Etc. -- Jun 1910 Items of Local Interest
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A lightly edited partial transcript of the Items of Local Interest column on page 5 of the 30 Jun 1910 issue of the Simcoe Reformer newspaper. 

Items of Local Interest

Mrs. J. B. Moore recently died at her home in Wellandport from the effects of heart trouble. The deceased was a sister of Mrs. Samuel McDowell of this town.

About 25 friends gathered at the home of Mrs. Gerald Reid on the evening of 22 Jun 1910 and presented Mr. and Mrs. George Reid with a handsome couch as a wedding present. Ice cream, cake and lemonade were served.

While bathing in the mill pond west of Langton on Friday, Les Foster, 19, son of Wm. Foster of Langton, drowned. Dr. Truman pronounced heart failure the cause. Foster was a good swimmer.

The annual garden party in aid of St. John's Cemetery Fund will be held at the residence of William Trinder, opposite St. John's Church, Woodhouse, on 6 Jul 1910, 39th Regiment Band in attendance. Admission 10¢. Refreshments extra.

The marriage of Harvey Falls' niece, Miss Muriel German to Mr. 
W. E. Apted, took place yesterday in College Street Methodist Church, Toronto. Mrs. Apted is the daughter of Rev. Dr. German and Mrs. German.

James Whitside, postmaster of Delhi, and a former merchant of that place, is lying very ill. But faint hope of his recovery is held out. 
He is nearly 80 and his advanced age militates against him.

Among those who have passed the final year's exams of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons are Julian Boyd of Simcoe and 
Wm. Hutchison of Port Rowan. Harold Buck of Port Rowan and 
Wm. Dey of Simcoe succeeded in their intermediate exams.

Mrs. John Garland, mother of Earl Ball, has received her victim's family settlement from the loss of the ferry he was working on. 
She received the month's wages due him at the time of his death: 
$31, and his portion of the lum sum aside: $90.
 

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