25 Aug 1926
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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 25, 1926
Page
1
Train Nos 1 and 4 ran daily except Sunday with multiple time slots listed for departures and arrivals. The schedule includes 7.19 a m 1 7.86 a m 4 067am 8 9.86 pm and other similar entries across day parts.
A troubled speaker pleads for spiritual strength citing the contrast between pleasure and despair. The voice questions the path of right versus wrong and asks God for guidance to resist temptation.
The Aylmer Cemetery Board thanks plot owners for prompt contributions and promotes a $50 single payment perpetual care fund. The fund is invested and used solely to maintain plots forever, ensuring no neglect, with officials available to explain details.
A band serves many town needs from fairs and holidays to public morale. It unifies the community, attracts crowds, and builds character in young musicians through discipline and practice. Bandsmen are civic leaders who foster local industry and town pride, often keeping talent at home.
Local by law enforces a $2.00 penalty plus costs for riding bicycles on cement walks. Ottawa attendance noted for Otawa Centenary opening on Parliament Hill. Community extends sympathy to Mrs. D. C. Russell on her father Charles Young’s death. Mercury Trophy recaptured by Guelph Bowling Club after close Acton match. Gavin Nicklin visits from Aberfoyle. comments on Canada as a home are favorable.
The piece laments abundant noxious weeds and seeds spreading over farms at season end. It urges municipal councils to act against weeds and criticizes sentencing for reducing speeders and drunken drivers, joking that Detroit lawyers earn from prison terms.
An editorial urges that homes become nicer and more welcoming through music and instruments. It argues restlessness harms family life and cheers the automobile era while insisting the home should be a place to live and love, with music adding joy and contentment. It stresses music as a national good.
A worker fell through a floor under a board at a farm loase injuring his right arm with deep cuts. Mrs Engles travels to Saskatoon after a relative's accident involving a car crash with injuries but no fatalities. Mr Wheeler and companions depart for harvest work in the West by Ford touring car, planning a fall return.
Mexico City's Health Department bans the Charleston dance over heart failure fears. The report also notes a Golden Wedding tale from the Scotchman and various local items including a Dominion Express name change to Canadian Pacific Express effective Sept 1 and a legal fine in Kitchener for a breach of the Ontario Travel Act.
Burlington hosted a Klansmen event with over 2,000 spectators as 12 disguise candidates were initiated in a public demonstration at an athletic field. Four fiery rites marked the ceremony directed by Ontario’s King Kleagle, with a Western Ontario team overseeing the naturalization portion.
A reflective column contrasts human cruelty with animal behavior and cites a health report from Dr. Forbes Godfrey noting insulin distribution in Ontario. It discusses penny postage misunderstandings and highway post boxes, then warns young people against overestimating distant opportunities and argues local life has ample potential.
Messrs J R Pickering and Jami Bartonville holiday with N Waddell at the Manse. Mr and Mrs Wm Coll of Linwood visit Mr and Mrs John Hietieanale. Pte Norman Tait and children from Parry Sound holiday with Mrs Tait’s parents. Miss McTavish improving and about. Master Albert Kirk returns to Toronto after holidays with Mr John McKechnie. Farmers busy with harvest and Pee noted as excellent. Verol McEachern of Gualph spending holidays with uncle Thompson.
Alexander Duff retired selling to Ivan Ould. H R Hare, Agricultural College staffer in Vancouver, visits livestock scene. Richard White ill with serious prognosis. Joseph Armstrong in Mil ton jail to Elm asy lum. Milton public school opens Sept 7 with staff lineup across ten rooms.
A traveller observes an elderly couple arguing in Scotland. The man explains they are not disputing but share the same mind about a half crown in his pocket. the wife believes she will not receive it and he counters the plan.
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