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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 14, 1895
Page
3
Local notices record district events in Cavan and Port Hope areas including a Scarlet Chapter meeting on Thursday 14th, Hope Sunday School Convention attendance, Newfoundland remedies advertised, social gatherings such as bachelors ball and Foresters entertainment, and community updates on bids, auctions, new shops, and railway town notes.
The March issue of The Delineator is praised as the finest yet published with full departments and high value fashions. It features a Social Code chapter on Cards and Etiquette by Mrs. Roger A Prior, Life at a Training School for Nurses, conversations on Women as Musicians, cookery as employment for women, and essays on girl life, hands and feet care, motherhood, and tea-table chats. Also sections on Burnt Work, Venetian Iron Works, Crepe and Tissue Papers, plus tips on silver care and lemons. Subscription price is Slayear with single copies 15c. Toronto address for orders.
Centreville General Store advertises a wide range of household goods with first class stock and the lowest prices. The notice invites local patrons to shop there and pledges customer patronage.
Correspondence from Centreville reports a successful entertainment last Thursday, proceeds of 32 dollars, led by Chief Ranger Geo. L. Fair. Local talent included Rev. Alex McGilvray, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Henry Johnston, Miss Ida Brown, Miss Jessie Shae, and others. Notices of moving the Jeweller Harry Kendall, Bethany Carnival on the 20th, and an upcoming Fallis schoolhouse program are included. Weather and road conditions hinder travel. snow shoveling dominates roadwork. Historical geographic comparisons and Hood’s Sarsaparilla promotion appear amid local notes and anecdotes.
Toronto reports a deadly Grand Trunk derailment on the Midland division east of Agincourt. A snow plough special was stuck, the Port Hope express rammed into it, killing Engineer Rigg and injuring several crew and passengers. The disaster highlights dangers of heavy winter weather on Canada’s railways and widespread injuries followed.
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