several areas, October 16 court sittings. other districts have October 7 or October 9 deadlines with varied sittings on October 12 or 15. Lists based on 1929 voters records, duplicates needed for appeals.
A late 19th or early 20th century sale notice lists Holstein cows and heifers, Ayrshire cows, calves, two year old Freerford bulls, hogs, oxford breeding stock, and farm implements to be sold without reserve. The sale is conducted under cover in Acton Ontario by auctioneer W. A. Wilson with cash payments up to $1000 and credit terms above that amount. The date is October 4 with sale time 1 o clock, and bidders are invited to attend.
Public auction near Rockwood on Burlington Stone Road October 10 1929 at 1 pm features Oxford Down Shropshire sheep and prize winners from Acton Georgetown Milton. Farm horses cows pigs poultry implements hay and household effects to be sold. cash on delivery. Organizers: Ward Hindley and Robt Amos.
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