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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1906
Page
2
A hair dressing praised for making hair manageable and preventing roughness and split ends. It acts as a hair food, feeding the hair at the time and keeping full, healthy hair on the head rather than on the comb. The testimonial boasts sales for over sixty years.
Millbrook items report three new LO.L. 79 members after a Friday initiation. Capt Leach visited Peterboro on business. Sam Hunter of Toronto, famed cartoonist, visiting family. Notices warn strict fishing prohibition on the creek from G. T. R. Dump to West Boundary. Millbrook ads for roofing, laundry, jewelry, and dressmaking. Special meeting near J. L. Fair’s place on June 5 with speakers Fraser and Nash.
Durham Teachers Convention held in Toronto May 24 and 25 with a reception at the Hoskin home and an evening program at the Normal School. Officers were elected, addresses given on pupil attitude and teacher devotion, and a next meeting set for Bowmanville. Teachers toured city schools including Queen Alexandra School and its Domestic Science and Manual Training departments before adjourning after thanks to Chief Inspector Hughes and the Hoskins.
In Mt Pleasant a large number of Canadian Order of Foresters marched from the town hall to the Presbyterian Church on Sunday where Rev. J. M. Whitelaw preached from James 1 27. Birth announced: May 31 to Mr and Mrs Herbert Smith a daughter. Other notes mention residents Bert Fee visiting home from Peterboro and Mrs Wm Elson visiting Michigan for health. Thomas Boyd paid a brief visit to the village.
The Cavan council met May 26 1906 at 2 30 pm to open tenders for Long Swamp Drainage work. David Conroy offered 14000 and J E Hilton John F E Webb of Toronto bid 1934 per cable yard about 11850. Sessions reviewed fences wood land and road issues with committees appointed to oversee fencing and boundary matters. Communications included debentures and culverts, with plans to obtain old plans from the engineer and proceed on day work commitments.
The advertisement for tenders to revive drainage work closes noon Wednesday June 27, 1906. Council records show payments to date to various residents and firms for boundary repairs, culverts, gravel, plank, cement, postage, and staff wages. The council adjourned to 1 00 p.m. Friday for Court of Revision and council business.
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a medicinal inhalant that delivers healing vapor directly to the source of catarrhal inflammation. It claims the product reaches tiny cells and passages ordinary remedies miss and assures success. Also notes two local births: a daughter to Hutchinsons in Frazerville on May 97 and a son to Langs in Peterboro on May 27, 1906.
A gray granite sarcophagus style monument honors the late Ven Archdeacon Thomas Wi SEA TCL of Peterborough and Cavan parish, who served 52 years and died November 1, 1903 at age 33 years 1 month. Also mentions Miss Eva Trull of Leskard and Rev Clare, with services noted at Methodist and Presbyterian churches and a quoted sermon by Rev Wao Johnston.
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