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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 23, 1893
Page
5
The Peterboro Business College showcases a yearly business and shorthand training competition awarding gold and silver medals. Principals include B. A. LL. B. and A Blanchard, Chartered Accountant of Ontario. A 70 illustrated circular was mailed free.
A compilation of town items from Millbrook listing visits by Miss McIvor and Miss Turner, funeral attendance, sermons, lectures, and social events. Includes price figures for hotel and shop licenses, sales pitches and advertisements, burglaries, curling scores, a note on Overgaiters, and foreground on the Canadian Foresters society with membership and finances.
A special town council meeting approves a by law to set liquor license revenue for the coming year. Dispute over reducing the shop license from $100 to $50, with votes and casting votes deciding against the cut. The meeting also covers committee structure ideas and a plan to send the reeve to a reeves meeting at Orono. Jarried. Membray's Kidney and Liver Cure advertised by a local chemist in Millbrook.
Mr Samuel Blikely is recovering after two weeks of illness. Ned Hunter remains very ill. Mec Wesley Wood has been visiting near Trenton for three weeks and returned home Tuesday with accompanying friends. Mrs Henry May and Mrs John Porter of Trenton are visiting Mr W H Wood Sr.
Bethany amateur dramatic club staged Under the Gas Lights in the town hall Tuesday evening. Players were praised for strong performances and the audience enjoyed the show. It will be repeated at the same venue next Tuesday evening.
Sir John Thompson to be invited to open the Peterboro exhibition next fall. Lindsay presented a by-law Monday to grant 25,000 to the Pontypool Lindsay and Robcaygeon railroad.
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